Quotes · NA Archive

"Somewhere around three, I usually have a glass of wine with dinner, somewhere around 03:00, I texted Tina and said, I gotta break open a bottle. I was laughing, crying, and I think you'll do the same."

— Adam · 1889 — Producer's Tribute to JCD @ 3:23 — Sets emotional tone for the tribute episode

"No Agenda does not end. I just wanna say that upfront."

— Adam · 1889 — Producer's Tribute to JCD @ 2:48:10 — Reassures the community the show will continue after John's death

"Remember, you are producers. You're not listeners. You are just as much a part of this show as John and I were."

— Adam · 1889 — Producer's Tribute to JCD @ 2:49:33 — Encapsulates the No Agenda value-for-value ethos

"The most important thing that I learned is that Dana Brunetti is a fraud. What a typical Hollywood guy taking credit for someone else's creation."

— Adam · 1889 — Producer's Tribute to JCD @ 2:50:04 — Comedic aside amid the mourning

"Come on computer boy. Make it work."

— Adam · 1889 — Producer's Tribute to JCD @ 2:52:41 — Playful jab at JC over technical difficulties

"Today I have a hole in my heart you could turn a seven forty seven around in."

— Adam · 1888 — In The Mourning @ 1:05 — Striking image of grief opening the tribute

"The most beautiful thing about John is that we had complete trust in each other... the entire operation was based on a handshake."

— Adam · 1888 — In The Mourning @ 3:39 — Sums up the foundation of the show's partnership

"Imagine that. Having the privilege to dance with John for six hours a week."

— Adam · 1888 — In The Mourning @ 4:24 — Captures the essence of their on-air partnership

"My only prayer now for today is that John is in heaven saying, crap, Adam was right."

— Adam · 1888 — In The Mourning @ 9:08 — Poignant, humorous close to the eulogy

"We rarely spoke outside of the show... he drove me crazy, and it was much better than a murder conviction."

— Guest · 1888 — In The Mourning @ 1:53:00 — Mimi's wry take on life with John

"The first question you're supposed to ask is not is she gonna do readings."

— John · 1887 — The Stick Works @ 4:56 — Deadpan riff on the new granddaughter

"So the China thing really bothers me because on one hand, he was just in Beijing. Oh, we're gonna be partners. Everything's hunky dory."

— Adam · 1887 — The Stick Works @ 31:38 — Skeptical take on Trump's China election claims

"It's one thing it's not is intelligence."

— John · 1887 — The Stick Works @ 1:26:18 — Blunt summary of the AI-hype skepticism

"It's a good time to be alive when the tech journalists are stupider than ever."

— Adam · 1887 — The Stick Works @ 1:45:11 — Pithy jab at tech media in the AI discussion

"By the way, I would love to be that complicated."

— Adam · 1887 — The Stick Works @ 2:05:27 — Wry reply to conspiracy accusation over the VPN read

"How about this? What if it's contaminated GLP one? Everybody's on that stuff."

— Adam · 1886 — Cytoshitosis @ 18:11 — Signature offbeat theory on the outbreak

"Do we have lost the ability to think a little more simplistically and just k? Occam's razor is indeed dead."

— Adam · 1886 — Cytoshitosis @ 31:25 — Pithy critique of conspiracy overthinking

"The show is built on a lie. It doesn't make it very exciting, you know, and and that's to our detriment."

— Adam · 1886 — Cytoshitosis @ 36:45 — Self-deprecating meta-commentary on the show

"Here's what I understand about books. There's no money in it."

— John · 1886 — Cytoshitosis @ 1:28:26 — Deadpan recurring punchline of the episode

"The Fed adverse was co opted by the left. That's the problem."

— John · 1886 — Cytoshitosis @ 1:50:26 — Blunt verdict on Adam's Fediverse prediction

"We are the Trump whisperers. We understand our president. We're some of the last and the very few, I believe."

— Adam · 1884 — Code Brown @ 4:37 — Pithy self-description of the hosts' shtick

"If we don't have a single person in our audience who has at least been to a meeting, then this is fake. And it's fake from the left. There's just no two ways about it."

