Time once again via Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 781.
This is No Agenda.
Deconstructing the Ministry of Truth.
Kicking the M out of mainstream media and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, and FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining, it's snowing, the mailman is snoring.
That's because it's Sunday.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
You, sir, are quite the poet.
Good work.
You made another rhyme.
Hey John, how you doing?
Good, how are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
So I just retweeted your tweet about the podcasting of the Toe Center and the horrible podcasting report they came out with where you were kind of pushed aside.
No, kind of.
Some new guys come along and claim to be the father of podcasting.
Who is that guy?
But the thing that's sad is...
He posted an MP3 and so he's now the first podcaster.
Yeah, I know.
And Ricky Gervais is the podfather, of course.
Makes nothing but sense.
The Toe Center, whatever.
Tao, Toe, Toe, Toe Center.
Some intern put that thing together and pulled some of it just from Wikipedia.
You know what?
Normally I don't give a crap.
I gotta do something in between all those calls from AAA. Okay.
Plenty of people have gotten that.
No, I didn't get it.
You might want to explain that one.
Toe.
Oh.
I'll give you any in the morning for that.
In the morning.
You know, I really don't give a crap most of the time, but when it comes to something like the Neiman Lab...
Well, they're so haughty about it.
We are going to come and deem podcasting to be a form of journalism.
We will now explain to the minions exactly what this means.
Beginning now.
And I just saw Lee Masters...
I'm sorry.
Jarl Mon...
I know him as Lee Masters, the guy who hired me at MTV, who's now the CEO of NPR. And, you know, it's like, oh, well, podcasting is on that media show.
What is it called?
On the media?
No, the CNN media show with the bald guy.
No, I don't know.
It doesn't matter.
CNN. CNN is about podcasting.
Oh, it's great.
He's all going to reach the millennials.
The millennials?
Which is, I mean, it's incorrect thinking to start with.
They're looking for vinyl records.
What's really sad is that I want to grab Lee, Jarl.
I don't want to shake him by the neck and say, don't you see that...
Yes, more and more distribution is possible at cheaper costs, but your business model, your NPR business model with local stations is no longer viable.
It's an anathema to podcasting.
Yeah, thank you.
There's the word you're looking for.
That's exactly the word.
Exactly.
Well, Dave Weiner wrote a piece bitching about this.
Not as much as I would bitch about it.
Did you hear the podcast, though, that he did?
The history podcast?
No, I did not hear the podcast.
I just saw this two seconds ago before the show started when I went to retweet the tweet out.
And then I saw your tweet, the Weiner tweet, so I clicked on that.
And instead of coming to do the show, I was reading it.
So it was horrible.
So I got off that machine as fast as I could.
That machine is now infected.
It's contaminated.
We cannot...
Contaminated with stuff to read.
Well, John, we had a historic moment.
Historic, I tell you.
As 36,000 jabronis saved the world for us, and boy did they believe it.
Well, that's not the way I saw it.
Well, this is what I saw, and I wish you could see the pictures of the video of the announcement by the elite panel, and everyone's up there, including that crazy, was it Christina, what's her name?
Aguilar.
No, no, no.
No, the one who has that crazy face with a crazy eyebrow.
Oh, that horrible looking UN woman.
Yeah, Figueroa.
No, that's not it.
Yeah, something like that.
But anyway, so here's how everyone heard about it when the announcement was made.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Those were the journalists.
Did you see that?
No.
Oh, so they had this journalist tent.
That's the journalist.
And they're jumping up and down and screaming and have their hands on their mouths and they can't believe it.
Oh, no!
Video in the show notes.
Here's the elites on the panel.
We've got the decision.
Looks like there's no one against.
And hereby, I'm going to say this thing is passed.
Positive, yes.
Back to the journalists.
It's crazy.
The journalists are more excited than the people there, and they're already out of control.
Well, that'd kind of be lies.
I've watched the whole thing through Democracy Now!
And all I heard was this was a piece of crap.
It didn't do anything.
There were protests all over the place.
Are you crazy?
Yes.
Did you not hear our president?
Now, what I'm going to play for you is a minute and a half and is the most narcissistic It's just so narcissistic.
You said that, yeah.
It blew me away.
We'll have to deconstruct this because the president is grabbing it.
It is him.
He did it.
He saved the world.
He has saved us!
In my first inaugural address, I committed this country to the tireless task of combating climate change and protecting this planet for future generations.
I said we will protect this planet for future generations.
That's what I told you.
He also uses this country instead of our country.
Of course.
Of course.
I saved us in this country.
Future generations.
Future generations.
Two weeks ago, in Paris.
I. I said before the world.
I said before the world.
Hello!
I think you made your point.
Let's listen to him.
Okay.
Then don't stop when you go crazy.
Change and protecting this planet for future generations.
Two weeks ago, in Paris, I said before the world that we needed a strong global agreement to accomplish this goal.
An enduring agreement that reduces global carbon pollution and sets the world on a course to a low-carbon future.
A few hours ago, we succeeded.
We.
That's the royal we, I think.
Oh, yeah.
He's got a mouse in his pocket.
It's the royal we.
We came together.
We came together.
Around the strong agreement the world needed.
Like star encryption.
We met the moment.
The problem's not solved because of this accord.
Well, of course not.
If we solve the problem, then we'd have no more parties to go to.
Yeah, meetings.
Are you kidding?
We can't actually solve it.
All these places have been Copenhagen.
Fantastic.
We can't actually go ahead and solve the problem completely.
We always...
And, you know, they built it into their agreement.
Every five years we come back.
So, woo-hoo!
And, of course, we'll have to have the interim meetings to prepare for the meetings.
And the president goes on because, remember, it's all about him.
But make no mistake, the Paris Agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis.
This is not true.
Let's continue.
It creates the mechanism, the architecture, for us to continually tackle this problem in an effective way.
Now, we've had all this, he did this, he's told the world, he came all together, we have the framework, and why?
Why do we have the framework?
Moreover, this agreement sends a powerful signal.
That the world is firmly committed to a low-carbon future.
Get ready.
It's not about the world.
And that has the potential to unleash investment and innovation in clean energy at a scale we have never seen before.
Because?
I imagine taking my grandkids, if I'm lucky enough to have some, to the park someday and holding their hands.
Is he implying his daughters are lesbians?
Whoa!
I don't know about that, but it's about him.
It's not about...
If I were the president, I would have said, now all of us can take our grandkids to the park.
No.
It's about him.
Holding their hands.
Holding their hands.
Hearing their laughter and watching a quiet sunset, all the while knowing our work today prevented an alternate future that could have been grim.
Fenced in.
Thanks.
I found that to be so incredibly narcissistic.
Yeah, you seem to not like that speech.
No, because...
It's all bullcrap.
You know, I was listening to you since I was brainwashed, so I'm going to give it to you from the brainwashed perspective.
Even though I do my best to not be affected by these nitwits, I listen carefully to...
There's all kinds of people that...
Oh, yeah.
In fact, you should have seen Amy Goodman.
She was broadcasting live, right?
Oh yeah, she's there the whole time.
And you should have seen her brighten up when she says, and it looks like they're going to have to be here through the weekend.
Oh no!
Yeah!
Let's stay a little longer.
So she's pleased as punch to be stuck there.
Now, I have a couple of clips.
I didn't get, unfortunately, because I had some technical issues, I didn't get to clip away like a crazy person.
But I want you to hear something.
This is really kind of a little off topic.
This was during the near riots that took place when this great document was signed.
And I did understand that, according to one woman who came out and gave a long explanation, she may even have been the ex-president of Ireland who was there in very...
haughty elite and saying that no it wasn't her, it was somebody else, it was one of the activists she said that this was actually all put in place by the UN 20 years ago and these climate summits are supposed to be implementation summits that are supposed to speed up the process which has gotten to a it was one of the activists she said that this was actually all put in place by the UN 20 years ago and these climate summits are supposed to be implementation And so there was nothing other than ways to speed up the process that was defined 20 years ago.
Which, okay, I can buy into that.
But here's an interesting clip of Amy.
She is going into a discussion of this sit-in that took place.
I think it was yesterday, or the day before.
Maybe it was Friday.
It was a big sit-in, a protest sit-in around the red Eiffel Tower that turns out to be made out of chairs.
That's out in front of the place.
But here's what the anomaly is.
I want you to listen to this.
You know, at the end of Democracy Now!, every so often, Amy feels obliged to read off, blather off all the producers and writers.
Yeah, so when she has a little time over in the D-block.
And she runs her mouth at breakneck speed.
And we've had clips of this.
Yeah.
Well, apparently this is so ingrained in her.
In the middle of a report...
She names about three people, but she can't just give their names calmly.
She has to run them off at breakneck speed as though the show is ending.
In fact, I thought the show was ending.
But no, then she continues, you have to play this clip.
This is the Amy Goodman cadence.
The heavily fortified Paris summit.
Hundreds converged around an installation of colorful, acrylic animal sculptures near the main plenary halls, where they staged a sit-in.
Then they marched outside onto the main walkway inside the cap called the Champs Elysees, after the main boulevard here in Paris, where they surrounded a replica of the Eiffel Tower made from red bistro chairs of the same era.
There they posted dozens of notes with messages to negotiators Among them, keep your promises and the world demands better.
Participants included Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, and Asad Raymond of Friends of the Earth.
Democracy Now!
is there as Difty Batnagar of Friends of the Earth International kicked off the protest.
I think you're right.
I think what was happening is they were back-timing something and trying to make...
This is another problem with mainstream linear media.
Maybe we should just call it linear media.
You have to hit the top of the hour.
You've got to get into the break and out on time.
I actually don't think that's the case, but it's a good argument for the problems with that sort of media.
But since you mentioned that, I should mention that they're so deluded at democracy now that they actually take commercial breaks.
As if they have a clock.
And then they play music during the commercial break that we have to listen to.
And then she back announces it as though she's some sort of DJ from the 50s.
Have you ever noticed this?
No, do you have an example of that?
No, I want that.
No, I think you did play one of those.
If I remember, it's a back announce.
I wonder if we still have that clip.
Maybe it could be under back announce.
Well, it's a word you would use.
Well, I found a lot of interesting new memes, and I didn't, again, I said I had some technical difficulties, so I didn't get to isolate too many of them, but I've got one here.
And this is the ecologist clip, D-N. Let me set it up.
This is Amy introducing four women.
One, two, three, I think it's four.
Four women who are all there to grouse about the agreement not having enough about gender and women's issues.
Climate change is turning us trans.
It's personal grievances seem to be the biggest roadblock to anything.
Actually being accomplished at these events.
I just want you to listen to the titles of these people, specifically the last one.
This woman is from Kenya, and she has a title I've never heard of before, and she also coined a word which I'll tell you after you listen to these intros.
Well, to talk more about what's in the latest draft text and what's been left out, we're joined by three guests.
Chi Okling is with us, legal advisor to the Third World Network.
She is based in Beijing.
Kandi Moset is an indigenous activist from North Dakota and an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network.
And Ruth Nambura also joins us, a Kenyan political ecologist.
We welcome you all to Democracy Now!
Political ecologist.
I need that.
I'm going to write that down on my business card.
Political ecologist.
And she discussed something called agri-cology.
Hold on.
I'm getting my paper here.
I've got to write that down.
Political ecologist.
She went on and on about agri-cology.
Not agriculture.
Agri-cology.
Have you looked it up?
Is it a real word?
This is bullcrap.
This was kind of the theme I was hoping for today was all these new memes that are cropping up.
And you're going to hear about these.
You're going to hear about political ecology.
What's a political ecologist and agroecology?
Now, the first woman, I couldn't take too much from this thing.
I have an ISO of the classic way this went.
I have this ISO is the first woman from China who is there for her personal grievances.
But this is the kind of cadence she had.
Count in the document.
Okay, so a moment about the document.
Now again, this would be something you would actually look into.
Of course.
I read the document.
Now, which we'd already read, not too much really has changed, but it is interesting that they still are at 2.7 degrees.
I mean, it's so insane that we're now at Celsius.
No, no, 1.5 Celsius.
I thought, no, it's 2 degrees Celsius is their target.
I thought they changed it to 1.5 at the end.
No.
That's the impression I have.
Well, that's not in the document.
It's 2.7.
No, 2.7 is Fahrenheit.
No, John.
They're at 2.7.
Now, it has to be reduced to 2.0 or 1.7 by 2025.
Where's 1.5?
That's all they talked about on these shows.
Okay, well...
I've been misled.
You have the document in front of you.
You're reading it.
Go on.
Anyway, well, there's nothing really to read.
That's what's so interesting.
Seriously.
Why is everybody so upset?
Because those are the things that have not really been negotiated the way they want them to.
But I don't even think that's about it.
Here's the one thing I know for sure.
No agreement...
That I have ever read is worth anything at 37 pages.
This is a global huge deal.
Come on, Obamacare was 2,000 pages.
37 pages is nothing.
It's all strong belief, will do.
I think they minimize between the type of language changing should to shall.
You know, they should have their targets lowered, and that was changed to shall.
So it's really very, very...
That's not minimalization.
That's actually a different aspect.
That's a different word.
Agreed.
You should do this.
You shall means you will.
Agreed.
Now, of course, all of this now, everyone has to take this back once they really plug in the numbers, and that is what the should and shall is, not should ratify, but shall ratify.
So we have agreed that we shall ratify this, and of course, we're not going to take that through Congress.
We're going to ratify it by executive order.
I think the reason why that language changed is so that the President somehow can do this and not Congress.
That's a little unclear to me how that works, but language was changed specifically for the U.S. But it's still just a money agreement.
It's really not that big.
$100 billion a year until I found...
Where is it?
The IIGCC. The International Global...
No, the International Investors Group on Climate Change.
And they're talking about $3 trillion.
And if you look at this, it's IIGCC.org.
This is the big group.
It took me a while to find it.
And finally, because they were represented...
And they have strategies on how to invest.
They have lots of questions.
Everyone has questions like, okay, well, if I want to invest based upon carbon pricing, how do we make sure we don't count double?
I mean, it's insane when you see it.
It's fictitious.
You can't see any of this.
Yet we're going to be able to translate that directly into financing.
And they're talking $3 trillion.
And if you look at who is in a membership, ready for it?
The International Investors Group on Climate Change has a network of 120 members.
I mean, every single institutional investor is a member of this.
All the energy companies, of course, UBS, Chase, JP Morgan, everyone is a member of this coalition, and they're just kind of figuring out, okay, how do we package this up and sell it?
It's no different than any other derivative scam we've seen, as far as I can tell.
Huh.
Yeah.
Well, that's another thing that these people were bitching about, and they said, I'll just summarize the protests.
And there was a lot of good clips, but a lot of them were just people screaming, the same old thing.
A lot of mic checks.
This kills me.
The guy had a microphone and an amplifier, and he yells, mic check.
Yeah.
Mic check!
The reason for a mic check, of course, was because they wouldn't allow anybody in New York in particular, they wouldn't allow anyone to use microphones and amplifiers, so they had to do this mic check gimmick.
And they're doing it anyway.
Just because it's almost like they're brainwashing people.
It's a mic check, mic check!
Global climate people are a-holes.
The global climate people are a-holes.
But they were complaining that...
No, no, no.
This is not...
Well, let me finish.
They were complaining that this is no good, what you're describing.
What you're talking about now.
No.
It's no good.
Just give us money.
Yes.
And I believe that...
It's your fault that we're poor.
It's your fault that we have a drought in Africa.
It's your fault that this and that and the other thing give us money.
Now you know what a political ecologist does.
Now, what do American actors do?
Harrison Ford, soon to be starring in the brand new Star Wars movie.
Oh, people are going to be so conflicted.
So conflicted if you love Star Wars.
Yet hear Han Solo say this.
We're now all...
In this point in time on this planet, and if we don't work together, the consequences are disastrous.
Not right now, but for our children, and our children's children, and the future of humanity, the planet will be okay.
There just won't be any damn people on it.
We're all gonna die!
That's right.
What did he say?
He said the planet will be okay.
There just won't be any people on it.
How's that work?
Because we're doing it all wrong.
I'm looking at the numbers right now.
There's still actually a couple of these clocks out there.
You can put them on your computer.
It looks like the population is growing to me.
Neil deGrasse Tyson.
This kind of flows into...
You know, I've been looking at the flat earth theories.
I found another dynamite one I put in the show notes.
Oh, yeah.
And a lot of the theories revolve around what you can and cannot do with an aircraft.
So it interests me because...
I would like to hear what you can and cannot do with a geolocated satellite.
They just stick there and they go nowhere?
Oh no, that's part of the whole...
Look, this is the point!
You're now Neil deGrasse Tyson!
We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society!
What responsibility do you think members of the media have to portray science correctly?
Yeah, I think the media has to sort of come out of this ethos that I think was, in principle, a good one, but it doesn't really apply in science.
The ethos was whatever story you give, you have to give the opposing view, and then you could be viewed as balanced.
In the clip that you showed of the president, you don't talk about the spherical Earth with NASA in it and then say, oh, no, let's give equal time to the flat earthers.
Plus, science is not there for you to cherry pick.
You know, I said this once, and it's gotten a lot of internet play.
Internet play.
Did he say meat, or was he going to say meat?
I think it was meat, and then he changed it to internet play.
Yeah, meat.
Which I think is like going cyber.
I don't know what internet play is.
A lot of internet play.
He said the good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
I guess you can decide whether or not you believe in it, but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.
Hold on.
He said, well, let me back that up.
Hold on.
Okay.
Listen again.
All right.
I guess you can decide whether or not believe in it, but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.
And so climate change is an emergent scientific truth?
