Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 751.
This is No Agenda.
Kicking off the I Love Laundry Tour and broadcasting from a live remote in FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the Drone Star State in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where the traffic's backed up, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crack Vaught and Buzzkill in the morning.
Oh, and that's it.
Weather and traffic on the 8s with John C. Dvorak.
The traffic's backed up.
Ah, yeah.
Well, John, here we are.
The inaugural...
Wait, let me set the stage.
Yes.
Set it!
You're out in the sticks.
Doing a remote.
Kind of in the sticks.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Well, you're in a park.
I am.
I am in McKinney Falls State Park here in Texas.
There's probably sticks all over the place.
There's tons of sticks everywhere.
Yes, so the I Love Laundry Tour...
My vehicle was acquired on Tuesday, and I immediately took it out to the park, and I've been here since then.
Yeah.
Are you alone?
I am alone, yes.
But I have had a visitor.
Not last night.
I have had a visitor.
Is that one of those trailers behind the prison?
Yeah, conjugal visit trailer.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Wow.
No, but I think it's going to be great, John.
I'm very bullish on the tour.
You finally got him out of the trailer.
Yeah, finally you have your wish.
My dreams come true.
So, of course, it's still about 98, 99 degrees during the day here in Texas.
Should have headed...
I don't know what to tell you.
No, no, no, no.
This is just the test, but it's good, so I know what it's like to operate it in...
Worst case scenario.
Heat.
Worst case scenario.
So I kept the air conditioner on all morning, got it to like a nice 68 degrees.
And now, of course, I had to turn it off.
Now, the Airstream has these vents that suck air out, and I've got all the shades down, so hopefully we'll be okay.
Keep it cool, at least for the broadcast.
Three hours?
Your coolness will last about 40 minutes max.
Yeah, we may be turning the air back on later.
Or I'll be taking off my pants.
Whichever comes first.
Well, it probably depends first in the air.
Yeah, exactly.
So, anyway, prepping...
Tell us a little bit about the trailer.
Okay, this is an Airstream Flying Cloud 23D, as in Delta.
So it's a 23-footer.
23-footer, exactly.
The D stands for what?
Dining room?
I think it does.
Dinette means the dinette is in the front.
If you've ever seen the new Airstreams, with the big, beautiful picture windows.
And it has a bed in the corner in the back.
I have to say, this thing's put together really well.
The last time we did the Hot Pockets tour, hauled around that formaldehyde trailer, which was, granted it was a 19-footer with a slide-out, but I could live in this.
I could really see myself doing it.
Yeah, I can too.
And the kicker, it has a TV built in, and you get this little crank, and the antenna comes up, which I always thought was just kind of bogus, but I'd forgotten.
All about the transition to digital of the over-the-air broadcast.
I must have 50 channels of television here.
If you're any, yes, digital is fantastic.
The only problem is 40 of them are in Spanish.
Apparently the Spanish and the Chinese and the Vietnamese have taken advantage of this sub-channels.
Because if you get a channel, like Channel 4, you can actually divide that up into five channels.
That's true, and it's very confusing.
As I was flipping through it, it'll be Channel 18-1-2-3.
So they are indeed multicasting multiple languages.
At least I get the big networks and I get PBS. Also, a lot of home shopping still on the over-the-air digital.
I thought that had all gone away.
Oh no.
When I crank mine up over the air, I do a scan every so often to update the channels.
Right.
Because they do change, actually, probably more than you'd think.
Oh, really?
I get like 96 channels from here.
I'm telling you, it's phenomenal how much you get.
Not that there's really anything interesting on them, but at least I could watch NewsHour and some of the Essentials.
But yeah, I'm really happy.
I'll probably do a little walkthrough video.
Maybe not this time, but maybe next time we pull out.
Because I'm thinking, John, around the end of the second week of September, I hit the road and head off towards Colorado, Yellowstone, keep moving up, and maybe do the Calgary run.
Well, get your Yellowstone out of the way before it gets too cold.
I don't want to be hauling this thing in the snow, that's for sure.
Well, actually, if you're going to be out in September, you're catching the fall, you get the colors, you could maybe get the Calgary.
I would still say Edmonton would be my target.
Okay.
But, yeah, very happy, and thank you all for all the...
I must have 40 different invites already.
People telling me that I can drop by, get a free hookup, take a shower, lots of...
Free what?
A hookup.
Oh, hooker.
Yeah, power and water.
They said hooker.
No, no, but they have offered weed.
Surprising number.
In Colorado?
I'm getting it from everywhere.
Hey, man, you want some weed?
Come on, drop that thing over here.
Yeah, excellent.
Ugh.
Check it for trackers every once in a while.
I'm sorry?
Check it for trackers.
Trackers?
Yeah, somebody goes up there and you slap a little tracker on there.
I was contemplating...
Some black and white kind of following you around for some unknown reason.
I've been contemplating just adding an APRS beacon to it so that we can track the progress.
You might as well.
Somebody else is going to be doing it anyway.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so you don't have to stick any magnetic GPS things on it.
Don't worry about it.
We'll track it through radio.
And also, it'll be interesting to see how well APRS works, which is, you know, ham radio, what is it, short messaging service, and it can send out the location.
You can track it on aprs.fi, Fox India.
It's pretty cool.
Yeah, that'd be great, actually.
In case all of a sudden you disappear, we'll know where the trailer is anyway.
Exactly!
You'll at least have an idea of where I was supposed to be.
Technical aspects of the show.
So we have the mobile rig set up here on the dinette.
I tweeted out a picture.
You can take a look at that.
And running everything on the...
Because this is the park, the state park.
And the national park, state park, they don't really have any Wi-Fi coverage.
You can get it at the campgrounds.
So this does have a Wi-Fi access point somewhere at the entrance to the park.
This is right now running on the T-Mobile, on the iPhone 6.
I have LTE 2 bars, but I have on order the booster that we talked about.
And I'm also going to get the Verizon MiFi, because Verizon seems to have the best coverage.
And all the way into Yellowstone.
And I have no idea how to work in Canada if we get up there.
Same thing.
But I'm reasonably impressed with how well this works.
I mean, I was getting 5 megabits down, 5 megabits up last night.
Until you can tell that people are sucking down Netflix or doing something, it just crunches down to about a little under one megabit per second.
But I tested the same time yesterday.
I tested everything.
When the jingles were working, which aren't working right now, and the speed was good because I guess everyone's off at work, etc.
I noticed this with horror was I do that just about movie watching time.
Oh really?
That's probably not such a good idea then.
You should do it a different time.
Well, he actually works for a living.
Oh, John, I have good news.
Good news, ladies and gentlemen.
That's right.
Here's your good news.
As you know, the brain professor moved to California.
And I don't think the brain professor will ever talk to me again after the tirade against him on the last episode.
He should be ashamed of himself for giving you crap in public.
I agree.
I agree.
I thought you two were like buddies in a very pleasant way in a private level.
Yeah, sure.
And then he comes out and just does this on Facebook?
It's just terrible.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
That's the bad form.
So, you know, I met...
He and his wife were part of the full-on Obama-Bot dinner team.
Of course, since they moved away, we really haven't had any O-Bot dinners.
However, Lori to the rescue...
Lori and her husband Mark, they're usually the instigators of the Obama-Bot dinners.
The artists.
Yes, the artists.
Have now invited me to a new Obama-Bot dinner on Monday...
And guess who's coming to dinner?
Guess who's coming?
Sidney Poitier is the only thing to answer to that question.
Dave Stewart.
The rocker?
No.
That is the guy who...
The baseball pitcher.
No, no.
You have one more try.
Dave Stewart.
The Democrat.
No.
This is the scientist who cracked the Mayan code.
Oh, cool!
And his wife Carolyn, Carolyn Porter, she is the chief fundraiser for UT for the McDonald Observatory, so I'm thinking I can probably get into the observatory, park the Airstream out front.
That'd be great.
So we've got to think about what I'm going to talk with this Dave Stewart guy.
Well, I don't know.
What's his politics?
I don't know.
Please.
Okay, you're right.
Come on.
He's a religious scientist.
Science is religion.
I'll start off with this.
Hey, man!
What did that code say?
What did that code say?
Said the Mayans were pretty nasty.
We'll find out.
Again, talking about the Mayans, for starters.
You don't want to get carried away.
He's never heard the show.
He's probably listening to this one.
He might.
He might.
As a preamble.
He probably doesn't understand the Obamabad part, but he'll learn.
He'll learn.
Okay.
Do we want to start off with the obvious?
Or the shooting?
Yeah.
Well, I guess we have to.
I don't think we have much of a choice.
I don't really, you know, the funny thing was I never picked up a clip That introduces the whole thing.
Let me take a look.
I do have one clip which I thought was interesting, which is something that wasn't quite...
Since we don't have an actual setup, just from my vantage point where I was sitting in the trailer going through as much stuff as possible, pretty quickly I got the videos that he had made himself and posted, I think, to Facebook and to Twitter.
These videos were...
First of all, I had a strange flashback to...
Was it Doom or Castle Wolfenstein?
Now, was he...
Do you think he was holding a camera?
It almost looked like a body camera.
Well, somebody suggested it might be a GoPro.
Oh, okay.
Here's the thing.
There are two things that bother me with this video.
And really, there's a lot of, oh, false flag, it's all fake.
Maybe, I don't know.
It's kind of irrelevant.
I can't conclude that yet.
But it doesn't even matter.
Now, what's the point?
Well, the obvious actions are being undertaken anyway.
You know, I'll get rid of guns, etc., etc.
But the things that bother me...
They turned it into a campaign speech.
Of course.
Actually, you know what, why don't I... Play this because this is worth some ridicule.
This is the president.
It breaks my heart every time you read about or hear about these kinds of incidents.
What we know is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism.
That sets himself up for ridicule.
Yes, stop one second.
Let's at least tell people that might be in Lithuania, what are we talking about here?
Okay.
Let me wrap it with this.
There was a horrendous live on the air shooting of a pretty little reporter, a blonde, interviewing some woman about local tourism.
Yeah, from the Chamber of Commerce.
And a cameraman and some guy who used to work at the stage.
I'm sorry, John, John, John, stop, stop, stop.
A photographer.
I don't get that, by the way.
Thank you!
Since when did cameraman become photographer?
Or shooter?
Funny enough, we often call cameraman shooters.
Maybe not so politically correct in this case.
Cameraman's what they're called in the business.
Yeah, but now they're photographers all of a sudden.
Yeah, everybody's calling this a photographer.
Maybe this is some kind of...
And people in the industry calling it a photographer.
Is this like a union thing?
Or what do you think that stems from?
Now that you mention it, I noticed it too.
It bothered me immediately.
Until now, I thought it was a code word for something.
So that's fishy.
That's a real problem.
And let me finish the story.
There was a guy, a reporter there named Bryce something or other who's...
I mean, that's his stage name.
His stage name Bryce Williams.
Bryce Williams was...
No, it wasn't Williams, was it?
I think it is.
I have his name written down a couple times.
I'm pretty sure it is.
Well, that's not his real name.
His real name is...
Anyway, so this guy apparently was a hothead, bipolar, who knows what.
Gay black man.
If they could have added Jewish in there, it would have been the trifecta.
But they couldn't do it.
And he was fired, and then he came back to get his revenge.
His Bryce Williams, you're right, his Williams.
I do have this, I have two clips about this.
Before you move on, let me just say about the statement the president made.
Hold on.
Gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism.
Yeah, why don't we get rid of automobiles?
Because they dwarf everything.
Yes.
Why?
Is he dumb?
Why would he use that?
Why does he compare guns to terrorism?
Maybe they're trying to transition the emphasis with the FBI and the wiretaps and everything else back toward the public rather than toward trying to find terrorists because they're having a crappy time of that.
They can't find too many terrorists in the country.
They have to create them.
I don't know.
This whole thing seems like a bigger scheme, a giant scheme.
Also, he said gun-related instead of hate-related or crazy...
Insanity-related.
Insanity.
Or how about drug-related?
He was apparently...
The station, after they fired him, and he sued the station, they settled, so he did get money out of the deal.
They said, you know, you really need to seek medical attention for your anger issues.
Yes.
Not overly reported.
Here's a question.
On all of these antidepressants, which he may have been on, we just don't know yet.
And we'll never find out.
You know, the side effects...
I have a question for you.
The side effects of these SSRIs Pretty much all of them say you may have suicidal thoughts or thoughts of suicide.
Shouldn't one of the disclaimers be you may have thoughts of murdering people?
I don't think they want to put that on there.
No, I know, but, you know...
It's something to ponder.
Well, they at least mentioned violence.
Okay, there you go.
Violence toward others.
That would be a good thing to put on there.
Okay, did you have a clip you wanted to start with?
They never get into this.
The news, we've talked about this before, we'll talk about it again, and everyone who listens to the show knows that this is a theme, it's one of our things that should be on the FAQ, that the news networks, the big ones, all of them, ABC, NBC, CBS, and I'm listening to all three for three weeks, three by three.
Three by three, three by three.
Every day.
And I'm starting to pick up on trends and certain things that one network will do and the other one won't.
But all of them are supported by drug companies.
All of them.
All the networks, yes.
They do have other...
The commercials that come in once in a while, and I have a little example of where they're trying to force some people to advertise by running negative stories about them.
ABC, of course, is the worst offender when it comes to this kind of relationship with the advertisers.
I have two examples coming up later.
And so we're never going to get these stories, and the idiots over at Democracy Now!
who could do this story, and they kind of touch on it once in a while, keep drifting back to global warming, no matter what.
Wait, wait, wait.
They're talking about the shooter and they drift black.
No, no, no.
I'm just saying in general.
You scare me.
In general, they do not.
In fact, they're not even talking about this story.
Well, let me just...
Do you have any clips?
Because I have a couple things that I think are worth going through.
I have a couple things.
All right, you go first.
This is on CNN. They had a criminologist discuss.
And I thought this was kind of insightful because CNN was very upset by this, probably more than the other networks.
And if you want to do anything, if you want any kind of attention, as we've said many times on this show, you've got to kill some journalists.
There's nothing like...
One of their own being killed to get all the attention you want.
It truly is the way to go.
CNN criminologist on Bryce Williams' psyche.
Casey Jordan, criminologist.
This is also so unique in that you have this deranged person who is obviously set on committing these crimes, follows through, comes prepared with, and I I don't know for sure whether it was a GoPro camera strapped to him or his cell phone.
I don't know.
But you see from the vantage point, and this is a video that we're not sharing, but we've seen it.
Most of us have seen it.
He waits.
Thanks for not showing us.
They're in the show notes in case anybody wants to see it.
I do have offline copies, of course.
Make sure that both of these individuals are in the shot before shooting.
Yeah.
Oh, hold on a second.
That's bullshit.
That's not true.
So she's now pretending to say that he positioned himself to make sure they were both in the shot before he started shooting?
No.
She's kind of indicating that.
Well, no.
