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	It's the bomb, it's the cat's butt.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, December 27th, 2015.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 785.
	This is no agenda.
	Against Deutschland, here's the hop!
	And broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State in Fila Region 6 here in downtown Austin Tejas.
	In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where we're official licensed collegiate products, I'm John C. Devorak.
	Big H Deutschland!
	Here is the Hoff!
	What kind of products are we?
	Officially licensed.
	Did we...
	I just had to...
	I put this...
	It's cold in here, so I put a hoodie on.
	Yeah.
	Now I understand.
	North Dakota.
	And something's jabbing me in the neck.
	Reach back to this damn tag is on here.
	And it says...
	Officially licensed.
	Officially licensed collegiate product.
	No, there you go.
	This is how we start the show.
	Everything has to be licensed.
	These guys can't do their own t-shirt or their own sweatshirts.
	Hey, you know...
	North Dakota State rocks!
	Lots of people make no-agenda t-shirts and other swag.
	Yeah, they do.
	Yeah, well, they should put on that.
	Officially licensed.
	Just for the fun of it.
	Even though it's not.
	Just put it on there.
	Yeah, we officially approve you putting it on, whether it's licensed or not.
	Yes.
	Until it's offensive and we tell you it's not officially approved.
	How's the weather there?
	The weather is kind of overcast and gray.
	Well, you know, we had some pretty bad weather here in Texas last night.
	It drizzled.
	Deadly tornadoes and flooding in the greater Dallas area killed at least eight people on Saturday after a severe storm system hit the area.
	Authorities say five of the casualties were reported in Garland, northeast of downtown Dallas, where a tornado struck vehicles along a highway.
	Emergency responders said overnight that others were still feared missing.
	This is not good.
	Still feared missing.
	Who's developing this style of announcing?
	That's Reuters.
	One of the few organizations...
	They don't know what they're doing.
	Never mind.
	You know what I do like?
	Can you stop for a second?
	You're nowhere near Dallas.
	No, I'm not.
	This is like if a tornado hit Sacramento and I kind of reported it as though it was something new.
	Okay.
	You're living the life of leisure.
	You're like in Palo Alto.
	I said Texas.
	I didn't say Austin.
	I said we've had bad weather in Texas.
	It just skirted above Austin.
	It just skirted above Austin.
	Bull.
	What is your problem?
	It started this morning.
	You sent me an email like, why are you telling me this?
	Why do I need this information?
	Yeah, because why are you telling me this?
	I don't care.
	That's how I knew that you were going to be a douche this morning.
	What happened?
	Did you go to bed late?
	Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed?
	I did.
	I fell on the floor.
	Okay.
	Well...
	I just wanted to ease into some weather conversation while I asked you first.
	I never talk about the weather.
	Oh, God.
	Oh, God.
	This is going to be just, you know, help me, Hoff.
	Mmm, baby, Hoff stuff.
	There you go.
	What is that?
	Is this our guy, Hoff?
	This is the Hoff.
	Dude, don't hassle the Hoff.
	All right.
	Don't hassle the Hoff.
	I got a couple of...
	I was hoping you were telling me about your Christmas gifts.
	Well, I was going to.
	I was just kind of easing into it because we had a storm.
	Eight people died last night.
	It's not like it's...
	Texas is pretty open.
	And I was going to ease into saying that there was this interesting...
	I'll give you credit.
	I'll give you credit.
	I thought it was weird that there'd be a tornado anywhere around Dallas.
	They happen all the time around Dallas.
	I didn't know.
	Oh, God.
	Like last year, there were semi-trucks being blown into the air.
	Oh, who knew?
	Yeah.
	Now, I do know this.
	There's a funny thing.
	Apparently, there was a tornado that came into Fort Worth once and twisted one of the buildings, and now the building's abandoned.
	They can't tear it down because it'll wreck some other buildings.
	Oh, that I don't know.
	But I do know this morning CBS News had a conversation about, I think it was oriented around California because of the El Nino that everyone keeps talking about, and the weather changes accordingly.
	But what was nice this morning is that I don't know how they can get away with saying that weather is not climate change.
	I thought it was.
	I'm very confused.
	But can these alarming weather events also be blamed on climate change?
	Scientists say, not so fast.
	Maybe climate change adds a couple more warmer days or makes the warmest temperatures a little bit warmer.
	I don't think you can just say that because it's a warming world, we're seeing a record warm December.
	We might be enhancing the normal pattern that would have happened anyway by a little bit.
	I'm confused.
	I don't know what to think now.
	This is no good.
	Yeah, I'll tell you about my Christmas presents.
	Okay.
	I received a lot of alcoholic-related presents.
	Alcohol-related presents.
	Maybe that's a hint.
	Now that I think about it.
	Hi, I'm David Hasselhoff.
	Yeah.
	I got a whole bunch of cool stuff.
	Tina brought her girls over here on Christmas Eve after the show.
	So we had a little, almost like a family celebration.
	Did you have a tree?
	Yeah.
	Is it a real tree?
	It's a real tree, yeah.
	Well, get it out of there, because things are flammable.
	I do not park the hoverboard under the tree.
	Oh, that would be something.
	I wonder how many...
	This hasn't been recorded yet, but there's got to be a few hoverboards that were parked under trees, caught on fire, caught the house on fire, burned the place to the ground.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	I'm so sure.
	Merry Christmas.
	No, I got martini-making stuff with glasses and then silver toothpicks, and I got some fantastic reserve bourbon.
	Yeah, go start picking your teeth with a silver toothpick.
	Well, it's for the olives, John.
	Oh.
	It's for the olives.
	Makes it look nice.
	Well, that's pretty decadent.
	Totally decadent.
	I was making martinis all Christmas.
	It's hammered.
	I'll be having a martini with a silver toothpick.
	I got other nice things.
	I'm not going to tell you.
	He's just going to be mean about my gifts.
	I will be right.
	Don't tell me anything.
	How about your gifts, John?
	What did you get?
	I got a bunch of sound effects.
	Oh, those kids.
	Including this one, which I was always thinking of buying this.
	I've seen it at Big Five and some of these sporting good places.
	And I'm very disappointed in it.
	I think Jay got me this.
	Don't be saying that.
	She'll feel bummed out if you tell her that.
	I think she would know.
	Nobody's ever heard this thing before.
	Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
	But this is a male deer buck call.
	This is for your hunting excursions?
	Yes, if you go hunting, you use this.
	But somebody who goes hunting and actually uses this thing and gets it to work, I'd like to know what you do.
	It's mostly short bursts.
	For one thing, it stretches out.
	You can get different notes.
	You can get like...
	Or if you stretch it, it gets deeper.
	I think the deer, they hiss a lot.
	Is there a hissing sound on that?
	Well, maybe if I hiss through it.
	I've never heard a deer like that.
	Apparently they make a little grunting sound to get the female.
	I don't know what the point is.
	You sound like the Affleck commercial.
	Say Affleck.
	Affleck.
	Yeah, so there's that.
	And then I got a mouse noise, which is supposed to sound like a mouse.
	It's like a mouse call.
	I haven't seen any mice come.
	Oh, that's a really good one.
	And I think there's some pitches in the middle that I can't hear, but I don't know if you've ever seen it or heard a mouse chirp.
	My tool, my toy that I got, actually has cocaine delivered to your front door.
	I'm the Hoff.
	Hoff, you.
	Yeah, and it shows up.
	So was the Hoff using a bucket when you made those recordings?
	No, it's one of those little keychains with buttons on it.
	You know what it is.
	Oh, well, I got a keychain with buttons.
	It's not a keychain.
	It's like a noisemaker.
	And here's a few of the sounds that it gives you.
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	There's a bunch of them.
	Very nice.
	That was the good tip.
	Very nice.
	And then I had normal things like a Polycom speakerphone, which I need in the kitchen.
	Not a giant one, but a small one.
	I actually spent some time yesterday with Tina, with the keeper.
	I can't remember how it came up, but...
	You know, she's just kind of getting into the Clinton body count and all this stuff.
	It's a little eye-opening for anybody.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I had heard about this thing called...
	The guy from this documentary from 1994 called The Clinton Chronicles, which you can find on YouTube.
	I got a link in the show notes.
	You can probably find it on Netflix as well.
	Larry Nichols.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's the guy.
	Yeah.
	So this guy is still around.
	Yeah, which is shocking, if you ask me.
	It's outrageous that he's alive.
	So the Clinton Chronicles, it was pretty good, even though it was old.
	I think there's an updated version that he comes in, and the guy's gotten really old since 1994.
	But the things that were interesting, because he's around today, I think he was on the Seed Man show or something, which kind of tells you something there.
	And he says, you know, if Hillary becomes president, here's the plan.
	And we may have discussed this, but according to him, the plan is, because he used to work for the Clintons, Bill will first become the ambassador to the United Nations, which he can appoint.
	And I'm sure he would sail through the Senate.
	That shouldn't be a problem.
	But then it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to become the Secretary General of the United Nations.
	Yeah, we've talked about this.
	You're right.
	Can you imagine if you have Hillary Clinton, President of the United States, and Bill Clinton, Secretary General of the United Nations?
	Yeah.
	I mean, they'd own the world.
	Pretty much.
	Well, them and the Kegans.
	Yeah, obviously.
	So I went to see this Star Wars movie.
	I was just going to finish up one thing on Bill Clinton.
	I was just teasing this.
	I just want to mention it to people so you don't tune out.
	In Hope, Arkansas, where a fire early this morning damaged the birthplace of former President Bill Clinton.
	Investigators are now calling it arson.
	The blaze caused minimal damage to the back of the house, a home designated as a National Historic Site.
	Police say they could smell an accelerant at the scene.
	In addition, police found the home's door and walkway spray-painted with graffiti.
	Mr.
	Clinton lived in the house with his mother and maternal grandparents until he was four years old.
	What was the graffiti?
	What did it say?
	What kind of report is this?
	Thank you very much for asking, because I saw the pictures and I saw the graffiti, and it had the number 55 spray-painted of the walkway and on the side of the house.
	Fifty-five.
	Fifty-five.
	Okay, go on.
	You must know the reference.
	Well, there's a couple of references.
	Mainly people consider fifty-fives to be the, so two fives be the angel numbers.
	Okay.
	A powerful number as the, yeah, I know, as the energies and attributes of number five are doubled, amplified, and reinforced.
	Number fifty-five carries the vibrations of adventure and versatility.
	Don't you think that makes double nickels on the dime?
	55-10, which 10 is...
	Is it times 10?
	No, I'm thinking 10 is 5 plus 5 and 55, and you've got 4 of these 5s on there.
	Or 55-55.
	55-55, I think, is the way to go.
	Yeah.
	So these are known as angel numbers, but also, along with that...
	By whom?
	I just did all the research that I could find.
	It's a religious thing, really.
	And if someone gives you the 55 sign, it typically means give up and move on.
	What's the 55 sign?
	Hey, up a U.S. You just hold up two fingers.
	It's a new no agenda gang sign.
	You know where you flash your fingers?
	Now you just hold up all five fingers on each hand.
	Well, that means hands up, don't shoot.
	Who knows what it means?
	Well, also the kids these days, and you might want to check that with your millennials because my millennials are clearly not trustworthy.
	It is also a quick text message abbreviation for HAHA. I'm not quite sure how that works.
	I don't know how that works either.
	I've never heard that.
	I'll ask at the next meeting.
	I also made her watch the Boys Town documentary.
	We haven't talked about that in years.
	In years.
	I'm surprised that thing is...
	It's been dubbed...
	Old-fashioned dubbing.
	Anyone who worked in the business before digital...
	People would copy copies, and then they'd copy the copies.
	And this still has the time code below, and it's all distorted and twisty.
	It's horrible.
	The one that used to be on Google Video, before they removed it, and I recall that we asked everyone to download it and re-upload it to YouTube.
	I just got a really crappy version, but...
	It's still just crazy when you see this documentary.
	Oh my god.
	It's called...
	It's not actually called the Boys Town documentary.
	It's called something else.
	It's a must watch.
	There's another one that is...
	It's not as horrific as the Boys Town documentary.
	Conspiracy of Silence, that's what it's called.
	Right.
	And it had the government involved.
	Yeah, all the way to the White House.
	There was a thing that I can't, never caught the name of it.
	I can't seem to find it, but somebody out there can find it, hopefully.
	It's a documentary about Kern County and how they started accusing everybody.
	It goes to California Zephyr.
	They started accusing everybody of being pedophiles.
	Oh, another fancy car at the end of the train.
	Huh.
	This was a dark green observation car.
	Can I make a suggestion?
	Did I stop doing that?
	No.
	No.
	I think what you should do is you should set up a little camera on a tripod so you can snap it.
	Think of the collection of private rail cars you could...
	It's going to be on this particular train.
	What time is it?
	It is 9.20.
	Yeah, it comes in around 9.30.
	Now, explain again what these are, because people are mystified.
	I used to be mystified until the third time you explained it.
	About what?
	The private rail cars?
	The private car, yeah.
	Yeah, there's a big...
	In fact, you can look up the American Private Railroad Car Association or something like that.
	A, P, R, R, A, something like that.
	And they have some of these cars.
	You can rent these cars.
	Yeah, this is what we've talked about, and some of them are unbelievable.
	Some of them are junk.
	I mean, it's just like, what, are you kidding me?
	It looks like an inside of a 1955 trailer.
	But some of them are fixed up so they're exactly the same they were in 1929, or their old Pullman cars are fantastic.
	And there's hundreds of them around the country.
	And you can attach them to any train you want, or the train company or the transportation company will give you a quote if you want to go from San Francisco to St.
	Louis in your own private car.
	They'll route your car.
	And they'll put it on different trains and you'll be hauled back there.
	Generally speaking, they like to route on passenger trains.
	Do the railways who pull you, do they also do catering and hot waitresses?
	No, no.
	You've got your own.
	You're a closed system.
	Yeah, it's AAPRCO.com.
	American Association of Private Rail Car Owners.
	Right.
	And so you had...
	Some of these guys, by the way, some of these owners, they're like car collectors.
	They have five or six of these cars sometimes, and then they fix them up.
	Yeah, charter a car.
	Okay.
	But let's see.
	We want to charter one.
	In Texas, there's one in Texas.
	Okay.
	I think there's a couple of Texas collectors, but they don't all charter the cars.
	They may even just keep them.
	Now, this is the charter page.
	Oh, my.
	This is beautiful.
	Oh, wow.
	This is one step up.
	Seats to an elegant dining room that seats 12.
	This is a couple steps up.
	Get rid of that Airstream.
	Let's just rent these suckers.
	The upstairs dome features lounge seating for up to 18 guests and dining for 12.
	Rich Honduras mahogany with plush carpeting and new upholstery.
	Observation platform with track lights for nighttime viewing and throwing your wife off of the train.
	Excellent.
	Friendly crew includes executive chef preparing meals on board, interior completely refurbished in 2013.
	Nice.
	Yeah, that's where our Grand Duke meet up one day.
	That would be the thing.
	We just go across the country picking up Dukes.
	Picking up the Dukes.
	We'll call it the Duke Express.
	That's a distinct possibility.
	Do the show from the car?
	All these things are possible.
	Okay, you get right on that.
	Yeah, I'm on it now as I see the car go by and I'll report next Sunday about another one.
	Okay.
	Anyway, if I knew anything really about it, I would be able to identify the cars.
	It was like train spotting.
	You'd see the car go by and I'd go, oh, that's that guy in Texas.
	That's his car.
	That kind of thing.
	That's cool.
	I can't do that.
	It is the ultimate accessory.
	Trump should have one of those.
	I'm actually surprised he doesn't.
	He may.
	We don't know that he doesn't.
	I mean, there's flying around like a madman in these situations with all the negative stuff thrown at him.
	Well, with the Clintons on the opposite side, it's just, you know, the body count of the Clintons amongst their friends is suicide is very high and aviation incidents.
	Very unfortunate.
	These aviation accidents.
	And Trump's in a chopper a lot.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Here's a clip.
	Clinton and another movie assertion about Trump.
	John Carl with us now live from the White House.
	And John, back to Hillary Clinton and what she said at the ABC debate, that ISIS is using videos of Donald Trump to recruit jihadists.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Well, I think we've heard this about the ISIS videos.
	I'll play it anyway.
	Yeah, it's almost done.
	...provided that video.
	The Clinton campaign has provided no direct evidence to back up the allegation.
	Yeah, we discussed this.
	We ran that one, sorry.
	I did catch a different one, though.
	This is on Democracy Now.
	They actually blasted Hillary for some reason, but they don't like her.
	They don't like Trump.
	They don't like Hillary.
	They like Bernie.
	Really?
	So they would do a negative report.
	Oh, before you continue, the Larry Nichols guy?
	Yeah.
	We were searching around for other stuff in a recent interview.
	He said that Hillary or the Clintons know that in order to win...
	You need to be the underdog.
	And of course, we know Bernie Sanders is the natural underdog.
	You could even give O'Malley a little bit of underdog status.
	A little bit.
	He's a dark horse.
	He's a dark pony.
	I don't know about horse.
	I said horse.
	But he said that the Clintons, they are so smart about these things that that's why they had the New York Times...
	Release the information about her emails.
	You recall we deconstructed that, that the New York Times really was, you know, complicit in this, and we believed initially that it was probably to cover up a lot of news that was brewing about the donations to the Clinton Global Initiative.
	I keep that pretty well covered up.
	What Nichols says is that they create that themselves to be able to push her down into a form of underdog status.
	Well, it hasn't worked.
	I think with people like the Democracy Now!
	crew who do not like Hillary, but I think those people will end up voting for her personally.
	Yeah, I agree.
	They have no other choice.
	They're robots.
	And so with the base, I think that they love when there's nothing.
	She sat there for 18 hours, and they go through, and she's being ripped to shreds, but there's nothing.
	They can't find anything.
	It could be just a brilliant strategy.
	Well, it could be.
	Now, the thing that's in this report, there's a new term that cropped up, which I just think is dynamite.
	Okay.
	Oh, is it a show title worthy, maybe?
	Yeah, actually.
	All right.
	In the D.N. Hillary clip?
	Yep.
	And candidate Hillary Clinton sparked criticism of her own on Tuesday after her campaign website posted a list of, quote, seven ways Hillary Clinton is just like your abuela.
	Thousands of Latinos quickly took to Twitter to list the ways Hillary Clinton was not just like their grandmother.