I mean, it's emerging, it's on its way, it's still being developed as a truth?
Isn't that the entire point of science?
When you have an emergent scientific truth that you bang against it as much as you can?
I would think so.
Well, did you see the...
I think we beat this guy up.
He had something to say at the beginning that was kind of interesting.
Oh, yeah.
He goes on about, well, the bullcrap, but you have to get a separate opinion about the flat earth.
Right, right.
Which is bullcrap.
That's nonsense.
This is nonsense.
He's misleading people when he says stuff like that.
But what he should have done, or what you should have done, you should have played that clip and then had the clip of all these cheering journalists, which is actually what's really going on.
Ha ha!
Yeah, that's a good point.
Well, we can always, we can try it again.
Or we can just leave it for what it is.
No, just try it, because it's right at the beginning.
That way I can be looking up this clip I'm looking for.
Okay, alright.
Of course, first we go through the president.
We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
Oh, stop.
That's what got my attention.
Why not?
We have plenty of time.
No, we're going to die.
We don't have time.
We don't have time to do the show.
We're going...
Here we go.
Listen to Neil deGrasse.
What responsibility do you think members of the media have to portray science correctly?
Yeah, I think the media has to sort of come out of this ethos that I think was in principle a good one, but it doesn't really apply in science.
The ethos was whatever story you give, you have to give the opposing view, and then you could be viewed as balanced.
This is what the journalists do.
I think a larger thing to look at here, these journalists, if you see this video, if you see this video, you have to see this video.
They are jumping up and down.
I think that these journalists believe they are the messengers of hope.
That they have contributed, they have helped convince the population, the world to come together and hold hands.
The dumb population.
Well, there's that.
These poor idiots, a lot of them don't even understand how important this is.
This is, again, the religious aspect of it.
Alright, here's the clip.
This is the latest...
Now, this is a guy...
This is at the beginning of the Democracy Now!
show where they're playing music still.
And this guy is one of the promoters of the COP21. He's a very important guy.
And she's actually talking about Trump and climate denialists.
And there's a new little bomb he's dropped in here that I think is going to be a new meme that we can listen for.
This is the...
Latest warming memes.
Sorry, hold on.
Why can't I find it?
Okay.
Got it.
Say that climate change is not a problem and that it's not human-induced.
Your response to him?
It's straight wrong.
I mean, if he's got new scientific results that's overturned 200 years of science and the vast bulk of the science literature, I'm sure that he ought to be publishing them and the scientific journals would love to see what he has to write.
Are they in a jazz cafe?
What are they doing?
No.
Okay, there's a couple things here that he said.
One, if he wants to rebuke 200 years of scientific literature, that means that this climate thing has been going on for 200 years!
Which includes the 70s when they were thinking it was global cooling time and all the stuff that took place again these days.
Shut up already!
Science!
Well, if he wants to rebuke 200 years, then let him...
Here's another...
This is going to be the answer to anyone who's a denialist.
I hate to use that word.
A normal...
A normal...
Skeptic.
You can use skeptic.
Skeptic.
Skeptics are good.
Even though, again, the other ones...
Skeptics.
It's new speech.
It's like, oh really?
You feel that way?
Why don't you write a paper?
Why don't you write a paper and have it picked up by the journalists or the scientific journals?
I'm sure they'd love to hear what you have to say.
Well, the fact is that there is pretty much zero funding for scientific papers.
For climate research.
Unless you are very willing to be out there to prove that it's true.
Yes.
But this came up in a Senate hearing.
Which is organized by Ted Cruz.
So of course you know he had his shills in.
The first shill he had in.
I want to play his opening statement.
If you get bored of it let me know.
But I thought it was dynamite from beginning to end.
This is Dr.
John Christie.
Climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who I'm pretty sure won't have a job pretty soon.
This is not very good what he's telling us.
I'm John Christie.
I think that guy, and I think he's been on our show before as a clip, he has tenure.
They're going to have a lot of trouble getting rid of him.
Oh, tenure.
Okay, gotcha.
Listen to what he has to say.
This is about the scientific papers and even getting funding to write a paper.
I'm John Christie, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Alabama state climatologist.
I've served in many climate science capacities, including lead authorship of the United Nations IPCC. I, along with Dr.
Curry, have the distinction of...
I'm glad he name-checked me.
That was kind of him.
...two of the seven scientists targeted by Representative Grijalva for investigation because our views about climate change differ from those of the administration.
My research might best be described as building data sets from scratch for 50 years to help us understand what the climate is doing and what it might do and why it does what it does.
The two main points of my verbal testimony are simple.
First, the basis on which the popular view that human-caused climate change is dangerous does not pass simple validation tests.
Secondly, the attempt to study climate change with an objective eye is thwarted by the federal funding process.
Now, we at UAH monitor climate change for such variables as temperature.
However, no one has a direct means to tell us why the temperature changes.
Our thermometers only tell us what has happened.
They do not tell us why it happened.
There is really no way to prove why climate does what it does.
So to try to understand why the changes occur, we make claims or hypotheses using climate models whose equations attempt to approximate all the important factors that affect the climate.
If these equations are accurate, we can then see how each factor, such as greenhouse gases or volcanoes, might affect the climate, and therefore we could learn what the cause of these changes might be.
Now one variable, according to climate models, that has the largest response to extra greenhouse gases is the temperature of the bulk atmosphere, and this is the layer from the surface to about 50,000 feet in altitude.
As shown in my written testimony, and as you can see on the chart to my left, the models fail this very simplest of validation test.
They can't even reproduce what has already happened in the past 37 years.
It's so strange that when these charts are shown and this analysis is done, you just never hear about it.
Ever.
Nowhere.
Just never.
You do not see it.
You know the reason why.
There's cheering journalists.
I need to just put that on a loop here.
They're so stupid.
102 climate models runs warm up the bulk layer of the atmosphere by an average factor of three more than what has actually occurred.
Now, being off by a factor of three does not qualify as settled science, in my view.
Now, why are studies like this so hard to find?
It goes back to the way federal funding occurs.
Today, contrarian proposals, such as one I might write, That wants to, say, look rigorously and test climate models against reality or to test various ideas about how natural variability causes these changes are rarely, if ever, funded.
This is due to the fact the panels which decide this type of funding are dominated by those with the establishment point of view about dangerous climate change.
Since there are many more proposals than funding allows, a contrarian proposal has essentially no chance of receiving funding because a panel decides these things by votes.
Now, my view, Congress needs to fix this problem by directly funding red teams, which are not part of the climate modeling industry.
That I find interesting.
That's pretty common, isn't it, in most academic research or research certainly funded by the government?
Don't they always have a red team?
I never heard of the term.
The red team?
Oh, I think that's...
Yeah, I learned that from Rubicon.
They would have people working on something, then they'd have a red team who would do exactly the opposite to see if they could disprove it.
For some reason, I don't remember that in the show.
To test the basis for the claims that human-induced climate change is dangerous.
That's a good idea.
I think it's more like an intelligence thing.
They certainly do it in intelligence.
And it was also in...
Actually, this is the job of journalists, if I recall correctly.
You're living in the past.
Well, well, well, well, hold on.
Neil deGrasse Tyson nailed it.
You should just shut up and write what you're told.
Just shut up, I know.
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up.
Newsroom.
The fake news show.
Yeah.
When they had the big story that blew up in their face, it turned out that the guy had edited the tape and it was a lie.
They had a red team.
The journalists had a red team, which I think sounds like this.
Ah!
Okay.
I'm sorry I gave you the idea now.
I'm doomed.
You bet.
Dangerous climate change.
Since there are many more proposals than funding allows, a contrarian proposal has essentially no chance of receiving funding because a panel decides these things by votes.
Well, thank God the Koch brothers fund everything.
I'm sure they can match the $7 billion that is being put into proving climate change by the U.S. government.
Now, my view, Congress needs to fix this problem by directly funding red teams, which are not part of the climate modeling industry, to test the basis for the claims that human-induced climate change is dangerous.
Congress needs objective eyes on this issue because it is such a big-ticket item for everyone involved.
Now, it is no secret that the state of Alabama is in a desperate fight with federal EPA. Our elected officials understand, as do I, their state climatologist, that the regulations being established will do nothing to alter whatever the climate is going to do.
But what will it do?
In fact, even if the United States of America disappeared today, no people, no cars, no factories, the impact would be negligible on whatever the climate does.
Alabama is fighting for our industries, which are being tempted by lower costs in Mexico and China, where their emissions would actually rise if they moved there.
We are fighting for our utilities, which sell over 30% of their electricity production to nearby states who need it.
And we are fighting for the many poor people in our state who do not need another hike in their utility rates to satisfy a regulation whose only impact will be to further drain their meager resources.
This is a time when even so-called green countries like Germany and Japan are adding to their carbon emissions by building more coal-fired power plants.
You know why?
Because their cost of energy is 30% higher than anybody else's.
And the industry in Germany said, screw that, we can't handle this.
You should see what Norway is planning.
Norway wants to go, it's completely all electric, solar and wind, and they have this idea, this cockamamie idea, to expand their grid all the way into the European grid so they can sell off all that great wind.
I mean, the whole point of a grid is it goes into a system where people can buy and sell based on market pricing.
Guess what's going to happen?
Your market pricing is going to be too expensive.
Too expensive.
So now they're all saying, well, maybe we should go back to coal.
They're also, I think Germany's experimenting heavily with nuclear.
So the shining example is backpedaling and it's being misreported.
30 seconds left for him.
While the rest of the world moves toward more carbon-based energy.
To me, it is not scientifically justifiable or economically rational.
Yet this nation should establish regulations whose only discernible consequence is an increase in economic pain visited most directly and harshly on the poorest among us.
This happens when the scientific process that allegedly underpins regulations lacks objectivity and transparency.
Thank you.
And it may be exactly what the elites are going for, you know, to even out the poor.
So our poor are still...
Eat the poor!
Our poor are still, you know, doing pretty well compared to Africa.
So if we can bring them up and bring our guys down, boom!
Socialism.
We got it.
It's done.
And the crowd goes wild!
Oh, man.
This, strangely, was not a topic at...
It's another installment of...
Oh, hold on a second.
Have I forgotten that you had dinner with the Obots, a new edition of the show?
Yes, sir.
A new edition.
Holy crap.
A new edition.
I would have teased it in the newsletter.
I did tell you on the show last time.
Yes, I remember.
I remember that.
But you know me.
The show's over.
I go and watch basketball, and I can't remember a thing.
It's horrible.
I do.
I stopped watching basketball because the team finally lost the game.
So this was at the artist's house with the artist Lori and her husband Mark.
And she had invited myself and Tina the Keeper.
And she invited...
It was very interesting.
She invited the publisher of Tribesa Magazine...
I've never heard of Tridazer.
No, it's very small.
It's about 20,000 circulation.
It's Austin-owned.
It's one of those magazines you'd find in bars and hotels and grocery stores.
And it's filled with ads, obviously.
Very nice guy.
I'd met him before, but now we got to have dinner with him.
But, you know, he's a...
A very, very obot gay guy.
I'm presuming he's a liberal.
I could be wrong.
I could be wrong.
I'm pretty sure he's gay.
Okay.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
What difference does it make?
Well, it added color when he went, Donald Trump is outrageous.
It just sounded more fun for the dinner.
Then there was a young woman who had also met before briefly, probably in the context of a Laurie Frick show or something, and she is now in charge of a museum.
I know she's curator or manager of some museum at UT. And she's probably, you know, mid-30s.
And then we had Carolyn, who is the fundraiser for the big, you know, the giant Magellan telescope and the one who got us the tour.
Oh, right, the one with the quarter on the moon.
Well, you know, we'll get to that in a moment.
She brought her brother, her brother George.
And George...
George from the CIA. Yeah.
George works at the University of San Diego, and he is working on research on how to make big data centers, particularly through networking, more efficient.
And of course, this research is funded by The NSA. No, Google and Facebook.
That's what I said.
Yeah, I know.
We're talking the same language.
So I had a unique opportunity, because he sounded more like a Google employee than a professor.
At least when he was talking.
So he had that choppy way of talking?
A little bit, and he was trying to explain a data center.
And I let him go for about 5 or 10 minutes.
He's like, so we have all these servers, right?
And when you do a Google search, and this was an interesting statistic, when you do a Google search, that search is distributed immediately in milliseconds, right?
And it takes 4,000 machines for your one search.
2,000 to do the search and 2,000 to determine the right ads to display.
And she was very specific about the number of servers.
2,000 ads?
2,000 servers to determine which ads?
Wow, that's a lot of overhead.
Well, this is what he's saying.
The problem is that these servers are queued in waiting time so often for the network.
The network itself cannot distribute the information fast enough.
Therefore, it's an interesting problem he's working on.
Um, that unused, that time sitting waiting is, uh, eventually translated directly into heat.
And he, he claims that the, uh, efficiency of the servers, if you look at how hot servers get is only 10%.
So that's what he's working on.
How, you know, all crazy kind of light projects and all of this, but because it's a Google, you know, get to ask some questions, you know, and, um, We're talking about who knows about this stuff.
This is the quarter on the moon, the girls?
Yeah, brother.
Okay, so it's a scientific family.
Very.
And they're very cute together.
Very competitive.
Yeah, brother and sister.
Yeah, that's cute.
So at one point he all says, you know, Google is only looking for one type of employee, which I think they should be called on.
Because it's illegal, as far as I know.
It is.
They only want 23 to 7-year-old single males.
That's it.
Oh, that's illegal.
Now, they will never say it, but they're really not interested in anybody.
Well, there you go.
And then, the artist said something.
Well, you know, traffic, because she's been traveling a lot.
Traffic is so bad everywhere.
It's clear the only way we can solve this is with a Google self-driving car.
Well, she got that right.
I'm on board with that idea.
Yeah, okay.
She's an artist.
She can see the future.
To which I said, well, I hope my smart Google car chooses to save me instead of the kid I'm going to kill and makes the right decision.
And then he's going, well, that's...
You and the...
Why don't you tell the test again?
You tried to sucker me into playing your little game.
Well, they bought into it, but there was an interesting solution.
So the idea is the Google car has artificial intelligence.
It makes decisions based upon its input.
It is in control of what is happening.
And something out of the ordinary takes place.
Maybe on a secondary road, you're only going...
45 miles an hour.
But a kid jumps out, and the only way is to drive off the bridge into the water.
The question is, does the Google car decide to drive you off the bridge?
Because it will know what the, at a certain point, speed and road conditions, you may not have a choice, or kill the kid.
And the scientists thought this was an interesting problem.
The answer was, and this came from Carolyn, that's going to be determined based on your Google search history.
That's a very funny answer.
It's funnier when you were there.
So Carolyn, now this, Lori made beef wellington, I might want to point out.
She made beef wellington?
Yeah, which is a very traditional Christmas dish.
I know the dish, of course.
I'm not trying to tell you, but it was dynamite.
And she even had the foie gras packaged in there.
I don't know, is that official?
She was showing off.
Oh yeah.
Now do you know that she actually cooked this?
I saw her cook it.
She has an open kitchen, I saw her cook it.
Okay.
So then...
You're there for the entire cooking process?
She does it.
It's all open.
So she's prepped, but then she starts to cook.
It's one of those dinners where you show...
I hate, by the way, if anyone ever invites me to dinner, I'm going to tell you right now.
I hate this following sort of dinner.
Oh, come on over for dinner.
Be there at 7.
So you show up at 7 and you shoot this shit for two hours before anything is served.
There's a reason why you're not invited.
Or two and a half hours.
And then finally at 9.30, when you're starving to death or your blood sugar is all screwed up, they start feeding you.
I never go back.
People pull that stunt constantly.
This is why you're not invited.
I'm not invited, and that's a good one.
I don't want to be invited.
I don't like to sit around.
So what else did you do today?
I mean, I don't need to stand around shooting the breeze, drinking Chardonnay, talking ta-ta.
I don't mind sitting down and shooting the breeze at the table.
Right.
Now, this was after the show.
Oh, would you like some appetizers?
I have some appetizers.
It's like a stuffed egg or something.
A deviled egg.
A deviled egg.
Where'd you get this recipe?
Do I taste mustard in this deviled egg?
Yeah, this is not, no, this is not for me.
Go on.
I wish you could be there in my ear while I'm sitting there, prompting these lines.
Right, I have to have an earwig, a bug in your ear.
I think we can probably do it.
We can set it up with a little transmitter, you know, just Wi-Fi enabled, and then, you know, I'll just have an earpiece, and you'll be able to hear everything, and you'll be coaching me.
I'd have the cans on, and I'd be talking to you.
Everyone told me to shut up because you were getting confused.
Now, Tina and I, this was after show day, and it's not like I walk away from the show and watch basketball and I'm all done.
I don't watch basketball, so I'm always wired up until, you know, I'm wired.
I'm still in deconstruction mode, and I have to be very careful, particularly if we add alcohol to the mix.
Oh, no.
No, Tina was also, I said, please.
I gave you tips on what to do.
Uh...
What were the tips again?
Apparently they were useless.
Who cares?
But no, they weren't useless because I stayed...
She brought up that bottle of cognac and I'm like, no.
You're just trying to sauce me up.
Yeah, that would do it.
I did say that.
A good glass of cognac would knock you down.
So, um...
So, Tina and Carolyn are sitting across from each other.
I'm next to Carolyn.
That's the telescope girl.
And then Mark, who's usually quite quiet, but he's very observant.
He doesn't drink.
And I said, hey, you know, so I, of course, thanked her that she set this up for us.
We went to the, you know, we had a good time and et cetera, et cetera.
And then, and they said, well, you know, as soon as the, as soon as the, the giant Magellan telescope is built there in Chile, I'm coming to see the, the quarter on the moon.
