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	Well, I don't know if I should drop this bomb on you now.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, January 17th, 2016.
	Time once again via Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 7, Niner 1.
	This is no agenda.
	Analyzing the ants in the studio and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I have nothing to say, I'm John C. Devorak.
	You do?
	Sure you do!
	What, you could have said, uh, ants.
	Ants.
	Ants be taken over the...
	Ants in my pants.
	Be taken over the West Coast studio.
	This is, uh, this is very alarming, John.
	Well, luckily they're suckers for this bait drop, apparently.
	Now, you have a house.
	It's on the hill, correct?
	Your house?
	Yes, on the side of a hill.
	You think that hill is just one big ant hill?
	No, it's mostly bedrock.
	So it's one of these old-fashioned hills that's a big, giant rock.
	Oh, okay.
	But there's enough soil.
	These ants, they don't need a lot.
	But there's enough soil that's kind of here and there.
	And the ants are in it.
	I remember when we lived in L.A. and the ants had made a circle around the entire perimeter of the house.
	Yeah.
	It's a real problem.
	It's a real problem.
	Yeah, that's called siege mode.
	What other modes do your ants have?
	Well, they have sneak attack.
	One of the things, I have sneak attack.
	It's the worst.
	I'd wake up one morning and the whole house is covered with ants.
	And they come out of the wall sockets.
	They come out of the light fixtures.
	It's astonishing.
	It's unbelievable.
	Now, I do have a trick for people who are, especially on the West Coast, have to deal with these Argentinian ants.
	And this trick does indeed work.
	Okay.
	So one of the things that the ants will do in the kitchen is that they'll send a scout, one, two, or three, or four scouts out every so often.
	And you see this, and you've got to get rid of them.
	But the scouts, they find something, they go back and report back.
	Next thing you know, there's a line of ants coming into the house.
	So what you do, and this is going to be a little gruesome, you might want to put your...
	All right, put your hands over your kids' ears, people.
	Exactly.
	You take one of those little Zippo or one of those fire lighters and things that you use to light barbecues.
	It's a long extension.
	It's a lighter.
	You can bend it.
	A bendy.
	Some of them bend, some of them don't.
	I recommend the metal bendies because then you can buy the cheapest I can find.
	You burn the ant on the spot on the counter and leave them there.
	Ah, that sends a message.
	And then you find all the ones that are roaming around, you torch them.
	And you leave them there.
	Wouldn't one of those crack pipe lighters be better like the Bunsen burner?
	You don't need to completely carbonize the thing.
	You want a little bit of suffering and a little bit of juice.
	And a little bit of stench.
	So when the other ants come in, you'll see them come in, they'll grab these guys and take them back to the nest and then they'll do kind of an analysis.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	That's what they're saying.
	The ants will be looking around.
	They have a whiteboard.
	And they say, look, what happened to this ant?
	Are they using PowerPoint?
	There must be a fire.
	There must be a fire out there.
	We shouldn't go out there.
	Now, sometimes you see another group coming in because they're not sure, so you torch them too.
	There are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back.
	Oh, no.
	That's the guy you want to let go.
	Of course.
	Yeah, that's the guy who said, hey, I'm leaving you alive so you can send a message.
	Send a message, yes.
	And it works.
	Outstanding.
	Another tip from your No Agenda show.
	It works.
	Excellent, yeah.
	Sometimes you'll have the occasional neat freak wife who probably would relent at leaving the dead, burnt aunt bodies.
	Yeah, no, I divorce those.
	I don't want those.
	But usually those women keep the place so damn clean that you're never going to get much of an ant problem anyway.
	So it's just a trade-off.
	It's a trade-off.
	What exactly is the trade-off?
	Crazy-ass wife cleaning everything or a couple of ants that you get to play with?
	And for extra credit, you can use your magnifying glass to torture a couple.
	That's kind of funny.
	Well, I don't have enough sun power in the house to do that.
	Ah, well, well, well.
	I'm very happy to see that Hollywood has taken the strategy of divide and conquer and is using it to their benefit.
	Now, this is a very important thing that's going on here.
	We have this, I would say, the Obama administration, and the president in particular, has been very divisive, that's my opinion, between black and white in America.