	Both the hashtags not me abuela and not my abuela, quote, quickly went viral as people denounced what they saw as, quote, hispandering by the Clinton campaign, as they put it.
	Many drew attention to the funding Clinton's campaign received from private prison corporations with government contracts to run for-profit detention centers for undocumented immigrants.
	Others drew attention to Clinton's statements on CNN last year, calling for the U.S. to send back children fleeing violence in Central America who've reached the U.S. border.
	Ha ha ha ha ha.
	His spandering.
	That's a good one.
	I like that.
	Oh, I got a report that came in this morning, somehow from Yahoo Australia.
	So Bernie Sanders, this database access thing that was supposed to die away, I guess.
	Oh, yeah.
	According to Bernie Sanders, the guy who he had to fire, who looked into the Clinton campaign donor list when somehow that became available in the database from the company NGP Van, and we already know there's a direct connection.
	The founder of that company used to be a Clinton insider, and probably still is.
	But here's the interesting thing.
	This guy, what is his name?
	Josh.
	He's the one who got fired.
	He was a consultant who was recommended by the DNC and NGP Van.
	They hired him based upon the recommendation from the company that runs the database and the Democratic National Committee.
	That's interesting.
	Well, that reeks.
	It reeks.
	It does.
	It reeks.
	Unbelievable.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know that.
	I saw this guy's picture and he looks just like a classic kind of a fat hacker with a beard and neckbeard.
	John at Dvorak.org is the email address.
	So, yeah.
	And that is, of course, severely underreported.
	It's not reported.
	Well, Australia's Yahoo News site is where I found this.
	It was reported.
	Yeah, well, you know, if you find something the seed guy talks about, it doesn't really mean it's reported.
	But Yahoo News in Australia is pretty...
	Yeah, that's reported.
	But it's...
	The point being, if something like this happens and, you know, the circle is complete, the dots are easily connected.
	Clinton Insider running the show, he says, oh, try this guy out.
	This guy does, you know, he's like a Trojan horse.
	Then he says, okay, oh boy, he might not have even seen the database.
	Who knows?
	He could be bullshitting.
	It could be.
	Yeah.
	What do those guys know?
	I mean, seriously.
	What do they know about technology?
	You got me.
	So let's talk about Star Wars.
	Okay.
	I have not seen Star Wars, obviously.
	I would say...
	This is The Farce Awakens, is the title of this?
	The Farce Awakens.
	It is what I thought it was.
	I read a bunch of...
	Well, hold on, John.
	Stop.
	Stop for a second.
	I think maybe it would be more interesting if the way you review the movie, you could convince me to actually go see it.
	Do you think that's possible?
	No.
	Well, then hold on.
	Let me get my beer, and then I'll just listen to you.
	Alright, go ahead.
	Ooh, it's a foamy one.
	Sounds more like a soda.
	All right.
	The review of Star Wars the movie.
	All right.
	First, I've read all the negative reviews before I went to see it.
	To get in the mood.
	Yeah.
	And the best review, which I think people should take with them when they go see the movie if they haven't seen it already, it's they're running a lot in this movie.
	They're running and running and running and running.
	There's a lot of running.
	There's a lot of running.
	Now wait a minute.
	Isn't there a hot new girl in the cast?
	Yeah, this is the girl that did that interview I sent you, the link to.
	Oh, the coke head.
	The coke head one.
	That one.
	She's cute.
	Oh, she's very cute.
	She's a pleasant actress.
	She really is pleasant.
	She's pleasant.
	She's good.
	She's not a crappy actress.
	She's a good actress.
	I mean, for all you need.
	Daisy Ridley.
	And she is very...
	She fits the role.
	She'll be great.
	And what role does she play?
	She plays the heroine.
	The damsel in distress.
	Somehow...
	Princess Leia?
	She's not princess.
	No, no, Leia's in the movie.
	She's now the general.
	And everybody says another thing.
	Oh, this movie's just about why we should elect Hillary.
	What?
	What?
	Yeah, I got a note from one of our knights today, or one of our producers who said, I saw the movie, it's just a promotion for Hillary.
	So we discussed, we had JC, his wife, Mimi, myself, Jay, we're all sitting around afterwards and doing a post-mortem on the movie.
	Jay, the youngest of the group, hated it.
	Hated it!
	She hated it because it was, quote-unquote, boring.
	I didn't think it was boring.
	Mimi, meh.
	She could take it or leave it.
	I can hardly believe Mimi sat through the whole thing.
	I'm surprised she went.
	There you go.
	She must really love you guys.
	I thought it was entertaining.
	It was exactly the same as episode 4, the original 1977 movie with just a few little twists here and there.
	But it started off the same.
	It was the same story.
	It was a reboot.
	And it was a good reboot.
	I thought it worked out well.
	There was not a lot of CG. There was...
	For that movie, you'd think there'd be more.
	They still used a lot of models.
	They did the old-fashioned way.
	And when they blew stuff up, they used...
	Real dynamite.
	Yeah, real dynamite.
	And it makes a difference.
	It really looks like something's blowing up.
	It doesn't look like these phony things that you see in Transformers or whatever.
	A lot of CG. And it's faster and cheaper, apparently, to do it this way.
	These CG guys are just over the top with their expenses.
	Yeah.
	The computer guys.
	Now the movie itself, I don't know if you want to see it, if you haven't seen them all.
	No, I have not even seen The Empire Strikes Back.
	Okay, well you shouldn't go.
	JC said that He thought it was good because he had already brought himself to the point of maximum disappointment by watching those prequels that they did, which were terrible.
	And this was so far above that in terms of quality.
	There were plot holes all over the place.
	There was too much running.
	There were running and running and running all over the place, just constantly.
	I can just...
	John C. Dvorak says, Too much running!
	Now, out now, the force reawakens.
	In fact, at one point near the end of the movie, Daisy Ridley, who plays a woman called Ray, who has the force...
	Was she trying to snort the laser saber?
	We don't know that she uses cocaine, but if you look at this thing...
	This clip that was an interview of her.
	She seemed kind of hammered.
	And at the end, she suddenly, when confronted with something minor, she runs.
	She runs out and starts running.
	Just because, hey, we've gone five minutes without any running.
	Create a scene and have her running.
	I think, John, I think.
	Because I watched two movies on Christmas.
	I watched Christmas Eve after everybody went home and I wasn't tired yet.
	I watched The Martian.
	And I watch Mad Max, the new Mad Max.
	I think those two combined equal the Star Wars movie.
	Fury Road.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's a good movie.
	Well, I think those two combined with the running and running and driving in the desert and the explosions and then the boredom of the Martian movie.
	What is that?
	Why?
	Are people crazy?
	This is not a good movie.
	I didn't think so.
	This is Matt Damon in New Mexico for two hours.
	It's terrible.
	You put those together and then you have kind of like a Star Wars experience.
	A little bit, except there's a bunch of little spoilers.
	I was talking about this.
	I think I'm going to tell them the spoilers.
	Because there's spoilers in this movie.
	There's like three of them.
	Three or four things that go, what?
	And you feel it's your job to spoil it.
	You know how I feel about spoilers?
	I think I've said this before.
	I don't...
	Oh, spoiler alert!
	Don't...
	Oh, spoiler alert!
	I don't care if somebody tells me what happened.
	I know what the spoiler is.
	I know the spoiler.
	She's a guy.
	Exactly!
	I didn't realize this, but you're right.
	It's always the same spoiler.
	All the way back to Madam Butterfly.
	She's a guy.
	That's the original spoiler.
	That one, and he's dead.
	What was it?
	We saw Love Actually, was that last night?
	With Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson?
	She writes a play about him where he dies.
	No.
	I never saw that.
	Inside spoilers.
	Oh, it's a great movie.
	Well, there's a couple of spoilers.
	I won't bring it.
	I mean, people...
	Oh, come on.
	Just do it.
	I'm not going to watch it anyway.
	Stop the show!
	This is...
	Instead of calling it a spoiler, call it the official John C. Dvorak Star Wars hip kit.
	So if you want to be hip...
	You'd be able to say...
	You don't have to go to the movie.
	Exactly!
	So just give me the spoilers so it sounds like I'm on the inside, like I know what I'm talking about.
	Yeah, hip.
	It's a hip thing.
	Okay.
	People can turn it off to podcasts right now.
	Just do it.
	First of all, the new evil guy, the new Darth Vader, who looks like a British, he looks like a Cumberbatch-type character, looks nothing like him.
	Apparently, Han Solo and the General Carrie Fisher, I can't remember, whatever their name was, her name.
	Obi-Wan.
	Lady Layla, whatever.
	Princess Leia.
	That's the mom and dad of this character.
	So Leia had sex with Darth?
	No, with Harrison Ford.
	Oh, with Han.
	How this guy got the power to be another Darth Vader is a huge plot hole to me.
	So I'd be like, wow, can you believe she did it with him?
	Is that what I would say?
	You might.
	Number two.
	Han Solo gets killed.
	Okay.
	So could I say, do you think they'll bring him back in the next one?
	Exactly.
	You can do that because he's stabbed by his son and then he falls over the side into a pit.
	So you can also say, wow, who needs kids?
	Yes, there's that.
	Okay.
	I'm just helping everybody out here.
	This is fantastic.
	You can go, because, you know, and then it would be, yeah, with a kid like Han Solo's kid.
	Who needs kids?
	And so you've got that.
	It's a good gag.
	You can use that.
	And then, of course, he falls over, but you don't know for it.
	You didn't get to actually see him expire or burn.
	Well, that's why we can also say, you think they'll bring him back?
	Probably will bring him back, right?
	Because we didn't really see it.
	You could do that.
	Okay, good.
	And then the bad guy who's...
	Everybody, I read all the reviews and all the positive reviews.
	I read a lot of those.
	And they also...
	Oh, he's the best evil villain ever.
	Ever.
	And he sucks.
	There's nothing good about him.
	What's number three?
	Give me number three.
	Number three is that the girl, Daisy, Ridley, who plays Rey, has the force within her.
	Again, for some unknown reason.
	John, John, don't you know we all really have the force?
	Yes, the plot hole is a plot hole.
	And so she has a sword fight with the other guy, with the bad guy.
	Yeah, with the lightsabers.
	Yeah.
	And I always, when I brought up, there's going to be a fight like that fat kid that's on YouTube that's falling all over himself.
	Yeah, we know.
	That poor kid.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, there's somebody, I think Jay, somebody told me about the kid that would happen afterwards.
	He's now a lawyer, and he fights against online bullying.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	I need the spoiler thing.
	Okay.
	She beats him.
	And it looks like he's going to die, but then an earthquake happens and a big crack between the two of them occurs and it separates the two of them.
	With a chasm in the earth.
	That makes sense.
	So, we don't know what happened.
	Okay, well this is an easy one.
	You say, man, we all know girls can't fight well with a lightsaber.
	That was bull crap.
	Well, you could say that if you wanted to.
	So she kicks his butt in some, chops his leg off and I think chops his arm off and he's fighting, you know, one leg and jumping up and down.
	It was kind of silly.
	And you just have to imagine it.
	My God.
	This is dumb.
	So meanwhile, they all somehow blow up this giant planet, which is ten times bigger than the Death Star, but somehow can harness the energy of the nearby sun and use it as a death ray to blow up the planet that all the rebels are on.
	And then they blow up that planet just before it.
	Five seconds, by the way.
	Five seconds to go!
	There's five seconds.
	Boom!
	Then they just in time blow up the planet.
	And then, by the way, the Darth Vader character was left on the planet bleeding, and the planet blew up.
	So there's two strikes against him surviving.
	But we don't know.
	It was fast enough moving.
	They had the cute little robot that rolls around, and...
	Apparently they're going to do a bunch of these trilogies.
	Disney is going to milk this franchise like nothing we've ever seen.
	And Abrams at least got it off to a good start.
	I thought it was reasonable.
	Okay.
	So it was a good movie.
	I mean, I thought it was a good movie.
	I saw it on this monstrous eye.
	It's like an IMAX screen.
	Okay, so just to recap, for those of you who have no desire to see it, but kind of want to be hip, I can't read my handwriting.
	What was the thing about...
	Oh!
	The bad kid.
	Darth Vader, Princess Leia, and Han Solo.
	They have sex.
	Yeah, apparently.
	Okay.
	And now we're still wondering, there was a big discussion.
	I brought everybody to the house to cook.
	There was a big discussion going on about where this Ray girl came from.
	How is she related enough to somebody?
	She's going to be somebody's brother or sister or something like that.
	We don't know.
	Oh, man.
	Again, it's the original movie, rehashed, kind of swap a few ideas here and there.
	Oh, here's the real killer.
	There's two things that I observed.
	One, by the way, if you're epileptic, don't go see the movie.
	I think the opening scenes of the movie would give anybody a fit.
	Two, these guys, these stormtroopers, they wear all this white outfit and they look all nasty.
	It seems as though a peace shooter will kill these guys.
	Every shot that hits one of them kills them.
	What good is all this armor?
	And the last thing is they had the bar scene again.
	Oh no!
	Yeah!
	Okay, I'm done.
	Response from the chat room.
	What's the response in the chat?
	Oh yeah, something was funny.
	You MF cock-essing son of bitch bastards.
	I was waiting for the crowds to die down before going to see this movie.
	Now you spoiled it.
	F you, you two bald decrepit a-holes.
	God effing damn it.
	F you.
	You shit-kicking stinky horse manure smelling MFers.
	I love Star Wars.
	Now you effing ruined it.
	You ruined it.
	How did we ruin Now, let me ask you a question there in the chat room.
	If I ruined it, why do people go see it over and over?
	Stop.
	John, let's just stop.
	Let's just stop, okay?
	Let's just stop.
	Thank you very much.
	I appreciate the report.
	Okay.
	All right.
	While you were doing that, I was at home watching television, trying to find anything I could, trying to deconstruct the media.
	Everybody's on vacation.
	It's all prepackaged garbage.
	I did luckily find...
	It's late this year because we really have not been promoting dead children enough.
	We've had a lot of dead children, but just not from the flu.
	And, you know, every year around Christmas time, usually a little bit earlier, you know, the networks get together and they have to promote the flu shot.
	And NBC, this is the woman who went to West Africa and then came back and she ignored the Ebola quarantine.
	Do you remember that?
	She was just hanging out in New Jersey.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	On her bicycle bike.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is the NBC girl.
	So this was a seven-minute report trying to scare parents into getting the flu shot for their children.
	And I applied some of the John C. Dvorak speed-up editing techniques.
	The flu season is upon us, and a Florida family spent Christmas Day here at the intensive care unit at this hospital.
	Their daughter was perfectly healthy until the flu attacked her heart.
	Gemma Botello was a completely healthy four-year-old little girl, and now she's fighting for her life in this intensive care unit because of the flu.
	I really thought it was the end.
	He thought she was not going to make it all.
	No.
	He told me that, you know, we just have to look back.
	We just have to appreciate these four and a half years that we had with her.
	And that's when Layla and Alex say they got their Christmas miracle.
	All of a sudden on Sunday, Gemma's heart started to beat again.
	No one can explain why some healthy children like Gemma get so desperately ill from the flu.
	Did Gemma ever get a flu shot?
	Oh, never.
	Because?
	We're stupid.
	I didn't think of the flu as a serious illness.
	But now they do.
	And the parents of this little girl, who dreams of being a doctor when she grows up, have a message to other parents.
	Now just wait for this big closing finish.
	Get your child vaccinated for the flu.
	Gemma is doing better, but she's still not out of the woods yet.
	Now, every year, children do die of the flu, and it's not too late to get a flu shot this season.
	What the fuck is that?
	Every year, children do die!
	It's unbelievable.
	These people are just terrorizing people.
	It's shameless.
	Shameless.
	Terrorizing.
	It's terrorizing.
	It is shameless.
	It truly is shameless.
	Unbelievable.
	Well, that is this drug story going around.
	This is another one.
	They're going after that.
	It's about time they did this, but they won't do it right.
	Okay, which one is this?
	This will be...
	No, I know it's a drug scam.
	Yeah, I'm just wondering what it is.
	You want to set it up?
	Well, actually, this is a story that was in the New York Times.
	They brought the reporter on.
	This was on the NewsHour on PBS. And they brought this woman out to explain it.
	It's about a drug that was essentially free for a while.
	And there's a new scam going around where these little drug companies are looking for public domain drugs that they can reapply for.
	Yeah, and they buy the companies.
	They buy the company, and then they jack up the price.
	And this is an element of that.
	And getting it approved, getting it special status under this law.
	And so that gets them seven years of market monopoly, which is actually a very, very long period of time for the drug industry.
	You wrote in the New York Times about a particular drug that was designed to help patients suffering from Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome.
	Tell us about that drug and about how that fits into what we're talking about here.
	So the drug, it's a neuromuscular disorder.
	People who have the disease have trouble walking.
	Many are confined to beds or wheelchairs.
	The drug is extremely effective and it's also quite old.
	The original work that was put into developing it happened in the UK. The earliest traces I could find of it were in France and Scotland in the 1970s.
	Essentially, what's happened is the drug has been effectively given away for free to patients since the early 1990s by sort of an unusual drug company, a little family-owned drug company in New Jersey called Jacobus.
	Oh, that's no good.
	That was the situation for many years.
	And what's happened is that a publicly traded company, a Wall Street traded company, has sort of swept in and seen that the drug did not have FDA approval and decided to get it approved under this special law.
	So basically kind of racing to approval and essentially taking the drug off the market for patients that currently are getting it for free and starting to charge what most market analysts think will probably be about $100,000 a year.
	Exorbitant costs.
	Now who controls this?
	I know this is the FDA, but maybe it's also the market.
	Maybe these drug companies have the right to charge what the market will bear.
	So, Gwen, this is a really good question, and this sort of gets to the crux of it.
	I mean, effectively, they do.
	It's not illegal.
	The FDA, when it decides what drugs to approve, doesn't look at price.
	That's not something that it considers.
	Surely, John, in this report, they brought up that the problem is the insurance companies who are willing participants in this scam.
	Surely that was brought up in the conversation.
	It never has.
	So effectively, the United States is really the only rich country in the developed world that doesn't have any, where the government has no control over drug pricing.
	What?
	And this is the vulnerability in our system that effectively companies that are really, really out to get very, very high profit.
	What news organization did this report?
	The New York Times.
	Oh, God.
	So did the New York Times ever figure out that markets work from multiple sides?
	Who's the payer in between?
	Come on.
	Well, again, it's the New York Times.
