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	Well, but do hookers have a certain walk?
	Well, yeah.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, December 17th, 2015.
	Time once again for Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 782.
	This is No Agenda.
	Protecting the world from vitriolic rhetoric and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star Stadium, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I found out one thing, you can get downloads to work by jiggling the handle.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill in the morning.
	It's a known fact, jiggle the handle, all shall be well.
	Hero?
	I'm sorry for the dead air.
	Hello?
	We lost John!
	Okay.
	It'd be pre-show.
	It's pre-show jokes.
	Yeah.
	If you want to catch all the inside jokes, tune into the pre-stream.
	Exactly.
	Actually, in the next pre-stream, we're going to hopefully...
	Did you listen to my...
	Yeah, I think it needs a little work before we do...
	I have some comments.
	What does it need?
	Well, there's some confusing bits in there.
	We'll talk about it.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	John's put together something for the pre-stream.
	Which will draw a crowd of 80.
	Maybe.
	Maybe 70.
	If we're lucky.
	Alright.
	Well, I know we both did it.
	Did what?
	I watched that shit show known as the debate.
	I watched it on tape.
	I didn't watch it live.
	I watched it with a 15 minute delay.
	Caught up during the only three commercial breaks.
	How do these guys think they're going to make money on this?
	That was much less than I thought they would do.
	I didn't pay attention to the number because when you have the whole thing on digital record, you just plow through.
	You don't count.
	Right, right.
	But I have to say, I was bored to tears.
	Whoever was producing this show really, really messed it up.
	And that's why they only got 18 million viewers.
	They could have easily gotten the 20 if they hadn't bored everybody.
	Well, they decide on this stupid topic.
	Here's the way this began, just to point things out so people know how well this was produced.
	And I want to mention, while you're going to listen to this, this is the Deb, which means debate, CNN production.
	But before you play it, I want to mention, as they're doing this, this is the way it began, as they're doing this screw-up, which was a good 10 seconds, which is just amateur hour.
	I think the thing is very amateurish.
	Where the cameras were placed, there was a bunch of people standing up and their head was in the way.
	And then they had to go to camera two and then somebody, boom, they'd stand up and their head was in the way.
	It was horrible.
	I know how the control room is in that case.
	Because you have the director calling the shots and the assistant director is the one who places the cameras and people ahead of time so that they're ready for the director to cue that shot.
	And the camera guys are offering shots all the time.
	And you can get into this exact reverse rhythm where you're hitting all the wrong shots.
	It happens a lot.
	And I think that was a good example.
	But this is the way it began.
	Listen in to Rice Previous, RNC chairman.
	Rice Previous is about to speak.
	Let's go to him.
	Backers.
	And a lot of our candidates.
	Oh, two.
	Camera tools.
	Yeah.
	Oops.
	I was watching this.
	Oops.
	Wow.
	What are they paying these guys minimum?
	It does happen, though.
	It's a live show.
	It's a big thing to produce.
	I have to say, I was quite impressed by Brolf.
	You may be impressed.
	Actually, I think he did fine.
	He did very well keeping it rolling.
	I've been in the Venetian.
	I didn't know that room existed in there.
	Oh, I'm sure they have all come in.
	Isn't that the room where Celine Dion performs?
	I don't know.
	That room is dynamite.
	Did you see the reverse angle shot from behind the stage?
	Oh, that's fantastic.
	That was nice.
	That was really nice.
	Hey, why does Melania...
	Trump's wife.
	Why does she always have her coat over her shoulders when she's walking around?
	Boils.
	On her shoulders, right?
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	I'm glad we solved that.
	Tidied that one up.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	That's it.
	I don't know.
	She's cold.
	No, I thought you were going to continue with your little segment.
	No, I just spoiled it.
	It was a one-liner.
	I'll just give you...
	He's in, he's out.
	I will say, when I was watching...
	Donald Truck is driving his Mack truck through the same obvious gaping hole.
	No agenda hits in the media landscape.
	Even if it's right or wrong, and if you're wrong, you apologize, you just want to hear someone being honest and not using big words.
	Vitriolic rhetoric.
	Well, I found that Trump, I think, did one of the best jobs, except he never really...
	He never...
	He wasn't as mean as I think he should be.
	And let me give you an example.
	He went back and forth with...
	And Bush is an idiot.
	He's cross-eyed, and he makes it worse.
	He's got those big Coke bottle glasses, and he's obviously farsighted, which is, you know, you want your leaders to be nearsighted.
	But he's farsighted, so they magnify his eyeballs.
	He looks like a freak up there with these two big eyeballs looking around.
	He's just a loser.
	This was the first time that I had that kind of schoolyard-type vibe where you get kind of the, The wimpy guy who's a complete douche, you know, is trying to...
	I feel kind of bad for him, you know?
	Yeah, I feel bad.
	What, for Bush?
	Yeah, poor sap.
	I can't win.
	Can you just imagine the pressure of that family and all of the money and everything they've got all piled on?
	Oh, let me ask you this question.
	Wasn't this supposed to be The year.
	Everybody was, oh!
	Citizens United!
	Screw that!
	The Koch brothers!
	Koch brothers!
	Koch brothers are gonna own everything!
	Koch brothers!
	They're buying the election!
	They're buying everything!
	Super PACs!
	Super PACs will ruin politics!
	And here is the frontrunner in the Republican race, who has no super PAC, is spending very little money, comparatively speaking.
	Why aren't the Koch brothers able to get rid of him with their beautiful friends there on the dais?
	I thought that that was a shoo-in.
	Clearly not.
	Nobody's pointing this out for obvious reasons.
	It's bullcrap.
	That's the reason.
	But I think it's very important to point it out.
	Yeah, it is very.
	There's a number of things to point out as you kind of deconstruct this thing.
	In the one instance...
	And by the way, people need to remember, next time someone says, Koch brothers are buying the country, you say, Donald Trump is leading with his own money and not spending a lot.
	I guess that's bullshit.
	And he's getting no support from the Koch brothers.
	No, zero from the Koch brothers.
	So I guess that kind of proves that...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	You can insult your way to the presidency.
	That's not what it is.
	You can't insult your way to the presidency!
	Should we play the Bush clip?
	Bush said, yes.
	Governor Bush.
	Commander-in-Chief, question.
	You said that Mr.
	Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin.
	Why are you better qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin than Mr.
	Trump?
	Because, first of all, I know what I don't know.
	I know what I don't know.
	I would speak out as I have.
	Is that something?
	Why did he say that?
	I know what I don't know.
	I don't know why he says the stupidest thing you can say.
	Why are you better?
	Because I don't know anything.
	I'm qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin and Mr.
	Trump.
	Because, first of all, I know what I don't know.
	I know what I don't know.
	I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists.
	I won't get my information from the shows.
	I don't know if that's Saturday morning or Sunday morning.
	I don't know which one.
	I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy, and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be.
	I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.
	Did you see that Putin has endorsed Donald Trump?
	No, I didn't see that.
	Yeah, in his big, I don't have any audio of it yet, because obviously in Russia, in his big year-end marathon, you know, call the president telethon, he said, yo, Donald Trump, very intelligent guy.
	He said that?
	Yeah.
	Well, apparently, I haven't had time to have it vetted by our Russian native speakers, but that, of course, is perfect.
	It couldn't get much better than that.
	Oh, even Putin likes Trump.
	He's no good.
	He can't be president.
	You watch.
	How hysterical.
	Well, the other thing is that Bush, in that little comment, said that he made some reference to the morning shows.
	He did that twice in the debates.
	Yes, yes.
	Now, I don't know what this is referring to.
	To the Sunday shows, I presume.
	Yes, but he directly aimed him at Trump as though Trump must have said that I listened to Sunday morning political.
	I think he says that often.
	I don't remember him saying it ever.
	And I don't know what Bush was trying to accomplish with this kind of jibe.
	And by the way, all of Washington bases their policy on the Sunday shows.
	Everyone's sitting there going, oh man, he said that.
	How about, you know, Benghazi?
	That was positioned on the Sunday shows.
	Well, here's the clip that I actually wanted you to play.
	That clip is...
	You played the right clip, but now that I think about it, I think you should have played this.
	This is the screwball complaint by Trump.
	I want to set this up.
	They go to Trump on something, and Trump...
	Goes on to a tirade aimed at CNN for using him as a nexus for questions.
	And he said it happened in the morning.
	Right, right.
	Not the afternoon, yeah.
	What he was saying, and I'm surprised he didn't jump on Bush when he interrupted him.
	What he was saying was not that this is ridiculous, the harsh questioning on me as it was on one of the shows earlier, the Fox one.
	Yeah.
	He was saying...
	He's saying, this is unfair to all the other candidates to keep focusing on me with your questions to them.
	It's a brilliant move.
	And that's what he said.
	He said, it's unfair to them.
	And I don't know why you're doing it.
	It's unfair.
	It's stupid.
	It's unprofessional.
	He goes on and on about it.
	Bush jumps in.
	And thinks that he's not listening to him.
	And so Bush thinks, well, you think the questions are tough now?
	They're going to get a lot tougher later.
	And as if he's not even paying any attention whatsoever.
	And Trump should have jumped back at him and said, look, I'm not talking about me.
	I'm talking about how unfair it is to the others to keep focusing on me, you idiot.
	It's very sad.
	That CNN leads Jeb Bush, Governor Bush, down a road by starting off virtually all of the questions.
	Mr.
	Trump this, I think it's very sad.
	And frankly, I watch, I think it's very sad.
	And frankly, I watched the first debate, and the first long number of questions were, Mr.
	Trump said this, Mr.
	Trump said that, Mr.
	Trump.
	These poor guys, although I must tell you, Santorum, good guy.
	Governor Huckabee, good guy.
	They were very nice, and I respect them greatly.
	But I thought it was very unfair that virtually the entire early portion of the debate was Trump this, Trump that, in order to get ratings, I guess.
	In order to get ratings, I guess.
	I just think it's very unprofessional.
	Excuse me.
	I think it's very unprofessional.
	But it wasn't CNN. It was me.
	I watched you last night for 16 minutes.
	I think it's very unprofessional.
	It's not CNN. It's America's watching you.
	Okay, fine.
	It's America's watching you.
	So, I was mentioned so I can bring up something, I think, right?
	Look, the simple fact is, if you think this is tough and you're not being treated fairly, imagine what it's going to be like dealing with Putin or dealing with President Xi or dealing with the Islamic terrorism that exists.
	This is a tough business to run for president.
	Oh, I know.
	You're a tough guy, Jim.
	And we need to have a leader that is real tough.
	You're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.
	Well, let's see.
	I'm at 42 and you're at 3.
	Doesn't matter.
	Bam!
	Bam!
	Which is just the worst, this guy.
	Trump is doing a very smart thing.
	He's positioning himself as the winner of these.
	Now he's saying, hey, you're all my friends.
	Except Bush.
	Well, you know, even in the after show spins.
	He's very cordial.
	He shoots everyone's hands.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah.
	I thought Trump was making a good point, but it was lost.
	Because Bush comes in and...
	It was just lost on Bush, but I think his point was okay from a winner's standpoint.
	Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably true.
	Now, the other one that really got to me was Chris Christie should not be up there.
	He's an idiot.
	John, you generalize.
	I'm 43 and you're 3.
	Christie is a hawk of the worst sort.
	Just to back up before we play the Christie clip, and then Rand Paul comes in and actually counters him quite well.
	What does he think he's talking about?
	What right do we have?
	And Hillary's on board with this, and so are Carly for sure.
	Yeah, the no-fly zone.
	What gives us the right?
	This is not our territory.
	We've got nothing to do with Syria.
	I think Rand Paul actually explained exactly what the situation is.
	Well, let's play this clip.
	If the U.S. imposed a no-fly zone over Syria and a Russian plane encroached, invaded that no-fly zone, would you be prepared to shoot down that Russian plane and risk war with Russia?
	Not only are we prepared to do it, I would do it.
	A no-fly zone means a no-fly zone.
	Well, that's what it means.
	How much were you hoping that someone would say brawl?
	I was really hoping the whole...
	I was really putting it out there.
	Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hang-up.
	But I would make very clear, I would not talk to Vladimir Putin.
	In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot.
	And I would say to him, listen, Mr.
	President, there's no fly zone in Syria.
	You fly in, it applies to you.
	And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots, if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now.
	I had to look it up.
	I had to look up Feckless.
	Stop the clip right there, and I want to jump to another clip.
	Okay.
	I want you to play the ISO clip I have here, which comes from a longer clip, which I will maybe also play later.
	Yeah, meme?
	This is the, which one is it?
	Meme ISO? That's the Meme ISO. No, that's a different one.
	Okay.
	Where's the other one?
	I have Tapper ISO. Yes, Tapper ISO. I want you to play this and listen carefully to it.
	This is Jake Tapper at the beginning of the show, the pre-debate, and listen to what he says.
	First, he lists the name of people that may be applied.
	Listen to the order of the people.
	Who's the first person he mentions?
	Listen.
	Listen to his language.
	It's going to embrace that.
	Is a Chris Christie?
	Is a Marco Rubio?
	Is a Jeb Bush?
	Is a Ted Cruz going to say what you are proposing?
	Look, I oppose everything that Obama's doing, and I think he's feckless, and I, you know, I think he's...
	What you are proposing.
	Yeah, good catch.
	Good catch.
	So he lists these people that he thinks...
	He puts Christie in the top of the list using the same crazy word you had to look up.
	That Christie used.
	Now, are you telling me there's not some meetings going on?
	I'm pretty sure that the way these debates operate, that there is some knowledge of the questions and there is some knowledge of statements, perhaps.
	Maybe there's leaks.
	That's possible.
	By the way, feckless means lacking initiative or strength of character.
	Or irresponsible.
	Feckless.
	And you kind of tag that on with a feckless mama's boy.
	Yeah, so of course that is too coincidental.
	These are fantastic points to make.
	And everybody during the debate also seemed to think that Hillary Clinton was still Secretary of State.
	They just kept on talking about the Obama and Clinton, Obama and Clinton.
	They were trying to push that meme.
	These are memes they're trying to promote to get people to associate in their brains the feckless, even though nobody knows what it means, the feckless Obama and the lying people.
	Let's play the rest of this clip.
	Because Rand Paul comes in and sets him straight.
	He sets him straight.
	We're stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now.
	That's a bumper sticker.
	Back off, feckless.
	Senator Paul.
	Senator Paul, I want you to respond to what we just heard from Governor Christie.
	If there was a no-fly zone, you say that potentially could lead to World War III. Why?
	Well, I think if you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate.
	Here's the thing.
	Yeah.
	My goodness, what we want in a leader is someone with judgment, not someone who is so reckless as to stand on the stage and say, yes, I'm jumping up and down.
	I'm going to shoot down Russian planes.
	Russia already flies in that airspace.
	It may or may not be something we're in love with the fact that they're there, but they were invited by Iraq and by Syria to fly in that airspace.
	And so, if we announce that we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this, Hillary Clinton's also for it.
	It is a recipe for disaster.
	It's a recipe for World War III. We need to confront Russia from a position of strength, but we don't need to confront Russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war.
	This is something, this type of judgment, you know, it's having that kind of judgment, who you would appoint and how you're going to conduct affairs, that is incredibly important.
	I mean, I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.
	They don't want to get a deal.
	I thought that was a good one.
	Of course, Chrissy said nothing about it.
	The thing that nobody brought up, and I'll bring it up, because it's such an obvious thing, and it refers to the no-fly zone.
	Why?
	What is the point of a no-fly zone?
	The ISO people do not have airplanes!
	And also, in this whole two and a half hours, not one single question about why are we even in Syria.
	I would have hoped that Donald Trump would have said, look, this whole thing is about some bullcrap pipelines and control of this port, and Russia's been their supplier for years.
	It's pretty obvious that this is stuff we should really not be a part of.
	But he doesn't do...
	I mean, he may not know.
	He may not know.
	I need to play one clip.
	This was the most bizarre interaction of the evening, as far as I'm concerned.
	Although I do have a few clips from the earlier debate, from the kids' table, as they call it.
	Yeah, I'd like to hear those.
	I missed that.
	Yeah, and this was Hugh...
	What's his name?
	Hugh from the...
	Hugh Jackman.
	From the Salem Radio Network or something.
	Who cares?
	He's a right-winger.
	Oh, he's a right-winger?
	He's a right-wing talk show host.
	He's an idiot, is what he is.
	And these questions that he posed to Ben Carson were just eye-rollers.
	People admire and respect and are inspired by your life story, your kindness, your evangelical core support.
	We're talking about ruthless things tonight.
	Carpet bombing, toughness, war.
	And people wonder, could you do that?
	Could you order airstrikes that would kill innocent children by...
	Not the scores, but the hundreds and the thousands.
	Could you wage war as a commander-in-chief?
	So, you know, this question is, why does no one ever ask the president, how easy is it on Tuesdays to sign these death notices knowing that you're going to wind up droning 16-year-olds and killing them?
	The question, like, are you tough enough to kill children?
	What?
	What is this?
	And his answer...
