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	Ham Radio could save your life, man.
	It's not just a hobby.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, November 5th, 2015.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 771.
	This is no agenda.
	Remember, remember the 5th of November.
	The gunpowder, treason, and plot.
	And broadcasting live from the capital of the Grown Star State here in FEMA Region 6, Austin Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm faxing it in.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	There's something distinctly old-fashioned about faxing it in.
	I just, just as I said that, the California Zephyr went by.
	Okie dokie.
	I'm sure a few train buffs will appreciate the fact that I can see the California Zephyr.
	So here it is.
	Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot.
	I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Guy Fawkes and his companions did the scheme contrive to blow the king and parliament all up alive.
	Three score barrels laid below to prove Old England's overthrow, but by God's providence, him they catch with a dark lantern lighting a match.
	A stick and a stake for King James' sake.
	If you won't give me one, I'll take two.
	The better for me and the worse for you.
	A rope, a rope to hang the Pope.
	A pen worth of cheese to choke him.
	A pint of beer to wash it down.
	And a jolly good fire to burn him.
	Holla, holla, boys.
	Make the bells ring.
	Holla, holla, boys.
	God save the king.
	Use the yodeling technique.
	It is Guy Fawkes Day in Gitmo Nation East.
	It's Guy Fawkes Day.
	There's a guy, a failure.
	They're celebrating a failure.
	It's always been peculiarly interesting to me why they celebrate that that way.
	Well, it's like the Sanco de Mayo.
	Sanco de Mayo.
	It's a failure.
	You mean it's just, it's like superstition?
	Superstition?
	No, it's not superstition.
	I guess they were, I can't remember the exact story.
	I could look it up.
	But it's just a small revolution.
	They pushed back somebody for a day or two, and then that was the end of it.
	But it was the first of May, so they celebrated.
	Or fifth of May.
	Fifth of November.
	And why did they celebrate May Day?
	What's the big deal about that?
	There's another one.
	Yeah, but the Guy Fawkes thing is interesting today because of Anonymous having adopted the V for Vendetta mask, which is loosely based on the Guy Fawkes story.
	Yes, loosely.
	That's why it's interesting.
	Hey!
	The Phantom of the Opera as Guy Fawkes.
	Hey, it's been gone for a while.
	Oh, wait, I think I have a jingle for this, actually.
	Hmm.
	I'd forgotten about that.
	By the way, my theme today, I'm going to cite my theme at the beginning of the show.
	Okay.
	Lies.
	Okay, here's my theme for this morning.
	It's another installment of Dinner with the Obots.
	That's right, everybody.
	Time once again for an installment of Dinner with the Obots.
	Oh, that's right.
	You had Dinner with the Obots, the new group.
	They had a lot of replacement actors.
	Well, not necessarily replacement actors.
	These were actors who we've had in one of the Obot dinners previously.
	Okay.
	And, of course, the dinner was hosted by Lori Frick and her husband, Mark.
	Okay, the artist.
	The artist, right?
	And her husband, who would never sit down with a Republican.
	No.
	No, that's someone else.
	You always make this mistake.
	I keep getting these characters mixed up.
	No, Mark is great.
	Mark is fantastic.
	He's a great guy.
	He's very quiet, and then from time to time, he just pipes up and says something and floors you.
	No, so I had met these two O-Bot participants previously, and we discussed one of them in great detail.
	This is Professor Jamie Pennebaker and his wife, Ruth Pennebaker.
	And Professor Jamie is, of course...
	I love the name!
	Yes, he is the author of The Secret Life of Pronouns, which gave us an insight into performatives.
	Yes.
	I do recall.
	And maybe we should just talk briefly about a performative because it is something fun to look out for.
	It is when someone says something that makes the second half of their statement completely irrelevant whether it's true or not.
	Such as a president could say, I want to tell the American people I will not put boots on the ground in Syria.
	So he's just saying that to the people.
	He's not actually meaning it.
	How's that for a performative example?
	I think the example is outstanding.
	I think your follow-up little ditty was weak.
	Could you help us out then?
	Yeah, I can't because I haven't been thinking about it.
	But I can use your example.
	The president can say, or the classic thing politicians always say is, I want to say this about that.
	Now, wanting to say something about something is not the same as saying it.
	And so I can say, I want to say this about that.
	We have to get out of this war.
	That's what you'd like to say.
	But that's not what you mean.
	And politicians use these little, it's like a disclaimer.
	That's what I would define it as, a disclaimer.
	A disclaimer, yeah.
	So the sentence is like, it disclaims what you're about to say.
	Yeah, it's just as good as saying, a disclaimer, I own Microsoft stock, but I'm going to talk about them anyway.
	So people don't really care.
	That, yes.
	Anyway.
	But, that's not a lie.
	Right.
	Right.
	For me, it's usually a way to lie.
	It's a way to lie.
	So, it was good seeing the professor, and he has done a lot of improvements on his LIWC, Which, if you'll recall, that is his linguistic inquiry word count system to program.
	And it's actually, it's available.
	They have an online version you can use.
	You just plop in some text.
	It analyzes that text based upon the pronouns used.
	And pronouns are what, John?
	On, up, I, we, you.
	Are those pronouns?
	What are pronouns?
	Oh, man.
	What is this?
	A question and answer, Joe?
	Well, I didn't...
	Yes!
	You got to Google right in front of you.
	Type it in Google.
	Well, I'm trying...
	Oh, man.
	I'm trying to explain something.
	Well, you're doing...
	I, me, he, she...
	You were doing fine until I interrupted.
	Yeah, that's true.
	I, me, he, she, herself, you.
	I, me, he, she, herself, you.
	It, that, they.
	I'm...
	Yes.
	Yes.
	It's like a pro noun.
	I want to ask a question, which is, what's the website address for LIWC? Okay, I will tell you right now.
	It is LIWC.net.
	In fact, I pasted your most recent newsletter in there.
	Can you explain why nobody donated?
	So many negative emotions in this newsletter.
	You had a high score in negative emotion.
	Well, that's never really mattered.
	Let me explain.
	So the linguistic inquiry word count is a systemology that he's built, and he can then determine personality type.
	He can also determine intent of what someone is really saying, and if they wrote this with certain emotions.
	And right off the bat, he started telling me how he's doing all this.
	He wrote the book, wasn't it?
	It's an older book now.
	It's been around for five, six, seven years.
	And he has worked for every single intelligence agency, who of course all want to analyze social media feeds, which he has been doing.
	The interesting thing is every single agency, he was rattling them off.
	He even included DNI. Of course, FBI, CIA, NSA. Every single one wants their own special project.
	Do not want to share any of the results with any of the other agencies.
	There's a little insight for you with this new setup we've got where they're all supposed to share.
	I don't know how long ago this took place, but it seemed like it was relatively recent.
	They were supposed to share.
	Oh, yeah.
	But they're not sharing anything.
	Sharing was supposed to be in Iran 2005.
	Everybody has their own system and their own.
	And they are using it.
	They're analyzing, I guess, to see if you're a terrorist or an al-Qaeda.
	Now, I don't know really...
	Don't retweet.
	He's also, of course, you can imagine he's a big fan of the personal assistants that do voice recognition.
	He loves Alexa.
	He's a big...
	He's all in and so far in, in fact, that at a certain point during the dinner, he says, well, you know, this Amazon thing is, you know, it's artificial intelligence.
	It's real artificial intelligence.
	No, it's not.
	It has a small set of things it has to listen for, like weather, traffic, set a timer, give me the news, order something from the shopping.
	That's not intelligence.
	It's just a very small set of words it has to listen to and recognize, or as they call it, utterances, I think is what the API calls for for Amazon Echo.
	Yeah.
	No, no, no.
	He says this is artificial intelligence, which is an interesting point to debate.
	So he doesn't think list analysis is...
	Well, he thinks list analysis is...
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	Yeah, he thinks that is...
	He thinks list analysis is artificial intelligence.
	Well, he was adamant about it.
	And adamant about it.
	He has been working for the Cortana team at Microsoft.
	Which is supposed to be, according to the Cortana team, really good.
	And so, I guess with his pronoun, his linguistic inquiry word count system, he's able to...
	Better analyze what someone is actually asking for.
	Of course, he's under NDA and he couldn't tell me anything.
	But when I suggested making a Gmail plug-in, a plug-in where you could analyze anyone's email they send to you, what their true intent was, which I thought was a genius idea.
	He said that one of the partners he's working with has already made this, but it's not yet been released.
	I don't know if it's going to be released or...
	And I'm just going to suppose that that may be Microsoft.
	Anyway.
	I wouldn't make that supposition.
	Well, you weren't at the dinner.
	Oh.
	Well, that's true, but I still wouldn't make that supposition.
	Because they were talking, because it was during the Cortana discussion.
	It was within context.
	That's what you're telling me.
	You're giving me a wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	Yeah, I'm giving you a wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	Why would they do it?
	Well, you know, Microsoft is famous for doing cool stuff and never being able to launch it properly.
	But I'd say...
	I'm not going to argue that.
	It's not so relevant.
	Now, before the dinner, and Tina the Keeper, of course, accompanied me, I said to her, I said, now, you know...
	Ruth, his wife, she's all in.
	She's all in on everything, on climate change.
	We're all going to die.
	Republicans are assholes.
	Hillary's going to win.
	She'll be in the next president.
	Planned Parenthood is great.
	So I said, I'm going to be really...
	I'm really going to take it easy.
	Because there's a lot of things that are in there.
	And I was very conscious of myself because I didn't want to get triggered by some...
	You know, it was by stuff that could come up in the conversation.
	You probably weren't drinking much then.
	Yeah, at that point, no.
	It was the cognac that, well, we'll get to that in a minute.
	Now, here's what Jamie did, Professor Jamie.
	He ran his system on all of the most recent debates and came up with profiles of the candidates.
	Nice.
	Yeah, it's fantastic.
	This is a no agenda exclusive.
	This is an extreme exclusive.
	This is what people aren't paying us for.
	That's right.
	Today, especially.
	However, you just have to take this with the truth that he sees in it.
	And he's a professor at UT, so he runs a whole department.
	So he's got a lab and everything.
	So you've got to think.
	And also, no one said I couldn't talk about it on the show.
	So here we go.
	Well, they made a mistake.
	Who are the two candidates, and this could be from either, of course, right now we're only looking at Republicans and Democrats, who are the two candidates who, according to the LIWC system, are the most truthful?
	Speak the truth.
	Not just they believe the truth, but speaking the truth.
	Now, can I get a hint?
	Are they Democrats or Republicans?
	Just pick two.
	Oh, this is not good.
	Alright, I'll pick two.
	Mike Huckabee and Hillary Clinton.
	Wow, you got a double loser.
	The most truthful, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders.
	Huh.
	They are speaking the truth.
	Doesn't surprise me.
	The dumbest?
	Oh, they have dumbest?
	He has two dumb...
	No, actually, wait.
	First, Hillary, because I asked specifically, knows no truth when she speaks.
	This is the analysis.
	She speaks as if she knows that she is not speaking the truth.
	She knows she's not speaking the truth.
	Yes.
	That is the analysis of Hillary.
	That sounds right.
	He's pulled out two names as the dumbest.
	How is that determined?
	Again, it's his system.
	He's running it through.
	Who use language that makes...
	Maybe it's fair to say who use language who make them sound incredibly dumb.
	In fact...
	Well, no.
	Who are the two dumbest according to the LIWC system?
	And I'll give you a hint.
	Both are Republicans.
	Surprise.
	Well, that's because there's...
	Twelve to two or four.
	Three now.
	It's likely to be most Republicans because there's more of them.
	So the two dumbest Republicans.
	This is no agenda exclusive.
	I'm telling you, this is millions of dollars worth of University of Texas scientific work being rolled out for you right here.
	The science is in!
	All right, well, there's a bunch of...
	I don't know.
	Maybe...
	Let me take a shot at...
	And I'm going to...
	If I'm right on either one of these, I have a comment.
	Okay.
	Donald Trump and Chris Christie.
	Donald Trump is correct.
	You have a comment on Donald Trump before I give you the second one?
	I want the second one first.
	The second one, and I will give you his...
	Not just the name, but also a descriptor.
	Ben Carson, he says, is devastatingly stupid.
	Well, haven't I been saying that on the show?
	But I mean, he says the only thing this guy can do is brain surgery.
	He's devastatingly stupid on everything else.
	Yeah.
	True.
	It's likely.
	Yeah.
	I, okay, I'm glad that one of the two was Christie or Trump, but I think Carson fits right in there.
	This seems to me that he's coded in anti-East Coast establishment bias.
	I can't speak to that.
	He is, both he and, he's from Texas.
	His wife is from Oklahoma.
	They've lived in Texas, although they did live in New York for a while, and she wrote for the New York Times, and, you know, she's, so...
	That would be her bias.
	I don't think that slipped into his work.
	No, it's a natural thing.
	If you're from the Midwest or the Bible Belt, which is where he's from, Texas is included by far, you could code in an anti-East Coast bias.
	Unwittingly, you wouldn't be thinking.
	It's possible.
	And that would put Trump, and that's why I'm surprised Christie wasn't the other one, right at the top of the list because they talk like New Yorkers.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, possible.
	That's probably baked into the code then somehow.
	Who, according to his...
	Analysis will become the Republican nominee.
	I'm not sure how his LIWC system works this.
	This is a stretch.
	Look, at this point, there's a two glass champagne...
	Does the LIWC system include party-based corruption that usually results in the candidate being elected who they want to be elected?
	Is that in there?
	The insinuation to me...
	The way I received it was that something about the way this particular candidate speaks shows that he also knows he is going to be the Republican nominee.
	Jeb Bush.
	Incorrect.
	Ted Cruz.
	Incorrect.
	Chris Christie.
	Incorrect.
	Who else?
	I don't know who there is.
	That's why it was so surprising to me.
	Okay.
	Marco Rubio.
	Oh, yeah, that's a possibility.
	I should have mentioned him.
	Yeah.
	According to the LIWC system and his extrapolation of the data, Marco Rubio will receive the nomination.
	Here's my problem with this.
	Marco Rubio still looks like he's 14.
	You cannot be the President of the United States looking like you're 14.
	John Kennedy was the youngest president we ever voted in.
	He was mature.
	Rubio's not.
	We don't need to have a big discussion about why.
	Again, this is science.
	I don't know why you try and fight science.
	97% of scientists at this dinner agree.
	Yeah, I'm sure they did.
	Now Ruth is starting to pipe up.
	And she's like, well, I'm voting for Hillary.
	That's so bigoted, it's unbelievable.
	Well, it got worse.
	Did you ask her why?
	Oh, of course!
	Oh, you did!
	And this is where Jamie piped and said, oh, by the way, of course I ran all of her 50,000 pages of emails on my system.
	And this is where he doubled back and said, she is a liar.
	But it was interesting to see these people, I don't know how long they've been married, they're both in their mid-60s, and they've got a beautiful marriage going on, and she didn't scratch his eyes out, which was about to happen to me!
	Now we're in...
	Now I'm being very calm.
	The whole Hillary thing, like, oh, well, it's interesting, you know.
	Yeah, you know, it would be a shame, you know, if we can't find anyone better than a Clinton or a Bush.
	You know, I'm going very, very soft.
	And then we start talking about, you know, migrants.
	They had no clue.
	Completely oblivious to what's really happening with the migrant situation.
	In Europe?
	In Europe, yes.
	Holy mackerel!
	Really, really almost zero knowledge.
	It was stunning.
	I'm not completely surprised.
	Stunning.
	Stunning.
	But it is?
	Yeah.
	Well, here's what...
	It's not good.
	And then, you know, then I rolled in slowly.
	Uh-oh.
	Yeah, I know.
	And this is with alcohol.
	And Lori kept pouring cognac.
	This was the mistake.
	And then, you know, it's like, well...
	That's the way to get you to talk.
	She knows what she's doing.
	Yeah.
	You say ex-reporter.
	So then I roll out, you know, World War III, you know, that we're kind of in the middle of it, and look at everything that's happening.
	And Tina and I talked about it for an hour after we got home.
	I don't know exactly how it came about, but at a certain point...
	So, stop.
	So right now, this whole thing is Laurie, the artist...
	Amusing herself.
	Oh, yes!
	She's doing...
	She's pouring this...
	Okay, okay, hubby.
	We're gonna...
	Let's get entertained here.
	Here, have some more cognac.
	By the way, this is good cognac.
	It's dynamite cognac.
	And I couldn't even read the label.
	This is how...
	I'm blotto.
	I'm blotto now.
	But I'm still...
	But I'm cool, right?
	I'm like, okay, it's alright.
	I'm not sure...
	We both can't figure it out.
	It was probably something about...
	Hillary and Black Lives Matter or Bernie.
	And at a certain point, Ruth turns to me and Jamie's almost in concert.