She said, oh, you mean the dime?
I said, yeah, yeah.
The one you said Neil Armstrong left on the moon.
She said, I didn't say that.
And then I looked at Mark and I looked at Tina.
They went, yeah, we're pretty sure you do.
She said, no, that's not possible.
You can see something the size of a dime on the moon.
Nah, I'm sorry.
That's not what you said.
She would not relent.
Oh.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I was disappointed by that.
Someone who listens to our show heard that.
And somehow told her.
Well, you've got to think that I was out there and she had a representative.
You brought this up on the show.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So I'm sure that she and or other people had listened to the show because they were giving us a tour.
So I'm sure someone said, let me see what they're all about.
Interesting.
Okay, so there's no dime on the moon.
Apparently not.
Now, at this point...
I don't see how there could be.
I mean, it was dusty.
The dime would get all dusty.
You wouldn't be able to see it anyway.
After 50 years of waiting...
I was disappointed because...
And she really said, no, I didn't say it.
I said, okay, you didn't say it.
I have witnesses and one who was not drinking that night.
Now, at this point, you know, I'm like, you know, because there was maybe, you know, there wasn't really any political talk, although that started to come up right after I said, how come, what's going on?
All I hear everywhere in Democratic media, left-wing media, liberal media is about how shitty the Republicans are.
I don't really hear anything good about the Democrats.
Which, of course, Laurie goes, oh, we all know Hillary's going to win.
Okay.
All right.
And so then they had a defeatist attitude.
I think you can notice this as well.
When you run into true robots, right now they just defeat us because they loathe, they despise Donald Trump.
Everybody else is crazy.
This is what they've been taught to do.
Extremely bigoted by saying all Republicans are just as crazy as Trump, which of course is bigotry.
And here's the one that I love, and I've heard this several times, and two people, including George, said this at the dinner.
If Trump becomes president, I have my passport, I'm leaving.
I'm getting out of the country.
Yeah, you know, Barbara Streisand said that if George Bush was going to win, and then she said it, I believe said it again, if he got re-elected.
She's never left.
These people are full of crap.
Well, I'm writing it down.
I'm going to call them on it.
I don't expect it to happen, but gee, wouldn't it be funny?
But it was really defeatist.
They really didn't want to talk about...
Not leaving the country if Hillary wins.
I kind of expect, if she's still in the race, I still, you know me, I'm still sticking to my original prediction.
It's going to be Elizabeth Warren.
It's going to happen at the convention.
Well, that's possible.
You know, I didn't bring that one up.
I just kind of laid back.
Well, because it's not on your mind like it is with mine, as I keep looking at the Vegas odds.
But they were depressed, John.
They were really, truly just...
What were they depressed about?
Their girl, Hillary, is going to win.
No, they don't like her.
This is the problem.
They don't like her.
Oh, nobody likes her.
But she has the experience, you see.
This is what they're saying.
What experience?
Of ruining the country and blowing up the Middle East.
They think she has experience.
She has experience.
I'm not saying she's good, but no doubt she has experience with international affairs.
She has the experience.
But no one could really say anything good about her.
Just completely defeat us.
And then the museum curator...
I think a lot of the Oba types also...
Because they talk amongst themselves.
It's very rare they would have a dancing monkey like you come in.
And I'm a pretty one, too.
Which is distracting.
A good-looking, tall, attractive dancing monkey.
It's not as though you're some fat guy scratching his butt.
You're like...
You're like the guy that says, okay, we're going to bring him in.
This shows you how good-looking men are stupid.
I'm sure after everyone leaves, like, you know, they deconstructed you leaving.
When you left, they talked about you.
You know, Adam and Tina, they're such a power couple.
It's too bad he's a moron.
I'm sure that was a conversation.
I'm sure that's what it was.
Too bad he's such an idiot.
No, that's the way they operate in general, the Democrats.
But I know, I think what's really going on that gives them the depressive note, and I agree with you from what I've observed, is that they're fearful.
First of all, if Hillary gets in, it's not going to be...
She's a neoliberal.
They really most...
Democrats aren't neoliberals.
They don't like them.
They're the guys who cause trouble.
They're the Kegans.
It's the bad people.
And they're going to be stuck with a neoliberal and then they hate it.
And so the progressives always ride them about, why would you even elect her?
You should have elected Bernie.
And so you have that problem.
But the other one that I think is slightly depressing is they know she could lose to a maniac like Trump or any of these Republicans if they just, you know, hound her on certain things.
And there's also the fear that she can have the rug pulled out from under her at any time.
For some bad thing she did.
There was one additional story that came to the table, which I found troubling, surprising, and somewhat entertaining at the same time.
The museum curator, she has a green card.
She's from Calgary.
Canadian.
Yeah, a Scandinavian, and she's brown.
You know, she's brown.
Scandinavian, Hispanic?
I'm not sure.
Oh, she could be anything.
Could be.
Multiculti, that's what you call it.
So she, and all of a sudden she's like, well, I had a very, very, very horrible experience.
I don't know if Lori told you about it.
I'm like, oh boy.
She was driving in West Texas and she was led into, which has happened to me, was led into a border patrol trap.
And these, of course, are by law allowed 100, I think it's 100 miles inside the country from the border.
Yes.
And she did not have her passport or her green card on her.
Which, I pointed out to her, is the law if you are a resident alien.
It's made very clear.
Everywhere, you have to have it on you.
She didn't have it on her.
Now, if it were to happen to me, and I was alone, or with another American citizen, I would say, am I being detained?
Am I free to go?
I wouldn't participate in it.
But if you are not an American citizen, you don't have that right.
Right.
You just don't have the right.
That's also by law.
But she was...
And they held her for three hours while they tried to figure it out.
She was convinced they were profiling her because she was black.
So she's black?
Well, she's brown.
Oh.
But she was convinced, like these Nazis, first of all, this just came to rise and like, you know, the Obama years, it really kind of became a whole thing and there's been a lot of complaints about it and it's perfectly legal and no one's doing about it.
But she couldn't get it out of her head that she had, her color of her skin had been used Ferguson all over again.
That's how she felt when I said, yes, they are profiling.
These things, I think, are unconstitutional by definition, and they're shitty if you're not a citizen.
But, yeah, they're going to say, oh, you're brown, you may be from Mexico, show me your papers, please.
And you didn't have them, so you go into jail.
They were just Nazis trying to prove something.
Well, maybe, maybe, but I think you're a little...
It was very hard to get her to see that this possibly wasn't a full-on racial thing.
But besides that, she said, I need to tell you, Adam, there are people in my building where I live in Canada, and they play your show.
Like, really loud in their apartment.
And when I said, you know, I'm going to go, I'll have dinner, and I don't believe it, they freaked out.
She said, you have so many fans in Canada.
That's nice.
Yeah.
I said, yes, we do.
We love the Canadians.
We sure do.
We actually know, you know, who the Prime Minister of Canada is.
So they go, oh, Americans who actually knew there was a guy named Stephen Harper and he was a dud.
Actually, he was a bad guy.
Well, since you bring that up, I have two quick clips just to...
To play here, this is from ABC. And from Canada tonight, the new Prime Minister personally welcoming Syrian refugees.
163 refugees arriving in Toronto, the first of 25,000 expected to be taken in by March.
New Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greeting fathers, mothers and children, telling them, quote, you are home.
He's such a nice guy.
What the report fails to point out is, yeah, they're welcomed, come on in, but...
The Department of National Defense has confirmed the government is considering housing refugees on military bases.
They're all going to an Air Force base.
This is why the FEMA camps here are going to become of good use.
Canada, oh, come on in, we welcome you, oh, you're so welcome here.
There's the barracks.
There's the barracks.
You can wash your hands here.
Here's a hole where you can take a crap.
Well, the military is not happy.
Make sure you cover the hole up after you take a crap.
In Quebec and Ontario.
CBC News has learned DND has in fact been winterizing cadet barracks at several bases this week.
Including CFP Trenton in preparation for the arrival of refugees.
But comments made to a local group of community leaders by the base commander suggest he has concerns about security.
Colin Kever told the group last week, As a base commander, I'll be candid.
I worry about things like security at this end at the largest air force base in Canada.
And then he added, The simple act of putting 1100 non-military personnel into the middle I'd say so.
They should invest in FEMA camps.
Well, you know, Trudeau, the real news is Trudeau going on and saying hello to everybody, and that's just to show us up.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, exactly, exactly.
Look how amenable we are.
We don't have the problems that you jokers have.
We are not such a-hole.
Let me close out the segment, because that was pretty much it.
So it wasn't as great as always, but we did get a couple of...
You didn't get any white privilege or any of these debates to get into?
No.
In fact, I was expecting that to pop up.
That's kind of why I went after her during the whole detention thing.
But no, there was no screaming.
I think they were prepped.
That's no good.
They probably listened to the show.
Yeah, I'll have it.
That rant you had about white privilege after the last pot dinner was enough to shut anybody up.
You're doing the shut up slave.
I'm trying.
It's another installment of...
So one of the things that you missed, probably, is Hillary showed up on the Seth whatever his name is.
Yeah, actually, I saw some clips.
I didn't see the whole thing.
I usually watch him.
I like his show.
What?
That show doesn't even begin until 1 or 2 in the morning.
Something like that.
No.
It's the late show.
It starts at 11.30 in Austin.
What time does it do?
10.30.
10.35.
The other show starts at 10.35?
Yeah, so I watch Kimmel.
And it starts at all those shows.
We're in Central Time.
Central Time is all screwed up.
It's good for me.
I get up at 7 on show days.
You know, I can do stuff until 11.
It's good.
So Hillary's there cackling away, you know, as much as she can.
And having a good time.
Very personable.
She didn't blow up or anything.
Of course, they hate Trump, of course.
I talked about this in the newsletter, and I did have some negative response to it.
I think the newsletter I would mention was a good newsletter about freedom of speech.
I thought it was a dynamite newsletter, and just in case you didn't do it, and you didn't, I actually pulled the opening segment from the NPR, wait, wait, don't tell me, that you were talking about, that I think was part of the impetus for the newsletter.
Yes, it was part of it, because I don't expect to hear this sort of...
Do you want to hear it?
Do you want to hear this?
Yes, this is part of the newsletter.
Well, do the background on the newsletter, because it was, I think, one of your best pieces of work.
It was a good piece.
It was a good little lecture.
It failed.
I noticed.
It failed as a newsletter.
Nobody wanted to give us any money.
What we do have, and I didn't realize it, we have a bunch of listeners who are part of the let's hate Trump because he's annoying.
I mean, let's be honest about why people hate Trump.
Let's talk about this for a minute, but let me preface it before you play the clip with a letter to the editor from a guy named Wayne.
And Wayne's followed the show for a while.
I understand that the media is targeting Trump because he is the hottest topic to discuss, and they want to attract viewers.
I like it when no agenda notices that.
Well, thank you.
I don't know what we're noticing.
We're noticing that they're in for ratings, that the media's in for ratings, and we notice it?
Well, okay.
Do you mind if I play something right this very second about that?
Play.
This is Les Moonves.
He is the chairman.
Is he just chairman or CEO?
He's the chairman, CEO of CBS.
Right.
So he runs CBS.
And they're a public company, I think.
Are they public?
Yes.
So there was an investor call.
And the way this work is you call into a conference bridge.
And then usually the journalists go, the financial analysts, hey, great quarter.
Okay, so we have some questions about, you know, what are your revs for the next quarter?
What do you think it's going to be?
And you get into this familiar kind of thing, like, you know, you're talking amongst analysts, and he's saying whatever he needs to say, so the analysts write positively about the organization, and he forgot that it was being recorded.
The advertising climate couldn't be better right now, and I've never seen it this hot for a number of years.
Third quarter scatter was phenomenally good, and fourth is even better than that.
So as the year ends and we move into 16, guess what?
In 16 we have an extra AFC champion playoff game, we have the Super Bowl, and we have a year of political advertising.
That looks like it's shaping up to be pretty phenomenal.
You know, we love having all 16 Republican candidates throwing crap at each other.
It's great.
The more they spend, the better it is for us.
And go Donald.
Keep getting out there.
And, you know, this is fun.
You know, watching this, let them spend money on us.
And we love having them in there.
And we're looking forward to a very exciting political year in 16th.
True patriot, Les Moombas.
Very good.
I don't think he was unaware that this was being recorded.
He doesn't care.
I can't believe.
As long as the third quarter scatter is okay.
But, like, hey, just keep spending.
That's good.
We love it.
And then he goes on, this guy.
I don't understand.
You know, this is one of those letters where, hey, you guys are great, but...
And this kind of bugged me because I knew it came from the newsletter.
I don't understand how no agenda show has avoided deconstructing Trump's lies.
We've done nothing but deconstruct what he says.
I've only...
No.
It's different.
It's lies.
If we had the vitriol and bigoted hatred, which I did discuss in the newsletter, that the media generally has towards Trump, that would be okay.
I'm ready to play the wait, wait.
I have a whole bunch of big...
Your newsletter got me fired up.
I pulled a couple of clips.
That's not generally the idea, but okay.
It got me fired up.
Good.
This is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, which I don't like.
I don't like this show.
I find it very cavalier.
I can't remember the name of this other show.
If you find that Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is an annoying glib show, there's another show where they do grammatical questions and answers, and it's structured pretty much like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
And wow!
Wow!
It is.
That show will make you crazy.
Okay.
And by the way, I find them both highly entertaining.
I like them.
Well, wait, wait, don't tell me.
It also depends on who's the guest and how funny they are.
But when you hear this, and this was the impetus for your newsletter, I should be contacting Lee Masters about this.
Alrighty, here is your first quote.
It is somebody delivering really bad news.
I will never leave this race.
That was a man who apparently we're going to have to endure for the entirety of the presidential campaign.
Who is it?
One could only guess the one and only Donald Trump.
That is right, Donald Trump.
Notice how it was really bad news that he is going to stay in the race.
Now, we don't know exactly what Trump meant by saying he's never leaving the race.
Maybe he means he'll run as an independent if he doesn't get the Republican nomination.
Maybe he means he'll just keep running forever.
Maybe he just meant he's never leaving the white race.
This blew me away.
Can you imagine saying that but replacing white with black?
No.
So this is racist?
Yes.
In which case, sorry white people.
Take your privilege and go home.
That would be the safest option for him at this point.
I know.
Listen, at this point, we...
I just love the audience.
Oh, that's hilarious!
Fuck that guy!
We then talk about all the things that Trump did and said this week.
But I'm going to be honest, we can't do it.
We cannot talk about him anymore.
Instead, we are going to fill the time we usually use talking about Trump with something just as worthwhile.
Here it is.
I mean, this is your public radio.
Now, I'll be the first to admit that when it comes to Thom Hartman, I say, Thom Hartman?
But really?
And then this.
Yeah!
He stuck his tongue out of Trump!
Good!
You're so brave!
Brave!
Did you know...
Did you know that the original family name, which I think his grandfather had the name Drumpf.
D-R-U-M-F. Drumpf.
Drumpf.
Drumpf.
I don't think he would have gotten anywhere as Drumpf.
The Drumpf Tower.
Do you have any sounds of disgust you'd like to add?
Well, I'm sitting on one right now.
A good line, but still.
So Trump is basically a fart.
Amazing.
Amazing.
And that's the start of the show.
I couldn't listen anymore.
I'm going to clip this and I'm done.
Very bigoted.
In fact, it was outrageously so.
But that's a comedy show.
It's okay.
But it's not really a comedy show.
Now the other show, the Grammar Show, which I just don't know the name of it.
Maybe some fanatic in the chat room knows.
But it's actually more glib.
Then Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Now, I listen to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me every week because it happens to be playing when I go to pick up the Saturday morning mail.
And I always leave at the same time because you have to wait for them to deliver the mail at the post office box.
And by the way, somebody sent me something in the post office box that's a big package.
It will not get picked up until after Christmas.
It's not the time of year to send a big package.
I can't stand it lying without the door to get a package that may have a disc in it or who knows what.
But if there's a puppy in there, that puppy's going to die.
That puppy is a dead...
Now, as you continued in the newsletter, and it was like serendipitous, all of this, you said, why the hate that people have for Trump, who is just talking, this just speech, and you can get to your conclusion, but then I found, I think you said, do the same people hate Dick Cheney, who actually is a horrible, evil man?
No.
Yeah, but not to this degree.
They're not out there saying that.
And lo and behold, Chris Matthews did exactly...
I mean, this is crazy when you hear it in the context of what you wrote.
Yesterday, Bill O'Reilly asked Trump to respond to Republicans like Dick Cheney who have come out against his proposal to ban Muslims.
Let's watch.
They're all saying that this is an extremist point of view.
You're going to alienate the Muslim world.
That's going to come back to hurt America.
How do you react to a guy like Cheney?
Excuse me, extremist point of view.
I was against the war in Iraq in 2003, 2004.
I said, don't do it.
Let's keep it here.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Cheney's the one that started the war in Iraq.
You talk about an extremist.
You know what O'Reilly's problem was then?
He was with Cheney.
That's his problem.
He was caught off face in that one.
I want Trump there.
You're going to talk about riling up Muslims.
You're going to talk about fomenting Muslims.
I don't mind being inconsistent.
But Trump was right there.
Yeah, he was right there.
And it goes to some of these people.
Cheney was much more dangerous.
So they don't even see their own hypocrisy.
They don't see anything.
Completely blind to all of it.
Well, let me continue with the note.
Mm-hmm.
Alright, let me find it here and get it back on.
Anyway, so he starts off with saying, I can't understand how you know Jenna Schultz avoided deconstructing Trump's lies.
