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	Sounds like a warmonger if you ask me.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, August 9th, 2015.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 746.
	This is No Agenda.
	As always, we're doing it for the kids and broadcasting live from FEMA Region 6 here in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, did he say August?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crack, Blot, and Boss Kill in the morning.
	I did.
	I did.
	Terrible.
	I know.
	That's the only thing I don't like about doing this show, is I'm so aware of the date.
	Because I'm always, you know, naming files by the date, and you just see it creep up.
	You're like, ugh, August already.
	Summer's almost over.
	Yeah.
	We had no fun.
	No, no fun.
	No fun at all.
	How are you doing?
	Good.
	Did you watch the debates?
	Yeah, I did.
	I did.
	You know, this whole format is not serving the American voting public, as far as I'm concerned.
	No, it's a scam.
	It really truly was one of the...
	Although the ratings...
	What is it, 24 million people watched?
	Yes, a record for a non-sporting event.
	Although the Reagan-Jimmy Carter debate...
	Of course, that wasn't a primary debate...
	Drew 88 million viewers.
	Well, how come they said 24 million is some sort of record?
	Well, they're lying.
	Surprise, surprise, surprise.
	Carter, Reagan, Carter.
	88 million?
	88 million viewers, yeah.
	Okay, so here's the record they said.
	I can figure this out by just thinking the way they think.
	Best rating for a cable show.
	Ah, that would do it.
	That's how you do it.
	Other than sports.
	Yeah, that's how you do it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You differentiate.
	Best rating for a show on channel anything less than channel 10 kind of thing.
	Anything not on UHF, exactly.
	Right, UHF. Yeah.
	Well, I saw the newsletter, and so I know that you've got a rundown, but you caught the same thing I saw was this damn Facebook logo.
	Yeah.
	And this was subliminal, but not even just, you know, kind of, they weren't even hiding it, what they were doing.
	No.
	Explain.
	It was like, it was so obvious.
	Now, I did get, I did notice that in the introductions, I have a sheet here somewhere.
	We're talking about the Republican debate, the first one.
	Yeah.
	For the historians listening to this show a hundred years from now.
	Yeah.
	They put a big Facebook logo, which was a giant F, next to all the guys.
	And the newsletter shows clearly that when they showed the hosts, Megan and the gang, they didn't have an F by them because they were better than an F. No, no.
	And these other guys are all flunks.
	But at the very beginning, they didn't have the same shot.
	So they had a bunch of variations when they introduced everybody.
	They had already picked their winners based on whether there was an F in the shot or not.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So who did not have an F in the shot?
	Well, the ones who didn't have an F in the shot.
	But F in the American school system...
	It's a flunk.
	It means flunk.
	It stands for fail, but it's referred to as a flunk.
	He's a flunk.
	He's an idiot.
	I think America is the only country in the world that still...
	I don't know if we still do grade A, B, C, D, F. We stopped.
	And what happened to E? How come there was no E? I never understood why there was no E. There was an E in...
	The funny thing about E's...
	What did E do?
	E was the top rating.
	It was excellent.
	Oh, okay.
	Just to make it more complicated.
	When I was in Chicago, I was a little kid.
	I was in the fourth grade.
	I got all E's, which was all straight A's.
	I bet you did.
	I did.
	And goody-goody two-shoes.
	You bring an apple for the teacher?
	No, I got slapped, actually, by the teacher.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	I got irked about it.
	I was so irked that I just bared down and got a straight ace to tell her to screw herself.
	I didn't even understand why Facebook was in this deal at all, other than my original analysis of Fox News, which is it's run by Democrats.
	That's the only thing that makes any sense.
	And so I looked into the Zuckerberg.
	Sandberg is the only, she's a staunch Democrat.
	She's going to vote for Hillary.
	And she's the COO, so she's the one who would call the shots at this level.
	Zuckerberg, he probably doesn't care.
	But Zuckerberg is pretty ambivalent about politics, and he just donates to anyone who's pro-immigration.
	Because like everyone else in Silicon Valley...
	He needs Indians.
	They need Indians, they need the H-1Bs, they need cheap workers to get so they can fire the Americans.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	So that's pretty straightforward.
	Post away, people.
	It was very...
	I'm in agreement.
	It's very strange that they were a sponsor of this thing, and they were brought into it constantly.
	But the way it was brought in is like, oh, this is really cool.
	We're so cyber, and now we have...
	I mean, hello, AOL was doing this 15 years ago.
	This is not new.
	This is not cool.
	This is not happening.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It is the new AOL. What am I talking about?
	All right, so let's go over a couple of things.
	Here's the people that didn't get the Fs at the beginning.
	All right.
	The first thing they opened with Trump, of course, he had a huge F. And I showed that at the newsletter.
	And just about the opening, it was so obvious that they were out to put him down.
	Oh yeah, and they had him lit funny, so he's had this squint.
	Yes, lit funny, and it also made his hair look even more orange than usual, or whatever that thing is on his head.
	They were out to get him.
	That was so mean.
	And then at the end of the show, it was even worse when they had Luntz come out with his focus group.
	And everybody in the focus group, it went like this.
	How many people in the focus group liked Trump before the debate?
	They all raised their hand.
	How many after one guy?
	And then they slammed him and slammed him and slammed him.
	And then in another one, which I have a clip of, Kelly has her show and she brings out a group.
	Actually, we can start at the end by playing Kelly's clip.
	Okay, this is the...
	This is to show you an example of how slanted Fox is and how they want to get Trump because she does the same thing that Luntz did with the rigged audience.
	And unfortunately, I guess somebody didn't get a clue.
	And so if they get to one person, some little Chinese girl says, yeah, I like Trump because he was true to form.
	And then every then they go on after him.
	Listen to this.
	Thank you.
	Thanks so much for being here.
	I want to do something akin to what Frank Luntz did last night where he just asked.
	Let's start with the Oh, she even says it right there.
	I'm going to do the same stupid thing.
	Sort of the star of going into last night's debate, Donald Trump.
	How many people here like Donald Trump before last night's debate?
	Ooh, ooh, pick me.
	And how many people like him now?
	Ooh, pick me.
	Okay, so similar.
	Oh, so he won over some people, too.
	Interesting.
	All right, let me start with you on that, Rachel.
	Why did you like him?
	Why do you like him now?
	I think that he really held his own and that he stayed true to his personality, and ultimately, you know, that's what we expected of him.
	Mm-hmm.
	Anybody else have a different reaction?
	Who's we, Kimo Sabe?
	Who is the we?
	Yeah, a mouse in her pocket.
	Oh, okay.
	Go ahead.
	I like Trump more before the debate.
	Afterwards, you know, they say there's no crying in baseball, there's no whining in politics.
	And he was a little whiny in certain parts of the debate.
	And if you're going to be leading our country, I like a lot of what he says.
	But if you're also whining at the same time, I think you lose a little bit.
	I thought they were all whiners.
	You know, I'm like...
	You should have heard the first debate.
	I have some ideas.
	Yeah, good guy.
	I feel like he responded to your question about essentially buying politicians and things of that nature by basically arguing, I'm not just a crony capitalist.
	I'm the best crony capitalist.
	I'm the classiest crony capitalist.
	And from my perspective, that's just not a solution.
	That's not a guy who's interested in solutions.
	I don't know about you, but I would want to pay the Clintons to stay away.
	This guy's a pro.
	Who is he?
	He's got a pro-speaking voice.
	The guy's a pro.
	From my wedding.
	I think he's also proved himself that he's more style than substance, if anything, last night.
	So one slam after another.
	Yeah, it just doesn't stop.
	So the way we can view this, one is, again, Fox News, it's run by the Democrats.
	All evidence points towards that.
	And it's meant as some kind of balance to give you some illusion that you have some choice, I presume.
	Well, let me go over the number, the people.
	I've got the whole list here with the following intros, and here's how it went.
	There was two elements to this.
	There was the F, the big giant F next to them, meaning flunk.
	And then there was a little F in the corner, and that took four forms.
	It took just a small F with a bunch of the Fox debate logo.
	Then it took a moving F. The F grew.
	The flying F. And it was a big giant F at the end.
	Then it was moving smaller.
	That was the third option.
	And then the fourth one was just a stationary giant F. Now, the guys who got no big Fs next to them on the intros was Bush.
	Hello.
	Walker.
	Huckabee.
	No, not Huckabee.
	Sorry, not Huckabee.
	Carson and Cruz.
	Right.
	Those are the four that got the no Fs at the intros.
	Now, the Cruz had the large stationary F, so I'm eliminating him.
	Right.
	He's off.
	There's no chance.
	He got the big F. He's got to go.
	Carson got the small little F, and it was stationary.
	So he was actually the top of the list in terms of favoritism.
	And then Bush had the no F plus a moving, growing F. And then Walker had the no F and a shrinking F. So those are the guys that Fox would love to see, from my interpretation, be president.
	Carson...
	It was the first time he presented himself, and I have a clip of, as far as I'm concerned, he's eliminated.
	He was asked a simple question, couldn't answer it in a way that doesn't indicate he just wants to, he's a torturer.
	He's another one of these Republicans who thinks it's cool, a sadist that likes torturing people.
	Dr.
	Carson.
	In one of his first acts as commander-in-chief, President Obama signed an executive order banning enhanced interrogation techniques in fighting terror.
	As president, would you bring back waterboarding?
	You know, what we do in order to get the information that we need is our business.
	And I wouldn't necessarily be broadcasting to everybody what we're going to do.
	You know, we...
	We've gotten into this mindset of fighting politically correct wars.
	There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
	It would have been so much cooler if you said, well, I know how to open someone's skull up and get the piece of the brain that makes them tell everything.
	If you had a sense of humor.
	Oh, wow.
	I just lost you, John.
	Your level went down to almost zero.
	I should be fine now.
	Okay, yeah.
	This is the Skype connection here for some reason.
	It's going from white to orange.
	Orange is the old white.
	He could have done a lot.
	What he should have done was simply say torture is illegal.
	Yeah.
	He went on and on.
	He said, I don't care about the Geneva Conventions.
	I don't care about this.
	We shouldn't be telling people what we're doing.
	We never did tell people that we were waterboarding anybody.
	It was a whistleblower who did.
	So as far as I'm concerned, he's eliminated completely, as far as I'm concerned.
	Why did he even get in this race to begin with?
	To be a commentator on the cable news?
	It's too boring for that.
	Hmm.
	I think he's an egomaniac.
	And why do we call this a debate at all?
	This is not a debate.
	There's no debating going on.
	No, it's question and answers from news models.
	It should be called Q&A. Yes, yes.
	Okay.
	Well, anyway, what else do we have here?
	Well, can I throw a Trump thing in?
	I don't think you have any Trump clips.
	Actually, I don't.
	So I'm endorsing him, as you know.
	Yeah.
	And I thought he had, you know, two really strong moments.
	And I think this is what resonates with all American people.
	Although, man, I was cruising through Facebook and Twitter, but Facebook in particular, the meme was, don't watch it!
	Don't watch the debates!
	It's so silly!
	Don't watch it!
	Don't watch it!
	I'm not going to watch!
	I'm not watching!
	I've got something better to do!
	That's your American public that wants to be informed.
	It was just disgusting.
	You have repeatedly said that you have evidence that the Mexican government is doing this, but that you have evidence you have refused or declined to share.
	Why not use this first Republican presidential debate to share your proof with the American people?
	So, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't even be talking about illegal immigration, Chris.
	You wouldn't even be talking about it.
	I thought this was true.
	This is true.
	I agree that was true.
	...not a subject that was on anybody's mind until I brought it up.
	At my announcement, and I said, Mexico is sending.
	Except the reporters, because they're a very dishonest lot, generally speaking, in the world of politics, they didn't cover my statement the way I said it.
	This is what endears me to this guy.
	He's just saying it.
	The fact is...
	Since then, many killings, murders, crime, drugs pouring across the border, our money going out and the drugs coming in.
	And I said, we need to build a wall.
	And it has to be built quickly.
	And I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally.
	But we need Jeb to build a wall.
	We need to keep illegals out.
	Did he say we need Jeb to build a wall?
	Well, in the full question, they tried to do like a little debate by saying, why don't you tell Jeb Bush what you think about immigration, which was completely stupid.
	So Jeb Bush is looking at him, and then Trump says, yeah, Jeb, there you go.
	Mr.
	Trump, I'll give you 30 seconds.
	I'll give you 30 seconds to answer my question, which was, what evidence do you have, specific evidence, that the Mexican government is sending criminals across the border?
	30 seconds.
	Border Patrol, I was at the border last week.
	Border Patrol people that I deal with, that I talk to, they say this is what's happening because our leaders are stupid.
	Our politicians are stupid.
	And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning.
	And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them.
	They don't want to take care of them.
	Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them?
	And that's what's happening whether you like it or not.
	I think that appeals to a broad range of people.
	I think it does, too.
	But he'd still deduct the question when the question could be answered.
	I want to mention a couple of things.
	I agree with you.
	No one was really answering questions when it was so simple.
	But the couple of things that he could have pointed out, which would have just stopped these guys in their track, is there's TV shows in Mexico that show what you do if you get in the United States.
	And if anybody remembers from a few years ago, and I think it was during our show period, probably about five years ago, they had this comic book.
	That showed what to do, how to get across the border.
	It was all in Spanish.
	It was distributed throughout the northern part of Mexico.
	And how to sneak in the United States.
	It's a very famous comic book.
	It's been floating around.
	I'll find it.
	And it's online.
	You can find it.
	Oh, yeah, I will.
	And I hope it's still online, but I have a copy of it somewhere.
	And there is, you know, they could have just thrown anything out there other than just being belligerent, although it was funny.
	It was 2005 when it came out.
	The comic book?
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I didn't know it was that long ago.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	So the question is answerable.
	Wallace should have...
	He just knew that Trump...
	This was bullcrap.
	This whole thing was bullcrap.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Let's go to another...
	One of my favorite was the first debate was the better debate.
	Now, what they did is, since there were so many potential candidates, they had what they call the happy hour debate, which was earlier.
	Did anyone watch that at all?
	Did that have any ratings?
	No, I don't think so.
	I watched it.
	Alright, what did you find?
	Well, a couple of things.
	Carly Fiorina definitely was good, and she had the best clothes, which we'll play in a second.
	Lindsey Graham was also one of my favorites.
	But the bot's subliminal messaging.
	There's a moment...
	I want you to listen to this.
	This is Lindsey Graham and the subliminal message, which is delivered by the Fox people.
	I just...
	I'm going to suggest that this was a subliminal thing at the very end after Graham is done with this whiny, horrible, memorized, 12th-grader-sounding little spiel he does.
	Don't sugarcoat it.
	Such a good president.
	And then you hear this...
	You just play it, and we'll discuss it.
	Thank you.
	The first thing I'd tell the American people, whatever it takes to defend our nation...
	I would do.
	To the 1% who've been fighting this war for over a decade, I'd try my best to be a commander-in-chief worthy of your sacrifice.
	He sounds like a real leader, doesn't he?
	Oh, yeah.
	We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill.
	I'll be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill.
	When I was 21, my mom died.
	When I was 22, my dad died.
	We went to a liquor store, a restaurant, a bar, and we lived in the back.
	Every penny we got from Social Security, because my sister was a minor, we needed.
	Today, I'm 60.
	I'm not married.
	I don't have any kids.
	I would give up some Social Security to save a system that Americans are going to depend on now and in the future.
	Half of American seniors would be in poverty without a Social Security check.