	Carson's answer was just as off the wall.
	As a commander-in-chief.
	Yeah.
	Well, interestingly enough, you should see the eyes of some of those children.
	Before I kill them.
	When I say to them...
	I'm going to kill you!
	We're going to have to open your head up.
	Hey, little kid, I'm going to have to open your head up.
	And take out this tumor.
	They're not happy about it.
	No, I bet they aren't.
	Believe me.
	Yeah, so I'm used to the unhappy children who I'm killing.
	And they don't like me very much at that point.
	But later on, they love me.
	Sometimes you...
	That's almost like Donald Trump.
	Oh, he said that in fact.
	I sound like him.
	Yeah, he said that in fact.
	You know, later on...
	And just got worse from here.
	You know, they really realized what's going on.
	And by the same token, you have to be able to look at the big picture and understand that it's actually merciful if you go ahead and finish the job rather than death by a thousand pricks.
	So you are okay with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians?
	It's like...
	And the crowd has finally had enough of it, too.
	You got it.
	You got it.
	You're okay with killing children.
	That is what war...
	They're asking this of Trump, too.
	Like, do you mind killing children?
	Can you be as ruthless as Churchill was in prosecuting the war against the Nazis?
	Now, Churchill was not the American president, as far as I can remember.
	Why does this guy bring up Churchill?
	Can you be as ruthless as Churchill?
	Well, he was the prime minister at the time.
	Yeah, in prosecuting the war against the Nazis.
	Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use.
	And it's also a dissimilar situation.
	I'm seeing too many of these false comparisons.
	They're all over the place.
	I may have one in one of my clips here, but another false comparison.
	Tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the President of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it.
	No, you're supposed to protect and uphold and defend the Constitution.
	Your pet peeve.
	I'll give that one to you.
	Good to be here, bro.
	I'll give that one to him.
	All right, well, let me try to up the ante on crazy.
	I'm waiting until you hear the first debate.
	We're saving that.
	This one to me, when I watch this little clip, and then of course Bush comes in and jumps in and misconstrues the whole thing again.
	The guy, Bush is the most dangerous man up there because he really does seem like the dumbest.
	And...
	This one to me I thought was revealing because people always think, how do you get so big in the real estate business in New York?
	You may sometimes come up with some sort of, you may be absorbing certain kinds of ideas.
	Possibly.
	You may make some interesting friends.
	In the terms of Kaiser Soce kind of level.
	And this is the kill the family strategy clip.
	Who's Kaiser Soce?
	Most of the people in the audience will get that reference.
	I'll explain later.
	Oh, okay.
	Thanks, Dad.
	Here's the question from Facebook.
	Listen to this.
	I'm Josh Jacob from Georgia Tech.
	Recently, Donald Trump mentioned that we must kill the families of ISIS members.
	However, this violates the principle of distinction between civilians and combatants in international law.
	So my question is, how would intentionally killing innocent civilians...
	Before we get to the question, what was this with this Facebook thing?
	They started the show off, they had a video wall of at least, you know, 50 Facebook people ready to ask questions.
	I counted two.
	Were those only intended...
	What was the reasoning behind only using two?
	I don't know.
	I think this was a botch, this whole show.
	I think so, too.
	My question is, how would intentionally killing innocent civilians set us apart from ISIS? Mr.
	Trump.
	We have to be much tougher.
	We have to be much stronger than we've been.
	We have people that know what's going on.
	You take a look at just the attack in California the other day.
	There were numerous people, including the mother, that knew what was going on.
	They saw pipe bombs sitting all over the floor.
	They saw ammunition all over the place.
	They knew exactly what was going on.
	When you had the World Trade Center go, people were put into planes that were friends, family, girlfriends, and they were put into planes and they were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia.
	They knew what was going on.
	They went home and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.
	I would be very, very firm with families.
	And frankly, that will make people think.
	Because they may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their families' lives.
	This is another example of the lack of seriousness.
	Look, this is troubling because we're at war.
	We're at war, but Trump actually answered that perfectly.
	What could be more serious than this idea?
	Yeah.
	What is Bush thinking?
	The guy is a moron.
	The usual suspects.
	I got it.
	But I have not seen the movie.
	That's why I do.
	Oh, you'd love this movie.
	But the chat room was like, Jesus, Kerry, watch a movie once in a while!
	I'm too busy doing the show for you.
	I've got no time for movies.
	It's a good movie.
	Hey, let me play something from the earlier debate.
	Yes.
	Do you have any of my favorite guys?
	Who's your favorite guy?
	Lindsey?
	Yeah.
	Well, I have Lindsey and I have Rick Santorum, both reasonably short quotes.
	Okay, just go do your own.
	Here's Rick Santorum first.
	This is an important time in our country's history.
	We have entered World War III. World War III has begun, and we have a leader who refuses to identify it and be truthful to the American people, to the stakes that are involved.
	All right.
	So, you know, can't disagree with that.
	World War III has begun.
	I'm not a big fan of Santorum's, and it irked me that he said that, because that's kind of one of our theses on the show.
	Yeah, he should be, stop stealing our material.
	Yeah.
	Well, I have to say, Lindsey Graham, he took our material and then went over the top.
	And I am begging people to wake up to Syria.
	The next 9-11 is coming from Syria.
	It's coming soon.
	We better do something about it.
	And I have a plan.
	He has a plan.
	The next 9-11's coming from Syria.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So that was pretty much...
	That was it?
	That's all those guys were saying.
	Eat in and you get these two duds?
	Not duds.
	Duds.
	They're good.
	I did see Morning Joe had a theory about Trump and Cruz, which you could kind of expect someone to come up with this.
	I'll tell you what, after the debate, I just started thinking this was an inside deal.
	You've got Trump...
	And crews that were kind of hitting each other.
	But they see now that they're locked in first and second place.
	Everybody else is a distance third.
	Notice everybody on the stage was attacking everybody but the top two guys.
	So Trump goes after Jeb.
	Cruz goes after Rubio, the establishment's two favorite candidates, and they refuse, look at this, they refuse to touch each other.
	It smacked of an inside deal.
	If this maintains the status quo, neither Jeb nor Rubio catches him.
	It's a smart political move, and they made it.
	I mean, they either made a direct or an indirect deal.
	deal.
	Or it just evolved.
	I'm going after Jeb and everybody else.
	You go after Rubio and everybody else.
	We don't touch each other and we draw no blood.
	And it works.
	I think that's possible.
	you I think it is, too.
	I don't know if they actually sat around and discussed this.
	They did have a meeting.
	They did have a meeting.
	They did.
	A closed-door meeting, yeah.
	It's quite possible that they've said, you know, you don't say anything about me.
	And of course, then there was that gaffe, because apparently Cruz said something bad about it.
	Not really bad.
	He just said he didn't think Trump would be trustworthy with the bomb.
	And it was a private meeting, and then he weaseled out of it on the debates when they confronted him.
	But Trump and Cruz had a meeting after that video came out, before the debate.
	Oh, okay.
	Probably on how to deal with it at the debates.
	Yeah.
	Because it would come out.
	Now, I have to say after watching these debates over and over again, and then you hear about Cruz's background.
	There's a lot of nasty articles about him floating around that have been planted.
	But one of the things that keeps cropping up is that he is a master debater.
	Yeah, master debater.
	And master debater.
	And so he...
	He likes to show his chops once in a while.
	And so he goes into...
	And one of the ways he does...
	And I like it when he goes into debate mode.
	He would be very deadly on one-on-one.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, I think he could take pretty much anybody because he's so good at it.
	So here's the definitive clip of Cruz.
	And he goes from topic to topic.
	And he's really good at hanging onto the podium for a long time.
	Sorry.
	But wait, and then, but what he does here, he does have a bunch of debate points.
	He talks about one thing, then he goes over to his debate points that he wanted to talk about.
	He's hoping to God that somehow he could.
	He never gets the opportunity.
	So hell with it.
	He's just going to do it now.
	Governor, the fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time.
	So let's talk about how each of you, as Commander-in-Chief, would fight this war and win it.
	Senator Cruz.
	You have said you would, quote, carpet bomb ISIS into oblivion, testing whether, quote, sand can glow in the dark.
	Does that...
	He was smiling.
	That was kind of weird.
	When that, you know, sand can glow in the dark.
	Cruz with this crazy smile, and it's like, yeah.
	He had a winner with that.
	Yeah, I said that.
	Leveling the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria, where there are hundreds of thousands of civilians.
	Chill!
	What it means is using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day.
	We carpet bombed them for 37 days, saturation bombing.
	After which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.
	Right now Obama is launching between 15 and 30 air attacks a day.
	It is photo op foreign policy.
	We need to use overwhelming air power.
	We need to be arming the Kurds.
	We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.
	And let me go back to the earlier discussion a minute ago.
	It's not a lack of competence.
	That is preventing the Obama administration from stopping these attacks.
	It is political correctness.
	We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist because the Obama DHS thought it would be inappropriate.
	She made a public call to jihad and they didn't target it.
	The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother, made a public call to jihad and the Obama administration didn't target it.
	Communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers.
	The problem is, because of political correctness, the Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and emails and not focus on the bad guys, and political correctness is killing people.
	Thank you.
	Yay!
	Now, so he threw that in.
	Now, a couple of things to note with Exposition 1.
	He used the stats that RT exposed about the number of sortes, which we brought up on the show over a month ago, comparing the Iraq War with what Obama's up to.
	And then the other thing is when he goes into his little thing about political correctness, which I personally thought was kind of weak.
	He kind of played to the people that are anti-politically correct, which is a few in the audience, but nobody chimed up with a clap or anything.
	But if he had kept up the logic of what he was doing in his debate-like form, when he's naming names and numbers, names and numbers, so he's saying, the Sarnia brothers, they call for jihad.
	which he doesn't want to do, which is what we do on this show, which is why are we collecting all this data?
	And when these guys are right out there and they're doing this calling for jihad, we don't follow them.
	We don't care.
	It's because the point of all the data collection is for blackmail.
	It's not for stopping any kind of terrorist threat, because I think the people in charge that are grinding through all this data, they know that there's, this is a minor issue in this country.
	We have an event.
	You know, some guy goes in and shoots up a meeting of his fellow employees that work in the health department, and that's it.
	That's like an event.
	This is no different than the guys going postal some years back.
	Before, we had all this terrorism thing.
	It was the same thing.
	Somebody's Why doesn't that happen anymore?
	What happened?
	I think they put gun detectors or something at the building.
	I have no idea.
	No, that's not true.
	That's not true.
	Okay, well then maybe it's not reported as much because another post office guy shot.
	Yeah, and we even had a term for it, going postal.
	Which I think is still used.
	It should now be going ISIS. No one's going ISIS, they're going postal still.
	I'm going ISIS. I'm going full ISIS, baby.
	You sure you're not going ISIL? Do you want to take a little detour and talk about the ability of law enforcement and or willingness to look at social media accounts of those applying for visas?
	Well, I think it fits into the scheme of things, and it's a good break.
	Go.
	When Tasfeen Malik came to the United States for the first time last year, she had already sent extensive messages online that she wanted to wage violent jihad.
	Violent.
	But none of that was known to the officials handling her fiancé visa.
	During that time period, immigration officials were not allowed to use or view social media as a part of the screening process.
	Former Homeland Security official John Cohen, now an ABC News consultant, says there was a secret policy that prevented officials from screening the social media posts of visa applicants, fearing bad public relations for the Obama administration.
	The primary concern was that it...
	Really?
	I mean, that's quite a statement from ABC, no less.
	I think this is ABC. Well, don't forget, ABC is the Jeb Bush network.
	Ah, of course.
	Because to say that is saying that the Obama administration chose optics over security, which is impeachable, I guess.
	Fearing bad public relations for the Obama administration.
	The primary concern was that it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly, and there were concerns that it would be embarrassing.
	Malik, who had become radicalized after college, had three interviews, showed pictures of an engagement party in Saudi Arabia, and her visa was approved in three weeks, a process the State Department admitted today failed.
	That is the process.
	Having done it twice, you need to bring anything that can prove your life.
	So, you know, newspaper articles, if they exist, you know, anything that seems kind of like an official thing of record.
	It's very, very low-grade, low-tech, in my opinion.
	Obviously, things went wrong.
	Now in the wake of...
	I showed that.
	Obviously, things went wrong.
	Things went wrong.
	Obviously, things went wrong.
	The worst terror attack since 9-11.
	Federal agents are reconstructing the online history of Malik and her husband, Syed Farouk.
	A history that shows even before they met, they were on the road to jihad.
	Something authorities could have known, but did not.
	Come on on, ease on down.
	Ease on down the road to jihad.
	As she was welcomed to America.
	And Brian Ross, back with us tonight.
	You've learned the White House now ordering a top-to-bottom review.
	That's right, David.
	And the review will include that policy that was secret until today, preventing officials from examining the social media posts of visa applicants.
	Some 41,000 people came into this country last year on so-called fiancé visas, David.
	So I went looking for the clip where Kirby says...
	Things went wrong.
	And he had a little more to say during his briefing.
	Given the prominence of social media in current discourse, and given that corporations will look at somebody's Facebook page to the extent that they can and so on, why not do it systematically?
	Well, I mean...
	The process is under review, and that's a piece of this process that I think you can safely assume we'll be looking at going forward.
	So I don't want to rule out the fact that there may be changes coming down the pike here with respect to social media.
	Hitherto the practice has been that...
	Wait a minute.
	So he says there may be new rules coming down the pike, I guess.
	Pike.
	Pike.
	And then he says hitherto...
	Hitherto.
	Which I think means up until now.
	Hitherto.
	Rule out the fact that there may be changes coming down the pike here with respect to social media.
	Hitherto the practice has been that you want as complete a picture of this individual as possible.
	And so that's one element that you can maybe gain some context.
	But it is, as I said, a fact that many people put privacy settings in place that make that effort immaterial.
	Oh, it's so hard because, you know, you can't call Facebook.
	I think that what they should have said, I think they made a huge mistake here, and I think I can kind of figure out what was really going on, having worked in a government agency.
	Yes.
	And here is what I think happened, and here's what I think they should have done.
	I think Kirby's an idiot.
	Obviously, things went wrong.
	First of all, I said this was never an official policy.
	Because it was a secret policy, is what they say.
	It was never an official policy.
	The first thing you say at the press conference is, well, I don't know, but there was never an official policy not to look into this.
	It was never an official policy.
	So you say that because it was never an official policy.
	The reason it was a policy at all is because the douchebags that work in these agencies, and I know the middle management levels go like this.
	You know, we can get a lot more information if we go on their Facebook pages, boss.
	All right, let me be the...
	Okay, you be the guy.
	I'll be the guy.
	Hey, hey, boss.
	Hey, boss.
	Hey, boss.
	What are you doing?
	We could really get a lot more information if we...
	Hold on a second.
	Boss, boss, can I have a...
	Instead of a patch for DHS, can I have a shield?
	Can I have a real badge?
	We're already taking care of that.
	What do you want?
	I don't have...
	I think that if we could look at the Facebook and the Twitters, then maybe we could learn a lot more about what they're doing.
	Some social networks.
	We're going to get that social graph.
	The social graph, boss.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I know what you're up to.
	What?
	You're not here to spend all day on Facebook.
	You're going to be looking at Facebook all day and this is not your job.
	No, no, no.
	Get back to your cubicle and go back to work and do what you're supposed to do.
	We're not going to turn everybody into a bunch of people spending all day on Facebook looking around.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	Sir?
	Sir, one more thing.
	Sir?
	Sir?
	Yeah, what?
	Hail Apple.
	Yeah, Hail Apple.
	That's the reason.
	I got it.
	They're just talking about Facebook.
	Dicking around all day.
	Maybe they're on Flickr.
	Let's go there.
	You'll never get anything done.
	I think I found something on xhamster.com.
	Should I be looking there at xhamster.com?
	Yeah.
	That's exactly what would happen.
	Cruz has a secret weapon, though.
	And you're going to see they're going to start going after her now.
	Just watch.
	Heidi.
	Heidi Cruz.
	What's wrong with Heidi Cruz?
	Oh, Heidi Cruz is...
	She's the one that's running the money train.
	She's Goldman...
	Goldman Sachs, she's very comfortable with talking to big donors, which Cruz does have a few.
	I think they're going to go after her.
	Who's they?
	The press.
	They'll go after...
	To get to Cruz, they're going to go after Heidi.
	It's time.
	It's time.
	You think so?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course.
	I should follow her, see what's going on.
	Yeah.
	She is smart.
	Smart, pretty.
	And she suspended her job at Goldman to work on the campaign.
	And, you know, she's very much at ease.
	And, of course, she's a good balance...
	For the religious nuttiness that Cruz sometimes portrays when he starts talking like a preacher.
	That's the killer.
	Although that might bring some people out of the woodwork to vote for him, I just find it kind of...
	I mean, I admire the guy for his debating skills, but I do not...
	He's a masturbator.
	He's a master debater.
	Masturbator.
	He...
	He just has that...
	It doesn't have a look that I like.
	He just got a greasy look.
