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	Oh my god, that's a Republican lesbian.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, April 26, 2015 time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 716.
	This is no agenda.
	Constantly in transition and broadcasting live from the Crackpot Condo in FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I want to talk about sync and NAT and Segways and passwords, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	No agenda there.
	The whole intro was an agenda.
	Well, there you go.
	It's an agenda.
	Yeah, I guess it was.
	Doesn't mean we're going to talk about any of that stuff.
	No, of course not, because that would mean we had an agenda.
	This was something that you were talking about to me, and I said, oh, I forgot to bring it up.
	It was about sync.
	You were syncing something.
	Oh, yes.
	BitTorrent sync.
	Right, right.
	It was chewing up all your network addresses.
	Yeah.
	My router got really slow.
	Yeah, and so I wanted that to come into the show, so explain.
	Yeah, my router got really slow, and someone had mentioned somewhere in an email to me about the network address translation tables in your router, and apparently BitTorrent Sync It fills it up because of all the connections it makes.
	But here's the thing.
	I upgraded this morning, and this is the BitTorrent Sync 2.0.
	Guess what?
	It does the same thing.
	No, it breaks BitTorrent Sync 1.0.
	Oh, that's no good.
	It's completely ridiculous.
	Well, you know, they're in trouble.
	The company fired half their workforce last week.
	BitTorrent?
	Yeah.
	BitTorrent.
	Whatever the name of that kind of torrent or whatever the name of that are.
	I think it's just called BitTorrent.
	They fired 40 or 45 percent.
	Let me guess.
	Revenue?
	Revenue didn't happen?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I don't know how it would.
	Yeah.
	And then you wanted to complain about something else?
	Oh, the Segway.
	I think they've changed the controls on the thing.
	You rode one recently.
	I've been on Segways before, and so I was on another one when I did the 10th anniversary, because they were going to put those Segway moments in the stupid promotion.
	For the showstoppers?
	Yeah, showstoppers.
	And I fell off.
	I didn't fall.
	Well, actually, I was tossed from it.
	Let me guess.
	I didn't fall on my ass.
	But I ran into a monitor, and the thing wouldn't stop.
	And then when I let it get off of it, it kept going.
	I mean, that's not supposed to do that.
	Let me ask you a question.
	Was there alcohol involved?
	No, but there was something funnier.
	I was deciding this would be funny to spin around in a circle.
	Right, and that's just the left hand control knob?
	Yeah, you just pull it over and you go around and around.
	I think I spun maybe one too many times and was kind of dizzy when I came out of it.
	And that didn't help.
	I don't feel so good.
	Were you in hurling mode?
	But it's beside the point.
	I can still tell that the controls on the thing were not quite as functional as they used to be.
	I think those things have been downgraded.
	I don't think they work anymore.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, I had one of the original ones.
	I remember bringing it back from the United States into the Netherlands.
	We were living there.
	And I remember customs going, what's this?
	And I said, well, it's a segue.
	Well, what's the value?
	What do those things cost at the time?
	$5,000 or something?
	Yeah, I think so.
	I said $500?
	I said, okay.
	And they went and looked it up.
	It was so new.
	They said, yeah, sounds right.
	Okay.
	And it wasn't even in the book.
	No.
	Because what maniac in their right mind was an export one.
	Ah, the days of money.
	Good times.
	Well, now I get to know what kind of crap you wasted it on.
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you drive the Segway around Holland?
	The house, we had the castle in Belgium to go from the living room to the kitchen.
	Another renter.
	No, what do you mean renter?
	You didn't buy that.
	You sure did.
	Well, I thought you were not into property at all.
	You're always into renting.
	No.
	Did you make a profit on it?
	You sold it.
	Well, I had two houses.
	I had the castle in Belgium and I had the beautiful canal house in Amsterdam.
	I had purchased both of them.
	And after we left, I vowed that I, for a long time at least, would not be purchasing because I'd sold the house in Amsterdam at a significant loss.
	The place in Belgium kind of made up for it because I made a profit there, but it's stupid.
	If I'm not locked down, going to stay somewhere, it just makes no sense.
	I move around a lot.
	You're a rambling man.
	Yeah, rambling man.
	But anyway, even though I'm renting this place, good news.
	I brought in the witch doctor, Deva, and she came to do a clearing of the place.
	Did I tell you about this?
	No.
	This is the second time she's been here.
	Why, ghosts?
	Entities.
	You have entities?
	Yes.
	It's very normal to have a house clearing, John, with some sage and some dragon's blood, and she walks around.
	Both times when she walked into the second bedroom, and the reason why is Christina said she didn't feel right in here.
	I said, okay, I'll have the witch doctor come and she'll clean it out.
	And she almost gagged when she walked in.
	Oh no!
	Evil spirit!
	Not necessarily.
	She said it was this negative, real heavy energy around the studio portion.
	Well, that's where you sit.
	Well, that's where I stand.
	Yeah, and I said, that makes total sense.
	The signals come in, I'm projecting it out, it's all about evil people.
	She says, oh boy, I have to do a lot of work here.
	But anyway, that's not the cool thing.
	The cool thing is, in my bedroom, above my head, she says, oh wow, there's a portal.
	Oh wow, she used the words, oh wow?
	Yes.
	That's witch doctor speak.
	Yeah, she says, the portal.
	And it's going in the right direction.
	It's taking energy up, so at night I can go through the portal and be recharged.
	I knew you would mock me.
	Of course, who wouldn't?
	Well, let me tell you, stuff is happening.
	I woke up this morning and I finally had the title for my book.
	It just hit me, so I know the portal's working.
	Okay.
	Pipelines and Pedophiles.
	Pipelines and Pedophiles.
	That would be the perfect title for the book.
	Yeah, I think you got it.
	Maybe I got to work on the portal a little bit.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Pipelines, pedophiles, and portals.
	I did actually do a lot of research the past couple of days.
	What was it?
	Friday I did it.
	I'm thinking about the Trail of Tears tour and kind of getting excited about the idea.
	But I've decided I can only do it under, well, there's two things I need.
	One, I need a gun license for all states.
	I forget how, isn't there one state you can get your license there and then it's good for all states to at least transport a weapon?
	Well, I know that's possible.
	I know with the Washington State, if you have a gun permit, you can get one in California, but you still have to fill out paperwork.
	It's not like there's a national gun license, which, unless you're in the FBI, I don't think they have it.
	I do recall a while back people would send me information about it.
	Someone will send you information for sure again.
	And what I really want, what would really make this whole deal, would make me happy, is if I had the Airstream Bambi International 19-foot trailer.
	Thought you were going to get the 16.
	Well, I looked at the...
	It's only three feet different, and it has to be a C, so the bed is in the corner, and then the dinette is in the front with all the windows.
	I could live in that.
	Seriously, I could live in it.
	Yeah?
	Isn't that the idea?
	A good trailer so you can live in?
	I mean, I could live in it forever.
	I could just live in it.
	Yeah, you could.
	The problem is the cost.
	Holy crap.
	Yeah, they're not cheap.
	They hold their resale value pretty well.
	I've been looking around.
	These things new?
	Or you can get one that's from...
	Maybe get a discount.
	Maybe somebody from Airstream listens to the show.
	Now, would that be okay for us to take that as a barter?
	Or, I mean, that's kind of...
	Well, let me get this.
	Let me think about it.
	If I'm able to say, hey, this thing sucks, then okay.
	Somebody...
	Well, you're not...
	Well, we have to assume that's not going to happen because nobody says that about these devices.
	They're fantastic.
	But let's say that somebody works for Airstream and listens to the show.
	They say, well, you know, we'll give you a factory discount.
	It'll be probably around 20-25%, maybe.
	How about just give me one?
	I don't understand.
	No, they're not going to give you one.
	That's not going to happen.
	No.
	How about just for the tour?
	Just for the tour?
	Come on.
	Maybe.
	As a promotional idea, they'll be promoted.
	Yeah.
	This segment brought to you by Airstream.
	Yeah.
	The B-Block is brought to you by Airstream Bambi.
	The Airstream Bambi 19 fits everyone's needs.
	There are some custom jobs, man, that are so perfect for me, but man, it's pretty much like a car, like a new SUV in cost.
	I don't think I can do that.
	People have to understand, I tweeted a picture.
	I still can't get the vision out of my head of you bombing around some dusty old castle with a Segway.
	It was not that dusty.
	It was nice.
	We had to call each other on cell phones.
	To find you in the house.
	Hey, where are you here?
	Where are you?
	Another thing I just don't...
	It's ridiculous.
	I learn so much.
	And you get all these people around you.
	When you have that kind of money, you get all these people around you.
	And then they start fighting with each other.
	And the whole thing is just bad energy.
	It's bad.
	Screw it.
	I'm happy.
	I'm happy I took a vow of poverty.
	So you found the portal house and you were roused at a ghost?
	Is that what happened?
	What was Christina's complaint?
	She had a ghost in her room.
	I think it was just, no, it was just the energy.
	What was the ghost?
	Oh, okay.
	You don't have a, then there's no ghost involved.
	There was no entity in her bedroom or in the studio, as we call it.
	No.
	No.
	I just put up a poster personally, but okay.
	A Ghostbuster poster.
	I sent you a poster in a drivable way.
	And then last night, Saturday night, Austin was cranking.
	We have the Austin Food and Wine Festival, which is right in front of the building in Republic Park.
	It's fantastic, free music.
	I have a front row seat to anything that happens here now.
	And then I was supposed to go see...
	Aren't you in a tall building that's fairly new?
	2008, 2007.
	It's not that new.
	Why?
	I'm just thinking of how you get out of the negative energy.
	Where does it come from?
	It's from you, mainly.
	It's coming out of your router into my router.
	I visited the place.
	It's all through the internet.
	The router's in here.
	Everything's in here.
	So all that energy is...
	Oh, the internet.
	Yeah, I can see this.
	This is going to be a problem in the future for everyone.
	I think so, too.
	Everyone needs to learn how to do a clearing of their properties.
	Of their cash.
	So I sat and watched the White House Correspondents Dinner.
	Once again, I don't know how we mess this up.
	Every single year, we promise each other, next year, we're going to do live play-by-play of the red carpet arrivals.
	And what happened to that?
	We forgot about it.
	I didn't even see the event.
	I missed it.
	Oh, really?
	You missed the whole thing?
	I sent you a text message.
	Are you watching?
	Yeah, but you didn't say specifically what.
	Yeah, I was watching the Warriors beat the Pelicans.
	Of course.
	Well, we're glad you're very involved in the show.
	Something could have happened.
	Someone's head may have popped off, and it would have been good show material.
	CNN was not going to do anything different than show this joke fest, which I do want to discuss.
	But what happened, just as they were getting underway, when the Correspondent Association's awards were being given out, which has got to be the...
	I mean, it's so...
	That's almost as bad as the podcast awards, man.
	The way they do that.
	You gotta come up.
	You gotta kiss everybody.
	And CNN, of course, noticed that we had riots in Baltimore.
	There was all kinds of stuff going on.
	But they were not gonna cut away.
	And here's one of their political experts who was on the show explaining...
	This is always about choices, right?
	I mean, you know, you have to make a decision.
	What are you going to do with this two hours of time?
	And we, you know, CNN made its decisions and it's sticking to its plan and so forth.
	If people want to know, yes, 12 people were arrested.
	The Baltimore police have tweeted that.
	You know, you can find that out now.
	You can find a live feed if you actually want to watch what's going on.
	It sounds like complete chaos.
	The cops apparently are keeping people in Camden Yards where the Orioles game is winding down.
	They don't want more people going into the streets.
	We don't have that confirmed right now.
	So they're even talking about people being...
	Another bickering.
	Yeah, well we don't have that confirmed.
	This is all what I'm seeing on Twitter.
	And so you can find out, you know, what you want to find out.
	On Twitter.
	And something else is going on.
	The most powerful man in the world is going to tell some jokes.
	Well, stop the presses.
	That's an odd sort of set of circumstances, but it was an odd set of circumstances when he told jokes on the same day that they were killing bin Laden.
	We don't control a lot of this stuff.
	You know, we sort of make our best choices, and we'll catch up.
	People will be informed.
	They'll find out all about the scholarship winners.
	They'll find out all of what happened in the streets of Baltimore by this time tomorrow.
	That's so great.
	What's the hurry?
	That's so great.
	CNN pretty much says, you don't need to watch us.
	If you want news, go to Twitter.
	That's what he said.
	Yeah, I thought that was pretty phenomenal.
	So you did not watch?
	No, I missed it.
	Well, then let me just give you a cut.
	Wow.
	That is unexpected.
	Well, you watched it.
	You covered me.
	I'm not even worried about it because I'm sure what you've dug up.
	I've got to tell you, but I didn't really dig anything.
	Because there's so much funny material.
	Could you have probably texted me back and said, no, I'm watching the game?
	Or are you just ignoring my text?
	Or did you only get that this morning?
	I actually haven't even gotten it yet.
	All right.
	So the way this works is it's a whole bunch of douchebags from Hollywood.
	Well, it's supposed to be the White House correspondence pool.
	Then this is their association.
	They have a little club.
	And then they invite celebrities to come sit at their table.
	It's a big to-do and everyone dresses up and they get on the carpet.
	And I actually wound up watching a lot of Bloomberg, who had pretty good live red carpet coverage.
	There's no Ryan Seacrest, by the way.
	But it was pretty good, and they were asking, you know, who are you wearing?
	They figured it out.
	They know how to do the red carpet arrivals.
	Marie Harf arrived with Wolf Blitzer.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	He's always arrived with one of these bimbos.
	Don't call her a bimbo.
	Okay, he's always arriving with one of these bimbos.
	She's not a bimbo!
	Sure she is.
	No, that's not, no!
	Yes!
	No, I disagree.
	Okay, fine, you disagree.
	I stuck a flute in my pussy.
	There she is, Marie Harf.
	Yeah.
	She's ditzy, but...
	Okay, he always takes one of these ditzes to the event.
	Is he not married?
	Blizzard.
	While you tell us more, I will find out.
	Okay, so we had...
	Cecily Strong was the comedian.
	She's from Saturday Night Live.
	I'm not really familiar with her.
	I don't watch Saturday Night Live at all, I guess.
	Because Saturday nights are spent prepping.
	There I sat.
	I even tweeted a picture of me, my sad-ass single man, don't-have-the-big-TV-yet-from-the-divorce-TV with all the wires hanging out and my frozen pizza and my glass of red wine.
	Did you know that Wolf Blitzer 6070 is born in Augsburg, Germany?
	Blitzer.
	And Blitzer.
	Blitzer.
	I didn't know that.
	And you know what?
	Entire weeks go by, I don't care.
	Yes, he's married to Lynn Greenfield since 1973.
	They have one child.
	Why doesn't he bring his wife to the event?
	He talks her out.
	He says, hey, honey, this is better for publicity.
	I'm going to take Marie Harp.
	And besides, look how cute she is.
	Look how cute she is.
	I love the chatroom suggestions.
	Buy a DVR, Adam.
	Oh, yeah, okay.
	I'll watch five hours the next day.
	Chatroom irritates me sometimes.
	So the way this works is the president does, first we get the awards and the president does a little, some biz and a little, some jokes.
	Usually very good.
	President Obama is outstanding at delivering a joke.
	He really, really is very, very good.
	And of course it's really tough to follow the The president, as a comedian, because you don't know what his jokes are going to be.
	And it's really the punchline.
	So he used the punchline of Joe Biden being the best in back massages.
	He had a punchline about...
	Not being served pizza in Indiana if you're gay.
	Four or five.
	Cecily.
	Is that her name?
	Cecile?
	Cecily?
	Cecily.
	Cecily.
	Do you have any examples of these jokes?
	Are you going to play a clip?
	Yeah, let me see what I have.
	First, this was just something that was...
	And there's always messaging.
	Whatever the president does in this, there's always messaging.
	And by the way, he did something different this year.
	He did not do full-on all jokes one after another.
	He had a little skit in the middle.
	And that was really the big piece of...
	Of his routine.
	They've had skits before.
	They play their little movies.
	He did a skit on stage.
	Oh, that's different.
	Yeah.
	And it was long, and it was very, very good when it comes to messaging.
	But first, he did a name check.
	Two guys we've spoken about on this show before as possible hopefuls for the Democratic Party.
	And I just thought it was interesting that he called them out.
	Look at my Cuba policy.
	The Castro brothers are here tonight!
	Welcome to America!
	Amigos!
	Que pasa?
	What?
	It's the Castros from Texas?
	Oh.
	Iowa Queen.
	Hi, Julian.
	Anyway.
	There you go.
	He's calling out Ted Cruz and...
	Well, of course he called out Ted Cruz.
	And the other guy?
	But this was different.
	This was, they're these two guys, the Castro brothers.
	Remember when Obama bought dinner a long time ago?
	One of them said, the Castro brothers, they're the big hope for the Democratic Party?