	If you make me your president, I'm going to put the country ahead of the party.
	I'm going to do what it takes to defend this nation.
	This nation's been great to me, and that's the only way I know to pay you back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Senator.
	I need a two-word answer to the following query.
	Okay, what was the subliminal thing there?
	Query?
	Hmm.
	I need a two-word answer to the following question.
	But they said query.
	Query.
	He's pronounced it Queery.
	Oh!
	Oh, I get it.
	Lindsey Graham.
	Gay!
	Nice.
	No, not married, no children, 60-year-old man.
	Queery!
	Thoughts like a 12-year-old.
	All he needs is a lisp and we're good to go.
	I'd like a Queery.
	Queery, Queery, anybody?
	Good catch.
	Yeah, I thought it was like...
	You know, speaking of that...
	Here's the one thing that was completely odd for me watching this debate.
	At least six times, not this early one, but the primetime one, at least six times, whenever someone said election or elections, my Amazon Echo kicked in.
	She was hearing, because her name is Alexa, that's the wake word.
	So elections and Alexa.
	Elections, yeah, and it kept kicking in when someone said the elections...
	This is such a security breach.
	If you get on TV, talk about the elections or reorder all that stuff for me.
	That's funny.
	Well, they better do something because it's getting annoying.
	If you have the TV on and your Amazon Echo is within earshot, it's going to kick in continuously.
	Who knows what's going to happen?
	All hell can break loose.
	You get more tied in the mail.
	Okay, Google.
	Let's pay attention to this.
	Okay, Google.
	Hey, Siri, what do you say?
	So Rubio, who everybody thought did a great job, I thought was kind of an idiot.
	If you actually listen to what he said, he's kind of an idiot.
	And then there was this, and everybody who was on Twitter during this thing and noticed it, I noticed it, we all noticed it.
	It's actually double bad.
	Play the Rubio's an idiot clip.
	On Facebook, and here is a video question from Tanya Cialko from Philadelphia.
	Here she is.
	Please describe one action you would do to make the economic environment more favorable for small businesses and entrepreneurs and anyone dreaming of opening their own business.
	That's a great question.
	Senator, how do you answer Tanya?
	That's a great question.
	First of all, it begins by having leaders that recognize that the economy we live in today is dramatically different from the one we had five years ago.
	It's not different than five years ago.
	It's not dramatically different.
	He says the economy is dramatically different.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, I'm sorry.
	It's not, Drew.
	Are you telling me?
	It's dramatically different.
	We were doing this show five years ago.
	Yeah, it didn't seem...
	It's not dramatic.
	What is he talking about?
	Just as bad, yeah.
	Anyway, so that wasn't good.
	Then you saw Rand Paul.
	What do you think he did?
	I think he comes across as very angry, which is kind of his M.O. I guess that's now kind of the way he wants to come across as fed up with everything.
	But he has no control over his voice.
	His face looks really taut and stressed out.
	I think no matter what he says, we choose people like we choose actors.
	He's got nothing going on.
	He has the personality of a dishrag.
	It's not going to work.
	Now we know that he is being obviously misled by his campaign manager who showed up on the Chris Matthews show and claimed he won the debate.
	Excellent.
	Was this a connect?
	Did you guys plan early on you were going to take on the Donald?
	Right at him there.
	Right out of the bat.
	You went after him.
	Well, I think Senator Paul, he won the debate in the first two minutes when he was the only candidate willing to hold Trump accountable for saying, hey, I can run as a third party and hand the White House to Hillary Clinton.
	You know, Trump is brilliant with this.
	So, for those of you who didn't see it, they started off the debate by saying, anyone who will not pledge.
	Yes.
	You might as well just put the spotlight on Donald Trump and say, hey, we're going to make you look like a douche.
	Well, Megan talked about this, and she said that they had discussed whether or not Trump would do this.
	They all had bets that he would.
	But why wouldn't you take advantage?
	Trump had the most minutes.
	He had over 11 minutes of talking time, which was one minute above Jeb Bush, who was actually second, even though no one would notice.
	Just to finish what they were talking about, it was if you will you pledge that you will not run as an independent, raise your hand.
	You know, if if you do not want to take the pledge, which is even worse because it's the reverse of saying, hey, who's going to pledge?
	And everyone's hand would go up except for Trump.
	Now is just Trump singled out in the middle of the stage.
	Yeah.
	And it's brilliant because this keeps this.
	He holds the Republican Party hostage by saying I could go independent at any time.
	I think it's a brilliant strategy.
	I agree.
	and it also gave him the first shot at talking for the night.
	He, like, gets to set the pace.
	Yes.
	I'll talk if I get one.
	Some other guy should have lifted his hand.
	I want to talk.
	No, they gave it to Trump.
	So Trump took over the thing right there.
	He sure did.
	And except, you know, again, he had a big...
	F next to him.
	And then you had Fox completely doing everything they could to blast the guy.
	And Fox is totally corrupt in this.
	And anybody who doesn't see this is nuts.
	But they actually made all the Republicans get a big F. The best one that came out was Carly Fiorina, I have her closing.
	And she got, by the way, I cut off to, she had a huge round of applause at the end of this, but it was the best of all the closings anyone did.
	Hers was the best.
	She targeted Hillary Clinton properly.
	And she actually said, nobody else that I recall actually said thank you at the end after she did her close.
	Thank you, Governor.
	Carly Fiorina, closing statement.
	Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi.
	She lies about emails.
	She is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's front-runner.
	2016 is going to be a fight between conservatism and a Democrat party that is undermining the very character of this nation.
	We need a nominee who is going to throw every punch, not poll punches, and someone who cannot stumble before he even gets into the ring.
	I am not a member of the political class.
	I am a conservative.
	I can win this job.
	I can do this job.
	I need your help.
	I need your support.
	I will, with your help and support, lead the resurgence of this great nation.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	She, of course, works for HPO. HPO, right.
	Now, just by contrast, since I do have the clip, and he's one of my favorites now, Lindsey Graham.
	Here's his closer that's supposed to, like, convince us to vote for him.
	Senator Graham.
	We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one who understands there are no moderates in Iran.
	They've been killed a long time ago.
	That the Ayatollah is a radical jihadist who really means it when he chants death to America, death to Israel.
	And this deal is giving him a pathway to a bomb, a missile to deliver it, and money to pay for it all.
	We need a president who can solve our problems, bring us together.
	We're becoming Greece if we don't work together.
	At the end of the day, ladies and gentlemen, our best days are ahead of us only if we work together.
	And I intend to put this country on a path of success by working together and doing the hard things that should have been done a very long time ago.
	Good query.
	unbelievable Unbelievable.
	Okay, I got my second and only other Trump clip.
	Another reason why I think Americans of all political persuasions just have to agree with some of the things the guy says.
	Mr.
	Trump, it's not just your past support for single-payer.
	You've also supported a host of other liberal policies.
	You've also donated to several Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton included, Nancy Pelosi.
	You explained away those donations, saying you did that to get business-related favorites.
	And you said recently, quote, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.
	You better believe it.
	So what specifically did they do?
	If I ask them, if I need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I've given to, just so you understand.
	A lot of money.
	Not me.
	Not me.
	Was that Huckabee who said not me?
	Rubio.
	Oh, Rubio.
	But you're welcome to give me a death, Donald.
	Many of us.
	Actually, to be clear, he supported Charlie Crist.
	Not Mike.
	But what is this Charlie Crist thing that someone's yelling in the background?
	That was Rubio again.
	Was Charlie Chris some kind of criminal?
	Charlie Chris was the guy Rubio ran against.
	He was an old political hack in Florida.
	They would win and win and win.
	He thought he could never be defeated.
	And the Tea Party came up and kicked him out.
	So Trump is going to say something here, which, as far as I can I hope you will give to me.
	Good.
	Sounds good.
	Sounds good to me, Governor.
	I will tell you that our system is broken.
	I give to many people.
	Before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman.
	I give to everybody.
	When they call, I give.
	And you know what?
	When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them.
	They are there for me.
	And that's a broken system.
	So what'd you get from Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi?
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	With Hillary Clinton, I said, be at my wedding, and she came to my wedding.
	You know why?
	What a way to make her your bitch.
	Fantastic.
	I had no choice because I gave.
	I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good.
	I didn't know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world.
	It was.
	And he puts her on notice right there.
	Brilliant.
	Yeah, it's definitely, that's outstanding.
	And the way that is spun is, well, Trump admits to being corrupt.
	Yeah, and like that one guy said on the Kelly thing, crony capitalist, he never said he was a crony capitalist, because he's not, crony capitalist means you don't do any of that stuff, you just buddies with somebody.
	Exactly, exactly.
	I had a dinner, in attendance was a millennial.
	And, of course, I'm very interested, you know, what do you think of the candidates?
	And she said, well, I said, how about Hillary Clinton?
	Oh, no.
	Toxic.
	Now, this is an 18-year-old.
	I want to interrupt you.
	I've been catching this.
	You're going to tell us.
	I've been catching it all over the news.
	These millennials don't like Hillary.
	No.
	Toxic.
	Because she stands on the wrong side of women's rights, and these are all the things that are being said.
	And so I said, well, what about Donald Trump?
	Oh, no.
	No, of course not.
	He's just crazy.
	What about Lindsey Graham?
	Yes.
	Everybody she knows is all in on Lindsey Graham.
	I'm sorry, Bernie Sanders on Lindsey Graham.
	Bernie Sanders.
	Not Lindsey Graham.
	I'm sorry, another old guy.
	Being ageist, but yes.
	Um...
	And I said, well, you know, what is the appeal of Bernie Sanders?
	Is it the grandfather thing?
	No, no.
	He said, are you familiar with I side with?
	I said, what?
	I side with?
	He said, no.
	Everyone I know is going to isidewith.com.
	And there is a questionnaire and it tells you who you side with.
	And I took this questionnaire, and I did it really honestly, and by no means am I Republican.
	I'm certainly not a Demetrode, but I go through the questions, and it's obviously slanted, I think, in some way, but it may be really a good questionnaire.
	Out comes 89% I side with Donald Trump.
	And I know that not all the answers I was giving were by any means all Trump-ish.
	And it seems that this iSideWith.com is being used or pushed upon millennials and they're getting Bernie Sanders out of it.
	Interesting.
	You want to try?
	We have to dig into this.
	You want to try?
	You want to run through it real quick?
	Oh, sure.
	Okay.
	Now, every question also has a how important is this to you.
	I'm just going to not use the slider.
	Just leave that in the middle.
	I think that's bullcrap.
	Unless you feel really strongly, you let me know.
	I'll turn the slider, okay?
	Here we go.
	Okay, here we go.
	Here we go.
	What is your stance on abortion?
	Pro-choice, pro-life, or other stances?
	Other stances.
	Other stances.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	You get a sub-menu.
	I hadn't seen this.
	Ban after first trimester.
	Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to mother or child's health.
	Pro-choice.
	I don't agree with it, but it's not my right.
	Or the government's to ban abortions.
	Pro-choice, but providing birth control, sex education, social service should help reduce the number of abortions.
	Or add your own stance.
	All the above.
	Okay.
	Well, that's not possible.
	Well...
	You can't have them all.
	You have to choose one.
	I can't choose one.
	They're all valid.
	Then click the last one.
	Okay.
	Whatever.
	I have my own ideas.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Next.
	Do you support the legalization of same-sex marriage?
	Yes, no.
	Other stances?
	What if you're ambivalent?
	You can do other stances.
	Okay.
	I'll take other stances.
	And just add your own stance.
	Right?
	You're ambivalent.
	Should a business based on religious belief be able to deny service to a customer?
	Yes, no other stances.
	Well, that's another one I would also say I have a singular opinion on.
	I would take other stances.
	This is not going to work.
	Well, that's what I'm taking the test.
	Should the government require health insurance companies to provide free birth control?
	Yes, no other stances.
	I would say no.
	Should the US remove references to God from currency, federal buildings, national monuments, and other aspects of government?
	No.
	Should the federal government allow the death penalty?
	Yeah, I would say they should.
	I would say yes, as long as we can televise it.
	Otherwise it's not so cool.
	Should terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives via assisted suicide?
	Fine with me.
	Should the federal government allow states to fly the Confederate flag?
	They can fly whatever they want.
	But listen to this.
	Thank you.
	Because that's the red herring.
	Should the federal government allow states to fly the Confederate flag?
	They have no say over that.
	No, they don't.
	Should the government increase environmental regulations to prevent global warming?
	Go back to that other question on the flag.
	What did you check?
	I said yes.
	The federal government hasn't got a say in it.
	Why would I say yes?
	I'm sorry, you're right.
	We should say...
	Well, there's yes, each state has the right to display whichever flag they choose.
	But it's still a specious argument because the federal government has no say.
	We'll just say yes.
	Should the government increase environmental regulations to prevent global warming?
	No.
	Should national parks continue to be preserved and protected by the federal government?
	No.
	That's what they are.
	They're national parks, of course.
	Do you support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources?
	Personally, no.
	Okay.
	Economic issues.
	Should employers be required to pay men and women who perform the same work the same salary?
	Of course.
	Should able-bodied, mentally capable adults who receive welfare be required to work?
	No.
	Should all welfare recipients be tested for drugs?
	No.
	I think yes if they're going to share.
	Should every person purchasing a gun be required to pass a criminal and public safety background check?
	That's a good one.
	I would say technically they shouldn't.
	I say yes, though, but do you say no?
	I'll say no.
	Okay.
	Do you support increased gun control?
	No.
	Hey, it's not me asking, it's the survey.
	Don't get all huffy at me.
	I'm just asking the questions.
	My emotional reflection is to the surveyors.
	I am your Megyn Kelly.
	Should there be term limits set for members of Congress?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Healthcare.
	Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare?
	No.
	Do you support the legalization of marijuana?
	Of course.
	Should the federal government increase funding of healthcare for low-income individuals, i.e.
	Medicaid?
	Should the federal government increase funding of health care for low-income individuals?
	Is there not enough money already?
	Yes, no.
	Other stances.
	I'm going to put other stances, because why should they increase it?
	They're already doing it.
	Okay.
	Where do you side on education issues?
	Would you support increasing taxes on the rich in order to reduce interest rates for student loans?
	This is another other stances.
	There should be no student loans.
	I agree.
	Do you support the adoption of Common Core national education standards?
	No, please.
	Foreign policy.
	We're almost there.
	Should the government decrease military spending?
	Yeah.
	Should foreign terrorism...
	They can't even...
	If they audit it and tell us what they're spending this money on, as we know the Defense Department can't be audited.
	Again, this is just what millennials...
	It's just a waste of money.
	This is a trick questionnaire for millennials, I'm telling you.
	It is.
	Should foreign terrorism suspects be given constitutional rights?
	No, that's a constitutional issue.
	Should the U.S. formally declare war on ISIS? What?
	No.
	It's bogus.
	Should illegal immigrants be given access to government-subsidized health care?
	Well, they're going to get healthcare one way or the other.
	I think, yeah, I was, when I went to Canada to get a flu shot, like the next number of years back when I was getting flu shots, I used the Canadian healthcare system.
	I think if someone comes here, yeah, they can use it.
	Answer the question.
	I think they have to pay a fee, so make it other, whatever.
	Other stances.
	Okay.
	Do you support stronger measures to increase our border security?
	Sure.
	Okay.
	And then today's trending question, the last one.
	Which party do you most identify with?
	Democrat, Republican, other stances.
	Independent.
	Where's the independent?
	Where's the libertarian?
