Producer's Tribute to JCD

0:00 Here it comes.

0:03 Ah, there it is. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, 07/26/2026.

0:09 This is your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode eighteen eighty eighty nine. This is No Agenda.

0:34 Yeah. I just can't say anything in that intro at the moment.

0:39 Hello,

0:40 No Agenda Nation. Hello, Troll Room here live

0:44 on Sunday the twenty sixth. What a week it's been.

0:47 We've been laughing through all of the tears.

0:51 I've been on the phone with

0:53 the entire Dvorak clan, many people who of course knew John.

0:57 It's been the outpouring has just been so amazing.

1:01 John, I'm sure would just love seeing his name trending on x. What is up with that?

1:08 People from years and years ago have suddenly reappeared.

1:12 And every single one of you who emailed me and said, hey, I'm sure your email box is blowing up right now, but I'm

1:18 telling you, yes, it is it is overwhelming.

1:21 Now on Thursday's show, we gathered John's friends and family

1:26 and we mourned him, we remembered him, we talked about him, we laughed about him, and today it is the producer's turn.

1:35 Before I intro what y'all have put together for him, I want you to know that right after the next, I think it's about two hours and forty three minutes,

1:45 we will be

1:47 telling you how we're moving forward with with No Agenda because the show of course just can't stop.

1:55 Things will change and there's a there's a lot of interesting waters to navigate as we move forward. We also have such an outpouring of

2:05 respect

2:06 and love for John. So we will be reading several hours worth of donations

2:11 and I look forward to it because every single I know everybody's grieving and I just love to see how everybody is pouring their hearts out into these notes.

2:21 So I had asked if you had a favorite clip from the show, a favorite bit, anything that you liked, please send it to me.

2:29 Wow. So we used Clip Genie, I think it's called Podfather now. Thank you, sir De- anonymous. He was beefing up his servers. I have to say thank you to Void Zero as well on the last show.

2:39 He was adding servers,

2:41 fixing DNS,

2:42 all kinds of stuff just to keep everything on the air as wonderful.

2:47 And so I spent about

2:49 eight hours yesterday putting this show together

2:52 and

2:53 it was amazing.

2:55 These are your choices.

2:57 And it was so fun to see how many people selected

3:01 similar things,

3:02 things that I didn't expect.

3:04 I'd say 80%

3:06 of what you guys sent in or selected on the on Podfather, Clip Genie,

3:10 I completely forgotten about. For instance,

3:13 I had completely forgotten that John had done tips of the day since episode 200.

3:18 They just weren't structured the way we did them. So it was it was amazing.

3:23 And somewhere around three, I usually have a glass of wine with dinner, somewhere around 03:00, I texted Tina and said, I I gotta break open a bottle. I

3:31 was laughing,

3:33 crying, and I think you'll do the same. So this is an ode to John

3:38 as selected by No Agenda Nation by our producers

3:42 And I'm so grateful that you did this. So enjoy this because this is coming from you. Blame it on the glitch. And I did this work in, you know, ten minutes. It wasn't that hard to find. Blame it on the glitch. Yeah. Well, reporters don't care. This kind of date Here's a song idea No. For some No. No. No. I was gonna keep going with internal But just I'm not gonna interrupt. Was gonna tell the song idea.

4:03 Find this song. It's Michael Jackson. Blame it on the boogie, then blame it on the glitch.

4:09 See if a dick you can fit that in there. I think it could be done. It could be blame it on the bunny.

4:15 No. That is just sounds too similar. I can hear some to rewrite some lyrics to get the rhymes right. I can hear Chris popping another beer as we speak.

4:38 The

4:42 guy's becoming alcoholic since he's been doing stuff for this show. Like, man. I'm drunk. Don't worry about me.

4:51 And I and I remembered a a conversation from no I was thinking steam engines. You know, I've been looking at I don't think the batteries is gonna work. And we and we talked about gasifiers,

5:01 about,

5:03 wood burning trucks

5:04 twelve

5:05 years ago. You remember that?

5:08 Yep.

5:10 And he's gonna build me one. The gasifier where you burn wood, and it's gonna it's gonna think this is appropriate. And it's gonna it's gonna power my existing generator.

5:18 If anything

5:20 oh, I think you should power your truck. Well, and and that was the second thing. I'm not gonna wait buying for a wait to buy a flying car. I'm gonna get an old flatbed Ford that has a tow tow

5:30 hitch so I can drag the burning system behind me and and drive with it. Oh, yeah. This is this is the way I've always seen you going out. Yep.

5:40 Going go what do you mean going out? I don't wanna die. I wanna drive.

5:48 Gasification

5:49 systems are cool as crap, and we have so much wood around here. And you

5:55 he told me about a buddy of his who has actually done this with his truck,

5:58 and he says, I can go about 15 miles on a dead cat.

6:02 He said, could throw any you could throw throw anything in there. You could throw whatever you want as long as it can burn, then you can drive on that.

6:09 Now there was another element to this, which was the quote, unquote, fact checking.

6:14 And the fact checking thing is getting really old and stale.

6:18 And one of the things that you if you notice, you listen to fact checking, they really didn't find a lot of facts that Trump said that were wrong. They were just kinda questionable or borderline.

6:28 Or Trump would say something like 3,900,000,

6:31 and they said, no. It was 3.85.

6:33 They're nitpicking about some of these facts, you know, so they get added to the 25,000

6:38 lies.

6:39 I I know I'd like to strengthen your argument because I got a little tired. It's actually more than 16,000

6:45 lies. This this is the thing. This should be in the Trump rotation.

6:50 16,000

6:51 lies. I went and found I wanted to find out who has tracked this since it's such a thing. 16,000.

6:57 16,000.

6:58 It's the Washington Post. The number they are have they have a database,

7:03 and the number is currently 16,241.

7:07 And, of course, it's not lies. They titled this false or misleading claims.

7:13 Just the first page, just to give you an idea of what's in here. 01/18/2020,

7:18 Trump said, I remember 2016,

7:21 the election, the fake news. They said Trump was going to have a hard time winning Texas.

7:25 So that's one column. That's the false allegation or the lie. On the right hand column, they have their debunked statement.

7:32 Literally one line.

7:34 Trump was always going to win Texas easily.

7:37 So that's a lie. So what he said there is a lie because that's their fact check. Trump was always going to win Texas easily,

7:45 and a couple of others. Before you go on, and I like this list, I remember when some people were talking about both Georgia and Texas possibly

7:54 switching over. But this but this is this is my point. It's it's very subjective claims.

8:00 Read more. Okay. 01/18/2020.

8:02 Trump said, since my election, The United States has gained 7,000,000 jobs. Unthought of. If I had said that in the campaign trail, the fake news would have gone crazy.

8:12 The rebuttal, because this, of course, is false. Trump cites how many jobs have been created since the election, but not since the beginning of his administration.

8:21 We've

8:22 got him. Since he took office, it was $6.6700000.

8:26 It's not 7,000,000 rounding up. Lie.

8:29 Lie.

8:30 Okay. The next one, January 18.

8:33 The unemployment rate is now 3.5%,

8:36 the lowest in more than fifty one years.

8:39 The rebuttal from Washington Post. For some I have to do the voice. For some reason, Trump always stretches this claim.

8:46 Throughout 2018 and 2019, a low of 3.5%

8:50 unemployment would be the best in fifty years, not fifty one.

8:57 This is the that's at the top of the list. Yes.

9:00 Is 50 not 51?

9:02 Yeah. Because Because they lie? They because they feel that when he said it, it was in a year that didn't have the exact number so it really was the best in fifty years and not 51. That's one of the lies and that that you can go through all 16,000

9:16 of them.

9:17 It's stuff like that.

9:19 It's called ant fucking

9:21 and it's lame.

9:22 Although very entertaining to read it. It just you'd be it's crazy.

9:27 Well, it it just points out the insanity of these people. It's the Washington Post.

9:32 The Washington Post is insane.

9:36 This all began in the seventies. Oh. Late seventies, actually. I I was very young then, John. The

9:43 this began with a software

9:48 entrepreneur named Seymour Rubenstein.

9:51 Seymour Rubenstein who, was the

9:53 purveyor of WordStar

9:55 among other products

9:57 had developed a very interesting ironclad,

10:00 licensing agreement. And I've talked to Seymour about this over the years.

10:04 And he always believed that in someday in the distant not too distant future or distant future,

10:10 everything would be licensed,

10:13 including books and television

10:15 shows that you watch.

10:17 So you can't copy them. You can't because you licensed it.

10:21 And you might maybe you can make one backup for personal use, which they're always fighting against that too, by the way. Mhmm. So the idea of everything being licensed evolved into the shrink-wrap license, which became law. Which is that which is that, terms of service license that when you open up a a CD, used to be floppies. It's the end user agreement. That is on a it's a piece of paper. When you rip open the, package, you have have accepted it. Yes. You are now

10:47 you are now under contract.

10:49 I always get her I always say, have your 13 year old kid open it because they're not bound by these same, legal restrictions.

10:57 Anyway, like, that's gonna help. An interesting John C. Dvorak tip. The John C. Dvorak tip of the day. Game

11:04 set match. The lizard people win.

11:07 This is pretty transparent. Here, play this clip, firestorm over the 2,000 ex DOJs.

11:12 I got a comment about this. Next tonight, the growing firestorm surrounding attorney general William Barr. More than 2,000 former justice department prosecutors

11:20 and officials now publicly calling for his resignation.

11:23 The AG facing heavy criticism for intervening in the sentencing of president Trump's longtime friend, Roger Stone. That sentencing now set for Thursday.

11:31 Longtime friend. Now the, this if you remember about six months, it may have been a year ago, there was the same 2,000

11:40 ex DOJ

11:41 guys who signed a petition saying that the president should be, I believe,

11:45 should be impeached.

11:46 And this is just a mailing list. This is a group of 2,000

11:51 that was they're all democrats and it was signed up. Mailing list. You're right. You're right. So I looked into first time it happened, which is the same 2,000 guys. You can look at the list. It's the same people. I looked into this back then when it happened the first time. I tracked down two or three of them and wrote them, emailed them that maybe I tracked down more than that, but I only got responses from two or three of You were you were trying so did did you acquire the entire list? The list is available. That's a hot list, man. That ran in medium is the same list that they ran just ran with each. You know what we can do with this list? Here. We'll send the email.

12:24 I saw what you were doing. I was able to turn on your webcam. I saw what you were watching.

12:30 You need to send me 5 Bitcoin. Come on, man. It's a great list. It's a great list to do that for. I don't have the emails of the it's just a list of names. Oh. Oh. Oh, that's a problem. Yeah. So I had to dig through and dig around and finally get the emails for maybe five or six of them because some of them are fame infamous law firms. And you go to the website, and there's the guy. And, you know, ex DOJ. Ex it's it's amazing how many ex DOJ people there are in giant law firms. Yeah. So I sent a bunch of notes out because I didn't I thought this sounded like a bunch of bullcrap, and they're just make know, just putting people's names down, you know, like petitioners do. Mhmm. But, no. They they wrote back. No. No. Yeah. No. I run. They were all irked that I even questioned that they did signed on to this thing. And and you could tell they're all just a bunch of either never Trumpers or just Democrats that don't like Trump. It's the same group. So this is gonna crop up every six to nine months. 2,000 ex DOJs are saying that Trump did the wrong thing. This is bull crap. Good news. And the fact that that that the ABC News is so the democracy now just played it straight

13:33 It's just beyond the pale as far as I'm concerned. Just bad coverage. It's not very well done.

13:39 Good deconstruction. I'd I'd had forgotten all about that list. That makes so much sense. What a bunch. It's hooey. It's a it's malarkey, I say.

13:48 Then of course, we have we have a classic, a favorite, the pansexual. You know what that is, the pansexual, of course. Yeah.

13:54 Yeah. You have sex with an animal. Anything.

13:57 Anything that Now,

13:58 what are you gonna do? Anyone gonna eat this meatloaf?

14:02 I had this book and it reminded me of this. I I told people this. I can look at a guy and tell if he's had a vasectomy.

14:10 Really? But his his face. The face. And I'm not talking about, you know You're okay. Wait. Let me let me just get this straight. Let me just get this straight. So amongst your many talents and remember, John has worked for oil companies.

14:21 He's a master chef. He's a wine connoisseur. He's a technology expert.

14:26 He used to hand deliver PC Magazine to all 30,000 subscribers.

14:30 Not not only that, but you can tell just by looking at a guy's face whether he's had a vasectomy or not. Yeah. Okay. Now how I got clued into this, let me back up a little bit. Oh, please do. I had this. I had oops. Ouch. The

14:46 backed up too far. So

14:49 I had this book and I just irked no end that I've lost this book. Although I think I might be able to find it in one of the library searches that Google and Microsoft are doing. I think it's still around. It was a book done in the twenties.

15:01 And in the nineteen twenties, it's a book on health. In the nineteen twenties, vasectomies

15:06 were used as a way of making people look more youthful. It was actually a it wasn't for birth control.

15:13 It was done which I

15:15 it was done for the purposes of,

15:18 like, instead of a face lift, you get a vasectomy. Really? And it make you look younger, and they showed all these pictures in this book. And

15:25 and I looked at these pictures and I looked at enough of them, And then I'd known enough guys who had vasectomies that I look at that and I could see what it does. It makes for some reason, and it does you know, I talked to people about this, whether it says it makes no sense because all it does is this and that. How could it do what you're describing?

15:39 I'm just saying in the twenties,

15:42 vasectomies were used as a youth serum.

15:46 People get a vasectomy and they look younger,

15:49 by a little bit. But in fact, they didn't look younger. They look different. They and it makes your face a little puffier and a little more it's a little softer.

15:57 It's kinda hard to describe, but I'm telling you the truth. I have seen

16:01 and I've asked actually done this with friends that, you know, that have had vasectomies and just without come I say I just look at them and say, you've had a vasectomy. Right? And the guy said, 99%

16:12 of the time, I'm right. Were

16:15 we in time with the Zephyr or what? We started the whole thing just as the Zephyr appeared. It's a 10 car train too for some reason.

16:24 I kept seeing these 10 car trains for the last week, and I'm thinking, as I've been looking at these trains again, why are they 10 cars all of a sudden? They've always been eight.

16:33 One, two, three, four, five, six.

16:37 Eight cars.

16:38 It's not early. I'm it honking, I think it's it's gonna well, I mean, I can hear the honk from Emeryville, this horn they got on these things.

16:48 Five Zephyr. Yeah. Right in time. Perfect.

16:51 Perfect. I'm so happy. It's gonna be a good show.

16:55 And there goes the Zephyr right on Tom. It

16:59 would every mean, the Judy there goes the Zephyr.

17:02 Here comes the Zephyr, by the way, just for your information. Alright. Phone phone. Go on. There

17:08 goes the Zephyr. Oh. Perfect timing.

17:12 Zephyr. Thank goodness. There we go.

17:17 Gonna tell you a couple salt tips. Okay.

17:20 C. Dvorak's

17:21 salt tip of the day. The really great salt in the world that just for some reason has got it just has everything going for it are these hand

17:31 these things are are pulled by by individuals

17:35 in various salt marshes,

17:37 and it's it's French. And but they do make it here and there. It's called Fleur de Sel, f l e u r d e s e l. And this is it's a it's an outstanding

17:48 salt, especially in a salad or something that maintains its crunchiness, and it's just a fantastic thing. Well,

17:54 here's I got my piece of advice. Alright. I I've given this advice before. I'm gonna give it again.

17:59 Most

18:00 people that will supervise you throughout your careers

18:03 are full of crap.

18:06 And that's the advice. The more you know. And they tend to

18:11 they they can be played,

18:13 and I don't like to say that you wanna play people, but you they can be played by just going along with whatever they have to say. Do not be argumentative. And I I'll give two examples. I'll give one example, a good one.

18:24 Well, actually, I'll give a I'll give a number. I could I'll I'll generalize.

18:28 Somebody will say, hey. Hey. I don't like the way you're doing this.

18:34 And you're doing it whatever way you're doing it. And you instead of saying, well, I'm doing it for this reason or that reason or whatever, you say,

18:42 oh, oh, okay. What do you have what do you want me to do? What do you think I should do better? I'm I'm all ears. Be very attentive.

18:49 And then they'll tell you the way they want you to do something.

18:53 And then just keep doing it the way you were doing it because it's the way you do things. Don't pay any attention over their advice.

19:00 And within,

19:01 I don't know, a few months, they come back to you and say, well, so how's that new way of doing things?

19:06 And you say, it's great. You were right.

19:09 And the guy will say, yep. I've noticed it. You've changed. You're much better than you were.

19:14 And that happens

19:15 all the time because everybody thinks they're so important.

19:20 And hello, eight months ago. This is exactly what has been prognosticated

19:25 on this very program,

19:27 but it became real when Ticketmaster announced it. Ticketmaster

19:32 may require vaccine or testing proof

19:35 to go to a concert.

19:37 This sounds like a vaccine certificate becoming

19:40 almost like a passport. Yeah. It might only be the the beginning. A what? I mean, who could have foreseen this? We had no a what? It could be almost it's almost like a passport. I'm shocked,

19:51 boys. Yeah. It might only be the the beginning as well. So Ticketmaster plans to have customers use their cell phones to verify their vaccination or show a negative test within the past twenty four to seventy two hours. Now there are different types of apps and companies out there that track your health data. So Ticketmaster will use a combination of a digital ticketing app with a combination of health info firms like Clear and IBM that tracks your health information and then Nice to see IBM back in the game of putting numbers on human beings. They haven't done a real job like this since Nazi Germany. It's been a while since IBM

20:26 was used to tally and count and track the Jews with their Jew tracing and tracking program. Look it up, and they're back in the game. We've the documents.

20:37 Look it up. Do your own research. Ticketmaster will use a combination

20:40 of a digital ticketing app with a combination of health info firms like Clear and IBM that tracks your health information and then coordinate with testing companies like Labcorp. So Billboard reports that Ticketmaster will not be able to store this information or be able to access your entire medical records. But how it works is that concert goers, you will instruct a lab, send over your test results to their health pass companies like Clear, like IBM, which would then be verified

21:07 in the Ticketmaster app itself. But you can imagine that it's not just concerts. Think of movies

21:13 and also sporting events. What about workplaces in the future? Getting on a plane, going on a cruise, going to work. What about privacy concerns as well? They say access

21:22 your medical records, but is that discrimination?

21:25 Something's gotta give. Yeah. That's the way it is. That's the way it is. No, Stuart Varney,

21:30 you big headed oaf. No. That's not the way it is. Something's not gotta give.

21:36 Only if people give into it, and they're gonna. They're gonna. See, I don't believe this this story is anything more than subtle propaganda to get you to go get vaccinated.

21:46 Are you crazy? Threat. This is this is power and control sitting right out there, and then they go, oh, oh, we're not like that. We're not actually gonna do it. Please. No. They're not I didn't say that. What did you say? What I said is that methodology they're using is a threat mechanism

22:03 Yes. To make to make it sound as though they're gonna do it. Oh, okay. And they're and they make it sound serious, and probably Varney thinks they are. I mean, who knows? But, the mechanism is to get you to get vaccinated.

22:15 Right. And it's working.

22:17 But they they're never gonna put implement this bull crap because it costs people money. They don't care. Okay.

22:23 Red Book, putting it in right now. I'm tired. I gotta say this. Ticketmaster will not implement

22:28 this program. Okay.

22:30 Ticketmaster,

22:31 I'm putting it in.

22:33 Passport,

22:35 today is 11/12/2020.

22:40 And AC yes,

22:42 JCD

22:43 no. And I will be able to read that. It's absolutely

22:46 going to be implemented. Yep. You'll never be able to read it because they're never it's never gonna happen. Alright. It's in the book. It's fine. And we we can we can agree to disagree.

22:57 No. We can't. We cannot agree. Wrong. You're wrong. You're just wrong. Disagree with that ID. Yeah. I disagree with you, period. I know people keep saying we can agree to disagree.

23:07 Well, it's a way of saying fuck you, I think.

23:10 Not you mention it, hooping soccer. Mhmm.

23:14 I get a little annoyed by the stay safe thing too. Who says stay safe?

23:18 Everybody.

23:20 Really? You go to the store. Yeah. They in California, they do. Oh, that's like stay safe. Like, we always joke around that, when you're out on in the field in the hurricane. Stay safe.

23:30 Yeah. Same thing. It's just we go to the store and then you say, okay. That was how's business? Yeah. Good. Okay. That's just so long. Stay safe.

23:38 Oh, we need we Stay safe. It's like be be well or, like, it's just say they just say it constantly. Okay. Alright. I so clearly I said it once. Oh, that's now this is bad. So I I have

23:50 I think I have a good retort

23:52 because this is annoying and we need to stop this stay safe.

23:56 So, we'll try it out. I've I've received the goods. Say, okay. Thank you very much, John. Alright. I'm gone.

24:02 Oh, well, stay safe. Yes. Under his eye.

24:07 And then just walk off.

24:09 Stay safe under his eye.

24:11 If if someone says stay safe and you say yes under his eye or under his watch maybe that's no. Under his eye. Isn't that the one from

24:19 You're talking about is this some religious thing? No. That's from the, the hand handmaiden's

24:24 tale.

24:25 Oh, I see. I never watched that piece of shit.

24:32 So so

24:33 clearly

24:34 a failed attempt here. Okay.

24:37 I'm sorry. So I would go, okay. Just do it again. This time, you do it. Okay.

24:42 Alright.

24:44 So okay. I'll see you later, Adam. Yes. Okay, John. And, hey, stay safe.

24:50 With Jesus.

24:53 I

24:57 like that one a lot.

24:59 I like it a lot. And it's it's just a good way to and, also, it spreads the word of the Lord. So it's not a it's not a bad idea. Somebody's word, but it's definitely a showstopper.

25:10 It's it's definitely

25:12 a showstopper.

25:13 Okay. Well, let me try another one.

25:16 Okay. This time, I said this you just stay safe. Right? This is the this is one I think may is maybe better. Okay. Alright. Okay. I'll see you later, Adam. Alright. Stay safe.

25:25 Go fuck yourself.

25:27 What

25:31 did you have for breakfast?

25:33 The following jingle contains content about anal leakage.

25:37 However, it also provides advice defining shoes that match. Listener discretion is advised.

25:43 But I have heard of there's another one,

25:45 and you can look this one up.

25:47 There are these public poopers, and there tend to be mostly women. Public poopers.

25:54 Oh god.

25:57 Hey,

25:58 where did we go?

26:01 The days when The States came.

26:04 Down in the Highland,

26:07 the bland you gained.

26:11 Skipping and a dumping,

26:14 laughing

26:15 and a running.

26:18 Leave this stranger roam on

26:21 where the hearts are pumping.

26:23 And you,

26:37 Here's me. Here we go. Well, I'm at I'm in Las Vegas with a group of the people from PC Magazine, and one of these some PR woman comes up

26:44 and,

26:45 sits there and starts to talk.

26:47 And then,

26:49 she leaves and rushes off.

26:52 And one of the guys, I don't know how he know knows about this, but he said that she was a she said he knew that she took it ugh. This is disgusting.

27:00 I and I apologize

27:02 to the listeners of this show for bringing this stuff up. But apparently, they like to go and they just poop in their pants in a crowd. In their pants?

27:10 Yes.

27:12 And

27:16 then they go off somewhere. And just some sort of weird perversion.

27:26 If you go on the Internet and start looking it up,

27:33 it open holy mackerel. It's a huge it's like massive,

27:38 number of participants. Do they have a Mastodon server?

27:43 Don. What is but what does ball in court mean?

27:46 That means we are not playing cards. We are playing basketball.

27:50 But what Football. Not tennis? Football. Football.

27:54 There's no football courts. You know what you know what it means. The ball What does it mean? It mean well, the ball is in your And why is he using it as a phrase? And and is it an American phrase? Is it an international phrase?

28:06 And what what court are we talking about? And what to explain this bullcrap. There is no such thing as a ball in a court.

28:15 Okay. You're now taking A a phrase has always bugged me. Yeah. Clearly,

28:19 clearly. Court. Clearly, it's bugged you. What am I doing? What do mean? What court do I own that there's a ball in there? Get the ball out of here.

28:27 Okay. I'm glad you got that off your chest after,

28:30 sixty years. About time. Oh, it's at minimum.

28:33 This is very urgent. Minimum. I mean, it's it's a Is it a tennis court we're talking about? It's a sports ball. Basketball court. A sports ball court.

28:41 Okay. Well, since you are so bugged about it, I'll look it up. I can look up the

28:46 balls

28:47 in your court. Actually look it up and follow-up on this. Yeah. Well, of course. I mean, I this the ball is new origin and meaning.

28:56 Okay.

28:57 Oh. It is yes. The idiom, the it's an idiom, John.

29:02 The idiom

29:04 originates from the sport of

29:06 tennis.

29:08 Once the tennis ball has been hit over the net,

29:11 thus the onus to act, I e play the next shot, switches to the person whose half of the court contains the ball.

29:18 The word Or the ball is in your half a court, it should be then. The ball It should be the balls in your half court. And and by by this, I proclaim

29:28 today,

29:30 March 13, ball in your half of court day.

29:35 Youssef's hummus.

29:38 Okay.

29:39 It's not bad.

29:40 Youssef's hummus? Where do you get it? Yeah. Costco? I

29:43 don't know where I you know, I have it in the refrigerator and I don't know where I bought it. Now the which says something. But anyway, the people who are out there who like hummus

29:52 Yeah. Probably have discovered I mean, if they ever had real hummus in, you know, in made by an old lady in the basement in a Middle Eastern restaurant in The Middle East. Yes. Real hummus made fresh daily.

30:03 Yeah. Know that you can't get good hummus in this country.

30:06 No.

30:08 But there's stuff that's that approaches it, and I the one I always liked the most was Sabra,

30:13 which is a national brand.

30:15 But Sabra, you they they refuse to use olive oil in their hummus. They use

30:20 soybean oil, and it bugs me, but they have their the texture and everything down.

30:24 So this Yusuf's use, uses olive oil. So that's your tip of the day.

30:28 I got into a beef with the Lib Joes. Oh,

30:31 do tell.

30:32 What I'm doing is pointing out the numbers. This is for I'm actually working on another Ah, a substack forthcoming. Substack

30:39 forthcoming.

30:40 It's it's gonna be on mass hysteria.

30:43 Nice. And so I'm showing them the numbers out of Africa, and they're all, yeah. So what? You know? The the ICUs

30:49 are full. They're full. Oh, wait. Stop right there. Can I play you my clip before you tell us the story? Oh, if if it is pertinent, of course. South Africa. Our correspondent, Noamsa Maseko, is in Johannesburg.

31:01 She told me hospitals are under strain. They are severely under strain, particularly in two provinces, the Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal provinces,

31:10 where hospitals are at full capacity, some by up to a 140%.

31:16 But it's not just COVID patients that

31:19 are filling up those beds, but it's also trauma cases which are fueled by crime and alcohol

31:25 and also road traffic accidents. So the sale of of alcohol will be banned with immediate effect in South Africa until the middle of January next year. Yeah. See, it's exactly what's going on here. Only in South Africa, you can see it and it's out in the open because they're locked up and they're getting getting hammered and dying. It's not you heard it very clearly. It's not just a it's not COVID. No. No. It's all the other stuff that's going on. Well, we've had clips from hospitals saying there's no COVID patients in the place, but be that as it may. Back to the literature. There's a phrase I don't wanna use again. So I'm getting to this thing, and then one of them chimes in and says, this is great. John's gonna obviously not take the vaccine. That moves me up one place.