	You may not recall.
	No.
	Because that was really just a nice name check for them.
	And then he went into, so he had a couple jokes, of course, he had the obligatory things and making jokes about stuff and talking about MSNBC, how low their ratings are, and, you know, okay, ha ha ha, very funny.
	But then he brought out the anger translator, which is a bit, I have not seen, I guess it's something that is done somewhere, where one guy talked.
	Who was the host of this thing?
	Cecily Strong.
	Oh.
	Who, oh.
	The comedian, you mean?
	What was she picked?
	Well we'll get to that.
	So the anger translator bit is where the president is.
	There's a guy standing behind him.
	I'm sure he's well known.
	I feel so culturally stupid about this.
	I have no idea.
	Key and peel is what the chat room says.
	I don't even know where this airs.
	Is this on television somewhere?
	I never heard of it either.
	I watch too much television.
	It's kind of like the...
	We used to do this bit on...
	On Top 40 morning radio and you get, you know, you'd say something and then the anger man, the anger translator is like your conscience with what you really meant to say.
	And the way the bit works is, in this case, at a certain point, it turns around and then the president becomes the anger guy.
	So I'll start off with a little bit of, so you just understand how it works and then we'll go into the president's bit, which was 100% pure messaging.
	I think well done.
	Protecting our democracy is more important than ever.
	For example, the Supreme Court ruled that the donor who gave Ted Cruz $6 million was just exercising free speech.
	Yeah, it's the kind of speech like this.
	I just wasted $6 million.
	So you get how the bit works?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It wasn't all that funny.
	This bit is funny, though.
	And it's not just Republicans.
	Hillary will have to raise huge sums of money, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	She don't get that money.
	She gon' get all the money!
	Right.
	So that's how the bit worked.
	That was kind of funny with that stuff.
	But here is the same bit with the payload meant to communicate a message of, well, climate change.
	But we do need to stay focused on some big challenges, like climate change.
	Hey, listen, y'all.
	If you haven't noticed, California is bone dry.
	It looked like a trailer for the new Mad Max movie up in there.
	Y'all think that Bradley Cooper came here because he wants to talk to Chuck Todd?
	He needed a glass of water!
	Come on!
	The science is clear.
	Science is clear?
	The science is clear.
	Nine out of the ten hottest years ever came in the last decade.
	Now, I'm not a scientist, but I do know how to count to ten.
	Rising seas, more violent storms.
	You got mosquitoes, sweaty people on the train, stinking it up.
	It's just nasty.
	I mean, look at what's happening right now.
	Every serious scientist says we need to act.
	The Pentagon says it's a national security risk.
	Miami floods on a sunny day, and instead of doing anything about it, we've got elected officials throwing snowballs in the Senate.
	Okay, I think I got it, bro.
	It is crazy!
	What about our kids?
	What kind of stupid, short-sighted, irresponsible bull?
	Whoa, whoa, whoa!
	Whoa!
	Hey!
	What?
	Okay, no, hey!
	Woo!
	Get angry, Republicans.
	What?
	Oh.
	All due respect, sir?
	You don't need an anger translator.
	You need counsel.
	And then he goes over to Michelle and he says he's crazy.
	What is the point of this stereotypical what does some black guy scream in and kind of a I'm sorry I missed it.
	It was interesting because in the beginning I really had to this is maybe we've discussed this before whenever I have a clip I never start exactly at the beginning of the clip, if I can, so that you can take a second or two just to get kind of acclimated to the sound of the person's voice.
	This guy was doing this angry black man thing.
	And I could not understand him in the beginning.
	It really took me some focus and maybe two or three of these jokes before I could really tune in to his frequency.
	It was...
	It was just a little over the top.
	And so the snowball, you know, as a punchline, then Cicely Strong used that later.
	And the audience, this is what happens.
	You know what the punchline is, and the audience can already feel it coming, and then the minute the comedian hits the punchline, I don't understand why they would just skip him.
	The president uses a punchline for a joke in a different setup.
	You might as well forget about it.
	It's not going to work.
	The audience is sitting there anticipating the punchline.
	This happens every year.
	And I thought she had some...
	It was a good routine.
	I think she definitely did.
	She really slammed the president on a couple things, like that he didn't take ISIS seriously.
	What did she say?
	I don't think I put that one in.
	The Secret Service will be the only law enforcement agency that would get in trouble if a black man got shot.
	I was like, okay...
	It wasn't pretty good stuff in there.
	What I miss is the president said nothing about Black Lives Matter.
	Zero.
	Not a single thing.
	While this was actually going on, maybe 45 minutes from the D.C. Hilton in Baltimore.
	A lot of gay jokes, interestingly.
	And Sicily, of course...
	The point of the gay jokes was...
	Gay jokes are funny.
	There's a lot of gender-bending material over the last week all surrounding the Bruce Jenner distraction.
	And we'll get into it.
	Let me just finish up with these clips so you get an idea of the fine things you missed.
	Here she is with a joke about, you know, she rags on all the networks, of course, and then she's time for CNN. And you gotta give it up for CNN. You know, it's just comforting to know that whenever a big story breaks, I can turn to CNN and watch Anthony Bourdain eat a cricket.
	Okay.
	I like that one.
	That has happened to me so many times.
	Let me turn on CNN. And Anthony Bourdain once again.
	So she, of course, is from SNL, NBC. Oh, and what can I say about Brian Williams?
	Nothing, because I work for NBC. Actually, that's a funny line, because that's one of the points we make on our show.
	Yeah, a lot of the things she said were no agenda-like topics.
	She can't talk about anything that's NBC related.
	She can talk about the president being shot, but not about NBC. Just to give you an idea of who has the real power in the room.
	And then she has this whole lead up into an introduction or a nod to the first lady.
	Rand Paul has announced that he's taking over the family's not being president business.
	And yes, that's Rand, as in, he didn't get elected, but at least he Rand.
	Now, Paul's a libertarian, which, if you're unfamiliar, a libertarian is just a Republican that you have to block on Twitter.
	Rand Paul's campaign slogan is, Defeat the Washington Machine, Unleash the American Dream.
	The American Dream, of course, is the model name of Rand Paul's wig.
	Well, let's talk about 2016.
	Let's talk about the most important person in the room, my leader.
	The person I'm so glad...
	When I heard that, I had to play it back three or four times.
	I was so convinced she said, my leader.
	It sounds like my leader.
	Listen to it.
	Let's talk about the most important person in the room, my leader.
	My leader.
	That's what it sounds like.
	It was just me.
	The person I'm so glad is in the White House, Michelle Obama.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Michelle, you take care of that garden while you can, because in 18 months, you know Bill's turning that thing into an above-ground pool.
	So, I had actually expected you to have a couple of...
	Of your favorite jokes in there, but you were watching sports.
	Yeah, I actually wasn't attracted to the event enough to, obviously, I could have just, for the most years, I record the whole thing, and then I try to run through and see if there's anything good.
	But I don't know what it was, but I just did not have any desire.
	It was rough.
	It was rough to watch.
	It was like watching an okay comedy show by Russell Simmons or something.
	But forget all that.
	Russell Simmons.
	The only thing that really matters.
	That dress Michelle Obama was wearing, I mean, this was a Zack Posen custom beaded gown, perfectly accentuated with just the right shade of plum lipstick, perfect curls.
	I have to tell you, this dress she had on was so cleverly made, it sloped up her neckline so it completely obfuscated the fact that she's a dude.
	It was really cool.
	You have to look at the pictures.
	You'll see what I'm talking about.
	Perfectly done.
	Okay, let me look her up.
	It's the Zach Posen custom beaded...
	Smartly perfection, says the headline.
	Look at the way the neckline is sloped upwards.
	It's not even touching her skin.
	Because it's withholding the view, and it gives you a sculptured view of her body type, which is really...
	Very smartly done.
	There's a picture of the three or four people all putting their hands over it.
	I guess they did play, I don't know why they played the national anthem before this event.
	Yeah, they always had the color guard doing all that.
	She's just towering over these bald guys.
	Oh, yeah.
	Uh-huh.
	Well, I've said what I have to say about that.
	Now, throughout the show, have you ever heard of Jason Razian?
	Not that not any way you're pronouncing it.
	Probably not anyway.
	Well, no one could really pronounce it last night.
	But there was a big push from the awards all the way through the president.
	There were pins.
	This is a Washington Post correspondent who's been detained in Iran since July.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	That guy.
	Yeah, no, I know him.
	Well, it was.
	I mean, I don't know him.
	I know of him.
	And his wife, Yegi.
	He's in Washington, right.
	He's the guy that they consider to be a spy.
	Probably is, but it's beside the point they have no proof.
	Right.
	He's being held for propaganda, etc.
	By the way, he holds two passports, U.S. and Iranian.
	That's because he's Iranian.
	Yes.
	So, you know, there's...
	That may be part of the reason why they're not giving him back, but it was just so blatantly set up, right down to the pins, and every single person talked about it, that I'm saying, this is going to be the feather in the president's cap when he negotiates his release from the Iranians as a part of the Iranian deal.
	It's not going to be much of a feather.
	Well, the press corps will think it's a feather because it's one of theirs, you see.
	It's one of theirs.
	I think you're still down one chopped head.
	And then, of course, speaking of, the president apologized for the drone strike which killed an economic hitman.
	Yeah, there was an interesting thing.
	We were watching the NewsHour.
	I was watching it with Eric, and I actually made him look at this.
	NewsHour's got this new gimmick they do.
	They do a story and then they flash a screen of text that has some sort of obscure information.
	And it's always kind of interesting.
	And so out of the blue, they flash this screen of text that says the first drone strike.
	And I'd like somebody to check this out.
	It's questionable.
	The first drone strike that we ever did was in 2002 in Yemen where we accidentally killed an American.
	I've never heard anything about it.
	I've never heard about that either.
	I never knew about it.
	I don't know that it's true.
	But I think what they're doing, and I think what you're going to describe, which is this apology for killing the economic hitman, is they're trying to downplay and maybe get us to just forget about the fact that Obama gave the orders to kill a 16-year-old American kid sipping coffee at a cafe.
	or variously, depending on who tells the story, being at some sort of barbecue with a bunch of friends and family.
	Right, right.
	So let's have a bunch of other things.
	Oh, no, well, yeah.
	So there's a bunch of Americans that were killed.
	Well, a 16-year-old was just one of them.
	And I think he's, and there was some reporting on drone strikes being pulled back.
	They're going to be culled.
	There's not going to be as many anymore and all the rest of it.
	I think he's trying to, again, legacy.
	Oh, it's all about legacy.
	Yeah, he's at the next year until the next election.
	All Obama's going to be doing is backtracking on everything to improve his legacy.
	Dr.
	Weinstein, who was droned with Hellfire, was employed by J.E. Austin Associates, Virginia-based strategy and management consulting firm for the development of emerging and developing economies.
	That's economic hitman written all over it, if anyone's read the book.
	And on the firm's website, he's described as a, quote, business development expert based in Pakistan.
	Dr.
	Weinstein was under contract by and presumably paid by USAID. Yeah, economic hitman.
	And you know what?
	It comes with the turf.
	But it was a pretty big apology.
	And I got a clip.
	From J. Johnson, who was asked about this, now J, sometimes pronounced as J, but we say J, J-E-H, J. Johnson, tool of the industry, the trigger man, the man who used to sit in the Pentagon and say, yes, legally you can kill that human being.
	And he was asked about this unfortunate accident.
	This is not the Judd Johnson we know.
	Our targeted use of lethal force, when circumstances warrant, has very definitely contributed to our national security.
	And the death of other people.
	Our homeland security.
	We're safe.
	Regrettably, in armed conflict, in the use of lethal force, We hit unintended...
	We hit unintended...
	What should we call them, John?
	Unintended...
	Consequences.
	We hit unintended consequences?
	No.
	What are those things called?
	Human beings?
	The things that rip apart and bleed and just turn into...
	People?
	Yeah, people.
	Objects.
	Objects, I'm sorry.
	Objects.
	Human beings.
	Oh, human beings are objects.
	What is that object?
	It's an object.
	Don't worry about it.
	Human beings.
	That's unfortunate.
	I give the president a lot of credit for getting out there on his own and taking responsibility for what happened and expressing regret.
	There you go.
	How did this happen in the first place?
	Did they explain it?
	How is an economic hitman in the target zone of one of these strikes where they do so much work, they claim, oh, we do all the research ever needed, and, you know, we're unlikely to ever kill anybody by accident?
	Well, he was a hostage.
	Okay, so they decide to blow up the house with a hostage in it?
	Yeah.
	Oops.
	Not kill the guy somehow?
	Maybe.
	The bomb?
	Maybe.
	The first thing I thought is when I saw Economic Hitman, I'm like, the guy needs to go.
	The guy needs to go.
	You think this was an assassination?
	Sure, that's what I think.
	Okay, it goes like this then.
	They got captured?
	No.
	They're going to be him?
	Oh, no.
	Wait a minute.
	I didn't even get a chance to be in the meeting.
	You've already killed him.
	He knows better than to get caught like that.
	Nah, he's got to go.
	What a stupid moron.
	Oh, well, that's the danger.
	Risk of the job.
	He gets paid the big bucks.
	Goodbye.
	Bye-bye.
	The big bucks.
	Bye-bye.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Alright, good.
	We have great stuff.
	I do want to tease that coming up in today's program, I have an Ubersources report.
	Uh-oh.
	From Nicaragua.
	Oh, that should be interesting.
	I got lucky.
	I think we should move it right up.
	Move it and go now.
	What, you want to get the mocking in early?
	Is that the idea?
	Okay, let's take a little break from anything seriously.
	I got an interesting clip.
	It's part of Ask Adam.
	Do you need the jingle?
	I want to do an Ask Adam right now.
	And I want to thank, I forgot who did it now, one of our producers who said, you crazy fool, are you a techno expert?
	You need to get the new search for OS X, which is HudaSpot.
	Who does spot?
	And it does work very well.
	All right.
	Who does spot?
	So I'm watching a 1971, I believe is when it came out, Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond movie with Sean Connery.
	Yes, and who sang the theme song?
	Was that Shirley Bassey?
	Exactly.
	Diamonds Are Forever!
	Yeah, she sang a couple of these.
	Do I win?
	And now he's running around trying to catch some guy, and they're trying to catch him because they've got a bunch of diamonds involved.
	And they're going down the river, I think it's the Amster.
	Is that in Holland?
	Amstol, with an L. They're going down the Amstol, and in one of these cruise boats, and it's a...
	It's not a cruise boat, it's a canal boat, yes.
	Canal boat, but it's one of those, it's a tourist.
	Yeah, flat, really long.
	Right, and they're going down.
	And then, this is the, yeah, you already have it.
	So now they play this, and I have to ask you some questions.
	Ahead is one of the oldest bridges in Amsterdam, the skinny bridge.
	It was built over 300 years ago by two sisters who wanted to visit each other every day.
	Unfortunately, they ran out of money, so that is why it is called the skinny bridge.
	On your right, those beautiful old houses can be seen.
	Okay.
	I'm ready for your question.
	All right.
	Now, first of all, what she said was a non sequitur in my mind.
	Perhaps in the Dutch mind, it's not.
	There's a bridge called the Skinny Bridge.
	Correct.
	That two sisters tried to build across, and they ran out of money.
	And because they ran out of money, that's why it's called the Skinny Bridge.
	Well, that's incorrect.
	Does this make any sense to anybody?
	Well, they're missing a step.
	It's because they ran out of money.
	The bridge was just more like you're walking the plank.
	It's very skinny.
	No cars.
	It's just a skinny bridge.
	They didn't have enough money for a wide bridge.
	And then people said, hey, that's a skinny bridge.
	In true Dutch tradition, they said, you know what?
	Let's call this the skinny bridge.
	Okay, which brings out, bring another point up, the logic of this still eludes me.
	If they started building the bridge, would they say they built it skinny and they're going to white it after they built it?
	That makes zero sense.
	I think your OCD is kicking in, man.
	Not such a big deal.
	Well, it seems to me that if they'd completed the bridge, which they kind of did, there's a little piece in the middle, that it would have been...
	It would have still been skinny if they had the money to finish it.
	It would have still been skinny, right?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know why I ended this.
	Oh, we're going to expand it later.
	Well...
	We ran out of money.
	I find that many tourist attractions and tours, when the guide is telling you things, it's, you know, take it all with a grain of salt.
	All right.
	Okay.
	That was my question.
	I had to know.
	Why this skinny bridge?
	Because you ran out of money.
	So it's called a skinny bridge.
	Uh-huh.
	Maybe it was because it was skinny it's called the skinny bridge.
	Doesn't that make more logical sense?
	Yeah.
	You're really obsessing over this.
	I'm bothered by it.
	Hugely.
	I'm surprised you left it in the movie.
	Really?
	I'm not quite sure I understand the point of this segment that you've brought us.