— Adam · 1884 — Code Brown @ 20:37 — Signature audience-as-proof reasoning about the Patriot Front

"This is like a suicide cult. I don't even have words for it."

— Adam · 1884 — Code Brown @ 1:31:25 — Blunt reaction to Canada's MAID euthanasia program

"It was a narrative-driven confabulation. I invented a data point to fit the segment's mood and that's the whole of it."

— Adam · 1884 — Code Brown @ 1:59:05 — Reading the AI's remarkable self-incriminating confession

"The best part is all the people who will email me after this telling me how to do it right. Here's how you do it. It all works every time for me. No. No."

— Adam · 1884 — Code Brown @ 2:02:13 — Self-aware jab at AI evangelists

"The point is I used to be famous."

— Adam · 1882 — Buy the Crash @ 4:48 — Self-deprecating punchline about the KLM steward recognizing him as Christina's dad

"Buy the dip, everybody. Buy the pullback. Buy the pullback. Alright. Buy the crash."

— Adam · 1882 — Buy the Crash @ 55:30 — Coins the episode title mocking CNBC's perpetual bullishness

"Darling, the surveillance state is the phone in your pocket. It's already here. The data centers, it's not gonna surveil you. It's a data center."

— Adam · 1882 — Buy the Crash @ 1:04:32 — Pithy debunk of data-center surveillance paranoia

"The whole thing is a giant scam. That's the point of it. There's no need for this."

— John · 1882 — Buy the Crash @ 1:07:44 — Blunt verdict on the Manhattan-sized data center

"It's like comparing a Jaywalker to Jeffrey Dahmer."

— Adam · 1882 — Buy the Crash @ 1:49:00 — Reading the memorable Ty Cobb line back with relish

"I think we are actually combating loneliness in the world. So I wanna up the ante on these things."

— Adam · 1881 — Cow Cartel @ 4:10 — Frames the meetups as a mission against loneliness

"News flash, Biden's still alive. Why don't somebody go over and ask him specifically? Hey, you know about this pardon? Did you know anything about it?"

— John · 1881 — Cow Cartel @ 1:22:32 — Pithy common-sense jab at the Fauci pardon debate

"Because it's about a movie, Sean. It's not about, oh, Epstein files, give him aliens."

— Adam · 1881 — Cow Cartel @ 1:34:14 — Sums up the show's long-running UFO-disclosure thesis

"There's clearly a correlation between cartels and cows, the cow cartel."

— John · 1881 — Cow Cartel @ 1:49:48 — The episode's title line about the tick story

"The most dangerous part of flying is driving to the airport. That's just the truth."

— Adam · 1881 — Cow Cartel @ 2:00:11 — Memorable aside on aviation near-misses

"This is total mind control propaganda for the Democrat party. There's not a single black person in the entire West Wing, but then they hire some black kid to be the president's body man and it's all this pandering."

— John · 1880 — Antifa Book Club @ 2:36 — Sharp media-deconstruction take on The West Wing

"Please, Antifa is not real. You can't label it a terrorist organization. It doesn't exist. It doesn't come from anywhere. It's just not real. The birds are not real."

— Adam · 1880 — Antifa Book Club @ 19:24 — Mocking the report's framing of Antifa

"Why don't these members of the book club start a podcast? You can make a difference with a podcast."

— Adam · 1880 — Antifa Book Club @ 24:02 — Pithy NA in-joke landing the Antifa book-club bit

"We don't do that. Value for value is the true way. It's the international lifestyle that we chose."

— Adam · 1880 — Antifa Book Club @ 25:27 — Core NA philosophy stated plainly

"They got 99 problems and a nuke ain't it."

— Adam · 1880 — Antifa Book Club @ 30:26 — Memorable quip on the Iran deal

"Grace and assurance. Boy, pomp circumstance has been bumped for grace and assurance."

— Adam · 1879 — Grace and Assurance @ 17:12 — Riffing on the episode's title phrase

"I think Lindsey Graham is giving is lifting a little tip of the veil to explain just the tip. With Lindsay, it's always just the tip."