	Yes, the government is controlling it with the insurance companies.
	Yeah, by saying, okay, we'll pay that.
	Oh, by the way, everyone's premium's got to go up.
	Yeah.
	That's how we pay for it.
	Yeah.
	So everyone's premium is going through the roofs because these farmers...
	Because pharma could have done this 20 years ago.
	They could have just jacked the price up on everything, but they didn't because no one's going to pick up the tab.
	Right.
	But now the insurance companies are dominating everything.
	In fact, that's one of the reasons that the co-ops are going out of business.
	This is part of a scheme.
	Yeah.
	When Obama set up the co-ops, it was part of a scheme to...
	Explain the co-ops.
	Okay, there was a bunch of people that needed to have subsidized insurance health care plans and there had to be some public options, kind of, because, you know, we're not going to go all the way to single payer because, gosh, then the jig would be up.
	And meanwhile, of course, Obama's Supporters, mostly for his election campaigns, were insurance companies.
	So what do we do?
	We've got to get these little co-ops pushed out of business.
	We'll set them up, but then we'll push them out of business because of the...
	Pricing.
	The scam.
	Yeah, because the prices.
	Because they can't afford to do what the big boys are doing, and they're just pushing them out.
	They're locking them out.
	I do have a clip that, before I continue on this particular clip I just played, I do have a clip on the co-ops that ran on, I think...
	I think it ran on PBS. But play that.
	So your healthcare co-ops.
	Oh, we heard the news.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	What's interesting about this one, because you can't see it, is this was about the Colorado co-op that had the clothes.
	Just out of the blue, because they didn't have the right balance of money or whatever, and so the state shut them down.
	And the woman who just, you look at her, you go, oh my god, there's a Berkeley chick that is such a liberal do-gooder, And so they ask her, whose fault was it?
	And you watch her anguish.
	And you'll hear the question.
	Anguish.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	She doesn't want to play this.
	You're going to hear her anguish and fight it.
	But then she says, Obama.
	Ah, right.
	When we heard the news, I really felt sick to my stomach.
	In spite of the news, Hutchins was confident they could raise the needed money elsewhere.
	She had three interested investors, but didn't have the cash in hand to meet the insurance deadline.
	So at the end of the year, the co-op will shut down.
	Many of the 80 employees have already begun packing up the office.
	It's unfortunate that we were part of a health care reform that's been so politicized.
	We were orphaned by politics.
	Who are you most angry at?
	Obama.
	Why?
	Because of so many different ways that the administration made the Affordable Care Act work, but they really abandoned the co-op program at the time when it was most important.
	In fact, more than half of all the co-ops nationwide have announced they are shutting down.
	Yeah.
	Okay, anyway, that's what's going on with that.
	This all, like you said, is an insurance company.
	It's just gouging the entire public and the pharmaceutical companies are in on it because once you saw one of them start jacking up their prices, they all started doing it because they said, well, wait, you guys are going to pay for this?
	Because you know they're in cahoots.
	They call the insurance companies and say, we're going to jack our price up of this $400 drug to $900.
	Are you guys going to pick it up?
	Oh yeah, we'll pick it up.
	You know what's interesting?
	Having watched the Clinton Chronicles again, one thing is made very clear in that documentary is that all of the corruption, and it's good to see this in this context of how things work behind the scenes, they have a number of very specific examples.
	The Clintons...
	And remember they said, oh, we left the White House, we were poor.
	That's very possible.
	It didn't take long for them to make it up because in their political process, the Clintons do not care about the money, which is why you can't really catch them because there's no payoff to them other than ultimate power.
	And it seems to me that Obama just followed the same line, the same template, gave a lot of power to the insurance companies, which are really financial companies.
	And, of course, now they're going to put his little brother, big brother thing together, which already has, what, half a billion committed or some outrageous amount?
	Outrageous, yeah.
	And it's good to see that in this context, because as long as these people stay out of the money part and collect on it later, which is pretty easy to do...
	Even just by consulting, even if no one wants to thank you with a quick profile.
	Or the million-dollar speaking fee.
	Yeah, stuff like that, exactly.
	And so, even though it's been pretty quiet and lame, the Pierre Omniard DriveMyCars $250 million WordPress blog I had a pretty good article about the CDC, just to show you how corruption works, the CDC wants to change the guidelines for OxyContin, you know, because people are, I don't know, dying, getting hooked.
	Maybe we should have some guidelines on these, a little bit, you know, review it.
	And now there's four groups in Washington, of course all funded by the big pharmaceutical companies, Who have filed this lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit.
	It's unbelievable.
	You had the Washington Legal Foundation, the Pain Care Forum, who say, well, you're taking away pain care, the Power of Pain Foundation.
	I mean, it just goes on and on and on.
	It's outrageous.
	We're dominated by this.
	Back to the original report.
	Yes, sir.
	The New York Times woman goes on and on, and she almost specifically goes out of her way to not mention the pharmaceutical company that is pulling the stunt.
	What am I supposed to play here?
	Well, you'd have to play that original clip again.
	But it was interesting to me.
	That's what got me on this in the first place.
	So say that again?
	She gives the report and she talks about Jacobus.
	The New Jersey place, yeah.
	Yeah.
	She never mentions the other company.
	Of course not.
	So it's like, so I'm thinking, but I was kind of caught off guard.
	I'm thinking it was like, oh, Pfizer, one of these big companies, one of these ogres that we're used to.
	But no, it turns out there'd be some very small scrounger going around.
	Well, that's like Comey and Loretta Lynn, the country singer.
	They had that douchebag arrested.
	And you're like, oh, we got a big Wall Street scammer.
	You know, some douchebag in a hoodie.
	Who made like $9 million somewhere, maybe on some over-the-counter stock.
	Oh, they're holding him up like, look, we're tough on Wall Street.
	Please.
	So what I determined was that they wanted to slam the farmers, but they had this one little dinky farm that was part of this story, and they couldn't do it.
	So to make it seem as though...
	Right.
	You know, it was like, I thought it was kind of a chicken shit way to do the report.
	Yeah.
	And there was a lot, and in fact, this entire debate making it sound as though Jacobus can't sell this anymore, which is because it was never FDA approved.
	It was an experimental drug.
	That's not true either.
	Right.
	They can still sell it.
	Any other...
	The other company will get their own version of it and sell it for a lot more money and run that through the insurance companies.
	So what's going to happen, I believe, even though I can't prove it, the Jacobus experimental drug won't be covered by anything and it won't be recommended anymore.
	The doctors will push toward the other one.
	And that's how this...
	Right, right, right.
	Anyway, I just found the whole thing to be deplorable.
	And what news organization was that reporting?
	Well, she is on the New York Times.
	It was on PBS NewsHour.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second.
	Bath towel.
	Bath towel.
	Is that you or something?
	Have you never seen Scrooged?
	You want me to play this?
	No, please don't.
	Meanwhile, something snuck in at the end of the year over there in Gitmo Nation East.
	As we always say, this is without doubt the...
	The beta testing ground for all things Shut Up Slave here in the West and Gitmo Nation proper.
	Theresa May came out.
	They're finalizing this cyber law, which will also be interlaced with tolerance and British values.
	And they've upped the ante once again.
	Yes, we need these new powers to spy on everybody for a very important reason.
	The scenario is eerily similar to the Paris attack.
	Terrorists storm a building in London.
	Guns blazing.
	You see police enter, move past the injured and the dead in pursuit of the threat.
	They are terrorizing their citizens over there.
	This is unbelievable.
	What?
	It's outrageous.
	This is BBC. This is BBC. And you see these, just doing these exercises.
	This exercise is going on shooting the place up.
	One of the things in terms of our learning from Paris is to confirm to us that the training that we've been doing post-Mumbai 2008 is the right way to go forward.
	What?
	In years past, British officers tried...
	They're now...
	What they're saying...
	Yes?
	But the India attack, she says, 2008.
	We're having an attack every decade or so, and they're going to go through all this trouble?
	Yeah.
	It's not like it's going on constantly.
	This is not World War II where we're getting bombed, where the V2s are hitting London.
	This whole thing is intended to terrorize to the max.
	They say it could be like Mumbai.
	Like Mumbai.
	Post-Mumbai 2008 is the right way to go forward.
	In years past, British officers tried to negotiate.
	But police say recent terrorist attacks show there is little room for negotiation.
	What specifically did you see in Mumbai, in Paris, that would spark or cause that shift in policy?
	Well, I think we saw that the terrorists were willing to kill people and to do it quickly.
	Police say they will adjust the approach based on the situation, so it is possible they could choose to negotiate.
	They also acknowledge that the tactic of going forward means that initially the injured will be left behind.
	So if you are in a Mumbai-style attack in London, which seems pretty likely they're training for it every single day, if you are wounded, they're just going to walk over you.
	They're just going to walk over your body.
	Police have been practicing to move forward since 2008 when gunmen stormed a series of locations.
	They should call it step over instead of move forward.
	Including a hotel, a train station, and a Jewish center in Mumbai, India.
	Police say they now want the public to know about the tactic.
	Part of a campaign to assuage people's fears post-Paris.
	Persuades people's fears post-Paris.
	Officers and vehicles out on the streets.
	Typically, officers in the United Kingdom are unarmed.
	The threat level has remained the same.
	Oh, disarm them.
	Yeah.
	In the capital city, is it?
	No, no.
	There's troops.
	There's troops on the ground.
	There's not aren't bobbies.
	There's guys in camo, which seems to stand out more in urban settings.
	What is with the camo in an urban environment?
	There is an urban camo, but I've never seen anyone wear it.
	They're wearing desert camos.
	It's crazy.
	Anything else we're in the country.
	It's about reassurance, and it's also we realize that Paris isn't very far from London.
	And people are afraid that what played out in Paris could happen here.
	London's police want the public to know they are ready and moving forward.
	So, Theresa May, which of course we don't have video or audio of, said under this backdrop of terrorist attacks, Of course, the police now need all kinds of powers.
	The authorities need powers to be able to read everyone's email.
	It is the first time the government has said the new laws will be used to deal with what Ms.
	Theresa May describes as the pernicious issue of cyberbullying, which affects millions of young Brits annually.
	She said in her letter, she reportedly wrote, but I think this is now confirmed, Internet connection records would update the capability of law enforcement in a criminal investigation to determine the sender and recipient of a communication, for example, a malicious message such as those exchanged in cyberbullying.
	She said the bill will, therefore, support the effort of police to tackle online bullying and trolling.
	Whoa!
	What?
	How about the Dvorak Troll Army?
	What's to become of us?
	They're going to get arrested is what's going to happen.
	You're going to die in jail!
	Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
	We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
	In some countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
	In ours, it only exists to protect their freedom.
	Protect you from cyberbullying.
	Protect you from cyberbullying.
	Researchers.
	Claim that as many as 7 in 10 young adults have been victimized by cyberbullies.
	7 in 10?
	You think they just gang up on the other three?
	With 1 in 5 having suffered extreme bullying on a daily basis.
	Oh, bull.
	Yeah.
	So they're going to use this now to track down trollers and cyberbullying.
	Goodbye, Incarnet.
	This is nuts.
	That's bad.
	And then to dredge up that old Mumbai thing, the best they can do.
	Isn't that just...
	From 2008.
	I know.
	This can happen any minute.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Alright, well...
	I got one for you.
	What is wrong with what we're about to hear about the report, the Black Lives Matter, I'm thinking Black Liberation Movement, BLM. They went into Minnesota and caused a ruckus in the mall, and then they shut down the airport, which it looks like.
	Oh, I heard about Chicago.
	Yeah, the Minnesota one shut down the airport, but it was all over the place.
	Chicago, there's a whole bunch of places.
	With very professional signs.
	Yes, all the same.
	Now, let's play this clip, and then I've got kind of an Ask Adam.
	Ask Adam.
	In Minnesota, hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists shut down sections of the Minneapolis airport, the light rail, and parts of the Mall of the America, the largest mall in the United States, on Wednesday in a protest of police killings of African Americans and of rising Islamophobia.
	Actions against police brutality also took place in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
	Alright.
	What's wrong fundamentally?
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Yes.
	You're going to ask me something.
	There's something fundamentally wrong with the report that stands out like a sore thumb to me because of a note you never got to see that was sent to us by our producer, Incognigro.
	Okay.
	Who accused you of being a racist pig.
	Again?
	I'm a racist pig?
	Yes.
	I am the guy who had to listen to you talk about only going to black checkers at Target?
	Yeah.
	And I'm the racist.
	This came in before I made that assertion.
	And it had to do with the people understanding.
	And we've seen this, you know, that Bernie understands what Black Lives Matter means.
	Anyway, this is a short report.
	Just don't play the end.
	Just play it again and tell me what the real standout moment is in this report.
	Yeah.
	In Minnesota, hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists shut down sections of the Minneapolis airport, the light rail, and parts of the Mall of the America, the largest mall in the United States, on Wednesday in a protest of police killings of African Americans and of rising Islamophobia.
	Actions against police brutality also took place in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
	How does rising Islamophobia fit into Black Lives Matter?
	That is strange.
	Exactly.
	Good catch.
	What has Islamophobia got to do with Black Lives Matter?
	Because there was a big stigma.
	White Lives Matter too.
	Hispanic Lives.
	No, no, no.
	Black Lives Matter.
	This is about blacks being persecuted by the police.
	This is about blacks, blacks, blacks.
	Now, all of a sudden, it's about Islamophobia?
	How does that work?
	Somebody explain that to me.
	In a memo of some sort, just send it to my email address and explain it to me how the theory of Black Lives Matter, why it's important as such, jives with, oh, we're fighting against Islamophobia, which has got nothing to do with it.
	What's Islamophobia got to do with the police brutality against blacks?
	Well, I'm just reading through the...
	I did a quick search.
	Black Lives Matter Islamophobia.
	And is it maybe possible that we're going to see the Nation of Islam emerge in this fracas?
	Could be.
	Or maybe they're behind it to begin with.
	Possibly.
	The first hit I get is from Huffington Post.
	A black Muslim voice on Islamophobia.
	And it starts off with, as a black American Muslim...
	That may be, there may be a connection there, John.
	Maybe the Nation of Islam.
	We haven't heard from Minister Farrakhan in a while.
	No.
	And he is a Muslim.
	Yeah, well.
	Oh, Mall of America protests a decoy, says Black Lives Matter.
	What is that all about?
	That was, a lot of people said it was a decoy to shut down the airport.
	Oh, to get shut down the airport?
	Okay, gotcha.
	But does this also mention Islamophobia?
	Yeah.
	No.
	A press release sent out after the action said, quote, We protest the airport's discriminatory profiling practices against black people and anyone who is perceived to be Muslim as part of a larger system that continues to kill and harm black people without any justice.
	We're seeing a merging here.
	This is a merge.
	It's a merge of Black Lives Matter, and they're going to merge into the Islamophobia conversation.
	They're going to suck that up in their tractor beam.
	We're going to try.
	Meanwhile, they have to still deal with the All Lives Matter movement, if you want to call it that.
	But now, because the black lives...
	No, black, black, black!
	Now, before you do anything, before you do anything, I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
	This is important, John.
	This is an important clip.
	An important clip of the day.
	It was an important, which is different than our normal clip of the day, which just amuses us.
	Yes, this was a...
	Well, that's most of what we do.
	Yes, that's very amusing, my friend.
	I owe you a dollar on that one.
	We'll try this.
	It's a very important clip of the day.
	Good work.
	Well, that's going on.
	Democracy Now!
	also reported on this guy's arrest.
	And this should give everybody pause.
	This is some guy named Aziz, A-Z-I-Z, who was arrested for tweeting...
	Yeah, go.
	A 19-year-old has been indicted on terrorism-related charges after the FBI accused him of using Twitter to spread ISIL propaganda.
	In the criminal complaint, an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force special agent alleges Jaleel Ibn Amir Aziz, quote, commonly uses his Twitter accounts to spread pro-ISIS propaganda, including news from ISIL sources, as well as execution photos and videos.
	The complaint also claims Aziz tweeted about wanting to visit ISIS-controlled territory and encourage people to provide money to the group.
	As a result of his Twitter activity, Aziz has been charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
	So, I wish I had known this earlier.
	He didn't give any money, by the way.
	This is a 19-year-old kid.
	Yeah.
	I'm looking at the affidavit right now from the FBI. Blowhard.
	Yeah, he's a 19-year-old kid.
	Aziz uses social media to spread ISIL propaganda and to seek support for the terrorist group from individuals over the internet.
	Aziz's social media activity supports ISIL by radicalizing and recruiting others.
	Hey, prove radicalizing.
	Prove that to me.
	Aziz has conspired with others and attempted to facilitate the travel of other ISIL supporters to Syria so they can become ISIL fighters.
	Wow, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence.
	Well, most cases are based on circumstantial evidence, but I see this as a freedom of speech issue.
	Of course it is!
	He's not sending money.
	We know that's against the law, and that's not freedom of speech, apparently.
	He's not sending money.
	He's just talking.
	And yeah, maybe he's saying, hey, ISIS is great.
	ISIS is fantastic.
	You should all join.
	Are we at war?
	Is there a declared war against ISIS? Not yet.
	It's not sedition at all.
	I mean, you could say, well, it's a seditious thing he's doing, and you could maybe bust him on that, but no.
	This is interesting.
	Aiding terrorism by just what?
	John, this is interesting.
	Let's go through this affidavit.
	Let's go through this affidavit for a moment, because we need to know what is going on.
	And Democracy Now!, or whoever that was, didn't go to the actual affidavit.
	They just read from a sheet.
	Aziz has created and used at least 57 different Twitter accounts.
	Well, I guess those are the ones that Anonymous took down.
	Those big, brave, anonymous guys.
	It appears that Twitter routinely suspends Aziz's accounts due to the radical nature of his postings, which violate Twitter's policies.
	Yeah, but not the law.
	Aziz then responds by creating backup accounts or opening a new Twitter account with slightly different variations of common usernames.
	Okay, so they checked his internet protocol, his IP address.
	Now, they've been on this guy since 2014.
	Okay.
	Well, they've got somebody making money on this guy.
	Oh, my God.
	This martyrdom will be a spark that will awaken sleeping lions in America.
	Let their blood water the seeds of jihad.
	Hashtag Chapel Hill shooting.
	Is that illegal?
	It doesn't sound shitty.
	No, it's not illegal, but it seems to me that the way to deal with this sort of thing...
