Once again, for your Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode 761.
This is no agenda.
Back from the first leg of the I Love Long Retour, diving headfirst into Antebellum 2.0 and broadcasting live from FEMA Region 6 in Austin, Tejas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where if there's smoke, there's fire, I'm John C. DeBoer.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
Yeah, baby.
So I print something out from the wiki.
Now, this normally prints fine, but for some unknown reason, this document...
Wait, from our wiki or just some...
No, the wiki.
The wikipedia.
What is the...
Oh, just a general document.
I printed out some document, and for some reason, and I can't figure out why, I swear to God, this is like two-point type.
Okay.
It's just like two-point type.
I mean, it's useless.
I'm sorry for you.
Yeah, well, then I can't use this material.
Oh, well.
Because you can't read it at all?
No, it's like two-point type.
I don't need a huge magnifying glass.
Well, no.
Take your forefinger and your thumb and put it on the piece of paper and then try to zoom it.
Yeah, let me try that.
It doesn't do anything.
Hey, man, I got to tell you, that drive from Lubbock, that kind of took the wind out of me yesterday.
How many miles?
It's about, it's a little under 400 miles.
In one shot?
Yeah.
You took a 400 mile drive in one shot?
Yeah, I wanted to get home before, you know, on Wednesday.
You got home on Wednesday?
That was yesterday, yeah.
Well, it's like driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
It's a little fatigued.
Yeah, because it's seven hours, eight hours, seven and a half, eight hours.
Yeah, it's a long haul.
Yeah.
You need some pro vigil.
Yeah, instead I had McDonald's.
You know that McDonald's breakfast?
You're trying to make me sick.
Okay, here we go.
So you leave Lubbock.
And I said, okay, I'm going to leave at 7 a.m.
because I did not want to hit Austin traffic on the way down south to Buda to drop off the Airstream of Consciousness.
Because they closed at 6 o'clock and you can get stuck in north to south Austin traffic and I-35 for an hour and a half easily.
So I leave at 7.
That's the rush hour?
It's kind of like the 4.05.
Is it always that way?
Is it all day or do you have a window?
You have a window between 1 and 2.30, 12.30 and 2.30, I'd say.
It's a good window.
And maybe 11 a.m.
to 11.17 or something like that.
And I'm like, okay, I'm going to go.
And Lubbock, the KOA there, the Campground of America, is on the north side.
So you drive around the city or town, whatever you want to call it, to the south side.
And I'm thinking, okay, remember, this is where I ran out of gas the first time, getting from Austin to Lubbock.
So I'm not going to let this happen.
But I get up and I take off.
I hadn't unhitched the trailer or anything.
Just like, up landing gear and we go.
And I'm like, okay, there'll be a gas station somewhere.
And I've got a quarter tank.
I've got an eighth of a tank.
I'm like, really?
Really?
I'm going to have to get that jerry can out of the back.
No, it was not great.
And then finally I see one.
Ah, yes, good.
There's a lot of gas.
At least three times during the trip where I was kind of like, I really want to get some gas now because I don't know how many more miles the next one will be.
Where I've pulled off to what looks like a gas station.
And then you pull up and then not until you get out and you see the tufts of grass growing that you realize it's closed.
There's a lot of closed gas stations.
Which is just like ghost town things.
Yeah, that's weird.
I think you should be able to do something cool with them, because they have an interesting structure, you know.
Yes, they do.
You know, I thought maybe hookers.
I think the old, old...
Hooker stations.
It's a dry...
Yeah, hooker station.
Pull in.
We've got another one here.
Can you move over to the right?
We'll just drive it over there.
Park it over there.
Number three.
Insert your credit card.
And you know, when is anyone...
And she'll come in the trailer.
That's what she said.
No.
No, that's extra.
She'll enter the trailer.
So I, you know, with all this, now they're hyping the chip and sign and, oh, everyone has to get this new credit card, which we've discussed ad nauseum.
It's all bullshit at this point.
Chip and sign.
But you think, for all the different places I went and got gasoline, at a certain point, the pump, which, you know, has some intelligence, you know, it's dialing into something and sending information back, or maybe has zero intelligence, but has communication capabilities.
How about, hey Adam, good to see ya.
This would be Internet of Things in my mind.
Hey Adam, good to see ya.
You still on the tour?
I've already pre-selected 91 Octane for you.
Ready to go?
Just pull it out.
And of course I'll give you your receipt.
And no, you don't want a car wash.
I already know this.
At what point?
What's going on there?
Hang on.
Uh-oh.
Someone has activated the code.
The nuclear launch code.
You okay?
Is that a smoke alarm?
No, it's hard to explain.
What the hell?
I don't even want to know.
But you know, that would be Internet of Things to me.
At what point does the ATM go, Hi Adam!
Yeah, hey, good to see you!
I know exactly what you want.
You want $100 in cash, and you don't want any other questions, you don't want upsells, and of course you're going to pay for the extra $3 to take your own money out.
At what point does that intelligence reach us?
That would just be so...
That would make me feel warm and fuzzy.
Do you actually expect all these promises to have anything to do with reality?
No, but I think I'm pointing out the obvious that it's bullcrap, because if they really wanted to enhance our lives, there's these little small things you could do.
Every single time.
Just in taking your money.
I know, but do it with a smile.
If you're going to rear-end me, just make me laugh.
Let me feel good about it.
Well, I don't know about it.
You seem to be like some sort of an alien.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess that's it.
Anyway, I got home.
Okay, so you got your gas.
You got home safely.
Yeah, but it was a tiring drive.
Did you get stuck in the 305 or whatever?
No, the 35.
No, no.
It was still slow at 130 coming through.
How many trailers do you see when you're on the road?
Well, of course, what happens is getting a 10-speed bike.
You see Airstreams everywhere.
But, you know, the Keeper and I, I wrote it down.
Hold on, hold on.
When you go, when you're coming, you can see an Airstream coming, right?
Yeah.
Because they're very distinctive.
Yeah, you flash your lights.
You guys give each other the high side.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Waving, flashing lights.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, you know, we came up with, you know, we were in the car for hours on end, and we have lots to talk about, but we also came up with a new variant on the license plate game.
Now, for those of you not in the United States, I think everyone probably grew up, you maybe even more than I did, John, but when you went on a long trip with your family, you try and collect license plates from all 50 states.
We used to go from a drive once a year from the Bay Area.
We used to take the train and then all of a sudden we started driving after they put the big roads in from the Bay Area to Chicago.
Right.
That's quite a trip.
Yeah.
So, you know, you try to collect license plates.
We came up with something else, because outside of the airstream, and of course, you know, I have the airstream of consciousness, you pretty much have all these formaldehyde, you know, overblown, pregnant-looking FEMA trailers, which are, and I want to get back to this, about the trailers on the road, and all of them have names.
But not just a net.
It's like a big, like a huge logo with tattoo-like graphics.
Here they are.
The most prevalent one, the one you see the most these days, the Raptor.
People ride around with a trailer with Raptor.
What do you got in there?
Like a.50 caliber machine gun?
Surveyor.
The Prowler.
Cougar.
Cheyenne.
Wolverine.
Columbus.
You know, now that you mention this, I haven't been paying attention to this, but this is probably pretty funny.
It's hilarious when you see what these things look like, like the Raptor.
You have the Raptor Plus, and it has a whole section at the back that opens up and it poops like toys out of its ass.
You know, like four-wheel, off-road things, and jet skis.
Let's see, we have Saber, Whitehawk, Redwood, Pioneer.
Quest, Q-W-E-S-T, Durango, and of course, the Sly Cyclone.
Q-W-E-S-T, like the phone company?
Yes, Quest.
Somebody doesn't know how to spell Quest, they think that's how you spell it?
Oh, it's better.
Then there's the Comfort with a K. Really?
That's expected.
You should just do C-U-M-fert, Comfort.
That's my trailer, the Comfort.
You'd get pulled over.
I have to tell you that the Airstream is without a doubt the top of the line travel trailer you can acquire.
I am so disappointed in the craftsmanship of this.
Now that I've really had 4,000 miles in a lot of time, there's all these little things.
Stuff isn't completely centered.
There's laminate that is coming.
Made in America.
Yes, laminate that's coming undone.
And then they build this beautiful shell, this beautiful design.
And then, I guess, to make it affordable, quote-unquote, yeah, it'll be mine in 15 years.
They have these...
They put in stock...
Travel trailer items like the fans.
So you have a beautiful trailer and there's a hole in the roof with a plastic piece of shit fan.
So I was thinking, there's got to be a market for a travel trailer that is real.
I mean, the Airstream is beautiful and the aluminum, but it's not like the aluminum won't leak.
It's not like it doesn't have imperfections and all kinds of issues and it dents easily.
And there's a million things.
Why doesn't someone come up with a carbon fiber, kick-ass, beautifully designed, build most of the cabinetry right into the carbon fiber shell, and make it light?
The Aerosmith's 5,000 pounds.
Yeah, I mean, no wonder you see these Ford F-150 pulling a Raptor.
There's a FEMA trailer.
I mean, you fart, and a hole appears in the side of it.
It's stupid.
There's really nothing that is...
Really good.
And certainly not with a gay-ass name.
Prowler.
Come on.
It's an opportunity.
It's a Kickstarter.
Play your little clip.
Oh, okay.
I'll deal with that.
There's an opportunity here, John, for the Courage of Warack trailer group.
What do you call it?
A Kickstarter.
A Kickstarter.
Yeah.
What do you think it would cost to have a, I mean, what is the tool and die for a carbon fiber?
A couple billion.
Yeah.
But think of how fantastic that would be.
Well, here's my thinking.
If you want to, if you're serious, of course you're not.
Well, I had a lot of time to think about it.
Yeah, yeah.
The road for seven hours.
Yeah, a lot of time.
There's going to be, and there probably is, a couple of operations that are going belly up.
Yeah, maybe.
I disagree.
I think this is a growth market.
You know, the tiny house industry, the whole idea.
And this is why I think it will work.
People will be like, yeah.
Well, there's still going to be somebody going belly up because they don't.
But remember, John, you're not building a trailer.
You're building a second home or a first home, which by law, let me finish.
Let me just finish this one point.
It could be a booming industry, but people got a business in the computer business.
I'm just going to, because it's commoditized.
I'm just saying one little point.
That you can finance this as if it's a house, with your mortgage deductible, etc.
And if you really, this is why I got one, you know, yeah, I love the laundry tour, but if all goes to shit, on my social security, I should be able to just eke by with the trailer payments and the payment for a spot in the RV park, and then, you know, some...
Did you get my little note about what I think it should be addressed then?
I did, and I am taking that very seriously.
Good.
Well, you might want to explain to everybody since it was your idea.
Well, one of the things that always got my attention some years ago was at the Architectural Book Supply Company.
There's a company in Berkeley.
Just hanging out, picking up chicks?
No, this bookstore, which is in Berkeley on 4th Street, they unfortunately shrunk recently, but this bookstore...
It has the most fascinating books.
It's mostly for architects, but there's all kinds of crazy books.
And so you can go in there and start going through these books.
It's like, wow, this is interesting.
And one of the books, there's two books that I'll mention.
I've always had a fascination with, and everyone who knows me knows this, with Quonset Huts.
Now, a Quonset hut, I was confused, because when I first saw the email Quonset hut, I was thinking more of a yurt, but a Quonset hut is something completely different.
It's kind of militaristic looking.
I kind of like it.
It's a military product, and there's different versions of it.
They're bigger and smaller, and there's some of them butted together.
There's all kinds of them.
But it's made out of corrugated metal, and it tends to be very simple to put up.
You can put one up in less than 24 hours if you have enough people.
Anyway, the Quonset hut has always been a fascinating structure because it's very safe and it's hard to blow over.
Yeah, it's like a bomb shelter, only it won't stop a bomb.
It won't stop a bomb, but it'll stop it.
It'll stay on the ground if a storm goes up.
Yeah, a storm or earthquake.
This thing is going nowhere.
Great product.
And some are big.
Now, that I would combine, which I have a Quonset Hut book.
I'm fascinated with Quonset.
Could you send me the link for that?
I want to put that out.
Yeah.
Quonset Hut book.
The thing that got my attention in the architectural supply store was this book about houses in houses.
Mm-hmm.
Apparently this is a trend.
And this has a lot to do with the little house movement, which is the dumbest thing ever.
Well, it's formerly Agenda 21, Agenda 2030.
And the channels I got on the over-the-air HD digital TV, they have this program which continuously shows two things.
People living in little houses and tree huts.
Huh.
The Little House, there was a show on HGTV or one of these stations that just about Little House.
That's probably what it was, yeah.
And people go, oh, I'm going to have to...
Why do you want to live in a Little House?
Cost!
No, these people already had money.
They just wanted to cut down on their clutter.
Okay, well, I want it for cost.
Well, cost is fine, but a little how you can buy a cottage.
It used to be common in the United States.
A starter home used to be like a one-bedroom or a small two-bedroom.
A log cabin, yeah.
Small.
Well, not a lot.
I'm talking about tracked homes.
And there used to be a lot of...
Now they're all big.
If you're going to buy a tracked home today, it's got to be like four bedrooms, three baths, five bedrooms, four baths, two stories.
It's got to have an attached garage.
It's got to be a monster.
John, I figured it out.
But let me finish.
So this is why I came up with this idea for you.
There's this house within a house book and it showed houses inside of large structures.
So instead of building your house outside in the rain and the storm...
Yeah, you build it in a Quonset hut.
It makes total sense.
Or you can build it in a giant warehouse, but you put your house in there and then you can have your gardens and some grow lights and you never get rained on.
Grow lights.
Nice.
Now you're talking.
You can do that too.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I think it's a grand idea.
And these land, because I was looking at a plot of land, land with an existing Quonset hut means they probably have electricity and water, too.
And then you're set.
And then I think you're right.
Then you roll the airstream right in there.
And I have what you called in your email a compound, which is exactly what the press will call it when I'm shot by FBI agents.
He was living in his crackpot compound.
Yeah, you have the whole area with barbed wire all around.
Do not enter, you know, with all this kind of crazy stuff.
Girls suck, with the R backwards, and the Z, girls suck.
Boys rule.
I think you're on to something, and I will go looking for a...
I'm sure there are plots of land with Quonset huts in Austin.
There's got to be.
We're a little south of Austin.
Wherever Google Fiber goes.
Maybe have a sewage hookup already, and maybe power already.
Yeah.
Oh, I made a big mistake in Albuquerque.
Again, these rides, five, six hours, and I arrive, and they say, okay, here's your thing, and the people are all...
I only stayed at KOAs because they have little guys on golf carts that guide you to your spot, and it's beautiful.
It's perfect, and it really doesn't cost that much, like maybe $10 over some other guy's backyard.
Have you looked at Good Neighbor Sam or whatever?
It's all a member of the same club, the Good Sam Club and KOA. They're all the same.
They're under the same organization.
They said, okay, the...
I thought she said blue...
The blue thing is for your sewer.
I don't know.
Before I leave the next day, I just uncover what the blue thing...
And I jam the...
Wow, it doesn't really fit very well.
Whatever.
The well.
Yeah, it was.
I swear to God.
I contaminated the well.
Yes.
I closed that up and I went, whoops!
I took off.
If there's an outbreak of distantry in Albuquerque, it's my fault.
Anyway, I got home.
These connections, by the way, if they don't fit, you're putting in the wrong thing.
