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00:00 It's brain science, man. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. And Sunday, December 31st, 2017, this is your award-winning GiveOnNation Media Assassination Episode 9995. This is no agenda. Guarding reality from literacy leashes and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, Capitol of the Drone Star State in the Cluedio. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's about to rain, I'm John C. Dvorak. Short, sweet, simple, to the point. You nailed it? I did. Yeah. And first order of business, congratulations on your award. Well, thank you. Please clap. This was unexpected. Yes, I get that impression. Yeah. You know, the reason why I never... First of all, let me explain what's going on. There is a very strong radio culture in the Netherlands.

00:58 And there's a lot of radio stations a lot of disco jockeys. Yeah, that's because of the Nazis Yes exactly and I'll remember to mention that in my acceptance speech World War two where they stole the bikes everyone got on the radios. That's right. Hey my you got one my bike back I'm gonna do a show Oh podcast to get my bike get my bike back podcast Anyway, so they do a big gala every year and they choose the radio man, radio woman, radio show, radio station of the year. And since, I don't know, like six years or so, they've had the Oeuvre Award, which is a lifetime achievement award. Means egg yolk. Yeah, the entire egg yolk, I think.

01:46 Yeah. And I've never considered myself eligible because the rules... You're not that old. There's that. And the rules clearly state you have to be active in Dutch radio in order to receive this. And I think... You could hear this show in Holland. No, it had to be radio. Radio, radio. In fact, last year they asked me if I wanted to come and hand out a prize to one of the DJs. And I said, are you kidding me? Where's my award? I guess they heard me. Is that what you said? Yeah. I'm not going to do that. I don't want to come to your stupid show. I've never received an award.

02:26 So they gave me the award and the nice thing about it was it was you know also for podcasting and they changed the rules of the award to now include online radio or as they call it social radio that's what the Dutch called it. Yeah so here's the thing. You gotta get a clue. Yeah so here's the thing they they desperately this is a pretty big deal and I think it's sanctioned somehow it's it's related to the NAB the National Association of Broadcasting because. Oh I thought it was the NBA. Yeah exactly Because they're using the term the Marconi Award and I think that somehow is trademarked or registered. I don't think so. Yeah, something like that. I don't think it's trademarked or registered. The guy's dead. It's like a hundred years ago. The Marconi Award. Award for broadcast excellence. Here's the thing. They desperately want me to be there at the gala.

03:20 Yeah, you have to go. Yeah, here's the issue. Ah, it's on a Sunday. It's on a Thursday. Let's make it even worse. It's on a Thursday during the show. It's on a Thursday during the actual show. So what do you want to do? I mean, I think I should do it. Yeah, you should. You have to do it. So how are we going to do the show? Tell them to change the awards day. Okay, done. Solved. We're all good. And while we're on the topic of announcements, I spent most of yesterday in the studio, but I've been really not happy with our sound. I've been working on it, you know, I moved to Windows, all new devices, started everything fresh. And as I looked at it again with fresh ears and eyes, I discovered that I'd made a few routing mistakes. And so hopefully today's show is better. It could also really suck balls. So I'm just saying, I tried and who knows how it'll work out.

04:13 What kind of routing mistakes did you make? God. I want the specifics. I will give you the specifics. Or send me a batch file. Here it is. Specifics.bat. No, what the out, the recording out, that, so the final signal was not the same signal that I was hearing in my headphones. It was... So, and I was fixing it by putting on compression post show just to get it to sound right. But I think now I think now we're in a better in a better better place. I hope you're actually hearing what you're getting Yes, and it's I'm liking what I'm hearing, but you know it may take another show or two, but I'm Unrelenting I want this show to be good. Yeah, well t-minus 5 to the big 1000 yes, although I did get a note from our former New York banker he says

05:11 Geez you know show 999 is much more no agenda like to celebrate. Oh, we'll celebrate 999 to You've got a point there. Yeah, he's right And a programming note right after the show on the live stream Rhino the bearded will be doing his annual top 100 year-end show on no agenda stream calm I can hear you're underwhelmed. I just thought of something okay. I just forgot I just realized I forgot to get a clip I But thanks Rhino We can also get somebody do some music around the number nine number nine Yeah, we're gonna three times in a row a lot of number nine clips. We could have yeah I think it would be nice for people to send some cool stuff in for nine nine nine okay nine nine nine nine nine nine all right, so show day we have shootings and I think Colorado Those two we have going on

06:17 Hold on a second while I get my clip list. Okay, while you do that, let me see if there's something I can play that can get us going. No, not really. Oh yes, I can. I'll play a little bit of tech news. This is what constitutes tech news today, ladies and gentlemen. This is from CNET. What new phone takes the best selfie? We tested the iPhone X, the Pixel 2 XL, the Samsung Note 8, the HTC U11, and the LG V30 to find out. Woo! What new phone takes the best selfie? This is indeed tech news. The answer? You'll be happy with any of these three phones though. It just depends on your preferences, particularly if you like those beauty filters or not. Millions of dollars go into that organization. Fantastic.

07:07 No answer, just all of them will be great. Just depends on your personal preference of filters. Hold on. I'm holding on. Hey, while we got... While you're on tech news... Yeah? I have some tech news. Okay. Look up and down the list of the clips, there's one on there. See if you can figure it out. Yeah, Apple batteries local story? You got it. New at six, Apple tells its customers we let you down. The tech giant now saying sorry for slowing down older iPhones. Tonight it's trying to make it right. Good evening, I'm Alan Martin. Hi, Veronica de la Cruz. KPX5's Sharon Chin joins us now from an Apple store in San Francisco with what Apple is giving customers for their trouble.

07:52 Well some Apple customers are just finding out about the apology and some say that they're gonna start the new year with a discount on a new battery. In the letter to customers Apple said it would not intentionally shorten the life of its phones but it said a software update that was supposed to prevent unexpected shutdowns in the iPhone 6s and SE ended up causing some phones to work slower. So Apple says starting in late January and through the next year it's already offering $50 off battery replacements. $79 batteries will cost $29. That's for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later who needs a new battery, even if the warranty is expired. I have an older Apple. I've noticed it is slower. I don't know if it's my imagination or if it's part of what they did to their software. But

08:41 But does it surprise anybody? How do you get people to buy your new product? At least they're doing something about it and they're acknowledging that there is a problem and they're trying to remedy it. Apple said in a statement, we know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize. Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that. Now the company is facing potential class action lawsuits over the slower phones. Now early next year Apple also says it's going to introduce a software update that will help you determine more information about the health of your battery so you can determine presumably if it's the battery that's causing problems on your phone.

09:25 Hold on a second. And the phone should be made out of Bakelite. Just want to make sure we got a little tech news jingle in there. Yes, did you hear the end of that report? Yeah, that they're going to issue an update so we can see if your phone sucks? Well, that's what they could have said. Let me listen to it again. Why is it not working? Hold on. lawsuits over the slower phones now early next year Apple also says it's going to introduce a software update that will help you determine more information about the health of your battery so you can determine presumably if it's the battery that's causing problems on your phone. Okay, okay well let's listen to the logic of that.

10:09 Is it your phone slowing down? Is it the battery causing your phone to slow down? Well, I'll play Apple side for a moment. They say because the battery can't handle the spikes required by the modern OS, that it was shutting down. So it's clearly the battery's fault and you're not doing it right. Shut up. Yeah, well that's pretty much what the conclusion has to be. Everyone's saying, oh big lawsuit. I don't think so. I don't think there's gonna be any big lawsuit. I think there's gonna, I think there will be. Really? Well, here's the reason. They're gonna do a class action and the reason is that if they can get a class action underway and get accepted by the courts, one, two, three, four, discovery! Ooh, discovery is always fun.

11:03 Yeah Then they get to go into Johnny Ives at home They get to go everywhere and they get to look at all the memos and they get to find just one guy Yeah, saying hey, why don't we just screw up the phone old phones? Okay, one guy for that one guy in a million Just says something like that and boom for that reason alone. I think it's worth number one. Yeah, boom count one I agree So that would be the way they're gonna do that and they're gonna pursue it because everyone knows what a great It'd be a treasure trove to get into those five that just to have that I agree. I agree I wanted to follow up on the war on Christmas which we were talking about I was gonna say I was gonna bring you a couple clips just so you could see you see and hear the thinking of why war on Christmas equals crazy religious people crazy right Republicans Trump

11:59 We'll start with CNN's Don Lemon. Margaret, I mean this is a line that we have heard from Donald Trump many, many times. Why does he continue? This is a dog whistle to the base because no one has ever stopped him. Dog whistle! Yeah, except for that if you turn on some of our competitive cable networks, they have entire hours and programming about the war on Christmas and it is intended directly to go towards that cultural base that feels that other people are taking their America away from them. That was the odyssey to make America great again. Great from what? Right? The people who are taking Christmas away from you. The people who are taking your presents away from you. The people who are taking, you know, all of your teddy bears away from you. Whatever it is. Right? We're going to make it great. We're going to bring Christmas back. And that's, you know, it's disingenuous. It's not true. But there is a kernel of truth. But no, no, but you have to understand, like, there is a kernel to the cultural... No. Lately, these days, it used to be. Okay. Now, let's go to MSNBC.

12:54 Ari Melber is that woman that who cares some woman on CNN bill? Cookie cutter is the same woman This is our Mari Melber not the same woman and claims of a war on Christmas have been ricocheting around Fox News for many years Fox is just one more stop in a long chain of custody that gets uglier the farther back you go because the first rumblings about a war on Christmas are stem back to the fringe John Birch Society and anti-semitic pamphlets from the 1920s called the International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem. It's anti-semitic, that's what it is. I'm sorry, I was wrong. Hold on a second. Are they telling us that the John Birch Society went back to the 20s?

13:41 That's a good point. Hold on. Let me see. That's what they implied. Let me hear that again. Claims of a war on Christmas have been ricocheting around Fox News for many years, but Fox is just one more stop in a long chain of custody that gets uglier the farther back you go because the first rumblings about a war on Christmas stem back to the fringe John Birch Society and anti-semitic pamphlets from the 1920s called The International Jew, The World's Foremost Problem. Wasn't that Henry Ford's pamphlet? Yes, it was. It's the one there. By the way, I should, as today's No Agenda tip, I should mention that there's this Henry Ford book, and I think that's the name of it, but you can look it up on the Wikipedia.

14:27 That book is still floating around and if you can get a copy of it. Oh, yeah Ford Corporation will buy it really like a thousand dollars. Yeah, oh, oh It's that heavy, huh? And then they know they've tried to retrieve every one of them that's ever been put in print and they will pay you a lot of money All right troll room off you go go find what did you receive your email? The action goes to no agenda Yes, I received my e-meter Oh, I never got an e-meter. Oh, I don't know if the producer wants me to mention his name. But don't mention it. I won't mention it because his dad was a Scientologist. I guess his dad is no longer with us. And he said he had two e-meters in the garage. And so I get this big box and it's a suit. John, it's a suit. It's a flight case. And there's foam in there. There's an old one. No, it's one of the modern ones. John Birch Society founded 1958.

15:26 Boy, well we have to call it Bullshit on that hmm still anti-semitic Christmas horrible even though wasn't it Jesus the Jew? I'm confused Anyway back to my e meter back to my e meter. I yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. John is beautiful It has it has the instruction booklets in there. It's got you know the charging the wires It's got little cream for your hands, so you conduct better. Yeah, or whatever it's yeah Whatever you're using it for it is a beautiful piece of technology. Yeah, huh use it on Tina yeah Let me see if you're clear, baby

16:08 We gotta check it out, make sure you're clear. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah, I think he sent you one too, that's why I asked really. Oh, okay, well I didn't get it yet then. Alright, last show of the year. Let's see if we can make it matter. Maybe we should start with this Iran thing. Because, uh, this, uh, there's a couple of ways to read this. Whoops, sorry. You okay? I accidentally pushed the mute button. I'm a little annoyed by this keyboard having this button. No, it's okay.

16:44 I'm going to start actually with, let me see, yeah, I'm going to do a little background report from NBC on the Iran protests. And we got a note from our dude named Mohammed. Then he said, just look at who started the hashtag, President Trump. Hashtag Iran protests. He says now you know who's behind it. On the streets of Iran's capital, days of public protest reached a boiling point not seen for nearly a decade. The kindling to this show of anger and desperation is a poor economy with few jobs and rising prices. Brewing unrest that drew the attention of President Trump's Twitter feed.

17:29 Iranian government should respect their people's rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching. Echoing the president's message delivered at the United Nations. The longest suffering victims of Iran's leaders. are in fact its own people. The volatile conditions today moved many young people to demonstrate against the government spontaneously as word spread through social media posts. By contrast, a more organized and scheduled wave of pro-government support turned out to praise the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, as thousands backed the regime.

18:07 The U.S. designates Iran a state sponsor of terror. President Trump has refused to certify the Obama-era agreement to blunt Iran's nuclear program. This weekend's protest response is coordinated from the State Department. The United States strongly condemns the arrest of peaceful protesters, the White House press secretary, Iranian citizens fed up with the regime's corruption and its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad. And the president tweeted excerpts of his United Nations address to amplify pressure and encourage other nations to aid protesters. That Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most.

18:51 So I kinda like that report because she said something in there which was either meant as a wagging finger, I'm not quite sure by saying, clearly all coordinated over there at the Trump administration with everyone sending out the same kind of messaging at the same time. Yeah. I'm kind of thinking that way. That this is, there's so much coming up in the next week with Iran.

19:34 I'm thinking we were good at it. So maybe we sparked some of this with some a Jean provocateur. I don't know where you get the word maybe Okay, good point This started apparently over eggs and poultry As the cost of eggs rose 40% overnight. Yeah, this is the kind of thing, if you remember during the Arab Spring it was bread. It was bread in Tunisia, correct? Which was also an obvious setup for the Arab Spring. Now, the Iranians, I think 80 or 90 percent of their diet is poultry. So I can see- We need our chickens. It's a war on chicken, really. It's the hardest war on chicken. And the reason is because the price of feed went up dramatically, also almost overnight.

20:27 Which, I don't know, is that because of our sanctions? They don't have chicken feed? They have to import chicken feed into Iran? Do you know anything about this? I don't know anything about the chicken industry in Iran, no. Okay. I don't know how it operates. I didn't even know until you just told me now that they were a big chicken eater. I know they eat chicken like everybody else, but I didn't know that this was a major deal. Yeah, I sent a note to you. Americans put up with a lot more than this. If you go to the doctor... Yeah. Or just look at your insurance bill. Why don't we have an Arab Spring here about using the medical thing? We'll get to that in a moment. I got a couple of things that make sense just to show that we're behind this. So we have the 90-day renewal coming up of the Iran nuclear deal, which the president has said he, I think it was a campaign promise, he wants to get rid of that. He wants to pull out of that deal.