32:11 What? In podcaster land? What is it? What is he thinking? Or in well, that's In vax in the vaccination line. Oh my god.

32:19 It moves me up one place.

32:22 Sticking with the ICU beds for a sec. Boots on the ground breakdown of the constant lack of ICU beds anonymous,

32:29 one of our producers. The change in narrative behind the shortage. Local hospitals in Rich Land and Kennewick, Washington got into a big spat a few years ago. It was all about who was allowed to build more beds for their hospital. The long and short of the lawsuit is that bed counts are controlled

32:46 and awarded by by the state department of health and you just can't get more beds of any type if you just because you want more. There has to be a proven need in the area and can't take all the customers a neighboring hospital might have room for. There you go. So if you slam every media outlet with we don't have enough ICU beds, you can get the public public opinion on your side and get more of the highly profitable beds you would otherwise not be allowed to have. You can also use pressure from the quote shortage of beds to say the standards of the department health are not right and more beds should be allowed because of the unprecedented times has shown that we're not prepared. So this is the undertone. Wow. That's a great note. Isn't that fantastic?

33:24 The other thing That's a great note and it makes nothing but sense. Yeah. That's what that's the whole reasoning behind the hospital bed shortage because you're you can see video after video from around the world. People are standing outside of the emergency room. No one's there. There's no one inside. It's empty.

33:41 Now not all of them, but it seems

33:45 bullcrappy.

33:46 But this this when I hear this I'm okay. Like about It's the money. Yeah. It's all about the moolah. Yeah. It's all the same sector.

33:54 I just had an idea.

33:56 So you could say, hey hey Dvorak, you're taking the vaccine? And you could say, no. I've decided to give up my place for my friend, what's his name, fill in the blank Lib Joe

34:06 because he really needs it more than I do. And then the next time you can see, you can say it about anybody.

34:11 No. I really feel that my next door neighbor, I I'm giving up my spot for him. I'll I'll get to the back of the line. That's the ticket, baby.

34:20 Have you taken a vaccine? No. No. No. I'm giving up my space for someone else who needs it. But I think it's better it's more powerful if you specify it. No. I think that that is exact that is another one of your little gimmicks. You've come up with a number of these. I'll give you that. It's a toolkit. That was, like, the the different things you can say to the TSA.

34:37 You remember those days? Yeah. I'm like, can't lift my arms above my head. There's a bunch of things you can do, but that is a great one, and that's what I'm that's exactly what I'm gonna say. If people ask me, what am I gonna No. You know, I think other people need it more than I do. You know? And you can just say and go ahead, contact him. Because whenever someone hears, hey. I'm here with Adam Curry. He says he's not gonna take the vaccine. He's giving his spot up in line for you. I'm sure most people will be like, oh, that's so wonderful.

35:01 What a what a nice man.

35:03 You are a nice man. One of the best things. I'm in on this one. Okay. Good. Noted.

35:09 Joshua Baxter in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Phillips of scan scan Scandinavian Scandinavian

35:15 in Staten Island. Okay. Catching up again. Dave Carey in Clermont, Florida. Jeffrey

35:19 Lynches.

35:22 Lynches? Let me let me try it. Jeffrey

35:25 Linkes

35:28 In hell,

35:29 hell, what's yours?

35:32 You sound like a Dutch retard.

35:35 Jeffrey Linkis

35:37 in hella foot slaus.

35:39 Okay.

35:43 Adam@curry.com.

35:45 Where

35:46 Dutch retard.

35:47 Which

35:49 is a contradiction in terms.

35:53 I'm all over Back in the morning. I'm all over it today, baby. Pre,

35:58 you know, proto TikTok back in the day called Twigs or whatever the hell it was. Fine. Twigs.

36:04 Twigs.

36:07 Twigs. I think so. Oh, man. It's a new video service by the No Agenda show. Twigs. Everybody Hey. Did you post a twig? Yeah. I posted a twig. I posted a twig in a branch.

36:18 And so, it has a bud.

36:22 There's a thing about eggs.

36:24 Everyone's noticed the eggs. We had big egg producer, egg farm catching fire.

36:29 There's a story out there

36:31 that, people are believe that the feed, the chicken feed has a good one. You get some clips? I have no evidence. Well, there's there's a lot of people talking about it. I have no evidence. You know? No. There's no evidence. What this it goes like let

36:46 me summarize.

36:47 It goes like this.

36:49 To put a guy on YouTube or TikTok, says, you know, I've been feeding my chickens

36:54 this new this Purina feed, and they haven't laid an egg for a year. A whole year this chicken hasn't laid an egg. Yeah. That's And I got suspicious, so I changed to feed, and I gave them some of this and some of that. Now they're laying every once a day just like usual.

37:09 Which could just be a change of feed or I mean, I I want to believe it, but I I think it gets much better with this report that is now just circulating. This is from PubMed.

37:20 It is a, looks like mainly Chinese researchers,

37:23 but it's, it's published.

37:25 I won't give away the title.

37:27 It was published January

37:29 2021.

37:30 Abstract.

37:31 The SARS CoV two virus is still spreading worldwide,

37:35 and there is an urgent need to effectively prevent and control this pandemic.

37:40 This study

37:41 evaluated the potential efficacy of egg yolk antibodies

37:45 as a neutralizing agent against SARS CoV two. We investigated the neutralizing effect of anti spike s one IGYs,

37:53 that's egg yolk antibodies,

37:55 on the SARS CoV two pseudovirus

37:58 as well as its inhibitory effect on the bindings of the coronavirus spike protein mutants to human ACE two,

38:05 which as we know that that receptor is a big part of people getting sick. Our results show that the anti spike s one egg yolk antibody showed significant

38:15 neutralizing

38:16 potency against SARS CoV two pseudovirus,

38:20 various spike protein mutants, even SARS CoV two in vitro.

38:24 It might be a feasible tool for the prevention and control of ongoing COVID nineteen.

38:30 Now we've got a conspiracy theory.

38:32 That is a beauty.

38:34 Wow.

38:36 Now now

38:37 we've got a conspiracy theory. I'm giving you 10 points for that that gem. Thank you. I'll take, I'll take one point from you. There you go. One point. Isn't that cool? And if you need to eat more eggs?

38:47 Oh, then, get the book.

38:49 Go download the book for free. Which, at toomanyeggs.com.

38:54 I wanna mention I was up in Port Angeles,

38:56 and and I wanna just say anyone who's in the Olympic Peninsula ever, you've gotta make a trip out of your way to go to Nash's produce

39:04 and buy these these carrots that he's bred.

39:07 These carrots

39:08 are the most astonishing product I've ever had insofar as a carrot is concerned. I mean, listen to the crunch on these things. This is like a carrot that's not even refrigerated.

39:21 Oh, come on. That's plywood you're cracking there. That's not really a carrot. Like a piece of wood. Listen.

39:28 Yeah. That sounds good. That's an outstand that is an outstanding product. Extremely sweet.

39:33 That is an outstanding product right there, John C. Dvorak.

39:37 Anyway,

39:39 he's known for these carrots.

39:41 Yeah.

39:42 That's my that's my food tip of the day for the people who need the food news.

39:46 Hey. You know what? These are things that you learn only on the No Agenda show, and mind you, that impresses the crap out of people when you lay that smack down on them. Are you a guzzler?

39:58 Yes. The wine is good here.

40:00 Muscadine wine is a very peculiar. It's made from a grape that's about the size of a of a of a medium sized tomato,

40:07 and it's called a muscadine. And it's and it's got a it's really

40:11 good eating. If you have children, they love eating these things. They're delicious.

40:15 They have they have the only,

40:18 muscadine wine

40:19 that I've ever had that I could actually choke down without gagging.

40:24 The, wine that it makes is really rank,

40:29 but

40:29 and it's made everywhere in the South.

40:33 I think it's just some sort of a local challenge

40:35 to see how much of it you can drink before you throw up. I'm not sure. It's never been fully explained to me why they even bother making wine from this stuff.

40:43 But, I have had some from

40:46 this one post familia winery up in Arkansas that makes a good one. But by good, I mean, you can actually drink it.

40:53 But, you know, they make a really good one here in Birmingham.

40:57 I don't think so.

40:59 Yeah. So this is size it's actually the size of a large apricot each grape.

41:05 Large apricot.

41:08 Large

41:11 apricot.

41:14 Large apricot.

41:18 Large opera cut.

41:22 Large opera cut. The

41:28 great Rihanna with her fabulous song, bitch better give me my money.

41:32 Whatever.

41:34 It's a very it's a toe tapper.

41:38 So

41:45 in the words

41:46 of my late friend Aretha Franklin,

41:49 show some r e s p I c t.

41:53 No. Woo hoo.

41:55 Yeah,

41:56 everybody. No.

42:07 MSNBC,

42:08 everybody. Hitman, Al Sharpton,

42:10 spells respect

42:12 RESPIs.

42:14 I what?

42:22 He's getting lunch at

42:25 Chipotle.

42:27 The tortist in

42:29 the race.

42:31 Kim Kardashian,

42:33 Signoroi Weaver, Russia. Our ESPICT.

42:37 They're all giddy. Our ESPICT.

42:41 There's no real conflict.

42:43 Resist.

42:45 We must.

42:47 Resist. We

42:49 must.

42:51 We must. And

42:54 we will much

42:55 about that

42:59 we commit.

43:10 Another culinary tip from John C. Dvorak.

43:13 The the thing that's interesting about PG tips to me and and a lot of these other teas and we're talking about Sainsbury's has a nice I think it's called Red Label,

43:21 which is a competitor.

43:23 Is that the British over when they were colonizing the world, they did these long term deals all over the place

43:31 for

43:32 things like tea.

43:34 So they essentially they have I don't know how long the contract is for the various tea providers,

43:39 but they get some of the best tea in the world because they kind of locked down these deals permanently back in the eighteen hundreds. Isn't that in some way

43:46 related to upcoming December 16 where when we commemorate the Boston Tea Party?

43:54 Yeah. The Boston Tea Party is, you know, there's a there's a if you study enough American history, of course, it this gets pretty peculiar as to why the Boston Tea Party took place. But they were trying to shove tea down everybody's throat, they were also stealing it from China and making them take opium. Mhmm. But that was That

44:09 was later. Here, boys. Have some opium. Give us the tea.

44:25 Singing a new song.

44:28 Everything

44:29 has changed.

44:32 Walking around

44:34 the same old world

44:36 is never gonna be the same.

44:41 But in my heart

44:43 and in my mind,

44:46 I'll keep you there to stay.

44:51 I'm gonna miss you in the morning.

44:55 You're always there for me in the morning.

45:00 I hope to see you someday in the morning.

45:05 In the morning,

45:06 yeah.

45:18 I'm gonna miss you in the morning.

45:23 You're always there for me in the morning.

45:27 I hope to see you someday in the morning.

45:32 I hope to see you someday in the morning.

45:36 I'm gonna miss you in the morning.

45:41 You're always there for me in the morning.

45:46 I hope to see you someday in the morning.

45:50 In the morning.

45:57 Yeah. Well, just pay attention to what's going on, people. You'll see it. That's why Clooney's always looking down and all embarrassed.

46:03 Yeah. Clooney doesn't like what he's up to. No. And he has conscience. But I think he's like, damn, man. I got I got the the place in in Cuomo. You know, I got got the the lake house. I got the babes.

46:16 You know, like, no one questions my Yeah.

46:19 So No one questions my homosexuality.

46:21 If you right. If you if you want to see but he but he does take a little swipe now and again.

46:27 I mean, you want but most of those movies are suppressed. But if you wanna see a good movie there's actually a couple of them he's done, and they're always the art pieces.

46:35 The American is a good movie. It's about an assassin. Yes. Very good movie.

46:39 Syriana?

46:41 Yes. And men who speak to goats.

46:43 Stare at goats.

46:44 Syriana and men who speak to goats and then that one that he would Men men and the goats who look scared next to them. Yes?

46:51 And then the the other one is the one that he that

46:56 Swinton won the Academy Award for,

46:59 which I think is just I've watched that. It's one of the few movies I'll actually watch if it's if it's on. What what was that? It's just uh-huh. Let me see. Clooney

47:06 Is it On Tuesdays on CBS at nine eight Central? It's a filmography.

47:12 No.

47:13 It might be. Let's see what his filmography is. I I like The Men Who Stared Goats. That was a pretty good movie. It was weird.

47:19 He does a lot of films. I mean, this guy's just And there was droning in that too. That was kinda cool. That was the first kind of droning droning movie. Up in the Air was actually a good film, but it wasn't a political movie. It was just about pathetic guy. Michael Clayton.

47:33 That's that's the name of the movie? Yeah. Michael Clayton is one of the it's just a it's just a great, great film. It's about a fixer

47:40 in a big law firm,

47:42 and it is

47:44 riveting.

47:45 And it's got all kinds of creepy stuff going on. It's really you if you haven't seen Michael Clayton, you have to watch it. Just rent it, get it on Netflix, whatever. Sounds like a sounds like a very good

47:55 No Agenda movie tip.

47:57 Yes. Buzzkill, No Agenda movie tip of the day.

48:01 Well, with the passing of John C. Dvorak,

48:04 I think it's only fitting that I declare July 20 a national holiday

48:09 in the honor of John, the cocreator

48:12 of the best podcast in the universe.

48:15 Meanwhile,

48:16 back to the news of the day. Fart gate.

48:20 Now I don't know. Is this do we know has this been verified? Is he he admit to this, or has this been just doctored?

48:27 Well, trust but verify.

48:31 I'm pretty sure it was

48:33 real.

48:35 You can't know for I can't know for sure because I wasn't watching it, so I do not know. Well, if it was real Mhmm. He's mic'd with a lav of Thank you. But I have the answer to this. This is this is the whole point.

48:47 First, the clip of fart gates. We have Chris Matthews, MSNBC interviewing Eric Swalue,

48:53 who just fresh from the, from the hearing. And he's in the halls of congress. In the halls of congress.

49:00 So far, it's uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.

49:08 So,

49:09 yes,

49:10 the analysis that you started is spot on because when I saw it, I'm just gonna assume it's real.

49:17 This is very simple.

49:19 This is Chris Williams. What's his name? Wallace. Matthews. He's

49:23 Chris. So he asked the question. They switched to Swalwell. He's sitting on a chair in a studio.

49:30 He's like, alright. Swalwell, I'm just gonna let one rip here for a second. It bounces off the chair. That's why you could hear it. It was it was Matthews.

49:39 Matthews

49:39 dealt it.

49:42 Alright. Here's the problem with that.

49:45 Swalue paused

49:48 Well like he couldn't talk through the fart. No. No. No. He heard the fart, and it scared him. He was a blast. He was like, what the hell did you just do for someone's

49:57 fart? No. Okay. I no. I'm not gonna buy that because there there's no real time here.

50:01 The there's always a lag, and the lag is long enough that he would have at least I I looked at that angle. They have a they have a hardwired connection between the halls of congress and the studios.

50:11 This is almost zero lag.

50:14 But but it doesn't it doesn't take away from the fact that there's no way you can get that direct to sound

50:20 from flatulence in the halls of congress

50:23 with a with a just a boom mic or even with a lavalier. But in a studio against the backdrop of a chair,

50:31 I mean, especially if it's a leather chair But or he's gonna okay. Well, it's it's up for debate.

50:36 But so far, it appears as though this actually this event was not not a fake. No. This is a real event, and they called old dudes like that an old fart for a reason. Come on. It's logical.

50:49 Old fart. Why is an old fart? Because old guys fart.

50:53 It was a match. Need to take some some of this stuff. I think it's shameful that he didn't at least tweet and let Swalwell off the hook.

51:04 Okay.

51:05 And that's the fart gates. It didn't last long, but, man, it was a nice break in the day, wasn't it? It was a break.

51:12 It was a nice little break.

51:16 What is the theory of fractals and what really I is can't their

51:19 tell you exact I can't explain that there. I can kinda I can kinda understand it before I can explain it. Okay. But it's essentially that everything is is self iterative in in a way that

51:30 all nature

51:31 and it really refers mostly to nature. It's self iterative in a way that you can actually formulate a a structure that is that is mathematically

51:40 accurate to because no one's ever been out there's all of these things over time that they said, look, a mountainside,

51:45 you take a look at it, crumble

51:47 down, say, you know, you can't there's no math that can explain

51:52 what you're looking at. Whereas

51:54 mathematicians say you can explain everything with a math with math. Mhmm. And fractal theory says no, that's not true. You can explain that with math if you use fractal math.

52:04 You look at the way fractals work,

52:08 can actually explain these natural phenomena, things in nature like a mountain

52:14 with this modeling that this guy's developed.

52:18 And

52:19 I mean, what we think of as fractals in the computer business there because or is Mandelbrot's little designs that he makes where he he has a he takes one of these formulas, puts it in, and it just starts to iterate and makes this really funky looking thing up a

52:32 screen saver, you mean? Yes. That kind of thing. It's a screen saver.

52:36 Whole theory is based on a screen saver, ladies and gentlemen. I just want you to know that. And you know, essentially, as said, I mean,

52:43 that people are starting to think in terms of fractals,

52:46 they for example, the reason if you don't know this, that's, you know, if you look at a cell phone, a mobile phone from a few years ago, it used to have an antenna, some of them would come out. All the antennas now are fractal antennas, and they're inside the phone because you don't need an antenna

53:01 when you have a what essentially is a fractal antenna, which is a bunch of things old. It's a weird looking comes down to the energy,

53:08 you know, within the ether, which I'm sure is is a fractal

53:13 you know, also has these same fractal properties.

53:16 And that's how maybe we're all connected or how everything starts to come together as we start to understand

53:21 all of that Yeah. Yeah. Haven't got a really shit. I I'm I'm gonna really be saddened when

53:27 the New Age people get a hold of this theory and they start to come up with their their Crackpot

53:33 analysis. But but hold on. But when technologists get a hold of it and start to really understand it, it could be very exciting. We could get some fantastic shit out of this. Well, that's how we got the fractal antenna.

53:44 Right. Yeah. That's exciting. We improved text messaging. That is a good job. That's

53:50 that's wait a minute. That should be another 800,000,000,000 on the bailout the stimulus package.

53:56 But to to come up with a good three sentence explanation of fractals, I think it'd be valuable. I'm sure there's one out there and

54:05 I don't have it.

54:07 Wait. I'm just recalling.

54:08 Yes.

54:09 Yes. It was around episode 200.

54:12 Okay. It was 02/2002 as a matter of fact. Roy Pierce, $1,111.00.

54:19 What?

54:21 Yeah. Wow.

54:22 He came in as an Insta Knight. Yeah. I'll say. Asked listeners to watch the movie President's

54:28 Analyst.

54:29 It was I it was thought to be satire forty five years ago, but turned out to be mostly true.

54:34 Wow. President well, who was in this movie? Hold on. Can't remember. I vaguely

54:38 remember. I think this was with with

54:40 with the guy who used to play our man Flint.

54:44 I'm I'm guessing. Take a look. I'm taking a look right now. President's Analyst 1967

54:48 satirical this is from the Book of Knowledge.

54:51 Satirical comedy written by Theodore Flicker, James Coburn. Okay. Yeah. Coburn. That's a real yeah. That's a real actor.

54:59 Seeing the film's elements of political satire, science fiction, resembles many of the spy spoofs that proliferated in the mid sixties.

55:06 In the wake of the James Bond phenomenon.

55:08 Yeah. Our man Flint. Wow, John. I'll give you That's right.

55:15 Okay. The film's themes include modern ethics and privacy concerns, specifically

55:19 regarding the intrusion of the telecom system,

55:23 working with the US government into the private lives of the country's citizens.

55:28 Oh my god. This is so on my list. Yeah. You have to watch it. I've seen it recently.

55:33 Wow. It is very fun and it's funny. It's a funny movie.

55:37 Although, Cobbler gets on your nerves because he he plays his char just just a I don't know. Well, it's also the actually, the acting from the from the From the era. Sixties. Yeah. That's you know, it's a little a little It's also the sets are really bright and all the rest. Alright. Okay. Cool. Good. No watch. That's our tip of the day.

55:53 Now let's look at some, US

55:55 clamp down that's taking place. We got Twitter. Twitter kicked off the president of The United States

56:01 is making sure you can't post anything about vaccines or about variants or anything really

56:07 political or or medical. It just kicked off. I don't have a Facebook account but I think it's pretty much the same and we know that what happened with Instagram

56:16 and there's this really one one place left that for some reason you know they can't control. It's becoming very very annoying to those that control the, the speech.

56:28 Pro publica,

56:29 journalists,

56:30 I say that with the emphasis,

56:32 Lydia De-dopoulos wrote quite an article about the evilness of

56:36 podcasting. That's what you and I can do. Yes. Yes. Podcasting. Because they can't control it. There is no social control over what these damn podcasters are saying.

56:47 Woah. And this is a problem and Apple is not being cooperative.

56:52 So how can it be that this kind of junk is allowed on Apple's podcast app, right, but not on Twitter, not on YouTube? What's the difference here? Yeah. Well, in America, we have this policy where we allow tech platforms to make their own rules as to what content they will allow.

57:06 And What a crazy country. Can you believe that John? We have these weird rules in America where we let people decide what they wanna do and they're not like China where this woman clearly takes her cues from or where where the government tells everybody, we got rules and regs.

57:23 Yeah. Well, in America, we have this policy where we allow tech platforms to make their own rules as to what content they will allow.

57:29 And the thing with podcast is that it's a little bit different in that a company like Apple can say, we just list

57:37 podcasts.

57:37 They we essentially run a directory. We don't host them. So that content is actually housed somewhere else, but we allow people to access it through our platform. Platform. So there's a little bit of a dodge that they do there. But they do have

57:51 terms of service that says, here's what we will and won't allow. It's just very,

57:56 very loose. And so a company like YouTube, which is Google,

58:00 or

58:01 Twitter has actually

58:03 established pretty proactive policies on in terms of election misinformation,

58:07 which Apple just simply doesn't do at all. Apple is not doing it right.

58:12 So, you know, this is they're trying to go after Apple very

58:15 very

58:16 light touch because you know, I actually like my iPhone. I don't wanna piss anybody off. I would have might not get the new beta.

58:24 Because that's how these a holes think. But the worst part of this, the worst part of this woman is what comes next and I'll just say this woman. I say with disdain.

58:33 Let's well, let's back up again and give us who is this woman again? Lydia De-pillis

58:38 from ProPublica.

58:39 Oh, ProPublica person. Okay. A ProPublica person. Oh, they get a lot of airtime, the ProPublica people. It's just like a group of idealist

58:47 journalists. You'll remember that David Korn launched the whole pee pee tape Russian collusion

58:53 dossier

58:54 on ProPublica.

58:55 Okay. Yeah. Okay. Alright.

58:58 I think that did it. That that summarizes everything. All of all the things that she's been talking about Yeah.

59:05 So we got another situation here where journalists

59:08 are bitching and moaning about free speech. And these are the same journalists that journalists

59:14 that don't like WikiLeaks

59:15 because it reveals too many secret documents, which they should be happy to see, or they're the same ones that Slammin' Snowden or the same journalists,

59:23 I'm thinking of Richard Ingle in this case who doesn't wanna see that the release CIA torture memo.

59:29 These types of people. And so ProPublica

59:32 is anti

59:33 they're anti journalist journalists.

59:35 Nice them.

59:37 She is advocating

59:38 for shutting down speech that she doesn't agree with. That is her whole article

59:43 and, you know, to say, well, Apple has a dodge here because they're Jocelyn and Docs, but half times the Cyrus are not following all that blah. But what blows me away is this journalist who I'm going to presume is a technology journalist. What she says next is the biggest pile of horse crap in the world. There's obviously been so much discussion,

1:00:03 I think you're seeing it, on the conservative side, discussion about cancel culture, deplatforming.

1:00:07 Right? Where is free speech, etcetera? It seems like as you report, it may just be a matter of time before

1:00:12 there is a buildup of, like, alternative streaming universes, ones that don't depend on these tech giants at all.

1:00:19 How hard is that, though, to actually start happening, or how likely is it? Well, at the moment, it's very difficult. The

1:00:26 the landscape of

1:00:28 tech platforms at the moment is pretty consolidated

1:00:32 and that most people consume content

1:00:35 through

1:00:35 means that are supported by companies like Amazon through its Amazon Web Services product or through Apple through its iPhone or through Google through its browser.

1:00:44 So in order to build up a

1:00:47 tech ecosystem that is free of all those where you could broadcast whatever content you like,

1:00:53 then it's it's it's it's the kind of infrastructure that doesn't really exist right now. Sites like Gap are really straining under the weight of new traffic that they're receiving. So this underinformed,

1:01:04 over socialized twat

1:01:06 is telling us the infrastructure doesn't really exist to set up alternatives because, you know, you're really beholden to the App Store and Amazon Web Services.

1:01:15 I challenge you to a debate, punk.

1:01:18 This is nonsense.

1:01:19 Look at us. We are literally

1:01:21 Five major five major video sources out there now. Thank you. One of which is noagendatube.com.

1:01:29 Noagendatube,

1:01:30 which is I wouldn't put it in the top five, but it's there. And then there's the, obviously, the Federated and other chat systems, and then there's things that signals like and and telegraph. All these things are out there, you know, which people are condemning them. And how about podcastindex.org,

1:01:45 which is talking about podcasts like And the podcast index, by the way, which is your baby, you can toot your own horn, but as far as I'm concerned, I'll toot it. This is the alternative of alternatives

1:01:56 that will prevent the future demise of podcasting,

1:02:00 and it's it's something you recognized about a year or two ago probably because of this show.

1:02:05 Of course. And you've decided to go ahead with this this podcasting

1:02:09 two point o, which has taken off quite nicely

1:02:12 and eventually will be absorbed into this the great ecosystem. But Yeah. She's full of crap. Go podcasting.

1:02:19 But I will say this, but the the pathetic thing is that that she's got a she's got a voice and that people are asking her. Why is she even around?

1:02:27 Well, you know what? She she is the new wave. This is the same type of person who's at the New York Times.

1:02:34 So

1:02:36 back to real news by the way, I have a a complaint. Uh-oh. So so I go to I noticed that I didn't realize that this is an ongoing

1:02:44 complaint.

1:02:45 I but I noticed it the other day. So I'm at Monterey Foods buying vegetables

1:02:50 Mhmm. Which is a green grocer and it's a good one.

1:02:54 And

1:02:55 I'm in there and it's of course, it's a it's a it's a in Berkeley, so it's like at a Berkeley style of customer.

1:03:02 In other words, people that look like they're just about to die.

1:03:05 Some were any in the

1:03:08 in the PETA

1:03:10 all in the PETA camp and many many of them, you know, are So they're keeling over. They're they're holding on to their Zimmer frames.

1:03:18 So that's just like a horrible group of you. They're in so much Every

1:03:23 once in a while, I've seen a some, like, a a, you know, a younger woman that maybe just moved into the area, and she goes into Monterey Foods with her makeup on

1:03:33 because you know she's going shopping and she feels obliged because maybe she's from the Midwest or Texas

1:03:38 where she feels obliged to actually look presentable

1:03:41 in public as opposed to wearing baggy ass crap and maybe hair and gobs of with gobs of goo, like dog shit kinda in it.