	I was wondering.
	This was a genuine Ask Adam.
	I wanted to know.
	And now you're telling me, you know, that you're all in on it.
	We're kept in the loop.
	We're the super duper group of who respond.
	That's right, everybody.
	Time again.
	Bye!
	For another one of our Uber sources.
	Now, this is completely against all rules of journalism.
	I do not...
	It's a hidden recording, hidden microphone on my iPhone.
	I do not ask for permission, and I just broadcast it.
	And I was thinking, what's so bad?
	Doesn't Dateline do that all the time, and to catch a predator?
	I mean, what is the illegal part of doing it if you broadcast it?
	Well, I'm thinking...
	I was thinking about this.
	You thought we don't need trouble is what I was thinking.
	Well, that's one of the things I was thinking while I was thinking about it.
	All right.
	I, since this is anonymous, you never identify the guy from some nationality, which could be bullcrap, by the way.
	Yeah.
	That could be from...
	Oh, there's no background.
	I have no...
	No, you don't know.
	The guy could be a phony.
	Wait a minute.
	Here's how it goes.
	Hold on a second.
	Yes, this is the No Agenda fact-checking department.
	Is the Uber driver there?
	See?
	I just want to check and make sure you're actually from Nicaragua.
	Si.
	Okay, thanks a lot.
	C.
	We're good to go.
	Good to go.
	C.
	Yeah.
	So you were thinking about it, and in between pondering why they call it...
	This is anonymous, and because of the segment, I think you could make the argument that you never really recorded this was all done by local actors.
	That you're good to go.
	It's just a phony segment of the show.
	That's what I'd make that argument.
	I didn't get away with it.
	All right.
	So proof that you actually did any of this.
	There's no proof.
	Then there's no complaint so far.
	Now, this was a double, maybe a triple whammy.
	And I'm on Congress Avenue, and I had to send some FedEx stuff off.
	So I'm on the corner in front of the FedEx, and here comes my Uber.
	And boy, am I glad I took Uber, because you can't park anywhere on a Friday or Saturday in Congress.
	Here comes my Uber, and so the Uber driver pulls over, and on Congress...
	I don't believe it's demarked as such yet, but we have bicyclists and other two-wheel vehicles driving on what will in the future be the bike lane.
	And so the driver pulls over and I get ready to get in.
	And two guys on a scooter who I guess were behind the car or whatever, but it wasn't like the car cut them off.
	Just the car pulled over and then these guys are yelling at me saying, Don't do that!
	Don't do that!
	Don't do that!
	You know, like you're not even allowed to pick someone up or to pull over for a second.
	So this time, instead of...
	They were on a motorized scooter, or a scooter, or a push thing?
	Motorized scooter, like a Vespa-type scooter.
	They were on a Vespa bitching?
	Yeah!
	Give him the finger.
	Well, so I was already recording, thinking, you know, I'd like to see if I can get some of the preamble before I figure out who somebody is.
	Maybe it'll be interesting, and I lucked out, because this all happened while I was getting into the car.
	Oh!
	Oh, fuck you.
	There he is.
	There's your podcast hero right there.
	They're like, fuck you.
	Not too loud.
	I don't want to come beat me up.
	Hi, sorry.
	I hate that.
	Me too.
	It's like, you're going to get somewhere.
	Give me a break.
	Where are you from?
	You're not from here.
	No, I am not.
	East Coast?
	Originally, yes.
	But Russia?
	No.
	By the way...
	Her name is Sally.
	Our actress's name is Sally.
	Okay.
	Why would you assume she was from Russia?
	I was just listening to the accent.
	I heard kind of a New York twang for a second there, and then as she was talking, I thought maybe Russia.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because I was sitting right rear seat.
	She's, of course, left front.
	And I'm thinking, she's smoking hot!
	This is my day!
	Win, win, win, win, win!
	Ukraine?
	No.
	I'm thinking she might be one of those hot Ukraine girls, but she had dark hair, so I knew I couldn't be right, but it was the accent.
	I couldn't quite place it.
	Ukraine?
	No.
	Am I warm?
	No.
	Okay, you have to say something.
	Now I'm all...
	Okay, you've got to go south from here.
	Now she's like, okay.
	Now you could have said, you missed an opportunity.
	You said, am I warm?
	She said, no.
	You should have said, well, you're hot.
	Okay.
	A total douchebag.
	No, I didn't want to douchebag it immediately.
	By the way, these Uber Sources segments are purely informational and for entertainment purposes.
	And it's also just to learn about the population.
	It's not like she's an actual spy.
	She may be a handler.
	But I'm just curious how people from different countries are thinking about political and world and geopolitical events that we discuss on the show.
	So when you hear someone's from Nicaragua, what's the first thing you're going to say, John?
	How's the canal doing?
	That's easy.
	But you'll never guess from where?
	South from Texas you gotta go?
	Yes.
	From South America?
	Nope.
	Central.
	You're going to have to just tell me because I'm out of ideas now.
	I'm out.
	Usually people immediately, when I say Central America, they go, oh, Costa Rica.
	No, I'm from Nicaragua.
	Nicaragua?
	Yes.
	Wow.
	Hey, how about those Chinese building that channel?
	I know.
	I know.
	Is that messed up or what?
	Am I smooth or what?
	This is how you do it.
	All No Agenda producers should be doing this.
	The minute you throw something like that, and her head actually spun around, and she's looking in the rear view, you know, wow, you know about the canal?
	But...
	You know, I don't know.
	I have to read more about it, to be honest.
	But you know what?
	It seems like the country is just giving everything away to the Chinese.
	It's like, give it away already.
	They have been for years.
	What else have they been giving away?
	Electricity.
	The electric plants, they're owned by China now.
	I'm like, why?
	Well, they got all of Africa, so they might as well start moving into other places.
	I just, you know, and then you go with, you know, factories, and it's like little by little.
	They've just been getting rid of it all.
	All bits and pieces.
	I thought that was interesting.
	I didn't know about the electricity.
	The Chinese, you know, their model is to get hold of the, or build plants.
	Totally.
	Electrical, stuff that they can use.
	Infrastructure for them.
	And build roads that they can use, and then put up little towns for them.
	And, you know, there's extra electricity, so it probably benefits the locals, I'm sure.
	Yeah, they seem real happy about the eminent domain that's going on.
	She's just randomly complaining.
	She's not like that nutcase that you had from Haiti who was bitching and moaning.
	My brother!
	Everything.
	Well, now she talks about her brother.
	Bought land.
	I think he bought like maybe 50.
	It's hard to hear.
	Her brother bought land.
	70 acres.
	And all of a sudden he gets a letter saying, oh, by the way, you don't own this land.
	He goes, what do you mean I don't own this land?
	So he went.
	He went back.
	And he said, I'm going to go with my paperwork.
	And, you know, he's a citizen.
	We're citizens here.
	So what he did is, he went to the American Embassy and he went to the American Embassy and he says, you will not do what you did back in the 90s to people.
	Where you just say, hey, you know, your land is ours.
	Your house is ours.
	Right, I mean domain or whatever it's called.
	Exactly.
	So?
	And?
	And so far so good.
	Okay.
	And he says, I will fight it until I die.
	You know, it's his land.
	Yeah.
	But they want it for some Chinese project.
	Probably.
	So the eminent domain thing is going on again, which is kind of a cycle for them.
	And this is all...
	Ortega is still president, and we talked about him for a little bit.
	But yeah, I find Nicaragua to be interesting.
	We made number one country in Central America to go visit.
	Really?
	Yes.
	It's great for scuba diving.
	Number one country in Central America to go visit for tourism.
	Scuba diving and surfing.
	I didn't know this.
	I didn't know this.
	I question it.
	Surfing.
	Scuba diving too.
	And apparently Chinese restaurants.
	Apparently, yes.
	Absolutely.
	But I guess, who's the president?
	Daniel Ortega.
	Oh, it's Ortega still?
	Okay, right.
	It's like, why?
	Don't you people learn?
	Yeah, really.
	He was the one that really turned the country upside down.
	I do have to thank him for turning it so upside down that my mother said, you know what?
	We're moving.
	We're getting out of here.
	We will not be here.
	So that was the plus there.
	All right.
	The plus is they drove them out.
	They drove them out of the country.
	Now, the last time I saw a report on that canal and the problems it's going to cause, including going into that big, giant lake in the middle of the country, with all the ships which will pollute, that's their drinking water, that big lake.
	Yeah.
	And so they've got a bunch of smoking ships dropping oil, and the rest of it into their drinking water is not going to be good.
	But the last time I see a report, Nicaragua is the poorest.
	Of all the countries in Central America.
	And so this Chinese event is supposed to bring up the standard of living in that.
	And it appears it's more than just an event.
	I mean, they're following their model, as you pointed out.
	They get the electrical plants, get all the industry.
	Infrastructure, roads.
	Infrastructure.
	So I felt she really didn't have a lot of information on much more for me on Nicaragua.
	So just as, you know, just for our own little jollies, I figured I'd ask her about driving for Uber.
	Here's a good looking woman.
	I think she said she had a daughter who was 17.
	So she was in her 30s, I guess.
	And she loves it.
	As she came to Austin, there was supposed to be some other gig for her, some job, and that fell through.
	And then her ex-husband said, well, you know, why don't you go drive for Uber?
	They're opening up in two weeks.
	And she did, and she loves it, at least to an extent.
	I signed up two and a half weeks later I was driving.
	You like it?
	I love it.
	I never in a million years thought that I would be driving for a living.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Because this is what I do.
	Yeah.
	And you know what?
	I enjoy it.
	Well, you're Uber Select, so you're not getting...
	It's a different clientele.
	Uber Select.
	You probably also don't pick up on Saturday night on 6th.
	You know what?
	This week has been brutal.
	I'm not kidding.
	Today, I haven't even made...
	And I started at 10.30.
	I haven't even made...
	You're going to laugh.
	But I haven't even made $100.
	$100.
	And this is 5 in the afternoon.
	A hundred bucks?
	This is not so good.
	I'm not laughing.
	I'm very sad for you.
	You're going to get big tips.
	That's my guess.
	And I bet you you tipped her big.
	You don't tip with Uber.
	Oh, that's right.
	Then my theory is out the window.
	Never mind.
	But I had another ploy which is coming up.
	First, we'll just finish about her driving after midnight.
	So bad.
	Shockingly bad.
	So I'm debating whether I should work after 11.
	So I haven't done the after the bars close.
	I don't think.
	You probably don't want to do it.
	I really don't.
	And I am so debating it this week because this week is just going to be so bad for me.
	Two things.
	Nothing good happens after midnight.
	Ah, some Nicaraguan wisdom right there.
	Nothing good happens after midnight.
	I agree with that.
	I don't truly believe that.
	I'll fight to the death.
	Believe me.
	They all fight to the death there, Nicaragua.
	Yeah, they like to fight to the death.
	Fight to the death.
	You Nicaraguans fight a lot to the death.
	Yes.
	I know, but I don't want anyone throwing up in my car.
	Exactly.
	That's what happens.
	The punchline.
	So then, of course, here's how you do it.
	Here I am, Slick.
	Mr.
	Slick.
	Watch this move.
	Do you have a card?
	Yes, I do.
	When I need a card, I'll just call you and we'll do the trick.
	Absolutely.
	I love this trick.
	Anytime.
	You got a nice card.
	You're very nice.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	My name's Adam.
	Adam.
	Nice to meet you, Adam.
	Nice to meet you.
	Okay, I got the big question.
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	Over!
	Am I smooth or what?
	Okay, Mr.
	Smooth, did you give her a disc?
	Yes!
	And, wait!
	And I gave her one of those slick No Agenda Vista print cards with No Agenda on one side and the QR code on the other.
	Okay, I'm sorry I even thought that I felt so pathetic to you because I was going to be under the complete assumption you had again failed to hand out a disc when you had the opportunity.
	I handed out the disc, she looked at it, and then looked at the card and she went, oh, okay.
	I don't think she has a CD player.
	She has a CD player?
	I don't have a CD player.
	Well, she's got one in the car.
	No, modern cars, I don't think that's an option now.
	I don't think they all have CD players.
	Anyway, so I thought we learned a little bit from our Uber experience.
	But it was enjoyable.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for the canal in Nicaragua, Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also, I want to say in the morning to all the ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air, the subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to everybody in the chatroom, noagendastream.com.
	Good to see you all there.
	They like it.
	They like it.
	They want CDs, too.
	In the morning to our artists, we had 20-watt bulb come back once again with...
	Was it 20-watt bulb?
	Yeah.
	That guy's good.
	His art is always good.
	Although we didn't have a lot of choice.
	No, we had four.
	I'm not quite sure what happened there.
	The uploader, we believe, wasn't working properly.
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	Who do we have?
	We have a few.
	Let me take a look here.
	Hold on one second.
	This doesn't help.
	All right, we have a few, we got a couple, one, two, three, four executive producers, including Marky Bahoy in Brandington, Florida at $333.33.
	And he says, yeah, drunk.
	So let me see if I can do this.
	Yeah, drunk.
	40th birthday party.
	Bourbon makes me not sober.
	This will take me over the threshold of knighthood.
	Do we have him down as a knight?
	I would like to be Sir Haggis of the Devil's Toilet.
	Yeah, Florida.
	It's where the sunshine goes to die.
	I would like to add some dreams and dreamt to.
	What?
	What?
	What is he asking for?
	I don't know.
	I see him here.
	No, he says drama and DMT. That's what it is.
	Drams.
	It says drams, not drama.
	It's a slip.
	The A and the S are next to each other.
	Drams.
	Well, let's say drams and DMT, then.
	That's some DMT, too.
	I'm Marky Boy.
	Give Marky Boy some karma and we'll worry about it.
	You've got karma.
	Massimo Catanio in Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia, 33333 again.
	In the morning, John and Adam, please accept my donation for the good work you do.
	All I ask of you is a dose of karma for me, actually for all the feet in the air of no agenda.
	We all wear a backpack when we fly, pilot included, much to John's annoyance, yes.
	Did I bitch about people wearing backpacks on an airplane?
	Yeah, yeah, when they turn around and bash you in the face.
	Or knocking everything over.
	I push on it when a backpack comes near me.
	I push as hard as I can.
	Backpack away from me.
	We know.
	We know you do.
	Much of us wear a GoPro camera on the helmet.
	Oh, this guy's got to be a beauty.
	A GoPro camera.
	I like this idea.
	You come in with a big backpack, a GoPro camera on your helmet.
	He's a moving target is what he is.
	And we literally seat on top of each other at 10,000 feet.
	We check each other's gear.
	And before we jump at four, he's a jumper.
	Oh, he's talking about he's a parachute jumper.
	Before we jump at 14,000, we always wish each other well with a high five and a fist bump.
	At 4,000 feet after the parachute has opened, and all is well, I always look down at my feet with a big smile, and I can hear John in my head going, feet in the air!
	The water and all the dames and knights out there.
	Please send a round of karma to all the pilots, planes, and skydivers.
	You've got karma.
	Now, Amos Selman's in Tallinn, Estonia, and I don't find an email from him.
	Oh.
	I mean, maybe you should look.
	Amos.
	Because he's sending a 33333 from Estonia, of all places.
	Now, let me check.
	We don't have that many Estonians who...
	Yes, but I do have.
	No, that's...
	No, I don't.
	Let me see.
	How about looking up the last name?
	Let's see.
	Yeah.
	C-E-L-M-I-N-S. Let me try that.
	C-E-L-M-I-N-S. Is that what it is?
	Selman's?
	No, I have nothing.
	I had nothing.
	Here's his donation.
	Okay, I got one last one because this is good enough.
	I think we should check.
	His email.
	Nope, it's got his name and his email, so it's not going to be...
	We're not going to find you.
	It's Arnis in this.
	Arnis Selman's.
	Oh, okay.
	So that may be...
	A-R-N-I-S. Okay, we'll check on that.
	And the big board says...
	No, nothing.
	Sorry.
	Okay, onward.
	Let me clear this first.
	There we go.
	Onward to Stephen McConnell in Cortland, Ohio.
	And I believe he did send something in on email.
	So you're watching James Bond, you're watching the sports game.
	You could print out a couple emails.
	I think I did, actually.
	Where's the other...
	Yeah, I could.
	I'm looking through my email printouts.
	Alright, Stephen McConnell, I have it here.
	Short and sweet, feel free to leave this off the air.
	I love it.
	Please knight me as Sir Steve McConnell.
	There you go.
	And he sent his accounting, and he would like a McConnell yell.
	Do you have him on the list?
	For knighting?
	Yeah, I believe so.
	I can check.
	The block is not in blue on here.
	Eh, I don't know.
	Eric's down there with you, probably.
	Actually, he's not on the list.
	Well, there's good reason for that, because he sent you an email, and Eric never got it.
	Please send the emails to shill at noagendanation.com, so he will put it on the spreadsheet so we don't have to do this, what we're doing, which is adding it.