They're all standardized.
If it don't fit, don't force it.
I know.
But I was tired, John.
I'm tired.
It was a good trip.
I can't wait to do the West Coast tour.
That'll be next.
Probably after Christmas.
And we'll go, you know, start from...
I don't know, where should we start?
Down at the bottom?
You should start at the bottom and work your way up.
What's the bottom?
The bottom is along the...
Shouldn't I hit Nevada and just get Vegas?
Well, maybe.
I might as well.
I'm going to go along the Mexican border.
Yep.
And then you bounce around there and you come up through Arizona and then you go to Vegas.
That's fine.
Yeah.
And all the way up to...
I'm going to go all the way up to Drink Your Wine with Mimi.
Okay.
And then maybe, maybe, maybe on to Canada.
I don't know.
No, not at this time of year.
Hey, and I really want to thank Angela Castaneda.
She should be an honorary dame, I was thinking.
Well?
Yeah, is that okay with you?
Because she really, you know, she's a donor, but she really put in the work, and she's a professional.
All right, well, if she put in all that work and she's a pro, you might as well do it.
Do it today.
I think so.
Okay, I'll do it.
She really, really did a kick-ass job on the website.
I fell down a bit on the blogging just because I got too tired.
I just, like, I can't, I can't do it anymore.
You're not a blogger.
I am, but no, you're right, I'm not.
I'm not a blogger.
But I like writing a story, and then, you know, the thing, write another one, fuck, I can't do it.
But I tweeted tons of pictures and stuff, and it was good.
It was nice meeting everybody.
And I learned a lot.
And one of the best things is with this Verizon MiFi, which has...
And I will say, interestingly enough, the iPhone 6, which a lot of people are complaining about this feature...
That it has iOS 9, whatever, has Wi-Fi assist.
So if your Wi-Fi is shaky, then it will add to it your data connection, your cellular data connection.
Now, a lot of people say, oh, if you don't have a full data plan, it's going to bankrupt you.
But for me, where I was pretty much connected to Wi-Fi in car, which was the Verizon Wi-Fi, whenever that got sketchy, then immediately the Wi-Fi assist would kick in.
So I really never lost connectivity entirely, except for the one time in West Texas when you sent me the newsletter.
You texted me, and you said, yeah, I can't get to it.
I was just not getting it.
But...
I listened to all five hours live of the C-SPAN Senate hearing on Planned Parenthood.
I saw you had a couple clips.
I have maybe a bit more of a package because I listened to the whole thing.
Did you watch this whole thing?
No, I avoided it.
I knew you'd watch it because you liked that woman.
I really like Cecile Richards.
I think she's kick-ass, stand-up.
If I had a big company, I'd want her running it.
Hell yeah.
Now, I think there's problems.
You want to get into this?
Because to me, it was quite fascinating.
And I figured out what this is really about.
And it's not really about abortion.
Yeah, of course.
It's, you know...
There's always people who will continuously be, you know, will have a problem with any form of abortion, regardless of timeline.
I personally am like, you know, 90 days, you know, about the time when you go in, you get the echo, and you see, you know, your kid has a heartbeat and has fingers, and you can see pretty much, if you're lucky, like with me, they could see immediately I was a boy, obviously.
Come on.
Yeah, come on.
Come on.
Please give me a bell.
It's the best you can do.
Yeah, thank you.
Sam was just jaw dropped.
That's not what we've heard.
Really?
This doesn't sound right.
This doesn't sound right.
You know, like, that would kind of be the cutoff.
And, you know, I think, you know, this, like...
Oh, that's okay.
Now, what do you think this is about?
Well, I'm going to tell you.
First of all, from all of this, and I was able to listen to the reporting, because I have all of this on SiriusXM.
I'm very pleased with that feature that I have.
Also, there's a POTUS channel, which you can listen to the live press briefings from the spokesholes.
Kicking around, it was okay, and I just had to remember stuff so that I came back and I would find the video online and go get a hold of it.
So this was run by Shaffetz.
He started off with this whole thing about, you know, my mom died of cancer and we need to put more money into cancer research.
And he was already setting the stage for this had nothing to do with Planned Parenthood, only with, you know, what he thinks is important.
He was like, boo!
My mom died of cancer.
Yes, so did mine, asshole.
Go move on.
Whatever.
So here's the important thing.
The videos, in this five hour, the videos were not displayed or discussed.
And I didn't find anywhere in the mainstream anyone explaining exactly why that didn't happen.
And the videos are important.
As here is Representative Jordan.
And you can stop this whenever we're tired of it.
You'll recall after the first video came out that Cecile Richards issued an apology.
And we played it on the show.
And she was, I'm sorry for statements, I'm sorry for the, what was it she called?
I did see this part of the event.
Yeah, so here's Jordan asking, you know, if these videos are all doctored, and they're all, you know, which continues to be the meme, the heavily edited, doctored, disingenuous, not true, even though all the raw material is available, I've seen it, I corroborate, What's her face?
Botox head.
Carly.
Carly Fiorina.
What she says is true.
I've seen it.
Botox head.
Botox head.
So here's Jordan.
Miss Richards, if the videos were selectively edited, heavily edited, if this was entrapment, if this was all untrue, then why'd you apologize?
Well, Congressman, first, I think everyone has agreed they were heavily edited.
No.
You know, what's interesting with her, she's very good and she needs work in one area.
Whenever she's flustered, whenever she has to lie, pretty much, which happens or has to figure out a way to bend the truth, like here, is she starts to stammer and she falls so out of character that She shouldn't lie, then.
This is a good point.
My question is, why did you apologize?
The perpetrator has agreed they were done undercover.
Notice, perpetrator.
Like, this guy's been convicted.
Nice word.
Nice word, yeah.
And she had her lawyers right next to her, so they were whispering in her ear the whole time, which is good.
He was a perpetrator, that'll swear.
Perpetrator.
I spoke with Dr.
Nukatola, who was featured in one of the videos.
And I thought it was important, in my opinion, it was inappropriate to have a clinical discussion in a non-confidential, non-clinical setting.
What were you apologizing for?
Oops.
That she used, I think, in my judgment, it was bad judgment to have a clinical discussion in a non-clinical setting.
I mean, the first video comes out July 14th.
Two days later, you go and issue an apology.
And you said this, it's unacceptable.
I personally apologize for the tone and statement.
No, no, here's the question.
Which statements were you apologizing for?
It was really the situation that she was in, and I believe that...
But, Ms.
Richard, that's not what you said.
You said, I apologize for statements.
I'd like to know, I think the American people like to know, which statements...
Do you want to hear more of this, or do you get the idea?
No, you might as well play a little bit more.
It's actually funny, because he badgers her.
Oh, yeah, and she just gets more flustered.
...video...
Were you apologizing for?
Were you apologizing for statements that were untrue?
Because you normally don't do that in life.
If something's untrue and false, you don't apologize for that.
You correct the record.
But that's not what you said.
You said, I personally apologize for the tone and statements.
And I'm asking you a simple question.
There was only one video at the time you issued this statement.
When you did your video, there was only one video.
I want to know, in that video that you were referencing, which statements were you apologizing for?
Congressman, at the time, as you, I'm sure, remember, that video was released.
We'd had no time to actually evaluate how much editing had happened.
Well, then you shouldn't have done that.
It was days later that we were...
Which true statement in that video were you apologizing for, Ms.
Ridley?
I was reflecting that on that video...
I am done with her.
You get the idea.
I'll let these go longer than you.
There's another three minutes.
People can listen to it.
The clip is in the show notes.
Okay.
So then Shaffetz, now I'm going back to the beginning, Shaffetz explains why we will not be seeing and thus not really able to discuss the videos.
Videos.
Let me just explain that.
I know I've gone over time, but we're going to have to address it one way or the other, so let me address it.
I can always put that thing at the end if you want.
The full video, the full bite of her going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I think it was legitimate to look at all of the videos.
All of the videos.
So we issued a subpoena to get all of the videos.
Now in California there's a court case where there is a temporary restraining order that doesn't allow the producers of these videos to release them publicly.
So we actually sent a letter asking for the videos.
Democrats, I think the record reflect, didn't want us to ask for the videos.
They wanted to take that language out.
Nevertheless, we moved forward and actually went to the extraordinary step of subpoenaing.
Something I think that actually both sides of the aisle should support.
Yeah, I don't want to subpoena anything.
Did he say subpoenaing?
Something like that.
They're subpoenaing.
...should support.
If you want the totality of the record, let's send a subpoena for all the videos.
Now, with a temporary restraining order in place, there's conflict between the legislative branch and the judicial branch.
And so what we're seeing here is they, on one hand, have a restraining order, can't send the videos.
On the other, they have a duly issued subpoena from the United States Congress.
That is going to have to work itself out.
There you go.
And I can only presume that it was Demetroats who said, oh no, we can't have these videos, and they put some kind of lock on it with the court.
So that, to me, says, you know, this would have been a perfect opportunity for them to show how, because you have the source material, and you have the...
Show how heavily edited it was.
Show how heavily edited it was.
You know what they could have called in the Curry-Dvorak editing group?
Then we would have testified.
We would have testified.
It was heavily edited.
That's right.
How much you pay in the show?
Yeah, it was heavily edited.
Very heavily edited.
So Shaffetz rolls out his reasoning behind this, which I think is disingenuous.
And this part I really hope we do have a deeper discussion about.
We may not learn everything that we need to, but over the past five years, more than $22 million has been transferred from their 501c3 To 501c4 organizations as well as PACs.
Now this is interesting.
And this is what I found as well looking at the 990s for Planned Parenthood.
And indeed, they're able to take money which was either funds raised by themselves or they really don't get all that much in cash from Congress.
The majority of the money at $450 million is Medicaid reimbursements.
Yeah, which really shouldn't count in the argument.
No, I agree.
So maybe it's $90 million that is given to them directly.
It's a pittance.
Yeah, they're good at fundraising.
They fundraise another $150 million, $175 million themselves.
But they do take money and just hand it over to a lobbying nonprofit and say, here you go.
This is advocacy.
It's lobbying.
It's get out the vote.
And in one case, in Alaska, it was about redistricting.
Ladies and gentlemen, that has absolutely nothing to do with providing health care to young women who need a breast exam.
Now, I have thoughts about this, because in our own way, we see some of this ourselves.
When people say, well, it's a non-profit, so every dime should be going towards the non-profit.
Every single dime.
If there's any kind of money that's being used for something else, it's a rip-off and it's a scam.
And I want to get back to that.
Or need to get a mammogram.
None of that money goes to that.
It's a political activity.
I was...
I guess naive but surprised that you could take 501c3 money and simply give it to the 501c4.
Shared employees.
If you look at Planned Parenthood and the other organizations underneath it, you're going to find shared employees, shared facilities, mailing lists, shared assets.
It's a political organization.
And that's something that needs to be ferreted out.
So that was, you know, he's setting it up, and later in this five-hour shit show, Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, he really lays it out, and I think he has a good point here, is what the true issue is with Congress, and I'm talking, you know, representatives and Senate, and organizations like Planned Parenthood.
So let's just be honest here.
This is what this is really all about.
Plain and simple.
Money in politics.
Here's how it works.
Politicians give money to Planned Parenthood who give it back to politicians at election time who get elected and give it back to Planned Parenthood who give it back to politicians who get elected and the game plays on.
In 2012, in that election cycle, Planned Parenthood spent almost $12 million in advertising.
In fact, $11,874,052, 100% of that went to Democrats.
Every penny, every single penny went to Democrats.
No wonder they're defending this repulsive game.
Yeah, and no wonder that the Republicans are out there excoriating them because this is meaningful money when it comes to re-election campaigns.
And what politicians pretty much always do is they're always looking to get funded for their re-election campaign.
Now, this is no different, although you won't hear this conversation, this is no different from the military-industrial complex, where Raytheon gives money to senators, or you can say, if you want to say, the NRA or any, but the military-industrial complex or the pharmaceutical industry, the NRA or any, but the military-industrial complex or the pharmaceutical industry, Yes, but they give money to both parties.
I know that's why this one is being highlighted because the mistake They're only giving money to Democrats.
Yes, yes, thank you.
The mistake Planned Parenthood made, the only mistake in the scale of bad actors and scam artists in general, is to do that.
Now, the argument that was made and what Schaff has brought back consistently, which I have thoughts about, is, you know, this, oh, well, you spend money on lobbying, it's not going towards health care.
You're doing this, it's not going towards health care.
Well, how about your salary, bitch?
Planned Parenthood is an organization with massive salaries.
Ms.
Richards makes nearly $600,000 a year.
The person that runs the affiliate in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota makes roughly $450,000 a year.
And I could be here for a long time listing out some fairly exorbitant salaries.
This is also an organization that seems to have exorbitant travel expenses.
2013, they spent more than $5 million in travel, first class tickets, private chartered aircraft.
Roughly, they're spending $14,000 a day on travel.
And wait for it?
That's money that isn't going to women's healthcare.
Oh, please.
In 2012 and 2013...
Spent roughly $600,000 on blowout parties, chocolate champagne events, and salt and pepper came and performed a concert.
Push it!
Push it real good!
All kinds of celebrities and other hoopla.
These are things they lost money doing, according to their tax record.
We're partying, bitches!
The past three years, they've spent more than $67 million on fundraising.
They're pretty good at it.
Alright, so you get the idea.
But I want to, and I'll admit fully that Tina the Keeper turned me on to this guy Dan Pallotta.
And this is one of the few times I'll ever plug a TED Talk, but it's in the show notes.
It's very good.
And what he says is we're thinking about Non-profits the wrong way.
Because, you know, and this came up later, and even what's the grouse, the shithead guy, Cummings, that guy, you know, he's talking about how, you know, big salaries for bankers, no one complains, but, you know, a big salary for a non-profit, everyone's losing their shit.
And I'm not going to play...
Your cursing rate is over the top.
Sorry.
It's the road.
It's actually global warming.
Cummings is an idiot.
Yeah.
But, I think it's true that if we really looked at what...
You can take a dollar and give it to charity.
You can invest a dollar and make it $10, and then you have more that give to charity.
Now, if you have the type of talent you need in all areas of business, except the business is not for profit and it helps people, I'm okay, really, with huge salaries.
I really don't mind, because I think it...
Ultimately, it does deliver more for the cause.
The problem is, we had this here in Austin with Seton.
I think it was the Seton Foundation for the Working Poor.
And it's a church, faith-based, I should say.
I mean, they had great salaries.
Everyone's, you know, living it up.
But there was a lot of waste and people were partying and it was bullshit.
And so they had, you know, you got to shake it up.
And I think Planned Parenthood needs to go through the same thing.
They certainly need to rebrand.
We need to get off the Planned Parenthood.
And how about, here's just a small idea.
Spin out the so-called 1% of what you do.
Because that's, no, I can't find any proof of that.
But they say that only 1% of the services they provide is legal abortion.
Only 1%.
But even if it's 5%, why not take that, spin it off into a separate charity, and then have everyone focus on that shit all day long and make sure they're adhering to the rules and not selling off baby parts and whatever, and then rebrand it into women's health care abortion. and then rebrand it into women's health care abortion.
You know, something much better than Planned Parenthood.
Shake it up.
Get rid of all the crap.
Remove this...
Baby choppers.
Yeah, baby choppers.
That would be for the new org.
Babychop.org.
And shuffle it up and maybe Richards has to go.