1:03:50 You know, with, it's you know

1:03:53 I'm telling you. I'm just describing the scene so you can get a feeling for it. I'm with you. I'm I'm smelling the dog shit.

1:03:58 And so you

1:03:59 see these women, they come in, they're made up, and they walk in and they they take one look around. They stop like they like they hit a brick wall right at the entrance. And they they you see them, boom. They hit this brick wall, and then they freeze.

1:04:11 You see their eyes going back and forth and back and forth, and then they slowly walk backwards,

1:04:16 back into the parking lot. Never really Wrong store.

1:04:19 I have seen it's like going into a gay bar. It's like, this isn't right. Okay.

1:04:26 So just can I have my coat back?

1:04:28 There used to this happened to we had a when I was in I think it was just in college or something, we were floating around doing bar hopping. And there used to be this place I realized it was a gay bar called Mike's I think it was called Mike's Poohaul Hall and it was in San Francisco in the North Beach area. And there was like three or four hours we did that exact same thing. We walked in and we just hit this brick wall because it's like a whole

1:04:51 like 500

1:04:53 guys turned around and looked at you. You came in it was like, what? Oh, oops. And then we slowly walked backwards.

1:05:00 Okay. So I'm at the Monterey Foods

1:05:02 and I'm

1:05:03 trying to, you know, check out and there is

1:05:07 the line is held up because apparently

1:05:11 there was some kind of a middle aged gray haired frumpy woman

1:05:16 that was grousing

1:05:18 because she had brought her canvas bags

1:05:22 and they had mistakenly

1:05:23 packed the vegetables

1:05:25 into a sack, a normal paper. Oh, no. The horrors of it.

1:05:31 It was it was it she instead to stop the presses,

1:05:34 they had to un Let me see your supervisor.

1:05:38 They had to unpack the paper bag

1:05:41 as they repacked it into her beat up old dirty canvas bags that looked like they haven't been washed for like

1:05:49 a year at least.

1:05:50 And, you know, so I realized that these know, there's this trend. It's actually died off a little bit,

1:05:55 but there was a trend for a while where it was cool to have a canvas bag

1:06:00 that you drag to the store. And I know in Europe this is always promoted because they charge you, like, a nickel for the bags there. Yeah. They they do it at Sainsbury.

1:06:09 Yeah. They well, when all throughout France, know that you you have to pay for the bag. It's kinda like Yep. It's very confusing to people who aren't used to paying for a bag that costs, like, 0.11

1:06:19 no. 0.00001¢

1:06:21 with a plastic. Oh yeah. But okay, whatever.

1:06:25 Anyway,

1:06:26 but I read there was this trend for a while and people were having and so everyone had these, you know, these these grimy old canvas bags which didn't, you know, they didn't really hold that much as a matter of fact.

1:06:37 And I don't know. I was just galling to me having to sit there while she was making

1:06:42 all these demands on the staff.

1:06:44 Back at the base, my favorite debater that I saved her clips for last. Amy Klobuchar. Yes. I thought she was fantastic.

1:06:52 Oh. I love Amy Klobuchar.

1:06:55 Yeah. As a comedian.

1:06:57 It let me tell you. If if I had to choose

1:07:00 from any person on that stage, I'd choose her. She Well, let's listen to a couple of things I got from her. For one thing, I've got a a pretty good ISO. It's even called a pretty good ISO. I think that sounds pretty good.

1:07:14 No. That's our end of show right there. I'm putting I got more. Yeah. I'm putting it into the slot just in case. Alright. Here. Pete, you know, we'd like to talk about people dropping the t. Oh, yeah.

1:07:25 Amen. This is an absolute beauty because I didn't know you could drop the t with this word. My Republican opponents

1:07:32 have gotten out of politics for good.

1:07:35 Opponents?

1:07:37 Opponent.

1:07:38 What what was that? Let me just Opponent. She's trying to say opponent. My Republican opponents.

1:07:44 Opponents?

1:07:46 She's dropping a p. She's dropping a p antity. Oppo opponents. My Republican opponents have gotten out of politics for good.

1:07:55 Yeah. Under stress. It's people do make mistakes. Oh, she was shaking like a leaf Wasn't as as usual. No. It wasn't as bad as as it has been in the past.

1:08:05 It wasn't as bad as the first debate, but it was it was bad considering how many she's done with these shake As a She's nervous sounding. As an eye twitcher and a and a Tourette sufferer, I it doesn't bother me. I think it makes her look interesting.

1:08:18 I think worse than that is still this schoolboy thing where Bernie's holding his hand up for the teacher to call on him, like, throughout the entire debate.

1:08:27 Call on me, teacher. And then Tom Steyer, by the way, when he talks

1:08:32 Yeah. He first of all, he has a fake smile at the beginning because I guess somebody told him, hey, Tom, smile a little bit. So he puts on this fake stupid looking smile, and then he goes right back into his dour look, and then he rolls his head in a circle as he talks. And

1:08:48 it's it's and it's clockwise.

1:08:50 And he's rolling his head in a circle as he talks, and I'm watching him. Woah.

1:08:55 Here's Amy talking about her one of her friends whose name she can't remember. This is the big gaffe. What what do you say to people who who say that a woman can't win this election?

1:09:05 I hear that when you look at the facts. Michigan has a woman governor right now, and she beat a Republican, Cretchen Whitmer. Kansas has a woman governor right now, and she beat Kris Kobach.

1:09:17 And her name

1:09:18 is I'm very proud to know her, and her name is

1:09:23 governor Kelly. Thank you.

1:09:28 Her name is but

1:09:31 keep your eye on her.

1:09:33 She's got something going. She's And by the way She's got something going. She

1:09:38 has her lipstick on like it's a big square block of lipstick.

1:09:42 So she looks like a kind of a Nick Parks character, you know, Wallace and Gromit. It's just this funny look.

1:09:49 Yeah. Well,

1:09:51 well, there you go. Cheap Greek wine.

1:09:54 As long as it doesn't you know, the the the wine that used to be popular

1:09:59 or not, it's never was really popular. It was just kind of a curiosity that

1:10:03 the Greeks supposedly drank, and even though I've never run into a Greek that liked this stuff, which is Retina.

1:10:09 What's it called? Retina. Retina?

1:10:11 And I will not last time I was in Greece, I I always make sure to have a glass of the best Retina I can find, which is which is like drinking

1:10:19 I don't know what it's it's the worst product in the world. Essentially what it is, it is it is some sort some sort of a wine that harkens back to the Greco Roman times when they to seal the jugs of wine, they used a tree resin

1:10:34 as a cork. And so the tree resin or or they put a piece of block of wood in there and put some resin, but there's resin involved.

1:10:42 And the resin would always leach into the wine and make it taste like tree resin. So it was like drinking a little bit like drinking turpentine.

1:10:49 And it's just really one of the most goshawful things in the world. And that's really what cheap Greek wine is.

1:10:56 Okay.

1:10:58 Just a little little lecture for the people. They always want more wine information.

1:11:02 Yeah.

1:11:03 You know, there's your wine tip of the day. Look for some Retina. They do bring it in The United States. You can buy it at a store. It's very inexpensive. It's like $5 a bottle, maybe 6.

1:11:12 And you can try it. Well, sounds like something not to try, actually. I would well, you should have it once in your life.

1:11:19 It's so obvious now. This is a complete destabilization

1:11:22 of Europe, and we're going to squash them like a bug, like a bug under a bomblet. The EU, as our friend, Newland, said. Oh, goodness. Yeah. I'm not If we go back to that and we listen to this clip and we listen to the FDEU,

1:11:36 we start to understand what might actually be going on.

1:11:45 We should just for you know, not everyone understands this because they weren't around when we played this the first time in 2014.

1:11:51 This is when The US was installing a new government into Ukraine,

1:11:56 and Victoria Newland was caught with,

1:11:59 well, was recorded at high quality

1:12:02 Very high quality by the Russians, obviously.

1:12:05 On a phone call where she was talking to her compatriot who I think was was he the ambassador at the time? I'm not ambassador. Yeah. Maybe. But they were discussing, you know, oh, who we gotta put in? Yeah. Klitsch no. Klitsch is no good. We gotta have that guy in. Yeah. We can have Biden come out here and bless the deal. He'll kiss the babies. It'll all be good Biden. Biden.

1:12:24 And then it was like, well, you know, they're not gonna like what we're doing, the EU, but and then she just said that, fuck the EU.

1:12:30 And there you have it. With great disdain. Yes. We should we play that clip again? What do you think?

1:12:37 I think we're in play. We're in play. The

1:12:41 Klitschko piece is obviously the complicated

1:12:44 electron here,

1:12:45 especially the announcement of him as deputy prime minister. And and you've seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now. So we're trying to get a read really fast on where he is on Listen to these these terms they use. We're in play. Yeah. Like, we got a little trouble here on the marriage because they're just they're just it's like shotgun wedding. We were fusing

1:13:05 everything together, handing out cookies. That stuff. But But I think your argument to him, which you'll need to make, I think that's the next phone call we wanna set up, is exactly the one you made to to Yat. And I I'm glad you said That's Yat sen Yuk who later did become prime minister for a moment. We're putting him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario. And I'm very glad he said what he said in response.

1:13:26 Oh, we we should also mention that Klitschko is currently the mayor. The mayor of Kiev. Kyiv. Kyiv.

1:13:33 Good.

1:13:34 So I don't think Klitsch should go into the government. I don't think it's necessary. I don't think it's a good idea. Yeah. So I just make it not happen. That's how that's how democratically

1:13:42 elected countries work. Victoria Newland says, I don't think he should go in and he doesn't.

1:13:50 Yeah. I mean, I I guess He's not agreeing, by the way.

1:13:55 You think

1:13:56 what in terms of him not going into the government, just let him sort of stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I'm just thinking

1:14:04 in terms of sort of the process moving ahead, we wanna keep the moderate Democrats together. The problem is gonna be Tony Book and his guys. No. Tony Book. And, you know, I'm sure that's part of what Yanukovych is calculating on all of this.

1:14:17 Yanukovych

1:14:18 was was that the guy they were putting in or was the guy guy who was going out? I can't remember where he asked for shot. I think he was going. I I I just

1:14:27 I think Yatz is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience. He's he's the guy you know, what he needs is Cleech and Tani Book on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week. Yeah. She's now she's now actually not just putting people into government, but but arranging their agenda.

1:14:45 Yeah. She's doing their calendar for them. Doing their calendar. You know? Yeah. This is a democrat every this is a democratic

1:14:52 That's right.

1:14:53 Country that we're we're saving for democracy. Democracy.

1:14:57 I I I just think Klitsch going in, he's gonna be at that level working for Yat senyu. It's just not gonna work. No. Not gonna work. No. I agree.

1:15:06 But Okay. What do you think, John? Not gonna work. I think just now. Not gonna work. Not gonna work. Get that guy. No. Let him just do his political homework on the outside. Good. Well, do you want us to try to set up a call with him as the next step?

1:15:18 My understanding from that call, but you tell me, was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yaats was gonna offer in that context a three way, you know, the three plus one conversation or three plus two with you.

1:15:31 Is that not how you understood it? No. I think, I mean, that's what he proposed, but I think just knowing the dynamic that's been with them where

1:15:39 Klitschko has been the top dog, he's gonna take a while to show up for whatever meeting they've got. He's probably talking to his guys at this point. So I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three. This is literally how we used to pitch like, you know, Gillette.

1:15:55 Alright. You know, you talk you talk to your guy and I'll talk to my guy and you work him from the back end and we'll get the big three or maybe three plus two. We'll get him into the meeting. We'll pitch him on the with the PowerPoint and we'll be good to go. And it and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind behind

1:16:11 it before they all sit down and he Oh, yeah. Let's move fast before they figure out what we how we've hoodwinked them. He explains why he doesn't like it. This is good to review. There's I can see there's trolls who have never heard this recording. They they haven't Well, this is 2014, so it's a bit it's a bit it's like nine

1:16:28 years ago. It is.

1:16:30 Okay. So this I'm happy. Why don't you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after? Alright. How do we put a bow around this, Vicky? How do we wrap this up? Will do. Thanks.

1:16:40 Okay. I've now written oh, one more wrinkle for you, Jeff. Oh, wrinkle. Wrinkle. Stand by, Jeff. I got a wrinkle. Yeah.

1:16:47 Can't remember if I told you this or if I only told Washington this that Yeah. Because, you know, you're not in the loop on everything, Jeff, just so you know. When I talked to Jeff Feltman

1:16:56 this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy, Robert Serry. Did I write you that this morning? Yeah. I saw that.

1:17:03 He's now gotten both Serry and Bon Key Moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. Oh, that's right. They had Ban Ki Moon in on the deal. The secretary general of the UN to you know, oh, we'll bless the deal. Ban Ki Moon will come in. That guy's half dead anyway. He just they didn't even speak English. Just let him mumble. Okay.

1:17:22 So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it. Yeah. Have the UN help glue it because that's what's good. Glue. Glue it. And, you know, fuck the EU. Yeah.

1:17:34 And I think we've gotta do something to make it stick together. Exactly. Now, let's just go back for a second. So she's saying, we'll have the we'll have the UN glue it because

1:17:44 clearly, the United

1:17:46 European

1:17:47 Union is like, what are you guys doing in our back yard? This is not so cool. So we're gonna have this thing glued for the whole world and fuck you. Fuck you, EU. I'm just sure if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman Well, wait. Wait. When when she said fuck the EU,

1:18:04 I think she was specifically

1:18:07 saying we're gonna have the UN do it, and fuck the EU meaning we're buy we're we're skipping them Yes. And their anything that they have to say about it. Yeah. Because the at UN,

1:18:17 greater than sign EU.

1:18:19 No Agenda you know, Agenda show has the has receipts, people.

1:18:24 You know, this is so scandalous, and it was played by it was played up zero by the media. Zero. Is that well, she used an expletive on a call, you know, so we can't play the expletive because she said a bad word. It's not about that, people. Listen to what they're doing.

1:18:40 What they did, they did it. I

1:18:43 did catch a

1:18:46 it I can't say it's native ad I think it is native advertising for credit cards. Mhmm. But it also has all these sub there's a lot of subtext involved. Again, NBC. Mhmm. And this is about, just kind of a rundown of the benefits of credit card usage.

1:19:00 I thought it was this will be my Dvorak tip of the day because there's a lot of good information in here. But as I I've had mixed feelings about running because I believed it was a native ad to begin with, and then it I don't know what the purpose was, and it was also

1:19:13 kind of promoting the cashless society, which I don't like. Uh-huh. But I thought there was a lot of good information in this in this particular native ad on NBC Alright. Which I didn't realize they did. Alright, everybody. Stand by right after this clip. It will be time for Dvorak's

1:19:29 tip of the day.

1:19:32 Well, this is the tip of the day.

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1:21:21 that's the tip?

1:21:23 I think it was a tip, and I I remember that the I think American Express, depending on the card you have, would actually

1:21:28 cover your extra insurance that you could pay for a rental car rental. Oh. But the the funny by the way, this also incorporated fake news,

1:21:37 NBC's

1:21:38 version of fake news,

1:21:40 because that woman who was super scared

1:21:42 and she realized she gets a free tow she could call a tow truck herself, but she gets a free tow from American Express. They showed her on the phone in her car. They showed the tow truck coming in, and then they showed her a bit happy as a as a clam as the tow truck took her car off. Yeah. I would say that's a native ad for sure.

1:22:00 It was a native ad, and that was fake news. There was no way that this woman was had a camera crew with her when her car broke down, and she was so super scared. So what was that? That was a reenactment. It did not say

1:22:12 reenactment

1:22:12 at the bottom of the screen. They should just use one of our jingles.

1:22:17 Which one? Well, I know. And you choose which one you want. We got tons of them.

1:22:21 Fake news? Yeah. We got There is We got tons of fake news. We got anything you want. Hey. Hey. Hey.

1:22:28 You read that. Fake news. That's right, everybody. Use your hammocks. It's got fake news on it.

1:22:36 Anyway, I just thought I'd throw that out. There's the tip.

1:22:39 Hey. More importantly,

1:22:42 you bought a pig?

1:22:44 Yo. Yeah. We had a well, I've gotten yeah. We bought well, we bought a pig to eat. Yeah.

1:22:51 Let's I'd like to hear the story about the pig you bought to eat. Did you and Michael Butler bought a pig? We split a pig. Yeah. You split a pig. So how does this process go? Where do you do you go to the pig market, the pig store? We bought this from Future Farmers of America auction at the Alameda County Fair. Do they have a website? Is do you do this online, or you go there? No. No. You have to go to the auction. And you see the pig, and you go, like, you look tasty. Is that how it works? Well, Butler's approach was low bid low ball every every pig that came up until one got through. He didn't really wanna buy the pig, is what you're saying? No. No. He wanted to buy the pig, but he was real strict on what he's gonna pay. Okay. And even though it's like a tax write off and there's a bunch of What? Wait a minute. Buying a pig is a tax write off? Well, if you buy a pig at an auction for Future Farmers of America or four h at a at a county fair and you pay 1¢

1:23:38 over the market price of hogs at that at that point Mhmm. Which you will because these pigs are not cheap,

1:23:46 you get to write off that money as a charitable contribution. Because the money goes to the kids who get to

1:23:52 you know, it helps them to college to get to go to school. What what kids? What kid? The kids are The kids who raise the pigs.

1:23:58 You took a pig from a kid?

1:24:00 Yeah. And, apparently, the kid was in tears. Oh, no. Then Artina

1:24:04 was there, Butler's daughter, and she says that she doesn't know if she can eat the pig named Rosie. Butler, on the other hand, got a picture with the pig.

1:24:12 And so he got this by the way, the pig is delicious. So

1:24:16 so

1:24:17 so Butler got it, and and the the kid

1:24:20 apparently, they all do this, and you have to kind of, I guess, tolerate it. The kid, a little 11 year old girl, you know, that's her pet

1:24:27 She's in tears. Oh, right. Was her it was her pet pig, and you told you took the pig and ate it. Yes.

1:24:37 You're such a horrible man.

1:24:40 You should go back and eat you. You should go back to the kid and say, here, do you want some bacon from your pet peeve? To her, but, you know, she was raised the pig was raised to be eaten, not to be hanging around the house.

1:24:51 So You're a mean you're a mean old man.

1:24:55 I wasn't there. You're a horrible was the mean old man. Hey, kid. Your pig looks delicious. Butler wants a picture with the pig. He wants to know the name of the pig.

1:25:05 So anyway, so we went out to so went to the butcher, a great butcher out in Manteca. Wait. Wait. Can I ask you I I need to understand the process? So you had the pig, and the pig is at this point alive?

1:25:15 Yes. So the pig is, like, squiddy, squiddy, squiddy, squiddy. And you take the So

1:25:20 there's a kid crying over here. Yeah. There's Butler doing Facebook pictures with the pig.

1:25:26 Then and you're taking the pig to a great butcher.

1:25:29 Oh, the butcher's fantastic.

1:25:31 Okay.

1:25:32 Yeah.

1:25:33 So, anyway,

1:25:35 it's a good it's a Portuguese butcher, and they actually make a linguica

1:25:38 just at the shop. You're gonna have to go there to get it. So, anyway yeah. So we bought a pig, and and there was all it's a process of I'm gonna write a little paper on this and sell it. Is

1:25:49 he doing a meetup in Yellowstone? That's what he wants to know. My wife has always been wanting to go and would love to meet him. She has a crush on him from the MTV days.

1:25:59 I hope I don't disappoint in IRL.

1:26:02 Well, actually, you look pretty much like you did then. No. I don't. The hair is much shorter. Well, you don't have that ludicrous

1:26:08 wig. It was not a wig, a hole.

1:26:12 Wasn't a wig. Look at your own hair. Just because it's thinning out,

1:26:17 be careful, man. Take a look at that hair and it's It not was not a wig. This is ridiculous. Should have been a wig. Now you sound like every dickhead who says something about Donald Trump's hair. This is how stupid it is. Well, I never said this before. Wig.

1:26:29 Well, it looked like a wig. How about those glasses when you couldn't pull apart the stupid PC in the video, Dvorak?

1:26:36 You're looking like Buggles.

1:26:38 Those were the glasses that were avant garde during that era. Avant garde? How about avant douche?

1:26:44 Here's another big story. This is the one on conspiracies.

1:26:48 Even apocalyptic.

1:26:50 We all crave explanations for things we don't understand, so some of us fill in the blanks

1:26:55 with conspiracy theories.

1:26:57 We dug into that with Anna Merlin, author of Republic of Lies, American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power. Hey. How come we weren't interviewed? What the hell is that? There's a whole book. American Conspiracy Theorists. Did you get a call? Did you get an email? Memo? Nothing? It used to be that far right conspiracy theories went from

1:27:16 fringe sites, some of them actual disinformation

1:27:19 sites,

1:27:20 to eventually places like Fox News and that's sort of where they stopped. And now they have another stop, which is they go from Fox News to the president or from fringe sites like Infowars straight to the president. And Again. Again. Again, we're being snubbed. Hello?

1:27:36 Hello. Crackpot here. I'd like my props. And this problem continues to get worse and worse.

1:27:43 What is the logical extension

1:27:46 of

1:27:47 all of this?

1:27:49 Oh, this is so good, John. What do you think is really

1:27:55 happening in the world

1:27:57 when it comes from info wars straight to the president? Out of control tinfoil hattery.

1:28:02 So

1:28:03 one thesis is that, especially

1:28:06 state backed disinformation sources like the ones we've seen in Russia, like the Internet Research Agency. Russia? That one of their goals is to make the information ecosystem so chaotic and so unstable and so unreliable

1:28:20 that people start believing that

1:28:23 the actual objective truth is not knowable and that they should stop looking for it. Oh, success.

1:28:30 Wow. Believe this? Yeah. No. So conspiracies, by the way, are only right wing. There's never been a left wing conspiracy. They're they're all right wing. Wait. Stop. Clip of the day for that one. Just out of just definitely clip of the day. Clip of the day.

1:28:44 You're right. And up she up talks through this whole thing. They're all right wing, and it all culminated

1:28:49 in Fox News. That's right. And it and and the other route is from Infowars direct to the president. Yeah. Alex Jones hotline to Trump. Hey. Listen up. Here's what's got wait until you hear my update on Seth Rich. Maybe we can get in next year's retrospective.

1:29:04 Alright.

1:29:06 Then let me give you a new jingle.

1:29:14 The war on chicken.

1:29:19 What? Some guy crank that out right during the show? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That's our audience, man. That's yellow jacket. That's yellow jacket, man. I'm telling you. How awesome is that?

1:29:30 Chicken.

1:29:32 Oh, we've had the war on terror. We've had the war on women. I think the war on chicken is just about par just just about par for the chorus. Perfect.

1:29:41 This is another song. Night me baby.

1:29:46 This Christmas song.

1:29:48 Right?

1:29:54 Night me, baby.

1:30:08 Not me on our podcast tonight.

1:30:17 Not me, baby.

1:30:19 I think I'll take it Baronet

1:30:22 too.

1:30:23 It's true.

1:30:25 Read my note, won't you please?

1:30:29 Not me, baby.

1:30:31 Not me on our podcast tonight.

1:30:52 I'll be just as good

1:30:56 because I ain't no douchebag

1:31:00 free loader.

1:31:03 Not me, baby.

1:31:28 Yeah. Everybody does it once in a while just because it's funny. It's almost like tucking your penis between your legs. We all do it once. I've never done that. Never?

1:31:36 No. It's too damn big. In

1:31:40 the morning.

1:31:42 You walk into these. That's Woah. But I walked into there was a brick wall I walked into. My face hurts. Oh, man.

1:31:51 So if anybody likes to buy wine, and it really

1:31:55 a very well priced wine, it's always a good deal, except some maybe $30. But generally speaking, get them for, like, under 20, is a good Beaujolais.

1:32:04 And what you want is a if you can, you wanna get a crew Beaujolais. It's called crew Beaujolais. Look up c r u c r u crew? Yes. C r u Beaujolais.

1:32:13 And then those are the this the town is like Fleur Vie, Bruy,

1:32:17 Morgon. There's a bunch of them. And they are listed in the in Google. You can, you can type that into Google and you'll get the, you'll get a wiki page and get list them off. Those are better. You want Beaujolais Villages is kind of the lowest quality you can get. But the point is, 2015,

1:32:34 many of the Beaujolais experts believe that 2015

1:32:37 Beaujolais

1:32:38 are the best since the nineteen forties. Okay. And I have had I buy some.

1:32:43 Expensive

1:32:45 ones. I've had cheap ones. Every twenty fifteen bogie that I've had from cheap to very expensive, very expensive ones are outrageous.

1:32:53 These are the most delicious wines for the price you'll ever get in your life.

1:33:00 And that's your tip

1:33:01 Tip of show. Day. Tip of the day. Have a tip on this show. You always learn something that's good. And

1:33:07 I would like to remind everybody, today is day number six six six of our fourteen days to flat flatten flatten the curve. Damn it. I screwed it up. You had it. But it is day six six six. That figures. So this has gotta be one of those big ones. And on this very important day It's a devilish scam. We receive,

1:33:26 the following headline, which just made my day. There is no evidence of pandemic

1:33:31 mass formation psychosis

1:33:33 according to Reuters and the Associated Press.

1:33:36 And they would know.

1:33:40 The hell? What is going why would they That's actually by the way, that for them to say that is a sign that it exists. It

1:33:48 has to be. It has to be.

1:33:51 The full quote, mass formation psychosis

1:33:53 is not an act Who wrote this? There is no such thing as the Associated Press saying anything. Okay. Someone at the Associated Press Yes. Correct. Said it on behalf of the Associated Press? Yes. And I'm Was it approved by the board of directors? What what's the deal? Well, I believe so seeing as,

1:34:11 well, it's Reuters and the Associated Press, and we know that, there's some Pfizer folks over over at Reuters. They've both independently reported that,

1:34:20 but this was a, as you point out, it was they pulled it together. The full headline is mass formation psychosis is not an academic term recognized

1:34:29 in the field of psychology

1:34:31 nor is there evidence of any such phenomenon occurring during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Multiple experts in crowd psychology

1:34:39 have told Reuters and the Associated Press. So that's how that's how they do it.

1:34:44 And then the AP fact check, mass formation psychosis, an unfounded theory spreading online suggests millions of people have been hypnotized into believing mainstream ideas to combat COVID nineteen.

1:34:55 Psychology experts say the concept is not not supported by evidence.

1:35:00 See, that's a little different.

1:35:02 So they're not discrediting the theory. They're saying there's no this is by the way, this is one of your favorite ways of doing it. There's no evidence

1:35:10 of There's no evidence of like the mouse.

1:35:14 Hey. I wasn't gonna say that. But there's That's what it refers to. Yeah. But there's no evidence.

1:35:19 And there was no evidence, by the way. Of the mouse? Yeah. It just came out. How's there how's there gonna be any evidence?

1:35:27 It's a trick.