She's full of crap, but that's fine.
She's just embellishing.
What is that about?
What is that about?
It's about the fact that he chose to do this on live television for maximum shock value and impact.
And to a huge extent, he has succeeded in doing that.
He, at one point, zooms and then actually the camera goes back a little bit.
At one point, he turns away.
He's very close to the victims.
Yes.
He's so close, but they are in the middle of a live broadcast.
And for those of us who work in live television, you get peripheral vision where you don't see anything that's happening.
All right, stop right there.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
John, this is the thing that...
Okay, hold on.
This is the thing that bothered me.
Well, here...
That should bother you.
And there's a couple of things here.
Remember another thesis we run on the show commonly is you always tell the truth.
The word she meant to use was tunnel vision.
Yes, because peripheral vision is exactly what you have.
I've done thousands of interviews.
And that guy, even if he wasn't as close as the video showed it, you know.
And she showed no indication.
It's just a human thing.
You cannot not see little things like that.
Particularly if a guy is sticking a glock at you.
You don't see anything that's happening on the side because you're just focusing on what you're doing at that exact moment.
And he, as a reporter, knew that.
He knew that he could get within a few feet of them and probably disguised himself as just a bystander, curious at what was going on right there on the pier at that moment and get close enough so that he could actually pull those shots off.
He knew it was live, he knew it would be broadcast, and he knew it was groundbreaking.
No one else has ever done this and he wanted to go down in infamy.
Before you say anything, I need to hit on this again.
I have a lot of friends who are photographers, better known as cameramen.
So he has the camera up to his right eye, and this guy is approaching him from the left as he makes his turn.
Cameramen all the time see peripheral.
And you'll see, if you've ever been on a remote shoot, you'll often see a cameraman actually move his head back a little, turn to the left to see what's going on.
Because they have to be aware of all their surroundings.
It's within their nature in case they need to get something else that's in the shot.
This guy was so close to him, he must have seen him.
Unless it was some superimposed video.
I have no idea.
But to say that in the business, we know that you don't see that, you can get within a few feet?
No!
Exactly the opposite.
I think I have some expertise in this field.
Yeah, I think you definitely have standing.
Thank you.
I'm in good standing on this.
Well, it's a legal term.
Let me...
That means you could testify as an expert.
Yes.
In this case.
Let me read a note from Justin Bloom, because we both looked at this video.
And Justin Bloom is one of our producers.
Yes, yes.
So there are a few issues, which he's got a copy of the video, which you have caught, but just in case.
One.
The reporter jumps up, which shows that she was not hit with the first round.
She would have moved backwards from the force of the bullet.
I have served in the infantry in Afghanistan and seen it.
Yep. - Two, she runs away.
There's no blood anywhere to be seen on her.
The bullet would have gone clean through her and would have left a nice exit wound on her back.
But there is nothing to be seen.
Also, she is running.
She is not holding any part of her body, which she would know if she had been actually, which she would have been doing if she'd been actually hit.
She'd been protecting it, touching it.
He also notices a few other things, so he's very skeptical.
A couple of producers emailed me similar reports, but they did say that when you get hit, first of all, blood doesn't start spouting out like in movies.
I agree with that.
And some people actually don't know that they've been hit until it's too late, or until later, or seconds later.
It's hard not to think that way when there's a gun firing as loud as those things are.
You know, it looked almost surreal, John, that video.
And that's why I said Doom or Castle Wolfenstein.
Very Doom, the Doom thing.
You were dead on because that gun comes up just like it doesn't do.
Now, still, I'm like, okay, you know, fine.
But then there's a whole bunch of other things that start to happen, like the boyfriend.
So the boyfriend comes out and he's tweeting immediately.
Now the timeline is weird if you look at the tweets.
This could be a Twitter thing where, you know, localization and timelines.
I'm not so sure, but at 6.10 is when he tweets, oh boy, you know, we've been in a secret relationship for six months.
No one knew about it, but we wanted to keep that quiet.
And at 6.45 is when it happened.
So I don't know why the Twitter timeline...
We'll just assume that that's a glitch.
I'm just going to say that's a technology glitch.
But then this guy, he starts talking to the press, and he has this big black binder or book under his arm.
Now remember, he's...
The boyfriend.
Yeah, the boyfriend, Chris Hurst.
Right.
Who is...
He's the nighttime anchor.
So he's used to speaking.
He's very good at it, very eloquent.
But there's not a twinge of sadness at any moment when he's speaking just in...
This is a free press...
This was the guy, if it was me...
I wouldn't do the interview to begin with, and I would be very wrecked.
Of course!
Anyway, he's talking about love of my life, and first it was six months, then it was nine months, which is a little confusing.
How many months were you together?
They'd just moved in together, yet nobody knew that.
And so he has this binder under his arm, and here's what he does just hours after this whole event.
This is something that I have been showing people and am...
Somewhat hesitant to show at the public, but she, I believe, would want our love to be shared because it was a love that was genuine.
So he's now going to present proof that he is the boyfriend, which apparently no one else knew.
A love that I hope everybody else gets to experience at least once in their life.
As young, foolish couples in love do, we celebrate not anniversaries, but monthiversaries.
No!
Monthiversaries?
No!
And for our six-month anniversary, she made me this photo album, which says that all of these pictures are from my phone.
And I don't really post on Facebook very much.
We were not public on our professional Facebook pages or social media as being in a relationship together.
It was something we talked about eventually doing, but we weren't there yet.
I don't really post much to Facebook at all.
But these are pictures from the first six months of our relationship, and she said it was my job to upload photos to Facebook and put pictures in here into this scrapbook for the next six months.
Why is he doing this?
Does he have...
Somehow, he needs to prove...
Is there insurance involved?
I don't know, but he feels the need, clearly, to prove that they were in love and that they were boyfriend-girlfriend.
It doesn't make sense.
It's just...
Very strange.
You know, these are...
If you're somebody's...
You go into mourning, it's just what...
You don't come out and do this.
It just doesn't make sense that you would do that unless you're some...
No, this doesn't...
This is not right.
It's just not right.
And here's another anomaly.
Let's assume that all this is true as we go along.
But...
We're questioning it.
I'm not questioning it.
Calling hoax on this event.
No, not yet.
I'm close.
I'm on the edge.
I'm on the edge.
There are some nagging issues that need to be discussed.
When a police presser starts off, the police chief or whoever it is, he comes out and is like, oh, I'm going to do this announcement.
And I hate it when this happens.
Why?
Is he just so stupid and careless?
Through this, we continue to keep our prayers and faults with the family of Alicia Parker and Aaron Wade.
Uh, Alicia Parker and Aaron Wade.
Uh, no.
Oh, excuse me, Aaron Ward.
Um, as well as...
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's not Alicia, it's Allison.
I know!
He gets both names wrong.
Yes, that's what I said.
And she's on the air, she's a known...
Apparently everybody loved her.
She was fantastic, fabulous.
So, you know what?
I just have this notion that this boyfriend, Chris...
He's the one that's insane.
Pay attention to this kid.
Who knows what he set up?
Maybe there was some...
I don't know.
I have a bad feeling about this kid.
I hate to say it.
About the boyfriend?
Yeah, the boyfriend.
And then you have the boyfriend and the father go on Megyn Kelly...
And there's more weirdness coming out of his mouth.
It's almost like he's trying to correct the dad, who does break down during this interview, to correct the dad that he's going off script about crazy people.
I'm sorry, Chris.
He was a crazy man that got a gun.
The way he says that...
I'm sorry, Chris.
I just got to say it.
You know, that's part two of where we're going.
And I have posted on my Facebook page that I report on mental health issues, and I have since last year when a state senator was stabbed by his son.
So I think we need to be very careful with how we identify this man and we don't label him and then discriminate against everybody else who has a mental illness in this country who needs access to services.
But clearly something went wrong here between him leaving our station and being able to purchase a gun and commit a premeditated act.
Does this not sound like a pre-built script to say, hey, not everybody who kills people...
No, he's saying...
We need to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people.
And this happens to be his beat, apparently.
This is what he does.
He looks at crazy people.
What happened behind us was clearly wrong, but there had been ample time beforehand where many, many other things went wrong.
Those need to be addressed, not any of the allegations he is saying about the love of my life, the daughter that he loved, A cameraman who deeply loved his fiancée, who was the morning show producer, and she loved him back in equal measure.
It sounded scripted weird, and then Megyn Kelly does what...
She's a dick.
And it was believed by some that before Adam died, the photographer, that he actually pointed his camera in the direction of his killer.
So there would be...
He's a hero!
...photographic evidence of the man who took his life.
It's just speculation.
But those who know him...
If that's what you want to speculate, then go right ahead.
You're talking about two people who were killed in cold blood and they didn't suffer, so I don't think it's fair to be making that kind of...
No!
I don't want to talk about that, Megan.
I just, you know...
Megan, you dick.
Don't do that.
Yes, he was a hero.
He was falling down.
He twisted to point the camera at his assailant so he could help everyone find him.
Yeah, right.
Well, a couple of things I've noticed on this thing.
First of all, this took place in the state of Virginia.
Mm-hmm.
Virginia is known as a state that has a lot of people working in intelligence agencies.
I think that is a prerequisite when you get your driver's license, isn't it?
You have to check the box.
Yes, I'm an intelligence asset.
I'm an intelligence asset.
Now, I'm not saying this is a complete...
Because we don't know.
But we didn't hear from the girl's parents.
No, that was the father.
That was the father.
The boyfriend and the father were together, and the boyfriend looks more like a handler than someone who's commiserating, because the minute the guy starts saying, hey, this guy is crazy, then he says, whoa, hold on a second, this is what I do.
I investigate how people hurt people who are crazy and they have guns or other types of weapons.
There's something about this kid I don't like.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
I don't want to be a douche.
The whole situation, and let's get back to the Virginia intelligence thing.
Okay, good.
Now, the woman who killed Parker...
She was one of those unique individuals.
I'm surprised she was even working in a local station.
If you look at her background in LinkedIn, she's one of those dynamo chicks.
Dynamo?
In other words, she's just involved in everything.
Either in college, she was at James Madison, or at Alpha Phi.
She was a major sorority girl.
Mm-hmm.
And volunteering.
And she plays the trombone.
Wait a minute.
Does she play the rusty trombone?
Actually, I believe I could tell she plays the French horn and the trumpet.
There's a joke there, too.
And it's outrageous, her skill set.
She's a Photoshop person.
She can do all this stuff.
Way out of control in terms of her skill sets if you dig far enough.
Perfect fodder for a CIA type.
She's good looking.
I did a search while you were talking about it.
There's a lot of correlation between Alpha Phi Omega, right?
No, just Alpha Phi.
Alpha Phi.
Okay, hold on.
I just did a search, Alpha Phi CIA, and it seems like, oh, we have Jobs Fair Day, the CIA's coming by.
Well, there's probably...
It could be, it could be.
There's a lot to be said for some of these sororities if you want to get into the CIA. Remember, what was that good-looking blonde that was outed by Obama or by...
Valerie Plain.
Valerie Plain.
Yeah, Valerie Plain.
Valerie Plain.
Yeah, Valerie Plame.
Dynamite.
That's the type of woman we're talking about.
Right.
A good-looking woman who can get in and out of, you know, she's being trained as a journalist, a field type, where she's out there giving interviews.
Next thing you know, she would have been if she's on this track to be overseas.
Right.
Now, whether or not this whole thing is a hoax or whether somebody killed her, and she's actually dead, we don't know, but she just has all the perfect earmarks of what, when we do analysis of these people, living in Virginia, dynamo, super talented, just the kind of person you want as a field operative.
At least I'd hire her.
The father...
I should probably play that bit.
The father said something interesting about that.
Where is that?
They've got to pick it up again.
I think he said something about she would be perfect for Fox News or something.
Hold on.
Let me just...
I got it here.
Uh, here.
Allison's life and what she meant.
And, you know, frankly, she was, you know, I had reservations coming here.
You know, if there were any other situation, I wouldn't have.
But she was a journalist.
She was a journalist first and a TV personality second.
And, you know, make no mistake, she was a journalist.
And she would have wanted me to come here and state the case.
Uh, You know, she, we even laughed, you know, we joked with her that, you know, she was the perfect Fox News girl.
She was pretty, she was blonde, and she was extremely smart.
This is how you talk about your daughter.
No!
No, that's not how I talk about my daughter.
It is kind of odd.
His name, what is her last name, Parker?
Parker?
Yeah.
So it's Andrew Parker.
We probably need to look into him, see where he's coming from.
It's odd.
Yeah, it's just odd.
Half of me says, you know, it's easy to find things and there's all kinds of anomalies and things are misreported.
But you put all these things together and then...
There's too many of them.
Yeah, there's quite a bit.
It's just annoying.
And then, of course, right off the bat...
Do you ever question Walmart?
This is the CEO of Walmart.
Not the CEO. This is a top official.
Walmart's decision to sell firearms and ammunition.
Yeah, our focus as it relates to firearms should be hunters and people who shoot sporting clays and things like that.
So the types of...
Of rifles we sell, the types of ammunition we sell should be curated for those things.
And we believe in serving those customers we have for a long time, and we believe we should continue to.
Do you envision curtailing the merchandise so that there are no semi-automatic weapons?
I believe, yes.
And in the U.S. is one of the few places, maybe the only place around the world where we actually do sell firearms.
And here I believe that's appropriate.
And so Walmart is saying they will no longer sell military-style weapons.
By the way, Andrew Parker...
Remember Robbie Parker?
No, I don't remember Robbie Parker.
Robbie Parker was the dad at Newtown who was seen cracking up and laughing just before he went on air and started crying.
Oh, right, right, right.
That was one of the most horrendous clips that anyone ever caught.
It's been somewhat forgotten.
You might want to remind me what it was.
Everyone saw it.
It was one of the so-called kids' parents who was laughing up and saying all kinds...
I probably have the clip somewhere.
Saying all kinds of nutty stuff before the camera...
See it visually to really get the impact.
Yeah, let me just see it.
Because he's laughing and then when they throw the camera on, he goes into a different look.
He's like an actor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's okay.
Well, we need to look into this...
The Parkers.
Yeah, the Parkers.
I don't seem to have a clip from Robbie Parker.
I know it's somewhere.
Oh, well.
Okay.
You got any more on this?
The other woman who was somehow injured, even though when we saw the shooting, it was pretty much aimed at her.
No, I disagree.
I didn't see him pointing the gun at her.
I thought I saw him pointing the gun at her.
Could be.
Well, it certainly doesn't fit the narrative.
Well, the whole thing is...
It's again, you know, one of these things that is not...
For one thing, it's crazy.
The guy is like a disgruntled employee, so that's always good.
Checkbox.
He's on something, maybe, maybe not.
He was fired, we know that much.
He goes out and shoots these people.
Somebody pointed out in an email to me, one of our producers, that he had to do this whole gig, he had to get up at 6.30 in the morning.