	Is to pick the guy up and say, hey, shithead.
	Yeah, and beat him up.
	Yeah, and talk to his parents.
	Not that I think you should do that, because that's pretty illegal, too, but...
	If you knew who this guy was, and if he was in the neighborhood, say, hey, this guy in, you know, Berkeley, he lives, you know, he's in Berkeley, you can look him up, he's on the...
	I'm just going to read some more of these tweets.
	Just tell me.
	You're right.
	First of all, you're right.
	It's a 19-year-old kid.
	They're morons.
	Aziz using Twitter account at Ansaralumarab49.
	Other Twitter users also discuss making Hijra.
	The term Hijra translates to emigration.
	But in some contexts, travel to land controlled by ISIL. Oh, God.
	Twitter.
	I will probably see Colonel Shami made Hijra.
	This is all illegal, people.
	On one more occasion, Aziz declared his desire to travel to the, quote, Islamic State.
	Oh, you can't be tweeting that.
	So if you tweet, I'd like to go...
	To Damascus.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That could be deemed...
	This is outrageous.
	This has been going on since the beginning of 2014 with this kid.
	Yeah, I'm sure he's radicalized by now.
	Have they also been replying to him on Twitter?
	I bet you they have.
	I'll bet you there's tons of, hey, tell us more, man.
	Tell us more.
	It sounds good what you're talking about.
	Tell us more.
	Yeah, this is really good.
	That's what they're doing, you know that.
	That's what they always do.
	Yeah, July 2014.
	And did they have an agent connected to him?
	They must have had.
	I wish I'd had this earlier.
	I'll look through this and maybe something for Thursday.
	You think it's worth reporting more about it, but I found it was...
	There are better ways than...
	I mean, it's just...
	I don't know.
	It's just pushing this stuff underground.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Yeah, it's troubling.
	It's just troubling.
	I mean, I don't think anyone sees the implications of what's going on here.
	You know?
	You can't say anything.
	I mean, this is the old, you know, talking about bombs when you're entering your airplane.
	Right.
	Which is, you know, there's a reason for that.
	Yeah.
	But...
	Well...
	I don't think you get thrown in jail.
	You just get thrown off the airplane.
	No, they used to talk to you.
	Well, and the inconvenience.
	They used to talk to you.
	They'd have a little chat with you.
	Hey, man.
	Hey, man, don't do that, all right?
	You're an idiot, okay?
	Now, look, you're sitting in this room with us.
	I watched The Wire last night.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	Okay, what do you mean?
	It's funny.
	It's not funny.
	Well, that's because you've just started watching The Wire.
	The movie, not The Wire.
	Oh, there's a movie?
	About the guy who did the high wire walk between the towers.
	Oh, that movie.
	Yeah.
	People say they get sick watching that movie.
	You watch it in 3D? No, I don't.
	I watch it at home.
	I get it.
	Is it out?
	It's on Amazon or Netflix, yeah.
	But what happens is, now this is back in the 70s, he comes into the States and he opens up his suitcase at customs and he says, this is a wire, this is 300 feet of this, he's blocking tack, he's got 18 suitcases filled with all kinds of gear to make this walk.
	And the customs agent in the 70s says, what are you going to do?
	And the guy says, I'm going to walk between the twin towers.
	And the guy slams his suitcase shut and says, enjoy your walk.
	That's what America used to be like.
	Yeah, enjoy your walk.
	Yeah, enjoy your walk, buddy.
	Good luck to you.
	And good luck.
	Good luck to you.
	No, now you'd be arrested and you'd be sent back and you're terrorists.
	You got wires.
	What are you doing?
	Yeah, you would.
	It's really changed.
	Yes.
	But, you know, they're picking up this dumb kid, disease, big talker.
	Yeah.
	But they should do it if they want to have fun with him.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there's a lot of things you could think of besides, you know, making a big fuss about it.
	Say, hey, buddy, you come on the door like you said.
	Hey, you've been interested in doing all this stuff.
	We got you a ticket.
	You can go to Syria right now and turn in your passport.
	You're not an American anymore.
	This is really cool, yeah.
	You're not an American anymore, but we'll just ship you over there and have fun.
	Dynamite.
	A-hole.
	Ship him off.
	No, he's going to go through the criminal justice system.
	It's going to cost the taxpayers a fortune.
	And it's all about free speech.
	It's just, I don't know.
	I'm sure what I suggest is not legal either.
	I like your idea.
	It's a funny idea.
	Well, with that, I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. With a C stands for Christmas Show Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, yes, in the morning to everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Thank you all very much for showing up.
	I want to say in the morning to all of our artists, of course, but in particular, I want to say in the morning to Mark G., who brought us the artwork for episode 780, what was it, 784 of And his artwork was, the title of this was Hot Rhetoric, and he had the fight poster.
	Great.
	Yeah, it was very nice.
	A lot of little, the fracas in Damascus, you know, little cool little things in there.
	It's a nice little piece of art.
	Really beautiful piece.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank.
	And let's start with our number one donor today, which is Christopher Tremling.
	In Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, who came in with my favorite donation, 1234.56.
	Hell yeah.
	Yeah.
	Have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, keep up the great analysis for my knighting.
	Did I get the beginning of this or did I skip it?
	It looks like the beginning.
	He sent a long note in, which had to be cut and pasted.
	Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, keep up the great analysis for my knighting.
	I'd like to be knighted as Sir Priest.
	Priest, I guess.
	Is it Enterprise?
	Prize?
	Surprise?
	Oh, well, he has a couple of questions.
	Either Sir Prize, Sir Andipity, Sir Cumspect, or Sir Charge.
	Right.
	I think Andipity and Cumspect are already taken, but Prize, I think, is available.
	Cumspect?
	Yeah, Sir Cumspect.
	Sir Cumspect.
	So I think we have one.
	Okay.
	Hey, man.
	I don't do the admin on this show.
	All right, anyway.
	What do you think?
	You said indipity?
	No, surprise.
	I think we have an indipity.
	No, I said surprise.
	He can be surprise.
	Yeah, surprise.
	Okay, surprise.
	Or prees.
	Then he wants the following jingles.
	Two to the head.
	Look at the juice.
	And then from show 77.7, can we get someone to clean this up?
	Yeah, it's leakage.
	Okay.
	I don't think we have that isolated.
	Yeah, I think I have it somewhere.
	He wants two to the head, juice, and a karma.
	Anything else here in his note before we do this?
	Well, let's just go on.
	Job and relationship karma would be appreciated for the new year.
	On another note, now he's talking about something else.
	Okay.
	We're going to read this because it's, I don't know.
	I'm not sure that it's valid or that we even do it.
	Job and relationship.
	On another note, I have noticed for a long time the use of the phrase, I believe.
	I first picked this up in 2008 from Leo on Twitter and other podcasts, including No Agenda.
	I have started using it myself for a while.
	I am taking the term, I believe, to be what I think without actual concrete proof or where there is doubt.
	In a way, it carries a get-out-of-jail-free card if I'm wrong.
	However, I believe is also associated with religious belief, i.e.
	gospel sermons, where there can never be any concrete proof.
	I wonder at your use of the phrase, and if you should be saying I think, as your statements, or as a result of your analysis, not some divine guidance.
	I don't think we should be using either one.
	What do you two...
	What do the two of you think makes you both use iBelieve?
	Do we use iBelieve?
	There's a...
	Yes, we do.
	Because I read this note and I just did a random sample.
	Yes, we do.
	But not as much as the tech horny shows where that's all they say.
	I believe Apple will this.
	I believe...
	I believe IBM should have done this.
	I believe Kleiner Perkins.
	I believe...
	It's a crutch.
	It's a crutch.
	I think and I believe are sentence starting crutches, which gives you time to ramp up to think about what you're saying.
	Well, I think or I believe.
	That's exactly what it is.
	The one that women tend to fall back on is I feel.
	I don't know about that.
	Yes.
	Even the tech horny women?
	Well, maybe.
	I think you're going to hear it more from them on the Tech Horny shows than you're going to hear a lot everywhere.
	And even worse, I feel it's part of some training.
	I sometimes say, I do believe, which is even worse.
	It's even worse.
	Because I was going to use that.
	Yeah, it's worse.
	I do believe.
	I do believe.
	It's worse.
	We'll work on it.
	There you go.
	It's a crutch.
	For me, I know what I'm doing.
	When I say that, that's actually because I'm ramping up in my head the rest of the sentence.
	Because I'm a performance artist.
	I don't know what else we can say.
	We can say adios, mofos.
	Let me give him his jingle sequence here.
	Yes.
	Okay, let's see.
	Can you see that juice?
	Can we get someone to clean this up?
	Yeah, it's leakage.
	It's left a bit of a mess.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Wow, John, congratulations.
	Christopher got a...
	We did it.
	We did it, John.
	We did it.
	That was pre-produced.
	Oh!
	Well, that was well done.
	We didn't fail.
	It was an absolute gem of a combination, too.
	It was a very nice combo.
	Okay, Gerald Wingenroth from Saugus, California, he didn't send a check, and it came through one of those banking services for $1,000, instant night.
	And, of course, it says here, Eric's spreadsheet, JCD lost the note.
	No, no.
	I did not lose any note.
	I tried to find him.
	Jerry has, and he calls himself Jerry.
	Jerry has not communicated with the show since January of 2014.
	So he decided, I guess he's been listening still, to donate $1,000.
	And he didn't say anything about even wanting to be the knight, but it's $1,000.
	It's got to be a knight.
	So we're going to knight him Sir Jerry of Saugus.
	He can change it if he wants to.
	Sir Jerry of Saugus?
	Yeah.
	Is that also in the...
	Let me just check.
	Huh.
	I don't have that at all.
	No, of course not, because I just made an executive decision on the spot.
	Okay, gotcha.
	Sir Gerald or Jerry?
	Jerry.
	Because he refers to himself as Jerry.
	Sir Jerry of...
	Saugus.
	Saugus.
	Very famous town in California where I think a lot of cops are murdered.
	Very famous.
	Sounds shitty.
	Saugus.
	Saugus.
	S-A-U-G-U-S. For people who can look it up.
	Saugus Scandal.
	Look that up.
	Serpenonymous in Parts Unknown.
	34567.
	Another good donation.
	No name or location.
	Merry Christmas and thanks for another great year of shows.
	Very simple.
	Thank you very much.
	Onward.
	Let me just slide this thing around a little bit.
	Whoops.
	Alright.
	Michael Sosnan...
	I'm guessing.
	He is in Suwannee, Georgia.
	$333.33.
	Gentlemen, please keep up the great work.
	Douchebag call out to Uncle Bob Johnson.
	Douchebag!
	I occasionally get to listen live for those of us that don't actually get the chance to do so.
	You can please consider adding about 10 minutes of the lead up to the end of the show.
	What?
	Oh no, he's asking.
	Let me start that sentence over.
	Please.
	For those of us that don't usually get the chance to listen to the show, can you please consider adding about 10 minutes of the lead-up?
	No.
	That is the bonus you get when you tune in to the live stream.
	I think you should do something.
	Oh, I see what he's asking.
	He wants us to take the crap that we talked about before the show and then do that cornball...
	No offense to you, Michael, but it's a cornball trick.
	I've seen it done on some shows on TV. They take and they put a bunch of crap at the end.
	Outtakes and bullcrap at the end.
	Yeah, outtakes, bullcrap.
	I think it's pretentious.
	It also, as someone who did not listen live, you feel gypped.
	You feel ripped off.
	Like, oh, there's all this stuff.
	No.
	It's sacred.
	Two things we will never do.
	We will never post the pre-stream in the regular show.
	Now, something can always get posted somewhere else because it's so outrageous, but that has not happened in eight years.
	And we will not do video.
	Right.
	Well, that's the dumbest thing we could do.
	Video.
	We have the same attitude about this.
	You have the same attitude I do about this.
	Yeah, of course.
	It's stupid.
	And I don't want to go on a rant about this.
	But then you see these videos.
	It's a bunch of people on Skype, usually.
	They got the cans on their head.
	They got a big, giant microphone.
	Nobody knows how to use a lavalier.
	They can't see their face.
	Can't see their face.
	Can't see their face.
	And they're looking all over the place because they're not looking at each other.
	They're looking at monitors.
	They're looking at something.
	They're looking at the internet.
	They're looking at a website.
	Yeah.
	And it's stupid.
	And the video part doesn't contribute anything.
	Now, some of these shows, I will say, they show a picture of something that they're talking about and they put it over the video.
	And that's kind of, I guess.
	But that's still minor.
	But it's the big giant cans and a mic in your face and all that sort of thing.
	This was started as just a cheap money maker.
	No, this started a long time ago.
	Yeah, by Don Imus and Howard Stern.
	Right, radio guys would put cameras in their studios.
	Yeah.
	But it's a little different when you have, you know, naked strippers in your studio.
	Yes, webcam.
	Hell yeah.
	Yeah.
	We'd be running webcams if we had that.
	Yeah, I think we would.
	But we don't.
	We're sitting here in our underwear.
	Actually, I'm wearing a large hoodie because it's freezing.
	I'm wearing my FBI hoodie.
	Oh.
	Yes, my Dallas FBI hoodie.
	It'd be fantastic to see.
	My Dallas FBI hoodie.
	It's nice.
	The emblem says, so they see Texas and longhorns, and then it says, the eyes of Texas are upon you.
	It makes me feel like that.
	That should.
	Those cartoon eyeballs.
	Boink, boink.
	Alright, so there you go.
	No, thank you very much for your contribution, but no, we're not going to do that.
	He says if he finishes the note with you, the bumbling prior to the hit, it is usually comedy gold, but it is, so listen to life if you wanted that.
	The show is comedy gold.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Can I get a LGY and a little girl boom shakalaka?
	My kids love those.
	Yay!
	Boom shakalaka!
	Boom shakalaka!
	You've got karma.
	All the kids love them.
	Yeah, they do.
	How can they not?
	Sir Chris Eisbach in Cheshire, Connecticut, 33333.
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy New Year.
	Thanks for helping me be that guy invited to dinners to be the dancing monkey.
	Oh, poor guy.
	This should make me a baronet.
	Look forward to an interesting 2016.
	Can I have a don't raff?
	Too delicious to ignore and don't eat me, Hillary.
	I don't think there is a too delicious to ignore.
	I think it's too delicious to believe.
	It's...
	Yeah.
	And what was the other one?
	Don't draft.
	Okay.
	Yeah, sure.
	Don't draft.
	Don't eat me.
	Oh, God.
	Okay.
	I don't have time to roll my joint, man.
	What are you doing?
	Go.
	Hold on.
	Why can't I find Don't Eat Me, Ace?
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.
	I know what it is, John.
	Thanks.
	Don't laugh.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
	Shut up.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.
	Shut up.
	You've got karma.
	My goodness.
	You should probably ISO that.
	Yeah, make it tighter.
	I use it for different things.
	Sir J.D. Barron of Silicon Valley, I got a note for him.
	His note is not concatenated.
	It is...
	Abbreviated?
	It's cut off.
	Cut off.
	3-2-1-1-6.
	He's in San Jose.
	Holiday greetings from the Baron of Silicon Valley.
	Sir JD, please accept this new countdown contribution.
	Oh, by the way, this was good.
	I read this part.
	I think it may be a guy because I sent him a note.
	He says, and read this important message too in this blank.
	Now, his donation is 3-2-1-1-6.
	And he says this is the countdown donation, which we'll put in the next newsletter for New Year's, which is coming up this week.
	Oh, 3, 2, 1, 16.
	Oh, very nice.
	Yes, 3, 2, 1, 2016.
	So I thought that was very creative.
	That's a good idea.
	I like that a lot.
	I like it a lot.
	Very creative.
	Joseph Gilbert in Duncanville, Texas.
	I don't even know where that is.
	Never heard of Duncanville.
	No.
	Oh, nice.
	Moved to Dallas, from Dallas to New York City for a promotion.
	Wow.
	Got an unsuspecting year end bonus and thought that it was time to chip in.
	Oh, nice.
	So I can help keep the show running.
	I know if I don't give something, the show would go off the air.
	I've noticed The Economist has gotten worse in the last year and recently ended my subscription before you mentioned it.
	Me.
	I bitched about The Economist turning into garbage.
	Do either one of you have a replacement suggestion?
	Hmm.
	Any other life advice about living in New York?
	Yeah.
	Be careful.
	Don't eat the yellow snow.
	It would be much appreciated.
	Accounting of the previous donation confirmation number.
	He goes on and on.
	Joseph Gilbert.
	Advice for New York life?
	You lived there for a while.
	Yeah, well...
	I've been there a lot, but I've never actually taken a...
	I don't have any...
	Well, the...
	What's that?
	The green line?
	What is that?
	The upper line thing?
	That's something cool to be seeing.
	That's down by Brooklyn.
	Have you been to Grant's Tomb?
	No.
	See, this is what I want to do.
	Yeah?
	I like to go watch microgreens grow.
	Well, there's plenty of that.
	That's my idea of a good time.
	Microgreens.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I'm going to give Joseph some karma here, because that is very nice.
	Thank you so much.
	You've got karma.
	25?
	Are you kidding me?
	So the difference between a 19-year-old moron who's tweeting, you know, getting arrested for tweeting, and then here's a 25-year-old no-agenda listener.
	Yeah.
	Also in the millennial group, but surviving.
	Yeah.
	That's good.
	I think noagendanewsnetwork.com is good if you just want to get some stories.
	I know what he's looking for because The Economist provides this kind of...
	It's like a...
	It's a weekend collection.
	It's a collection of stuff and it's to the point and usually not with a lot of rhetoric.
	But they've changed.
	They're not nearly as good.
	Exactly.
	And the new editor is not helping.
	They're just trying to be his most clickbait now.
	Right.
	And I don't know.
	John Kumar.
	Is that what I'm looking at?
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	London, UK. He has a note.
	Actually, he sent a note in.
	So let me read from this email because this thing doesn't look like the full length.
	No.
	Please find a donation of 300 bucks for all the great work you do.
	The last time I made a donation and asked for jobs karma, it worked!
	Ding, ding, ding!
	Can I request some jobs and relationship karma this time around, please?
	Can I also get the following jingles in the following order?
	Okay.
	Whoopee, get out of my vagina.
	Hillary's laugh cackle.
	Your kids must be so proud of you.
	Hillary's laugh cackle.
	Wait a minute.
	Something's going wrong with the whoopee thing.
	Yeah, laugh cackle.