21:17 And so now all of a sudden... Worst deal ever, he said. Now all of a sudden we have a whole bunch of things happening, such as this report from RT, where we apparently have been, our troops have been helping getting ISIS fighters out of Raqqa. In quite, I mean quite a, quite a dramatic statement. I mean do you think it was the right decision to allow Islamic State fighters to leave Raqqa? Of course it wasn't the correct decision or a right decision but I think it might also have been a deliberate American-led decision. This isn't the first time we hear stories of such an essence. The head of the Joint Chief of Staff on the Russian military

21:59 recently made statements in the same direction saying that the Americans were actually training or assisting, providing forms of assistance to ISIS. And I think that you have to put this within the framework of the aftermath of ISIS. We all know that ISIS is losing ground. basically on the verge of defeat in Syria, already defeated in Iraq. So the fact that it's on the verge of defeat in Syria, I think that what the Trump administration might be doing is preparing for the post-ISIS phase. What I mean to say is putting together maybe a new group, not ISIS but a new group which includes former ISIS fighters. ISIS 2.0! ISIS 2.0!

22:44 to take on the Syrian army and its allies, first and foremost Iran, because the Trump administration and also Trump's close ally, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, they have spoken of the necessity to counter Iranian presence inside Syria. So I think that this latest piece of news is very closely linked to that Trump strategy and to the Israeli strategy of escalating against Iran in Syria, also against Hezbollah and what they call the Shia axis in Syria. I hadn't heard of the Shia axis yet, but it's always good to throw an axis of something out there.

23:26 You know, you just keep thinking. Of course, if there's no agenda thoughts on this, of course, is that we go along with the theory that ISIS was created by the Americans and the Mossad. And one of the rationales that you can use to kind of indicate that is the fact that ISIS doesn't shake its fist at Israel. It's just, you know, like Iranians and everybody else, oh, Israel must go, the place must disappear, and Palestinians, they gotta go, this place, these Jews are terrible. No, ISIS never did that. No, no. Ever. No. No, they never attacked Israel. No.

24:07 Yeah, and so they went around Israel to attack Egypt. It's unbelievable. As I kind of dug into this, because what I'm looking for is, you know, is there a new puppet on the horizon? No one has showed up on the radar yet as, oh, this will be the Shah 2.0, because that's what we need now, if this is a regime change operation. But maybe it's, again, maybe it's just meant to To rattle them or get them all. I think it's a read. I think the problem they have these are all regime change operations, but this one has been extremely unsuccessful and I think that there's a lot of arrogance with this idea that we can just routinely.

24:48 Change these regimes and not leave a mess behind. Yeah, maybe and of course the other theories we want to leave a mess behind rebel eyes Rebel eyes So it's hard to say but you could I think that the Isis thing where they're all of a sudden these guys all disappeared is a shut The operation has been shut down We missed this two weeks ago, but I think this was really the setup you recall that there was a the Yemen Houthi rebels shot a rocket towards Riyadh and I think we had a shot. I thought the rocket, I remember the rocket, but I thought it was shot into Saudi Arabia. I'm sorry, Saudi Arabia. What am I saying? Riyadh. Yes, Saudi Arabia. Well, Riyadh is in Saudi Arabia, but it was just into Saudi Arabia. Yeah, but I think it was Riyadh. I don't think they got any closer. The trajectory was, I think it was the trajectory. Anyway, so Nikki Haley, your friend, she did a whole dog and pony show two weeks ago. I can't believe I missed this. I'm a little pissed at myself. She had a hanger.

25:47 Then aircraft hangar and she had the actual rocket, or pieces of the actual rocket behind her. This is a great report. Tonight UN Ambassador Nikki Haley escalating the administration's war of words against Iran. By the way, she's got some clippity-clop going on there. Did you hear that? She may be a contender for the title. Clippity-clop 2.0 Tonight UN Ambassador Nikki Haley escalating the administration's war of words against Iran. It's hard to find a conflict. or a terrorist group in the Middle East that does not have Iran's fingerprints all over it. In an unprecedented step, displaying parts of missiles brought to a U.S. military base, what she calls irrefutable evidence, Iran violated U.N. resolutions by supplying weapons fired last month at a civilian airport in Saudi Arabia, launched by rebels in Yemen. The missiles stamp with the logo of an Iranian manufacturer. Just imagine.

26:44 If this missile had been launched at Dulles Airport or JFK, or the airports in Paris, London, or Berlin, that's what we're talking about here. No, no, that's actually not what we're talking about. It's actually not a missile that went towards Dulles Airport, so no. That's what Iran is actively supporting. A dramatic photo op to build a case against Iran, to justify the president's larger goal finally withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, despite widespread support for the agreement from European allies and the UN. I think Haley was trying to buy him a little political space by underlining for the world that Iran's behavior in the region is very bad, even though it's not directly related to the nuclear agreement.

27:32 And lesser tonight, Iran called Haley's evidence fabricated, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown next month when President Trump has to again decide whether to withdraw from the nuclear deal, further isolating him, if he does, from most of America's closest allies. Here's the problem with Ms. Haley's little presentation. Yeah, this was not a key. I'm one missile as she stated this was a modified Scud B missile which are manufactured by Russia in fact it even had some Cyrillic markings on on the smaller parts of it you could see that in some of their photo evidence so what these guys did is they they took a Burkhon 2h warhead and

28:18 And they jacked it on to this Scud B, and now everyone's saying this is an Iranian missile, but it was not. Well, yeah, no, well, I mean the Russians have sold that missile to those countries. Yeah, North Korea has them. Yeah, and they're just junk but you know they break up in mid-flight and there's all these issues that I don't even think they make them anymore. But also the Scuds, it's my understanding that because these Scuds, you know, they're on mobile missile launchers and they can, you know, they roll out, they come out of cover, you have to shake the leaves off, launch.

28:54 As far as I know, our Patriot missiles and our Iron Dome and THAAD has never taken out one of these mobile Scud rocket launchers, which are not that effective, but... Yes, that's what we're told. They've never really, but they don't, things are useless anyway. But I got a kick out of this thing, supposedly was used as, if it's a bomb it would have exploded, I think, to a lot of shrapnel. But there's the logos on there. Some logo. Yeah, it's the Iranian logo. Hey look, there's the logo, man. Look, a logo! It's a Nike swoosh. It must be them.

29:34 So I'm thinking they had this all set up and then they probably took an old scud from that that old years ago when we were shooting Iraq 1.0. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, and my feeling is Trump loves this stuff. I think he after the the Vegas stuff, you're like, oh, this works really well. We can trick people into believing anything. Yeah, well, she voted but do that missile thing and yeah, cuz we want to get her I mean does he really just want war between Iran and Saudi Arabia and does he want this point because of because we're sent so many mixed messages and Then out and out bullcrap. Mm-hmm. I think it's impossible to figure this out at least we haven't been able to figure it out and and Trump is if you want to go on to some Trump stuff I want to make one more prediction. I want to make a prediction a

30:26 A prediction. The last time this happened in 2009, that was the failed... Was that the Green Revolution, I think? Or the Purple Revolution? Whatever it was. Or the Rose Revolution? Yes, and Hillary's tech... Or was it the Turquoise Revolution? Or the Orange Revolution? Maybe Orange, yes. And Hillary's techno experts were supposed to propagate that inside Iran. Yeah, and they screwed it up. And they screwed it up, and they failed. And then when they failed, what happened when the news went wrong? Big moment in history. Okay, they killed Michael Jackson and then all the Iran news was gone So you think someone's gonna get off bigly just to pull this off the newspaper? Yes, if so, if it doesn't go the way they want it, they're gonna have to kill a big-ass celebrity I'm thinking Barbra Streisand

31:20 Mmm, I don't okay. Let's well now that we're on this topic, okay? I should stick with it for a minute and we should predict who it is. I do not think Barbara I Think Barbara Streisand's up to device of a character. Okay to be useful Okay, how about Tay Tay who's Tay Tay can do Taylor Swift? Oh Taylor's no, they're not gonna do that because I I'll be if we're gonna have an argument. Let's just say we're in a meeting. Okay, you and I you're a Hole from the CIA and I'm a hole from the CIA who is more down-to-earth Why am I the a-hole a-hole? You're the a-hole I'll be the a-hole you just want to kill everybody and you but you're not you're a newbie. You're a millennial Okay, here we go Roger Stone, let's kill him

32:14 Well, you don't want to do that. How about okay part of the community? How about Rosie O'Donnell? No, I don't think I think a lot of people would sheer How about Tom Cruise? We need something really earth-shattering cruise. There you go is a possibility Okay, wait, okay, we're gonna go in that direction Tom Cruise we can also consider what's his name the The dancer actor Jennifer Lopez? Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta. John Travolta. Let's take those suggestions and here's the way this works.

32:57 They're both private pilots that fly big-ass jets. Oh, yes. And they also fly Mustangs and stuff like that. And little experimental jobs. Well, why don't we add Harrison Ford into the mix? Would be perfect. Star Wars? Harrison Ford's too old. And they already killed him off in Star Wars, so his career is done. Okay. So that's no good. The two guys that you mentioned, I think, are good candidates. Travolta and Cruise. Okay. And that's because of the pilot thing. Because that's the easiest way to do it. Just all poor guys. They were they loved flying so much. They have a retrospective on how much they loved flying. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. I think you're right. They're both Scientologists. One less Scientologist. Okay, meeting adjourned. We know who to kill. Good work.

33:44 So we'll see that's what the whole thing could result in it's always bad for celebrities. It's always bad for them Well, they put themselves in this position. They like the job. They volunteered. It wasn't something they yeah, I agree I'm in full agreement. We got New Year's Eve coming up in actually it's about to start there in United Nations the Gitmo nation of Europe Deutschland Is Deutschland doing something a little special this year? Just like at New Year celebrations the world over hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to this place here in Berlin to see out the old and ringing the new. You can see preparations are currently undergoing.

34:27 Keeping everyone safe without spoiling the atmosphere is a huge challenge for the authorities. And this year, organizers are going one step further. Aside from usual safety barriers and alcohol bans, a so-called women's safety area is being set up. It's a zone where female guests who feel sexually harassed or just uncomfortable can get special help. raped and raped

35:08 There were more than 1,000 cases reported in Cologne and Hamburg alone. More than 2,000 men were reportedly involved, most of them asylum seekers. Yeah, ixnay on the ape ray, man. We don't talk about that in Deutschland. It's funny they wouldn't mention rape when that was the biggest complaint. Yeah. Yep. So there you go. Great. It's great over there. It's great. It's just fabulous. One time when you, I think we did miss a Thursday show once, we did it on Wednesday. Yeah, we've done that a couple times in the past. Maybe we should just do it on Wednesday. Yeah, I think that's the way to go. I kind of got to go to this. What is the date? When is this? The 25th of January. It's coming up. 25th of January? Coming up. Yeah. You must, I wonder if you, yeah. Okay. Well, let's go to Trump.

36:07 There's a couple of, I got the kick out of this Mar-a-Lago situation. Well actually let's start with the weather because the way they did it on CBS and I kind of admire the way they're doing stuff. They're doing a lot of weird coded messages for some purpose or other. I'm not sure what it is. But every once in a while there's a story on CBS, CBS Evening News the same people that gave us the bull crap story on the sirens in Hawaii. I'm gonna play this coded story here. I listened to this thinking, you know, CBS is maybe messaging some people or sending the word out. This was a story, I'm playing you the entire story, this is the clip is code story.

36:54 I'm gonna play the entire story and tell me what you learned from this story, if anything. And we have some breaking news to tell you about now. Gunfire broke out today at a law office in Long Beach, California. At least three people were shot, two were killed, including the shooter. Police say the incident is over. That's it. What did I miss? What did they tell you? Let me listen again. And we have some breaking news to tell you about now. Gunfire broke out today at a law office in Long Beach, California. At least three people were shot. Two were killed, including the shooter. Police say the incident is over. Yeah, they didn't really tell me anything. I guess a couple people got killed. Gun. Some people got killed and the police say the incident is over. It's over. This sounds like a coded message to me. Oh, I get it. I see where you're going. Okay.

37:48 Alright everybody, the drill is over. I have no idea what this is. I mean, is it a coded message that there was nothing happened or something happened or we don't have zero details? We don't know the name of the law firm. If it was lawyers or secretaries that were killed, was it a woman or a female or a female or a male shooter? Was the shooter a terrorist? Was the shooter a friend of the family? There's absolutely nothing. And the police say it's over. It just doesn't seem like a story that you'd tell on any news outlet. Certainly not as breaking news. You'd have a little more. That was 12 seconds. Yeah, that was breaking news. But anyway, so CBS does a very good, I only have a piece of it, a good thing on the weather. I think it should be on here. Yeah, I got it here, yeah. Yeah, play that and then they can't get through a story without needling Trump. And it's got nothing to do with the weather. New York and much of the nation have been shivering from an Arctic blast and it's not leaving- Oh, that's the new term by the way.

38:50 Arctic blast Arctic blast it used to be the polar vortex now. It's the Arctic blast like a big fart from the north New York and much of the nation have been shivering from an Arctic blast and it's not leaving anytime soon. Some cities have postponed New Year's events because of the cold. And check out these wind chills projected for overnight. 26 below zero in Great Falls, Montana. Minus 53 in Rolla, North Dakota. More now from Dean Reynolds. 2017 is departing with a cold slap across the face. People are bundling up as if for a polar expedition and hypothermia has returned to the vocabulary. I hate it. I hate it. That five-foot snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania is now frozen in place with residents marooned underneath it. Record lows were set at New York's airports following bone-chilling nadir's in 24 other locales this week.

39:48 Icy conditions meant airline cancellations and traffic accidents. You can see your breath in the car. It's just, it's crazy. Homeless shelters in Chicago were jammed with people like Lee Lane. Imagine a person without this, I can't even imagine that. You would pretty much die in the street. You're freezing out. The Salvation Army's Tamika Rogers was making wellness checks on people at risk. I'm checking on seniors trying to see if we can get them to warming centers. as well as family members who have heat. Along Cape Cod, three Thresher sharks have washed up frozen since Wednesday. And in Boston, Mayor Martin Walsh warned this weekend will be Arctic. The only thing that I know to guarantee is that the ice sculptures will not melt.

40:37 the next three days. They canceled the St. Louis Winterfest and even its ice skating, along with New Year's Eve fireworks in Omaha. Saturday's high in Chicago will be a frosty eight above. Minneapolis will be a meat locker. From his resort in Florida where it was 75 degrees today, the president referred to the freezing millions up here in the north by tweeting, perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming. Bianna? That tweet definitely garnering a lot of reaction. Dean, thank you. The science is in! Science!

41:24 Report. Yes it was. Making Trump sound like a douchebag because he's in 75 degree weather and mocking. He didn't mock anybody by the way but it's you could see him mocking them because they're a bunch of, in the north, there are all those states who cares about them anyway. From, there's a number of science publications now are coming out with the following story. I will read the headline. A mini ice age could happen within the next few decades. It might affect global warming. You think? But what's great about it is they're now using my year. I've always said this is agenda 2030, and here it is. By 2030, temperatures could reach low levels that are so low that the River Thames in England will freeze during winter. That has happened in the past hundreds of years ago.