What kind of guy is going to do a murder, just a random murder so he can get a lot of attention, who's been apparently planning this for months?
Months!
There's all kinds of evidence that he's been working on this.
He's been stewing in his own juices.
So now is the day he's going to do it.
He somehow knows that this shoot is going on.
There's never been an explanation for that.
Is he still on the computer system?
Is he looking at the schedules where all the shoots are taking place?
And is he on somebody's mailing list?
We don't know how.
How did he know this was taking place in the first place?
And at this early in the morning.
It was done at very early in the morning.
It was like, what, eight?
Yeah, earlier.
Quarter to seven.
Quarter to seven?
Who does these things at quarter to seven?
Who goes out on a shoot to interview a woman about tourism and they do it before 9 o'clock?
Well, unless we're going to re-roll the package later.
No, nobody shoots at that hour.
I mean, okay, somebody maybe can send me a note.
Somebody who works in a station, there's plenty of them that listen to our show.
Oh, yeah, we always get up at 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock to go do these interviews, these inconvenient interviews at 7.30 in the morning.
Because you want to run it that day.
It wasn't breaking news.
It's not an important story that they have to run that day so they have to get it in early so they can run it at 5 o'clock.
It's a stupid story about tourism.
You have a full-on LinkedIn account, right?
Yeah, I don't have it on this machine.
Oh.
Well, you do.
You just don't have the password.
Let me try to see if I can sign it.
Well, let me tell you what it is.
Okay, her mother...
Check it out.
Check it out.
Her mother, Barbara...
Are you listening?
Yeah.
I'm just mumbling to myself.
Okay.
It gets progressively worse.
Her mother, Barbara Parker, is Director of Programming at Piedmont Arts.
Her father, Andy Parker, is a consultant and candidate for the Henry County Board of Supervisors.
So can we find this...
What kind of consultant was he?
Hmm.
Ah, I got in.
Okay.
Consultant...
Give me his name again.
Well, now it seems his name is Andy Parker, not Andrew, but...
It'll be Andrew in LinkedIn, believe me.
You think?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
It's nice if I take the J out of the word, that might be useful.
But if I see his face, then, well, let's see, this is not him.
That's an army guy, which I don't think is him.
So what's his current job?
Oh, here he is.
Headhunter for the banking industry.
Oh, how convenient.
Well, that's different.
I'm a talent acquisition magician for the banking industry.
Needle-in-the-haystack searches are my specialty.
I find the right fit and don't waste my candidates' or my clients' time.
You sure it's the right guy?
Yep, I see his picture.
My company, Divergent Search, is the offshoot of the executive search firm Telecareers, which I started in spring of 2000.
At the time of its inception, Telecareers specialized in the telecommunications industry, and as the business specialization changed, I named it as well...
Bah, bah, bah.
Okay, let's see if he has...
What's his background here?
Sports, sales...
Professional actor!
Appeared on Broadway in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Pump Boys and Dinettes at the Kennedy Center.
Okay!
Funny how these people always turn up to be...
And he's a professional actor, like on Broadway.
Real actor.
Oh, for six years, yeah.
Has also...
Regional stage credits, regional and national TV commercials.
Mm-hmm.
Well, ain't that funny?
Huh.
Well, just another data point to stick in your hat.
Huh.
Education, University of Texas at Austin.
No, this is where all the spooks are.
Oh, that and Cal.
The only other thing I thought that was kind of interesting was the Black Lives Matter guy.
You know him?
The one who had the chat with Hillary?
DeRay McKesson is his name.
Oh yeah, the guy with the stage chat in the back?
Yes, the stage chat in the back.
So he immediately comes out and tweets and says, let's see...
He says, uh, the color of the shooter is going to determine everything about how this is reported.
Don't tell me it doesn't matter.
See, he thought that this guy would be white.
He tweets, some say disgruntled employee, others say terrorist.
Whiteness will explain away nearly everything.
And then people say, hey, douchebag, he was black.
And then the guy goes and deletes all his tweets.
Troublemaker a-hole.
Troublemaker a-hole.
I thought that was kind of interesting.
Well, they're still in the Library of Congress.
Yes, that's true.
That's true.
You know, all the tweets you want, and they're going to end up in the Library of Congress anyway.
So ABC, who we know is all in, certainly with this administration, and just lying liars.
So they received a fax.
I love this.
The guy is...
Now he decides to fax...
His manifesto, which they subsequently cherry-pick and release some bits.
Apparently it's 30-40 pages.
Why don't they release it?
Why can't I read the whole thing?
I know what the thinking is.
Yeah.
If they wanted to rationalize it to you because you're complaining.
Yeah.
If we release it, it will encourage other nutcases to do the same thing and we'll have a million of these things out there.
We're trying to discourage this.
But also, what kind of guy who wants broad mass appeal attention for his crime, writes a manifesto, prints it, because the pictures they showed looked like it was printed and then faxed, wouldn't you want the broadest appeal possible, like where you put your videos on Facebook and tweeted them?
There's a countdown.
Immediately.
But isn't that what you...
I mean, look, that's how you do it.
You want to get the whole thing out.
But no, he decides to use technology from 20 years ago to fax it.
30.
To fax his manifesto.
To ABC, who then...
It's not like they say, we have it and we're not going to release it because we don't want to give him the honor.
But no, they cherry-pick tons of pieces out of it.
I don't know.
I don't like it.
I just don't like it.
I don't like it either.
I don't like the whole story.
No.
Well, someone getting shot and killed is always bad.
No, and if someone got shot and killed, which is quite possible, and then the guy's dead too, you have three dead people, that's not good.
But let's just say the possibility exists that At least the girl, or who knows, if she was a spook, this may be just the way to get her into the field.
There was another shooting that was barely covered.
She'll have black hair.
Just be on the lookout for a woman that looks exactly like this one.
With black hair.
It was black hair.
Another shooting that was poorly covered because of this.
Chaos erupted behind these walls just before lunch Tuesday when police say Curtis Smith walked in the lobby, pulled out a knife, and stabbed a sheriff's deputy.
He was crazy.
It happened within 20 seconds.
Riley Aikman stood just feet away from Curtis Smith.
He went right through security.
And I remember he said, I'm going to get you, I'm going to get you.
Next thing I hear, pop, pop.
And he went down.
And I was looking at him.
And he had something in the stomach.
Do you know who this is about?
Well, if it's not about Lee Harvey Oswald, no.
This is the White House fence jumper.
The guy who jumped the fence and tried to run into the White House...
The guy who got very far in, he actually got into the White House?
Yeah.
I'd like to talk about it?
Yeah.
That guy?
So he just shows up at the courthouse, because he's out free, you know, just like, why not?
And then he comes in and he stabs someone, or tries to stab one, and then a deputy...
Smith is a Coatesville resident who was arrested back in March for jumping the White House fence.
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said the courthouse threat ended seconds after it began.
Another deputy sheriff immediately pulled his firearm and shot Smith.
Unfortunately, because of incidents like this across the nation, we have learned how to deal with an attack in a courthouse.
Nobody else was injured.
The sheriffs did their jobs.
The lockdown went perfectly.
Oh, okay.
I'm thinking this guy knew too much.
Yeah.
You don't think it was a knife or anything?
Maybe.
It's got to be easier to plant a knife on somebody than planting a gun.
But I don't even know if he had a knife.
Yeah, that's what your theory would be.
You don't know.
I have no idea, but in general, what a bummer.
All knives should be banned.
Hello UK, we're looking at you.
We need background checks for steak knives.
We're looking at you, yeah.
Alright, so things will unfold as they go along.
There's just too many strange points.
The GoPro video footage is so surreal.
So surreal.
I have to look at it again.
How was the kick on that?
Did it seem like they'd had a lot of kick?
Because I've shot a Glock and it's a little unclear if this is the 40 cal or the...
What else would it be?
Hold on.
Well, I mean, if you're going to go out and do something like this, you'd want a.45.
But it's probably a 9mm.
That's what everyone uses.
It's.38, I guess.
I wonder what...
I should probably look at it if there was a lot of...
Yeah, it looked like it had...
It's a big guy, you know?
I don't think the gun kicks that much.
I mean, it does kick.
And I think it did kick.
I'm taking a look right now.
This guy is so close.
I'm looking at that video again.
He's so close.
Let me just...
Get the gun out.
Hold on.
He comes back.
I mean, he's standing.
Now, this actually doesn't...
If he's not bumping into the guy, it's a miracle.
He's almost bumping into him.
Almost.
And that woman...
You know, I don't think...
We need some of our experts to take a look at the kick on that.
You don't think it has enough of a kick?
Doesn't look like it.
I don't know.
I just like the fact that her dad was an actor.
Her boyfriend is trying to prove that he was boyfriend-girlfriend by showing the scrapbook.
And then there's also the other coincidence, which is the cameraman's, a.k.a.
photographer's, fiance was running in the control room at the time.
Hmm.
And they're all young kids.
Somebody on Twitter just went on and said, that's it for me.
What kind of bull crap is this?
It's rather strange, yes.
So there's too many elements here.
Maybe it's just the key.
How about this for a sick idea?
The government has decided that, or the shadow government, whoever we want to deal with, pretends and charge, has decided to keep people...
We haven't had enough of these sorts of things with all kinds of discrepant information and screwball subtexts and weird facts to keep the conspiracy-driven public busy.
Yeah!
So we're going to start...
It's working!
Because there hasn't been a good one for a while, right?
Yeah, since Sandy Hook, we haven't had anything really good, right?
Yeah, Sandy Hook's been the best one.
Here's how it goes.
Hey, I got an idea.
Let's fuck with those guys.
I got an idea.
Let's set this one up.
Check it out.
We have anybody in the agency working there?
Because, by the way, every news agency, every TV station, every place you go has somebody in the agency working there.
Yeah.
It's just the way it is.
You can, oh, it's bullcrap.
No, it's not bullcrap.
This is why they have to run drugs to keep the budget going.
Half the country seems to be working for an intelligence agency.
Yeah.
And so, you know, it's just so obvious after a while.
So, we got anyone there?
Yeah, we got two people.
Well, you know, we have to ask them if they want to do this.
I guess you can tell them to do it, but I think they're more polite than that when it comes to something like this.
And so you have a, I'm guessing, and so you have them come in and what do you think?
Well, you know, I've been kind of sick of working here.
If I get a field job for like, you know, in Europe or someplace for the next, I don't know, five or six years, then I'd do it.
Okay.
Well...
We'll just continue to follow.
It doesn't really matter that much in the broad scheme of things, other than it does seem that President Obama is trying to get everything all nicely wrapped up for his final bits of his tenure here.
And wouldn't it be great if he could pass some fantastic legislation?
Very much, I would say, like the train shooter with our heroes, our marine heroes, our American heroes...
Yes, none of them in the Marines, by the way.
And there were four.
There was a fourth guy.
We can't forget him.
Well, check this out.
So not only did they get the Medal of Honor from Hollande, from France, but they're also now getting the Belgian Medal of Honor, since it happened, I guess, on Belgian territory.
Oh!
Yep, yeah, so there's enough, like, the one award they should have gotten, which wasn't given, I don't even know if it exists, but it should, the Insurance Industries Award.
Well, you know, there was also...
Can you imagine what that would have cost, the insurance companies, if that guy had been shooting up the place in the Thales?
Those things are really expensive.
So immediately the European Union, European Parliament started rushing through legislation.
Apparently there was already legislation for train security on the books.
And now it looks like they'll be voting on something very quickly.
Of course we're seeing the same here in the United States.
Which, when you think about it, John, once you've got all the airports, and obviously we can't be forcing...
Uh, malls and movie theaters to put up, you know, security as well.
But if you want some good government security, want some good money, the next obvious arena is, of course, the railway system.
Mm-hmm.
Um, but it's...
What does it take?
Just to start with a magnetometer.
They're cheap.
Yep.
And, uh, you got a couple security guys there.
It starts to add up when you start putting the more advanced equipment in.
Do you have the clip where Obama says that this will never happen at train stations?
Oh, no.
He doesn't say that.
He says, take off your shoes, I think.
You want to take off your shoes?
You don't have to do anything?
Yeah, I got it right here.
Here he is.
Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city.
No racing to an airport and across a terminal.
No delays.
No sitting on the tarmac.
No lost luggage.
No taking off your shoes.
Woo!
Yeah, that's right.
Well, that's what he was implying when he said that.
Yes.
Okay.
Can we move on?
I think we should move on.
I have a little intermezzo for us, John.
Okay, well then after your intermezzo, I have an even shorter intermezzo of my own.
Okay.
Intermezzo number one.
Mike Rogers, formerly the chairman of the House Security Committee, I believe, Homeland Security Committee.
We, of course, have been watching him very closely as he said he was going to retire and start a broadcast career.
And we are so wrong on this Mike Rogers.
I thought it would be no good.
I'm like, how can this guy ever do a great show?
Well, I finally figured out what he's doing.
I have a copy of his show right here.
Have you heard the Mike Rogers segment?
I have been trying to hear, but I don't put enough effort into getting a copy of the show because I know it's going to blow.
Well, yeah.
But it's funny blow.
Mike Rogers does not have his own radio show.
He is not doing a call-in, talk, AM-type radio show.
No, he's doing vignettes, which are syndicated around the country.
Now, I've done these.
One of them was called The Buzz with Adam Curry.
You create a 15, 30, 60-second spot.
I have been given the assignment, and I've been asked, and I've been told I could be syndicated if I would do these sort of things about technology.
Mm-hmm.
And I refused, because I think they're stupid.
So you have Mike Rogers, who has a one-minute segment, which is syndicated around the country.
It's called Something to Think About, S-T-T-A, Mike Rogers, Something to Think About.
And what do you think his segments would focus on?
Now, something to think about with Mike Rogers.
Sometimes you just know when you meet someone, you're going to be friends.
Georgia Bradley was taking a stroll down the beach in Greece recently and encountered some trouble.
Two men approached her and were aggressive about her joining them for a drink.
The more she told them no, the more aggressive they became.
One of the men finally reached out and grabbed her arm.
Just as the situation looked to turn worse for the young English holiday goer, a Greek citizen came to her defense.
Out of nowhere, small in stature, her new brave friend showed some true grit.
And her teeth, the men decided to move along.
Saved by the homeless canine, Georgia was on a mission to find a shelter for the young dog to no avail before her return trip to England.
As she departed for the airport, Georgia turned around to see the black terrier poodle mix running after the car.
That was more than she could take.
She completed the adoption process, and her new best friend Pepper is one of England's newest courageous citizens.
Hats off to a happy ending for this brave Good Samaritan.
Something to think about.
I'm Mike Rogers.
He's doing dog stories!
Wow.
And the kicker, it's bullcrap because you cannot take a dog or a cat into the United Kingdom.
They have to go into quarantine for six months.
For a long time.
Yeah.
So it's crap.
So it's a bullcrap story to top it off.
Yeah.
Just like him.
I love it though.
I'm Mike Rogers.