And get over yourself with this, you know, if you are doing good, then you have to be poor.
I disagree.
I don't think it makes sense.
I think...
Well, I think you're on to a couple of good ideas, which will never be implemented.
Well, of course not.
I live in a trailer, John.
What are you talking about?
I wonder if they were actually a little more bipartisan with their donations.
Probably would have never heard any problem.
If that would actually make the Republicans less inclined to be anti-abortion.
You know, it could very well be.
If you hand them some money...
The whole thing could be just about the money.
But that is the mistake they made.
That is truly...
And it's sad, but the travesty is the mistake they made is they didn't give some of the kickbacks to Republicans.
That's the problem.
Because they don't really...
I don't really think they care all that much about the abortion side.
Now, just to wind this package up from my side...
The way PBS concatenated or deceptively edited this five-hour session into this report was mind-blowing.
Mind-blowing to me.
For the first time, the head of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, faced her Republican critics in Congress today.
They have attacked the group after clandestine videos showed officials discussing how fetal tissue is used for research.
I love the clandestine videos.
Very good.
Today, Congressman Jim Jordan...
Hold on a second.
They never discussed how it was used for research.
Did they?
Did they discuss how?
Not how.
No, you're correct.
Not how, but it was for research.
Not how, but for research.
But not how.
Correct.
Okay, well that's an error.
Correct.
It gets worse.
After clandestine videos showed officials discussing how fetal tissue is used for research.
Today, Congressman Jim Jordan...
It's pretty much a lie now that I listen to that.
Because that's not what the videos were.
The videos were about payment and other things.
Pricing.
Pricing.
Procedures.
Research.
Today, Congressman Jim Jordan and others sparred with Richard over stripping the group of its federal funding.
The nice thing about these videos is it's lifted the curtain.
We can now see what's going on there.
And that's why we should fund the government and shift the money from this organization to organizations who didn't do this kind of behavior.
The outrageous accusations leveled against Planned Parenthood based on heavily doctored videos are offensive and categorically untrue.
I realize, though, that the facts have never gotten in the way of these campaigns to block women from health care they need and deserve.
Republicans also accused Planned Parenthood of spending millions of dollars on political activities.
Richard said the group keeps federal funds strictly segregated from its political arm.
So they just took a statement and reported it as true.
It's shameful from PBS. It's a lie.
They have shared databases.
It'd be like sharing the database, sharing employees, sharing office space.
This is terrible.
This is unacceptable.
Yes.
Completely unacceptable.
Now, there's two other kicker clips which are not from the session.
Have you ever heard of the Benham Brothers?
Yes.
No, never heard of the Benham.
Are they dancers?
Well, they could be.
B-E-N-H-A-M. Look out for these guys.
Apparently, they had some kind of reality-based show.
I forget what they do.
They make something stupid.
They have a business.
Hold on.
What was it again?
Benham Brothers.
They have a HGTV show.
And it was supposed to be about...
Oh, those two guys.
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about now?
They're the twins.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, they're twins.
Yes.
So, these guys all of a sudden are on the scene, and I think they're getting traction.
And be careful, because these are good-looking, wholesome American guys.
They talk about the Lord every five seconds, which gets a little boring.
But listen to this, you know, they were at some rally.
So, I wanted to ask you, what do you think the greatest threat to religious liberty is right now in the United States of America?
Well, the first thing that we're saying is we don't believe that there's a threat to religious liberty.
We think there's a threat to Christian liberty.
Because all other religions seem to be fine right now in America.
You know, we've even got elementary schools starting to teach Islamic prayers.
But Christian prayers, and how dare you have a Christian Bible in the schools?
There's a direct assault on Christianity in America.
They were at a rally against Planned Parenthood.
This is a big meme, and these guys are pushing it.
And they don't have a TV show yet.
They're funded somehow.
Be on the lookout for these guys.
I'm just pointing that out.
Bill Nye.
Bill Nye, the MF science guy.
The Missouri guy.
And I recorded this clip myself.
We can stop it whenever you want.
Now, Bill Nye...
You know me.
Yeah, exactly.
Bill Nye is, above all, he's a clown.
He dresses like a clown.
It's his image.
The difference between him and that guy who sold, had the question marks all over his suit.
The Riddler.
No, the guy who sold...
Oh, that guy!
Oh, the government's got all this money there that you should get it!
Oh, who is that guy?
Oh, man, we've talked about the question mark guy.
Yeah, but doesn't he sell...
Didn't he sell books or something?
Yeah, he sells a book.
Matthew Lesko.
Lesko.
The guy in the question mark suit.
Yeah, he's...
That may be the same guy, actually.
His head is kind of the same.
I can't...
All right, okay.
Go.
So, and he is a...
He's a scientist.
He's a self-proclaimed scientist because he has a degree in electrical engineering.
Correct?
Correct.
Lesko?
No.
Oh, Nye.
So he's an electrical engineer.
He's an engineer, not a scientist, by the way.
It's a big difference.
Thank you.
So for some reason, he now, of course not for some reason, the president calls him in when it's about climate change, and he gets to tell everyone how stupid they are.
He gets paid to do commencement speeches at colleges.
And now he's going to tell us about abortion.
And I'm so happy to finally understand, if you can understand it, But I will give you a whole dollar.
He is trying to explain to us when life begins.
Because that is the fundamental argument.
Does life begin when the sperm and the egg can make the beginnings of a new human being?
Can I pre-ask a question?
Please, gladly.
I think the when life begins thing is kind of interesting because is that assuming that the egg is dead?
You know, it gets even better than that when you listen to Bill Nye, the science guy, explaining this conundrum.
And if you could make heads or tails of it, you're better than I am.
Many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans.
Eggs get fertilized, and by that I mean sperm...
You get accepted by ova a lot.
But that's not all you need.
You have to attach to the uterine wall, the inside of a womb.
Of a woman.
Of her vag.
Come on, say it.
A woman's womb.
But if you're going to hold that as a standard, that is to say, if you're going to say, when an egg is fertilized, it's therefore has the same rights as an individual.
Then whom are you going to sue?
Whom are you going to imprison?
Every woman who's had a fertilized egg.
I know.
I'm already what?
Just listen to what he's trying to explain.
I could not make heads or tails.
I know what he's trying to say.
Ask through her.
Every guy whose sperm has fertilized an egg and then it didn't become a human.
Have all these people failed you?
It's just a reflection of it.
I guess what he's saying is...
If you don't fertilize the egg, then you're guilty of homicide because you let a potential baby die.
Well, I guess you can make that argument.
On my leg.
You should throw all women in jail.
He hates women.
No, guys as well.
I think he's saying guys as well.
It's like, oh, you dropped some.
You thief.
You criminalized.
It's therefore has the same rights as an individual.
Then who are you going to sue?
Whom are you going to sue?
Okay, you're going to stop it.
No, you have to listen to a little bit more.
You told me I could stop it whenever I wanted.
Well, you can't after 39 seconds.
You've got to give it at least a minute.
Come on.
Every woman who's had a fertilized egg pass through her.
Every guy whose sperm has fertilized an egg and then it didn't become a human.
Have all these people failed you?
It's just a reflection of a deep scientific lack of understanding.
You have a deep scientific lack of understanding.
Aha!
And you literally...
Who's he talking to?
To us.
Listen.
Just stop talking over him.
It gets crazy.
You said I could stop it whenever I wanted.
Well, I take it back.
And you literally or apparently literally don't know what you're talking about.
Apparently, literally, don't know literally what you're apparently talking about.
And so when it comes to women's rights with respect to their reproduction, I think you should leave it to women.
It's a radical new idea.
But notice, I'm not the first guy to observe this.
Why is he laughing?
You have a lot of men of European descent.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
I think it's a racist thing.
I think that's very racist.
You have a lot of men of European descent.
Does that mean Jews?
This is a Jew thing?
Now I want to hear some more.
Thank you.
I knew I could get you.
No, no, no.
I still reject your notion.
But notice, I'm not the first guy to observe this.
You have a lot of men of European descent passing these extraordinary laws based on Ignorance.
Sorry, you guys.
I know it was written, or your interpretation of a book written 5,000 years ago.
What does that mean?
If you're from European descent, then I guess that means you're religious.
He's referring to the Bible.
The Jewish Bible in particular, 5,000 years ago.
Askenazi Jews.
So he's saying the Jews are to blame.
Crazy Jews.
Crazy Jews.
He's an anti-Semite.
That's really quite not okay.
I think not.
50 centuries ago.
Makes you think that when a man and a woman have sexual intercourse, they always have a baby.
That's wrong.
And so to pass laws...
So apparently, Jews of Askenazi, of European descent, have some belief that when you're having sex, it's only for reproduction.
That's what he's saying.
This guy is a kook!
Based on that belief, it's inconsistent with nature.
I mean...
Did he just say it's okay to be...
So inconsistent with nature means we've got to go around and spread our sperm.
He is now advocating adultery.
It's hard not to get frustrated with this, everybody.
Everybody.
And I know...
I don't know what he's talking about, though.
He doesn't either.
Is he advocating sex for babies?
So you have sex only for babies?
Or is he advocating...
What he's trying to do is he's trying to prove...
I don't know what he's talking about.
I agree with you.
And I don't want to hear any more.
Okay.
It is all your fault, Jews!
I don't believe you said that.
No?
You don't think so?
I just think he's an idiot.
Okay.
Let's get back to Shaffetz.
All right.
While Shaffetz was doing this, he was also doing an investigation of the Secret Service.
Oh, I'm glad you caught this.
I had no idea.
And so they decided, because Chaffetz is making trouble in two arenas.
One, he's shaking up the money tree, as you would have it, with the Planned Parenthood discussions.
And then the other one is he's investigating these guys chasing hookers and some of the other scandals.
He wants to get to the bottom of it.
So...
The Democrats in particular, the Democrats decide to go after him.
And you can play here, Chaffetz, more details.
The assistant director of the Secret Service wrote in a March email to a colleague, some information that Chaffetz might find embarrassing needs to get out just to be fair.
The report also found employees accessed Chaffetz's old job application only 18 minutes after the start of a March congressional hearing he was leading about the latest Secret Service scandal.
His unsuccessful application was then reported a few days later in the Daily Beast.
It's a bit scary.
If they would do this to me, I shudder to think what they might be doing to other people.
Okay, I wonder what they have.
They got pictures, man.
They got pictures.
He apparently had applied for a job with the Secret Service and was rejected.
So the implication is that he's angry.
Right.
And he probably should take himself off the chairmanship for that particular one case.
He's vengeful.
He's as full of vengeance.
And I think that this is, but this was all, I think, a scheme to just get to this guy in any way they could.
I don't know if there was anything in his application that was, because they brought it up, and the Daily Beast just says, they had a big headline, oh, the chef, it's conflict of interest.
Although they were obviously right in the straight track.
I mean, the guy decides to go into looking at his records, they give it right to the Daily Beast, you know, mouthpieces for the Democrat Party.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
And they got this Shaffetz over here making trouble with the Planned Parenthood woman, so let's try to embarrass him.
And it didn't work.
In fact, the story didn't work to such an extent you didn't even know about the story.
No, no.
Look, after the last show we did, and a lot of people asked me for this clip somehow, it's crazy for them to understand that clips you play are under a heading called JCD Clips.
Gee.
Um...
But the exposure that this VW gate was already well known a year ago in the media, it just shows how all of this really works.
Nothing's a scandal until it's intended to be a scandal, and it's positioned that way in the mainstream.
And some people just don't, you know, you can have a great idea, but you need a lot of the push and a lot of the connections to make something happen.
That's like this...
I think we discussed it briefly.
It's been in the show notes for the past three weeks.
Which is what?
This group of scientists who have filed a complaint saying they would like global climate change warming denialists to be charged and jailed under the RICO Act.
How did I miss this?
Well, you know what?
In the car, on channel 127, Progressive, on SiriusXM, which is my new favorite channel to listen to, filled with hate, I might add.
Oh yeah, I've heard this station.
It's just hate.
These Republican a-holes.
They hate Christians, they hate churchgoers, they hate Republicans, they really hate Libertarians, by the way.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
It is the most bigoted channel I've ever heard.
It truly is.
You know, you can disagree, but they hate and just, you know, they're baby killer.
They say babies to kill them.
They're warmongers.
They, you know, they're crazy nutjobs, wing, right wing, everything, every name under the sun.
But who is also on this channel with this radio show is a good friend of yours.
Thom Hartman.
Oh yeah, he'd be on there.
And Thom dove into this typical moron.
Here he is explaining how the RICO Act would work in this case.
You will recall back in 1999...
When the tobacco industry was telling us, don't worry, doesn't cause cancer, not addictive, there's no there there.
The federal government commenced a prosecution under the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO. It was a RICO action.
It was filed in 1999.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse right now is suggesting that this should be done again, only in this case, not into the tobacco companies.
He says, in 1999, the Justice Department filed a civil RICO lawsuit against the major tobacco companies, alleging that the companies engaged in and executed and contribute to engaging and execute a massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public, including consumers of cigarettes, in violation of RICO.
Twenty scientists now have signed a paper saying, quote, I think that's 97%, actually, of all scientists.
We strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse's call for a RICO investigation of climate deniers.
The methods of these organizations are quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco industry.
A RICO investigation played an important role in stopping the tobacco industry from continuing to deceive the American people about the dangers of smoking.
So, and I'll have to give an A credit for that.
The creative...
For creativity in general.
It's a funny idea to do this.
And so Tham gets some guy from...
Tham must be a real proponent of freedom of speech, right?
Well, this comes up.
This comes up as he talks to a global...
You know, a guy who's...
I forget what it is.
It's unimportant.
Some organization who was obviously trying to debunk global warming, and I'm sure he's being paid.
To the handsome tune, his organization gets like a million dollars.
Millions of dollars.
No, I'm sorry, but billions come in from the National Institute of Health and other grants if you're going to prove that global warming is real.
So anyway, he gets this guy out.
Paul Driesen, Senior Policy Analyst with Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
CFACT, C-F-A-C-T.org.
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, very nice.
The website, a climate change denying website is on the line with us.
Paul, why should you not be in jail?
I mean that as a serious question.
I'm serious.
Why shouldn't you be in jail, douche?
He actually means it as a serious question.
He does, he does, he does!
You're taking money to deceive the public in a way that's killing people.
You and your cronies, I'm looking at your IRS form here, and it says that last year you guys took in $1,977,332.
The year before that is $5,501,222.
Presumably for the purpose of promoting the interests of the fossil fuel industry, which is heavily subsidized, a tune of over $5 trillion worldwide.
I want to say something.
We need to debunk this again.
This heavily subsidized, now worldwide I can't speak to, but in the United States, there is a tax break that has been around for a long time.
It's called the Oil Depletion Allowance.
Is that the one we're talking about?
The one I'm talking about is if you produce something in America, if you produce or transit something in America, then you get certain tax breaks for that.
The real big numbers are the oil depletion allowances.
Explain oil depletion.
You have invested.
It's like an inventory.
You buy something.
It's just like any business.
You have a fixed, say a bunch of Caterpillar tractors.
And over time, they become worth less and less and less, and then they're worthless.
Right.
You're writing them down.
That is reflected in the way you handle your taxes.
You get to write stuff down.
So they get to write down their inventory.
Yeah.
Okay, but Apple gets to do it too.
Everybody gets to do it.
Exactly.
The oil companies are getting no special treatment.
It's what you would call a specious argument.