1:35:31 I see this on the airplane, and it's very annoying, and I think it will result in in fights breaking out because it's just so annoying to watch. Guy takes his bag of peanuts and he throws a pile of them into his palm of his hand, and then he makes a fist

1:35:47 around the nuts. And then he shakes his fist to try to bring a nut to the little hole. Stop.

1:35:54 Stop.

1:35:55 And then he throws a nut in his mouth from his fist, and he does it again. He shakes and throws and shakes and throws. It is

1:36:03 annoying as hell to watch. Oh

1:36:06 my gosh. It just needed porn music. Your description is fabulous. I gotta produce that. There is the there is the, that part of it. Can look at all these things as obscene,

1:36:15 but that's exactly what you see. Yeah. This guy shaking his fist and popping a peanut. It's nasty. Anyway. It's nasty.

1:36:23 It's very nasty. I agree. It's nasty. And whenever Tina and I are flying, we look at each other, and I'm like, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna fist him. I'm fisting. I'm fisting.

1:36:32 I'm fisting. I'm know, fisting.

1:36:34 The shantytown thing did come up in the conversation. I'm I'm of of the opinion that

1:36:41 you're just gonna have to bite the bullet in these towns, these liberal towns, and let a shantytown

1:36:46 crop up.

1:36:48 It

1:36:50 goes on in South America. It goes on I in your don't

1:36:53 your idea.

1:36:55 I know you don't. Nobody does. But it's the most realistic thing you can do. Let's be honest about it. But you have shantytowns

1:37:02 in multiple cities in California, and it hasn't

1:37:05 produced any Where? There's no real true shantytown?

1:37:09 Every street corner.

1:37:11 No. That's not a shanty town. Well, okay. I mean, how many how many That is just a bunch of people hanging around and, you know, hanging out with tents. Yeah. No. No. Okay. I'm not talking about camping,

1:37:23 which is what they call it now, Homeless camping.

1:37:26 Yeah. You're not homeless. You're just camping. Oh, yeah. Just people camping. Yeah.

1:37:31 No. I'm talking about you get a couple of acres. You put some acres together in an area that's really

1:37:37 some places you can get water to, usually a water truck that would work,

1:37:43 bring it in once in a while and everyone have their own buckets,

1:37:47 and let the let the field build little lean tos.

1:37:55 Well To have its own government. That's the way it's like in Brazil in the favelas.

1:37:59 They have their own governments. Yeah. But but that's my point is the favelas are a huge issue.

1:38:04 Yeah. Also with shantytowns, but this is I don't see any other solution. Yeah. But They can't seem to address the problem correctly, so you might as well just let it fall into third world style. Well It works outside of Africa. There's outside all of these little towns in Africa. There's little shantytowns outside the cities, mostly all South America. There's used to be

1:38:25 Romani

1:38:27 encampments all over Europe, and, you know, it's similar to a shanty town when they they move.

1:38:33 Mean, you can't do anything about it because they're not doing anything about it.

1:38:36 Well

1:38:37 Go to a fallback position.

1:38:39 So what you're saying is designate an area

1:38:43 where the shantytown can prosper.

1:38:46 That's

1:38:49 You make it sound like it's a joke. No. No. I

1:38:52 I that's

1:38:54 exactly what you're saying. A designated place. This is not your idea alone. People are saying, hey. Make a designated camping ground.

1:39:01 And Yeah. Well, it should be a shanty town. A camping ground is no good.

1:39:05 Those tents are no good. You want the, you know, you want a shanty town. You want the kind of thing that people can go and do reports about. Oh, look at these people. They're living like horrible.

1:39:14 And then they show that then there's this open sewer. You want an open yeah. Okay. You could have to design these things. Scott Adams has got something like this, but he's more you know, it's not gonna be like my thinking.

1:39:25 You want an open sewer

1:39:27 so you can be aghast

1:39:28 Mhmm. At the open sewer and the turd going down the sewer. You know, it's just open.

1:39:33 You want kids that are half naked, wandering around, you're all dirty, you know, sucking their Barefoot.

1:39:39 Barefoot. Yeah. Barefoot. And then you want with

1:39:42 a dogs. Playing with a rusty can.

1:39:47 Lots

1:39:48 of dogs

1:39:49 barking at everything. I've I've I've Yeah. We had a we had a quasi shanty town here in in the East Bay over on the the the bulb,

1:39:59 it was called,

1:40:01 an old ex garbage dump that's

1:40:03 by Golden Gate Fields in Albany. There was a there's this big area that was was in the very far reaches of this. It's like an like a peninsula that is built of garbage dumps from from the twenties and thirties. So it's it's green now, and they got trees and everything's growing on it. But there was a huge shanty town out there. It was a a genuine one. You couldn't even go out to it because there's too many pit bulls,

1:40:26 you know, guarding the place. But it was a shantytown, and they let it go for years and years, and they finally went in there in the middle of the night and tore it down. Well, go back to what else we need in the shantytown. I was kind of enjoying it. We we were at Barefoot Children playing with Barefoot Children, open sewers,

1:40:41 lot of lean tos. And now there was people Lean tos. Yes. Yes. Very good. Left over gal you know, there's the kind of stuff that you'd make for,

1:40:48 I think it's kind of a galvanized,

1:40:50 corrugated steel. Yes. Very good. Chunks of that and corrugated fiberglass that's just got this little curvy thing, and then it's pounded

1:40:58 in. And and and do you always need to have a boat trailer with half a boat on it? Oh, there's definitely a bunch of boat trailers and half a boat. People living in the boats.

1:41:07 Open fires, burn barrels everywhere. Mhmm. Mhmm. Especially in the winter.

1:41:13 I'm the dentist that took the heat for suggesting oral cancer is on the rise.

1:41:17 Horrible and from HPV

1:41:19 virus and oral sex. This is letter we didn't read. I I don't remember this.

1:41:24 I'm done stewing. I would like to congratulate both of you for the thousand shows. Okay. It would be good to even after I read this. I've been learned a lot and laughed a lot. Thanks. I read John's one page editorials in PC Magazine going back to my days in college. I saw the TV show and the Tech Grouch, all great stuff. Oh, Tech Grouch. Hell, you and two other people watched the Tech Grouch. Mhmm. When I heard he was on a podcast and Jerry Cornett was there too, had to listen to Leo guy made he's kinda complaining here about Leo. Mhmm. When it then I found out about No Agenda. When MTV started, I was studying physics.

1:41:56 I would put it on the back as background music and thought, who would ever want to watch music videos?

1:42:02 Then one day, I saw the video by Robert Palmer, Simply Irresistible.

1:42:07 Simply Irresistible.

1:42:09 Yep. So there was this guy as a sidekick with JD,

1:42:14 Adam Curry. Never heard of him, but listening to him was interesting. I miss his treaties on aliens on Earth and moon bases.

1:42:22 Though shape shifting Jews are space goers too. Being Jewish myself, I can attest to it. There it is. There is sign of shape shifter.

1:42:33 As the episodes went by, Atlas set the hook and John had that John had baited.

1:42:40 It's now an instant night in a mini Baron. It sounds a little better. I'd like some jobs karma. Obamacare

1:42:46 has been great for America,

1:42:48 but as a small business owner, it's gutted the profit for my business. Oh, yeah. It's horrible for me. Keep saying. Yep. Okay.

1:42:56 So the only one I couldn't get this story, so I only have the teaser for it, but I can explain the story. I for some reason, I just I just couldn't get the story. But there's the t the teaser's UK heli heli payments. Coming up next here on Sky News, giving away money to heal a sick economy, how so called helicopter payments could be the cure

1:43:14 for a global slowdown.

1:43:16 Helicopter

1:43:18 pay what? So this is in Ireland.

1:43:21 And so these these

1:43:22 child literal

1:43:23 No. Helicopters,

1:43:24 the big boys. No. Yes.

1:43:26 And they're throwing bags bags

1:43:29 of money out of the shop. No.

1:43:31 No. No. No. This is Yes. It's What? I I don't understand. They can't just they can't just land? I what's what's going on? Just throwing it.

1:43:40 Here I am, ladies and gentlemen, in my stealth helicopter.

1:43:43 Jeez.

1:43:45 That I gotta hear that clip again. You need to get the whole story. Coming up next here on Sky News, giving away money to heal a sick economy. How so called helicopter

1:43:53 payments could be the cure for a global slowdown. No. You're full of crap, Dvorak. No. I'm telling you. They're throwing bags of money out to the out of the choppers. And it's almost reminds me of, like, some old movie where the king is throwing pennies at the peasants, and they're following him on. Oh, look. Look. And they're all these little boys and girls are waifs,

1:44:11 and they're all grabbing the coins and the money off the ground. And they're, oh, let's go. But they haven't they haven't actually done this yet, have they? This has not occurred yet. Showed a video of the chopper throwing money, bags of money flying out of the chopper. Yeah. This is crazy.

1:44:26 I'm I'm trying to find this now. I wanna find some pictures of it.

1:44:33 Well, memes are there. There's helicopters with a big piggy bank underneath. I I mean, someone's

1:44:38 someone's already working on it. Okay. Perfect.

1:44:43 Helly

1:44:43 helly payment. Who ever heard of such a ridiculous thing?

1:44:48 I don't I don't put anything past these people. But crests are produced from Denmark says

1:44:55 by the November 16 in Denmark all mink are to be put down due to a mutation

1:45:01 the Danish CDC, Statin Serums Institute

1:45:06 They say they have found at least five mutations of the COVID nineteen virus. They call it cluster five

1:45:12 and they say it jumps from mink to people. I'm telling you John there's some secret here. There's something there is something going on with this mink.

1:45:20 So they're stepping up the test by threefold

1:45:24 for everybody and they have to cull all of the mink in all of Denmark

1:45:30 by the sixteenth

1:45:31 but here's what's interesting he's heard people saying that

1:45:35 hey,

1:45:37 first they come for the ferrets,

1:45:39 but they may be coming for our pets next.

1:45:41 And I like this. Ah, the dog. I like this. Yes. I like it a The dogs are people too. They're coming for your dogs. They're gonna cull your dogs.

1:45:51 Well, this makes my my wife's investment in mink coats

1:45:56 worth it.

1:45:58 Well, you know what Mimi's been doing for probably fifteen years?

1:46:03 I think she's got maybe five or five or six of these coats.

1:46:08 And then she does research on them after she gets them.

1:46:11 Because of the West Coast and its its, oh,

1:46:15 fur thing Mhmm.

1:46:17 You can get a mink coat on Craigslist

1:46:21 that happened to be owned by some grandma. She bought it in the thirties or forties from some furrier in New York City,

1:46:28 and you can get it for, a $100.

1:46:32 A $100? Wanna own one. And so she has been buying a bunch of these when she sees them. She doesn't buy every one, but she's bought a number of them.

1:46:40 And for, like, a $100, and we we do a little research afterwards, and the original price of the coat was, like, $8 in 1930.

1:46:48 Oh, yeah. No. These in 1930, it was $8? Holy crap. That was might as well been 8 80,000,

1:46:55 if not more.

1:46:57 So,

1:46:58 so now these coats will be more valuable if unless they can maintain this, hatred of,

1:47:04 dead animal fur.

1:47:06 But people out there on the lookout, you should go check this out. The in certain parts of the country, you're gonna be able to get these very expensive

1:47:13 coats, fur coats for next to nothing on Craigslist. Your tip of the day.

1:47:20 This is nutball zero zero, two nuts on population

1:47:24 control.

1:47:25 Extreme

1:47:26 biohazard,

1:47:28 data from the deeper denser dimensions. And so it is an extreme biohazard

1:47:33 to make justifications

1:47:35 for parasitism.

1:47:36 That's true. It isn't okay.

1:47:39 Friends, we have enough humans on the planet.

1:47:42 We don't need any more humans. It is not okay

1:47:46 for women

1:47:47 to have babies

1:47:49 and stop contributing

1:47:51 to the process

1:47:52 under the pretense that they're doing a good thing by staying home and raising children.

1:47:58 We don't need children. If you find yourself pregnant,

1:48:02 there are options,

1:48:04 and you can have an abortion.

1:48:06 No babies. Cut off the baby factors. We have 7,500,000,000

1:48:11 with a B.

1:48:12 Humans on the planet, that's too much.

1:48:15 The actual ideal

1:48:16 amount seems to be under 1,000,000,000,

1:48:20 under 1,000,000,000. We have 7,500,000,000.

1:48:23 No babies. Women who have babies and stay home to raise them should not be viewed

1:48:29 as doing a good thing. That's not a good thing. It's completely not what the situation calls for at all.

1:48:36 I'm sorry.

1:48:37 Find another way to contribute

1:48:39 and be valued.

1:48:41 That's not a good way. I'm sorry.

1:48:44 Do they have a GoFundMe

1:48:46 or a Patreon that I can contribute They make a lot of money. They do? How

1:48:51 do they make money? I believe so. If you if you check her out, she does a lot of healing things, and she's in Washington DC making her fortune. Okay. Now

1:49:00 the the lifting of the they the two of them have their arms in the air, but the the younger one, who's obviously the mom hates

1:49:08 she had a baby, obviously, this girl, and the girl can't even say anything except that's true. That's true. That's true. In fact, they even isolated. I got an ISO of it. That's true. That's true.

1:49:19 That's all she so she's like diamond and silk. That's all she does? That's true. She says that's true. That's true. Now

1:49:26 she does say stuff once in a while. And when she says something,

1:49:31 I'd say 90% of the time, the old lady shuts her down and says no

1:49:36 and tells her no. And then and this was this

1:49:39 was during a moment where she explained the arm in the air thing. What she's doing is she's pulling the strands

1:49:44 of,

1:49:46 imaginary strands of

1:49:48 anger and fatigue

1:49:50 and Mhmm. You know, every bad thing in your that you have. You're pulling it out of your body and you're holding it into the air and throwing it away. Mhmm. And you and so she's doing that constantly. Mhmm. And the old the old lady does it once in a while too. And when the daughter explained this,

1:50:04 the old lady, she the daughter says, I invite you can all do this yourself. You can pull the the fatigue and frustrations

1:50:11 and the things about life out of your body and throw them in the air. And the old lady says, no. You can't. It's too late for them.

1:50:18 I don't know if you saw the newsletter after it was finalized, and it was I I got it from, No Agenda Social. This picture of this of the woman that the whistle the quote, unquote whistleblower

1:50:28 who we spotted as a spook. Mhmm. And it's a tweet from her, and she's joined Twitter on October 6, and within a day She's got a blue check mark. She got a blue check mark within a day, and she's got already 50,000 followers within a day. And to be if you go now, it's, like, 70 or something. And I just keep looking at that, shaking my head, reminding me what that we did have a clip of one of the women. It was, I think, one of the disguise,

1:50:53 somebody who worked at the agency for a long time. And she said, well, we have a real problem with social media because we don't know if it's a tell,

1:51:01 that's Yeah. Like, our people don't have an account.

1:51:04 They've never had an account on it. In. They don't they're not on LinkedIn. They're not on Twitter. They're not on Facebook.

1:51:10 And she's she's worried as a tell

1:51:12 that it might indicate

1:51:14 that they're, you know, intelligence people. You know, a lot of them don't even have the same name in real life,

1:51:19 and, they use pseudonyms just consistently.

1:51:22 Wasn't that wasn't that that was Kara Swisher.

1:51:26 One of the things that the organization does, they encourage folks not to have much of a virtual presence.

1:51:31 And what that resulted in is a lot of our folks who had been here for awhile had no idea

1:51:36 how much digital dust was being created,

1:51:39 how much of a signature it was not to have a digital persona. Like if you're not using Facebook or Instagram and things like that. Particularly in my business, right, it's like, you know, we had these long conversations about is that actually a tell? If you have no digital footprint,

1:51:52 who are you? Right. That's the directorate of digital innovation. Yours is more like the Q branch.

1:51:59 And she kind

1:52:00 of sounds a little bit milieu ishly,

1:52:03 like the the space right? You think right? When

1:52:07 I was at the Air Pollution District, we had the opportunity. I always always take seminars. I'm a big fan of these things. I took a a one day seminar on memo writing.

1:52:17 It was called CYA one zero one? No. It was but no. But you could get your CYA

1:52:23 information out of this memo writing class. I'll bet. It was a whole day of how to write a memo, which seems as stupid

1:52:29 day off. But, no,

1:52:31 to this day, I can write some of the greatest memos you've ever read,

1:52:36 outside of a government writer who's who's also been trained in writing memos. This woman did not know how to write this this memo properly that she sent out to her email. Should have been written in the form of a memo and should have had all the disclaimers at the beginning about how great the vaccination is and how we're not trying to do anything. She could have had the whole thing put together in a package in such a way that she would have never gotten any kickback whatsoever.

1:53:00 In fact, she would have But would she have achieved anything?

1:53:03 Yes. She would have been able to continue with the with this idea of filling the Vars database and what would have happened that would be even better if it was done correctly. It would have been it would have gone out like a virus and hit all the other hospitals, so none of the hospitals would have shown any indication of being reporting more or less than the average. Right. Right. Right. It could have worked out, but she because she was panicky and No. No. It's because she she wasn't thinking about the organization.

1:53:30 She's only thinking about patients. She didn't think about thinking right. Yeah. Well, no. She's not thinking right. It's it's a very endearing You can still get the job done

1:53:39 you can still get the job done within these large organizations

1:53:42 correctly

1:53:43 and not get the blowback that she got and and end up in a with a tit in a ringer. Is there

1:53:48 are there some other tips that or are there some tips you can give the producers when it comes to important important memo main things about memo writing. You always open the memo. For one thing, they have to be formally

1:53:59 formatted. They have to be formatted as a memo, and you have to know how Is that a template in Word?

1:54:04 There I never saw one, but there should there might be. There should be a I don't use that. I'm just saying this is exit strategy time. There should be there should be a no agenda memo template. This my only tip is gonna be the following. The the opening of all memos have to have to be extremely

1:54:19 complimentary and a kind of a rundown of how great everything is. Oh, really?

1:54:24 Yeah. You open up with how fabulous

1:54:27 everything is.

1:54:28 And it's just usually a short three sentence paragraph,

1:54:31 maybe two.

1:54:32 And then from there, you go on to your grousing.

1:54:36 The only memos I ever wrote started like this, to memorialize

1:54:40 our conversation.

1:54:42 That's that's the boss CYA note.

1:54:45 To memorialize our conversation where I told you you would no longer be reporting into the various database.

1:54:50 Actually, technically, a CYA

1:54:52 note is is a which I've done. In fact, they get I saved my job once from doing one, and it was on on accident. Okay. Do tell.

1:55:02 The CYA

1:55:04 note is to point out

1:55:06 constantly be pointing out stuff in writing,

1:55:11 issues that you have with something that doesn't work or something that that you didn't get any feedback from someone, just just little bitty things. Uh-huh. And you and you you just put a string of those out

1:55:22 asking for help.

1:55:24 And what happened to me once was that

1:55:27 I was not some product that was inspecting

1:55:30 it when I was an inspector at Trailmobile

1:55:33 wasn't was going out improperly.

1:55:35 Mhmm. And it wasn't because it couldn't be fixed. It was unfixable. This this the design of this of this product made for Pacific Boreas or some company was a it was a cargo container that was made out of fiberglass. It just wasn't gonna work. And I wrote immediately sent some notes in about it, and I never got any feedback. It went on for months until the final inspectors started catching these things, and I got called to the carpet for this these these You had you had your memos?

1:56:00 I had I said, well, I sent it. Look at this.

1:56:03 Yeah. I had my memos, and then boom, I was back on the job. It was instant.

1:56:09 Somebody else got fired out of the company. Someone bit the bullet for that one.

1:56:14 Oh my.

1:56:16 Anyway, so the medical system is is is clearly

1:56:22 commercialized to a degree where the Hippocratic Oath is just a part of the responsibility. It's not the overarching thing.

1:56:29 It's just a part of it or what's left of the responsibilities always supersedes.

1:56:34 Say it again what he wanted?

1:56:35 Sir Chris Vox. Yeah. At the round table?

1:56:38 Oh, chips and dip. Chips and dip? Done, sir. I thought that was at the round table, be honest about it. It always is, but he may want, some onion dip. I'll get some onion dip. He didn't say onion dip. He's getting onion dip.

1:56:51 Well, you didn't say I'm gonna give people a good, He's like, he's getting onion dip. If he doesn't specify, getting what we got in the castle.

1:56:59 You get here's what you do.

1:57:01 I'm just this is a generalized tip. Yes. It's There's a couple of these seasonings. One made by Baria and the other one made by this other Mexican company. But Baria

1:57:09 caisson total. It's a it's a big giant seasoning,

1:57:12 and it's it's great for everything. It's a mech you get it in Mexican stores.

1:57:16 And you just buy any sour cream, and you take about two tablespoons of this this Baria caisson total, and you mix it into the sour cream. Best dip ever. Another snack tip from your No Agenda show.

1:57:31 Was your snack tip of the day. Mhmm. It

1:57:34 was the guy okay. The joke goes something like this.

1:57:38 A guy is having the he's got hemorrhoids and he's at the doctor's and he's having the glass rod treatment

1:57:44 for the hemorrhoids and it's costing him $200

1:57:47 a treatment. He's gotta do it a couple times a week. And he's getting and it's adding up. He's getting kinda sick of it. And he says, doc, is there any way that I can is is this is costing me too much money. Can can any way I can do this at home or is there some something else that we can be done here? And he says, yeah. Well, okay. The doctor reluctantly says, yeah. But the glass rod's kind of expensive. It's a thousand bucks. Believe me, that'll save me money. So he sells him the glass rod and takes it home to his wife and gonna have her do the treatment. And he says, honey, I'm gonna you're gonna have to do the glass rod treatment for my hemorrhoids. And she says, okay. What do you want? He says, okay. Well, the first thing you do is you get the glass rod out. And he says, you put your right hand on my right shoulder and your left hand on my left shoulder,

1:58:31 and

1:58:32 why that son of a bitch?

1:58:35 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.

1:58:43 On No Agenda

1:58:46 in the morning.

1:58:49 Of course, did you hear the Wow. You sound really bassy today. What are you doing? I sound bassy now. Yeah. You sound I have no controls over the

1:58:58 I have no control over the bass. The bass. The bass. The bass. The The

1:59:05 The bass. Bass. The bass.

1:59:08 Bass. The

1:59:10 The bass. The bass. The

1:59:14 bass. The bass. Bass. Or the horizontal or the vertical.

1:59:18 Well, I don't know. You have this you have your regular mic? Yeah. Nothing's changed. Maybe

1:59:24 it's just maybe

1:59:26 like a fine wine, your your I mean, I mean, I can't even basic. Basic or were they? So One

1:59:32 of guys the in the papers in the 2,000 word

1:59:35 2,000 word, 2,000 page document, 2,000 plus pages,

1:59:39 is Marvin Minsky.

1:59:41 Big shot at the media lab.

1:59:43 Major, major guy. I remember running into him. In fact, he personally threw me out of a meeting. Do

1:59:50 tell. This we need to hear this. Tell us first who Marvin Minsky is and then Marvin Minsky how you got kicked out of the meeting.

1:59:57 One of the famous

2:00:00 artificial intelligence

2:00:02 Oh, right. Guys Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. From the eighties, the first go round,

2:00:05 and maybe even the one before every thirty years or so,

2:00:09 this artificial

2:00:10 AI. Didn't he, yeah, didn't he kind of write the book on artificial intelligence? He wrote a book.

2:00:18 Hey. At least he published it.

2:00:21 Well, you got me on that. So I'm I I got invited

2:00:25 as a lark

2:00:28 by Will Hurst

2:00:30 to go into the Media Lab with the executives of the Hurst Corporation who are getting a

2:00:36 a tour that you where you didn't have to sign a nondisclosure.

2:00:40 Uh-huh.

2:00:41 And I was like

2:00:42 Hurst and I were just wandering we're in the kinda just wandering we're just in the group. There's about one, three, or maybe

2:00:49 eight, nine people,

2:00:51 including the CEO and Randy Hurst and all these other people. We're going through this thing, and we're getting to see the dog and pony show that they put on, which is where I found out a number of interesting things that I I used later in certain columns because I could. I didn't have to worry about being

2:01:06 nondisclosed on any of it. And so we're going from meeting to meeting where these guys are just full of crap and they're showing us everything in the place. Got a great tour.

2:01:16 And I had a few

2:01:18 ryeballed comments to make. And so we go into this final meeting and there's Minsky

2:01:23 in there with

2:01:24 the guy that was ahead at the time whose name is deluding me,

2:01:28 involved in Wired magazine.

2:01:30 And Minsky sees me, he knows who I am,

2:01:32 and he says, what's this guy doing here? What's Dvorak doing here? Pretty much. This guy.

2:01:39 And everybody's

2:01:40 looking left and right, and I'm sitting there with a stupid smile on my face,

2:01:45 and

2:01:46 they asked me to leave.

2:01:50 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Will actually, Will left with me. The two of us left. Oh, that's cool. At least he was psyched. It was showing some solidarity. Out of it from what I could tell. Yeah. And so we left. We and it was at the end anyway, so who cares? And we went out and did something in Boston somewhere. And then as you left, like, that's the mouse guy.

2:02:09 Hey, guys. Thank you again for the best podcast in the universe. I have a couple of edibles the other day and ended up listening

2:02:18 and ended up listening a recent episode of Brett Weinstein's

2:02:22 podcast. Necessarily.

2:02:24 She's had to be stoned. He was discussing atrazine in frogs,

2:02:28 which we talked about ten years ago. Well, Alex Jones told us that it's turning the frogs gay. Well,

2:02:35 he said it was turning the frogs gay, but I'm the one who had the clips from the professor at Cal Yes, sir. That was that was discussing atrazine in the water,

2:02:43 and mentioned a possibility.

2:02:46 I think I figured and people should we should look those clips again.

2:02:50 Them. I have them. But

2:02:52 it's it's also I figured that the real reason they want us feasting on insects

2:02:57 It's hypotheses

2:02:58 of how carnivorous frogs should be exposed to the herbicide,

2:03:03 to the herbicide atrazine.

2:03:04 It was most likely due to their diet bugs.

2:03:08 Mhmm. Mhmm. The bugs eat the poison plants. We eat the bugs, and the little boy's dick

2:03:14 start to fallen off. Yay.

2:03:18 Yay.

2:03:19 Game set match. The lizard people win.

2:03:24 He's still unedible, it seems to me.

2:03:27 Hey, man. For jingles, can I get an I like bugs,

2:03:31 Fauci Weez,

2:03:32 and Trump Space Force?

2:03:34 Thanks.

2:03:36 So Darren O'Neil brought us this fantastic

2:03:39 I liked it a lot. You had an issue with it for a specific reason. It was a a four pack of Duracell c c batteries. I think it would be c.

2:03:47 Didn't look like c or d's. C or d's.

2:03:50 And it had the copper top look. It had no agenda on it instead of a Duracell, of course, guaranteed thirty three years in storage.

2:03:58 It was a, you know, like a one of those plastic packs.

2:04:02 And it almost didn't pass because you hate the actual product.

2:04:07 I do. And I tell you why. I've I've after I found this online guy who's a battery nut who who turned me on to All Macs

2:04:16 and Fuji batteries, which is the ones I order now. Mhmm. Although all Macs are harder to find, but Fujis are always been around.