	Well, you know, you're just ignoring your white privilege.
	And I lost my shit.
	What?
	I lost it.
	What does it mean, though?
	That I am privileged and I need to shut up about things like Black Lives Matter.
	I think.
	But I've never been accused...
	We've talked about the white privilege meme for a long time.
	I've never actually been accused of that by someone.
	Saying, well, you're just ignoring your white privilege.
	And I gotta tell you, I lost it.
	So that upset you?
	Yes.
	I mean, if somebody said that to me, I think I'd laugh.
	Well, again, I'd been sauced up.
	I'd been set up.
	It was clearly a set up.
	You've been put on the tee for the tee ball batter.
	It was...
	I could even see Tina looking at me going like, dude, dude, don't call me that.
	It was like, you're a bit defensive, aren't you?
	I said, well, you know, I didn't have...
	Oh, your Cherokee sounds like from the way you drink.
	Well, I said, I'm Pocahontas.
	I said, this is bullcrap.
	I grew up in Europe, okay?
	There's no white privilege in Europe.
	Yeah, it's all white.
	No, it's not.
	Have you ever been to Europe?
	There's all kinds of integrated races, going back to the Moluccas, the Indonesians.
	I said, no, this is not how it was.
	I was not raised with any white privilege.
	I just went on and on about...
	What does white privilege mean?
	And to you, for that matter.
	Okay, here's what I figured.
	I figured it out after going back and forth, because I've been discriminated for my age, I've been discriminated for my hair, my height, and then everyone, almost in concert, they go, yeah, but you can't take off a black skin.
	You can cut your hair.
	I'm like, okay, fine.
	Well, I refuse.
	I don't accept it.
	It was mind-boggling to me, A, that I was accused of ignoring my white privilege.
	Well, let's stop again.
	This is fascinating for a number of different reasons.
	Well, here's what I think it was.
	Because I was hammering on, you know, they didn't know about the migrants, they didn't really understand what's happening with the pipelines, with Syria and with Iran and Russia and how it all fits in and how we really want to...
	I think that it was like a go-to thing to put me in my place.
	Because when you're white and someone says white, how do you argue?
	I'm clearly white.
	And then everything came to the table.
	Driving while black.
	I mean, all of this stuff.
	I said, well, geez, Louise, what do you want me to say?
	Now, what's this got to do with Hillary?
	Hillary's a lying phony.
	I don't see her having any sympathy for blacks.
	But she talks a good game.
	That's the whole point.
	I think she was always jealous that Bill could actually go to a black church and communicate.
	Because Bill's, you know, that way.
	He's the communicator.
	And she's not.
	Now, I'm not saying that Jamie is all in on Hillary.
	But I didn't get that impression, actually.
	So you said she's going to vote for her.
	No, that's Ruth.
	Ruth is the wife.
	Jamie is the professor, the husband.
	Oh, I'm sorry, Jamie.
	No.
	Because Jamie's a cross-gender name.
	Okay, Ruth.
	No, I'm not talking about Jamie.
	I'm talking about...
	Hillary.
	I'm not talking about any of them.
	But I think that's why I got put in my place because it went to Black Lives Matter and who's behind these groups.
	Just to shut me up, it felt like.
	Like, well, Woody, you don't know.
	You can't speak about this.
	That's the way they play baseball.
	But it was a pylon.
	Two strikes and you're out.
	No, the quarterback got sacked and the fridge jumped on me.
	It was nuts.
	I was crushed.
	I was like...
	You should throw a yellow flag.
	Now, there's a great thing to do with the neck.
	Bring a yellow...
	Those flags, by the way, they're made of silk.
	Just throw some laundry on the table.
	Pull a flag and toss it in the air.
	You need a yellow handkerchief that's made out of silk, and you tie a little heavy weight on one corner.
	You know, but...
	We've talked about this white privilege meme a lot, and it never really hit home until someone actually stood there in my face and accused me of ignoring my white privilege.
	I busted my ass to be where I am today, a podcaster.
	You're starving to death.
	Go podcasting!
	I busted my ass.
	And I was like, hey, can people take off their fat?
	Can people take off their gay?
	Come on!
	Bill, you have straight privilege.
	Anyway, when you got...
	Let me summarize.
	It rubbed you the wrong way.
	I would say so.
	You went nuts.
	And then we all drank some more.
	Oh no!
	But here comes the line of the night.
	So then global warming came up.
	Now, at this point, I think Tina is pinching my leg.
	But you can't feel it because you're hammered.
	But here's the great thing.
	So it's Ruth and Jamie.
	And Ruth is going, oh, we're all going to die.
	These stupid Republicans.
	And Jamie turns to him and says, it's going to get warmer.
	You'll adapt.
	I have to say.
	One of my favorite lines.
	You look apt?
	You'll adapt.
	You'll adapt.
	If it's a couple degrees warmer, you'll adapt.
	So that was nice to hear the scientist being somewhat...
	Well, that's even sketchy.
	So I insured...
	You've ruined it for everybody.
	No, I said, I'll host the next one in my place, for sure.
	I sent an email out to everyone saying, hey, thanks, it was great.
	I'm really happy that we can all...
	Have a conversation without...
	Without somebody calling me a white prick.
	Well, listen to this.
	Without ridicule?
	And then Jamie replied saying, Whoa, there definitely was some ridicule going on, but it was nice.
	We'll see you at the next one.
	So I ran his email through his own software and sent it back to him.
	And I said, Hey, you got a 5.0 negative emotion, a 0.0 positive emotion on your email.
	Which he replied, very slick.
	And that was it.
	Hopefully there will be a follow-up.
	He's dealing with having to defend his wife.
	I know.
	Who is apparently, from the sounds of it, a hysterical woman.
	Being criticized by some...
	No, here's the very end as we're about to leave.
	And Ruth had horrible breast cancer.
	Like, on the verge of death.
	Really, really shitty time.
	And so at the very end there, somehow cancer comes up.
	Listen, I didn't bring it up.
	And then I said, you know, someone who would beat it.
	And maybe it was about her.
	And I said, Naz, you know, I think it's all about attitude, really.
	And she freaks out me.
	I'm so tired of that fucking bullshit about attitude!
	It has nothing to do with attitude!
	And I thought, well, look at yourself.
	And that was shitty.
	Because you just say, I guess I insulted her.
	Well, I clearly insulted her.
	You clearly insulted her, which is probably why Jamie gave you the nasty note.
	That was an insult, and she took offense to that contract.
	But I didn't mean it as an insult.
	You wouldn't really hear a lot of in places like Texas where you have a lot of these religious cases.
	It was an opinion.
	It was an opinion, but she just went off, you know, saying that it's absolutely untrue.
	Your attitude has nothing to do whether you get cancer or beat cancer.
	Now, the problem with that in that regard is that it didn't sound like she was reacting to that, you know, you would want to call it an opinion.
	I think it was a commentary.
	But reacting to that in a very negative way sounds like a bad attitude to me, but that's...
	Yeah, my point exactly.
	And I think that she didn't really remember me that well because at some point during the dinner she looked at me and she went, oh yeah, you're the conspiracy guy.
	Yeah, it's all coming back to me now.
	When was the last time you saw him?
	A couple years ago.
	Oh, it shouldn't take that long.
	Two years ago.
	You're the conspiracy guy.
	I said, excuse me, I prefer to refer to myself as a podcaster.
	Well, this sounds like anyone who is all in on Hillary, despite her husband showing that she's just an out-and-out liar, has a lot of issues with cognitive dissonance, where you have contradictory thoughts in the brain at the same time, which kind of confuse you because you can't straighten yourself out.
	You can't see the world in a way that makes sense.
	So your brain just shorts out.
	It's strange.
	It's very possible.
	But they're both lovely people.
	I love how they are together.
	If you want to look at a married couple who seem to really love each other and have been through the trenches, it's a perfect example.
	I enjoy very much listening to this.
	But I really got my nuts stomped on a bit.
	It was surprising that I also...
	My reaction, I was surprised by my...
	Now, again, I was sauced, but my reaction was severe for my...
	Well, it sounds like to me, which, if I was doing Analyze the Night...
	There was a number of things that were being brought up in the discussion that were creating tension within your worldview.
	My worldview?
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah, and I knew it was going to happen.
	Because it was like, wait a minute, I should say something here.
	Wait a minute, I should say, this is why people out there that are the no agenda thinkers.
	Don't bother.
	Absolutely.
	Either don't bother or just be a grouch.
	So it's like one thing is building up.
	It's building up.
	It's building up because, you know, I should say something.
	Oh, I should say something.
	Oh, that's not right.
	They don't even know about this.
	Oh, they don't even know about that.
	How can they even make these judgments when they're that ignorant?
	They don't know this.
	They don't know this.
	Pound a few down and boom, out it comes.
	Now, most importantly, Blory made a dynamite corned beef dinner.
	Which was really good.
	I'm going to get her recipe.
	It was kick-ass.
	Alright, we'll get her recipe.
	Yeah, that was really...
	Oh, then Lori did try to get the conversation going at one point.
	She said, have you heard about people moving into tiny houses?
	And here's how my brain goes...
	Oh, man.
	Agenda 21.
	Agenda 2030.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	Shut up, man.
	Shut up, Curry.
	Shut up, Curry.
	And like, why do young people want to live in small?
	I said, well, you know, there's lots of reasons.
	It's kind of what we're being pushed towards.
	It's kind of what everybody wants, you know, so we can be slaves in little slave huts.
	And luckily, Tina came to the rescue.
	We have TV shows about this, too.
	Tina came to the rescue.
	She says, well, you know, today's kids...
	You know, their assets are digital.
	They don't need bookshelves, they don't need record collections, they don't need, you know, desks, all this stuff.
	You know, there was some reasoning there that was...
	Oh, that was a good one.
	That was nice, yeah.
	Yeah, it got you off the hook.
	And then I woke up...
	Did you tell me, did everyone know you have a trailer?
	Yes, we did discuss the trailer.
	Yeah.
	While I'm talking about that, you'll remember from our last O-Bot dinner, we had Carolyn, who is the development director for the Big Telescope Project, and she also does the...
	Oh, the one?
	Yes, that one.
	So Tina and I are going to Marfa next Friday with the trailer, Marfa, Texas.
	It's right near the observatory, McDonnell Observatory.
	Oh, okay.
	And we have a private tour.
	Good.
	Private viewing through the scope.
	Okay.
	And we're going to stay overnight.
	I'll do the show from there on Sunday.
	Are you going to...
	On Sunday?
	Yes.
	Are you going to take a look at where the moon landings were?
	I'm going to ask for it.
	Could you show me the flag?
	Hey!
	Hey, scientist!
	Hey!
	Hey, telescope boy!
	Can you show me the footprints?
	Or the so-called quarter that's on the moon?
	Yes.
	Which...
	Anyway.
	Footprints.
	Footprints.
	And there you go, everybody!
	It's another installment of...
	To be continued.
	Yeah, it's a great segment.
	It's one of our best.
	And the next day I woke up, Tina had to go to work on time, and I was still hungover.
	I was still drunk, actually.
	You were still drunk?
	You should get a hangover from Good Cognac.
	Yeah, I say drunk, not hangover, but I was drunk.
	Still drunk.
	Well, that's not...
	What time did you go to bed?
	One.
	What time did you stop drinking the cognac?
	12.58.
	Okay, so then you got up at what time that you're still drunk?
	Seven.
	I should have been pretty sobered up by then.
	I was pretty sobered up.
	You look kind of like a Cherokee.
	Let's put it this way.
	I knew I was pretty drunk when Tina said, do you realize you're riding your hoverboard through the house naked?
	Yeah, you're right.
	No photos were made.
	That's a shame.
	So there you go.
	Alright.
	Enough of this silliness.
	Oh, I found the clip we've been looking for.
	Someone was looking to expand the hard drive on the Mac that runs the show, the MacBook Air, and someone said, hey, why don't you get one of these 250 gigabyte cards that fits right into the slot on the right?
	Which was a genius solution.
	So now I went from 250 gigs to half a terabyte, and I was able to restore clips going back to 2010 into the searchable archive, which I think is pretty cool.
	And with that, I found...
	In the end, the folks I hear from in letters or meet when I travel across the country, they aren't asking for much.
	They're just looking for a job that covers their bills.
	They're looking for a little financial security.
	They want to know that if they work hard and live within their means, everything will be all right.
	They'll be able to get ahead and give their kids a better life.
	That's the dream each of us has for ourselves and our families.
	And so long as I have the privilege of serving as president, I'll keep fighting to put that dream within the reach of all Americans.
	Woo!
	Have a great weekend.
	The American dream.
	The American dream, everybody.
	Yeah, that is one of the greatest clips that we've ever promoted.
	Now, that is from 2011.
	Getting by clip.
	That is the getting by clip.
	And now I'll be able to find it.
	Of course, we had a lot of local elections the past couple of days.
	As an aside, I want to say thank you very much, Austin, for voting down the $287 million bond to build a courthouse right in front of my building.
	Thank you.
	Perfect.
	Narrow margin, 51 to 49.
	A thousand vote difference.
	I'm happy about that.
	But in Kentucky, they also had some elections.
	Here is Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo, and he picks up on the President's just getting by meme in a peculiar way.
	...back home, be safe, and believe in the...
	You belong to the greatest political party that the world has ever seen.
	You belong to the party of Jefferson, and Jackson, and Clinton, and Kennedy, and yes, Obama.
	And no, I don't agree with everything that he does, but I'm going to tell you something.
	I believe in the core values that he represents.
	The core values that he represents is the belief of?
	Bringing the middle class dream to every American.
	The middle class dream of every American, John.
	The dream is to be middle class.
	Middle class dream.
	And it gets better.
	Now, I believe that there's a horse out there.
	Not American Pharaoh.
	It's an Arkansas traveler.
	A horse.
	And that horse is bringing a lady jockey.
	And that horse and that jockey are going to come here to Kentucky next year and help us rebuild this party.
	Thank you and God bless everyone.
	Woo!
	The horse from Arkansas!
	Just getting by is my American dream.
	That's right, just getting by.
	Well, that's the guy who lost, I believe.
	I don't know.
	The guy said that he's Kentucky.
	That's a Kentucky guy, right?
	Kentucky guy, yeah.
	Yeah, he's the guy who lost.
	He was beaten by a Republican.
	And he was running for governor, if it's not something of the right guy.
	But more importantly than him and his nuttiness, which sounds like a lunatic, was they discussed he was supposed to win.
	But it was neck and neck.
	And then at the end, he was ahead.
	He was going to win.
	And so there was a little discussion of this on PBS NewsHour because it fell right into my wheelhouse.
	Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Is this, that's not three by three, is it?
	No.
	No, this is a PBS NewsHour.
	Oh.
	So it fell within my wheelhouse, which is that the polling in this country is rigged to benefit the media companies.
	Kentucky polls is the clip.
	Hold on a second.
	Roger.
	Stu, the Republicans or conservative causes had gains on issues.
	They had gains on candidates.
	Let's start in Kentucky.
	How did Matt Mevin confound the polls?
	Well, Gwen, you're right.
	Almost all the pollsters got it wrong, and there are a number of possible explanations.
	To some extent, they always had Jack Conway, the Democrat, running in the mid-40s, but with a two-to-five-point lead.
	He ended up losing, but he also got in the mid-40s, just what they predicted.
	So it could have been that the undecided voters swung dramatically to the Republicans.
	On the other hand, I think it's more likely that it was a late break in cultural issues, social issues, issues like Planned Parenthood funding.
	That's been a big issue.
	Same-sex marriage, religious liberty.
	Planned Parenthood, same-sex marriage, religious liberty.
	Yeah, last-minute changes.
	In other words, these Republicans and the Independents, they had no thoughts on Planned Parenthood or religious liberty, for that matter.
	And they changed their mind at the very last second.
	No, no, it was another phony poll.
	No one brings this up.
	These are polls designed.
	Half the polls are subsidized by the network.
	CBS, New York Times poll, for example.
	These sorts of polls.
	These are media polls.
	The media's got their name on half of these polls.
	Yeah, it's always like Times, CNN... Yeah, the CNN poll.
	These polls are designed for one thing, to bring in bigger advertising dollars.
	Yeah, to make it a close, neck-and-neck race.
	Neck-and-neck race.
	If one side's not coughing up, pawning up enough money.
	Then you go down in the polls.
	You go way down in the polls, and the other side's running away with it.
	Beautiful.
	Did you see this?
	We'd already seen one poll.
	A campaign from this group that were selling t-shirts.
	This is the Deport Racism 2016 clip that has, just by its imbecility, gone viral.
	Did you see this at all about Trump?
	No, I did not.
	Do you recall the kids who were saying about feminism and No, you probably don't remember.
	Listen, this is a video, and it's a bunch of kids.