Something to think about.
The dog that saved my life.
Mike, dude, let's talk.
I'm sure we could figure out something better than this.
Well, my understanding, because I have followed this a little bit, was that he was given the opportunity, first of the weekend spot, to do some shows.
Oh, okay, I didn't realize.
You know, these stations, it's like a crapshoot if you've never heard you before, if you don't have a track record.
So they gave him some weekend gigs, you know, the three-hour, you know, fill-in from noon to three on Saturday on some local talker.
And he just was so bad that they decided to be...
Do vignettes.
Give him the dog story.
Give him something else to do so he can get his feet wet, you know, and maybe develop a little bit of a professional style.
And I guess this is where he ended up.
I didn't know where the story was going.
Hmm.
Alright, do you want to do your kicker, or can we move along?
I just thought, mine is a true...
Intermezzo.
Entrement.
Entrement, oui.
A little bitty thing you have between courses and a big meal.
This is the George meat clip.
And this is...
This is George Stephanopoulos.
Ah, and entrement is always something chef has put together for you.
A little surprise.
And wash your hands after touching any raw meat.
And...
There you have it.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for Chumming Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning to all ships that see 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 chat room.
We have some kind of crazy person posting in the chat, trying to ruin everybody's experience.
Nice to see all the other human resources in there.
And I'd like to say in the morning to our artists in particular, Nick the Rat, who created the artwork for us for episode 750.
That was the Gas Jackers episode.
Great art.
Of the I Love Laundry Tour vehicle.
If you haven't seen it, it's really, well, especially the free catheter inside on the door, I think.
It really, really, really does it.
So we will be decking out the Airstream for this tour.
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Can you look up DeGracia's email?
DeGracia?
Yeah, I can.
Sure.
You got something to...
Well, he sent us an email.
He's our top donor.
He's an instantite.
Oh.
I do...
Oh, is it Donald?
Yes.
Anyway, Donald DeGracia.
I would do it.
I have it.
Okay, good.
It's a very long email.
Well, you know, read parts of it that you think are useful.
Okay.
Donald DeGracia came in from...
He came in, by the way, I should mention this because it came in on the last show on Sunday, like at 1230, just past the deadline.
I saw it, but we didn't include it because we stop at midnight and the spreadsheets closed and shipped.
And so it came in, I said, oh, you probably need the money this week more than last week.
So $1,010.10, 10-10-10, which is a 10-10 day in October, is a very lucky day for just Chinese lucky.
I'm sending an email to John and Adam.
Please feel free to read online, all or none.
Okay, here comes a bit of it.
I've been a listener since Cranky Geek stopped.
Need my regular fix of Dvorak.
He's a Dvorak fan, who I've been reading since about 1991.
And PCMag always found to be one of the lone voices of sanity in this world.
Adam, I was in ninth grade your first year on MTV.
All of that was so new and exciting that me and my burnout friends used to spend hours a day watching shit.
Except there was some big-haired, loud-mouthed idiot who irritated us to no end.
It's great to see that time and age have turned you into such an excellent human being.
Okay.
Thanks.
Let's just listen to Thursday's show and heard the falling out with your brain, Professor.
I thought to myself, self, now's my chance to hop in and fill the vacuum.
I haven't had dinner with Adam, but maybe I can pay money and get consideration, you know, like the politicians do.
Like you've gone to...
I've gone from being a big-hair, loud-mouthed know-it-all to hopefully a decent human being with some heart and a little common sense.
I'm sending in my donation for an instantite and volunteering to take over as the resident no-agenda brain scientist.
Sorry, I'm not at Stanford.
I'm not part of the hoity-toity set.
I'm just a humble professor at a state university in the heart of downtown Detroit, Wayne State University.
Be that as it may, not only am I a brain scientist, but like you and John, I am all on board with the science is the new religion idea.
The mentality of these idiots makes me sick and makes me want to puke.
I've written a bunch about this.
If you wish, you can give a call out to my blog, Plain Talk, which you can find at DonDeg, Delta Oscar November, Delta Echo Golf,.wordpress.com.
My term for these people is philosophical pygmies, because their knowledge and stature of anything beyond their extremely narrow domain of knowledge is pygmy-like.
Then he has a lot more about...
We have a new brain scientist.
This is good news.
This is the we're even, Stephen.
And he would like to be known as Sir Don, King of Blackness in Detroit.
And he would like to request Black Hose and MD-2020 at the round table.
Hold on a second.
Black Hose.
Not only is he a brain...
I guess he's black.
Not only a brain professor, but a black brain professor.
He's pretty black.
Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that.
I'm sure he's on the same caliber as all these other black superstars that are out there that just bucked the system and just became what they became.
And I tell you, I'd much rather have this guy that...
Well, I'm sure he's more worldly.
Oh, hell yeah.
I've met a bunch of these guys, these professors from Wayne State, when I was in Michigan and I did that speech, which I think there's a copy floating around somewhere.
And I asked mostly them because I wanted to do a lot of shooting in Detroit, which sounds funny.
Yep, it does.
But it's a...
It's a mecca for photographers who just like ruin.
And cool stuff.
I mean, the Packard Motor Company's old facility, which was closed in 57, 56, 58, something like that, is just still there.
And it's just like, holy crap.
And you just have nothing but fun.
But these guys gave me a lot of insight into how screwed up Detroit was.
And Wayne State is right in the middle of the town.
And a very well-regarded school.
Well, I think we win double with this, John.
We not only do we have an Instanite, but we have a replacement brain professor, one who seems to be, you know, has his eyes open.
He understands the science is the new religion.
I'm very, very happy to have him on board.
He requested de-douching and some karma.
Of course, I'd like to give both of them.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
I think I said korma, but I meant karma.
Korma's good.
Korma, yeah.
The jingle machine isn't working today, so some things may be a little challenging.
Onward, yes.
Sorry about jingles, folks.
We maybe make a list and do them for the next show.
We'll do our best.
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Wine-growing area, 9036, where I drove through it when I was up there visiting my daughter who was going to...
And with that...
The Pacific Northwest here.
Read that again, you cut out for a second.
This is an early donation in honor...
This is an early donation in honor of Adam's birthday next week.
90364.
Perfect.
Thank you.
90364.
Uh-huh.
Wow!
That's a great number.
And I encourage everyone to donate that.
Everybody should donate 90364.
I like it.
It's got a good sound to it.
Do we get to call that?
90364.
002-345-709.
That's my number.
By the way, it seems to me that people who listen but don't contribute, donate, promote, make art, etc., are the finest examples of socialism.
Non-socialists, please contribute.
This sent using the PayPal mobile app, which he was concerned about wasn't going to get through.
It worked.
He didn't ask for anything, but I presume we should give him some karma.
This is fantastic.
Thank you so much.
I feel like it's my birthday already, believe me.
You've got karma.
Okay, here's another one.
Now I have to look him up.
Gregory Lawrence, notification of donation received.
That's what I've got.
No note.
Let's see what it's...
Okay, I'm looking here at his thing.
Well, there's a note here.
I'm not seeing any mail...
Oh, there is.
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.com I don't have it.
You don't have a note on the spreadsheet?
Strange.
Gregory Lawrence?
Okay.
I've decided to finally pull the trigger on my first executive producership.
I just had to donate after listening to Sunday's show, hearing you guys somehow manage to talk about how the Caitlyn Jenner show has no real conflict in it for like five minutes without playing the reference Sharpton clip.
Darn it.
That is pretty bad.
I can't believe we messed that one up.
That's so obvious.
What's the rest of the note here?
I was practically twitching in Pavlovian response, waiting for the punchline that never came.
So please, help a brother out, finish that joke so I can sleep again, keep up the incredible work, and of course he finishes with, thank you for your courage.
And we appreciate your courage as well.
And let me see where we have him.
That is my fault.
I am the jingle producer for the show, and I obviously should have done a much better job.
I could have queued it up, but I didn't think about it.
That's okay.
We'll give you the karma, and...
There's no real conflict!
Woohoo!
You've got karma.
Okay.
Do you have Sir Luke?
Alright, if we didn't...
I don't know if you mentioned, but he's from Cortland, Illinois.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
And finally, Sir Luke, in London, London, London, UK. $200.
Listening since 2007, I became a knight one year ago this week.
Now, a year later, I've managed to double my knighthood to become a baronet.
I also lost my job a year ago, but couldn't be happier with the way things are now.
Just getting by is great.
And like yourselves, I have no corporate overlords to answer to.
And I know John isn't a huge fan of cyclists, but I would like to request some karma.
For my cycling event this weekend, cycling has become my income.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
In the last...
I think commercial cyclists is great.
My income...
The cyclists I don't like are the guys that are zooming in and out of traffic in downtown San Francisco, paying no attention to any of the laws.
Hey, good news.
Now that I restarted everything, which I should have done before the show, now the jingle machine works again.
Shut up, slave!
Okay.
Perfect.
Yes.
Wow.
Cycling has become my income in the last year and I would be happy if things ran smoothly.
So you need some karma for that.
Also, a small amount of relationship karma might help to smooth things out at home.
She's probably not a bike list.
I love giving to you guys.
It feels great.
Everyone should listen to this.
I love giving to you guys.
It feels great.
And I'm happy to be part of such an outstanding product.
Keep up the great work, Sir Luke of London.
Thank you very much, Sir Luke.
And adding that relationship karma in for you right now.
You've got karma.
Did you say bike list?
I said bike-alist.
That sounded like bike-alist.
I think I said bike-alist.
Which I think is the new term.
I like it.
Bike-alist.
He's a bike-alist.
Well, we really appreciate these executive and associate executive producers.
You really always keep the show going along with all of our producers above $50 who we'll be thanking later on in the show.
These credits are real.
And we'll be doing another show on Sunday, and we'd love to see more execs and associate executive producers come in, and please think of us for your donation and your giving coming up this weekend.
Of course, you can always do the very important work of going out there and propagating the formula!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
Alright, so we've learned something very important for the I Love Laundry Tour, which is to always restart the phone before we get going.
Because that fixed everything.
I feel bad now that I didn't do that.
Well, you know, sometimes when the phone really gets completely screwed up, I always advise people just take the battery out, at least let it reset that way, and then put the battery back in.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's not going to work.
Why?
You can't take the battery out of the iPhone.
Oh, I forgot.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Oh, that's too bad.
Okay.
You know, this was that we had the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Yeah, this was interesting because the different networks kind of played it differently.
Well, what I'd like to do...
But they overplayed it, whatever the case, when they played it at all.
Well, what I thought we would do, just as a little fun ditty here, is I thought we would go back in time.
Hold on a second.
Hop in the Wayback Machine with me, John.
Hello, John.
This is me 10 years ago.
Hi, how are you doing?
Do you remember our voices?
We're so much higher.
That's right.
We didn't have the voice of God plug in at that time.
Do you remember what all the networks said after Katrina?
Yeah, it's just the beginning of the end.
We're going to have thousands of these giant storms.
It's going to wreck everything.
Hey, what happened to you 10 years ago?
Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive storm this country has ever seen, but a growing number of scientists believe it is just the beginning of what could be a long stretch of wild and devastating weather.
Wild and devastating weather!
Your message is clear and foreboding.
Time to go green is now.
Go green now!
Hurricane Katrina was the first urban extinction.
You know, this is just the beginning of the trend.
Masses of ecological refugees.
Just the beginning of the extinction.
Mega droughts, mega floods, extremes of all sorts.
Global warming is real, and it's destructive, and its impacts defy the imagination.
And humans have not figured out how to change their ways.
We've all heard of the Category 5 storm, the worst.
But could there soon be something even beyond that?
ABC's Bill Blakemore is right here with us in Times Square.
Check it out, what's better than a Cat 5?
Yes, Diane, the scientists making predictions today are grappling with a lot of new evidence that shows man-made global warming has been making hurricanes worse around the world, and yes, some scientists are even considering adding a new hurricane category, 6.
Wait, wait, John, could you check Noah for me?
Did we ever have a category 6?
Was that added anywhere in the world?
What's unique about this report that you're doing, I don't know where you got all these clips.
I have more.
I have a couple more.
NBC News in depth tonight.
This is 10 years ago.
We have waited 10 years and we have not had another Katrina.
We haven't even had a real hurricane for that matter.
Adding a new hurricane.
We have these things by the bunches every year and there hasn't been any.
Science!
Science!
Adding a new hurricane category, 6.
NBC News in-depth tonight.
Hurricanes and global warming.
Is there a connection?
As new storms brew in the Atlantic tonight, scientists studying the Earth's climate say we are experiencing stronger hurricanes in this century, a trend that's likely to continue in-depth tonight.
Here's NBC News chief science correspondent Robert Bezell.
Was Katrina warning of more terrible hurricanes in the next few years?
I think the biggest lesson from Katrina a year later is that those same ingredients, you know, sort of a city below sea level hit by a major hurricane, will be replicated by global warming all along our Atlantic and Gulf coastlines.
We're all gonna die!
You know, lower Manhattan, for example, is right at sea level now.
If we get three feet of sea level rise from global warming, much of lower Manhattan, much of parts of Washington, D.C., a lot of Miami, all our coastal cities, will be below sea level, like New Orleans.
We're going to have to build levees to hold back the seas.
Yeah, yeah.
How are those levees doing?
So all I need...
Hold on.
Hold on a second, John!
Yeah, here we are, back.
Wow, Adam, that was an amazing trip in time.
Wasn't it, though?
Yeah, that harp really, really takes us places.
Yeah, so that was ten years ago.
These were all scientists, chief scientists, chief this, chief that, all about the science, all about the science.
The science is in!
Category 6.
Do we have levees all along the coastline that we've been drowning?
Ah, no!
So, please explain.
And please discuss.
However, it doesn't make any difference because we're still here in 2015 now.
We're 10 years later.
10 years later.
Still talking about...
Actually, Carly Fiorina was hounded by Chip Chuck.
What's his name?
Chuck Todd.
Chip Chuck.
I'm going to call him Chip Chuck.
Chip Chuck.
I think Chip Monk.
Chip Chip Chuck Monk.
He brought in global warming about California's drought.
Her response was quite refreshing, and I think you'll agree, you certainly have standing when it comes to the environment and California.
And before I start this...
Carly Fiorina, who, and I have nothing against her, and certainly what she's saying here is nice, but she has made a very large mistake in her life.
A personal, and I think also a public mistake.
Too much Botox.
This woman, it's like a frame.
If you look at the top of her head, from below the eyebrows up, it does not move.
Her eyebrows do not move.
Her head is like plastic.
It's really, once you see it, you can't unsee it.
It's the worst Botox job I've ever seen in my life.
Now here she is about climate change with Chip Chuck Monk Todd.
In your home state of California, the drought, the wildfires, more evidence is coming out from the scientific community that says climate change has made this worse.
Yeah, just like the 10 years of category 6 storms.
Not to say that the drought is directly caused, but it's made it worse.
You know what's also made it worse?