	All right, finally, going to the associate No Agenda executive producer, Sir Timnonymous.
	2, 3, 4, 5, 6 from Parts Unknown.
	Guido Smit in Amsterdam?
	You would say Goudo or Guido.
	Did I say Guido?
	I said Guido.
	Guido is a very common name.
	233.
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	Greetings from Amsterdam, and please provide me with some karma.
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	You can get a lot of these for 200 bucks, not just 100.
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	And apparently, if you have the premium service, you can see how many people are looking at you.
	And people say when they add the executive or associate executive producer credit, they get more people looking.
	Yeah.
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	So I have...
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	I think I might have had an account, but never a real one.
	I still don't pay for anything, so I said, ah, what the hell, I'll sign up.
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	Is it?
	Yep.
	Huh.
	I wouldn't know.
	No, you wouldn't know, but I notice these things, and I'm seeing people who are quote-unquote friends on Facebook showing up on LinkedIn.
	I'm like, okay, well, what good does this do me?
	Well, LinkedIn is for professionals.
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	I have no Facebook friends who are students.
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	Huh.
	I don't maintain my...
	From time to time, people go, if you're reading this, then you're still my friend.
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	Like a spring cleaning or something.
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	You're not my friend anymore, Chuck.
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	Oh.
	It's all right.
	My ex has completely blocked me from Twitter, from Facebook.
	Oh, that's shameful.
	That's kind of sad.
	Well, let's see.
	I got two things I'm on.
	I got a little Hillary, because, of course, there's a scandal going on.
	Yeah.
	Now, these scandals, I do want to remind everybody, I see lots of tweets about it, when it comes to the Clintons having to resubmit their taxes...
	And with that, I mean the Form 990 for the IRS, for the Clinton Foundation.
	This is something we've been on for years.
	In fact, when the money for Haiti was being funneled through the Clinton Foundation, as well as that big one in Texas, I can't remember, it was for the Bush.
	The Bushes maintained that one.
	They were so late with their Form 990, they were beyond the October 16th deadline.
	And, you know, of course, they never ever found any money in There's just all kinds of stuff going on.
	Sketchy.
	But it's also stuff we've looked at, we've laughed at, we've scaffolded, and now the mainstream media is going, oh, look at this.
	My God, I'm shocked.
	I'm shocked.
	There's all kinds of shenanigans going on there.
	Well, it's becoming an interesting story because she was supposed to, just in a nutshell, I think I may have the nutshell clip here.
	I have a backgrounder.
	Backgrounder, yeah, that's it.
	Not the Armenian background, the other one.
	Let me just double check.
	Yeah, Hillary won.
	Hillary won, backf...
	Two news reports out today are raising questions about Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
	The New York Times reported a company now known as Uranium One sought approval to sell control of the company to Russia's Atomic Energy Agency.
	The owners of that company donated $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation.
	The State Department, headed by Hillary Clinton at the time, signed off on the sale.
	Also today, Reuters reported the Clinton Foundation and another family charity are refiling at least five annual tax forms due to errors.
	The foundation failed to include tens of millions of dollars in donations from foreign governments.
	Spokespeople for Clinton and the Clinton Foundation insist there is no wrongdoing.
	No!
	There's no wrong...
	Don't look over here!
	Nothing to see here!
	Look at that!
	Play Clinton 2 and we'll get a little deeper into it.
	Okay, Clinton...
	It's on the other list.
	I'm shocked, shocked to find that tax evasion's going on here.
	Well, we're joined now by New York Times' Washington bureau chief and its political editor, Carolyn Ryan, and Reuters reporter, Jonathan Allen, who broke the story.
	And we welcome...
	Broke the story?
	Let me go read some Form 990.
	I have to clarify what that means.
	Please.
	The story he broke is that they're refiling all the forms.
	The other one, she's got the big story, the woman.
	By the way, when they started playing, they said, oh, this is a Hillary one.
	She's going to be defending her.
	But no, the New York Times is one of the group.
	I think there's this concerted effort to derail Hillary's campaign.
	I think the New York Times is part of it.
	I completely agree.
	I'm seeing the same thing.
	And even last night at the dinner, they were making all kinds of jokes about Hillary.
	How she'll be president right after Israel donates to the Clinton Foundation.
	Good joke.
	And its political editor, Carolyn Ryan, and Reuters reporter, Jonathan Allen, who broke the story.
	And we welcome both of you.
	Carolyn Ryan, let me start with you.
	The New York Times story today does describe a Canadian, a wealthy Canadian businessman.
	He's the chairman of this company that owns significant uranium mining interests in the United States.
	He also happens to be making huge, large donations to the Clinton foundations.
	And then it turns to the move by the Russian Atomic Energy Agency to buy controlling interest in that company.
	Fill us in from there.
	Well, the nub, essentially, the ethical issue here is that this panel, the U.S. government panel, was overseeing and had to sign off on this deal.
	And the donations that you speak of were not disclosed by the Clintons as they agreed to do as part of the agreement that they set up with the Obama administration when Mrs.
	Clinton became Secretary of State.
	So it was multi-million dollar contributions that were not disclosed leading up to this key vote on whether this deal could go through.
	And what is the Clinton campaign, what is the Clinton Foundation saying?
	We do have one statement that I guess they put out late this afternoon with regard to the Russian effort which was successful to buy a controlling interest in this company.
	It said Hillary Clinton herself did not participate In the review, or direct the State Department to take any position on the sale of Uranium One, this company.
	Is that pretty much all they've said?
	Well, they have been, some of their answers have been quite general, and they haven't answered a lot of our direct questions.
	This panel is one of the few in the United States government, in the federal government, that is actually exempt from public records.
	So we're not able to get any notes or minutes of these.
	Which panel is that?
	I don't know.
	Some panel, a competitive thing, when a foreign company is going to take over an American company, I guess.
	There's some panel that looks at it and says, yeah, this is okay, but it's directed by the State Department.
	Hillary says none of this has happened, just the coincidence that the guy who owned the company and wanted to sell it to the Russians was throwing money at the Clinton Foundation.
	Coincidence.
	And what the Russians bought, by the way, this makes this interesting, they bought, the Russians bought 20% of our American uranium reserves.
	Yeah.
	Well, this is how it goes.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	...of our direct questions.
	This panel is one of the few in the United States government, in the federal government, that is actually exempt from public records.
	So we're not able to get any notes or minutes of these proceedings, and we don't know a lot about the deliberations on the panel.
	So they have not provided us with a lot of information about what went on within the State Department about that.
	So this kind of reporting, you rarely see from American journalists.
	In fact, this is the kind of thing you see on, what is that blog, that Russian blog, The Saker?
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah.
	This is borderline RT stuff.
	This kind of thing, they just don't do that kind of research.
	So this is a setup.
	Well, I believe there's something to it.
	Whatever the case, we have, and I said it again, we have Judy Woodruff here trying to, deciding to sink the thing.
	And this is the clip four.
	I'm going to skip clip three.
	Wait a minute.
	Judy Woodruff is trying to sink the story to protect Hillary?
	That's my guess, and I'm going to give you the evidence of how I feel this way.
	She brings up...
	Now, this whole thing actually didn't begin with the New York Times.
	You wouldn't think.
	It began with this book that hasn't really been released yet by this guy.
	He's a conservative, very good investigative reporter.
	Everybody thinks he knows what he's doing.
	He's not like a phony.
	Is he from the Times?
	Is he from the Times?
	No, no.
	I don't know where he's from, but he's legit, is all I can tell you.
	That's the guy who wrote the book, George Bush family books.
	Oh, he wrote the book?
	It's not him, but it's a guy like him.
	Oh, like Russ Baker, you mean?
	Baker, yeah.
	So this guy, they name him in the clip, but the woman from the New York Times names him Judy Doesn't name him, which I found suspicious.
	She asked a question.
	I'm going to tell you how this goes so you can hear it without having to analyze it.
	Judy says, well, isn't this all because of that conservative writer?
	And she emphasizes the word conservative when the guy's a book writer.
	He's an investigative reporter.
	She doesn't say investigative reporter.
	She calls conservative writer as though there's an agenda with not even naming the guy because you know in the meeting they say, oh, don't name him.
	Then people can look him up and they might buy his book.
	We can't do that.
	Peter Schweitzer.
	Schweitzer.
	She won't name him.
	She says he's a conservative writer.
	And she throws this question, and she says, isn't this just from that guy?
	And the woman from the New York Times rightly says, well, here's what happened.
	The guy's book, yes, we looked at the book, and we said we looked at the book because he had all kinds of leads that we could follow, and we used those leads.
	And then she continues with, and in fact, that book...
	Was derived from an original New York Times story in 2008.
	So it was the New York Times who gave the book writer the idea, and then the book writer had a bunch of leads that they could use in their story, and Judy just didn't say a thing after that.
	It's called Clinton Cash, the book.
	Very no agenda title.
	Peter Schweitzer is the guy's name, and it's not out yet, I guess.
	This is all perfect...
	Perfect promotion if someone would mention your name and the book.
	I want to come back to you quickly, Carol and Ryan.
	A part of the New York Times story today did say that some of the information in the piece was based on reporting done by a conservative writer who's come out with a new book about the Clintons.
	How much of the New York Times reporting was dependent on that?
	I would characterize that book as really almost a tip sheet or reporting leads.
	The two reporters at the Times who got involved in this, we have Joe Becker, who's a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mike McIntyre, a Pulitzer finalist, just this week.
	They did dozens of interviews.
	They gathered a lot of records.
	And so they really went deep.
	This is very intricate and difficult reporting, tracing this money.
	And they really did a lot of original reporting.
	And I would just note that this whole story began actually in 2008 with a story that Joe Becker did about the Kazakhstan uranium deal.
	So Peter Schweitzer, the author, the conservative author, was sort of following Joe Becker.
	So this guy is interesting.
	Peter Franz Schweitzer.
	American author, academic, and political consultant.
	Currently the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
	What is that?
	Yeah.
	I'll look it up while you're reading.
	Yeah, and look at the board of directors while you're at it.
	He's a former William J. Casey Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
	Also a Breitbart News senior editor-at-large, which is where he really makes some cash.
	His bibliography, interesting.
	Here's some of the books he's written since 1992.
	Friendly Spies, How Americans' Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets.
	victory the Reagan administration's secret strategy that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union well this guy should know all about what's going on now the next war which he wrote with Caspar Weinberger Disney the mouse betrayed greed corruption and children at risk well that's gonna be that's almost as good as my pipelines and pedophiles yeah that's a goodie Reagan's war the of his 40-year struggle and final triumph over communism.
	The Bushes, A Portrait of a Dynasty, co-authored with Rochelle Schweitzer, maybe his wife, Do As I Say, Not As I Do, Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, Chain of Command, again with Caspar Weinberger, Makers and Takers, Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer Families, Give More Generously, Value Honesty More, Are Less Materialistic, Envious, Whine Less, and Even Hug Their Children More Than Liberals.
	Yeah, I would say he's a conservative author.
	Architects of Ruin.
	How a gang of radical activists and liberal politicians destroy trillions of dollars in wealth in pursuit of social justice.
	I'd like to read that one.
	Throw Them All Out.
	How politicians and their friends get rich off insider stock tips.
	This guy has no agenda.
	Land Deals Cronyism.
	That would send the rest of us to prison.
	That was 2011.
	Extortion.
	How politicians extract your money, buy votes, and line their own pockets.
	And then finally, Clinton Cash.
	The untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses help make Bill and Hillary rich.
	Yeah, this is a good timing.
	His operation, the Government Accountability Institute, is not a pack of bullcrap in the back.
	It's basically him and a few other guys setting up shop as a place to receive tips.
	For eventual news stories.
	It's asking for whistleblowers.
	This seems to be all it's really doing.
	Let's see.
	Send your tips here.
	And I click on it saying, well, are they using Patreon?
	No.
	They want tips.
	According to the Book of Knowledge, in July 2014, they reported the $1 billion in school lunches is thrown away each year.
	In December 2013, analysis...
	Let's see.
	Obama's public schedule showed zero one-on-one meetings between Obama and then Secretary of Human and Health Services Kathleen Sebelius.
	So they're taking down Obamacare.
	And 2012 released a report claiming Obama campaign had been illegally soliciting foreign donations.
	Which is true.
	Credit card donations from overseas.
	Big ones.
	Right.
	All right.
	Well, this sounds like a book I want to read, although it's not like I'm going to be, whoa, I'm so surprised.
	And quite honestly, I'm very sad about this because you know what all this means with this takedown stuff.
	I mean, there's only one thing that can stop a full-blown media audit of the Clinton Foundation's finances.
	There's only one thing.
	Two to the head?
	Yep.
	Bill's got to go.
	It's time.
	So I'm watching Bill.
	He was talking, I think, at George Washington University or Georgetown, one of the two.
	And it was on C-SPAN. I did watch this much.
	And he is talking.
	He's a great speaker, I have to say.
	I mean, he really has the audience enthralled.
	And you see all these old middle-aged women in the audience.
	panties are all in a bunch they're they're they're they're staring up at him like this jesus christ and they're holding their hands together and they're in a kind of a ball and very slowly you know moving their hands like oh my god did i ever tell you the story about patricia and bill clinton my first wife patricia uh no you can i'll take a break from my tale and just from out Yeah, we were in the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
	I can't remember what it was for.
	We were in New York for a couple days, although we were living in Europe at the time.
	And her bridge in her mouth...
	Had broken or come loose.
	She needed to go get some glue.
	This is a great story.
	It was really like a big gap on the front teeth and then two or three over.
	Not a pretty sight.
	I think we were doing the show.
	This is why I'm so sure we talked about this.
	This is years and years ago.
	We do stuff I don't remember either.
	So she goes down, she comes back up, and she's like, oh my god, you know what just happened?
	So what?
	So I got in the elevator, and it was Bill Clinton and two Secret Service guys.
	And Bill was looking down, and she was 5'3", and Bill was well over 6 feet, and he's going, hey, little lady.
	He was totally hitting on her, and then she goes, hi, and she smiles, but she forgot she didn't have her bridge in.
	This big gap to the high, and he went, uh-huh, uh-huh.
	The story could have been better.
	Yeah, it could have been better, but that's all I got.
	That's funny.
	Well, I'm watching him speak.
	He's skinny as a rail, and he just looks bad.
	And his left hand is shaking like a leaf.
	He's not a nervous guy.
	Remind me, I have something to say about this.
	And I would suggest that he is getting something.
	And he has long pauses where he's...
	Okay, I have to tell you, I've researched this, and I've figured out what this may be.
	And I think we have to play a quick eight seconds of the last time, which was Thursday when he said something goofy.
	ISIS is a terrorist organization, an NGO. So, Dr.
	John McDougall, M.D., wrote a piece, and he says, we need to understand and show some compassion for Bill Clinton.
	He is suffering, according to this doctor, from a consequence of heart bypass surgery.
	And it has a name.
	It's called pump head.
	P-U-M-P. Pump head.
	Brain damage during bypass surgery is so common, hospital personnel refer to it as pump head.
	I think we just call them pump head all the time.
	The primary cause is emboli produced during surgery from clamping the aorta from the heart-lung machine.
	This machine pumps blood to keep the patient alive while the heart is stopped during the operation.
	Unfortunately, this pump also introduces toxic gases, fat globules, and bits of plastic debris into the bloodstream of the patient under anesthesia.
	Once they're in the bloodstream, these particles migrate to the brain where they can clog calip...
	Capillaries and prevent adequate amounts of blood and oxygen from flowing to the brain.
	All patients experience brain emboli during surgery, but for many, the damage is permanent.
	And what this looks like is, they say, mental-emotional decline, confusion.
	This sounds like a spot-on analysis to me.
	Well, we're seeing some evidence of it for sure, but the shaking, I don't know if that's part of this, but he's got his left hand is shaking noticeably.
	I'm sure Nurse Tracy's going to check in in a minute.
	She'll tell me what's going on.
	And I just was kind of taken aback by it.
	He uses his left hand for points of emphasis, and he will commonly hold it steady outward like a left-handed handshake.
	And it's shaking, which makes me wonder what's going on with this guy.
	I mean, we'll see, but...
	Might be, I don't know.
	I have mixed feelings about going on about this potential of him being murdered.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	I just feel, I think it's morbid.
	Well, it's very morbid, but it's a Red Book entry, and come on, the Clintons have killed so many of their friends.
	Might as well kill each other.
	In a duel to the death.
	What would be interesting in this scenario is that Bill killed her first.
	Ha!
	Oh, man.
	Can you imagine?
	What happened to Hillary?
	Oh, I don't know.
	Unfortunate.
	She fell off the balcony.
	So do you have a clip of him?
	No, there's nothing in this clip.
	It was a very good speech.
	Making a lot of classic liberal points about why things...
	Oh, I actually do have a clip of him talking about Bill Gates.