You know, Trump speaks in generalities.
I don't know if he has facts, but I guess he does.
Because I've only heard you speak about whether his statements have some truth to them.
What?
Isn't that the same thing?
Isn't that the same thing?
And if you've talked about Trump's deceitful comments, I miss those moments and I apologize.
Did you comment on when he made the tweet about black American crime statistics and then defended the false information by saying that he didn't need to verify information?
Did I say that?
We didn't talk about that, did we?
I don't even follow those tweets.
I don't remember that.
What about him mentioning that Muslims in New Jersey were celebrating?
That's still up for debate.
Well, what's up for debate now is how many, because I even have copies of the reports where they went and arrested people who were celebrating like a tailgate party in New Jersey.
It wasn't thousands.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but yeah, that changed quickly from it didn't happen to, well, it wasn't thousands.
Okay, fine.
I like that Trump's campaign is revealing a lot of media issues, but Trump still has a lot of problems that I expected to be discussed on no agenda.
You briefly mentioned his attack on free speech, internet access, but I didn't talk about the details, but didn't talk about the details.
What's going on there?
No agenda.
So he thinks we're up to something.
Oh, okay.
I'll just say one thing about Trump.
He's all in on the Patriot Act.
I'd never vote for him.
Is that good enough?
I don't know.
I think that's good enough.
This whole thing, it's all about freedom of speech.
It is.
And the freedom of speech...
And Trump is just a big talker.
If anybody wants to give him a critique, he's a blowhard.
He could be.
He can't do half the stuff he says he's going to do.
It's not illegal.
Well, I caught the free speech conversation going on over there at my favorite show, which influences women all across this country.
Oh, your beat.
The view.
It's my beat, and I love my beat.
Yes, Whoopi Goldberg agrees that Donald Trump is just talking.
It's free speech.
But then she has a little gem.
Isn't that?
Listen.
No, no, no.
Listen.
Because we have freedom of speech in this country, he's allowed to say what he wants to say.
He's allowed to do it.
However, there are consequences.
Now, I have a heads up for Homeland Security.
Because Donald Trump seems to be recruiting You know, a large group with the views that are against basic American values.
He seems to be doing a very good job for ISIS. And I think maybe he should be on the watch list.
That's a good idea.
That's a good idea.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
I didn't get a lot of clips on this, but there was over and over the Republicans were all, everybody was all in on this idea of taking gun rights away from people who were on the no-fly list.
Have you noticed this?
Yeah.
It's like everybody's all in on this idea.
And in fact, Hillary brought it up on Seth's show.
She brought it up.
And yeah, well, that's a really good, I don't have that, I'll get that clip next time because I'm keeping it.
I have, I have, I have a clip from that show.
Of that.
Of Hillary on Seth Meyers.
One clip.
Which I think is...
You know, I think it's irrational.
There's obviously so many guns in this country.
We're never getting those guns back.
Those people are going to have those guns.
No one's coming for anyone's guns.
I think it's just, let's try to be a little bit more reasonable with who the next guns go to.
Well, that's exactly right.
They want people to feel like, you know, the black helicopter's going to land in the backyard and your guns are going to be taken.
Totally, unbelievably untrue.
Ah, thou protestest too much, me thinketh.
Why would she know this?
It's totally untrue.
Totally, completely crazy untrue.
Get out of my vagina!
Sorry.
Tourette's.
Alright, so I have a couple of clips that are longer.
Now, there's two clips that were interesting.
One was Hillary talking about what Bill's going to do as the house husband.
And that was actually funny.
Only because it had to have steamed Bill up.
Because she made him look like an idiot.
We can either play that or we can play Hillary on Trump, where she reports yet another of these anti-Trump memes, which has just cropped up, another meme to look out for, which is that he's dangerous.
Yes, he's very dangerous.
Dangerous.
Very, very dangerous.
I want to ask you a couple of questions about Donald Trump.
First question.
Have you heard about him?
You know, I have to say, Seth, I no longer think he's funny.
Yes.
That's the meme.
That is the meme.
I heard it three times this morning.
Oh, look.
It was funny when he started.
He's no longer funny.
It's no longer funny.
We've got to get serious people.
It's no longer funny.
We should probably lock him up.
It's no longer funny.
This is all over.
All over mainstream news.
Yes, it is.
I no longer think he's funny.
Yes.
I will say I started to...
Yeah, oh yeah.
Woo!
You know, I think for weeks, you know, you and everybody else were just bringing folks to hysterical laughter and all of that.
But now he has gone way over the line.
And what he's saying now is...
The line.
It's the line.
It's the line that's drawn in the sand.
It's the line of etiquette.
It's the line of speaking properly.
The line of being correct and nice and friendly and loving.
It's not only shameful and wrong, it's dangerous.
These are his comments about Muslims.
Yes.
Dangerous!
Now, John, how is this dangerous?
I wish I knew.
Because he's riling up people, and they are crazy.
To get their vote.
They're crazy.
They're crazy.
They will kill.
They're crazy.
He's been kind of an equal opportunity in Selter.
He's gone after all kinds of folks.
I think the line is equal opportunity offender.
Has he mentioned you at all?
A few times.
Now that I can laugh at because it's about me.
You're in good company with the world.
I'm in good company.
But this latest demand that we not let Muslims into our country really plays right into the hands of the terrorists.
And I don't say that lightly.
Yeah, she doesn't say that lightly, but she just did.
Yeah, this is the meme is that he is helping ISIS. Yeah, somehow.
As we predicted, you can just say ISIS and put it on anything.
So now it's even Donald Trump, he's helping ISIS. I'm surprised it's not blamed on global warming.
So one of our producers, Steck, sent me a...
You didn't read it.
I did.
An article, again...
Yeah, from The Economist.
I read the article.
So it's an Economist article with the front page, with the cover of Trump, Le Pen, and...
Oh, no, was it...
It didn't look like Le Pen.
Okay, yeah.
It had to be Le Pen.
There's only one.
Yeah, yeah.
Teardvilders in the middle, yeah.
And then they talked about populism and how bad it is and how horrible it is, and Trump's a jerk.
Is what the thing came out to be.
And I noticed this and I sent a note back to Steck thinking that he would maybe do something other than come back with a remark that he did.
In other words, he didn't do anything.
Uh...
I noticed this, that this has been going, the Economist for quite a few months has been running articles that just do not meet the old standards of the Economist.
The Economist is kind of a borderline laissez-faire libertarian free market capitalism operation that had a certain point of view that has distinctly changed.
And I mean distinctly changed.
And so I decided to take, I did a simple Google search, new editor economist.
There you go.
And bingo, Miss Zanny, or Zanny, or whatever her name is, and tell me this is an elitist name, Zanny Minton Bedos.
Hello!
Has taken over as the new editor-in-chief as of January, which makes sense to me because all the economists have changed.
Because this article on the new populace with the right-wingers of nutcases, the way she has it discussed, was not explanatory.
It was accusatory, very different than what I expect from the economists.
I expect the economists to give me some sort of a deeper explanation of things, kind of like what we do on this show in many cases, most cases.
But I expect that from them.
But no, I'm not getting that.
I'm just getting somebody shaking their fist.
And this woman, she's been at the economists for a while.
She's moved her way up from simpler chores, but she stems from the IMF. There you go.
And that's the key to this.
She is an internationalist, obviously, to me.
I could be wrong.
She could probably deny it.
But I see her as one of those internationalist, one-world government types.
She's taken over the economist's helm, which means that she calls the shots on how the magazine comes out.
And it stinks.
What's interesting, you know, I follow international news, and most of it is Dutch and German.
Dutch I read fluently, German pretty well, French not so, but I can get by.
But the rhetoric about Donald Trump has spread to the Dutch media in two interesting ways.
There was a big article in Allgemeen Dagblad, and the headline is, Donald Trump left nothing but disaster in our country.
And this stems back to 88, 89, I think.
What?
Yes.
That's how far back they're going.
No, but what disaster are we talking about?
Oh, well, the disaster is twofold.
One is he wanted to buy one of the biggest shipbuilding wharfs, but he started by ordering a ship.
And so the ship was being built, and he said, you know, screw it, we're going to buy this.
And then he pulled out of the deal, and so someone else had to come and buy it, and the ship was still there, and the town where the shipyard is was afraid.
So it took him a while to recover from the failed sale.
And the other one was he was going to build the big Trump Tower in Atlanta and he did a road show and Ivanka came along.
And they I think they raised 30 million dollars from Dutch investor group for the for the seed money.
But this was in 2007.
And, you know, not long after the Dutch, the Dutch really formed the basis for the investor group.
You know, the way Trump operates, everything's leveraged, which, you know, now he didn't have any of his own money in there.
It was all leveraged.
Hello, that's how it works.
This is not a big secret.
But what really struck me And there's a kicker at the end of this.
Let me see.
This interview...
I forget where it was.
The person who's being interviewed is Michiel Vos.
He works for Dutch and Belgian television.
And I think this...
I think for the Belgians it's the same, but for the Dutch, this is exactly the thinking about Donald Trump, the way...
And about America, honestly...
What Europeans, I'm just going to package them together, what the Dutch think about what is going on.
What is the reaction that you hear from relatives, from friends, from people back home in Europe?
Well, let's say that most of those relatives and friends say America is our example, but America is always also our, shall we say, our warning.
You bring us the goods, Star Wars, and you bring us the not-so-good, Trump.
There you go.
We bring us the good that is Star Wars, and you bring us not so good that is Trump.
So now it's safe to say that most of Europe right now is rooting for J.J. Abrams and not for Donald Trump.
And they look at this, they look at Trump and the phenomena, and they say, how can this be that this guy has been on top?
Not only this big, but also for so long.
It must say something about part of the American electorate.
He does have some support over there, right?
Yes.
You've got some very conservative.
You've got the leader of the far-right Dutch party.
Far-right.
I always say it wrong.
Geert.
Geert Wilders.
He calls him a strong man we need.
He supports him for president.
And, of course, the French have overwhelmingly, you know, strong vote for Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, the French leader on the extreme right.
Extreme right?
She's so extreme, I can't even see her.
Hello?
Marine, are you still in the game?
You're so extreme right.
Which is bullshit to call it that.
You're calling her an extremist.
So let's not forget.
Yes, there is.
But all those Europeans I call and talk to, they say, our leaders, they may say extreme things like Gerd Wilders or Marine Le Pen, but they have to somehow come up with some sort of plan behind it, some sort of position paper, an op-ed in our New York Times that say Le Monde or something.
Here with Trump, we only get the quotes.
And then they call me and they say, is there anything behind the quotes?
Is there anything behind the slogan?
And I say, no, no, there's nothing.
It's just soapbox.
It's slogans all the time.
So this journalist, this journalist who works for, you know, he's a foreign correspondent.
He's claiming that there's been no position papers.
There's been no release of anything, particularly by Donald Trump.
It's just factually incorrect.
But he said, no, it's just slogans.
And of course, it will be for not too long that one European politician, one upstart will say, you know what, I'm going to do the same.
It's just slogans that works in America.
It's going to work here, too.
Oh, be careful.
Oh, it's dangerous.
In Britain, the Prime Minister David Cameron of the Conservative Party dismissed Mr.
Trump's position as divisive, unhelpful, and quite simply wrong.
In France, the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, said Mr.
Trump, like others, fuels hatred and our only enemy is radical Islamism.
Do you sense that those leaders—let's just play this out.
If Donald Trump were the president of the United States, what would happen?
So I called the Belgian TV that I work for, and I said, so guys, it's January 2017.
Donald and Milani come down the stairs of Air Force One, and they're coming to talk to the European Union.
There were giggles, and there was outright panic.
Panic!
They think, who's he going to work with?
Who's he going to listen to?
He doesn't listen to anybody right now.
Let alone, he's not going to listen to anybody.
He says he's going to work with everyone.
They don't believe that at all.
They hear a European, an American hard line.
And we're used to something.
We did deal, or did not deal, with George W. Bush.
But this is from a totally different order.
And they also say one more thing.
After Paris, there was a certain unity in France.
There were calls for, we've got to do something, we've got to strike back, but there was a certain unity.
They, the Europeans, don't see that unity at all right now in America.
And they look at this, and they say, sure, America can solve this problem.
This is the can-do country.
You're our big brother.
You can take care of almost anything.
You can do anything.
Let's do it.
It's the American slogan.
And you fall apart over this?
Now, it's terrorism at your door.
It's big.
It's brutal.
But sure, you can come up with something.
And it's now us, the sort of unity part, is now looking at America, our sort of, you know, the biggest brother always in the back of the class with a big mouth, but always able to come up with some sort of solution.
And there is no solution.
Trump just says, shut it off.
Stop the border.
No more Muslims.
That's it.
Now, the kicker is this guy who works for a number of very sophisticated elitist programs.
He used to work for Barrington for Dorb.
These are all talk shows where politics are discussed continuously.
He works for government-controlled media as well.
He's married to Alexandra Pelosi.
Daughter of...
The movie producer, Pelosi?
Yes.
Wow.
Yes, daughter of Senator Pelosi.
So, this guy doesn't sound very objective when he's doing this.
Certainly not when you understand...
No, especially if he hangs out with Nancy.
She must really hate Trump.
Yeah.
Well, there's just a bunch of haters.
That's the way I see it.
Yeah, but it's interesting how the media flows.
Probably about half of our listeners would, not to insult anyone, but I would say half of them would fall into that camp.
I mean, as witnessed by this letter, they just have, you know, we can only do so much to keep people watching the main attraction rather than the sideshows.
And, you know, we're not going to ever be successful with this Trump thing.
Trump is...
It's a sideshow that is extremely interesting because it forces people to take sides.
It shows what some people are really thinking.
Maybe it's populist chatter is what a lot of people want rather than the political correct crap that is out there where you can't say this, you can't say that.
You can't say anything.
And then BBC... BBC News comes out, headline, Is Donald Trump a Democratic Secret Agent?
Since when did conspiracy theories become okay over there at the BBC? This is not the first time that this has shown up.
No, but this is BBC. You're exactly right.
How does what would normally be considered a crackpot conspiracy theory, that this guy is a Democrat, you know, and he's actually working for the Clintons, Because you can find pictures of him with the Clintons.
And he's just in there as a Trojan horse to screw the Republicans over.
It's crazy!
That's crazier than the moon landing.
Now, the Wall Street Journal, they're finally doing what I expected to happen a long time ago.
Headline, Trump and the Goodfellas.
The presidential candidate says he didn't know he was doing business with the mob, and he's talking about the 80s in construction.
So they're finally kind of trying to float it a little bit, but I don't think anyone...
I think they're too chicken shit to do anything about it.
Well, they're going to end up with a dead horse head in their bed.
That's how we roll.
That's one possibility.
The other thing is, it's obvious that Trump has, well, I mean, you can't be in the business he's in without, especially in New York City, and especially Manhattan, without heavy-duty mob connections.
Yeah, of course, and Jewish connections, both.
The Jewish mob, too.
Mm-hmm.
And he, I believe that a lot of the dirty tricks I'm witnessing, and I see a lot of them, that are just so fantastic, where, you know, the Rubio letters are my favorite.
You know, somehow Rubio has a child out of wedlock.
There's a rumor going around Florida.
Yeah, that's a good one.
There's a child out of wedlock.
And I think it looks as if Jeb Bush is behind this rumor.
Oh, that's possible.
When I first saw that, I said, it's obvious to me that if anybody's behind this rumor, it's Trump.
Or one of Trump's, he's got a dirty tricks guy.
Trump goes back far enough to know that most political campaigns, especially during the Nixon era, were dominated by dirty tricks.
Nixon had Segretti.
There was this other guy who hated Nixon.
It happens all the time.
And it was like these dirty tricks keep cropping up.
And Trump is...
If anybody could do these tricks and pull them off, look unscathed.
Unscathed means that no one points the finger at you, which is the situation.
It would have to be Trump and his connections.
But nobody...
No, no, no.
Nobody sees that.
They just see Rubio's had a kid out of wedlock.
That Jeb Bush is an a-hole.
You know, both those things may be true, but how do we know any of this?
Why did this even come up in the news?
Anderson Pooper pulled a fast one.
It was flabbergasting.
This was let through, and it aired.
Of course, it's after 8 p.m., and it's on cable, but still, I don't think I've ever heard this on CNN. At a November rally, Trump had some of his strongest words yet.
We gotta go, and we gotta knock the shit out of these people.
So that aired.
That's not typical for mainstream media to air the S-word.
No, very unusual.
Yeah, incredibly unusual.
Huh.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know what the point of that was.
It was obviously to make Trump seem more tough in a bad way.
I guess.
And of course, when in doubt, when you really want to show that everybody hates somebody, we might as well get the guys who are going after ISIS. They're our heroes.
This is...
So disappointing how many people think this is even a group of people.
Yes, of course, we know who's really going after Donald Trump.
Trump Tower's website, the online home of one of Donald Trump's glitzy skyscrapers in Manhattan, went offline for around an hour on Friday, and the activist hacker group Anonymous is claiming responsibility.
Does this group really exist still?
I thought they arrested the kid who was behind it.
I think he died.
Yeah, this is just a placeholder.
Who knows?
One of the intelligence agencies would grab that thing in a minute.
Well, it's not even that.
They just have a Twitter account and then CNN calls them and says, hey, let's do an interview.
And they put out the videos.
It's so stylized.
Anonymous left this message on Twitter, saying the site was taken down as a statement against racism and hatred.
And the whole piece, the journalist calls them up and gets them on the phone, she's in the office talking to them, and they've got voice changers.
I love the voice changers.