— Adam · 1879 — Grace and Assurance @ 37:01 — Pithy quip about Graham unveiling the plan

"I'm the Lindsey Graham of podcasts, man. I just gotta keep saying it to make sure."

— Adam · 1879 — Grace and Assurance @ 54:25 — Self-deprecating jab about repeating predictions

"It'll never work perfectly ever. As long as these things hallucinate."

— John · 1879 — Grace and Assurance @ 1:52:13 — Blunt take on AI's limits

"We've just been turned into blithering buffoons, nothing matters, you're not important, you're no good. And it's quite scandalous quite honestly."

— Adam · 1879 — Grace and Assurance @ 2:09:24 — Rant on the cultural war on dads

"All of Europe, of course, we've had the same programming, have been brainwashed into thinking all we are is just one big bunch of racist, crazy people who are fat and lazy, shooting at each other with a dictator running the whole show."

— Adam · 1878 — Dream Build Loop @ 2:47 — Pithy summary of America's media image abroad

"That what the president is saying and whether Americans like it or not, he's saying, stop that nonsense or I will bomb. He's literally saying, I will put a bomb on your head. That's the deal. You don't need anything else."

— Adam · 1878 — Dream Build Loop @ 1:02:16 — Sharp distillation of the Iran deal

"It's not like Avenue K."

— John · 1878 — Dream Build Loop @ 1:16:14 — Wry aside on the lobbying group's prestigious address

"There's not a partnership like this in the world that's involved with entertainment in any way, shape or form that lasts more than a few years because they just get on each other's nerves."

— John · 1878 — Dream Build Loop @ 2:02:36 — On the hosts' enduring long-distance partnership

"We go out, we hit people in the mouth."

— Adam · 1878 — Dream Build Loop @ 2:27:37 — Signature donation-segment catchphrase

"Just because we talk about things that could be horrible light heartedly doesn't mean that we don't take it seriously."

— Adam · 1876 — Screwball @ 30:36 — defines the show's deconstruction ethos

"So the problem is not the kids who weren't born, it's the ones who were born. That's the problem we have here."

— John · 1876 — Screwball @ 1:24:13 — darkly funny on the 'whatever girls' clip

"Say what you will of Trump, he fixes that stuff real quick. Shut up. Shut up and make it."

— John · 1876 — Screwball @ 1:34:58 — pithy take on European defense dysfunction

"Well, this is what we've heard over and over again, that this is Trump's channel."

— Adam · 1876 — Screwball @ 1:35:36 — wry media-bias jab

"You do not become a journalist because you love the country."

— John · 1876 — Screwball @ 1:35:58 — pointed rebuttal to Pelley's grandstanding

"And from Northern Silicon Valley where we've discovered the antichrist. It's the iPhone."

— John · 1875 — Sonic Thump @ 0:25 — Classic Dvorak crackpot cold-open declaration

"Texas beef will be sold as caviar."

— Adam · 1875 — Sonic Thump @ 48:16 — Memorable Texas Slim prophecy on the cattle herd collapse

"This is Silicon Valley speak for we're screwed. The model doesn't work. Jevons paradox, man. Don't worry. When Jevons kicks in, it's all gonna be great."

— John · 1875 — Sonic Thump @ 1:25:22 — Pithy deconstruction of AI-bubble hype jargon

"Here's what I'm worried about. You get this stuff, particularly if it gets approved by the FDA, and before you know it, you're voting Democrat."

— Adam · 1875 — Sonic Thump @ 1:44:16 — Trademark No Agenda peptide gag

"I wanna go out on top. You know, like, I want people to go oh, man, I miss them. We need them right now."

— Adam · 1875 — Sonic Thump @ 2:04:54 — Candid reflection on ending the show at 20 years

"So the civil war of twenty twenty six in America played out on the battlefield of podcasts. That's all that's happening."

— Adam · 1874 — Kennel Index @ 20:05 — Pithy summation of the podcast feud narrative

"It's not a split, that's a fractioning. It's not a split."