	When you do other stances, you get a sub-menu which says Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Independence, Socialist, Justice, Prohibition, Independence, and as your own stance.
	Independent.
	Not independence.
	Independent.
	All right, show my results.
	All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are now matching your answers to the candidates.
	Bernie Sanders.
	Wouldn't that be funny?
	All right, hold on.
	We're matching your answers.
	We're up to 70-80%.
	Done, and here it comes.
	You side with...
	Oh man.
	It's a tie.
	Oh man, this is great.
	76% tie between Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee with a close second tie between Carly Fiorina and Bobby Jindal.
	What?
	Hillary Clinton is the bottom of your list with 37%.
	Well, that's the good news.
	At least I got that part right.
	I already showed why I wouldn't vote for Rubio.
	He's an idiot.
	You should have put that under other stances.
	He's an idiot.
	Jindal is just kind of a milquetoast guy.
	I don't go for it.
	Huckabee's a Baptist minister.
	I'd never vote for him.
	We don't want some religious guy in the White House like that.
	He's funnier, though, and he's very polished.
	So Donald Trump is low on your list.
	Bernie Sanders is even below Trump.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so this is what the millennials are using as their guide.
	Well, there's a lot of questions in there that are trick, obviously, and they're trap questions.
	And if people really thought about these questions, most people, I think, would answer almost identical to what I just did.
	Yeah.
	It's the way I see it.
	Probably.
	Well, Rubio's got a fighting chance then.
	There you go.
	Ruby, here's the problem I have with Ruby.
	He looks like he's 18.
	Oh, that doesn't matter.
	It's being ageist.
	No, no.
	It is totally ageist because he just does not look...
	He doesn't have...
	I mean, yeah, on the debate thing, he looked pretty good up there, but I've seen him sit down on some of these sit-down shows like that crazy show in the morning with Brzezinski and the rest of it.
	He looks like a kid.
	And he acts like a kid.
	He's just not mature.
	Do you want to do more, or can I wind us up with a final...
	Yeah, let's finish.
	I do have one more thing.
	There's only one left, I think.
	Yeah, I got one last thing to share.
	Okay, well, let me just play this last thing.
	This was kind of a little off-topic, but they're talking about the debates, and again, we have Shields and Brooks, and both of them think...
	Brooks says, this is on the PBS NewsHour, Brooks says that Trump's not a real candidate, and he just sloughs him off and laughs him off, doesn't care.
	Who supposedly represents the Republicans.
	The Democrat Shields, the little hangdog looking guy, he thinks Trump blew it.
	He's going to lose all his numbers.
	Nobody's going to support him anymore after the stupidity that he showed in the debate.
	And in the process, he somehow insults Judy Woodruff, who's there questioning him.
	And Woodruff, unfortunately, it's better to watch it.
	She's kind of smiling at the beginning, and then she's glaring at him, and she's very stern-looking.
	She's very annoyed by what he has to say.
	Who were tough.
	They really did.
	And I really think he made a serious mistake by retaliating and attacking Megyn Kelly.
	First of all...
	When she asked him about his comments about women.
	Well, I said about women, his misogynistic comments.
	First of all, Fox News is the validator.
	It's the gatekeeper for Republican, particularly conservative voters.
	And you don't go after...
	It isn't like you're attacking Chuck Todd or Judy Woodruff or some member of the liberal elite establishment.
	You're attacking the mother church.
	Well, let's make a distinction here.
	Okay.
	I'm not part of the liberal media.
	No, I'm talking about by the definition of conservative America.
	You know, the funny thing is that this whole, you know, Donald Trump is a misogynist, hates women, says horrible things, was rude to Megyn Kelly.
	Fox News, by definition, is rude to women.
	There's only babes.
	Show me one ugly hag on Fox News, and then they can have something to talk about.
	They have nothing but beautiful women.
	And they're also smart, but they're all beautiful.
	And it's sexy, and they dress sexy, and it's so...
	Oh, man.
	And then I tried to find all of these other instances where Donald Trump had said horrible things about women, and there really aren't any.
	There was a website that did the same thing.
	There's a website that identified supposedly these comments that were all about Rosie O'Donnell.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Except for one or two.
	But they try to make Trump look like he's constantly...
	He's an insulting guy.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, you just assume he's just doing this constantly.
	You don't know that.
	No.
	Oh, no, but that's the way.
	So the only person being honest and real for my money was Donald Trump.
	And that's why he's dangerous.
	Everybody else is playing the game.
	And we're so used to it that people are just all in that it's jarring when someone just doesn't play the game and just comes out with something else.
	That's what I like about him.
	I really do.
	It's very entertaining.
	He brightens my life.
	I'm glad Donald Trump is in my life.
	He's the Fosbury flop of politics.
	The what?
	Fosbury.
	What's the Fosbury flop?
	This was during the Olympics.
	This guy, I think it was from the University of Oregon, reinvented high jumping.
	Oh.
	High jumping used to always be, you always used to do it, even when I was a kid, it was to jump over a high bar, you'd do the scissors.
	Right.
	You'd go up in the air as high, you'd jump as high as you can, and you'd bring one leg up, and then drop it, and then you'd bring the other leg up and drop it, and that was the scissors.
	Oh, and then later it turned to going over backwards over your back and kind of an arc.
	Oh.
	Oh, Fosbury.
	Fosbury flop.
	Because what changes, every time any technology changes, you have to be on the lookout for a change in methodology involving the technology.
	In this case, they change from a sawdust, like a sawdust wood chip pit to a big foam thing.
	Right.
	Yes.
	And so once the foam thing showed up...
	Then you could do the different jump.
	You could jump over backwards head first, which you would kill yourself.
	If you were doing it in the sawdust, right.
	If you did it in the sawdust.
	But with the big foam thing, you just bounce off the foam.
	And this reinvented the whole model.
	And it was funny to watch this guy who wasn't that good at it.
	But he won because he was good enough.
	And then when the real superstars, the real athletes started to do it, then the records were just flying.
	It was just the old records, the old scissors records were a joke.
	Anyway, this is what's going on.
	Out there in the wild, now this is so good that I went looking as deep as I could to see if these two women, if they were somehow, if they're shills, they're being paid, but I could not find it.
	This is the viewer's view, and it's these two black women of middle age, and one is doing a lot of the talking, and the other one, her job apparently is to go, right, that's right, oh yeah, hell yeah, you know, one of those.
	And they did this nine-minute YouTube video about Donald Trump.
	Have you seen this?
	Call and response.
	Call and response.
	There you go.
	And so they're stumping for Trump.
	I pulled just about a minute 15.
	You would think these would be the typical people who would not want to vote for Trump.
	Donald Trump is a shot caller.
	A baller.
	And let me tell you why he went to that border.
	Tell you why.
	He went to that border to take measurements.
	Laughter.
	So he gonna put that damn fence up.
	He's a bastard!
	He gonna put that damn fence up.
	He needed to pick out the color.
	He wanted to pick out the pricing of the fence.
	He didn't know whether it was gonna be a picket fence or a wooden fence or a steel fence.
	He was down there picking out magic mess and stuff for that damn fence.
	He got his own money.
	That's another thing I like for him.
	Don't nobody got to grease his palm.
	He don't have to do that.
	Listen, we looking at Donald Trump Republicans, Democrats, Independents.
	We are looking at Donald Trump.
	And let me tell you why.
	Because people are tired of the media and we are tired of the Democratic Party holding people hostage.
	Always trying to be politically correct.
	Listen, Donald Trump don't want to be politically correct.
	He want to say facts.
	He want to tell the truth.
	Let him tell the truth!
	Because that's what's going to set us all free.
	Stop stopping for the Trump.
	I suggest you all go ahead and stop for the Trump.
	I'm forgetting about all those other challenges, and I'm looking at Mr.
	Donald Trump to be our next president.
	They got the stump for the Trump.
	I was like, this has got to be something that's orchestrated.
	I could not find it.
	It's very possible.
	Maybe it's, yeah, maybe organic.
	Well, when you think about, certainly, immigrant, well, this is an immigrant country, which we're supposed to be, but if you really look at what people who come to America are thinking, yeah, this is where you can do it, anybody can be successful, anybody can be a millionaire, billionaire, and you can be president, this guy is embodying what America kind of stood for.
	I think it's working.
	Yeah.
	I'm not arguing this.
	But I don't understand, John, why whenever I say this, and of course I'm prepared, whenever I say this, people go, he's a scam, it's full of shit.
	Based on what?
	Based on what?
	He seems legit.
	He even says, when I was a businessman, he now says I'm a politician.
	You know, unless this is truly the biggest deal he's ever put together and he's going to scam us in some horrific way, but I don't see it.
	He is going to profit from this anyway.
	Sure, there's no losing for us.
	Whether he gets anywhere or not, I don't think he's going to get anywhere because there's too many very negative forces that are lined up and strategizing, as we speak, against him in very advanced ways.
	I mean, the big F is a good example.
	Definitely.
	And this is, I think, if he can survive this and get out without being permanently tarnished but not get the nomination or maybe be nominated for vice president, which I don't think he'd take, but it would be wise to take because that would be the springboard Or actually, he doesn't need to get that either.
	But he still needs it as a springboard for 2020, because at that point, if my theory is correct, which is we're going to get a bonehead in office in this 2016 cycle.
	And what kind of bonehead would that be?
	That's Elizabeth Warren still, you think?
	Yeah, I'm still sticking with her.
	But Hillary would be a good choice.
	I would just be very disappointed if Carly Fiorina got in and won, because there's no way that...
	You're going to get around this economic situation that is going to collapse the economy in the next year or two.
	It's just obvious to everybody this is going to happen.
	And it's going to ruin the person, even though they can kind of come out of it, But it's going to ruin that person's future in terms of political, in terms of politics.
	And then 2020 comes along.
	That's where Trump or somebody comes in and takes over.
	Okay.
	Well...
	It's just, again, you know, this is something I've been studying for the last 10, 15 years.
	The only things that were really, that stood out for me was that my Amazon Echo kept kicking in whenever someone said elections.
	And that was it.
	This thing is stupid.
	It's stupid.
	It's an insult to our intelligence.
	But, of course, you look at the ratings.
	Bingo!
	Spot on.
	That is Donald Trump bringing in the ratings.
	Yeah.
	He's a ratings bonanza.
	There was no debate, except when there were two guys yelling at each other, and that wasn't even a debate.
	It was like Christie and Rand going at each other, and that was just stupid.
	And again, Christie, as far as I'm concerned, is eliminated because he sounds like a warmonger, if you ask me.
	And I'll remind everyone that this is so rigged because there's only two debate sides.
	You get the Democrats and the Republicans, and that's all you get.
	You don't get independents.
	You don't get green.
	No one's in prime time.
	So the scam has started.
	This is where it starts.
	There is no honesty in the American electoral process.
	Sorry.
	No, it's a total scam.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to everyone in the chatroom, noagendastream.com, voicing their opinions loudly.
	We're failing, John.
	We're failing here.
	That's what the chat room says.
	You guys are failing.
	You guys are failing.
	You guys are failing, yes.
	In the morning to Rob Little.
	How are we failing, by the way?
	I don't know.
	Because we're not...
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I remember one of my Twitter followers who's been on a lot.
	She says, oh, I hope you guys are going to spend a whole show talking about the debate.
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	This is already too long.
	We've gone too long.
	We're stopping it now.
	And there was really nothing to deconstruct other than what we just did.
	I think you're right.
	And we're good.
	So Rob Little brought us the artwork.
	It's L-Y-T-T-L-E. I presume it's Little.
	I think he's been...
	Could be Lytel.
	Could be.
	He brought us the Unicorn artwork for the episode 745 Unicorn, which is one we debated.
	The artwork is the war on men, and there's kind of a male-female bathroom sign.
	Male-female next to each other, you know, little stick figures with the head, and then the woman has a gun.
	She's just shot a bullet through the man's head.
	We debated that as being a little creepy, I remember.
	I thought it was creepy.
	Yeah, but there you go.
	Creepy are us, that's right.
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	Motown!
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	She'll be the associate executive producer for the show.
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	Yes, congratulations on your wedding anniversary.
	It was yesterday.
	Yes.
	How many years is that now?
	27.
	Damn!
	If I was on a...
	And they never had a fight, ladies and gentlemen.
	For some reason, I'd get applause.
	Yeah.
	It's applause worthy.
	Yeah, it's applause worthy.
	Anyone can stick to it.
	Well, separate states helps, apparently.
	Yes, it does.
	Once you get older, believe me, it's good to have everyone else spread out.
	Spread out.
	Buy more property.
	Buy land.
	Real estate is the solution to everybody's problems.
	I'm going to get...
	If I ever get my Airstream, I'm going to get a quarter acre.
	Oh, yeah.
	You'll be driving around places where you can probably buy a half acre here and there.
	You could get them all over the country.
	Yeah.
	And they'll be cheap.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And the last month I've had two people in the mouth, she writes, who are actually listening to the show.
	Oh.
	She would like a little girl yay there.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	She wants that now?
	Guess what she says.
	Okay, and I wasn't prepared.
	I don't have the note.
	Yay!
	There you go.
	Actually, you don't have the note.
	My friend Annette, who I hadn't seen in 27 years, came to visit me in July over my birthday, and I hit her first.
	She loves you guys so far, and I can't wait for Sunday's show to hear your coverage of Thursday's Republican debate.
	Anthony is the other conquest...
	He was lamenting on Facebook during the debate how the Fox talking heads were controlling the conversation.
	And by the way, according to the numbers, those three people controlled over 33% of the talking.
	Most of the talked in the lectern or on the stage was Trump with 11 and Bush with 10.
	We're controlling the conversation, bringing up the same BS talking points, at which time I decide he may be ripe for the picking.
	Finally, success.
	May I please have a very late happy birthday from July 20th?
	Any Obama?
	No, no, no, no.
	They're all hysterical.
	Al Sharpton, Resist We Much, and maybe the Gitmo Nation anthem at the end of the show for my two new recruits.
	Okay.
	That's the new one we got in.
	We got a whole song to put at the end, which is too long to play now.
	Give her a...
	Karma?
	Karma?
	Yeah, well, she wants to Sharpen Resist We Much.
	Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear that.
	Okay.
	Sharpen Resist...
	Something else?
	Well, the no, no, no.
	And that's it.
	Happy birthday.
	Put her on the happy birthday list.
	We don't have her on there.
	Okay.
	And it's Joni's?
	It's her birthday?
	I think so, yeah.
	But resist we much.
	We must and we will much about that.
	You've got karma.
	Hold on.
	Dame Joanie.
	You know, how that guy, after that clip, which is a real clip, how that guy could stay on the air is a mystery.
	He's powerful, John.
	He's powerful.
	He's powerful.
	Back to the list.
	I've got her on.
	Do we have an age for her or a date?
	She won't say.
	I think she's 23.
	Maybe 22.
	Russell Hickey in Nashville, Tennessee, $200.01.
	Guys, I must say I was skeptical when I first started listening, as I am with all things media-related.
	I have been pleasantly surprised and consider myself a big fan.
	Please continue to stay true to the formula.
	Also, go ahead and reserve my spot of Sir Hickey of Nashville.
	And my playlist for today is Mexican Obama.
	No, no, no karma for all.
	Regards, Russell Hickey.
	You've got karma. .
	And finally, Ewan Robertson in Sarasota, Florida, $200 in the morning.
	Gentlemen, please accept my humble donation from a long-time douchebag, my brother Mark, a.k.a.
	Sir Haggis, who is overly fond of inebriated donation, has called me out for the last time.