2:04:25 Because every time I put buy those Duracells from Costco

2:04:28 No. I'd put them in some device rather. I come back a month later, and they're in there. They're exploded. They're I have to clean out the goo that's in there. It's a mess. Those batteries are garbage. I do not like them. And I have photos. I've taken photos. I posted them every once in a while. Duracell batteries don't hold up, and they and then they they burst.

2:04:48 They go to something they burst inside product, and you have to clean out the mess and, hopefully, you can still get a good connection. I've never had an Allmax battery do that ever

2:04:58 for years. Allmax, a l l m a c s? Allmax? No. A l l m a x. Allmax.

2:05:05 Allmax. Never heard of the product. Do you have a couple points of that?

2:05:11 I wish.

2:05:13 Allmax.

2:05:14 Okay. Allmax from now on is the battery. I know what you're doing to show. Fuji's also makes a terrific product. I had to go with Fuji recently because

2:05:22 Costco because Amazon

2:05:25 stopped carrying the Allmax huge pack you could buy for, like, a few dollars. Oh, no.

2:05:31 Now I'm I've got this clip. This is another one. This so he's so hard up Beto is that he's gone he went to go on Sharpton.

2:05:39 Yes.

2:05:41 Now I have the now I'm going to kind of jump to the punch line so I can get this out of the way, and then I'm gonna play the whole Beidou clip because

2:05:49 I'm not playing I because I don't I want this to be I've I've created the ISO that everybody's all giddy about,

2:05:57 where,

2:05:58 Sharpton makes another

2:06:00 gaffe that goes on our list Mhmm. And it goes into the files. And I'm gonna play I'm gonna do this backwards. I'm gonna do it backassword.

2:06:07 I'm going to play the gaffe first so we get that out of the way, and then we can play the sharp the Sharpton and Beidou actually talking.

2:06:14 But this is Gurgle and Hitler, Sharpton ISO. Perhaps he was influenced by Gurgle and the third right.

2:06:22 Gurgle? He says they were he was influenced by that Trump was influenced by Gurgle. Gurgle.

2:06:30 Gurgle. Gurgle and the Third Reich. Reich. Yes. The Third Reich. Let let's just listen to it again just for just because it's so beautiful. Perhaps he was influenced by Gurgle and the Third Reich. I mean, that is the end of show

2:06:44 I mean, no doubt, end of show, I suppose. Gurgle.

2:06:50 Meanwhile, of course, Beidou hasn't got the nerve to say, I think you mean

2:06:54 Well, care Careful. Gerbils. Careful. I want to make a statement right now.

2:06:59 Yeah. And this is an I think we may have talked about it previously. In a general American sense, there is no r in Goebbels. Okay? It's g o e b b e l s, and there's an umlaut in there somewhere. There is an r in Goebbels, though. Yes.

2:07:15 But even Beidos says Goebbels. It's not. Yeah. It's Goebbels. Tend to say Goebbels. It's stupid. It's gebbles. Gebbles or Gebbles. Gebbles. Gebbles. Well, you might as well say gurgle. I mean, it's just as dumb as Gerbils

2:07:28 or, like, well, Washington.

2:07:30 But he should've he could've at least corrected him in some way. He just let it slide. Of course. Because he hasn't got the nobody has the guts to say anything to Sharpton.

2:07:39 Oh, yeah. Sharpton's

2:07:40 an agent of change, man. Release

2:07:43 the orb.

2:07:45 Say it's not so.

2:07:47 If you know, you know. He's resorted to being an Uber driver. Look at all these boxes.

2:07:53 We love you. Live.

2:07:55 This is an outrage.

2:07:57 They're out of control.

2:07:59 Air traffic control, shut it down.

2:08:01 Hottest day ever on earth of all time. Oh, okay, Frenchy.

2:08:06 Game set match. The lizard people win. The carbon is you. Take your pants off in public. I'm an egg white.

2:08:14 Last on the list is sir Puck.

2:08:16 He's in North Carolina, Flat Rock. I just imagine somebody what are we gonna name this town, Bill? I don't know. What do you it was the first thing you see. Let's call it that. You know, that's what the Indians do when they name their kids. Oh, there's a Flat Rock.

2:08:30 I recently got a 100% off social media except LinkedIn,

2:08:34 which is a piece of shit. Worse. It's like because that's a horrible social media thing. LinkedIn. Jeez. Well, unless you're trying to get a job, but it doesn't work for that either. What happens, what what neither you or I know, but the keeper does, there are a lot of dudes who stalk professional women on LinkedIn.

2:08:51 It's quite annoying.

2:08:53 I believe that. I have a story to tell. Do tell.

2:08:58 I have a fake woman,

2:09:00 beautiful by beautiful,

2:09:02 that is Every good story should start with I have a fake woman. That's always a win. Woman. A fake woman. Beautiful fake woman that's on LinkedIn,

2:09:11 and I posted her up, as a, you know, with a good background. The whole thing is just as as a honey trap to see what kind of douchebags would come on to her. Oh, this is you. You are the fake woman. Yeah. Oh,

2:09:25 sweetness.

2:09:27 And I'm telling you. Now I now I know what you did after you left second life. Now I know where all that energy was. Second life.

2:09:35 So,

2:09:37 it's pretty embarrassing. I can see what she's talking about, and and it's people I know.

2:09:42 I've kept it to myself. Really? People you know who have been hit Well, because I I managed to link up with her in such a way that she got into my network, and next thing you know, she's got it got her own little network that's pretty big. It has a lot of my people in it, and they're hitting on her. Now you know what you're supposed to do.

2:10:00 What? Well, you're supposed to to chat these guys up and then say, you know, let's do a let's do a Skype, you know, and then you don't turn your camera on to, you know, show me what you look like. And then you gotta No. I have gotta be ready with the screen about it. I'm only so sick.

2:10:16 Oh. But to But I to get these guys to pull a tube in is what you're trying to tell me? Yes.

2:10:22 Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You are correct. That's right. And you should be there with your PBR hat on smiling at them. The PBR hat's what I need. Hey, dude. What are you doing? Oh, no.

2:10:42 JC d, you are the father Dave never had. So can you please, in your most fatherly tone,

2:10:48 I'm proud of you, kid. I'm proud of you, kid. It will give it

2:10:54 will give I if I felt that even.

2:10:56 Now we get to Eli. Eli, the coffee guy in Bensonville, Illinois,

2:11:01 20602.

2:11:03 And he says, John, I love the good news segment, but if you ever get rid of it, replace it with a tip of the day. Yes. Do do you have what we've done. Are are you doing a tip of the day today? I do have a tip of day. Oh, excellent.

2:11:19 Thanks to a great tip I heard on the show a few years ago, we recently tried a saw turn paired with foie gras. That's

2:11:27 that's the combo you want. That's the one. That's the one. It always works.

2:11:32 It's never a combo I'd normally have gone for, but we loved it. In fact,

2:11:36 saw turns, especially if you have a good one that's that's just a beauty It's how I got my arthritis. It's how I got my final and best wife.

2:11:45 Well, that's another tip.

2:11:49 Uh-huh.

2:11:50 I'll just say it. Sawturn will get you laid. There you go. And

2:11:55 ladies and gentlemen, I can be I'm very proud as a white man from the Western part of the world to let you know that we here are testing

2:12:06 this first vaccine on humans

2:12:09 in Africa.

2:12:13 Risk factor zero,

2:12:15 baby.

2:12:16 Go for it.

2:12:18 Mhmm.

2:12:19 Does anyone see how sick this is?

2:12:22 I I do.

2:12:24 Thank you. Thank you.

2:12:26 That's right. South Africa.

2:12:29 Beautiful.

2:12:30 106

2:12:31 let me see how many are they gonna do.

2:12:33 They're do a shitload of them. Alright. How many they gonna kill? Do they have a number yet? How

2:12:39 many are we gonna hear about? And I know there's a lot of Africans looking really scared. Uh-oh. Here comes doctor Bill with his syringe again. We know what happened last time when when he was here with with his other friend, Bill.

2:12:51 Biden's on top of it. I do have a clip of Biden ruminating on the vaccine. Vaccine. Oh, Oh, he's

2:12:56 on top of it? I can't wait to hear it. When, god willing, we get this vaccine vaccine,

2:13:01 how will it be Stop. The vax vaxeline.

2:13:04 Stop now.

2:13:06 Stop. Stop this show. Let's see. How would you spell that? Vaxeline.

2:13:12 Okay. Vaxeline.com.

2:13:14 Registered.

2:13:15 Got it. Nailed it. Nailed

2:13:17 it. For once,

2:13:19 I'm gonna hide my contact information for an additional $3. Okay. Back to the vaccine. When, god willing, we get this vaccine vaccine,

2:13:28 how will it be distributed?

2:13:30 Where will it go? How will it get there? How we guarantee

2:13:34 that it will be able to be distributed in a way that all Americans

2:13:38 all Americans have equal access to? Because the same thing's gonna happen, lest, god willing, we get a a vaccine.

2:13:45 Maybe one if god was great. Maybe

2:13:49 even in the fall. Wait

2:13:51 a minute.

2:13:52 Why did he say he first, was he praying to god not to have a vaccine?

2:13:57 At one point, he says, we're the only thing that can save us is is getting a vaccine from a vaccine. I don't know what he was saying. He's a maniac. Right. Oh, man. You just nailed it. This is so good.

2:14:09 If

2:14:10 god was great, he'd make vaccine to save us from the evil vaccine. Vaccine.

2:14:16 Ladies and gentlemen

2:14:18 The next president of The United States Of America.

2:14:24 Does anyone else see that we are a big joke?

2:14:28 Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke's on on a couple of channels. Yeah. Gun well, of course. Heroes and Icons, I think, is that channel. How about,

2:14:35 Little House on the Prairie?

2:14:37 Little House on the Prairie's on. I have not seen it. What's that on? Where where can I find? I love Little House. I can't remember which which one. One of the networks is one of these

2:14:45 screwy networks. I love Little House on the Prairie. I read those I thought that show was the worst. I hated Little House on the Prairie. Of course. And the fact that it's on now

2:14:54 Makes you mad. Hate it it makes me mad. It's

2:14:58 so stupid.

2:15:00 No. It was beautiful. If you if have you ever read the books?

2:15:04 No. Of course not. These are good books that Laura Ingalls wrote. This

2:15:09 was a a really a one off that we could only use for that episode done by c c one thirty seven. It was just the best. It was a shadowy

2:15:17 figure

2:15:18 on its knees bent over with a American standard

2:15:23 slide whistle jammed through him from the back with blood dripping off the mouthpiece. And I should mention that we spent a little time, in the postmortem for the show,

2:15:33 with

2:15:34 our slide whistles figuring out which is the best way to grip it if you did wanna run somebody through with it. You remembered.

2:15:43 You have a really solid grip, and you could swing into somebody wanna stab them with you. And probably,

2:15:49 impale them stabbing. With the with the slide whistle. So you're lucky yours wasn't confiscated. I hope you like stabbing too.

2:15:57 Ain't no rules. There ain't no vow. We can even stab a cow.

2:16:01 You and I will knife them through.

2:16:05 Because every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice.

2:16:09 Stab until the knife pokes through. Yes. I mean, the TSA totally stabbing. Should have seen this as a deadly weapon since our combo. To think that stabbing was a thing of the past. On to try different grips.

2:16:21 And I think the best way is you grip it with the mouthpiece. Hope this knife is gonna last. Down. Put your index finger. No bullet can stop us now. With the day streams we can plow.

2:16:32 The time is now for us to be bold. Through the loop. 42 virgins do away. On the slide. We don't want to be late. And then The modern ones went more than gold. Yeah. Now it's just just hack. Stabbing.

2:16:45 Stabbing. Stabbing.

2:16:46 Missy. Stabbing. He got a good grip. Stabbing in the name of Allah. So it won't slide, so your hand won't slide down as you're pushing it to bone and flesh. Stabbing. Stabbing right into a guard. It's the burnout factor. I'm always sad when people are doing a lot. Like, sir Chris in Australia, you know, love the guy. He's doing so much good work. But, you know, I keep telling, dude, slow down. You don't need to do a show a a song for every single show. You're gonna burn out. Yeah. He won't listen. Actually, I he did some lyrics for me. Won't he won't do those either. Woah.

2:17:16 Woah. You did lyrics for it. Yeah. I got a song. I got a whole anybody who wants to do a song, I got lyrics for two songs. Well, because he he sent another one today, so it might be your song. I don't know. No. It's not. Oh, okay.

2:17:26 I I got the feeling that he got my lyrics, and that, believe me, the lyrics work.

2:17:32 And he said, you know, I'd rather write my own lyrics. I'm gonna write something out of here. I'm not your slave.

2:17:37 I'm an artist, dammit. I'm an artist.

2:17:40 I do my own material.

2:17:42 Yes.

2:17:45 Understood.

2:17:46 Gotcha. I love doing this show.

2:17:55 It's crappy. It's crappy. It's a real it's a creme it's a crummy oil, we should mention. Yeah. You have don't you have to mix that oil?

2:18:02 There No. It's not that bad. It's pretty bad, though. It's it's a

2:18:07 it's a sour

2:18:08 heavy sour oil that typical

2:18:12 Brent type oil that comes from under the water Mhmm. As opposed to land based oils like West Texas, which is the some of the finest oil. Yes. Yes.

2:18:21 Black gold.

2:18:23 Texas tea.

2:18:26 I was looking into this by the way, and the best oil in the world in terms of, like, pure

2:18:32 it's like, you pump it out. It's basically diesel fuel. You can put it in a truck. Where is that?

2:18:38 Algerian

2:18:40 Saharan crude.

2:18:43 It's

2:18:43 got almost no sulfur, almost no sulfur, and the API, which is the measure of the of the viscosity,

2:18:51 basically,

2:18:52 the a p and the higher the number, the better, is the highest. And

2:18:57 it sounds like it's very similar to me. It reminds me when I was an air pollution inspector

2:19:03 and refiners are my thing.

2:19:06 We had a little refinery that was shuttered some years ago called the Pacific Refinery that got some sort of Bolivian

2:19:13 crude oil

2:19:14 that was similar, and it they didn't even need a desulfurization,

2:19:19 facility at the at the refinery,

2:19:21 which is unbelievable.

2:19:23 Little tidbit there for you oil and gas guy out there. Yes. This is dynamite

2:19:28 insight.

2:19:29 It's not insight. It's a fact.

2:19:32 And

2:19:34 the problem is that everybody is watching

2:19:37 two people, Tucker Carlson

2:19:39 and

2:19:41 Laura Ingraham.

2:19:42 And because of them, Republicans in red states in the South have the lowest vaccination rates, and they are dying,

2:19:52 and they are going to die. You are all going to die. This is Dick Durbin,

2:19:57 senator Dick Durbin,

2:19:59 talking about this very issue in the senate. There are two

2:20:03 hosts of programs on Fox primetime

2:20:06 that can only be characterized as anti vax quacks.

2:20:10 I'm referring, of course, to Tucker Carlson

2:20:14 and Laura Ingraham. And I appreciate him using the official No Agenda pronunciation of Laura Ingraham. Does give a That does give a couple one thing. A quack a quack technically refers to a doctor. It's always a doctor. You're not a quack. You could be a crackpot

2:20:30 Yeah. Or a nutball or a number of things, but you're not a quack.

2:20:34 Quack is a doctor that is a bad doctor. Well, the reason that that is used is, as we've discussed, I don't a couple months ago, back when the allopaths came in and and medicine was taken over by the Rockefellers and they were trying to cure cancer.

2:20:49 After that, they were looking to cure cancer. There were cancer cures, certainly the one that is still operating in Mexico,

2:20:56 and those were branded by big pharma, I'll just put it that way, as quacks.

2:21:01 So they're just rolling out the same script. When you're against big pharma, not against medicine or against certain policy,

2:21:08 then you're a quack, you see. So it's the pharma industry who wrote this for him. That's the way I deconstruct it. That that's an interpretation. I just think it just pointing it out that Durbin's full of shit, but, it's interesting that they would do this. This is the congress of the United States bitching about a talk show host. Mhmm.

2:21:26 Mhmm. That is really low end. Wait for it. I'm referring, of course, to Tucker Carlson

2:21:32 and Laura Ingraham.

2:21:35 They have been spreading what I consider to be

2:21:38 irresponsible

2:21:39 information about vaccines across America and about the effort of this nation to deal with them.

2:21:45 Here's the reality.

2:21:47 We have millions who've died across the world by this vaccine. We may never have an accurate count.

2:21:53 There's just there's just nothing like it. This is the best one I've ever gotten. Did you hear it? No. Say it again. Oh, the switcheroo. There's a switcheroo.

2:22:01 Here's

2:22:02 the reality.

2:22:04 We have millions who've died across the world by this vaccine. We may never have an accurate count.

2:22:11 That is the that's top the top of the list. That is that is number uno. You can't get any better. Truth wants to come out. This is no longer a coincidence that this happens. He's reading a piece of paper.

2:22:24 We have hundreds of thousands who have died in The United States.

2:22:28 And now it is said repeatedly

2:22:29 that those who are headed to the hospital with the most serious strains of COVID-nineteen,

2:22:35 ninety nine point five percent of them were not vaccinated.

2:22:40 So

2:22:41 the facts are obvious here. We don't know this. Where's that number coming from? No. That's the that's the talking point number. And as witnesses Can

2:22:49 I stop you for a second and bring up the talking point number? That talk

2:22:52 Uh-oh. No. No. You can't bring up the talking point because then they shut you down immediately.

2:22:58 No talking points for you. Oh my god. That was crazy.

2:23:01 So yeah. Wait. Wait. Stop. Stop.

2:23:05 Complete the minute you said, I'm bringing up the talking point, right away you cut off. And I'm leaving that in the show this time because I'm sick of those guys doing it to us. Could you pick it up from the talking point? The talking point stems from Fauci

2:23:18 who when asked about the deaths he did around about, he did some screwy thing where he says ninety nine point five percent of all people who died of COVID were unvaccinated.

2:23:29 And he said this recently, but he's referring to the total number of people, the five hundred thousand, because recently not too many people have died vaccinated or unvaccinated.

2:23:40 It's just a fact. Oh, you mean since the beginning of the pandemic,

2:23:43 that many people, have have died unvaccinated because there was no vaccine?

2:23:49 Yeah. He's counting that as part of it?

2:23:51 That's what he was that was the whole scam. It was a scam comment. And now Dick Durbin's bringing that number in as though today.

2:23:59 Oh.

2:24:01 I've rethought my position

2:24:03 Oh. On Mike Johnson.

2:24:06 Oh. And I I have two clips. Oh. Okay.

2:24:10 Oh. But now what was your original position?

2:24:13 That the CIA or somebody came up to him and said, hey. Look at this picture.

2:24:21 Yeah. What's that in your mouth, you think? Oh, John, stop now. This is a family show. It's just a pack. It's it's just a generalizing show. Meaning succotash, I mean. Succotash.

2:24:32 Sure. So Dig the hole deeper.

2:24:34 And

2:24:35 now, ladies and gentlemen, first time for a new segment on the show. John

2:24:40 C. Dvorak

2:24:42 with the tip of the day.

2:24:45 He's gonna tell us what he would do in every possible

2:24:50 way.

2:24:52 John, just the tip. Yeah. We need jingles, everybody. We need jingles. Yeah. Anything but that. That's all we got.

2:25:00 Okay. So I'm recommending a product Alright. That people will get a kick out of. It's an AI product, which kind of, you know, you will hate, so you don't you shouldn't even look at it. But it's called 11 it's 11labs.io

2:25:13 is the URL.

2:25:14 Mhmm. And they just introduced a sound effects section,

2:25:19 and there's this thing has got what makes it fun, this 11labs.io,

2:25:24 is the number of hallucinations

2:25:27 that it creates.

2:25:29 Oh, and do you have any examples?

2:25:31 I do. But first, I'm gonna play that a a series of douchebag clips

2:25:37 all from the same prompt. This is 11 Labs I owe douchebags.

2:25:42 Okay.

2:25:44 Here we go. Yeah. If you're a douchebag.

2:25:47 Yeah. If you're a douchebag.

2:25:49 I

2:25:51 don't think so.

2:25:52 You douchebag.

2:25:59 We finally found a use for AI. That's fantastic.

2:26:03 This is great. Wanna play the non hallucination

2:26:06 clip, which is she says

2:26:08 exactly what I put in as the prompt, then I'm gonna play the hallucination. This is non hallucination clip.

2:26:17 No. No. No. You're playing the wrong clip. It says non hallucination. Is titled non hallucination.

2:26:22 I'm

2:26:23 sorry. Here we go. End of show, you douchebag.

2:26:30 Now I don't know what to choose.

2:26:33 There's only one left. And so end of show, you douchebag,

2:26:38 which is in a sexy voice, which I didn't ask for. I asked for a person saying end of show you douchebag.

2:26:44 Uh-huh. And you also have to put it in phonetically because they can't pronounce the actual spelling douchebag. Oh, really? The really?

2:26:52 What Yeah. Really? What of is that? Yeah. You tell me. So

2:26:58 but it hallucinates so much. Now you just heard that clip.

2:27:02 End of show was it end of show you douchebag?

2:27:05 Mhmm.

2:27:06 Here's the hallucination

2:27:08 version.

2:27:17 How

2:27:19 did that even is that? How did that even come about? I don't I don't understand.

2:27:24 I did I could have played a the actually, the hallucinations are funnier than any of the clips,

2:27:30 but it's like some

2:27:32 of them are just so and there's music. There's a music bed on a lot of them.

2:27:38 I had one of I didn't clip it, but it's I said,

2:27:42 somebody this is almost the same clip with your douchebag, but it started playing pop papa's got a brand new bag

2:27:49 riff

2:27:50 at the end, this music thing is unbelievable. So But this is a fun product for people to play with. And, again, the name of the product and the domain where we can find this fine product is your tip of the day. Eleven Labs dot I o. Alright, everybody. And they've just recently introduced the sound effects. So you can do sound effects.

2:28:09 Alright. Very good. Another tip from John C. Dvorak,

2:28:13 it was

2:28:14 just

2:28:15 the tip.

2:28:30 I'm haunting dreams. Yeah. Believe me. Not daddy. I'm sorry. We are it's completely equal. You are so right. You make a note on it? Noted. Noted. Noted.

2:28:42 Name. Durban, Saudi Arabians,

2:28:44 fiat money.

2:28:46 Crackpot. Your name.

2:28:49 Some Saudi gold.

2:28:50 Saudi gold.

2:28:53 Well, he says he could send silver in it.

2:28:56 Oh, so you can send gold. You can mail gold, but it's canamic. Yeah. And we thank them for the treasure.

2:29:04 Your

2:29:06 name.

2:29:10 Producer that turned me on and now you on. The No Agenda show has producers in every We have

2:29:16 producers.

2:29:17 Yes. We do. Does she listen to the show? I don't think she listens. She's not maybe dominatrix types don't like the show, but the white girl can't.

2:29:26 No.

2:29:28 No. Well, it's not it's not even a a color thing, I don't think.

2:29:35 You

2:29:37 do the accounting. We don't do it.

2:29:45 You know, I did a column in PC Magazine sometime in the nineties, I recall,

2:29:51 because I was kind of annoyed by the word nerd.

2:29:53 Okay.

2:29:54 And so and no one had ever done an etymology of the word. Mhmm. And I I mean, they did, but they were all lame and they were all guessing. It was almost like, know, the again, the 12 year old saying, think it came from here. I think it came from there. Right. And and they were getting it from ne'er do well,

2:30:11 which made no sense to me whatsoever. So I started doing as much research as I could, and I finally tracked it down. And then I checked with

2:30:20 with doctor Seuss From the White House.

2:30:23 Literally.

2:30:24 And it came from a nineteen fifties book,

2:30:27 If I Ran the Zoo.

2:30:30 That's the first use of the word

2:30:32 nerd, and I know I could find no predating

2:30:35 of since from 1950. I couldn't find anything in the forties, thirties, of of anyone ever using the word. It began usage

2:30:42 with this character,

2:30:44 and it was a little bitty, nerdy looking guy.

2:30:47 So it made nothing but sense to me that this was what what the So so it's a it's a made up word made up by doctor Seuss?

2:30:53 Yeah. Cool. Yeah. So it's made up by doctor Seuss as a nerd.

2:30:57 And so confirmed

2:30:59 it with Seuss and his assistant,

2:31:03 Geiss is his name, I can't remember his first name, the writer.

2:31:07 And he was pretty old then. But

2:31:09 he made

2:31:11 it up and he didn't realize that it was the, you know, it was the formation of the word nerd. I wrote this all this history out. And so then

2:31:20 so I thought it was kinda cool that I developed you know, found out the origins of this word. And so then I went and then the the kind of the kicker to the story is I went to the Universal

2:31:29 Studios Park in Orlando,

2:31:31 and they had an if I ran the zoo exhibit.

2:31:36 The nerd was not in it. And so you complained bitterly, no doubt. I've

2:31:42 always wondered when, you know, when we go out to dinner, all these, these classy restaurants,

2:31:46 I was just wondering, together, do we look like like you're my, like, we're you're my gay sugar daddy?

2:31:52 You know, I don't think so. You sure? Yeah.

2:31:56 I'm pretty sure because you can tell. I mean, you do for one thing, we I don't think we give off any

2:32:00 any gay

2:32:02 vibe.

2:32:04 Oh, I do. And then the other thing is I don't think anyone in San Francisco notices one way or the other cares

2:32:09 because there's a lot of True. There's a lot of of couples at ease.

2:32:13 Well, I don't

2:32:15 look like well, since you're picking up the tab,

2:32:18 you know,

2:32:20 which kinda proves I'm not.

2:32:22 But you're refining me in life. You're showing me which wine to drink, and so I so I can culture myself, cultivate myself.

2:32:30 Yeah. But I never really do that. We just buy the wine and drink it.

2:32:36 It's not like I ever explain anything. It's like, you know I'm just wondering.

2:32:40 What are you explaining all the time? We're always talking No. It's mostly I'm just giving you the the the the ridiculous

2:32:46 anecdotal material about this wine and the winery and where it came from. Yeah. Well, exactly. Describe. But that's different than what you would do if you were, like, trying to get somebody up to speed on their palate. Yeah. But but yeah. But from a distance, you know, and then we're always talking about our gadgets. You know? I think there's lot of gayness to us, John. I'm sorry. It's just from as an outsider,

2:33:06 I think I think we would actually we're just throwing gay to him. At least we're in the right neighborhood for it. Yeah. True. Another

2:33:12 thing that's kind of interesting, if you can ever find a we did make a clip of

2:33:18 Liza,

2:33:19 the comedian,

2:33:21 and her in her comment about it's okay to be harassed if the guy's good looking. Liza Schlesinger.

2:33:26 Eliza? It's just that's not her Eliza. Yeah. Eliza something. I can't remember her first name. But there was an incident took place after the show where, we have a quarterback on the San Francisco 49ers football team who is a he's like a good

2:33:41 looking guy,

2:33:42 tall, dark, and handsome, big smile,

2:33:46 womanizing type. And he he says to one of the sideline reporters,

2:33:51 he calls her baby.

2:33:53 And and she's,

2:33:55 like, turns red, and she's all unflustered by it. And tweeters are going crazy about this. But, of course, nobody calls him out for sexual harassment.