Yes.
Okay.
So it's bullshit.
Heavily subsidized, a tune of over $5 trillion worldwide, maintaining those subsidies and trashing renewable power.
It's not a subsidy.
It's not a subsidy, indeed.
People who do that should be in jail.
And he means it.
Be in jail, you.
Well, that's a nice sentiment.
So why should you not be in jail?
The federal government to silence debate and First Amendment freedom of speech.
I am talking about racketeering-influenced organized crime.
Sir, I am calling you a criminal.
Are you not going to respond to that?
So the guy's a criminal.
Well, there's grounds for a libel right there.
Yes!
I think the guy should sue Hartman right there, right on the spot.
I hope he doesn't.
I'd hate to lose Thawm.
I think he should be...
He's the one who should be in jail.
Well, here's the final bit from this...
He's libeled to the guy.
Oh, yeah.
From this conversation.
Slandered, in this case.
Now, we've discussed the German Energiewende.
When Germany said, you know what?
We're getting rid of nuclear.
We're all going to go solar.
We're going to go wind.
And then, within a year or two, German industry went to Herr Merkel and said...
Yo, Angie, baby, we can't do this.
This is costing us too much.
We're dying over here.
So now they've turned this around silently, and they're building as much as they can of coal.
There's a huge new coal plant.
Huge!
I think it's a $2 trillion coal plant that they're going to open up because they cannot, and of course, now they may not need it anymore now that they're engineering.
It's not $2 trillion.
It's...
Nah, you're right.
It's probably $2 billion.
No, it's more than that.
It's huge.
Whatever the case, when I said that, modern coal burning technology, the crazy bed technology, there's a lot of new technologies for burning coal that are extremely clean.
Yes.
But Tham has been on a train in Germany.
He was only, you know, 50 years too late to get on the good train, Tham.
And this is what he says.
I took a train across Germany a week ago yesterday, and all the way across...
Every other household is covered with solar panels.
There are farms of solar panels.
There are farms of windmills.
You can see on the train from Würzburg to Frankfurt.
Very easily.
I mean, all over the country.
More than half of all the electricity consumed by Germany was generated by these renewables.
Now, okay.
Now, let's listen.
Let's put this subsidy back in your face, Thom.
Wind and solar exclusively.
And they're paying 80 cents in unsubsidized electricity rates.
They're paying 80 cents a kilowatt hour, which is ten times what Americans are paying in states that are reliant still on coal.
They're paying five times more than Americans are paying in those states.
They are not building new nuclear power.
Paul, I don't believe your numbers.
Paul, you are a professional climate change denier.
You are paid to lie to people.
But it's true.
It's the subsidies that make it work.
And the guy is right.
I'm sure his numbers are provable.
But yeah, that's the kilowatt hour price.
And they're being subsidized, subsidized in order to be able to do that.
I'll say, in West Texas, there's a lot of big windmills.
But they're in the right place.
Oh man, my trailer was all over the road.
This is just wind whipping up.
Wyoming, put more windmills in.
Sure, that's great.
Yeah, North Dakota.
It's fabulous.
I was told.
But not in everybody's house.
That's not going to work.
You might as well have Elon Musk run the world.
Oh, it'll work.
Trust my battery.
I did an interview once with, I can't remember his name, but it was the father of modern wind power.
William Mill.
Sorry?
William Mill.
It was not good the first time I said it.
Don't worry.
He said that the state of North Dakota could power the entire country with wind.
Could be.
Could be.
To wind out this segment, CNN has a special division.
Now, you know CNN has a digital division, and they...
They produce things for profit.
You know, little news articles.
Most of it for the web.
And one of them is called Two Degrees.
CNN has this whole section of their website called Two Degrees.
And it's run by a guy named John D. Sutter.
Who is, of course, a...
Here, let's see.
Opinion columnist.
Livingston Award.
Batten medal.
Rooting for the world's underdogs.
Current focus.
Two Degrees.
Hashtag Two Degrees.
So CNN has this whole division which is paid, presumably, to propagate climate change denial as bad.
And this guy, he finally did it.
You know, finally they have the solution.
Here at Snow's Barbecue, in the heart of Texas beef country...
Oh, by the way, this is also a Texans, particularly the ones in Central Texas are dumb...
Of course.
...dumb a-holes.
Just so you know, we're dumb a-holes here.
What?
Well, I don't shit!
I never heard of the war, man!
You order meat by the pound.
Meat by the pound!
Meat!
What's this?
But did you know, eating about half a kilo of beef has the same effect on global warming as driving a car more than 100 kilometers?
Woo!
Not more of this bull crap.
It's important to listen to it, John.
It's important.
We have to deconstruct.
We buy meat by the pound.
Really?
You buy it by the pound?
Well, so what you do is you take your little camera crew and you go talk to some guys raising cattle.
And you make them look like dumb a-holes who are ruining the world.
Kilometers.
Why is that?
Well, it's because cows, like all grass eaters, burp out methane as they digest food.
So we've gone from farts to burps.
Now this is something I did not know.
I think I've been educated here.
By the way, I've heard this discrepancy myself.
I don't know if I've ever seen a cow burp.
Well, you don't.
You don't.
I guess they just kind of do this subtle burp through their nose.
Yes, here's the lesson.
It's because cows, like all grass eaters, burp out methane as they digest food.
And methane, it's a potent greenhouse gas.
Potent.
25 times as powerful as carbon dioxide.
Was it because of concerns about climate change?
That's part of it.
So you all are essentially measuring cow burps here, right?
That's one way of putting it.
We call it eruptation.
Eruptation, John.
It's an eruptation.
Cattle are very polite.
They don't burp out loud.
They produce gas in their stomach, but that gas comes up and then it goes back into the lungs, then is breathed out through the nostrils.
Aha!
You're right, John.
You're right.
Just as we would.
And these eruptations or burps are counted as greenhouse gas, please.
Yes, that's what has methane.
The methane and carbon dioxide.
An average cow in North America, it emits a whopping 53 kilograms of this stuff per year.
But this isn't all about burps.
The other reason meat is such a climate villain...
Climate villain, John.
Write it down.
Write it down.
Climate villain.
Climate villain!
...is that it takes lots of resources to grow food for cattle.
In the United States, most cattle are fattened up on a diet of corn.
And the fertilizer used to grow...
That's not true, by the way, but okay.
...releases nitrous oxide, which is 300 times as powerful as CO2. You mean what comes out of the Volkswagen that all you greenies bought?
That's right.
But all of that's invisible on a Texas cattle ranch.
Do people here worry about climate change at all?
You ready?
Well, I'm just a writer.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
We just like God and country and our guns.
As much as they may in the cities and all, but there may be some sort of...
The cities and all.
Y'all from big smoke up there in the cities.
I mean, you hear it a good bit.
There may be some effect on them, but no, we don't worry about it.
No.
So the scientists I've talked to say it's about 15% of global emissions are from livestock production overall.
That's news to me.
They got the right guy, didn't they?
Boy, that's news to me.
I haven't been watching the TV. That was news to me, too.
Not many people seem to be talking about beef's role in global warming.
No.
People are going to eat what they want to eat.
Everybody here in central Texas goes for beef.
That's right.
We're stupid down here.
We're just so stupid.
We're killing the world just with our stupidity.
It's not just Texas.
Global demand for beef is only going up.
Hell yeah.
And it doesn't have to be this way.
Maybe we should take a cue from Snow's.
Snow's.
This restaurant, it turns out, is only open one day a week.
Oh, okay.
If the rest of us ate beef that often, research shows we'd be helping our climate instead of hurting it.
Yeah, and you won't have much of a business, but, you know, okay, it's a great idea.
One day a week.
John, would you please tell me I need to have a global warming report.
Oh, you mean, yeah, let me check.
Hold on, my report is really about the tides.
Hold on, I want a report and we have a jingle for your report.
Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
How we doing, John?
He's got the San Francisco Bay.
I can see the bay from my house.
Including an area right out here by the freeway at the zero sea level.
Yes.
And it is...
Not only are the mudflats available to jump into and get muddy, which means nothing's happened, but...
There's actually a bunch of green growing there right now from the recent rain, I think.
I don't know why.
I never noticed so much green.
It looks like the sea level is dropping.
No!
This is your official report?
It's today's report.
It can really get unbearable.
What's a mother of five supposed to do?
Your fingers in the pool!
The cause of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
Look out your window.
Go, baby.
We're all going to die.
Well, not yet then, apparently.
I think this is bullcrap.
Of course it's bullcrap.
But that Rico thing, man, oh man, oh man.
That Rico thing, that's a classic.
Wow.
It is.
And with that, I should probably thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C is, the C. Enrico Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs of the water, the dames and the knights out there.
And in the morning to everyone in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
In the morning to our artists, I want to thank in particular, I think it was PewDiePie once again.
This guy is on such a roll.
Yeah, it was PewDiePie.
No, I'm sorry.
The Mad Arab.
The Mad Arab.
That's right.
This was for VOG, Violence Against Women and Girls.
That was the episode title of episode 760.
And he had a beautiful little hail apple thing there with some of the refugees.
And it was great.
Very nice.
Noagendaartgenerator.com where we love your submissions and where you can find everything that's been posted.
There's a lot of fun stuff in there for t-shirts, for newsletters, you name it.
Yeah, they're useful.
You can make little artworks.
Hell yeah.
We have two executive producers and one, two, three, four, five associates today, which is a good support level.
KG, who will be, let's see, what is he going to call himself?
Sir KG of Childsburg.
Do you have that whole thing down there for his name?
Sir KG of Childsburg.
Let me take a look.
I only ask because in the thing it says Mechanicsville, Virginia, when it should be Childsburg.
Yeah, Sir KG of Childsburg is what I have.
Anyway, he starts off with a little note about my dust-up with the other show.
And then he goes on to saying it's $533, $500 for the show I'm not doing anymore, and $33 for the magic number.
Please refer to me as Sir KG of Childsburg while I'll be starting a vineyard.
That's interesting.
In Virginia.
Virginia is not a bad place to grow grapes.
Okay.
Send me some karma for this endeavor with Dr.
Kiki's science and any clip of Hillary's laugh.
We can do that.
Shut up already!
Science!
Yes, here's a little one.
You come on up.
Ah!
You cursed rat!
Look what you've done!
I'm melting!
Melting!
You've got karma.
There we go.
Well rehearsed.
Yeah, well, it is funny.
Amarjeet Singh in Delhi, Texas, India.
That's what it says.
There's an India-Texas, but a Texas-India, I'm not sure.
There's an India, Texas?
Yeah, pretty sure.
California's got an Indio.
Well, he's in Delhi.
I believe he may be from India, but he never sent a note.
I looked and looked and looked under his email and everything else.
So if you have any note for us, let us know.
It's $300.
You will be an executive producer for the No Agenda Show 657, whatever it is, 761B.com.
Sir Norman McDonough or Baronet Sir Norman McDonough in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
$250 from Sir Norman Baronet.
Even though the Canadian dollar plummets, I have been inspired to inch further toward being a Baron.
He's a Baron Baronet.
I'm contributing half a Leo.
$250.
I found this attempted rationalization with uncomfortable chuckles and coffee mug slurps as to why he did what he did.
Then he goes on discussing, which I'm not going to be reading.
No, we don't have to do all that.
No.
We've taken the high road.
Yes, we're not going to be sitting here just slamming.
No, we have important things to discuss, like cow burps.
Sorry?
Cowbirds?
Burps.
Oh, cow burps.
Anyway, he says that you like to have a hold still.
It's actually calmed down.
Okay.
Hold still.
Here I come.
Followed by the scream.
Sorry.
The scream is the great scream.
Yeah.
I think it's better than whatever that other scream is.
And the general karma for me, thanks, and don't eat me.
You would like a don't eat if you can get one.
Calm down.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.
You've got karma.
Here we go.
Jeff Carnahan, 23456 in Redmond, Washington.
And he sent us a note.
And I believe I have it opened.
Okay, did you get this note?
Oh, he wants to be kept anonymous.
Thank you for putting it in the note.
Hi, John and Adam.
Please dedouche me.
Okay, hold on.
Let's do that right away.
You've been de-douched.
I've listened for many years and really enjoy your discussions.
My wife hit me in the mouth.
If you're going to ask for anonymity, like in a secondary note, send it to shill at noagendanation.com.
He's the one who puts the spreadsheet together.
My wife hit me in the mouth last weekend after I mentioned that.
that John no longer appear on another program.
Cheers to you both.
I hope there are many more episodes to come.
Can I please get a Don't Eat Me Hillary?
Really?
It's strange how this is the random number thing.
Nobody asked for Don't Eat Me Hillary for a year, and now we get it every other guy.
Don't Eat Me Hillary, followed by Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
All righty.
You threw a gratuitous thing in there.
No, I got a shut up slave in there.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mark K. in Barron, Wisconsin.
$202.02.
Mark K. from Barron.
Three-month boner.
First-time donor.
I look forward to further contributions toward knighthood.
I think Barron the Barron has a nice ring.
Or the Barron of Barron.
Because he's in Barron.
He's in Barron, Wisconsin.
Probably a Packers fan.
Please keep up the good work and I will keep hitting people in the mouth.
Please de-douche me.
A douchebag call out.
Ready?
Yeah.
To Gordon in California.
Douchebag!
Doesn't say why.
De-douche me wants to just a de-douche in karma and play a clip from Noodle Boy.
Let me see how long that is.
Let's play the clip.
I'll tell you what.
Make a deal.
Play the Noodle Boy clip at the end of the show.
Okay.
End of show.
Noodle Boy.
And here comes your karma.
Thank you very much, sir.
You've got karma.
And we'll deduce you.
You've been deduced.
There you go.
Now, for some reason, Sir Sean Connolly in Naperville, Illinois, I can't read his note.
Looks like it got cut off after he says, the recent analysis has been outstanding.
Okay, we'll give him some karma.
You've got karma.
Okay.
I think that would...
Oh, we have Frank Pugh in Tallahassee.
Tallahassee, Florida.
And he sent in a check, and I don't...
Does it say anything there?
Because this thing needs to be fixed.
Ugh.
Let's see what we got here.
Yes, Frank Pugh.
He's got...
Okay, this is kind of interesting.
This is the night call-off for someone else.
He's got his documentation for all his numbers.
Here's a check for $200.
Bringing my aggregate no agenda show value for value more than $1,000.
I would like to request you to confer a posthumous posthumous knighthood to Carleton College Professor Roy Groh.
Oh, yo.
And that's obviously what he doesn't say.
Well, he does have something to say.
Still, I have to credit Professor Groh with opening my eyes to the dubious media during the 1981-82 academic year in his international relations class.
In that class, he showed us a videotape recording of ABC World News Tonight, which is part of the 3x3.
The top story of that day was a discovery that some U.S. secrets had made their way into Soviet hands.
On the set behind the anchor, a graphic showed a cartoonish briefcase moving from west to east, superimposed on a map of Europe.
My memory of Professor Groh is that he was easygoing while still being dignified and precise.
To paraphrase his analysis, he concluded that this simplistic crap is not really reporting.
We should not allow this type of information, this information-free story, to pass as serious news.
I wish the professor could get his input on the CNN 3D set.
Where that douchebag sits there and he's got, you know, planes being shot out of the sky and shows you how it works in 3D. He says, after that day, I never watched the news in the same way.
I'm going to, after this, I'm going to play a clip.
Okay.