	It's Hispanic kids who are railing on Donald Trump.
	Hola, Donald Trump!
	Screaming, get out of my country!
	Republicans use offensive words.
	So here's a few of our own.
	Fuck you, racist fuck!
	It gets better.
	That's just the opening.
	We're Latino kids born in the USA.
	And we've got something to say.
	I'm Rosa.
	I'm Ricardo.
	My friends call me Rick.
	But you keep calling me Anchor, baby?
	Wow.
	Racist dick?
	When you say message to emigrant, a rape Maybe a little less hairspray and more education?
	Millions of 14 Latinos would be deported.
	If you get your local way, pendejos, you're in the White House.
	For America, it would be nothing but bad hair days.
	Yo, Trump, you may be high on the toes.
	Thanks to painted racist suckers, but you're all going to have to come for me.
	If you try to deport my abuelita, motherfuckers, you see the...
	Constitution makes me a citizen.
	And you hate that because I'm brown.
	And you say you're a patriot.
	But you want to tear the bell of rights down.
	Here they're saying that now they're claiming the Bill of Rights gives them the right to be what Trump would call an anchor baby.
	My home.
	You can't take my rights away.
	If you like our Constitution and what it stands for, get the fuck out of my country.
	Can you believe this?
	Yeah, I can believe that it's a dirty trick.
	This is so phony, it's outrageous.
	But wait until you hear the deconstruction of it.
	This is what's cool.
	Fuck you, racist fuck!
	I'm going to keep that one.
	That's a good drop.
	So, Deport Racism 2016.
	So this is...
	The group is offering $5,000 to anyone who disrupts NBC's broadcast of Saturday Night Live when Trump hosts it.
	That's this coming Saturday.
	So let's look at this group, DeportRacism.com.
	They link to Bernie Sanders when it comes to immigration.
	However, and this was, I think this came from 4chan?
	Someone looked in the code of the website and And in the code of the website, there's some JavaScript that may have just been a cut and paste still there, but it clearly points to twitter.com slash status Hillary,
	join the Hillary 2016 campaign, the White House, it has on-click targets for Hillary for FirstLady2016.tumblr.com.
	In other words...
	This campaign was created with Hillary's super PAC money, but they're letting Bernie take the fall for it.
	I don't believe a word of anything you just said.
	Of the code?
	The code part is that that could be dropped in by anybody.
	All JavaScript stuff is cut and paste anyway.
	Everyone who codes JavaScript knows that's what you do.
	But I think the whole thing is done by the Republicans.
	And that would be even better.
	I'm going to agree with you right now.
	That would be even better to implicate both of them.
	Yeah.
	I'm all in.
	I'm all in.
	Because this is too off the rails to be done by any sensible person.
	But if you can make it look as if it was done by Bernie or Hillary.
	And have it launched on 4chan.
	And have it launched on 4chan.
	Which is what we do, because it's gone.
	And then we have the people to protest against Trump going on Saturday Night Live.
	And all you do is you show what this shows.
	I mean, the messaging here, you have to look at the messaging.
	Don't look at what they're actually saying.
	But the messaging is, these kids are rude.
	They shouldn't be in this country.
	They're profane.
	They're jerk-offs.
	They're talking about the Bill of Rights when, in fact, that's an amendment that they should be discussing.
	John?
	I'm all in with your analysis.
	I think you're absolutely right.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	It's a dirty trick.
	It's a good one.
	And a good one.
	It's a good one.
	Like it.
	And if anything, it will increase the ratings.
	In fact, Trump almost said this on a couple of occasions, that he expects that any kind of protest that takes place will increase the ratings of the Saturday Night Live show.
	Of course.
	Of course it will.
	And it will just boost the ratings.
	He's really good at this.
	I think Trump's probably behind it.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah.
	Only on no agenda, people.
	That was analysis in real time.
	Good one.
	I like it.
	And thank you.
	You're more than welcome.
	I had a...
	A funny little thing that showed up.
	Talking about, again, this is like...
	There's another example of lies, which is my theme for today.
	And you gave me one of my...
	A piece I didn't even know.
	But let's play this one.
	This is on the NewsHour on PBS. And by the way, the 3x3, I am still kind of tracking it, but I think it's over.
	Oh, well...
	Because I miss...
	Now it's time for 3x3.
	Oh no, I'm gonna miss it.
	Experiment by JCD. I'm so sad.
	Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC. Week 29!
	The never-ending 3x3.
	Oh man, bud, I'm sad, sad to see you go.
	Well, I'll give you pause for this, maybe on Mondays.
	Alright, here we go, let's play this.
	You have to imagine, since I'm always grousing about this, how much I laughed, and I'm only going to play part of this, but pay the paid patriotism clip.
	Your money now, and what we're just learning about some of those patriotic scenes honoring our veterans at major sporting events.
	By the way, this was 3x3, sorry.
	I'm sorry?
	This was 3x3, this is Burt Muir on ABC. Yes, this is 3x3.
	3x3, everybody, and yes, this has been quite the story this week.
	Honoring heroes, but some of those pro sports teams could be charging taxpayer dollars.
	So tonight, ABC senior national correspondent Jim Avila asking the tough questions, is this your money?
	It's a fan favorite, celebrating America's military heroes on fields.
	The fans go wild every single time it happens.
	Woo!
	To the flyby!
	...across the country.
	But in professional sports, some teams are actually charging the Pentagon, the American taxpayer, for those tributes on the field.
	The Defense Department got a bill after soldiers unfurled that giant flag at this Buffalo Bills game.
	And when vets threw out the first pitch at three Milwaukee Brewers games.
	And when this soldier rappelled down a rope at center ice to drop the puck at a Minnesota wild game.
	In each case, the bill sent to the American taxpayer.
	To charge the taxpayers for it in the name of patriotism is disingenuous at best.
	Yeah, McCain is all over this.
	He wants to, you know, to...
	Overturn every stone of $8 million.
	And frankly, unacceptable at worst.
	Senator McCain calls it paid patriotism.
	And in contracts between sports teams and the Pentagon, found these price tags.
	The New York Jets, a team valued at $1.8 billion, submitted a $10,000 bill for a soldier to be an honorary captain.
	The Milwaukee Brewers charged $7,500 to throw three ceremonial first pitches.
	And the Dallas Mavericks charged $5,000 for their cheerleaders to throw National Guard t-shirts provided by the National Guard.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	We could get the cheerleaders to throw no-agenda shirts into the crowd for five grand.
	That's possible.
	That's doable.
	We've got a couple of hot babes throwing our t-shirts around?
	A couple of things.
	Fan favorite is the first one.
	Fan favorite?
	It's not a fan favorite.
	Yeah, it is.
	Charging the taxpayers.
	They're not charging...
	I didn't get a bill.
	I'm a taxpayer.
	How are they charging the taxpayers?
	Well, they're charging the Defense Department with a $680 billion budget that we don't account for.
	And the entire bill for all of this paid patriotism is only a quarter of the $43 million gas station we built in Afghanistan.
	Which we'll get to.
	Yes, it's only that.
	And then to do this sort of...
	Now, here's what bothers me.
	I can tell you that this is a specific type of reporting that you do.
	It has nothing to do with the basis of the story.
	You do this to shame, shame people.
	And this is how it went in that story.
	The New York Jets valued at $1.8 billion...
	You know, as though they got money to throw away.
	I will say one additional thing, which we've pointed out from time to time, that the National Football League does not pay taxes.
	They are exempt from paying taxes by law.
	McCain should work on that instead of complaining.
	Now, here's what gets me.
	Here's the hypocrisy, the lies.
	Do ABC, NBC, and all those companies that take Army money for Go Army and all those Army ads and all those Army sponsorships, do they just give that to them for free?
	No.
	Does the NASCAR team that has the Go Army and the U.S. National Reserve cars that run in the Cup Series, do they not have to pay for those ads?
	I'll tell you, when I was in Fort Worth, I did not have to pay for saying, go podcasting!
	Which is a fan favorite.
	It is.
	It's one of my favorites.
	But I always have to have the clunk at the end where you drop the mic.
	Drop the mic.
	Now, so these guys, the way I see it, I see this whole story as a conflict of interest.
	It's the networks that are trying to get this money.
	For advertising for the Navy, for the Army, for the Air Force, the Marines.
	And now they see that it's being scrounged away by these national football guys and under false pretenses as though they're patriotic.
	And so they gave them the needle without ever mentioning that it's a conflict of interest to even do the story.
	Right.
	Douchebags.
	And this is one of the reasons that we don't have that.
	And I wish people would recognize it as such and think it may be worth something.
	Well, with that, all I can do is thank you very much for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for current fan favorite, Dvorak.
	And in the morning to you, Adam Curry, in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Woo-hoo!
	Hey, before we get to Knights and Dames, important news coming to us from Australia.
	And yes, I use the phony Australian accent.
	The title that's meant to honor Australians for their public service by bestowing someone with a knighthood, a medieval practice, is out of date and irrelevant, according to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who's decided to scrap it.
	Her Majesty has agreed to amend the letters patent, which are essentially the rules of the Order of Australia.
	And this reflects modern Australia.
	Knights and Dames are titles that are really anachronistic.
	They're out of date.
	They're not appropriate in 2015.
	And I think this is the perfect time for us to pick up the slack.
	Especially with the Australians.
	Yes, and I believe that we should seriously consider some special donation awards for receiving a sash, a no-agenda sash, because the gaping hole is obvious.
	This is going to go away everywhere.
	We will be the only people left who uphold the true honor of Of our peerage.
	Yes.
	And when all is said and done, after this current war is fought, and the Middle East is rebelized, and everyone, you know, the hunger winter sets in, you'll be happy you have protectorates.
	The hunger winter, that's a good name for what's going to happen.
	And maybe then, your Hillary fan that you had dinner with the other day will get a clue and find out what's going on.
	The hunger winter.
	The hunger winter.
	I think we just named it.
	The Hunger Winter.
	Well, honestly, that is taken from World War II. Recycling old stuff.
	The Netherlands went through the Hunger Winter.
	In 1945.
	Would it be insulting to the Dutch to use it again?
	I think they'd be tickled pink.
	Okay, good.
	Hey, we remember that.
	We remember that.
	I remember tickled pink.
	And you know what people ate in the hunger winter?
	What?
	Nettle soup.
	They ate stone soup.
	Stone?
	Yeah, you make soup out of...
	You put rocks, stones into the water and you boil it.
	I've heard about this.
	Yeah, and make a soup out of it.
	And, wow, Patricia's dad, who's still alive, he would sometimes bicycle 100 kilometers each way on wooden wheels to get a sugar beet.
	One sugar beet.
	And that's what they ate.
	So, there's enough historical precedence, everybody, for the hunger winter.
	Coming in 2017, the hunger winter.
	Get your sugar beets now.
	Stock up!
	Seeds!
	We have one loan.
	We should be selling seeds.
	We have one loan executive producer, associate executive producer.
	He's actually an associate executive producer, but he gets bumped up.
	This is Eric Berg, who came in late with $210.12 from Mason City, Iowa, and he is our only executive producer for this show, 771.
	I want to thank everybody else who thought about it but didn't do anything.
	He has a call-out, I said.
	Yes, let's do it.
	Hi, Adam and John.
	The state of Minnesota nuts was good enough to hold on to an insurance refund that I didn't know about for over eight years.
	By the way, this is...
	Let me stop.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Stop the show.
	I have money all over the place because I have somebody who's supposed to send me a check.
	Hell yeah.
	They had doubloons.
	Somebody's supposed to send me a check.
	I used to have a banking account at the city credit union.
	I let it lapse.
	Next thing you know, they take my whole account and say, well, you haven't been in for six months.
	Boom!
	They sent it to the state of California.
	Then I have to wait a year to get it back from them and I have to file a bunch of paperwork.
	This happened with an insurance policy after my mother died.
	Boom!
	Sent it to the state.
	Yeah, you want it, you gotta struggle and fight for it.
	Took over two years to get it.
	I have some money from Hotels.com When I had my original website, I had a link to them.
	You were getting fees, money.
	I was getting money.
	How much was it?
	I think it's for like 200 bucks.
	Wow!
	And it's in the state of New York.
	Wow.
	And it's sitting there now.
	I can't get it.
	And I had other instances of this.
	And then I have instances where once in a while somebody says, oh, look, we found your money.
	This is bull crap.
	Why don't these guys just keep the money?
	I don't understand why the credit union would give the money to the state when it's sitting there.
	It has to be doing them some good.
	Maybe after 25 years if I don't pick it up.
	Well, there must be some law, some regulation.
	There is a law, right.
	This happened, I almost lost some stock recently.
	Was it Uber stock?
	No.
	I almost lost some.
	Facebook stock?
	Two cows.
	Two cows.
	This is a strange story because I don't even know how I got it.
	That's a good story.
	I like the two cows story.
	That's great.
	They have some two cows.
	And they send me a note saying, if you don't send your proxy statement in, we haven't heard from you for two years.
	We're sending this stock to the government.
	You know why you didn't do anything?
	You know why?
	White privilege, my friend.
	Yeah, well, the white privilege definitely has negative impact on your bottom line.
	So this is bull crap, but this is what happens to this guy, Eric Berg.
	The Minnesota Nuts were good enough to hold on to an insurance refund that I didn't know I had for over eight years after I'd moved to Iowa.
	Trying to figure out what to do with the found money with something difficult.
	Hookers and Blow or support the BP best podcast in the universe.
	You guys won this time.
	Wait a minute.
	So it was between Hookers and Blow or supporting the show.
	Hey!
	Made another rhyme.
	One good guy here.
	Well, it's a tough choice.
	But he did say this time.
	It's appreciated.
	Oh.
	On a more serious note, I hit my wife in the mouth on her maternity leave a few months ago.
	She now listens to every episode and has listened to quite a few from the back catalog.
	But not only has she not donated, she says she skips the donation segments.
	Oh no!
	I feel terrible, but I must therefore have my wife, Abby Berg, called out in public as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Shut up, slave.
	Two to the head.
	Oh, look at that juice.
	Thanks, Eric.
	Shut up, slave.
	Can you see that juice?
	You've got karma.
	Ah, great.
	And as the highest donor above 200 bucks, he becomes an executive producer for show 771.
	A quick PR mention.
	Thanks to producer Tim, we have a couple of domains.
	We haven't had domain forwards for a while, and we did stop because it just became a little overbearing.
	But I do like emailhillary.com, emailclintons.com, and emailclinton.com.
	Emailhillary.com I think is the best.
	If you type that in, it goes to noagendershow.com.
	Gotta love it!
	There you go.
	That's how we roll.
	Thank you very much, Art, to our sole executive producer.
	That is...
	Oh, oh.
	You know what?
	I forgot to thank our artists, actually.
	I want to say in the morning to Nick the Rat and everyone else who submits the art at noagenderartgenerator.com.
	Great art from Nick.
	This was for episode 770, Mighty Men of Valor.
	And there was a picture of Joe Biden drawing a map on ripping up or tearing Iraq into three different states.
	Chunks, yeah.
	And someone sent me a note about that because this was from the...
	What was the clip we were playing about Mighty Men of Valor?
	I don't remember, but it was funny.
	I know that.
	Hold on a second.
	I want to play it because I got a pretty cool email about it.
	It was Mighty Men, I think, right?
	What was that?
	It was on the previous episode?
	That was on...
	Let me just find it.
	I think it was the last episode.
	Yeah, but how come I can't find it?
	You'd probably have it named funny.
	Yeah, why would I have it named funny?
	Hey, you're talking to the wrong guy.
	Yeah, it was...
	Anyway, it was...
	It could be Resistance Fighters, Mighty Men of Valor, Righteous, those keywords could be there, Kurds.
	I don't think it was labeled Valor at all.
	But anyway, let me read the email to you.
	Here it is.
	I'm really bungling this one.
	Okay, I'm going to have to...
	That's it?
	I think we'll do that for Sunday.
	Bailing on it.
	No, I can't find anything.
	I don't know.
	Oh, wait, wait.
	Here it is.
	I got it.
	Yes, Mighty Men of Valor.
	It's good to explain the shortfall.
	Yeah, I'm sure that's what it is.
	Ah, screw it.
	I stopped again.
	Make up your mind!
	I don't understand why I can't find it.
	I had it all queued up.
	Make up your mind!
	This is crazy.
	Oh, man.
	Alright.
	Sorry.
	Now you're going to obsess.
	The show's ruined.
	No, I'm going to stop obsessing about it.
	But I will have it on Sunday.
	Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
	Thank you, again, to our one executive producer who nabbed that spot with an associate executive producer donation, Eric Berg.
	Thank you.
	Of course, we have another show on Sunday in which I will present to you the Mighty Men of Valor etymology.
	Dvorak.org slash NA Please always be out there, especially for your wife, propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	While we were discussing the presidential stuff...
