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	Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
	The Jimmy Dore Show.
	Hello, this is Jimmy.
	Who's this?
	Hello, this is Hillary Supporter.
	Hillary supporter, it's good to hear from you.
	Yes, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule of masturbating in front of aspiring female comedians in order to take my call.
	No, that's not me.
	That wasn't me.
	Oh, please.
	It's all of you.
	You all do it.
	Disgusting.
	It's been a while, Hillary supporter.
	What are you?
	What are you calling for?
	Well, I just wanted to check in on your little comedy show.
	In fact, I have a little comedy joke for you.
	Would you like to hear it?
	Sure.
	Knock, knock.
	Who's there?
	Amen.
	laughter
	Men who men are canceled in 2019.
	Ah, okay.
	Get it?
	As a joke?
	Not really.
	Well, that's because you're a man and straight men aren't funny.
	Anyway, for real, though, men are canceled.
	So just go ahead and start unplugging all those wires and cords around you and start shutting it all down.
	What?
	You and your show are canceled, dummy.
	I'm not shutting anything down, Hillary supporter.
	But that's what the saying says.
	Okay.
	Oh, honey.
	What?
	Honey.
	What?
	Oh, honey.
	You don't get it, do you?
	The future is female.
	Yeah, I've seen that t-shirt, too.
	Did you just call to read t-shirts to me?
	How dare you?
	These are hashtags, not t-shirts, idiot.
	We now have four female presidential candidates running for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
	What does that tell you?
	Under these circumstances, do you really feel it is appropriate for you to keep having a show?
	Yes, yes, I do.
	Unbelievable.
	Just unbelievable.
	Me and Steph and Ron are going to cover those campaigns just like we cover every campaign.
	Oh, really?
	Are you going to hatch a job then just like you hatchet-chopped Hillary in 2016 when you were part of the misogynistic online chorus that brought her down?
	Also, Russia and knowing chaos agent Bernie.
	I'll never forgive you, you woman-hating piece of shit.
	I supported a woman for president in 2016.
	What?
	Who?
	Jill Stein.
	She's a woman.
	Oh, you monster.
	Who do you like so far, by the way, Hillary supporter?
	Well, to me, they are all fabulous queens.
	But I think I'll need to wait and see how the process plays out.
	They mean the primaries.
	No, colonizer.
	I mean the choice of Queen Hillary.
	Each female candidate will approach Hillary's throne and then do a complex, ritualized pirouette in front of her.
	Then they will present her with a flagon of their own nectar.
	Whoever's nectar is most pleasing to Her Highness's palate is chosen, and then she is anointed by Trader Joe's olive oil, and she is the nominee.
	I see.
	But they're all so good.
	Elizabeth Warren seems like she's friends with Hillary.
	That's exciting.
	Yeah, I think she's.
	I'll be surprised if she's actually, you know, following.
	Okay, shut up.
	Kirsten Gillibrand wants to make it illegal to boycott Israel, which is in line with Hillary's whole neocon APAC thing.
	Uh-huh.
	Kamala Harris is a woman of color, which is amazing.
	It's so amazing.
	Yeah, it's amazing how much she loved prisons and keeping people in there.
	Oh, who gives a shit?
	She was putting men in jail.
	She was doing us a favor, quite honestly.
	Thanks, Queen.
	Let me guess.
	You like Tulsi Gabbard, don't you?
	Yes, I like her because she's already stuck her chin out to do the right thing and stand up for a progressive.
	Stop interrupting me.
	How typical that you choose the cutie pies with your cutesy flower necklace.
	She's Hawaiian.
	And I support her for her policies, not for superficial reasons.
	This vague sense of dislike based on surface snap judgments.
	People had that for Hillary in 2016, and it made you livid.
	Stop it.
	Stop what you're doing right now.
	It makes me sick.
	It's sickening.
	Oh, I will be watching you like a hawk, mister.
	You better watch yourself, because if you say one wrong thing, I am going to...
	Oh, one of your so-called comedic jokes.
	Fine.
	Who's there?
	Jill Stein.
	Jill Stein.
	It's the Jimmy Dore show.
	The show for...
	Up-minded, lowly-lovered lapis.
	The kind of people that are...
	It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say...
	It's hard to talk when you're keybagging.
	And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
	Oh, my God.
	It's Jimmy Dore.
	Everybody, welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show, our next live Jimmy Dore show, May 3rd in Burbank, California, May 18th in Austin, Texas.
	Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com for a list of all our live dates.
	Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
	Hey, Seth.
	I don't hate to start it off with sad news, but do you know Carlos Sanchez, who first played the role of Juan Valdez in the coffee commercial starting in 1969, is dead after 50 straight years of explosive diarrhea.
	Hey, did you hear Joe Biden went to Michigan?
	I think if he plays his cards right, he's got a good chance for being the nominee in 2020 for the GOP.
	Am I right?
	Come on.
	I mean, 2020 election has already begun.
	Our election seasons are a lot like sitcoms, aren't they?
	They go on way too long, and I wish we did it more like the British.
	Hey, Kamala Harris announced she's running.
	You know that opening statement Peter Griffin gave when he was running for mayor in that episode of Family Guy.
	That had more substance than Kamala Harris's presidential commercial.
	Truth is officially stranger than fiction.
	Hey, Bernie Sanders got a standing ovation at a college in South Carolina.
	And you know why?
	Because he's too old and he can't win the South.
	In a recent interview, Mike Pence compared President Trump to Martin Luther King Jr.
	Yeah, true.
	He later issued a retraction saying he really meant L. Jolson.
	After 11 years of Sarah Palin, that's how long she's been a national figure.
	After 11 years of Sarah Palin, I've come to embrace the Viet Cong's opinion of John McCain.
	Have you heard this?
	The inspiring first jobs of U.S. billionaires inheriting billions from billionaire parents.
	That's an inspiring job, huh?
	Well, I got to tell you, consumer confidence, my consumer confidence is at a point where I'm confident I can no longer consume.
	Another bombshell report on Russia Gate, this time from BuzzFeed, has to be walked back after special counsel Robert Mueller's office contradicts it.
	Shocker, the FBI, blurts out that their mission is to sabotage progressive politicians.
	Not kidding.
	Plus, we're not all crooked, says CNN host after the Russia Gate BuzzFeed debacle.