	I agree.
	He's a sleazeball.
	I mean, I hate to be this kind of...
	You know, he has the kind of face...
	Appearance bigot.
	He has the...
	Yes, and it's okay because I'll jump in.
	He has the kind of face...
	And I don't kiss men, but I can't believe any woman would want to kiss him.
	Those lips are all, like, thin and squiggly.
	Like, sometimes he has that...
	We're the only show that probably does exhibit appearance bigotry because we often act like TV executives.
	No, I am acting like a TV executive.
	The problem is...
	We actually are executives in media because...
	We've done this.
	We're both producing the show.
	And we've done television production.
	We know how this works.
	And the problem is you've got to remember to stop when you're talking to your family.
	Right.
	Baby, baby, baby, those shoes look like shit.
	No, no, no, not those.
	Those shoes.
	Yeah, I need to package it.
	Packaging is everything.
	Yeah, otherwise, yeah, your butt looks fat.
	Alright.
	No, no, the butt is never fat.
	Ever.
	No, I'm saying you're going to be.
	If it is, if you're an executive and you're judging people that come on newsreaders.
	I'll tell you that Carolyn Heldman.
	Is she going to get from behind the desk?
	Did we ever have to look at that big ass?
	Here's a story.
	Always going to be behind the desk and go, okay.
	Here's a story I do not think I've told on the show.
	Carolyn Heldman.
	Does anybody remember her?
	Carolyn Heldman?
	No.
	She was on MTV the same time I was.
	She was supposed to be the earthy girl next door.
	She was from Aspen.
	In fact, now she's back in Aspen.
	She is running the NPR station in Aspen.
	And she kept wearing shorts.
	This is kind of late 80s where you could wear these...
	Guys had MC Hammer pants and she had MC Hammer print on shorts.
	Who wore MC Hammer pants?
	Yeah.
	Let me just continue.
	And I remember that, you know, there was this, you know, I won't say who, but so we came into the control and was like, stop.
	We have to get her to change out of those.
	Her thighs are just, I can't look at her thighs.
	That has to stop.
	And it became a whole issue.
	And she said, no, I'm not going to wear long pants.
	This is what I'm wearing today.
	And I'm supposed to be the girl next door, which I am.
	So deal with it.
	Fired.
	Fired for her thighs.
	Fired for Thass.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	On the spot?
	She never came back after that day.
	On the set.
	That was on the spot then?
	Well, it was not fired on the set on the spot, but she never came back, so it happened then.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And of course, these days, ugh!
	I can't imagine that, you know, no way there would be a huge lawsuit.
	Well, they do it...
	Well, I don't know.
	You think so?
	Nah, probably not.
	People probably would want to keep their chances alive.
	That's why you see very few people that even got ripped off, like James Garner, who ended up suing the studios for not paying him for when he was doing that private detective show.
	He never got his money.
	So he sued him, and he never worked again.
	That's right.
	You do not sue the networks because you will never work, unless you don't want to work in that business again.
	Yeah, if you don't want to work again.
	He was in retirement.
	So Carolyn, of course, she got exactly what she's now being radio.
	It's exactly where your thighs belong.
	It's a horrible business.
	It is.
	It is.
	And I hope people understand that we reflect it.
	We don't do it as horrible people.
	We reflect when we make these horrible comments about Ted Cruz's lips, for example.
	But they are pretty creepy.
	He's got a creepy quality about it.
	But, you know.
	But I really have to, I would love to see him one-on-one debate with Hillary.
	Yeah.
	I think even if they don't, say neither of them get the nomination.
	I would still like to see that.
	That would be good TV. Yeah.
	A special.
	Just to have the two of them go at it.
	Don't you think?
	Sure.
	Yeah.
	Alright, you want to finish it up?
	You got a few more clips here to...
	I have a few more.
	Where am I? Because that's really all I got.
	I was done.
	Okay, we got the Bush not qualified.
	You played that.
	And you realize that the Democratic debate is this Saturday night.
	Did you even know this?
	Yes, I did.
	Yeah, most people don't.
	They're really keeping this quiet.
	Sunday is just universe, and I'm wondering whether I should cover it.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yeah.
	You need to cover Sunday.
	Why?
	Miss Universe?
	They don't have the dumb chicks or anything.
	It's not like you're getting anybody to ridicule.
	It's just a bunch of beautiful women.
	Well, they'll have the questions.
	Do they really have questions?
	John, John, this is your beat.
	Okay, okay, I'll cover the end of it.
	I know it's rough, but I think you should do it.
	It's a rough though.
	I know.
	And Miss Universe is a Trump thing, so it's...
	I don't even know if it's going to be on television.
	I hope it is.
	But whatever the case, and I said that meaning it...
	It's like they're all beautiful women from around the world.
	They're very well chosen.
	It's like dynamite.
	Knockouts.
	Every one of them could throw a dart.
	And whichever one it hits, they should be in Miss Universe.
	So that part is meaningless.
	So you don't even bother with that part of the show.
	Then they get to the questions.
	And the questions for the Miss Universe contest, because nobody speaks English...
	Are extremely lame.
	Do you speak English?
	Well, that could be entertaining.
	What is the world coming to?
	Do you think we should stop ISIS? John, listen.
	Sometimes, you know, we wind up watching C-SPAN for three and a half hours and it's a complete dud.
	You know, at least you'll have pretty girls.
	Most of the time.
	Most of the time, it's a dud.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Okay, let's go back to the...
	Yes, please.
	Now, this is a short little clip.
	This came out of one of Carly's tire races.
	Again, she obviously got another round of Botox or something.
	She couldn't smile for the life of her.
	Now, hold on.
	Now, stop.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Now, I don't know.
	Is no one looking at her?
	Because her lower lip, her lipstick...
	Now, she draws her...
	It is important that we discuss this.
	I don't know why, but I have a feeling it's important.
	She draws her lips with her lipstick in a manner that they are not shaped.
	And I think she had filler in her lip.
	Believe me, Patricia, I've seen what this looks like.
	You wind up, after 20 years of fillers in your lips, you've got these bumps and it's disgusting looking.
	Why do women do that?
	I don't know.
	It's sad.
	It's sad.
	It's really sad.
	You know, Botox, you can do whatever you want.
	But the long-term effects in the lips results in bumps.
	Bumpy lips.
	Yeah, but it's just bumpy, bumpy.
	And kind of hanging.
	I think there's also no, she has no feelings.
	It's kind of hanging down.
	And then up to the first break, she had pretty much bit all of her lipstick, except for the fake.
	It was all bitten off on her lower lip.
	It was really creepy.
	And they came back after break and there was no change.
	Is no one looking at this woman?
	Does she have no one helping?
	That brings up another point.
	So Chris Christie, who's a big man, he's out there and his tie is so far off center that it's under his jacket.
	Who is running this show?
	And they go to break.
	I said the same thing.
	They go to break.
	They come back.
	His tie is still off center.
	Why didn't one of his own people go running on the stage?
	You're not stopping me.
	I'm going on the stage and then go up and adjust his tie for him because he obviously didn't know it was way off.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And that's just...
	These are just production items, people.
	Just production items.
	All right.
	Carly.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, I know what this is.
	This was good.
	What was it, though?
	Play.
	The iPhone was invented in 2007.
	The iPad was invented in 2011.
	Snapchat and Twitter, all the rest of it, have been around just for several years.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Twitter's been around for 10 years.
	Ten years, people.
	What?
	If you start that clip over, then you hear a cough.
	Yeah.
	And then you hear another.
	Throughout the whole debate, somebody's coughing into the mic.
	Oh, no.
	Someone was snorting.
	I thought I was doing that.
	I was snorting and coughing.
	Who was it?
	Who was it?
	Because at the end, at one of the post-mortems, they had Dana Bash came out.
	Dana, Dana Bash.
	Dana Bash.
	And they asked her, she said, she followed us.
	She said, yeah, everyone thought I was, people up at the question or somebody was coughing.
	It was Ben Carson the whole time.
	And while we're talking about the way people look, Dana Bash, left profile, she should never be shot differently.
	She looks beautiful from a left profile of her face.
	She really is, I mean, classic.
	But you turn around to the front of that face and it's like, oh yeah, alien.
	I thought you'd like her.
	She looks like a gray.
	So I feel that production did a good job on putting her on screen because she looked really great from that angle.
	The iPhone was invented in 2007.
	The iPad was invented in 2011.
	Snapchat and Twitter, all the rest of it, have been around just for several years.
	Technology has moved on and the terrorists have moved on with it.
	Let me tell you a story.
	Soon after 9-11, I got a phone call from the NSA. They needed help.
	I gave them help.
	I stopped a truckload of equipment.
	I had it turned around.
	It was escorted by the NSA into headquarters.
	We need the private sector's help because government is not innovating.
	Technology is running ahead by leaps and bounds.
	The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9-11.
	But they must be engaged and they must be asked.
	I will ask them.
	I know them.
	Yeah, that was strange, because I don't know if she was talking about turning a truck around that was headed over to China and needed stuff put in, or if there were components coming in and they needed to be screened.
	Do you know anything about that?
	I heard that, and it's a non-sequitur.
	It has nothing to do with what she was talking about.
	It was an out-of-the-blue anecdote that had nothing to do with what she was saying.
	And I was completely baffled by it.
	It was like, what is she trying to communicate here?
	That she's tight with the NSA? I think that was it, yeah.
	That she's a patriot.
	We've already figured out something of a spook.
	She has very high security clearance.
	She is saying with this that we need to have the internet cyber sharing agreement between government and the indemnified commercial sector needs to happen.
	Because she did it, and I guess she saved the world.
	She did.
	She saved the world.
	Saved the world.
	So they sent it right back and sent it right to HQ. So they drove the truck across the country.
	I mean, she's in Palo Alto, or Mountain View, one of these little towns down here.
	That's where HP is.
	And they turned the truck around, turned it around, and drove it, and then the NSA took it over, threw an NSA truck driver into it, and they drove it off.
	Something like that.
	This is just more interesting than anything else, and it's like, what happened?
	What was this for?
	What was the deal?
	I don't know.
	You might be right.
	It was a bunch of servers or something that needed chips put in to spy on everybody.
	Something.
	Who knows?
	Let's see.
	I don't know if I really need anything.
	Here's the one.
	There's a meme.
	This is the predate Jack Tapper.
	This is the one where I took the ISO from.
	But this is Jack Tapper on less safe.
	Jake Tapper.
	Jake Tapper.
	Well, from now on, he's Jack.
	Jack Tapper.
	Jack Tapper.
	Trump has proposed about Muslims actually makes the American people less safe.
	And, you know, one of the first people that came out against Donald Trump's proposal was Vice President Dick Cheney, who I think very few people would consider to be a bleeding-heart liberal.
	This was a guy who wasn't safe at all.
	Yeah, he's a big war criminal.
	...of enhanced interrogation techniques to keep Americans safe, that...
	But he said that it went against everything that the American Republic stands for.
	And very conservative national security experts that I know say this actually would make us less safe.
	And the question is, is anybody on that stage going to embrace that?
	Is a Chris Christie, is a Marco Rubio, is a Jeb Bush, is a Ted Cruz going to say what you are proposing?
	Look, I oppose everything that Obama's doing, and I think he's feckless, and I think he's made his lesson.
	What you're proposing is the same thing on the other side.
	And Ted Cruz has certainly wanted to try to pick up any Donald Trump supporters who decide to leave Donald Trump.
	Now, here's the question.
	Now, this blather by Trump about, oh, we'll block all Muslims from coming in is like not even possible.
	For one thing, they don't check.
	That makes it tough.
	But let's say you stopped all immigration.
	John, hold on.
	It's very easy.
	This is very easy to do.
	This is very easy.
	Here's the Trump methodology.
	Do you know the ink spot test?
	What's it called?
	Roshark.
	Roshark?
	Roshark.
	Yeah, the inkblot.
	So you do a couple.
	So you say, okay, we need you to say the first thing that comes to mind.
	Maybe just show a couple of these inkblots.
	But then you show one, you know, like a cartoon of Muhammad and his bare ass, you know, with a broomstick or whatever.
	Charlie Hebdo cover.
	Yeah, Charlie Hebdo cover.
	And then you watch for their response.
	Death to America.
	Just slide it right in there.
	See what happens.
	Okay, well, that's beside the point.
	The question on my mind is the meme.
	How, and I'm not talking about doing it or not doing it, I'm talking about how specifically does keeping anybody out make America less safe?
	Cheney says it'll make us less safe.
	Security guys say it'll make us less safe.
	How?
	Tell me exactly what are they talking about?
	Oh, I'll tell you.
	Because you are now, I'm just parroting the message I'm hearing.
	By even saying this, you are strengthening ISIS because they feel vindicated in their success.
	It's total horse crap.
	It means nothing.
	Maybe I should go to this quick little clip.
	Well, before you go there, why didn't you bring the creepiest guy in the world, Dick Cheney, to back them up?
	I mean, what is wrong with this picture?
	They'll do anything to show that Donald Trump is unwanted.
	And I think the point is very clear.
	If even vampire man, war criminal Dick Cheney doesn't like your policy, you're above everybody else in crazy a-hole land.
	That's the message.
	That's the message.
	And this message is coming very clearly from...
	And it's mind-boggling because it started with Mohammed the Clock Boy.
	And since then, and then every single time Trump comes out, the go-to people is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who without doubt were at one point...
	They're connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
	Yes.
	They were never convicted, but they were proven to be a front for a terrorist financing.
	But now they're everywhere, and you've got to kind of get your mindset into the guy's accent, but here's what they're saying.
	Muslim leaders say Trump's recent plan to temporarily ban Muslims from the United States is part of a continued effort to demonize their faith.
	This rhetoric...
	Echoes the policies enacted by Nazi Germany against the Jews.
	Yes, rhetoric is like Jews, killing Jews.
	Trump's and Carson's mainstreaming of Islamophobia in the election is inciting real discrimination.
	Now, first of all, let's just talk about anything phobia.
	I do not believe either one of them has...
	An insane fear.
	Actually, it's irrational fear.
	This topic is like annoying.
	I have felt this by all the...
	I don't think...
	I think homophobia is another word.
	Well, the phobia.
	Fear of gays.
	Like, oh my God, what am I going to do?
	No, John, it actually means irrational fear.
	Yeah, an irrational fear, like the fear of heights, the fear of spiders, arachnophobia, all these phobias.
	So, I mean, hating Muslims is hating, is hate.
	Yeah.
	It's not phobia.
	Yeah, yes, yes.
	Now, why don't they call it hate, which seems to have more strength.
	He's a Muslim hater, not Islamophobic.
	I think it would be stronger to say Muslim hater in terms of making your point, which is Donald Trump is a Muslim hater as opposed to Donald Trump is Islamophobic, which has been softened, I believe, by the use of homophobic.
	And streaming of Islamophobia in the election is inciting real discrimination, real hate crimes.
	Nihat Awad called out not only Trump and GOP candidate Ben Carson for his claim a Muslim should not be president, but also New Jersey governor and GOP candidate Chris Christie.
	I think many Muslims in New Jersey feel a sense of betrayal for what Governor Christie has done.
	Why betrayal?
	Many New Jersey Muslims thought Christie was an ally.
	But now disappointment over this comment from Christie about Syrian refugees.
	I don't think orphans under five should be admitted into the United States.
	In the Republican primary campaign, Muslim bashing seems to be the red meat that the candidates are throwing to some of their supporters.
	Yes, Muslim bashing is the red meat.
	I don't see this.
	No.
	It's just narrative.
	Well, I'd like to know who's responsible for CARE getting so much airtime.
	They've hired one of the top PR firms, there's no doubt in my mind.
	Who getting airtime?
	CARE. Oh, yeah, CARE. Yeah, they're the go-to now for everything.
	Yeah, and there's other Islamic groups that are very moderate and have a lot to say, and they have top people, top men, working for them that can come on these shows.
	But no, they never ask them.
	It's always care.
	It's got to be galling.
	I think the moderate Muslim community, which is huge, it's just got to be, they say, wait a minute, they don't put us on ever.
	We bitch and moan.
	We check our websites out.
	We complain as much as the next guy.
	And we're just marginalized.
	We've noted this on the show before.
	Why are the Muslims?
	How come they're not complaining?
	They are complaining.
	It's just we aren't listening.
	Norman Lear has announced, excuse me, this is Hollywood Reporter...
	Hollywood's elder statesman says his group People for the American Way will launch a major initiative aimed at combating hate speech from Trump and other GOP presidential candidates, which I think is probably already underway, but this is relevant because the Lear Foundation,
	as we've discussed many times, are directly responsible for storylines in Hollywood and Let me help you with that story.
	Yeah.
	I was thinking maybe we should play the...
	Here it is.
	Yes, please play that.
	This is Martin Kaplan from the Lear Foundation.
	So in the course of our work, this is in two years, 11 to 13, 335 storylines that we worked on have been aired.
	We've worked with 35 networks in the past four years.
	91 different television shows.
	Yeah.
	So that's what they do.
	So that will be infused in all of your mainstream entertainment enjoyment.