	You don't want to hear the mighty men involved?
	Because, of course, I found it.
	Oh, you found it.
	I did.
	Yeah.
	Here we go.
	Okay, yes.
	Okay, this was Chad Williams.
	That's what it was.
	Chad Williams, former Navy SEAL. That was the guy who was all crazy about attacking, about the train, equip, and assist.
	I think that it's a great call.
	You know, the head of our enemy, the snake, it's in Syria.
	And so we need to go over there and put a foot to that head.
	And I guarantee you...
	Okay, so we start with that.
	Now, this is from Danny Haynes.
	And he says, On Noagenda 770, I heard several Bible phrases from your clip of Chad Williams.
	Their use indicates that Mr.
	Williams may be using neuro-linguistic programming to gather support for U.S. military action amongst Christians...
	By associating U.S. military forces with God's chosen leaders and ultimately Savior, Jesus.
	So, what we just heard right there, a heel to the head of the snake.
	The head of our enemy, the snake, is in Syria, so we need to go over there and put a foot to that head.
	That's what we heard.
	Our guys are operating in a special operations community.
	In chapter 3 of Genesis, after the fall, God outlined sin's conquests of consequences to the serpent.
	Even Adam in Genesis 315 God said to the serpent quote I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel Christians understand this is a very early reference to Jesus being born into the world through a woman to crush Satan So the bruising your heel by stepping on the head of the snake.
	We continue.
	Some of our guys in the special operations community are walking around with their tail between their legs.
	They're very hungry to get over there.
	I'm sure they're saying, thank you sir, may I have another?
	There's a thousand other special operators that are just hoping that the chains will be cut and they could be sent over there to help advise and assist and put a heel to the head of that snake in Syria.
	Alright, so our special forces, they're mighty men, they're ready to roll over there.
	Let me ask you about the language, you know, the notion of advise and assist versus combat.
	To you, is there a difference?
	It is a combat role, but it's not going to be American forces on the very front in the spotlight.
	We're going to be working a little bit more in the shadows.
	We're there in case these guys get into a situation where we need a little bit of backup.
	We're there to assist them.
	That's the assistance part of these advise and assist operations, but primarily it's going to be led by these resistance fighters, and we're there just to support them, advise them, and teach them how to take the fight to the enemy against a very fierce enemy.
	I mean, ISIS is evil.
	Let's not forget the beheadings, the burning of The Jordanian Pilate and so many others bearing these children.
	So our mighty men of valor are going over there for a righteous cause.
	Our mighty men of valor are going over there for a righteous cause.
	And this came back again today.
	In chapter 6 of the book of Judges, verse 12, an angel of the Lord says to Gideon, The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.
	Gideon was a judge or leader of Israel at the time before it had kings and then went on to destroy the altars of the false god Baal, then defeat the Midianites in battle.
	Later in 1 Chronicles, King David's army is backed with mighty men of valor.
	Chapter 12 of 1 Chronicles, verse 21-22.
	They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army.
	For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
	And that fits in perfectly with Ash Carter's most recent appearance at an army base.
	I won't play the whole thing, but we'll get to the point where he's asked a question.
	Good afternoon.
	I'm Airman First Class Wilcox from the 354th Operations Group at Allison Air Force Base.
	What are your concerns in the next two or three years for the world?
	What are the concerns over the next few years for the world, which really means for us in the world?
	I wish I could give you a short list.
	Unfortunately, it's not a short list.
	Sorry about that, but that just shows the importance of what you do.
	So I'll just start.
	We've got to beat ISIL. We're going to beat ISIL. These guys are evil, and they're...
	We are, as I said, the noble and they are the evil.
	Oh, my God.
	We are the noble.
	He can't even remember a script.
	If you listen to the whole thing, he's just bumbling on forever.
	He's the worst, this guy.
	But there's a point.
	If you're going to play that game, the neuro-linguistic programming game, and you're going to run this particular script, you've got to have a guy who could say something decent up there.
	But I like the analysis.
	Of this mighty men of valor, and they're evil, and we're good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We've got to do something.
	You've got to pull everything out to get anywhere.
	Especially now.
	I mean, we were promised that we're not going to have boots on the ground.
	And they come out and, well, we kind of didn't really meet.
	You know, now everybody's backing off on it.
	We've got plenty of clips.
	I don't have too many myself, but you've got Obama backing off.
	Well, we always kind of had that.
	I have it.
	It's more of the same player.
	I have it.
	I have it.
	Hold on a second.
	I have a couple of clips, actually.
	Here is...
	Okay.
	Well, first we have Lester Holt, who replaced Brian Williams on Ambush United News.
	And he had a little chat with the president.
	Many will look at it and say, you've broken your promise about boots on the ground.
	Have you?
	Well, keep in mind that we have run special ops...
	Already.
	And really, this is just an extension of what we're continuing to do.
	We are not putting U.S. troops on the front lines fighting firefights with ISIS. But I've been consistent throughout that we are not going to be fighting like we did in Iraq.
	Lies!
	Lies.
	Then we had spokeshole Kirby.
	By the way, before you go on...
	Have you seen his henchwoman?
	Yes, I have a clip from her.
	She is the worst.
	I have the hotel clip because I have that as his package.
	Well, let's do Kirby first.
	Don't play the hotel clip.
	I don't think I have the hotel clip.
	Okay, go.
	Here's Kirby weaseling himself about the boots on the ground.
	We're changing policy.
	Right.
	No.
	But your previous policy did not encompass putting boots on the ground in Syria.
	Wait a minute.
	Your current strategy, as outlined by the White House, does include putting boots on the ground in Syria.
	But there's no change in policy there?
	The policy was that we weren't going to engage in large ground combat operations, large-scale offensive ground operations against ISIL, and that is still not going to occur.
	But the policy was that you didn't have boots on the ground.
	That was a policy decision.
	The president could have put boots on the ground.
	He didn't.
	I don't know that he ever ruled it out.
	Just because you don't rule something out doesn't mean that it's a policy.
	Well, look, I'll defer to my colleagues at the White House to speak to presidential policy here.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Then we have two clips of this woman who I had not seen before.
	Her name is Elizabeth Trudeau.
	Her full name is Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau.
	Now, she's not related to the new Prime Minister of Canada, but is she related to the Kennedys somehow?
	I never thought of this.
	I didn't know her.
	I couldn't.
	She obviously is.
	I couldn't find any.
	That's why she looks disheveled.
	She's a wreck, this woman.
	And she's a real bad liar.
	Well, we need some help.
	And she's more arrogant than anybody I've ever seen.
	Okay, so I have two clips from Herb.
	Just to get you started, then you can roll into the hotel clip.
	So first is talking...
	I think the Free Syrian Army has been invited to go speak with Putin and the top brass in Moscow.
	And Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau's mission, clearly, is to tell everyone this is premature.
	I will point this out as we roll along.
	Russian actions so far in Syria have been to prop up the regime.
	The Russians will hold a meeting between the regime and the opposition.
	Are you aware of this meeting and what do you think about it?
	We believe there's a time and a place for everything.
	There will be a time and place when the opposition groups will be represented.
	We just don't think we're there yet.
	We think it's premature.
	This is a meeting that the Russians are going to post.
	We think it's premature.
	You think the Russians should not invite Syrians to Moscow?
	We think that it is premature to have that meeting.
	We think that there is a place for the Syrian opposition.
	It's time for the Syrian opposition.
	Now, mind you, the Syrian opposition is rebels trained by, on one hand, the CIA, on the other hand, the Department of Defense.
	...to gather to have those conversations.
	We think it's premature now.
	Can I just ask, why is any of your business?
	Why do you oppose Russia inviting Syrian opposition figures to a meeting?
	Because it's our guys, that's why.
	Mosque in Russia.
	We think it's premature.
	We think it's premature before the Vienna group meets again.
	But we do think it's premature to have those conversations when the post-Vienna work is still going on.
	It's premature, I think, is her message.
	She says conversation with your stupid voice.
	Conversation.
	It's premature to have this conversation.
	Yes, conversation is very obvious.
	Then we have the hot Russian girl again.
	What's her name?
	Because I couldn't find her name.
	You can never remember her name.
	But that's the one I'm talking about.
	Yes, yes.
	This is a clip about the hospitals.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yes, I do have that clip.
	I have the whole thing.
	I have the whole thing.
	Where'd you get the whole thing?
	From the video.state.gov.
	You got that.
	I have the presentation done by RT. And that's why, because it has background.
	Okay, hold on, hold on.
	Let's play it now.
	Where does it...
	Okay, this is Russians targeting hospitals.
	First, I have to set it up because there was...
	I didn't cut everything.
	So there was a setup.
	They talked about the lead guy.
	This is the headline news show.
	And the lead guy says, the United States has accused Russia of bombing hospitals.
	And of course, the only reason they'd be doing this...
	It's because we bombed the crap and we have a documented bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital.
	Two.
	Two.
	Not just Afghanistan as well.
	The main one.
	The main one where they're making a huge fuss about this and it's very embarrassing to the United States.
	And so we've got to do something.
	So...
	We just made up a story.
	It's a total lie.
	And she's the one on it, and she's also the press correspondent at Washington.
	And I love how Matt jumps in and comes to her aid, which we need to find out her name so we can change the jingle, because this is a new romance.
	I feel something coming on here.
	I feel Matt in this Russian chick.
	She's pretty happily married, but...
	How do you know?
	It's in her wiki.
	So?
	I don't think Matt's a dog.
	Oh, okay.
	Listen.
	I really don't.
	You're on those trips.
	You're in the back of, you know, the Carrie's plane.
	It's annoying.
	You got nothing to eat.
	You have to sleep sitting up.
	You're all hanging out.
	You go places.
	Hey, let's have a drink at the bar before you know it.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	In the pocket.
	I think somebody's talking their experiences.
	Anyway, hit this.
	Guyana Chichikhan went to ask the State Department.
	Simply put, where are they getting their information from?
	There's her name.
	Some accuse Russia of hitting six hospitals in Syria.
	Others accuse it of hitting just one.
	Many media outlets ran with the story, but no one could independently verify the claims.
	Many there say we're Russian or regime airstrikes.
	Aid workers are out and say, run, the plane is coming back.
	One strike and then another to catch the first responders.
	That time all the people were gathered and it shot two missiles again.
	The reports primarily cite a U.S. By the way, she took that from somebody's report, some bogus report, and so she ran it.
	You might want to back it up a little bit.
	But the concept of coming back to blow up the first responders, what country does that?
	Well, that's only the terrorists who do double taps.
	No, it's our drone operators.
	Yeah, we do that all the time.
	We do that all the time.
	I've never heard of anyone doing this until I heard about us doing it, the United States.
	We blow something up, and then whoever shows up, we figure they're the bad guys, and we blow them up five minutes later.
	And many of them are hospital people.
	That's called enemy killed in action.
	And so now they're kind of projecting this onto the Russians.
	Oh, here comes the jets are going to blow up the first responders.
	This is such a lie.
	This is a perfect example of what you say is what you are.
	What you accuse people of is what you are yourself.
	And here we go.
	That time all the people were gathered and it shot two missiles again.
	The reports primarily cite a US-based NGO called Syrian American Medical Society, which published this photo of the hospital allegedly destroyed by Russia in the town of Sarmin.
	Russia's defense ministry says whatever it is, it's not the hospital in Sarmin, and releases aerial images of what it says is the hospital in Sarmin.
	The building on this image Dated October 31st.
	Does not look like it was recently bombed.
	How can we tell if it's the hospital in Sarbin?
	A year ago, a video was posted on YouTube that shows the hospital under construction.
	Here's a screenshot from that year-old hospital.
	Video.
	And here is the Russian Defense Ministry's aerial image of what it says is the hospital.
	We see a similar dome-shaped structure next to the building on both images.
	We see a wall or a fence positioned in a similar way.
	So where exactly is the hospital that Russia is accused of hitting?
	Last week, the U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby dropped the bombshell, saying the U.S. had, quote-unquote, operational intelligence that Russia had hit a hospital in Syria.
	We've seen some information that would lead us to believe that Russia, Russian military aircraft, did hit a hospital.
	This Monday, I went to ask what hospital did Mr.
	Kirby mean?
	Can you really offer no details on the hospital that the U.S. accuses Russia of hitting?
	We're going to stand by Mr.
	Kirby's words.
	You're not even going to say where it is, that hospital, that you're saying Russia hit?
	What we're saying is that we have seen information that Russia is targeting civilian infrastructure.
	And we would point you to the Syrian NGOs on the ground, as well as open source reporting on that.
	He spoke about a specific...
	Open source reporting on that.
	Oh, was that Bellingcat?
	What is that open source reporting?
	I call bullcrap on that word.
	Oh yeah.
	Open source reporting.
	Yeah.
	Syrian NGOs on the ground as well as open source reporting on that.
	He spoke about a specific hospital in Syria.
	Where exactly is it?
	What details can you offer about that hospital?
	Again, I'm not going to get into this sort of detail of operational assessment for this.
	Maybe you should speak to the Russians on their targeting.
	Clearly, she and her colleagues have spoken to the Russians about it, and they say that you're wrong.
	Okay?
	Isn't it incumbent on you to come up with some, I mean, even a location?
	It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult.
	Then the second thing is you've just expanded it quite broadly to say not just hospitals.
	You said that the Russians are actually targeting civilian infrastructure.
	Thank you, Matt.
	Actually, the Russians have hit.
	Thank you for the clarification.
	No, they've hit.
	Okay, so they're not targeting civilian infrastructure?
	No, I'm thinking for that.
	Sure.
	Some very serious accusations against Russia still stand unverified.
	In Washington, I'm Ganesh Chakan.
	RT. Ganesh Chakan.
	Ganesh Chakan.
	So who is this Sam, this Syrian American Medical Society?
	Yeah, I started looking it up.
	Unfortunately, this clip came in last night, and so I... Well, let me just do a quick...
	I'm looking at...
	What is it?
	It's sams-usa.net.
	Let me see who these jabronis are.
	Do they have...
	But this woman, Trudeau, is so arrogant.
	Oh, she's a horrible woman.
	She's a horrible person.
	So the Sam's Foundation, the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation, just to give you a little idea, has not filed their 2014 results, which I think is breaking the law.
	2013, $11 million for them.
	Income.
	They got some cash to make some noise.
	I just did a quick scan of the 990, couldn't really see anything.
	But it's from donors like you.
	I'm sure it's from donors like the U.S. State Department and that woman.
	That horrible woman.
	That's very, very bad.
	Let's stay on the F-Russia for a moment.
	Here's a quick little thing from Clapper who was asked about...
	Now we're moving into the aircraft that was...
	Now, I don't know if we say downed yet or if we just say crashed.
	You'll remember our analysis was not enough information to go on right now, but this thing did not stall.
	Something broke it up in flight.
	That now seems to be true, although...
	I think there's some messaging going on.
	First, here's Clapper, who just is a nincompoop, but we knew that.
	We don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet.
	ISIL in a tweet claimed...
	Notice he's using the ISIL meme, which is the same thing Kirby does.
	Instead of saying ISIL or ISIS, he says ISIL. Interestingly, the questioner comes back and doesn't ask about ISIL, but about ISIS. Responsibility.
	For it.
	And there is a very aggressive ISIL chapter in the Sinai.
	But we really don't know.
	And I think once the black boxes have been analyzed, which they've recovered, then perhaps we'll know more.
	Does ISIS have the ability to shoot down an airliner?
	It's unlikely, but I wouldn't rule it out.
	It just bothers me that the guy is talking about ISIL and then the interviewer says ISIS. It's bothersome.
	Yes, it does.
	It's bothersome.
	And then there's Dash.
	There's Dash.
	But an old acquaintance showed up on this CNN clip about the bombing theory.
	Which leads me to believe something else may be going on.
	Do you have anything on, just so I know, do you have any clips on the plane?
	I have nothing on the, I have the backgrounder, which I think is an official business because it comes from ITN. Why don't we do the backgrounder?
	And that's the one that says airplane report ITN. Okay, we'll do that and then I'll give you some analysis.
	Preliminary analysis.
	Follow similar reports out of Cairo and London as we hear from Alex Thompson of Independent Television News.
	After days of inevitable speculation based upon not much today something altogether more substantial appears to be building.
	Early this afternoon, Egyptian media reports indicated the plane had suffered an explosion in one engine.
	They sourced this to black box flight recorder investigations, which continue.
	Then, a statement from Downing Street that, as more information has come to light, quote, we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device.
	As a precautionary measure, we've decided that flights due to leave Sharm al-Sheikh this evening for the UK will be delayed, and that will allow us time to ensure that the right security measures are in place for flights.
	Extraconsular staff have also been sent to Sharm's airport to assist British holidaymakers.