2:34:04 Who did this? Who said this? This was Jimmy Garoppolo, the quarterback for the San Francisco forty niners Oh. Who's by all definitions is a good looking, tall, dark, and handsome quarterback for a for the football team, a football guy. Mhmm. And it would have been called out under any other circumstances except for the fact that he's good looking, and it brings

2:34:25 back the old Liza Schlesinger

2:34:28 bit where, you know, it's okay to be sexually harassed if the guy's attractive.

2:34:33 I wish I could Every time it happens, it always irks me. I wish I could find that. I know you I know you had it, but you either have her name wrong or you spelled it wrong.

2:34:43 I I probably would have put l I z a.

2:34:46 Yeah. But I you know what? I get a million clips with Elizabeth Warren.

2:34:50 Ugh. Maybe it's Elijah.

2:34:52 Try Elijah. Yeah. Which doesn't help with the Elizabeth.

2:34:56 The same thing. Yeah. Elizabeth Warren. Doesn't help much.

2:35:01 Well, that's a shame. I got what's this?

2:35:04 Being sexually harassed is the worst. I'm sorry. This is it. Let me rephrase that. Being

2:35:10 sexually harassed by an ugly guy is the worst.

2:35:14 There you go.

2:35:21 If he's hot, it's just plain old flirting.

2:35:25 No one's ever been like, get away from me, you model. Like, that's fine.

2:35:29 I I love that. It's one of that's one of her best. It's so true.

2:35:35 There's lots of money I can make in sex. Sex business. I mean, that that's easy. I just I'm not interested in being in that business. What do you mean? Selling your body?

2:35:44 Oh, I see what you mean. You mean being a pimp.

2:35:47 No. Would you know that the the best online porn guys, you know, they're it's all in Amsterdam.

2:35:54 Yeah. There's a lot of it there, I have to say. In fact, I ran it with years and years ago, was in

2:36:00 I went through Holland. I was at some event and this

2:36:03 well, it was a it was a early Boardwatch magazine thing. It was in Germany. And I ran a bunch of these guys, they said, you wanna just take a run over to Rotterdam,

2:36:12 and we'll go through Belgium and we'll taste some beer and whatever. We got in the car and went over there and this and we stopped and visited a friend of a friend and he ran and this was like in the early nineties.

2:36:23 In the early nineties before the, you know, the net was even going. It was the old bulletin board scene. Yep. And he he had his nice little house and it was just fine. Oh, A sex farm with that's what we call them. We're like little the rooms. Back he said, yeah, in the back room, he had a bunch of servers Uh-huh. And they were cranking out porn like there's no tomorrow.

2:36:42 Yep. Yep. Regulation was real easy and and it's socially acceptable just to set up a business like that. Yeah. And he was, you know, cranking away and I thought it was like, well, that's interesting. He was a nonchalant about the whole thing.

2:36:56 And now ladies and gentlemen, it is time for you know what it's time for.

2:37:11 Hey, man. That's a jingle. That's

2:37:15 a jingle right there. Thank you, shwoo.

2:37:18 Alright. What's your tip?

2:37:20 I thought you had the tip. No.

2:37:22 You're we're gonna do a tip-off.

2:37:24 You do the tip, then I do a tip. Don't you remember? I got I got a tip. Alright. What's your tip?

2:37:30 So this is for people who this is a tip for people who have the habit of drinking

2:37:36 soda or water or whatever and dosh doshing it with a bunch of apple cider vinegar. It's either for health benefits,

2:37:46 gut health, so you don't have a leaky gut gut health, or losing weight.

2:37:52 Go to go to,

2:37:54 amazon.com

2:37:55 and get the Hingstenberg

2:37:57 13

2:37:59 fine herbs

2:38:00 flavored

2:38:01 German vinegar seasoning instead,

2:38:05 and use that instead of apple cider vinegar. It is delicious in a in like, I'm using it now in the Topo Chico. You dump a bunch of it in, like, a tablespoon of the vinegar into the water, and you got something that's refreshing and delicious.

2:38:20 It's

2:38:21 King Stenberg. You can look it up by putting herb flavored vinegar, you'll find that there's a bunch of people that make these things.

2:38:28 Alright.

2:38:30 I have three tips actually for my tip. Tip one Three? Yes. Tip one, never ever ask your wife to help you with the tip.

2:38:39 She was very mad. She said, you should do your own tip. Second tip,

2:38:45 sending email to me

2:38:47 marked important puts you to the bottom of the list.

2:38:51 Do you see this?

2:38:53 People who send email and then go through the through the trouble of marking it important and then even asking for a return receipt?

2:39:03 Bottom of the list. I haven't had that probably for ten years. Oh, it happens every day. And my email program Because you never answer your email. I'm very

2:39:12 I'm very good at answering email. You don't even answer my email. What are you talking about?

2:39:18 No. Because on Thunderbird, which I've been using to great success. Thunderbird.

2:39:23 Actually,

2:39:24 it shows up as red and then it's very annoying. So I just delete it right now. No. I see. Okay. Well, that's no good. Finally disable that coloring. And finally, if you are if you are a fan of of making coffee with ground coffee, so in a filter or the way I do it, which is with

2:39:42 in the French press,

2:39:44 put a dash of salt

2:39:46 on top of your coffee.

2:39:49 It not only

2:39:52 reduces bitterness,

2:39:54 but it also brings prosperity to your family.

2:39:58 Yeah.

2:40:01 Them some day some dangerously good tips. John

2:40:05 C. Dvorak

2:40:07 with the tip of the day.

2:40:10 He's gonna tell us what he would do in every possible

2:40:16 way.

2:40:17 Now this is all alleged.

2:40:19 Got it. Microsoft

2:40:21 had an account.

2:40:22 They were big with hookers in the early days Whoo.

2:40:26 To the point where they had a an account

2:40:29 with some and this is in the era where there was a lot of hookers,

2:40:34 and they had an account at

2:40:38 and I would say what this era was is probably I'm trying to put the years on it. I'm gonna say it's probably

2:40:45 early eighties.

2:40:47 Bush presidency. When they were still in Bellevue is all I can say for sure. Alright.

2:40:52 And they had a just an open account, and it and this is when Microsoft everyone had their own private offices. Everybody had a private office at Microsoft. So when we visited the campus in the early days, there was nobody it wasn't one of these open air things where everyone felt like a a drone. It was everyone had every coder, everyone who works there, wherever you did, you had a private office, you could close the door and lock it. And you could have a bed in there if you wanted to if you wanted to spend the night because a lot of coders like to do that, to just stay there. Yeah.

2:41:19 That was very common in the early days.

2:41:24 So they had an open account with a with a whorehouse,

2:41:27 and and they

2:41:29 it was just it would go on to the bill. I don't know what they'd petty cash. I have no idea how they wrote this off, but the any coder that was lonely could get some girl to come over

2:41:39 and, to keep them at keep them at the place coding. Wow. And

2:41:44 and What a great place to work.

2:41:46 Yeah. But it had to be dynamite. That's where you could take a cut and pay to work there because there are ben there there are benefits that are a little more than the free lunch at Google.

2:41:58 Well, congratulations for getting this far. Yes. You too. You're my good sir. Thanks.

2:42:03 Not not bad at all.

2:42:05 I think we've had a good run. We've had a good run, John. We should just quit while we're ahead. What

2:42:12 would I be doing if we if I had actually quit?

2:44:18 Gets inspired in lots of Oz for a fun time. When Nick is firing on all cylinders, he's he's really He's pretty hard to beat. I mean, we're kind of grooming him to take over the show, aren't we? Can

2:44:29 you imagine?

2:44:35 The prevalent one being that this did happen. This is part of what Roswell was all about. And, there was contact, the governments of the world have shot him.

2:44:45 Shot the fucker down.

2:44:47 But the governments of the world have been in contact, and, you know, they have a deal. It's, You know, they gave us technology. We give them babies to eat and blood to drink. I mean, come on. You've read these theories. Well, strawberry,

2:44:56 ice cream is one of the things they like. So Really? I haven't come across that one yet. Oh, yeah. That's in there. Believe me.

2:45:09 We're

2:45:09 interrupting

2:45:10 your

2:45:13 regularly scheduled day

2:45:16 for an EBS alert that one of our heroes

2:45:21 passed today.

2:45:23 For eighteen years, he's brought the Buzzkill to the mainstream

2:45:28 media lies.

2:45:30 His grouchy,

2:45:32 solemn knowledge,

2:45:33 always quick with his replies.

2:45:37 He'd cut through all the noise

2:45:40 with reason as his guide.

2:45:44 A skeptic to the very end with truth he would not hide.

2:45:51 A tech mind far ahead,

2:45:54 a lover of a vintage poor.

2:45:58 He taught us all to question,

2:46:01 to always seek a little more.

2:46:06 He wore his grump

2:46:08 with honor

2:46:09 and wisdom in his heart.

2:46:13 A knight in shining

2:46:15 arm

2:46:27 lessons

2:46:28 that he gave us

2:46:30 will never fade away.

2:46:35 So raise a glass in gratitude

2:46:39 for stories,

2:46:40 laughs, and love.

2:46:43 Fair winds,

2:46:44 Sir John C. Dvorak,

2:46:48 I'll miss you evermore.

2:46:54 In the morning,

2:46:56 we'll remember

2:46:57 as another show begins.

2:47:01 Your voice still echoes softly

2:47:03 in the minds of loyal friends.

2:47:09 Rest easy,

2:47:11 noble knight.

2:47:13 Your watch is finally through.

2:47:17 And thank you for reminding

2:47:20 us

2:47:22 to think before we choose.

2:47:31 Rest in peace,

2:47:33 John C. Dvorak.

2:47:34 And thank you to the grumpy old Dames for that last song.

2:47:38 And thank you to all of the producers who put this together.

2:47:42 It was amazing.

2:47:44 I tried to get as many people credited in the show notes for today. Not everybody did or was able to create a, an account on podher.com.

2:47:55 So unfortunately, I couldn't get everybody in there. And a special thanks to Dame Jennifer.

2:47:59 We had at least 19 animated No Agenda pieces in there, and it was really really so wonderful just to to listen to all of that.

2:48:10 No Agenda does not end. I just wanna say that upfront.

2:48:14 What we are going to do is we're going to take two weeks off.

2:48:19 I'm tired, Mimi's tired, everybody's tired. There's a lot to do. We have a funeral and memorial service coming up on August 8 in Oakland

2:48:28 in San Francisco.

2:48:30 But in that time, the show will continue, and we have found, Darren O'Neill and Larry Blightner,

2:48:37 more than willing to take over the show for two weeks,

2:48:42 to get back to some media deconstruction. Of course, they will continue to honor John in in those two weeks,

2:48:50 and I will return

2:48:51 on the Thursday after those two weeks. But things will change.

2:48:56 We will probably experiment with some different voices. We know that No Agenda is just bigger

2:49:02 than John and I ever set it out to be, and No Agenda Nation is an incredibly important community,

2:49:10 a global community to me and to everybody else. So

2:49:14 nothing is going to stop.

2:49:16 We will continue.

2:49:18 In those two weeks, I I will continue,

2:49:20 with podcasting two point o when we get to do this with pastor Jimmy as part of my own

2:49:27 processing of everything.

2:49:29 And I look forward to

2:49:31 look forward to see how the community picks this up. Remember, you are producers. You're not listeners. You are just as much a part of this show as John and I were.

2:49:41 Listening to the past two hours and forty three minutes,

2:49:45 there was a couple of surprising things to me. The first one

2:49:49 is that the number one most favorite ISO was game set match the alien people win. I can't even remember

2:49:57 how long ago that one came up.

2:50:00 But the most important thing that I learned

2:50:04 is that Dana Brunetti is a fraud.

2:50:06 What a typical Hollywood guy taking credit for someone else's creation. That that

2:50:12 I'm like, what are you doing, Brunetti? He didn't create anything. If anything was Eli the coffee guy and this thing was going on from episode 200.

2:50:21 Wait.

2:50:22 Let me clarify

2:50:23 that. We were doing the happy news stories,

2:50:27 and everybody was like, oh, brother. Let's stop those. And that's when Bernardi told John, you need to do the tip of the day calling it back. So it wasn't he came up with the idea. He was just urging us to stop doing the happy news story. But somehow, he forced us to create a created by Dana Bernardi credit in the in in the clothes of the king. Guess because he's magic.

2:50:51 JC,

2:50:54 are you there? I'd I'm not sure that your microphone is is connected. Just wanna make sure that you're there. I'm here. I'm here. Yeah. Are you on the right mic? It looks like you're on your browser setting. Make sure you're on that snowball or that blue thing, whatever you're on. And then we've got Brennan here. Hello, Brennan.

2:51:10 Hello, Adam. Yes. Yeah.

2:51:12 Killer show. Really great. Well, I had nothing to do with it. I just put it all together and believe me, there's more people are sending more and more clips. I love that sir Chris Wilson just

2:51:23 resurrected like a phoenix from the ashes. He's been texting me. He's, you know, it just felt so right to have some of his his his end of show mixes in there.

2:51:34 But the wealth of material as I was going through putting this together,

2:51:38 I mean, it it is it

2:51:41 is unbelievable

2:51:43 the things that we went through with as No Agenda Nation together. I mean, the COVID clips were blowing my mind.

2:51:49 Yeah. Just the stuff that we were seeing and talking about in the middle of de platforming everywhere.

2:51:56 I mean, wow. We we really we we kept each other alive. It was just so wonderful.

2:52:03 Yes. All of these things.

2:52:05 All of these. It's a lot of years, Adam.

2:52:07 It's a It was a lot of shows.

2:52:11 Well, yeah. I I think I calculated it's over five thousand hours of content that we that we produce.

2:52:18 Wow. Okay. That's that's a lot of hours. I don't even know how many years that is.

2:52:23 Clip shows forever. Content

2:52:28 from home. No. Hold on a second, JC. Hold on. Let's let's turn up him. I wanna make sure that j give me some signal, JC.

2:52:35 Hello. Yeah. I'm we need a little bit more. Okay. Alright. Let me see what else I can do. Yeah.

2:52:41 Come on computer boy. Make it work. There you go. That'll

2:52:45 get better.

2:52:46 So So Go ahead, ma'am. Not not even

2:52:50 thirty minutes before

2:52:52 the plug

2:52:54 dropped out of the connected,

2:52:57 completely shut down my whole system Oh, of course. Completely making me freak out. So thanks, John.

2:53:03 I was literally I was I because, you know, I I was playing this on on

2:53:08 VLC because I wanted to make sure it wasn't too over compressed because some of the sound is already a little tricky in some of those older episodes. I was literally

2:53:17 keeping my hands away from the mouse, away from the keyboard.

2:53:21 Like, I don't want anything to stop in the middle of this. I want to just keep on going and praise God it did. I was yeah. I was I was not letting him do any of that. And I think he was probably like, no. I'm not gonna mess with this. This is too good.

2:53:33 And I just love that the producers put it together. That that that was really

2:53:37 really nice. I think we got it. But it's just it was crazy. So many people came in with game set match, the alien people win. I I was I was like, wow. I had no idea

2:53:47 that that was such a thing. No idea. That's it. So

2:53:50 JC, can we hear you yet? I don't know. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Yay. Yeah.

2:53:56 Oh, easy easy. Made me I show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah. That'd be fab.

2:54:05 Yeah.

2:54:06 On No Agenda

2:54:09 in the Morning.

2:54:11 So no surprise that

2:54:13 we all mourn in different ways and in No Agenda Nation, we like to mourn

2:54:19 and celebrate with donation notes.

2:54:22 And I I have a feeling John will be pretty angry about the length of some of these notes.

2:54:30 Holy mackerel. Holy mackerel. He would be complaining.

2:54:34 We're not gonna do that. We are going to read the notes that came in as we promised. Wait.

2:54:40 Wait. Wait. Wait. We can complain still. Oh, no. We should complain. There's no doubt about it.

2:54:46 And and we stopped at $88.88

2:54:48 on the last show. We're going to go all the way through to the fifties as we always do with the addition, I think, of someone from the last show.

2:54:55 So everybody who sent in a note, we will we will read your note. Mimi, you had something to say?

2:55:01 Yeah. I I have it between now and midnight to do this. No problem. Yeah. That's kind of the amazing thing. Oops. Oh, that's a little too loud. Hold on. Sorry about that. What's

2:55:12 that? Yeah. No. It's just me. I'm I'm getting the sound right here.

2:55:16 It's better than the the last show. Holy moly. You know why? Because you got headphones.

2:55:22 Oh, yeah. Well, I couldn't hear with the speakers on the floor anyway.

2:55:27 Don't know how John did it. I've I don't I think he wasn't really listening to Sheer stubbornness.

2:55:33 No.

2:55:35 I think meaning has it right. Unwillingness

2:55:37 to change. He wasn't actually listening to me. That's probably right. That's that's probably closer to the truth. So

2:55:44 let's let's go down our list.

2:55:46 We start off right off the bat with a rubblizer from Viscount dude named Jeff, protectorate of the land from Westlake, Ohio.

2:55:54 $33,333

2:55:57 and 33¢.

2:55:58 He says, I've been waiting for the right time for a Rubbilizer donation. No better time than in honor of JCD. No jingles, no karma in honor of JCD. But yes, sir, you get this. India,

2:56:09 hang out, Mike,

2:56:11 stand by.

2:56:13 33,

2:56:14 33,

2:56:15 33,

2:56:16 bravo-izer

2:56:17 out.

2:56:19 And I might as well continue with the next Yeah. Very long note

2:56:24 from sir Steve, Knight of the Red Heart, also 3,333

2:56:28 and 33¢. He says, No Agenda family.

2:56:31 Seeing the passing of John C. Dvorak on the title of show eighteen eighty eight made my heart sink. I've never cried for the passing of someone I have never met. This by the way was a a general comment people would send me.

2:56:43 The impact of this show has had on me and so many others is evident with the resounding messages that has happened over the last week. I'm incredible incredibly grateful to have stumbled upon this show. Thanks to Adam's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast in early twenty twenty.

2:56:58 Rogan donation.

2:57:00 I started listening before my daughter was born in March 2020, and the insight the two of you provided helped immensely navigating that first year of her life when it seemed like the world was turned upside down.

2:57:10 I'm beyond appreciative of the service that you two have provided in a time when it's rare to converse with anyone outside of your chatbot.

2:57:17 You too made it made it enjoyable to listen to two old friends discuss the state of the world twice weekly.

2:57:23 If I can suggest it's if it's even possible to find any more is an article discussing the higher hand,

2:57:30 which explores higher and lower planes of spiritual existence.

2:57:33 I bring this up because having listened to John and heard the overwhelming sentiment about his impact on others lives that there is no doubt that he has transcended this plane of spiritual existence and ascended.

2:57:44 This donation brings me to Baron Hood. I would like to request the rule of Southwest Lorain County, Ohio,

2:57:51 specifically the township of Columbia Station.

2:57:54 I cannot emphasize how much I appreciate the value both Adam and John have provided to me over the last six years six years and a half other than a Bitcoin donation. The Rubblizer donation cost me roughly $3.33 dot 33 when it was purchased in 2018 to 2019.

2:58:09 I wish the value I could provide was a 100 x this value, but sadly, I wasn't early enough to the hard money revolution.

2:58:16 I truly appreciate everything that the entire No Agenda crew has done to make this experience a possibility because there's nothing else like it. I can't wait to get the Rubblizer coin eventually.

2:58:26 Yes. I'd also like to request John's fisting nuts jingle.

2:58:30 For brevity, we're gonna do some of these longer jingles at the end because this will take several hours to get through this note.

2:58:37 Reverend Manning, we're all gonna need a Bitcoin.

2:58:40 And if possible, a prayer from Adam, because I think we're all in need of one in times like this. So let me give you your rubblizer first.

2:58:48 India, tango, Mike,

2:58:50 stand by.

2:58:52 333333

2:58:56 rubblizer

2:58:57 out.

2:58:58 So I I do want to honor his request.

2:59:02 Do we have

2:59:03 we have Jay nearby to like start to keep an accounting of all the jingles that were owed at the end of this? No. Jay's Jay started. No. Jay's sleeping. Let me

2:59:14 Okay. To honor his request of a prayer, I will do that.

2:59:21 Father God, in Jesus name, we come to you as an entire community, and we thank you for the time that we were able to spend with John here on this earth. Lord, we ask you for grace,

2:59:30 and we ask you for the Holy Spirit to lift us up during this time.

2:59:34 Lift up the Dvorak's, lift up the Curry's, lift up all of No Agenda Nation, Lord. And we pray that you have your arms around John, and we pray for this, Lord, in your son Jesus' name. Amen.

2:59:46 Sir Gatekeeper.

2:59:49 To the No Agenda family, sir Gatekeeper here returning from the fog of my life with my deepest and warmest condolences on the passing of John C. Dvorak.

2:59:57 I've been saving my donation for episode 2,000, but it felt right to send it now in his honor. I was hooked from episode eight fifty two,

3:00:05 Sorocressy,

3:00:06 and have been list I don't even remember that one. And have been listening inter intermittently ever since. I greatly enjoyed John's three by three broadcast analysis and that awesome jingle. What an earworm. His robust knowledge of aphorisms

3:00:20 and his insightful tips will be sorely missed. Since my instant night donation on episode nine nine nine, I got married, opened a business, closed that business, COVID killed it, got divorced, and now returned to attending church after twenty years, praying the rosary daily and reading the scriptures in hope that we might all be saved. We never know where life will take us, but we can thank God that we have the blessings needed to carry on. I believe with this donation, I should now qualify for Baron,

3:00:47 Peerage. If the title is still available, I'd be honored to become Baron Thaddeus of the Tampa Peninsula.

3:00:53 Thank you both for all the years of content and maybe more. Time will tell. Love and like Thad,

3:00:58 sir gatekeeper Parker. And I have noted your jingle requests of the three by three. And I think we can do those at the end.

3:01:07 Warren Crafts,

3:01:10 one thousand nine hundred and eighty seven dollars and twenty five cents and asked for a de duchess. You've

3:01:17 been de duched.

3:01:19 I was thinking about the show on Thursday morning and saw the news. Prayers to all and many lightness

3:01:25 and may lightness find all of our hearts. JCD will be missed. Thank you Adam, Mimi, and crew for all you do. Humbly requesting my night name of sir Crafts of the timbered Highland. May we have rye whiskey and fistful of nuts at the round table.

3:01:39 Respectfully,

3:01:40 Warren Crafts and your jingle of the ghostly donate is noted.

3:01:45 Boy, here's one that John would hate.

3:01:49 It's blowing out the spreadsheet.

3:01:51 Owen k from Tucson, Arizona.

3:01:54 1,888

3:01:56 and 88¢.

3:01:57 Thank you.

3:01:58 On 07/23,

3:01:59 I was hoping to enjoy another episode of the best podcast in the universe, but the feed wasn't showing an update as the usual at the usual time.

3:02:06 Instead, I tuned in to We Get To Do This and was shocked to hear about John's passing. No Agenda has been part of my life since 2008.

3:02:14 It has always been something to look forward to on Sundays and Thursdays. Having quit TV around the same time, it quickly became my main source of news. The show has been with me through all kinds of highs and lows. I have good memories of tending the grill as I cook Sunday dinner for me and my parents, accompanied by you and John discussing the latest news, international conflict,

3:02:32 disease outbreak, or beauty pageant.

3:02:35 There there's that Chair Creek.

3:02:37 When Yeah. Sorry. When anything major happened in the world, the first thing I'd think was, I wonder what John and Adam are going to say. I was fully expecting you two would make it to 2000 and beyond. Every time either of you hinted at ending the show, I thought maybe listeners could donate so much money, you would be indebted to continue the show as our media analysis slaves ad finitum.

3:02:56 I love John's sense of humor, laughter, and quick wit and followed him across the Internet from No Agenda to Twit, Cranky Geeks, Tech five, DH Unplugged, and A New Domain. I forgot about that one. He was the crazy uncle we all wish we had with the best stories and funniest quips. Listen to the John stories episode several times.

3:03:15 Adam has been remarkable hearing about your faith journey and encouraging to me even as a fellow believer. I hope your walk with Christ was meaningful to John and changed his heart in some way. This is my first real donation though I did get my official No Agenda challenge coin back in 2010.

3:03:31 I'll happily take a de douche. You've

3:03:34 been de douche. And you could knight me sir okay of the Middle Desert and I'd like root beer and soft pretzels at the round table.

3:03:42 There will be another there will never be another John, but I hope no Agenda continues on in some form. Gitmo Nation Media Assassinations

3:03:49 never get old. Praying for all who grieve John's passing, he will be so missed. Owen from Tucson. And he has a p s, of course. A few months ago, I attempted to get AI to generate a picture of John's office based on the tidbits of information we have gotten from him over the years. Phrase from the chaise, from the chaise, mudflats, red book, the archives, piles of cans, noisemakers,

3:04:11 spreadsheets that won't fit on the screen, and then he sent a an image of that. We appreciate it. And your

3:04:17 your

3:04:18 jingles are noted. Thank you very much.

3:04:21 Raymond Lee, San Francisco, California, 1,871

3:04:25 and 22¢.

3:04:27 Dear Adam, I'm still stunned that John has been called home to the great podcaster in the sky. I've been listening to you guys for over a decade. Thank you for both for being a friend. I sent 88888888

3:04:39 to you and John's honor plus fees, love and light.

3:04:43 Read Cornelius from Magnolia, Texas, 133388.

3:04:48 ITM, Dvorak and Curry. Rest in peace Buzzkill, a true renaissance man of the tech era. I always thought there'd be another promotion or time to make good for the huge part of my life, my smoking hot wife and our three human resources lives No Agenda and JCD has been. Our early life our earthly life is too short. To the young producers, put your phone in the drawer, build your relationship with God, go to a sock hop, find your keeper, have lots of human resources,

3:05:15 then entertain the at family meals and keep their amygdala right sized. Follow JCD's

3:05:20 example.

3:05:21 Divine mercy of Christ, be with John. Holy Spirit provides strength and healing to all the souls he has touched. Amen. I need a de douching. You've

3:05:31 been de douched.

3:05:33 His night name will be sir Cornelius of Decker Prairie,

3:05:37 and he wants Navasota River Valley Venison Tenderloin and Nagavulin Single Malts.

3:05:43 He says prayers to you all, read Cornelius and the whole Cornelius family.

3:05:48 Christopher Fulford, Pensacola, Florida, $11.45

3:05:52 and 25¢.

3:05:55 Now he said he

3:05:57 sent an email,

3:05:58 so let me check really quick.

3:06:01 We

3:06:02 probably

3:06:03 didn't get hold on a second, we probably didn't get that. We missed a few

3:06:08 that came in that people did not send to notesnoagendashow

3:06:12 dot net,

3:06:14 and I can't find this one, so that will have to be a make good down the road.

3:06:19 Chris Ritter, Beaverton, Oregon, $1,100.

3:06:22 I have a list of my heroes. JCD is on it. Thanks. Instantite, sir, p d f o, plow down plow down farm on.

3:06:31 And Lanae Hull,

3:06:34 parts unknown,

3:06:35 1,052

3:06:36 and 62¢ says, thanks for all the laughs and for sharing your life experience.

3:06:41 Yeah. John would've liked that note. Yeah. That nice and short. Nice and short. Mimi, you wanna take it from here?

3:06:47 I'm gonna let JC do it. Okay. Alright.