	Of course, the CIA and the NSA and these guys do the same thing, but they don't have the effect.
	These guys are really getting a lot of work done.
	And there's more, though.
	A New Yorker had, I guess, a humorous article titled, To Those Fleeing President Trump, Welcome to Canada.
	And so they're pretending as if this article is in the future, as if Donald Trump was elected president.
	And so here's Canada saying things like, we'd like to extend an extra special welcome to the ethnic, religious, and other groups that President Trump has deported from the United States.
	Muslims, Mexicans, black people, people who look like Muslims, Jews who are just Muslims with smaller hats, Prius drivers, that one Asian guy, Jessica Alba, maybe she's a Muslim, who knows, all women and books.
	And it just gets worse from there.
	You know, that's hate speech.
	That's not bigoted.
	That's hate speech.
	That's hate speech.
	It is hate speech.
	If you're going to call hate speech, hate speech is pretty hateful and bigoted.
	And then, yeah, you get, like, BuzzFeed headline, Trump campaign rally erupts in chaos and ugly confrontation.
	I saw the whole thing.
	There was no chaos and ugly confrontation.
	It was a heckler.
	Whatever.
	Yeah, it was a heckler.
	They have that in comedy clubs.
	Yeah, and we know that...
	You know, you bring this stuff up to, like, a normal, roaming around, and you get this response.
	These are people that aren't show people, or no agenda show people.
	What, are you voting for Trump?
	No, it's better than that.
	I love it when journalists say...
	You know, Trump really has a good point.
	Now, of course, I would never vote for him.
	But Trump has a good...
	This is what they always do.
	But I would never vote for him.
	Yeah, you have to do that.
	Why do you even have to say that?
	I don't give a shit who you vote for.
	No.
	But that's to maintain their integrity in the mainstream media.
	Otherwise, well, you were pretty positive about Trump there, man.
	Man.
	Ugh.
	They're voting for Hillary.
	All right.
	Are you done with the...
	I didn't get a clip of this, but I'll tell you there was a...
	I should have.
	No, I didn't.
	There was a special on what's going to happen at the Republican National Convention, which is they don't think that because of the way they're changing the way the votes are counted.
	So if Trump comes into California and he wins, let's say, 60% of the vote...
	He only gets 60 delegates.
	It's not winner take all.
	So 40 go to somebody else or 20 go to somebody else and 10 go and Jeb Bush gets his three.
	Maybe we should back up a second.
	I have been wanting to ask you this because there are all these talks about they're going to rig the primary, they'll have a brokered convention.
	Just in brief terms, can you explain Let's say Donald Trump has a clear majority, 70% of all Republicans want to vote for him.
	How could they rig that so that he would not be the nominee?
	If he had 70% of the delegates, it's all about delegates.
	Right, but just explain that.
	People don't really understand.
	Yeah, I guess a lot of people wouldn't get this.
	This is the awkward situation that we have.
	And it used to be done in the olden days behind closed doors and people would do deals.
	And it was condemned.
	The condemnation began when I was a kid, a little kid, because I remember all this.
	And they said, oh yeah, this is a cigar.
	It was a smoke-filled room.
	The smoke-filled room.
	And then they came out and they were going to elect John Kennedy.
	Because he was picked in the smoke-filled room.
	We have to have direct primaries and all the states have to do this.
	Iowa actually doesn't.
	It still has the smoke-filled room.
	It's called the caucuses.
	But disregarding that state and a few others, most of them have these primaries, which cost the taxpayers of the state millions of dollars, but they do them anyway.
	Because who cares?
	And so you go in and you vote for the candidate of your choice, and then it goes to the...
	They have like a state convention, and then they divvy up the votes, which go to the national convention, which then elect the guy who's going to be the nominee.
	It's a complicated process, but it's based on popular vote.
	Right.
	And...
	So what can happen is that because of the way they've been jiggering with this, the popular vote, if Trump does not win enough of the primaries to get a clear majority of attendees, representatives of if Trump does not win enough of the primaries to get a I'm sorry, that's the word.
	Yeah, I'm a bit confused.
	If he doesn't get the right number of delegates to lock it down, because the delegates have to, depending on the state convention, they have these rules.
	So if I'm in California and Donald Trump runs for primaries to run to get the delegates to represent him in the national convention, I'm pledged to Trump.
	Right.
	And I have to vote for Trump at least through at least one or two ballots.
	Sometimes usually maybe just one.
	And if he doesn't win because there's not enough people pledged to him.
	Then they can go into an argument mode.
	And they go from place to place.
	Hey, John, I know you were pledged to Trump, but now you can vote for anybody, and he's not going to win.
	So why don't you come with us to the Cruz group?
	And then another, hey, I'm Rubio's buddy.
	Hey, John, how about Rubio?
	Hey, you see her over there?
	She's yours.
	She's yours.
	Go for Rubio.
	So then it becomes a mess.
	And it can go.
	There's been historical conventions where it goes like 100 ballots or something keeps going until somebody finally gets tired and flips their vote.
	And that's what they're hoping for.
	Because they figure they can't really stop Trump at this point.
	Although I disagree with that.
	I think he can still be stopped.
	But they can't stop him.
	They don't feel it.
	So they're hoping to God he doesn't get the clear majority of committed delegates.
	Because then it goes wide open.
	And that's how Bush can get in at the last minute, too, by the way.
	Because once it goes wide open, you can vote for anybody.
	Well, ultimately, I think it would be...
	Was that explanation just horrible?
	I think the result of what you explained makes sense.
	It's actually pretty simple, but I mean, it's not more complicated than it is.
	Good work.
	It was simple and I screwed it up.
	Here's what I know.
	The President of the United States, generally my idea is he has to be a sales guy to other countries, has to be a sales guy to the American people, and has to be a manager.
	He doesn't need to have...
	Barack Obama had no war experience.
	Barack Obama didn't have any foreign experience.
	Barack Obama became senator because they...
	You know, blew up a sex scandal with a seven-of-nine lady, Jerry Ryan, that pretty much gave him the win, and he steamrolled through.
	A one-time senator in the state of Illinois, and then he's president.
	Somebody fast-tracked.
	Yeah, it was fast-tracked, yes.
	But to say that Donald Trump has, as a president, you have all this power, well, no, not really.
	You just really don't.
	Congress has the power.
	Congress has power of the purse strings.
	You've got the Senate.
	The system...
	Why not get a good sales guy in there?
	I'm not...
	Fuck it.
	I am saying pleading for Donald Trump.
	He'll be good for us to see what happens when you put an American in that spot.
	What's the worst that could happen?
	I think that he could become president in 2020.
	What's the worst that could happen?
	Seriously?
	How much worse off can we get?
	No, you can't.
	You can put in anyone.
	Now, I just wanted to make this point before I don't make it.
	They've been playing a lot of these stories about how the brokered convention can take place where the thing falls apart.
	And then you start doing deals and the next thing you know, George Bush is running.
	Or not George, Jeb.
	Jeb!
	I think that these stories are all just...
	A misdirection prelude to a Democrat convention where this does happen.
	Oh, good point.
	So Elizabeth Warren can get in.
	Oh, hey, okay.
	But I'm going to leave everybody with that thought.
	That's a good way to end this, the A block.
	And before we get into our B block, it happens every year.
	Once again, the big native ad returns.
	If you didn't hear it last year, it's a complete repeat.
	In my humble opinion in our daily hit, I think one of the nicest things about humanity is our ability to be generous.
	We saw some of this play out and our affiliate brought it to us from Pennsylvania.
	It's a Walmart.
	A generous, anonymous donor changed people's Christmases.
	Take a look.
	I started crying right away on the phone because I was actually going to have to cancel my lightweight.
	I had a very rough week.
	That makes my week.
	Thank you for whoever you are.
	Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
	Thank you very much.
	Doesn't that just get you in the feels?
	Yeah, so whatever.
	What happened was this Santa Bee, as he likes to call himself, walked into a Walmart in Pennsylvania, paid off the remaining balances on people's layaway costs, something that totaled $79,000.
	We're told 200 to 300 people were the direct beneficiaries of this.
	It's not the first time he's done it to.
	He's done it before.
	He wants to stay anonymous, which makes it an even more beautiful Christmas wish.
	How about that?
	How about that?
	They do this every year.
	Like, go shopping at Walmart.
	You never know.
	The anonymous guy sent a beer.
	Maybe you'll get lucky.
	He's not gambling to go shopping.
	It's amazing.
	He does it every year.
	He wants to be anonymous.
	Please, please.
	What a bullcrap story.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. Daborak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
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	And in the morning to Nick the Rat and other artists who have been helping us out with the artwork.
	Nick brought us the artwork for episode 781, and that was the Gun Dis-Ease, also known as Gungavitis.
	And he had the street corner gun sales.
	That's right.
	And it was a little secret Nick the Rat logo in there as well.
	Oh, I missed that.
	Well, he had a little logo in it.
	He had a Twitter poll, like a, hey, did you see that I snuck in my logo?
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	As are our donors and the beginning of each broadcast between the A and the B block, we'd like to thank a number of those who have become executive producers and associate executive producers for today's program.
	Well, we have two executives and two associates today, which is a low number, but the amount of money the executive producer was $1,000 for Anonymous in New York, plus $500 from Sir Black Ball of Twit, Kevin Bay.
	Let's start with a note from Anonymous in New York, $1,000.
	He doesn't want to be called an instantite.
	He thinks it's demeaning.
	I'm not exactly sure why.
	First, I'd like to thank you, Adam, for your recent legal advice, quote-unquote.
	And if you feel left out, John, it is very vague.
	I can explain that.
	And I know who it is now, because he emailed me and said, what is that phrase that you put into contracts that the...
	Without prejudice.
	Without prejudice, exactly.
	And that's what I emailed and said, thank you.
	And if you feel left out, John, I would like to thank you for all your financial advice.
	Without prejudice.
	In case you were wondering, Adam, the day you returned my email, faster than any lawyers, you helped me to find peace of mind in a time of turmoil.
	You instantly went from just being voices to being real people.
	I truly appreciate your weekly podcast, twice weekly, and all you do.
	Therefore, please find a check and close for services rendered.
	Is this a value transaction?
	It's my legal fee.
	I would like to be considered a silent night.
	Oh, that's nice.
	No transaction is required during the show, and I do not wish to have a ring.
	However, I would like to have the proper paperwork in case I need to enter the province of a Duke.
	Okay, good point.
	During the donation segment, I'd like to be referred to as the anonymous donor from Niskayuna.
	I don't even know how to pronounce that.
	Niskayuna, New York.
	In the nighting ceremony, can you please refer to me as a silent knight?
	Yes.
	It's a very funny pun.
	It's good around Christmas.
	I agree.
	That's very cool.
	For some reason, the term instant sounds a little cheap, like not being earned over time.
	Also a little boastful.
	Do what you must, except reading my name.
	Thanks again without prejudice.
	And please feel free to consult the Curry-Dvorak Law Firm at any point for your legal and financial advice.
	Yeah, sure.
	Anyway, thank you, Mr.
	Anonymous.
	Sir Blackball of Twit, Kevin Bay in Chicago, $500.
	And he writes, Sir Blackball of Twit from Chicago, I believe this donation makes me a baron.
	I'd like to claim the neighborhood of Logan Square in Chicago.
	I pledge to kick out the hipsters and bring back the street gangs, home invasions, and drive-by shootings of my youth.
	P.S. John, you blocked me on Twitter because I was being an a-hole.
	Please unblock me.
	Second request, I promise to restrain my inner douchebag tendencies.
	Now, he's not on the list, on Eric's list, as a baron, but I'm just going to presume that he's right.
	Yeah, we can do that.
	He should have put his at sign here so I could unblock.
	And what is a baron of what?
	He wants to be Logan Square of Chicago.
	Logan Square.
	Okay.
	I think you take the whole town, but it takes Logan Square.
	Yeah, Logan Square is good.
	It's a good spot.
	And he wants you to unblock him.
	Yeah, well, he definitely needs to...
	I'll dig it up.
	I know there's somebody I need to unblock, and I have to dig into it.
	Kalen Nistor in Northville, Michigan, $227.72, says, I don't think I have a note from him.
	I have a...
	It looks like a semi-douchebag call-out.
	Oh, no, here it is.
	I'm sorry.
	But it's not.
	This is not right.
	This is not a douchebag call-out.
	So please give a shout-out to my...
	I got it here.
	Please give a shout-out to my brother, Marcel, and mention his website, Motonisto, M-O-T-O-N-I-S-T-O.com.
	He's a motorcycle genius.
	And yeah, give him a douchebag call.
	Oh.
	Douchebag!
	You got it.
	Happy Holidays.
	And then finally, note free, Tim Anonymous from Parts Unknown, $200.
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	Yay, yay, yay!
	Hey, let me ask you a question.
	Ask away, my friend.
	Ask away.
	That asks you a question.
	This Bo Bergdahl thing.
	Bo Bergdahl?
	Bo Bergdahl thing.
	Now, I kind of was not following it.
	I was like, whatever, I really don't care.
	And I kind of remember where we didn't know if he was a deserter or if he was really captured or what's going on.
	And so now apparently there is a court-martialing process that Right.
	And it's so high up, of course.
	Well, actually, I'll play.
	This is Josh Earnest.
	This is the spokeshole for the White House.
	He speaks directly for the president, as he will refer to in this clip.
	And he can't say anything on behalf of anybody for anything he doesn't know that he does know not to do.
	John, unfortunately, in this instance, I'm very, very limited in what I can say about this ongoing matter.
	This is a case that is currently working its way through the military justice process.
	And as the spokesperson for the commander-in-chief, there's a lot of sensitivity about the potential for influencing the outcome of that military justice proceeding.
	So I'm really not able to react, even in the most general terms, to the latest twists and turns in the case.
	There's an established process whereby the military will both conduct this investigation and consider the results of it.
	And I don't want to say anything that could be perceived as influencing that process in any way.
	But the bottom line for this matter is that Sergeant Bergdahl was an American citizen who put on the uniform of the United States military, and he was rescued by the United States military.
	And the commander in chief feels a responsibility to everyone who puts on the uniform that we're not going to leave them behind.
	The way that Sergeant Bergdahl was rescued, I think, is a testament to the President's commitment to that principle.
	Okay.
	Now, so I'm listening to that.
	I'm like, wow.
	I, of course, do remember the big, you know, no man left behind.
	We'll do anything we want to do.
	And the more I'm hearing this change of story, the more I'm thinking maybe something else was going on that we had a number of theories, I believe.
	No, we had guys that were in his company, or at least connected to him somehow, send us notes before the story even broke that this guy was a deserter.
	Well, I think we're talking about something even a little bit bigger than that.
	And I... You think he was on a mission?
	Yes, and I will explain why with a few clips.
	You better be very convincing because I never got that impression.
	Okay.
	I just think he was a dingbat.
	Well, here's what bothered me and the reason I looked into this whole Bergdahl crude little booty.
	Okay.
	The whole reason I looked into him is because the second season of, without any doubt, the number one most downloaded best in the whole universe podcast is Serial has started its new season.
	And in its new season, it is doing the Bo Bergdahl story.
	And the coincidence of...
	They just released episode number two today.
	I have not heard it.
	Now, I don't listen to Serial, but I am now.
	And I listened to the opening episode, the first one.
	And the coincidence of this Cord Marshall taking place with the release of the Serial podcast got me interested.
	And here's what I picked out.
	Now, I will say this, which is the performative.
	I knew that this was...
	I knew this, too.
	I knew that Serial decided to do the Berg...
	Serial is a long...
	It's like a long news story, the way I see it.
	And they're going to do Bo Bergdahl for some reason.
	I did not pick up on any of this nefarious thing.
	I just ignored it completely.
	I'm glad you...
	And I will tell you, I was ready to ignore it.
	I was doing a good job ignoring it.
	But my no-agenda spidey sense tickled me and said, look into it, Adam.
	Look into it.
	So I did what apparently hundreds of millions of people around the universe do.
	I listened to the serial podcast.
	And here's the first bit I thought was relevant to my suspicion.
	Mark Boll is a screenwriter and producer.
	You've probably heard of his movies, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty.
	Mark wanted to make a movie about Bo's story.
	So a couple of months after Bo came back to the U.S., Mark managed to contact him, and they started talking about everything.
	About the Taliban and motorcycles and the existence of God and how good spicy salsa is and how memory works and what a soldier should and shouldn't be.
	Mark recorded the calls, not for broadcast or anything, which is why you sometimes hear Mark making himself a snack.
	Yeah, there was one.
	Yeah, there was one bike I saw.
	Or the swoosh of Mark sending an email, or his dog scuffling around.
	Hold on one sec, can you...
	Now, before I continue with this...
	So this was a bit of a disappointment because the way it was positioned, everything I'd read about it, I was like, oh, they have Bergdahl, they've interviewed him, and they're going to do this whole long, you know, I don't know how many episodes they do of the serial podcast, but they'll have Bergdahl in his own words.
	And I found that to be fascinating.
	Turns out they do not have Bergdahl.