I never watched the news in the same way.
Later in the show, I hope to hear you night, Sir Roy Groh, a posthumous night of the No Agenda Roundtable.
Best regards, Frank Pugh.
We give him a karma, but then we'll play this clip.
Is he in...
The posthumous?
The posthumous is not mentioned on the list.
Yeah, who is it again?
Frank...
I'm sorry.
Roy Groh.
And does he have a knight name?
No, it's just Professor Roy Groh.
Sir Roy Groh.
Okay, got it.
It should be on the list, except it doesn't say posthumous.
No, it wasn't on the list.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I do see it here.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Alright, so let's play, while we're on this topic...
He did want an Obama no-no, hey, I got that.
And then what's the clip we're going to play?
We're going to play the Edward Scissorhands clip.
This was great.
This is only a piece, this is the main part of it, and I'll set it up.
Everyone's seen this, presumably.
Yes, but not everyone that listens to No Agenda has necessarily seen it.
I agree.
And a lot of Europeans probably haven't seen it.
This is a...
A piece of the clip of this woman on HLN, which is a CNN property, a headline news.
She is interviewing some guy, and she's talking about Snowden, because Snowden's now a Twitter user, and oh great, Snowden's going to be on Twitter.
I need to point something out.
The woman was a classic Illuminati insert, as she is wearing a black and white dress, split down the middle, which has a known psychological effect.
She is interviewing some guy because they couldn't find anybody to stand up for Snowden because they're just blasting him for being a traitor.
And they bring this guy on and it turns out that he wasn't thinking of Edward Snowden at all.
And she is so oblivious, she is not listening to this guy.
She keeps asking questions.
I was referring to that was really feasibly harmed people.
Do you think Snowden's actions were worth that risk?
Well, you know, to say that he couldn't harm somebody, you know, with what he did, like, he could.
Absolutely he could.
But I think to cast him out to make him invalid in society simply because he has scissors for hands, I mean, that's so strange because, I mean, people didn't get scared until he started sculpting shrubs into dinosaur shapes and whatnot.
Alright, well now Snowden's living in Russia.
Chris Zapp tweeted this.
Dear Edward Snowden, what do you make of the massive Russian misinformation campaign going on?
Listen, some people say it's hypocritical that Snowden has asylum in Russia.
Russia has a lot of human rights violations.
Well, yeah, casting him out is just completely wrong.
We're treating him like an animal, like somebody who should be quarantined and put away.
Just because he was created on top of a mountain by Vincent Price and incomplete with scissors for hands and no heart, Edward Scissorhands is a complete hero to me.
But what about the choice that he made to live in a country like Russia?
I mean, where else is he going to go?
You know, we cast him out.
Like, we got scared when he poked a hole in a waterbed with his scissor finger.
Like, that was just unreasonable of us.
Well, John, I appreciate you giving us your opinion.
Thank you.
You know, yes, I can totally see how both, well, certainly the host and the control room can miss this, but...
Wait a minute!
What did you say?
Well, listen to my full story.
I can totally see that there's a lot going on.
They're getting ready for the commercial.
It's a throwaway segment.
But no one's paying attention.
No one gives a shit.
So what did he just say?
No one's listening.
I know how this works.
No one's listening.
They probably don't have what's called a line producer who is supposed to be in charge of all this.
But when I saw his Twitter handle come up lower third, that's when I knew this had to be a scam.
Because even the Chiron operator, the guy who puts up the lower third, will say, really?
You want me to put at fart on the screen?
Come on, John.
This was a setup.
You think it was a setup to embarrass this stupid woman?
No.
It was a setup.
And remember, I said immediately she has a black and white dress.
It's a setup to distract...
The attention from the obvious Bran Snowden psyop that is going on by having him, not just on Twitter, I'll point out he was verified immediately.
Yeah.
A point of contention.
A point of contention.
With me.
I think it was done purposely.
Well, you could be right.
It wouldn't surprise me.
I mean, you have to agree.
You've been in television control rooms.
Yeah.
Someone would say, uh, it'd be like, hold on, do you really want me to put at start on the lower third?
Although...
When the local station here in KTVU had the names of the surviving crew members of the plane that crashed at SFO as, oh, we, you know, Chinese days.
Some Ting Wong.
I know.
I know, John.
I know.
But when I saw the at fart go up, that's when it lost credibility as just an oversight.
Seriously.
And now CNN is all morning talking about this hoax.
They're not talking.
See, that's what you do.
It's like, oh, Snowden's on Twitter, but instead of talking to him about being a traitor or whatever, and he still has his broken nose pad.
I like the interpretation.
I can accept it as a possibility.
That's the way I saw it.
I should have seen it the same way.
I just saw it as some dumb...
Here's the way I saw it.
Because it's a pet peeve of mine.
Interviewers who don't listen.
I'm going to predict this.
Watch for this now.
Because this has gone pretty viral.
And people in Europe have this thing called...
Oh yeah, the internet.
I think a lot of people have seen this.
Because it's funny.
It's funny.
But this guy who has never been on television before, he's brought in, you know, as some expert to comment on this, come on, give me a break.
This guy is a nudnik.
He's crazy.
He's a troll.
He could be an actor.
Or an actor.
Is there a difference, is the question.
But with her, with the black and white dress you watch, whenever Snowden comes up, we're going to see black and white.
Checkers, that's preferable.
You're just second half of show stuff, but I'm liking it.
Hey, listen. listen.
Hey, you're in my house.
Hey.
Hey.
Game on you.
Hold on.
I want to make sure we thank.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Karma.
Give them the karma.
All right.
We want to thank all the people that were executive, associate executive producers for 761, two or whatever the number is.
761.
761.
And remind you, we do have a show coming up in just a few days.
Yeah.
That could use some support too.
Thevorak.org slash in is the place to go.
We do appreciate that.
And these credits are real ones, just like Hollywood.
The only difference being, you don't have to wait for the box office.
There's no profit sharing.
You're actually helping produce the best podcast in the universe.
Dvorak.org slash N-A-N. Part of your producership means you can always be out there propagating our formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order. Order.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
Just a little bit of side news here.
It turns out that the Taj Mahal is being inundated with so much air pollution in that part of India that they're trying to clean it and they figure it's going to take 10 years and they use some sort of mud to process.
But I just thought this report had a kind of a funny kicker.
The Taj Mahal.
In recent years, authorities have taken steps to protect the 17th century monument from pollution coming from the nearby city Agra.
Measures have included banning local coal power industries and a local ban on the common practice of burning Caldun for fuel.
I'll bet you that smells terrific.
You know what the answer is?
You know what burns hotter than coal?
Cow dung.
Even better than that.
There is a natural substance which when burned is fabulous.
Okay.
Hemp.
Hemp?
Yeah.
Hemp burns hotter than coal.
I don't believe that.
Okay.
If you show me some documentation to prove that, I don't believe it.
Coal, when it's burning, it is unbelievably hot.
It could be used to create...
That's what they're used to use in making steel.
Mm-hmm.
Well, let's find out.
And hemp, which is a marijuana plant.
Not necessarily with any chemicals in it.
No, I'm not buying it.
I'll tell you where I got this from.
I could be wrong, but this is something stuck in my head since 1990.
And of course, I was stoned.
But, 1990, I did a documentary in Jamaica.
Man, it burns hotter, man!
It's exactly the one.
I did a documentary in Jamaica, and part of that was going to Hope Road, which is where Bob Marley's house is, and his best friend.
What is his best friend?
His best friend, Bob Marley, who runs the museum there.
I can't remember his name.
But he's sitting there.
We're doing the interview.
And he's smoking a fat doobie.
And he's passing it to me.
And it was pretty funny.
Because, you know, essentially, we're both baked during this interview.
And then he says, You know what it is, man?
It is hotter than coal.
It is hotter than coal.
It is much better.
And it's always stuck with me.
So I'll research it.
You don't need to research it for long.
I'm going to research it.
It's hotter than coal, man.
It's funny to bring it in, though.
Pasta duchy.
It makes no sense at all.
It is a good fuel, though.
You can use it for fuel.
Oh, you can burn it.
You can burn cow dung.
Well, apparently, yeah.
Hotter than coal.
It's another show title.
All right, let's get straight to the obvious.
I know you have it as well, so I'll just lead into it.
This is Kim Davis.
Unless you have some crazy setup, you just want me to get into the Kim Davis one?
I have the...
Well, why don't you do your thing, and then I'm going to play a clip that was bothersome to me.
Okay.
So, the Pope returns, and then all of a sudden, news is leaked out, which is, you know, this is a well-done PR campaign.
I just haven't really put much thought into it, who, why, what, where, when.
But he's gone, then all of a sudden, oh, he had a secret meeting with Kim Davis.
The woman who refused to sign the same-sex marriage certificate.
And, of course, this made everybody lose their crap.
Here I have...
Well, Jimmy Kimmel used it as his opening.
this made people who are, you know, especially left-wing and progressives and demitrots, they're all like, man, this pope is bogus, man.
What did you do?
That's like, he was supposed to be the good guy.
You know, he did something crazy like this.
Turns out, during his very busy visit last week, Did you like my Democrat impression?
Go on.
Carved time out to meet with Kim Davis, the woman who refused to issue the same-sex marriage license in Kentucky.
The reason they met is the Pope wanted to deliver a message to Kim from God, which was, fire your stylist.
Which was a funny joke.
That was funny.
That Kim Davis was able to get the time off from not doing her job to visit with the Pope.
She claims the Pope hugged her, thanked her for her courage, and told her to stay strong.
I think I would rather the Pope met with Kim Kardashian than Kim Davis.
By the way, I will say that Olvola is the number three show, but in fact, the Jimmy Kimmel show is the best late night show.
And this is from your three by three research?
Yeah.
Okay, which is now in its sixth week.
Three networks, three weeks.
I think it's still in its second week.
I'm not sure.
Here's MSNBC. They're just freaking out.
Well, I'm deeply disappointed about the meeting.
And at the same time, I'm measured because I think some of us read too much into what the Pope thinks about gay marriage and the LGBT community in general.
I think we imposed...
Kind of out of hope, a lot of our views onto him.
And so when we found out that he met with Kim Davis, it was shocking.
And for me, the Pope meeting with Kim Davis would be like the Pope meeting with George Zimmerman.
Then how does that even make sense?
Wow!
It has nothing to do with religion.
Now we're into black, white, whatever.
Of course, Zimmerman was not white.
He was Mexican descent, Latin, Hispanic descent.
So I got a lot of different clips, and this is the one that I finally chose of Kim Davis herself with the famous phrase.
And I will point out that two, maybe three months before the smoke...
We here on the show predicted the Pope said this would be the guy and we were right.
And now I think we look like we're in on the game.
With enthusiastic crowds lining the streets from New York to D.C., the Pope seemed to strike just the right note with Americans on his visit.
But now, this morning, reports of a secret meeting with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky, who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
She says she and her husband met the Pope during the Washington leg of his trip after receiving a surprise phone call from a Vatican official.
I put my hand out and he rushed and he grabbed it and I hugged him and he hugged me and he said, thank you for your courage.
I'm telling you, I'm pissed off at the Pope.
We're not supposed to know that we're in cahoots.
Well, the other thing is, this secret meeting, everybody seems to know about it.
What kind of a secret is this?
I don't know, but I like...
Thank you for your courage.
I'm just going to keep...
That should be a ringtone.
It should be...
Everyone needs one of these.
Thank you for your courage.
That's beautiful.
Now, I had a clip.
I thought of this.
Come on, let's find it.
I got it beyond here.
For your courage.
Thank you for your courage clip.
T-Y-F-Y-C. Now, I'll tell you what, listen to this carefully, and I'm glad you brought an MSNBC clip in where they blast him for meeting with this horrible woman.
Disappointing Pope!
Poopy pontiff.
This is the Lester Holt Nightly News report, and I want to point out a little piece of propagandistic trickery that's used in this report.
Davis is the Kentucky clerk who was jailed for denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Davis and her husband met with the Pope away from the public eye in Washington.
Davis says the Pope hugged her and claims he thanked her for her courage.
Okay.
He uses the word claims.
Yes.
As if it's some sort of, like, she's sketchy.
When you start using, oh yes, I heard he claims.
He claims that he does this.
He claims that he does that.
You know, if somebody says, I got in my car this morning, and you report it as, he said he got in his car this morning, that's how you report that.
You say, he says...
He got in his car.
You're already attributed to him.
I totally agree.
But when you say, he claims he got in his car, it has the implication that he's lying about it.
Yeah.
Very, very bad form.
Even though, and I... Holt should be ashamed of himself.
Oh, he doesn't give a shit.
No, he doesn't.
I looked at all the transcripts, because the Pope, listening to him talk, it's like, who needs Ambien?
Just listen to this guy.
Climate change!
He's talking about at least two beats slower than Ben Carson.
And...
And he said very specifically that conscious objection is a human right, even if you are a politician.
He meant conscientious.
Conscientious, I'm sorry.
Conscientious objection is a human right.
But that was not reported on, you see.
And he also talked about baby parts.
None of that was reported.
None of it was reported.
I'm going to tell you what it is.
You're going to have to see if you can correct it.
I said, see?
You see.
You see?
The guy was talking about this, you see.
And now at the point where every time I hear you do it, it actually kind of makes me laugh because it makes you sound like the guy in the corner telling me stuff.
In case you hadn't noticed, that is exactly what I am.
I am the guy on the corner.
Amen.
Thank you for your courage.
All right.
Boom!
Boom.
Boom.
Hey, another piece of great little propaganda that, and now, I'm a little confused.
I have been excoriated and banned for one point, answering to a question, do you doubt the moon landing?
And I say, yes, the original moon landing, I have doubts about it.
But now it seems perfectly okay for the main street.
And I said it was obviously government inclusion with Hollywood.
You said inclusion, you meant collusion.
I meant collusion.
I said in collusion, but I slurred it.
In collusion.
In collusion with the government.
You can be real nitpicky with me today.
I'm sorry.
I'm tired.
So you want me to?
Yes, I do.
I enjoy it and it turns me on in a strange way.
I don't know about that.
That's crazy.
Unfortunately, they lost or erased the tapes, the film.
We don't have it anymore.
There's all these annoying little things that just make it better.
So now NASA comes out and says, well, we found water on the moon.
Yes, there's water on the moon thing.
And even The Guardian is saying, does this...
Wow, it's so coincidental that it coincides with the release of Matt Damon's movie, The Martian.
No, it's water on Mars.
Mars, I'm sorry, not the moon.
Mars, yes.
Water on Mars thing, yes.
All of the no agenda folks.
But even the Guardian said it, John.
Sorry?
Even the Guardian.
Everyone came out and said, oh, this is so crazy.
I'm wondering how much of that immediately showed up on Twitter by no agenda people.
Yes, that's who said it first, but then the Guardian, and once the Guardian does something, then it's okay, you see, for U.S. publications to say, oh, well, the Guardians even says this.
Yeah, the Mad Demon movie came out at the same time.
It said water on the moon, and then the water on the moon.
Mars.
See, I did it.
You got me doing it.
Oh, it's my fault.
Okay.
It is.
Water on Mars.
Then it became like a global warming meme that's very subtle, and I think it's going to be...
Yes, because they say Mars went through some climate event.
Oh, some horrible climate thing.
But it gets even better.
It has no atmosphere.
It may have something to do with it, but that's another story.
It gets even better.