Earlier this week, the group posted a video on YouTube warning Donald Trump and condemning his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
This policy is going to have a huge impact.
This is what ISIS wants.
This voice changing gets me.
Oh, yeah, sounds legit.
The more Muslims feel sad, the more ISIS feel that they can recruit them.
This international network of so-called hacktivists is famous for launching cyber attacks on groups like Islamic State following the deadly attacks in Paris.
And now they've taken aim at Donald Trump.
All right, now you know everybody.
Whatever came of their attacks of ISIS? Yeah, well, they took Twitter accounts offline.
You know, the stuff that we can actually use to track people.
Oh, right.
They took the Twitter accounts that are intelligence people.
And how do they do that?
Here's how Anonymous works.
All right.
It's op-takedown.
It's op-takedown of ISIS. Op-takedown.
Oh, that looks like there's a jihadi Twitter account.
I'm going to report it.
Click.
Yeah.
That's what they did.
I did it.
Hell yeah.
Bringing the fight to ISIS. Yeah.
That is, what is it?
That's great.
Well, that was probably the worst thing to do.
And with that, perhaps I should thank you for your courage.
Oh, you really want to do that?
Do I not?
Do you really want to...
I'm sorry, did you...
No?
I'm just trying to...
I'm just thinking for a second, if this is something you actually want to do this second, yeah, you can do it.
I think...
Thank you for your courage.
In the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Can't Find the Spreadsheet Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground feeding the air subs in the water and all All the names of knights out there.
In the morning to our artists.
In particular, I'd like to say in the morning to the artist known as Trump's Chopper, who brought us the artwork for episode 780.
Nice one with the little professor there and the unfriend button.
Funny.
We like that a lot.
It was kind of funny.
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With this time of the year.
Less people listening?
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Really glad to see that.
I've been enjoying the analysis about the San Bernardino incident.
I wonder if we'll see any common Koran tie-ins at some point.
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I've been trying to rename things so it works.
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This is like me putting things in a place where I know I will find them.
Oh, let me put this thing that's been sitting on this desk for the last 10 years and put it someplace safe so I can find it.
The problem is when someone comes in and, you know, changes your piles, that's when it really all goes amiss.
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That was an overtly sexual, lewd mixture of sound effects and jingles.
Yeah, that's the no agenda producing public right there.
They're getting a little...
Sexualized?
Lascivious would be the word I'd use.
That lascivious is very good.
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I think you should do those sorts of things for PC Magazine.
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I'm not happy.
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Yeah.
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I mean, normally, I know how these newsletters work.
I know which ones should work and which ones shouldn't.
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In this case, you might have considered...
I think it's the Trump haters.
Well, you could have considered a TLDR at the top.
That might have helped.
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I'm sure you've seen this.
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Huh.
Too long didn't read.
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You haven't seen this?
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Yeah.
Let's put a little TLDR in there.
Yeah.
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You know, it'd be nice if some of our talent out there that are, you know, people that sing and dance and do cool things with jingles can remix a couple of Christmas songs.
Yeah.
With the no-no-nos or whatever or whatever.
We got a new no-no-no in.
Yeah?
Yeah, it's not a Christmas song, but it's...
No, no, no, no.
Listen.
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No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
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It was a hit for a lot of people.
UB40 in particular.
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It's a hit.
It's a hit.
It's a big hit.
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Gracias.
Alright, so I'm going to do a little sound effect that makes myself live.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to have a beer.
I'm going to crack open a beer and then drink it down.
Alright.
And then make the appropriate noise at the end of the process.
I know.
Okay.
Here we go.
Now you got to burp.
It should.
Schlitz malt liquor again?
No, that's actually a can of water.
There was something interesting.
Was it good?
It was a good bit?
It was fantastic.
For the new screensavers, maybe.
Sorry.
There was something that was another racial issue that was picked up as a racial issue.
People starting to lose their crap over this.
A Supreme Court opinion came back about affirmative action.
And this is a local story to me because it's about, I believe, a white student said that because of affirmative action, she was not able to get into UT.
Right.
And so this went to the to the Supreme Court.
And well, here is just a couple of this is from CNN.
What people were thinking about this because we'll actually have to play the opening here.
I don't know who this is.
This is what happened after Justice Scalia gave his remarks.
Gasps were heard inside the Supreme Court this week over something said by Justice Antonin Scalia.
He made a remark about African Americans and academic performance concerning a case challenging affirmative action.
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a slower track school, where they do well.
They go from lesser schools where they do not feel that they're That they're being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them.
That produced a few gasps in the courtroom.
Some called the comments race.
Strangely, even though they have audio in the courtroom, no gasps were heard.
I don't understand if you're going to say gasps were heard.
Why don't we hear it on the audio, which has enough room noise to hear it.
So I think these lines...
Too fast for them.
That produced a few gasps in the courtroom.
Some called the comments racist.
Others said he was just plain wrong.
I think it was the language of the lesser, slower schools that stung.
All of the evidence shows that black students, like most students, fare best when they go to the best school that they can get into because they are challenged in that environment.
But some opponents of using race in admission say Scalia had a point despite how he said it.
To bring people into universities where they're not nearly as well prepared academically, grades, test scores, anything else, as their classmates, they're likely to struggle academically.
Okay, so you get the basic understanding of the backgrounder, and of course, it wasn't in the courtroom, but the mainstream media, oh my gosh, oh, they were just a gasp!
A Supreme Court Justice sparking controversy during a hearing of a high-profile affirmative action case.
Justice Antonin Scalia seemed to suggest that some African Americans might do better in lesser colleges, saying, quote, there are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a less, a slower track school where they do well.
Scalia was citing a theory in this book.
entitled mismatch, but some feel like he was using it to make his own argument.
And Twitter ignited.
No surprise there.
Oh, Twitter ignited.
Calling for his impeachment.
Actress Rashida Jones said he is saying that black people should go to, quote, lesser colleges because they can't keep up.
That is a generalization of a race.
Oh, he's racist.
Oh, thank goodness.
I finally understand.
He's racist.
And Twitter lit up.
Twitter was on fire.
That means time to talk about it on the CNN panel.
I cannot believe I'm hearing those words from a Supreme Court justice.
There are only nine of them.
They are the top of the food chain in this country.
Is there more to it than what we're seeing on the surface?
Well, there could be.
And here's what it is.
I mean, certainly, in the event that they come from him, it's disturbing.
Obviously, it's offensive.
You mean not offensive?
That's true, from his own thought.
Precisely.
In other words, from his own thought process as opposed to him quoting what a school of thought is that's out there.
There is a school of thought out there that would suggest exactly what the justice suggested, and that school of thought certainly needs to be rebuked in all respects.
The issue at hand, help me understand, what did the conservative justices have to say yesterday in the oral arguments as opposed to the liberal justices?
Well, you know, Scalia, whose most famous quote maybe is that I'm an originalist, but I'm not a nut, sounded a little nutty yesterday.
Now, absent from all of this reporting was...
An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas last year, which didn't just say the same thing as Scalia.
He went even further.
Yet he's not discussed because, oh yeah, well he's black.
When the black man says it, it's okay I guess.
We just have to vilify the white man who said it.
He's a racist a-hole.
Today, Thomas got a chance to absolutely unleash on race-based college admissions.
He wrote a humdinger of a concurring opinion that basically compares anyone who supports affirmative action with the worst racists and white supremacists in our history.
This is from last year.
It's so easy to find the quotes.
They have the archive.
Why didn't they bring this up?
Slaveholders argued that slavery was a positive good that civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life.
A century later, segregationists similarly asserted that segregation was not only benign but good for black students.
The university's professed good intentions cannot excuse its outright racial discrimination any more than such intentions justify the now-denounced arguments.
That's a good one.
But no one brought that up.
Well, why would they bring it up?
To be a little more balanced.
Just calling someone a racist.
I'm all in with the Neil deGrasse Tyson thing.
Balancing is way out of control.
And what are you going to do, bring in the flat earth guys to give their opinion too?
Yeah, I mean, crazy.
Advocating?
We can't, in a Supreme Court justice, you know, let's not back up anything that the white guy said with the black guy's opinion, because, you know, that would ruin the whole rhetoric about white privilege.
You have to bring a Chinese guy in.
We don't have one of those in the court yet.
Yeah, but it could happen.
So that was quite disgusting.
It was a distraction of the week.
I thought it was hilarious.
I agree with you.
And I was kind of thinking along the lines of people with lower grades.
I think generally it was just people with lower grades shouldn't go to some of these schools because they shouldn't maybe go to college.
I don't know why everyone gets to go to college.
Why do you have to go to college?
Because Michelle Obama says so.
You didn't see her big campaign, her rap video?
I did see that.
I've repressed it.
I have not clipped it either.
It was horrible.
You got that off your chest.
But you're dead right.
Well, I'm very sensitive.
Ever since I was shamed into my white privilege, I pay attention to what's going on.
Someone has to just say stop.
Yeah, you created the monster.
People just have to stop, stop, stop, stop.
So now let's talk about guns.
This is the other agenda for his legacy that President Obama is working on.
Everybody joined in.
Everybody just jumped on the bandwagon.
My favorite was Senator Blumenthal.
Now, let me remind you, this is now an ongoing thread of Barbara Boxer, who first said that, you know, the oath she took was to protect the American people.
No, you took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
And then she said, oh, she said this.
If there was anything else that caused the death of 30,000 Americans a year, every single senator would be in their chair, and we would be demanding action, and we would be crossing over party lines to stop it.
All right, so that started a trend.
Senator Blumenthal took it a step further.
And just one final thought.
If 30,000 people in the United States of America Fell sick of flu or Ebola or...
Traffic accidents.
Polio.
The flu number's low, by the way.
I think the flu number's very low.
This nation would be up in arms.
We'd be up in arms.
No, we're not.
It happens every year.
Every year, about 30,000 people die.
We don't give a crap.
There would be drastic, effective...
What about automobile accidents?
Over 30,000 deaths a year.
Well, he is saying that there should be all kinds of committees on automobile deaths and flu deaths.
30,000 people falling sick as a result of a public epidemic?
Dying?
Wait for it.
As a result?
Is a public health crisis.
Are you ready for the meme?
Get your pen ready, everybody.
We have in this nation, truly, an epidemic of gun death and gun disease.
Gun disease!
Holy crap!
Catchy!
Catchy!
He finishes up.
That is taking lives, 90 of them, every day and should be treated as a public health crisis.
Oh, there you go.
Gun disease.
I'm not feeling too well.
What you got?
Gun disease.
Gun disease.
Man, these guys are just nuts.
Well, then from the podium, Josh Earnest, he's our guy, the spokeshole for the White House, was asked a question about something Valerie Jarrett, the true president of the United States, VJ44 on Twitter, at VJ45. Everybody hit me up.
Woo!
Woo!
She said something about what the president is going to do, and we are now hearing the words of his action, which will...
Well, I'm not going to blow it all.
Here's the first clip where he was asked a question in the...
In his press briefing about VJ-44 saying something about what Obama's going to do about guns.
Larry Jarrett said at a Newtown vigil last night that the president has directed his team to, in short order, finalize a set of recommendations on what can be done from the administration to save lives from gun violence.
Can you be more specific about what short order means, and can you confirm that the recommendations will cover the extended use of background checks for gun purchases?
Kevin, at this point I still don't have an update in terms of the progress that the administration is making.
And scrubbing the rules.
Scrubbing the rules.
And determining what elements of the president's executive authority can be used to do a better job of keeping guns away from those who shouldn't have them.
This means, you know, what additional steps can we take to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those who are mentally ill?
Mentally ill.
Just want to take pause.
When we talk about gun disease and mentally ill, this is all happening at the same time.
If you take Adderall, if you take Xanax, if you take Advil PM, You have a mental disorder.
Define mentally ill.
If you are being prescribed something for an ailment, is that then ill?
Yep.
If you are being prescribed something for an ailment that deals with your mentality, your mental state, is that mental?
You have a mental disease?
Yeah.
It can be anything.
Yeah.
I just want everyone to pay attention to what's being said.
If you go see a therapist.
Whoops!
I better just leave them outside the door.
Hey, yeah.
Hi, Mr.
Curry.
We heard that you did this holistic breathing exercise and you thought that you could fly.
Yeah, we think that you probably shouldn't have any guns.
You know, because you could go into one of those mental disease states.
We really don't think you should have any guns, sir.
You nailed it.
Here's VJ20, more VJ44 from Ernst.
A set of recommendations that Valerie's talking about is something that...
Valerie.
Oh, Valerie.
Not Miss Jarrett, the President's advisor.
Valerie.
It's like saying, eh, the President.
A set of recommendations that Valerie's talking about is something that the President has been talking about for a couple of months now.
And these are essentially recommendations that the President has asked for from his staff based on their review of available executive authority.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Are we getting any closer to figuring out what's going on?
Well, first we need a little linguistics lesson.
I guess there is some evidence to indicate this.
The FBI put out information a week or so ago that Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when many people go shopping, that they actually processed the largest number of background checks for gun purchases in history.
I described this, I think, in a briefing earlier this week as a tragic irony.
That the more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns.
Tragic irony.
Thank you for picking it up.
Both ironic and tragic.
Both ironic and tragic.
Now, tragic, I think we all kind of understand the meaning.
But irony, I think, is often misused.
I believe he's using it incorrectly.
Irony is when there is an expected result, but it is an opposite result, usually humorous.
Am I correct?
I think that might be right.
So in other words...
I know it when I hear it.
When I hear irony or do irony, I know it's irony.
And I can also see somebody saying, oh, that's ironic, when it's not.
I can say, hey, no, there's no irony there.
You just said that's ironic doesn't mean it's ironic.
And what he is saying that these horrible gun deaths should of course have resulted in, I guess, people handing in their guns and eschewing them.
Yes.
They actually expect that.
So that shows you the twisted mentality.
That that is really what he thought was going to happen.
I don't understand this.
I think the President's view is that he is going to forcefully advocate for the kind of gun safety measures that common sense tells us.
Common sense?
Will not prevent every act of gun violence, but even if it makes some acts of gun violence less likely, and we can do all of that without undermining the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans.
I'm sorry.
Why wouldn't we do it?
I hate it when they do that.
So he's referring to the so-called constitutional right of all Americans, meaning the Second Amendment.
No.
The Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment, is a prohibition On exactly what you are proposing be done.
Your favorite topic.
Yes, because it says the right of all citizens to bear arms shall not be infringed, which means you cannot make any laws.
Now, the president can put in executive orders and we can dispute the legality of that.
And it seems like the states can do whatever they want.
The states can do whatever they want, of course.
They can make the states crack down on all this stuff, but they don't do that.
Well, he was complained.
We'll wrap it up with this ditty from him.
I guess, Fred, what I'm observing is that it's tragic that in the aftermath, in the immediate aftermath of a series of high-profile mass shootings, that people feel like they have to go out and purchase a gun.
Because it's our view, and again, I think this is backed up by some common sense.
Oh!
Our nation is awash in guns.
Some common sense.
Not statistics, not science.
Common sense.
There are statistics about the large quantity of guns that are rather readily available on street corners and in gun stores all across America.
That ready access to guns and that proliferation of violent weapons of war has not led to fewer gun deaths.
Ah, I'm sorry.
That's a lie.
The guns have gone down.
They've gone down.
Tremendously down.
Why do they keep promoting this bullcrap?
Well, I took out all the pauses, and he was waiting for two, three seconds at a time, because he was talking himself into a trap.
I think he knew that what he was saying was not truthful.
In fact, I'm sure he knew it, therefore he is purposely lying.
So I took out all the pauses, but listen to how he tries to get around it, even though he's just made a mistake.
In fact, we're seeing that that doesn't seem to be the effect that we're witnessing here.
And so it's tragic that even in the situation where we have lots of guns on the streets that lead to lots of innocent Americans being killed, that the response to that is that a whole lot more guns end up on the streets.
It's tragic and ironic.
No, it's not ironic.
Only in your warped view is it ironic.
And then just to show you how clueless Actually, it is ironic in his view.
In his view, it's ironic, yes.
But I think it would have to be his common sense.
I think I know what you're trying to get at.
I think you're probably right.
Now...
So we're talking about guns on the street.
It's so easy to get them on the corner at the drugstore.
It's very easy to get guns.
Just a little ditty that I had missed.
I had missed this on the Comey session.
If I buy a gun on the internet, is it delivered to my home?
If you buy a gun on the internet?
I try to buy a gun on the internet.
Where do I pick it up?
I assume it's shipped to you, but I don't know for sure, actually.
Okay, well, let's find out the answer to that.
Wow!
Good going, director of FBI! If you're so concerned about guns, and oh, they're so easy to get on the internet, it's a loophole, it's so crazy, and here's, I think it was Lindsey Graham.
Yeah, oh, okay.
Lindsey Graham, who says, who says, Do they ship them to you?
Gee, that's a good question.
A gun on the internet, do they ship it to me?
Where do you pick it up?
Where do you pick it up?
On the corner.
So come on!
The director of FBI does not know how guns traffic over the internet.
Which is legal sale.
They probably know how they traffic it to the Mexican cartels.
Yeah.
Which we should call Obama guns.
Okay.
Well, that was good.
Yeah, I just wanted to get that out of my system.
Play this clip because I'm looking at my clip list.
I got a bunch of stuff.
Actually, let me do a little sideways story.
Alrighty.
So I'm watching the local news.
And so the local police in the Santa Cruz area, there's a little town down there too.
There's these two back-to-back stories about the police.
One of them is about some guy had his truck stolen and he had to find it himself.
The police did nothing.
But let's play the stolen truck, local news.
This is kind of a setup for the next story.
Oh!