	See, this is why I need to have copies of these before we start.
	I just found this by accident.
	Okay, no, that's cool.
	But I'm still looking for...
	Yeah, keep it going.
	And shut up, don't laugh.
	Which is funny.
	There's, again, the random number thing happening.
	People asking for the same thing.
	They want that.
	Yeah, that is interesting.
	And he says, thanks for all the work and all the...
	And you do.
	Us do.
	Yes.
	And all the best for 2016.
	Hail Apple and go podcasting.
	Absolutely.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yeah!
	Get out of my vagina!
	What?
	You've got karma.
	Oh, fucker.
	Didn't play.
	What didn't play?
	The Don't Ruff didn't play.
	Don't Ruff!
	There you go.
	Done!
	Oops.
	Well, you know, when people are asking for five different jingles in a row and I can't read ahead in the spreadsheet to see what it is, it's kind of hard.
	It did fine.
	Okay.
	You're always complaining.
	George Burdell in...
	Is that how you talk to your wife?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I do, actually.
	Quit complaining.
	You're always complaining.
	I think all men would like to say that they're their wives.
	John C. DeVore actually does it, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's a real man right there, people.
	Hey, quit complaining.
	George Burdell in Kula Maui, Hawaii.
	No, it's in Kula Maui.
	Got put in wrong.
	Hawaii, $273.88.
	He sent a note in.
	This was a check.
	Let's see what he says.
	And this is probably why when I wrote the thing down, I probably got it wrong.
	My microphone is slipping all over the place.
	Greetings from a fellow ham on Maui.
	Hey, seven threes!
	Please provide a much-needed dedouching, as I have been a listener since show 600-something, and this is my first donation.
	Here we go.
	You've been dedouched.
	He wants a combo at the end of Dvorak's 3x3 and the Calypso Ebola.
	Okay.
	I only read you further of interest, he says, so it gives us an option.
	I'd like that.
	This is rather late, but if you requested titles for certain recurring themes for the show, for example, something for Hillary adherents, much like Obots for Obama followers, and something for the involuntary reflex to constantly check one's cell phone, may I submit?
	May I submit?
	Sappho-bots?
	A bit much.
	Yeah, perhaps.
	And tech Tourette's.
	Ooh.
	Yeah, but that's triggering things with me.
	Trigger warning.
	What?
	Oh, it's triggering my Tourette's.
	Oh, well.
	Okay, well, never mind.
	Staffo boss is a bit much.
	Yeah.
	Tech Tourette's I like, though.
	Tech Tourette's.
	I can take one for the team.
	Okay, well, maybe we'll use it for something.
	Anyway, there you go.
	And then he's got his request, 3x3 and Ebola and Karma.
	Was it, is that the Matilda song?
	Is that what it is?
	Yeah.
	Ebola.
	Yeah, that one.
	And then Dvorak's 3x3.
	I don't know what.
	Well, okay, I'll do that one first.
	E-O-L-A, whoop-a-doop-a-doop-a-doop-a-doop-a-e-cola, whoop-a-doop-a-doop-a-doop-a-e-cola.
	E-O-L-A, they come from Africa, Nip-a-ya-ya.
	And now it's time for 3x3, Experiment by JCD.
	Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC.
	The never-ending 3x3.
	What? You've got karma.
	Creative license.
	Creative license.
	Tim Winesiri in Shakopee, Minnesota.
	25052.
	We have a lot of executive producers and associate executives today.
	Fabulous.
	And we want to thank them all.
	But in particular, Tim.
	Dear Adam and John, this is Tim the Astronomer checking in.
	You guys haven't heard from me much, but I have been listening for 4.5 years now.
	It's very accurate.
	How many souls is that?
	I even met Adam and Mickey at the Austin Farmers Market.
	I went through the astronomy PhD program at UT, University of Texas, and have subsequently moved on for work.
	Having strong ties to Austin, I get a real kick out of the shows where Adam mentions his contact from McDonald's Observatory.
	The show where Adam talked about visiting the observatory was outstanding.
	The Brazilian astronomer Adam was so enamored with was actually my office mate at UT for an entire year.
	This is the worst donation note ever.
	Because now Tina the Keeper is hearing my ex-wife's name, the hot Brazilian astronomer.
	This is bad, people.
	This is very bad.
	Yeah, it is bad, Tim.
	This is a donation.
	I obviously enjoy this show.
	Did you mention the hot Brazilian show?
	Yeah.
	A lot of Brazilians are hot, by the way.
	Her husband was also there on site.
	But it was of note.
	He says, I especially appreciate being updated on events now that I'm abroad.
	$218 of this donation is the TV license I'm not buying this year.
	Is this that high?
	Is he in the UK? Yeah.
	Yeah, I think it's...
	I'm thinking it's 190 pounds or something.
	It's gone up to 218.
	No way!
	That's what he says.
	Or maybe he's got it in dollars, but I think he means pounds.
	It's always going to go up.
	I look forward to some fantastic and hilarious election year coverage from you both.
	One thing that has never been mentioned on the show is the potential candidacy of Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota, Navy SEAL. He's not a SEAL. He was a frog man.
	An masculine badass.
	Frog man.
	He openly discusses it, although they sell him as a SEAL. It's 145.5 pounds.
	His tentative plans for doing so via the Libertarian Party on the Aura TV online show was called Off the Grid.
	If he can get into the debates, he's not getting into the debates.
	Nothing's like that's happening.
	Don't even consider it.
	That's not how it works.
	This is America.
	That's not how it works.
	Great job.
	Please never stop.
	Okay.
	Give him some karma.
	Move him along.
	I've got to tell you something I saw.
	You've got karma.
	No, I'm always cruising through the No Agenda subreddit.
	There's this guy who posted a theory that Black Lives Matter, what they were all about, is removing the presidents from universities and colleges so then the electoral college will vote the way the Democrats want them to.
	Somehow this guy thought that the Electoral College is a bunch of universities.
	It's like a college.
	No, it's the guys who run the colleges and the universities.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Black Lives Matter.
	Wrong.
	Their strategy is to replace them all with shills.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Very funny.
	It was one of my favorites.
	Yeah, it's a winner.
	Totally a winner.
	Dame Patricia from Biscayne Bay in Florida, $250, has sent a note in.
	She actually sent a nice card.
	Oh, lovely.
	It was a card.
	ITM for both of you, wishing you both Merry Christmases.
	If it gets there in time, you're talking about car getting here.
	Close enough.
	Just missed.
	Thanks for all you do.
	It's an immeasurable.
	Requesting job karma from my various family members and karma.
	And karma for both of you.
	Wishing you the best.
	P.S. She likes puppies rather than the other animals.
	I thought you had a fabulous hedgehog.
	The hedgehog was in this last newsletter.
	Yes.
	I think the hedgehog performed well.
	Somebody wrote in saying fabulous hedgehog.
	That's a bumper sticker right there.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Onward to Jeffrey Bartolotta in San Marcos, California.
	23456.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Can I get a dedouching and some karma?
	Please call out Willie for not donating.
	As a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	She is a Gitmo Nation lowlands.
	She is from Gitmo Nation lowlands and claims I wouldn't be Dutch-like to donate to the show.
	Ah, this is not true.
	No, that's not true at all.
	You brought this up before.
	The Dutch, I'm going to reiterate and you can tell me where I'm wrong.
	The Dutch don't mind donating if it's not to a Dutch cause.
	Exactly.
	If it's for Dutch people, we're not going to do it.
	Screw them.
	So she's wrong.
	She's used to buff them.
	Yeah, wrong.
	Just wrong.
	All right.
	De-douching and karma for Jeff.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much.
	Jeffrey Bartolotta in San Marcos, California.
	Thomas Butterick, who sent a note in.
	And he came in with two, three, four, five, sixes in Dayton.
	And let me go back to my email page and go to Butterick, which is down here.
	Sorry, it takes a second.
	Ah!
	Butterick, Butterick, Butterick.
	Here it is.
	Hello, Ohio folks.
	Heyo!
	Merry Christmas.
	I'm inept with PayPal and didn't attach a note.
	I hope this donation helps push y'all through the holiday doldrums.
	Please welcome David Johnson to the No Agenda family, who I successfully hit in the mouth over Thanksgiving.
	Call out Samuel Butterick, his brother.
	My brother.
	This is from Thomas.
	Call out Samuel Butterick as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Because his Xbox is more important than value for value.
	I request a jingle of your choice from each of you and a healthy dose of karma.
	And in regards, Sir Ladyfingers, Night of the No Agenda Roundtable, I should call these counting.
	I think she's a parent.
	You've got karma.
	Give us an option.
	We're going to play some longer jingles for you at the end of the show.
	Okay.
	Does that sound good?
	Sounds good to me.
	Sounds good to me.
	I wish I knew the options.
	Well, you know, he says anything.
	Oh, okay.
	You just do a jazz.
	It's a moment of hand jazz at the end of the show.
	I'd say 99% of the time, these are fantastic little ditties that you put together.
	On the fly.
	On the fly with the listeners in mind.
	Yes.
	To make them happy.
	Any new songs come in?
	No, no new songs, no.
	Yeah, I know.
	We need more songs, people.
	Yeah, the songs are fantastic.
	Carl Haberger in Rochester, New York, came in with $222.22, and he says the following.
	If I could just make this bigger.
	Gents, I discovered your show earlier in the year thanks to JCD on Twit.
	I now find that show mostly unlistenable and don't miss an episode of No Agenda.
	Thank you for the great work.
	As my way of wishing you both a Merry Christmas, I'm sharing my bonus with you.
	Thank you very much.
	That's very cool.
	Please give me an Obama No No No medley.
	Looking forward to more brilliant deconstructions throughout 2016.
	We'll add some karma to that as well.
	Watching you.
	You've got karma.
	That was a good one.
	That's real.
	That's pretty new.
	I never heard it.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I wish it was a little longer.
	Yeah.
	Which I normally wouldn't say about anything.
	All right.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Alex Simkus.
	Yes, we got Alex Simkus.
	I'm trying to see if we got a note from him.
	He has 20202 palindrome.
	Nice one.
	Yeah, we don't have a note from him.
	I looked and looked.
	All right.
	Sorry.
	We open A and go to B. Trevor Mudge.
	In Ann Arbor, Michigan came in, and he did send something, and I believe...
	Not here.
	He's not the Willamette guy.
	We got a lot of 200s, and so I try to put these things in kind of order.
	And then if they're all 200, it doesn't really help much, much.
	Your system is infallible.
	The system has issues.
	Yeah.
	Jeremy Gray in Gisborne in New Zealand.
	No note.
	David Kay in Tempe, Arizona.
	Merry Christmas, belated Christmas to you and your families.
	And let me slide this down.
	Come on, slide, slide.
	That's it.
	The McKernan family in Roanoke, Virginia, 200.
	And they sent a nice Christmas card with a picture of the mom and the daughter, little boy, and a note.
	I don't know why the dad was left out of this picture, the family picture.
	If it was on the check...
	Anyway, Christmas greetings from the whole McKiernan family.
	I love the show, especially the Slave Scanner.
	The Slave Scanned.
	Also, Dana Tips.
	Tim has spent years telling the TSA he can't raise his arms.
	Oh, the Tips.
	Travel Tips.
	Here is a new tip for something by theaters.
	Security theater.
	It's just handwritten, by the way.
	I'm losing it, I guess.
	If you're wearing a black brace, no slave scanner for your...
	Black slave, no...
	If you're wearing a back brace...
	A back brace.
	No slave scanner for you.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Oh, that is interesting.
	Yeah, I didn't know that.
	And his mini spiral illusion this fall, I had to wear a...
	John, this is really bad.
	This is not broadcasting.
	You're mumbling.
	Every time I went through TSA, they automatically passed me, opted me out.
	Just tell them you can't take it off.
	Right.
	Keep up the good work, gents.
	You know that now the TSA, they've changed the rules.
	They can force you to go through the slave scanner.
	Even if you want to opt out, they can force you.
	Did you know this?
	Yeah.
	This came up recently.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, I like to opt out.
	I like the back brace.
	It's a little complicated to carry it around with me the rest of my journey.
	And it's also kind of...
	Back brace?
	Yeah, it's kind of soliciting, you know, bad mojo.
	Back breaks.
	Oh, you're one of those guys.
	Yeah, careful.
	Don't sit in a wheelchair.
	It'll jinx you.
	You'll get in one.
	Onward.
	I've known.
	Sir, 10 CFR 50, Appendix B in Dallas, Oregon.
	Which, of course, is the quality assurance criteria for nuclear power plants and fuel reprocessing plants.
	Yes, and he has a note too, and this one's printed on a computer, so maybe I can read it.
	He printed it on the computer in longhand.
	ITM Jensen, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
	I can say that without being politically incorrect because I had four ancestors come over on the Mayflower.
	Heh heh.
	This donation puts me at Baronet.
	I'd appreciate it if I could be granted the title Baronet of the Willamette Valley and also if Eric the Shill would revise the map to indicate my relocation from Corvallis to Dallas, Oregon.
	Finally took possession of the hay farm yesterday.
	I'll be traveling to Germany, Frankfurt, and Nuremberg on business next month and will try to get some photos and booty on the ground reports for you.
	Yeah, from getting me some photos of migrants pooping.
	I'm looking forward to your continuing commentary during the run-up to the elections, as is everyone, and the Obama administration's continuing efforts to nullify our constitutional rights.
	Guys, I cannot begin to tell you how much your research and deconstruction has helped me make sense of the craziness going on.
	Please keep on keeping it on.
	I'd like to hear the following jingles.
	A-team?
	Oh, I haven't played that one in a while.
	Obama, no?
	Yes, just any generic one, I guess?
	Yes, two to the head, and can you see that juice?
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Obama...
	I'm having trouble today for some reason.
	You're probably hungover.
	No, I'm not hungover at all.
	Oh, I got it.
	Okay.
	Obama Team America.
	Sorry, you have to give me the list again.
	A Team.
	Yeah, I got the A Team.
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	Yeah.
	Two to the head.
	Two to the head.
	Can you see the juice?
	Can you see the juice?
	So I have to get the no, no, no.
	Play the one you just played.
	I liked it.
	No, I want to play a different one.
	Okay, and I'm just really sucking today.
	Two to the head and juice.
	Okay, we can probably play this one first.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America.
	And that's the story.
	No, no, no, no.
	Can you see that juice?
	You've got karma.
	All right, there we go.
	Tuffy.
	James, K-E-4-G-I-V-A-I-V in Richmond, Virginia.
	Kilo Vector 4, Golf India Victor.
	Seven threes.
	Kilo Fox 5, Sierra Leone in November.
	200 bucks.
	And this is our last association that produces a lot of them today.
	Well, people are giving us Christmas gifts.
	I think it's fantastic.
	Appreciate it.
	He sent us a note.
	He called himself James in Richmond.
	It has been a while since my last donation, so please dedouche me.
	Here is a meager contribution to the best podcast in the universe.
	You keep me informed and entertained, and I laugh at my co-workers as they watch and believe the media bullcrap.
	It'd be nice if you had an HF meetup sometime.
	Adam, take your buddy pole with you and the Airstream of Consciousness.
	I'd love to get both of you on my logbook.
	Hey, I'm on the air all the time.
	May I please get some badly needed jobs, Carmen?
	Don't forget he's dedouching first.
	Yes.
	73s.
	73s.
	Well, listen, I'm on PSK 31 on 20 meters almost all the time.
	Do you have a card you send out?
	Do you have a card?
	I got a QSL card, I sure do.
	Is it a good looking one?
	Has it got a funny cartoon on it?
	You've been de-douged.
	No comment.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	No, I'll be on PSK 31 20 meters today.
	And I've got FL Digi set up so it alerts me when it recognizes my call sign.
	FL Digi?
	Mm-hmm.
	Wow.
	Oh, FL Digi.
	That's the bomb.
	It's the bomb.
	It's the cat's butt.
	It is not.
	It's the cat's meow.
	Oh, whatever.
	It's the cat's butt.
	Okie dokie.
	Thank you.
	This was great.
	What a fantastic Christmas gift you executive producers and associate executive producers have given us.
	Thank you so much.
	And I think you can actually say...
	And I said, I think.
	Damn it.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	You didn't say I believe.
	No, I don't want to say I believe.
	I don't want to say either one.
	Here's what I do want to say.
	You can use this as a Christmas special credit.
	I keep saying it now.
	Oh my God, it's horrible.
	I'm pretty sure that would be permissible, John.
	You could call yourself an executive or associate executive producer of the No Agenda Show Christmas Special.
	Well, you can do that for the last show, too.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	I didn't mention it, but yes, of course.
	All right.
	So do that, and if anyone has any questions, we're happy to vouch for you.
	And please remember us for our Thursday show, which will be on New Year's Eve.
	Yes, we are working again.
	Dvorak.
	And remember these holidays are just perfect for you to go out and propagate our formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Hey, two emails came in, John.
	This is a live show, as most people know, that we recorded live on Thursdays and Sundays at 9 a.m.
	Gitmo Nation, West Time.
	So first, a note about Star Wars.
	I do think it's worth reading this from producer Tom Snyder.
	Star Wars is racist.
	The only black guy in the movie is a janitor.
	Is this true, John?
	No.
	Yeah, that's actually a joke that they do later.
	By the way, let's stop with that.
	I don't know.
	This is another plot hole.
	The black stormtrooper comes out.
	He's told to gun people down.
	He's shooting.
	Somebody dies in front of him.
	He decides to quit the business.
	But he's very sensitive, I guess.
	But he was part of the firing squad to kill a bunch of people.
	I don't see how this makes him a janitor.
	Hmm.
	You don't normally give the janitors the AK-47 and tell them to gun down people.
	But later in the story, they kept, because it was kind of a running gag, oh, you know, what did you do?
	Can you really do this?
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	And they said, what did you do there?
	And they said, I was a sanitation engineer.
	And that was used as the punchline for what can we do with these people and put them in a trash chute.
	It was weak.
	So no.
	By the way, we got a letter from...
	Did we read this?
	No, I think we didn't do this.
	There's a $250 donation that came in last show from Shiloh Brown.
	And there's a note I just ran into, which is the donation is a Christmas gift for her husband, Dennis.
	Oh, did we miss that?
	I guess so.
	I don't remember it, and he's hard to shop for.
	And he never gives me any ideas for his gift, just like all men.
	By the way, I came...
	I don't want to keep belaboring or yakking away like this, but...