3:06:50 So we've got

3:06:52 Kyren Sanders,

3:06:53 Albert, Colorado.

3:06:57 I'd like this instant night donation to be a switcheroo to my father who can temporarily take the night name, sir Big Ed the Gas Farmer.

3:07:05 As a young

3:07:06 30 year old man, it has become increasingly more relevant to me that we stand on the shoulders of giants. May this be a quick reminder to young men listening that no effort is too sis sis

3:07:17 sisifician.

3:07:18 We must push forward to honor these men as giants, like, push them up like rocks. Anyway, may we remember our fathers, grandfathers, brothers, friends, and those who we gained so much from. Here's to John C. Dvorak, a man who gave to all. Thank you. God rest his soul.

3:07:35 Marek

3:07:36 Jelenick in Amstelvene

3:07:40 writes,

3:07:41 I will miss you, JCD oh, I'm sorry. $2,552.62.

3:07:47 I'll miss you, JCD. Rest in peace.

3:07:50 Matt Werges

3:07:51 coming in $10,052.62.

3:07:55 Pronounced Wurgess. Matt Wurgess.

3:07:59 Admin Mimi and the whole Dvorak family, my sincere condolences to you. I am still at a loss for words.

3:08:05 I've been a fan of John since the tech TV days and a listener of No Agenda via Twit since the beginning. No Agenda has accompanied me on countless commutes and tens of thousands of miles of running. I'll miss my number one favorite groucer. Life is indeed a scam. Matt, p s. Please knight me, sir Comcor of Adams Township.

3:08:23 Sir mister Dobbler. Mister Dobblerina. Mister Dobblerina.

3:08:28 Oh, oh, sir mister Dobblerina. Alright. $1,000.

3:08:32 Oh my god. I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how you guys feel. John seemed like a very special person. This

3:08:39 is shocking. Much love, sir mister Dame.

3:08:43 Night of the horrible hoard of better beef c

3:08:47 in Halsey,

3:08:50 which Nebraska.

3:08:52 Yeah. Nebraska.

3:08:55 $1,000.

3:08:56 Adam, John's voice will be greatly missed. Credit my credit my smoking hot wife of Dame Name name to come. Love and best wishes to you. Mimi and all the family.

3:09:06 Scott Lovelace in in

3:09:08 Spring City, Tennessee.

3:09:11 To in the Morning. To the Dvorak family, I'm sorry for your loss and we'll be praying for you all. To Adam, I'm sorry for the loss of your beloved friend and cohost. I've enjoyed hearing about your journey with Christ the past few years. I emailed you a couple of years ago and you added me to your prayer chain.

3:09:25 Over the last few months, I've been actively going back to church with my wife and our youngest son got baptized in May. I started listening right before COVID, and you all really helped me learn to not only listen to what people say, but how much they but how they say it. Between No Agenda and Mo Facts, I've learned so much.

3:09:41 Anyway, I've been a douche for far too long and went ahead and became an Incident. I'm planning on going to the Chattanooga meetup on 08/22 with my wife, five days after my 40 birthday.

3:09:53 I'd like to be known as sir Ginger Bear of East By God Tennessee.

3:09:57 All I require required at the round table is in mellow yellow zero. John was special. Much like yourself and listening to his family pay beautiful tribute to him Friday morning was inspiring.

3:10:07 Here's my thought on John. In all of human history, God blessed us to live at the same time as John C. Dvorak. There will never be another one. Rest in peace, JCD. Please dedouch me. Sincererest condolences. Dot Lovelace. You've

3:10:19 been dedouched.

3:10:26 Martin Gitzin Git Gitzins Look. We're gonna take some. Alright. Take it. Martin

3:10:32 Gitzinsky from Wood Dale, Illinois.

3:10:34 $1,000.

3:10:36 Thank you. Martin Gitzinsky, Wood Dale, Illinois.

3:10:40 Please dedouche.

3:10:41 You've

3:10:43 been dedouched.

3:10:48 Jack Hawkman from Washington DC,

3:10:50 thousand dollars.

3:10:52 I first wrote to Adam and John seventeen years ago upon discovering my high school's politic

3:10:57 oh

3:10:58 god. Politicization.

3:11:01 Politicization

3:11:02 of our college entrance exams.

3:11:05 John replied, typical BS ruining the country,

3:11:08 and named me No Agenda's new cultural attache to the educational meniscus.

3:11:14 More than half my life, I listened to John. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Amen.

3:11:22 Brandon Mango.

3:11:25 $9.03

3:11:26 $935.66.

3:11:29 Heaven is a beautiful place. I was there 04/01/2011.

3:11:34 I can't wait to go back. It was so beautiful. You are so lucky, man. Sorry for your family's loss. Miss you, you old curmudgeon.

3:11:43 Sir Carl of Cary from Cary,

3:11:46 North Carolina.

3:11:48 John with a $935

3:11:51 and 66 donation.

3:11:53 John had such an impact on my life going back to those early compute years.

3:11:58 I've been listening since the beginning, and I really appreciate what has emerged from all the hard work and dedication of John and Adam as well as their families and No Agenda Nation.

3:12:09 You are all in my thoughts and prayers,

3:12:11 sir Carl of Cary.

3:12:13 Sir Mike and Dame Becky of

3:12:15 Cheney. I think it's Kinney. Kinney. We we got a yeah. Kinney. We got a pronunciation guide from them previously. Yeah. Kinney in Katy, Texas

3:12:25 with 935And66.

3:12:28 Dear No Agenda family, please accept our donation of $888.88

3:12:33 plus fees in memory of J. C. D. This donation will make us Baron and Baroness, but since Gitmo Nation is in mourning, we will forestall the ceremony for a future time. And JNK,

3:12:45 sir Mike and Dame Becky Kinney.

3:12:49 Sir Scovey,

3:12:50 Grand Duke of the Piedmont, Charlotte, North Carolina,

3:12:53 $935.66.

3:12:56 Adam, Mimi, Dvorak, family, and fellow producers.

3:12:59 Please accept this donation of $8.08

3:13:02 8.88

3:13:03 plus fees.

3:13:04 The sadness is real. Gitmo may

3:13:07 it's the sadness is real Gitmo Nation. And also the outpouring of admiration and love for John brings so much joy.

3:13:16 And the fate of his phone in the drawer comes to mind.

3:13:23 The

3:13:24 device brings belongs in a technology museum

3:13:28 or a drawer in a technology museum.

3:13:31 Not to be displayed in just a boring case, but to be displayed in an actual drawer. Same thought.

3:13:37 A drawer to be opened up to see the device. And when the drawer is opened, an audio clip plays of John C. And I so ended up so I put it up in the drawer for a while. Thank you, JCD,

3:13:51 for your wonderful influence. The world needs more of that. Levin Light, Sirscovy, Grand Duke of the Piedmont.

3:13:58 Carol Goodman,

3:14:00 88888.

3:14:02 ITM Adam, I was saddened to hear about JCD's

3:14:05 passing. I only discovered No Agenda this past year, but he quickly became

3:14:11 one of my favorite voices on the show. His humor and delivery made every episode better. It's hard to imagine the show without him. I also want to say again how much I appreciate you, Adam, as part of my church family in No Agenda.

3:14:24 Your voice, perspective, and dedication means a lot to so many of us. And I'd like to keep hearing No Agenda for years to come.

3:14:33 My thoughts and prayers are with his family, with you, and with everyone who knew and loved him. JCD brought so much personality to the show, and he will be deeply missed.

3:14:43 I'll mostly miss hearing him say, oh, crap. As we all say around the house all the time. Every show. He always made me chuckle, and I hope you'll consider turning it into a jingle so his voice and spirit can live on in the show.

3:14:57 It would be a fitting tribute to the joy he brought so many.

3:15:01 Thank you for everything you and JCD were given have given the audience. Please take care and again my deepest condolences.

3:15:09 God bless you Adam and I'm keeping you in my prayers.

3:15:12 ITM,

3:15:13 Carol Goodman, Willow City, Texas.

3:15:18 Sir actually, you should read this one, Yes. Sir Young, the innkeeper of Amsterdam and Sir Hill. I think he came in again. 88888.

3:15:27 Dear Adam, what a tragedy. Love to you and John's family. We will miss him dearly. We are really Friedrich,

3:15:34 which means he's really sad. Sir Jan, the innkeeper of Amsterdam and Sir Hill from the banks of the River Amstel.

3:15:41 Lynn Wilson, 88888.

3:15:43 My husband and I have been listening to No Agenda for a couple of years now. We love it and we will miss hearing JCD prayers to Adam and John's families.

3:15:50 Sarcastic the Nomad, Glenmore, Pennsylvania 88888.

3:15:54 Sincere condolences to the Dvorak family. Adam, your monologue on Thursday show was a touching master class in broadcasting professional professionalism.

3:16:03 You held it together while the rest of Gitmo Nation wept. Rest in peace, JCD. No jingles, no karma. Sarcastic the Nomad,

3:16:10 Red Knight and Baron of Chester County.

3:16:13 Martin vanettinger

3:16:14 in Lopik in The Netherlands, 88888.

3:16:18 Shocked by the sad news, I enjoyed j c d especially on Cranky Geeks. No Agenda saved me during the twenty four elections when I first tuned in. Forever thankful for No Agenda's value. Thank you for celebrating John's life. Rest in peace. My condolences.

3:16:32 Andrea Gardner,

3:16:34 triple seven.

3:16:35 Gutted to hear the man, the myth, the legend, John C. Dvorak is no longer with us. Hugs to Mimi and his amazing family, also to Adam, Tina, Andrew, and all his friends. Love from Black Knight, Sir Kelly, Dame Andrea, and Sir Dallas.

3:16:48 Listeners and producers since 2007 until the end, which we hope is never. Thank you for all the fun memories, John. One of our favorite JCD quotes is, hold on, this damn Twitter fucked me over. Yeah. Alright. Thanks.

3:17:00 That's a rare f bomb from me. David

3:17:03 Maco from Portland, Oregon, 777.

3:17:06 Cheers and thank you Yes? For

3:17:09 Andrea Andrea Gardner. That's who I just That was the one we were Oh, I I'm Dame

3:17:15 Rachel. It's okay. I'll just No. I'll just sit in the corner now. Believe me. John and I went through this all the time.

3:17:22 Dame Rachel, Covington, Louisiana, $720.26.

3:17:26 No note.

3:17:27 Lyle,

3:17:28 Lyle,

3:17:29 $7.11 and 15¢. Adam, I was waiting for Bitcoin to hit a thousand so I could go straight to Instant Night. A thousand? Well, then hit a thousand a long time ago, maybe men a million. Ironically, John didn't hang around to see that day which he would have groused about, which only feels right for a Bitcoin donation.

3:17:45 The No Agenda show has been a constant voice in an ocean of madness to not get his worldview twice a week will be a real gap in my life. Please douche de douche me. You've

3:17:56 been de douche.

3:17:57 Rubbilizer out. That's only for rubbilizers.

3:18:00 Kia Kaha, I believe it is, Lyle.

3:18:04 Dame Lacey from Lake Mills, Wisconsin 58888.

3:18:08 To John family and friends, my virtual arms are reaching out to embrace you during this incredibly difficult time. John was truly an esteemed man who remarkably impacted the lives of countless people. His loss is felt deeply by so many, me included.

3:18:22 To show the love and admiration I hold for J. C. D, I offer this donation in his honor. This brings my peerage level to that of Baroness. May I please hear John once again ask for producers to donate in his spooky voice. I will play that at the end. Blessings to all, love and light. Thank you for your courage. Dame Lacy, Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

3:18:41 Tom and Larissa from Georgetown, Texas 52636.

3:18:46 To Adam and the Dvorak family, we send you our heartfelt condolences on the passing of JCD.

3:18:51 We are going to miss his grumpiness. May he rest in peace sincerely,

3:18:55 Tom and Larissa. Oh, this is the one I've been waiting for.

3:18:59 Okay. This literally blows out three spreadsheets.

3:19:03 But we do we do we do break for for nights here on the show. So sir knives of the providence plantations and lady butters of the Narragansett Bay

3:19:13 sent in

3:19:15 $526.36.

3:19:17 And whoever is next will take it after this one.

3:19:20 Adam, Mimi, and all the No Agenda family, I had wanted to donate for Thursday's show, but I found myself at a bit of a loss for what to say. Losing John so suddenly hit me harder than I thought possible.

3:19:31 When my life my wife Lady Butters texted me initially, I couldn't believe it and as so many others have said, I thought it simply had to be a ploy for donations. It was a possibility.

3:19:41 I wish.

3:19:43 I rarely hate being so wrong as much as I feel now. Myself and Lady Butters have been delinquent in donations too long. I hope my $500 plus fees can make up for that. And that you humor my following on how John has impact us impacted us both.

3:19:56 George s George s Patten once said, it is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died, rather we should thank God such men lived. It feels apt. I

3:20:06 think my first interaction with JCD was as a kid in grade school in our shambles of a computer lab where they were teaching us to type and though my memory is foggy, I'm pretty sure I remember the voice prompting me was none other than JCD himself.

3:20:19 Yes. They used Dvorak on typing.

3:20:22 Was that a real thing, Mimi? Oh, absolutely it is. We have one framed on the wall. Oh my goodness. I didn't even know about that.

3:20:29 Already a rather old product by the time I was there to teach the kids. I suppose I can understand why John may have hesitated to recommend it and seem too

3:20:38 too shy to shy away from talking about it on the show. Wow. I I didn't know this about Dvorak on typing. I I need this. I'm a I'm a I'm a pecker. I need to learn how to type.

3:20:49 I am now a 38 year old computer engineer with nearly two decades experience and to this day I utilize a bastardized pick pick and peck method that ended up becoming ingrained in me as a kid. But the fundamentals of typing clearly didn't stick, John's voice sure did. In high school, I have fond memories of seeing John every so often when I would catch him on tech TV. I recall him always eliciting a chuckle for me when I saw one of his hot takes and I always appreciated his wit. It stuck with me. Made me feel like being a computer nerd wasn't a stigma that there were normal folks out there that were also something more than computer literate.

3:21:24 Seemed like he had a solid grasp of Oscar Wilde's concept that life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

3:21:32 Fast forward to 2016, I distinctly remember I was tremendously hungover sitting on the couch and through some freak oddity, my echo speaker fouled up when I told it to start playing some random podcast,

3:21:43 the best podcast in the universe or some such thing as they build it. My addled semi conscious mind didn't bother to turn it off and instead I listened. I thought I recognized one of the voices I heard. There was this overzealous guy who sounded like he had a lot of hair, but there was also the other host who sounded suspiciously like he had less hair and I wondered why the first guy wasn't sharing the hair, but I digress. Oh, man. He sounded familiar. It struck me then, crap, in a hat. That's John Dvorak.

3:22:10 The same guy who I ignored typing prompts from and I thought was amusing a decade prior when I caught him on TV. I sat there slipping in and out as I yo yoed my guts from imbibing

3:22:20 far too much the prior night and listened. Suddenly,

3:22:24 enraptured

3:22:24 when my, at the time, recent wife, Lady Butters, stopped it to set a timer for something and I was pissed. I realized I had found something remarkable. A huge part of of that was John.

3:22:36 In the time since No Agenda has in the time since No Agenda has become a weekly staple in our house.

3:22:42 Countess are the Sundays we have sat enjoying brunch after our weekly range trips, we call it going to church. Listening to the livestream, laughing and enjoying JCD's rapier wit and sensible takes. Often we would have range buddies over after and getting over what they initially thought was occult, they would be laughing appreciating John's acumen as well. Numerous times, John would bust out some quip or some one liner that had us laughing and my dear lady Butters would exclaim, see, that is why John is my spirit animal. He is the best curmudgeon.

3:23:12 She had always felt kindred with John as a fellow writer. I can't describe how elated she was when he saw fit to add her as a connection on LinkedIn years back.

3:23:21 She was elated and wore it as a badge of honor. I truly think it was to be associated in any way with such a prolific personality is truly an honor. He was as fundamental to her as he has been to me.

3:23:33 What's

3:23:36 the word?

3:23:37 Rescuiat in Rescuiat

3:23:40 in Pace. Thank you, John. They broke the mold with you. You will be so sorely missed but never forgotten. We poured one out for you when we heard and you have our word we're doing another for you now. Go bravely into that howling infinite knowing in the howling infinite knowing how many lies you had made better. Rest easy. Be proud. You deserve it. Say hey to my uncle Steven if you see him. You guys will get along. I've dragged this on. Oh, not really. My apologies. And I don't know a good way to end it, but some lines of a song come to mind written by Springsteen before he went off the deep end. It seems poignant.

3:24:15 They say you can't take it with you, but I think they're wrong because all I know is I woke up this this morning and something big was gone. Gone into that dark ether where you're still young and hard and cold just like when they built you, brother, and broke the mold.

3:24:29 Now your death is upon us and we'll return your ashes to the earth and I know you'll take comfort in knowing you've been roundly blessed and cursed. But love is a power greater than death just like songs and stories told.

3:24:40 And when she built you brother, she broke the mold. Thank you so much for your time reading this. All the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, the subs in the water mourn you this day. Thank you for your courage. Sir Knives of the Providence Plantations and Lady Butters of the Narragansett Bay.

3:24:55 I didn't know that Springsteen actually had words to a song. I was a

3:25:04 Right.

3:25:05 So JC.

3:25:07 Alright. David Rhodes of Saint George, Utah. Gateway to Zion. Hold hold one sec. Mimi, when when JC is talking, can you just mute and unmute when you want to?

3:25:18 I will do my best. Yes, you can. I know you can. It it works better that way.

3:25:24 Only have one computer screen here, so Yeah. Well, the mute is on the clean feed.

3:25:29 Right. Which is a different

3:25:31 sure. I'll figure it out. I'll you now then and you can figure it out. There you go. Alright. Go ahead, JC. Alright.

3:25:39 So, David Road's coming in with $522.10.

3:25:43 Please accept 333

3:25:45 and 30¢ from me and 188 and 80¢ from my smoking hot wife Nina and de douche us. You've

3:25:53 been de douche.

3:25:56 Sir Less Than Jake, Knight of the Ekmo and Grouse Trick hit us in the mouth in 2021.

3:26:02 Our amygdalae are forever grateful.

3:26:05 Godspeed, JCD. Words can express our gratitude. Thank you for your courage, Adam, the Dvorak family, and everyone of No Agenda Nation.

3:26:12 Baroness,

3:26:13 Kelly, San Diego, California,

3:26:15 $500.

3:26:16 To the Dvorak and Curry family, god bless you all. I'm having a $20 bottle of wine from John's tip of the day.

3:26:23 Salute, John.

3:26:24 Salute? I don't know. John, thank you for your giggle. Rest in peace, JDV.

3:26:31 Avery Allen, Trenton, New Jersey, dollars 500. Hello, No Agenda family. Today, my heart is heavy, but I feel rich having listened for so long and also feel encouraged that Adam will continue the legacy. Best wishes to Adam and John's family.

3:26:45 Katie and Tom Tierney and,

3:26:48 in Carver, Minnesota, $500.

3:26:52 Alright. Let let me prepare.

3:26:55 You go. Alright.

3:26:58 Two years ago, my brother, Rob, the constitutional lawyer, called me while I was walking around the campus. The greatest university on the planet, Texas a and m. Whoop.

3:27:06 Dropping off our youngest for school, he was actually calling to ask for some job search advice for a friend. But before he got to that point, he had to tell me about how he knew her. As it turns out, the story led straight to No Agenda. Then he asked me, do you remember PC Magazine? I laughed. Of course, I do. The magazine is probably responsible for the entire direction of my career.

3:27:25 From there, he told me about meeting John and Adam. And before long, my smoking hot hillbilly husband and I became devoted No Agenda producers in waiting. For the past two years, those six hours a week have been some of the few moments where the noise of the world fades away and the common sense returns.

3:27:39 When my brother texted this week to tell me that John had died, it felt like a punch in the gut.

3:27:44 I've been following John C. Dvorak's work for more than thirty years. From the PC Magazine days, through No Agenda, I always assumed there would be time to meet him someday. And then suddenly, there wasn't.

3:27:53 John had a combination of wit, intelligence, skepticism, and delightful cranky charm that simply can't be replaced. He taught generations of us to question narratives, think independently,

3:28:02 and never lose our sense of humor while doing it. The donation in John's memory is officially our de douching.

3:28:08 I'm intelligent.

3:28:10 I nailed it. You've been de douched. You nailed it. I I

3:28:14 I I was delayed. Sorry. That's alright. I've been telling Tom we should become producers ever since we started listening, but life always seemed to get in the way. If you realize that's not I've realized that's not a very good excuse. If John's passing has reminded me of anything, it's this. Don't wait. Support the things you value. Tell people what they mean to you. Make make the trip. Give the donation. Live the life.

3:28:34 Thank you, John, for decades

3:28:36 of insight, laughter, and perspective. You left the world sharper than you found it. Godspeed, John. Rest in peace.

3:28:44 Keith Serbig Johnson,

3:28:46 Poughkeepsie, New York.

3:28:47 $500.

3:28:49 Dear Adam and Dvorak family, been a listener since episode 11.

3:28:53 John My was the

3:28:55 deepest condolences.

3:28:56 See, I've heard when I've

3:28:59 heard when an office chair squeaks, a podcaster gets his wings, that he had a number of wings. Sort

3:29:06 of sort of like biblically accurate angel wings. Didn't didn't we skip we skip somebody? No, we didn't. No, we skipped nobody. No.

3:29:14 Oh, okay. I'm out of it. I'll just go back to being quiet. We're on 41 now. We sat in C. Is a great name. Great name. Coupeville, Washington. Deepest con $500?

3:29:25 Deepest condolences from Oak Harbor, Washington. Laptop lids are half closed and cell phones in the drawers this week.

3:29:32 Anonymous Douchebag in Kentfield,

3:29:34 California. $444.

3:29:37 Rest easy, John. Thank you for many years of great entertainment. You are loved, and you will be missed.

3:29:42 Sir R Daniels.

3:29:44 $422.21.

3:29:47 I saw the email notification in the background while in a virtual meeting and assumed it was JCD news newsletter clickbait.

3:29:54 How wrong was I? I was listening to John's last show before hearing the news last week. As usual, while working out, I remarked on my head how this show,

3:30:02 how this show, these guys, have been part of my life for decades. I'm 53. So Adam on MTV pairing up with the guy I had been reading since the sixth grade in PC Magazine.

3:30:12 I started listening to No Agenda episode one.

3:30:14 I was there from the beginning, hearing about it first on Twitter. Christian Hartsock, former Project Veritas chief investigative reporter and the man behind the Noodle Boy story called me and asked, have you heard the news?

3:30:26 Devastated. No jingles. Just karma. Love you, Adam and Tina. Mimi and family mean it. I hope you can find ways to keep it going. We're here. No Agenda Nation. Many more years.

3:30:38 I'm Khoans. Take it away. Yeah.

3:30:41 The Cohans,

3:30:43 with four hundred and twenty one dollars and ten cents.

3:30:46 Hi, Adam and team.

3:30:47 I am so sorry for your loss. In remembrance of John, I thought you might like to hear how No Agenda, especially John as a fellow Bay Area resident, played a part in our love story.

3:30:58 When my husband Josh and I started dating during COVID,

3:31:01 our first real test of compatibility was sharing our favorite podcasts.

3:31:06 I, a reformed

3:31:07 angry New Yorker, listens to soothing gentle voices like Ira Glass and Renee Brown Oh, no. Who who told stories of humanity and perseverance.

3:31:18 Josh,

3:31:19 on the other hand, a represented

3:31:20 agitator at heart, raised on a strict Bay Area diet of good vibes only listen to you, Adam and John, who always seemed to be yelling loudly about corruption everywhere. I get it. You can't trust anyone.

3:31:34 It just wasn't for me. Adam's voice raised my cortisol levels. Sean was slightly easier on the ears, but I mostly listened just to connect with Josh with whom I was slowly growing to love. Over the years though, I grew to genuinely appreciate the show. Hell, even Adam's voice grew on me. But for Josh, this show became a significant part of his support system during the hardest period in his life, brutal divorce and custody battle, stressful career.

3:32:01 Josh and I come from a vastly different world. On paper, we're not compatible. And our relationship was strained for many reasons, but our mutual love and respect grew stronger as we learned about each other.

3:32:14 And your show was a major factor in propelling our relationship forward.

3:32:18 Listening, pausing, talking, listening again to your voices made us realize that our compatibility wasn't in identical backgrounds or viewpoints, but rather in our willingness to engage in hard conversations and lovingly challenge each other's perceived

3:32:33 belief system.

3:32:35 And that has become a building block in our marriage today.

3:32:38 Ira Glass sure as hell didn't help us grow as a couple.

3:32:43 And for that, I am forever grateful. We will miss you, John. Adam, you got this. Much love and respect. The Coe hands.

3:32:52 James Niddle from Moore, South Carolina

3:32:55 with $408.47.

3:32:58 RIP, JCD,

3:33:00 f cancer. Stop being cancer. You've

3:33:05 got karma.

3:33:10 Robert Roberts from Grant Grant's

3:33:13 Pass, Oregon

3:33:14 with a $388.88

3:33:16 donation.

3:33:18 I was first introduced to the show by Brian the drunk millennial back in 2015.

3:33:23 He used to say, you have to listen to three shows to get into it, and that was true for me. I used only I used to only catch drips and drops riding in the truck with Brian but one day I started on my own and then I was hooked.

3:33:36 Been here ever since and I'm so thankful. When I was saw the newsletter title,

3:33:42 I thought it was one of John's clever ploys.

3:33:44 Wow, missed the newsletter when it came out. Yeah. We tricked them all. I

3:33:49 had missed the newsletter when it came out as I worked a long day in the woods out

3:33:54 of service and I saw it at 03:30 in the morning while having my morning coffee.

3:34:00 When I opened it and saw the photo of John, that sense of dread welled up and when I read the mem in memoriam, I was gutted. I seldom cry but the rendition of I'm gonna miss you in the morning last show got me.

3:34:13 You too have been with me for timber cruising the redwoods,

3:34:16 hours of making timber and laying out harvests

3:34:19 until across California,

3:34:22 surveying plantations in Oregon, and long drives across the Western States

3:34:27 planting more than 10,000,000

3:34:29 seeds. Wow. Seedlings. Wow. Y'all got me through it all after eleven years. I've come to think of you and John as friends and mentors.

3:34:39 You've both meant so much and I can't believe John is gone. When I started listening, I jumped in quickly. I started trying to get to knighthood but in 2020, I was diagnosed with chronic Lyme

3:34:50 and had a kid to boot. I could never pay Value4Value

3:34:53 and after that, my finances were drained.

3:34:56 I always wanted to get there and with this donation,

3:34:59 I finally reached knighthood.

3:35:01 A day late and a thousand of dollars short of what real value for value would be.

3:35:07 I would like to be certain

3:35:09 man morning night. Was morning spelled with u?

3:35:13 For the round table, could you order up John's favorite?

3:35:16 Y'all have always been in my prayers and even more so lately. I'm sorry for the rambling, I guess I just don't know how to put all of these thoughts and feelings together.

3:35:26 In the morning and thank you for your courage, Robert Roberts.