On the crime watch tonight, a man who police say spotted his own stolen pickup truck, helped them make two arrests in the case.
Santa Cruz PD say the victim spotted his vehicle at a restaurant, and then while on the phone with dispatch, he followed the suspects down Highway 1, directing police to them.
40-year-old Jennifer Howard and 40-year-old Perry Greer were arrested.
Investigators say they found methamphetamine and stolen property inside that truck.
Okay.
Who's the guy doing police work for?
They're always telling us not to do that.
I just found out what the police...
Ah, yeah, you've stolen.
What's her name?
The guy's writing in the air.
What's the license number?
Writing in the air.
Okay, yeah, we'll be right on it.
We'll get you a call when we find it.
They don't do anything.
So here's the other side of the coin.
This is another nearby town, both in the same area.
This is the DUI story about how you're going to get a DUI and it's going to ruin your life and all these different things.
And so this is the very...
Best for the foreign listeners, DUIs driving under influence.
Driving under the influence, usually drunk driving is what it used to be called.
So let's start with DUI 1, the setup.
Also on the Crimewatch tonight, the city of Marina is stepping up patrol and checkpoints this December to try and prevent people from drinking and driving during the holidays.
Action News reporter Caitlin Conrad is live in Monterey.
Here's the story.
Erin, tomorrow the city of Marina is going to do a saturation patrol.
It's going to start at 7 in the evening and go all the way through 3 in the morning.
Then next week they're going to have a DUI checkpoint and every car that goes through it is going to have to stop.
Alright, so this is going to be like a big deal, a lot of overtime.
Checkpoint!
Checkpoint!
Fantastic checkpoints ladies and gentlemen.
So let's go on, let's go on, move into the story a little deeper with a DOI local clip 2.
Yes, unfortunately we do.
People are more festive during the holiday season.
Unfortunately that comes with more alcohol consumption and more drinking and driving, and that's what we're trying to have an effect on.
There's no excuse for drinking and driving.
People on the Monterey Peninsula can use Uber, take a taxi cab, or use public transportation, which will be running on Christmas and New Year's Day this year.
Plug for Uber, none for Lyft.
Of course not, of course not, yeah, of course.
And now we go into the crux of the whole thing.
The whole thing comes to a head with the...
This, by the way, is a very long report.
But the end of it comes to this, and I just...
My jaw hits the ground with this police bullcrap.
In the city of Marina alone, there's been 45 DUI-related crashes in the last three years and 28 injuries resulting from those crashes.
Erin?
All right, Caitlin, thank you.
The DUI checkpoint plan for next week will stop every car coming through.
Last time they did this in Marina, they stopped 1,100 cars, but they only issued one DUI. Police say they measure success by the number of cars stopped.
Of course.
Of course.
Hey, how you doing?
Stop 25.
Very successful, by the way.
Inconvenience the public to an outrageous extreme with a long lines of cars being stopped.
1100 to be exact.
They arrest virtually nobody.
But it's a very big success because they stopped a lot of people and inconvenience them.
This is fantastic police work.
And what is their probable cause?
There is none.
There's a checkpoint.
This is just a shut-up slave moment.
Meanwhile, they can't catch the guy who stole the pickup truck.
But you can't just...
You can stop people, but you don't have to do anything unless they have some...
Driver's license?
No, I don't think...
Show me a driver's license and...
Am I being detained?
Am I free to go?
Am I being detained, sir?
Pull over there, please.
Am I being detained?
Am I free to go?
If I'm not being detained, I should not have to pull over, sir.
Well, I think people should take that approach.
Yeah, you should.
And put it on YouTube.
For when you're dead.
And have your little dash cam pointed at the cops when they rub the crap out of you.
For the rest of your life, you will have evidence.
You'll probably get a settlement, half a mil.
Yeah.
I just find it very annoying.
I know.
The success is determined by the number of people they inconvenience is the way they should have put it.
That is insane.
Now, Eric Schmidt wrote an op-ed in the New York Times.
Very disturbing.
Now, he's still the chairman of Google or Alphabet.
I believe he's still the chairman, yes, of Alphabet.
One of them.
And he's an elitist.
And he goes to all the shows.
He goes to the Bilderbergers.
Bilderbergers.
He goes to, you know, what's the thing?
Davos.
Davos.
Yeah, he's everywhere.
And, you know, he...
This is the kind of guy that when Donald Trump says, hey, we should talk to Bill Gates and other smart people about closing the internet, this is the guy he would go to, I'm sure.
Can you pull a switch on the internet?
Well, so he writes this article, it's on how to build a better web.
TLDR, I'm just going to pull out the kind of the closer of this article he wrote.
Authoritarian governments tell their citizens that censorship is necessary for stability.
It's our relationship to demonstrate that stability and free expressions go hand in hand.
We should make it ever easier to see the news from other countries' point of view and understand the global consciousness free from filter of bias.
So far, so good.
So far, so good.
Right, John?
So far, so good.
No, but go on.
We should build tools to help de-escalate tensions on social media, sort of like spell checkers, but for hate and harassment.
We should target social accounts for terrorist groups like the Islamic State and remove videos before they spread, or help those countering terrorist messages to find their voice.
Without this type of leadership from government, from citizens, from tech companies, The internet could become a vehicle for further disaggregation of poorly built societies and the empowerment of the wrong people and the wrong voices.
Heil!
Holy moly!
Heil, Herr Schmidt!
Eric Schmidt!
So, of course, it's not going to be a spell check.
We have the No Agenda plug-in that turns webpages into Gitmo Nation speak.
We should just have a plug-in that any time there's something, you know, that there's some kind of horrible microaggression, you know, that just changes it to, you know, stock words like unicorn.
Because that'll make everybody feel better.
Yeah, we don't want that microaggression.
This is a totalitarian statement that he's making.
He doesn't know that.
Yeah, that's the part that's so worrying.
My goodness.
That is worrying, but it's a very common...
I think Silicon Valley is loaded.
All these guys are billionaires.
Let's start with that premise, which means you've got at least a million, million dollars for starters.
And they live in a bubble.
You very rarely see them out in public, unless it's public, the Bilderbergers meeting.
I did see Eric once recently in public, said hello.
It was a fluke.
And they talk amongst themselves.
The groupthink thing is really...
And you know this from Silicon Valley.
Of course.
They go to the same meetings, they have the same people telling them the same thing, and they go to the bar, and they talk about the thing the guy just said, and say, yeah, yeah, I agree with that.
And the next thing you know, they're all abuzz about something or other that's not true, and they invest in green technology.
How'd that work out, Klein and Perkins?
So you end up with that sort of thing, and it's because the echo chamber is just massive in Silicon Valley.
And the question is, you get condemned.
Yes.
So they don't know.
They're just following along in lockstep.
I think the overriding theme for us, certainly for the past few weeks, has been, what is really free speech?
Why are people being told to shut up?
Who really is the terrorist?
Who is really creating the fear that is making people do things based upon the human instinct?
In fact, I got the text sent me this.
Because I don't watch Fox Business.
This was about fear.
Dr.
Siegel says all that fear could be hazardous to your health, and he joins us now.
But, Doctor, I would say to you, it's hard not to be fearful.
How do you stop it from causing problems to your health?
When you see a terrorist attack, like in San Bernardino or in Paris, you think it's going to happen in my supermarket.
It's going to happen in my gathering.
The chances are extremely low, but you can't convince yourself of that.
So what do you do?
What you do is you need fear guides.
You need somebody to comfort you, somebody to give you courage.
Because courage goes through the same place in the brain as fear.
I love that.
Fear guides.
I need fear guides.
So does love.
So does laughter.
So does happiness.
If you can laugh at yourself, you may break that cycle of worry.
Well, this is interesting.
I believe that part of what we are doing, we are fear guides.
That's what we do.
We're guides of the future.
We take the fear and add laughter.
It affects the amygdala, it affects the same part of the brain, and it makes you feel better.
I think this is very important, what we're doing.
Someone like President Bush, who stood up on that car with a bullhorn and said, you know, people who knock down these buildings will hear all of us soon, and then he backed it up.
That was a leader of leadership.
Of leadership and courage.
Now, President Obama, who says, let's not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear, is a strong slogan, but nothing backing it up.
No change in policies.
Doesn't make me feel better.
We can't rally behind it.
What can it do to your health quickly, Dr.
And this probably explains what you're seeing with Trump.
He is the ultimate fear guide on the fear end.
He's not making you laugh necessarily, but he is saying, oh, here's what I'm going to do about it.
I'm going to kick everybody's ass.
Should we check in with our president, the man who should be our fear guide?
Yeah, his daily podcast, weekly podcast, I should say.
And you know he's got something interesting to say, or heavy, because he doesn't start off with his normal hile, everybody.
Hello, everybody.
He's very depressed.
This week, Americans across our country have shown what it means to be strong in the face of terrorism.
In San Bernardino, even as the community continues to grieve, people are refusing to be ruled by fear.
Across the country, dedicated public servants are on the job, and more will be returning to work this week.
Faith communities have come together in fellowship and prayer.
Families line the streets for the annual Children's Christmas Parade.
Because we can't let terrorists change how we live our lives.
No, instead we'll just let the mainstream media and you, Mr. President, Mr. President, terrorize everybody.
Meanwhile, our men and women in uniform are stepping up our campaign to destroy ISIL.
Our airstrikes are hitting ISIL harder than ever in Iraq and Syria.
We're taking out more of their fighters and leaders, their weapons, their oil tankers.
Our special operations forces are on the ground because we're going to hunt down these terrorists wherever they try to hunt them down.
Smoke them out.
Smoke them out.
Hunt them down.
Blow them back to the kingdom.
For some weeks, our strikes have taken out the ISIL finance chief.
We killed the CFO! Are you kidding me?
And he's proud we killed some guy with a green visor sitting there.
He's not in the battlefield.
He's not making bombs.
He's just running the spreadsheet.
That's sad.
A terrorist leader in Somalia and the ISIL leader in Libya.
Our message to these killers is simple.
We will find you and justice will be done.
No, we're not going to take you to court.
We're just going to drone you.
This week, we'll move forward on all fronts.
On Monday, I'll go to the Pentagon, and there I'll review our military...
Nah, he goes on and on.
He's got nothing to say.
But he's not helping.
He's not telling, we're going to go kick ass.
He's just saying, well, bring him to justice.
We got the finance guy.
I don't feel good about that.
We got the finance guy.
Congratulations!
The finance has been replaced instantly.
There's a lot of numbers guys working for that operation.
It's pretty obvious.
So I got to talk to anybody who talks about San Bernardino.
Now they've tried to complicate the story to obfuscate whatever we're ever going to find out about what happened.
With this new guy, this Marquis guy who led a double life and he's married to the Russian mob.
Oh, I don't know about this guy.
Oh, here, play the ABC. This is on ABC. This is ABC. And I don't have the whole story because I cut it off because it goes on forever.
But this is the Marquis drama.
Enrique Marquez may have lived a double life.
His family members telling ABC News they never knew the former punk rocker converted to Islam or that he had married a woman named Maria Chernik.
His wife is one of two Russian sisters who married American men.
The other sister is married to Farouk's brother.
Federal authorities now saying Farouk and Marquez planned and abandoned a terror plot in 2012.
There have been some arrests immediately adjacent to that right in their area in Southern California, probably by the counter-terrorism people that really caused them to rethink it.
Those arrests, four men from Riverside, California, the same town Farouk and Marquez lived in.
Was there any connection between Marquez, Farouk, and these four terrorists?
I've heard the same reports.
It would be irresponsible of us to not look into any potential connection.
Marquez's family saying it's shocked.
That is Enrique Marquez's mother.
She just came out to speak for the first time, saying how upset she is by all of this, how distraught she is.
She hasn't heard from her son.
It goes on and on and on.
Very dramatized.
Anyway, this is the guy who sold the weapons, the big guns, to the guy.
And they were just like, oh, I didn't know what was going on.
And now they're creating this huge melodrama around him and his Russian wife and his conversion to Islam and his previous plots.
And everyone who knows him thinks he's like a guy who's at the bar all the time, joking around, telling gags.
This whole story has become completely...
It's like some novelist or somebody behind it.
It's ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the K-1 visa process has come under scrutiny.
Oh, well, we probably have to change that because I don't even know how we get guns off of the internet.
So, maybe that thing ain't too right.
Guns on the internet.
Now, you'll recall that my Uncle Don, when Mickey had passport issues and was deported, and I called him and he said...
Adam, get a lawyer.
I can't do anything.
Ever since that move from state to Department of Homeland Security, it's been a complete and utter mess.
I can't even help.
And he has three former presidents on his speed dial that he can call.
Now, could he?
Of course.
I mean, obviously, but he don't give a crap about me.
Not like that.
He's only got so many buttons.
I mean, he's got only so many chits he can cash in.
Yeah, we're not going to cash in that.
It'll work out.
Why is he going to waste one on you?
And he probably didn't like her that much, so I'm like, screw that.
Well, that could be too.
You may have seen some of this, but this is the kind of thing that...
This is real fear.
As there was a, they brought in the screening official of Department of Homeland Security, who, according to Michael Don, have screwed up all immigration, the whole process, the whole Border Patrol process, to ask questions about, you know, the screening process.
And it is her job, and she's, I'm going to put her in the millennial category.
She has some up talk, and it's just sad, sad, sad, sad, to see that pretty much nothing works in immigration.
And why did that not fire immediately and start is the question.
Five minutes.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
Ms.
Barisi, earlier this week the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee gave an important speech where he talked about extremist groups, terrorist groups are trying to exploit the refugee program.
So, like Mr.
Russell just a few minutes ago, I would like to see if you can give us some numbers just so the committee and the American people have this information.
How many Syrian refugees have entered the United States in the last year?
Sir, I didn't bring any of the refugee numbers with me because I was prepared to talk about visa waiver, but I can certainly have us send that to you.
Do you know how many Americans have traveled to Syria in the last year?
I don't have that number on me either.
So you wouldn't know how many Americans have traveled and then returned?
I don't have that number on me.
How many visa waiver program overstays are there currently in the United States?
Sorry, I didn't bring that number with me.
Ms.
Barisi, when I look at the witness list, you got the longest title.
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Screening Coordination, Office of Policy, Department of Homeland Security.
You got the longest title, and it says Screening Coordination.
Now, what is that...
What are you...
What do you do, woman?
Screening, are you coordinating?
Is that just intra-agency, or is that inter-agency?
It's both.
It's both.
So it's all of that.
I coordinated across DHS components.
And the two biggest issues right now that we're dealing with, we had these terrible tragedies, terrible terrorist attacks...
And we're talking about the refugee issue and the visa waiver program issue, and you can't give us any numbers on either program?
So I came prepared to talk about the visa waiver program.
And I just asked you how many visa waiver program overstays are there, and you said you don't know.
Sir, I don't have a number.
Visa Waiver Program.
So when I asked you how many Visa...
I think what happened is somehow this was grossly misjudged what was going to happen here.
And someone said, I just explained how the Visa Waiver Program works.
Hey, you can go.
Okay, that's great.
Okay, I can explain the Visa Waiver Program.
The overstays of the Visa Waiver Program may have traveled to Syria before they got here.
Do you know that number?
Sir, if a Visa Waiver Program National has, a citizen of a Visa Waiver Program country, rather, has traveled to Syria, Iraq, or a conflict zone, and they're considered a foreign fighter, that VWP country is...
I'm not asking that.
I'm saying someone from Great Britain comes to the United States...
On a visa waiver program, and they're now on overstay, do we know if that person who's here today, maybe they're not even on overstay, do we know if that person has been to Syria before they came to the United States?
Do we know that?
I mean, I know this is what our bill that we just passed this week is trying to get to.
I'm asking, do we know that information now?
So that's why we have the IC involved.
Now pay attention.
You're going to hear how she's lying.
She doesn't have these numbers.
She didn't forget them.
She doesn't even have these numbers.
And she's going to pull the most pathetic, most pathetic excuse I've ever heard from a civil servant.
And she should be fired.
Intelligence assessments.
I wasn't asking that.
Do we know that?
Do you know the number?
I don't know the number, but that's why I'm trying to...
But we have...
Do we have people who are in that category I just described?
Come from a visa waiver program country, may have...
They're here today and may have been in Syria or Iraq or somewhere there in the last...
Before they came here.
Do we know that?
If a citizen of a VWP country has traveled to one of those areas, there's a nexus to the United States, or the VWP partners shared that information with us, yes, we know that information, and we will vet against it.
We will also use our algorithm.
But could they be here right now?
Could they be here right now is my question.
I don't have that answer, sir.
All right, well.
He has his head in his hands at this point.
Can you tell me anything about the no-fly list, then?
Can you tell me anything about those?
How does a person get put on the criteria for that?
Can you tell me anything about that?
She actually has an answer.
We have an answer.
Sure.
The no-fly list is a subset of the overall terrorist screening database.
The interagency works together.
The terrorist screening database is owned and operated by the Terror Screening Center, as I said earlier.
There are criteria to get on that that are agreed to.
How many American citizens are on that list right now?
Can you give me that number?
How many American citizens are on the no-fly list right now?
I know there are American citizens on the list.
It's an extremely small number, but I don't have my numbers with me.
But again, that's something I can easily get back to you.
Now, she's lying.
Risi, I've asked you, the number of Americans who've traveled to Syria, you don't know.
The number of Americans who may have traveled in return, you don't know.
The number of Syrian refugees who've entered the country in the last year, you don't know.
The number of visa waiver program overstays, you don't know.
The number of visa waiver overstays...
Who may have been to Syria before they came here, you don't know.
And the number of American citizens on the no-flight list, and you don't know.