	I came up with the solution to that problem.
	This will be the best gift that you'll ever get, Shiloh.
	I got some of my best gifts this year because instead of, give us a list.
	Where's your list?
	What do you want?
	Give us a list.
	Everybody in the family.
	Give us a list.
	I never do the list.
	So instead, I had...
	John, I feel really bad if your family members sound like that.
	Yeah.
	Give us a list.
	Well, it's just, I'm exaggerating.
	Okay.
	But they're begging and begging and begging.
	It's mostly an email, so I don't have a voice for them.
	Give us a list.
	Give us a list.
	Okay, I never give them a list.
	This year, I gave them a list because I sat down with Mimi and talked over stuff which reminded me of things I do want.
	Oh.
	So in other words, sit down with your husband or find some way where you can talk to him.
	And then with the pad and pen, you have your pad and pen.
	And then he'll come up with the gift ideas.
	And you'll just, then you can tell everybody what his gift list is.
	Otherwise, you're never going to get one.
	Okay.
	She goes on to say she looks forward to the Wednesdays and Thursdays, find herself constantly discussing the topics, and the show throughout the week, you provide a much-needed dose of sanity, and she wants a de-douching and karma for the husband and Dennis, and he's going back to school this coming year.
	I'd also like to request a boom shakalaka, which...
	Okay, I can...
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	Done.
	Related, but still.
	David Didman just sent a note in.
	You were posing the question about what Islamophobia and Black Lives Matter have to do with each other.
	And I love, this is what I love about our show.
	Boots on the ground everywhere.
	I can add some information to your query.
	The idea of Black Lives Matter and Islamophobia is a political move on the part of Black Lives Matter to get more people involved with the demonstration.
	As best that I can tell, the demonstrations were heavily dominated by U.S.-born African-American and whites.
	The Minneapolis BLM chapter is trying to bridge a gap between the East African Somali immigrant population who are Muslim and the U.S.-born African-American population.
	In Minneapolis, most of the East African immigrants are from Somalia and Muslim.
	Good point.
	Makes sense for Minnesota for them to do that.
	I don't know if that works everywhere where they had these protests, but let's keep our eye on this.
	This is good.
	We need local coverage and lots of it.
	Very suspicious.
	So I was watching C-SPAN, and there was a care...
	Actually, it was the United States...
	I think the group of Muslim organizations or the community of Muslim organizations of which CARE is a member.
	And of course, it's interesting because they have a lot of political speech, a lot of political speech about, you know, if you are an Islamophobe, we're not going to vote for you, and we're going to be talking to Congress.
	You have to listen to it.
	I cut down to about a minute, 15.
	But, of course, most of these groups can't lobby Congress because of their 5013C status.
	Some of them have a 4 status where they can lobby, but that also someone kind of mentioned that, I think, in this clip.
	So they're doing a lot of propaganda, and, of course, they're obviously there to get rid of Donald Trump.
	We're going to use the ballot.
	We're going to use the ballot to say we'll use the ballots to fight bigotry.
	And this guy, I think, is from the Nation of Islam.
	I'm not 100% sure.
	He likes the word ballot.
	Ballot, oh yeah.
	We're going to do.
	And so, let it be heard and clear to all political candidates, be it Donald Trump or whoever else.
	That indeed, if you engage in Islamophobia, if you engage in demagoguery and bigotry...
	Interesting.
	I don't think you can engage in Islamophobia.
	Islamophobia is a fear.
	It's an irrational fear.
	I don't think you consciously engage in irrational fears.
	It's a misuse of the word at best.
	It's a misuse of the word.
	If you engage in Islamophobia, if you engage in demagoguery and bigotry, you will pay a political price because we're going to register our people and we're going to use our ballot and we're going to take our souls to the polls and make sure you're out of there.
	And just to clarify, none of our organizations, including the USCMO, is endorsing any candidate.
	So there will be another organization that might be formed from the community that will make that decision.
	Oh, did I just hear that?
	Is that Deepak Chopra?
	Who was that?
	This is the guy from CARE. I like how he says, but there will be another organization that will be formed that will be able to do this.
	There will be another organization that might be formed from the community that will make that decision, but most of us are 501c3 organizations.
	But yes, we're going to be engaged, and as we say, in November...
	They're kind of like giving away that they are cheaters.
	We remember.
	If you as a political candidate choose to spew hatred, bigotry, and to vilify Muslim Americans, you do so at your own political risk.
	We will use every democratic means and political strategies to ensure that your candidacy never succeeds.
	Alright.
	Gotcha.
	So CARE, getting a big part of the media, which came up in the year-end conversation between NPR's, what's the guy, the Inkskeep, I think is his name, and the president.
	And, you know, we kind of, I think it's in this clip where we kind of like crowd hammers Deconstruction.
	The president didn't really mean that he isn't watching cable news, but he was being arrogant.
	Like the plebs who get all hyped up about ISIS. It's really all not that bad.
	It's the media's fault.
	It's all the media's fault.
	So this came up in this question and answer.
	What is the public missing about your strategy?
	And I say that simply because, according to polls, you don't have very much approval for it.
	Well, I think what's fair is that, post-Paris, you had a saturation of news about the horrible attack there.
	ISIL combines viciousness with very savvy media operations.
	Wait a minute.
	What media operations do they have?
	Yeah, shut them down.
	They don't have media operations unless you're talking about...
	He's probably talking about CNN. Yeah.
	CNN is the Caliphate News Network.
	Very savvy media operations.
	Savvy?
	Savvy?
	As a consequence, if you've been watching...
	NBC should hire them if they're that savvy.
	They need the help.
	Television for the last...
	Wait a minute, let me roll that back.
	Is he really...
	This is nuts.
	He's saying that...
	By the way, he sees...
	And this will come up after the clip because I'll mention it.
	He talks like one of the sloths in that cartoon.
	Yeah.
	He does.
	All he needs is a rubber stamp.
	Oh, I need to point out it was the DMV where the sloths were, and not the post office.
	It wasn't the post office, it was the DMV. It looked the same.
	Very savvy media operations.
	Yes, he's a sloth.
	And as a consequence, if you've been watching television for the last month, God!
	He's actually saying that ISIS is so media savvy that they now have control of cable news.
	And he says, if you have been watching television for the last month...
	If you've been watching television for the last...
	He's a stoner sloth.
	God!
	All you've been seeing, all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you.
	Well, who's media savvy then?
	You referred to ISIL's sophisticated media operation and also referred to what Americans are seeing in the American media.
	Are you suggesting that the media are being played in a sense here?
	Look, the media is pursuing ratings.
	This is a legitimate news story.
	I think that it's up to the media to make a determination about how they want to cover this.
	There is no doubt that the actions of ISIL...
	Are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose.
	That helps them recruit.
	That adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to have carry out an action, that somehow they're part of a larger movement.
	And so I think that the American people...
	He's got this death rasp in his breath when he's in between words.
	Listen.
	And...
	So...
	Wow!
	Whoa!
	This is not good!
	You know, I think there's...
	He's so...
	Those pauses are so long you can clip that together.
	He's...
	You know, he...
	I think that he's been taken over by a host body or something, and inside he's streaming for help.
	He'd be the host body.
	Yeah, but he's inside.
	Yeah, he might be a different person in there.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The other Obama.
	Listen, listen, listen.
	The other Obama trying to get out.
	And so, I think...
	Help!
	Get me out, Valerie Jarrett's evil!
	The American people absorb that.
	Understandably are of concern.
	All right, fine.
	Did the media heed the president's warning?
	No.
	No, of course not.
	A couple of great reports came out.
	This must be my most favorite of the Christmas holiday spirits.
	A ghoulish revelation from the archives of Islamic State.
	The jihadist group sanctioning the harvest of human organs.
	Woohoo!
	Document seized by the U.S. This is great!
	I thought you got this.
	I didn't get this, but I know.
	I had to search high and low.
	...harvest of human organs.
	Document seized by the U.S. This is great!
	I thought you got this.
	I didn't get this, but I know.
	I had to search high and low.
	...harvest of human organs.
	Document seized by the U.S. Actually, the report is so good.
	Because you'll hear around three-quarters of the way through that it's alleged we have no confirmation, we're not sure, but it made a great headline, didn't it?
	That's pretty much what this is.
	A ghoulish revelation from the archives of Islamic State, the jihadist group sanctioning the harvest of human organs.
	Documents seized in a U.S. commando raid reviewed exclusively by Reuters shows a ruling from ISIS religious scholars that taking organs from a living captive to save a Muslim's life, even if fatal for the prisoner, is permitted.
	So what's good about this is they say right up front, sanctioned, which is, you know, expensive English for...
	They didn't do it.
	They just said it's okay to do it, and they found it in some dude's notebook.
	The group's harsh interpretation of Islamic law is rejected by the overwhelming majority of Muslims.
	Reuters has not been able to independently verify the document.
	U.S. officials say it was among a trove of data seized when special forces killed a top ISIS financier last May.
	Oh, that's when they got the CFO, John.
	They got the rules for organ transplants.
	This is great.
	We did the numbers on a spreadsheet.
	Yeah, he's like, this is much cheaper.
	The religious ruling, or fatwa, does not offer proof that ISIS has engaged in organ harvesting, but raises fears that jihadists may engage in organ trafficking as a source of revenue.
	Yeah, that's a booming business.
	It's so much less complicated than oil.
	Iraq has previously accused Islamic State of harvesting organs for profit.
	The U.S. commando raid netting terabytes of data, showing ISIS... Terabytes of data?
	Oh, really?
	...in a network, including black market sales of looted antiquities.
	But the translated documents reviewed by Reuters are the first to show Islamic State's legal justifications for practices ranging from organ harvesting to the rape of female captives.
	The documents bear the seal of the Islamic State's Research and Fatwa Committee.
	Which a U.S. official says reports directly to the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
	This is such a...
	Research and fatwa committee.
	We're having a meeting!
	Hello!
	Hello!
	Time for research and fatwa committee!
	What's on the agenda?
	Yeah.
	So the sanctions could be coming up there.
	They're sanctioned to harvest organs.
	It's okay.
	You can harvest organs.
	Go ahead.
	Who's going to buy these organs?
	No, this is a bad signal to Rita Katz.
	It's time to make some videos.
	Oh, that's right.
	That's exactly what it is.
	No one wants to talk to her directly.
	Of course not.
	You can't have a trail.
	No, we want to have Rita Katz thinking, oh, yes.
	I mean, think about it.
	What kind of a...
	What are they going to do?
	Roll out a cart full of hearts and livers and spleens and then say, we've got these for sale today at Wild Arab, the hot shot organ donor dealer.
	Let me tell you everybody, Crazy Arab is insane!
	Crazy Eddie.
	Crazy Arab.
	No, Crazy Arab is good.
	Crazy Arab is insane.
	We've got insane prices for hearts on sale.
	I was reading, I think someone sent me a note.
	Do you remember we were looking at a business opportunity about shampoo made out of camel urine?
	Another one of the great concepts.
	So there was a guy in Saudi Arabia and he was selling camel urine in shampoo and handy drink size bottles.
	I believe people also drink that sometimes.
	They've been smuggling it too in the United States.
	So it turns out this guy was selling his own urine.
	He's selling his own urine?
	Oh my god.
	There's another sucker.
	It's so much more disgusting than camel urine, honestly.
	I can't believe someone would drink that drink.
	The guy gets a big kick out of it.
	It's like some pervert selling his pee.
	Yeah, no, it's camel urine, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's camel urine.
	I'm just disgusted at that thought.
	I've been thinking you're slurping down some wonderful camel urine and it's a human urine.
	Oh my gosh, that's horrible.
	We're washing your hair.
	Anyway, to wrap up our caliphate segment on my end, of course, we needed to scare everybody in the federated United States of Europe.
	And this was the report over there on Euronews, which is spread far and wide.
	Several European cities are being warned of a possible terror attack that is coming from police in Vienna.
	They received a warning from a friendly intelligence service, and they are now taking the necessary precautions just to make sure that nothing happens.
	There's increased vigilance in suitcases and bags.
	A lot of people traveling, obviously.
	And they are making sure that high public events, a lot of people, are also being monitored closely.
	But how much credence should people put in this?
	Especially law enforcement.
	We don't know the source of this warning.
	They say a friendly intelligence service.
	Yeah.
	Friendly intelligence service.
	They don't know nothing.
	They're just talking in the wind, just trying to scare people.
	But there was something real that happened.
	There were a couple of things that were pretty interesting regarding Erdogan and the Ottoman Empire.
	Now, all eyes are on Turkey, as far as I'm concerned, after the Seymour Hersh article, where he very clearly states that it was Turkey who co-opted the whole idea of the United States arming moderate rebels.
	And, you know, the constant supply of really ammunition is what you need to look at is coming from Turkey.
	That's there's a lot of how the generals and everyone was sneaking information through a back route to, you know.
	Yes, I have some Hersh clips.
	Oh, let's do this, please.
	Because then, yeah, that's important.
	Well, let's start with...
	Let's do that before I do Turkey.
	It's good.
	Let's do that.
	Okay, do the...
	Then I have a Hirsch on Turkey.
	So let's talk about Hirsch, Seymour Hirsch, as everybody knows.
	Yeah, a very famous writer, researcher, investigative reporter.
	Pulitzer Prize winning...
	He is, and he always does these off-the-wall reports that just get everybody all upset, but they try not to make a big deal out of him, because maybe if nobody says anything, they won't read it.
	So he did a piece in the London Book Review, which Horace has published now, because they kicked him out of the United States and won't let him publish.
	Well, let's just review.
	I think I could, maybe there's a quick refresher clip.
	The previous big expose Hirsch did, everybody scoffed at.
	Right?
	Yeah, they scoff at all this stuff.
	It's in every...
	This is, I think, Mike Morrell.
	...every aspect of the story he tells.
	The Pakistanis were not holding bin Laden under house arrest.
	So this is the clip where he just goes on and on about how Hirsch was wrong about the Osama bin Laden raid.
	He said the thing was a phony.
	Everybody knew about it.
	Pakistan knew it.
	And he went on a very elaborate article.
	I think it ran in the New Yorker.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so this one says that, this is a weirder one, because this says that the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Dempsey were slipping intelligence information into Germany and other...
	Right, and the German BND, these are the guys, they're the intelligence organization of Europe.
	They're the guys that were slipping that information back to Assad's guys to tell them what was going on so they knew kind of what to expect because the U.S. generals were trying to tamper it down.
	The U.S. generals felt that if Assad went like we wanted him to, they would be stuck with ISIS running the country and it would make matters even worse than they are.
	So they'd pull a kind of a trick.
	And even though it's trees and it's this and it's that, it probably isn't.
	But let's play Hirsch's discussion, initial discussion, which is the clip that says what?
	Hirsch on Turkey?
	Hirsch on the new chief of staff.
	As this went on, Hirsch in his article says that the Distressing that the new chief of staff is nothing like Dempsey, who we've talked about in the past, is supposedly a good guy.
	Yeah, who is that new guy again?
	We haven't heard much from him.
	Well, his name will be mentioned.
	But the new guy is just lockstep whatever Valerie Jarrett says and Obama says and the Kegans say it's fine with him.
	He doesn't give a crap.
	Dunford.
	Dunford.
	And he's just useless as tits on a bull.
	And Hirsch says so.
	A nice one.
	National terrorism.
	And I can't tell you how many people I know inside the military and the intelligence community, as loyal to America as you want to be, think our first move after 9-11 probably should have been to Moscow and to say, what can you tell us about terrorism?
	We've got it right here.
	And you've had it for a long time.
	Let's talk about it.
	You have to separate some issues.
	But we don't seem to be very good.
	We seem to live in a world of propaganda and likes and dislikes above our own national interests.
	I want to go back to the key point that you make in this piece.
	It's a kind of coup policy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff conducting a very different policy than President Obama was espousing.
	What has the White House—how have they responded to your piece, if they have?
	I don't think they want to hear about it.
	He's in Hawaii.
	The mainstream press is sort of like, you know, what?
	This can't be.
	There's an anonymous source.
	You know the drill.
	You and I have been talking since 9-11.
	Every time I do a story, one of the things we talk about is one of the reasons I'm delighted to go on your show is at least here I can have more than three or four sentences.
	And General Dempsey, him leaving?
	Did you edit that?
	No.
	As he says, oh, it's so nice to have three or four sentences.
	She cuts them off right away.
	That's great.
	Since 9-11, every time I do a story, one of the things we talk about is one of the reasons I'm delighted to go on your show is at least here I can have more than three or four sentences.
	And General Dempsey, him leaving, what this means for their policy?
	Or has overall the policy shifted to what the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Dempsey wanted to begin with?
	There's a new leadership in the Pentagon, and both general—the new chairman, Dunford, has testified a couple of times—I write about this at the end of my piece—and following the party line totally, which is that Russia is not bombing any Islamic states, and that there are moderates, and we can pull it out with the moderates.
	The new secretary of defense is on the same point.
	Ash Carter has said a few times in testimony—and he gave a speech at Harvard the other week— Which he basically said followed the party line or followed the president's line dutifully.
	And I guess that's, you know, if you want to be in that job, you have to do so.
	And it's sort of interesting to me that at some point, some other military leaders decided that they couldn't follow the policy because it was nonsensical and did something about it.
	Huh.
	Well, they pretty much explained the whole thing right there.
	Nonsensical.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, what are you supposed to do?
	You know, it's like the Woody Allen movie, Bananas.
	The first thing the new dictator asks people to do is have to wear the underwear on the outside of their hands.
	Daily inspection.
	The John C. Dvorak version of the Obama White House policy.
	Well, he goes on, and this will probably be a good setup for your little Turkey exposition.
	He goes on and talks about Turkey a little bit with this discussion.
	Last question about Turkey, the role it has played.
	It's—this is a national disgrace that we're not able—and this president—I think—I just don't know why he—just in the last—after the climate summit, he literally has had a private meeting with Erdogan, the head of Turkey.
	Erdogan.
	Erdogan, yes.
	Wow, that's rich.
	Amy Goodman correcting somebody on pronunciation?
	Amy Goodman, really?
	It's Erdogan, don't you know?
	What do you know?
	It's Erdogan.
	That was rude, by the way.
	That was just purely rude.
	Well, yeah.
	It was rude.
	I had a private meeting with Erdogan, Erdogan, yes, in France, and came out and said, I'm with him all the way, etc., etc., etc., when in fact all of the intelligence for a long time Has been that he has, particularly in Hatay province, which is a contested province Syria controls, the border has been open for the Islamic groups.