	Because it was just like...
	He's talking about the better people that are doing this.
	The clip is the...
	Clinton, he's talking about all these great leaders and how their vision is singular and simple and all the rest of it.
	By the way, as he's talking through this clip, this is Clinton and the Gates Foundation clip.
	As he's talking, think one thing only.
	The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has one of the largest stakeholders in the Correction Corporation of America where they hold prisoners for profit.
	And I'll give you another example.
	Bill and Melinda Gates.
	They have a simple...
	Go back to that beginning and listen to what he says.
	I'll give you another example.
	Then you hear his mouth has got some sort of...
	But it's like thick, muddy goo in his mouth.
	And throughout his speech, you kept hearing...
	I can't even make the noise the way he does.
	Yeah, it's those white strings that are in the corner of his mouth.
	Stinky, gooey, crappy.
	Yeah.
	Spit them.
	Yeah, and the corners of his mouth are probably dark with, like, residue.
	Theater of the mind, ladies and gentlemen, is what we do.
	And...
	I'll give you another example.
	Oh, that's his mouth?
	Yes!
	Almost sounds like a script crackling...
	Bill and Melinda Gates.
	They have a simple vision.
	Their vision is that every life has equal value, and therefore we should create a world where people have equal chances.
	That's their vision.
	Simple.
	Now, their vision is to kill people.
	They have a strategy.
	We got a lot of money, and we're going to invest it to achieve that vision.
	But we're going to invest it through people who do things that we can't do.
	That's right.
	We don't want to hire 100,000 people to implement all these things we fund.
	No, we want to kill them.
	So, for example, Melinda Gates and Hillary recently announced before she left the foundation that all this data research they've done on the condition of women and the disparities in the conditions of women and men in the United States and around the world.
	He needs to change the pH balance of his oral orifice.
	Something.
	He needs to drink something.
	Just wash his mouth out.
	Whatever they can.
	And he did it throughout there.
	You could hear it.
	Yeah, they want equality in all prisons.
	And they want to imprison most of the men and women.
	And that we get an equal footing in the prison.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	I thought their main thing was to improve health care for Africans.
	Malaria, now it's prisons.
	This is the robber barons.
	It's the same thing.
	We're fabulously wealthy, and we're going to go make the world a better place for everybody, but really just making it better for us.
	You know, that reminds me, when I walked to, not you too, When I walk to Joe's Coffee here, which is an old-school Austin kind of cafeteria.
	Coffee, sandwiches, alcohol.
	There's always, right by the Violet Crown Theater outside, there's always two people from Planned Parenthood.
	And, you know, I always have a spiffy answer, but they tricked me yesterday.
	Uh-oh.
	They saw me coming, yeah.
	So I have to go.
	They're there almost every single day, so I'm going to do the following after I explain.
	So, you know, I walk with this.
	So, how about Nicolas Cage?
	That's his opening line.
	And I was taken aback, and I said...
	I save plenty of children, thank you very much.
	But the next time, I'm going to interview them.
	And I'm going to ask if they know who Margaret Sanger is.
	Can I get into the eugenics thing with them?
	Okay, I think this will be good.
	Yeah, I'm really excited about it.
	So I was eating my sandwich, I thought, that's what I gotta do.
	Do you know Margaret Sanger?
	I bet you they don't.
	I bet you they do.
	Oh yeah?
	Here we go, another one of these bets we make.
	Which I usually win.
	You do.
	You usually win.
	You win a lot of these bets.
	It's very disappointing.
	In this case, I will say, and I'll put it down, they're going to know who she is.
	They're just not going to have the complete backstory.
	Right.
	They won't know about eugenics.
	I'll see if I can blow their minds.
	Blow their minds.
	Blow their minds, I tell you.
	I'm going to try.
	I'm going to try.
	And they're going to say to you, I can see this whole thing coming.
	I'm going to say, do you know who Margaret Sanger is?
	They're going to say yes.
	Oh, I'll be the guy.
	Do you know that she, before Planned Parenthood, she was the director of the Eugenic Society of America?
	Do you know what eugenics stands for?
	Do you know what that is?
	Do you know what the eugenics society did?
	Do you know they sterilized a black man in California?
	This is exaggerated.
	And do you know who...
	Right-wingers throw at us all the time.
	You're like the fifth guy today.
	You know, okay, we know the story.
	It's been told to us a million times.
	So what do you have to add to this conversation, whoever you are?
	And that's where I take a twist.
	And that's where I say...
	The Bruce Jenner transition coming out is a genius move.
	And I'll tell you why.
	Because we know the elites of the world want less people no matter what.
	We hear the United Nations...
	Head honcho woman, that's an official title, of climate.
	She's above the IPCC organization, saying, oh, we have to balance it, but we definitely need less human beings.
	Less people.
	Less people.
	And I would say I hear many complete liberals in Austin who say, well, you know, really, we just need less people.
	These are usually people who have no kids, by the way.
	And this Bruce Jenner thing, I am so all for it, because look, they want to have less people in the world, and they could go kill us with vaccines and chemtrails, but why not just let the 30% of Americans who have gender or sexuality identity issues, just let them all be gay?
	Everybody's happy.
	Everybody gets off.
	No kids are born.
	It achieves the same thing.
	I think it's a good 30, maybe even 35-40% who will choose an alternative lifestyle and are being encouraged to do so, encouraged to get in touch with their feelings.
	And I believe this Bruce Jenner, which...
	I thought it was fantastic.
	I watched it with Christina, which is relevant.
	I thought it was fantastic.
	It was completely orchestrated.
	ABC with Good Morning America the next day.
	The next Good Morning America would be the exclusive interview.
	And, of course, there will be another event.
	And that event will be when it is unveiled to us what her name will be and what she will be looking like.
	And, of course, the reality TV show, which he's hinted and announced.
	Absolutely.
	Semi-announced.
	It's called a documentary.
	He's been working with the Kardashians long enough.
	He now knows how to do it.
	And he figures he's going to make a fortune.
	He's got a book coming out, which was plugged on the show.
	And then he also made her commit to bringing him back on in one year for further promotion of the reality show.
	For season two.
	For season two.
	Yeah, for season two.
	Season two starts this week.
	This is the biggest scam I've ever seen.
	Now, so I recorded lots of it, and I said, I only came up with, I pulled back from, actually, because you actually, I think the point you just made is good enough.
	But I pulled back, but there was a couple of clips I still had to throw out, because I thought they were interesting clips.
	This is the great interviewer, Diane Sawyer, asking some poignant questions.
	Do you think she was drunk?
	No.
	No.
	That would have made it better.
	It would have been, but it was bad enough.
	Now, play these three clips.
	You're going to see what I'm talking about.
	I have two Jenner 3s.
	Play Jenner 3, the dad.
	Okay.
	And what about the man sitting next to his mother at the Olympics?
	Who's his dad, the athlete, the war veteran, Omaha Beach 5th Battalion.
	He died 14 years ago.
	I had asked Jenner about him back in Los Angeles.
	What would your dad say if he were still here?
	Oh, oh, oh.
	Oh, God.
	Oh.
	So that was that?
	That was a beauty?
	That wasn't a beauty?
	That was a beauty.
	And now we have this one.
	This is the other Jenner 3, the song question.
	Another great interview technique.
	So you can reemerge...
	As myself.
	How simple is that?
	Isn't that great?
	Do you have a song that you play over and over again in your head in this moment?
	Yeah, and it was, she's a lady.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Why would anybody...
	Is Diane Sora roaming around town singing songs to herself?
	I believe, the way I saw it is, and at a certain point she says, if you were me, what question would you ask?
	That is the sign of an interviewer who is out of ideas and is not getting what she wants.
	She wanted something else.
	And I thought, there's one last little clip, the shameless joke clip.
	I believed...
	That this was the mockery, the self-mockery of the whole interview and the whole situation.
	And it was, I believe, it was sexist.
	It had everything wrong with it.
	And it was insulting.
	And I didn't even care about any of this.
	I thought this was like a guy, you know, who cares?
	I don't care about Bruce Jenner and what he wants to do if he wants to live as a woman or not.
	But this, I thought this was very, I thought this was subtly kind of sick and insulting.
	As we leave you tonight, we hope we can all talk together about how we try to understand each other.
	And we wanted you to know so many people who've known Bruce Jenner sent us messages.
	His Olympic teammates on the decathlon said they wish him well and will always count him as a friend.
	And Nikolai Avanov, the Soviet athlete he defeated at the Olympics, said to us he has no problem with how Bruce wants to live his life and jokingly added...
	How could I have lost to a woman?
	I snorted.
	You did that last show, too.
	You're snorting now.
	Yeah, I gotta stop.
	Yes.
	Well, the thing I pulled out of it, which is...
	So I watched this with Christina, and it's relevant.
	Christina, who came out a couple years ago, and her last long-term relationship was with a transgendered person, so I think she's pretty qualified to comment on this.
	And so the first thing she said is when she saw Jenner's sister, she said, oh my god, that's a Republican lesbian.
	She has it written all over.
	Which I thought was pretty interesting.
	And of course, this was more shocking than anything, particularly to Diane Sawyer.
	He actually was the first one to say the actual word transgender.
	I will certainly give him credit for that.
	But not to get political, I've just never been a big fan of, kind of more on the conservative side.
	Are you a Republican?
	Do you have a Republican?
	What?
	And he looks around.
	Yeah.
	Hello?
	Are you a complete moron, Diane?
	Are you a complete idiot?
	You didn't see this?
	You interviewed his sister.
	Come on.
	Is that a bad thing?
	I believe in the Constitution.
	No, no, no.
	It's just, you know, Republicans are anti-gay, and her brain, there's smoke coming out of her ears, John.
	She couldn't figure out what to do with this.
	Maybe unsettling?
	Unsettling?
	For some people in the conservative wing of the Republican Party?
	Stereotype, why don't you?
	Yeah, really, really curling.
	Let's stereotype the Republicans.
	So Christina watches...
	Make sure you vote Democrat when Hillary runs.
	Christina watches with me, and she said she felt the entire thing was incredibly patronizing.
	And I said, well, is that just because you already know all this stuff and you're part of the community?
	She says, no.
	No, this is the way you teach people in grade school.
	She was so obvious.
	She was completely very...
	She loves Bruce.
	And thanked him for his courage, but she thought the entire setup by ABC was really, really patronizing, really trying to teach the stupid, retarded American public something.
	That's why I think they had that joke at the end that I pointed out as I thought was sexist.
	And I'll take her word for it.
	I agree.
	There was so much education going on about it.
	And I'm with you.
	This is a private matter, but okay, whatever you want to do, I don't care.
	Yeah, he just wants to make bank on it because that reality show, he knows what kind of money those Kardashians have made.
	I mean, he got something out of it, too.
	Well, let me say, this is, of course, a phenomenal story.
	I mean, I remember Bruce Jenner, you know, the Olympics, Montreal, and he was like Tony Stark.
	I mean, he was handsome.
	He kicked ass.
	He was amazing.
	And he embodied Americana.
	And the other thing I'll say is, in the world in general, I believe the United States is a lot more accepting than we get credit for.
	We're seen as the big evil anti-gay, anti-anything-but-the-norm.
	We're second to Russia.
	Crazy nutjobs.
	And there's only 12 or 13 states left who are yet to recognize same-sex marriage.
	And again, this is all part of...
	I mean it.
	First of all, I don't care.
	It's all fine, whatever you want to do.
	Depopulization, yes.
	Not depopul...
	Is it not depopulization?
	Depopularation?
	Depopulation.
	I believe it would be the way it would go.
	It's better than killing people.
	Yeah, which we'll talk about in a little while with the Armenian Genocide, which is being misreported left and right.
	I want to talk about that.
	But let's play the rest of these clips because this became a barrage, which kind of backs you up in your idea that this is part of a scheme.
	Let's turn everyone into not reproducing as much as we can.
	And so we have all these stories that showed up on all the other news outlets.
	I'm telling you, it's at least 35% that have not come to terms with their gender identity or sexuality.
	I think this will spur it on.
	This is very sad because I don't know who's going to be taking care of me when I'm old and decrepit because we'll have no kids working.
	But okay, at least the earth will be safe.
	The earth.
	Let's play the transgenderism on NewsHour 1.
	Now we turn to the first in an occasional series on changing attitudes about being transgender in America.
	A new survey from the Human Rights Campaign shows more Americans, 22%, say they know or personally work with a transgender person.
	That's up 17% from a year ago.
	Hari Sreenivasan has the story of one person's transition and his efforts to change thinking and perceptions.
	The soccer fields at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut turned into an outdoor classroom of sorts this past Sunday.
	High schoolers from area boarding schools gathered for the fifth annual conference on sexual minorities and straight supporters, or SMAS. It's really nice to see that written into the rulebook.
	Into the rulebook?
	Yeah.
	SMAS. Wait a minute.
	SMAS? Yeah, sexual...
	I don't know what it means.
	I couldn't find any reference to it.
	They just threw it into the story.
	Wasn't it SMAD? No, SMAS. Play it back.
	SMAS. S-M-A-S. Or maybe two S's.
	Hold on.
	Let me roll that back a little bit.
	I've never heard of this.
	I want to know what it is.
	And then we have to always make...
	...say they know or personally work with a transgender person.
	That's up 17% from a year ago.
	Hari Sreenivasan has the story of one person's transition and his efforts to change thinking and perceptions.
	The soccer fields at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut turned into an outdoor classroom of sorts this past Sunday.
	High schoolers from area boarding schools gathered for the fifth annual conference on sexual minorities and straight supporters, or SMAS. It's really nice to see that written into the rulebook.
	SMAS. S-M-A-S-S. Oh.
	However, if I look at the Urban Dictionary, S-M-A-S-S, SMAS, the act of rubbing the sweat from your ass, then smacking someone in the face with the same hand.
	I'm all in.
	There's other bits of that going on.
	I'm shocked there's SMAS going on here.
	And then local news stories, we have like the gender and depression.
	This is all piling on in terms of getting the public, oh no.
	Get people on some more good pharmaceutical pills, baby.
	Yeah, that's the bonus.
	The same on the inside as they present on the outside.
	That's because research shows children who are forced to conform to gender stereotypes are five times more likely to be depressed, four times as likely to attempt suicide or use drugs, and twice as likely to contract HIV. Gender is a really unique thing to each person that unfortunately in our system has been put into these really rigid boxes of male and female, boy and girl, that on an increasing level don't work for a lot of people.
	No one knows just how many children struggle with their gender, but Joel Baum says the number of schools looking for help is growing.
	By the way, something else Christina said, which I have to just remember.
	So there's consensus now, because she talked with all her friends here in Austin.
	And so Bruce is, for all intents and purposes, straight.
	And they continuously said, or Diane continuously said in her voiceover, gender identity has nothing to do with sexual preference.
	But pretty much everybody here in the CC, the Christina community, agreed that he'll flip.
	And once he's transitioned, he'll be into dudes.
	That's what she said.
	By the way...
	He was kind of brought up as a...
	He might be really cute as a woman.
	I'm thinking he might be pretty good looking.
	I'm not seeing it.
	I'm banging.
	He just looks like a Berkeley chick, Max.
	Little vocal fry and hey, baby.
	Meanwhile, of course, we have this new study showing that a lot of the chemicals in the environment are actually...
	Yes, like the plastic bottles also...
	Well, that, BPA, whatever that was.
	But the big one, and I will have some clips from this, I just have never been able to clip it properly.
	But in 2002, a Berkeley professor found that atrazine turns male frogs into female frogs to the point where they actually produce eggs.
	And where do we...
	Where do we find atrazine?
	It's one of the nation's top-selling weed killers.
	Is it a Monsanto product?
	It turns out to have an effect on males.
	It turns males into women.
	Well, this plays right into my theory.
	Okay.
	Is this a Monsanto product?
	No.
	What's the name of the company?
	It's not Ogvorbis.
	It is Novartis.
	Novartis.
	They changed their name to something else.
	But there's a professor here at Cal who did a study and found all these anomalies because he was sent to work on them because they knew something was wrong with this stuff.
	And as soon as he discovered all these things, they pulled the money, they sent out a hit team to defame the poor guy, and all this stuff's been going on ever since.
	And it's like nobody's...
	Whatever.
	Serving the needs of the elites...
	And do we play this guy from Harvard?
	No, guy from Harvard is another clip.
	I don't have the clip.
	I'm working on getting some clips from this guy's discussion.
	The guy from Harvard is a dickless guy, because he's a woman.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Wait a minute.
	There's nothing to hold on about.
	He's a dickless guy.
	He's a dickless guy.
	Because he is a guy.
	There is no doubt about it.
	If you see him, he looks like a guy.
	And when he talks, he talks like a guy.
	He gesticulates like a guy.
	So he's transgendered from woman to man.
	Yes.
	And he's decided not to, he hasn't gone any further.