	They have this recording that the known collaborateur with the CIA, this director, these two movies, come on, we have dissected and deconstructed Who is running these movies?
	These movies are meant to create an official story of what happened.
	This is the official story of the Hurt Locker.
	It's the official way.
	It had many, many service men and women have contacted us saying, total bullcrap.
	And then, of course, Zero Dark Thirty, the official story of how we got Osama bin Laden.
	And I'm like, okay, that's a disappointment, but it got better.
	Hold on one second.
	It's roughly 25 hours of recorded conversations, a lot of it rangy and raw.
	Their rapport is sort of unexpected.
	Mark swears a lot, he can be blunt, while Bo, the soldier, comes off as the softer one.
	His go-to expletive is good grief.
	For this story, we've teamed up with Mark and his production company, Page One.
	They'd come to us saying, Hey, we've been doing all this reporting on the story, and we've also got this tape.
	Do you think you might want to listen?
	Okay, so here we are.
	We're looking for season two.
	And this guy comes along, famous for his work.
	Hey, you know, we got a story, you know, maybe we got this tape, you know, maybe it would be kind of cool if, you know, we could team up and work together, you know, you guys are independent, you know, your podcast, your hip, maybe we could get a real narrative out there.
	I mean, yeah, wouldn't it be cool to do like a whole series?
	And yes, we did.
	And we were kind of blown away.
	Blown away.
	And so we began working with them.
	Uh-huh.
	Working with them.
	They shared their research with us.
	Oh, their research.
	Okay, here's our research.
	Take it as true.
	And also put us in touch with many of their sources.
	Oh, I bet they were doozies.
	Especially soldiers.
	We don't have anything to do with their movie.
	No, of course not.
	But Mark and Page One are our partners for Season 2.
	They are partners for Season 2.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Stop.
	Now you've done it.
	This is the feeling I had.
	This is why we work as a team, because one of us will do something like this.
	That's right, from time to time.
	But it brings to mind, since I never paid much attention to Serial, two questions come to mind.
	One, season one, was that some sort of a plant?
	I don't know what the story was.
	I never listened to Serial.
	I didn't think much of the idea.
	There was a story about a guy that was boring.
	Okay, so there's nothing in season one that would indicate that intelligence agencies were called a destroy cell.
	I cannot answer that because I just didn't listen to much of it at all.
	So I can't answer that.
	I'm now beginning the following.
	Automatic deconstruction based on our basic way of thinking.
	Is it possible that serial is designed as a throughput mechanism for intelligence agencies in this case?
	So my answer would be yes.
	And?
	Is that why I get so much publicity and all the rest?
	Because the whole thing is planted.
	I think it feeds upon itself.
	So there's another movie being made.
	We need to have an official story of what happened.
	And when you listen to Bergdahl, the story that in this season one, the story he is retelling is that he had a plan.
	And his plan was actually to create a, they call it a dust woo.
	Is it dust?
	Yeah.
	Dust...
	No, Dust One.
	Dust One.
	Which is, you know, a guy's gone and whereabouts unknown.
	And his thinking, the way he's telling it on this tape that I've heard in this first episode, is he wanted to create a way to show Washington and the really, really higher ups that there was incredibly bad management going on in his platoon at the base.
	And he felt that he had no other recourse.
	He wanted to be a whistleblower.
	But the way he wanted to do it is he wanted to create this big, big hype about him being gone.
	Then they would find him.
	And then he would say, oh, thank God I have the stage.
	Here's what's going on.
	But it went wrong because he messed up the way he escaped.
	And he wound up during the daylight in the middle of the desert surrounded by Taliban.
	And then he was captured for five years.
	So that is the story he wants to tell.
	Yes, went astray.
	That's the story he wants to tell.
	Now, based on this next little clip from two guys who were with him and who discovered him gone, they were always noticing that he was hanging out way too much with the local police force, talking to him way too much, and then this little ditty, which is completely overlooked by the serial podcast.
	You know, he'd been showing up late to guard shifts because he was busy talking to the locals.
	That's Josh Corder.
	Here's Daryl Hansen.
	His guesses were expansive.
	We're like, man, is he like CIA or what?
	I mean, is he like this crazy, like mole?
	Right.
	So like, what was the discussion?
	Yeah.
	Like, what were you guys thinking?
	Did you hear that really bad edit?
	They put those two things after another, like fools.
	Hold on a second.
	Like mole?
	Right.
	So like, what was the discussion?
	Yeah.
	Like, what were you guys thinking?
	Yeah, very poorly done.
	Let's just go back.
	I want you to hear what they say there again.
	Yeah, so we were just thinking, like, I mean, those are the things.
	Like, it was either, like, this guy's a complete lunatic, or is he, like, CIA? Like, we were trying to, like, we couldn't figure it out.
	Yeah, because those are pretty much your options.
	And I know how guys are sitting, like, this guy's a spook.
	What's he doing in our platoon?
	So I can only conclude that this was an extraction.
	And it went wrong.
	And now they're trying to build up some story for some reason.
	Because people died during the extraction.
	People died searching for him.
	And that's bad optics.
	I believe it was a CIA extraction.
	And it was never supposed to have this big media coverage.
	And the president was never supposed to say, We'll get every last guy!
	And he took that to show him as a strong leader.
	And we support our troops.
	But then he messed up the whole quiet nature of it being a CIA extraction.
	And when you think about Bergdahl being there for five years, yeah, it's very possible he had some good intel.
	All right.
	Well, I mean, that's an interesting thesis.
	I mean...
	It's a screwy situation because first you got this dad who learned out of the blue, decided to learn Arabic and grow a Taliban beard and then meet with the president on his porch.
	How does that come about?
	That's never happened with anybody else.
	I mean, maybe the old man is a spook.
	Could be.
	And he was in Langley at the time, so he decided to stop by.
	Although I find this incredible, personally.
	I don't...
	I mean, it's a nice story.
	I think as a spook story, I think it's a cool story.
	I really just find it ridiculous, though.
	This guy seems like a dope, and the old man seems like a...
	Lunatic of some sort?
	You know, I wouldn't have had that much of an issue with it if it wasn't that Serial was approached by these guys, approached by the film company.
	I see the same red flag.
	And, you know, Serial, it's like, I can just see the guys, we really need to get this going.
	We need this to go viral.
	I know!
	Don't forget.
	Remember.
	I don't care if you forget or not.
	So I can say don't forget, because I don't care.
	But...
	Note.
	All the media, all the podcast stories, oh, Serial, Serial, Serial, which you brought up right at the beginning.
	It was, why hasn't Serial done anything?
	They haven't done a season two.
	They're no good.
	They're a one-trick pony.
	And there was a lot of complaining about this.
	And so this is the opportunity, as you point out, for somebody to come along and give them a story already prepared, because that's the way it's done.
	Just look at a Bob Woodward book.
	And here you go.
	You can put your name on it.
	Just take it.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Because they were under the gun, the serial people.
	Yes.
	Alright, so what do you think?
	They're going to give us the real story?
	The whole story, the story that we're going to hear on serial is just bull crap?
	It'll be the story that the movie is.
	It'll be the same as the movie.
	It'll be that story.
	It's their sources, their notes, their research.
	It's actually great.
	All these guys have to do is just bake it into a story.
	Why do they have to bake it into anything?
	Why don't they just drop it?
	Do some trick bullcrap.
	Change his identity.
	Do something.
	Get him out of the prison.
	If he's a spy, let's assume he's a spy for the DIA or probably the DIA more.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think it was CIA and the reason why the military is pissed off.
	They were not in the loop.
	Oh, that could be.
	That's why.
	Then guys died.
	People died looking for this guy.
	So what?
	You're not going to bring us into the loop?
	You're not going to tell us what's going on?
	Oh yeah?
	Watch this.
	Yeah, that's the way that works.
	I can believe it.
	And then, of course, we need to have the story.
	But why did they even go this far to do the, okay, now we've got to do this story in a movie for this guy who just wandered off and disappeared for five years?
	We don't even know he really disappeared for five years, do we?
	We obviously don't know the whole story.
	We don't.
	We don't even know.
	They had pictures of him, and he's got guys with the hoods.
	That could have been made anywhere.
	He could have been working in an office in Washington, D.C., and then five years later put him in a truck.
	We don't know who those people were that dropped him off.
	We don't know anything.
	No, we don't.
	The whole thing could be bullcrap.
	Yes.
	Anyway.
	Our job is to deconstruct media.
	This is media.
	There's your deconstruction.
	Well.
	We'll see what happens.
	But when guys sit around, if they're suspicious of their fellow servicemen and women, if they think you're a spook, there's something wrong with you.
	You're probably a spook.
	Yeah, you're probably a spook.
	Very tight quarters.
	You've got to be, you know, you're really on top of each other.
	You get to know each other.
	And this guy, he was always weird.
	He felt like a spook.
	It couldn't be anything else.
	You heard it right there.
	And they just gloss over that by saying, well, they had some outrageous thoughts.
	Okay.
	Anyway.
	That was a good one.
	We probably would have missed that completely if it wasn't for you.
	A couple of weeks ago.
	Sorry.
	Before you go, you're changing the subject.
	So let me change the subject.
	Just with a little entremont.
	Entremont.
	That's not changing the subject.
	That's just giving something the chef has whipped up for you.
	Yes, it's Chef Dvorak.
	You know, I started this thing a couple of shows ago where I think Rebel Without a Cause is the worst movie ever.
	And I have not had a chance to take a look at it.
	I'm sorry.
	That's what I'm going to do.
	I'm going to keep pestering you.
	I'm going to keep pestering you with short snippets of the movie.
	Okay.
	Until you get so sick of it, you're going to have to go watch the movie.
	Now, other people finally chimed in and agreed with me.
	And then they said, well, but how did they get 96, you know, points on Rotten Tomatoes?
	Nobody watches this movie.
	Oh, Rebel with God, that's a great movie.
	So they checked, you know, they said, yeah, great movie.
	So it gets all these numbers.
	Here's a clip.
	It says Rebel.
	Just play it.
	teaser hi hi wait a minute Oh, my God.
	At this point, it could be a I Love Lucy episode.
	Hey!
	Fred!
	Hi.
	I've seen you before.
	Well, stop the world.
	You don't have to be unfriendly.
	Well, now that's true.
	But life is crushing in on me.
	Life can be beautiful.
	Alright, that's it.
	No, it keeps going.
	Where what was?
	The rest of it you don't have to play.
	I don't know why it keeps going.
	Well, that was a great entremant.
	Can I send it back to the kitchen?
	Because it tasted like poop.
	Well, yes, and the kitchen will say to you, have you seen the movie yet?
	No, I will look at the movie.
	I will watch this movie.
	Alright, just keep coming until that happens.
	Can I do something?
	That's it.
	It's done.
	A few weeks ago on this program, we reported the following.
	Well, the German press is describing it as a table microphone.
	And what the table microphone picked up was Merkel sort of muffledly asking a question to Zuckerberg.
	And then you hear Zuckerberg, and it's on this issue of what Facebook is going to do about monitoring, policing, racist, xenophobic comments about refugees here in Germany.
	It's a big issue.
	We hear Zuckerberg's response pretty clearly on the tape, or at least people who are listening, it did.
	He said, we need to do some work.
	And then, guy, there's the Merkel follow-up.
	She basically asks the same question again and says, but you're working on this.
	And Zuckerberg can only say yes.
	Well, yes, indeed he was.
	The announcement came two days ago.
	From Reuters, headline, Facebook, Google, and Twitter agreed to delete hate speech in 24 hours in Germany.
	Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours.
	A new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refugee crisis.
	The government has been trying to get social platforms to crack down on the rise of anti-foreigner comments in German on the web as the country struggles to cope with an influx of more than one million refugees this year.
	So people can't express their opinion about this then.
	Correct.
	The new agreement makes it easier for users and anti-racism groups to report hate speech to specialist teams at the three companies, according to German Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
	When the limits of free speech are trespassed, when it is about criminal expression, sedition, incitement to carry out criminal offenses that threaten people, such content has to be deleted from the net, Maas said.
	And we agree that as a rule, this should be possible within 24 hours.
	Hey, you know, the Syrian jerk-off is pooping on my stoop.
	Ah, sorry.
	Hate speech.
	Hate speech.
	Stop.
	And what's disturbing is that the Washington Post even has to go so far, I guess, I don't know what they're being taught in schools, but they actually have to write a whole article to explain that there is no hate speech exception in the First Amendment.
	And, you know, we have gotten so far down this road, yeah, they felt compelled to have to explain it.
	And it's a pretty long article, and they go into exactly, you know, so we do have one exception, which is fighting words, which is, you know, if you incite someone to lash out and fight immediately because of your direct speech, there are There is an exception for that, but it's also, you know, these are very, the nuance is very small, but in general, speech is speech, all form of speech.
	But people somehow believe that hate speech is illegal, and now you see the Washington Post and say, hey, you know, it's really not that way, which is just baffling to me.
	And then you see this, you know, with Germany, it was like, oh, hate speech?
	We're going to take it off the, well, not off the internet, but taking it off the social media, which for most people is the internet.
	This is true.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, it was disturbing, but, you know.
	Yeah, I found this story disturbing, too.
	But luckily, we know it can't happen here.
	Yeah.
	Who wrote that book again that everyone needs to see, It Can't Happen Here?
	Sinclair Lewis.
	Sinclair Lewis, which is one of our few Nobel Prize winning novelists, was like one of the darlings of the liberal media and the liberal hoity-toity party givers, especially in New York.
	Just a fantastic...
	Icon for the, kind of that, the left.
	Well, I don't know why.
	But he wrote that, wait, let me finish.
	He wrote that book, which is kind of about how, it's pretty much how the left, you know, or there's a notch, how everyone just caves to a situation overnight.
	And he was excoriated, kind of.
	And the point is, it can happen here.
	Better yet, it is happening here.
	Yeah.
	And the only thing that hate speech or hate crimes beget you is a tougher sentence, because a crime is a crime, whether there's hate involved or not, but that is being used in legislation, primarily California, but all of the EU, you're going to see the tolerance legislation that we've covered many times.
	Tolerance.
	You know, tolerance.
	If you're not tolerant, it'll be hate speech.
	And meanwhile, the elites there in Brussels and where's the other place where they always rule from?
	They could never make up their minds, the two places.
	Antwerp?
	I don't know.
	No, no, no.
	The Brussels and the other, they have dual offices.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's in France somewhere, isn't it?
	I can't come up with it.
	It starts with an L. And it's not Luxembourg?
	No, it's not Luxembourg.
	It's...
	Liechtenstein?
	No, it's not Liechtenstein.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, here's what they're deciding.
	The EU plans to treble spending on border defense as it grapples with the migrant crisis.
	More than 300 million euros will be plowed into a new European border and Coast Guard by 2020 under plans officially unveiled in Strasbourg.
	If governments approve it, the body would replace the existing front.
	I told you to start with an L. Strasbourg.
	Yeah, that's the other place.
	...officially unveiled in Strasbourg.
	If governments approve it, the body would replace the existing Frontex agency and have expanded powers.
	Now the Frontex agency, for those not knowing, these are the guys who were responsible, and they still have a little monument and everything, for the Schengen Agreement.
	So the borderless collection of the EU nation states.
	They're now being replaced by a rapid response team.
	Controversially, it could intervene in a country without its permission.
	The new force would have a 1500 strong rapid reaction team on standby.
	It seems Greece needs some reassurance.
	We must make sure that this new coast guard will respect human rights.
	And second, we must make sure that cooperation with third countries will not run against the legitimate interests of member states Especially as far as their territorial integrity.
	Yeah, good luck with that, Greece.
	Is concerned.
	The migration crisis has fueled demand for more coordinated control of Europe's borders, with the bloc's security and passport-free area under threat.
	And I was waiting for it to happen.
	It's already been brewing, but looking at the refugee crisis and what's happening, it's probably the most fun-loving, the most open, the most free and liberal society of all the EU nation-states.
	The Netherlands.
	Let's check in with them and how they're doing with the refugees.
	A meeting to decide whether to build a refugee centre ended in a riot in the Dutch town of Geldermalsen near Utrecht on Wednesday night.
	Around 2,000 people surrounded the venue where the town council was discussing the matter.
	According to social media, several arrests were made although no injuries were reported.
	Eventually, councillors were evacuated when youths forced their way into the building.
	It's the biggest display of anti-migrant sentiment in the Netherlands since hooligans attacked a Syrian refugee centre in October.
	The country's deputy justice minister, who oversees immigration, called the incident un-Dutch.
	And I'll counter that by saying this is actually very Dutch.
	The Dutch, when you push them too far, they go insane.
	And they throw rocks and Molotov cocktails.
	They really can...
	You've got to be careful.
	There's still farmers with pitchforks underneath.
	And they're being pushed.
	Huh.
	Hmm.
	Alright, well...
	At some point, you get pushed too far.
	And it's happening.
	It's kind of...
	It's no longer really discussed right now because we've got other things to do.
	How's the gossip sheets doing with you?
	Anything new?
	I did get the Enquirer and they have Obama on the cover.