	I don't think he's helped anything at all.
	No.
	But I think he's made it worse, quite honestly.
	And a few commentators such as Tavis Smiley.
	I have that, yeah.
	And others have called him out on it.
	I have those clips, actually.
	But I wanted to start with Hollywood, because Hollywood, they are shameless.
	You know what?
	I got an idea.
	We are going to use this racial divide in America to promote our show.
	Now to the Oscars, and for the second year in a row, backlash over who was not nominated.
	The front page of this morning's LA Times saying it all, asking the question, where's the diversity?
	And ABC's Chris Conley is here with that story.
	Good morning, Chris.
	Good morning, Robin.
	And from what we saw...
	Not people attacking this nomination or that nomination, but asking questions, again, about the process and about the industry.
	Just saying.
	The seven-person lineup for last night.
	Don't you love that?
	Just saying.
	Just saying.
	Really?
	What is that, ABC News?
	Just saying.
	Last night's A-list Republican presidential candidates debate was more diverse than the Academy Awards 20 acting nominations, none of which went to a person of color for the second year in a row.
	Oh no!
	Now this is very tricky what they're doing here.
	So we know that Hollywood is run by Democrats.
	Everyone knows this.
	Everyone agrees.
	It's all the friends of the Democrats.
	But in this report, they compared it to the Republicans.
	Putting that into people's minds...
	About how racist the Republican Party is and how racist Republicans are.
	Although, you know, we brought in our token black guy, Ben Carson.
	So I want to analyze this a little bit.
	Because this is 100% promo and they know it.
	First of all, who gives a crap?
	Let's be honest.
	This is literally actors giving each other awards.
	I looked into it.
	I looked into the voting.
	This is starting to piss me off.
	This is being used.
	This is one of many versions of actors giving each other awards.
	Yes, but the Academy, because I looked up how the voting works, And this is not every category.
	There are black movies and other black nominees, but just not in the actor or actresses crowd.
	And I believe it's only in the lead, not in supporting.
	I haven't looked at all of it.
	I just want to get down to how does this work?
	And this is about 1,600 actors.
	There's some 6,000 members of the Academy.
	You can only become a member of the Academy if you are invited by the board.
	And in order to be approved to vote in your category, so an actor can't vote for director.
	He or she can only vote in the actor category.
	You have to be approved by the chair of that particular category.
	I think there are 17 categories.
	Now, the full list is secret.
	We're not allowed to know who actually is on the list.
	It's a secret society of Democrats who clearly are racist.
	Oh, we don't know.
	But I can tell you.
	We don't know the member.
	In other words, you don't have a clue who's voting in any of the categories.
	The only thing you know is that from time to time there's a press release.
	So we know Clooney's in.
	But there's also people.
	What?
	It can be easily rigged.
	Oh, it's completely easy to be written.
	Of course.
	I'm stunned.
	Now, check this out.
	You don't have to be a nominee or a winner to get in.
	It's a secret society.
	It's a secret club.
	So, for instance, Woody Allen, George Lucas, are they in the Academy?
	Do they get to vote for directors?
	I guess not.
	No, of course not.
	You wouldn't have mentioned it.
	However, Meatloaf and Eric Estrada...
	Both members of the Academy.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Uh-huh.
	It's a secret.
	How did you find this out?
	Well, no, you go back and you look at press releases when someone was admitted into the Academy.
	That's the only way you can build a little bit of a list.
	So, Lorenzo Lamas, remember him from Falcon Crest?
	Sheech Marin, Judge Reinhold, Pee Wee Herman?
	The man who was, you know, excordinated for masturbating in an adult theater.
	In a theater where you're supposed to masturbate.
	Vin Diesel.
	So these are the people that are voting.
	But the coordination, this is even more interesting...
	Were you telling me that Van Diesel and Pee Wee Herman get to vote for these awards, but George Lucas doesn't?
	Well, George Lucas, to be honest, has always refused membership.
	Okay.
	So I'm giving him props, but not so with, as far as I know, with Woody Allen.
	Now, the two, so we're looking, just these actors' categories.
	So the person who was running for the women in the actors' category is Annette Bening.