	Rightfully so.
	I love your show and look forward to many more.
	Surprise me with a jingle and cheers.
	Pronounced Ewan.
	What'd I say?
	I think I said Ewan.
	Maybe not.
	I think it's Ewan.
	And Brandenton is pronounced Bray-denton.
	All right.
	When your voice is that high and contains local fry, that's an egg.
	You've got karma.
	You must live in Bradenton.
	That's it for show 746.
	We could use some help for the next show, 747, the big jet show.
	You can join the fantastic Mile High Club and say you're in the Mile High Club.
	I think, John, I was listening to those two women who were stumping for Trump.
	I think I should be your call guy.
	Roll that up again, yeah.
	We're going to need some help for show 747, which will be about the Boeing 747 jet, of course.
	We'll probably discuss it.
	And we need some donations.
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	Mile High!
	I'm going to actually put a webpage up with everybody that's on the list so they can say, point to it.
	Isn't there a badge or some kind of logo or something that people can then put up?
	The one in the newsletter was good.
	Because you know what, on your lock screen on your phone, that would be cool to have your Mile High Club decal right there.
	If one of the artists out there, and there's a bunch of them, want to design a specific Mile High Club logo for today's show...
	We will entertain using that.
	Yes, we will entertain using it.
	And yeah, I think it would be great on the lock screen.
	All right.
	Please consider us for your support on Thursday's show.
	We will have another one for you.
	Of course, we always need everyone out there and on the lookout to propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Um, so since Trump is being, you know, heralded as the misogynist of our era and we have this war on men, which is, again, it's the entire talking point of the Democrats is to, you know, the Republicans hate women.
	Just hate them.
	We would rather masturbate as Republicans than actually have sex with women.
	That's how much we hate them.
	It's obvious.
	And as a part of this, we've been following this thermostat thing.
	Um...
	And I made a call out on Thursday's show.
	I said, look, I need to see this report that these two Dutch researchers came out with, which begat this entire conversation.
	Because it costs $125 if you want to get it from, you know, from whatever the, I guess it's Nature something.
	Yeah, there's a fantastic survey of 16 people.
	Well, thanks for taking the punchline.
	Oh, sorry.
	Yeah, so I read through the whole document, and then at the bottom it says, measured data.
	The data for the analysis were obtained in the context of a larger study performed in our laboratory on thermal preference in young adult females.
	During the study, 16 young female participants were lightly clothed, Sitting behind a desk and were randomly exposed to room temperature protocols in a climate chamber.
	For the purpose of this study, only steady state baseline data from these protocols are used.
	They had no control group, and they had 16 women?
	This entire survey is based on 16 women?
	Here's the problem I have.
	They wanted how much money for this report?
	$125.
	Are you kidding me?
	And I don't believe it's peer-reviewed yet.
	I'm sure it's PU review.
	Yeah.
	So I got a lot of cool emails from people who are, oh, guess what?
	In the business of installing and maintaining air conditioning.
	Was it HAVC? No, HVAC. You're going to let me read the Trotsky one?
	No, I'm going to read the Trotsky one.
	No, you don't get the Trotsky one.
	All right.
	You know what?
	This is your topic.
	No, it's okay.
	It's okay.
	I will give you the Trotsky one.
	I will read from producer Nick, who is LEED certified.
	He says, you know, this is really, really so stupid.
	I'm just paraphrasing what he's saying.
	But cooling systems in most buildings are crappy because they're cheap.
	But really what they are intended to do is dehumidify these buildings by overcooling the air for long periods of time.
	This is why it has to be a reasonably low temperature.
	Otherwise you get mold and all kinds of crap.
	And that's what these guys do when they install them.
	But also, in modern buildings, thermostats change based upon the stance of the sun around the building because it heats up in different portions.
	And this guy's saying, look, we've been doing this for a long time.
	Yes, I agree with a lot of people who say that body temperatures change or differ between people, certainly between men and women, but also between men and men.
	But then the best email came in from Sir David Trotsky.
	Oh!
	Well, thank you.
	David Trotz, Sir David Trotz, he writes, Guys, I have been doing heating and air conditioning in Chicago all my life alongside my father.
	There is no standard setting for the air conditioning or heat.
	If someone ever complains, they just adjust it.
	Which, by the way, in my experience, I think that's true.
	Also, all offices have multiple zones for different temperatures and different areas.
	Areas, sorry.
	Mainly for the sun moving around the building.
	We just discussed that.
	I thought you'd like this part.
	If a woman ever complained about being too cold, my father would ask if they had coffee and if she could go get it.
	While she was gone, my father would mount a thermostat on the wall that did nothing.
	It was connected to nothing.
	When she returned, my father would explain that she can control her own temperature now.
	They were always grateful and never had a call back.
	My father would throw the coffee away because he never drank coffee.
	We called this the placebo thermostat.
	And it worked perfectly.
	Yeah.
	And it got a lot of emails from men saying that the women were keeping it purposely cold.
	I mean, the whole thing is just, I don't even understand, except for the money aspect, which you're right about that.
	And I think they were Dutch women in Dutch office buildings.
	It doesn't even adhere to American building codes.
	16 people in the whole study, and this viral outrage ensues.
	Oh!
	Beyond viral outrage, it was on every single news show, nightly news.
	We're talking about national network news.
	16-person study.
	They did it, and it was all aimed at just, oh, men control the temperature.
	These horrible men are trying to freeze us.
	I have to wear a sweater in the office because of these horrible men.
	They need it too hot.
	Yeah.
	Or no, they need it too cold.
	The men need it too cold.
	They need it too cold.
	Which again, in my experience, is just the opposite.
	Yeah, I agree.
	My experience is women like it a little hotter than the men do.
	Well, and I'm sorry.
	I'm all confused.
	Forget everything I said.
	My wife likes it freezing.
	Let's put it that way.
	I hear that about her.
	So as the United States Congress, including the Senate, were taken off, they're gone now, right?
	They're on break?
	Yeah, they should be.
	Yeah, they tried to sneak one through.
	Now, the cybersecurity bill stalled in the Senate.
	That's the CISA, the sharing agreement.
	So that'll have to wait.
	That wasn't so surprising.
	But they tried to sneak one by, which did get stopped in the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016.
	And there were two general provisions...
	In this, and of course I read it for you, in this particular bill, and the one is Section 603.
	Here we have another section that was 215 on the previous, was it on the, was it Patriot Act, Section 215?
	This is Section 603.
	Requirement to report terrorist activity and the unlawful distribution of information relating to explosives.
	Duty to report.
	This is a big F.U. to Silicon Valley.
	Everybody knows that there's crap on Twitter.
	Everybody knows that someone posts some crap onto Facebook.
	Of course they know what's going on.
	They do nothing but troll your behavior all day long.
	And now they're being told, if you find out about something, you are obliged to tell us.
	I don't know if it's an F you to the whole valley.
	It's definitely an F you to these social networks.
	Well, what else is there of any import into Silicon Valley?
	There's chip companies.
	There's semiconductors.
	Okay.
	All right.
	But you get the idea.
	So this did not pass, or it stalled, because they have to come back with amendments.
	But I thought that was tricky.
	Everyone's looking at debates.
	Everyone's looking at Cecil the Lion.
	Everyone's looking at whatever they're looking at.
	Oh, don't look over here.
	We just got a little thing over here.
	Don't look over here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Ooh, look at that.
	So I'll keep my eye on this one for sure to see what happens with that.
	I have to report you.
	I got a couple of interesting little clips here.
	Okay.
	I want to play contrasting clips.
	This is where the news report is presented in two different ways.
	It's kind of different slants.
	Okay.
	The first one is the wire.
	Let me set it up first, but I'm going to tell you what the clip is.
	It's a wildfire report.
	And then, this is on Judy Woodruff, the establishment liberal, apparently.
	She gives a very accurate report on what's going on in California because people are very concerned.
	And she just has this very straight news read as part of the news rundown.
	Yeah.
	In California, hundreds of evacuees from a wildfire north of San Francisco were allowed to return home today.
	Firefighters now have the Rocky fire nearly half contained.
	Since last weekend, the fire has destroyed 43 homes as it charred nearly 109 square miles.
	About 12,000 residents are still under evacuation orders or warnings.
	Okay, pretty good.
	Straight forward.
	Seems good.
	Now, Amy Goodman has one, but she just can't resist her agenda, and she has to slip something in.
	In California, meanwhile, the largest of many drought-fueled wildfires has grown to 106 square miles, crossing highways and defying attempts to bring it under control.
	This year is on pace to become the warmest on record.
	Calm down.
	What?
	She's predicting the future now.
	This is great.
	I would just predict the future.
	Perfect.
	Very good.
	You just think that they would just, if they played it straight and didn't have all these, like, you know, liberal agenda items in their news, they maybe would be successful.
	I mean, it's not that they're unsuccessful, but I just don't think they're doing well.
	Well, they have to hurry because we have the big climate agreement meeting in Paris coming up in November or December, I think.
	They've got to move on.
	If it's in December, it's going to be freezing.
	They're going to be in Paris.
	Got to move.
	Got to move.
	They should move it to some time of year when it's boiling hot.
	The president, in the meantime, went to...
	Where was he?
	I think at American University, some place where I'm sure he would...
	He would be received well enough to sell his Iran deal to the American public.
	Did you see any of this, by any chance?
	I have a clip, actually.
	Okay.
	Play yours.
	I got a couple.
	All right.
	Mine's not much, but this, again, comes from...
	Democracy Now.
	From Democracy Now.
	I don't even see the clip.
	It's Iran and the future.
	Oh, yeah, it is.
	Yeah, this is his punchline.
	President Obama's ramped up his push for Congress to approve the historic nuclear deal with Iran, comparing arguments against the deal to those heard in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.
	In his speech Wednesday, Obama said Iranian hardliners who reject the nuclear deal and chant death to America are, quote, making common cause with the Republican caucus.
	Ultimately, Obama said, the decision to support or reject the nuclear deal comes down to a choice between diplomacy with Iran and war.
	The rejection of this deal leaves any U.S. administration that is absolutely committed to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon with one option.
	Another war in the Middle East.
	Yeah, so that was also my takeaway, but he spread it out over a couple different pieces, and I've gotten these clips.
	He actually put a timeline to when this was going to take place, if this should stall in the Senate.
	The timeline for the war?
	Yes, yes.
	Not once, but twice.
	Once or twice does he give us the timeline for the war.
	Now, the way I'm seeing it, John, based upon your thesis, which I'm in agreement with, that the plan is to rebelize the entire Middle East, it now appears that the president actually does not want the Senate to ratify this treaty.
	Because that's when we get exactly what all the neoconservatives and the nutjobs and the Atlanticists and everyone who's hanging out with John Kerry, it's exactly what they want.
	It is true that some of the limitations regarding Iran's peaceful program last only 15 years.
	But that's how arms control agreements work.
	The first SALT treaty with the Soviet Union lasted five years.
	The first START treaty lasted 15 years.
	And in our current situation, If 15 or 20 years from now Iran tries to build a bomb, this deal ensures that the United States will have better tools to detect it, a stronger basis under international law to respond, and the same options available to stop a weapons program as we have today, including, if necessary, military options.
	On the other hand, without this deal, The scenarios that critics warn about happening in 15 years could happen six months from now.
	By killing this deal, Congress would not merely pave Iran's pathway to a bomb.
	It would accelerate it.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	Good!
	This is exactly what we want.
	He's going to expand a bit on that.
	By the time I took office, Iran had installed several thousand centrifuges.
	And showed no inclination to slow, much less halt, its program.
	Among U.S. policymakers, there's never been disagreement on the danger posed by an Iranian nuclear bomb.
	Democrats and Republicans alike have recognized that it would spark an arms race in the world's most unstable region.
	Yay!
	And turn every crisis into a potential nuclear showdown.
	Woo!
	They would embolden terrorist groups like Hezbollah and pose an unacceptable risk to Israel, which Iranian leaders have repeatedly threatened to destroy.
	More broadly, it could unravel the global commitment to nonproliferation that the world has done so much to defend.
	He's laying it out.
	This is perfect.
	This is exactly what we want.
	The question then is not whether to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but how.
	Even before taking office, I made clear that Iran would not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon on my watch.
	And it's been my policy throughout my presidency to keep all options, including possible military options, on the table to achieve that objective.
	So then he comes back and he just piles on his own heap of crap there and says, you know, instead of six months...
	And as someone who does firmly believe that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon and who has wrestled with this issue since the beginning of my presidency, I can tell you that alternatives to military action will have been exhausted Once we reject a hard-won diplomatic solution that the world almost unanimously supports.
	Now, do you hear what he's saying here, John?
	He's saying it as if it's a fact.
	He says once we deny this, once we stop this, here's what's going to happen.
	He's not saying if.
	He's saying when.
	Listen again.
	Exhausted.
	Let me just go back a little bit.
	Who has wrestled with this issue since the beginning of my presidency?
	I can tell you that alternatives to military action will have been exhausted once we reject a hard-won diplomatic solution.
	That's different than saying if we reject, you know what I'm saying?
	I agree with you.
	Play it one more time.
	He's saying when, not if.
	He's saying when, not if.
	I firmly believe that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon.
	And who has wrestled with this issue since the beginning of my presidency?
	I can tell you that alternatives to military action will have been exhausted once we reject a hard-won diplomatic solution that the world almost unanimously supports.
	So let's not mince words.
	The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy or some form of war.
	Maybe not tomorrow.
	Maybe not three months from now.
	It's soon.
	We don't have to wait six months, John.
	It's soon.
	It's soon.
	Somewhere between three months and six months.
	And I take this guy's word at it.
	Because at the end of the speech, the Nobel Prize winning professor.
	He's a professor, isn't he?
	He was a constitutional lawyer.
	He was a lecturer.
	A constitutional lawyer.
	But he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
	And when did he win?
	Before he became president.
	As he was elected, I think he got it right away.
	Before he was inaugurated.
	Yeah, before he was inaugurated, that's it.
	He's very proud of his record on peace.
	As commander-in-chief, I have not shied away from using force when necessary.
	I have ordered tens of thousands of young Americans into combat.
	I've sat by their bedside sometimes when they come home.
	I've ordered military action in seven countries.
	Right on!
	Seven!
	Yeah, there you go.
	There's your Nobel Peace Prize.
	Seven, bitches.
	Seven.
	Count them.
	Seven.
	Not to mention the dronings.
	Well, that's what he's talking about.
	He's talking about dronings.
	Seven.
	The seven are Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Iraq.
	And now, of course, Syria.
	There are times when force is necessary.
	And if Ron does not abide by this deal, it's possible that we don't have an alternative.
	He's a warmonger.
	Duh.
	I'm all happy about his seven countries he's bombed.
	He's a warmonger.
	He's known that.
	Once he got the peace price, he became a warmonger.
	It's just unconscionable.
	Oh well, maybe we're the only ones to hear this.
	It seems as though we're at least in the minority.
	And I don't think anybody else has picked up on this.
	Let's let them get nukes.
	That way the Saudis are going to have to get them and they're going to have to buy a lot of our stuff.
	We're going to sell tons and tons of armaments all throughout the Middle East.
	And then they're going to blow each other up and they're going to make a mess and we're going to go in there and rebuild it after the radiation subsides.
	Which could be a number of decades.
	Yeah, but still.
	Exactly.
	Who cares?
	Who cares?
	They can use immigrant labor to sweep up the mess.
	Yeah, no, this is not good.
	It fits in with the whole cycle of things.