	Plus, we have phone calls today from Liam Neeson.
	Hillary supporter calls in.
	Plus, Bernie Sanders and Chris Christie.
	Plus, a lot lot more.
	That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
	Jimmy Dore Show.
	So guess what?
	Big news: BuzzFeed dropped a bombshell, bombshell.
	It's a bombshell.
	Walls are closing in.
	Bombshell.
	And it said, the news that Trump told his longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress is the culmination of more than a year of BuzzFeed news reporting.
	And this is how we got there.
	And the article says President Trump directed his attorney to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower meeting.
	And people went nuts.
	Look at that.
	Lawmakers vow to investigate Trump after bombshell report.
	The House Intelligence Committee will investigate a BuzzFeed news report revealing that President Trump ordered his longtime personal attorney to lie to Congress.
	Also, look at this.
	Democrats hit Trump with impeachment threats after Bobshell report on Michael Cohen.
	Senator Dyad Weitzeid suggested the president could be a criminal in light of BuzzFeed's report on his former attorney and Trump Jower Moscow deal.
	Here's what they here's what they, you can't read this.
	I'll read it to you.
	It's just more of that.
	It's just more over-the-top stuff that the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to look in him and blah, blah, blah.
	But then guess what happened?
	Confusion.
	Mueller disputes the bombshell.
	So you see how this happens, right?
	So we've at least 50 times, and that's not an exaggeration, at least 50 times a major story has broken.
	Other people re-report it, and that story falls apart when it comes to Russia Gate.
	Sometimes reporters get fired.
	Sometimes reporters get disciplined.
	Most of the time, no one does.
	This will be another one of those times.
	So Mueller comes out and disputes it.
	And here's what he said.
	This is the tweet from the author of the article, Jason Leopold.
	He tweeted this out.
	And this is what was said.
	A spokesperson for special counsel Robert Mueller, Peter Carr, disputed BuzzFeed News Report.
	But quote, BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding Michael Cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate.
	So ho, Katie, by the door.
	Everybody's going crazy.
	And now let's bring in Aaron Mate, who's been doing the best work on the Russiagate narrative and debunking it.
	And all he does is ask for evidence.
	Hi, Aaron.
	How are you?
	Hey, Jimmy.
	So your latest piece was in the nation.
	And we went over that just a few days ago.
	Here we are just a few days later.
	Same situation, bombshell report.
	And it turns out it didn't happen.
	But the weird thing, Aaron, is that BuzzFeed is still sticking by this story.
	Did you know that?
	Well, they're doing some more reporting, they say.
	So that doesn't surprise you.
	Look, you know, RussiaGate has persisted by a stubborn refusal to look at the actual facts.
	And so I'm not surprised to see an outlet continue that trend.
	You know, what's amazing is that they're doing so in the face of Robert Mueller denying the core of their story.
	But the problem is, you know, they've been encouraged by media colleagues that are, you know, that have been playing along and doing the same thing.
	Even last night, I was watching MSNBC and there was this like this weird refusal to come to grips with the fact that Robert Mueller, who never weighs in on anything, felt so compelled to weigh in on the story that he came out and he even denied it, which he's never done, which is just unprecedented and speaks to how ridiculous this story was, which, by the way, it wasn't hard to see.
	As some of us immediately pointed out on Twitter when the story came out, Michael Tracy, Glenn Greenwald, myself, Max Blumenthal, plenty of people pointed out to all the holes in the story because there were many.
	I mean, just, I mean, it's hard to start with which one, but just the motive for Trump to tell Cohen to lie to Congress about a deal that went nowhere, never happened.
	Yeah, that's what's exactly like that doesn't even make sense that Trump would tell him, as dumb as Trump may be, I don't think he's that dumb.
	He would A, make sure he had lawyer client privilege if he said something like that to him, or B, have someone else say it to him.
	Yes.
	And the funny thing is, is that this is another thing in the BuzzFeed story.
	They said that Robert Mueller was able to piece together that Cohen was lying and that Trump had directed him to lie via documents, emails, text messages, and other and witnesses from the Trump, from the Trump organization.
	So you're saying that if Trump basically committed an impeachable offense, which is telling Cohen to lie to Congress, that Trump and his people are going to let that be documented in text messages, email documents?
	Like, it doesn't make any sense.
	So like the motive, the means, none of it made sense.
	And that's just one of many holes there.
	But yet, look at the reaction, Jimmy.
	I mean, we all saw it in real time.
	As you say, news networks were, you know, talking about impeachment.
	Democrats were talking about hearings.
	Everybody was tweeting out, boom, this is it.
	You know, walls are closing in.
	Claws are closing in.
	They're closing in.
	Walls are closing in.
	But yet, you know, I guess, you know, this is, as you said, this has happened so many times, but never before has it happened with Robert Mueller feeling compelled to come out and deny it, which is just pretty extraordinary.
	So that's the thing that I wanted to try to figure out with you why this incorrect bogus story about Russia Gate.
	There's at least 50 major bogus Russia Gate stories that have had to have been retracted, right?
	Going back to Russia invaded the power grid in Vermont, you know, going back to that stuff.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, sure.
	And that story's still up.
	Anyway, so they've this, this, this keeps happening.
	You think they would, why this story, because nobody gives a shit about the other 50 stories.
	Why is this story making such a big deal?
	Because, you know, that Guardian story that was completely ridiculous, it was almost a joke.
	We debunked it here by Luke Harding.
	The last thing that they just said on Manafort, he was actually doing the opposite.
	He was working for the West's interests in the Ukraine.
	And now that, so, but none of that really made as big of a splash that it had to be retracted.
	This one did.
	And it's because Mueller, right?
	That's why people are making a big deal.
	Exactly.
	And I think it's because, I mean, as you mentioned before, Democrats were coming out calling for impeachment.
	And, you know, Chris Murphy, the senator from Connecticut, says that, you know, Mueller needs to show us what he has now because if this is true, then we need to begin impeachment proceedings.
	So, you know, if you're Mueller, I think it's pretty hard.
	It's pretty hard to sit by as people from Congress are demanding that you speak out.
	Yeah.
	Which says that maybe if Congress had, instead of, instead of fueling all this, if Congress had demanded answers earlier.
	For example, I mean, the whole central question here and the whole thing that what so many liberals believe, especially those who watch MSNBC, is that Trump is literally a Kremlin asset.