	There are currently around 15,000 tourists in the resort from Britain.
	Downing Street said it recognizes these moves will cause some anxiety, but its travel advice for sham remains unchanged.
	Essentially, the Foreign Office advises that Red Sea resorts are fine, but many other areas, Sinai in particular, where the Russian plane came down, should be considered off-limits.
	Okay.
	So this is like, it seems, the way this is presented is that maybe an engine blew up.
	This does happen.
	It's rare.
	And they're definitely cutting off the, the Egyptians are going to get screwed out of a lot.
	They make millions, billions, if not billions of money on the tourist business.
	It's like their main source of income.
	Or one of them.
	I think they do oranges too.
	And this is, they're screwed.
	Okay.
	Here is CNN with a report that brought back an old favorite and reminded me of something, a conversation I'd had with Brian the Gay Crusader.
	Must have been maybe eight months ago.
	Listen to this.
	It's now about crash forensics backing U.S. intelligence.
	A U.S. official tells CNN chatter overheard after the crash suggests ISIS planted a bomb on the Russian plane.
	Investigators looking for proof, focusing their attention on this, the plane's black boxes.
	The flight's cockpit voice recorder, says an unnamed source to Russia's Interfax news agency, captured uncharacteristic, unexpected sounds moments before the flight disappeared.
	A significant clue.
	The sound is going to be very critical to this investigation.
	At TWA 800, we picked up a nanosecond of sound that we analyzed very carefully.
	Okay, I just want to pause here for a moment.
	This is the former NTSB guy who they now have dug up.
	I don't know if he's a part of this somehow, but they dug him up.
	Well, he sounds like McCain.
	Yeah, but it's not McCain.
	Yeah.
	And he was the lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board in the TWA 800 crash.
	Do you recall this crash?
	Oh, yeah.
	Do you recall what happened and what it was ultimately blamed on?
	Yeah, this was from a conspiracy perspective, and every local who was never talked to by the entire FBI, never talked to anybody who actually witnessed this, was a shoot-down.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And it came to the point where the famous...
	The part that's funny about this is the...
	I can't remember his name, but he's got a French name.
	He used to be the press secretary for John Kennedy.
	And he came out and made a big stink about this being a shoot-down based on some videos or something somebody shot or whatever.
	Here's the good news.
	He was...
	It's hounded into insanity.
	Go on.
	I have video of the shoot-down.
	It is a video that Brian the Gay Crusader saw.
	This was almost the same day when MSNBC launched when this took place in 1996, July 15th.
	And at 2 o'clock in the morning...
	They had this video which showed a rocket being launched and striking an aircraft.
	Let's just say it's the aircraft.
	And this video was never shown again.
	And Brian has kept it all these years.
	I have a copy in the show notes so you can take a look at it.
	There's plenty of information to read about it.
	But this is the guy...
	Did he say a nanosecond?
	Because that kind of bugs me.
	He says with a nanosecond of sound, we could tell that this was the gas tank rupturing, which is how it was explained.
	Remember the crossover taps?
	Something was wrong there, and then somehow it ignited.
	And this big song and dance.
	But now, according to this guy who is back...
	For this analysis, for some reason, he said, no, we heard just a nanosecond of sound, and that's how we knew it was not a missile or a bomb, it was the gas tank rupturing.
	In 1996, Peter Gulls was one of the key investigators in the TWA Flight 800 crash off Long Island.
	Questions swirled about whether a bomb brought down that plane.
	Air traffic control audio recordings show the flight out of JFK began normally, reaching just over 13,000 feet.
	Then, this last communication with the tower.
	Approximately one minute later, the cockpit voice recorder captured a brief, unusual sound.
	The NTSB determined that sound was a low-order explosion, the sound of the plane tearing apart after a fire in the fuel tank, not a bomb.
	TWA-800 fell out of the sky as other pilots called into the tower.
	All conversation recorded between the crew in the cockpit is protected by federal privacy laws.
	Oh, how convenient.
	I didn't know that.
	I didn't know we couldn't hear any of that.
	The actual audio unreleasable to the public because it's so sensitive and so personal to the victim's families.
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	So maybe there was something else you weren't supposed to hear.
	Gull says the audio proved critical in the TWA case and in other air disasters.
	Here comes the science.
	In MH17, the plane shot out of the sky over Ukraine.
	Investigators triangulated a 2.3 millisecond sound peak captured on the voice recorder's multiple microphones in the cockpit and determined the noise came from I don't recall this being in the report.
	I don't remember that.
	I don't remember this being in the safety board report.
	Well, they just say it's been in the report, so it's in the report.
	2.3 milliseconds of sound enables us to hear that it was a missile coming off of the right-hand side of the aircraft, exploding on the left-hand side.
	It's fact!
	It was a missile.
	You can sometimes tell the direction in which the sound is traveling by just the tiniest fraction of a second.
	And you can also sometimes compare the signature of the sound to previous events.
	Now, here's what's irritating about this.
	So I'm just going to take a conspiratorial view for a moment and say the Flight 800, there's enough circumstantial and some seemingly good evidence to show that it was shot down by some form of missile, rocket, whatever.
	You know, 13,000 feet is not the same as 33,000 feet.
	It was believed at the time by the conspiracy folks that it was a stinger that had gotten sold into the black market somewhere and they were using it to blackmail someone.
	Now...
	Now, the fact that this guy shows up again, who may be the cover artist...
	Again, this is just the conspiracy view.
	He's the go-to guy.
	He's the go-to guy for cover-up of this sort.
	Now, what is annoying, if you look at the flight path, because there's enough data about this, this is flight 9268, and at the time it disappeared from the radar, it was probably no more than 100 or 150 kilometers, but directly a beam...
	Of the Blue Skies military air combat drill on the same day between Israel and the U.S. What they call the largest military drill of its sort, bent specifically for all kinds of terrorist, airborne terrorist threats.
	If you look at the map, this piece of desert...
	The aircraft goes down.
	The military drill area is at their 3 o'clock.
	Completely a beam.
	I'm thinking a very valid theory would be an accidental shoot-down.
	Because they were training.
	And this plane just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
	I may have been on purpose.
	Who knows?
	But I find it extremely annoying when we have military drills and shit like this happens.
	Look up blue skies.
	I will.
	Blue skies.
	I would think accident's a possibility.
	I don't think it would be a purposeful shoot-down because...
	Doesn't seem smart.
	Because it doesn't fit into the narrative properly.
	And what you don't want to do, which is I think what they're going to end up doing because of their bumbling...
	Is they're going to blame it on ISIS somehow to set a bomb in there?
	And ISIS is so stupid that they took credit for it anyway.
	Well, someone on Twitter took credit for it, and the site intelligence group then says ISIS took credit for it.
	They get credit for it.
	And that would just infuse the Russians, because they're not very amenable to this sort of thing, with wanting to really bomb the crap out of Syria and really go after everybody.
	Which is not really what we want.
	We wish the Russians weren't even there, because we're trying to rebelize the place in an old-fashioned way.
	So I don't think this would work out.
	So this was a huge blunder of some sort.
	But I can see, I mean, this reminds me of the Navy shoot-down of the Iranian gentlemen.
	Yes, yes.
	Shit does happen.
	As reported by Times of Israel, blue skies, Israeli, American, Greek, and Polish air personnel square off against a fictional enemy in a two-week drill.
	Air forces from around the globe have gathered deep in the Arava Desert in the south of Israel for the past week and a half to take part in the largest aerial exercise in the history of the Israeli Air Force.
	The blue flag exercise, which is continuing through November 3rd, pits the Israeli Air Force, United States Air Force, Greece's Hellenic Air Force, and the Polish Air Force.
	Oh, it says they had to drop out because they ran out of coal.
	The Polish...
	Racist!
	Racist!
	Hey, that's my white privilege.
	The captain in charge of all IAF exercises told they were going against a fictional enemy state.
	So it's very possible that this was an oops moment, especially if you get something that's laser-guided and goes, hey, what's this over here?
	I'll just go and get this one.
	Then you bring in the guy who's...
	I would think more of a heat-seeking because laser-guided has to put a target on there, although it could see one that was not there.
	Could be.
	And the next thing you know, it takes a left turn and blows the jet up before anyone can do anything.
	So I'm not saying that this is, you know, this is not gospel here, but it's irritating.
	That's a theory.
	And I like your irritation with the coincidences that happen to be...
	And why bring this guy, this guy back?
	And then you bring in this guy, the apologist.
	Yeah, the Flight 800 apologist who, you know...
	Who took us through why that could not be any kind of rocket.
	I would love to get a hold of some, as they get toward retirement, some Boeing engineers about this.
	Because I always thought that sticking Boeing with the blame on that Flight 800 for faulty gas tanks, even though that, when was that, when was your year on that?
	96.
	96.
	Even though that plane has been in the air since, what, 30 years?
	Yeah.
	The 747?
	That was like what came out in the 69 or something like that?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Also this, you know, anyway.
	By the way, I want to mention something else.
	There was a report on Chinese, on the Chinese news about this.
	They had some other expert news going on.
	And they were trying to pin it on...
	Faulty and cheap repairs.
	Yeah, because of a tail strike, I heard this.
	Because of a tail strike and metal fatigue.
	But hold on a second.
	Metal fatigue?
	Isn't the A321, isn't that a composite aircraft?
	Well, it is.
	It's been a blast.
	I like the metal, but there's metal in other places.
	Yeah, but what's funny is when they started...
	But how about if it actually...
	What happened was it was the plastic plane finally gave up.
	They were now finding these composite aircraft don't work too well.
	They were talking about these things where they're trying to fix them and apparently there was some wreck of some plane some years ago.
	They found it was a 20-year-old patch of That somebody had done some fiberglass repair.
	Fiberglass?
	Or whatever they used.
	Yeah, fiber.
	Well, I'm telling you, all I was thinking about the whole time was Bondo.
	That's what I was thinking, too.
	Bondo.
	What are you going to do with this dent in the plane?
	Vladimir, put some Bondo on it.
	It's good.
	Bondo.
	Bondo, Bondo, Bondo, my friend.
	Still flies.
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	Well, there was a wreck that cracked...
	I'm not saying it cracked me up that I was thinking it was hilarious, but we'll see if I have it.
	I may have a clip of it.
	Threatening phone calls, killing...
	Islamic?
	I don't see it.
	Well, there was a wreck in Africa.
	No, I don't have it.
	I may have it, but I can't see it.
	So there was a plane crash of a cargo...
	No, it was a passenger plane in Africa.
	And they blamed it.
	They finally came and said, well, it turns out...
	It was a Russian plane, by the way.
	It was an Ilyushin, one of those.
	And it was...
	The security people allowed.
	They just packed the plane.
	They said, fuck it, you know, let's just put more people in.
	You know, they paid.
	Sounds...
	Fishy.
	Sounds fishy that any aviator would take off if their weight and balance is not in check.
	Because it was in Africa, it doesn't sound fishy at all.
	Yeah, I know.
	Most of it, don't they have the little weight thing where you get on the runway and then you push a bunch of buttons and you get all the weight information if the plane's unbalanced and how much is...
	Depending on the equipment of the aircraft.
	Yeah, but your center of gravity, there's...
	Well, not all aircraft have this now.
	No.
	That's why you have, you know, loading people.
	The military has loading.
	What is it called?
	Not a load officer.
	Something like that.
	And they ask you your weight.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's very important.
	Weight and balance is mainly for the center of gravity.
	That's the main thing you want to make sure you have.
	Because otherwise, yeah.
	Load master.
	That's what it is.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Trevor.
	The loadmaster.
	Okay, go on.
	Onward.
	I think we covered that.
	Nobody else has covered any of this.
	No.
	Except our show.
	We try.
	Yeah, I think we do pretty well.
	Well, I wouldn't know it from the one producer we had.
	Although he likes us.
	Let's take a little look at the upcoming summit, and on Sunday I'll have a little more expanded report.
	But we do have problems, problems that you wonder how coincidental it is.
	How many times have you been to Paris, John?
	Oh, that was a lip smack if I ever heard one.
	I wasn't even near the bike.
	Yeah, but you did it.
	Well...
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, I'm just trying to help us.
	Probably maybe 20 times.
	I've really been there enough that I've lost count.
	I can find my way around.
	Has it ever been really polluted, the air, when you were there?
	No.
	Paris is pretty clear.
	I don't think it's in any sort of a bowl or anything.
	Oh, well...
	Somehow, for the upcoming climate IPCC COP21 big grand poobah get-together, we got...
	Bad situations in Paris.
	A pollution alert in Paris.
	It comes weeks before the city will play host to a UN climate change summit.
	If conditions don't improve, there's talk of cutting half of all motor traffic.
	There are also calls to reduce speeds.
	The climate change summit will...
	Reduce speed?
	...include representatives from 195 countries.
	The conference will start in Paris on November 30th and last Until December 11th.
	Well, I sure hope they can get all the pollution out by then.
	It's horrible, this pollution.
	Pollution, pollution.
	And that, of course, is carbon pollution.
	Not carbon dioxide, but carbon.
	Now, the big news that came from NASA was the announcement that the Antarctic ice sheet is growing instead of shrinking, as has been continuously claimed.
	I always thought they were barking up the wrong tree with that phony story.
	Well, here's the...
	So, the problem is how NASA reports...
	I'm reading directly from NASA.gov.
	A new NASA study says that an increase in Arctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
	This is from NASA. The research challenges the conclusions of other studies including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC's 2013 report which says Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
	This is surprising to me that NASA would do this.
	Somebody didn't pay off somebody.
	There's a lip smack for me, I'm sorry.
	The troubling quote in this...
	And again, from NASA.gov, you'll find in the show notes, 771.noagendanotes.com.
	The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away.
	But this is also bad news.
	If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.
	Oh my!
	People peeing in the ocean.
	This is NASA saying this.
	I read that too.
	And how does NBC report?
	Melting sea ice threatening to send their way of life into extinction.
	Earth that's been frozen forever, now melting.
	NBC News has spent the past four months traveling to the Arctic, which has seen the most sea ice melting in recent years.
	Notice they went to the Arctic, not the Antarctic.
	No report whatsoever on the Antarctic, guys.
	No, only this, and I got some CBS as well.
	Since NASA began keeping track in 1978.
	The ice that once protected their fragile shoreline from big fall storms is melting.
	Those Alaskan glaciers are melting.
	Scientists say this year alone the average glacier will lose 30 inches of thickness.
	And glaciers kept shrinking.
	The impact has been dramatic in Greenland.
	In recent decades it's certainly been melting more than is replenished from snowfall and that's causing sea level to come up.
	There you go.
	They do not report.
	Sea level is coming up.
	They do not report.
	Hold on a second.
	0.27 millimeters.
	How do you even measure that?
	How do you measure that?
	The keyword C levels coming up triggers a thought.
	Okay.
	I think I should check.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Yes, this is very good.
	Where...
	Hold on.
	I'm a little off today on the jingles.
	Let's just pretend you said it again.
	Sea?
	What?
	Sea levels are rising?
	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.
	Look out your window, baby!
	That's right, everybody.
	John C. Dvorak with the Mudflat Global Warming Report.
	I'm looking out at the mudflats.
	And?
	They're still there.
	Amen.
	I have a couple of things in this category.
	Let's start with French climate change author.
	This, by the way, you have not heard this story anywhere.
	The Russians had to report it.
	I'm pretty sure we discussed this on this very show a few weeks ago.
	About the Russian?
	No, about the guy who got fired?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the French guy.
	The French weatherman.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I guess I wasn't paying attention to that part of the show.
	We had this a couple weeks.
	I'll play it anyway.
	It's funny because they're reporting this as news.
	Oh, but while it's playing, I'll find the clip we played.
	For now on air, skepticism over climate change has cost one French weatherman his job.
	He was taken off air after publishing a book where he described, quote, the complete hype on the matter.
	I'm Philippe Verdier.
	I'm a journalist, a meteorologist on television.
	While Philippe Verdier's book questioned the causes and consequences of climate change, the author suggested that warmer temperatures could bring benefits, including cheaper energy bills.
	His comments came just as France prepares to host a major UN conference on climate change later this month that aims to decrease pollution levels.
	We asked the head of the publishing house what he thinks about the incident.
	For me, this incident felt like a crime of opinion, pure and simple.
	With this book, we expected a controversy, but not a sacking.
	This demonstrates that there is a real ideological problem in France.
	At a certain point, we asked Philip about the possible outcomes.
	We told him that he should protect his interests.
	Never did he say it's the money that counts.
	Well, I wanted to play the clip because it said crime of opinion, which I think is a great phrase.
	You should definitely write that one down.
	I did.
	I couldn't find it that quickly.
	But we played a couple weeks ago.
	But I remember you even saying, oh my goodness.
	I think you said, oh my goodness.
	I could have said that.
	Oh my goodness.