	Yeah, I think I didn't at first.
	I thought, and I still think it's something they can approve, but with people like douchebags like Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham in that one little speech, if you paid attention to it when he was talking about, all he talks about is Iran.
	He says the moderates are all dead.
	You know, Iran is most, is 50% of the population are young people.
	Yeah.
	Who love the United States.
	They love their iPhones.
	They love everything.
	They love all that stuff.
	They love Spotify.
	If I was Taylor Swift, big Taylor Swift fans, all that sort of thing, we're paying no attention to this.
	And we're just going to let them blow each other up because who gives a crap?
	Even though there's probably more money to be made in selling iPhones than all these armaments, but it's a different industry.
	Meanwhile, I'm keeping my eye on Greece and whatever else is happening in Euroland.
	There's a lot of things that are just not getting placed, certainly here in the United States, because of the reality show known as the presidential election.
	And we have a continued immigrant crisis in Greece.
	In fact, the refugee arrival numbers have increased by 750%.
	Over last year, we've got what's going on in the other side of the channel on the French side in Calais.
	There's thousands of people in a makeshift camp all trying to jump into trucks and underneath trucks.
	And one guy walked the whole channel tunnel 30 miles.
	That's a long walk.
	He almost made it through.
	And there's trains whizzing by.
	Nigel Farrar said something about this in the EU Starfleet Command meeting.
	It's a security issue.
	And as I say, I take Islamic State very seriously.
	They say they're going to flood Europe with half a million of their fighters.
	Well, that sounds to me to be rather an exaggeration.
	But imagine if it's 5,000.
	Imagine if it's 500.
	Imagine even if it's 50.
	So there has to be, you know, some means where you can find out who is genuine or not.
	And just saying to anybody that arrives in a boat in Greece or in Italy, you can stay is a policy of disaster.
	Yeah.
	Very disappointing to hear him bring ISIS into that.
	Why?
	No, because he's saying that the Islamists...
	I didn't get the memo about ISIS saying, oh, we're going to send all our fighters over there.
	These are people who are desperately trying to get out of this shithole of a continent where the Chinese, ourselves, even Russians, everyone's in there trying to grab the African goods.
	And these people, they need to be helped.
	Well, I don't know what they're going to be able to do that.
	I think they're too stretched to help anybody, especially the Italians.
	But let's listen to this report, which is the immigration report, which discusses a little meme I've noticed floating around, especially amongst the hardliners.
	Australia knows what they're doing.
	Australia is dealing with this properly.
	In news from Europe, an overcrowded fishing boat carrying as many as 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya Wednesday.
	At least 25 people died and as many as 100 more are feared to have drowned, according to Italian officials.
	Human rights groups say at least 2,000 migrants have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
	Meanwhile, Australian officials have announced they've turned away more than 600 asylum seekers at sea under harsh border controls enacted under Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
	In addition to turning away boats, Australia has also sent migrants who do reach Australian shores to long-term detention camps on the islands of Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
	Right.
	Let's just send them to Devil's Island.
	Screw them.
	We have no compassion.
	I'll bet you those camps are something.
	Yeah, I'll bet.
	Meanwhile, a new bill.
	Has this passed yet?
	Yeah, I think it's passed the House of Representatives, H.R. 237, which allows the Secretary of State, at his own discretion, to make a determination that an American citizen has terrorist affiliations, and therefore to deny or revoke said citizen's passport.
	Which is so interesting, seeing as we were told, although we objected to it, we were told that Edward Snowden's passport had been revoked.
	But it wasn't.
	No.
	You explained it very clearly.
	You're the go-to guy on this.
	Yeah, but we looked at everything and there's no way to revoke it.
	Now there's this bill which will actually allow it to be revoked.
	So maybe Snowden's ready to make a move.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, that's an interesting take.
	Could be.
	It's all about Snowden.
	Regardless, you'll have exit interviews on the way out of the country, which is kind of normal, I think.
	Like in Europe, if you leave Europe, they look at your passport and they say, okay, we got you.
	We know you left.
	We don't have that here.
	And I've never really understood why.
	Thinking about that, you're right.
	We go into the international terminal.
	We have passport control.
	They make sure you have a passport so you can leave the country.
	And they just look at it.
	I don't know that you don't get questioned.
	You do get questioned when you come in.
	When you're leaving the United States, immigration doesn't look at your passport.
	You just get on the plane and go.
	I think you're right.
	I think it's only at the...
	The airline looks at it often.
	Just to see if you have a valid passport to travel, but there's no check.
	I don't think there's any...
	Maybe there is.
	No, there's no computer check.
	I don't think there is, no.
	Except to the no-fly list, which you get looked at when you buy the ticket.
	But, of course, this is a tyrannical move.
	You can't leave the country.
	Well...
	Yeah, you can't leave the country.
	Well, that's what Ron Paul suggested years ago about building that big fence.
	It was to keep people in.
	You only should leave the country if you're a felon, which I've always thought peculiar.
	What do you mean?
	Seems like you want them to leave the country.
	Yeah, get these felons out of here.
	It's never made sense to me.
	Send them to Mexico.
	It just never made sense.
	We highlighted the selective eating disorder as an actual disorder which is approved by the DSM-5.
	By the way, I would like somebody to look through the DSM-5 and find the disorder where kids in particular, but I think adults too, don't like to have the food touch each other.
	I don't know if it's in there.
	Selective eating, of course, is known to us.
	And I brought this up on the show and we talked about texture issues and not just women, but men also seem to have some of this, although predominantly it seems to be a female issue.
	And now comes the news.
	Children who are picky eaters may have bigger problems than a lack of a well-balanced diet.
	As this new study, researchers from Duke University assess the eating habits of 1,000 preschoolers aged 2 to 5.
	They visit the children in their homes and ask their parents or other caregivers a battery of questions about the youngster's behavior.
	And they also checked in with a subgroup of nearly 200 kids that they've been doing annually.
	And the conclusion is, to be counted as picky eaters, children had to do more than just shun broccoli and other foods that kids typically don't like.
	By the way, I don't think that's true.
	If they limited their eating to a range of preferred foods, they were considered to have a moderate case of selective eating.
	And in that range of foods, if it was so narrow that it was hard for them to eat with other people, which could come close to your food touching each other, their selective eating was labeled severe.
	And this now, according to this study, says this behavior could indicate that a young child has psychiatric problems that need to be addressed.
	Drug them!
	Yep!
	They're saying it's likely symptoms of depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder known as ADHD. And yes, the solution for that is drugging them.
	Good work.
	Always good work.
	Ahem.
	Talking about drugs.
	I thought this report was kind of interesting.
	And makes sense.
	Consider all these records that keep getting broken and all the rest.
	This is the doping athletes' little...
	I think we knew this all along.
	I guess they don't catch many of them.
	The World Anti-Doping Agency says an independent commission will investigate allegations of widespread use of illegal substances in international athletics.
	German broadcaster ARD has reported that more than 800 athletes had suspicious blood test results between 2001 and 2012.
	The reports are based on data leaked from the International Association of Athletics Federation.
	I'm shocked, I tell you.
	Shocked?
	Shocked.
	I had no idea.
	It was leaked.
	I mean, what it indicates to me is that they're covering, you know, they selectively enforce these laws, these doping laws, so they get the right people to win these competitions.
	Or to get annoying people like Lance Armstrong out.
	Well, that could...
	Yeah, well, that was a vendetta.
	The guy who went after Armstrong, that was a vendetta.
	Of course, Armstrong fucked up, but it was still...
	That guy was going after him big time.
	Well, he probably had a meeting with him and Armstrong probably is a dick.
	This is how we talk in Austin.
	We don't say he's a dick.
	We still kind of like him in Austin.
	Lance, hey man, how you doing?
	He's not from Austin, is he?
	Yeah, he's in Austin.
	His whole operation is in Austin.
	We're a big biking town.
	I think I knew that.
	We're a big biking town for that very reason.
	I guess we had unnamed sources within the Pentagon who were claiming that the Russians, our good friend Putin, were responsible for hacking the Joint Chiefs of Staff unsecured email system.
	And it's not specified exactly what happened, but the system has been shut down for two weeks now.
	The hack occurred, allegedly, on July 25th.
	Anybody could have hacked it.
	Yeah, but here are, I just picked up two, CNN. My Pentagon officials now believe Russia's the prime suspect behind a cyber attack on an email system used by the Joint Chiefs.
	Here's NBC. U.S. officials telling NBC News that Russia launched a sophisticated cyber attack against the Pentagon's Joint Staff Unclassified Email System.
	All right, then let's go straight to the horse's mouth and ask Josh Earnest, spokeshole for the White House, did Russia really do this?
	I think what is prompting the news is that there are sources attributing this attack to one specific country, and I'm just not in a position to do that.
	I can't promise you that we'll be in a position at any point in the future to make a grand pronouncement about who may have been responsible for this particular intrusion.
	So, who's...
	The point of that is there's government officials.
	Unnamed.
	Unnamed sources.
	Ernest is going to say, I'm not...
	This is bullcrap.
	Mm-hmm.
	This is like, no, we never said that.
	In fact, I made it very clear that we weren't going to name the country because we weren't sure.
	Yeah, this is plausible deniability.
	Yeah, CNN and NBC are both saying, hey, we got it from sources inside the Pentagon, so it must be true.
	Yeah, but they won't say anything because they don't want to rush and say, hey, you guys are telling...
	No, no, that was the news media.
	That wasn't us.
	We never said anything.
	I don't know what they're talking about.
	We're not blaming you.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Scam.
	Is that it?
	Yeah, that's that.
	Okay, I got a couple of Ask Adam kind of things.
	Do we need the jingle?
	I think so.
	Okay.
	Do you want to play the jingle first, or do you tell me which clip?
	Is this a clip, or is it just a...
	There's two clips.
	Alright, it's time for Ask Adam.
	Okay, the first one is what's new on the PBS NewsHour, and let me preface it.
	Now, they've changed their style, they're trying to modernize, so they're more hip and modern.
	Right, this is driven by the...
	Bill and Melinda Gates, who have never come back with any money, even though they've jumped through hoops for these two people to change the show when it was fine, by the way, the way it was.
	It presented the news in a very objective way.
	It doesn't need to be jazzy.
	But they've changed it.
	What is jazzier about it?
	Well, the sets are completely redone.
	You gotta watch this thing.
	They got big jibs coming in from the top.
	And now they're also adding certain sound effects.
	Not to an extreme.
	In fact, it seems kind of lame.
	See if you can tell me what's a little different in this particular segway.
	The S&P was down more than 1%.
	Still to come on the NewsHour, memorable moments from last night's Republican debate.
	Dum-dum-dum-dum!
	It was so...
	You gotta play it again.
	It's so lame.
	Don't we have a couple of these ourselves?
	Yeah, but we don't have anything this lame.
	Yeah, that is true.
	I mean, we have...
	Well, it's a...
	Play that again.
	The S&P was down more than 1%.
	Still to come on the NewsHour, memorable moments from last night's Republican debate.
	Oh, man.
	Now, also on PBS, Charlie Rose, I'll just discuss him a minute.
	I mean, he's been working his butt off.
	I've never been a big fan of Charlie Rose's, but I have to admit, he is one of the hardest working men in show business.
	And so he's been doing this Charlie Rose interview show on PBS for decades.
	He produces it himself, so he may make something out of it.
	He gouges a bunch of these foundations and all the rest.
	You see people on there that donate to the show, you know, the John and Ann Doerr Foundation.
	And then John Doerr's on the show.
	Hey!
	Oh, how does that work?
	Yeah.
	So you see a lot of this sort of thing.
	And it's sort of just an element of corruption so Charlie can keep his finances intact.
	The morning show on CBS. Hold on a second John, transition.
	Okay, yes.
	He got the morning show on CBS, and that, I think he was going to, he was just to beef it up because he was dying, and he came in as a wise and old expert, and he actually is really good on that show as one of these guys, but again, he still does his other show, and now he has to do the morning show.
	We have to get up at four in the morning and we get to the studio on time.
	So he's killing himself, but he's now making millions.
	So the guy that's on a roll decides to take on a third show.
	And this is it?
	He's not working hard enough.
	So he has his weekend show called This Week.
	And I think there's other money being made here because at the end of this show, and he starts off like, and here's, you know, he has a bunch of, it's kind of a news summary show.
	And it's not really that good, but at the end he says, and here's the important events.
	And at the end of the show he says, the important events this week that you should be aware of.
	And then he does two, three, maybe four important events.
	National, important, and national events that you should all be aware of.
	And I listen to these events, I go, wait a minute.
	I'm going to start using effects to transition.
	For your weekend.
	Meryl Streep, Rick Springfield, and Kevin Kline star in the new Jonathan Demme movie, Ricky and the Flash.
	I was never a traditional mom, but I am a musician, and I'd like to give all I have to you.
	Fish has tour dates in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
	Wait a minute.
	He's promoting a Fish concert schedule?
	In Elkhorn.
	I mean, there was a guy at the Chicago Earth, Wind& Fire concert I went to who was handing out flyers, but to have Charlie Rose try and get me to go to Fish, this is new.
	And I'm left in the tower with a wondrous glow.
	I think I'm still me, but how would you know?
	And the reality series Funny or Die presents America's Next Weatherman.
	It premieres Saturday on TBS.
	Are you wearing pants?
	I could not find pants.
	High grade asbestos, not to worry.
	But only one will be named America's Next Weatherman.
	.
	We'll be right back.
	That's Charlie Rose The Week for this week.
	On behalf of all of us here, thank you for watching.
	I'm Charlie Rose.
	We'll see you next time.
	Well, let's do a little transition out there.
	Okay, so let's get this straight.
	A movie starring Meryl Streep.
	What was the movie?
	It was that Rosie and the Flash or whatever it's called.
	Rosie and the Flash?
	It's something like that.
	But she plays a singer.
	Just to show that she can sing.
	So that's the thing.
	Then a fish concert in Elkhorn, Indiana.
	Everyone in the country should be aware of this in case you want to fly in.
	The Cuyahoga or Elkhorn.
	Because, you know, there is no other band in the entire country that's opening this week.
	There's no, you know, Shania Twain.
	Shania.
	Faith Hill.
	She's not doing anything.
	Nobody.
	But Fish.
	And then this crazy comedy show that's beginning on TV. Do you think that there's some, like, Entertainment Tonight payments going on for this sort of native advertising?
	I'm actually thinking what is related to Sony.
	Charlie Rose is CBS, so that's Sony.
	I think Electro Records is what Phish is on.
	Yeah, but this is done on PBS. This is the PBS show.
	This is public broadcasting.
	Oh, this is to get their ratings up for the advertising.
	It's Sweeps Week or something.
	Something, something.
	They're not going to get their ratings up by promoting a Phish concert in Elkhorn, Indiana.
	Bill and Melinda Gates are behind these things.
	Maybe they're big Phish heads.
	I'm just thinking this is the most corrupt thing I've ever heard on PBS. I mean, it is totally corrupt.
	That's not what's going on this week.
	Well, then let me pile jump.
	Since you started, since you were tracking this, I'll do my own little version of the segment.
	And now, back to real news.
	As discussed, predicted, and agreed to on this very program.
	Well, the lawsuit claims that that morning, which was January 31st, 2015, Nick Gordon came home from this all-night cocaine and drinking binge and then watched this camera footage of Bobby Cristina, where apparently he heard a conversation that she'd had with a friend saying...
	Nick Gordon wasn't the man that she thought he was.
	And that's when the lawsuit says that they got into this loud argument.