Politicians.
Liberal politicians who stood up for 40 years as the population of California doubled and said, you cannot build a new reservoir and you cannot build a water conveyance system.
And so for 40 years, 70% of the rainfall has washed out to sea.
That's pretty dumb when you know you're going to have droughts every single year, or every three years, let's say.
So the other day I asked Governor Jerry Brown to respond to that exact criticism you made.
I said you've blamed liberal environmentalists in California, specifically on dams and reservoirs.
And this is how I responded.
I've never heard of such utter ignorance.
Building a dam won't do a damn thing about fires.
Or climate change, or the absence of moisture in the ground and vegetation in California.
So I think these people, if they want to run for president, better do kind of 8th grade science before they make any more utterances.
That's a lot of insults, but of course it makes no sense what he just said.
It would be helpful if you were fighting fires to have more water.
Firefighters in California have difficulty getting enough water now, so they're using other means.
It would be helpful to agriculture and everything else to have water saved in the good years so that you could use it in the bad years.
I'm not denying that California's air is dry, that's obvious.
I'm not denying that there is a drought, but there is no denying that politicians have made this problem immeasurably worse.
And now we go to our resident chief.
Before you go on, she's really aiming at Brown.
Brown was one of the guys when he was governor the first time around that was responsible for this sort of thinking.
So he took it as an insult and slammed her.
Nobody mentions that.
This is why I'm asking our resident chief environmentalist for California, John C. Dvorak.
C stands for chief.
Jerry Brown was the governor in the, I guess it was in the 70s.
You can look it up while I'm saying this so I can get the dates correct.
He was against building new dams.
He was against building a second span to San Francisco.
Really dead against that and passed some law or something.
You can't build another bridge.
And all sorts of things.
They called him Moonbeam, which is his nickname, because he was so out there.
He was a hippie.
Running the state of California, and the only reason he got the job in the first place, because his dad was Edmund G. Brown.
He was the governor for a long time, I think again in the 50s and 60s.
Jerry was the kid, and he inherited the mechanism, the machine, the Democrat machine in California, and he still owns most of it.
That's why he could get in again at the age of 70-something.
So what you're saying is that Fiorina is correct?
Yes, she's correct.
Thanks, John.
Okay, good.
You got the machine back and you're going to use it.
The machine is back and rolling.
Yeah, yeah.
But man, that Botox job, that is not okay.
That is just severely not okay.
Well, we did a report on this about four years ago, maybe, that discussing the research, which has been somewhat suppressed ever since it came out, but I'll repeat it because I always thought it was interesting, that if you botox up your face so you can't express emotions, it turns out you can't feel those emotions.
Oh, yes.
And that's kind of the reverse of if you start laughing, Just for no reason?
Or you actually will start to feel happy?
Yes.
It initiates all that.
And you know what?
She does look like a sourpuss.
Yes.
She can't be happy.
She can't smile.
She's a wreck.
I think you're dead on with the Botox.
I didn't think about it.
Honestly, it wasn't me.
I wasn't paying attention to it.
No, Tina, women noticed this.
Tina said, she's got like a triangle head, completely just a cardboard box done Botox piece of slab.
It does, nothing moves, nothing.
So she cannot have compassion.
Right.
That's right.
That's the way it is.
But she's not going to win anything anyway, but she could be a candidate or something could be a foot for 2020.
Someone mentioned to me that she might be a perfect running mate for Trump, just to get a woman in there.
I think she would be, but again, this is 2020.
She'd take it.
She'd take it.
Yes, she would.
You want to do anything on Trump?
I got a few things on Trump.
I might as well do a couple things on Trump.
There's a couple things that happened.
They all look staged.
And it seems to me there was a little, you know, Trump did some tweeting about how Meghan is a bimbo.
He retweeted somebody else and said she was a bimbo and she's doing a crappy job.
And then Roger Ailes came out and said, Trump, he's gone too far.
So I want to just tell you my thinking on this.
This was part of the deal.
There's no question in my mind that this happened.
When Trump and Ailes came to a conclusion and then Kelly got irked about it and walked off the show for a week, Trump and Ayles, I believe, came back and did this deal where Trump would insult her and then Ayles would come to her rescue and condemn Trump for giving her a bad time and all would be well.
You know, I didn't pull this clip because I didn't know you would have this analysis.
I can probably find it.
This is exactly what Dan Rather said.
And Dan Rather, he's a pretty well-respected news guy.
He's been around the block.
Yeah, let me see if I can find this.
It might be worth just listening to.
Because he said exactly the same.
He said, I question this.
Hold on.
I think it's here somewhere.
Let me see.
It's funny because I knew rather was going to be on one of these shows.
I didn't hear it.
Here it comes.
But could Donald Trump or could any?
Oh, he's with Rachel.
Win the Republican nomination while also being at war with the Fox News channel specifically.
We've never really had anything like the Fox News Channel in a previous era in history.
It seems to me that I believe that there can't be a nominee without Fox's support.
I tend to agree with that.
However, Trump is raising that question anew.
Now, having said that, and keeping in mind that reporters such as myself get paid not to be cynical, never cynical, but to be skeptical, I'm a little suspicious, without very much evidence, I'm a little suspicious of this battle between Trump and Fox.
What we do know is that Trump is really smart.
As I said when he started this run, Don't underestimate him.
And Roger Ailes, whether you agree with his politics, is not another smart guy.
Whether they've gotten together and planned this out or not, it works to their mutual benefit right now.
Fox can argue, listen, we don't give sweetheart deals to every Republican candidate.
And Trump can say, I tell you I'm independent.
And when I say I'm independent, I'm really independent.
Because look at even Fox.
Well, there you go.
That's kind of similar.
There's a couple more aspects to it.
Which is, again...
This looks to me, and he didn't mention this, I think he's right, but this is a big publicity stunt to favor Meghan.
There are people that never heard of Meghan Kelly.
They never watch Fox News, let alone her show.
Good point.
She's got big numbers on Fox, but that's not the big numbers that Trump showed that they could really potentially get with the 24 million.
She gets like, what, 5 million maybe?
I think this is all in her favor.
And I think she was told this too.
Because she took off for a week.
Pissed off.
Or it could have been staged.
And then she comes back.
And then Trump comes out and slams her for coming back.
It shows better without her.
That makes people tune in.
Yeah.
Just like the Jared guy from Subway when he gets picked up for kiddie porn.
Everyone goes to Subway.
Including me.
Yes!
Yeah, you too!
And by the way, a lot of people have tried my veggie combo and they all think it's great.
Alright, let's hear the veggie combo again.
So you go in, they say, hi, welcome to Subway.
And you say, I'd like a foot-long nine-grain honey oat, untoasted pepper jack cheese, you have to say veggie, lettuce, tomato, onions, jalapeno, salt and pepper, a little bit of mayo, and honey mustard.
And you have a root beer with it.
God.
It's breakfast of champions.
It's just impossible for me to imagine eating that concoction.
It's dynamite.
Okay, so we're in agreement.
That's a good deal.
And for Trump to get...
For any aspiring presidential candidate to have an entire network be in cahoots with you, a real deal.
I mean, we all know that ABC is in...
But, you know, still, this was a business deal that these guys put together.
That is pretty impressive.
Well...
Scott Adams, the cartoonist, is apparently on this Trump thing because he...
He thinks he's going to be our next president.
Well, he's wrong, but he thinks that Trump is the most fascinating character because he's a hypnotist and a persuader.
And so his whole orientation...
I did send you a separate clip.
I don't want you to play it, but I'm going to start collecting these shaggy dog stories.
Is that an end-of-show clip, maybe, the shaggy dog stuff?
It's two, it's three minutes.
It's a shaggy dog story.
It needs to be discussed.
I think we should just collect a few of them until we have a couple, and then we can do like a special or something about them.
He starts off with...
It's all Trump all the time, everybody.
It's Easter.
Well, we're probably not going to do that.
But he starts off with a premise, and in this case, the premise was, my wife called me.
She says, what are you doing?
What are you saying?
You're getting nothing but criticism.
That's the American dream thing, where they chop it off.
Yes, and then he goes on, he starts talking, and he goes off topic, he brings this in, he brings that in, and you're still waiting for him to get to the point.
But they're all interesting little side stories, which is the way a shaggy dog works.
Although they're usually meant as humor, but he does them as rhetoric.
So let me ask you a question.
Just going back to the Fox-Trump deal, this most recent fracas introduced me to Jorge Ramos, who I'd never heard of before, but this is the guy that Trump kicked out of his news conference.
Do you think that maybe he's incredibly smart and set up a deal with Univision?
It's possible.
He said, and if you only want...
I don't know how many...
None of the networks played this.
I think I heard it on one of the...
Like on Democracy Now!
Some stationer really hates him.
He said to the guy...
I have the clip.
Want to hear the clip?
I have a clip.
I have a clip.
About the lawsuit.
Oh no, I don't have about the lawsuit.
No, tell me.
The lawsuit, he says at the end, I have all those clips too, and they're actually interesting if you hear the whole thing from beginning to end.
Because he comes back, he welcomes him back, he says, is that good to be back?
And that seemed kind of screwy.
Not everyone ran that.
They only ran pieces.
This is a problem with news.
But at the very end, he says, well, you know, I have a problem with Univision because, you know, I'm suing them for defamation, and they're worried because I'm good at this.
Do you have that clip?
I don't have the clip.
I looked for it.
I didn't find that.
I found the opening and the closure.
It does exist.
I mean, I don't...
Well, let me play what I have, just so we can set the stage for this, for people who haven't seen it.
So this is Jorge yelling...
Is it Jorge?
Is that how you pronounce his name?
Good enough.
Okay, who's next?
Yeah, please.
Excuse me, sit down.
You weren't called.
Sit down.
Sit down.
Go ahead.
No, you don't.
You haven't been called.
Go back to Univision.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
You cannot deport 11 million people.
You cannot enforce a 1900-year-old wall.
You cannot deny the city of the shares.
Get rid of him.
Yeah, this begs for a mash-up of him and Obama's no-no-no-no-no-no.
Yeah, it does.
Somebody should do that.
This could all be staged.
You know, he mentions Univision.
I don't know.
It felt possibly staged to me.
If you listen to it more than once, let's listen to mine.
I have the one...
This was done on ABC. This is Trump and Journalists on ABC. Now, ABC is definitely...
Trying to slam Clinton more than I think any of the other networks.
They really do not like Clinton for some reason.
The White House piece makes you wonder.
That is totally...
Let me do an intermezzo while we're at it.
This explains it.
There is, I think, a concerted effort against Clinton.
The White House spokeshole Josh Earnest when asked about Joe Joe Biden and the secret meeting.
Secret meeting with Elizabeth Warren.
the...
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.com.
The president has indicated his view that the decision that he made, I guess seven years ago now, to...
Add Joe Biden to the ticket as his running mate was the smartest decision that he had ever made in politics.
Yeah, no kidding, because the guy's goofball doesn't get in the way, just makes funny jokes.
And I think that should give you some sense of the...
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.
The president's view of Vice President Biden's aptitude for the top job.
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.com.
That means the president would support Vice President Biden if he were to run him.
This is obviously a better decision.
The secretary of state he chose.
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.com.
That's actually pretty funny.
The best decision was Joe Biden and the worst one was Hillary Clinton.
It's all...
You know, these questions at the White House are also all scripted.
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.com.
All talk, no commercials, no agenda.
I think all of you and your coverage of some of the president's comments about Secretary Clinton have noted how warm those comments were made in the re-election of 2012.
And so I think you could make the case that there's probably no one in American politics today who has a better understanding of exactly what is required.
Hello?
Oh no.
I think I have a bad connection.
Yeah, but it's probably me.
You're listening to NoAgendaStream.com.
All talk, no commercials, no agenda.
No, you sound good. you sound good.
Yeah.
This is why I need the booster.
I don't have the booster yet.
I just moved the position of the phone.
It'll drop down to one bar.
One bar.
Anyway, so I played the White House talking up Joe Biden.
Right, and then you said that's pretty brazen.
Yeah, that's pretty brazen because here we have the White House, I think, pretty much saying, screw Hillary.
She was a bad choice, scripted question from the journalist.
And Joe Biden was one of the best choices he ever made.
Now, does that mean there's a departure from the Democratic Party, or is this just the new normal, and Hillary is on the way out?
I think Hillary's on the way out.
I wish my prediction had come true on time, which it didn't, but there you have it.
Well, I have...
Do I have some...
There's an interesting ABC report on...
Yeah, this is Trump and journalist on ABC, is that the one?
Well, there's that, but...
I think that's just kind of a wrap of what everything's going on.
Here's the report that, as soon as I saw it, I said, ah, this is really about Hillary.
There hasn't been any news recently.
There hasn't been another update on the email scandal, which ABC has been playing up, so they didn't have anything to talk about the email scandal.
Okay.
So, to put it back in people's minds, they ran this ABC report on Carolyn Kennedy's email.
Another story developing right now.
Carolyn Kennedy facing questions.
The U.S. Ambassador to Japan criticized for using a private email for public business.
Echoes of Hillary Clinton's recent troubles and our White House correspondent John Carl here with all the details.
Hey, John.
George, this comes in an Inspector General report looking at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
The report finds that senior embassy staff, including Ambassador Kennedy, used personal email accounts to send and receive messages containing official business, including some information labeled sensitive but unclassified.
Now, sending or receiving sensitive government information with private email would appear to be a clear violation of government policy, But today, the State Department Senate has seen no indication that Ambassador Kennedy violated the rules with respect to her email.
As for Caroline Kennedy, George, there's been no response from her yet.
We'll see if that quiets the questions.
Okay, John, thanks very much.
Now, meanwhile, they did find a new email...
Account from the IRS woman, Lerner.
She had a secret email account under the name, let me see, what was the name?
It was some crazy name that she used.
Toby Miles.
And that was a personal email account that she used, which included all kinds of things that hopefully will come to light if they haven't been wiped.
So-called wiped, whatever.
Wiped?
You mean like washed off with a cloth?
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah, so it seems pretty obvious.
I think Hillary is probably just waiting.
Just waiting to get everything all set to be the kingmaker.
And waiting for Bill's unfortunate accident.
Usually when you pay those guys, they never tell you when they're going to do something.
It just happens.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
It's hard to stop it once it's in play.
We have a couple of interesting little talking about slanted news.
Actually, since we're on ABC, let me do my ABC stuff.
Does this end our Trump coverage?
It's going to.
Okay.
Here we go!
Alright, then I just want to end it properly.
Oh, I've got to make this clip mono.
It doesn't work.
Here we go!
Trump!
I've got to make that better.
I have a short Trump clip that I think could be in Evergreen.
Okay.
Play the Trump clip, D-D-D. I know exactly what this is from.
D-D-D-D-D. They have teleprompters.
Let me play the whole clip.
This is the thing I like about him most.
I got home one night, and my wife said, oh, that was such a terrible thing he said.
It was all over television.