And yet you are the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Screening Coordination, Office of Policy, Department of Homeland Security, in front of the Oversight Committee, and you can't give us one single number to some, I think, pretty basic questions?
What do you think she's going to say, John?
She's beaten down.
She's almost crying, although I don't think really.
What is her Hail Mary to get out of this mess?
She wasn't expected to answer these questions.
She didn't have the numbers with her.
It's not her job.
It's better than that.
Some of those statistics aren't held by DHS.
Oh, you mean you don't have the numbers that you said you could bring the numbers.
So that's why I would like to work with my interagency.
Liar.
That's why I referenced your title.
You're the one who's the screening coordinator for all this, and you said you were interagency.
That's why I referenced your title.
Seems to me you should, when you come to front of this page, you have that information.
I'm a DHS career civil servant employee.
And I will work with my interagency...
I'm just an employee.
I'm a career civil servant.
You can't pick on me like that.
I need my safe space.
Partners.
But they're the authoritative source for a lot of those numbers that you mentioned.
If you could get us those numbers and the ones Mr.
Russell asked for, that would be very helpful.
I thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
There you go.
Well, you got plenty of use of the old buzzer today.
It was worth it.
Insane.
I'm a career solicitor.
Don't pick on me.
I'm just...
He's just bullying her.
He should be fired.
He should be voted out of office for bullying that poor woman.
That defenseless woman.
She was a woman, by the way, if you didn't know.
Oh, yeah.
Hater, misogynist, misogynist bully.
All right.
Well, that's going on.
You have this little ditty, which actually relates to the testimony that she refused to give, which is the passport.
Do you know about the passport, counterfeit passport?
I'm pissed off.
I've got to tell you, I'm pissed off because my source told me on Friday last week, no, before the Thursday show, Tuesday or Wednesday, he said, he's actually said something different.
They've not only stolen the passport machine, they have 700 blank passports.
Yeah.
That was in the report.
Yeah, but I could have had that before it came out.
You had a scoop for us.
I would have had a scoop and I feel stupid I didn't do it.
Well, you really dropped the ball on this.
I did.
I'm admitting it.
Which clip?
I know why.
I can tell you why after you play this little clip.
Which I'm looking for the clip.
It says ABC Passport Counterfeit.
I gotcha.
Tonight, a troubling new development just one month after the terror attacks in Paris.
You'll remember this image.
Authorities say one of the alleged suicide bombers using this fake passport to slip into Europe among the Syrian refugees.
Tonight, a chilling new warning.
ISIS now has its hands on at least one official passport printing machine.
ABC's chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross on the concern those fake passports could be used here.
With the US and other countries on high alert tonight for ISIS attacks, American authorities are warning the terror group may have infiltrated followers into this country.
With authentic-looking passports, it has printed itself almost impossible to detect.
If ISIS has been able to acquire legitimate passports or machines that create legitimate passports, this would represent a major security risk to the United States.
Yeah, our scoop is still valid because they have the blank passports as well.
That's not mentioned.
That was mentioned.
Oh.
I just cut it short.
You cut out my scoop, man!
No, it was in there.
It was in the report that went on.
It was Brian Ross.
He goes on and on.
They showed the box.
There's a bunch of blank passports or something.
They showed a printer.
It was not their blanks.
It was somebody else's, but they just showed what they looked like.
So they're not forged.
They're real.
Yeah, that was the point.
They're real.
They're real passports.
Now, I think I know why this happened.
This botch of yours, not to report this when we had the opportunity to scoop them.
Well, I know why it happened, but okay, I'm willing to listen.
Well, let me tell you why it happened.
It's because you had a scoop on the art theft that was going to bring down the Ukraine government and never did.
In fact, the story crapped out.
It did.
I kind of expected it to crap out.
Why don't you give a background, if people don't know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, the background is we knew that the president of Ukraine would be linked to the Savoda party, known as the Nazis of Ukraine.
And the links were all made, and the links were made through this collection of paintings that were stolen.
Kyle Hitler pictures.
Sure.
In the Netherlands.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And so along with this, once you have established the connection between the president of Ukraine and Oleg, whatever his last name is, the leader of the Svota party as a Nazi, which is now out there.
But all the pictures of Hillary Clinton with Joe Biden, with Victoria Cagle, Newtelman, Newland, with John McCain, all hanging out drinking tea and making all nice with the Nazi.
Yeah, that should have been the second part of the one-two punch.
But no way.
No way our American media is going to do that.
New York Times had the same scoop, and they completely refused to run it, as far as I know.
And what did I say when you...
Yeah, you said it would be a dud, that it would go nowhere.
I said that because the media is totally corrupt.
There you go.
We, however, are not, and mainly because we do not take advertising, certainly not from presidential, any kind of political candidates, we only take money from the people who enjoy the program.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
And that, my friends, that, my friends, is a segue.
way.
It was.
It was.
Until I ruined it and saying it was a segue?
Or until you didn't have the...
It was like, oh, look at that shot I just made.
Stop the presses.
Did you get a picture of that?
I'm just giving you a little more time to open up your spreadsheet again.
No, this spreadsheet is open the first time around.
Is it all on the monitor?
Can you see it all in one spot?
Yes.
Just so I can mention that one of our producers, they came in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Pittsburgh, North Carolina, is Daniel Woodleaf.
Donor of 12345, came in from Des Moines, Iowa, Tyler Arp.
And I find that to be interesting.
Hey Citizen from St.
Teresa, Quebec.
Hey Citizen!
12321.
And she has a, or he, I don't know if you remember.
Oh, he referred to me as Hey Citizen.
I need forgiveness and dedouching.
Dedouching first.
You've been dedouched.
But he wants to call out, as a douchebag, Chris Fisher.
Douchebag!
Okay.
Nero, believe it or not, still alive, at least in spirit, in Seattle, Washington, which makes sense to me, $120.21.
Adam Bosley in Oakland, California, $111.11.
Von Glitschke in Salem, Oregon, $101.29.
Sir Stephen Vonderhaave, Now, he changes his title today, I believe.
Yes, he sent a note and he wrote a check.
And he is up there in Pantago, North Carolina.
I don't know why.
I see him, John and Adam.
This donation should push me into barrenhood.
And I ask for all the eastern North Carolina I-95 East.
Also, Fort Bragg in my territorial holdings.
I wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Your humbly humbled, humbled servant, Sir Stephen Vonderhove, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable, Baron of Eastern North Carolina and Fort Bragg.
Count the money.
Eastern North Carolina and what?
And Fort Bragg.
And Fort Bragg.
Okay.
Which would be the kind of gerrymandering that a true Baron would do.
I agree.
Good work.
Stephen Hutu in Denver, Colorado.
Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.
Donald Ripple in Dresden, Ohio.
78, 70.
Sir Brian's KC9YJM. Ah.
Green eggs of ham.
In the morning from Kilo.
Fox 5.
Sierra Leone in November.
And he gave 73, 73.
David DeRusse in Zwijndrecht.
Zwijndrecht.
And he says, Do what looks me.
Do what looks me.
Which means, do something fun with it.
Oh.
Sir, Inside Jobs, our Black Knight in Seattle, Washington, 6666.
Christian Sigoyen.
That would be my guess.
I guess that too.
And Lavelle Sirlelach.
Valley of the Lake, I think.
Quebec.
Stephen Schwartz.
Shorts, Texas.
What is that code that Christian put in there?
CS137? What is that?
Oh, no.
He says, tomorrow's my birthday.
We have him on the list.
45 years old, CS-137.
I don't know what that means.
I don't know.
It's one of these mysteries that people keep feeding us.
Just a mystery.
Schwartz from Schurz says 73s, K-5-W-J-Y. Yeah, 73s.
David, plain old David in Pomeroy, Washington, 55-56.
Everyone in Washington State seems to be paranoid, by the way.
We do have, oh yes, we do have a bunch of lectures and I will discuss it maybe in the next show.
Brown people from Canada.
About the bullets.
Oh yes, the bullets, yes.
The bullets.
Apparently some of the bullets you can use in the AK. And gee, wasn't it me who said it was depending upon the ammo?
Wasn't it me that said that?
That said this is, you may be incorrect, this is about the ammo?
Yeah, you said that right after you were bragging about your segways.
Maybe.
It may have been you.
You know, when I say I did something wrong, I admit it.
You go like, but you said this.
I don't do it in that voice.
You should check your old guy privilege.
Yeah, you do do it in that voice.
Yeah, old fart privilege.
Yeah, you got it.
Veil Pilly.
Yes, you were right about the bullets.
Thank you.
But I was getting, you know, I got bad information, and then we got another, I got a definitive note somebody sent about the bullets, using an AR-15.
I have the bullets!
And some bullets, a lot of bullets don't all work in the same guns.
It's very confusing at the end of the day.
Okay, name the movie.
I got the bullets.
I don't know.
Oh.
Really?
Die Hard 2.
James Dean in...
I forgot.
One of his movies?
The James Dean, the porn guy, or the James Dean, the actor?
It's Rebel Without a Cause, man.
I got the bullet.
You know, I thought that movie stunk.
Rebel Without a Cause?
Yes, I think people should go watch...
This is like James Dean, the actor, who died in a car wreck because he was driving too fast on a windy road.
And he did two or three movies, and Rebel Without a Cause is one of them.
And I would challenge anybody to get through that movie without rolling their eyes and then coming away the way I did, thinking that this guy can't act.
That's very interesting, because we had the same feeling, you and I, when we looked at Breakfast at Tiffany's.
We both said, that is the most craziest effed up movie I've ever seen.
Whoever could think that was such a great movie?
I'll take your challenge.
Yes, do that.
You will not get through it without cracking up thinking of what I just said.
You go, my God!
Who considered this acting?
I will revisit.
I think you should.
Vail Pilly, I said, Boulder, Colorado, 5280.
Now, the rest of these folks, and it's not a big list, obviously, all came in with $50, and I will name them in order.
Jason Gossen in Richmond, B.C., Canada.
Brandon Savoy.
Who I believe is in Canada, but I don't know.
It says parts unknown.
Patricia Worthington, who I think is a dame now, in Miami, Florida.
Mike Westerfield, I think, is a sir, and he's in parts unknown.
Patrick Corner in San Diego, California.
Jakub Wojciak in North Vancouver, B.C., James Green in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
Michael Vickland in Sweden.
Richard Gardner in Parts Unknown.
Jason Brockman in Hamilton, Ohio.
And last but not least, Andrew Newton in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. And he says, go podcasting.
Gotta drop the mic, man.
Let me do that.
Got to drop the mic.
And we want to thank all these folks for helping us out on the show 781.
I believe it's 781, if I'm not mistaken.
781 is correct, sir.
And hopefully we'll have a Up the Annie Day next Thursday on No Agenda.
Yes, and as always, we want to thank everyone who came in under the $50 level, usually for reasons of anonymity, but also the subscribers.
There were a lot of small donations, and I will say this.
I am not completely displeased because I have a criteria, and I talked over it without it.
Yeah, that's the file size.
If the spreadsheet comes in at over 100k...
Which is the spreadsheet size, the number of columns and rows.
And a lot of it gets filled up by notes.
Somebody writes a couple of long notes, it gets up there pretty fast.
But if it comes over that day, I feel like at least people are taking part.
They're not donating a lot of money, sometimes can't afford it.
That's all we can ask for, is just taking part.
But at least they're taking part, and that's what we really want.
Yes.
And we do have a show coming up on Thursday.
This is not a Christmas show yet.
No, just a regular show on Thursday.
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Now entering the second half of the show.
Second half of the show.
Second half of the show, everybody.
Woo!
So, right after the show, on Thursday, I started getting some tweets, and I'm like, what is going on here?
And I start looking, and I actually found, I watched different videos first before the ones that you probably saw.
I saw a complete outtake, non-edited interview, what I thought was an interview, with Stanley Kubrick.
Ah!
Yes.
Wow.
Well, but I saw the interview first.
Do you have a link in the show notes for this?
So people can try to watch it?
Well, did you...
I'm not talking about the edited video that came on first.
Did you see the ISO interviews with just him?
No edits?
You probably didn't see those.
Those were quite convincing until I found, you know, I got the final piece, which I tweeted out as this is the one you really want to see, where it's obvious that this guy is an actor, and in fact, the guy who's supposed to be the interviewer questioning him starts yelling at him like, you're not doing it right!
Be Tom!
No, Tom!
Tom, you're not doing it right!
You've got to be like him.
You've got to be like Kubrick.
Be Kubrick.
But there was a lot of work involved in the fake.
I'm like, what is this for?
And I'll be honest, 45 minutes.
I was adding them to my YouTube account, watching them on the television.
You can use the YouTube app on the Fire Stick.
And it was the evening of the Obama bot dinner.
I'm like, oh my God, I'd love to walk in and say, ha!
You with your telescope?
But I think I figured out what it's about.
And it's not a bad campaign.
It's reasonable to...
Although I don't know if they intended to release all the bits of this.
Probably not.
At least there's enough out there where I've seen The Guardian...
Not The Guardian.
Okay, I think we should stop for a second and back up a little bit because I think half the audience is wondering what we're talking about.
Okay.
It was a video release purporting to be the last dying interview of Stanley Kubrick, and it was an actor.
And it was so poorly done, it was very hard to watch, at least for me.
And it was purporting to be Stanley Kubrick's, for all practical purposes, deathbed confession that he did the moon movies for the moon landings, the Apollo program.
And he had to get it off his chest before he died and it was just dreck.
What you watch, I just want to, in my defense, what you watch is not what I saw first.
I saw the full, unedited interview first, just the I saw on him.
Well, I'm not saying one thing or another.
I'm just telling you that's what we're talking about.
Yeah, of course.
We're talking about this.
Of course.
But I was definitely, I was like, well, I can't wait to tell the Obama bots.
They're going to love it when I tell them.
I was right.
I was right all along.
Now, this is a promotion for a movie.
As these things usually are.
Can you guess?
Do you know about the movie?
Well, the only movie that everyone's promoting is the Star Wars movie, so I'm, like, oblivious to anything else going on, apparently.
We've been planning our 11th Apollo mission to the moon in 10 days' time.
We still don't have a clue whether the thing's gonna make it or not.
Do you know what happens if the Russians happen to make it to the moon first?
We're gonna wind up looking like a bunch of dicks!
So here's the plan.
Meet with Kubrick.
Convince him.
Film?
A pretend moon landing?
Alright, so that's the beginning of the trailer of Moonwalkers, which will be coming out in January, just in time for the meme to spread that maybe it was, maybe it wasn't true.
I like the dialogue, which is totally amateurish.
We're gonna look like a bunch of dicks!
I like what they're doing, though.
I think it's a good try.
There will be enough...
The kind of bits and bobs that people will say, what?
Did I hear that?
I think the way people listen and consume information, TLDR, I think it's not a bad idea to do that as a promotion.
It works.
I think it worked.
And that concludes our second half of show.
What?
I have stories.
For second half of show?
Yeah.
Now you've concluded.
You've closed the door on me.
I'm sorry.
We'll have to do it on Thursday.
Oh, we can do it now because it's not really totally second half of the show.
Okay.
I just thought it was a funny story.
Okay.
The runaway train.
Okay.
The passengers on board the commuter train with no operator passing station after station.
Passengers pounding on the door for help.
No one inside.
ABC's Lindsay Janis from Boston tonight.
Tonight, Boston police are investigating how a packed commuter train was able to take off, traveling without its operator for more than five terrifying miles.
We knock on the door of the driver and nobody was there.
Shortly before the train's scheduled departure, the operator exited to check a signal.
Suddenly, the doors closed.
And just after 6 a.m., the train started moving, grazing the operator as it left.
I just think this is a funny...
Runaway train.
How does that even work?
Yeah.
Guy steps out and takes off.
And by the way, I think Lindsay Janis is the prettiest girl working network television.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I would look her up.
Lindsay Janis?
Yeah, L-I-N-Z-I-E. It's one of those names.
Yeah, well...
Lindsay Janis.
Hello, welcome to the 21st century.
Oh, I don't know.
Botox?
No.
Oh, I don't think so.
Oh, I think so.
Well, maybe.
Big time.
Well, you rejected her.
And she does duck face for the camera.
She does duck face.
Is this the same girl?
Maybe she's not photogenic.
She just may be intelligent.
Oh, that's possible.
That's possible.
There's plenty of those.
I think we should check in with our Russian friend for a moment.
Food time!
Absolutely.
Talking tough at an annual meeting of Russia's defense ministry.
The message from President Vladimir Putin was clear.
To eliminate any threats to his military in Syria.
He also revealed Russia is engaged in offensive actions in joint operations with regular Syrian forces against Islamist militants in Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa.
I'm ordering you to act tough.
Any targets posing a threat to Russian divisions or Russian military targets on land have to be annihilated immediately.
In the meantime, cooperation needs to be developed with all countries that are genuinely interested in the annihilation of the terrorists.
The President did not elaborate on the specific threats.
His speech comes with Russia locked in a row with Turkey.
On Thursday, the country's Prime Minister, Ahmed Defetulu, accused Russia of attempting ethnic cleansing with its airstrikes in northern Syria, targeting Turkmen and Sunni communities in and around the Latakia region.
The Russian Foreign Ministry rejected the claims.
Now, Sunni, not Sunni, is reading this.
Well, yeah.
What I find interesting is that The Russians apparently had cleared out BRCA and Homs.
So they had Homs.
That was theirs, and they were there with the Assad regime, with the Syrian fighters.
And the next day...
Syria has suffered another day of death and destruction, this time in the central city of Homs.
At least 16 people were killed and scores more injured, according to a group monitoring the war.