3:35:30 Sir Chris and Dame Kristen of Carmel by the Sea California

3:35:34 for the $388.88

3:35:37 donation. Dear Adam Mimi and family, Dame Kristen and I are shocked and saddened by the news of John's passing. Like so many in No Agenda community, we can't believe he's gone.

3:35:47 We are honored

3:35:49 god. We are honored to have been

3:35:51 executive producers of the show for over over the years going back to 2014.

3:35:57 Since we began listening around 2010, John has been a regular voice in our lives. He changed us to think more critically, question the mainstream media, and approach the world with a healthy dose of skepticism and humor.

3:36:09 When Adam and John came down on opposite sides of an issue,

3:36:13 those discussions often sparked more spirited debate between us as well. Overall,

3:36:18 we're just better grounded in reality.

3:36:21 Our hearts go out to Mimi, the family, and everyone close to John.

3:36:25 We hope that in days ahead, there is some comfort in knowing just how many people he touched and lives he influenced.

3:36:32 Long live John C. Dvorak and Long live No Agenda.

3:36:36 In the Morning, Sir Chris and Dame Kristen of Carmel By The Sea.

3:36:41 Curry dude of Austin, Texas

3:36:43 for $388.88

3:36:45 donation. Rest in peace, JCD.

3:36:48 Spitty fire,

3:36:51 from an unknown location for $356.77.

3:36:56 CNET introduced me to the concept John C. Dvorak.

3:37:00 No Agenda presented the final rendition of JCD.

3:37:03 Long live Buzzkill's insatiable spirit, sending much love to his powerhouse family, incredible circle of friends,

3:37:11 and No Agenda community.

3:37:12 Spitty fire.

3:37:14 Shannon McNeil with $350.93.

3:37:18 I stumbled upon No Agenda in early twenty twenty and it has been nothing short of life changing for me and my family.

3:37:25 John Hennes always reminded me of my father-in-law.

3:37:28 Me too. And I was gutted to hear the news of his passing.

3:37:32 My sincere condolences,

3:37:34 sending love and light.

3:37:37 Jeffrey Waldorf with $350.93

3:37:41 donation. And 350

3:37:42 words.

3:37:43 And 350

3:37:45 words. I actually don't know if I can see this whole thing, Adam. Oh, no. I'll it. It's too big for the spreadsheet. It's blowing out the spreadsheet. I'll do it. No problem. Okay. Dear Adam, thank you for taking the time to read my note on Thursday show. He's coming back. It's $3.50 93.

3:37:59 I was still in a state of shock when I wrote it, so it was very brief. After hearing so many wonderful notes in episode eighteen eighty eight, I wanted to take another shot at it. I first started listening to No Agenda back in the COVID days. I was confused and frustrated by our response to the virus as it didn't make any sense to me and hearing your takes on Rogan convinced me to give the show a listen.

3:38:18 I finally fell in love with the No Agenda with No Agenda. The format of the show, the way the news was deconstructed, the fun jingles, the whole presentation was amazing.

3:38:26 I've been a loyal listener since, but I must admit, while I came for Adam Curry, I stayed for John C. Dvorak.

3:38:32 I didn't know about his full career before I started listening, but I loved his deep knowledge of tech and politics. His snarky comments always made me laugh and his fun stories, experiences and insights were always great to hear. In fact, the font of this email is Georgia,

3:38:48 one that John recommended. Every episode I look forward to whatever smart ass comment John would have chambered knowing it would make me smile. Thank you so much Adam for introducing him to me.

3:38:58 Whenever I hear some news model or talk show guest talk about how horrible it would be in The US if The US didn't fund some BS program,

3:39:05 I'll hear John sarcastically screaming, oh no in the background.

3:39:10 Whenever I hear some tech CEO claiming that their new product will change the human race forever, I'll think of John saying, I'm smelling ketamine.

3:39:19 I'll be thinking of John when I watch Sumo wondering if he would be happy that Ao Kineshi ki has regained his Ozeki title.

3:39:28 I think he would be. My family and I moved to Osaka, Japan about a year and a half ago disconnecting from The US corporate media and social media in general has shrunk my amygdala to the perfect size. Listening to No Agenda regularly would get me the real news coming out of The States, so I hope that the media deconstruction continues in some form.

3:39:47 I can't think of anyone who does it better than you, I will be supporting you the entire way. My deepest condolences to you, the Dvorak family and everyone affected by his loss. Thank you for the years of insights and laughter. John, I wish it could have been more.

3:40:01 Agusto

3:40:02 Andrioli,

3:40:03 $350.93.

3:40:05 ITM

3:40:06 Adam Mimi, everyone. My heartfelt condolences to the Dvorak and Curry families. Come on, JCD. This was not the exit strategy we wanted.

3:40:15 Adam, your opening monologue brought me to tears. Feels like I lost a grandfather.

3:40:19 In the past two years, you guys have become part of my life with weekly news and silly humor. This donation of $3.33 33 plus fees makes me a knight, sir Britallion.

3:40:29 No request,

3:40:30 only the prayers jingle for us all. Long live John C. Dvorak. Adam, your turn to call bullcrap on the M5M.

3:40:38 And he finishes with, thank you for your courage and I have the hold on. The prayers jingle for you.

3:40:47 Here we go.

3:40:49 You've got

3:40:51 prayers. Russian

3:40:56 card trick guy, $3.50 93.

3:40:59 Hey, Adam and everyone. My sincerest condolences for the heavy loss of an incredible man. Your show and John were an amazing and calming influence throughout my life. The stories, the easygoing attitude of this has happened before made the world feel understandable.

3:41:12 My wife who occasionally listens,

3:41:14 loved John's stories, reactions and quips to the point where she was questioning whether she is truly a cranky old man on the inside.

3:41:22 It was a pleasure to meet John at the Seattle Meet Up in August 2018.

3:41:26 On the next show, 1059,

3:41:28 he referred to me as the Russian card trick guy, which was hilarious.

3:41:32 I will say it was hard to impress him even with my best close-up material, but that was expected for someone such with such incredible life experience as JCD.

3:41:41 Donating $3.33 dot 33 magic number plus fees and would love to be de duched. You've

3:41:49 been de duched.

3:41:52 And then he asked for also a baby delivery karma, which,

3:41:56 we have some baby karma for you here.

3:42:01 You've got

3:42:06 karma. As

3:42:07 my wife and I are having our second in November, prayers for all love and light, the Russian card trick guy.

3:42:13 Sir Lavish the Red, Concord, California,

3:42:16 Three Fifty Fifty Eight. We know that's $3.33 plus fees now. For some reason, it's different for everybody. Thank you, Adam, Mimi, family. I sent in one clip about the wine,

3:42:24 clip attached Pinot Grigio. There are many others who sent in good clips over the years and I love them. John is a Bay Area legend, insanely grateful to Noam and his family, Sir Lavish the Red and that clip will be passed on to Darren O'Leary for future shows.

3:42:38 Sir Lawrence of Dystopia, Oakland, California 03/1950.

3:42:42 ITM Adam Mimi and the Dvorak family and Andrew Horwitz. My deepest condolences to you at this time of sorrow. I found out about John's passing through a LinkedIn post by Linda Lou, Duchess of jobs,

3:42:54 and writer of winning resumes.

3:42:56 I was crestfallen as I missed the last two get John of the house meetups due to obligations.

3:43:01 I'm grateful I was able to attend the first g

3:43:04 j o o t h as well as his 70 birthday at Pizzeria Violetta last year. I hope he was able to enjoy the Johnny Walker Blue in its entirety. Oh, I'm sure he did. And he didn't share it with me. I'm also grateful to have had the opportunity to hoist a few drinks with him and the No Agenda Nation that attended the Northern Silicon Valley meetups. I will definitely attend the next meetup at Pizzeria Violetta come hell, high water or broken elevators.

3:43:29 Lastly,

3:43:30 what truly impressed me about John in addition to his vast body of work and natural talent was his family that he and Mimi have raised. You guys are like the Von Trapp family singers.

3:43:40 There's a callback. I know that with the talent of the Dvorak family and Adam, the No Agenda podcast will carry on and he wants some mac and cheese slaves and ants,

3:43:49 Love and Light, Sir Lawrence of Dystopia, Baron of Maxwell Park, Kilo Oscar six echo Juliet echo.

3:43:57 Eric Renaud from Sutton, Massachusetts, 34375.

3:44:01 Godspeed, Johnny says, you will be missed. The Dalton family, Lockwood, Missouri, 34375.

3:44:08 John was a one of a kind. He will be deeply missed. Our thoughts go out to his family. Regards from the Dalton family.

3:44:14 Chris and Leslie of Fluffy Bottoms Farm in Driftwood, Texas, 34375.

3:44:19 We read the news and it hit us like a ton of bricks. Episode eighteen eighty eight was a tough listen. Adam, your opening made us cry. The stories and clips were just what we needed in this sad tough tough time. Others have said this is have said this, but it's crazy how John impacted all of us and we would weep and feel such a huge loss for someone that we had never met. We are sending love and prayers to Mimi, the family, Adam and Tina, the whole No Agenda Nation. We will miss Jaycee, but feel so blessed and lucky to have decades of great memories through his writing and podcast. Love from Chris and Leslie of Fluffy Bottoms Farm in Driftwood, Texas.

3:44:56 Grant Schuller in Cincinnati, Ohio, 34375.

3:45:00 I'm so glad I was hit in the mouth with this podcast and have learned a ton while listening over the past six years. Thank you, JCD.

3:45:07 You the man, dog. And I'll read this one from Sean C. Ryan of Volente,

3:45:13 Texas.

3:45:14 Another war and peace, but it's good.

3:45:18 As a proud No Agenda

3:45:20 producer and family show producer and family member coming up on a year, I've been struggling with much grief since learning of John C. Dvorak's passing earlier this week. God, I miss him. His reason, wisdom, biting wit, dry acerbic humor,

3:45:33 experienced hardened insights, consistent grousing,

3:45:37 unbridled skepticism,

3:45:38 and curmudgeonly demeanor.

3:45:40 All those prickly idiosyncrasies,

3:45:42 he gracefully filled the role of a sensible contrarian, a true grouchy gentleman and scholar.

3:45:48 My sincere condolences,

3:45:49 thoughts and prayers are with Dvorak and Curry families and with the broader No Agenda producer community.

3:45:54 I consider all of you my first responders.

3:45:57 I shackle myself to every show and wait each week with bated breath for the next episodes.

3:46:02 JC and Adam formed a duo unmatched in the mainstream media. Their quibbling banter and jocularity

3:46:09 is deliciously entertaining while delivering thought provoking MSM deconstruction.

3:46:14 This is why the No Agenda show is the greatest podcast in the universe. Let's keep it going.

3:46:19 The news of Jay City's passing was communicated to me by my 25 year old Gen Z son, my only child, via text on Tuesday.

3:46:28 My first thought, really my hope was that it might be some gambit and atomism cooked up by JCD to boost donations.

3:46:35 I so deeply wish that was true. I called my son later that day to talk about what this loss meant to both of us. He told me that he had recently begun listening to every No Agenda episode from the very first one simply

3:46:46 because he wanted to be entertained and enlightened by the full breadth of the No Agenda show podcast in all the varied and sundry episodes. I'm truly proud of this fine young lad.

3:46:56 At the risk of arousing JCD's legendary Buzzkilling grousing, I'll add two brief personal notes. First, after hearing him and Adam question why Texas preferred Texans preferred Keb Paxson over John Cornyn, I emailed John with boots on the ground inside explaining

3:47:11 why most sensible Texans found Cornyn a proven rhino and were willing to accept Paxson's baggage. What politician doesn't have some? They shift. Excuse

3:47:23 me. They shifted their stance in the next show.

3:47:27 Maybe I played a small part, maybe not. Either way, it felt like a contribution. Second, I recently sent JCD a LinkedIn request, half expecting no reply from someone of his stature. He accepted on 07/16/2026,

3:47:40 only ten days before the news that now compounds my profound sadness.

3:47:45 I'd hoped and planned to meet JCD in person one day. I guess we'll have to wait until I'm on the other side of the pearly gates with him. I was already blessed to meet Adam and his lovely keeper Tina at a No Agenda meet up in Fredericksburg last April. Rest in peace John C. Dvorak, JCD.

3:48:00 I see an m dash there, suspicious.

3:48:03 Legendary Buzzkill, a good sir.

3:48:06 He wants an f cancer.

3:48:08 With much love and admiration,

3:48:10 ITM from the Gitmo Nation and beyond, Sean C. Ryan of Volente.

3:48:15 And I got the f cancer for Fucking fucking cancer. You've

3:48:21 got karma.

3:48:22 JC, you wanna take over?

3:48:25 Thomas Schafer.

3:48:27 Unknown location. 333

3:48:29 and 80¢. Thanks for all the times. You literally made me laugh out loud, not to mention think more critically.

3:48:35 I've been listening since I finished college in o nine and knew a day like this would come, but not that the hole would be this deep. Rest in peace, John.

3:48:44 Viscount Dame d Money, $333.33.

3:48:49 I feel like I feel like I've lost my cranky grandpa. My favorite jingle will forever be John C. D. About how the only real phone is a landline, and it's made of bakelite.

3:48:58 Rest in peace, JCD. Love is lit.

3:49:01 Luca Dusak in Bastan

3:49:04 Bustange?

3:49:06 Slovenia,

3:49:07 I suspect.

3:49:08 Rest in peace, legend.

3:49:10 Andrew O'Donohue?

3:49:12 Smitten,

3:49:14 Saskatchewan.

3:49:17 In the morning from Saskatchewan, Canada. I cannot properly put into words how much Adam and John,

3:49:22 through No Agenda, have made a positive impact on my life. I discovered No Agenda during COVID, and it played a massive role in helping me maintain my sanity while living in Canada, but the government went nuts, more so than usual.

3:49:33 They have been,

3:49:34 they have been my number one lesson ever since. The loss of John is certainly painful. I'll miss hearing him twice a week. His wit and insight into world affairs complemented Adams so well. I pray that Mimi and family will find some measure of comfort during this time of loss. Thank you for all that you do to help the show.

3:49:50 Sincerely,

3:49:51 Andrew O'Donohue.

3:49:53 Sir Wild Bill, Alexandria, Virginia.

3:49:57 Yeah.

3:49:58 $333.33.

3:50:00 About John, temporal separation is temporary. Here's to our next meet up with John in eternity. Sir Wild Bill, Liberator of California, Red Knight of the Sacred Heart. God bless you, John.

3:50:11 David Assassi, West Hollywood, California. $333.33.

3:50:16 When I read the news about JCD, I thought it was a sick joke because it's a lie about his age, which I was not aware of. I'll miss him so much. No homo.

3:50:25 Are you able to read this one? I

3:50:28 can read this one. It's a nice long one.

3:50:30 Dame Pluma of beautiful Wailea,

3:50:33 Hawaii. $333.33.

3:50:36 To my No Agenda Ohana.

3:50:38 When work keeps me from listening live to my biweekly media deconstruction from the best podcast in the universe, I save the entire show for a long walk by the sea. It is tempting to cheat and start late at night, but No Agenda is best consumed from beginning to end, in my personal opinion.

3:50:53 So on the first Thursday of the week, I woke up ready for my wisdom fix from the voices of my favorite duo. Fanny pack secured, I opened fountain

3:51:00 because non legacy podcast providers are superior, and pulled up show 1888.

3:51:05 The title was jarring. That seems a little dark even for you for John, I thought. Then I saw the artwork, the candle, the empty table, the illuminated microphone, the dates. No. No. No. I crumpled to the floor and stared for an ungodly amount of time waiting for my brain to catch up. Like many, I hoped it was some macabre

3:51:21 trick.

3:51:23 Eventually, I mustered the courage to hit play. The tone had shifted. Something, someone was missing. The tears poured out of me. I picked myself up and walked into the sunlight. As the voices, stories, jingles, and memories continued, so did I. The sky looked brighter. The ocean looked deeper. The world felt quieter.

3:51:38 John, I could fill pages with what you taught me, how hard you made me laugh, and how much I how much how much better I am because of the years spent listening to you. Instead, I offer your soaring spirit, your tremendous family, ad Adam and all of Gitmo Nation, the Hawaiian prayer of I

3:51:55 am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. The only downer is that I will never hear you suffer through the Hawaiian pronunciation, which is identical to Spanish.

3:52:03 And frankly, you were terrible at it. Adam has an excuse, but John, you're from California.

3:52:08 In parting, I want you to know from the bottom of my heart, this is hurting the show.

3:52:12 Yours in past, present, and future. Dame Pluma, protectorate of the feathered whales, PhD, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii. Hey, JC JC, I really I really wanna fix your audio because it's just bugging the crap out of me. It was Oh, no. What's going on wrong now? Well, it was so good before but now you have like no level and it sounds really indirect. Are you on the right mic? You sure you're on the right one? Let me I'm moving around, seeing if I just need to reposition it. How's that? Yeah. Can you turn it up a little bit? Yeah.

3:52:41 Let me try that. Includes your gain, man.

3:52:45 How's that?

3:52:46 Yeah. And I and I hear like a fan still somewhere. There's no fan now.

3:52:51 Oh, it's But I I could rock the chair some more. Yep. Would that help? That that would help. That's better, JC. That's better.

3:52:59 Alright. It's better? Yeah. Even even a little more would be good for me.

3:53:05 This?

3:53:06 More. More. More. More. More. I want more. Let see what I got in the back of this thing.

3:53:12 No. This this one kinda sucks. I'm gonna get one of the microphones from the from the archives Okay. And, swap it out for next show. Okay. Good.

3:53:20 Alright. Well well, let me let me continue while you fix that. Corey Baker, Fort Myers, Florida. And JC, mute yourself when you're not on so I don't have the background noise.

3:53:31 Yeah.

3:53:33 Thank you. Alright. Go go, Brennan. Adam's so Adam's so bossy. I am bossy. Hey. Oh my god. It's like he thinks he's in charge. Like, really. I'm like, what a douchebag.

3:53:43 What a douchebag.

3:53:46 Adam. A doozy We're not a doozy guy. We'll actually listen to these things all the way through, so I want them to have the best experiences I can give them. Okay.

3:53:55 Okay. Corey Baker from Fort Myers, Florida. With $333.33.

3:54:02 I've been in a melancholy days since hearing of John's passing. This show has been an anchor in my life since 2012, and for that, I am eternally grateful.

3:54:11 Adam and John have given me through gotten me through some of the hardest times of my life.

3:54:17 I rebuilt our home after a hurricane, Ian, with your voices in my ears. I lost my father a year ago, and No Agenda was there with me for the road trip back to our hometown.

3:54:28 My heart goes out to the Dvorak and Curry families and to the rest of No Agenda Nation. RIP, JCD, godspeed,

3:54:35 Commodore Cory.

3:54:38 Jean Pierre Coteguil

3:54:40 from Sao Paulo,

3:54:42 Spain.

3:54:43 No. It's Brazil. I just don't know any of the states in Brazil.

3:54:47 In the morning,

3:54:49 please de douche me as this is just my second donation since I found out the best podcast in the universe through your appearance on the Tom Wood show back in 2020 during the COVID craziness. You've

3:55:03 been de douched.

3:55:07 Sending condolences to you, Mimi, and the No Agenda family on the loss of John.

3:55:12 Thank you both for everything over the years. Long live the show. Yeah.

3:55:16 Sir John of South London from London, which is in London in Great Britain,

3:55:22 with three hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three cents. Dear Adam, Mimi, and the Dvorak clan, I first came across John on the site which aired on MSNBC

3:55:31 in the mid nineties.

3:55:32 I've kept track of his various pieces of work spanning PC mag, Cranky Geeks,

3:55:38 Twit, and of course, No Agenda. Thirty years is a long time when I look back. I've changed house many a time and even changed nationalities.

3:55:46 When I received last week's newsletter informing us of J. C. D. Untimely passing away, I thought it was his latest and

3:55:56 puppies ruse.

3:55:58 Sadly,

3:55:59 as I continued reading the email, it was no joke. It feels like a part of my life has gone away, but I've got the memories to keep JCD alive.

3:56:08 I will fondly remember JCD's visit to the to London in 2017. I've attached a photo to share with you and the Dvorak family to boot.

3:56:17 Here's one of you when you were here in London in 2018

3:56:21 yes. Oh my goodness.

3:56:23 In terms of jingles, one of our favorites is the JCD ghost spooky theme. RIP JCD, you were one of a kind, a real cranky,

3:56:32 but absolutely endearing gank. With the deepest condolences,

3:56:36 regards, sir John of South London.

3:56:40 Sir Fast Eddie with no location from March and, with $333.33.

3:56:46 R I Alameda. Does he say from Alameda where? Right there. In Baronet of Alameda. Oh, wow.

3:56:52 Oh, Baronet of Alameda of the islands. J c r I p j c d, thank you for all you've given me over the past six years. I will deeply miss our meetup conversations about numerology and

3:57:03 that kids can't read tape measures. The lens you've given me will be a tool I use for the rest of my life. I will miss you at least twice a week and every time I eat nuts on an airplane.

3:57:15 I used to carry bags of nuts when I traveled just in case I sat down next to JCD on a plane. I will pray that we finish our conversation about banning peanuts on airplanes when we meet again upstairs.

3:57:26 A final favor from the nation. I want to create a giant photo collage for the Oakland meetup on the August 14 The August 15. August 15 at Pizzeria Violetta.

3:57:36 And I'd like anyone with photos of John, including themselves,

3:57:40 if that's what they have, to send me JPEGs

3:57:43 or PDFs

3:57:45 to me at fastEddie@speedproeastbay.com.

3:57:51 And I'll be there to that. Actually, well, all of We'll all be will be there. And and, also, I went to school in it. I went to high school in Alameda.

3:57:59 I know I know the Island Of Boobs really well since mine used to be there.

3:58:06 Well, thank you, Edward Owens, sir Fast Eddie Baronet

3:58:10 of Alameda,

3:58:11 the Island Of Boobs.

3:58:14 Sir Crrystabal from Dallas, Texas, $333.33.

3:58:18 Confession, during times of low donations,

3:58:21 John never hesitated to call producers out on it. Each time my eyes would roll and I'd think to myself, here comes JCD whining.

3:58:29 What I would give to hear his belly aching again. RIP JCD, sir Crrystal Ball.

3:58:36 Michael Rulan, Austin, Texas. $333.33.

3:58:40 Sorry to hear about JCD.

3:58:42 Please share some f cancer karma with the No Agenda Nation.

3:58:50 You've got karma.

3:58:55 Eddie Sanders from El Bear, Colorado.

3:58:58 300And33Dollars33Cents.

3:59:00 I know this letter will find you well. Only bake a lites where you are now.

3:59:04 You have been pissing me off since the back pages of PC World.

3:59:08 Then years later, I found you joyously killing the Buzz twice a week, expertly done.

3:59:14 Rest knowing you will never have to de douche another.

3:59:17 Adam, I am so sorry you are left with a burden, but it is time to de douche high test. You've

3:59:26 been de douche.

3:59:30 Also, Adam, you will need to continue to investigate and report on the oral contents of the others.

3:59:36 Oh. More

3:59:38 Right. Yeah. What's in your mouth? More more years.

3:59:42 Is that?

3:59:44 Yak karma, please. Oh, yak karma. Hold on a second. Where's my yak Here we go.

3:59:52 You've got

3:59:56 karma.

3:59:59 Okay. And then this one, it's Yes. Too big. I'm so sorry. No. No. It's I I got it. It's from the Duke of the South, sir Patrick Cobbler. Happy to read it. Okay. Howdy again to the Dvorak clan and Adam. You know, Patrick Cobbler has been such a staple of of the show and and the meetups in particular everywhere around the world.

4:00:18 I wanted to make sure I sent one last note because John always knew people are behind on the newsletters and spam monster eats emails, so you have to stretch the promos out a bit. Y'all did an amazing job with the show 1888,

4:00:29 who would be proud of of all you did to team up and get through everything. And he would have a grin a couple of times and he would have had a grin a couple of times with all the good things being said about him. No Agenda and their favorite job moments.

4:00:42 I talked to many people after and everyone said it was like we were all at a celebration of life together with a family and feeling like we are part of that family too. But when Raven came out of Club thirty through thirty three, I knew it was going to be a great show along with some of the celebrity appearances too. Yes, we had billionaires, millionaires, paupers. It was great.

4:01:01 After that show, I thought about a saying that Adam and I have heard a lot in our church circles that was brought out on the show a couple times after Adam came back to the church. I was never there.

4:01:12 There are no coincidences

4:01:13 in the kingdom.

4:01:14 After hearing the last show, I couldn't agree with it anymore. We are all here at this moment because of a huge series of events in our own journeys in our lives. Some roads were longer and wind windier

4:01:25 and the number of bumps varied too, but he we are here now.

4:01:29 The tech that came out over the years that John criticized but also loved is a major part of No Agenda Nation is here. Podcasting can be attributed to the Podfather himself,

4:01:38 Adam Curry, not to be confused with Adam Curry.

4:01:41 A radio and music nerd who was on the internet the same time John was, but going after other dreams with websites until

4:01:48 he asked Dave Weiner to modify RSS architecture, so large audio files could attach the web feeds and with the help of some other nerds, we now have podcasting.

4:01:57 Adam didn't stop there, he kept going, decentralizing

4:02:00 to protect it from censorship.

4:02:02 Who would have thought a pirate radio kid turned nerd would help come up with podcasting, the exact medium that he would meet his best friend turned brother John C. Dvorak.

4:02:12 The same technology that John reviewed over the years was used to record and stream all those shows all over the world.

4:02:19 John and Adam are true podcasting superheroes for the whole world. Things happen exactly like they were supposed to make No Agenda Nation happen. There are no coincidences in the kingdom.

4:02:29 I'm thankful Adam's work with Curry and the Keeper and with pastor Jimmy on We Get To Do This and his work to build the Godcaster app is bringing more people to the church. I'd be forever thankful to John and Adam for all these things that led to those three podcasts

4:02:43 because they brought me back to the church and changed my life. I will never be able to say thank you enough to both of them for helping me nerd out to become a dude named Ben, learn the things and get back to the church for myself and my family. I love you all. Thank you to everyone in the No Agenda Nation who made it what it is and will always be. Getting knighted in Nashville on the Hot Pockets tour with Sir Jeff Sir Jeff Smith and Adam is the moment I knew No Agenda was way more than just a podcast.

4:03:11 Lastly,

4:03:12 sorry, John, again, two long notes in a row. Psalm thirty four eighteen,

4:03:17 the Lord is close to the brokenhearted

4:03:19 and save those who are crushed in spirit.

4:03:23 Thank you, sir Patrick.

4:03:25 Buildify from San Francisco, California, 33333.

4:03:29 Listeners since episode one, please accept this De-douching ketchup donation. You've

4:03:36 been de-douched.

4:03:37 Thank you, John, for all the years of wit and wisdom. You'll forever be remembered and missed. Condolences to the family of ITM forever.

4:03:46 Anonymous from NEOSHOW,

4:03:48 Wisconsin, 33333.

4:03:50 Dear Adam and Mimi, according to my accounting, I reached Knight status a couple of months and did not realize that this donation brings me halfway to Baronet.

4:03:58 I'm sending you all my deepest most sincere condolences for the sudden loss of JCD.

4:04:02 My No Agenda journey began after watching Adam on JRE during the COVID madness.