And the problem I have with television, look, they're all live.
What do I do every night?
I'm on live television.
I'm supposed to make speeches.
How do you make the same speech?
I try and change it up.
These other guys, they go around, they make a speech in front of 21 people.
Nobody cares.
They can make the same.
They read the same speech.
They have teleprompters.
I say we should outlaw teleprompters for anybody, right?
Amen.
For anybody.
For anybody.
Running for president.
You know how easy that would be?
Instead of this, I'm working my ass off.
Instead of this, I can just stand up.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.
It's wonderful to be in Iowa.
You know, everybody's going to fall asleep in half an hour we leave.
No mistakes, no problems.
Yeah, that was the beginning of that long clip that I have on the separate email of the Shaggy Dog story.
It just goes on and on and on with one thing after another, slamming people left and right, and finally getting to the point of his wife complaining to him.
It's just a fascinating, it's like, it's just got to be the greatest guy to have a conversation with.
Mm-hmm.
So let's go with what we got here with ABC Equestria, which is the Compromise Network.
And I just want to play, because every Monday, I guarantee this will go on.
I may continue this bit for as long as it goes on.
Past your 3x3.
Every Monday on the C block, they do one or two native ads.
Ah, yes.
We love this.
Every Monday on the C-Block, ABC News, National News, you can guarantee the third segment.
The way they do it is they have, it's either an intro and an A-Block, but it's a long A-Block, really long A-Block.
Wait a minute, an A-Block is scientifically determined to be 13 minutes.
You can't be longer than an A-Block like that.
Are you kidding?
So they do the long A block, then they go to a bunch of commercials, and then they come back with a short B block, like two items.
Right.
Boom, boom.
Cut back to a long number of commercials again, a whole slew of them.
I should document the commercials and read them in order, just not the whole commercial, but who's advertising.
It's very interesting.
And then they come to the C block, and the way ABC does it, they have a...
Three stories or even two stories for the sea block.
And it's usually a short little public...
I think they talked about the polar bear and something else.
A lot of times on Monday, it's a short story followed by two native ads.
This last Monday, they only had one that would jump into the native ad fray.
Tell me if you can guess the company that may be behind this.
And by the way, the key to this, to understand if anyone else wants to do this, these are stories that nobody else does.
And a candidate tonight for America's most honest city.
It comes from the folks who make honest tea.
They conducted a test asking folks in 27 cities to put a dollar in a box in exchange for a cold drink.
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And the winner with 100% honesty, Atlanta, Georgia.
The least honest, and you cannot make this up, Washington, D.C., where people actually took money out of the box.
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You know, we should call this just what it is.
This is obviously the...
This is the Starbucks native ad format where you have a new product and then you get people to, you know, you do a phony baloney survey.
What's a real survey?
500 people or whatever you have across all your stores.
And then you have a press release and then you go, oh, everyone loves the orange spice pumpkin this year.
This is the Starbucks native ad format.
I don't think Starbucks invented it.
Well, I'm just going to call it that.
I think you can call it that because they probably do it as well as anyone.
Did you hear the Burger King thing that they did with the Peace One Day NGO? No.
So Peace One Day is a huge NGO, a non-governmental organization, so large that for some reason I could not find their 990 anywhere, at least not under Peace One Day or any derivative of it, which is disturbing.
They have Unilever.
They've got, well, obviously Burger King.
And September 21st is Peace Day.
Boy, it's going to be so restful that day.
I don't know what I'll do with myself.
And here's their fun little ad.
So, Burger King's proposing a burger war ceasefire to join forces with McDonald's on Peace Day and create the McWhopper.
That's a big burger with big ambitions.
A fair amount to swallow, right?
So here's a little how, where, and why to help you digest our proposal.
As two of the world's largest brands, we're in the perfect position to influence change.
And like BK, McDonald's is committed to leveraging its size, scope, and resources to help make the world a better place.
Peace One Day campaigns tirelessly for a better world.
But they need our help raising awareness of Peace Day.
We could rattle a bucket, but buckets aren't loud.
Proposals like McWhopper make noise.
Just ask this guy.
Hi, I'm Jeremy Gilley, founder of Peace One Day.
The thing I love about the McWhopper project is it walks the walk.
It leads by example and demonstrates a genuine commitment to Peace Day and a more peaceful and sustainable world.
Corporate activation on this scale creates mass awareness.
And awareness creates action.
And action saves lives.
We hope you get on board, McDonald's.
So do we, Jeremy.
We can't do this without them.
So we've made participation easy at one location, one day only.
We've designed a proposed pop-up restaurant, the packaging, even the staff uniforms.
All we have to do is park our differences for one day and do what we both do best.
No strings.
Together, let's blaze a trail, build the unthinkable burger, and feed the discussion.
Let's end the beef with beef.
On Peace Day, September 21st, 2015.
So this, of course, this really benefits no one.
This is a non-governmental organization that really does nothing.
All they do is take money and make little funny commercials.
But this is, you know, Burger King is one of their big sponsors.
As I said, Unilever.
Everybody's all in with these guys.
And I think it's really smart.
Because, you know, first of all, it could never happen.
You can't, you know, the logistics of getting new boxes and, you know, creating new burgers.
Forget it.
It's never going to happen.
But what can McDonald's do?
And I think we'll see whose side the toast is buttered on, depending on what stations do.
If they got a big buy from Burger King, will they propagate this?
Do they dare do that against McDonald's?
This is fascinating.
We're going to do a pop-up thing, which is, you know, the way you get around having to actually do anything in the restaurants.
Although I would suspect that if I was the guy, that British phony, and I was trying to dream something up like this, I would try to convince both McDonald's and Burger King To do this joint burger for a week or two with the proceeds from the burger or at least a percentage of the proceeds, the profits from the burger going to their operation.
I'm sure that would be fantastic.
Both the operations, probably both of them, I don't think it would be one that vetoed.
They say, we're not doing that.
And there's probably some legal aspect to it of collusion, some FTC rules.
Two different companies are supposed to be competing.
We can't be selling the exact same product.
I mean, this guy, Jeremy, he reminds me of the Coney Kid, because all he does is he makes films.
So he has award-winning documentaries.
The Coney's 2012 guy.
Yeah, exactly.
So he says, oh, we're very happy.
Day After Peace, that's his film, has been licensed for broadcast in 96 countries.
Uh-huh.
Does that mean they get it for free, or how does that work?
Probably not.
What does a license for broadcast mean?
That means he's getting paid.
People are playing it and they're paying money for it.
Are you sure?
Well, I'm not 100% sure.
But here's the sponsors.
Coca-Cola, British Airways, UST Global, McDonald's, Unilever.
Okay.
So this is...
Some public relations agency involved in this.
Well, McKinsey& Company is the right-hand guy in this.
They create the impact statement, show how groovy they are.
And these guys just break in the dough.
I thought it was an interesting approach.
Different.
Creative.
I like it.
Is the burger any good?
You're never going to see this McWhopper.
It will never happen.
A McWhopper?
No, it's not going to happen.
We could probably see a change.org petition.
That's about their style.
Well, this may also be part of a longer strategy where there is a McWhopper and it shows up.
Hey, maybe this is a hint of an acquisition.
Yeah, well, that would be a Whopper of an acquisition, that's for sure.
So, let me get back to my ABC stuff.
Yeah, sorry.
Now, I have my last...
Networks like ABC who would do native ads will also do ads that are...
Intimidating.
You do an ad.
You're getting too many ads.
It's getting on everyone's nerves that you're doing.
And now let me see if I can find this clip.
Congestion.
There's another ABC clip.
Oh yeah, here it is.
This is the cars in carbon monoxide clip.
Now let me explain what's going on from my interpretation.
If you're going to take a corrupt approach toward native advertising and run these crazy ads that we've been documenting for the last few weeks, you might also want to do some intimidation of people that should be advertising on the network.
And they're not, so maybe we should just remind them that we do have a lot of power as a news organization.
Again, a story not done by any of the other networks, which makes me suspicious, And they show logos on this ad.
I don't have it because we're, you know, radio doing audio only.
But they bang these logos out of these companies, none of them advertising on the news show.
Millions of us drive cars with keyless ignitions, and 10 of the world's largest automakers are facing a major lawsuit tonight, claiming those ignitions are to blame for more than a dozen carbon monoxide deaths.
Here's ABC's Ryan Owens.
Starting your car without having to grab your keys.
A modern convenience that a new lawsuit alleges can also put you at risk.
The lawsuit filed this morning in California says 13 deaths and numerous serious injuries have been caused from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Drivers who took their keyless fob but left their car running.
The garage filling with toxic fumes.
Mary Rivera is not part of this suit, but says she nearly died after leaving her car running.
The egotten should turn off.
I thought I turned it off, but apparently I didn't.
Today's lawsuit names 10 of the biggest car companies.
Some of their cars do have warning lights and tone so drivers know the car is still on.
But consumer advocates have long argued those warnings should be standardized.
Further, they say all cars should have emergency shutoff.
You get out of the car and you leave your little interior lights on, you go away for 15 seconds, turns them off.
Why can't you just turn the engine off and avoid these needless deaths?
Most car companies had no comment on this lawsuit, but Ford tells ABC News the keyless ignition system has proven to be safe and reliable, and Volkswagen, which said safety is a top priority.
Ryan Owens, ABC News.
Good one.
You know, if you guys had been advertising with us, we probably wouldn't have run a story like that, which is kind of like saying you're a bunch of douchebags.
But you know, we could probably feature some safety mechanism you have that maybe we just could explain better.
If you would just, you know, maybe think about it.
Just do a little buy, you know.
It's not a big deal.
I'm telling you, one of the things going on is the guys on the other side of the wall, the guys that are actually doing the news, they're just out to get you guys.
We are the only...
Yeah, we're the good guys, yeah.
Here at our digital studios, where we do native advertising.
We can protect you from these guys.
Yes.
Because if you're advertising, I guarantee, it's not like we tell them about that.
This will prove that they're...
They self-censor.
It'll prove that we have a Chinese wall between our digital division and the news division, because we can make this happen for you.
Yeah, there's a lot of pictures that you can see coming out of this.
Yeah, for sure.
But that's the way I see that story.
Oh, I'm in total agreement.
You know, I think advertising is really in some trouble.
What was I saying?
This American Life.
They went private, or they went independent, I should say.
No longer being distributed by...
Who's the big distributor?
I don't know.
It was PBS, was it?
NPR. No, no, no.
That's the broadcast partner.
No, no, but NPR is a distributor in reality.
Yes.
There's National Public Radio, which is one of them.
No, but it's a production...
Hold on a second.
What was it called?
The...
Who were they originally distributed by?
I thought they had a...
Maybe I'm wrong.
Was that a pure play?
Was that a pure...
No, they can't be.
As far as I was going to know, I mean, I don't know.
Maybe they had...
I know they were working...
Oh, no, PRI. Here you go.
PRI. Okay, Public Radio International.
That's one of the other distributors.
NPR competes with them.
Yes.
Correct.
it is a public radio organization, but they are for profit.
They're not a non-profit.
They're a media content creator who also distribute programs.
So they went independent from them.
And of course, they have the podcast, which is very popular.
Guess what they're doing?
They're soliciting donations now.
Oh.
Oh.
Well, that's the old model.
We got the idea largely from the original models that were done for public radio and public TV. They solicited donations.
That's how they got their money.
It's not a new idea.
They've just drifted away from it.
I guarantee that they will see that their big budget operation is going to need more money than they're going to get from the public.
They're going to start soliciting Ford and Volkswagen and the Ford Foundation.
Underwriters.
Advertising.
The whole slew of them.
They just, these guys are, they can't do modern, low-budget stuff.
It's not in their DNA. It's not in their DNA. It's not in their DNA. However, here on The Best Podcast in the Universe, that is exactly what our DNA consists of.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, I don't know what you've done.
Yeah.
In the morning.
And by the way, I want to mention why our DNA is that way.
It's because we really do want to avoid the corrupting influence of advertising.
It's a corrupting influence.
We bring it out all the time.
We show it constantly.
And whether it's underwriting or advertising, whatever you want to call it, it's corrupting.
And I guarantee these guys aren't going to be able to hang in there on public donations.
And just to...
They want too much.
They want too much.
And also to expand on that, this is why you see advertisers like Boeing, like Archer Daniels Midland, I don't know if they used to see Monsanto on there a lot.
When Boeing advertises on PBS... It's not because they're hoping that consumers will not take an Airbus flight.
It's not like they're promoting, oh, I only fly on Boeing these days, I don't want to fly on Airbus.
No.
It is promoting the fact that they are in control.
Because that's a big ticket item.
They've got big money flowing in.
It's kind of implied.
You don't want to do any negative stories on us, do you?
Because that would really hurt if we had to withdraw our underwriting, our sponsorship of your program.
These companies, I don't care who they are and how well-meaning they are, if you send some journalists into Boeing or any of these big operations to just dig up some dirt, there's plenty.
It's a big, giant company.
There's going to be plenty of dirt.
You hear nothing.
You never will hear anything because they bought the media.
Well, let's thank a few people that are behind us.
Starting with Sir Borislav Marinov.
From Trabuco Canyon, California.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
And for some reason he's on here twice.
There's a note?
He should be an associate executive producer.
But then we have to read his note.
Send some renter's karma my way.
If this is a repeated donation, this is because my previous donation was not counted last time.
Send some rental karma, and while you're with it, some good renters to come in.
I guess he wants good renters to come in.
Okay, we'll do that for you, Bereslaw.
You've got karma.
Happy to do it for our nights.
Ashik al...
What is this?
Musani?
Musani.
Musani.
In Muscat.
In Oman.
Oh, this is nice.
Does he have anything to say here that's interesting?
The last time my message was long in PayPal, cut it in the middle, so this time I will keep it short.
And it got cut off in SHO. Keep it show.
Keep it show, everybody.
I think he's just putting this on.
Yeah, email us otherwise.
Email us something.
We'll make good on it.
Anyway, give us some stuff that's going on in Oman.
Yeah, really.
That's fantastic.
Jason Smith and $100.
These are $100 donors.
That we're giving us the last of our $100.
This is the last time we're going to...
You can always give $100, but this is for the special $100.
Because we got...
Somebody took their money and ran off.
Although it turns out that guy ended up giving up...
Yeah, Pursani.
Yeah, Pursani.
Jason Smith, Oak Hill, Virginia.
Sir Zog in Elwood, Illinois.
100.
Or Illinois.
Brian Beck in Hubbard, Ohio.
Trevor Mudge, one of my absolute favorite names should be a private detective.
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Ties Burrell?
I'm guessing.
Ties Burrell, right?
Ties Burrell.
Ah, well, I would say Ties Burrell.
Ties Burrell.
Burrell.
Burrell.
There you go.
In Eindhoven.
Uh, Holland.
Andrei Kelka, I believe, in the Czech Republic.
Damn, this is great.
You've got a lot of internationalists today.