	The lawsuit claims that Nick Gordon screamed at Bobbi Christina, accusing her of cheating, going so far as to call her a whore.
	He also called her a bitch.
	The argument lasted for 30 minutes, and then everything got quiet.
	Now, the lawsuit claims that Gordon gave Bobbi Christina this toxic cocktail, rendering her unconscious.
	And then put her face down in a tub of cold water, causing her to suffer brain damage.
	The lawsuit goes on to say, Anderson, that the defendant then came out of the master bedroom wearing a different set of clothing than he was wearing prior to his argument with Bobby Christina, got in bed, and laid his head on some female guest's ankle, another woman who was in the house, and stated, now I want a pretty little white girl like you.
	That is a direct quote, Anderson, from the lawsuit.
	Nice!
	Gee.
	What the hell was that?
	That's my sound effect.
	No, I'm not talking about the sound effect.
	The story.
	I don't know anything about this.
	I do not follow this story.
	Yes, you did, because you brought this up two shows ago.
	I did?
	Yes.
	Yes, you did.
	What did I say?
	You said, what's going on?
	I said, well, she was killed, of course.
	She was killed for her money.
	This guy, he was adopted, I think, by Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.
	Oh, we're talking about, oh, right, the girl.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I already lost the water under the bridge.
	It's a corrupt, it's for the money.
	Alright, let's transition on then.
	I'm liking this.
	I like that one.
	You should combine it.
	You should actually produce something.
	Work?
	Yes, work.
	Instead of standalones.
	I can always do...
	I don't like that guitar hit.
	Every time I hear it, I think 1968 or whatever.
	1968 is calling.
	They want their Beatles back.
	This is Ken Blackwell.
	And Ken Blackwell is from, again, another group.
	Most of the groups I checked out...
	For today's show, kind of checked out to be okay.
	It's from the Family Research Council.
	They got about $13 million according to their 990 filing.
	The guy seems to be on the up and up.
	But again, we see another person on television.
	I think this was from C-SPAN, one of those question and answer shows, talking about Planned Parenthood and its history.
	Ken, would you agree with pro-life activists, black pro-life activists, that minorities are being targeted for abortions by Planned Parenthood and other providers?
	You know, I think in general, low-income citizens and women in particular are being targeted.
	And minorities, because many minorities have a disproportionate number of their population and the low-income status, are low-hanging fruit.
	for these abortionists and so I think when you couple that with the fact that the founder of Planned Parenthood was Margaret Sanger and Margaret Sanger was not only a twisted eugenist she was a racist and she thought blacks were inferior and that if you in fact could get rid of that inferior strain of human species Everybody would be better off.
	That's startling.
	You think that culture is still prevalent?
	It's startling!
	It's startling!
	How could that culture be prevalent?
	What?
	Do you think, I mean, kind of like Apple has a culture that is still ongoing in that organization?
	Unfortunately, the folks who have tried to run faith and God out of the public square, the folks who have chased prayer out of our public schools, the folks who have turned marriage on its head as a sacred institution, they, in fact, have the folks who have turned marriage on its head as a sacred institution, they, in fact, have reduced this down And what they don't know is that it is also a spiritual battle that we're engaged in
	And that's why we're winning.
	It's because we never gave up after the 73 decision.
	We've stayed in there on all fronts.
	There you go.
	Yet again, someone in semi kind of mainstream talking about the true roots of Planned Parenthood.
	Where does he get that they're winning?
	Boy, this guy?
	It's what he does.
	He's in a non-profit about, you know, religious non-profit.
	I get it.
	You know, he thinks they're winning.
	I don't think we're winning.
	It's me.
	Thank you.
	You got a mouse in your pocket?
	Yeah, I do.
	Family Research Council.
	I got to find this article.
	It was a professor.
	I wanted to say it was at Harvard or Stanford.
	And he had a visiting professor from Japan.
	And he was visiting him for six months to study our democracy.
	And the guy, as he was leaving back for Japan, he said, you know, the one thing I really learned is that religion is incredibly important in a democratic society.
	And his reasoning for this was that that is where, if you take out all the Jesus or the Muhammad or the Torah, take all that stuff out of there, what is taught, if you just get beyond the, you know, alright, he died for your sins, so just believe it.
	Alright?
	It's okay, believe it, he died for your sins.
	Okay, we take that as a given.
	It teaches people in Sunday school, but also in sermons, if they're good, Right from wrong.
	And how we have in society certain rules that should be adhered to.
	But I think really it comes down to right and wrong.
	And the less we have that, his assertion is, eventually you just will not have a functioning democracy because the only place people are learning about morals is from television.
	Well, the government is the source of what the television delivers.
	Right.
	But I thought it was interesting, that assertion, that without religion you won't have enough police to monitor everything that will happen.
	Okay.
	I'm not going to argue the point.
	It's a throwaway, I know.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	All right, we do have a few people to thank for Show 746, including David Garagiola.
	I don't know how to pronounce his name.
	Garagala.
	Garaglia.
	Garaglia.
	Yeah, I'd say Guaraglia.
	Guaraglia.
	I'd say it'd be, yeah.
	Guaraglia.
	San Francisco, 100 bucks.
	He sent a very long note, and of course, not necessary to read.
	One of them was about the temperatures, but he did have a little comment on biking in San Francisco, which I want to relate.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I was in a demonstration petitioning for stop signs to be considered yield signs for cyclists, he writes.
	The hubbub started because the San Francisco Police Department was ticketing cyclists in the Wiggle, a well-known cycling path between Mission and Soma and the Haight.
	Instead of doing something more productive...
	Oh, instead of...
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	That was my read.
	Instead, he was ticketing people instead of doing something more productive.
	I bike to work regular, and the biggest issue with the San Francisco traffic is not cyclists.
	No.
	Although some are assholes.
	But the incredibly shitty drivers, something like 50% won't signal before crossing lanes or turning.
	They'll just cross two lanes 20 yards before the corner without checking for cyclists and are too busy using their phones to pay attention.
	Okay.
	If you're driving...
	People who've been to San Francisco for the first time always have a little trouble dealing with driving in San Francisco because you have to bring your game up beyond...
	This is from experience.
	I've been driving in San Francisco forever.
	You have to bring your game up better beyond and better than taxi cab guys.
	So you have to be almost as aggressive as driving in Boston, which is, I think, the most aggressive you have to be in the entire country.
	And you've got to go for it.
	And these bicyclists really shouldn't be on the road.
	They're just risking life and life.
	You are very anti-bike.
	Brian Warden in Downs, Illinois, 8888.
	He actually says happy anniversary, even though the 8815 is the anniversary donation, which I will now read a bunch of happy well-wishers who said happy anniversary, and we had quite a few of them, to myself and Mimi, and you will all receive a card.
	It won't be tomorrow, but you'll get one in the next month.
	Including Arthur Gobitz, the Sir Knight of Kitties.
	Sir Hugger of Kitties.
	Sir Hugger of Kitties.
	And he writes something in Dutch which says to hug kitties, I guess.
	You want to give it a try?
	I'm not going to read it.
	Oh, lief it.
	John and Mimi van harte gefeliciteerd.
	Oh, and a knuffel van de katjes.
	Groetjes, Sir Hugger of Kitties.
	Yeah, what does it translate to?
	It says, and they never had a fight.
	Sir Robert Goschko in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, 8815.
	These are all going to be 8815, so I'll just go along with that.
	Nice.
	A lot of...
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Sir Robert Goschko, Scott Waldherr in Madison, Wisconsin.
	Aaron Rush in Avon, South Dakota.
	Sir Richard Chow in Fullerton, California.
	He says, also, what do I need to do to change my title?
	I don't know.
	We have to think.
	Let us know.
	Send us an email.
	Yeah, we'll just change it.
	Oh, he wants a B-nonymous, C-nonymous.
	No.
	We're just scattershot.
	Just take any letter you want.
	No, you can't have all nights just choosing a letter.
	That's what they've been doing.
	Yeah, if there's another knighthood, you're in charge of that, I'm not going to, whatever.
	Oh, thanks.
	Seth Griffin from South Elgin, Illinois, 8815.
	Stuart Morrison in Doncaster, Victoria, Australia.
	Congratulations from Australia.
	Dean Hayes in New Braunfels.
	Braunfels.
	New Braunfels.
	Oh, is it pronounced Braunfels?
	Mm-hmm.
	New Braunfels.
	Well, the New Braunfels area makes the barbecue, the side cooker, that is absolutely the one to get.
	The New Braunfels barbecue setup, the Hondo, they used to have one called the Hondo, I don't think they make that one anymore, but they make a bunch of them.
	They make the best.
	They're made from pipes.
	And other people say, oh, they're just made from pipes.
	Yes, they're made from like oil, you know, refinery, big pipes.
	And they're dynamite.
	Dynamite product.
	Nicholas Principe in North Carolina, in Fuquay, Varina.
	And he's also a KM4, DMO, 73s.
	Charles Pronson in Edmond, Oklahoma.
	Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina.
	Lucas Zua in Munich, Deutschland.
	Good for him.
	Marc-Andre Lebel in Montreal, Quebec.
	He says he wants his personalized card.
	Good for him.
	You'll get one.
	Norman McDonough in Woodstock, Ontario.
	David Rosa in Clarkston, Michigan.
	Actually, Sir Norman.
	He's a black knight.
	I'm sorry, Sir David.
	No, Sir...
	There's some big spreadsheets that look all the way across.
	David Rosa is a loyal black knight in Clarkston, Michigan.
	Beatlemania with a D in Milpitas, California.
	88.15.
	And then we drop to Richard Moffat who came in with 83.15.
	And I do have a note.
	He sent a note in which is worth reading.
	He's talking about...
	I'll just kind of summarize.
	But he's bitching about the NASA... New Horizons Pluto thing.
	He starts off by saying, you two guys said that NASA was a bunch of liars and I agree.
	I was sweating.
	I did some research.
	I did a little work on what he says.
	He says that because of the distance and all the other aspects of that spaceship, it is sending data at what he claims is 900 baud.
	Hmm.
	Which is very slow.
	Yeah.
	And I found one of the online calculators and I put in how long and I read and read about all these.
	And all these reports are vague and they're all over the place.
	Science writing.
	You mean to transfer a picture?
	Is this what you're talking about for the amount of data transferred for a high definition picture?
	OK, got it.
	This is what this is what I questioned initially.
	Anyway, so I looked into I read all the articles I could and I found, you know, that there's some people saying get one kilobit, two kilobits, maybe.
	And then if you read enough, they're going to be able to send twice as much data.
	In other words, not one, but two by by turning the antenna so you get two polarized signals that go out one.
	Vertical, one horizontal.
	And there's all these things.
	But they say it can only transmit eight hours a day because it's so busy.
	And you've got to have a lot of error correction going on.
	I would hope.
	But I did a calculation because one of the articles, again, the science writing in this country has deteriorated.
	But one of the articles is they got...
	This is a vehicle using computer technology from 2005.
	He says in the letter that, well, this is a bunch of old crap, but no, the 2005 computers could kick ass.
	There's no question about that.
	And there's two 32 gigabyte drives on this thing.
	And one of the articles claims they're full of data that they have to ship back.
	So I found a calculator and I used 2,400 baud.
	I cranked it up so this thing is cooking 24 hours a day.
	How long would it take to send 64 gigs of data?
	Now everybody's talking about these 16 months we're going to have to wait for these pictures and all the rest of it.
	My calculation, based on one of the standard calculators...
	It's probably closer to eight years.
	Ten.
	That's what I thought, yeah.
	It's ten years.
	It would take to send the 64 gigs at 2,400 baht, not 900, or not just using it eight hours a day.
	So something's wrong.
	And he's right.
	He's right.
	It's bullcrap.
	He says the whole thing is just to get more money for NASA. Well, of course.
	Well, now, did you also see the crab on Mars?
	That's another one that is unexplained.
	No, I haven't seen the crab.
	Yeah, yeah, the Mars rover.
	There's clearly a crab that you can see.
	Yeah.
	And NASA is just not answering.
	Don't worry about it.
	Wow.
	It's a space crab.
	People are watching too much Star Trek.
	No.
	Unfortunately, just reading NASA press releases, that's all you need to do.
	Anyway, onward.
	Lucero Mose in Valle Beach, New South Wales, Australia, 78, 90.
	And there's some sort of birthday or something coming up.
	And check over that note.
	There seems to be a douchebag in here.
	Oh, it's a douchebag.
	Yeah, congratulations.
	I'd like to call out my partner as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	We're not donating in spite of the fact that he was hit in the mouth four years ago.
	No name required.
	We need names or we're going to call people douchebags.
	We want names or no more douchebags.
	I don't know why we care.
	We never even invented this idea.
	Sir JD, the Baron of Silicon Valley, came with a 77-23.
	Yeah, he says, hi, good wishes to the Knights and Dames and everyone else at DEFCON 23, the meetup.
	Did you see the picture?
	There was a meetup.
	There was probably eight people there.
	There were ten people, I counted them.
	And there may have been more, only ten in the photo.
	And they have a shirt, they are Ramsey Cain, so Ramsey Cain's giving t-shirts away.
	Nice.
	So you run around DEFCON with people wondering what the hell is going on.
	James Green, the second birthday coming up.
	Mesquite, Texas, 73-73.
	73-73.
	Stephen Morris, and I'm sorry, Sir Brian W. the Green of Ham's Night.
	73-73.
	Comes in monthly.
	You can give him a little love.
	73-73.
	I thought one would be enough for both of them, but okay, that's fine.
	Stephen Morris.
	We love our hams.
	Stephen Morris, 66-33 from Holly Springs, North Carolina.
	Scott Checkeye in Harwick, Pennsylvania, 55-55.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia, 52-30, 54-32, 5-4-3-2.
	Ian, almost.
	Ian Larson in Riverhead, New Zealand.
	He says, still no make good on the last donation?
	What do we have to make good?
	Yeah, I had sent him another note.
	He had donated $100 a couple of shows back with some notes about he was out of work and now he's got a job and he wants to split his wages with us or something.
	It made no sense.
	I think it was about him taking a bus and a train and something.
	He wanted to call out for something.
	I don't understand anymore.
	It was very confusing.
	So, I'll read this.
	Still no make good on the last donation.
	I don't know what we're supposed to do.
	I think he wanted us to promote something, which I'm not really a fan of.
	I didn't see that in the note.
	And the thing is, he uses different names.
	It's Ian and then it's Larson.
	I told him that was confusing, too.
	I'll hear back from him.
	We'll figure it out eventually.
	This is what happens.
	People email me.
	Well, John messed this up, and they email me.
	What am I going to do about it?
	Sir Blake, Night of Procrastination, Los Angeles, California, 5280.
	Vincent Benedict Pai Castro.
	Which may mean DeCastro.
	This is a good one.
	He's in Metro Manila, the Philippines.
	Nice.
	5280.
	We need Philippine listeners.
	Get us some likes on our Facebook page.
	Todd Kramer.
	It's all Kramer or Kramer in Watsonville, California.
	5280.
	These are people who are now members of the Mile High Club.
	Ah, they're already in 5280.
	Good.
	Yeah, so I'm going to just list them off.
	Gregory Worley in Evington, Virginia.
	Dennis Adams in Vienna, Virginia.
	Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas.
	Joseph DiMartino in Ocala, Florida.
	R.D. Swart in the Netherlands.
	Omelo.
	Omelo.
	Brian Bettencourt in Salem, Massachusetts.
	Sir David Rosa in Clarkson, Michigan.