42:12 Similar to what happened in the last little ice age which spanned from the 13th to the 17th century Temperatures will start plummeting as soon as 2021 according to scientists predictions basing them off a Mathematical model of the Sun's magnetic energy. Well, this is like we've been talking about this for years Yeah, the phenomenon is called the Maunder minimum. Yeah. Yeah This is a cycle that we've discussed many times and they're only now figuring it out? They always figured it out and that's why I believe they weren't going to bring this up. If we really look at the global warming situation, it's about money. It's about our money because we got to give our money to smaller countries that somehow we've

42:57 put into the stone age because of our burning fossil fuels. And that's the reason, what this information has to come out eventually, but the reason for, I'm convinced of this, the reason for all the, oh, tipping point, tipping point, tipping point, since 1980, tipping point, tomorrow it's gonna, tomorrow. Wait, wait, Al Gore said that we would not have snow anymore. And that was supposed to have happened two years ago. Yeah, everything's a tipping point, please let's rush, rush, rush, sign some agreements and then take our money. That seems to me to be the only reason for all it. And it was rush, rush, rush, tipping point, tipping point, tipping point. Every month's a tipping point. It's gonna be over. We won't be able to stop it. And that was because this information, which was touched upon in the 70s during the global cooling fad,

43:54 now has to come to light. And so we need some, you know, we can't just push the global warming agenda as much as we could. And I think it's too late for anybody to grab the money. I think the money's lost. It's not there. It's just over. Yeah, I think so. Well, that's too bad for the green economy. Well, I'm sad now. We got our little ways with it We got some dough out of it. We got those giant turbine Generators yeah, they go Which which generators are these the big giant props those three blade things? Oh, yeah, and story buildings you look like a midget you look like a little ant on top of one when you're standing on them and And those are also the ones they explode if they get going too fast. Yeah, they have that breaks so I don't know if you caught this but I

44:54 Everyone's going crazy about this Trump New York Times interview of which there was a transcript. I have the story. Let me just say, so the Trump rotation is now back to he's clinically insane, but he needs to be impeached. That's where we're at because this is a man whose cognitive skills are going racing downhill. He sounds just as moronic as ever when he talks. I mean, this is how he talks. Is this new to them? I guess it is. But let's see what happened. They played the weather report on CBS and then they put the Trump needle tweet in it and they used that as the transition to go to their Mar-a-Lago report. Wait a minute. Let me tell you something. Yeah, I got you. Yeah. Yeah. Let me tell you something right away.

45:46 Well, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, let's extract it from the report. Let's start with Mar-a-Lago, Report 1. Well, yes, that's right. It has been warm here in Florida this week and not much rain either. Perfect weather for a presidential vacation, especially a president who likes to spend a lot of time on the golf course. For the sixth day out of seven, Christmas was the only exception. The president was at Trump International Golf Club today, where yesterday he did an impromptu interview with New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, who was there as the guest of a club member. We're sitting at a table next to the president's. We went up and started talking to him. No staff were present. The president was dining alone. Okay. All right, I'm going to start right away with this.

46:34 This is the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard reported straight. Let's go through this just with the two pieces of information. One, the president was dining alone. coincidentally at a table next to the New York Times reporter who was there with a guest, as a guest of a Mar-a-Lago resort member, brings the guy in, sits him right next to the president who is dining alone. Alone, alone, in his thoughts. And the guy, I know what happened, the guy brings him in there, puts him right there, it's a setup for this stupid New York Times reporter. And the guy, I,

47:16 There's no doubt about the guy is a friend of Trump's, whoever it was that brought him there and sat him down next to Trump by himself, which is probably unusual because everyone would love to be with him when he's eating. And, you know, where's Ivanka? Where's anybody? Nobody. He's sitting there at the table by himself with, I'm sure, a chair or two. With a Big Mac. Empty, yeah. With a couple of empty seats. The guy leans over to the New York Times and he says, Hey, I'll bet you you could go up to Trump right now and probably get an interview out of him. New York Times guy says, oh, no, I can't do that. He's a pr- I can't just walk over there. He's alone. He's sitting alone. I can't- he's in his thoughts. He's doing important thinking. No, no, no, no. Try it. I've seen this before. A lot of people just go up to him. This is the club. This is why the club is the club. You're in the club. Oh, okay. Well, shall I record him on my iPhone?

48:09 Well, yeah, minimally, but just go over there and have a chat with him. Yeah, tell him you're gonna record him, he doesn't care. And he's there by himself, he'd love to have some company. All right. Talks the guy into going over there. Guy goes over there and Trump's all ready to do a bullshit interview. Right. This is bullcrap, this is a setup. It was really funny though, I like how everyone's, oh my God, he's unstable. It's no good. This guy has his finger on the button. So instead of tweeting some of this complaining, he get the New York Times to write it up, although they had their slant on it, but it's still subtle propaganda that he has to feed through the New York Times. So let's go on with that in mind. And I'm pretty sure there's no other rationale for this. The New York Times guy was invited down. Would you like to come down at Bill? Or Schmidt, one of the writers. He says,

49:07 I got a good table at the, you can sit down and have, you know, it's nice. You won't be in New York, you'll be freezing your ass off. I'll tell you what, I'll fly you down. Which of course he wouldn't report and New York Times doesn't allow that. He says, no, no, no, I can't do that. The New York Times won't let me do that. So I'll pay for it. I think it would be a good idea. And so he goes down and gets suckered. go to part two. the better it is for the country he ominously suggested he has the power to intervene claiming i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department but eric holder president obama's attorney general replied in a tweet wrong dangerous trump doesn't have absolute rights with d o j career d o j people have absolute right to defy illegal orders and they will i know them really

50:20 So Trump drops all these little Easter eggs on this guy from the New York Times who coincidentally sits next to his table and gets an interview for some reason. Does Trump just like this? He must just get off on it. He loves it. I don't know who strategized this in the campaign, but it's so obvious to anybody who looks at it objectively. that this was a setup to get the guy from the New York Times to go over there and do a quick interview and get it right. And because it was, oh, oh, it was so outstanding that he could do this, they put it right on, damn near gave it a whole feature section in the New York Times. It's not like in the corner anywhere. And so this, I think whoever strategized this and got away with it is a genius.

51:10 But to me, it's the most obvious thing I've ever seen as a setup. So what was the message that Trump wanted to send in this setup? He wanted... the message, I believe, there's a bunch of messages. But the one I think mainly was, it's hurting the country that we have this investigation going on, that we're in collusions with the Russians who we have sanctions against. It's hurting the country. It's hurting the country. And I think that was what he wanted to get into the New York Times. That certainly worked. He got it in there 16 times. Well, he got something in there 16 times. And so this whole thing is just an outrageous scam that these guys don't even recognize. So let's go to the last Mar-a-Lago clip. The president also did some unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter today in one tweet asking the president

51:59 Like he's 12. Unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter. Where is Kelly supervising him? The president also did some unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter today. In one tweet asking the post office why it's making Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos richer and the post office dumber and poorer. Should be charging more. Most previous presidents have rarely, if ever, done spur of the moment interviews with no staff present. But this president makes clear that he refuses to be reined in. Wow. So that's the message. A report for report's sake there. So there's a message that he refuses to be reined in when nobody even considers the fact that this is staged.

52:50 They don't even think about it. That's how far away they are from reality I mean, I would say half the stuff that we're witnessing with this guy is staged just like our foreign all our foreign Adventures or a lot of the stuff that we get is news is staged news and CBS does a lot of it themselves and they don't even spot this no no I I like that you saw this this way, but I had not considered that and it seems very obvious now to me and Yeah, yeah, I think you really nailed that. So that was the New York Times. CNN, who are just being creepy now, they're just creepy. They were all pissed off about... Something different happened today. What was it?

53:35 You know, our job down here is to cover the president, to tell our viewers what he is doing on a daily basis. Over the last few days, we've gotten video of the president golfing at his nearby golf club here in West Palm Beach. There is a break in the hedges, really. The president doesn't really and his staff doesn't really tell us when he is golfing. And we have taken to going outside the golf course and filming him as he golfs through a break in hedges near the club. Today, a big white box truck parked in front of those hedges trying to obscure our shot of President Trump golfing. Now this may seem trivial but it is important to get video of the president as he does these things on a daily basis and it gets to something that is larger. The president and the White House have tried to obscure the fact that President Trump golfs on a regular basis. According to our count he has visited one of his golf courses 87 times as president

54:24 This is a man who ran for president, who criticized President Barack Obama regularly for golfing during his presidency, but that criticism hasn't continued into the Trump presidency. President Trump has regularly visited these golf courses that he owns. And White House aides have been- What? Hold on a second. So they say, oh, you know, Obama played a lot of golf, but no one's criticized Trump. Trump for playing the same thing while they're doing a long report of criticizing him for playing golf. This is a man who ran for president, who criticized President Barack Obama regularly for golfing during his presidency. But that criticism hasn't continued into the Trump presidency. President Trump has regularly visited these golf courses that he owns. And White House aides have been hesitant to ever confirm that he is golfing. And this box truck and the video that

55:14 that we have is yet another example of the White House trying to obscure the fact that he's golfing. We've reached out to the White House, to Secret Service, and to the sheriff's officers down here to confirm was this their truck, what was this part of. We haven't really gotten many responses back. So far, yeah, that's not at all like Hillary Clinton. Remember when she used the static noise machine in Denver so the press couldn't hear what they were discussing? Yeah, no, there's nothing like that. No, it's nothing like that. Just a truck. But I love that. Parked at a hole in the bushes. They're creeping. They're creeping on the president through a hole in the hedge. And then a truck rolls up like, oh, the problem with the truck, it was just a white and not just a problem. I see it as a huge opportunity, a beautiful white truck.

55:57 Where's my no agenda logo people come on no agenda. Yes. It was perfect for it perfect That's the silver sharpies for people Did you remember Lance Wallen now wall now he's the busy a pastor I think and he's the one that said he predicted God told him that Trump was gonna be president. I don't remember him nice back in the name of Jesus I prophesied that Donald Trump is going to experience a fresh encounter of the Lord in January of this new year and will begin to do Bible quoting in public at an unprecedented rate in Jesus name. Yes. Not since Lincoln will we find a president who will be such a quoter of

56:46 the Bible. He's going to find verses and apply them to national incidents and international situations. And I'm praying for him that he's going to continue to drive the diviners mad according to Isaiah 43 and 44 and 45. that the Spirit of the Lord upon him is going to cause the prognosticators to go crazy because they cannot entrap him. We call forth the anointing upon him. The anointing, remember this, the anointing is an oil, and that oil is an anointing of heaven that makes you slippery in the wrestling match with your enemy. May this man be anointed with fresh oil from on high so that he's so slippery the enemy can't

57:29 get a hold of him and he keeps on eluding the snare of the fowler and the net that they set, they fall into themselves. Pit that they dug, they fall into themselves. For it is not against man that they are fighting, but it's against that whom he whom God has anointed And who is man to question who God has chosen? Oh, black Jesus grabbed the wheel. I can't wait. Is that a black guy? No, but I talk to black Jesus. That guy's an idiot. We'll see. We'll see if the quotes start coming or not. I'm not going to say he's an idiot. I don't speak to God. He does. Yeah. I'm going to leave all everything open. I'm reminded of Reverend Popoff.

58:20 Popoff? Who was a big anointing guy with the oil he sends you. Yeah, Peter Popoff. You can look him up. Peter Popoff, who was busted a number of times for having plants in the audience that he healed. or having microphones or you know it's a whole thing is he's a sketchy dude but he's huge huge makes a lot more money than we do and yeah even after being arrested I mean always so disappointing so Peter Popov has this thing early on when JC was working for the show we had a subscription

58:57 to Peter Popoff, he sent him five bucks, to get on the mailing list, because it's an old rule. Anybody who wants to get into direct marketing of any sort, you want to find one of these guys who likes to send out letters. And Peter Popoff's one of them. And you will get probably a year's worth of email, not emails, but physical letters with little, Doodads inside nip it's and sales pitches and different styles of those trying to sell you It's an education. It's like a market research. It's fantastic yes That's our that's our reverend yeah pop up. Yeah, I might have a mailing to that might be worth collecting well enough well with that I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John

59:49 You whether C stands for collusion times 16 devourer well in the morning to yo, mr. Adam curry from on high In the morning all ships to see boots on the ground feet in the air substance of water and all the dames and knights out there in the morning to Marcus couch who he brought us the artwork was an evergreen that we chose for episode 9 or 9 or 4 the title of the episode was scrum it and And this was a very nice piece. It's two goats, and as you know, we're big on the goats these days because of our service goat. And the goats are eating the No Agenda sign from the wall. Yes, as they would do. Naturally, that's what goats do. That's what goats do, of course. Thank you, Marcus. You can find Marcus' artwork and every piece that we use for our album art. It's different every show.

1:00:44 Which now you can see in your little podcast app. You should be able to see it no agenda art generator comm is where you can upload yourself and Thank you very much to all of our artists for the work that they do Yes, we want to thank him. We have a number of fabulous Executive producers for today's show and they came in with three of them as a matter of fact three of them with $1,000 each boom that this needs that boom boom boom count two and boom count two So let's start with Sir Nils Bonnaker, who is also, what's his knighthood name? I think you have it. Yes, I have it here because he becomes a baronet today. Let me see. He is Sir Nils of the Hinterland. Yes.

1:01:33 Came in with a thousand dollars says hey guys happy new years and new year and happy 1000 in advance njnk just happy you're around PS just finished watching the latest black I have a bone to pick oh the latest black mirror I I love me some black mirror. This is was great. Thank you Adam for recommending it way back. Oh Did you recommend it? I not only recommended it, but I recommended it to you. Yes, and you told me even which episode to start with, if I can recall. Yes, exactly. And it came because I believe Buzzkill Jr. had been watching it. Now that my brain starts kicking in. That could be, so Buzzkill Jr. needs the credit. Yes. Hey, you're like third party in this deal. You know, the new season, we've already watched three of them, is very good.

1:02:24 It's very good. But it keeps reminding me of our favorite, and Tina keeps bringing it up and I know why, our favorite episode of Black Mirror is the one where everyone has a rating that you can see above their head. Oh yeah, that one was very funny. Yeah, but when you think about it, it's where we're at today. We've got ratings for Airbnb, ratings for Uber, which I might add for some reason I am 4.98, someone dinged me, I had a perfect 5 Uber rating. Oh, somebody dinged you? What happened, you think? Well, I think, see, I think that Tina wrote on my account and she probably sneered at somebody. You're gonna blame her. That's what I tell you. That's my story. I'm sticking to it.