	I think it's about the secret rule to not vet social media.
	Nothing else really in the broadsheets.
	You're in California.
	Did you follow the closing of the school system?
	Yeah, let's listen to one of the reports on NBC. This is the LA Schools Total Report.
	Okie dokie.
	Second largest school district saying it received a credible threat, abruptly shutting down all campuses just before the morning bell.
	They said that it wasn't no school due to a bomb threat, so it's very scary.
	The unprecedented decision is what many woke up to.
	Breaking news of the massive district-wide shutdown of LAUSD schools.
	The threat came by email, a person claiming to be a high school senior ready with an army to attack schools with guns and bombs.
	Los Angeles is just 65 miles from San Bernardino, where 14 were killed in a terror attack less than two weeks ago.
	I think the circumstances...
	In a neighboring San Bernardino, I think what has happened in the nation, I think what happened internationally, I as superintendent am not going to take the chance with the life of a student.
	The police chief said the threat was specific to all Los Angeles schools.
	The implied threat was explosive devices.
	The specific threat was attack with assault rifles and machine pistols.
	While the chief stood by, the superintendent, privately, Los Angeles area law enforcement officials say they advised against closing schools, saying the decision was premature and a bad move.
	The coordinated sweep of LA schools for bombs, a massive undertaking.
	LAUSD spanned 710 square miles with more than 1,000 campuses and 700,000 students, many about to take final exams.
	I guess we have to live Live through this and live this way.
	You know, trying to see if terrorists are gonna come and get us.
	With school buses suddenly turned around, many had nowhere to go.
	Staff and parents complained notification came too late.
	Tonight, Anthony Carzon has to explain to his four-year-old son, AJ, why fear has gripped the region.
	And now his school.
	He doesn't know, like, what's going on in the world, like, with what happened, like, you know, in Paris and San Bernardino.
	He just, you know, he's just happy all the time.
	He won't be for long.
	We don't want happy kids.
	No, no.
	And I was watching, you know, what's the Jack Week Walk?
	What's that stupid app called?
	You need to get on this app.
	If I can remind what it's called.
	Sounds like it's not that good.
	Yik-yak, yik-yak, yik-yak. Yik-yak.
	You got to get yik-yak because this is what the kids are using, man.
	To get yik-yak.
	And it's a semi, I guess, unless yik-yak gives people up, which I think they do.
	It's semi-anonymous.
	And you can zoom into a school district and only get on the map in the app.
	And then you get the Yik Yaks, which are just, you know, equivalent to tweets and replies from that area.
	And I did it on Los Angeles.
	And now the kids are like, I'm afraid I live near a school.
	You know, just the kids are being terrorized, terrorized.
	I had my questions about this from the get go, obviously.
	Well, can I play the other two clips then so we can get that out of the way?
	Sure, you got it.
	Let's start with this part two.
	Tonight, law enforcement officials are still checking campuses for suspicious devices.
	Meantime, a 17-year-old student was struck and killed by a truck after he was crossing an intersection.
	It's unclear if that student was headed to or from campus after the school closures.
	Miguel, thanks so much.
	And it appears a new normal is emerging after the attack in San Bernardino, as a majority of Americans now say terrorism is their number one concern.
	And with that as the backdrop, we saw a tale of two cities today and the very different ways that New York and Los Angeles reacted when the threats came in.
	Here's our Justice Correspondent Pete Williams on how it all went down.
	Children in the nation's largest public school system in New York City headed to class today, even though police said a nearly identical threat was emailed to schools there.
	New York's police commissioner, who once held that same job in Los Angeles, said LA overreacted.
	That is not something that we are concerned with.
	What we would be concerned with is overreacting.
	To it.
	We will stay aware.
	We will stay involved.
	But we, at all costs, cannot start overreacting.
	Several law enforcement officials say the writer of both emails claimed to be a high school senior who was bullied and claimed to have an army of supporters who planted pressure cooker bombs and had assault rifles and pistols.
	The writer claimed to be a radical Muslim but made mistakes in referring to Islam.
	A phony threat, New York authorities say they concluded, because the same person could not be a student in two places at once.
	Local and federal law enforcement officials say the L.A. schools chief made the decision and then consulted the police, who officials say recommended against closing the schools.
	But there was a unanimous view about how serious the decision was.
	Okay, so the inconvenience, the 650,000 kids don't go to school.
	This inconvenience is X number of families, screws up everything.
	Some kid gets run over by a truck, so that's like the fallout.
	They'll probably end up suing the school district because it's their fault.
	This is a fiasco.
	Well, I kind of knew that there was something up when I read the email.
	Then, first of all, email?
	Really, isn't the first thing you do is go trace the email?
	Yeah.
	I mean, how hard can that be?
	Well, try this.
	Just clip three.
	Uh-huh.
	We can now announce the FBI has determined this is not a credible threat, something we couldn't have announced earlier in the day.
	And I want to be very careful because that does not mean that it's conclusively one thing or another yet.
	Some have used words that I think are probably inappropriate, like hoax and other things, whether it's criminal mischief, whether it's somebody testing vulnerabilities of multiple cities.
	We still do not know enough to say definitively.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, I do.
	They found it's an anonymizer service of some sort with a note.
	They'll never track it.
	But when I read the note, and it says, I would not be able to do it alone.
	Me and my 32 comrades will die tomorrow in the name of Allah.
	I'm like, even though Common Core is tough, 32 plus 1 is 33.
	That's a magic number.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for the tell.
	Well, that would imply it's government.
	Possibly.
	Certainly FBI, who's operating in their field office.
	Actually, L.A. County is a pretty big FBI office there, and they were on the scene immediately in San Bernardino.
	I did something new, because Comey came out, and Comey did 15 minutes on the...
	He did a presser...
	But as I'm listening to this, I'm like, this guy, he is the metaphor maestro.
	He is the alliteration aficionado.
	Every single thing that comes out of his mouth is a metaphor for something, and he loves alliteration, which is starting off two words with the same...
	What is the exact definition of alliteration?
	Is it always starting with the same vowel?
	It's usually consonants.
	Okay.
	Rambling wreck from Reno.
	There you go.
	So instead of picking out bits and pieces from this, I've decided to cut out everything except for his metaphors and alliteration.
	And it makes just as much sense.
	Have a listen.
	I think everybody in this room knows this, but it's worth reminding folks That your parents' al-Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.
	The primary tumor of terrorism, sophisticated, multi-pronged efforts involving carefully selected operatives, long-tail surveillance, careful operational security, and the execution of the next big thing.
	That culture of core al-Qaeda to attract people to their so-called caliphate.
	Culture of core al-Qaeda.
	To bring fighters and their families to the Iraq-Syria border region.
	They wanted people to kill where they were.
	Not the sophisticated, airplane-focused, national landmark-focused attack, but kill anybody wherever you are.
	That was their twin-pronged call, their siren song, come or kill, come or kill.
	Instead of the set-piece videos filmed by Bin Laden or filmed by Zawahiri, then delivered by a courier, and then sent to Al Jazeera to be played on television, the threat came from ISIL through social media, because they sent their twin-pronged message of come or kill to Out through the chaotic spiderweb, especially of Twitter.
	It went out through this chaotic spiderweb, and it arrived in your pocket.
	Come or kill.
	Come or kill.
	I'm coming.
	And if you want to talk to a terrorist, Twitter works.
	Twitter works.
	As a way to sell books, as a way to promote movies.
	It works as a way to crowdsource terrorism, to sell murder.
	Troubled souls with unmoored people seeking meaning in their life, who have had trouble with drugs or their families or the criminal justice system, and are seeking some centering in their lives.
	Seeking some centering in their life.
	And all of a sudden buzzing in their pocket.
	Buzzing.
	In a final battle between good and evil on God's side.
	God's side.
	Either if you come to the caliphate or if you kill in our name on the spectrum between consuming this poison and acting on these poison.
	They are told, come or kill now.
	And so that investment in that social media began to pay dividends, especially this spring.
	I will kill where I am.
	I will try to kill people in law enforcement.
	I'm going to go kill the boys in blue, the crowdsourcing of terrorism, the traveler challenge.
	Kill where they are, the radicalizing challenge.
	So this is a hydra-headed monster that we face.
	When someone is consuming that poison in the privacy of their own home and confronting this hydra-headed monster, who is a live one, they will begin a Twitter direct messaging contact.
	They move them from Twitter direct messaging, which we can get access to with lawful process, to a mobile messaging app that is end-to-end encrypted.
	The needle that we have been searching a nationwide haystack to find, that is gobbledygook, the most dangerous manifestation of their radicalization.
	The going dark challenge.
	And we have a search warrant.
	We cannot unlock that device.
	That is the data at rest problem.
	Bam!
	Wow.
	You should just do that from now on.
	With Comey, for sure.
	The guy is fantastic.
	And I still understood what he was saying.
	Yes.
	I did, too.
	You didn't need the rest of the bladder.
	I like the tumor of terrorism.
	The tumor of terror is fantastic.
	I got them written down, a lot of them.
	The hydro-headed monster.
	Data at rest.
	Come or kill.
	Mary, come or kill.
	Marry, come or kill.
	In your pocket.
	Cell murder.
	Chaotic spiderweb.
	Is a spider drunk?
	Have you ever seen a chaotic spiderweb?
	Actually, I have.
	Apparently, there was a test where they gave spiders LSD. Nice.
	And the spiderweb was just chaotic.
	I don't know.
	Twitter is a chaotic spiderweb of fear and terror.
	Bah, bah, bah, bah.
	Yeah, so that is meant to...
	Scare people.
	Yes, but it's done well.
	I like his metaphors.
	His metaphors are great.
	I've been admiring him more and more over time.
	I think he's better than Mueller.
	Right?
	Right.
	I took those out.
	He had a lot underneath his breath.
	Which is really strange, because when you look at the waveform on the audio, it's pretty loud.
	Right.
	He'll just be talking about it, and he'll keep going.
	But still, it's guttural, so it doesn't have the presence, but the volume is there.
	It's very, very subtle that he does.
	And then CNN, just staying on the caliphate and being afraid and everyone freaking out, they highlighted Rita Katz for all of her work.
	Oh, God.
	With its animations, slick edits, and high-def images, the video, narrated in English with an American-sounding voice, glorifies ISIS and taunts America.
	The video, entitled No Respite, is a fresh ISIS release, making reference to its new enemy, Russia.
	The production quality consistently reflecting what analysts say is a sophistication never seen before.
	They're the gold standard of terrorist groups when it comes to propaganda.
	A U.S. counterterrorism official says with videos like these, ISIS has brought its brutality to the smartphone in your pocket.
	See, this is all part of the same meme, the same narrative.
	Buzzing in your pocket, the smartphone in your pocket, it's coordinated.
	In another recent video, ISIS fighters wearing GoPro cameras move around a compound in Yemen, shooting people, including some trying to hide.
	Which you don't see in the video, but okay.
	The visual similarities to the American video game Call of Duty are striking.
	They know perfectly their audiences and they are talking to them in the same language.
	Researcher Javier Lasaka, who's analyzed hundreds of ISIS videos, says one of the intended audiences, young, hardline Islamist Muslim men yearning to be heroes.
	But experts say the West is another important target audience.
	One is us.
	It's clickbait, you know?
	It's stuff that gets us upset and angry or scandalized.
	The Washington Post recently interviewed ISIS defectors who made videos.
	They said some beheadings and battle scenes are staged to the point where jihadists perform multiple takes, like actors, and read from cue cards.
	Like actors!
	It really looks that some battles are designed or even some suicide attacks are designed not only for a military target or for an operative target, but especially to be recorded and to be distributed through social media.
	Commanding ISIS's army of videographers and editors, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.
	Now they have an army of videographers and editors now?
	An army?
	A true army?
	The group's spokesman said to be so important to ISIS that he holds a position just under its leader.
	Why did we kill the CFO then?
	And we should be going after this guy, if he's so important, the leader of the media revolution, Baqar al-Baghdadi.
	He's the guy that was chosen by ISIS to do battle with Zawahiri when they had the big, you know, dogfight in early 2014 about who was right, ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
	Al-Qaeda.
	Mohammed Abu al-Agnani has given several audio statements for ISIS, but despite being a spokesman for the group, he usually avoids appearing in any of these videos.
	Analyst Javier Lusaka says that's probably for his own security.
	Al-Agnani's got a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, and Western forces have already taken out several top ISIS media operatives like Junaid Hussain and Jihadi John.
	Well, gee, you're telling me those videos are faked?
	They finally slipped that information back into the mainstream.
	We already knew that.
	We're all over that, bro.
	After they did the job of scaring the crap out of everybody.
	There was the funniest thing.
	Feeble-minded, that is.
	I'll let you do something.
	Do you want to do something before I move on to a new topic?
	Uh...
	Well, I was thinking something that would be worthwhile would be to thank some people.
	Really?
	Before you go into a new topic.
	No, no, no.
	I got the Viagra clip.
	Okay.
	I just want to play this clip.
	This is the new thing going on if you listen to the liberals.
	Play the Diagra.
	This is on Democracy Now!, the Viagra clip.
	Okay.
	A South Carolina state lawmaker has pre-filed a bill restricting access to Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications for men in order to make a point about increasing restrictions on women's reproductive rights.
	The bill requires men seeking Viagra to undergo a 24-hour waiting period, submit a notarized affidavit from a sexual partner, be examined by a state-licensed sexual therapist, and attend outpatient counseling sessions.
	South Carolina State Representative Mia McLeod said she made the bill as complex as possible in order to prove a point about restrictions on abortion.
	I purposely tried to make it as invasive, as intrusive, as hypocritical and unnecessary as possible to make the point.
	Similar attempts to restrict Viagra access in Ohio and other states have so far been unsuccessful.
	And no kidding.
	Well, here's another one of these false comparisons, which is this kind of thing.
	But also, why are you tying up the process to make a point?
	Oh, brother.
	Yeah, well.
	I don't know, man.
	I see all those women on the Viagra commercials.
	They look pretty happy to me.
	Don't you think?
	No, I think those women, all of them, there was one that was kind of, I think they're all creepy.
	They come out like predators.
	Take your Viagra because that's what you're going to have to put up with.
	I'm going to get you.
	I mean, they're very predator, creepy.
	I'm always taken aback when I see one of those commercials.
	It plays to every single fear any man has.
	You know, this vivacious, aggressive, sexual woman who's just...
	No wonder they can't get it off.
	You're creeping me out, baby.
	Step back a little bit.
	Yeah, back off!
	I'm gonna show myself out by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	We have a few people to thank for show 782, and let's thank them.
	Starting with Ron Williams in Scotts Valley, California, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	William Doty in Madison, Wisconsin comes in with $111.11 handwritten note, and it's a good note.
	I'm going to send it to a copy to you.
	It's kind of...
	It's almost impossible to read on the air because the lighting in here lights up the back of the note, which is a rock and roll poster of some sort for some band.
	Are you in an operating room?
	No, the light comes through this one window.
	It's just funny.
	I can't explain it.
	Anyway, he loves the show.
	It's probably the reflection from the mudflats.
	The mudflats are over to my right and behind me.
	Oh, okay.
	Sorry.
	They're still there, by the way.
	Now it's really muddy looking.
	Uh-huh.
	Anyway, all right.
	Fernando...
	You're not going to read his note at all?
	It's too hard to read some of it.
	I have to put it on the ground.
	It's been about a year since I last donated to No Agenda, despite my consistent listening and use of No Agenda talking points.
	And the outstanding service of the No Agenda show notes compliments you.
	Thank you.
	Because of this, I humbly request a de-douching to follow this donation.
	It is the least I can do to thank...
	The best podcast in the universe for providing hours, yes, hours of infotainment and decompression from the hatred, pain, and fear-mongering of the media that wants to have a conversation about how these people are ruining this country.
	The homeland.
	The homeland.
	It's just poetry.
	Speaking of conversations, spell it that way.
	I am now one of three co-hosts of a radio show on Madison's student radio station.
	Madison, which would be the University of Wisconsin.
	WSU and, I think, 91.7 FM. 91.7 WSU in the morning.
	Called XXX or XX-Dialog-SquadXXX.
	All right.
	Should we de-douche him?
	I think naming would be better.
	Let's de-douche him and give him some karma.
	Yeah.
	You've been de-douched.
	He's our boy in Madison who's going to help us figure out what the hell's going on.
	Fernando de los Reyes in Sierra Vista, Arizona, $111.
	Don Stark in Burlington, Vermont, $100.
	James Kamlo in Eastlake, Ohio, $100.
	J. Richard Bell in Oklahoma City, $9999.
	Which followed with...
	Another 999.
	Hold on a second, because I have...
	Do I have this note?
	I got a note from someone.
	I don't have it.
	I guess it was...
	I don't know where.
	I don't have it in front of me.
	But one of the 9999 guys said he sent in two 999 checks, and he didn't.
	I only have one.
	Oh.
	It may have been Bell in Oklahoma City.
	Hmm.
	So there wasn't another one in the envelope, but he claims to.
	Oh, and hey, you know, I'm seeing all kinds of stuff.