	Nathan Peters, Middleton, Connecticut.
	Garrett Evister in Murrieta, California.
	David Peet, Aubrey, Texas.
	Who's Aubrey, Texas?
	Jan van der Launen in Austin.
	Very good.
	Drenta.
	Drenta.
	But he's in for, I'm sorry, David Peet and Jan van der Leyen are $50 donors.
	They're not members of the Mile High Club.
	No, they're 280 feet short.
	I'm sure they'll get in before they can.
	GaryGeck.com in Beverly Hills.
	Anthony Garlanger.
	These are $50 donors.
	Anthony Garlanger, Downers Grove, Illinois.
	Jonathan Mayer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Tim Abel or Abel in Burgfield, UK, $50.
	Alexander Sokovy in Moscow, Soviet Union.
	Always in.
	This guy's got to be a knight by now.
	He's always in.
	I hate to be surprised that he's not.
	We have to send him a note and ask him.
	I'd do that.
	Steve Chipman in San Rafael, California.
	And I think that concludes because we have one more, but I don't know if it's underneath or what.
	This was, I think, a make good.
	This is Associate Executive Producer for 741, Oscar Schenck.
	Yeah.
	I said, you guys always read the full letter, but in this case, something went wrong.
	Right now, oh, okay.
	I started my business.
	I'm going through a bit of a rough patch.
	I would really appreciate it if you find the time to at least mention my private surf school hot zone.
	Oh, there you go.
	Where is it?
	HotZoneSurf.com.
	Okay.
	That was a part of his original associate executive producer note.
	Ah, okay.
	Okay.
	Happy to fix that.
	Happy to fix that.
	Yeah, we'll plug you, your study, HotZoneSurf.com.
	H-O-T-Z-O-N-E-S-U-R-F. But then we have, let's see, Bernie Adama.
	And the idea was, instead of becoming a baronet, he wanted to knight his son John.
	So he was handing over the knighthood.
	And because it was spelled out properly in his communication with the back office, John Adama now becomes a black knight.
	Right.
	And it's Adama?
	Atima?
	Adama?
	He told us once.
	Every time we run into his name, we say both.
	Atima and Adama.
	I think it's Adama.
	I think it is, too.
	But whatever the case, his son is now a Black Knight, which is, you know, it's not necessarily a higher designation.
	It's just a designation indicating that there was a foul-up by us.
	Right.
	And some people like the name Black Knight.
	They think it's cooler.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then I have one final announcement from the No Agenda family.
	Mark Void Zero, who, as you know, he's the dude named Ben, runs the entire infrastructure.
	And he went through some crazy surgery.
	He had a pleurectomy.
	It was terrible.
	The plorectomy is no good.
	He's got a big battle scar on his chest.
	But there was some other stuff going on in his life, which I've been privy to, and now after they had the 20-week test, we can officially announce that Void Zero and his lovely partner are going to have a baby boy.
	How nice is that?
	That's terrific.
	He's a great guy.
	He is a great guy.
	He has no idea what's about to happen to him.
	Well, it won't be a bad thing.
	No.
	No, it won't.
	You know, just make him have to concentrate more.
	It just never ends.
	Well, no, there's that.
	But other than that, would you rather be a never-ending, you know, even though it could be problematic, or would you rather be Lindsey Graham?
	Good point.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Alright, we've got Dean Hayes celebrating today.
	Lucero Moose, Moose, Moose, says happy birthday to his son.
	Turned 26 on August 7th.
	James Green II says happy birthday to his son.
	Atticus was four.
	Well, we'll be four on the 10th.
	That's tomorrow.
	And we say happy 23rd birthday to Dame Joan Audifrey.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Yes!
	Whoa.
	What was that?
	What happened?
	Something.
	I don't know.
	It's a bug in the machine.
	Okay, so we did our make goods, and P-nonymous becomes Sir P-nonymous.
	Now, is that an official knighting?
	I'm so confused by all of these systems.
	I think it is.
	It is.
	He was in blue.
	He made it.
	He made it in.
	Okay.
	So we want P-nonymous on stage, and we want John Adama.
	Please, if you can get your sword out there, John, that would be...
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Ass cream with bear fillings.
	Whiskey and wet wipes.
	Cannabis and Cabernet.
	Happy Von Winkle bourbon served by Oktoberfest Frauleins.
	And of course we always have the mutton and mead.
	So both of you can head on over to noagentonation.com slash rings and give Eric the Schill all of your info.
	And we'll get those off to you as soon as possible.
	As soon as possible.
	It says we were talking a minute ago or so about Richard Moffat's complaint about NASA. Mm-hmm.
	I have a clip that is interesting just for one factoid.
	You know those rocks that are in Death Valley that they show are moving?
	No, no.
	You just don't remember it.
	But everyone has seen about these rocks.
	There's these big giant rocks that were like 50 pounds.
	And they're in the middle of Death Valley.
	And they have a path behind them as though they've been moving.
	And in fact, they have been moving.
	Hmm.
	And so this is brought up constantly, and there's a, you know, people always say, oh, aliens are moving the rocks!
	Aliens are always...
	Hey, wait a minute.
	That's my line.
	Yeah, it would have been your line if you knew about these rocks.
	Nothing about it.
	Because you would have said that.
	Because that's what everyone says.
	Oh, something's fishy about these rocks.
	And then they found out it was no big deal.
	But this little report that discusses how these rocks move, which I think is pretty obvious once they describe it, is prefaced by a guy who set a camera up.
	Time-lapse photography shows these objects flying around in the sky in pretty much the same exact circle.
	He thinks they may be flying saucers.
	When if you look at it and think about it, because of the trail, you can see the white and red showing, these are planes circling the airport, you know, flying over this area.
	Yeah, and a pattern, flying the pattern.
	Yeah, they're flying a pattern, and it's the same pattern, they fly around and around.
	And so it's got nothing to do with anything.
	But this report has one little interesting factoid besides the explanation for these moving rocks.
	Heffernan captures a trail in the sky circling above them.
	Wondering, what was that?
	None of us had heard anything.
	None of us had seen anything with our eyes at the location.
	So it was quite a surprise to actually see something so significant circling three times over this shot.
	Could this be the mysterious cause of Death Valley's wandering rocks?
	Planetary scientist Ralph Lorenz doesn't think so.
	There's actually a clue to this process, and that is that in the Canadian Arctic, boulders can be rafted by ice.
	You can have acres of ice for the wind to drag on.
	That magnifies the wind force on a rock and can bulldoze it.
	But Death Valley is not an icy wasteland.
	It's the hottest place on Earth.
	What the hell am I listening to?
	There's an explanation.
	Just let it play.
	A NASA-funded research team sets up an experiment to track the rocks on Racetrack 5 for 10 years.
	After a two-year wait, their patience pays off.
	Until very recently, nobody had seen the rocks move, but in fact that changed this winter.
	In winter, the extreme temperatures of Death Valley can work both ways.
	Death Valley is a desert, but during winter, especially at night, it freezes when that lake froze over.
	On several occasions, rocks have been seen to move.
	Sheet ice forms around the rocks, lifting them clear of the lake bed.
	When the ice thaws, it breaks up.
	Some of it clings to the rock, forming a kind of floating lifesaver.
	On the slippery mud of the lake bed, a gentle push from the wind is enough to slide the rocks along the valley floor.
	If the ice is somehow floating the rocks, then you hardly need any wind at all, actually, to move it.
	All right.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Explain this.
	This would have been better if you'd known about these rocks.
	But here's the thing that got me about...
	Okay, now we know why the rocks move.
	You're going to see reports about these rocks, and they're not going to mention this reality.
	But it's a simple thing, why the rocks are moving.
	Here's what got me about this.
	If you listen, right in the middle, they said NASA decided to figure out why these rocks are moving, and they started a 10-year project.
	Hmm.
	What a waste of money.
	Yeah.
	Why is NASA give a crap about these rocks in Death Valley that looks like they're moving around?
	At all?
	What is NASA? I thought NASA was about outer space.
	Oh, I think it's obvious.
	Whenever they have one of these phony baloney Mars missions, which of course is in the desert.
	I knew you'd go there.
	Yeah, well, it's obvious to me.
	Come on.
	Come on, it's obvious.
	It's awful.
	Yeah, yeah, thanks.
	Anyway.
	All right.
	I just want to inform the public who know about these rocks.
	The rocks are moving, and it's because of ice.
	Watch it dirty, leave it tough on that.
	iPhone, schmy phone!
	Rock fire!
	All right, it is Sunday.
	Time for some tech news.
	Not the kind of stuff you'll hear from the tech horny shows, but this is the real deal.
	And I would like to start off with...
	It's becoming apparent now with Black Hat, DEF CON, whatever it's called there in Vegas.
	There's two of them.
	Are they at the same time?
	No, one's a week before and then the other one comes.
	They're like bang, bang.
	Right.
	So here was my takeaway from two stories.
	Of course, we all wanted to see the presentation from these hackers who were paid to take control of the Jeep.
	Uh, they, they're apparently Tesla had a car on premises in the hacking area and everyone was invited to hack into the Tesla.
	It seems to me like this is very coincidental that, you know, we've got all these, these cars are all hackable, but Oh, over here, the Tesla, not at all hackable.
	Hmm.
	Well, what I was reading during this period was that Tesla's infinitely hackable.
	That's what I thought.
	Because they do software downloads over, you know, like over the Wi-Fi or something that anyone could probably manage.
	It's probably 4G. Whatever they're doing, yeah, probably.
	But they're doing software upgrades to the systems that seem to me that if you could just get the code to talk to Tesla, you could load a whole system in there that would take it over.
	Tesla recruiters were on hand, along with members of the California-based company's security team.
	Tesla's cars are highly computerized.
	They also call it the data center on wheels.
	New features as well as software updates are pushed out to vehicles over wireless internet connections.
	Quote, they're not messing with our software.
	This is one of the experts.
	She knew of no cyber attacks aimed at Tesla cars.
	The gauntlet is down!
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Data center on wheels.
	So we'll see what happens there.
	The news about...
	And I thought that we've often talked about the fingerprint readers on phones.
	So another piece of news coming out of Vegas.
	Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones.
	And not that that is so surprising, but surprising was where this information came from.
	Do you remember the company known as FireEye?
	Oh yeah, we talked about them.
	Yeah, these are the guys who are already sanctioned and indemnified under CISA, under the Cyber Information Sharing Act.
	Companies can share information with them and then pass it on, and they act as the complete guardian to all the gateway.
	So these guys have infiltrated It's time for, you know, DEF CON, Black Hat, it's time for a new one, people.
	It really is.
	Your shit is compromised.
	The feds are all over this.
	That's been for years.
	Yeah, well, I don't think everyone realizes it.
	I think they do.
	And I wanted to just, there's a link in the show notes under the NA Tech News for the hams out there.
	There's a new digital mode, which I've been playing with.
	It's FSQ. It stands for Fast Simple QSO, specifically designed for HF, and it's pretty cool.
	It's like a chat program.
	There's something I've been thinking should be done maybe with Morse code, but of course, your throughput data rates are pretty low.
	So you're typing in a line.
	It's kind of a little bit like IRC, except of course when you're transmitting, then you're not receiving at the same time.
	But you type in a line, hit return, boom.
	It can also alert you if someone's looking for you, but you can also transfer files, small files.
	There's some error correction in there.
	It's pretty cool.
	I thought transferring files was illegal.
	Well, it's a gray area.
	You're not allowed to have encryption unless there is a very clear public way to decrypt that is available to all.
	That's really the main thing.
	So yeah, files could arguably be skirting around that issue, but it doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
	I mean, there's weather data being transferred.
	No, there's weather data being transferred.
	All kinds of things.
	But I really like this.
	And you can get it in FL Digi, in the new version.
	No Agenda Hams.
	Check it out.
	And let's see if we can...
	I haven't actually made a successful contact with it.
	I don't know.
	The bands have been pretty shit.
	Hello?
	Anyone there?
	Hello?
	CQ, CQ, CQ. CQ, CQ, CQ.
	Anyone out there?
	Please, please.
	All right, quick roundup here, Rob.
	First of all, we have news coming out of North Korea.
	The way it has been picked up on Facebook is predictable.
	Crazy!
	Those guys are nuts!
	Crazy North Korean!
	That guy's insane!
	It's all about regime legitimacy, I think.
	This North Korean leader has been having a hard time, I think, holding things in place.
	It's all about perpetuating the myth of this leadership in the Kim family.
	That demand for obedience, that siege mentality, is part of what seems to be Kim's MO during his short stint in power, to create his own reality inside North Korea, where outside truths don't apply to him.
	From possibly faking a missile launch from a submarine, to flaunting diplomatic rules, making Dennis Rodman the highest-profile American to visit Pyongyang during his rule.
	This report is so great.
	It's really not true.
	Clapper went to North Korea.
	But no, we'll only talk about crazy Dennis Rodman.
	Regardless of the PR fiasco it turned out to be.
	I'm gonna ask what the hell you think!
	Well, Rodman didn't have...
	he had a bit of a meltdown there at the end.
	That didn't work out.
	It was alcohol or something.
	The latest example of Kim's own reality?
	He's creating his own time zone.
	He calls Pyongyang time.
	Setting all North Korean clocks back 30 minutes.
	That'll happen on August 15th, the 70th anniversary of North Korea's liberation from what they call the wicked Japanese imperialists.
	Analysts say it won't have much practical effect.
	They already control when people wake up in the morning with loudspeakers and revolutionary music.
	Nothing is computerized there so they don't have to rewrite any code.
	It's all manual.
	So someone just has to come in and turn the speakers on a little earlier in the morning.
	So, with my no agenda thinking hat on, exactly what I expected turns out to be true.
	If you listen to this report, it's, oh, this guy is so reality distortion field.
	He wants his own time zone.
	Oh, he's crazy!
	Well, can I interject?
	Well, no.
	A little tidbit in there?
	No, I have a tidbit I want to share first.
	You think I'm going to steal your punchline again?
	Yes, you've been very successful at that today.
	Go ahead.
	No, but I will.
	I don't think it's your punchline.
	But they specifically say they have no computers and they have to hand code everything.
	Hand code in this case means wake up at 6 and turn on the speaker.
	Wake up, time to honor our leader.
	Exactly.
	So how are they this massive hacking community that they can bust into Sony?
	Yeah.
	Does that make any sense?
	No.
	The interesting thing about this story, and here's something you can use, if they do more about this story, it's a fun one.
	It's a fun little thing.
	Like, that guy's so crazy, he wants his own time zone.
	Well, Donald Trump will want one next.
	That's how it's going to go.
	You need to know that when the Japanese annexed Korea in 1910, the actual Korean Peninsula time was the new time zone, 30 minutes earlier than it is today.
	And the Japanese changed it to Tokyo Standard Time or Tokyo Time.
	South Korea eventually went back to their original Korean time, just like North Korea, in 1954.
	But then in 1961 they said, ah, it doesn't make sense or whatever.
	And they went back to the Tokyo Time.
	So what he's saying is correct.
	And the Japanese did a number on Korea.
	Oh yeah, no, it's inexcusable.
	They destroyed their language.
	They had to invent their language, reinvent it completely.
	That's why it's so funny looking.
	It's modern.
	The Japanese language actually is a descriptor.
	Every one of those little characters is a descriptor of how you're supposed to form your mouth to say or to make whatever sound that the descriptor tells you.
	Oh, that's the kanji characters you mean?
	It's not kanji, it's Korean.