1:03:10 No, that's gonna go over tonight. Well, you have a doghouse around there. I'm in it bro. I did no such thing I'm running if anything. I'm riding on her coattails with that amazing FICO score. She's got That's what I'm loving. That's good. Yeah, I see this is a good woman a keeper FICO above 800 keeper Anyway onward Adam Dill came in with a thousand again. Of course we have show 1000 coming up so these guys will all get double triple we've made triple producer credits so you'll be a producer on today's show executive producer on next Thursday's show and on show 1000. It's a three-peat

1:03:59 And I think we're also gonna give that to, anyway, so Adam Dill, I really love all your hard work on the show. You've created a great product that benefits its producers. I'd like to request some get well karma for everyone in our office. We have a flu season clip. Little boy, I'm sick shut up slave and jobs karma is what he liked for his jingles And he wants to be knighted as knight of the facial hair. Okay, I think we can take care of that I'm sick Jobs jobs jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma

1:04:45 Sir, Anonymous of Dogpatch came in also with $1,000 and he sent in a long note. Oh, nice. Man, this guy is quite the supporter now. He's way up there. He's become our patron. And is he finally taking a peerage position? No, he's still gonna expand what he has for his knighthood at the end. Okay. He's got again NJNK, which he's a winner. No jungles, no karma. Yes, that's correct. I would like to extend my knightly title to include both Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia. Okay. Done. He's a fan of some of the great critics. I don't think there'll be any argument from the Peerage Committee regarding those two spots. No. What we're having this dispute currently is between Baron Mark Tanner and our new Baron down there. Oh, yes. Please accept the bonus year in non-tax deductible donation. I encourage all listeners to beat the year-end tax change and the 1,000th show rush today. Now, this is because your tax

1:05:50 deductible donations will be capped at $10,000? No, this doesn't make any difference because you know this is not a tax deductible donation. Oh yeah, I know that. But I think that's what he's... maybe. Alright. Well it's... I don't know if charitable contributions go into that same $10,000 pot. That $10,000 pot is the way I see it, is state income tax and property taxes and sales tax. Just because Tina works at Ronald McDonald House, the nonprofit world is really freaking out about this. Well, they're not freaking out about that. Actually, the clip I have discusses what they're freaking out about, and I disagree.

1:06:32 with the reason for the free gift. I think that's a left-wing conspiracy, just another jab at the president. Well shit, you want to do that now or you want to do it after? We'll do it after. No, do it after. Let's do it after. No, let's do it after. We have a lot of guys to thank here. Yes, okay. And there's a long... We'll keep rolling. Great, and I mean great analysis and research on the show and in the newsletters. I know keeping it to three hours is important for many reasons, so I use show notes even more than before. Thank you, and people should do that. Thank you and the producers to make that part of the research possible. A few shows ago, notes on Jerusalem included the comment of an exodus of Christians from Bethlehem since the Palestinian Authority took over the place, implying their governance may be the issue. I'm attaching a picture I took of the wall around Bethlehem to protect Israelis from these terrible people. The wall is around Bethlehem and notice the wire is angled toward the town.

1:07:29 And he's got a picture. Welcome to the birthplace of the Prince of Peace. Business consists of Muslims selling nativities to the Christian pilgrims. Wonder why Christians leave? Because they can. It is a political blockade and it isn't the Christians or Muslims doing it. Personally, I bought the nicest damned Holy Quran you've ever seen plus some great woodwork nativity pieces. It's the economy, stupid. I would like to extinguish a wives' tale about traveling to Israel.

1:08:06 If you travel to Israel, they ask if you want your passport stamped or just put on a piece of paper leaving your passport untouched. That is a political question to reinforce the perspective that Israel is persecuted around the world. If you travel to Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Lebanon, you cannot leave and have an Israeli stamp. Lebanon is technically at war with Israel. Iran and South Africa are just Iran and South Africa. I have been to Israel many times and always get stamped. I use the same passport for Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco, and other Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Like any Asian or EU country gives a damn. I have a bigger issue getting into India with a Pakistani visa than any other Muslim country, including the ones mentioned.

1:09:00 With an Israeli stamp. I'm glad this guy's not a spook man because he's pretty obvious I have one of my passports had an Israeli stamp. I went there a couple times and I went into the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere and people would say how did you get in? How did you get into the UAE you had an Israeli stamp? Oh, please and I said they didn't Even can't say anything. Okay, I've gotten weird looks when I had Moscow my passport in 88 Hmm. I never got weird. Well, maybe I didn't want I got it. I got it. Oh, yeah, so I go to Moscow and This is again this back like you're talking about 88 kind of before the fall before the Hoffs brought the wall down and so I go I go into this because I wanted to collect the stamp and but they put this

1:09:57 like stapled a piece of paper in my passport at the Russia side and stamped it. And so then I go and when I leave, the weird thing was it was the exact same guy, which I thought was peculiar. And he went, I remember you. And he never really gave much. So he tears out this piece of paper and gives me back my passport. So then I come into London and the guy's thumbing through my passport and he says, Oi, mate. Where were you? He says there's nothing in here. I said no, I went to Russia. Oh, he just rolls his eyes and gives me my passport back and I walk off. Really? Yeah. Now I think it was, where was I going? No, it was, I had Russia, Moscow in my passport, and then I also had Kuwait City because I went to Iraq.

1:10:55 That and I don't know if it was that maybe was the it was that period when I was getting all that crap coming into the country I think remember that oh, yeah It was because of a guy with your name yeah, but it was complicated sure it was hey, let's go back So he said, goes on, he says, hell, I've been questioning leaving Israel about why I travel to some of these countries and who I know there and why I'm in Israel. All Middle Eastern countries are online with immigration. See, they see where you've been and sometimes put their stamps on the same page as Israel. Israel seems to love stamping next to Pakistan.

1:11:35 They can just stamp anywhere they want. So, ooh, Pakistan, bang. Right on top of it. And I don't assume it's because they are both religiously based countries founded the same year as part of the breakup of the United Kingdom or that they were original arms suppliers to Pakistan when they created the Taliban. Anyway, no agenda listeners are concerned with that. An Israeli stamp means you can't visit other Middle Eastern countries is bullcrap. A bullcrap wives tale maintained for political aim based on my experience and the experience is used regularly. Value for value this month. This month I fell short changing you for so I added the extra total from the earlier this month. I hope everyone has a happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a great New Year. NJNK. And then he and that's it the end. So anyways, always entertaining. Yes. Thank you, Sir Animas of Dogpatch and Dogpatch and.

1:12:31 Lower Slobovia. Lower Slobovia. Where is Slobovia? It's another one of those cartoon things. I don't know what he's making a point of. I love it. Carry on. Sir Francis, and that's $1,000. Sir Francis of SRQ, Viscount of Southwest Florida, Oviedo. No, Ovado. Ovedo. Ovedo. Ovedo. Yes. I always say Oveado, because Oveado. 33333. But he corrects me. He gives me crap actually.

1:13:08 He says, well, ITM Jen something woke me up last night when I looked at the clock. It was no shit 3.33 AM. It was a clear signal to donate today and I'm glad to do so. Happy New Year and service goat karma to all. One small item for John. We all love to hear you mispronounce the many small towns and cities where donations originate. But you need desperate help with one in particular down here in Florida. Oh, Vito. Try it this way, OVDO. I thought that this is the donation note from, uh, from Thursday. I don't remember it. I remember this exact language. Well, I don't remember doing the OVDO bit. Yes. Okay, well you send me a clip. Anyway, it came in today.

1:13:56 So looking forward to that 1k St. Francis SRQ troll room agrees it is a it is the previous donation. That's okay We still got a goat scream karma for you've got karma Whatever the chat room thinks troll room my friend well John Gaynor, I'll bring up the spreadsheet from the last show okay, Jeffrey Reese C, e-note, mails from Jeffrey Reese at Gmail. That may be a count for some number of discrepancies that I noticed in the totals. So it's possible. And I just got my robot anyway. Here it is, and it's also number five on the list. ITM Jentz, something woke me up last night. That's the spreadsheet from 994. I kind of remember that part, but I don't remember going on and on about it. Do you still want to clip? No.

1:14:52 Jeffery Reese, 33333C, note emailed from Jeffery Reese. Okay, 33333. Did you get anything from him? Oh, I wasn't looking. I can do that. Just take a little gander. I was actually looking to see if he wasn't on the old spreadsheet, but he's not. It's just a mistake. It happens. That was probably one of the came in close to midnight. They get crossed over often. Okay, Reese. Let me see if I got anything from him. I do. Jeffrey Reese. I saw a late night infomercial that warned if I had an erection lasting more than four hours, I should consult my doctor. I've had one for six years. My doctor quickly corrected me and said, you don't have a boner. You are a boner. He wrote me a prescription to donate to the no agenda show.

1:15:47 Please find it at closed. It's actually a joke, I guess. Structuring written gags is not the easiest thing in the world to do. I have been a long time fan of the show and never miss an opportunity to hit people in the mouth. Several of them have become regular contributors which may have led to my negligence in donating since I was convinced that I had already been doing my part. I only recently realized that while the formula is vitally important, it's only one part of the value for value model. I now realize that I'm no different than a celebrity, celebrity actually, who spreads the word about a disease in the name of awareness while never lifting a finger or a checkbook to actually help. Please forgive me. NJNKNDD, no jingles, no karma, no de-douching. I don't deserve it yet.

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1:17:47 Boy boy boy boy boy You've got karma Alexander van der hengst in Springfield, Tennessee 321 18 this is my third annual contribution Countdown donation 3 2 1 2 1 yes, that's right. He does that every year. Thank you. Oh I trust you both will have a blessed 2018. NJNK, Sir Alex Vanderhanksen. I like the NJNK. It's catching on. Same to you, Sir Alex, in the morning, and thank you for your courage. Kayla Nistore in Northville, Michigan becomes our first associate executive producer with 23456. Happy birthday, comrades! Please call out some major... Happy holidays. You didn't say birthday. Oh, did I say birthday? Yes. I'm on robotic mode. Would you like a clip?

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1:20:48 Psyops. The guy's a Psyops guy. Yes, right. Next is the Nobel Prize for Guardians of Reality. Happy New Year of the Dog. Happy New Year of the Dog. Thank you. I'm going to give her, even though she wants NJNK, I'm sure I'm going to give her a Karma. Well deserved there. You've got Karma. Thank you very much. Demonstrated. Varoness Monica Lansing, $200.80. Great interview with Dr. P. Karma for Stephan, please. Hesh grah will change the world and happy 2008 she says. Yes, thanks Obama. You've got karma. Beautiful.

1:21:34 And that is our well-heeled community of executive and associate executive producers with the exception of two duplicates, maybe three. Who knows? We just want to make, we're just inflating our numbers for the advertisers, you see. Yeah, there you go. And I hope you have another report on that today. I want to thank them all and remind everybody else, Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go to help us out. T minus five to show the big show 1000. This is the last one of 2018. We hope we can kick it off big on Thursday's show, our first show of the new year. We appreciate you thinking of us at Dvorak.org slash NA. And tonight when you're watching Dave Chappelle, why don't you go ahead and tell everybody about our formula. Our formula is this.

1:22:19 We go out we hit people in the mouth All right now we got to go to the charitable giving clips ah Yes, I have This has been a big deal in the news. We do have one of our one of our, who you're gonna meet with I understand eventually in Austin, who's gonna give us the rundown on a lot of this stuff. He's a CPA for the rich in the San Francisco area and he says that this is not a big... Not a big deal. Not a big pot of money for the rich. He says it's gonna make things more complicated and worse. Now, can I get him to do my taxes? Well, I don't know if you want him to. He's kind of out of the state. I don't know if it's... It's not as easy. You can't meet up with the guy that much.

1:23:20 I mean, but tomorrow he probably knows some guys nearby. I don't know just ask him. Thanks. I'm dude the whole shows really No, we want to take that on he might Okay, where is the charitable thing on this list? Charitable giving. One, there's two of them. So charitable giving, there's a couple of assumptions in here and this is what Tina's freaked out about, is what they're going to discuss. Well, it's the season for giving, but nonprofits are bracing for a potential drop in donations next year. The new tax law signed by President Trump last week changes the math for writing off charitable contributions. Jan Crawford explains.

1:23:59 In the nation's capital, this charity serves hundreds of meals daily to the needy, operating largely through charitable donations. But under the new tax reform law, non-profits like So Others Might Eat could soon be taking a big hit. We are absolutely concerned that tax reform and also just confusion about what the new laws are going to be will impact charitable giving. Wait a minute, she talks like this with charitable giving. Charitable giving. I know. Charitable giving. Yeah, so, and there is a lot of confusion. Then the confusion, here's the way I heard it, the confusion stems around that the charitable giving deduction will be capped at $10,000. This is what I was told.

1:24:51 Okay, and that that you know therefore maybe people will try to kind of like pre paying your Your real estate tax like people try to jam if you if you remind them of this fact then maybe they'll donate more But will it be a problem for 2018? This is what's going on. So this is why we're doing this show to help people understand you're typing I'm typing, yes, you can hear it. Yes. I don't believe what you've heard is true. Is true at all. Okay, great. Well, that's good news. But that's not what the problem is. Okay. The problem is, so here are the GOPs, there's a $10,000 cap on property tax deductions, really property tax, sales tax, and

1:25:41 What was the other one? Oh yeah, and income tax. Charitable giving, here's what the problem is, the way I see it so far. They are now offering such a big standard deduction, $25,000 for a couple. But that's only if you don't itemize. That's just the standard deduction. You get the 25 grand. And you don't...but now you can't itemize, so you can't take any charitable deduction. You can't do it. That's right, because that would be a Schedule C itemized deduction. You can't...yeah, you can't... You got it. You're out. You've been taken out of the picture. You're out! So they believe that because so many people will take the set $25,000, because they don't give that much or anything else, it's a lot of money, and they won't itemize, and so they won't give charitable deductions.

1:26:36 Okay, I understand. Yes, and that's supposed to this. So in other words gonna be it's definitely gonna drop down the problem There's people who take that route probably don't give charitable deductions at charitable deductions anyway And if they do, they're probably just bags of clothes of goodwill and they get 20 bucks a bag or whatever they write off. It's not that much. Let's go to part two and then I'll bitch about the whole thing. It's a concern shared by nonprofits across the country because the new tax law lowers incentives for people to donate. Before, people could reduce their tax burden by writing off charitable donations and itemizing them on their tax returns.

1:27:17 Under the new law, many middle class taxpayers no longer will need to itemize. It instead offers a bigger standard deduction, double to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for couples. But here's the rub. If you don't itemize, you can't deduct your charitable donations. People will continue to give to charity. They just won't give as much from the Los Angeles Times before I jump into it They state the following actually the title of this GOP tax reform will devastate charitable giving and Here's how they explain it. They say the Here we go. The problem is

1:28:02 That while tax cuts and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act preserves the deductibility of charitable contributions, preserves, it restructures the system so that millions will lose incentives to give. This is where I call bullcrap. Bullshit! People don't always, I just don't believe it, that people donate only because they can deduct it from their taxes. I don't believe people do it for that reason. I think people give because they want to give. Okay, here's the... okay, they have it right except for the rationale. Well, I'm sorry, there's a third sentence. Most people, most, this is a LA Times fact check, most people donate from their hearts to causes they care about regardless of taxes. It is undeniable, however, that the reward for giving will go down and the cost of giving will go up.