	Yes.
	So, I mean, if that's true, then don't you think we should Mueller, if Mueller's found evidence of that, which is what everybody is so convinced of, that Mueller should tell us that as well, that literally we have a Kremlin asset in the White House.
	Yeah, you wouldn't think that they would sit on that.
	Right, that there's literally a Manchurian candidate inside the White House, but we're going to, you know what?
	There's a time people need to know this, and it's not now.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Like, that speaks to what the utility of Russia Gate is.
	It's a performance.
	It's a bunch of pundits and politicians who, you know, who've convinced themselves when convenient that this is what it is.
	But it's like, ultimately, it's being done to put on a show, to distract from real issues, to avoid the job of having to be a real resistance to stand up to Trump in a real way for pundits to get ratings for themselves and to avoid doing their jobs and talking about real issues that go beyond hacked emails and Russian social media.
	And, well, it would be one thing if this was coming from the right wing or something, but it's coming from the left.
	And even my friends in the progressive left have repeated this breathlessly.
	Every fucking stupid story, they just uncritically repeat no matter how many times these stories get proven to be bullshit.
	There's no, absolutely no evidence.
	And oh my God.
	And why is it important?
	Well, it's important because then exactly what you just said, Aaron, things that are important aren't being talked about.
	It sucks all the energy.
	We never really did an autopsy on the 2016 Democratic primary.
	We never put things in place to make sure that didn't happen again.
	How do we know the next millionaire who runs for president isn't going to make a donation to the DNC and then run that goddamn thing the whole time?
	So we're not talking about anything.
	And the people who actually did cheat in the 260, we know for a fact cheated.
	Down in Brazil, I leaked a question to Hillary Clinton.
	We know that's a fact.
	Nobody pays a price for any of that stuff.
	Right.
	And now I just want to show you this.
	Now, this was extra ironic because BuzzFeed tweeted this out just a few days earlier.
	27 people who fell for fake news, that'll make you faith bomb.
	It's kind of ironic.
	And then here's a good tweet by somebody named Aaron Matei.
	He says, I got some more people for you.
	Yeah, it was too easy.
	It was too easy.
	It was too easy.
	So that's the irony is that I've been pointing this out is that the establishment screams about fake news, fake news, and politicians dream about fake news.
	The biggest purveyors of fake news is the establishment press and the government.
	The government has always been the biggest purveyor of fake news.
	Okay.
	That's why the establishment media, that's why the media exists.
	So we can debunk their lies.
	Okay.
	Except now the media and the government are owned by the same fucking people, which is why the media pushes the same goddamn lies that the fucking politicians do because they have the same donors.
	Chuck Todd does a fact-checking segment sponsored by Boeing.
	Literally sponsored by Boeing.
	He's our nation's number one newsman, and he never finished college.
	And now you know why they chose him because he doesn't have a goddamn problem with that.
	That's why he chose.
	That's why he fits the suit, baby.
	He's William Hurton, broadcast news, Chuck Todd.
	He doesn't see a problem with that shit.
	Just like Barack Obama didn't see a problem with the banks being bigger.
	He didn't see it as a problem.
	So it doesn't get fixed.
	So the military industrial complex's hold on our media never gets taken care of because they hire guys like Chuck Todd who don't see a problem with it.
	So getting back to this story, here's Max Blumenthal.
	Glenn Greenwald tweeted this out.
	He says, this is correct.
	Skepticism about the BuzzFeed story is fully warranted because it contains assertions from anonymous sources with zero evidence to accompany them, which is how almost all the RussiaGate reporting has been reported.
	Anonymous sources with no evidence to back it up.
	None.
	That's what we've been complaining about here.
	And they go, well, Jimmy, what are you going to do when evidence does come out that Trump?
	I go, then I'll fucking report it.
	That's what I'll do.
	Oh, I'm going to ignore it.
	So Glenn goes on to say, but BuzzFeed itself has long been doing serious investigative journalism and has some great reporters.
	Well, that's nice.
	And then Max Blumenthal, he retweets that and says, agree that the actual substance of the piece or lack thereof should be the focus.
	BuzzFeed editors choosing to go with someone with a history of fabricating sources to run multiple dubious RussiaGate stories with anonymous sources, including this one, can be addressed later.
	So he was kind of, he was kind of taking some of the sugar out of Glenn's fucking tweet there.
	Unfortunately, Max is right.
	I mean, see, Glenn's right that like BuzzFeed, of course, has done great work.
	And even on Russia Gate.
	I mean, for example, when Michael Cohen first came out and admitted to lying to Congress about this failed Trump-Moscow deal, part of the reason why it wasn't such a big bombshell is because BuzzFeed had indeed reported on it months earlier, and they deserve credit for that.
	And we learned from BuzzFeed that, you know, that this deal went nowhere and that it was, it was, instead of being like a high-level illicit transatlantic Kremlin-Trump finance scheme, it just was like a slapstick mafia comedy between Michael Cohen and his colleague at the Trump organization, Felix Sater, who were like going, who were going back and forth about how they couldn't get anything going when it comes to this Trump-Moscow deal, so much so that Cohen had to write to a general email address at the Kremlin because he didn't know who else to write.
	And they responded by telling him, Sorry, we can't help you, but come visit us in six months at this public forum if you want to come.
	And by the way, that's the extent, like that's the extent of the Kremlin role in this Trump-Moscow deal, literally a phone call from an assistant, but that's been made into oh, Kremlin-Trump cooperation.
	But yeah, but at the same time, BuzzFeed has on Russia Gate done some really dubious stories, including one there was this big one.
	And Jason Leopold, one of the reporters on the story, he was on this.
	It was about how the Kremlin was transferring money to its embassy in the U.S. right around the time of the election.
	Well, it turns out that money was to finance Russian government operations so that Russians abroad could take part in the Russian elections.
	So, you know what I mean?
	Yeah, but I know what you mean.
	And then, of course, it got reported the exact opposite.
	Oh, they're reporting that money to affect our elections.
	Yeah, you know, people tweeted out with like red alert signs and stuff.
	And it's, it's all, you know, it's, it's all garbage.
	And no matter how many times this happens, you know, it keeps going.
	But the fact that Robert Mueller, again, has come out and denied this one is different.