	He hasn't had, you know, whatever they do to put a new phallus on him.
	So he's got a vagina.
	But if you met the guy and hung out with him, you wouldn't think anything other than, I mean, this is a good example of possibly, you know, I mean, this is, I think, one of the better examples of a guy who is, it's a guy, it just happens to be in a woman's body, and he just decided to go and...
	I like the Navy SEAL that went from male to female.
	Yeah, that seems more common than this, but just listen to this guy and tell me that there's not an indication in a million years, with a lot of those guys you're talking about, like the SEAL probably, they look like guys in drag.
	They never look like women.
	No, that's not true.
	Some of them do, I'm agreeing, but most of them don't.
	They look like guys in drag.
	I could go through 20 pictures with you and you tell me I'm not right on this.
	This guy is a guy.
	You must be looking at different websites than I do.
	I can look at any websites, except for the, you know, there are spectacular-looking transsexual women.
	Yes, I'm not going to say that, but just go to the average, you know, just look around more, and you won't give me the numbers.
	Yeah, I really don't spend my time looking around and see if people are transgender.
	Well, this is a topic of conversation.
	Yes, which, by the way, this conversation, the way we're talking, never, ever, ever in a hundred million years will you have this on mainstream media.
	No, you won't.
	Because they're dominated by advertisers.
	They're corrupt.
	And you can't just have a conversation from all angles.
	The correspondents' dinner couldn't even say anything bad about NBC. Exactly.
	Harvard guy?
	Yeah, Harvard guy.
	Alex Myers was one of the speakers.
	He's the first conference presenter to be transgender, and he uses his life story as a way of educating others about transgender issues.
	I was pretty much a normal little girl.
	Alex grew up as Alice in the small rural town of Paris, Maine.
	He went to boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and in the summer between his junior and senior years came out as transgender, a first for the school.
	In 1996 he was also the first openly transgender student to attend Harvard University and he worked to change the university's non-discrimination clause to include gender identity.
	I wish But of course, in my theory, it'll never happen because the idea is less people.
	But I wish an equal amount of time and effort and energy and resources and money was put into saving the poor of the United States, who are on the street rioting.
	Not because they're mad that white cops killed a black kid.
	No.
	They're poor.
	They're starving.
	They have nothing left to do.
	Nothing.
	And there's this...
	Fake screen of fantastic economy and joblessness, lowest ever.
	No.
	People are suffering.
	Suffering.
	Put some money and effort into that.
	This is fine, too.
	It's all good.
	This is your right.
	This is a bunch of bull...
	This is private matters.
	If you're...
	For big public profit.
	Private matters for profit for Bruce Jenner and ABC and Disney.
	Disney is fine.
	Ryan Seacrest and all.
	It's fine.
	That's fine.
	It's totally fine.
	And I understand the agenda, but it becomes so clear what you're really doing.
	Ignore the poor people, who usually have a color skin, but there's more poor white people in America.
	More poor white.
	I think black people, black Americans, they're pissed off!
	Think about that.
	I can't really imagine it, but imagine I was black and my president was black and shit just got worse.
	What are you going to do?
	You know, what are you going to do?
	Now, the good news in all this...
	It's fucked.
	Sorry.
	It's really...
	In this thing with the transgenderism and population control...
	Yeah.
	...is this atrazine product that I was talking about.
	There's something good about atrazine.
	It's used extensively on golf courses.
	Now, I don't know about you, but I think if we need any population control, we need less golfers.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There you go.
	That's pretty good.
	Well, the thing that I take a little bit of issue with, because I'm interested.
	I grew up in Amsterdam, and I'm completely open-minded and liberal about it.
	I like that Jenner said, all I want is just people to have an open mind.
	I think America can do that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, on Facebook, people will yell and scream and shout and whatever, but I really truly believe it's a minority.
	And I love that he said he's a Republican.
	That just was icing on the cake.
	But there's this concept of trying to help children transition early on in life.
	Very early.
	And I know so many parents whose...
	It's not abnormal for boys when they're growing up to want to play with cook sets and do girly things.
	It doesn't necessarily mean that they are born in a wrong body.
	No, it looks like fun.
	That's why they want to do it.
	Yes.
	It's not because girls want to have fun.
	Little boys want to have fun.
	But this is, from a very early age, this is a lot of these news stories that I see.
	Let's help them transition into who they really are early, early on.
	There's also these Berkeley-style women who, oh, he likes to play with dolls.
	Make him wear a dress.
	Right.
	I mean, they promote the idea.
	Yes.
	The kids all screwed up.
	He's wearing a dress for no apparent reason.
	And everyone says, hey, you shouldn't be wearing a dress.
	Oh, you shouldn't be telling me gender identification issues.
	I can wear a dress if I want to because my mother told me to.
	Exactly.
	Because she wants me in a dress.
	Exactly.
	It's a mess.
	This is no good.
	And these are all your Austin liberals, by the way.
	Yes.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	So there's a lot of mind control taking place on our children.
	And I do want to warn for this.
	Not because I'm against any choices any person makes, but it's very easy to suggest things and put people on paths that they may later regret.
	I just see tons and tons of mind control, and I actually got a...
	This is an interesting clip from a...
	I'm going somewhere with this.
	Unless you have more about...
	No, no, I got nothing.
	You're on your own.
	This is a kid's show.
	It's called Bubble Guppies.
	And this entire Bubble Guppies episode is, well, you'll get the idea.
	Excuse me, sir.
	Uh-oh.
	Is there a problem, officer?
	I'm afraid there is.
	It's against the law to sing and swim upside down while purple, sir.
	And you're bumping into things.
	I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a ticket.
	Tickets are a reminder that you have to follow the rules.
	There you go.
	For the most idiotic things.
	Tickets are a reminder you've got to follow the rules.
	I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it.
	I'm a rule follower, right?
	What do you do?
	Are you a rule follower?
	We are certainly not rule followers here.
	So there's this programming going on, and I just don't think that's the correct way to talk about the police, and there's a lot of strange worship in this cartoon about law enforcement.
	And this leads me to Bill Nye, the science guy, who is not a scientist.
	He's an engineer.
	Was he an electrical engineer?
	No.
	I don't recall.
	Maybe you should look that up.
	I will.
	As a part of Earth Day, and this is only just coming out now, he had a sit-down chat with President Obama in Florida.
	Of all the people who gets to be the conduit, the bridge to the public about climate change, this guy?
	I mean, the credibility factor is far to be found.
	But he's so hyped up.
	He's so excited.
	He's just brimming.
	He's bristling.
	His whole body feels good about it.
	You can see it as he does the intro to this on the White House driveway.
	Bill Nye, back from our trip to Florida.
	The president and I had a very nice conversation about climate change, science education, science education for girls, and especially the future of the U.S., As a guy born in the U.S., as a patriot, I'm just delighted that we are all working together really at last on addressing climate change so that we can, dare I say it, change the world.
	Check out our conversation.
	Change the world.
	He's a patriot.
	I like that.
	He's a mechanical engineer.
	Mechanical engineer.
	Is that a scientist?
	An engineer and a scientist, I believe, are not the same.
	Okay.
	He's closer to a mathematician than a scientist, per se.
	He doesn't do experiments.
	Apparently he does nothing about computer modeling.
	Well, that's my point exactly, is that all of the climate change theorem are built on computer models that are consistently wrong.
	In fact, just to accentuate that, here is a CBS News report with an actual approved climate scientist who was a part of the IPCC. The back-to-back eruptions of Chile's Mount Calvico, less than 24 hours of each other, came with little warning, forcing the evacuations of nearly 4,500 residents.
	But scientists are watching closely for a different reason.
	Volcanic gases have been shown to have a cooling effect.
	The massive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 lowered global temperatures by as much as one degree.
	But they say even smaller eruptions like this one in Chile can also make a difference.
	It's like a mirror.
	Allegra Legrand is a climate expert with NASA. Once these gases make it to the stratosphere, they're converted into particles that literally reflect the sunlight and prevent the sunlight from coming into the Earth's surface and warming it up.
	This is a small component of why we're not as warm today as the climate models predicted we would be seven years ago.
	Ah!
	Gee!
	So she admits that the outcome of the predictions are incorrect currently.
	That's the first time I've heard it on a mainstream...
	I think somebody screwed up to let her on.
	We'll never hear from her again.
	So here is the plan, the setup, as Bill Nye and the president...
	The president, he's not really being interviewed.
	He actually turns it around immediately and starts interviewing him, which is always a bad sign if you're a true media professional and you're interviewing someone.
	But it was more a chat, and this is all about...
	Scientific literacy generally and encouraging young people to be excited about science.
	You're the science guy.
	This is your demographic.
	These are my people.
	These are your peeps, as they say.
	These are your peeps.
	These are your peeps.
	I focus all the time on getting young people excited about science.
	What have you learned about what works and why do you think it is that our schools are not more successful in getting kids excited about science, technology, engineering, math?
	Because it's boring.
	That's why girls don't want to do it.
	It's boring.
	Where do you think things are breaking down?
	Because kids naturally are curious.
	They love tooling around and figuring stuff out.
	What happens?
	Well, our problem, you have to invest in science education, and very compelling research.
	Ten years old is about as old as you can be to get the so-called lifelong passion for science.
	Now, is this true, John?
	After ten, you can't influence a child?
	Is that a general...
	Generally acknowledged fact.
	I never heard this.
	And it might be, it seems to me, it's about as old as you can be to get a lifelong passion for anything.
	Right.
	Like, when did you want...
	I don't know.
	I got a lifelong passion for amateur radio, for flying, all kinds of stuff, way after...
	Amateur radio one was recent.
	Lead and change things.
	You know, I might be a...
	I was kind of a late bloomer, I think.
	It wasn't until I was like 45 I decided I was going to be somebody with my life.
	When he was chosen by the elites.
	But here it is.
	This is the bit where they actually come out and say it.
	You want to catch kids around 10 years...
	Before they're 10.
	And it's easy.
	It's easy!
	Yeah, catch them!
	Catch them, little critters.
	This is the thing.
	We want...
	For my side of it, we want science in every grade, every day, in every grade.
	Sure.
	So there's a huge opportunity for us, because teaching science at elementary level is very inexpensive.
	Yeah.
	Let me recommend some other things, like music, and pasting stuff, and woodworking, and reading, drawing stuff, and having all kinds of, kicking a ball.
	Kicking a ball is probably more valuable than anything.
	Kicking a ball.
	Kicking a ball.
	No, you gotta catch them.
	Catch those kids early.
	Catch them.
	Catch them.
	And program them.
	Which is okay.
	Fine for me.
	And then the final clip here, in which the president...
	We've gone from...
	By the way, this is Bill Nye guy, according to the wiki page, all in on the idea, apparently in 2005, he was all in about the 2005 Atlanta hurricane season, how the giant hurricanes will be, every year are going to get pounded, devastating hurricanes.
	Yes, John, but this has changed because of the volcanic eruptions.
	Don't you remember the giant hurricanes?
	Every year it's going to be worse than ever.
	The hurricanes.
	John!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	The president does something very interesting here, which he truncates the term into something which now has just gone nuts.
	When you're making decisions around important issues...
	Make sure that you take science seriously.
	I mean, when I see members of Congress being part of the climate denier clubs...
	Climate denier clubs.
	I don't think anyone denies this climate.
	Now we don't even say climate change.
	You say climate denier.
	I deny climate.
	I deny client.
	I denounce climate.
	Wow.
	The climate denier club.
	Okay.
	So they're trying.
	This is great.
	This is a propagandistic methodology.
	Absolutely.
	You take the word climate change and you then use the word climate and then you promote the idea that climate change Equals climate change because it's used in the way it used to be used when you meant climate change.
	So now it's just climate.
	So using simply the word climate implies climate change.
	It's fantastic.
	Climate change is real.
	It's real.
	Being part of the climate denier clubs.
	Clubs.
	And basically stiff-arming.
	What we know are facts.
	Fact!
	Yeah, the fact is that the models are wrong.
	That's the fact.
	That's the fact.
	And not rebutting them with other facts, but rebutting them with an anecdote or just being dismissive.
	Well, I'm not a scientist.
	Well, I'm not a scientist either, but I know a lot of scientists.
	I have the capacity to understand science.
	I have the capacity to look at facts and base my conclusions on evidence.
	That's right.
	That's right!
	Did I say he wasn't a scientist, or was he just mocking people who do?
	Oh, he's mocking Republicans.
	Ah.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, the thing that is so disappointing is that this just, you know, when the president says it, how can you refute the president?
	You're a moron.
	He's a moral leader.
	Although I will say, we have an official big-time Obama-bot dinner coming up next week.
	Why is it any different than the other ones?
	Because Russ and the brain professor and his wife, they moved to California.
	He's at Stanford, yeah.
	So they're coming out and we already have everything set up, yeah.
	And I can't wait to say, hey, remember when you're all in on Richard Engel, his cell phone being hacked in Russia?
	Richard Engel, who you said was such a great journalist, remember that?
	Here, read this!
	You must be the...
	I'm surprised they haven't shot you by now.
	No.
	Okay, you like guns?
	You like guns?
	Look at this one.
	Oh, sorry!
	Boom!
	No, they're afraid of guns.
	None of them have guns.
	They're afraid of them.
	Even though...
	Even though the professor is from...
	He's from East Texas.
	So there's a little Texan hiding in there.
	Suppressed.
	Suppressed by his environment.
	It's very sad.
	Very sad.
	Yeah.
	Man should be gun-toting.
	I don't know what the hell the problem is, what happened to him here, but it's sad.
	May I congratulate you, John, on two hours, more than two hours and not a single time have you said the dreaded yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	That's just yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	You're saying yeah while you're saying no.
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, no, yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
	You know, you know.
	Yeah, no.
	I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
	Yeah, no.
	Outstanding.
	Isn't that great?
	Yes, very Beatle-ish.
	We have a Beatle...
	Who is that?
	The same guy who did the other Beatle songs?
	No, this is...
	And I wanted me to...
	This is...
	This is the Night of the Living Dead who did this for us.
	Night of the Living Dead.
	Yeah, you recall the Night of the Living Dead.
	Outstanding piece of work.
	And of course, it's just a part of our love for the Beatles.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	We do have some people to thank, and we're going to thank them.
	Smass them.
	Beginning with Sir Andrew Holcomb in Ann Arbor, Michigan, $111.11.
	Sir Andrew, protector of the bound book.
	Ah, yes.
	He says you should go to the book people in Austin.
	Yeah, I've been.
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	What is it?
	It's a bookstore.
	Oh.
	Brandon...
	Chisholm in Vallejo, California.
	$100.
	Oh, by the way, Andrew was $111.11.
	Grebulon in Tel Aviv.
	$100.
	Wait.
	It's not in red, but it should be.
	He's got a birthday call out coming.
	And?
	A douchebag call-out to Max.
	Oh, a douchebag call-out.
	Hey, douchebag call-out to Max.
	Douchebag!
	Whoever Max is.
	Sir Mark Pugner is back with $100, parts unknown.
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	Fabian Meyer in Switzerland, Zurich, 7777.
	And he says your title comments in German are hilarious.
	Sei nicht so speisig.
	Speisig.
	Speisig.
	Okay, my German's not what it should be.
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	Finley, Ohio, sorry.
	John Tirada in Pasadena, California, 69-69.
	Robert Dawes, which still depresses me that we lost one of our overboard people.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, who did we lose?
	We obviously lost our woman in Germany, the jogger with the...
	Oh, who started the swazzle knot!
	Man overboard!
	Oh!
	Robert Dawson in Tynan City.
	Really, I bet you it's Taiwan City.
	Taiwan, but it says Tynan.
	66-66.
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	56-78.
	This will crap out rather quickly today.
	Donald Kuhl in Wyndham, New Hampshire.
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	These rest of these are all $50 donors.
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	He's offered me a free lunch if I ever go on the ferry up there.
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	It would be Crows, too.
	It's Cruz.
	Cruz.
	Cruz.
	Robert Cruz.
	In Kralendijk.
	And he's in Bonaire.
	I need to go there.
	He's in Bonaire, the island.
	Yeah, where Lex has the place.
	I gotta go down there again.
	Yeah, go down and say hi.
	He'll probably buy you a beer.
	Well, the problem is it's crappy internet there.
	It's very hard to do the show.
	Yes, it was very...
	That's right.
	It was a disaster.
	I don't know about disaster.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Eric Mann at Parts Unknown, 50 bucks.
	And finally, Sir Mark Tanner, our regular from Whittier, California, 50 bucks.
	That concludes our donors.
	I'm almost supposed to mention the name Karen out of the blue, which I did, but that'll be more important next show.
	And we are almost done with our Fletcher Fest.
	We have one more show.
	I believe so.
	One more show and then we bring in the new guy.
	Yeah, we're going to bring in the...
	Piggot.
	Yeah, Piggot with the shock, shock, shock.