1:28:55 I don't think that's undeniable. That's kind of contradictory. It's also not undeniable. It's not true. If you're getting a $24,000 increase in your money, then maybe that'll actually stimulate giving. Yes, because you'll have extra cash to give. You've got more money. Exactly. It's possible they could go the other way. And the other thing is that these guys, and Ronald McDonald would be one of them, they really rely on... It's the Ronald McDonald House Charities, please. Exactly. is one of them, they're looking for the big boys. The big boys, the guys who give 10 grand, people who give 100 grand, people who give a quarter of a million, people who give 5,000. That to me is a high donor. And those people usually are rich.

1:29:46 And they're deducting everything. They're not going with the standard deduction. That's not worth their time. They have an accountant who can just write off every little piece of anything, except certain things where there's the caps. The caps are on sales tax, income tax, and property tax. So that's kind of a jip, although you can at least have two pieces of property. That's racist, man. It's a jip. Racist. Racist jip. Racist against gypsies. So I agree with you and I think that when you listen to this report, they're all doing the same thing because they're all left-wingers. That this is all just anti-Trump propaganda. Your numbers are going down because of Trump. That's what they conclude. And the more I think about it, because you make a big statement like, you know, all the charities are going after the big boys. While yes, that is true, the majority of, certainly of that

1:30:41 particular organization who are all their own chapters. They don't get anything from the burger place. There's no money flowing except for if you drop some coin in their little box there next to the drive-thru window. I know where you're going with this, and if you're going to go in that direction, then I will say if people go to church And they pass the thing around and you put a fiver in there. Half the time, you don't even remember to deduct it from your taxes anyway. Exactly. But I was just going to say that a lot of charities work on a local level and it's the people who send 500 or even 50, but you know, a thousand. Or five. Or five. Those really do add up at the end of the year. And then there's a lot of targeting to get people to do that. And, you know, the discussion, I think, is, well, you know, should we remind people that it's

1:31:30 you know, it's their tax deductible donation. I personally, I don't think that that matters because as you say, the big boys, they deduct it anyway and the individuals, I don't, yeah, I'm not so sure that they're thinking about that. Well, now I'm gonna reveal a dirty little secret. It's about the show and our tax deductible, non-tax deductible status, we pay all of our tax that we take, the money comes in as a simple income. and not a gift or anything else. And it's not, and we don't get a 501c3 or any of these things. And let me just say when Jay, when Buzzkill Jr was researching, we did a lot of research on it, you know, solicit and we read all the classic books and it took and one, and he looked at all these crazy studies that these people did. And I kind of laughed to myself when I see one of the podcasts

1:32:29 I'll go on about, oh, we're tax-deductible 5013. Why would you want to do that? Why would you want the government to be able to restrict what you can do? That's part of the reason you don't want to do it because there's a lot of rules and you got to file more paperwork and we already filed too much. And it turns out that you get less money. if you're a charitable tax-deductible donation type of organization. If you take A and B and they're both pretty much the same operation, one is tax deductible and one's not, the one that's not collects more money. Really? This was researched. And I thought about this and I was saying, why would that be? Because it's kind of a lure. Look, look, you can write it off your taxes.

1:33:16 turns out that there's a psychological barrier and it turns out that people think that if you're a non-profit, you're gonna be a low end. I don't know if they think you're gonna be low end, but it's like, it's something that's psychological about it that prevents you from donating. We're talking about two podcasts that are in A, B, same situation. The one that is, no, no, no, we don't do that, gets more money. That is a very dirty secret, John. It is. And once I heard that, but we reveal most of our information to our producers. Including our income. We give you the numbers on the show. Yeah, you can look it up. On the show. Get a calculator, you can add them up. Anyway, so when I heard that, I said, well, there's, now I thought, there is zero reason to ever get one of these exemptions.

1:34:15 Because it's not only a pain in the butt, it's not only a lot of extra paperwork, it's not only letting the government in, it is counterproductive. I think it should. That's our promo. Donate now to the NOAA Gender Show. Not tax deductible! I think I should donate. That's what Dogbert of Anonymous was discussing. He mentions it because we've talked about it because people every once in a while write in, I get the kick out of it. The guy writes in, hey, can I deduct this off my taxes? I said no.

1:34:52 He said, why not? I said, because we're not a 501c3. And he said, why don't you become a 501c3 and I can deduct. I don't care what you, you know, you're going to give us some, you're going to give us some help or not. But very few people have. I've heard people way back in the beginning of our value for value system, people were saying, hey, you should make it tax deductible. But there you go. Those are the same people that said we should have advertisers. Yes. And more interviews. Guests, guests, guests. Donate to no agenda. It's not tax deductible. It's version two. That's even better. There may be another, that actually may be a, psychologically may be, oh, those poor guys aren't tax deductible. It works even better. I mean, you don't know what's causing this exactly. Maybe you have to do this. Donate to no agenda. We're not tax deductible.

1:35:50 One of those will work. We got to do some ABC testing. So yeah, well, we, but anyway, the research has been done and that's what the research has covered. So all you podcasters out there who are looking at this as a business model for, I don't know, I don't know why, but if you were, that's a little tidbit for you that no other show will reveal. Donate to No Agenda. We're only in it for the money. And by the way, the funny thing is about no other, no other podcasts will reveal this sort of information because no other podcast knows anything. None of them know nothing. I should have thrown a double negative in. That's even better.

1:36:35 Anyway, let's go to charitable giving too. Oh, I thought we didn't we just play charitable giving too? But then I lost track of the whole show. Well, okay, I'll play it again just to make sure. It's a concern shared by nonprofits across the country because the new tax law lowers incentives for people to donate before people could reduce their tax burden by writing off charitable donations and itemizing them on their tax returns. All right, so we played. The reason I wanted to play it because we're playing that second part or even have it was I am in total agreement with you. I do not think people are donating to anything, including this show, because they because they're incentivized by the government. Thank you. That's really in a nutshell. If I if there's some cause around here that I feel like what's like you and the five bucks to every bum who says hello. Yeah. You're not writing that off. I should. Well, maybe you are.

1:37:30 Believe me. But you can't, it's actually not a write-off. No, it's not. They're not a charitable organization. They're not a 501c3. Although, there's another hook for you guys out there without homes. Yeah, make yourself a 501c3. See if it works. Can you imagine the overhead? Oh my god. But it's true. I mean, I happen to know Ronald McDonald House. People donate, it's always the same. They had an experience. They had an experience, someone they know had an experience. That's why they do it. I've never ever heard someone say, oh, I'm so happy I can give to them, I can deduct it. No.

1:38:08 So, anyway, there you go. We've just debunked an entire talking point. Yeah, now if all the charities go down the tubes this next year, we're wrong. John at Dvorak.org is what it is. But I don't think that we are. I think that charity, if it goes down 10%, I'd be surprised. You know what? There's a Form 990s. We'll know. We'll be able to see how they did. Yeah. Oh man, well let me get into some social justice warrior stuff here for a moment because we got some good stories coming out. Then the first one is from two San Diego State University professors who contribute a chapter to a new anthology that argues that farmers markets are quote insidious white spaces where food consumption habits of white people are normalized. What?

1:39:04 Yeah, it's basically... Have they ever been to the Atlanta farmers market? No, no, go on. Well, they're in San Diego. While farmers markets are... They're going to some yuppies farmers market and they're generalizing. Yes. While farmers markets are often established as a way of fighting food deserts in low-income areas, the professors claim that 44% of San Diego's farmers markets are located in census tracts with high levels of gentrification. So they're racist, kind of. That's very racist. Well, they're saying farmers markets are racist. Yeah. Well, let them say what they want. I'll tell you this, one of the most sensitive areas about this, Berkeley, California has a dynamite farmers market and they're not giving it up. We got a good farmers market here and my buddy Kevin, the homeless Kevin. Oh, you should have. Yeah, you do have a good farmers market. And homeless Kevin works there on Saturdays?

1:40:05 You know, they got all the big guys hanging out working doing stuff. It's all these little little farmers They really come in with their truck. You know, it's not it's not a douchebag type of farmers market. I don't think so Well, maybe in San Diego. They have a douchebag. It's called the douchebag farmers market douchebag farmers market Okay in my ever increasing quest To find out why and what just what's going on with young couples not having children, but having dogs The Wall Street Journal had an article It's it's it's disturbing because you know we need because they treat the dog like a baby That's the part that's the most disturbing and here it is This is what company was this this was a nice Okay, this is some outfit in

1:41:04 New York City, M particle and my sounds like a.com operation, but okay. As Americans increasingly this is from the Laura Pepino, head of talent acquisition at M particle in New York. As Americans increasingly treat their pets like furry children, employers are responding by extending family benefits to pets. The trend is especially strong in New York City, where the closest many come to having a child is buying a schnauzer. We offer maternity and paternity leave, and a pet is another member of the family. We don't discriminate just because they aren't human, so now we have paw-ternity leave.

1:41:47 Oh my god. Yes sir. So when you get your new dog, you get a pawternity leave equal to that of actually passing a human being out of your vagina. Same thing! And you get pawternity leave to... What about catternity? Well, the cat has paws. Pawternity. What about a bird? What about a parrot? Well, look. Hear me now. You get the idea. We're off the rails. This is really not cool. And again, I see... Well, these guys, this is a $76 million funded... Ah, you looked it up, good. ...operation that does big data for mobile. Oh, geez. So they got to keep the millennials happy. Yeah, they got to keep the millennials happy. Okay, got it. That makes sense. But again, on the face back... And they probably, by the way, I would say, because it's a Silicon Valley style operation, even though it's in Manhattan, where it's even more expensive.

1:42:53 They don't want anyone with kids these people did these are most of these companies anti children because you can't work your asses off That's right. That's right. Go ahead have a dog take a week off. That'll keep you. They'll keep you really productive Yeah, I think you're right. I encourage this but then I get I'm the face of human beings I see my buddy Rudy Sarzo He's the heavy metal bass player with his Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays on the face bag with him and the Yorkie. Not even his wife!

1:43:39 It's horrible. All right, then I have Something new in the UK. It's kind of what we're witnessing here more political correctness The British military has caused a stir by ordering members of the armed forces to use gender-neutral language caused a stir I wonder as a phrase from the Shays. Where do you think that comes from? because the stir what has sexual overtones It does. Why don't you look that up while I play the clip. The British military has caused a stir by ordering members of the armed forces to use gender neutral language. Well, these new guidelines are all about avoiding gendered language. So we've heard that certain posters have gone up in the toilets of one particular airbase that trains recruits for the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and

1:44:26 for the army. RT got in touch with the MOD to find out all about the new phrases and they have said that they are promoting a modern inclusive working environment to ensure individuals are recognized and feel valued. Now the guidelines were written by a unit called the Joint Equality Diversity and Inclusion Unit which troops reportedly called Jedi for short. But diversity I love that. Throw in a Star Wars reference with the Jedi stuff. Beautiful.

1:45:14 combat roles in the army and from the end of next year women will be able to apply for all the same positions as men in the British forces. So the words you know you're not allowed to use you know man you have to say person you know the typical stuff. Not a housewife but a homemaker. Well, I can't find out of the etymology yet. Oh really? But it seems to it has a Did you bing it? It means get excited. Did you bing it? Yeah, I binged it. Okay. I binged it man. You gotta bing it baby. I know the Oxford stuff to try to find something. And it causes stir, tends to be a bit if I'm sure it has something to do with this literally stirring with a wooden spoon. So it causes stir.

1:46:10 Okay, so much this stir what all right? All right, all right. I have I have something from the face bag for you today I brought that to the show, but it's yes, but I'm not going to read something to you by the way stir also It has the meaning in the 19th century of jail hmm In prison for example it now it could be used in it as a noun is I've spent 20 years in stir stir I don't think that's what they're talking about with no I don't think so either Okay onward. Okay. This is a friend of mine and not just a face bag They're always a friend of yours, or you wouldn't be reading these that's correct, so they are face bag friends But he's a friend I consider him a friend, but I think we actually did something with him on pod show back in the day This is David Ippolito

1:47:00 David Ippolito is also known as that guitar man from Central Park. Then if you go on a Saturday or a Sunday when the weather's warm enough, he'll be out there. He's usually in the same spot. He's got his guitar, his little amp, battery-powered. He gets a license and he does anywhere... He's a busker. Well, he's really a great entertainer. He's beyond a busker. Because he does it where there's little places people can sit on the hill and he gets everyone to sing along and there's dancing. Does he collect money? Yes, he doesn't ask for it, but people give him money. But that is how he survives. Value for value proposition. I like it a lot. He's a busker. Yeah, but he's beyond a busker. People can make a lot of money as a busker if they get the right location. It's like, sorry, location, location, location. That's right. So at the end of every year,

1:47:47 He does a concert indoors. I think he did it when it was still around the Beacon Theatre. He's at different venues and people buy tickets and it's packed and it's great. It's a really nice musical celebration and he writes most of his own material but he also does funny parody songs. Now the only problem with my friend David is he is the largest Trump hater in the universe. I mean, very, very... In fact, some of the comments that I've read on the show from the face bag are from his feed. I think the Melania thing, remember when she was wearing her high heels and that was a big problem? No, don't remember. Yeah, she's wearing her heels to go to see the... to go to the hurricane area. People like, ah, she's wearing her heels. She took her heels off. Okay, but I'm just giving you... Okay, fine. Sometimes.

1:48:42 So this is an excerpt from his year-end show then it's a new song that he was working on and It'll just and just listen to the words and listen to the audience and you will appreciate the power of the bag I'm exhausted from this year. I have to tell you guys something and I know it's not popular. I'm a straight male. I I was born this way. No, I'm serious. And I feel like walking down up Broadway and just like apologizing to people. You're starting to understand the dimension he lives in? Oh yeah. But, lately, and I know I'm not alone, lately I've been experiencing an emotion that is new to this straight man.

1:49:50 And I have a feeling it might not just be straight men, it's new to me, but I bet women and gay people and lesbians and transgender, I bet you everybody or a lot of people are feeling this emotion. And I didn't know what to do with it so I'm working on a love song and it's not done but I'm gonna... You might be feeling this too. Showing you once again that my parents had five kids and only four of them had pride.

1:50:33 Where would I be without your sharp mind? I turn on the TV hoping you'll find More collusion with Putin in 2016 I swear I've never felt like this before About another special prosecutor Like a high schooler, a Mueller what I mean. That man with the bird's nest on top of his head. It's me and my friends seeing red. All of us are hoping you

1:51:27 Find each crime and misdemeanor to indict that orange wiener. Know that all of us sincerely hoping you, through your investigation, nail that whole administration. Because now a man admits I'm getting a crush on you.

1:52:03 And that's weird. And then it'll go on from there. There you go. I think that kind of sums it up. Or in Jeaner. Or in Jeaner. So it's okay to ridicule somebody's appearance? Yes, no, it's preferred. It's the preferred way to do it if it's Trump. Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna make sure. So everyone's just so hopeful that Bob Mueller is going to do something. So we were watching the thing, Mimi's here and we're watching the news and she says, because I didn't know, so we were watching CBS. It was Orange Weiner, by the way. Orange Weiner? Yeah, not Ener, Orange Ener. Even Orange Weiner. It's penis shaming. She says, Mueller? It's pronounced Mueller? And I said, because CBS, NBC and ABC pronounce his name Mueller. Yes.