— Adam · 1874 — Kennel Index @ 24:36 — Coining a new word to describe the No Agenda Social exodus

"This is just stupid on stilts. The Republicans themselves are the ones who responsible for this thing caving in."

— John · 1874 — Kennel Index @ 1:09:11 — Memorable phrase on the slush fund collapse

"It's in essence an intern with autism, but it does okay."

— Adam · 1874 — Kennel Index @ 1:32:00 — Vivid description of his AI clipping assistant

"How about we use the kennel index and when the kennel is full, we take a day off?"

— John · 1874 — Kennel Index @ 2:14:15 — Joke about the new donation predictor theory

"I think literally nobody cares anymore about good TV shows. We might watch and we might not. It's not like it used to be, not like the good old days where you'd be like, hey, did you see Friends last night, it was awesome."

— John · 1873 — Supercycle @ 2:41 — Pithy nostalgia for monoculture TV

"Perhaps the actual study of autism, of how many people have autism, was the scam to begin with, an inside job before it even got to the Medicare."

— Adam · 1873 — Supercycle @ 9:03 — Encapsulates the episode's autism-fraud thesis

"There is no iterating. You can't iterate. Use the same prompt twice in the same AI, it'll bring back two different results every single time. Ergo this crap is way overvalued and I think it's unusable for business."

— Adam · 1873 — Supercycle @ 52:38 — Sharp first-hand takedown of AI hype

"I remember meeting Queen Elizabeth. She may have been a reptile, but there was not much going on. I don't know how much command she had of the reptilian world."

— John · 1873 — Supercycle @ 1:01:05 — Deadpan riff on the psychic's clone conspiracy

"So he needs to be unalived, and then we got our money."

— Adam · 1873 — Supercycle @ 1:34:09 — Darkly funny take on the Trump $250 bill rule

"There's only one thing worse than not having the answers is being boring."

— John · 1872 — Lunar Economy @ 5:38 — pithy media critique of Bessent's screen test

"Interregnum, in between kingdoms. So he is by definition not a king."

— Adam · 1872 — Lunar Economy @ 19:09 — wry wordplay on Trump-as-king framing

"We, as humans, we love bad news and we love living in anger and we love living in sarcasm. And it's just, it's too bad because people get so wrapped up in it."

— Adam · 1872 — Lunar Economy @ 1:15:46 — core media-diet observation of the episode

"We're not getting people on the moon. We're getting Waymos on the moon."

— Adam · 1872 — Lunar Economy @ 1:30:10 — memorable skewering of the NASA moon-base plan

"It's our lot, but we're forced into our lot."

— John · 1872 — Lunar Economy @ 1:57:18 — self-deprecating take on their podcasting fate

"Everything on social media is fake. That's how you have to look at everything. Everything is fake. Nothing is real. It's really not even worth your time."

— Adam · 1871 — Hatman @ 1:00:45 — Pithy summary of Adam's media-skepticism worldview

"If it really was true that they're surveilling you on everything, how does this guy who the law enforcement knew about him... they're not tracking this guy. They're not that good."

— Adam · 1871 — Hatman @ 1:03:15 — Reality check on surveillance state narrative

"The official story indicates that you're incompetent. Why would you do that? Oh, we're dumb. I don't know, just throw everybody off track. Give us more money."

— John · 1871 — Hatman @ 1:04:25 — Classic Dvorak cynicism on government competence

"I think you guys are just there to spread disease. You're not actually there to combat it."

— Adam · 1871 — Hatman @ 1:38:27 — Sharp jab at global health bureaucracy during Birx clip

"Since I'm a heart patient I have to have no salt in my diet basically for the next year or two."

— John · 1871 — Hatman @ 2:36:44 — Personal health disclosure tied to the Tip of the Day

"It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning."

— Adam · 1870 — VBS @ 0:28 — Classic show opener catchphrase

"It's a republic, you dumb shit."

— John · 1870 — VBS @ 46:08 — John yelling at Tucker through the radio about democracy

"I think this is Trump finally getting around to completing the Bay of Pigs operation that Kennedy chickened out on."