	Let me just check the calendar for a second, John.
	Let me see.
	Today's the 26th.
	Okay, so the 30th's on...
	Bill, we have two more shows.
	Yeah.
	No, it ends on the 1st and we play them on the 5th.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Good.
	It ends on the 5th.
	The 5th is a Tuesday.
	Well, we play them on the fifth show, which is the Thursday.
	Right, so then you can still do Sunday the 3rd, or am I... In your humble opinion.
	Well, okay.
	Well, let's just say it's winding down.
	And Fletcher's already sent me the ones for today.
	That guy, he's so on the ball.
	And that will be his knighting ceremony as well.
	He does art once in a while.
	Mm-hmm.
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	Four, four, four, four, four, John.
	Is it four?
	Four nightings.
	Yeah, we had to push one off to Thursday.
	I'm pretty sure I didn't put that one on.
	I'm pretty sure I did the right thing there.
	Hold on.
	Let me check your note.
	Yeah.
	You were so mad.
	Someone came in after midnight.
	I wasn't mad.
	You say that.
	It's because I wrote in all caps.
	Yeah, that kind of means mad in my book.
	Well, I was mad at myself.
	Oh, okay.
	Because I'm the one who created the misperception that he should have been knighted on today's show.
	Okay, so...
	But he shouldn't.
	He needs to be knighted on the next show because otherwise our books fall apart.
	He was walking around the house grumbling to yourself.
	Get your blade, man.
	We need your blade.
	Yeah, here it is.
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	I see people tweeting pictures of the ring and of the stealing wax and the official certificate.
	So it's good.
	It's working.
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	Very good.
	And thank you.
	Year 8, Episode 716.
	Whew!
	It's a lot.
	It really is.
	Quite a lot.
	And, you know, we've got new listeners and old listeners and we lose listeners, especially when they're nights.
	It's very disappointing.
	People go overboard.
	It does happen.
	I think our friends in New Mexico, for example, were one of the earliest nights.
	Husband and wife.
	In New Mexico?
	Yeah, they're in New Mexico.
	They're very early.
	This is early, like early, early.
	Like first one or two nights.
	Yeah.
	I think we should talk about Caliphate!
	We have a marketing exercise underway.
	Boko Haram has rebranded.
	They have changed their name to Islamic State in West Africa.
	And this was a press release, I guess, that went out.
	Press release.
	I went through the normal channels.
	They had to change the domain name, the email addresses, the logo.
	Branding is very hard.
	Very, very hard.
	They had to change the logos.
	Logos on their arms.
	And two's had to be removed.
	And ISIL has said they support fully the decision of Boko Haram and urged members to extend their activities to West Africa.
	So if you're looking for something to do, if you're looking for a little killing, You know, get yourself a one-way ticket to Islamic State in West Africa.
	Nice, very nice.
	Nice job on the rebranding.
	We'll see how it catches up.
	Australia, of course, ever since that, was it the chocolate shop where the guy had the wrong flag?
	Remember that?
	Yeah, he's a screw-up, that guy.
	Well, so they caught another guy.
	I guess the six-week cycle cluster now extends everywhere.
	And they've learned well in Australia.
	They've learned how to nip something in the bud, catch a guy, say he was going to kill everybody.
	But this police official who talks about this in this clip...
	He really just put the fear into me of how easy it is to be a terrorist.
	An 18-year-old man has been charged with planning a terrorist attack in the Australian city of Melbourne following a series of police raids.
	Inspired by Islamic State, they allegedly planned to target police officers at an event next weekend to mark Anzac Day.
	That's when Australia remembers its war dead.
	Michael Phelan is the Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.
	This is a new paradigm for police.
	The attacks, these types of attacks that are planned are very rudimentary and simple.
	And as we've said before, all you need these days is a knife, a flag and a camera and one can commit a terrorist act.
	So it's very different.
	It's a different paradigm for us.
	I used to carry that around when I was a kid.
	I had a knife.
	I had a compass.
	I was thinking compass.
	It's the Boy Scouts.
	The Boy Scouts are terrorists.
	It sounds like the Boy Scouts.
	You got a knife.
	You got a flag.
	You got a compass.
	You got a little book.
	Tells you what to do.
	And what was the other one?
	A phone.
	Handkerchief?
	A phone.
	A camera.
	A camera.
	Camera.
	Camera.
	Yeah, it's all Boy Scouts.
	But that is...
	The six-week cycle, and the guy says this is up to prevent stuff in the future, but if you're really, really hard up to catch some terrorists, you know, there's pre-crime, and then there's something I would now call post-crime, which is...
	Post-crime, which is a crime that was never committed in the past.
	Hold on, first we do the pre-crime jingle.
	Before it's a crime, it's pre-crime.
	Okay, what are we doing here?
	Here it is.
	This is the odd story about the El Guido in Italy.
	Italian police breaking up an alleged al-Qaeda terror cell, arresting 18 suspected Islamic extremists.
	Officials say two of the men arrested were former bodyguards of Osama bin Laden.
	Police say they also uncovered plans for a suicide bomb attack on the Vatican in 2010.
	In addition to the Vatican plot, the terror cell is reportedly linked to several acts of terrorism and sabotage in Pakistan, including an attack on a Peshawar market in October of 2009 that killed more than 200 people.
	So they were planning a terrorist attack on the Vatican, so let's arrest them.
	But the plan was for it.
	It never happened.
	Well, how can you do this?
	2010?
	Yeah.
	Look what we found here, Bill.
	What?
	The guys are going to blow up the...
	It could be a comic book writer, for all you know.
	I just found it weird.
	I do have a couple of clips about Armenia.
	Allow me to lead you into this.
	Okay, go ahead.
	The president made a statement about Armenian Remembrance Day.
	This has been the big problem.
	And the statement, I'll give you a little bit of it.
	This year we marked the centennial of Medjugorne, the first mass atrocity of the 20th century.
	Beginning in 1915, the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire were deported, massacred, and marched to their deaths.
	Their culture and heritage in their ancient homeland was erased amid horrific violence that saw suffering on all sides.
	One and a half million Armenians perished.
	So he's pretty much admitting this for the first time, like, wow, what changed his mind?
	And then, a little bit further down, you see, a full frank and just acknowledgement of the facts is in all our interest.
	Peoples and nations grow stronger and build a foundation for a more just and tolerant future by acknowledging and reckoning with painful events of the past.
	We welcome the expression of the views by Pope Francis.
	There you go.
	So once the Pope said this is a problem, then the President felt he could do it and say, well, you know, the Pope says it, so I might as well get on board.
	However, President Erdogan of Turkey is slamming, literally slamming, sassin nations recognizing Armenian genocide by saying they should clean up their own history books first.
	Including Putin, who did use the actual term genocide.
	President Obama did not use the term genocide.
	If it's going to come down to that...
	I think we should get over it already, okay?
	Well, there's a bunch of craziness with this.
	I was watching the NewsHour, and they had these guys, these two writers on, one of them, a Turk.
	Sorry to interrupt.
	Is it literally now about the term genocide?
	Is that what the problem now is?
	Is that it?
	I mean, President Obama, he said it.
	He said they were massacred.
	It's a fact.
	It's true.
	It's real.
	He didn't use the term genocide.
	So is that now the issue?
	Yeah.
	Well, the problem is what we have here is a difference of opinion.
	What happened, this was a small moment in Turkish history after the fall of the...
	Not if you're Armenian, it's not.
	What did I say?
	Small moment.
	It was a small moment.
	In the history of the Ottoman Empire, because it had just collapsed and these douchebags took over called the Three Pashas.
	And they blamed everything on the Christians.
	And this was actually a Christian kill-all Christians.
	There was a bunch of edicts.
	No Christians in Turkey.
	The Armenians, by the way, 90-something, 90% Christians for the most part.
	This is left out of the history books.
	But all you have to do is read the bad actors, this guy Talat Pasha.
	And you can read about him.
	He's in the Wikipedia, T-A-L-A-T, Pasha.
	He was eventually assassinated when he fled the country and moved to Berlin.
	And then you should also read Armenian Genocide in the Wikipedia, which is actually quite good.
	But they had these guys, and it was all because at first they rousted the Greek Christians, got them out, declared no more Christians, and then they said, these Armenians are a bunch of a-holes that are going to fuck with us.
	Let's kill them all.
	Now we know.
	I'm sorry to interrupt.
	So this is, the Ottoman Empire is collapsing, these three douchebags get in, and they're the ones that then say, let's move into that territory?
	Was that the idea?
	No, they didn't want to...
	Well, they wanted to take over where the Armenians were, for sure, but they just rousted them all, shot as many as they could.
	First, they started by killing like 100 or 200 of the top intellectuals that lived in Constantinople, rounded them up, shot them.
	It's very much like...
	It sounds a lot like the Holocaust when it's described.
	You had Kristallnacht and you had all these other...
	These features.
	This is very similar.
	And so they want to say this was a genocide, which indeed it was.
	There was no question about that.
	But the Turks are kind of embarrassed about this.
	Can I ask you another question?
	This is a great history lesson, so I want to ask some questions.
	Teach.
	Professor Dvorak, can you always identify as an Armenian?
	Excuse me.
	Are Armenians as identifiable as the Kardashians?
	Is it a race?
	What makes you Armenian the size of the living?
	It's an ethnic group that happens to be Christian.
	Okay.
	That's not pretty much all there is to it.
	But this guy, this Talat guy, he was part of an ethnic group.
	I would have to look it up.
	But they all have big butts?
	Actually, no.
	Most of the Armenian women are actually, besides being very pretty, the big butt aspect.
	Well, the Kardashians are very pretty.
	All of them are super pretty.
	The Armenian women can be outrageously pretty.
	Even after 30?
	This guy, yes.
	They don't have that gene.
	Not like the Ukrainians where they get thick ankles?
	This guy was a POMAC, which is a Bulgarian Islamist.
	And apparently they're all over that area.
	And they were all converted Christians some years earlier.
	And they hate Christians.
	And it was part of this.
	This is the untold story.
	And so what bothers me is I'm watching NewsHour.
	There's none of the history.
	And the guy, the male that hosts on NewsHour, is acting like he doesn't know anything.
	I mean, it doesn't take a lot of reading to catch up on this.
	And let's listen to a few of these things, starting with this Armenia 2 where the Turkish guy is sitting there.
	Blames the Kurds!
	For Turks, this history is tied to the creation, the end of the Ottoman Empire, and the creation of the modern Turkish state.
	Precisely.
	This was the World War I when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and as the empire was collapsing, the government of the empire at that time decided to move the Armenians from eastern Turkey, where they lived, into Syria.
	So from one part of the empire to another part, And the idea would be that they'll be away from the advancing Russian armies.
	The fear was that the Armenians would work with the Russian armies to undermine the empire.
	What happened next was a disaster.
	Thousands of, hundreds of thousands of people died, sometimes of famine and disease, but usually in the hands of irregulars, Kurdish irregulars and others who carried out attacks.
	And I think that's really the pain, the core of the issue.
	Someone in the chat room.
	The turds killed them.
	Can you believe the nerve of this guy?
	I saw that same thing flow by in the chat room.
	Someone said the Kurds killed them, so this must be some kind of meme that we have missed.
	Yeah, the meme is that these douchebags from Turkey are trying to blame everyone but themselves, or they're definitely not blaming the three pashas who are the guys responsible, especially Talit.
	Everybody agrees on that guy is the bad actor.
	Well, let me ask you, allow me to, Professor, can I ask you another question?
	Yo.
	If only my professors had said yo, I might have stayed in college.
	Why won't the Turks admit it?
	What's the problem?
	Well, here, this guy who is a Turk who said this, that's because they are creating, they have, it's a hugely humiliating situation.
	Why, the Germans did this half that time ago, and they're all, hey, shit, we're sorry, and by the way, I sold the bike.
	I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry.
	The Germans are all apologetic, and they agree, and never again, and all this stuff.
	What's the Turks' problem?
	That's the question no one can answer.
	And now we see they're creating a new mythos based on the Kurds did it.
	Oh, we had nothing to do with it.
	It was the Kurds, which is total bullcrap.
	And by the way, a little side note to this, during this period with the three Pashas, that's when an event called the Young Turk Revolution took place, which were all these guys, they're all Christian haters.
	Oh, that's where Young Turks comes from.
	And that's where Young Turks comes from.
	And you have this Chank and his buddies using this term, not realizing this is emblematic of the genocide.
	I don't know why you would pick this up and not know about it.
	But the Turks are in denial.
	There's a lot of aspects to this.
	I don't know why they're in complete denial about this.
	And that's why the Armenians are just beside themselves.
	And they're not going to stop bitching about this.
	Until someone says...
	Okay, here's another example of this happening.
	The Japanese won't apologize to the Chinese for what happened in Manchuria.
	Right.
	Or Manchuco, as they like to call it.
	They refuse to apologize for this.
	Why are they not apologizing?
	I don't know.
	Same thing.
	You know what?
	Allow me.
	On behalf of the Turkish people, Armenians, we are very sorry for the genocide.
	And I, as a Turkish-American...
	Now you're just irking people.
	I hope so.
	I hope so.
	Because this is ridiculous.
	And the amount of time that's spent, and the anger...
	There was a kid, I should kid, Rafi.
	Rafi worked at, he worked at OnRam before we turned it into Think New Ideas and took it public.
	This is 1993.
	93 to 96.
	And Rafi was a good guy.
	Armenian.
	He was kind of a goofy guy, which I liked a lot about him.
	And for some reason, he's one of these people that is still on my Facebook.
	And all I ever see from him is grief about the lack of the word genocide and the lack of apology.
	It's like, they're very upset.
	And I get it.
	I understand.
	Well, you don't seem sympathetic in the least.
	What if some police, let's say the police chief of the local town kills your mother, everybody knows he did it, he did it just because he wanted to, and then everyone talks about it, but he says, screw it, I'm not going to apologize, I just killed her.
	And you're the son, knowing this happened, how would you feel?
	Yeah, I would want death penalty to be televised.
	Well, there you go.
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	Of course I understand.
	I just don't understand why...
	I don't get it.
	I don't understand why they can't...
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	Hey, just...
	Sorry seems to be the hardest word.
	Sorry.
	Move on.
	Same with the Japanese.
	It's got something to do with saving face.
	Well, they say Sully.
	Sully.
	This has to do with pride and face-saving.
	I don't know.
	Something that seems like, you know, we've learned from modern public relations is you say you're sorry as fast as you can.
	Yeah!
	Why are you laughing?
	That's right.
	Okay, well...
	Any more on this story?
	No, that was my tribute.
	There's a couple more clips, but they're the same thing, these guys.
	But this Kurd thing is the one that got me.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	And then we have people in the chat room who have obviously not read anything about the whole subject, the Armenian massacre, and they're already parroting the bullcrap.
	That's what really bugs me about these chat rooms, and that one in particular.
	Yeah.
	Really, that's all?
	That's all that bugs you about the chat rooms?
	Yeah.
	They parrot the mainstream, and then they just go there.
	We had a guy that was complaining about our analysis of the body cams that just sent a note in.
	The same kind of snooze.
	Hey, guys, you're not thinking big enough.
	You know, it's not about body cams.
	It's about a national police force.
	Federal, federal police.
	The National Police Force idea is, we lost that about three years ago on the show.
	We tried.
	It's called the FBI. We tried, we hoped, but it just didn't happen.
	We were really all in for it, ready for it, but no.
	Well, the SS is the Sicherheitspolizei.
	I'm sorry, Secret Service.
	I always find that ironic.
	Our Secret Service is, you know, the acronym is SS. Predate the SS. Yeah.
	I need to do a quick little Fletcher Fest for the people who donated on Thursday's show.
	Shocked!
	Shocked I am to find that John Fletcher's screaming in here!
	Melody!
	Morgan Corgill!
	Trevor Mudge!
	It's good we're stopping on time.
	It'll never work again.
	The guy's gonna blow out his voice.
	At the rate he's going.
	Yeah.
	Uh...
	I've been holding off on doing this because I really didn't have a good interview with him.
	But I think today is the day.
	Now entering second half of show.
	That's right.
	Second half of show.
	I've been following this guy for a while.
	He is the former Canadian defense minister in the 60s.
	Paul Hellyer is his name.
	Ever heard of this guy?
	Actually, yes.
	Have you seen any of his comedic stylings?
	No.
	He was on RT with the Severnace, Sylvie Severnace, who I love her.
	Man, do you think she's related to the Severnace?
	He must be, somehow.
	As far as I'm concerned, that's just marinated fish.
	So Sophie, she's just super cute, and she does this interview in a mocking voice.
	How do you spell Paul's name?
	H-E-L-L-Y-E-R, Hellier.
	Paul Hellier.
	Former Minister of Defense for the Scandinavians.
	And he has been very vocal about the existence of UFOs and aliens on the planet for decades.
	Actually, in this, I think he says they've been here for thousands of years.