	And, you know, I mean, I've said this before that maybe things will change, but no.
	Maybe things actually will change now.
	You never know.
	No, so here's the story, by the way.
	And I got that screenshot.
	I got this about an hour ago.
	It's still up.
	This story is, they're standing by this story.
	President Trump directed his attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about the Moscow Tower.
	And there's that guy, Jason Leopold, and he has a very shady past.
	And in 2002, Salon.com removed a story by him as a freelancer for salon.com and it investigated a piece he wrote about Enron, including an allegation of plagiarism against him.
	They say Leopold distributed an account of events that was riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations.
	Ultimately, Salon said it reluctantly had to conclude that Leopold's piece carried an instance of plagiarism, despite his strong denials.
	After the scandal, Leopold wrote a book in which he said that he had engaged in lying, cheated, and backstabbing in his life.
	He battled mental illness and struggled with substance abuse.
	I have a checkered past, and I was hoping that by coming clean about my own past, it would allow me to move forward, Leopold wrote, according to the 2005 article in the Washington Post.
	But in 2006, Leopold found himself again in controversy.
	He reported for truthout.org that then top White House aide Karl Rove had told President Bush and other administration officials that he was going to be indicted in relation to the Valerie Plam affair.
	But Leopold and Leopold cited people knowledgeable about these discussions and reported Rove, quote, indictment is imminent, but Rove never faced any charges.
	So that was a big boner he pulled after he got caught pulling other boners.
	And then in 2015, profile of Leopold in the New York Times noted that he has, quote, been through a series of scandals, but the Times also noted that Leopold was able to make a comeback by breaking major stories uncovered through his submission of Freedom of Information Act requests.
	In fact, he earned the nickname featured in his Twitter profile of FOIA terrorists, which is freedom of information access terrorists.
	Whoa.
	So that's good.
	That's good.
	Look, he did real reporting.
	So he went, he fired, he followed those things and he did some great reporting.
	And so he had some problems in the past.
	That's great.
	Actually, that's great.
	I'm happy to see that.
	His and Anthony's work.
	So this is, according to BuzzFeed, they say him and the other guy, Anthony's work, has been proven to be true at every turn.
	And it's interesting that these personal attacks are surfacing only now as the facts become more dangerous for the individuals involved.
	BuzzFeed News stands by this story 100%.
	Aaron, I got to ask you again.
	Again, it doesn't make sense that Trump would do that.
	Why do you think they're doubling down like this?
	Okay, so to be clear, this statement right here, you just read it, that was issued before the special counsel's denial.
	So that statement there about.
	Oh, really?
	I didn't know that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So that came before Mueller's denial because that came in response to that CNN story that you quoted about Leopold's past.
	And, you know, look, I think it's admirable that he's come forward with his struggles with drug addiction and mental illness and that he's gotten past them.
	And he has done really important work, especially through his FOIA stuff, you know, getting documents from the government.
	He's been really impressive.
	But yes, I mean, but that doesn't mean his past is above scrutiny.
	And I do think that that checkered record, I think, is relevant in light of his checkered relevant.
	His past is relevant in light of this story.
	Yeah, it is.
	So his mental illness and stuff, I mean, like, that to me is irrelevant, but past issues with mental illness, but his checkered record journalistically on that Rove story, especially, which is really bad.
	And also his record now, as Max pointed out on Russia Gate, you know, I mentioned that story about the money.
	There also was one where he linked Putin to all these different assassinations, of which there actually is not.
	Oh, that was his article.
	I read that thing.
	Oh, I had a friend send me that.
	Look at them.
	I'm like, are you kidding me?
	This piece of shit article.
	Yeah.
	It's tough because reporters need space to do their stories, and it's okay to make mistakes.
	But unfortunately, and this is why, I mean, like, I think the issue goes beyond one person and one outlet, which is that RussiaGate has incentivized just an error-ridden media culture where you can put out, you know, story after story from that Luke Harding story you mentioned about Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy three times to,
	you know, this one in Cuba we saw recently where this Russian supersonic weapon was accused of injuring U.S. diplomats.
	It turns out that the likely culprit is crickets.
	And it was interesting that it only affected U.S. diplomats, like no one else.
	Isn't that weird?
	It didn't make any sense.
	You know, and there was that story on where both CNN and MSNBC, and this is something that Glenn Remwald's written about extensively.
	They both independently confirmed that Donald Trump Jr. was sent the WikiLeaks emails before they were publicly released.
	It turns out that he was sent them after they were publicly released.
	And as Glenn has tirelessly pointed out, they've never explained how they were, these two outlets were both able to independently confirm this ultimately.
	That was false.
	That was false.
	And then we just have to say that.
	So what do you think that we have?
	Go ahead.
	We have the daily suspicion that Trump is a Russian agent.
	And we have, you know, many of our liberal progressive media colleagues convinced that there was this Trump-Russia conspiracy.
	It doesn't dawn on anybody that there's been a total of zero indictment so far alleging a Trump-Russia conspiracy or really anything about the 2016 campaign at all.
	And then no evidence has come out.
	But yet, you know, people like us, Jimmy, are still considered to be on the fringe for putting this all out.
	And, you know, if there's a silver lining in these debunked catastrophes like yesterday's story with BuzzFeed, it's that maybe people will keep hitting rock bottom enough where they realize.
	that maybe it's time to rethink things yeah that's not that's never going to happen i I wish, I wish.
	I really, I really do wish.
	Well, here's another point that Glenn Greenwald makes, Aaron, is that, so I would say there's 50 major stories who have been retracted about Russia Gate that were incorrect.
	And you go, well, okay, so what?
	So they make, they correct them, right?
	Well, as Glenn Greenwald points out, if it was just honest mistakes, you would expect the mistakes, half the mistakes to be wrong in one direction and half the mistakes to be wrong in the other direction.
	Exactly.
	But it's never, it's 50 stories.
	They're all wrong in the exact same direction.
	Yeah.
	And that's why this is propaganda by the establishment.
	So either they're knowing, either the reporters are knowingly doing the bidding of the establishment, or that's what the establishment gatekeepers are letting through, or that's what they're encouraging.
	And as we all know, most reporters do self-censorship all the time.
	Exactly right.
	I was thinking today, I was like, you know, if you're an anchor on MSNBC, like say, for example, Chris Hayes, who I know you like to pick on, and I like to pick on him, not as much as you do, but still sometimes.