— Adam · 1870 — VBS @ 1:11:20 — Adam's Cuba thesis in a single line

"He's the mechanic that fixes all the screw-ups."

— John · 1870 — VBS @ 1:13:28 — Pithy summary of Adam's Trump-fixing-blunders theory

"3,700 trades. That's HFT. They've got an algo running."

— Adam · 1870 — VBS @ 1:29:37 — Adam's deconstruction of the Trump stock trades narrative

"I have screwed a lot. I cannot ever recall using screw lube."

— John · 1870 — VBS @ 2:40:55 — Inadvertently hilarious tip-of-the-day moment

"I cannot believe that for 18 years, one thing has been my segment. One thing."

— Adam · 1869 — Trollery @ 0:45 — Adam's mock outrage over Eurovision being poached

"Why are we prosecuting a war that's harming Americans for the benefit of Israel or these Persian Gulf dictators?"

— John · 1869 — Trollery @ 22:06 — Quoting Greenwald but framing the show's Iran war thesis

"We have a Jesus boat with some diesel on it coming your way. But, you know, we got to have the Catholic guys run everything now."

— Adam · 1869 — Trollery @ 57:09 — Pithy summary of Cuba aid strategy

"You are being played on all sides."

— Adam · 1869 — Trollery @ 1:47:28 — Concise distillation of the Sharia/Israel propaganda segment

"So I was on the masthead as the anti-editor. And I wrote these columns at the back, which were always critical."

— John · 1869 — Trollery @ 2:20:38 — Rare John backstory on Mac User magazine days

"Meanwhile, I'm thinking, you guys are all so old-fashioned. I got a Bitcoin memorized in my head. I'm walking around with a full Bitcoin crossing borders."

— Adam · 1868 — Lubio @ 6:36 — Memorable jab at outdated cash-smuggling concerns

"You can't hold hands with a woman, but you can kiss a man on the street."

— Adam · 1868 — Lubio @ 8:22 — Surprising Iran cultural observation

"Well, let's be honest. It's not like the Internet has been a plus for the world, has it now?"

— John · 1868 — Lubio @ 13:42 — Classic Dvorak contrarian take

"This is America, Russia, China working together against the globalist dickheads, sorry, I just have to say it, who all circle around Carney in Ottawa."

— Adam · 1868 — Lubio @ 1:07:41 — Adam's overarching geopolitical thesis

"I love the old school traps. I put a nice little bit of Merlot infused cheese on that thing."

— John · 1868 — Lubio @ 1:39:39 — Quintessentially Dvorak mouse-trap detail

"If you're still using Windows, you deserve this."

— Adam · 1868 — Lubio @ 2:56:20 — Funny dig during tip of the day

"First you say, oh yeah, no, I like Trump, I think he's doing some good stuff, and their face goes, and then you just have to say our borders are closed and we're kicking out the undesirables."

— Adam · 1867 — Transmission Window @ 8:32 — memorable anecdote about European reactions to Trump

"It's not COVID, it's not going to spread like a pandemic virus like COVID did... we are just rewinding the movie, we're inserting a new word, we're bringing back the same puppets."

— Adam · 1867 — Transmission Window @ 20:27 — captures the show's recurring pandemic-narrative skepticism

"The government has no right to decide what I can and cannot understand or handle or see."

— Adam · 1867 — Transmission Window @ 1:51:14 — quoted Burchett line that captures the show's anti-secrecy ethos

"I can go to sleep at night knowing that I'm an honest podcaster, and I keep my pants on."

— Adam · 1867 — Transmission Window @ 2:23:03 — pithy self-deprecating contrast with OnlyFans riches

"If we hurt our own income by telling you what we actually think, don't you think that that's probably something you might want to pay attention to?"

— Adam · 1867 — Transmission Window @ 2:42:43 — core value-for-value honesty argument

"I've been misgendered."

— Adam · 1866 — Bug Bulb @ 1:10 — Cold open punchline about Adam's voice sounding higher

"We are a war nation. It's what we do. We're good at it."