1:53:01 Now I said that the show, we prefer the word Mueller so I can do the bit. Mueller! Right. And I'd say Mueller! And I'd say Miller because that's how we pronounce that in Texas. But it's Muller. Yeah. So your songwriter should be told how to pronounce it. I'll make sure to tell him that that was the only thing wrong with it. Yeah. Exactly. The only thing wrong is you're not pronouncing the guy's name right. You're insulting him by mispronouncing his name. Mueller, Mueller. Man, you know, we have good ideas on this show and we had a great idea and we're so stupid on it. We didn't execute Surprise. Remember the whole idea of no agenda tents? Yes. It was a great idea. Still a good idea. Well, we've been usurped.

1:53:55 There's this project in Brussels called the Origami Project, and these guys have foldable cardboard tents for the homeless. They're beautiful. Cardboard? Yes, yes. So they can't get rained on? No, no, no. Or are they coated with some plastic? Yeah, but they're completely flat, and then they fold out into the, you know, like a tripod type tent, you know, like a pop tent. Yeah. And they fold out, and they're like a harmonica. And that's perfectly, we could have had our logo, everything. It's cheap to make. It's like a harmonica? Yeah, yeah. Yes, exactly like that. No, like a, um, what do you call it? An accordion. Accordion! Thank you. That's because in Holland you say a pull, a pull harmonica. That's why. It's literally called a pull harmonica. Well, it's kind of, it sounds like one. Yeah. But it's, what a great idea.

1:54:54 For the homeless. There's a tent made out of cardboard. I think it'd be funny, well sad, but I don't think anyone would not appreciate it. Because where are these tents coming from by the way? Somebody pointed this out. There are so many tents. Now I'm going to go take a poopie. Well hold on, just because you're homeless doesn't mean you don't have a job or income. No, a lot of them do. Yeah, you just can't, you can't afford a home. Okay, here's a couple of things about this homeless. Well, actually I have some homeless clips. Let's run, let's get this newest homeless information based on a Guardian wrote a big piece on how we're handling the homeless in this country. And one thing I wanted to do and I didn't do it, I'm gonna do it now, or you can do it. Look, I wanna get the date of Hands Across America. Oh, that was the 80s. Hands Across America was gonna end

1:55:50 Homelessness, yes. May 25th 1986, hands across America, when approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for 15 minutes along a path across the contiguous United States. I don't think they ever made the chain. I don't think it actually worked, did it? I thought it failed. No, it did. It was a fail. Not according to Wikipedia. Yeah, bless you. Yeah, yeah, they say they had some bull crap stuff They pulled to make it so the chain didn't need you know what if that were in the mountains They should have had like a 9-volt battery on one end and see if it would shock all the way to the end No, dude light it but bold Anyway, so this is the homeless report of

1:56:39 And they blame Reagan and really I think you can blame Carter you can blame anybody for this But it started with some changes in some government policies. I think was exacerbated Wait a minute. You're telling me that homelessness is because of some government policy change How about rents are in grants too high and the wages too low? How about that? Why did what did the government do? They changed some low-income housing loaning requirements. And that's what also triggered, because the Democrats tried to fix this, even though they may have been the ones causing it, they tried to fix it by forcing loans, which became those out-of-bounds loans that brought the economy down in 2008. Thanks, Obama. It happened before Obama got in. I'm just kidding. But thanks, Obama, anyway. Why not?

1:57:35 It's a mess and it's not getting any better and the hotels across America didn't do crap. So let's play a couple of homeless clips. This is the first clip is homeless bust out. Today we talk about a new investigation by The Guardian that looks at how cities struggle to solve the problem of homelessness throughout the year and found many have come to rely on an old solution, a one-way ticket out of town. Relocation programs that offer homeless people free bus tickets to move elsewhere have been around for at least three decades. But as the homeless population rises for the first time since the Great Recession, relocation programs are becoming more common and are expanding to more cities.

1:58:21 During its investigation, The Guardian closely examined these homeless relocation programs by compiling and analyzing a database of more than 34,000 bus trips or flights taken by homeless people out of their cities. They found the journey provided a route out of homelessness for some, but many eventually returned to the city they'd left. This is 27-year-old Quinn Raber, who traveled nearly 2,300 miles over three days from San Francisco to Indianapolis by bus. only to return. to use the restroom because a lot of businesses don't want homeless people in their restrooms and messing them up. It really breaks you down. I don't know if I would ask Homeward Bound for a ticket again just because I know that you're not really supposed to ask for more than one. But if they would be willing to help, I'd ask them.

1:59:29 So they're busting everybody, yeah we know this. Yeah we've talked about this in the past I think. Yeah but they did it, they've got some more complete information so apparently the Guardian is doing a lot of research on this, there's some guy, he's actually local here, he's in San Francisco but let's listen to him for a minute, this is a homeless two. For more, we're joined in San Francisco by Alastair G., the homelessness editor for The Guardian, the new investigation by the outside and America team headline. Homelessness editor. Is that, do you think they advertise with that job title? Yeah, we need a homelessness, a homeless editor. No, no, no, I mean homelessness. Oh, thanks. We're joined in San Francisco by Alastair G., the homelessness editor for The Guardian, the new investigation by the outside and America team headline bust out.

2:00:18 That whole sequence of words is pretty astounding. The homelessness editor part, just listen to that one more time. San Francisco by Alistair G. The homelessness editor for The Guardian. The new investigation by the Outside in America team. Headline, bust out how America moves its home. The Outside America team. Outside in America. Outside in America team. Team. Let me see your papers. Alistair, welcome to Democracy Now! Just lay out what you found. you Thank you so much for having me. Well, we made dozens of public records requests and our goal was to really understand what effect these bus programs were having on the homeless population in America. Cities, of course, would say that these programs are a really great way to offer people more stability. It's a way to reconnect people with family or with friends in other locations and perhaps offer them a route out of homelessness.

2:01:16 And we found that while in some cases that was certainly what happened, for some people it certainly was a way to greater stability, for others it wasn't quite that simple. We found cases where people simply became homeless at their destination. In some instances they even became homeless again in the city from which they had departed. So the story really isn't quite as simple and it really isn't quite as rosy a picture as cities would portray. According to a new federal study, the U.S. homeless population, as we said earlier, rose this year for the first time since the Great Recession. What do you know about why that is and what the impact of that has been? Right, that's a really good point. Well, the rise has been driven in particular by the

2:02:07 trends that we're seeing on the West Coast and that's to do with a rental affordability crisis. Everywhere from Seattle down to Los Angeles and San Diego it's simply becoming impossible for people earning certainly minimum wage but even wages above that. It's just it's very very difficult to afford somewhere to live. So that's what's really driving the trend. And I think that the picture though is in the background here and it's been A constant element of the homelessness crisis in the US is a long-term federal underinvestment in affordable housing, something that was really begun. These cuts in the Reagan era and in the opinion of advocates has never really been properly been redressed since then. Oh, that'll all be fixed with Ben Carson.

2:02:58 Well, it would have been fixed by the... So it started during the Reagan administration. What happened during the Clinton administration? What happened during the Obama administration? How come they were in for... And Bush? You skipped Bush? No, I'm keeping with the Democrat side. Ah, yes. Because this is clearly blaming Republicans, so Bush wouldn't count. But you did have 16 years of Democrats running the place. could have done something there. And there's a lot of blame to be pushed on all sides. When Mimi was running for city council, she also solicited the church. There's a bunch of homeless issues, not a big one, but it's a small one, which makes it very manageable in Port Angeles where there's maybe 20 or 30 people. And she solicited the churches to, you know, because there's some certain laws that allow homeless to be

2:03:51 settled on church parking lots or something and she solicited all the churches in town and she got a response from none. None of them wanted to help? No, none of them wanted to help. And although like, and then Eric apparently pulled something similar with all the churches either in Port Townsend or Seattle and got one response out of, I don't know, 50 or more. Thanks Obama. And so these churches aren't doing anybody any favors and they don't seem to care. Although the argument against the, I mean the argument is being thrown at him, well you're doing stuff for kids in Africa. Yeah, that's the argument. Yes, so always you eat the opiate How about you doing stuff for it for dreamers? You're doing stuff for everyone, but they're homeless. Yeah, everyone hates these people and I hate the homeless no, you don't know yeah, but you had a encampment next door across the street or I have an encampment It's called second Street. It's it's filled with homeless people asking for money

2:04:55 I'm sure you give each one five bucks as you go by because that's what you do. I just don't go outside anymore Bank saving money bank so I'd need the money to pay for my rent in Austin because of all the Californians who came here it's the rent here is we have what do you call that a rental affordability crisis Yes, I'm sure you do yeah now I had this one last clip of another homeless person on this report which went on for like a half hour. And I was thinking what kind of a situation is this poor woman in? Because I mean everything

2:05:36 that happened to her is just so negative, including, well, play this clip. And this is Rose Thompson, a 58-year-old woman who relocated from Florida to West Virginia. She told The Guardian she went back to Key West only three weeks after leaving. I had a seizure and my heart stopped at the soup kitchen. So I wanted to go back to West Virginia and stay with my daughter. They were staying in a three bedroom trailer. And then her little boy slept on the couch where I was sleeping, so they wanted me to go to a homeless shelter. I didn't want to stay in a homeless shelter in West Virginia because I don't know anybody up there anymore. From the time I left here to the time I got back, that was exactly three weeks. Was that her own family who didn't want her?

2:06:22 Yes, God so she goes to live with her daughter in the three-bedroom trailer which I which is really a double wide double wide yeah, and Which are nice you can live nicely in a double wide you can you can get by until a tornado rips it apart or that's what they're for their props for the weather report and Yeah, you can it's it's livable and And I guess, I don't know, maybe she's irascible. The family kicked her out. Sad, sad story. And moved her to the home and then she didn't like the sociology of the homeless place there because she didn't know anybody, she says. And so she went back to Key West, which is rousting Key West, that was part of this report. Key West, Florida is rousting all the homeless.

2:07:10 And they're just making their lives miserable and getting them out of there. So this, we're not going to do very well there. And it's just a mess, these poor people. And they get into the cycle and they're screwed. I will say in Austin, and there you go, it's Austin, we have this community first village, which is underwritten by mobile loaves and fishes. which is a, I think that's mainly a religious group, but they built this 27 acre planned community with tiny homes and they, you know, they basically reintegrate homeless people in and around Austin into a, you know, a living community. And then, you know, they get jobs, they have to do, they have to do things, they get paid. They have addresses, which is key. They have an address, which is a big deal. And it's, apparently it's very successful.

2:08:00 Tiny homeless movement is a big deal. We're thinking about putting some on some property we have up in Port Angeles. Oh, for homeless people? No. For millennials, hey, I got an Airstream I'd like to put up there. That's a good idea, by the way. That's a great idea. Well, the problem, I look at the housing situation, you know, the towns are in and around Berkeley. have, in Berkeley too, that you could see that years ago they had a ratcheting system for you can get into a cheap house, like a one, they had one bedroom cottages. And there's still a number of them in the area that are, you know, in the regular tractor, one bedroom cottage, they used to go, you used to be able to buy them for $15,000 or less in the 70s and now they're,

2:08:51 $300,000, $400,000, but it's still not what you average. The median in the Bay Area is $750,000 for everything. But there's no point of, you can't ratchet very easily. What do you mean by ratchet? Like being on the property ladder? No, no. Yeah. Well, right. Yeah. You'd be on the, you ratchet by, you buy a house, Value goes up, you sell it, you buy a new one. A bigger one. Yeah. Ratchet. Yeah, got it. That's a Leonardo da Vinci invention. Yeah, he did that. I know he was very big in real estate. No, ratchet. Boom! Count four. You're fast. That was good. I am fast. I'm fast. You're fast. So anyway, so you ratchet up and you get into bigger and bigger places and that's what, I mean, that's what you used to do. My parents did it.

2:09:41 and we always lived comfortably. But if you don't have the bottom layer, which would be tiny homes, that are not just not, we're not talking about tiny dinky little pieces of crap like those ones they have with the television. But you know, something that's actually reasonable cottage. The ones on the TV, these things are 40, $50,000. Yes, they're overpriced. It's crazy. And this is like 40 square feet. Yeah, it seems like the smaller the less square footage you have the more expensive they are. Yeah, that's just that's some sort of scam I can't figure out but there's no way of getting into the market I mean you could do it if you lectured some kid on this and I might as well just reveal the lecture so anyone out there listening young or millennial listeners

2:10:26 This guy was working in Silicon Valley and he and he met him at a Lexus event a press event. Oh Thank God it was a press event. I'm like, it's a Saturday. I can't wait to go to the Lexus swap meet Well, that'd be cool. But the Lexus event First to burrow other rolling something out and this guy's a writer and his wife works in Silicon Valley he's in Silicon Valley and he says to me just casually and I'm never going to be able to buy a house. And I said, why? I said, that's bull crap. You work, your wife works, you don't have any kids and you didn't have student loans, I don't think, but it was just like to get into a house, I think at the time, you needed a down payment, probably around 40 grand and you had to have good credit at that point. But I think 40 grand, so you had to have 40 grand.

2:11:22 I'm telling you, you've got to do the following thing. Stop going to restaurants, stop buying iPhones, spend two years just starving to death and save 40 grand. Get 40 grand in the bank. Do whatever you have to do. Don't be like a typical millennial throwing money away on dumb crap, which is what they all do by the way. Just save that 40 grand and get into a house and start the process of ratcheting and then you'll be fine for the rest of your life and then you can actually live on the profits of the house and then you can go buy all this crazy stuff Millennials like so much that's overpriced. Yeah, that is not the methodology we're being taught. We have been taught reversed saving which is credit.

2:12:06 That's you get it now. Why worry why save and wait get it now get it now on the never never Yes, and then you end up being the guy standing there saying I'll never own a house And you won't with that attitude. That's correct, but I own a house My Airstream is a house. Yeah, it is. You could, after this show folds, after I've given away the store with all this secret information about donating... And all of a sudden all podcasts are taking our lunch money. Yes. Yes. Then I can go live in that thing. 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.

2:12:52 And in fact we do have some people to thank and and and you know the funny thing is There's a lot of funny things. Yeah, the funny thing is about you know I might but just something because you got the Windows machine now Microsoft has a thing It's you can find the setting. You're supposed to be able to hit the control key and a big giant circle pops up on the screen. Know about this? No. Yeah, big giant circle pops up on the screen showing you where your mouse is. Well, I have control key, but there's no circle popping up. No, because you have to set it. It's under the mouse settings. Go to the mouse settings and it tells you to do this. It's a box you click and then when you push down the control key, a big giant circle

2:13:40 Pops up around the... Okay, I'm looking at the mouse settings and I need additional mouse settings, I guess. Microsoft is very interesting with how they do everything. Oh, they vary everything. It's unbelievable. Let me see. Click lock pointers. Enable pointer shadow. No, I don't see pointer options. Maybe pointer options. Yeah. Display pointer trails. Ah! Show location of pointer when I press the control key. Okay, let me try this. I've selected this and I press the control key and nothing happens. Great. Oh! There you go! This is what happens with me. It flashed for a moment. Just for a moment. Yeah, it doesn't work right. Oh, it's lame! When it used to work on the older versions of Windows, it would be a big giant circle and it would come on for a good two seconds. No, the circle flashes only once in... like if I hit the control key... no.