	If you're him, like you're, he's a smart guy, and he's been peddling this nonsense for two years, almost never shows any skepticism.
	Like sometimes it kind of peeks through, right?
	Does it ever cross your mind?
	Like, geez, like, what if this entire thing I've been peddling without questioning it for two years is totally wrong.
	Like, what will that, what might that do for my journalistic credibility?
	Like, do they even consider that?
	Does that cross their mind?
	Or have they, you know, as you suggest, have they internalized the establishment narrative on the stories to such an extent that that thought doesn't even enter their brain?
	I mean, it's a fascinating question.
	I'd love to know the answer one day when it's all over.
	I mean, I know how Chris, I'll tell you right now, my theory is that the way Chris Hayes justifies, like he was tweeting out today, I don't know if you saw, he's screaming about that there was never any consequences for people to push the Iraq war.
	Right.
	Today, that's Chris Hayes' tweet today.
	Chris, you work at a network that fires people who tell the truth about war.
	And if you ever did, they'd fire your fucking ass too.
	And you know it.
	They fired Jesse Ventura and Phil Donahue, the only two guys who told the truth about it.
	Yet you willingly take their fucking money and you take selfies with fucking Bill Crystal and David Frum.
	David From, one of the architects.
	So the fact that you're upset.
	And the reason you're so upset about the Iraq war and that nobody ever paid consequences, except you'll never actually confront any of those motherfuckers, Chris, because they sign your paychecks and they're your best fucking friends.
	Yeah, Max Limenthal tweeted a response to Chris's tweet with just that picture of Chris posing with David Frum.
	David Frum.
	Did you see the language Chris used?
	It sounded like he was doing a Shakespeare soliloquy by unmitted and keenly teeming and keenly.
	Anyway, that speaks to the performative aspect of all this where you have to, like there's a lot of performative anguish to sort of keep your woke credentials while you're still spinning some obnoxious stuff.
	Yeah, that's exactly what that is.
	Someone described Chris's tweet as an ornament.
	Yeah, his outrage at the Iraq war is an ornament he wears.
	Yeah, that's very well put.
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	Hello.
	I'm naming names.
	So shut your saucebox before I cram a potato down your foolhole, Nancy boy.
	In case you didn't get what I just told you, let me reiterate that I'm also prepared to methodically shove hundreds of uncooked elbow macaronis up your nose flats.
	The piece.
	Is this former governor Chris Christie?
	Wow, you're quick.
	Not.
	You like that?
	I picked that up from Chris Jr.
	You say not after something you don't really mean, and then it's funny.
	But what if you say not after not?
	Is that like a double negative, not?
	Yeah, I don't really know, Chris.
	Maybe that's because you think you're smart and you're not.
	Well, I am, and I can prove it.
	I just released excerpts of my memory moires.
	You mean memoirs?
	Let me finish.
	Sorry, sorry.
	Go ahead.
	No, no, that's the name of my memoirs.
	Let me finish.
	May I go on?
	Yes.
	May I go on?
	Won't be out until the fall.
	Anywho, my new book, it's making waves.
	Throw the people the wrong way.
	You know why?
	You name names?
	I name names.
	I don't just name names.
	I actually call them names.
	I literally call the names I named names.
	I don't understand, Chris.
	Let me untie this package for you and connect the dots.
	And then turn it up a ramp and take it off the box onto the page, okay?
	Okay, did you name Michael Flynn?
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Did you already read some excerpts?
	This is what I said about Michael Flynn.
	I called him a Russian lackey and future felon.
	Now, that's name of the name.
	And then calling that name names.
	Let's have a look at this.
	Okay, what else?
	I name Omarosa, Flynn, Jessings, Kushner, and Tillerson.
	I call them all Riffras.
	You know what that means?
	That they're less than desirable?
	That's right, I shot.
	Especially that Kushner brat.
	All because I sent his corrupt dad up the river.
	They're all a bunch of amateurs, scripters, weaklings, and convicted felons.
	But you'd still take a job from Trump if he offered it, right?
	Oh, yeah, no, but it's perfect.
	Have a nice day.
	Yuck.
	Ha ha ha.
	Ha ha ha.
	One of the most unfortunate things about the Russia Gate propaganda of the last two years is that a lot of people who consider themselves on the left have, for some reason, forgotten history, have embraced the FBI and the CIA, right?
	And as you know, I like to say about the CIA, they murder, torture, And knock off democratically elected governments before breakfast.
	What's not to like about them?
	And the FBI, I try to tell people that if you're a leftist organization, they are going to infiltrate you and they're going to ruin you because that's what they do.
	They're right-wing and their extension of corporations and the military-industrial complex.
	You know, people look at you like you're some kind of a hippie, right?
	If you say stuff like that.
	So here's the former acting director of the FBI, and watch what he just blurts out.
	He just blurts out on Fox News.
	Watch this.
	You take the election and you take the House and you now convert all the committees that you have to investigating various aspects of the president of the United States.
	So he's talking about the Democrats because they just took power in the House.
	He says, when you take the House and you take all the committees and now you're going to start investigating the president of the United States, he means the Democrats.
	He thinks Democrats are progressives.
	So he calls them progressives.
	And watch this.
	Here we go.
	I'll start again from the beginning.
	Here we go.
	When you take the election and you take the house and you now convert all the committees that you have to investigating various aspects of the president of the United States, then your lifeblood has to be to react to stories.
	So you're going to see more stories planted so that all these committees can have a lot of work to do.
	So he just said, former director of the FBI, assistant director of the FBI, said this story was planted.
	That's what he's saying.
	To go get, that's what he's saying.
	This story was planted so they could go get the president.
	So they could now use the machinations of government to investigate the president.
	That's what he's saying.
	And who's got the control of government right now?
	Progressives.
	He means Democrats.
	Democrats.
	Now watch the next thing he says.
	I think this is just more of the same.
	And I think we can expect more of this because quite honestly, the electorate in some places is putting more and more progressives and self-described socialists in positions.
	And ironically, years ago when I first got into the FBI, one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try and keep these people out of government.
	Why?
	Because we would end up with massive dysfunction and massive disinformation and massive misinformation.
	And it seems to me that's where we're at today.
	When I got into the FBI, it was our mission to keep these people, progressives, out of government.