This was a very large IED, and I can only think that this really is a U.S.-Russia fight that happened right here.
The Russians are in, they're running the place, and then there's a huge explosion.
That can only be the mercenaries that we've hired that did that.
It's not ISIS. ISIL didn't claim it.
They would claim it immediately.
So I just want to put that up.
Do you think we brought in some C4 and showed them what an explosive can really look like?
I don't know, but it was good.
It was a big boom.
No one surprised me.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
It's troubling.
It's troubling what's going on.
It's very troubling.
Well, I have a local story for you.
I want to tell you some explanation since you live in Austin.
And that is the hate.
The hate in Austin.
This is down to yours.
Go.
Other incidents include racist hate speech directed at two Muslim women in an Austin cafe and a group of boys punching a Muslim girl in New York and pulling on her hijab.
It's hate, or is it just boys being assholes?
I'm not sure.
Well, the boys being assholes, I think, is part two.
But part one, there were apparently epithets against two Muslim women in an Austin cafe.
What did you hear?
What have you heard?
What am I learning?
What are you learning?
I'll have to go out and be careful and learn.
I have not heard about this.
I did not hear about this.
I think it was Austin.
It was Austin News.
Yeah, I had not heard about this.
Hmm.
Hmm.
That's disappointing.
You know, all Texans are assholes.
This is what mainstream media always says.
Even though Austin could not be more liberal and obot-ish.
I know, it's very funny.
I have a clip here, I don't know what it is.
It's called Trump Date.
Trump Date, okay.
Tonight, Donald Trump may be taking heat, but with Republican primary voters, he's on the rise.
That new national poll shows him leading his closest rival by nearly 20 points.
And some of that polling done after his controversial proposed ban of Muslims coming into the U.S. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticizing the Muslim ban.
And today, Trump tweeting he's now postponing his trip to Israel, saying he'll go after I become president of the U.S. I didn't want to put him under pressure, number one.
I also did it because I'm in the midst of a very powerful campaign that's going very well.
But Trump could be taking a business hit.
His proposed ban leading a developer in Dubai to take down a Trump billboard advertising a golf course that Trump is working on.
And if I lose some businesses overseas, it doesn't have any impact on me whatsoever.
What I'm doing right now, Bill, Is far more important than any single business that I own.
And David, tonight there is a new poll out on Trump's plan to ban Muslims from coming into the U.S. That poll shows that more Republicans support the Trump plan than oppose it.
David, ABC's Tom Yamas with us tonight.
Tom, thank you.
Why is Tom Yamas yelling at us?
Because that's what you do when you're in mainstream media.
You get lies.
Hey, I'm going to scream at you the whole time.
Geez.
We all have to be worried about terrorism, about our neighbors, our friends, our children.
You know the mantra by now.
If you see something, say something.
This is now showing.
Yes, true.
Now we have printed lists, how to understand when you see something, say something, what you should do.
This is from the National Enquirer, which I think a lot of people read.
How to spot a terrorist.
A lot of people feed.
National Enquirer?
Yeah, that's huge.
Two, three million newsstands?
At least.
Yeah, something like that.
It's a good number.
Is your co-worker or neighbor secretly a terrorist?
You can recognize a potential assassin with these tips.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
There's a difference between a terrorist and an assassin.
Look, hear me now, believe me later.
This is what people are going to take as gospel.
It says assassin.
You can recognize a potential assassin with these tips from law enforcement officials and citizen and victim advocate groups.
So this has to be official.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Keep close tabs on anyone who...
One...
Uses language that threatens violence or incites others to violence.
Two.
Possesses technical literature such as flight manuals printed in another language.
In French.
Flight manuals are all in English.
Is there in English?
The circulation is a little over a million.
Oh, okay.
Is a, if the person is a foreign student, tourist, or business person who remains in the U.S. after his or her visa has expired.
Well, that's about 11 million Mexicans.
That's a scoff law.
Is visited at home or work by a steady stream of unfamiliar cars or people.
Possesses a large number of weapons and or material you suspect could be used for bomb making and wears bulky clothing even in weather, possibly to hide bombs or weapons.
Now that's just the American version.
Let's look at the BBC. Could be a Hasidic Jew.
Could be.
The BBC says, here are the signs you need to look out for.
The following could describe general teenager behavior, but together with other signs may mean the youth in person is being radicalized.
If you see out-of-character changes in dress behavior and changes in their friendship group...
This is for your children.
Pay attention to your children.
If your child is losing interest in previous activities and friendships...
If your child is involved in secretive behavior and switching screens when you come near, uh, porn, the following signs are more specific to radicalization.
Owning mobile phones or devices that you haven't given them, showing sympathy for extremist causes, advocating extremist messages, glorifying violence, accessing extremist literature and imagery, showing a accessing extremist literature and imagery, showing a mistrust of mainstream media reporting and belief in the conspiracy theories.
Whoa, Uh-oh.
And, for John, appearing angry about government policies, especially foreign policy.
That's our show.
So, with all of this put together, I was surprised when Dr.
Drew had the following segment on his program.
You know who's also responsible for this?
Is President Obama, when that Muslim clock boy in Texas brought what looked like a bomb to school, and Obama celebrated the boy as opposed to the authorities who reported them.
When you see something, you say something, and Obama has made it politically incorrect to say something.
The clock bomb that was a science experiment.
The authorities said something.
That's the point.
That's when the system is working, and Obama congratulated the wrong people.
He's a bad influence.
And Maz, let me just say, let's look at the boy that had what was a toy.
And he's now the people that saw something and said something.
I don't think it was a good expression of the say something, say something idea.
But now they're being sued for $15 million.
So everyone's like, oh, I'm going to lose my job and I get sued.
I don't want to.
That's an interesting point Dr.
Drew makes after saying it looked like a toy.
It didn't look like a toy, it looked like a bomb.
It looked like a bomb.
It was meant to look like a bomb, the whole thing.
As you exposed in great detail, the whole thing was set up by the sister for this exact purpose, and they're going to get some money out of it because everyone's stupid.
And, at the same time, and that's the part I hadn't thought through, When you see something, say something, you can then be sued.
Oh, well, maybe I shouldn't see something.
I don't know what to do now.
Where do I go?
See something, say something, sue something.
Oh, man.
See something, sue something.
I don't know.
There's got to be a jingle in there.
Well, if you see something, sell something is our mantra.
Sell your videos, sell your pictures.
Sell videos.
Sell, sell, sell.
Not give the videos away.
Go horizontal.
Make sure it's horizontal.
Horizontal?
People, they take, they say, look at this video I made.
Why are you shooting it vertically?
Why are you shooting it vertically?
You gotta tell these kids.
They don't seem to know or understand.
It's completely wrong.
There was one little thing that happened in the State Department, which is kind of fun.
I chopped it down to about a minute 15 with the other beautiful reporter on television, from RT, the one with the unpronounceable name.
That's the one.
She started asking questions about, you know...
About how, you know, about U.S. policy, about, you know, what happened, why didn't we strongly condemn Turkey shooting down the Russian jet?
You know, that seems a little hypocritical.
Luckily, we're the one who ordered it.
So she's not really saying that, but she's leaving the question open.
That becomes apparent to John Kirby, who just flipped out.
He just flipped out over this.
Essentially, the U.S. is silent on what Turkey did.
Is the reason for this silence the fact that the U.S. is using the Angelic base in Turkey and doesn't want to lose access to it?
So here we go.
This is what you're really getting at.
Look, nobody's being silent about this.
I'm going to give you just one more, honestly, and then that's it.
Okay?
Shut up!
Sure.
Go ahead.
You have this cooperation, you have this agreement, but when something goes wrong, the U.S. says it's none of our business, like with what's happening with the Turkish troops.
Oh, come on.
Again, another ridiculous question.
When have we ever said it's none of our business?
You are saying that about the Turkish troops.
No, I'm not.
I'm saying that, I'll say it again, okay, we want this to be worked out bilaterally between Turkey and Iraq.
And the way you're trying to twist all this around to make it look like we're doing something nefarious or that we're, you know, we've got some sort of inappropriate relationships here.
I mean, it's just so silly.
I can't believe, honestly, that you aren't embarrassed to ask these questions.
You have to be looking at these questions and almost laughing to yourself, don't you?
I mean, they're absolutely crazy.
Exactly which question should I be embarrassed about, sir?
You can ask me whatever you want.
I'm just stunned that you're not embarrassed by some of the questions you ask.
Exactly which question?
I notice that RT very rarely asks any tough questions of their own government.
And that is so interesting because he therefore confirms she's asking a tough question, which he doesn't want to answer and ridicules.
That's good.
I like that.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly what he said.
Yeah.
Lying sack.
That's very funny.
That guy is a douchebag.
He is.
And he really takes a dislike to this woman.
Yeah, she does.
He does.
Oh, there's a quick one.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
Do you have something to wrap it up?
Are we getting finished?
Well, okay, let's go back to COP25 or whatever it is, COP21. I don't know what number it is.
And let's listen to this is the guy from Friends of the Earth who's actually summarizing what's really going on and who's really behind everything and who's getting rich and fat by the whole global warming scam and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
When you say loss and damage, explain what that means in real terms.
That means the support for the most vulnerable, the poorest people who are already losing their lives and livelihoods.
When we're going to deal with ever-increasing climate impacts, largely because of the responsibility of rich developed countries, we've grown fat and rich from carbon pollution.
You've gone fat and rich from carbon pollution.
From carbon pollution, you've gotten fat and rich.
Well, hold on a second.
Hold on, hold on.
There are people who are getting very fat and rich from carbon pollution.
Absolutely.
Oil companies, they're...
I know where you're going.
It's carbon dioxide.
It's not carbon pollution.
And the president does this all the time.
We didn't even talk about it in that opening narcissistic statement that he made about carbon pollution.
It's carbon dioxide.
So when you say, oh, the people who put carbon in the air, they profit, yeah?
Next.
Well, there you have it.
Where in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman?
Yeah!
Let's move!
Well, we've got protests in Montenegro, where she was just three weeks ago.
And today, Victoria Nulankagan-Nudelman is visiting Georgia.
The Georgia, not the state, but the country.
Yes, Georgia, the country.
They're going to try to get that started again.
I would say that's why she's there.
Be on the lookout.
You heard it here first.
We track her because she is the ever-evil Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
Where in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman?
I do have a Taliban update.
I'm glad.
Taliban leader Mullah Rasul Nurzai has rejected the leadership of Akhtar Mansur, who was made the successor to Mullah Omar when it was announced that he had been dead for two years.
And what Mullah Rasul is saying is that there are suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Mullah Omar.
And he thinks that Mansour is lying about the circumstances of that death, even accusing him of murdering Mullah Omar.
And he accuses Mullah Akhtar of being too close to Pakistan's intelligence service.
So sort of making himself out to be more patriotic and not cooperating with a foreign intelligence service.
So fighting has broken out in Zabul province.
Some reports say that 100 people have been killed in this infighting, the factional fighting between the Taliban factions.
You know, I think I know why this kind of reporting is happening, because we're also seeing new reports on al-Qaeda that's being brought back.
Yeah, this is not actually a report.
This was actually a presentation to the Heritage Foundation by this woman, Lisa.
Yeah, so the Heritage Foundation makes sure that Fox News talks about stuff.
Well, they haven't been too successful.
The president is seeking a reauthorization of the military use of force, a use of military force from Congress.
And currently it is running on the October 7th, 2001 authorization for use of military force, which is related specifically to the Twin Towers and Al Qaeda and Taliban.
So while ISIS and ISIL is a rebranding.
Now they're starting to bring those words back, those names so that we can say, oh, well, Al Qaeda, they're still out there.
And this splinter group that splintered off became ISIS and ISIL.
It's a big shit show, John.
It's just incredible.
Well, that's why we do our show.
Well, I have one last thing, and it comes accompanied with an email.
If you're up for it.
Hello, Adam Curry.
I've been a big fan of the show for over a year now.
As a freshman in high school...
I love hearing this.
As a freshman in high school...
I am exposed to a lot of propaganda and mind control.
You keep me sane!
I have no money to donate, and even if I did, no PayPal.
Sorry.
However, today I was shown this clip during school.
I thought it was a gem.
That's a Dvorakism right there.
Nice.
Anyway, isn't it nice how we corrupt the children?
I thought it was a gem!
Anyway, thank you for everything.
If you have any questions about today's high school, I volunteer if I could only punch more people in the mouth.
Cheers, a future slave.
No, you're not a future slave.
Quite the opposite, because what beautiful thinking, beautiful thinking from a young person to say, wait a minute, this is propaganda, this is bullcrap.
And he sent me the clip.
And...
It's better if you watch it, but it'll be very easy to explain what you're seeing.
This is about North Korea and their nuclear programs or just all their weaponry intended to sow incredible fear about this crazy nation who can kill everybody.
And this is being shown to freshmen in high school.
And when you see the video, it's one of those that CNN does.
I think it's part of the digital lab, so someone else probably paid for it.
This is not a report that I've ever seen on television.
It is the digital side only.
And every statistic the woman in the report mentions, these huge letters come up on the screen.
You know, like the full big font that covers the entire screen.
72 points.
North Korea loves to threaten all-out war.
In times of high tension, the regime makes that threat multiple times a week.
But could they do it?
Do they have the firepower to back those fiery threats?
What does the military in the hermit kingdom look like?
Remember, this has shown the high school students to scare the shit out of them.
Boots on the ground.
They have 1.2 million active soldiers.
7.7 million in the reserve army.
If you're doing the math, that is 9 million soldiers.
It is a massive army.
Afraid!
The conventional weapons they would be using, though, are old.
Artillery forces.
North Korea has 8,600 artillery cannons.
Big words.
8,600.
They've got 9 million troops.
There's a lot of them.
The reason why is that they are cheap.
The weapons, though, do have limited range.
Tanks, 4,300 of them.
Now, North Korean tanks date back to the Soviet era, also old.
Fighter jets, 820 of them.
These fighter jets are extremely old.
They're equivalent to the U.S.'s Vietnam-era fighter jets.
One U.S. F-16 could take down a large number of North Korean fighters at once.
Submarines.
North Korea has approximately 70 of them.
They are very old as well.
Now, here is where they are effective.
They could transport special forces into South Korea.
Be afraid of the submarines with special forces pooping out the back of them.
What, are they going to dock and the guys are going to jump out or go through the torpedo tube?
That's my favorite.
Through the torpedo tube.
Gets us to special forces.
North Korea has approximately 200,000 soldiers in the special forces.
Now, troops are cheap, but these troops are highly effective.
They are very dangerous.
They can travel in a small squad, so they're hard to detect.
And they could carry in chemical weapons.
Now, to the West, chemical weapons are most worrisome.
They are difficult to detect, difficult to track.
Remember, freshman in high school.
North Korea has an unknown number of chemical weapons.
One small chemical weapon released here in the heart of Seoul could do untold damage on the population.
Missiles.
The ones you...
I don't know if I need to continue.
You get the idea.
15-year-olds, yeah, they need this.
It's bullcrap.
I went back and forth on the email.
Anyway, that clip was shown.
Additionally, students as a part of the presentation also had a slideshow about how Trump was like Hitler.
I argued with the teacher that what Trump wanted to do, keep Muslims out, was in fact not unconstitutional.
The teacher is no longer fond of me.
Oh yeah.
You're making a mistake.
Don't talk to these people.
Well, tell these children what to do, these kids, these young adults.
What should he be doing?
Take it in.
Take careful notes.
Send us stuff like what you did.
Kind of agree with everything and kind of lead them along so you can get the better material from them because they're all crazy.
And, you know, lockstep Obama bots.
And they pretty much...
Once in a while...
Only once in a while.
Don't do this all the time because this is what gets you in trouble.
Once in a while, trip them up.
With some quizzical question because you've been baffled by some contradiction.
Ah, good one.
And you go, you know, I agree with you on everything, but this one thing bothers me.
You said this, and then you said that.
Mm-hmm.
I just need an explanation.
I mean, whatever is fine.
Why did you say this, then you said that?
And that's the only thing you can really do that's any fun.
The other way is just get yourself in trouble.
But look for contradictions and then call them out on them in a very pleasant manner.
Yes, and if you ever need any help, you can always email John or I. We'd be happy to try.
We'd be happy to help out.
And with that, I do believe we need to end the show.
It's too long.
We're way over.
Yeah.
Well...
There you go.
The less you give us, the longer we go.
It's perfect.
Which is what a lot of people don't want.
I haven't gotten too many complaints about that recently, but...
What you hear is, I can't listen to the show anymore.
It's too long and I don't commute anymore.
Okay.
That's the main thing.
I got more Hillary clips.
I can use them next time.
Yeah, I got some stuff too.
Some big pharma stuff that'll be fun.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You know, for gun disease.
That kind of stuff.
Gun disease.
Gun disease.
All right, everybody.
Thanks very much for tuning in if you're live on the stream.
And, of course, we'll be happy to be back with you soon.
Coming to you from downtown Austin, the capital of the drone star state here in FEMA Region 6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's cleared up, and it looks like it's going to be a fine day in John C. We will return on Thursday, right here on No Agenda.
Adios, mofos.
We are here, hashtag America, near our hashtag target.
Soon.
Oh, there's no winning.
We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
Now everyone hug and share a secret.
No, no, no, no.
Listen.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
Hey!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
What?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Listen.
Oh, no, no, no.
Hey!
Count in the document.
And that's the story.
There are four things I want the public to know.
First, I thought it would be easier during my four years as Secretary of State.
Obviously, it hasn't worked out that way.
Second, I opted for convenience, and I think most people understand that.
Third, no one wants their yoga routines made public.
And fourth, what difference at this point does it make?