	So instead, let's go to listening to Amy, Democracy Now.
	The War and Peace Report, warandpeacereport.com.
	Right, the War and Peace Report.
	I better have this clip here.
	It might be on a second page.
	See, there's an Amy Goodman clip on Yemen today.
	I don't even see Amy here.
	Money laundering, Islamist takeover.
	Yemen?
	Yes, this is a great clip.
	Storm in Yemen, is that it?
	That would be it.
	Yeah, okay.
	This is a couple of these storms.
	War-torn Yemen has been battered by a tropical cyclone, marking the first time in recorded history a tropical storm has ever made landfall there.
	Parts of Yemen saw as much rain in 24 hours as they usually see in several years.
	The port city of Mukalla, controlled by al-Qaeda militants, has been particularly hard hit by flooding.
	Scientists have warned of a link between stronger tropical storms and climate change.
	Oh, yes, of course.
	She always has to throw that in.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, let me just start off by Amy Goodman.
	You're an out-and-out liar.
	This is the first time that a tropical storm...
	I figured I'm going to go look up and find 10 or 20 of them.
	I didn't expect to find an entry in the Wikipedia...
	And I recommend people see this.
	The 2008...
	Yemen cyclone, which is what it was called.
	It hit land.
	160 people were killed.
	It flooded everything.
	And why does she say that it's never happened?
	She says it's never happened before.
	I'm referencing...
	Play the clip again because there's a specific...
	She didn't say it was a tornado.
	She specifically said a tropical depression has never hit before.
	War-torn Yemen has been battered by a tropical cyclone, marking the first time in recorded history a tropical storm has ever made landfall there.
	Parts of Yemen saw as much rain in 24 hours as they usually see in several years.
	The port city of Mukalla, controlled by al-Qaeda militants, has been particularly hard hit by flooding.
	Scientists have warned of a link between stronger tropical storms and climate change.
	On October 24, 2008, quote, it made landfall on the southeastern coast of Yemen, spelled with a Y, causing severe flooding, leaving about 180 dead.
	She is full of crap.
	She should be ashamed of herself.
	I love the Democracy Now!
	show because you get all kinds of news you wouldn't normally get.
	But I do not expect out-and-out lies.
	This was in 2008.
	It wasn't like in the 1700s.
	This, John, is borderline.
	Borderline.
	borderline when the ocean rises just this one this whole area That's what you gotta get your heads around.
	We're all gonna die.
	You know, I was thinking, I was contemplating the climate change meme, and how everybody gets fired if they talk about it, and oh, this is science, and it's a religion, and we have all those elements.
	We've discussed most of this in detail.
	We've got a lot of good comments on the religion, the religiosity of climate change.
	Yeah.
	This is a thought that passed my mind.
	Is climate change possibly a New World Order initiative?
	Ah, I'm glad you brought that up.
	And you can go on, but let me tell you why I think this.
	For the following reasons.
	We have to lie.
	We have to do anything we can.
	Lie and cheat.
	But they're just lying to the public.
	Now, that's one of the only reasons that we have listeners to our show because we try to break through this.
	They just lie to the public and everybody slaps it up like your friend that you just had dinner with.
	Oh, yeah.
	They just lap it up or whatever you say.
	And they don't question authority like you do when you're in college.
	Science is in.
	There's actual scientists.
	Why would they promote this?
	What is the real endgame?
	What is the purpose?
	And again, my thinking about the elites is the main thing they don't want...
	Is war.
	Because when there's war, people steal their stuff.
	They accumulate a bunch of stuff.
	They get castles.
	They get all these things.
	They get these paintings.
	They get rugs.
	And then the war breaks out and all their stuff is stolen by the enemy.
	Well, they don't want war in their country.
	Well, they don't want...
	True.
	Yeah, they don't care about war in the Middle East.
	But no, they don't want to be involved.
	They don't want any war around them.
	They want to keep it away.
	Keep it at arm's length as best they can.
	One of the elements that causes wars based, and you are the biggest proponent of this, is mass migration.
	One of the biggest problems that causes war, if you go to the base, and you're the biggest proponent of this, is oil.
	Of course.
	Oil, pipelines, all the rest of it.
	And not just oil for your car, but every product you have in your life.
	Pharmaceuticals.
	We have to move away from a petroleum economy, which is what we are.
	We are a petroleum economy.
	Everything's got to do with the oil, and you've got Russians with oil, everybody's got oil.
	We've got to somehow move away from that because that is the real basis.
	The reason for the migration is because of oil.
	It's the basis, the way I can see an elite thinking, it's the basis for all confrontational wars.
	At the base of everything, somehow oil and energy is involved.
	Well, but we always say it's your resources.
	It's turf, and there's always a hooker involved somewhere.
	Those three things...
	If you can minimize any one of these elements, you can add to it if you want, but if you can drop the oil, drop the petroleum thing, and if you haven't noticed, this is all about Getting petroleum out of the picture.
	It's interesting.
	Global warming.
	Oh, we've got to have more wind.
	We've got to have wind energy.
	We've got to have more dams.
	Let's make some dams.
	Okay, so what I'm seeing about this particular climate change summit is it is about money.
	It is 100% about money.
	Who is going to give money?
	Which rich nations and how much are they going to give to the poor countries?
	And how is that going to be policed?
	This is all about economy, and that's what I'm working on.
	A larger piece for Sunday is the statements from leaders of this IPCC group and the movement that only talks about the economics.
	It's not about saving the earth.
	No, it's about the economics and who will give the money to the people.
	The smaller, poor countries, which are often run by some elite guy who's smart and, you know, a despot, they see beyond this.
	They see this bull crap, and they want to gouge.
	They want a piece of the action.
	Of course they do.
	Now, this brings me to the Albert Pike theory.
	Oh, no.
	Have you ever heard of the Albert Pike theory?
	I've heard of Albert Pike.
	Albert Pike...
	Supposedly, this has been disputed.
	There's a lot about this.
	You can look it up.
	He supposedly wrote a letter.
	Who was Albert Pike?
	We should probably start there.
	I don't know.
	Albert.
	I don't remember.
	Yeah, he's some sort of a...
	Well, I think he would be...
	Let me look him up.
	I'll just get there.
	I'm not going to make it up.
	And he has a statue in Washington, D.C. He was a Freemason.
	Right.
	He is one of the only Confederate military officers or figures honored with a statue in Washington, D.C. Right.
	He was born in Boston, son of blah, blah, blah.
	And he died in 1891.
	Right.
	And what about him?
	Okay.
	So the theory goes that he wrote a letter to Mazzini of Italy in 1871.
	And this, of course, this letter has been disputed.
	But in this letter, apparently, he said the setup has been planned for generations and it is about three world wars.
	Just bear with me.
	I'm just reading this out.
	Okay, the First World War must be brought about in order to permit the elites to overthrow the power of the czars in Russia and making that country a fortress of atheistic communism.
	Then the Second World War must be, I'm just reading from what he supposedly wrote, must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the fascists and the political Zionists.
	This war must be brought about.
	Did he use the word fascist?
	Yeah.
	This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel and Palestine.
	And then, apparently, the Third World War...
	He used the word Israel?
	Yes, sir.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know.
	I know.
	I'm just giving you the theory because it's all over the place.
	Huh.
	The third world...
	Well, because the third world...
	It ties into what you're talking about.
	It must be fermented by taking advantage of differences, and the war must be conducted in a way that Islam and political Zionism mutually destroy each other.
	Meanwhile, other nations, once more divided on this issue, will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual, and economic exhaustion.
	Then we shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists.
	We shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm Which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery, and the most bloody turmoil.
	The manifestation will result from general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism both conquered and exterminated at the same time.
	And the concept here is we then go to global socialism run by the one world, new world order, the one world government.
	And there will be a new, this is, you hear this, a new form of United Nations.
	And if you look at it at, for all it's worth or not worth, the IPCC, the global warming movement, is, now that we have this, they're going to instate a climate justice court.
	This is another one of the main things they're doing in Paris, so that the climate justice court, which will have some authority like a UN type body, will be able to penalize countries based upon them not doing the right thing with climate change.
	And when you take it all the way down to the level of the human being who we exalt, we exhale climate pollutants in CO2, Those regulations, those rules, whatever climate justice will be pegged at, that is real control.
	Yeah, they're not going to get anywhere with this.
	And I don't know where that note comes from, but that's such bullshit.
	The word fascist didn't even appear anywhere in the world until 1921.
	Which is, there's a lot of discussion about this, and there's a lot of...
	I don't know why there'd be any discussion about it.
	The letter is a hoax.
	Okay.
	The letter is a complete and total hoax.
	Play China Burning More Coal.
	Newly disclosed data shows China's been burning up to 17 percent more coal than the Chinese government previously reported.
	The news comes just weeks before international negotiators meet in Paris to try to reach an agreement on addressing climate change.
	Democracy Now!
	will be broadcasting from the U.N. Climate Summit for the full two weeks.
	I'm sure you will.
	He loves going to Paris.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hanging out in Paris.
	Have Pierre do my hair.
	Well, that never happens.
	The climate justice guy is going to go find them for...
	I mean, come on.
	This is falling apart, this scam.
	Well, we'll see.
	How can you say it's falling apart when what NASA wrote is being ignored?
	Do you think the president is going to stop saying sea level is rising?
	No, I'm not saying that the people that are kind of blinded by it and they're going to keep whatever you say, they've got their hands over their ears going ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma so they can't hear anything.
	I'm not saying that's going to change.
	Or the junkets to Paris so they can have a meeting.
	Or the phony baloney stopping, you know, taking cars off the streets so the elites can get around town easier, which is the only reason.
	I mean, yeah, all that's going to continue.
	But I think in general, the movement is like dead in the water.
	And I want to say something about something you said on the last show or the show before.
	You made a philosophical comment.
	Along the lines of, don't you think that someday, like maybe 100 years from now, they're going to look back on this point with this phony religion called climate change and how they screwed everything up for a while and then it took forever to figure out that it was bullcrap.
	No, I think what I said was, isn't it sad that when this all turns out to be phony baloney, we'll be long dead and gone when the history finally shows that this was a hoax?
	Yeah.
	Well, it's probably the same thing.
	More or less.
	You just were more obsessed with the dead and gone part.
	This is not going to happen.
	This is just going to be ignored as a blip in the historic record.
	This is because I was thinking about this.
	Well, this didn't happen.
	It's been way...
	It's already overdue for us to bring up the population bomb and all the rest of the stuff that was predicted in the 70s.
	That was a big...
	That was a big bunch of crap that fell apart, but yet nobody's complained about them, including the guy who's now in the climate game, this Ehrlich character.
	Nobody's talked about how stupid it was to be predicting global cooling back in the 1970s.
	And not one article.
	Well, the only difference is...
	We now have so much more information stored and available versus the 70s when we had the global cooling and we do have New York Times articles, we have Time Magazine articles, Newsweek articles, we have television pieces about it.
	It's Podesta.
	It's the same people who are now crying about global warming.
	But the difference is the amount of information is just...
	Unless, of course, we get a...
	A coronal mass ejection and everything's erased.
	Which is...
	I might want to point this out.
	I have been alerted as part of the Mars system.
	Are you part of Mars?
	Are you part of the Mars system?
	No.
	Well, you should be if you're a ham.
	No.
	Oh.
	Should I be?
	Yes!
	You'd be perfect.
	Mars is the military auxiliary radio system.
	And we have a...
	We are all on alert for the month of November.
	I read here from...
	And this has been redacted.
	It's the 1415 Mars COMEX... Execution of this code mix requires coordination with radio stations in the amateur radio service.
	Training exercise simulates for the whole month of November.
	The training exercise simulates a notional coronal mass ejection and geomagnetic storm.
	In 1859, one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record occurred, known as the Carrington Event.
	The CME associated with the solar storm was a direct hit on Earth.
	Telegraph communications across the globe, which had become primary method for communications around the world, failed.
	In 1989, another CME knocked out electricity for 12 hours to over 6 million residents in Quebec.
	The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude to the Carrington Event, but passed the Earth's orbit without striking the planet.
	Should a CME of this magnitude strike Earth today, the resulting geomagnetic storm is expected to cause significant damage to electrical and telecommunications infrastructure, consumer electronics, and cause widespread economic and social disruption.
	Some estimates indicate up to $2 trillion in damage.
	damage, etc., etc., etc.
	And throughout COMEX, stations should operate under exercise conditions that simulate a complete unavailability of cyberspace, electrical, and telecommunications infrastructure.
	Friendly forces, Air Force, Army, amateur radio operators, DOD, and the American Radio Relay League.
	Are you doing this?
	Of course I am.
	I'm a ham.
	I don't know.
	You know, ham radio could save your life, man.
	It's not just a hobby.
	Now...
	I... That's why I have to buy a new transmitter.
	I know.
	I know about the 1800s of your life that it just blew out everything.
	I mean, and we weren't really that complicated back then.
	There was electricity.
	There was...
	The telegraph poles were on fire.
	They were on fire.
	I don't know.
	It wasn't a good situation to have that happen.
	If it happened today, I'll tell you this.
	There's some good news about it.
	First of all, it takes all the Teslas off the road.
	To me, that is like a huge plus.
	What a good idea.
	Hold on, let me just write that down.
	Outstanding, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	And I'd probably take out Facebook, which is another good thing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, something like that could happen.
	I have to look into what would it take to blow out a solid-state drive insofar as one of these solar purges?
	If I just had like a thumb drive sitting around.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't either.
	I don't really know.
	Well, this is a military briefing and it says that it can knock out all kinds of stuff.
	Just consumer electronics will just break and not work anymore.
	I would assume a lot of that would be true.
	But what, specifically?
	Would it blow out an iPhone?
	Probably.
	Would it blow out your computer that's operating on the power grid, which would probably get a jolt of some sort, plus the other thing?
	And then bang, you know, just probably torch a couple of high-end microprocessors.
	Would it screw them up?
	It doesn't take much, by the way.
	No.
	I mean, if you open up your computer and you're messing around and you're messing with the chips and you're not grounded properly, or if you're changing chips, you can blow them up just with static electricity.
	Yeah, it doesn't take much.
	Yeah, static electricity will ruin a lot of stuff.
	So I'm just going to read.5 again.
	But I'm just wondering whether we'll blow out a...
	Because if it won't blow out a thumb drive that's just sitting around, then I think we're going to be good to go for saving this information that you're worried about.
	Well...
	That's a good point.
	I just want to read again from point 4b.
	The resulting geomagnetic storm is expected to cause significant damage to electrical and telecommunications infrastructure, consumer electronics, and cause widespread economic and social disruptions.
	Your Apple pay and your credit card terminals may not work.
	Some estimates indicate up to $2 trillion in damage and recovery from such an event may extend from several months to years.
	Only equipment that has been protected during the geomagnetic storm should be expected to operate post-event.
	I have a Faraday bag with a radio in it.
	Okay.
	You don't have that?
	I am not expecting this event to take place.
	Why not?
	I'm an optimist.
	Oh, okay.
	Well...
	I have Faraday bags for things.
	I mean, I keep my wallet.
	My wallet is a Faraday case, so people can't, you know, steal my money, which is in a credit card with a chip.
	I keep my FastPass.
	Mm-hmm.
	In aluminum foil, which works.
	Because I don't like to be tracked.
	I'm not like a paranoid nutcase, but I just don't see any reason I should be tracked around town because they have monitors everywhere with these fast pack.
	If you've got a fast pack, you want a fast pack, fast track, one of these little beepers that pays your bridge tolls.
	Unless it's glued to your thing, they're tracking everywhere you go just in case it's crime-fighting.
	It's a good idea, but I just don't like it.
	I don't like the idea of me being followed around.
	Well, I will be protecting the city of Austin.
	Okay.
	And then just to wrap up the whole thing, you know, you think that people, it doesn't make a difference, and I'm seeing something very, there's a new...
	What did I say doesn't make a difference?
	Oh, that this will be a blip in history, no one will talk about it.
	Oh yeah, that's what I think.
	And the whole thing is falling apart.
	Well, a new working paper...
	It's like the straw hat.
	It's the straw hat of our era.
	You ever talk about straw hats?
	Take a look at a picture from 1911 or 1928 or 1930 for that matter.
	It's like a horde of people all wearing straw hats.
	What kind of mania is this?
	It's crazy.
	Yeah, I'm looking.
	What's wrong with the straw hats?
	What happened to them?
	Why did they show up?
	And why did they go away?
	I don't know.
	Nobody wears them anymore.
	I've never seen anyone in their right mind.
	The National Bureau of Economic Research...
	At nber.org has come out with a very important report.
	Hot weather leads to diminished coital frequency.
	How do I pronounce that?
	Coital?
	And now they're saying because of climate change, we'll not get laid.
	You see, now I'm worried.