2:14:38 Sucks. Well, this is false advertising. No, it used to work. Let me restart the computer. It won't help. But we do have a few people to thank. Let's start with... Meanwhile, let me turn this piece of crap option off. This is not... No, leave it on. It might work again when they do an upgrade. Okay. It's not gonna hurt to have it. Where is Stefan Ehrich? Ehrich. He's in Deutschland in Fehlbach. And one, two, three, four, five. The best regards from Germany. Stay strong in 2018. He puts a little note on it. Oh, but I have a little additional info. You need to go to the ease of access settings in the control panel to tweak the features. Oh, well, that I didn't know. I'm going to try that. Go ahead. You keep reading. I'll see if I can. Yeah, you keep doing it. See if you can tweak it. Ease of access. Where the hell is that? It's around Gordon Walton, Austin, Texas.

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2:24:15 I have a... I don't know what you want to do here at the end, but I do have a couple of things kind of Dodd Report education related. Okay, we can do that. I got a short clip I can play. Yeah, let's do something. This is like I'm watching KQED, the local educational channel, and And they're doing it. They got a you know a couple minutes to kill so they got these stupid promotions in between You know the odd day our market throwaways, and so I've got this one And I thought about it. It was only actually I thought was stupid so I clipped it And then I as I thought more about it. I said oh Okay, I now I understand it play urban eyes shrink. Hey. We'll do that

2:25:06 So big padding at the beginning the planet is in a precarious place And we need to learn to live more compactly in cities and in a more pedestrian walking type way And if we can make urban living exciting and joyful and engaging Then we can save the planet, so it's a pretty simple mission Well you got it first of all I want to help save the planet what do I need to do I You need to jam yourself into New York City in a tenement that burns to the ground because some little kid was playing with matches. Damn. Now, that's the first thing that came to mind and I was going to juxtapose this with that clip but I didn't even bother with that clip because there's nothing to deconstruct. But then I thought about it, this is a plug for the Matt Damon movie.

2:25:59 Oh, what movie is this? This is where he shrinks down to a little- Oh, yeah! Huh. And if you listen to it and think of the Matt Damon movie where he shrinks down and he's a whole new world because they're all living in these little bitty cities and all that sort of thing. It kind of looks like a fun movie, I have to admit. It kind of does, but it's kind of creepy. I don't know if it's going to do very well because it's like, there's these movies that seem like a fun movie and then you think about it and go, that's kind of creepy. I mean, somebody could come along and just step on the whole community and kill thousands of people. And you know what happens when an ant gets in there? Damn ants.

2:26:37 So, but play it again, it's short, it's only a couple of 20 seconds, and think of the Matt Damon movie. Oh, it still has that big padding at the beginning, sorry. The planet is in a precarious place and we need to learn to live more compactly in cities and in a more pedestrian walking type way. And if we can make urban living exciting and joyful and engaging, then we can save the planet. So it's a pretty simple mission. Hmm. It's a plug for the movie. There was someone else who said that we missed a plug for a movie.

2:27:14 I think we're dropping the ball on a lot of people. Yeah, we are, we are. It was for the new... I want to say, was it Steven Spielberg movie? What's his new movie? Oh, he's got something coming out, you're right. And there was something... now I'm looking for it. I cannot find this email, which is pissing me off. It was some big story. Well, somebody in the chat room will know the new Steven Spielberg movie. Yeah, Ready Player One. What is... Oh, yes! I think it was the War on Gaming. That's what it was. Yes, that's... Okay, so the War on Gaming.

2:27:55 Is and we received a lot of emails about this as I expected from our producers in fact I'll read this first one from producer Daniel He says Adam the trashing of gamers has nothing to do with the lack of advertising and I say that with all due respect I know next to nothing about this world, but I'm a hardcore gamer. I can comment on this topic with confidence You have standing my friend The Trump movement's success could greatly be attributed to gamers due to their online discussion of Gamergate and the influence of social justice warriors on video games as well as their participation in the MGTOW online movement. What is that? MGTOW? MGTOW. I have no idea but something in the chat room. Multi-gamer something or other.

2:28:37 The MGTOW online movement. These two movements snowballed into a full-on troll movement that pushed Donald Trump as a direct response to the SJW bullshit currently infecting our video games. TLDR, gamers have been blamed for Trump's election and now the media is trying to paint us as crazy. I'll buy that. Wow. And he has a number of links. Rolling Stone, tracing links between Gamergate Trump supporters. Alt-Right. CNET. Gamergate. Donald Trump, American Nazis, how video game culture blew everything up. Motherboard. Vice. Under Trump, Gamergate can stop pretending it was about games. Breitbart. Leftists think Gamergate caused Donald Trump. Maybe they're right. Interesting. That's very interesting.

2:29:31 I didn't get that note, I don't think. Forward that to me, because I want to look at those articles. I might get some of that. Yeah, well, they're in the show notes, but I will forward it to you. And then this, then the other concept. And by the way, it just seems they're blaming everything, you know, Trump. It's not, you know. You know who's next? Podcasters. We're done for, bro. It's podcasters' fault. We're done for. It's heavy metal's fault. Yeah, it's the pod. I tried watching that Will Smith movie. Speaking of heavy metal ah you talking about that Will Smith Netflix It's bright bright bright. Yeah, as I say don't deal damage should be the time dim. This is horrible It's I couldn't get horribly acted as though Will Smith didn't want to be in the movie It turned into like Lord of the Rings and I'm out then you know It's like it's like Netflix looked at their algo and said okay. Here's what people like they like action movies with Will Smith They like Lord of the Rings. I know I

2:30:34 Let's put the two together. I have an idea. They had a meeting about that. That was really rough. Very, very hard. I will say Mindhunters is a really... Yeah, it's very good. I like that a lot. And there's this other one Mimi turned me on to and it is good. But the title is unmemorable, something mischievous, Miss Molly or something. It's about a comedian. It's about the era of Lenny Bruce, who's a character. You know, I told you about that and you hated it. I told you about that. Yes. No, you told me about something else. Do you want a clip?

2:31:15 Do I want a clip of me hating what you told me and I said I saw it? I'll go find that clip. Okay, you'll find it. I do remember saying I hated something but it wasn't that. It was just me. No, you're right. You recommend a lot of stuff and most of it's really crummy. Good. Could you do me a favor and set up the face recognitionist boarding pass clip because I'm interested in that. Yes, you would be. This is a promotion for face recognition. A couple of airlines are testing biometrics as full-blown ways of no more boarding passes, no more nothing. You just use your face. Good. You can board without presenting your boarding pass, passport or other travel documents. This JetBlue flight leaving Boston for Aruba has passengers taking a trip to the future without a boarding pass. I'm just going to walk up and they're going to take a picture and that's it.

2:32:07 Wow, yeah. It amazes me. Every year things change. It just amazes me, the technology. In seconds, facial recognition technology can compare a picture taken at the gate against a flyer's passport pictures stored in a government database. Frances Sadowski is sold. It couldn't be faster. Yeah, pretty fast. Delta is testing the technology in New York and Atlanta and is also trying out a facial recognition bag drop in Minneapolis, part of a larger effort that envisions your face or fingerprint as the only thing you'll need to navigate an airport. Marrying all of the technologies at each of the steps in the travel ribbon is a game changer for the experience. You can literally go from, you know, curbs

2:32:49 to plane without having to interact with a human being if you so desire. There's also Clear, a private company that for a fee will store and verify a flyer's biometrics, allowing people to go to the front of the security line at 24 airports nationwide. But a new report questions if it's legal for the government to use facial recognition on American citizens, and two senators are asking Customs and Border Protection to halt expansion of the testing amid security concerns. As we consolidate biometric data into big databases and we use it more and more, those databases will become targets and the risk of data breach increases greatly.

2:33:28 The TSA is testing fingerprint verification at at least two airports in the US and here at Reagan National, certain Delta customers can use their fingerprint as their boarding pass. Chris Van Cleave, CBS News, Arlington, Virginia. Oh man, I love how they put it under the, you know, it's going to be easy, it'll be great. Professor Ted, we need your help. Now, they're showing this process and you go up and you, first of all, you have to have a passport or something with this photo because they verify your face once you're in the system with a passport photo system, which is always going to be a miss, not going to be the way to do it. But you can see that they stand there and have their picture taken and they wait for this thing, the database to find them.

2:34:14 And then beep, okay, now you can go. And they're telling me that's faster than my holding a piece of paper. No, no, no, the key part was, first of all, it's amazing. You get to go to the front of the line. That's how they do it. It's like, oh, if you have the facial recognition, you get to board first. No, if you listen to that report, there is no paper ever So, they're saying that it's faster. Yeah, you can go to the front of the line. That's why it's faster for you, the individual doing it. That's my point. It's not faster because I'm saying just... Of course it's not faster. It's not faster. It's bull crap. Yes, but they're playing it as if it'll be faster because then you're at the front of the line. Yeah.

2:35:06 Well, when everybody is going through this system and getting their face looked at, it's not going to be faster. Is everyone going to go to the front of the line? How does that work? Well, that's what seems to be happening specifically with Southwest. Because Southwest, before you get to board, and we always buy the early bird for $9.95, which doesn't put you in A group, it puts you in B, B12, B11. The best absolute seat is B1. You mean boarding? Yeah. Why? Because it depends on what gate, what terminal you're at, what group, what airport you're at. Well, at certain airports, wait, at certain airports like Oakland, okay, we're getting ready to board, can A group, A1 through 15, A1 through 30, A, please line up. And you line up

2:36:00 Don't do that by the way. I just sit down, but you line up and you stand there sometimes for 10 minutes. That's true Good point good point because you're standing much longer because you know when a is done B is going right in good point But that's not true, but that's not true because after the a group Okay, now we'll be boarding everyone who has one leg. One leg, please. Yes, they do a... They do the one-legged boarding. And now we'll be boarding families with small children. Small children and families. And here's the group where I want to be in. If you have a service animal, you can board now. The people with the bogus dogs, the comfort dogs, emotional support goat, they get to board before B. It's an outrage.

2:36:50 What I like to do if I am in A group, which I usually am because I pay for it, you know, to get an early bird special. And so you early bird special. I find a seat that is about where I'd be standing in the A group and I sit down and stay there. I'll let all these people stand up and sit, stand in the group. You make a good point. You make a good point. When they finally say, okay, we're now boarding A1 through 15, which is the first class. First class. That's what they call it, business class. They don't call it, no, not a South. They call it business class. A Southwest. Business select. Southwest has no, I'm talking Southwest. Yes, I know, but one through 15 you can buy your way into that and they call it business select or something. Okay, I understand what you, yes, you're right. And it costs you $300 more.

2:37:37 Yeah, exactly. So there's nobody standing there. But they board that first. As soon as they do that, then I get up and put my force myself into my spot. I have my I had the boarding pass and I look, are you a 10? What, you're A6? What's your number? Get behind me. I'm A23. You're A23, but you're A24. You should be in front of him. And so I started organizing people. Here's a question. We were talking about how they have all those funny little things, you know, the Southwest, they do the fun little announcements with all the standup gags. Why don't they do that at the gate?

2:38:15 Well that woman that was singing that we had the clip of was at the gate. Yes, she was at the gate, yeah. But that's pretty unusual. And then you gotta use that stupid mic, nobody can understand it. You did a good imitation by the way of it. Somehow, it was a good bit. Yeah. All right, I got something. So let me, you know, this whole Dodd report, the Reese Commission, the deliberate dumbing down of education in America, although it's happening everywhere, then how I escaped it, is fascinating to me, especially these big organizations who have grants. I'm curious, what are they teaching our children? I'd like to know. I don't have any children of school-going age. From time to time, producers send us stuff that their kids come home with, which is always a head-scratcher. This is not necessarily about school, but I'm going to start this package off with it. This is about the children's workshop, the people who make Sesame Street. Now, they're television people, so they should make... What should they be doing?

2:39:15 Making television. Depends where the money comes from. It's not often that you get a chance to change the world and that's what this feels like. Sherry Weston is with Sesame Workshop, the maker of Sesame Street. The MacArthur Foundation gave them and the International Rescue Committee a $100 million grant to develop early childhood education programs for Syrian refugees. I asked Sherry Weston what kinds of new Sesame Street characters might reflect the experience of Syrian refugee children. So I'm not, you know, giving away any sort of major storyline, but I can certainly imagine that there will be a character who perhaps had to leave their home or lives in a tent

2:39:56 or becomes best friends with their new neighbor. So we want the characters to be characters that children can identify with and storylines that they can relate to. And then, you know, we have a proven track record of the academic basics, the social emotional skills, all of that will be embedded in the curriculum. And it will be through television, but also through digital, through mobile, and then direct services for the most vulnerable children. I was going to ask, do most refugees have access to TV programs? Yeah, believe it or not, they do. The penetration of both television and mobile in the region, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon is huge.

2:40:32 And I think that surprises people. But the direct services, again, is a key component where we'll be creating educational content to reach children through home visitations and learning centers. And that's really essential. So it's both the mass broad reach and the individual touch. So now we're getting out of the television set, collaborating with the International Rescue Committee to do face-to-face work. Absolutely. And that's so important to address toxic stress. You know, you can imagine for a refugee family how stressful it might be. But we know from brain science that the impact of stress on a child in those first five years of life can have lifelong repercussions. It literally affects their brain development. Give us an example of what somebody doing one of these home visits is likely to do with the parents and children that they meet.

2:41:18 A home visitor would go in to meet with a caregiver, the mother, the grandmother, those caring for young children. They would meet with the parents and the children and they would be training them, if you will, on the most important way to help a child overcome trauma. And there's so much proven science on this. Literally, that adult-child engagement is the most important thing. It's called nurturing care. It may sound intuitive, but when you've been through this kind of situation, these parents are very stressed themselves. And to give them techniques and tools and strategies to help their children overcome the toxic stress

2:41:57 It's games, it's content, it's storybooks, it's apps, it's all sorts of things that they will engage with a child with. But also you're giving them the understanding of the importance of that nurturing care. And there are, again, so many studies that this is the most impactful way to help children overcome crisis. But it has never been done to the magnitude that we'll be able to do with the MacArthur Grant. Hey, hey. How about taking some of that money for the homeless and the kids living in those tents in Oakland? Thank you. No, that's not the idea. The idea is we need to pre-indoctrinate the children before they come to the West to do whatever they're meant to do, be workers or something. And this is a television production outfit who is now doing on-site visits with educational material.

2:42:54 Well, it's not even educational, but there is all socioeconomic stuff. It's brain science, man. Didn't you hear her say it? We know from brain science. The brain, the brain, the brain. Same thing with a five-year-old that lives in a tent with her mom and three brothers in Oakland, and they don't give it any attention. So my quest led me to Dr. George Land. He's a familiar name, brain scientist, and he was involved in a test for NASA about creativity or I should say imaginative thinking.