	The assistant director of the F FBI just told you that your own government is working against its own citizens to keep them out of government.
	He said the electorate is now putting more of these progressives into power.
	He said the electorate, that's you, the citizens, are expressing themselves through the poll, through the ballot box.
	You know, the thing that's sacred in America, that we get to vote.
	One man, one vote.
	We have a democracy, a representative republic.
	He's saying it was his job.
	Somebody inside the government decided that a lot of people who are citizens don't get to have representation in the government.
	Who said that?
	The F fucking BI does that.
	That's who these people are, you numbskulls.
	Ass wipes on the left, even YouTubers tweeting out praise for Mueller.
	And oh, we're going to have a rally for Mueller.
	What a fucking, what a waste.
	What a waste.
	You use your YouTube show to prop up the FBI?
	What a fucking silly human being.
	Anyway, let me bring in Aaron.
	Aaron, what do you make of that?
	Yeah, I mean, the one thing I think that he gets wrong is when he talks about the job of the FBI to keep out progressivists being in the past tense.
	Yes.
	Because I still think that they're doing that now.
	And I think what, you know, to what you're talking about, Jimmy, I think what I think a lot of our leftist allies and friends have missed is that how RussiaGate is very much has been used and will continue to be used to empower those very forces that want to keep progressive politics out of the U.S. government and out of U.S. political life.
	I mean, just last week, we learned something extraordinary about what the FBI has done in this whole Trump-Russia probe when we learned from the New York Times that the FBI opened up a counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump as a possible Russian agent.
	Now, the story alludes to no evidence as being the basis for these concerns.
	So, you know, a few years ago, we heard stories about FBI agents intercepting wiretaps between Trump officials and Russians.
	Later on, like that was debunked.
	And I think now those stories were clearly planted to help establish a predicate for the FBI's decision to open up an investigation of Trump.
	So the Times makes clear there's no actual, there's no evidence as the basis for that suspicion of Trump by the FBI.
	What it lists, though, as the basis for that suspicion is extraordinary.
	They talk about things like the FBI was alarmed because Trump was praising Russia on the campaign trail and was saying nice things about Vladimir Putin.
	They talk about the fact FBI was alarmed that the Republicans changed their platform to be softer on Russia, which, by the way, is not even true.
	All that happened is that a meaningless platform committee rejected an amendment and approved language that was pretty much putting it in line with what Obama's policy at the time when it comes to Ukraine and sending weapons there.
	And let me just say this.
	If he really was a Manchurian candidate or an agent of Russia, boy, he certainly is the shittiest at throwing the dogs off the scent.
	Am I right?
	He's there out of the campaign trail giving praise to Vladimir Putin.
	What the F?
	Are you kidding me?
	What kind of an agent would give himself away like that?
	Not to mention what kind of agent then gets into office and then becomes a more hawkish president on Russia than Barack Obama.
	Like, for example, that very issue of Ukraine, which was the subject of this meaningless platform about sending weapons.
	Well, you know, like, so the platform was changed to be a bit more ambiguous.
	But when Trump came to office, when he's actually in power where it matters, he approved the weapon sales to Ukraine that Obama had rejected.
	And that's among many things that Trump has done that is just far more hawkish on Russia than Obama was.
	And so the point here is, you know, so these political views of the FBI, and there's been a couple of people to point this out.
	Glenn Greenwald wrote a great piece on this, Jack Goldsmith of Law Fair.
	There's been a few people.
	But basically, the New York Times is revealing that the FBI decided because it didn't like Donald Trump's political views on the campaign trail after he took office that they were going to open an investigation of him as a Russian asset.
	That that was deemed a reasonable basis of suspicion.
	So the question, obviously, even if you don't like Trump or you don't agree with him on Russia, what is going to stop the FBI from doing that again if, say, Bernie Sanders is in power or if Tulsi Gabbard is in power, you know, and all of a sudden Tulsi Gabbard says, I don't want to intervene in Syria.
	I don't want to intervene in Libya.
	Is that going to be the basis for opening up an investigation of her for being a possible Syrian agent or something?
	I mean, it's like, it's nuts, but yet we on the left Who have been cheering on the FBI and people like Mueller, we're not just not opposing that, we're actually co-signing it.
	And I don't think it's that intentional.
	I think people are just so out of sorts because they can't handle the fact that Trump won, I mean, which it was very depressing and it's still very scary.
	But the way to respond to that is to respond to it with a real resistance, not to put our faith in the very same unelected bureaucrats who have been targeting real progressives throughout, you know, for decades.
	And that's as this FBI official who you played there, that's really part of their mission.
	So why we want to empower them is beyond me.
	So now, if MSNBC was actually progressive, they would take this piece of video and they would run it on a loop for 24 hours, seven days a week.
	But they're not, right?
	Because they actually hire these same people as experts on their shows.
	They're riddled with CIA people at MSNBC.
	And that's how they like it.
	Yeah.
	And they're attacking real progressives like Jill Stein.
	I mean, if you look at the Jill Stein coverage on a place like MSN Missy or CNN, it's all about, you know, it's innuendo about her being possibly working with the Russians or at least serving Russia's agenda.
	You know, I mean, to these people, to fake leftists, to fake progressives, real progressives are a real threat.
	And that's why I think they'll be more than happy to at least sit by as law enforcement agencies go after progressives, as this FBI official laid bare.
	Thank you very much, Aaron.
	Very well said.
	This is an ending.
	BuzzFeed's still standing by this, by the way.
	So this, again, there'll be another story tomorrow.
	That's an walls are closing in.
	Bombshell.
	Walls will be closing in.
	You know, the election's in freaking two years now.
	So not even.
	You know, it's in the 23 months, right?
	So how many times can you say the wall is closing in?
	I mean, they've been saying the walls are closing in for like, I don't know, two years.
	Like at what point do you realize, well, maybe the walls aren't closing in.
	You know, it's you have to admire their dedication to that one phrase.
	Donald Trump's done.
	He's done.
	There's no question about that.
	He's done.
	Breaking news.
	A bombshell.
	Today is a turning point.
	Today was historically bad for President Trump today.
	It was a turning point.
	Turning point.
	We're at a turning point here.
	The beginning of the end for the Trump presidency.
	The beginning of the end.
	And breaking news.