	And he's not only been funneling arms and money to the most extreme groups for years.
	We know about it.
	There's been a lot of intelligence reporting on it.
	His planes, once he began to join, allegedly join with us in flying our combat missions, one of the first targets was, of course, the opposition Kurds, who are the best fighters inside Syria against the Islamic State.
	But he also bombed some of the Syrian army's own specific units, exactly the contrary, opposite of what he said to do and what was being reported in the press.
	And Saudi Arabia's role, a U.S. other ally here in the region?
	Well, this is part of the, you know, the great farce of our old time, you know, that this U.N. meeting is going to take the views of Saudi Arabia and Qatar very seriously.
	Both of those countries have been the leading exporters of money and, in the case of Qatar, people into the war in Syria on behalf of the Islamic group.
	That is a reasonably good lead-in.
	And we've had our eye on Turkey for a while, just seeing all these different moves being made.
	And then when they alienated Russia, a whole new world opened up.
	Everything shifted dramatically.
	And Russia now...
	Are you going to make noises the whole time?
	I'm sorry.
	Just a little flatulence.
	You know, we have Turkey really wanting to recapture the Ottoman Empire, and we have the Czech, let's see, the leader of Czechoslovakia, the Czech president.
	You know, they think this ISIS thing can go on and go into Turkey, and then Turkey would take over the whole movement.
	That's what they think.
	And I think there's something to it.
	If they think it, I'm going to agree.
	Czech President Milos Zeman called the current wave of refugees to Europe, quote, an organized invasion.
	And he is, I believe, pointing subtly at Turkey.
	Now, knowing that we have the Joint Chiefs and they took their kind of back route and started doing things, there may be other organizations, U.S. organizations, I'm looking at State Department in particular, who are onto the Turkey game and want to do something about it, because Erdogan is becoming dangerous, and I didn't realize this, but we've been messing with him.
	I'm pretty sure it's us.
	Banking systems and government offices have been especially badly hit on a day of worsening cyber chaos in Turkey.
	Since December the 14th, the government's been struggling with waves of hacks into its systems and big businesses suffered too.
	Ministers say that for the moment, there's only a limited amount of things they can do.
	It's hard to determine where these attacks are coming from.
	With detailed work, it will be understood whether these attacks are carried out by hackers or by certain groups in a country.
	However, the claims of international hacktivists It's anonymous to be at war with Ankara for its alleged support of ISIL were reinforced with them claiming responsibility for the Christmas Day escalation.
	Their capacitors for launching cyber attacks is well known, and Turks will be expecting action from their government to get things working again quickly.
	So banks, retail, all having problems with cyber...
	It's a DDoS, which could be...
	I mean, it's under the anonymous banner, they've claimed it.
	But that's a very easy cover.
	It's us.
	It's us messing with it.
	Well, it's either us or it could be the Iranians.
	They're the hot shot attackers.
	Yeah, but the Iranians are more subtle.
	They're more subtle.
	We DDoS.
	We're like our cars.
	They're not subtle, sleek machines.
	No, we come up with a tractor, a Hummer.
	Or it could be the Russians.
	Yeah, could be.
	Could be retaliation.
	But people are now, eyes are on Turkey.
	And so what does Erdogan do?
	This is great.
	A dramatic scene on Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge, as this would-be suicide is talked down by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
	Erdogan's entourage happened to be crossing the bridge as the man was preparing to jump.
	The President's bodyguards approached him, and Erdogan spoke to him through his car window.
	This is really great.
	So he's the big hero.
	This guy apparently is on the Bosporus Bridge wanting to jump off.
	He sends his bodyguards out to go rouse the guy and then drag him over to his window.
	And then the big hero president is going to say, oh man, you shouldn't do this.
	The man soon climbed back over the railing and spoke to Erdogan in his car, at one point kissing him on his hand.
	Kissing the ring!
	Turkey's Anadolu news agency reports that Vezir Çatırış is from Turkey's eastern Seyit province and has family trouble.
	Erdogan gave instructions for officials to help solve his problems before driving off.
	Solve his problems!
	Ha ha!
	Solve that peasant's problems, his family problems.
	He is from the eastern part of the country, which is the big supporter.
	The only reason Erdogan's in is because the eastern part of Turkey that sticks, the Hicksville, all voted for him.
	They just vote for him.
	They won't vote for anybody else.
	Yeah, it costs like $10 to fix that guy's problems.
	Probably $10.
	But this all kind of covered over some interesting news.
	For the first time, the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities have delivered a joint televised message for Christmas.
	They spoke initially in their own languages and then in each other's to express their hopes for peace in a reunited country.
	For more than seven months, talks have been ongoing over reuniting the two sides of the island.
	The Turkish-controlled north broke away in 1974 after a Greek-inspired coup.
	These guys, it seems that they're all making nice and they should have something together and they say it at most, what, seven months or something?
	Yeah.
	But this would be very interesting for the Ottoman Empire.
	This opens up a whole lot of routes for Erdogan.
	Particularly for, you know, different oil routes, all kinds of things, trade routes in general.
	And, wow, when you look at the map, you know, Constantinople, Istanbul, used to be the center of the map.
	It was the center of the world, the center of the known universe.
	Everyone's out there thinking Putin is crazy, he's trying to bring back the USSR. Oh, yes, he wants retribution.
	No, no, no.
	Please, look at Erdogan.
	Yeah, and the Turks are all in on this.
	They love the idea.
	We've been demeaned.
	Yeah, they get back to their old ways.
	Yeah, I agree with the whole thesis.
	It's Erdogan, not Putin.
	And we're in bed with Erdogan.
	I hate to say this because it sounds dumb, but it all leads me to believe that Obama is a Muslim.
	Well, there's enough evidence.
	I mean, there's enough evidence.
	I would recommend people read the Daniel Pipes.
	Look up Daniel Pipes.
	It's DanielPipes.org or something like that.
	This guy is kind of a dangerous writer, a very anti-Muslim Jew, who's actually over at the Hoover Institute right now.
	And I've corresponded with him for years.
	And he told me some stuff that's just like, whoa, really?
	CARE, for example, I think has DanielPipes.com.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Yeah, I think so.
	I don't know if that's still going on, but it used to.
	But he's got a long piece on Obama, why he's a Muslim.
	And it's very interesting.
	And then when you combine it with the stuff that everybody else kind of notices and kind of pushes off, like he takes the rings off.
	He does certain things at the time of the year when you do these things and doesn't wear his jewelry.
	It's not connected to any Christian church that we know of.
	Even though he claims to be a Christian, but there's no church.
	What's the church?
	He doesn't go to church.
	And so I brought this up.
	I know this Muslim who claims that she can see, spot a Muslim a mile away.
	She's a Muslim.
	Yeah.
	So I can tell the way they walk.
	I can tell the way they stand.
	She goes on and on.
	So I asked her.
	I said, is Obama a Muslim?
	And her answer was kind of surprising.
	She says, you know, I can't really tell, but Michelle might be.
	Huh.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	And what is it?
	As far as I can go.
	I like that.
	It does sound crazy, but coming from you, it puts on a whole new slant.
	Well, he keeps backing these Muslim operations.
	In fact, there's a couple of instances recently with both the TPP and some other action going on in Europe that was kind of interesting.
	Let's see.
	I have a clip on this.
	I think this is State Department douchebag actions.
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	Oh, I hadn't seen that clip coming earlier.
	of talks leading up to the Iran nuclear deal.
	The U.S. inflated the human rights ranking of Oman in order to reward a close Arab ally for helping broker the historic agreement.
	According to Reuters, the documents show the State Department overruled its own staff's assessments of Oman's forced labor and human trafficking abuses and intervened to boost Oman's human rights ranking in a congressionally mandated report.
	This news comes after allegations this summer that the State Department also upgraded Malaysia's human trafficking rating to ease passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.
	Hmm.
	Thank you.
	She goes on to mention that Malaysia was number one on the list of the worst, which is apparently against the law to trade with.
	They are our own laws.
	So they just changed the ranking.
	Yeah, it's that easy.
	Of course.
	It's that easy.
	Yeah.
	So that was very suspicious.
	Indeed.
	Both those countries, of course, Malaysia is basically a Muslim country that has a bunch of Buddhists.
	Indonesia, of course, is the biggest.
	And then Oman and all these other places are all 100%.
	There was something else that happened that we've been talking about for a while and not only was it unexpected this report that came out and we've mentioned for a long time why is ISIS not threatening Israel?
	Why is that not happening?
	And this is a very weird report from Reuters, and I think there was a similar report on CNN, which I don't have, where they lump two stories together.
	So ISIS threatening Israel, and well, listen to the report.
	A very strange combo.
	This video footage posted on social media purports to show the aftermath of a Russian airstrike in Syria on Friday.
	The makers of the video claim that more than 100 vehicles were destroyed in the strike in the northern suburbs of Aleppo.
	About a dozen bodies are seen laid out on the ground in the footage.
	Russia's defense ministry has released this footage showing its air force hitting what it says are ISIL targets in Syria, including oil tankers, a militant's headquarters, a training center, a weapons warehouse, and a hideaway.
	Meanwhile, a new message purporting to come from ISIL's leader warned that Israelis must expect strikes.
	Palestine will be your graveyard, says the voice, described as being that of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
	The recording could not be verified.
	Now, it doesn't matter if it can be verified or not.
	It doesn't matter.
	This is all theater anyway.
	But that is a strange combination of stories.
	I did receive a note from Sub7Zero, who's in Syria, one of our producers.
	Of course, he's no longer in Damascus.
	He's in Latakia, which has been under attack as well.
	I'll just read this to you.
	In the morning, Adam, about the death of the leader Jaish al-Islam, you probably heard by now, an airstrike earlier today targeted a meeting for the leaders of few jihadist groups east Damascus.
	Among the dead, Zaharan Alush, the leader of Jaish al-Islam, the Army of Islam, a terrorist group that is in reality part of the al-Nusra front.
	He's known for putting women and old people of ethnic minorities in cages on rooftops as human shields against airstrikes.
	And he sends me a picture.
	It's really sad.
	Women and children in a cage on the top of a roof.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	I'll send the show notes.
	Yeah, I will.
	And he might have...
	I think these are his pictures, too, some of them.
	And he might have been behind the chemical attack in 2013.
	Interesting.
	He was Saudi Arabia's guy in the region and as dangerous as Al-Qaeda's Abu Muhammad al-Julani, if not more.
	I want to emphasize that the attack was a Syrian airstrike, not a Russian one.
	It's being misreported.
	It's disinformation.
	He said the Syrians did the strike, not the Russians.
	So I don't know if that sheds any light on the report being tied in with the Russians.
	You know, something strange.
	Very, very strange that they lump those two together.
	I mean, for ISIS to threaten Israel, that's the first time.
	Why, that should be headlines.
	Yeah, something's up with that.
	Buried, buried, buried, buried.
	Now, Nacho mentioned he talks about that guy who's dead may have been responsible for the chemical attacks, which, of course, is a meme that Bashar Assad is the one who did this.
	The one who did it, yeah.
	And it's still a meme.
	We can't get it off the radar as a meme.
	It's just stuck there.
	He gassed his own people, which has been disproven over and over again.
	I got another disproven witness, not a witness per se, but a guy who likes to get out there and talk a lot.
	This Wilkerson guy, Colonel Wilkerson, the guy who was Powell's chief of staff.
	And is on the circuit bitching and moaning about how Powell was set up and Cheney would come in and rewrite the speeches and all that sort of thing.
	Here he is on some very obscure broadcast that's not even, I don't even know what the source of this is.
	I can't remember.
	I took this clip some time ago.
	But here he is talking about the chemical attacks supposedly by Assad.
	For example, let me give you a vivid example.
	I'll tell you how I looked at the immediate reports that Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons in Syria a year or so ago.
	I said, Bull!
	I'll believe it when I see evidence that it actually happened.
	And you know I went to every person I knew in the intelligence community And every person outside the United States I knew, to include two people who were in Syria at the time, and I knew what was going on, and I respected their vision and their knowledge.
	None of them could confirm for me, not a single one, that Bashar al-Assad used those chemical weapons.
	Instead, there were possibilities they were used by other parties in Syria, as well as Bashar al-Assad, and frankly, the evidence looked more strongly for other parties than the president.
	So I still think there is high potential for this kind of manipulation of intelligence, this kind of fabrication of intelligence, and this kind of refusal to take dissent in the leadership in this country right now today.
	And I'll tell you very seriously, I'm very skeptical of the intelligence establishment and what it says.
	Hmm.
	So he's not a happy campaign.
	No, no.
	You know, there's some strange stuff happening.
	I'm just going to tie this one thing in, then I have one more clip I want to play.
	After Victoria Nulman Kagan went to Georgia and Ukraine, now both the EU Commission has recommended visa-free travel for the citizens of Georgia and Ukraine into Europe.
	And I'm thinking, you know, if you want to put some pressure onto...
	Russia, you have those people go out and come back as radicalized jihadis sitting right there on Russia's border.
	And they don't have to show their passports, so there's no tracking.
	It's where all of Europe is shutting down.
	Now the EU says, but you know what?
	It's a good idea to have citizens of Georgia and Ukraine come in here without a visa.
	That doesn't make any sense at all.
	I think it's for the reverse travel.
	I don't know.
	Well, it's definitely got something to do with the Russians, but I don't know if it's for the jihadi thing.
	I don't know.
	That is very suspicious.
	There's just zero reporting going on around this time of year, so it's very hard to get anything to dig my teeth into.
	I do have the clip I wanted to play of Matt Lee, who was back.
	We didn't play this on the last show.
	Matt Lee is back in the State Department.
	He is of Associated Press, one of the...
	I think one of the best journalists.
	His reporting, the way he does his reporting and his investigation, is never represented in his actual reporting in the printed word, I feel.
	It's much more fun to listen to how he gets information out of douchebags like John Kirby's spokeshole for the United States State Department.
	Is not going to further your policy of getting rid of Assad.
	Because our policy is there has to be a political solution, not a military one.
	When the Secretary came into office, his entire point on Syria was that you had to change the calculation for Assad on the battlefield.
	To do things that change his calculation.
	That has not worked.
	He's still there.
	His calculation hasn't changed.
	You're signing on to a Russian plan, am I right?
	That says nothing about Assad.
	Correct?
	I think I'd take issue with some of what you just said, but there's so much in there.
	Hang on a second.
	Does it mention Assad?
	I like that last question.
	Does it mention Assad?
	And I will stop after.
	This is about the United Nations agreement, where it says nothing about Assad leaving.
	...in the resolution that you plan on signing tomorrow.
	I'm not going to get ahead of a resolution that hasn't been solidified yet, Justin.
	I just won't do it.
	So, look, a couple of big points here that I'd like to make.
	This is a guy in trouble.
	This is nice to listen to.
	He just shouldn't be doing this job.
	They should put one of the women back.
	Oh, absolutely.
	This is the wrong guy for the job.
	I concur.
	Our view about Assad and his future has not changed.
	We still believe that he cannot be a part of the future of Syria.
	No, please let me finish.
	It's our view.
	It's our belief.
	It is.
	That is our policy.
	It has not changed.
	But the secretary has also said, and you've heard him yourself over...
	At the same time as you say that, though, you talk about how long he stays and in what position he stays...
	In what capacity.
	In what capacity he stays, has not yet been decided.
	And what I'm trying to say is that the key word in those phrases is stays, not goes.
	Yeah, right.
	Look, Matt, if you come to stay at my house, my expectation is eventually you're going to go.
	Well, you know what they say.
	Especially you.
	You know what they say.
	That's not quite the same.
	They didn't invite the guy to stay for a few days.
	He's been the ruler of the country for decades.
	I'll tell you about fish and guests, right?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Right?
	Okay.
	Right?
	Okay, right?
	So we understand that during at least part of this political transition process, I've said this before, there hasn't been decisions made about whether he leaves on day one, week one, month one.
	The Secretary said that himself.
	But that he has to go, that he has to give up power, that he cannot be the leader of Syria going forward, is not in dispute in terms of American policy.
	This is the third gathering of the ISSG. I fully expect there will be more.
	There is still disparity inside the ISSG about Assad and his future.
	No question about that.
	Nobody's arguing about that.
	And it's fair for you to say, well, there's nothing in the process.
	I don't see it.
	Fair.
	But the process is still fairly nationed in development.
	No, it's not.
	It's three years old.
	I know, I understand that.
	But there has been zero movement on Assad for three years.
	Exactly.
	That report will never make the light of day.
	It just did.
	Thank you.
	And that's how this show works.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	We have a lot of people to thank today for show 785, I believe.
	It is.
	Aaron, let's start with Eric R., Eric R-I-K-A-H-R-S-J-O. It's a Swedish name.
	He's in Stockholm.
	Our show.
	Our show?
	Our show.
	Not his show, but our show.
	Our show.
	Eric R Show in Stockholm.
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	Mr.
	and Mrs.
	Funny Farm in Irrigan, Oregon.
	Excuse me, 12345.
	Anonymous, 10401.
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	Crocutta Computer Services, C-R-O-C-U-T-A in Pacifica, California.
	I'm going to run here.
	$100.
	Patrick Hopel.
	Or Hopple in Delafield, Wisconsin, $100.
	Arthur Gobitz, Zondam, who I believe is a knight.
	I think he is, yes.
	He might be Sir Arthur.
	Yes.
	Which would be a perfect name.
	William Granger in Marion, Indiana.
	Followed by Fabian Kaiser in Zurich, Switzerland, with the same 9999 thing.
	Yep.
	What did he say here?
	He says, your incessant whining about low donations finally got to me.
	See?
	Whining helps.
	I've been a douchebag for too long, he says, from Zurich.
	Last year you guys saved my sanity while I was laying in a hospital bed like a turtle with a broken back.
	Inundated by 24-hour mainstream media propaganda.
	I have to side with Adam about the unintended consequences of self-driving robots.
	Aha!
	Team Curry!
	Team Adam!
	That's right.
	Guy Boese.
	Sir Guy Boese.
	Guy Boese.
	Guy Boese.
	Guy Boese in Rojovit, Illinois.
	Israel.
	Illinois.
	Israel.
	It says IL, which is the...
	Yeah, talk to Eric.
	Sorry.
	No, it's not.
	What's he going to do about it?
	He just loses from the spreadsheet.