Because NASA is saying, well, you know, unfortunately, we cannot really investigate this with our Mars rover.
Now, instead of telling the truth and saying this because it's in Arizona somewhere, which is bullshit, you know, looking at spiders.
I think it's a Mars rover for sure.
Yeah, in Arizona.
But they can't find anything.
There's nothing to find.
They're not allowed us.
But listen, according to the Outer Space Treaty from 1966, I believe, this is what NASA is saying, that you are not, there's a lot of things you're not allowed to do.
You can't have nukes in space.
You know, you can't use, no one can claim a planetary or celestial body.
The whole thing is pretty interesting.
They're probably going to want to update this.
But they're very specific that you cannot risk any kind of contamination of anything, any life form or any forms of life that we find on celestial bodies, including, they always say the moon, including celestial bodies, including the moon.
And they're now saying, well, we can't send the rover because it may be contaminated by Earth stuff.
We can't send it any closer than, you know, like 50 kilometers because it could contaminate the water that we found.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is bullcrap.
Contaminate the water.
And I was looking at who's producing this movie.
This is kind of interesting.
Let me see.
Okay.
Yeah, if you go to IMDB, so it's called The Martian.
This will be interesting.
But I'm always looking at who's directing, who wrote it.
But in this case, I think it's the production companies.
So we have, as part of the production companies, here we go, genre films.
Genre films is known for...
Really, like Gambit, Fantastic Four, Chappie, Cinderella, so kind of fantasy stuff.
So, I don't know who owns that.
But they have International Traders, who are also one of the producers.
Now, they've done stuff like...
Jesus, The Complete Story, The Battle for the Arab World, Red Planet, Mission to Mars, Journey of a Lifetime.
So there's more inshallah.
There's kind of an anti-Muslim meme going on there.
I'm not quite sure what it is.
And then you go to the third production company, Mid-Atlantic Films, and they've pretty much done television.
They did...
The Borgias, which is on...
What was that?
Was that on Showtime or something?
Yeah, it was on HBO. I'm thinking with the sci-fi stuff and everything, we're ramping up to teach people or prepare people for some unveiling.
I'm on board with this idea that...
Oh, dude, this is the second half of show!
They're going to show the alien.
They're going to roll some guy out.
He's going to say, welcome.
I'm glad you welcomed me to the planet.
Eventually.
Something like that.
Project Bluebeam.
I'm feeling it.
You're feeling it.
I'm feeling it, baby.
Come on, trust me.
I'm feeling it.
I get to do cow burps.
I might as well do...
I'm feeling it.
Cow burps is pretty wacky, but this is worse.
Okay.
I think the water on the moon, the water on Mars is sketchy.
I have two clips from the United Nations.
Now, United Nations are on this trip, man.
They're just on a trip, getting celebrities in.
And it's like, you want to propagate?
They thought it worked well with Angelina Jolie.
She was kind of interesting and sexy.
The only way to keep people to come to these sessions.
So they brought in Charlize Theron, who was so beautiful.
And she had a cute little bob haircut with a little wavy thing in the front.
And it's kind of fun to watch her try and read because she can't.
AIDS is the number one cause of death for adolescents in Africa and the number two cause of death for 10 to 19 year olds globally.
These numbers might shock you and they should.
Because there is a generation in jeopardy.
Young people are falling through the cracks in our fight to end this epidemic.
Yeah, and these celebrities get so hyped up.
It's the reverse of politicians getting all horny about Hollywood.
The Hollywood people, you'll recall Robert Redford was so taken aback.
I was so impressed to be speaking at the United Nations.
No one gives a shit.
No one watches.
No one cares.
And if you can't read...
But we have reason to have hope.
Reason to believe that we can, in fact, reach our goal of ending AIDS by 2030.
Wow, 2030.
There's the club once again.
Really delivering those lines, Charlize.
And that's because we know what works.
Empowering.
She should be getting...
She's like the Pope.
This 2030 thing's getting on my nerves.
That's because I called it.
That's why I called this two years ago.
I said 2030 is the new death thing.
Yeah, yeah, you did.
You get full credit for coming up with that one.
I sure did.
And you can see 2030club.org is the website that I have not maintained, but that's where we started tracking this.
...people to take control of their health.
Woo!
Good job, girl!
Good job!
Good job!
And just to make it even crazier, I brought the second social justice warrior in.
Now, this is about the Gamergate thing that we've only just recently kind of been interested in.
There was a pretty big subreddit post about the show, and I appreciate one of our producers put that in there.
And people listened to our deconstruction of...
Was that the other woman's name who was complaining about...
I don't know her.
Violence Against Women.
VOG is the violence against women.
This is what our whole previous show was about.
That wasn't her name, no.
But I'm calling her the VOG woman.
There's a second one.
Her name is Anita Sarkeesian.
I'm relating this because of fame.
And...
Andy Warhol famously said everyone gets 15 minutes of fame.
I think we said it was your 15 megabytes of fame.
Everyone's getting it.
Everybody loves it.
Let me tell you something about fame and celebrity.
It changes people around you, and it without doubt changes your own behavior.
Now listen to this woman, Anita Sarkeesian.
Cornish Frequency is a non-profit that I run where we look at the way women are represented in the media.
And by doing this work, I have been the target for three years non-stop of egregious online harassment.
Egregious online harassment.
On all levels.
I think it's important to recognize that harassment is, as someone had mentioned, it's not just what is legal and illegal, right?
Harassment is threats of violence, but it's also the day-to-day grind of you're a liar, you suck, you, you know, making all of these hate videos to attack us on a regular basis and the mobs that come from those hate videos.
Do you know how many times a day I read in the subreddit, in the chat room, you suck, you're an asshole, you are a shill, you're a government informant, you're an Illuminati, climate denier, you're a wash-up loser who gives a crap about you.
You know what's actually good?
I got some good press.
This past few days.
What happened?
The Dutch press, who are so on top of things.
Oh, you're back on the front pages of the Dutch media.
I'm on the front page, baby, with Tina the Keeper.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man, I should have sent them a picture.
I could have gotten a few hundred bucks.
Well, I think you can still do it because they're desperate.
They're calling me.
They want more material.
I know you're listening.
John at Dvorak.org.
I have a picture, a scandalous picture of Adam.
I know you do.
With Tina the Keeper.
I will sell it.
How much?
What should I sell it for?
You're cutting me.
I better cut you in.
Don't worry.
I think you can get five grand.
I think it's worth five.
If it's really scandalous.
Yeah, if it's really scandalous.
No way.
Well, it's not that scandalous.
Oh, all right.
It's not five grand scandalous.
It's just a picture.
So here's what happens.
It's worth a thousand dollars.
I would sell for a thousand bucks.
So here's what happened.
You can get 2,000.
You can get 2,000 euros, I'm pretty sure.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Holy crap!
What was I thinking?
You know that I sued multiple publications under the Creative Commons.
Yes, I know that, but those are your pictures.
I have a picture that was given to me.
I'm just giving you a value...
I took these companies to court who published my own pictures that I had on my website that clearly said creative comments, no commercial use, and attribution.
And I won.
I didn't win any money, but if they do it again, and I have gone back and I have settled with companies, then it's really...
The true number is €2,000 per copy per day, which would, of course, be in the millions.
Right.
It never works out that way, but it's 2,000 euros.
So you think I can get 2,000 euros for this picture?
If it's a good one, yeah, I think so.
I think it's a really good picture.
Here's the funny things.
This journalist emails Tina the Keeper at her work address before reaching out to me, asking, like, hey, I got a friend in Austin.
He heard this.
I'm like, you little shit.
And then he contacted me like two hours later.
I said, oh really?
You're a dick.
Because you ask a question, you come to me.
So I let him sit for a little while and I said, okay, I'm going to tell you this.
We've been together five months.
She's my age and she's director of communications at Ronald McDonald House Charity Central Texas.
And what comes back from the great press who have not seen or heard the show or seen tweets or anything for five months apparently, what comes back is She's the director of all of Ronald McDonald's communications for the entire world.
And she's my age.
And that pisses me off, because she's a little older than I am.
Damn it.
So now we've reset her age.
So what is the point of this new affection?
Just because you have a new girlfriend?
Yeah.
That's...
So my point is...
So then you see the comments from people.
Here's a typical Dutch comment.
Like, I guess Curry doesn't notice she has a six-inch dick.
I mean, seriously, this is the comments I get.
You know?
Am I going to the United Nations?
Oh, they're so mean to me!
Look, you post stuff because it's self-moral licensing.
It's all this stuff wrapped into one.
You're trolling for Facebook love.
It's pathetic.
And then when people don't give you love, they give you hate.
You can say, oh, we need anti-bullying laws.
No!
No!
I forgot to send you a link because I was looking at...
I can't remember what it was in Variety.
And yes, I read it.
There was a post of something.
I don't know.
I may have to go back and look for this.
But the comments in Variety...
I recommend people go on...
Variety Online is fantastic.
Get on the newsletter and you can read all this celebrity stuff, which is more inside baseball than just crappy celebrity stuff.
Anyway, the comments on Variety are so alien to the comments we normally get with this tech crap.
It's because these are all wannabe writers and actors.
Of course!
So the writers in particular have one-liners and gems that are just like, holy crap!
This is a great line!
Very entertaining.
The most entertaining series of comments I've ever read.
Oh, they're so mean!
They're so tiring when people are sick!
I suck!
I suck!
Get off the internet, you losers!
Get off the internet.
Yeah, that's what you should do.
Instead of whining, it's not going to do any good.
It just makes you look like a complete idiot.
Yeah, but you know what?
It's the United Nations, and the United Nations...
It has influence indirectly because there will be another, you know, 50 meetings and oh, it's very so sad.
We can't have children being subjected to this bullying.
I don't know how much you can do about it.
No, but we just need to be aware of it.
That's the only thing.
Just be aware.
That's how it goes.
And that's what Celebrity is.
That's what fame is.
And some people don't understand it.
Some people just don't get it when it happens.
They don't understand how people...
And everyone has this inherent...
I see it on the Face page all the time.
People have this inherent need to be loved and to be funny and to have funny comments.
You know, it's like the brain professor.
Yeah, he's trying to get back in my good graces.
No, he's been listening to the show.
Oh, yeah.
And he's posting little funny comments here and there.
You know, it's like, when I said, hey, I have a 22-knot headwind through West Texas.
I'm on my way to Lubbock.
And he's from East Texas.
And then he'll be like, bro, that's also just showing you you never need to go to Lubbock.
I'm like, you're such a douche.
He's from East Texas?
Does he have an East Texas accent?
No.
No, his wife...
That's not Roche, bro!
His wife took that away with his testicles.
So there was an executive memo that came out from the president.
I should say a presidential memorandum.
And I was trying to place it, and I had to go and look up, you know, this is one of these things.
Subject, delegation of authority under sections 506A1 and 552C2 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
By authority vested in me as president by the Constitution, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State, that would be the watermelon head known as Kerry.
The authority under Section 506A1 of the Foreign Assistance Act to directly withdraw up to $20 million in defense articles and services to the Department of Defense, blah, blah, blah.
And so I'm trying to figure out...
Actually, let me get this...
Open this one up.
Actually, I'm sorry.
It's a different act.
My mistake.
It's the...
I'm so sorry.
The Section 404C1 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act.
That's the one I was looking for.
And there's a drawdown of money, then he gives this authority to John Kerry to draw down money with a waiver of this particular act, Section 301 of Title III United States Code.
And this report brought it all together for me.
Here it is.
It was an airstrike on a wedding reception, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since Yemen's civil war began.
More than 130 people were reportedly killed.
Residents of Al-Wahija say two missiles smashed into tents hosting the wedding reception of a local man.
They say he was affiliated with a Houthi group.
Iranian-backed rebels currently fighting the Sunni-affiliated government in exile for control of the country.
A Saudi-led Arab coalition that's been launching air attacks on the Houthis since March denies involvement in the wedding party attack.
They say local militias may be responsible.
Among the dead were women and children.
Okay, so I'm sorry, I've read the wrong act starting out.
So his presidential memorandum refers to a waiver that can be obtained under Section 404A of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act.
And so what the president is doing is he's saying, I waive this particular country, which is Yemen, To receive military funding from the United States government, despite the fact they are on the list of countries who are known to have child soldiers.
And no one is picking up on this.
Nobody's picking up on this.
And it's outrageous.
It is outrageous.
Because we're also fueling the...
You know, we have...
We're going to have to transition this point of interest here.
Go ahead.
Right to what's going on with the Russians.
Yes, thank you.
Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
Because the Russians have decided...
Let me start off with, I have an Ask Adam that's kind of interesting.
This is the Obama, you, and Syria Ask Adam.
Oh, you want to play the jingle?
Well, I'll do it afterwards.
Let me see.
Obama, you, and Syria.
Okay, I'll do the Ask Adam in a minute.
Here we go.
Today, President Obama said the war against the Islamic extremist group, ISIS, will be a long campaign.
Mr.
Obama chaired a summit meeting on terrorism at the UN General Assembly today.
Defeating ISIS, he said, will require the end of the Syrian dictatorship.
When John C. Dvorak's got a burning question, what should we do?
Ask Adam.
Yeah.
Okay, what's your burning question?
The burning question is contained within that clip, which is, why does getting rid of Assad have anything to do with getting rid of ISIS? Because it's all...
When the likelihood, and I agree with this interpretation, the likelihood you get rid of Assad and ISIS takes over the place.
That is the likelihood.
Yeah.
And that's what the Russians have come in about.
So I'm asking you, why Obama thinks this?
Well, because he's not thinking straight.
Because he's only doing what he's told to do.
We need to remove Assad so we can put in our own shield.
It's a diplomatic process.
Just look at the Ukraine.
You know, Victorian Noodleman will be in there handing out cookies and donuts in Damascus.
We got an email from our guy in Damascus, by the way.
Okay.
Hold on a second.
Where is my boy?
I'm very happy.
Sub-7-0.
I'm very happy he's still alive.
Here we go.
Hi, Adam.
Great analysis on the Syrian refugee situation.
Amen.
Fist bump.
About the Russian airstrikes.
ISIS is taking a beating on every front.
More than 40 strikes so far.
And somebody isn't happy about it, apparently.
I read many articles saying the U.S. is demanding a proof from Russia that the airstrikes are targeting ISIS. And he says, wow, just wow.
Still trying to obfuscate the idea that there are only two teams fighting on the ground.
The Syrian army versus ISIS and other jihadist groups.
A lot of concentration in the Western media on criticizing the Russian strikes on the city of Holmes.
Why?
Because some of the very few oiled fields that are still under the government's control are located east of the city, kilometers away from ISIS, where the coalition never targeted, as it happens.
They see it as an empowerment of the Syrian regime, and they prefer ISIS there than the Syrian army.
Anyway, so it's about oil.
Of course.
Anyways, he says, with capital S at the end, we're seeing a progress...
I'm reading it verbatim.
We're seeing a progress electricity and fuel-wise by the hour because of that.
Besides securing home, surroundings would make the connection between Damascus, Latakia, and Aleppo much safer and result in more military advances, west to east still actually degrading ISIS. So what he's saying is...
While the United States spokesholes and Project Monarch and the media and Mockingbird are all saying, oh, well, he's not really targeting ISIS. They're making this fictitious extra group.
This guy's saying it's actually great.
It's helping out the people who are living in Damascus right now.
And they're not blowing up the oil fields.
And Putin, man, his problem...