	We have another bombshell.
	Mike Pence might have to assume the office of the presidency.
	The call for impeachment.
	Rumblings of the word impeachment.
	Breaking news.
	Another bombshell out of the White House.
	I believe this is the beginning of the end.
	I do too.
	It's really the beginning of the end.
	The beginning of the end.
	He may be feeling the walls closing in on him.
	All the walls closing in on him.
	The walls closing in on him.
	Breaking news, a new bombshell.
	One astrologer says this means the beginning of the end for President Donald Trump.
	The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
	Trump will resign.
	Trump is going to resign.
	Is this the tipping point?
	I know we've said it over and over.
	You think this is a tipping point?
	And over and over.
	This is a tipping point.
	And over and over.
	Breaking news, President Trump off the rails.
	This is the beginning of the end today.
	It's the beginning of the end.
	It reminds me a lot of the last days of Nixon.
	Breaking news tonight, new bomb show.
	This is the beginning of the end.
	The beginning of the end.
	The walls are closing in.
	The walls closing in.
	The walls closing in.
	Breaking overnight bombshells.
	This is a very dramatic day, and I think it might be near a tipping point.
	Do you think this is a tipping point?
	This is unbelievable.
	This is remarkable.
	Have you ever seen anything like this?
	His presidency is crippled.
	December 1st, 2017.
	You can mark it down.
	This is the day that everything changed.
	We begin with the bombshell.
	The beginning of the end?
	The beginning of the end.
	In fact, if this were a football game, we're in the third quarter.
	May even be the beginning of the end.
	We begin tonight with the bombshell.
	Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble.
	Trump is in trouble.
	The president will resign.
	Another hour, another bombshell.
	This is a tipping point.
	Trump's going down.
	Now, if you notice, this isn't all from one month or one week.
	They're showing you month by month of his presidency.
	Now we're into March 2018.
	This president could be impeached.
	I do not think the president will serve out his term.
	Resignation.
	Resignation.
	I don't think this president is going to serve out his term.
	Mr. Trump will not serve out his term.
	He will not serve out his term.
	No way, no how.
	Breaking news, absolute bombshells.
	I think Donald Trump is in trouble.
	Donald Trump is on.
	He's done.
	And it's over.
	It's over.
	The walls closing in.
	The walls closing in.
	This is going to be the Achilles Hill.
	Breaking news tonight.
	I expect Trump to depart.
	This week will be the watershed week.
	Trump is in big trouble.
	Trump's in a lot of trouble.
	It's a sign of a terrified old man who feels the walls closing in.
	The walls are increasingly closing in on him.
	Tonight, the walls are closing in.
	Today changed everything.
	This is the beginning of the end.
	It's a tipping point for the Trump administration.
	What a historic day.
	The bombshells, they fell.
	It's entropy and it's crumbling internally.
	He's underwater.
	He feels the walls closing in.
	Could his testimony be a turning point?
	We may be at a tipping point.
	It's the beginning of the end.
	The end of the beginning.
	Another bombshell.
	Bombshell.
	This is a bombshell.
	It is a bombshell.
	beginning to resent the word bombshell Unfortunately, Super Deluxe has been defunded.
	They're done.
	But that was a great video by them.
	Okay, Aaron Mate, any last words on all this today?
	I think that's one of the most important videos that have been made of this Trump era.
	And, you know, it speaks, you know, like it's hard to not turn discussions of the media into plugs for outlets like yours, Jimmy, because it's like, you know, like it, that video speaks to just how credulous and silly our professional news outlets have been in covering this story.
	I mean, you know, focusing on these trivial issues, getting stories so wrong, turning into literal conspiracy theorists.
	I mean, so many of the pundits featured in there, especially Rachel Maddow, as we've talked about, have just have gone off the deep end with like, you know, like every night pushing this idea on their viewers that Trump is controlled by the Kremlin and refusing to talk about the real issues that impact their lives.
	I mean, look at all the major cable outlets this week.
	At least what I saw on MSNBC.
	I mean, I try to watch Chris's Chris Hayes' show and Rachel Maddow's show.
	I don't think I saw any coverage of this historic LA teacher strike happening where you are.
	I mean, like, so it's like the contempt that is shown every day for working people, both in subjecting them to these silly moronic stories and these exaggerated claims about the walls closing in.
	And then also just in the process, sidelining stories that are of actual concern to their lives is just staggering.
	And it speaks to why we need independent voices like yours who are willing to, you know, who aren't interested in going along with the pack and who actually take the facts seriously.
	And it's always been bizarre to me just observing as a media consumer and being a part of the media myself that one of the few places that have been willing to do their job in the media in terms of covering real stories and pushing back government claims is a YouTube show hosted by a stand-up comedian, yours.
	I mean, it's stunning.
	It's stunning.
	Go ahead.
	No, no, no.
	And I think the reason is I'm not trying to get ahead in the TV news business or in journalism.
	That's not my goal.
	I already had a career.
	I already did my thing.
	And now I'm doing this because I can't believe how bad the guys who do it for a living do it.
	It's like if you turned on it, if you went to a comedy club every night and they suck so bad, you started doing comedy yourself because you could do it better.
	That's what I'm doing now with journalism because they suck so hard and they do it on purpose.
	And I point out, you know, they willfully, you can't take, you know, the thing we say about politicians, you can't take money from these people and not think you're not going to do a favor for them.
	That's exactly why they're paying you.
	Well, that's exactly why they're paying people at MSNBC $30,000 a day.
	Why do they pay Chris?
	Chris says, you need $30,000 a day to do the news?
	No, of course not.
	They pay him $30,000 a day so they can buy his integrity, which was up for sale because he's still there.
	And if you tell the truth about war at MSNBC, they will fire your ass.
	If you cover Bernie Sanders, they will fire your ass.
	So he's played along perfectly with them.
	He hasn't covered Bernie Sanders.
	And when he does cover him, he doesn't do it.
	And so here we are again.
	And he thinks it's a victory when he gets to talk about Yemen for two minutes every two years.
	And that's the lie, he tells himself, is that if I wasn't here, they wouldn't talk about it at all.
	So that's how he can justify his penthouse apartment in Manhattan and millions of dollars a year to not cover Bernie Sanders correctly, to not talk about Yemen, to not, because when I do actually get a permission to do it, I'll do it.