	Birth rates do not bounce back completely after heat waves.
	More autumn conceptions means more deliveries in the summer.
	Air conditioning might prove to be an aphrodisiac.
	Global warming will not get you laid.
	This is a reason to drive a Tesla.
	This is all nonsense.
	It's a government-funded organization and report.
	I hope you enjoy it.
	I wish we would.
	Let's audit the Pentagon.
	Yeah, there you go.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	Alright, so we had, uh...
	War...
	We have 460.
	We sent out a mailing that people were getting in their regular mail.
	Did we get any nice photoshops?
	Yeah, we got tons.
	That's going to be fun.
	Okay.
	The Photoshop thing's taking off.
	Yeah, tell people about that.
	Yeah, I posted in that newsletter, I posted the picture of Adam and Tina the Keeper.
	And it looked like a thing that could be easily used for Photoshop joke photos.
	And so people are making these, and I'm going to pick one out, or the two of us will pick one out that is the best and put it in the newsletter.
	It's just fun to play with Photoshop when you have a kind of an image.
	And then Nick Dirac, if you had a Twitter account, Nick Dirac already did the math.
	He pulled the heads out so you can move them anywhere.
	Oh, beautiful.
	So you have a bunch of people with this.
	One I posted on Twitter, which was you.
	You were in the meeting with the Bin Laden folks.
	Hillary smelling her finger.
	In the situation room.
	The situation room.
	Some good ones.
	So we sent out this newsletter to 15,000 people, which for one time, because it was very carefully structured, it went, it didn't get into the promotions tab.
	It actually came in most people's real mail if they had Gmail.
	Most people.
	And more so than usual.
	Oh, okay.
	Interesting.
	So after sending out the 15,000...
	So we learned something.
	Yeah.
	We did.
	We did.
	We learned something, probably not to do it again, because I sent out 15,000 of these things, 15,500 to be exact.
	It's a pretty good-sized newsletter.
	And out of 15,000, we have 13 people who actually thought enough of it to give more than $50.
	Nice.
	Thanks.
	13.
	That is less than 0.1.
	It's unbelievable.
	And so we can thank this group.
	We already named one of them, so we have 12 left.
	People who thought enough of the show and the work we put into it and the rest of it and thought they did their time and the value of the show and everything in between.
	We have to 12 people here.
	I don't understand.
	I got so many positive comments on the previous show.
	People said they loved it.
	They loved the analysis.
	They said it was one of the better ones.
	I don't get it.
	It's obviously not the quality of the show.
	Well, maybe we're on the wrong track.
	Have you ever considered just this as an aside?
	Yeah, we just celebrated eight years.
	Yeah.
	Do you ever think, like, fuck, I want to do something else?
	I don't think that way, but I will if this continues like this.
	Uh...
	Let's thank the people who supported us for this week.
	Let's thank them.
	Yes, we will.
	We start off with one of our nights, Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	He came in with the biggest amount of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	And he wants...
	We're going to let him...
	Well, we might as well read the notes.
	There's only four notes.
	Yeah, there's only 12.
	F cancer.
	I had my ear removed yesterday.
	This isn't good.
	Part of his ears.
	Part of my ear.
	Oh, okay.
	The ear looks like I pissed off Mike Tyson.
	At least he's got a sense of humor.
	Cancer all gone, we'll have another surgery with anesthesia this time, so my ear will heal.
	Need karma for more acute nurses and other successful surgery.
	Get your bodies checked for cancer.
	Ear cancer, that's a weird one, man.
	How does ear cancer happen?
	I have no idea.
	That's nasty.
	You've got karma.
	I'm giving a karma for that.
	Anonymous from Ottawa, Canada, $75.
	Sir Luke of London, UK, $58.88.
	Stephen or Stephen, depending.
	I think Stephen.
	Waylon in Milford, Michigan, $55 double nickels on the dime.
	And let's go down one here.
	Is this Sir Brian Watson next?
	No, I'm sorry.
	I got the wrong...
	You think cell phone might cause ear cancer?
	Yes.
	That's an interesting thought.
	Chat room.
	I've had nothing but...
	I've always been sketchy about cell phones, especially ones with the extra wattage so you can actually hit the tower.
	Because they used to have big antennas and they used to do this.
	And that's the new iPhone 6 has the new frequencies for T-Mobile's LTE, which is longer range.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, so I don't know.
	I don't use an iPhone, but I'll ask you this.
	So if you're doing some data work, can you also take a call?
	Yes.
	So I can have the LTE cranking away at high speeds with high wattage?
	It's a configuration.
	You can set it for LTE and voice or LTE. I think you may start to share something, but yes, you can do both.
	So I would have this thing against my ear?
	I never have it.
	Data transfer, the LTE network while I'm talking, so I'd have two things beaming into my brain?
	Zzzz.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	I don't see how this is good.
	I think instead of the global warming, we should be looking into this more.
	Craig Harbison in Hamilton, Ohio, 5433.
	He's got a couple of douchebag call-outs.
	I've been listening to the real podcast of the universe.
	That's my phone.
	Ah!
	For a couple of years now, and I haven't tried hitting many people in their proverbial mouths, but only a few stick in my mind as worthy of calling out as douchebags.
	Okay.
	Or douchebags of the highest order.
	It is my meager request that you call out Ben Doran.
	Douchebag!
	Kevin Stewart.
	Douchebag!
	Frank Kessler.
	Douchebag!
	It's a trifecta of titillating, terrible douchebags.
	They're all rich and holding out on you guys.
	Oh, no.
	So don't hold back.
	He says another note.
	This is interesting.
	His company was purchased and he was assigned as employee number 33.
	33!
	That's the magic number!
	Okay, onward.
	We might as well do his little request.
	Come on.
	What was his request?
	If at all possible, can I get an I like bugs followed by can you see that juice?
	Okay.
	And I have to say that more and more people who I know who listen to the show are really all over the bug thing.
	Good.
	Everyone sees it.
	There's, you know, crickets and cream.
	It's all over the place.
	When I see bugs, I want to stomp on them, I want to swap them, I want to raid them.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	I don't know what happened to the original jingle.
	Oh, here it is.
	I love bugs!
	There we go.
	Sorry about that.
	Bugs, bugs, bugs.
	Mmm.
	Mmm.
	Tastes like poop.
	Nice.
	Indeed.
	Barry Coggins in Parts Unknown, $50.27.
	Then we have a few $50 donors, including Kevin Johnson in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Christopher Walker in DePere, Wisconsin.
	Adam Beck in Lost Wages, Nevada.
	Matthew Januszewski in Chicago, Illinois.
	Keith Powell in Swansea, Newport, UK. And Robert...
	Amenula in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Justin Barber in Los Angeles, California.
	And last but not least, Sir Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	So we want to thank you, 13 folks, for supporting the No Agenda show on this first show of November.
	Second show of November.
	It is?
	On the second show of November, reflecting the show that was just played on November 1st, because this would be the, oh, we like the show so much, you know, kind of thing.
	So the first, okay, second show of November.
	On the second show of November.
	I got an extra karma for Richard Beavers, who wrote me this morning, hey, Adam, this isn't about the show or anything, but my dad is going in for surgery to have a brain tumor removed today.
	I would really appreciate some karma.
	So I'll just give that to him right there.
	We protect people whenever we can.
	You've got karma.
	And thank you to the people who did donate today.
	That is, of course, always appreciated.
	And there are a couple of people below the $50 level.
	Ford SD-13, $49.99.
	Yeah, we have a lot of $4 guys, which I really think is a great donation.
	The $4 a week.
	Right.
	And that is appreciated.
	It's two bucks a show.
	I mean, we get two, three hours, two bucks a show.
	When we started this, we were talking about movie tickets, about a night to the movie is two times seven dollars.
	It's gone up.
	Yeah, it's almost double since we started the show.
	Thirteen dollars at Violet Crown here.
	Yeah.
	I saw the movie Truth.
	We should probably talk about that in a second.
	Okay.
	Anyway, thank you so much.
	And nightings?
	Yes, we have a night and we have some birthdays.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And we say happy birthday to Rick Dolshini.
	He turns 48.
	Rich McCutcheon II says happy birthday to his brother Mark, who celebrates his 25th birthday today.
	Susan says happy birthday to her brother Dave.
	Bradley Shelnut says happy birthday to his brother Matthew Shelnut.
	And we say a big happy belated birthday to Mimi Dvorak, celebrated yesterday, October 4th, 39 years old.
	And happy birthday for everybody here at No Agenda.
	39!
	Then you like the young chickies, don't you?
	Good work.
	Good work.
	Yes, we have a black knight.
	Tim Abel?
	A-B-E-L-L? Abel or Abel?
	I think it's Abel?
	A-B-E-L could be anything.
	Double L, double L, double L. Oh, Abel.
	Abel, I'd say Abel.
	Somehow we missed his knighting, so we have a black knight today, John.
	So if you can grab your sword.
	How did that happen?
	I don't know, but the back office confirmed.
	Here we go.
	Tim Abel!
	Step up, my friend.
	We're so sorry, but we're very happy you supported the best podcast in the universe.
	About $1,000 or more.
	And we are very happy now to pronounce the Sir Tim Abel.
	Black Knight of the Noah General Roundtable.
	For you, my friend, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, crickets and cream, black hose and MD-2020, bad signs of perky breasts, Johnny Walker, green label, video games and vaporizers, sake and sushi.
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	Go to noegendernation.com slash rings.
	We're still waiting for the delivery, so maybe just a little bit before you get your package in.
	And when you do receive it, please, please, please, please tweet that out.
	We enjoy that very much when you do that.
	So it looks like the white men's days are numbered.
	The white men's days, like white men?
	The white men.
	The white men with white privilege?
	Yes, white men with white privilege.
	Play the clip, Killing Whitey.
	A new study finds the death rate for white middle-aged Americans is rising, even as it declines among other groups.
	The spike appears to have particularly impacted people who lack a college education.
	Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case said the deaths appear to be the result of an epidemic of suicides, heroin and painkiller overdoses and alcoholic liver disease.
	Yeah, I read this report and I chuckled because I am not only a white man of middle age, but I also have no college degree.
	I'm technically dead.
	I don't even know how I can be doing this show.
	Suicides, overdose, painkillers, prescriptions, heroin.
	Yeah, this is exactly what the American dream is.
	Get into the middle class and die.
	That's it.
	That's the point.
	Get into the middle class and die.
	Well, things are bad with the lower class.
	They're doing it the hard way.
	Instead of shooting, then the cops shoot you.
	It's just...
	Kill yourself.
	Kill yourself, dude.
	There was a problem with...
	And it's interesting to me that people always call it the food stamps, even though there's no stamps involved anymore in this program.
	No, they stopped the stamps a while back.
	But they still call it food stamps.
	Yeah, which is...
	You're right.
	I don't know why that is.
	And that is a disparaging term.
	It is.
	It's very disparaging.
	It changed the name.
	This was in Georgia.
	And people were...
	Lining up at the food stamp office because their food stamps...
	Listen to the report.
	Their food stamps did not show up.
	But at the very beginning of this report, one of the food stamp recipients, a woman, holds up a Visa debit card that says EBT on it, which is the Electronic Benefits...
	What does the T stand for?
	Transfer?
	Transfer, I think it is.
	And so what happened, in its essence, is money did not get transferred onto the debit cards and people got hungry and they started to get mad.
	I was going to say, how can that happen?
	It's just a computer.
	State officials admit to me tonight that something went wrong down in Clayton County at the office that administers food stamps and Medicaid, but they're still not sure what.
	Parents tell me tonight they can't buy food without those food stamps.
	This food stamp card ain't got number 17 cents on it.
	Terry Clark says she stood in line for more than six hours at Clayton County's Human Services office because food stamp help for her six children unexpectedly ended.
	There's no telling my kids that we can't eat.
	I'm not taking no because my babies don't deserve that.
	Nobody's kids should go hungry down here in Georgia.
	State officials say this office was overwhelmed today with dozens of families facing a similar problem.
	The food stamps just not there.
	Me and my kids, they haven't ate since this morning.
	So I'm not supposed to get my food stamps yesterday and I ain't getting nothing.
	So they was getting angry.
	They started banging on the window.
	A state spokesperson tells me what happened here today was out of the ordinary and it was unexpected.
	But they say they're not sure what exactly went wrong.
	What was the glitch that led to this mess?
	There we go!
	If you have computer problems, I feel bad for you, son.
	I got 99 problems, but a glitch ain't one.
	I got 99 glitches.
	Glitch!
	It's just a glitch!
	Glitch!
	Glitch!
	Put a ghosty on there, will ya?
	It's a glitch.
	That's right, everybody.
	The universal term.
	That's the most racist report I've heard.
	Where was that?
	Can we only find the most uneducated-sounding black women that are screeching?
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	In the line?
	Oh, it was horrendous.
	And keep saying, food stamp, food stamp, food stamp.
	There's no food stamps involved.
	Let me tell you where it came from.
	It came from, this is a local station, Fox Station in Georgia.
	Okay.
	Racist Fox station in Georgia.
	Thank you.
	Very racist report.
	Extremely.
	But I just love it that it's a glitch.
	Oh, okay.
	We don't need to figure anything out.
	Because those little glitches...
	What is that?
	Who is calling me?
	You don't love me.
	You don't love me if you call me during my show.
	Who's calling you?
	I don't know.
	A local number.
	Oh, you should have checked.
	Someone who doesn't love me.
	Doesn't love me.
	What's her name from the dinner?
	I was listening to your show!
	I'm outraged!
	The Hillary girl.
	Oh, I have a Hillary.
	I have a Hillary clip here.
	This is...
	Dude, but I'm thinking of a name for the people that are the Hillary...
	Like an Obama bot, we need Hillary something.
	Shillery?
	No.
	Well, maybe this next clip will help you.
	This was probably one of the best gaffes I've heard.
	This was Hillary.
	Now, she's doing something interesting.
	Whatever the president is going on about...
	She immediately launches onto that as, you know, oh, this is something I'm working on.
	Oh, yeah.
	So now it's the prisoners.
	The president, you know, he just came out with a memorandum and he's saying, okay, we've got a, this is his podcast this week.
	It's all about getting, you know, prisoners out as you heard her at the black high school saying, hey, you know, you're not going to go to jail for smoking crack.
	We're going to turn that back.
	And everyone loved it.
	Like, yeah!
	We can finally do crack and we're not going to go to jail.
	Fantastic.
	So now she's on the prisoner tip and here's what she said.
	Every year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners re-enter society.
	That's the good news.
	They've paid their debt.
	They're free.
	But then what happens?
	They look for a job.
	Everywhere they go, doors are shut in their faces.
	That starts all over again, a cycle of poverty and hopelessness that too often can lead to more crime.
	Earlier today, I announced that as president, I will take steps to ban the box so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process.
	That way they'll have a chance to be seen as more than just someone who's done time.
	Did you hear what she actually said?
	Banning the box?
	Yeah.
	What did she say right after banning the box?
	I missed it.
	Get ready.
	I will take steps to ban the box so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process.
	That's right.
	Former presidents like you, Hillary, won't have to declare your criminal past.
	Like Obama.
	By banning the box.
	And like Bill.
	What a gaffe.
	That is the clip of the day.
	Okay, play it.
	I will take steps to ban the box so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process.
	Hello, Mr.
	Freud speaking.
	Yes, Hillary made a gaffe.
	I think she wanted to, the truth always wants to come out.
	It was about, truly about the presidents being criminals.
	Love that.
	You know, there was, I think it was, I was Madison, or I forgot who it was, that...
	I think we had a clip of somebody talking about this.
	It was always anticipated that the nature of this country and our leadership, that some presidents would get impeached and thrown out.
	That's why it was in there.
	That's why I put it in the Constitution.
	And we don't even do anything.
	We have obvious criminals, and that would include, I would say, George Bush.
	Yeah.
	For sure.
	Dick Cheney.
	Cheney, for sure.
	Uh-huh.
	I think Clinton.
	Uh-huh.
	Also, there's probably a couple other ones.
	Nixon.
	Yeah.
	Of course, he quit before you could do that, so he kind of jumped the gun on that.
	Yeah.
	And if you go back, people like Martin Van Buren and some of these other guys are just obvious criminals.
	And we don't do anything about it, which is good and bad.
	No, we elect them into higher office.
	And Hillary herself.
	A little update on the migrant situation.
	My obsession of the past few months, just tracking the...
	The people walking across Europe, they are walking across Europe, carrying children.
	The invasion.
	It is the invasion.
	With migrants and refugees lined up at borders across Europe, hope for a solution remains dim.
	And now new numbers from the United Nations show a migration pattern that refuses to slow down.
	Refugee agency UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards says a little more than 218,000 arrived last month.
	Breaking the previous monthly record and nearly matching last year's total of 219,000.