Vlad, dude, even if it's crappy, you need to speak English.
Because what doesn't get traction is when you're speaking Russian and then you have subtitles.
It has no impact.
Even the Pope, and I know he can speak English.
I know he can.
He needs to do this because he's saying very interesting things.
A lot of this stuff's being mistranslated, too.
You can just tell.
Of course.
In fact, I do have a Putin clip where it is mistranslated.
You just know it's mistranslated because it doesn't make any sense what he says.
Okay.
Let's see.
What clip is this?
I have some issues here getting these clips properly noted.
I think there's...
It's terrible.
I got too many clips.
You do, kind of.
Russian strikes.
Russian strikes.
CBS rundown.
Syria program done with Holly Williams.
Okay, well, we'll get to it later.
War College Syria?
No, let's start with this.
Let's start with...
I'll find that clip as we go.
Now, here's what happened on Monday.
The Defense Department...
This is before the Russians started blowing things up.
This is the CBS report Monday on the cancellation of...
$500 million of the American taxpayers' money that was being wasted and squandered in Syria.
All of this on the same day that the Pentagon was forced to concede that a key part of the president's Syria policy is a dismal failure.
David Martin tells us that the program to train and equip Syrian opposition forces has been suspended.
The $500 million program had once been a linchpin of the strategy to defeat ISIS, but so far has proved a fiasco.
It was put on hold after a band of fighters turned over their U.S.-supplied equipment to terrorists linked to al-Qaeda.
An embarrassing development Russia's Putin could not resist mentioning in his address to the United Nations.
First they are armed and trained, and then they defect, he said.
Putin has injected himself into the middle of the battle for Syria with the sudden and unexpected establishment of an airbase in western Syria.
Pentagon officials say it is the largest Russian military deployment ever outside the borders of the old Soviet Union.
Hiding from radar in the wake of large transport planes, a total of 28 fighter jets have flown into the base, where the Russians have also stationed 16 helicopters along with surveillance drones.
Putin claims they are ready to join the fight against ISIS. But he seems to make no distinction between ISIS and other groups trying to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, some of which are supported by the U.S. Although the jets have not flown any combat missions yet, the drones have been conducting surveillance flights to the east of the base, where opposition groups, but not ISIS, are located.
You move in.
22 seconds of something that has dropped off the radar.
The French military has carried out its first airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, and that is according to the president's office.
Now, France began bombing the group's presence in Iraq last year.
The country says Sunday's strikes were based on intelligence from recent air surveillance.
A number of terror attacks have taken place, of course, in France over the last year or so.
Funny how we don't hear that anymore.
France is in there bombing the crap out of people.
Yeah, you do hear it a little bit out of sight.
A little bit, a little bit.
So the Russians decided to start bombing.
So let's listen to the rundowns that took place.
There's actually three of them, but one of them is a local report that was done, I think, by freelancers, and it was done for ABC. And it was quite good.
But let's listen to the CBS, which I believe has probably some of the best coverage, even though they're extremely biased.
This is a Russian strike CBS rundown.
Okie doke.
The result of this kind of action will inevitably simply be to inflame the civil war in Syria.
Carter was also miffed by the way Russia notified the U.S. of the strikes.
I will say Carter, he went on every single news channel.
I was flipping around in the car.
Yes, droopy dog.
Every single...
Oh, welcome.
Oh, what a surprise.
Oh, such an honor to have you after you just left MSNBC. One hour ahead of time, a Russian general walked up to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and announced Russian aircraft were about to begin flying over Syria and American warplanes should stay away.
This is not the kind of behavior that we should expect professionally.
The U.S. did not change its flight plans, but the two sides...
Professionally?
It's not professional.
What does that mean?
You're not doing killing professionally.
You're not...
It's like, you know how if you hire a hitman...
They have codes of conduct.
You know, like they'll never reuse a weapon.
You don't make a mess.
You don't kill kids.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So they're not doing it professionally, which means doing what we tell them to do.
The U.S. did not change its flight plans, but the two sides have begun talks on setting up procedures for making sure their planes don't run into each other.
That was not a problem today, but could become one if the Russian aircraft attacked opposition groups supported by the U.S. Scott, now that the Russian strikes have begun, both sides are in a hurry to get those talks moving, and it could happen as soon as tomorrow with a video conference between the two militaries.
Oh, yeah.
You should have said Skype.
This is going to do a Skype, and we'll figure it out.
So this term, deconflict, did you catch this?
No.
Okay.
So everyone, again, I was stuck in the car.
Everyone's using, oh, we have to, we need deconfliction.
Deconfliction.
And even the spokeshole Josh Earnest, we need to deconflict the situation.
And I looked up the word deconflict.
It is a military term.
This is the only, this is, what is this dictionary?
This is Oxford Dictionary.
Military term, and it means this.
Reduce the risk of collision between aircraft, airborne weaponry, etc.
in an area by coordinating their movements.
So the press, who did not look up this word, they're all talking about, you know, like we have a conflict of interest or a conflict of we're not in agreement, but it is a literal, and I say this with meaning, because I get by saying the word literally too often, it is a literal meaning to avoid the risk because I get by saying the word literally too often, it is a literal meaning to avoid the risk of collision between aircraft and airborne weaponry, and I need This is the Department of Defense.
Describe them as deconflicting or centering on deconflicting, but how do you distinguish between coordination, talks over coordination, and talks over deconflicting?
How do you draw that distinction, and what sort of left and right limits will you be working with as you go into this talk?
You never hear this, of course, but here's someone who actually looked up the ward and understands the difference between disagreements and deconfliction.
I mean, I think part of this, again, is to be determined by the conversations that are going to play out between our folks and the Russians.
But our priorities here are, again, maintaining the integrity of the coalition air operations, the safety of coalition pilots, critically important to us.
We do not want misjudgment and miscalculation.
We do not want an accident to take place.
Oh!
Can you say false flag?
Well, here's a little tidbit that came from the Chinese news.
I don't have a clip of it because it wasn't really clippable.
But the Chinese news service were discussing this situation, and one of them asked, one of the experts that were talking about it, Why are the Russians carrying air-to-air missiles?
Well, for deconfliction, of course.
So there's something fishy going on.
But let's go take the second part of that clip we just played and go to our buddy, Mike Morrell.
And I'm going to point something out about this guy is the worst analyst CBS could possibly have.
He's a senior analyst.
He's a senior analyst, which is one of those bogus things people said.
I run into this a lot.
You know, people, I need to be, the title needs to be senior.
Why?
Executive.
Executive Vice President.
Yeah, there's that kind of thing.
But there's something in here that gives away that he's not even, he's still working for the agencies.
It's just a shill.
With unique insight into this, we'll bring in Michael Morrell, former number two at the CIA and senior security contributor for CBS News.
Michael, how significant is this?
Scott, this is of historical significance.
This is the first time the Russians have conducted combat operations in the Middle East since the end of World War II. Ah, talking point.
This is what McCain's talking about since they got kicked out of Egypt by Anwar Sadat.
You're right.
There are talking points going around.
This is obviously one of them.
But I want you to look out for what's coming up, which is a question that is not answered, but circumvented.
And it also indicates to me that he's still working for one of the intelligence groups.
World War II. What do you think the Russian President Vladimir Putin is up to?
So there's lots of reasons here, Scott, but I think they boil down to two.
The first is that he is trying to prop up Assad.
Assad is weaker today than he has been since the fall of 2012, and Putin's trying to prop him up.
Why?
Because Putin really fears that if Assad were to depart the scene, that there would be even more instability in Syria, that ISIS could grow even more, perhaps even take over Damascus.
He really believes that.
The second reason, Scott, is that Russia in general, Putin in particular, want to be seen as major players on the global stage, and this gives that to Putin as well.
Has the Obama administration been outmaneuvered by Russia?
You know, I think the real problem here, Scott, is that what Putin has done on the ground in Syria has now made it more difficult to get to the only solution to the problem.
And the only solution to the problem is a negotiated transfer of power from Assad to something else.
That's been our strategy all along, so he is undercutting our strategy.
Oh, brother.
Now, he asked him specifically if Putin's running circles around Obama.
He wouldn't say.
He said, I think the...
And listen to this carefully, because it's a very nice structure.
Want me to play it again?
Well, you play it again, then I want you to do that with me.
I'm going to prop him up.
Why?
Because...
Wait, was it before that?
It's the last thing.
Yeah, hold on.
Putin really fears that if Assad's part, that there'd be even more, grow even more.
The second reason Scott aged, and this gives that to Putin as well.
Has the Obama administration been outmaneuvered by Russia?
You know, I think the...
Okay.
I'm going to ask you, John C. Dvorak, you are a special analyst for all things deconfliction, war, and, of course, you have lived in Damascus for a majority of your life.
Do you think that Putin is really running circles around the Obama administration?
Well, the problem is the buses that run in the neighborhoods are always late, and no one's done anything about this.
Good one.
Good one.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for your courage.
My goodness.
Meanwhile, we do have...
Want to hear McCain?
Oh yeah, you got a McCain clip, because I have a McCain clip within a clip, but it's...
Yeah, so McCain was on every...
He was doing the rounds, and it also became very apparent why he had General McChrystal...
If you recall, we had McChrystal talking about Assad, and it was the...
He had all those nuclear...
Was it McChrystal?
Yeah.
It was from the past show, I think.
It's like a mushroom cloud over Syria.
He had all these analogies.
I remember it, though.
It's great.
Yeah, so now McCain is using that, which is why he had McChrystal come in in the first place.
Was it McChrystal?
Yeah, it might have been McChrystal.
No, no, no.
The other guy.
The guy who was kicked out for the CIA. Oh, right.
Petraeus.
Yes, Petraeus.
Petraeus.
Petraeus.
So he had the same spiel to the letter, almost, on every news network.
Senator, I wanted to play the Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, speaking at Atlantic Magazine's conference today because the White House and other officials at the State Department are trying to downplay this Russian move.
Let's watch.
Everybody's looking at Putin as if this is some offensive maneuver.
Again, they've had bases in Syria for a very long time.
This is their principal client state in the Arab world.
It's been collapsing.
I love the client state.
That's a great one.
Like, we don't have client states.
Where do you think...
I saw a Burlington Northern train in...
It was probably Utah.
And it was just filled with unmarked, but camoed tanks, Humvees...
You know, and it's not like, oh, they're going to the FEMA camps already.
No, it's what we do.
We produce this crap and we sell it to client states.
He's trying to prop it up.
I think that's hardly someone who's in a strong position.
I will even arm child soldiers to prop up the client states.
Is Vladimir Putin, in fact, in a weak position, as you've heard some recent testimony from David Petraeus pointing out that he's broke, he's spending money on military engagements, that he could be going to the banks for more money with a very poor cash flow coming.
No, he has no cash flow.
He's not liquid right now.
He's broke.
How can he do it?
In the next couple of years.
Don't forget David Petraeus advocated very strongly that we establish a no-fly zone.
David Petraeus was fired, right?
Yeah.
He was fired.
He was fired.
And then McCain brings him in, and he's wearing his uniform.
And now all of a sudden, oh, but Petraeus says, Petraeus says, Petraeus says, I'm sorry?
That's what I said.
He's giving advice somehow.
Why?
In uniform.
Well, so that McCain can then go on all the news channels and say, well, Petraeus said...
Buffer zone, take down Bashar Assad's barrel bombing capabilities and significant...
What?
It's too late for that.
No fly zone is done.
The Russians are flying around.
They're not going to put one up now.
Escalation of our behavior.
Also, David Petraeus took note that in the past, dictators who have domestic problems sometimes strike out.
I love this.
He catches himself saying this.
Because listen to his claim.
Is that according to the general, who knows all, the general who is the copy to tutti copy, who sucks him off.
I hate these guys.
He said, well, you know, when you have leaders who have problems at home, they often strike out abroad.
Oh, does it remind you of anybody?
Haters who have domestic problems sometimes strike out.
Well, let me think.
We have, you know, black and white violence.
We have, you know, a financial crisis.
Gee, do you think maybe that that's what's happening, that that's what we're doing because we have domestic problems?
We strike out and kill brown people in sandy areas who have no Air Force or Navy?
Only David Ignatius called him this morning.
The most respected diplomat that I've known, Ryan Crocker, said...
Ryan Crocker.
Now all of a sudden, he's everywhere in McCain-Wen.
He's talking about Ryan Crocker, Ryan Crocker, Ryan Crocker.
He was ambassador.
Who the hell's Ryan Crocker?
You should look him up.
He's an ambassador, a former ambassador.
Douche!
Russia has played a horrible hand brilliantly.
We folded what could have been a pretty good hand.
The Russians were able to turn a defensive position into an offensive one because we were so completely absent.
I can't describe it any better than Ryan Crocker has.
Putin is not strong.
Ryan Crocker, career ambassador to the US Foreign Service, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, He's got the white hair.
He was United States ambassador to Afghanistan, United States ambassador to Iraq, American ambassador to Pakistan, to Syria, to Kuwait, to Lebanon.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's one of these...
He's a Republican...
And former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the liar, called Crocker, quote, one of our very best Foreign Service officers.
So he wrote an op-ed.
And McCain's, oh, Ryan Crocker.
I mean, Ryan Crocker.
Who cares, Ryan?
Betty Crocker.
She has more sense than Ryan Crocker.
Of overwhelming advantage of him.
But what he's doing, as Ryan Crocker said, he's playing his card skillfully with exactly his goals in mind, and he's pursuing them.
We don't even have a strategy.
Remember a year ago, the President of the United States, our goal was to degrade and destroy ISIS? Can you see any real significant progress in that area?
Of course not.
Yeah, so McCain just wants to go and kill everybody, including shoot the Russians out of the sky.
Good work.
Well, I'm wondering this.
Of course...
Taking the background that we believe the whole ISIS thing was a creation and funded by and created by and...
And armed.
We're continuously arming somebody.
Yeah, we're arming them in all kinds of different ways.
Like the 500 million that went to the Syrian guys.
They just give it over to these guys.
The whole thing's a scam.
The ISIS thing's a scam.
Because if we were being logical and we wanted to play a stunt and we really didn't like the Russians...
We would just turn this thing over to them.
I mean, the way the French did with us in Vietnam, they suckered us.
The Russians could go in there and start bombing the thing.
They could stabilize Syria, stop the damned immigration problem, bring boots on the ground, even though they said they didn't want to, and start marching against ISIS, which they would be easily suckered into doing if we had a brain.
It wouldn't cost us anything.
It would stabilize the area.
Yes.
And Russia would keep what they're going to keep anyway, which is that little port that they've got.
Congratulations, you've just voted for Donald Trump.
Listen.
I want people to be guessing.
There was a great article about me recently, and they said in business, I'm very hard to figure out.
To me, that was a great compliment.
It was meant as a compliment.
It was given by an enemy who I absolutely beat, by the way.
And by the way, I'm on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
60 Minutes.
This guy is great.
A little insertion.
Perfect.
Alright, here he comes.
Woo!
60 minutes.
But I don't want people to figure me out.
I don't want people to know what my plan is.
I have plans.
I have plans.
But I don't want to do it.
Then they say, oh, he doesn't know foreign policy.
These people are crazy.
They're giving everything.
If I'm president, I will engage the Sixth Fleet.
I will do this.
I will do that.
That's Fiorina.
I will attack Russia in Syria.
This is what they say.
They want to start World War III over Syria.
Give me a break.