Yeah, lovely.
Werner Flipsen and Bergen's hook.
Bergen's hook.
That means Bergen's hook.
That's right.
Sir Werner to you.
Sir Warner, I'm sorry.
He's also in the Netherlands, and that's the last $100 guy.
Now we go to Sir Craig Kuttner in Norwalk, Connecticut, 8815.
Evan Klaassen in Lincoln, Nebraska, 7777.
He sent a long note.
I'm not going to read the whole thing.
But he says, this is the part that needs to be picked up on.
Last summer, I had the dubious honor of being called out as a douchebag by Sir Richard Leiter, Lord of the Law Library.
Oh yes, oh yes.
And for over a year now, I've lived with the guilt and shame of having a Scarlet D branded on my soul.
Today it comes to an end.
Please accept this humble sack of sevens as my contribution to the greatest podcast in the universe.
Make a note, he sent him a...
give him a...
Don't Eat Me Hillary at the end.
And Little Girl Yay, when we're done with the donations.
He also has a very funny story, which I'm going to put aside and read one of these days, about Bandcamp Girl.
Well, you know what I'd like to do is, he needs a de-douching, so we might as well just do a de-douching and a Don't Eat Me right here.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
You've been de-douched.
The Don't Eat Me Hillary is a classic.
James Green in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 7337, back and forth.
Josh McDonald, double nickels on the dime, parts unknown.
Sir Andrew Holcomb in Ann Arbor, Michigan, double nickels on the dime.
Now we have our 5280 people who are joining the Mile High Club and we're moving ahead with the website.
John, did you see the error in the newsletter?
Yeah, everybody said that he's got 5820 in the logo instead of 5280.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's okay.
It's a work in progress.
It's a pretty...
It was a newsletter.
It's going to be a pretty page.
I missed it too, by the way.
I didn't see it either.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's hard.
That's what copy editors are for.
So here's our 5280 buddies that are jumping on board with the Mile High Club.
J.C. Van Brunt in Kirkland, Washington, home of Costco.
Actually, Costco's in town next door.
Kurt Weissman or Weissman in Zionsville, Indiana.
Eric Von Martyr in Van Heys...
If you're Kurt Weissman living in Zionsville, why don't you just call it Jewberg?
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's another point we should make.
We'd both be fired if we were for anybody with these sorts of comments.
Yeah, we need to not take ourselves so seriously, people.
But we'd be fired.
In fact, there's a story.
I'm going to have to go aside.
I'm doing a little shaggy dog action.
That's okay.
ESPN suspends analyst Curt Schilling for tweet comparing the Muslims to Nazis.
Oh, can I just mention something?
The new talking point, Donald Trump is Hitler.
Have you noticed this?
Yeah, I think so.
I think we've talked about it.
Yeah, there's a...
Oh, well, hell with that.
Here, just to prove it, I've got a clip.
Mm-hmm.
Now, I'm going to preface this with, I suppose I could go to a ladies' prison and find the worst multiple serial baby killers and get one of them to say that Hillary Clinton's the girl for her.
This is Amy Goodman talking about David Duke.
Meanwhile, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has offered praise for Trump's candidacy in his immigration plan, saying he's, quote, the best of the lot.
What kind of news coverage is this?
She should be ashamed of herself.
Everywhere I'm seeing, you know, he's fascist, he's just like, you know, Hitler.
Everybody loved Hitler before he was elected, and then he was elected, and then they're like, oh boy, he's not such a nice guy anymore.
This is really, really, I mean, they're at their wit's end to invoke Godwin's law.
If that's all you have left is to say, well, Trump's clearly like Hitler.
I mean, come on!
Hitler had better hair.
Actually, there's kind of a fractal there, too.
Hitler's hair was messed up.
Well, there you have it.
But the fact that Amy Goodman would do that is just like, okay.
I mean, I have some respect for the fact that they bring in news stories that are kind of offbeat and interesting and stuff that mainstream should cover, but she is horrible as a journalist to do that.
It's horrible.
Or in peace report.
Yeah.
Hitler.
Donald Trump, Hitler!
That's all you gotta say.
Matthew...
I did get Eric Von Martyr.
Matthew Polakowski?
Polakowski, yeah.
Polakowski.
In Lakewood, Ohio.
He's in the 5280s, a mile-high club.
He's almost living it.
And he doesn't call him out, but he says, to my brother Brian, it's time to donate.
That's not quite a douchebag call-out, because he didn't ask for it, but it's implied.
Ned Jeffrey in Doral, New South Wales, in Australia.
Thomas Key in Kansas City, Missouri.
Sir Zog, our buddy in Elwood, Illinois.
Mark Carter in Marino Valley, California, 5280.
And he does have a call-out, if you can read it.
All right, douchebag call-out to Jake Morrison.
Douchebag!
From one emergency RN to the other.
I hit him in the mouth a few months ago.
Awesome work, gentlemen.
And so that's why he calls him out as a douchebag.
He's doing it, not us.
Pista Haidu in Vorendal.
Vorendal.
Vorendal.
You're not even trying, are you?
You're not even saying it the same way twice.
I am.
Vorendal.
Vorendal.
There you go.
Perfect.
Nailed it.
Good to go.
He's also going to be a knight, I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There you have it.
Let's see.
Well, let me read his note.
In the morning, John and Adam, thank you for providing me with the best possible food for thought these last eight years or so.
He's an old-timer.
They've been more illuminating to me than the 37 before, and it's all thanks to the BPITU, which still gets me amazed, pissed off, and cracked up on a regular basis.
I noticed that with this mile-high donation, I also passed my 1K mark, and I thus wish to be known henceforth as Sir Ishtuan the Terrible.
Sir Ishtuan the Terrible.
It will be my honor to keep hitting people in the mouth until my sword goes blunt and my head numb.
I like that.
Thank you for your courage.
Keep up the great work.
You are truly the guardians of reality.
Yours truly, Pista Hajd.
Pista.
Sir Ishtuan.
P.S. Please give me a comment to the Airstream and the I Love Laundry Tour.
P.P.S. My name is Hungarian, just so you know.
No.
Okay.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
Let me make sure he's on the list with it.
Go ahead and continue.
Mark Akulin in Veedens.
Give me this one.
We got a lot of Dutch today.
Did you get some nasty article about you in the Dutch papers?
I mean, we have so many Hollanders.
This is Mark Kohler from Weidenes.
Mark Kohler from Weidenes.
That one I'm never getting.
I think it's because it's Christina's birthday today, and that gets around, and people think of me, and then they see tweets of the Airstream, and I tweeted this studio inside.
It definitely makes a difference.
It does, and we appreciate it.
Michael, what is it?
I can't even read this one.
Saucenin?
Saucenin.
Saucenin.
Have you still not fixed your monitor?
In Suwannee, Georgia.
How hard can it be?
Well, there's a number of elements involved here.
The variables change things.
Dame Beth Borazon, Baronetis in Baja, Arizona.
Chris Vaughn in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sir Sam Leung in Toronto, Canada.
Sir Swiss Senna in Switzerland.
Wouldn't it be Black Knight him?
It's Black Knight or Swiss Center, huh?
Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which you should go visit and say hi to him.
Thomas Schiffner in Kent, Washington.
Sir Brad Bauer in Chicago, Illinois.
Uwe Husman in Kohlberner, Germany.
I don't even...
Kohlberner?
Kohl...
Oh, I know why the Dutch are there.
Listen to this.
Here's a news article.
I guess this is big news.
Adam Curry is going to have his ex, Mickey, deported.
Wow!
You should have her deported sooner!
According to an insider.
Oh, this is fantastic!
Adam is going to have her deported.
So for that, we're getting more donations?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm deporting to bitch.
More donations.
Really?
Huh.
I'll have to look into this.
Yeah, look into that.
That has to come from someone.
They didn't dream it up.
No, they say it's from an insider.
Well, who could be the insider?
There has to be Patricia making it up.
I'm looking at you, Patricia.
Are you the insider?
Hey, whatever it is, thanks.
It could be your daughter.
No.
No, no, no, no.
It's not her.
They may pay her.
You don't know that they're not paying her?
No.
Oh.
Well, I have to look at this.
Yeah, look into it.
That's great.
You gotta do more stuff like that.
I didn't do anything!
Now I have Uwe Hussmann.
I'm sorry.
I'm still cracking up over this.
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Kolber Noor.
Yeah, okay.
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You're not even listening.
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Thank yous I'm giving.
I can multitask.
Oh, it's Patricia.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, it's her.
Ah, my first guess.
Why don't you say this?
Because you're not having her deported.
No.
Well, it got her on the front page.
Hello?
Do you have a picture of Mickey on the front page?
Front page.
It says, here it is.
It says...
Pie reveals all.
It is.
Yeah.
Well, it's in Dutch.
I have to translate on the fly if you want me to do that.
Okay, let me see.
It has too much preamble.
I'll figure it out.
I'll figure it out.
On Sunday.
Sunday I will do a reading.
It's a big article.
It's like the center spread.
Do they mention no agenda?
Oh, man.
You know, I got to talk to her about that.
I don't care.
Just mention no agenda, will you, baby?
She's not listening to this show.
Of course not.
Of course not.
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And there's a red book that came out, John.
Red Book prediction.
Did you not predict that we would have some kid eating weed with a legalization of weed?
Yeah, of course.
I think that's in the book, isn't it?
Yeah, when it first happened.
I mean, it happened already.
I mean, it's not like, yeah, it was in the book and then like within no time it happened.
No, it was edibles, but not actual weed.
Just raw weed.
This is new.
No, the raw weed is new.
Oh, it's not a good thing to eat, by the way.
Yeah, but you know what?
You won't get high.
Probably not.
No, definitely not.
The THC isn't activated until it's been heated.
Yeah.
So they're all freaking out about this kid that found some weed and ate it and they rushed him to the hospital.
He was pale, hyperactive, high temperature.
Really?
Make it up as you go along, people.
They're totally making it up.
Hyperactive.
That's some shitty weed.
Yeah, no shit.
I wouldn't recommend having that weed if it makes you hyperactive.
Uh-uh.
Let's see.
We have a little bit of F-Russia.
Oh, I wanted to ask you about...
I got an F-Russia one, too.
Go on.
Okay, let's do F-Russia.
First of all, we have NATO now starting the largest airborne training exercise since the Cold War.
And they're doing this in Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, and Germany.
Well, worse than that is this clip.
F-22 is in Europe.
Oh, yes.
I think I've heard about this.
Here we go.
Air Force officials say the United States will soon deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe, a move that military analysts see as a signal to Russia amidst growing tensions between the two countries.
The F-22 fighter jet is considered the most sophisticated plane in the world.
The announcement comes after the Pentagon said in June it was set to store heavy weaponry, including tanks, in Eastern Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
Wait a minute.
Isn't this F-22 the thing that doesn't fly?
No, no, no.
You're thinking of the 32?
I think it's the 32?
No, the F-22 is that stealth.
Yeah, the raptor?
It flies.
I thought, what is the joint strike fighter?
That's the 32, I think.
Just look it up.
Joint strike fighter.
Let's get the number.
That doesn't sound right.
I thought the 22 was the...
No, no, no, no, no.
The 22 is our fabulous stealth fighter.
Hmm.
Oh, it's F-35.
F-35.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
F-35.
I even got to make sense.
Gotcha.
Yeah, this is pushing.
Meanwhile, foreign ministers...
This is a provocation.
Yeah.
Well, it snowed in.
Well, here's what Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
The United States has been sending signals it wants to start mending ties with Moscow.
Why would he say that if we're provoking...
I don't know.
That's very strange.
What's going on there?
Yeah, it's a Reuters report.
But if we receive a proposal to start, even gradually, restoring these channels, mechanisms for dialogue and cooperation that have been frozen by American partners, I am sure we will agree to restore these channels.
So that's kind of like an olive branch based upon something someone said to him, I can only presume.
I would have to guess the same thing.
That complicates matters.
Someone should take a stand.
No.
Say no.
No, we're not going to do that.
I had a very interesting thing.
I do have another Russian story if you want to play it.
This was on RT and I cut a lot of it out because they had a lot of music and they had this couple getting married and they showed them looking at each other's eyes.
There was a lot of fluff.
But I saw this story on RT and I said, oh man, this is like a perfect network news story.
It's so offbeat.
And this is the Chernobyl marriage.
Today, Chernobyl is an extreme tourism destination, but perhaps not the most romantic.
One American photographer and filmmaker, however, doesn't quite see it like that.
Philip Grossman has spent the last five years working on his documentary all about Chernobyl.
He's visited the site many times.
He says getting married there is something he will cherish forever.
It was all my wife's idea.
She never wanted to have a big wedding.
One of her friends had mentioned that you should do a destination wedding so that not a lot of people will show up.
And she thought for a second and she turned to me and says, we should do it in Chernobyl.
And then when we finally got to Chernobyl, the head priest would not allow us to do it because neither of us were Russian Orthodox.
Fortunately for us, another priest volunteered to perform the ceremony for us.
It was a very intimate, small ceremony.
It was beautiful.
And then we did some stuff for the camera as well so that our parents could see what we did.
Hey, hold on a second.
Chernobyl is not in Russia.
No, it's in Ukraine.
So why did it have to be Russian Orthodox?
Oh, that church, this beautiful little church that's still intact in Chernobyl, even though the paint's chipping off and it looks, you know, it's falling apart, but it's gorgeous.
They showed a bunch of overheads of it.
It's a Russian Orthodox church.
And I guess the guy still, there's some priest that runs it, and he's like, I can't do it.
But then some other guy did it.
What is the point of this story?
I'm just thinking this is the kind of lame story that's kind of interesting, and kind of a personal interest thing, that the networks would normally pick up on, but no.
We're not doing anything that's got anything to do with anything that's got anything to do with Russia, or anything kind of cute like this, and then sort of RT did it.
I've been...
I just found it to be, like, if I was the news guy in one of the stations, I would have packaged this up in a nice little two-minute piece.
Yeah, and that's why we're doing a podcast, because we know what's going on.
Okay, a couple things regarding the caliphate that we need to at least highlight and discuss.
We have the Wes Clark 7.
We've been waiting.
Looks like Lebanon is finally on deck.
We have NGOs all kicking up stories about Beirut.
We have US-funded and equipped security forces knocking protesters' teeth out.
I think Lebanon is ready for some regime change.
Meanwhile, what's going on in Turkey is, and these are complicated things for us to understand, but it really appears that Erdogan does have this whole, you know, caliphate mindset.
Yeah, he's all in.
And, you know, from everything I read, Erdogan is ISIS.
I mean, these guys are funding ISIS.
They've got the whole corridor open for ISIS.
They're working to sell the so-called stolen oil.
No one is calling them on this.
Something has got to happen.
I guess he's going to try elections.
And I really don't understand enough of how the Turkish government system works.
But they're up to no good.
And I don't understand why...
First of all, why there's just not more decent reporting on it.