	Oh, I'm sorry, Koreans, yes.
	That's why there's a bunch of round characters, which means your mouth is supposed to be in a round shape.
	Right, right, right.
	It's a very unusual way of doing it, but they had to do something.
	They could still speak Korean, but they couldn't write it.
	I don't know how they lost the language completely like that, but they did.
	Well, all I want to pass on to our producers and the audience at large, when you hear someone do this, they're crazy gay!
	You say, you know, well, actually it was the Japanese who changed it.
	That was the original time.
	You know, there are half-hour time zones going back.
	And they're saying to celebrate kicking the crazy Japanese out of 70 years ago out of North Korea.
	You did mention something in that little commentary that I think...
	I should emphasize, now that you mention it, I'll bet that somehow, before this whole election cycle is over, they're going to equate Kim Jong-un with Donald Trump.
	That would be fabulous.
	They're going to do it.
	I've set it up.
	I'm from the future.
	I'm already feeling it.
	I'm also feeling another gay move coming on.
	Another gay agenda.
	Big gay.
	Gays?
	Big gay.
	Big gay.
	Here we go.
	Okay, it might be time to have a heart-to-heart with Hollywood.
	Is there something in the water?
	Because this summer is about to be remembered as the summer of celebrity breakups.
	This is actually probably good news for devoted One Direction fans.
	Former band member Zayn Malik is single again.
	Malik broke off his two-year engagement to his Little Mix fiancée, Perry Edwards, two weeks ago, leaving her devastated.
	This week also brought us the news of Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani's divorce after 13 years of marriage.
	The couple, who met in 1995 when their bands No Doubt and Bush toured together, said in a statement the decision was mutual and they will remain partners to jointly raise their three sons.
	In July, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton shocked fans after announcing their split after four years of marriage.
	Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced their separation in June after 10 years of marriage.
	Like Lambert and Shelton, they also dealt with a cheating scandal, what's being called Nannygate.
	I'd say we could look to Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog for the ideal Hollywood romance, but they just broke up too.
	The couple posted matching Facebook statuses, saying, in part, our personal lives are now distinct and separate, and we'll be seeing other people, pigs, frogs, et al.
	Some suspect Kermit has spent too much time working on the Muppets' new primetime show, and it's thrown a wrench in the romance.
	Isn't it unbelievable how far they will go to promote a stupid movie?
	A stupid primetime show?
	That was a long road.
	Yeah.
	How did you even find...
	What are you doing?
	This is all over the Facebooks.
	Oh, Facebook.
	I know there's this Piggy and Kermit the Frog.
	But I think when they say they would see other frogs or pigs, I think there's a gay thing coming.
	What?
	Yeah, I think Miss Piggy may get it on with another pig.
	Oh, you think Miss Piggy's going to go lesbian?
	Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	Keep your eye on it.
	Keep your eye on it.
	It's pretty risky.
	Keep your eye on it.
	These things happen.
	Well, Kermit could too.
	He makes more sense.
	He always seemed a little light in the loafers.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	What else do we have here?
	I got a letter here from David Farrick.
	Khalif Ahmad, he's apparently in the UAE. This guy, Habitur, is a prominent real estate developer from the UAE, according to Forbes magazine number 335, the richest.
	Can't say I know the man other than a phone call I had with him because he wasn't happy with one of our physicians at a hospital where I worked.
	He published an opinion piece discussing, he says, in a nutshell, he says he argues that Obama is to blame for the rise in ISIS, well, CIA, and that the Donald should be our next president.
	Hmm.
	He says he's sure this mirrors many of the GCC leaders, Gulf Coast, I don't know, leaders for the following reasons.
	One, they definitely view Obama as weak.
	Another quick anecdote.
	I was talking to a Pakistani taxi driver in Jeddah recently, and he stated, said...
	By the way, I always say said, not stated.
	When George Bush talks, 9 million people stop talking and listen.
	When Obama talks, no one listens.
	His English wasn't so good, but I got the point.
	This sentiment is echoed throughout almost every conversation I have as an American discussing U.S. presidential politics with GCC residents and citizens.
	The UAE, in particular, has a rich history of Arab traders and And negotiators, as such, they have a tremendous amount of respect for successful ethical businessmen.
	This is one of the reasons that Al Habtour is so well-respected and has such a high prominence in their culture.
	Donald fits the bill.
	They have a fixation, he says, is point three, and this is important, and this is true.
	They have a fixation on the one great man leader concept.
	Mm-hmm.
	Now, this is always distressing to me because the Americans, we always talk about a big game about one great man, that sort of leader.
	But we're really, I think, a country of team players.
	And I really think we are.
	And I think that's why we're so good at team sports.
	A lot of these countries can't play team sports.
	I mean, the Japanese can.
	But most countries, you know, to me, soccer...
	He's less of a team sport.
	You have to have that one superstar.
	He's the one great man.
	Every team's got one.
	And that's the only guy they talk about.
	And he's the guy who makes the fantastic shots and all the rest.
	And I just found this letter to be somewhat interesting because we're, as a country, I think we're more collaborative, more team-oriented.
	Yes, I would agree.
	So, you know, Trump, I don't know if he's a team player.
	Oh, I think he's a leader that knows how to lead a team.
	Well, maybe he might be one of those great delegators.
	That's what Reagan was so good at.
	I'm going to try and become a delegate here in the great state of Texas.
	Oh, go for it.
	Yeah, I was reading up on the Republican Party.
	In different states, it's done differently.
	I think you have to run for it or something.
	Yes, you do have to run for it here in Texas.
	But you do not have to become a Republican if you want to vote in the primary.
	Well, you don't have to do anything.
	Here in California, to vote Republican in the primary, you have to be Republican.
	They don't let you vote Democrat if you're independent, but not Republican.
	Well, I'm glad, because I don't want to...
	So you're going to go Republican just to get on the delegate thing?
	Yeah, sure.
	You're going to go to the convention.
	Yeah, I'd love to do that.
	And the ultimate goal is, of course, for us to get into the White House and hang out with President Trump, bang some chicks in the Lincoln bedroom, smoke some weed with Willie...
	Who's Willie?
	Nelson.
	Oh, Willie.
	This is in the show notes, just shifting off for the last few bits here of the show.
	This is what you sent me earlier in the week.
	Maybe it was the beginning of the week.
	About a new study.
	And this is something that...
	It's in the show notes for a reason.
	So you can use this and find more research if you want.
	But in 1987...
	28% of Kentucky preschoolers developed cavities.
	Now, that number increased to 47% in 2001, and that is almost a doubling.
	Actually, it went up much further in, let's see, when the last measurement was done, after fluoridated water became law in Kentucky.
	Yeah.
	Mimi is running for city council.
	She got through the primaries.
	Before you go into that, whenever I say fluoride in your water actually creates fluorosis, I think that's how you pronounce it, fluorosis, it hurts children's teeth.
	People always look at me like my hair is on fire.
	So there's a big debate going on up in Port Angeles in that area because they keep fluoridating the water most recently, which has ruined the water up there.
	The water up there used to be delicious.
	Now it tastes like crap.
	Same in Austin.
	We have fluoridated water and it's shit.
	It tastes horrible.
	It tastes terrible.
	It's just a way to get rid of waste product.
	I was always on the wrong side of this debate.
	So Mimi got on the anti-fluoride side of the debate.
	She's a fantastic researcher.
	She's the one who dug that up.
	And she is digging up one thing after another.
	And it's all negative.
	And it all started in the late 40s when they were apparently as part of nuclear waste.
	It's got a lot of fluoride.
	It's a waste product from the aluminum industry.
	It's hard to get rid of, but you can get rid of it by diluting it.
	And so they've come up with this bull crap.
	And the dentists are all in on it somehow.
	And the benefit, I guess, if the cavities actually go up.
	So most of it's nonsense.
	The research shows it's nonsense.
	The whole thing was nonsense bullcrap.
	You mean the fluoridation of the water?
	Yeah, the fluoridation is bullcrap.
	It doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
	At all.
	And the only other thing that I know about fluoride is when I read Legacy of Ashes, the CIA book, and you'll recall that's when I got very interested in the truth not being exactly the way it's portrayed, certainly not in the mainstream.
	I called my Uncle Don, I said, Don, you know, what's in this book, and you're in it a lot, and is this really true the way it happened?
	And he went, yeah, that's pretty much how I remember it.
	And one of the passages in the book is covert operatives, when they wanted to ambush an enemy camp at night, during the day they would throw extra fluoride into their water supply, whether it was a stream or if they had water storage tanks.
	And by, you know, come evening, everyone in the camp would be so docile, they'd just walk right in and take over.
	And that is apparently a true covert tactic.
	Yeah, I found that to be sketchy.
	I think lithium would probably knock you out more than fluoride, but okay.
	Well, how often they've talked about lithium in Washington, even.
	They've talked about putting lithium in the water.
	Yeah.
	Well, everybody...
	I think Mimi should say...
	Part of Texas has got a high lithium ratio.
	I think...
	When is this...
	What she's running for?
	What is she running for?
	City Council.
	City Council.
	All right.
	And I think her platform should be out with the fluoride, in with the lithium.
	Vote Mimi Dvorak.
	Is she running as Mimi Dvorak?
	Mimi Smith Dvorak, maybe?
	Oh, tough, tough name.
	Marilee Smith Dvorak.
	I don't know.
	She's got a million ways of using her name.
	Marilyn Smith?
	What?
	Marilee.
	Is her name Marilee?
	Yeah.
	Oh.
	I like Marilee much better than Mimi.
	She doesn't.
	Because when I was a kid, everyone would pronounce it Maroli.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	So, she hates it.
	Last bit here.
	This is what is going on with the Kurds and northern Syria.
	We've got to keep our eye on it now that we are actually attacking.
	That would be us, United States of Gitmo Nation.
	This is the Ermeylan oil field in northeastern Syria.
	Government forces have fled this Kurdish area near the Turkish border, forcing local authorities to fill the void.
	To meet energy needs, they've taken over oil production and created around 20 small refineries.
	When the temperature reaches 50 degrees centigrade, we turn on the burner to heat the crude oil up to 125 degrees and extract the refined petrol.
	At 150 degrees centigrade, gas is obtained.
	Then at 350, we get diesel and we turn off the heat.
	Now, I have a question here, John.
	Is it that simple, just heating this up and that's how you refine stuff?
	I thought refineries were incredibly complicated.
	That's what a distillation tower does, what he described.
	And that's what most refineries are, a series of distillation towers that distill, like you would booze.
	Instead of using alcohol from wine or brandy or whatever, or grain alcohol, and then distilling it and getting the purest stuff, you're doing this with petroleum product.
	Hmm.
	Now, some refineries, most refineries also have catalytic cracking and other more complicated processes to break down these molecules using giant, huge things that are filled with platinum and other catalysts to bust up these.
	It eventually goes back to a distillation tower.
	And it's kind of like what he said.
	It's kind of true.
	Just looking at this, it looked like a bunch of, you know, jerry-rigged stuff all strung together.
	I'm like, really?
	They can do this?
	That's a refinery looks like if you've ever looked at it.
	The refineries are a bunch of jerry-rigged stuff.
	May 9 is the largest oil field in Syria, but production has dropped from 165,000 barrels a day before the outbreak of the war to just 15,000.
	The border of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed caliphate lies nearby.
	Its fighters have tried to get hold of these wells since 2014.
	In recent years, the local Kurdish government has defended and protected these wells and facilities.
	We've lost hundreds of martyrs in the process, and no wells or refinery has been the victim of sabotage or theft.
	Syria's oil production has plummeted to less than 3 percent of pre-war levels.
	The fuel produced in these makeshift refineries is of poor quality, but it's more affordable than the fuel provided by the state.
	There are different kinds of fuel on the market.
	There's the one provided by the regime, there's Iraqi fuel, and there's unleaded gasoline.
	With the exception of the clean fuel provided by the regime, cars don't work well when they're running on other fuel.
	The Syrian regime still pays the salaries of the remaining employees working in the oil field.
	It's an alliance of convenience for the Kurdish minority.
	They're willing to cooperate with Damascus, provided they retain some control over their oil.
	So the way it seems to be shaking out now, as originally deconstructed, this is all about Turkey clearing the zone.
	They've got a free zone right above Aleppo, which is where we have all these pipelines going, of course, the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline.
	Which is what Syria chose for, foolishly by Mr.
	Assad, because, of course, we need to have the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to then flow that gas into Europe.
	And, you know, Turkey is now in this very interesting spot where they have the Turkish stream coming in from Russia.
	They want to have the Qatari pipeline coming up.
	And they want to be the suppliers of Europe without being a part of Europe, without being a part of NATO. Yeah.
	Well, of course they do.
	It's big money just in transport.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So everyone's starting to show their cards slowly.
	Well, they have to.
	Yeah.
	And then it gets rebelized and we just do what we want.
	Can't wait.
	Well, it won't be tomorrow.
	Six months?
	Six months?
	Well, that's optimistic or pessimistic.
	It depends on your perspective.
	I'll take optimistic because it makes it that much more fun for the show.
	Yeah, it makes it fun for the show.
	It's not good for the world at large.
	Those poor people that live in that area are all going to be ruined.
	But, you know, we don't seem to care.
	Not at all.
	All right, take us out, John.
	You got one more for me?
	I do have one.
	I'm going to put it off.
	It's one of these clips that we need some further discussion.
	It'll be at the earlier part of the show.
	So I'm kind of fini with my clips.
	I feel it's very difficult to get into any kind of deconstruction with these moronic debates going on.
	It's so hard to find anything of any value.
	We'll have plenty of stuff for the next show.
	Oh, of course.
	Oh, no.
	We'll have it.
	Yeah, well, no, the debates, they took center stage, and we had to discuss them, and then we got a clue, and we got to see the...
	I remember that somebody, some Twitter guy, that's not a subliminal message, that's a logo.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Really?
	It's a logo?
	Maybe he was being sarcastic.
	But it didn't seem like it to me.
	Okay.
	Alrighty then.
	Yeah, it is a logo.
	I see a logo, your brain sees an F. That's right.
	That's how it works.
	Perfect.
	It couldn't have been done better.
	The mind control is on.
	I love it.
	It was absolutely fantastic.
	What a great job they did.
	That was about the only thing I loved.
	Well, and it's not a debate.
	You're right.
	It's bullcrap.
	It's got to end.
	It does.
	We need a new format.
	More on that this coming Thursday.
	Please remember us.
	Mud wrestling.
	Mud wrestling.
	Please remember us at dvorak.org slash NA. We'll be back on Thursday with another No Agenda.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
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	Yay!
	Nobody knows who the douche you are.
	Hi, everybody.
	You can either stay and be quiet or we'll have to take you out.
	And if she should tell you, come closer.
	I have two words for you.
	Predator drums.
	And if she tempts you with a charm.
	No, no, no, no.
	Hey.
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	Come on.
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	Don't hurt me now for her love belongs to you.
	Shame on you.
	And if she should tell you.
	You shouldn't be doing this.
	Hey.
	And if she tempts you with a charm...
	Yeah, listen.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Come on, guys.
	Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Come on.
	Don't hurt me now, for her love belongs to me.
	I know she's the kind of girl who drove my love away.
	You're in my house.
	But I still love her so.
	Can we escort this person out?
	All right.
	Can we have this person removed, please?
	Just remember she said that to me.
	Come on, guys.
	No no no no no no no no no no no no come on No, no, no.
	Don't leave you now for love belongs to you.
	That's how we roll.
	And that's the story.
	Where is the media?
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