	First of all, I'm seeing that there should have been an anonymous here.
	Sir Richard Gardner says he now is, no, yes, is a baronet.
	Come on, Eric.
	You should send Eric a note.
	I'm going to.
	This is a shitty, shitty spreadsheet he's done today.
	Well, I'll refrain from the title anyway.
	Richard Gardner, Chicago 9999, excellent newsletter.
	Succinctly expressed what a lot of us have been thinking.
	Especially about the anti-Trump rhetoric we've been witnessing building up in the mainstream media.
	The donation bumps me the baronet.
	Okay.
	Next on the agenda, I have to go to here and click over.
	JCD has no...
	Ah, Matchinsky Home Construction, 9999 in Evanston, Illinois, or Evanston, Wyoming.
	He's the one that has the two donations.
	Ah, okay.
	And he has to tell me if that was a mistake or whatever.
	And on his check, it said 9999 plus 999 equals 198, so whatever.
	And it was on the $99 check.
	Curiously, his check, because I was looking and he said, maybe there's another one around.
	He used the same pen, had the same handwriting, everything was almost identical to Vonderhove.
	Last show.
	Interesting.
	Same Czech color, same using a Sharpie to write a Czech, which I don't recommend.
	I thought that was peculiar.
	Sounds like a conspiracy.
	Well, something's up.
	Oh, this is interesting.
	No, it's not.
	Damien Curry is not interesting?
	No.
	This is a Damien Curry?
	It's as interesting as me saying, are you related to the guy from the Dvorak keyboard?
	No.
	Damien is a devil's name.
	Okay.
	He says, thanks for doing it.
	He's from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5876.
	Chris Perry in Silver Spring, Maryland, 96.
	Sir Craig Porter in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 7820.
	No, the thing goes, did you invent the Dvorak keyboard?
	Not are you related.
	Nobody asks us I'm related.
	Are you related to Dvorak, the classical composer?
	No one ever says that.
	Okay.
	I've never had that in my life.
	I had it at a store once.
	Okay, in your life.
	James Thurman, San Antonio, Texas, 7820.
	What does 7820 refer to?
	David Hazen in New York City, 7810.
	Sean Regalado in Saranac Lake, New York, 6969.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, 6969 in Locust, North Carolina.
	Ivan Lin in Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland, 6969.
	Stephen McConnell in Cortland, Ohio.
	60.
	Could be Stephen.
	You never know.
	Could be Stephan, could be Steve.
	I keep saying Stephan now because of our local celebrity, the basketball player.
	Russell Hickey, Nashville, Tennessee, 57-57.
	Sir D.A. Slammer, 55-33.
	Ralph Massaro, Kirkland, Washington, double nickels on the dime.
	Howard, Kirkland, Washington is where Costco kind of calls everything Kirkland.
	That's their brand.
	From that town.
	Howard Lahoreau in Worcester, Massachusetts.
	Male Matt Seaver in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Gabe Shabazian in San Francisco.
	55.
	He said he donated for one reason only.
	The picture of the sloth.
	I nailed it.
	Kicked ass.
	We had this conversation after the show, and John was disappointed about, you know, we all thought it was a great newsletter, didn't really do a lot for reminding people to support the show.
	And I said, your mistake is puppies.
	Sloths are trending.
	That's what everyone's talking about.
	And I think the sloths did great.
	I think there's, okay...
	I'll stay with the sloths until people start to complain.
	Okay.
	They're not that pretty.
	They kind of look like a cartoon character.
	But they're fun to look at.
	Oh, I don't know.
	They're kind of gruesome.
	Sloths are trending, John.
	Tim Connor in Edmonton, Alberta, 55.
	Kevin Payne, Sir Kevin Payne to you, 54.32 in Richmond, Virginia.
	Daniel Torrelio in Charleston, South Carolina, 52.80.
	Jonathan Aldridge in Jupiter, Florida, 52.80.
	Mile High Club members now.
	Joel Donaldson in Elko, Nevada, 51.00.
	And the following 13 people or so are all $50 donors, starting with Mike Matteloni in Chicago, Illinois.
	Shad Hijazi in London, UK. Joel Deruin, as in Deruin Duck.
	50, parts unknown.
	Matthew Mongan in Baltimore, Maryland.
	William Granger, parts unknown.
	Rosalind Furness in Turnbridge Wells Kent.
	Very regular contributor.
	Paul Rudkin in Shanghai.
	This is where the note comes from.
	Or where his PayPal account is.
	Amitav Hajra in Daleville, Virginia.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Great name for a town.
	Chris Perry in Silver Spring, Maryland.
	Dodge Gaskell in Pensacola, Florida.
	Patrick Thomas in Petworth, UK. West Sussex.
	Scott Lavender, what a name.
	Montgomery, Texas.
	Sir Chris Lewinsky, I believe, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and riding down to Simon Horne in Manly, Queensland, John Henry in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, which is going broke, by the way, is what we're talking about, I think.
	Yeah.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana.
	And finally, last but not least, the anonymous lesbian with really nothing to tell us except thanks.
	And she loves you.
	And she still loves you.
	Well, let's hope so.
	Oh, yeah.
	She's up there in North America somewhere.
	She loves you.
	But all lesbians love you.
	I think.
	Oh, of course.
	You're the perfect guy.
	This is a good one.
	It's obvious, yes.
	Lesbians love Dvorak.
	It should be Lesbians Heart JCD. That's your bumper sticker right there.
	It's true.
	It's a fact.
	Well, you know, it's something I'm not going to push off.
	Oh my God, it's...
	What am I going to do now?
	Which also means, you know, Chris Hayes loves you and Brian Brushwood and all those other lesbians.
	Coming lesbians.
	I want to thank everybody for definitely stepping it up today.
	I know the sloths got to you, but we appreciate the support to the program.
	It helps.
	It really does.
	It makes it move forward.
	And we appreciate all the donations under $50, usually for reasons of anonymity.
	And, of course, people on the subscriptions.
	Get a subscription.
	It really does help.
	And, you know, 33 months of 33 a month gets you a knighthood.
	Many people have done it.
	It's not impossible.
	33, the magic number.
	And I will, of course, will throw in the extra penny if necessary.
	And remember us!
	Dvorak.org slash N-A-M. Well, here we go.
	I think we got something in from Osaka.
	Bill Perrin says happy birthday to the BJ Consulting Group there in Osaka.
	I guess, celebrating on the 18th.
	Paul Laster turns 39 on the 18th.
	Russell Hickey also on the 18th.
	And we have a belated happy birthday from Jason Zeisler to his brother Zach, who turned the magic number on the 1433.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Titles today.
	Change goes to Sir Richard Gardner becomes Baronet.
	Sir Black Balls of Twit becomes the Baron of Logan Square, Chicago.
	And we do have two.
	Two nightings.
	It's been about a month since we've done a nighting, so I'm very happy.
	Here's my blade.
	Can you stop playing with your toy and get your blade?
	Hello?
	Yes, here it is.
	Sorry, perfect.
	Anonymous New York, step forward along with Ashley Burton.
	Both of you have contributed to the best podcast in the universe in about $1,000 or more, so therefore I'm very happy to pronounce the KB. Sir Silent Night and Sir Eyedrone Black Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	For you gentlemen, we have...
	Hookers and Blow, Red Boys and Chardonnay, Crickets and Cream, Black Hose and MD2020, Cheap Wine and Chili Dogs, Raspberry Pies and Breckford Burritos, Dos Equis and Dutch Dominatrix, Girlfriend Experience and Gerd Borben, Porn Stars and Pot, Makers Mark and Mushrooms, And, of course, we always have the Mutton and Mead.
	NoagendaNation.com slash rings is where you can enter your information.
	And even if anonymous or silent night, I think you should still get your, you know, put your info in there.
	Get your credentials.
	You will be needing them.
	Certainly when the apocalypse comes through.
	Well, I wasn't that interested.
	The British Medical Journal.
	This seems to be a real proper outfit.
	Well, they did a...
	I think it's meant tongue-in-cheek.
	And the news broke first in the Netherlands.
	That is due to Bastian R. Bloom, professor of movement disorder neurology, who was part of this.
	Are you yawning?
	I'm telling you, I'm going to have to stop the show for a second and tell you something, because it's something I've got to be concerned about.
	Because nobody knows really what happened.
	And I'll tell you that it could creep into the show.
	It may cloud my judgment.
	So I'm watching, doing clips last night.
	And John Kerry's comes on.
	And I don't know what it was, but probably listening to him, I was listening for something I could pull out from this.
	I conked out.
	Yeah, conked out.
	Boom.
	Out, like a light, listening to John Kerry.
	Eh, it can happen to anybody.
	But I don't know what he said that may have gotten into my subconscious mind, and it's also left me kind of sleepy.
	So are there trigger words that I use?
	I'm yawning all the time.
	I'm just like, ugh.
	Are there trigger words that make it happen?
	I don't know.
	I was just knocked cold by this guy's boring...
	He is a hypnotic speaker.
	I didn't realize it.
	Very slow, boring guy.
	Knocked me out and I checked the clock.
	Half hour.
	Oh my.
	Well, let's take it to the test.
	I have a 54-second clip of John Kerry.
	Oh, no.
	Yes?
	Now, you let me know how you do.
	He does say something interesting.
	As the tide has turned, he was over there in Russia talking to...
	I wonder, was he Russia?
	No.
	He was there with Lavrov.
	Then he apparently spoke to Putin, and they agreed on something very important.
	As I emphasized today...
	Are you asleep yet?
	No, but I can see it coming.
	The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change as it is known.
	Oh, they're not seeking regime change as it is known.
	This may have been the clip that put me out because I remember this.
	In Syria.
	What we have said is that we don't believe that Assad himself has the ability to be able to lead the future Syria, but we didn't.
	You know, we focused today not on our differences about what can or can be done immediately about Assad.
	We focused on a process, on the political process.
	Whereby Syrians will be making decisions for the future of Syria.
	But we do believe that nobody should be forced to choose between a dictator and being plagued by terrorists.
	Terrorists!
	Our challenge remains creating the conditions in which an alternative can emerge.
	Alright, let's check in with John.
	John?
	Oh my god.
	We need to wake him up!
	STAT! This will get him out of it.
	It works every single time.
	Let's see if we can bring him back to life.
	Where is it?
	Hello?
	Are you back?
	Are you back?
	I'm pleasantly floating in the air.
	I'm thinking of the wizard.
	The wizard.
	I've been meaning to visit him.
	Ah, yes.
	There's nothing like the sun and the moon and the stars.
	What am I wearing these shoes for?
	Okay.
	A long way to go for the theremin joke, but I like it.
	You like that theremin?
	I do.
	I do.
	I like it a lot.
	So the Putin hit pieces are going on.
	So there we have John Kerry, in case you fell asleep, he was saying, oh, you know, we kind of worked on this.
	We'll figure something out with the Russians.
	Bailed out on the idea.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bailed out.
	This process now, it's only about process.
	What does that even mean?
	The British Medical Journal.
	Now, this was their political science paper.
	It's not pure horse noise.
	It is a study they did.
	It's on their website, so it looks like it was a serious study.
	Gunslinger's gait, G-A-I-T, a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swinging.
	And this was conducted in part by Bastian R. Bloom, professor from movement disorder neurology.
	Here's the abstract.
	Objective.
	To postulate a new possible cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing in addition to the known medical conditions such as shoulder pathology, Herbs palsy, stroke, and Parkinson's disease.
	Methods of analysis.
	Analysis of YouTube videos depicting the gait of highly ranked Russian officials.
	Result.
	We found a similar walking pattern in President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and three other highly ranked Russian officials all presenting with a consistently reduced arm swing in the absence of overt neurological abnormalities.
	Conclusions.
	We propose that this new gait pattern, which we term gunslinger's gait, may result from a behavioral adaptation possibly triggered by KGB or other forms of weapons training where trainees are taught to keep their right hand close to the chest while walking, allowing them to quickly draw a gun when faced with a foe.
	This should be included in the differential diagnosis of a unilaterally reduced arm swing.
	Are they serious about this?
	Well, first of all, of course we know it's a milieu, and everybody picks up the patterns that are expressed within the milieu, and they all kind of act like that.
	When I was working with a bunch of police, I was always perceived as a cop, after a couple of years of this.
	And it's just a milieu thing.
	I mean, milieu, that's how you can tell, like a hooker hangs out with other hookers, and you can sit down.
	But do hookers have a certain walk?
	Well, yeah.
	That's for sure.
	But that's beside the point.
	But any milieu has their idiosyncrasies that identify them as being part of the milieu.
	I remember once I went to Brazil, and for some reason when I was there, there was this big awards ceremony for different companies.
	It was like the yearly awards from this magazine for these different companies.
	Right.
	And they brought out, they said, and so-and-so wins from Microsoft.
	And a guy comes out and I look at this guy and I say, holy crap, this guy, even though he's Brazilian, looks just like a guy from Microsoft.
	He's just Microsoft.
	They had a guy from...
	At the time, a while back, they sold compact computers.
	The guy comes out, looks like that.
	The guy comes out from some other company.
	Look, the milieu, the corporate milieu, is also very identifiable.
	So you can always spot a Microsoft guy.
	It never surprises you.
	Did you ever work for Microsoft?
	No, yeah, I did.
	And so this is what they're doing.
	So they're taking milieu observations and turning them into medical observations.
	This is nuts.
	Yep, and it's on the British Medical Journal.
	Yeah, it's absolutely nuts.
	It's interesting you bring that up about Microsoft because I have gotten some inside info from people who are training here on the Apple campus to be in the store.
	Oh, man.
	These are Apple people?
	Yeah, so they go for several days of training first, and it's very, like, camp happy.
	They're training Apple employees in Austin?
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	They have a training center there?
	We have a campus.
	Apple?
	Yeah.
	For what?
	Well, for a while this is where they assembled the Mac Pro, you know, the round cylindrical thing, which I don't think has done too well.
	And we have two stores here, so there's like 140 employees that cover the two Apple stores here.
	And there's a lot of stuff that I learned, which I can't really divulge because there's a lot of secrecy, and if anyone finds out that you've told about the training, you're going to die.
	But I did say they have materials and quotes.
	They have signage, you know?
	Oh, yes.
	Sayings.
	Visiting Apple a day keeps the bugs away.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me just get my malt liquor.
	I said, how many, you know, when they quote, like, the history of the company, do they quote Steve Jobs?
	No.
	No Steve Jobs.
	Steve Wozniak?
	Yes.
	Steve Wozniak and Tom Collins.
	But there's almost no Jobs, or none.
	No Jobs quotes.
	Nothing about him, about the history of the company.
	Interesting, huh?
	That is interesting.
	They're trying to expunge him.
	Probably.
	Wozniak gets all kinds of fuzzy wuzzy quotes.
	Oh, everybody loves Woz.
	I guess so.
	And that's the way you're talking about the loving nickname.
	I got a note from our resident educator at the No Agenda Nation, Sir Ryan Thompson.
	I thought you'd be interested in the new civil rights movement that is beginning to creep its way into our schools, especially among administrators who are tired of paying for expensive special ed programs.
	This is called neurodiversity.
	Neurodiversity essentially says that things like autism and other neurological disorders are not diseases or disorders at all.
	They are variations in how we as individuals are made.
	No different than differing hair color or physical features.
	As such, neurodiversity proponents seek equal rights and protections for any and all unique individuals.
	Well, I agree with that.
	Yeah, you should.
	Of all people should.
	My Tourette's is...
	I'm not crazy.
	I'm just neurodiverse.
	I like it.
	It's about time.
	That could catch on.
	I think it could.
	But there's a wiki page for it too, so that's proof.
	The neurodiversity.
	Give me a break.
	Well, they're trying to make everything diversity.
	Okay, let me see.
	Okay, let's take a little break.
	A break?
	Yeah, I'm going to...
	I am going to play, which I haven't been doing enough of on the show, the native ad of the day.
	Native ad of the day.
	Does it need any setup or anything?
	Yes, I'm going to set it up.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it's now time for the Native Ad of the Day!
	As you know, in the C block of the ABC News nightly report, whatever they call it, ABC's with David Muir, they run a native ad of some sort or other.
	And this one really got me, because it was like, wow!
	How else could you manage to get this information out to the public?
	The best way, pay ABC to run this story.
	To the index of other news, Chipotle implementing new food safety standards tonight after an E. coli outbreak in the Northwest, then that norovirus outbreak in Boston.
	Chipotle says it will now scale back on local ingredients and will now cut, wash, and package ingredients like tomatoes, cilantro, lettuce, in a central kitchen where they can be tested for contamination before being shipped out.
	They're really doing anything they can.
	That was a native ad.
	Of course it was a native ad.
	It was a beauty.
	Seemed like an educational story, something everyone needs to know.
	It's interesting you bring that up.
	I rarely ever look at my Twitter timeline, because I just have stuff incoming, but Nilay Patel at Vox Media was so proud.
	We had a great year at Vox Media!
	And then when you see what he's pointing to, a whole list of their accomplishments.
	This is your alternative media.