Even Joe Biden said back in the day that Turkey was funding ISIS. Or whatever it is.
ISIL... Yeah.
Islamic State.
Yeah.
And then, what was it?
There was a couple of shows ago.
They had a cool clip.
Yeah, I'm looking.
I had something, too.
Of course, they killed the guy who was the protector of the...
What's the name of that place?
The ruins.
The sacred ruins.
We're tearing down all the sacred ruins.
Can I play one?
No, you can't.
Because I'm leading into something, you see.
Okay, well hurry up.
Really?
Well, you just...
But what?
Go!
Well, I wanted you to listen to this, because I don't understand why Kirby spoke so far for the State Department when he did this eulogy for this guy who was so fantastic and tried to stop...
ISIS from blowing up these ruins.
I don't understand why he did the following.
ISIS's damage and looting of historic sites in Syria and Iraq, which have been preserved for millennia, have not only destroyed irreplaceable evidence of ancient life in society, but have also helped fund its reign of terror inside those countries.
As we respond to the brutality and suffering ISIL inflicts on the Syrian and Iraqi people, we continue to urge all parties in both countries and in the international community To deprive ISIL of this funding stream by rejecting the trafficking and sale of looted artifacts.
Now, why does he say ISIL twice where he starts off saying ISIL? Is this new, this ISIL? Well, ISIL is ISIL. I know, but he's never said ISIL. All of a sudden he starts saying ISIL. I have no idea now that you mention that.
So you haven't picked up on this anywhere else?
No, I have not noticed that they're trying to make this change.
I-S-I-L. There's got to be some branding thing.
We have another branding underway.
Change the brand.
It's the only thing I can think of.
What else would it be?
I-S-I-L. I-S-I-L. Because it's ISIL. They say ISIL. ISIS ISIL. Not I-S-I-S. So they have I-S, ISIL, ISIS, Dash, and now I-S-I-L. So there's now five.
Anybody in Marcom...
I love that.
Marcom.
Everybody in Marcom knows that you need to have the brand be consistent.
There's some modern thinking that says no to that.
But I don't think they're doing it.
I don't know what it is.
I have no idea.
It's crazy.
I tell you, I do have a theory about the...
Blowing up ruins.
Okay.
Well, play my blowing up ruins clip so we can catch up to this.
Very much overseas now to Syria.
Last night we told you about those priceless ruins, 2,000 years old, destroyed by ISIS. And tonight, what appears to be proof, ISIS posting new images, this Roman temple rigged with explosives, ancient columns leveled.
ABC's Alex Marquardt reports tonight from Syria.
The temple that stood for 2,000 years.
Tonight, a pile of rubble.
Here, chilling new images of what ISIS claims are its fighters, placing barrels filled with explosives around the temple of Baal Shemin, wiring bombs to its pillars.
In an instant, this archaeological treasure in the ancient city of Palmyra erased.
Earlier this month in Damascus, we were shown a Palmyran tomb by the man in charge of rescuing Syria's historic artifacts, devastated by the rampant destruction.
A site that until now was protected by an 82-year-old archaeologist, reportedly accused by ISIS of refusing to give up hidden antiquities before he was beheaded just last week.
ISIS has looted and sold what they can, often destroying what they can't, calling it sacrilegious.
The UN calls the temple's destruction a war crime, and it certainly won't be the last.
Alex Marquardt, ABC News, Damascus.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to rub a lice!
So when you take the basic no agenda thesis, which is the idea is to completely flatten the Middle East and rebuild it, and possibly even poison the oil wells, but that's another offshoot of the basic thesis, which is to Platten it and then rebuild it with our big giant construction companies.
What is one of the real irritating aspects to building what you want to build?
Oh, if you have a protected sacred site, then you can't just get rid of it.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah, good work, everybody.
So we must be...
These guys do it.
Okay, because why are they stopping their war, their battle, their takeover to rig this old...
It's not even in the way of anything current.
But why are they leveling it?
There's no reason to do that unless you're going to build over it.
I'm going to give you that one, John.
Because you couldn't get the permits to do that in a normal circumstance.
I give you a slow clap.
It's totally spot on.
And I always love it how people are like, oh, what a tragedy.
What a travesty.
It's a bunch of old crappy-ass pillars and rocks.
It's in the way.
It's in the way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's Erdogan, by the way.
Those guys.
Yeah.
Those guys.
He likes to tear shit down.
He was trying to remember that so they got that big protest because he's trying to remove a park or something that the people liked.
That's what these guys do.
Particularly Erdogan.
Yeah, I think you may be onto something with this Air to One thing.
I do.
Here's the clip I was looking for while you were talking about Turkey.
This is, again, Amy Goodman.
And I want you to see if you can find a very interesting new fact.
You've never heard this before anyplace else, ever.
But this is a new fact we should take into account.
Play the Turkey Airbases kicker.
Okay.
You know what I should probably do?
Uh...
Well, no, I won't do it because I can't find it.
Here we go.
The Pentagon says the U.S. and Turkey have finalized details of a plan to include Turkey in the U.S.-led coalition battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
Turkey entered the fight against ISIL last month, opening up an air base in the United States and beginning airstrikes against alleged militants in Syria.
Okay, let me listen to it again because I didn't hear anything in there.
I've got information, man.
New shit has come to life.
The Pentagon says the U.S. and Turkey have finalized details of a plan to include Turkey in the U.S.-led coalition battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
Turkey entered the fight against ISIL last month, opening up an air base in the United States and beginning airstrikes against alleged militants in Syria.
A lot of alleged, but I don't think I caught where you were.
Opening up an air base in the United States?
Oh, is that what she said?
Yeah!
Oh my God, my ears are full of parsley!
The Pentagon says the U.S. and Turkey have finalized details of a plan to include Turkey in the U.S.-led coalition battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
Turkey entered the fight against ISIL last month, opening up an air base in the United States and beginning airstrikes against alleged militants in Syria.
Good catch!
I'm surprised you didn't hear it, because I think you're still reading your own reviews.
No, I'm not.
Somebody produces the show, believe it or not, but there are things that take place here that you have no idea are taking place.
Alright, well let's stick with some caliphate news.
Now...
This is, in fact, the producer who alerted me to this even sent me a link to the No Agenda player, so we'd smoke our own dope for a moment.
This is a repeat, a repeat story that we've heard before and discussed in April on episode 710.
It is almost exactly the same.
And here we go.
Because of her age, we can't identify her.
But in court today, this 16-year-old from Manchester pleaded guilty to terror offenses.
She'd used computers at her school to search for information about the so-called Islamic State, about the man known as Jihadi John, and for pictures of one of the extremists who murdered the soldier, Lee Rigby.
Her arrest was made by the same police officers who'd discovered plans for a terror attack at an Anzac Day parade in Australia.
Involved in that plot was a 14-year-old boy in Blackburn.
From his bedroom, he'd encouraged the murder of police officers at Remembrance Commemorations in Melbourne.
Police there made a series of arrests before the attacks could happen.
and here detectives discovered the boy was also in contact with a 16 year old girl in manchester she wasn't part of the anzac plot but they'd sent more than 2 000 messages a day to each other on her blackberry mobile detectives found the anarchist cookbook which is a guide to making bombs a document called a bomb in the kitchen of your mom and in a sketchbook seized by police they found a viable recipe for explosives okay so
Oh...
Pretty much anyone who listens to this show and searches along with the topics can go to jail now.
I have all these documents.
I have the Anarchist Cookbook.
I have the Inspire magazine, which includes the How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.
I have the Unabomber's Manifesto.
Come and lock me up.
Yeah, pretty much.
And this is just the beginning.
How can that be illegal?
It's not.
Well, it is in the UK, apparently.
Well, the UK is like somebody, one of the politicians in the UK said, our situation here in the UK is worse than 1984.
Yeah.
Oh, until they have the cages they put on your head with a rat inside of it.
It really is.
Okay.
Yeah, so just finalizing on this, if they're blowing up the last bits where we want to rebuild, because maybe it could be a fantastic resort area, maybe?
Yeah, absolutely.
There's no doubt about that.
Now, one of the things when I was thinking about this, that they're blowing these things up to...
Clear the way, is the point.
For one thing, all these are terrible.
They're a sin.
They even exist, and they blow them up.
Because they're not a sin to exist.
It's all nonsense.
And meanwhile, they've been selling off what they can sell off to the collectors.
Right.
If they can find a collector who'll buy something, they can't obviously sell some of this stuff, and they just blow it up.
And I think they've been blowing stuff up.
On and off, all along the way.
I think they've just blown up everything they can.
I think they started slowly to see if there's going to be any real outrage that would result in anything.
And all we've been getting is, oh, that's too bad, it's a shame.
And so they said, well, let's go now.
Let's take some of the big stuff out that we definitely have to get rid of because we can't build a hotel anywhere near this.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm sure they're leaving some really cool stuff up.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff.
But to me, John, this means we're nearing the end.
Yeah, because they're starting to clear the way.
Yeah.
In the Western world, first you get your permits.
That takes 10 years.
You do all that stuff.
And then once you're ready to go, the first thing you do is you bulldoze.
You raise everything.
You bulldoze it.
So this is the raising stage.
So they must be close to pulling the trigger on all of this stuff to start building.
But there's also this guy...
We have a czar for this?
Hold on, let me find him.
We have a...
Is it the ISIS czar?
Come on, what's the guy's name?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Yes, I have it right here.
Hold on a second.
It is...
And also, Erdogan's son...
Has all these contracts to sell the Iraqi oil.
He set up this BMZ LTD company.
We talked about him before doing this.
Yeah, I can't remember.
General John R. Allen.
He is the czar, the ISIS czar.
Who got the no-fly zone.
Is he still there?
Yeah.
He thought Allen was caught up in the scandal.
Is it the same one?
John R. Allen?
The Petraeus scandal.
I'm sure it is.
Well, he's the czar.
They call him the U.S. diplomatic envoy coordinating the coalition against the Islamic State.
Wait a minute.
Do me a favor.
So this guy's no longer...
In the service, right?
Well, now you're going to have to make us go to the book of knowledge.
You know, I think this actually warrants a trip to the tree of knowledge.
the tree of knowledge.
Let's see what this guy is up to.
He must be working for...
He's retired.
He retired from the Marine Corps.
Right.
He got that much.
Wikipedia, let's go.
Retired U.S. Marine Corps, four-star general, past deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, prior to...
So he's back in government.
He has double dipping.
Okay.
But he didn't go outside for a little bit and to...
Looks like he went on the 13th of 2014.
He went right as Special Presidential Envoy.
In and out.
I mean, out and in.
So he didn't go in any...
He's not working for any consultancy firm or anything like that?
Can't find it.
Can't find it.
Hmm.
Hmm.
This is interesting.
He has a Master of Science degree in National Security.
This is interesting.
He got an MS somehow in National Security Strategy from the National War College.
That's odd.
That's bullcrap.
He just wanted a degree.
Now I'm seeing looking, looking, looking, looking, looking, looking, looking.
I don't see it either.
I don't see it outside of the government.
Hmm.
He must have some ties to some firm that is getting ready to do this.
Like BKR or one of these guys.
There is no evidence that he did anything outside of government.
Okay.
Just a few wrap-up bits here.
First of all, on military-industrial complex while we're in that...
The bill, the DOJ is seeking a, well has a contract for cyber training for the army.
And that contract will be $850 million for cyber training.
That's not really implementing anything, just for training.
I read a lot of blogs about federal IT funding.
It's really fascinating to see the kinds of things that they're looking at.
And what they're talking about now...
For the new workers, the new government workers, in order to retain and to attract new millennials to stay and to enter the federal workforce, do you know what the big thinking is now in Washington, D.C.? They're going to hire that bald computer professor who makes all those CDs for free and use him to attract the young ones.
No.
They say that they're going to create workplaces and meeting rooms with minority report-like monitors.
Apparently...
The thinking is that the Millennials want to have at least six screens, that they really get off on it.
Who come in with this idea?
Anyone watch the Millennials?
Do you use laptops?
I mean, here it is.
This is coming from these federal guys.
One of the Navy's commands recently purchased the mezzanine room.
And he recalled the commander saying, we have a heck of a time getting people to come to work for the Navy, and if they're there, we have a tough time keeping them because we're just laden with these old processes and stovepipe systems.
But the commander saw the ability to be able to offer modernized tools that would actually attract younger people to come into service, and they want minority report-like interfaces and monitors and cool screens to work on.
Brother.
Hey man, don't shoot the messenger, okay?
I mean, come on.
There it is.
How about working under a structure that's not a bunch of douchebags that think that way?
That would help.
That might be useful.
Alright, let's get this wrapped.
I just wanted to get the North and South Korea story, which nobody played.
By the way, all three networks, I tried to find this story, couldn't find it anywhere.
Nobody wants to talk about this.
This is the North and South Korea.
Apparently they've calmed themselves.
They're not yelling at each other anymore.
And here you go.
North and South Korea have reached an agreement to defuse the rising tensions between the two countries following an exchange of artillery fire and threats of increased military action last week.
South Korean leaders agreed early Tuesday morning to shut off a loudspeaker that's been broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda near the border while North Korea indirectly acknowledged responsibility for planting landmines that recently killed two South Korean soldiers.
The South Korean director of national security announced the agreement.
North Korea expressed regret over a recent landmine incident in the south side of the demilitarized zone along the military demarcation line that wounded the South soldiers.
South Korea agreed to haul anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along the MDL from 12 o'clock local time on August 25th.
North Korea agreed to end the quasi-state of war.
Good.
Yeah.
Good story.
Straightens it out.
Nobody knows this.
And we have a couple of producers in South Korea.
The demilitarized zone, isn't that just a no-man's land, or is it supposed to have no militarization?
Is that the full concept?
It's kind of a no-man's land.
What happened apparently is that the North Koreans had planted some mines and then a couple of South Korean guys were in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone, and then they stepped on a mine and they blew their legs off.
And that's when they put up the giant voice system again, the big speakers, to yell at North Korea and then it went back and forth.
Right.
That's probably as good as any explanation unless you want to bring it to Star Trek as the neutral zone.
All right.
And with that, we will work a little bit on the technology here.
Try and get it better.
Wrap while we can.
Yeah.
Well, it's...
You know what?
This is why we do this.
It's to make sure everything...
Well, you know what?
Screw it.
It's what it is.
I mean, it happens to the big boys, too.
Sometimes.
Doesn't it?
Well, you have to do a remote in some far-off place, of course.
Yeah.
We certainly hope you'll join us again on Sunday if you're listening live.
I'm sorry?
Hello?
Don't tell me I lost you already.
No.
Now I don't know if I lost you or not.
It was just cutting out.
All right.
We will return on Sunday.
Maybe do a little more.
See if we can do some more testing and make this work.
Coming to you from McKinney Falls State Park here near the capital of the Drone Star State in Austin, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And with a particularly long leg, I'm betting at this point in the broadcast, I'm John C. Dvorak.