	And it was a 40-minute interview.
	I pulled out two clips that I thought would be relevant, both a little bit over a minute and a half.
	Perfect for the second half of the show.
	And let's see if we can make up our mind about this guy.
	Honorable Paul Hellyer, former Minister of Defense of Canada.
	And he believes that live forums...
	You know, I would love to go on a date with Sophie, but she's got to shut up because we're just toning it down.
	Can you imagine?
	I don't want the Stroganoff!
	...from space exist and are present on Earth.
	Why do you say that UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying over our heads?
	Well, because I know that they are.
	As a matter of fact, they've been visiting our planet for thousands of years, and one of the cases that would interest you most, if you'll give me two or three minutes to answer, is during the Cold War in 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying south from Russia across Europe,
	And the Supreme Allied Commander was very concerned and about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.
	So they decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that...
	With absolute certainty that four species, four different species, at least, had been visiting this planet for thousands of years.
	So we have a long history of UFOs, and of course there's been a lot more activity in the last few decades since we invented the atomic bomb, and they're very concerned about that and the fact that We might use it again,
	and because the whole cosmos is a unity, and it affects not just us, but other people in the cosmos, they're very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well.
	Are you cracking paper?
	I was just a...
	A water bottle being smashed.
	He goes on to talk about a lot of different things.
	What was interesting, the entire interview, the whole thing, everything he said was stuff that I had read and researched early on.
	Because I obviously believe this.
	I believe that it would be stupid not to think it's a possibility.
	Just a lot of space out there.
	Now, I was always aware of a couple of different types of aliens.
	We have the tall blondes, which he actually calls something different here.
	The grays, as you know, I was introduced to a tall blonde, which was kind of, you know, didn't really impress me.
	You're a tall blonde.
	Yeah.
	And I've had my suspicions.
	You know, maybe that's what the portal will teach me.
	The portal.
	There are actually 80 types of aliens.
	I used to think there were, you know, between 2 and 12.
	And Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who came to Toronto a few years ago and had dinner with us, agreed that it was somewhere between 2 and 12.
	But the latest reports that I've been getting from various sources are that there are about 80 different species.
	And some of them look just like us, and they could walk And they're playing some video under him with the soundtrack way too loud.
	Down the street, and you wouldn't know if you don't walk past one.
	And they're what we call the Nordic blondes and also the tall whites.
	So he's talking now the Nordic blondes and the tall whites.
	I think I would be more like a tall white.
	That would be you.
	That would be me.
	Who are actually working with the United States Air Force in Nevada.
	And they're able to get away with that.
	They had a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns went into Las Vegas to shop, and they weren't detected.
	And I have a friend who saw one of the men walking along the street, somebody who would recognize...
	That they were different, and he did.
	So they're those kind.
	And then there are the short grays, as they're called.
	And they're the ones that you see in most of the cartoons.
	They have very, very slim arms and legs, and they're very short, just a little over five feet.
	Ah, Ryan Seacrest.
	And they have a great big head and great big brown eyes.
	Pat Sajak.
	If you saw the short greys, you'd certainly know that there was something up that you'd never seen before.
	But if you saw one of the Nordic blondes, well, you'd probably say, oh, I wonder if she's from Denmark.
	I think I was married to one of those.
	Well, that's an interesting clip.
	So where are you going with it?
	And let me say something before you answer that.
	If people want to read an alternative history that I think is the most fascinating of all these books, because the guy who wrote this product, it has nothing but creds.
	I mean, he's just totally, he's very credulous.
	He's very credible.
	Not credulous, credible.
	This is the Philip Corso book.
	You can get it as an e-book.
	It's Philip Corso's The Day After Roswell.
	And his argument about all this is that we're actually, which counters your concept, we're actually at war with these jokers.
	Well, he does mention that there are two species that may be hostile to us, and the rest are all just leaving us alone unless we start lighting up nukes, which is all stuff you can read online.
	I mean, it's like the guy spent eight years researching, you know, just...
	Yeah, it sounds like he's been online too much, this guy.
	All right.
	But I think all parents should allow their children the freedom to transition to the alien they are.
	So if your child is showing, hey, come on, how come we can't deny that?
	Your child seems very interested in levitation.
	Let them become the tall...
	What's the tall white?
	Is that what you call them?
	Tall white and the blonde.
	The Nordic blonde.
	Yeah.
	This would explain the extra bone in the vertebrae of certain long-necked women from the Scandinavian and Nordic countries.
	Oh, tell me.
	I didn't know this.
	Oh, yeah.
	A lot of Scandinavian and Nordic women have an extra bone in their neck.
	This is a count.
	There's so many of these vertebrae.
	Some people have more than others.
	But there's an extra bone notably in the neck of some of these women, and it makes them look very...
	Their neck looks longer, and it makes it very attractive.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	It could be maybe because of alien genes.
	I don't know why would you have an extra bone in your neck.
	I don't know.
	But I'm very open to this, and I shall be working on it in the portal.
	Good.
	We need to get more of this stuff back.
	People have been, now I'm going to, this is a fact, people have been complaining about the show not having enough of that sort of material.
	Oh, you guys used to talk about all this interesting alien stuff, even though it's bullcrap.
	It was very interesting and entertaining.
	They say this in the note with that voice.
	Yeah.
	Exactly that.
	Every time it comes up, I say, well, it's not that easy to come up with the stuff that's new.
	Well, you can just repeat it over and over again.
	I'm always open to this.
	If you find new material about the aliens, yeah, you can run it.
	Of course.
	Well, we had the guy who said he had seen the spaceship at Area 51.
	The president told him not to talk about it, who just died.
	There's people like that.
	So this could also be Project Blue Beam, which is a fun conspiracy that is often discussed, where we will introduce, and this would fit perfectly with President Hillary, she will introduce us to the...
	She doesn't sweat, you know.
	She could be an alien.
	Needed as President Obama.
	He doesn't sweat?
	Don't you remember that?
	Well, I remember Hillary not sweating.
	Oh, she never sweats.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	With my new, uh...
	My new super-duper, uh...
	Let me see.
	Yeah, it was...
	I think, wasn't it Reggie...
	Reggie Love.
	Wasn't it Reggie?
	Let me see.
	He's talking about Obama doesn't sweat.
	Yeah, and he was in the car.
	Don't you remember that?
	He said he was in the...
	He's almost coming back to me, but I don't remember it.
	Yeah, he...
	If you have the clip, I'll...
	I don't...
	This may be...
	This may not even be on this machine, these clips.
	Let me see.
	If I just look at sweat...
	No, I don't have that.
	I'll look for it for the next show.
	But Reggie Love said that the president would have the air conditioner off.
	It would be 85 degrees in the beast in the presidential limousine, and the president wouldn't break a sweat at all.
	Don't you remember this?
	No, I don't.
	Wait, hold on.
	Ask again, and I'll say the same thing.
	I vaguely remember something, but I don't remember that.
	You're going to have to find that clip and pull it.
	Because I didn't know that he didn't sweat.
	I know Hillary doesn't sweat.
	Everybody comments on that.
	She just does not sweat.
	Right.
	I'm looking for it, but I believe it's so old, that clip, that I'll look for it.
	In the meantime, let's go to...
	So these tests everywhere that these kids are doing, they fall under different names.
	We had STAR, S-T-A-A-R, in Texas.
	We have, this is the, how is this, Michigan?
	Let me double check here for a second.
	By the way, all of these tests are conducted by Pearson, who own the educational market and who are all in, thanks to lots of donations to the Pearson Foundation, which of course is a Chinese wall segregating the Pearson profit-making organization.
	And oh wait, they were fined a couple million dollars for overstepping the boundaries.
	And this is all set up by the governors, who the only way they can get their no child left behind...
	Yeah, their No Child Left Behind money is if they spend it.
	And this is primarily the Bill Gates partnership with Pearson and the Department of Education.
	Everyone's all in on it.
	But the company that actually does the testing is Prometric.
	And Prometric is the one that's screwing up with all of this stuff.
	They are the facilities.
	A lot of our dudes named Ben will probably know Prometric.
	Because they conduct all of the Windows IT professional tests.
	So they're used to doing this stuff, but maybe they're not so used to doing it in this setting with kids and with schools and with, well, with hackers!
	Minnesota comprehensive assessments are given to students in grades 3 through 8 in reading, math, and science.
	10th and 11th graders also take the test.
	Last week and this week, students struggled to log in.
	Someone gave me the analogy today for this type of an attack.
	If you're in line at the grocery store and your son, you're trying to pay and your son is going, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, that's a denial of service attack.
	Wow.
	I'm so glad you explained it to the stupid human resources.
	That's not at all what a denial-of-service attack is, but okay.
	If you think that's how it works...
	The company that administers the test first discovered a server failure.
	Then there was a problem with too much traffic at one time.
	Tuesday, they found out an outsider was deliberately disrupting the system, overwhelming it so that students couldn't log in and take their test.
	It's not an attempt to steal data or to hack into the system.
	Rather, it's an attempt to overwhelm it so that it can't function.
	So this would have been something that someone intentionally did in order to disrupt it from the outside.
	He says there's no indication any student data was taken.
	MCA scores are seen as an indicator of a student's growth year to year.
	They're also used to track the progress of a school.
	Teachers worry that technical problems have created even more anxiety for students who understand the tests are important.
	Testing can already be an anxious time for students and we know that and so anything that is going to potentially increase that anxiety is concerning to us and that's part of the reason that we decided to suspend testing today.
	This afternoon, the Minnesota Department of Education notified school districts that MCA testing will resume tomorrow.
	Pearson assures them the problems have been fixed and they've put in some new protections to prevent a similar attack on the testing system.
	An investigation is taking place to find the person or the people responsible for this.
	They lost two days, but they're going to extend that window.
	This is crazy.
	None of this can go well.
	Of course, if you're doing this over the open internet and making these kids log in, well, yeah, of course.
	And I think it's very difficult for anyone, certainly Pearson or Prometric, to stop a denial of service, distributed denial of service.
	I don't know what they...
	Denial of service, I'll tell you, it probably doesn't take much, I'm guessing, with the software to just screw it up.
	No.
	This is classic.
	Oh, let's rely on this crappy technology.
	Buy more computers.
	Stop teaching the kids.
	Put them on a computer.
	When I was a kid, they had these things called teachers.
	Teaching machines, and they were out there.
	There's nothing new about this technology.
	Controlled data used to own the market, as a matter of fact, and they put people on these things.
	And you could sit behind this thing and take tests and learn stuff, kind of.
	It was not a substitute for a classroom, but we've gone all in on this.
	Oh, that's just computers.
	We don't even need teachers.
	You got a bunch of kids, you know, doing stupid crap.
	They were on Facebook, you know.
	What are you going to learn there?
	I find this whole thing to be depressing.
	Well, these are the unintended consequences of technology, as we often discuss, and it's only going to get worse.
	The emails are still flowing in continuously about the ECD-10 codes.
	Dudes named Ben, it's unmanageable.
	Somehow we have...
	We've gotten into this vibe of technology solves everything, or tech.
	It's called tech.
	Tech.
	Tech.
	Well, another good book for people to read, Jacques Elluel's The Technological Society.
	It's pretty long, but it's very good.
	Excellent book.
	You could always read another book by my friend Theo.
	It's not really a book, but you can download it from the show notes.
	I always have it linked there under the Today section.
	It's Industrial Society and its Future from my friend Theo.
	You mean Ted Kaczynski?
	Theodore.
	Yes, Ted Kaczynski.
	Yes, the Unabomber, who was so passionate.
	I know you love that book.
	Yeah, he's so passionate about what he had to say that he couldn't publish it because he didn't have an internet, really.
	And he forced the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish it because he was blowing people up.
	So you've got to think the guy had something to say.
	So, gee...
	Who was the other...
	Technological Society is an excellent read for anyone who likes a good read.
	It's about what we just discussed, which is the stuff that you turn...
	Everything relies on technology.
	Oh, tech's going to fix everything.
	Save everything, yeah.
	It's going to save us all.
	It's not saving anybody from what I can tell.
	No, it's really not.
	It's really a step backwards in many ways.
	I'd like me some tech, but...
	It does account for us being able to do this show, which would not be doable in a non-internet era.
	It just wouldn't.
	You could make a tape and pass it around.
	And then we also wouldn't be able to share, and I want people to, this is in the show notes under the F Russia section.
	There's a great blog post from someone named Australian Voice.
	I don't know who this is.
	Let me see if there's a real name here.
	As anyone really claims who this is.
	A well-researched piece about, actually the title of it is, this came from one of my handlers, from Agent Orange, who sent this to me.
	So take that with whatever you want.
	Why does the West hate Putin?
	The secret reason.
	I know the secret reason, can I say?
	Because he's got Snowden.
	I forget that.
	Let me read this one paragraph.
	Early in the morning of Saturday, August 31st, 2013, an American official called the office of President Hollande of France, telling him to expect a call from President Obama later in the day.
	Quote, Assuming that the evening phone call would announce the commencement of U.S. airstrikes against Syria, Hollande ordered his officers to quickly finalize their own attack plans.
	Rafale fighters were loaded with scalp cruise missiles their pilots told to launch.
	The 250-mile range of munitions went while over the Mediterranean.
	In other words...
	At this point in time, the French pilots and the U.S. forces were only waiting for the final command from President Obama to begin their attack.
	However, later that same day, at 6.15 p.m., Obama called the French president to tell him that the strike scheduled for 3 a.m.
	September 1st would not take place as planned.
	He would need to consult Congress.
	Now, we remember this happening, but we didn't know the depth.
	And this guy has some interesting footnotes and links.
	It was claimed by a Lebanese newspaper, quoting diplomatic sources, that the missiles were launched from a NATO airbase in Spain, but were shot down by the Russian ship-based sea-to-air defense system, who moved in hastily.
	Another explanation proposed by the Asia Times says the Russians employed their cheap and powerful GPS jammers to render the expensive tomahawks helpless by disorienting them and causing them to fail.
	Yet another version attributed the launch to the Israelis, whether they were trying to jumpstart the shootout or just observe the clouds as they claim.
	And he shows all the different warships that were in the area, And we had the USS Mahan.
	It's a destroyer.
	The Stout, the destroyer.
	The San Antonio, which is an amphibious ship.
	The Chevalier Paul frigate.
	And you can see the Russian ships that were in there.
	They had anti-subships, lots of amphibious ships.
	And the claim here in this paper or this blog post is that really the secret is we failed.
	And the Russians showed their quote-unquote might, and that scared everybody back.
	And that's when they said, okay, we can't do it that way.
	Let's go screw those guys.
	And this, of course, launched ultimately Ukraine, and the idea was for NATO to take over Crimea, which is, of course, a beautiful spot to put some ballistic missiles on if you really want to have a good piece of the region and a nice vacation spot, too, for some of the elites.
	And I like what this guy has done.
	He's got a lot of research material, a lot of footnotes, and I find it to be pretty believable.
	Hmm.
	Not so good, of course.
	That means we really, truly are at a war with Russia, and we're just playing who's going to blink first, I guess.
	Well, I'm skeptical.
	I'll have to look at this material myself.
	It's in the show notes.
	It just seems like a long, you know, a new narrative that conveniently explains things and also manages to blame the Russians again.
	We love to blame the Russians.
	Well, it actually doesn't blame the Russians.
	This actually doesn't blame the Russians.
	It actually says the Russians stopped this attack.
	It sounds like they're blaming the Russians for something.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I think it's worth reading.
	I will definitely get on that and see what's up.
	We've put a couple things on the list.
	We have...
	I want to mention those books again so people can...
	Jack Ellul's the Technological Society, E-L-L-U-L, if you're looking for a file somewhere.
	And also, Philip Corso, C-O-R-S-O, and his book, and I think his only book he ever wrote, and it's called The Day After Roswell.
	It's very, especially when you're about halfway through it, you realize this is a very entertaining book.
	And it could all be true.
	Yep.
	What else?
	You got something to play us out with?
	No, I'm done.
	I ran out through the whole list.
	How does that happen?
	I mean, I could play it an extra.
	No, we're done now.
	No, no, no.
	hours.
	We're good.
	It's almost three hours.
	Hello, No Agenda subreddit, who are convinced that the shows are getting shorter and shorter.
	Do these people even listen to us?
	No, of course not.
	They just carp.
	I don't understand how those guys here are listening.
	They stink, those guys.
	They're wrong about this.
	Two centimeters, not three centimeters.
	What are they thinking?
	Once I found out you guys were wrong, I couldn't listen anymore.
	Those are wrong about that.
	Well, we tried.
	And we certainly put in the work.
	And we appreciate you keeping it going.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is where you can come to our rescue.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region 6, where we're expecting thunderstorms later this evening in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we actually had some rain the other day, which was nice, even though apparently we're a desert according to Hollywood.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Occasionally you blow things up, which is always cool.
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	I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
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	I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
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