— Adam · 1866 — Bug Bulb @ 55:23 — Pithy summary of US foreign policy thesis

"Every LED bulb you buy should last forever, your lifetime. Good for life. It should be good for life and none of them are except my bug bulb."

— John · 1866 — Bug Bulb @ 1:21:28 — Origin of the episode title 'Bug Bulb'

"We don't consider you listeners. We don't consider you an audience. We don't consider you lesser than. We don't consider you fans."

— Adam · 1866 — Bug Bulb @ 2:06:20 — Classic value-for-value producer ethos statement

"We've got zero fans. In fact, we have more hate listeners than fans."

— Adam · 1866 — Bug Bulb @ 2:06:33 — Quotable show philosophy

"My first wife was a barrel racer."

— John · 1866 — Bug Bulb @ 2:20:55 — Surprise reveal that stopped Adam in his tracks

"Anyone could fall prey to this. Anyone. It's not even a political spectrum anymore. It's just whatever you've been inundated with, whatever has been injected into you into your brain. We weren't built for this."

— Adam · 1865 — Wide Awakes @ 31:52 — Encapsulates the SSRI/MK Ultra thesis

"There's a mechanism in all these agencies that overwhelms you. He can't do this, you can't do that."

— John · 1865 — Wide Awakes @ 38:00 — On RFK's stalled reform efforts

"You want to look better by losing some weight, and the result is you lose your libido, you lose your butt, you lose your face, and you lose your hair. Congratulations, you weigh five pounds."

— Adam · 1865 — Wide Awakes @ 46:06 — Punchy GLP-1 side-effects riff

"There's too much money and no money coming in. I can do math. I can calculate. This is not going to work out."

— John · 1865 — Wide Awakes @ 1:35:01 — Blunt take on the AI bubble

"If I die before you, I fully endorse recreating me with AI. Tourette's and all, make sure it's all in there, make sure it's accurate."

— Adam · 1865 — Wide Awakes @ 1:37:45 — Memorable AI-resurrection pact

"The more you think about death, the happier you are as a person. I'm I'm gonna be cremated for sure. I'm gonna be thrown in the face of people I don't like."

— Guest · 1864 — Pointcast @ 4:42 — Kara Swisher quote that John uses to summarize her show — sets up the cold open mockery

"Here's a thought kids. Don't take any pills. How about that?"

— John · 1864 — Pointcast @ 56:28 — Pithy John C. Dvorak public-service announcement on the new opioid

"When you have secret laws, that's when you know your country has gone too far."

— Guest · 1864 — Pointcast @ 1:55:20 — Massey line the hosts highlight on FISA secret interpretations

"We are not slop. Maybe two old dudes, but we're not slop."

— Adam · 1864 — Pointcast @ 2:06:04 — Adam's quotable framing of No Agenda vs AI podcast slop

"Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into a clear story of leadership, results, and impact."

— Adam · 1864 — Pointcast @ 2:20:42 — Reading the Linda Lou jobs-karma plug — recurring No Agenda bit

"I think these guys are toast."

— John · 1863 — Nekkidly @ 47:28 — Pithy SPLC verdict

"I think Charles is here to negotiate the terms of surrender with Trump. It's like, you're done Charles. We got you."

— Adam · 1863 — Nekkidly @ 1:02:41 — Memorable framing of King Charles visit

"All of this stuff is fake and gay. The what you're paying at the pump now, fake and gay. All of it."

— Adam · 1863 — Nekkidly @ 1:39:18 — Classic Adam catchphrase about oil prices

"I've learned in the eighteen years we've been doing this and really has been during this show that the world that you see is usually if you turn it upside down that's the reality of it."

— Adam · 1863 — Nekkidly @ 1:45:39 — Core No Agenda worldview articulated

"So when everyone's saying Trump is nuts and he's senile and he's demented and he's a liar and he doesn't know what he's doing, I'm looking for the thing where it maybe it's exactly the opposite. So the only thing I'll defend is our analysis."

— Adam · 1863 — Nekkidly @ 1:45:57 — Adam's response to critics about defending Trump

"You're a lousy doctor. You have no concern for the patient's needs or desires."