	So it's an enormous number of people.
	It's producing enormous pressures on places where people are arriving.
	The Greek islands in particular are seeing particular strain.
	On the 20th of October, we had more than 10,000 people in a single day on these arriving on islands where there simply hasn't been the capacity to deal with those kind of figures.
	So a really overwhelming situation.
	The vast majority of refugees and migrants have traveled via Turkey to Greece.
	UNHCR had said in October that Europe was planning for up to 700,000 refugees this year, but that number has already been eclipsed.
	Edwards says he expects this level of arrivals to continue into 2016.
	Certainly in 2016 we have to expect this level of arrivals to continue.
	And that's because the factors that are causing people to move aren't going away.
	We are in a period of record numbers of forced displacement globally, almost 60 million people fleeing conflict, fleeing areas of instability.
	It is the new reality that we all have to deal with, that this is a phenomenon that isn't going away quickly.
	Yeah.
	It just does not stop.
	I guess this month's headcount was 200,000.
	It's the highest so far.
	And it's as much as all of last year total migration.
	They're looking at over 3 million people by 2017.
	And as you know, Angela Merkel has a lot of problems with her coalition partners in Brevaria.
	Quick report.
	A Bavarian official has called Chancellor Angela Merkel to tell her that if Germany welcomes a million refugees, his town will only take in around 1,800.
	Any extra will be sent directly to Angela Merkel in Berlin by bus.
	Them fighting words right there, boy.
	I tell you.
	Bless them over.
	And I did some work above my day yesterday.
	I was spent combing through the draft resolution of the Investigatory Powers Bill as introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May.
	Just a little bit because I do want to finish some German news.
	Oh, let's go to German news.
	Deutschland news.
	Hallo, hier ist die Welle von Deutschland.
	So do you listen to the Deutsche Welle guys who are just...
	Rolling their eyes over the Volkswagen store.
	Let's do an update on Volkswagen and see what other crap is being pushed down, the other stuff that's happened.
	I don't know if getting in a car is going to make you feel any better after Ben tells us the latest news from Volkswagen.
	It's one scandal after the next sprint.
	BW is now recalling an additional 90,000 cars in the United States.
	A mechanical problem that can knock out the power-assisted brakes.
	That's on top of the German automaker understating the level of emissions from its gasoline engines.
	Until now, the scandal had only surrounded diesel models.
	In other news, VW and its Audi units have frozen sales of diesels in the US, and its Porsche unit has done the same with its Cayenne.
	And when you thought it couldn't get worse, ratings agency Moody's has cut VW's creditworthiness.
	It just goes on and on.
	Now there's brakes.
	Now they're talking about regular gasoline automobiles.
	Yes.
	Now, I want to say there is something to be said that the regulations, the EPA regulations, which under this president in this country where we have this conversation, have become so stringent.
	Unachievable.
	They're unachievable.
	And I'm pretty sure if you really were able to do the investigation that a lot of automobile manufacturers have defeat devices or systems for all of their automobiles, but that's not the point.
	So there's something, there's some German targeting going on, and this next report, again from Deutsche Welle, which has a funny kind of a question at the end, on Deutsche Bank is another issue.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay, Lars, talking about German brands, American regulators say Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, has agreed to pay $258 million in fines for doing business with U.S.-sanctioned countries like Iran and Syria.
	I mean, what are the Germans doing wrong?
	I think maybe I told you this, my former New York banker here in Austin who used to be at Deutsche, he sent me a note a week ago and he said, all my boys are out at Deutsche and now they're going to fire 35,000 people and And this goes back to what we couldn't figure out when he kept saying, we won, we won.
	The American banks, we won.
	And I think this is part of it.
	If you look at some of the other banks, HSBC reported earnings increase, bottom line is up, but Deutsche is completely obliterated.
	This is all part of the same thing, I believe.
	And we know what that is.
	Well, it continues.
	Yes, it does.
	You know what?
	Screw them.
	You know, we're triggering World War III. I guess if you're okay with that.
	We're not triggering.
	We're in the middle of it.
	It's not triggering.
	This is all a part of it.
	Still pounding on the...
	We've still got the sledgehammer.
	We're pounding on the top of the bomb, trying to get the thing to blow.
	I'd like to focus...
	Are you done with Deutschland?
	I think so.
	Okay.
	Now we go to the new United Kingdom surveillance bill.
	Here's the introduction of said bill, or the draft, I should say.
	Home Secretary Theresa May set to bring a new surveillance bill to the House of Commons this week.
	She says it's very different from the so-called Snoopers' Charter that was blocked by the last Parliament.
	That's good.
	The snoopers charter was slang.
	Well, there was slang that people came up with.
	And now it's being used by politicians to say, oh, it's not going to be like the snoopers charter, which has, you know, it's such a loaded term.
	That's not what it was called.
	But now they're using that to say, oh, this legislation is going to be great.
	Elizabeth Piper says May is seeking to reassure MPs and the public.
	She said this time they will not have automatic access to the browsing history of people and also they will not require internet service providers to hold on to third-party data.
	She said any more intrusive actions would have to go for a warrant, would have to go either to a judge or to the interior minister herself for approval.
	The new bill, part of a national dispute over how to balance privacy and security.
	Campaigners say revelations of mass surveillance by the US and UK demonstrates the need for safeguards.
	But the spies are making their case too.
	Lately, the intelligence services really mount quite an interesting charm offensive.
	They've allowed the Times to go into their headquarters.
	They've been explaining in quite some detail how they need to operate and how they're not really, they haven't got the tools to do that in the modern age to look at digital and mobile communications.
	The watering down of the Snoopers' charter may mark a partial victory for privacy campaigners, but the argument is far from settled.
	Well, it has now been introduced, and I have a bit from Theresa May telling us what it's not going to be.
	The task of law enforcement and the security and intelligence agencies has become vastly more demanding in this digital age.
	Vastly more demanding.
	It is right, therefore, that those who are charged with protecting us should have the powers they need to do so.
	Need power!
	Need power!
	But it is the role of government and parliament to ensure that there are limits to those powers.
	Oh, well, keep a good lookout.
	So let me be clear.
	The draft bill we are publishing today is not a return to the draft communications data bill of 2012.
	It will not include powers to force UK companies to capture and retain third-party internet traffic from companies based overseas.
	Yeah, who cares?
	It will not compel overseas communications service providers to meet our domestic retention obligations for communications data.
	Unless they're located in the UK. Lie.
	Lie.
	of all the recommendations by the Joint Scrutamy Committee which examined that draft bill have been accepted.
	So today's bill represents a significant departure from the proposals of the past.
	Today we are setting out a modern legal framework which brings together current powers in a clear and comprehensible way.
	A new bill that provides some of the strongest protections and safeguards anywhere in the democratic world and an approach that sets new standards for openness, transparency and oversight.
	Sounds like a great place to live.
	This new legislation will underpin the work of law enforcement and the security and intelligence agencies for years to come.
	It is their license to operate, with the democratic approval of Parliament to protect our national security and the public's safety.
	Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
	We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
	In some countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
	In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms.
	Protect their freedoms.
	Oh yeah.
	Protect their freedoms.
	Protect your freedom, baby.
	Protect their freedoms.
	Protect your freedom.
	Alright, here's a rundown.
	I have the document marked up in the show notes, 771.noagendanotes.com.
	A quick rundown of what this means.
	She's not being very truthful, what she's saying there.
	Now, this is a draft, so it's going to be debated.
	The Investigatory Powers Bill key points here.
	We require...
	They had used the term CSP in this document, which is being shortened everywhere else to web and phone companies, but it stands for communication service provider, which is quite broad.
	So it requires CSPs, which will just say web and phone companies, to store records of websites visited by every citizen for 12 months for access by police, security services, and other public bodies.
	This means packet inspection.
	From your ISP itself.
	So they will be pretty much almost like a transparent proxy.
	How do you get that?
	I'm reading it from the...
	No, but packet inspection.
	I'm saying this.
	I'm saying this.
	Yes, it's going to...
	They're inspecting...
	Well, okay.
	I thought that you just have to keep a log.
	You'd be good to go.
	But you're proxying people's communication.
	So you're analyzing what's going through it.
	Because you have, they have to store the, so I'm here on Time Warner Cable, and I went to the whitehouse.gov, and that will be registered and will be recallable, or no, better, I went to the Ted Kaczynski's Unabomber Manifesto.
	And then you went to 4chan.
	And I went to 4chan.
	And then you went to the White House.
	And all of that will be registered.
	No show next week!
	The new law makes explicit in law for the first time power for the security services for bulk collection of personal communications data.
	Now, this is the metadata.
	And that will be collected in bulk.
	Hands down, no questions asked.
	Something that we've kind of gotten away with, although it's still searchable in the providers' databases.
	This makes explicit in law, for the first time, the powers of security services to hack into computers, place bugs, put in keyboard sniffers, and...
	Places a legal obligation on all companies who create devices that have encryption to provide a bypass.
	This is the big one that I think people are talking about.
	If not, they should be.
	You can have a device that encrypts data, but by UK law, if this gets into law and this draft is taken as is, the iPhone, as an example, if it's really true, would be an illegal device.
	Since you need to be able to assist the operations in bypassing any encryption.
	This is the big one.
	I don't know how they're going to do that, but maybe we'll have a special jacked phone.
	UK edition of the iPhone.
	Special UK edition.
	We have a special color for you in the UK. So now they're putting up a commissioners.
	I guess it's kind of like our FISA court.
	Seven judicial commissioners who will be given power of veto, and they will be able to say, yes, you can go install a bug in this person's computer or phone, or you could use other snooping systems.
	But of course, just like we have, if you have an urgent case, they'll let you slide and give you five days to go ahead and do whatever you want.
	Then there's an oversight commission, which will be three members.
	We have no idea who these people will be.
	So, this onerous law, and you're going to tell us a little more about it, I guess, but it sounds onerous.
	Is this law being introduced because of all the terrorist attacks going on in London?
	Is it London?
	Where are they blowing up a lot of stuff?
	Well, no.
	Aren't they blowing stuff up left and right?
	How come this didn't happen during the IRA era?
	I think you're missing a key point, which is up to this bill, which is just a draft.
	It's not law yet.
	We've been discussing the terminology intolerant and intolerance.
	This is part of this.
	And intolerance includes being negative.
	Oh, this is because they hate speakers.
	Yes, if you are negative or you speak out, you are vocal about...
	Something un-British.
	Yes, British norms and values, then these laws will apply to you.
	So heaven forbid you don't tweet.
	I'm going to tell you, UK listeners, do not ever tweet that you like hummus.
	Just don't do that.
	Because that's a sure sign of terrorism?
	It's a sure sign of being un-British.
	Finally, CSPs will be required to maintain permanent capabilities to intercept and collect any data being sent through their networks.
	So, full-on tapping in and sucking it off.
	Another reason to use one of the remote proxy systems.
	A VPN, I mean.
	I don't know if that's going to save you that much.
	Well, I think VPNs are pretty interesting.
	It allows you to do poison pen letters easier.
	And I guess finally we should at least mention...
	Turkey's ruling AK party claiming a win in the country's general election.
	It gained almost 50% of the votes and enough seats to govern without a coalition.
	That's just five months after it lost outright control at the previous election.
	Prime Minister Ahmed of Atolu quick to see change.
	AK wants to change the constitution to give President Tayyip Erdogan greater powers.
	Critics fear what he might do with such authority.
	Erdogan has cracked down on press and judicial freedoms and all but scrapped efforts to make peace with the country's Kurdish minority.
	The Council of Europe has denounced the win, claiming the voting process was unfair.
	There you go.
	Well, I've got part two of that.
	New constitution.
	What?
	A new constitution is what I said.
	That's what he wants to do.
	He wants a new constitution.
	I got it.
	Here?
	Now to Turkey.
	Just days after winning an absolute majority in a general election, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for constitutional change to give him even more powers.
	Now, under the current constitution, the office of president is largely ceremonial.
	Erdogan wants to change that.
	He wants to become an executive president similar to that of the president of the United States.
	But many are worried that this will have nothing to do with a balance of powers.
	Devam ediyor.
	Kesmek yok.
	Devam edeceğiz.
	Thunderous applause for a president who's wasting no time.
	Three days after winning the election, President Erdogan is pressing for a constitutional reform to extend presidential powers.
	His Islamic conservative AKP wants to change Turkey's system of government, but the party lacks the needed votes in parliament, so the president is seeking support from others.
	I believe that political parties seeking to thwart this process should change their stance.
	Anyone who resists our people's wish for a new constitution, who tries to prevent it, will be held accountable in the next elections in four years.
	This is not going to end well.
	And the EU is all in with this joker.
	Play the second part of this.
	Okie doke.
	The opposition fears that Erdogan could become an autocratic ruler.
	The president further vowed to press ahead with Turkey's bloody conflict with Kurdish PKK rebels.
	And the government is cracking down on dissenting media.
	On Tuesday, two editors of news magazine Nocta were arrested for allegedly plotting a coup.
	They had called the AKP victory on their cover page the beginning of a civil war in Turkey.
	That edition of the magazine was withdrawn from shelves.
	This magazine has been shut down in the past.
	Turkey has become a country that cannot even tolerate an opposition magazine.
	We're talking about a transition towards tyranny.
	After regaining their absolute majority, Erdogan and the AKP feel stronger than ever.
	Yeah, that's going to be great.
	This is fantastic.
	What I get is editors of a magazine plotting a coup.
	What are these editors plotting a coup?
	They're not plotting anything.
	They're editors, for God's sake.
	It's not like the military.
	You've got to remember, for anyone who doesn't understand Turkish politics, why this guy keeps getting in, is because of the Islamist fundamentalists, which were kind of banned from politics.
	Years ago, it was always the military that had to take over the country so they could put another guy that wasn't an Islamist nutball like this guy.
	And they get all their votes from the guys in the sticks.
	It's not from Istanbul and Ankara.
	It's all these...
	Peasants that live all over Turkey that vote.
	They don't even want a government.
	They want an Islamic state because they're really kind of, you know, the toothless wonders that are out there voting for, oh, yeah, no, this is better.
	This is just was bound to happen eventually.
	I love that the Free Syrian Army put out a video.
	Of course, once again, discovered by Rita Katz of the Sight Intelligence Group.
	Wow!
	Yeah.
	Of the Free Syrian Army congratulating Erdogan, which is interesting.
	Yeah, just because he's part of the scam.
	Yeah, which is CIA and Defense Department.
	To turn the whole place into a mess.
	There was a good one.
	Did you know?
	So Larry Lessig, who was running for president.
	Yeah.
	Larry is...
	I know Larry.
	I know Larry.
	And he is a...
	He's a really smart, naive person.
	And he was running...
	His idea was run for president and then just get campaign finance reform to...
	Right.
	And then he quit.
	Right.
	And turn it over to the vice president or whoever.
	It'd have to be the vice president by law.
	But his thing is, I met him at this event recently.
	He said, oh, the problem is corruption, corruption, corruption.
	And he kept winning on about it.
	But his idea, he only goes about corruption at the most superficial level, thinking it will be solved by campaign finance reform.
	But any no agenda listener knows that that's never going to happen because as the polling results show you, this is only the whole campaign churning of money is to benefit the media, and they're not going to buy it either.
	But where real corruption lies, which is in the parties themselves, he kind of ignores this, but yet, in this case, he got totally screwed by it.
	Am I supposed to play a clip?
	Yeah, Lessig.
	I can't find it.
	Lessig, shut out.
	I'm sorry.
	It's L-S-S. Okay, right.
	It's spelling.
	Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig has ended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination after the Democratic National Committee changed the rules for the debates.
	Lessig launched his bid after raising a million dollars in a month.
	He said if he won the presidency, he would serve only as long as it took to pass sweeping campaign finance reform.
	But in a video message, Lessig said new rules would exclude him from next week's debate.
	Until this week, the rule was three polls finding me at 1% in the six weeks prior to the debate.
	Last week, we began to get close.
	Two polls found me at 1%, one more, and I would be in the second debate under the original rule.
	But under the new rule, The standard is three polls at least six weeks before the debate.
	That means I would have had to have qualified at the beginning of October, which means that nothing that happens now could matter.
	Under this new rule, I am just shut out.
	Surprise!
	There's your corruption right there.
	That's the point, and that's the corruption he ignores.
	All right, Larry.
	Duh!
	Duh.
	Alright, we gotta get out of here, man.
	Yeah, okay, good.
	Any football game I should be watching?
	There's nothing coming up.
	If you watched the World Series, you saw a great game, and that was the end of the whole thing, so that was the climax.
	Oh, did the Mets win?
	The Kansas City team won, as expected.
	Oh, crap.
	And there's no real hot games that I can think of.
	Alright, how about hot women?
	You can wait.
	You can wait.
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