	Vox Media sings the praises of chorus.
	Advertisers can now tap into native content platform.
	Vox Media launches entertainment division.
	Signs with Warner Music Entertainment.
	Comcast invests $200 million in Vox Media.
	Find Vox on Snapchat.
	Discover.
	The agency view on Vox Media.
	The modern day Condé Nast.
	Yeah, Nilay, congratulations.
	You're now mainstream media, you douche.
	You're nothing better than that.
	Native ads and, well, what a platform.
	That's mainstream media now.
	There's nothing to do with anything alternative.
	Never did.
	They always kind of set it up that way.
	For sure they did.
	Well, not like us.
	Although they get $200 million from Comcast, I can't even get a sample account.
	A quick war on guns, New York, pretty strict gun laws, interesting change of events.
	We have very strict gun laws in California, but yet we had the event.
	Yes, we have very strict gun laws in New York, and here's how people think about them.
	Well, for the first time in more than 20 years, a majority of Americans say they are against a ban on owning assault weapons.
	A new Washington Post-ABC poll out just this morning found 53% of people surveyed are against banning the sale of assault weapons.
	Compare that to 1994, when only 18% opposed a ban.
	Now, the poll shows people want assault weapons because they are not controversial.
	I think this backfired.
	Of course it backfired.
	And Josh Earnest, you recall, oh, this is ironic.
	It's tragic and ironic, because I guess they expected exactly the opposite to happen.
	Yeah, this is the problem with trying to manipulate the public.
	Yeah.
	You can't do it.
	But then this next...
	I'm sorry, you can do it, but it's not easy.
	This next report, also from New York, I'm just trying to figure out the logic.
	Under pressure from New York's Attorney General, 30 online retailers who sell on Amazon have agreed to no longer offer some toy guns to New York residents.
	A New York law prohibits the sale of those realistic toy guns in the state unless they feature a brightly colored tip to show they're not real.
	But Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office says the company still sold thousands of replica guns in the state in recent years.
	A similar gun was the one 12-year-old Tamir Rice was holding when he was shot and killed by police in Cleveland.
	Under the deal with New York State, the retailers have paid $27,000 in fines.
	That's on top of the 300,000 some big box stores like Walmart, Sears and Kmart paid in their deal with the state earlier this year.
	Those stores also agree to stop selling those replica guns.
	Gun safety advocates say New York's campaign against realistic looking toy guns needs to be expanded nationwide.
	The fact that Congress has chosen not to regulate this very pervasive and lethal consumer product is a great tragedy and shame that Americans need to do something about.
	Half a dozen states have laws on the books dealing with toy guns.
	Another seven have introduced legislation to create or amend such laws.
	Yeah, why can't you just go out and just paint the...
	Lethal.
	Yeah, lethal.
	Of course.
	Paint the tip of your Kalashnikov into the orange tip.
	You know, I've thought the same thing myself.
	It's stupid.
	It's stupid.
	Yeah.
	You're taking pain.
	You're Kalishnikov with the orange thing at the end.
	I'm trying to understand, you know.
	No, the logic is delusive.
	True.
	I find the whole thing in this toy gun thing.
	I'm glad you got that clip.
	But that toy gun thing, they show that one of the guns they're banning.
	It's like a space rake gun.
	You know, something from Star Trek or something.
	Meanwhile, the guys and gals with the real guns in, I believe this was in Iraq, Ash Carter.
	We're here to say thank you.
	And to say thank you to your family.
	To say happy holidays.
	To say bless you for what you're doing.
	And I say that Very much from my family and our hearts, but I really do think I speak for everyone in America.
	People know.
	I mean, you know that not everybody's an expert in what you do.
	Not everybody will have served.
	But overwhelmingly, I think they get it.
	This has to be done.
	This fight has to be fought.
	It's for civilization against evil.
	Okay.
	Oh, brother.
	Of course, it's a fight that needs to be fought.
	It's for civilization against evil.
	Yeah.
	You know, what an insult.
	I insult the people over there.
	Kids don't know what the hell they're doing.
	Blowing up other kids in the sand.
	Stop all this.
	Stop it.
	Would any, would please, where's Gary Johnson?
	Would any candidate for United States president please just say why we're there?
	That it's for the interest of big oil companies and pipelines and turf and hookers.
	It's always the same.
	Why are we there?
	Which brings me to this clip.
	This is the woman that showed around.
	It's kind of a viral thing that was on CNN. It was some very angry woman who was a Donald Trump supporter.
	Oh.
	And she was just, she was just, and she had a meanest look on her face.
	I mean, it's like, oh my God, I wouldn't want to meet this woman.
	But this is what she had to say.
	This is the liar woman.
	Liar woman on CNN. We've been in positions of power for a fact are liars.
	Liars.
	I watch the TV. My president comes on the TV and he lies to me.
	I know he's lying.
	He lies all the time.
	I don't believe any one of them.
	Not one.
	I believe Donald.
	I'm telling you, he says what I'm thinking.
	Never been involved in politics.
	Never had an interest in any of it.
	Now suddenly, he is resonating.
	He is resonating with the people and he's speaking our minds.
	Our minds.
	When the pundits and the experts and all the people who are supposed to be in the know and know all this stuff and they're so great, I know.
	Some of them, maybe not all, but some of them are lying to me, straight to my face, and I am so sick of it.
	So the response of this woman was, oh my God, is this the kind of people that are going to come out for Trump?
	They've never been interested in politics before, and then they go on and on lamenting this.
	And I'm thinking to myself, everybody wants more participation, not less.
	And so you get more participation, she shows up, but no, no, no, we don't want her.
	Right.
	Right.
	Okay, well, you get what you ask for.
	I like it because I've been studying some antenna theory recently.
	I like it when she says they resonate or he resonates because that deals with frequencies and energy that is transferred.
	These words are interesting.
	I've been really engrossed in antennas.
	Yeah, well, that's what antennas do.
	They resonate.
	That's what their job does.
	If only if they're resonant.
	If they're tuned.
	Yes.
	If they're tuned properly to the frequency, and then, so you can be a good transmitter, but if you are tuned to the same frequency as the receiver, then you have a resonant scenario where the energy is passed through.
	These words are not by accident.
	And yeah, that's how you do it.
	And I agree.
	I think Trump has started to resonate with a lot of people.
	You don't need a lot of technology to be resonant.
	You know, it just has to be tuned properly.
	And then whatever comes out almost doesn't matter.
	Yeah, I'm working on it.
	But it's a bigger thing.
	Play the ceremony.
	Why do you mock me when I actually bring in some technical...
	I mean, you get more technology on this show than any other tech horny show.
	That's right.
	I'm resonating.
	I'm resonating.
	Meanwhile, Judd Johnson is trying to resonate with the American people.
	He has lifted a little tip of the veil of the new Homeland Security Alert system.
	People are anxious now.
	That's how you resonate.
	People are anxious.
	We've done it.
	We got them scared.
	We got them scared.
	They should know and they need to know what their government is doing to protect our homeland.
	Yes!
	Now, he's not going to actually tell you what we're doing, but he will tell you...
	He said our.
	He did.
	But he said homeland, so I don't give him a pass.
	Our country would be okay.
	Our homeland, nine.
	It's time we change the system, and this is what we are doing and announcing today.
	We are creating an intermediate level to the NTAS system that includes...
	Now, first of all, I thought the NTAS system had been abolished.
	It was done away with, the National Threat Assessment something.
	Yeah, the code, whatever it is.
	So now we have an interim level, which really means, well...
	An NTAS bulletin, which describes general developments or trends regarding threats of terrorism.
	We do this in public speeches, in public statements.
	We do this for law enforcement.
	Sometimes also known as propaganda, my friend.
	With joint intelligence bulletins.
	We do this on a periodic basis.
	There are news leaks, anonymous sources.
	News?
	Did he say news links or leaks?
	He said leaks.
	It sounded like leaks, but news leaks.
	That's what he said.
	So they're propagandizing through news leaks is what he said.
	Let me listen again.
	Because he's saying we'll put this in speeches.
	We put it in, but you're telling you what's going on.
	We do this for law enforcement with joint intelligence bulletins.
	We do this on a periodic basis.
	There are news leaks, anonymous sources.
	Wait a minute!
	Okay, so we're going to give you bulletins.
	You didn't notice this when you first clipped it?
	I didn't hear the news leaks, and then he goes straight into anonymous sources.
	Is he saying that that's how they are going to scare us, with news leaks and anonymous sources?
	Yeah!
	Holy crap!
	Regarding threats of terrorism.
	We do this in public speeches, in public statements.
	We do this for law enforcement with joint intelligence bulletins.
	We do this on a periodic basis.
	There are news leaks, anonymous sources from national security and law enforcement.
	Jesus, he's just admitting it.
	Excuse me.
	Didn't mean to take the Lord's name in vain, but he came down and made me say that.
	We want to put in one place for the public to see what we are seeing concerning the homeland and what we are doing about it and what the public can do about it.
	We're in a new phase in the global terrorist threat, which has implications on the homeland.
	Particularly with the rise in use by terrorist groups of the internet to inspire and recruit.
	We are concerned about the self-radicalized actors who can strike with little or no notice.
	Why does he have to use actors?
	It's confusing to people.
	There's no reason to say that.
	You can say terrorist, but these are terrorist actors.
	It's like bad actors, like shitty actors.
	It's just revealing the truth.
	They're not SAG, you know, or Aftron.
	They're not SAG yet.
	These are scabs.
	To inspire and recruit.
	Scab actors.
	We are concerned about the self-radicalized actors who could strike with little or no notice.
	As opposed to the actors who've received the script, I guess.
	Recent attacks and attempted attacks internationally and in the homeland warrant increased security, as well as increased public vigilance and awareness.
	Though we know of no intelligence that is both specific and credible at this time.
	In other words, it's all bullcrap.
	Yeah, in other words, it's all bullcrap and I'm just yakking for no apparent reason.
	But we'll do that with anonymous sources and leaks in the news media.
	No intelligence that is both specific and credible at this time of a plot by terrorist organizations to attack the homeland.
	The reality is terrorist-inspired individuals have conducted or attempted to conduct attacks in the United States this year.
	DHS and the FBI are providing additional guidance to state and local partners on increased security measures.
	The public should expect an increased presence of law enforcement across communities in the weeks ahead.
	More stringent security should also be anticipated at public places and events.
	For the next six months, they're going to be terrorizing you with this kind of bull crap, which started off almost immediately.
	Sunday night, Twitter warned its users about a possible government-sponsored cyber attack, the first it has ever reported.
	The company said the attackers may have been trying to obtain sensitive data, such as email addresses, IP addresses, and phone numbers of its more than 300 million users.
	Twitter's alert is the latest in a year rife with suspected state-sponsored hacks, including the hack of the United States government's Office of Personnel Management by Chinese hackers, which led to the leak of personal data for 21.5 million government employees.
	In 2014, the U.S. government sanctioned North Korea in response to the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
	The breach occurred prior to...
	What?
	Question.
	Oh, speak up song.
	I'm going to just keep mumbling.
	A couple questions.
	Okay.
	Okay, if there's a state-sponsored attack coming our way, what state?
	Do they ever tell us?
	No, they imply North Korea and China, but of course, they're really talking about the U.S. state.
	Second question.
	What phone numbers?
	Who puts their phone number on Twitter?
	It's not in your profile.
	They don't ask for it.
	There's no place for your phone number.
	This is a question I had, and we have enough dude's name Ben and Dudette's name Ben out there who can help me.
	When you register for Signal, which is the end-to-end encrypted, you know, no one can break it, whatever, all the intelligence guys are using app, do you register with your phone number?
	That is the only way for you to register.
	Now, you could use a burner phone, I guess.
	Well, here's another way you can get around here.
	I'll throw this one a little ditty out there.
	You can register using Google phone, voice, Google voice.
	No.
	Why?
	Well, yes, in America, yes, not outside of the U.S. because text messaging doesn't go international.
	That doesn't mean you can't get a Google phone number outside the U.S. You just can't do texting.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, but that's how you register, and then they send you a code to your phone to enter into the app to register.
	Oh, okay.
	So there is a real transaction.
	You cannot receive the text.
	I don't think so.
	There's ways to do it.
	What if you have a landline?
	There's no way of getting text on a landline.
	Okay.
	Made out of Bakelite.
	All right.
	Now, after I slammed Neelai in his little Vox outfit there, the Verge, that's part of Vox?
	The Verge?
	The Verge?
	Oh, yeah.
	That's one of the many elements.
	They did do something very funny, which I'll read.
	It's under their TLDR heading, which, of course, we have the omnibus bill, the big, huge budget bill, which is now, what is it, $1.5 trillion?
	Well, if you want to play something, because I have a clip for this.
	Well, let me tell you what they did first, and then I'd love to hear your clip.
	They counted the number of the times the word cyber is used in the 2016 omnibus bill, which I think is funny they did that.
	And they came up with quite a count, 211 uses of the term cyber security.
	But here's the full list in the omnibus bill.
	Cybersecurity, cyberespionage, cyberthreatindicator, cyberspace, cybercrime, cyberattack, cybercore scholarship program, cyberincidents, cyberrelated work roles, cyberspace policy strategy, international cybercriminals, malicious cybercommand and control, cyberthreat actors, cyberrelated functions, civilian cyberpersonnel, office of the coordinator for cyberissues, international cyberbehavior, and other cybermatters.
	What's this got to do with the budget?
	The money's going towards cyber, as we've always predicted.
	Yeah, we gotta get in on this scam.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I think we're late to the party.
	I suppose they had, yeah, probably.
	Alright, you got a clip on the bill, and I'm calling time, so let's get out of here.
	Okay, this would be the last clip for me.
	This is the clip on the bill.
	Apparently the bill has everything everybody wants, including the CISA bill.
	Ah, cyber information sharing agreement.
	Yeah, they just slipped it in, and there you go, and there you have it.
	that's our great Congress.
	You know, they're just, you know, they're just going to keep doing stuff that they want to do, whether the public likes it or not.
	House Speaker Paul Ryan has announced a deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill in a package of massive tax breaks Democrats say will unfairly benefit corporations.
	The deal would lift the 40-year ban on crude oil exports from the United States, extend tax breaks for wind and solar energy, and delay portions of President Obama's signature health care law.
	Privacy advocates have objected to the inclusion of a controversial cybersecurity bill they say will quietly expand mass surveillance by allowing corporations to share sensitive user data with law enforcement agencies.
	Woo-hoo!
	Woo!
	Yep.
	Well, looking forward to that.
	Yeah, there you go.
	There you have it.
	That's the crux of the matter.
	That's right.
	It's all cyber.
	Cyber.
	All right.
	All right.
	Any games I need to watch today?
	Oh, there's no game on Thursday?
	No, no.
	There's a Thursday night game.
	It's not a game.
	All right.
	Good.
	All right.
	Okay, I think that's it.
	I think so, too.
	We're coming in under three hours.
	That's what we're supposed to do.
	Yeah.
	Five minutes left.
	Well, there is about five minutes left with our end of show, obviously.
	I always try to put together a little ditty for you all at the end to leave you with a nice, happy feeling.
	So please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Thank you for your support.
	Continue to bring that to the party!
	I'm coming to you from downtown Austin in the capital of the Drone Star State, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm over by the mudflats, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will be back on Sunday, right here, on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	Obviously, things went wrong.
	We're talking about Texas.
	Somebody somewhere wants enough cocaine to forget they live there.
	I've been watching you.
	Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Come on, where was it?
	Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hey, listen, I love you, Seth.
	Great question.
	That's not a great question.
	Boom shakalaka.
	Yes, the beaches are back open.
	Woo-hoo!
	Yeah.
	As a general rule, I am just fine with a few hecklers.
	But not when I'm up in the house.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	Can we have this person to move, please?
	Can we escort this person out?
	Go on.
	If you find yourself thinking, what's all this crap?
	Take a look at the map.
	I'm shocked.
	Shocked to find bug eating going on in here.
	As a general rule, I am just fine with drinking the booze.
	Hold on a second.
	And drinking the booze.
	You know what?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Listen, no, no, no, no.
	And drinking the booze.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	Hey, you know what?
	It's not respectful when you get invited to somebody.
	No, that's right.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	You're not gonna get a good response from me by interrupting me like this.
	Dave, I'm sorry.
	No, I'm sorry.
	Come on.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Shame on you.
	Hey.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Hey.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	You can either stay and be quiet or you'll have to stay.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Where was I?
	Climate change is real.
	It's real.
	Get up in the morning.
	Hit the ground running.
	It's a meteor assassination.
	Take off the pieces.
	Tear them apart.
	Send it out to every nation.
	We'll be right back.
	Don't want to sit back.
	Don't want to shut up.
	And let the puppets call the show.
	No more mainstream pumping.
	I've been doing.
	Tell me where I should go.
	It's a little bit crackpot.
	Tiny bit buzz.
	Girl, you get you right in the mouth.
	It's time to do it now.
	In the morning.
	I want to do it now.
	In the morning.
	In the morning.
	There's nothing matter when it's in the morning.
	In the morning.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
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