— John · 1862 — Smear Machine @ 5:03 — JCD recounting his showdown with the hospital doctor

"When the nurses don't like the doctor, that's a problem with that doctor."

— John · 1862 — Smear Machine @ 6:18 — JCD's hospital wisdom after his ER ordeal

"Through a shell company they named — and I'm not making this up — Center Investigative Agency. CIA."

— Adam · 1862 — Smear Machine @ 19:40 — Memorable punchline on SPLC indictment

"I will lay face down in the mud so my grandchildren can walk over my back."

— Adam · 1862 — Smear Machine @ 1:56:23 — Pithy declaration of his stance on Trump-era sacrifices

"We're very unbalanced, in fact. We are who we are, and what we don't do is we don't get captured by the audience like Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, all these guys start hating Jews for no good reason."

— Adam · 1862 — Smear Machine @ 2:09:11 — Defining the show's editorial independence

"Who needs the robot when you've got Rob the constitutional lawyer who I might point out has co-written a dictionary."

— Adam · 1861 — Cone of Uncertainty @ 7:31 — Funny jab at over-reliance on AI

"You will never ever ever have a president like this in your lifetime ever again. Enjoy the ride while it lasts."

— Adam · 1861 — Cone of Uncertainty @ 8:55 — Pithy framing of the Trump era

"Oil is the symptom. Insurance is the disease. And WHO runs the insurance?"

— Adam · 1861 — Cone of Uncertainty @ 25:46 — Crystallizes the Hormuz insurance thesis

"This is so powerful it could kill the world. It could bring down... look at the diseased lung on this AI. You want it, don't you? It's marketing and it's good."

— John · 1861 — Cone of Uncertainty @ 1:45:26 — Sharp deconstruction of the Anthropic AI PR play

"It's ruining everything. It's ruining our lives... It's horrible for the arts, man."

— John · 1861 — Cone of Uncertainty @ 2:11:46 — John's recurring anti-AI lament about the art

"It turned very quickly from tax day to gay general patent strikes again day."

— Adam · 1860 — micro-dosing @ 8:42 — Coined nickname for Bessent, captures the whole segment's tone

"We're decentralized, man. Decentralized. No studios for us."

— Adam · 1860 — micro-dosing @ 19:18 — Defiant riff on surviving a new plandemic crackdown

"We want people to have their oil, we just don't want them to be paying in anything but dollars. I don't see any other reason for doing this at this point."

— Adam · 1860 — micro-dosing @ 32:17 — Pithy thesis of the entire Iran/dollar analysis

"This is no country for creepy old men."

— Adam · 1860 — micro-dosing @ 1:09:31 — Memorable Swalwell takedown line quoted approvingly

"The whole place is corrupt and seething with wickedness."

— John · 1860 — micro-dosing @ 1:12:53 — Vivid Dvorak indictment of Congress

"So what's funny about that clip is the besides the fake I love you, I love you, is the most insincere thing you can imagine, especially in that environment is the phony yes."

— John · 1402 — Sour Crude @ 4:16 — wry media critique of fake sincerity

"By the end of the winter, German people will either be vaccinated, recovered, or dead. Those are your choices, Germany."

— Adam · 1402 — Sour Crude @ 1:29:02 — stark paraphrase of the German health minister

"It's got the scam written all over it. It's just too much information, man. It's way too much information, man."

— John · 1402 — Sour Crude @ 1:38:10 — signature ivermectin skepticism catchphrase

"We're going to risk these assets with some crazy vaccine that we know nothing about, millions of dollars each individual player? No way. Get the saline. I don't believe they're vaccinated at all."

— John · 1402 — Sour Crude @ 1:53:04 — vivid conspiracy theory about pro athletes and vaccines

"She didn't read it. She didn't read it. Someone told her, hey, you know, you gotta get on board with my thing here."

— Adam · 1402 — Sour Crude @ 2:56:57 — blunt read on politician endorsing a bill she hadn't read

"I'm starting to look at this whole thing as, like, two groups of propagandists that made a $1 bet trying to I can I bet you we can convince everybody of this?"