	Other people wouldn't.
	That's the lie they tell themselves.
	And they're co-opted by the money.
	We know the politicians are co-opted by the money.
	Why wouldn't the journalists be co-opted?
	I'm dying to be co-opted by the money.
	And no one's offered me any money.
	So I don't know if you saw this.
	So here's Brian's Steltzer, Seltzer.
	Stelter, yeah.
	Stelter.
	He hosts, he hosts a show called Reliable Sources on CNN.
	Now, let's remember the previous host of that show of Reliable Sources had to resign after he filed one too many stories that were unreliable.
	And now he works for Fox News, Howard Kurtz.
	So then they bring in this guy.
	And why do you think they brought in this guy?
	He's supposed to be the media watchdog.
	Well, you know, CNN doesn't really hire.
	They hired him because he's going to pretend to be a media watchdog, which is exactly what he is.
	And he's paid to do propaganda.
	And that's exactly what he does.
	So listen to what he says about this story and how he, now let's remember, this is the same guy who told you ratings don't matter at CNN with a straight face.
	So just keep that in mind, right?
	Here we go.
	It does reinforce bad storytime about the news media.
	I agree with you.
	I am desperate as a media reporter to always say to the audience, judge folks individually and judge brands individually.
	Don't fall for what these politicians out there want you to do.
	They want you to think we're all crooked.
	We're not.
	But BuzzFeed is neither on BuzzFeed.
	Now BuzzFeed, now the onus is on BuzzFeed.
	Now the onus is on BuzzFeed.
	So someone said he sounds like Nixon.
	We're not all crooked.
	We're not all crooked.
	I'm not a crook.
	That's what he sounds like to me.
	He sounds like a guy screaming that he's not a crook.
	When Brian Seltzer is bullshitter, there's no doubt about it.
	And if you want to see him bullshit, when he does it in front of a live audience, that's why I love comedy so much.
	It's the ultimate equalizer because laughter is an involuntary response, laughter.
	And so when you say something so fucking ridiculous and so stupid on its face in front of a room full of people, often they laugh in your fucking face.
	And you can't deny that, right?
	So here's Brian Steltzer Seltzer trying to lie to a room full of people that he actually has journalistic integrity.
	And Ted Koppel calls him out.
	Here we go.
	There will be more presidents.
	What were the ratings before Trump and what are the ratings now?
	I would say we might be up 20.
	We might be up 30%.
	We might be up 40%.
	If we go back down 40%, that's okay too.
	Well, it may not be.
	Of course it is.
	But hold on.
	The whole room, a whole room full of journalists fucking laugh at him right in his fucking face.
	Did you hear the uncomfortable silence after he said it?
	So people are like, did he just really say that?
	And so that's the guy who's begging you, don't believe people when they say we're crooked.
	That's the guy who's begging you, the guy who literally will bullshit you, gaslight you about what ratings mean at CNN.
	That's called gaslighting, which is another form of lying, which means the guy who's the media watchdog is a public fucking liar.
	And what did he lie about?
	Not about his marriage or cheating on his girlfriend.
	He lied about the fucking media.
	That's the general purpose.
	That's what he's lying about.
	And that's who's the guy they tapped to host.
	And now you know why CNN fucking sucks.
	If I could tell you my favorite Brian Stelter anecdote.
	And by the way, he's a nice guy.
	I've talked to him before.
	He's harmless.
	It's got nothing to do with being a nice guy.
	But that story I mentioned earlier where CNN and MSNBC had confirmed that Donald Trump Jr. had received the WikiLeaks emails before they were publicly released, which turned out to be a fake story.
	So Brian Stelter, this is a CNN story, right?
	So this isn't even BuzzFeed now.
	This is a CNN story.
	So Brian Stelter and on his show that week in response to that, he brought on Carl Bernstein and David Frum.
	Okay.
	And he didn't, and there was no effort by Brian to try to find out, oh, how did we, my network, get this, get this story so wrong?
	How were our sources so unreliable?
	Instead, he brought on Carl Bernstein and David From.
	David Frum, of course, the guy who wrote The Access of Evil Speech, propagandist for George W. Bush, helping to germ up support for the Iraq war.
	And David Frum told Brian Stelter this.
	I'll never forget this.
	And actually, Max Flumenthal and I did a segment on this when I was at the Real News.
	And I'll tweak this out for people to watch.
	It's so funny.
	David Frum says to Brian Selter, Brian, you know what?
	Stories like this are precisely the reason why people should trust the media.
	Because mistakes happen, because mistakes happen in the process of gathering the truth.
	And Brian Stelter goes, hmm, some deep insight.
	So that's the level of accountability that you're talking about.
	And it's just sad.
	And it's sad there, too, seeing in that clip, Brian trying to spin this as if this is BuzzFeed's problem.
	No, this is a media-wide problem.
	BuzzFeed is a part of a media culture that has enabled this, as evidenced by the fact that Brian Stelter's network, CNN, spent 24 hours after the story talking about it nonstop, hyping it up, talking about impeachment, believing it.
	First of all, not even questioning the story's merits because there are all those holes that were obviously there, as a few of us pointed out immediately on our lowly Twitter platforms, because that's how we can do it now.
	We don't have big cable networks to do this.
	and parroting it, and then you know, and then like it takes Robert Mueller coming out for them to finally realize, oh, wait, like we made a mistake.
	But no, what should have happened is they should have done their jobs as journalists and been and scrutinized it, you know, like been minimally skeptical.
	But that's gone out the window for a long time now.
	And unfortunately, someone like Brian Stelter is supposed to be a watchdog.
	I mean, his performance here exemplifies the really unfortunate dynamic.
	Yes, an unfortunate dynamic.
	So, Kamala Harris just announced her run for presidency.
	So, I thought I'd give Bernie Sanders a call, get his reaction.
	And who the hell is this?
	Senator Sanders, do you always answer your phone like this?
	Only when I'm in a good mood.
	Who the hell is this?
	And what the ding-dang hell do you want from me now?
	Hey, you know, there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
	How do you hear the entire phone call?
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	All the voices today performed by the one and the only inimitable Mike McRae, who can be found at mikemcrae.com.
	That's it for this week.
	You be the best you can be, and I'll keep being me.
	Don't freak out.
	Do not freak.
	Do not freak.
	Do not freak out.

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