You know, Russia wants to get ISIS, right?
We want to get ISIS. Russia's in Syria.
Maybe we should let them do it.
Let them do it.
Are we crazy?
Are we crazy?
Forget about it.
Right into that one.
Forget about it.
Let's listen to a guy from the U.S. There was on PBS that had a little thing going on with Judy.
And this guy from the Naval War College actually made sense About what's going on here with the Russians.
And it's about their ports and about the oil and homes.
And there's a bunch of, you know, it makes a lot of sense.
What we want to do is what doesn't make any sense.
And let's add to that.
Unless we want ISIS to take over the place, which we obviously want.
And let's add to that that the original conflict was when Bashir al-Assad said, no, I'm not going to allow the pipeline from south to north, from Qatar up to Turkey, the port of Sehan, and be part of the European energy market.
No, I'm going to go with the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline and take their oil and then ship that on up to Turkey, which is homes in Aleppo.
We identified this very early on in the pipeline.
You identified Holmes.
Way before anybody else will give you that.
Yeah, this is where the pipelines run.
And that was the initial reason for this.
Your clip?
Yeah, this is a worldwide scam and the Russians should be given the...
Let them do it.
Let them waste their time and money.
But let's listen to this War College guy.
This is the War College Serial 1 clip.
In Syria right now, what kind of material and men do they have on the ground?
Well, as Andrew pointed out, they're putting in advanced equipment.
They have a number of battalions arriving.
They're putting in, they're reinforcing their port in Tartus outside of Latakia.
They're putting in both fighter aircraft.
There are reports that long-range bombers are being readied in southern Russia that could be flown over the Caspian, over Iranian and Iraqi airspace, and then could conduct missions in Syria.
And I think that we're seeing the Russians positioning for two things.
One is, of course, to help bolster the Assad regime.
But the other thing is to prepare a fallback plan, which is that if Assad cannot be restored to control over most of Syria, the Russians still want to have a say in how Syria will evolve in the coming years.
And one way they can do this is by ensuring that Assad, the Alawites, some of the Christian groups, have a secure enclave along the coast.
That then could be used as a bargaining chip with Turkey and Saudi Arabia and the other powers for how the future of Syria would go about.
And it's essentially to say that Russia, too, has a voice and a veto in what happens in the Middle East, and it's not just simply the regional powers or the United States that get to determine the future of Syria.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's reasonable.
Yes.
So why is everyone getting all bent out of shape?
Because it's fun.
It's a reality show, John.
It's a reality show.
then the players are obvious.
Caliphate, the Caliphate.
That is why we've all done a Caliphate.
Woo!
Meanwhile, you might as well close this episode.
I have a bunch of clips with this.
I think you just might as well close with the ISIS smugglers clip because this still cracks me up.
ISIS funds itself, in part, by looting Syria's ancient treasures.
And today, we got the first look at ISIS's own records, which were scooped up in a raid by U.S. Special Operations Forces.
Here's Margaret Brennan.
When ISIS financial kingpin Abu Sayyaf was killed by U.S. Special Forces last May, American soldiers made a startling discovery.
Hundreds of precious antiquities stored in his compound.
Today, newly declassified documents show for the first time just how deeply ISIS relies on smuggling antiquities to fund its terror.
Well, well, well, I've just figured something out.
Okay.
We should do this show.
But except for asking donations, we just ask for your children so we can smuggle them to other countries.
It's clearly a better business model.
Well, that's probably true, but I don't know how it does have to do with antiquities unless the kids are really old.
No, but, well, smuggling, it's also people smuggling.
It's people smuggling.
It's antiquity smuggling.
It's all bullcrap is what it is.
There's a lot of smuggling going on.
And the smuggling of the antiquities just does get to me because we were propagandized by the media.
Yeah, but they were breaking them and smashing them up.
They were busting them up.
They were busting up at the phony ones because, well, this is a fake!
They busted up and take a movie out.
Yeah, the plaster of Paris and the wires inside was just a minor giveaway.
Oops, sorry.
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Adam, you've said on several occasions that you do not like socialism as you experienced it firsthand in the Netherlands.
Can you elaborate on that?
The Netherlands seems to be doing pretty good and has a high standard of living.
Although I agree with you that many Dutch citizens seem to be pretty docile and taken in by the mass media dumbing down effects of stupid TV shows and biased news.
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Tell me how they're doing.
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Ah, it's so transparent.
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And I want to thank you all very much for the support.
And I also noticed, Eric missed a few things, man.
This is a birthday call out there from...
Jason Hoffman.
Sir Jason Hoffman.
I see this.
He missed this.
And I think he missed Mohamed Issa.
I don't know if you mentioned him.
$51.
He's from Rifa, Bahrain.
Dude named Mohamed.
Where is this?
Oh, Mohamed Issa and Rifa, Bahrain?
Yeah, I think you missed him.
I did.
Dude named Mohamed.
Just showing support.
We have a number of dudes named Mohamed.
I like dudes named Mohamed.
Yeah.
But we need a new jingle.
Al-Akbar, dude named Mohamed.
I don't know.
Someone will come up with something.
I think you don't need to do that.
Make good Brian Morton, Sir Led, says, I'm the guy that had my wife give you my donation and envelope.
I was too busy looking at her.
Also the guy that accused you of blocking me.
The envelope with the note on the back had $222 on it.
One of the $100 bills was folded instead of being flat like the rest of the bills.
I handed you a dollar bill before you left to make it $223.
You counted $123 on the show.
The opening of the envelope live on the air was pretty cool, though.
I apologize, and I did find it.
After I got the note, thank you.
I actually keep all the envelopes and everything that people send.
I like that.
I keep that stuff.
Okay.
Good list.
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It's highly appreciated.
And also, of course, everyone on the monthlies or in the 12-12, 11-11, 33-33s, anything under $50 for anonymity reasons.
And please consider us in your giving for the next No Agenda show.
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So then we have one, two, three...
Well, we have one posthumous knighting, so Sir Roy Groh can join us spiritually on the podium.
We need Kerry Gutknecht.
He is receiving a knight, foregoing Sir Howard's Baronessy, and Sir KG, and Angela Castaneda.
So if y'all can...
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Oh, wait.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Very happy to thank all of you for supporting the best podcast in the universe in the amount of $1,000 or more.
Hereby pronounce the Sir KG of Childsburg, Sir Roy Groh.
We have Sir Kerry.
And finally, Dame Angela Casanata.
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Well, then I can get, I can only, I got one thing then I can run and then we can move.
Okay, we'll keep it both to one thing.
Okay.
Alright, you want to go first or you want to be the kicker?
Do you think you've got something good enough?
I think a kicker would be good.
Then I'll go first.
The President's Podcast.
And wow, to me, this is just mind-boggling.
We're celebrating Get Rid of Your Expired Drug Day, I think it's something like that.
And so the president did his podcast about it, but I want you to listen to this.
The intertwining of prescription drugs and illegal street drugs in this one little podcast the president does, it's called the Weekly Radio Address, but it's a podcast, it was just mind-boggling.
And as always, we start off by saying, Heil, everybody!
Hi, everybody!
Today, September 26th, is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
Take-Back Day.
Yeah, but listen to what's going on here.
This is very disturbing.
It's a day where you can safely, conveniently, and responsibly dispose of expired and unwanted prescription drugs at collection sites in your community.
I want to point out that I went to the bathroom at Yellowstone at Old Faithful, and on the wall they had one of those medical boxes to put your syringes in.
Because apparently everyone who goes up there is diabetic.
This thing was chock full.
You could just reach in.
It was open at the top.
You could just reach in and grab a couple syringes.
Jeez.
And I think it was on National Drug Take Back Day.
Here's why this matters.
Matters.
More Americans now die every year from drug overdoses than they do in car crashes.
Okay.
What's that got to do with this?
This is why it was so crazy.
What does the drug take back day have to do with people overdosing?
Well, he's trying to...
I think what he's trying to say is you have to keep expired drugs out of the hands of kids because then they OD on them.
Just grab them.
But he's not really saying that.
Listen, listen.
And most of those deaths aren't due to drugs like cocaine or heroin.
Oh, okay.
So cocaine and heroin are more dangerous than ISIS. But rather, prescription drugs.
Oh, they're ODing on prescription drugs.
Okay.
In 2013 alone, overdoses from prescription pain medications killed more than 16,000 Americans.
Because they're hooked on prescription pain medications, Prez.
And most young people who begin misusing prescription drugs...
Because they're prescribed to them.
Don't buy them in some dark alley.
Oh.
They get them from...
The doctor!
The doctor!
The medicine cabinet.
Oh, please.
Yeah, that the doctor put there.
If that's not a good enough reason to participate in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, here's another.
Okay.
Any prescription pain medications belong to the same class of drugs as heroin.
Well, I'm glad we finally settled that!
Thank you!
This is an ad.
Hey, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Why deal with heroin when I can get the good stuff from the doctor legally?
In fact, four in five heroin users started out by misusing prescription drugs.
Oh, God.
Is he insane?
Misusing?
No, how about being prescribed prescription drugs that are in the same class as heroin as cocaine?
This is the problem.
And over the course of just one year, between 2013 and 2014, we saw a 33% increase in the number of heroin use.
I mean, just slap it in my face, will you?
33!
Just slap it in my face!
Just slap it in my face!
33!
That's the magic number!
All of this takes a terrible toll on too many families and too many communities all across the country.
Big and small, urban and rural.
It strains law enforcement and treatment programs.
It costs all of us in so many different ways.
With no other disease do we expect people to wait until they're a danger to themselves or others to self-diagnose and seek treatment.
So we should approach abuse as an opportunity to intervene.
Yeah, give them the good stuff, direct from the doctor, from the big pharma.
Not incarcerate.
Oh.
And we all have a role...
No, because who the hell wants your clients, your customers, in jail?
...to play here.
Parents, we have to understand how important it is to talk to our kids and to safely store medications in the house.
The medical community has to be engaged, too.
Gun safe.
In the gun safe, yeah.
Because better prescribing practices will make a difference.
Oh, there you go.
There's some truth.
And as a country, we have to keep working to reduce drug use through evidence-based treatment, prevention, and recovery.
Evidence-based?
This is an evidence-based podcast is what this is.
Evidence-based podcast.
It shows it works.
It works.
That's why the man I named to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli, is a man in long-term recovery himself.
Yeah, alcoholic.
There's nothing to do with drugs.
The guy's an alcoholic.
I'm sure it's similar.
Now, come on.
This is crazy talk.
It is crazy.
All right, I think mine does top this.
All right, well, top me.
Top me, John.
But shorter, because it has more poignant.
Just top me.
So I'm going to start by asking a very simple question.
Is it an Ask Adam?
No, no.
It's not an Ask Adam.
It's just a simple question.
It could be, but no.
Okay.
Now, the primaries are going to start next year.
When do they start?
They start, I think, I don't know when they start.
March?
But maybe.
They might start there.
Whatever the case, there's a lot of action going on in the Republican Party.
And that means there's going to be a lot of action during the primaries, which means what to the networks?
Advertising.
It means lots of advertising.
Advertising, yes.
Now, the Democrats...
What's going on with them?
We're going to have these two crappy candidates?
They need more candidates for more advertising.
They need more candidates to make more money.
Oh, no, I get it.
More debates.
More debates, more candidates, more...
Okay.
So NBC is at least beginning this foray.
The other networks are kind of doing it, but not so...
This is the NBC goading Biden into running.
All right, Kristen, thank you.
Let's bring in our political director, the moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd.
Chuck, let's start with brand new poll numbers you're releasing tonight about the state of the race and the potential candidacy of Joe Biden.
Well, it really sort of highlights the weakness right now of Hillary Clinton.
Our poll shows that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were...
Both poll better against Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner in a general election, than Hillary Clinton.
Look at this.
Biden's up by 21 points.
Sanders by 16 points.
Clinton only up by 10.
It's a sign of how much trouble she's having with swing voters, Lester.
By the way, the most popular candidate running for president right now is not running.
It's Joe Biden.
Oh, yes!
Bring Joe in.
We need more money.
Joe is such a dummy that he'll hear these things and think, they want me, they want me, they really do.
They just want me.
Just give me your lunch money is what it is.
He'll be running with that big smile on his face.
That's funny.
I don't think they can get anybody else.
That's the three it's going to be.
I got tons more stuff that I'll save for Thursday.
We'll do a blitz.
We haven't got a clip blitz for a while.
I also have...
I looked at Trump's tax plan.
I want to ask you about that.
So we'll talk...
Plenty of time to talk about it.
No one else is talking about it, so we might as well talk about it.
Morons.
I'm down with that, man.
I'm down with all that.
All right, John, thank you very much for your courage.
I said thank you very much for your courage.
Well, thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your courage.
All right.
And coming to you from the Crackpot Condo once again here in downtown Austin, Tejas, the capital of the Drone Star State.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where if there's smoke, there's fire, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday, Sunday, I'm sorry, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, just a few days away, right here on No Agenda.
Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn. - I'm not alone.
This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
Well, like I described earlier, there are two fundamental classes that are just a plain fact in society.
You either work for someone else, or you work for yourself.
And most people work for someone else in a way that they aren't free.
You don't really get to decide your work.
For example, I work at Noodles, a restaurant.
And basically, it's a dictatorship there.
We're told exactly what we're going to cook, how we're going to cook it, what time we're going to get there.
And basically, if they don't like what they're doing, they try to tell us what to do.
If we don't listen, they get rid of us.
And so we're not able to actually cooperate in a way that we make decisions together.
I try to convince my fellow employees that we should have a union at Noodle's, so it's a source of power to start with.
And then I think in terms of the bigger picture, when you look at revolutions, the way that you actually get rid of any sort of dictatorship is by having workers take control of the place where they work.
Would your plan, your vision for Noodles, would it include the owner?
What capacity would he be granted?
If the owner wanted to cooperate with us as an equal and provide his skills that he had, we would definitely cooperate with him.
We'd have to advocate his position as being an owner and controller of us and he would have to recognize that We run this together and basically, if he doesn't want to cooperate with us, he's against us.
Caliphate!
The Caliphate!
That is why we've all died of caliphate.
People get pregnant, pregnant in all kinds of ways. pregnant in all kinds of ways.
Yes.
Yes.
And the people cannot always afford to have the child that they are pregnant with.
Yes.
If you have an issue, come to me.
Come to me.
Yes.
Nobody.
Not even God.
God says, come to me.
Yes.
Yes.
Some ladies need it.
And yes, there shouldn't regulations yet.
Vagina.
Still, this act, this land here is what we've been fighting for.
Some ladies need it.
And yes, there should be regulations where it can be slurred, man.
You know, don't be going around having things that you can't have.
And if you have a problem with it, get out of my vagina!
But wait a minute, you know what?
Why Planned Parenthood came into being, which was people got tired of tripping over women with hangers hanging out of their bodies because they were giving themselves these abortions that were supposed to be safe and clean.
So explain to me now what you're going to do.
Because if you think this is going to stop women from doing it, it's not.
People who are desperate enough to go and get an abortion, there's a reason they need it.
They feel they need it.
Get out of my vagina!
Don't be going around having babies. .
Things that you can't have.
Things that you can't have.
Things that you can't have.
If you think this is going to stop this, It's not!
And yes, it's...
Get out of my...
Vagina!
Get out of my...
Vagina!
Vagina!
Get out of my...
Vagina, vagina, get out of my, get out of my vagina.