	In Israel.
	Yes, he's in Israel.
	Sir Jim Mann in Ringo, Louisiana, 77-77.
	Sir ZP of Lusitania in Lisbon, Portugal, 75.
	Michael Greer in Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania, 69-69.
	The Greers, yes.
	The Greers.
	Black Knights are Inside Jobs, which is Seattle, Washington.
	He's in with...
	Sack of Sixes.
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	Jeff Zimmerman in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, 6033.
	Damien Barrios in Scottsdale, Arizona, 5678.
	Aaron Murphy in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, 5555.
	Vladimir Landman in Sioux City, Iowa.
	Aaron becomes a knight today, by the way.
	Aaron?
	Yeah, Aaron Murphy.
	Oh.
	He gets knighted.
	Does he add fried bread to the mutton and mead?
	I'll put it in there, fried bread.
	Is it just fried bread?
	Well, he wants it with the mutton and mead.
	Maybe it should be fried bread and mead.
	Or maybe fried bread, mutton and mead.
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	It's your job.
	Vladimir Landman in Sioux City.
	I just got him.
	Michael Popesh.
	One of the two.
	Incoming Georgia.
	5510.
	Josh McDonald.
	5510.
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	5510.
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	Andrew, no last name in Woody Point, Australia, 51.
	Don...
	Poplo in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 51.
	Jeff Anderson in Sewells Point, Florida, 50-15.
	And now the following names in order of the spreadsheet will be given out as donors of $50 exactly, starting with...
	Matthew Davis in Beaverton, Oregon.
	Elliot Bovee in St.
	Paul, Minnesota.
	Dennis Price in Pine Grove, California.
	Monica Lassure, Dame Monica Lansing in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada.
	Alejandro Vasquez in Denver.
	Ashley Blanco in Mayfield Heights.
	It was a birthday there too, by the way.
	50 is also a birthday for Matthew Davis.
	Gerald Inabonet in Union, South Carolina, or Inabonet, that's probably what they pronounce him.
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	Screwball-sounding town.
	We love you.
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	And Sir Alan Bean finishes it off over here in Oaktown, Oakland, California.
	Very nice.
	Let's thank all these folks for their support.
	Can you do me a favor?
	Can you turn down your mic by two dog biscuits?
	Yeah, was I yelling?
	No, maybe something changed, but you're really overdriving something.
	Do I sound better now?
	Yeah, talk for a second.
	Yeah, talk and talk and talk.
	You want me to start over?
	I can start over.
	No, no, no.
	Just one more dog biscuit.
	Okay, down we go.
	All right, now talk.
	Hello.
	I'm talking.
	You are a sound engineer's nightmare.
	Yeah.
	Well, one of my favorite gags is to sit there, because I can do this without anybody noticing me just making this sound.
	Right.
	Thank you all very much, all producers of the best podcasting universe.
	Thank you.
	I just can't say it enough.
	Thank you.
	This has been a great Christmas.
	Really appreciate the help, especially people who came in under $50, which most of them do for reasons of anonymity.
	And, of course, a lot of people on the monthlies or the weeklies or per show.
	I recommend everybody to check out a subscription.
	And if you have a subscription, look into it, because sometimes PayPal just gets rid of it and doesn't inform you.
	And I do want to read out a couple of things.
	Ashley Blanco gave 50 for her and got the birthday call.
	We should read...
	Let me just expand it so it's all here.
	Please wish my very sexy husband, Chris, a happy 40th.
	His birthday is on December 20th.
	He's truly the most wonderful man I know.
	And I love him more and more every day.
	And she especially loves him, get this, for hitting her in the mouth two years ago.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	He hit me in the mouth.
	I love him.
	So this is like a good caveman kind of thing.
	People listen to the show for the first time.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	That's our formula.
	What are they talking about?
	You done?
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	Thank you, everybody.
	And please remember, we have another show on Thursday.
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	It's your birthday, birthday.
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	And we say happy birthday to Sir Jim Mannax.
	Actually, she says happy birthday to Dame Melody.
	She celebrates today.
	Jeff Zimmerman also celebrating his birthday today.
	Matthew Davis says happy birthday to his hot, smoking hot Lady Samantha.
	Or smoking hot Lady Samantha.
	And Ashley Bianco says happy birthday to her sexy husband, Chris Bianco, turning 40 tomorrow.
	Happy birthday and Christmas wishes from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
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	Title changes.
	Today, Sir Chris Eisbach becomes Baronet, and Sir 10CFR50 will be the Baronet of the Willamette Valley.
	Willamette.
	I know it's Willamette because that's where I got my fixed-wing pilot's license.
	It's Willamette.
	Willamette.
	It's also a great wine-growing area for Pinot.
	Great, we can do a combo trip.
	I'll fly, you drink.
	Sounds like the way to go.
	Christopher Tremeling, Aaron Murphy, Gerald Wingroth.
	Please avoid the blade as you step up onto the podium.
	John, your blade, please.
	Let me get it.
	Perfect.
	Gentlemen, thank you very much for supporting the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	I hereby pronounce the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Surprise!
	Sir Hozon of Navajo Land and Sir Jerry of Saugus.
	Gentlemen...
	For you, we have the following rest.
	We've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, fried bread and fembots, crickets and cream, Cuban cigars and single malt scotch, pork ribs and pale ale, malt of barley and hops, long-haired heavy metal guys and scotch.
	And of course, the mutton and mead that we always love handing out at the round table.
	Soon to be the round table in the train car.
	Wouldn't it be nice?
	That'd be great.
	It'd be so much fun.
	You hear about this...
	Actually, screw that.
	I've been wanting to talk about something else.
	We're running long.
	You better warn the affiliates.
	The affiliates will be extended.
	It will be going past our normal time.
	Yes.
	There is...
	Let's see.
	A letter went to President Obama from...
	Let me see.
	The EMP Task Force.
	This is a real thing.
	And of course, EMP stands for Electromagnetic Pulse.
	But in this context...
	They say, Dear Mr.
	President, we need your personal intervention to provide for the protection of the American people against an existential threat posed by natural and man-made electromagnetic pulse.
	The consequent failure of critical infrastructure that sustain our lives is a major national security threat and would be catastrophic to our people and our nation.
	So they've reinstated this EMP commission.
	For the reasons of protecting us.
	And I have to say, if you're talking about critical infrastructure and we're all freaked out about cyber attacks, I would say, arguably, it would be smart to, just in case, have the EMP Commission watching out for everybody.
	And I have, and of course, it is kind of a drinking club, obviously.
	What are these guys going to do?
	This is Vincent Prye.
	And Vincent Prye, where did he come from again?
	Yes, Dr.
	Vincent Prye, I think he's from, what school is he from?
	I'll look this up while you listen to him talking about the EMP Commission, which he's on.
	A better development at the federal level was the reestablishment of the Congressional EMP Commission that happened just before Thanksgiving when the National Defense Authorization Act passed.
	And Obama signed it into law.
	So the EMP Commission is back.
	It's back.
	Yeah, it's back.
	And what are they most worried about?
	Well, the super EMP.
	The Congressional Commission that you referenced earlier in which I served, the Congressional EMP Commission, spent eight years trying to warn Congress and the American people that this was not just a theoretical threat.
	The idea of using a single nuclear weapon, it wouldn't even have to be a sophisticated one, you know, and detonated at high altitude over the United States.
	At such a high altitude that there'd be no fallout, no blast effects.
	You might not even know that the nuclear weapon had gone off, but it would produce this thing called the electromagnetic pulse, which is a super energetic radio wave that can cover the whole continental United States and fry electronics across the whole span of the country.
	And we know that Russia and China, they've developed a thing called super EMP warheads, you know, that are specifically designed to generate this intense EMP fields.
	And they're not the only ones.
	The commission concluded that North Korea has probably got the super, you know, it probably Got it from the Russians.
	Yeah.
	Uh-oh.
	I'm not.
	I think it's fair, though.
	It's fair to be concerned about this.
	It should be concerned, but you don't do it by bullcrabbing the public about North Korea.
	No, you've got to really scare people about them dying.
	There does seem to be a growing awareness about the vulnerability of our critical infrastructures, the electric power grid, communication systems, transportation systems.
	To hacking and cyber attacks.
	And the media at least is aware of this because the head of the US Cyber Command last year announced during a congressional hearing That at least sophisticated state actors like Russia and China, you know, could probably shut down the U.S. electric grid for 18 months, you know, which would be the equivalent of waging an all-out nuclear war on the United States.
	A lot of people don't understand that, because the Congressional EMP Commission concluded that if we had a nationwide blackout that lasted just a year, it would kill 9 of 10 Americans, 90% of the population, through starvation, disease, and societal collapse.
	No.
	Yeah, okay.
	Who's the commander, you think, of the U.S. Cyber Command?
	Admiral Michael Rogers, who heads up the NSA. Where do you think the U.S. Cyber Command exists?
	Fort Meade.
	Yeah.
	This is just a front for the NSA. Is there just another money grab?
	These guys are out to get all the money they can.
	This is not the cyber.
	This is the EMP commission.
	No, but he mentioned the U.S. Cyber Command is somehow behind this thing, or they're part of it.
	Ah.
	I mean, as soon as he said that, I started looking at it.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	Well, he's the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Board served on the Congressional EMP Commission, now reinstated the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee.
	This is an NSA front.
	There's no doubt in my mind.
	Excellent.
	To make money more for the budget.
	There you go.
	These guys are just soaking up the cash.
	Well, that makes sense.
	They slipped it into the National Defense Authorization Act, and now the money can start coming in.
	We just have to scare people properly through doing interviews like this.
	So nobody complains about the money.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, talking about the national, you know, the whole new budget.
	I mean, just play this.
	It's ridiculous.
	This is the budget, all the crap they did.
	They're going to spend more, tax less.
	I mean, they're just driving the country bankrupt, but play this clip.
	President Obama signed a $1.8 trillion spending and tax cut package after Congress passed the deal in a rare moment of bipartisan unity.
	The measure expands military spending and provides a billion-dollar tax loophole sought by the hotel, restaurant and gambling industry.
	The 40-year ban on exporting U.S. produced crude oil, a move Oil Change International called a disaster for the climate.
	Democratic leaders said lifting the ban was crucial for winning Republican support.
	President Obama praised Congress for passing the bill.
	And today they passed a bipartisan budget deal.
	I'm not wild about everything in it.
	I'm sure that's true for everybody but it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters.
	Privacy advocates have objected to the spending bill's quiet inclusion of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a measure they say will expand mass surveillance under the guise of cybersecurity.
	Among other provisions are new restrictions on the visa waiver program, which could force Europeans deemed to be nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Sudan, or people who have visited those countries since 2011, to obtain a visa before entering the United States.
	Since the move is likely to trigger reciprocal restrictions from European countries, critics warn Iranian-Americans could now be treated as, quote, second-class citizens when traveling abroad.
	Yeah, fabulous.
	That's a good summary.
	That's good.
	Oh, we're screwed.
	And meanwhile, of course, where's the great internet that came along to fight CISA? Yeah, I was reading an interesting article that was passed on to me a couple different times about the...
	What are they called here?
	They're called the...
	Technoskeptics.
	Which, of course, I feel right at home in.
	I'd like to...
	Yeah, go on.
	It was the Washington Post.
	And so there's apparently a movement, and they're calling themselves techno-skeptics, and they're rioting against the planned obsolescence.
	Actually, the woman, Taylor, 36, in this article, documentary filmmaker, she's not paranoid, but she keeps duct tape over the camera lens on her laptop computer, which sounds a lot like somebody I know.
	Yeah, smart money.
	Yeah, and last month, Taylor and more than 1,000 activists, scholars, and techies gathered at the New School in New York City for a conference to talk about reinventing the internet.
	Yeah, good luck.
	And Jared Lanier is leading this troupe.
	He's responsible for it.
	The guy from Subway?
	Yeah, that guy.
	No, you know the guy I'm talking about.
	With the Rasta hair, the virtual reality guy.
	Come on.
	Talking about, you mentioned the Washington Post.
	The Washington Post is also getting kind of hinky, much like the economists.
	So they had, you know, the NewsHour has this segment where they have the, you know, Shields and Brooks.
	Let's throw back to some old, they're supposed to be, one's supposed to be a Democrat, one's supposed to be a Republican.
	Aren't they a country and Western duo?
	Yeah, country and western, Shields and Brooks.
	And so they talk, and the Republican representative is always kind of, it's like such an old-fashioned Republican, it's ludicrous.
	But when Shields, but okay, fine, I guess he's a Republican.
	He hates Trump.
	What kind of Republican is he?
	Now, so they reverse.
	Sometimes he goes on vacation.
	He goes on vacation.
	They bring a guy in from the Washington Post named Gershon, another columnist, I believe.
	And he comes on, and he's so far from being any sort of Republican that he's like snide anti-Republican.
	He's a Democrat.
	I mean, you can't get journalists, many journalists that could actually call themselves Republicans.
	But let's play the clip I have of the two of these guys.
	I think this is about Christmas.
	Yeah, Republicans on NewsHour X-mas gifts.
	Yeah, so this is the, and I added it a little bit so you just get the best parts.
	First, let's talk about the president.
	What would you give him?
	Well, I don't think any Democrat deserves anything in their stocking this year because they already got Donald Trump.
	That is Christmas gift, birthday gift, Valentine's Day.
	I think anything more would be greedy.
	Yeah.
	The Republicans, what gift, Michael, for them?
	Well, you wouldn't normally want this, but I think a lump of coal.
	Because Republicans love coal, right?
	Very good.
	They drive Al Gord crazy.
	That was good.
	How does this guy represent the Republican or conservative side of anything?
	Well, it's the Christmas week, John.
	You'll take whatever you can get.
	It's outrageous.
	You can't get everybody.
	It turns out to be just another Democrat shill.
	There was just one last little piece of news I picked up.
	In the big bill that we just passed, which was the omnibus bill, a lot of people are saying that because this bill has been signed into law, that it effectively stops the federal ban on medical marijuana.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Section 538 of the Omnibus Bill.
	None of the funds made available in this act to the Department of Justice may be used with respect to the states of, and then there's pretty much every state, to prevent...
	Every state?
	What are any states left out?
	I'm looking.
	And the reason I'm asking that...
	I don't see Texas.
	I don't see Texas.
	What I'm asking is because I suspect that the states that are listed are the ones that are either planning marijuana or legalization or medical or something and Texas being left out.
	We don't plan that.
	We're not planning that.
	We don't plan nothing.
	We like the illegal business much better.
	Because otherwise you have to tax it.
	Here it is.
	So, with respect to the states, and then all those states, to prevent such states from implementing their own state laws to authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.
	Well, read the states now.
	I'm very curious.
	Okay.
	Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., District of Columbia, not a state, but Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, and Wisconsin.
	And Section 539, none of the funds made available by this act may be used in contravention of Section 7606, which is legitimacy of industrial hemp research of the Agricultural Act by the Department of Justice or the DEA.
	So hemp research and medical marijuana...
	it seems like...
	It's headed that way.
	There's no doubt about it.
	And it seems...
	The few sick, you know...
	Yeah, like Texas.
	Like Texas.
	Idiots.
	You sick puppies are giving up on this opportunity.
	We can't...
	Half of Texas is still a blue state.
	Yeah, if they went out and voted, you'd see it as blue.
	I think the whole state would be blue.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Well, there you have it.
	I think that's kind of good news.
	I only have one clip left that I might want to play.
	We can finish.
	What time is it?
	I'm good to finish with you.
	Well, let's just play this.
	One clip just for you because it's a local California thing.
	Out of Hollywood, and actor Robert Downey Jr.
	getting a pretty nice Christmas gift, the Iron Man star who once spent time in prison after police found heroin, cocaine, and a pistol in his vehicle was granted a pardon by California Governor Jerry Brown.
	Downey has stayed out of trouble since his release in 2002.
	His voting rights now restored.
	Ah, what a great country.
	Disney.
	Disney.
	Exactly.
	What a great country.
	What happened, I believe, is that Disney signed him to pretty much a lifetime contract to have to do all these crazy...
	There's another one coming out where he plays Iron Man in another guy's movie.
	He's got to do all these things for Disney, and I think Disney called Brown.
	They called him the favor.
	Because he said, I'm not doing it.
	Well, what can we do for you, Robert?
	What can we do for you to make you sign this deal?
	I don't understand.
	Get me a pardon.
	I don't understand why he, I mean, if you have the choice between, you know, being high and having to be Iron Man for the rest of your life, you guys got enough money.
	It's beyond me why this whole thing is very suspicious.
	So here's the clip, my last clip, really it's not a political clip, it's kind of a little informational clip that people can take away from the show.
	This is, because I never knew this, the PBS NewsHour has this musical thing, they bring some musical guy on and he tells us a story about how this song came to be or something like that.
	And this is kind of the back story of the song White Christmas, which I had no idea was actually a parody.
	It was a joke tune.
	By the way, we think he's going to live a lot longer than 18 years.
	And lose his hat.
	Next for this holiday season, a new way to look at a classic song, Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
	It's the best-selling single of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold.
	Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with composer and pianist Rob Capelo, who deconstructs music for the NewsHour from time to time.
	Rob Kapilow, welcome back.
	So nice to be here.
	Alright, so White Christmas, a touching, beautiful, nostalgic song, but started life very differently, as a kind of parody.
	Yeah, you know, we now think of it as a perfect sentimental depiction of Christmas's past, but in fact it originally started with a verse that no one sings anymore, and that Berlin actually eliminated from the song.
	That sets the song in Beverly Hills, L.A. It actually started, the sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway, and it's actually sung by somebody in Beverly Hills around a pool dreaming of Christmas up north.
	So originally it was a send-up of the very song that it's become.
	Set in Beverly Hills, but of course came to be known and came to touch so many people because of the historical moment.
	1942, American military personnel far away for the first time.
	Oh, John.
	You've ruined the movie for me now.
	Completely ruined.
	I don't think I can ever watch it again.
	Feeling good.
	You know, now you know.
	The more you know, the more you get spoiled.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you very much.
	Merry Christmas once again to you, John, as well.
	Merry Christmas to you and hope you had a good time.
	Yeah, a very good time.
	Thank you.
	And I'm looking forward to our New Year's Eve show.
	That should be fun.
	We're working on New Year's Eve?
	We are.
	How do we do it?
	Well, I guess our families love us.
	Gets us out of their hair.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	All right, everybody, have a happy, happy holiday.
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