— John · 1401 — Boost or Baste @ 24:56 — Trading Places framing of the COVID propaganda war

"Korea is that like Hey, babe. I want you to dream something up. It's like the dirty Sanchez. Let's do a Korean on the rooftop. Oh, dirty boy."

— Adam · 1401 — Boost or Baste @ 35:09 — Absurd riff on a clip's racist 'Korean on the rooftop' phrasing

"Why do we always have to wait for a catastrophe to loot? Let's just get let's go loot."

— John · 1401 — Boost or Baste @ 2:30:53 — Darkly funny summary of the San Francisco smash-and-grab

"You will own nothing and you'll be happy because you think that you own a $40,000 piece of real estate, which is just some computer code that you've convinced yourself is yours."

— Adam · 1401 — Boost or Baste @ 2:35:00 — Pithy takedown of the metaverse/NFT economy

"Hey, man. We're gonna boycott the games. We'll send our athletes, but we're boycotting you. That's just like the symptomless COVID."

— Adam · 1401 — Boost or Baste @ 2:46:51 — Sharp mockery of the Olympics diplomatic boycott

"What did we learn man what did we learn about ourselves this past week we learned that if you see a white dude in a MAGA hat, everybody thinks racist, a-hole, jackass."

— Adam · 1106 — Smart Wall @ 4:11 — Captures the episode's central media-criticism theme

"The only way it works at all is that you have to have people in isolation. The best example of a situation where propaganda would work very well and people would just believe whatever you tell them is North Korea."

— John · 1106 — Smart Wall @ 18:40 — John invoking Jacques Ellul on propaganda

"Austin does not want a wall to stop illegal entry into the country but they sure want one in the alley."

— Adam · 1106 — Smart Wall @ 33:00 — Pithy hypocrisy callout — clip of the day

"This is a CIA operation. I think this is something that they've been working on, and I think they're putting all their real smart guys on doing this to make it look smooth."

— John · 1106 — Smart Wall @ 47:40 — John's blunt take on the Venezuela coup

"She is leading a pack of young people who can vote already or next year and she is the pied piper of the millennials."

— Adam · 1106 — Smart Wall @ 2:34:06 — Adam's framing of AOC as generational force

"Frogs is green goo. That's, that's what it meant. So I think, you know, we can probably I don't know if she's the dragon, the beast, or the false prophet."

— Adam · 858 — Bite Work @ 10:50 — Pithy biblical riff on Hillary's green-goo cough

"Once it gets in there, once the media gets a hold of you and starts shaking you, you will be suckered into believing the bull crap that the media says."

— Adam · 858 — Bite Work @ 1:08:48 — Encapsulates the show's media-deconstruction thesis

"I really wanna have a transmitter on both sides of my head now. Radiating into my freaking skull."

— John · 858 — Bite Work @ 2:29:47 — Memorable skeptical take on the new AirPods

"He's got Wikipedia page written all over it unless... Unless. Exactly."

— John · 858 — Bite Work @ 2:34:28 — Wry running gag about a figure being a spook because he has no Wikipedia page

"Keep your eye on Jerabla. Jerabla blah."

— Adam · 858 — Bite Work @ 2:41:52 — Lighthearted close to the serious Turkey/Syria segment

"I would like to point out that we shake the rain stick, and a hurricane named after my first ex wife shows up."

— Adam · 768 — Terror Tuesdays @ 4:54 — absurd self-aggrandizing rain-stick claim

"This is the biggest scam I have ever seen. But the only thing I can think of, John, is is the is manipulating the the satellite data."

— Adam · 768 — Terror Tuesdays @ 14:15 — core hurricane-hoax thesis

"Why does it matter that she lied?"

— Adam · 768 — Terror Tuesdays @ 45:08 — incredulous reaction to a news anchor's framing

"Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth."

— Adam · 768 — Terror Tuesdays @ 59:18 — signature show catchphrase

"I think there is enough evidence of this. There are can you imagine a situation where you might have to choose between putting yourself in danger or killing someone else?"

— John · 768 — Terror Tuesdays @ 2:00:06 — self-driving-car ethics question to Adam