2:43:40 And again, this is just showing you what is happening in schools. And I was lucky enough to find a TED talk from six or seven years ago where he talked about this study they did with NASA, which initially was only meant to be one test, but they drew it out over 10 years, turned it into a longitudinal study. And here are the results. The thing that changed everything for us in trying to understand creativity is that somebody from NASA came to us, the deputy director, and said, look, we have a lot of people working for us. We need some way to select the people that are the most creative so they can go on the teams that are facing the toughest problems. Can you give us some kind of an instrument, a test or something that we can give to find those people?

2:44:26 We didn't have such a thing, but we developed it, we applied it, and it was very predictive. It worked really well. But the idea emerged that, gee, we still don't know where creativity comes from. Is it that some people are born with it and others not? Or is it learned? Does it come from our experience in life? And the idea came up, this test is so simple. Why don't we give it to some children and see how they do? So we did. We created a sample of the American population with 1,600 children and started it out when they were about five years old. Now here's a question I want to ask you. This is a test for the ability to look at a problem and come up with new, different, and innovative ideas.

2:45:10 What percentage of those five-year-olds fell into what you might call the genius category of imagination? I'm just gonna stop it. What do you think? Well, it would have to be high or the question wouldn't be asked. Yes. So that's an unfair for me to guess, but I will say 80%. 80, 90, wow. This is a great audience. There are some audiences that don't guess quite that high. 98%. We were pretty shocked. Some people like you would probably not be shocked. I suspect you've been five-year-olds, so there you are. But the information was so astonishing, we decided to turn that into a longitudinal study, go back five years later and see how it would go. So we went back. There are now 10. What would you guess? Somebody came on very close. 30%. We decided to extend it for five more years.

2:46:09 They're now 15. Well, we have some pessimists out there. It was all the way up to 12. So you can see something of a trend here, right? That study ended because so many people got depressed. Most of the testing was done by teachers and they just didn't want to do it again. But we have tested a lot of adults. And what would you guess? You're close. 2%. Now the great historian Oswald Spengler once said in all of his years of studying history he had concluded it only takes 2% of a population to create the basic ideas and that everybody else applies them. And it turned out, gee, he was pretty close to right. So I thought that was pretty interesting.

2:47:01 It's very good. The 2% of adults have a true creative imaginative creativity and thinking and all the rest is just dumbed down. That's the implication, I guess. No, the implication is it's been, it was been beat out of them. Yeah, beaten, just beaten. Yeah. With love. No, it's beaten out of him by the educational system and it's getting worse. Yeah, you got to be rule followers. Be rule followers, I tell you. Yeah. No, you're thinking wrong. That's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Well, I have two more clips and this is about what kids are learning in schools. In the school today, it's very distressing when you see the organizations that are being contracted to do this kind of stuff.

2:47:46 This is what is important. Before you play it, I just want you to say two words for people out there who are reacting adversely to this. Homeschooling! This was the front page of the Seattle Post Intelligence Circle. Nir Vokonil's third grade history class at Birchie School is analyzing old news stories, looking for evidence of bias. People, if they don't know how to analyze it, will just say, oh wow, that's true. Fred Cotton looks at the choice of words used in a story about Japanese internment camps during World War II. Notice how they're wording it Japanese instead of Japanese Americans. What was the purpose of that? Why did they do that? The purpose was to say, oh, we're not imprisoning

2:48:36 American citizens. Well, as they put it, we're not evacuating American citizens, we're evacuating Japanese. And why did they use the word evacuate? Another student also notices the language. I saw some fake advertising for the Japanese internment camps. They said they were assembly centers. So they kind of made it seem really cool and actually it was. Yeah. O'Connell uses examples from the past so these kids can become smarter about media messages in the present. even though they're only eight years old. I want to learn how to analyze it myself and have my own opinion.

2:49:20 They soak up everything around them. I think it's important for kids to be able to control the interpretations that they hear and see every day instead of the interpretations maybe controlling them. Recognizing bias in news stories is one form of media literacy. Spotting when the news is entirely fabricated, like these stories, is something else entirely. Often these stories are designed to look as if they come from legitimate news organizations and are meant to be easily shared on social media, resulting in confusion over what's real. During the recent election season, there have been reports of a concerted effort to spread fake news in a bid to influence public opinion. A recent Stanford University study of almost 8,000 students showed they were easily duped online. Researchers found overall

2:50:08 Young people's ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word. Bleak. The law in Washington state encourages educators to develop policies around media literacy and to share resources. It also allows districts access to federal technology funding. This new law in Washington is being used as a model by about a dozen other states. Advocates want to see media literacy taught in all 50 states. There's clearly growing momentum to pass this kind of legislation. Sparks uses the play Hamlet to talk about fake news. It's about spying and lying and how that creates kind of a ripe environment for the proliferation of fake news. Sure, it could be a metaphor, but Hamlet has a shocking flesh-eating illness. Could you actually support that with evidence from the text?

2:50:59 Good luck. Fake news is not news you don't agree with. Fake news is fabricated news. Sparks believes letting her students create their own fake news will teach them how to critically think through some of the information they receive. What words are used? Who benefits? Is there any truth to the story? Anything that starts with share if you're outraged, that's a bad sign. And outrage is just the lifeblood of fake news. So this is very concerning to me that we now have legislation in 16 states working on all 50 and this is coming from one outfit, the National Association for Media Literacy Education. They already have an industry group and of course you want kids to have media literacy. This is the big term but the buzzword media literacy.

2:51:54 You want them to have that, but you're pumping bias into them from the get-go. Yeah, that's what you want. That's what you want, but it's very dangerous. And this is what we do. We actually teach media literacy in an oddball sort of way. But no, you're going to be... and what is this with using the Japanese internment camps and the Seattle intelligencer as a lesson on how to detect fake news? Don't know but the whole thing is a scheme that did you look into this open? Yeah, the thing is there must be a hundred little groups, and they all have you know media literacy? sense weird enough productions Soros it's yeah a lot of it is Soros money Here's one. This is common sense media. They have what is this little thing here? How to spot fake news five ways here are five

2:52:55 There are five ways to spot fake news. Number one, look for unusual URLs. If they end with LO or .com.co, chances are they aren't legitimate news sites. That's really interesting. Mean I think it's bullshit. It's total bullshit. What did they say if it's not calm if it ends in dot-com dot CEO or Did she say I oh because we have being at dot IO which is kind of cool But if it's just a that is just a shrinker, so that's not if they end with LO or no dot IO is not shrinkers This is a real domain name. That was a shrinker. What do you mean? Oh?

2:53:36 You know, where you put it in, it's just shortened, you know, a URL shortener. No. Oh. No, it's a proper top level domain. Dot com dot co. Chances are they aren't legitimate news sites. Number two, dissect the layout. Look for grammatical errors, incorrect dates, bold... That's every paper. I know. Look for grammatical errors and dates that are wrong. ...and sensationalist images. These are all red flags. Number three, dig deeper.

2:54:14 Find out who wrote the article and who supports the site. If this information doesn't exist or you need to register to get it, then question why? Yeah, hello? Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, New York Times, everybody. Number four, cross-check. Use fact-checking sites to confirm information and see whether other credible news outlets are reporting similar news. Number five try a reverse image search If the same picture appears in unrelated stories you may have a reason to be suspicious Or if the image was done by Commister blogger visit us at common sense You're gonna get a note on that one. I'm extra

2:55:02 But I'm gonna try and be creative with my 2% brainpower, and I will try to position this different ways in future shows. But they're corralling the kids into actually believing the newspeak bullshit. Yes. This is bad for the kids. It's horrible. It is, it's really bad. You're letting the government and other non-governmental organizations with a lot of money tell your kids what is real and what is not. They're not really giving them tools, where these are your tools, like if it's a misspelling or...

2:55:42 The date is wrong and then on the screen it says February 31st like okay a lot of the news stories They they don't they sometimes leave the date off and they just run it on whatever day that you know They put the date in this today's date. Yeah, exactly. No, that was bad And what about with the Guardians? They might be the, or you look at the Daily Mirror, it's been something dot UK dot CEO or something like that. The other way around, that's not. So these groups, media literacy now, digital citizenship institute, you know what, you know, this has our name written all over it. This is another, I mean, there's a hundred million dollars this big bird got. Yeah, we can get some of that. We should be able to get some of that.

2:56:28 I would think. We just, you know, we just have to, you know, say climate change is real. We have to actually do something. We need some Grammstromanship. We need a Grant guy out there. A guy who knows how to write this stuff. You know, what a great donation idea. If you, I mean, that's a real value for value. You get value from our show. Why don't you write in for a grant for our show? Yeah, that's I mean it could work. It could you never know yeah, then if you will vouch or when you will do anything you need Yeah, we'll do what you have to do. Yeah Except do whatever the money says we have to do that We're not going to do no that's take the money away, and then we bitch about it material content material absolutely, okay?

2:57:15 Well, I have two clips I want to get rid of and they're about the marijuana thing which is going through in a couple of days. Groovy, groovy. Oh. And I do want to read Eric's personal request. He's doing some schooling projects with his wife in Port Towns. Ah, okay. I didn't realize that this was him. Okay, good. Yeah. Glad you're doing this. He's doing a bunch of these things and he's become like a teacher. Like and they have apparently they have a robotics team of kids like nine-year-olds And he says the robotics team that D&I coach made it to the state semifinals

2:57:56 Okay, I guess they're I don't know these death bots You know the boss that kill each other Oh Robo Wars, yeah, those are great. Yeah, he says could you plug and I'll give it I'll give him a plug go fund me calm slash howling chickens They have a chicken farm. Howling chickens to help pay for nine kids and their parents to attend the event. It can't cost much because the event is at Amazon's HQ in downtown Seattle, so it's a matter of taking a three-hour drive to get there and back, so it shouldn't cost much, on January 20th and 21st. And the bonus is, for our benefit, he'll add no agenda show to the shirt

2:58:49 that the kids will be wearing, and I guess he'll be selling, as a sponsor if the no agenda crowd can help us out. And in his case, not knowing the trick, donations are tax deductible. What a dummy! No, Eric plays by the rules. Less money for you! Yeah, well it is actually, but he doesn't know that. He doesn't know. But you also didn't have to say you could have hooked a brother up, but no. You mock him for show content. Good job. What? Well, if- knowing that you're helping him out by not reading that last line would have been fine.

2:59:29 Knowing that I'm helping him. Oh, you mean that donations are tax deductible? Yeah. Well, he put it in here to be read. Yeah It's just a coincidence that we talked about it not being effective. So if people ignore that last line, okay I'll edit it out. You want to? No! Of course not. This is the best part of the show. And yeah, tax deductible. Well, maybe it works in some situations. I'm just messing around. Yeah, you're giving me crap. So let's go to the, because we got the marijuana is coming in, uh, into play on. I got one story about that's dumb.

3:00:10 Okay, followed by another story. That's even dumber nice like California marijuana prices up racial marijuana will be legal in California legalization looming higher taxes on medical pot I'm sorry something wrong happened there. What the hell is that? I think they both played at the same time. That was not the intent racial marijuana will be legal in California in just three days. But with regulation comes higher taxes on medical pot. KPX 5's Kristen Ayers found a long line that was out the door at a clinic in Oakland. Medical cannabis user Mary Gold brought a book

3:00:47 and a chair and lined up with hundreds of people. I came to be part of the last-minute shopping. It's like going to Times Square on New Year's Eve. A countdown to New Year's Day when state law changes and recreational marijuana becomes legal in California. No cannabis card required. But there is a downside. I made my purchase ahead of time because I know that next week it will be more expensive. Legalization will mean new taxes, higher prices for pot and strict limits on how much you can buy per day. Generally we're letting people know that they can expect 10 to 30 percent higher prices with the taxes. That is what is driving this week's mad dash for marijuana.

3:01:35 Harborside was running low on some inventory by this evening. But there are long lines here today and you can see just how quickly people have been buying. These shelves were full earlier today. They've been cleaned out now by people eager to get a good deal before prices go up. The rush is expected to only increase after the new year. Dispensaries in states like Washington and Colorado saw their customer bases double and triple after legalization. And even though customers will take a hit to their pocketbooks, Marijuana advocates say they're gaining something too. People are elated that they'll have freedom from prohibition, that they'll have freedom from law enforcement, and that they will be able to loudly and proudly come out of the cannabis closet.

3:02:21 Now, this is dumb for the following. Why is California... This is California. And all Democrats, the whole house and everything, the governor, why are they raising the taxes on medical marijuana? It's not that they don't have to. Just because it passes that you can get pot anywhere. Why is the taxes on medical marijuana being raised? To screw with sick people. Yeah, yeah, I agree. And, and, and, and to protect the racket of Big Pharma. I bet you that's part of it. Now the next one you have to play the douchebag call out at the end of this story because this story is really stupid. And with legalization looming a North Bay medical marijuana distributor is complaining about a recent bust. Last week the CHP pulled over a truck in Ukiah carrying nearly one ton of cannabis. Two employees of Old Kai Logistics were arrested.

3:03:16 The medical pot company based in Mendocino County has been busy lately harvesting, testing, measuring and moving cannabis with the law about to change. Opening your doors on January 1st is great but you wouldn't have any product. There's so many different steps in order for whatever cannabis product it is to actually be on the shelf. The CEO says the employees had all the right paperwork, but officers arrested them and issued citations for possession and unlawful transportation of cannabis. The highway patrol is defending what happened. It says transporting cannabis is not legal until January 1st.

3:03:56 It's two days before January 1st. They gotta get this stuff in. They could transport it before to the medical marijuana places, but no. So these, some douchebag in the CHP busts these guys just out of spite. This is the kind of spite that this state has for small entrepreneurs or even the legalization of pot, which you'd think would be the first state that would want to legalize this stuff. Why are you still there? So I can bitch. Oh, okay. Well, that's if it's for the show then it's okay. All right, everybody Thank you very much for The year of our Lord 2017. Thank you for supporting us. Remember we'll be here next year starting on Thursday Dvorak org slash na is where you can find us and we will continue to bring you the best media because the only media deconstruction for your media literacy Stay literate a literate

3:04:54 Coming to you from... Give Eric a hand over there at the howling chickens thing. Howling chickens. Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas in the 5x9 Cluedio in the Common Law condo. FEMA Region 6 on the map if you're looking for it. Government map that is. In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry. I'm from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain. It never rained. I'm John C. Dvorak. Happy New Year, John. And happy New Year to you and congratulations on your award. Thank you. I share it with you, my friend. Well, not really. Just a little piece, just the base maybe. Yeah, the base. I'll take the base. Until Thursday, as always. Adios, mofos! Okay, you know what? No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.

3:05:57 No, no, no, no. What? Listen, you're in my house drinking the booze. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Shame on you. Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death. Job tonight actually is to scare people to death. So the talk isn't as free as it is. To scare, to scare, to scare people to death. To scare, to scare, to scare people to death. to scare people to death so the talk isn't as free as it is to scare to scare people to death to scare to scare people to death to scare to scare people to death so the talk isn't as free as it is our job tonight actually is to scare people to death

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3:11:17 Someone's getting cornhole today. Sounds like a recipe for success to me.