	And, you know, it's surprising to me that we pretty much need to call out Annette Bening as a racist.
	And I don't understand why people aren't doing it.
	And, of course, she's a little bit of an activist.
	Yeah, she seems that she is.
	Now, guess who is in charge of the male actors?
	This will crack you up.
	Ed Begley Jr.
	Ed Begley Jr.?
	Yeah, the guy who...
	Outrageous activist?
	Yes, who actually, if I look at his wiki page, he was on the advisory committee for the Racism Watch group founded by fellow actor Ed Asner.
	Racism Watch, everybody.
	Racism Watch.
	And that group was formed to respond to the ad campaign that W. Bush and Chase...
	There's no clip.
	Well, I had the clip.
	Oh, actually, here comes the clip.
	So this is now playing up.
	So let me get this straight.
	I'm glad you took this topic up because I observed this as it was going on and I never picked it up.
	But it was so obvious this was going on from the beginning.
	It was a promotional thing and the rest.
	But what it turns out, with just a little research that you did, probably more than a little.
	I took about 45 minutes last night.
	Then it's not much.
	You discovered that Ed Begley Jr.
	would be one of the guys, if not the preeminent guy, who would be picking these things, and then he would also be the guy moaning about it being racist.
	Yeah, so he is partially, he's the guy who ultimately helps decide or bring people in to vote, and he's in charge.
	He's the big kahuna in charge.
	But has he got anything to do with the nominations?
	Yes, of course.
	Of course.
	Yeah, of course he does.
	He just put some black guy on there and they wouldn't have to bitch and moan so much.
	Well, the funny thing is that the reason why there's no black nominees for the leading actor category or leading actors category is because the performances probably just weren't good enough.
	We've had years where we had black women winning.
	We had black men.
	It goes back and forth.
	And again, who gives a crap?
	This is not going to solve world hunger.
	No, it's not going to do anything.
	But they do make a fuss about it.
	And we are celebrity obsessed in the United States.
	Actually, worldwide.
	I think anyone who listens to this show is in a culture that's celebrity obsessed.
	Now, the reason why I'm convinced this was a PR scam is because of the host.
	It makes so much sense.
	There's nothing better than having a controversy over race, black versus white, and then you bring this guy to host it.
	Chris Rock counts down the top three reasons to watch the Oscars.
	Presenter Cleavage.
	Check out who died this year.
	I might curse.
	The Oscars.
	Live Oscar Sunday, February 28th on ABC. Oh, we're six weeks away.
	They've got Chris Rock, who is one of the few guys who can go on a live telecast or, as he did this morning, tweet, hey, I'll be hosting the Oscars, the White BET Awards.
	Chris Rock can do this shit.
	Yeah, he can get away with that.
	And they know it.
	It's a totally racist comment.
	And they know it.
	Yeah.
	The Academy does not publicly disclose its full membership, although press releases have announced the names of those who have recently been invited to join.
	Membership in the Academy does not expire, even if a member struggles later in his or her career.
	I got that from the Academy website.
	What happens if the guy dies?
	They get a still vote?
	Yeah, of course.
	Listen.
	So this is great promo, but it's so evil to do this to the American people.
	I mean, I got...
	There's a hashtag.
	Hashtag OscarsSoWhite.
	This is now the hashtag, and someone even threw it at me for some reason.
	Like, after Thursday's show, I don't remember what it was, but then someone said, Oh, you know, OscarsSoWhite.
	So it's being abused.
	The American public is being abused for promotion for this show.
	And Chris Rock is complicit in this.
	He's complicit.
	So it's disgusting.
	I agree with you 100%.
	This is absolutely low.
	It's disgusting.
	But it shows you how well it works as a strategy.
	Well, yeah.
	People watch and then people gave you a hashtag.
	Which is promotion.
	It's all promotion.
	Here's my tip.
	Very saddening.
	Very saddening.
	Here's my tip.
	If you want to be nominated for an Oscar, there's a surefire way to do it.
	If you want to be nominated as a black person, black American, Be black, first of all.
	Be transsexual and in a wheelchair in your movie.
	Now that is going to get you a nomination.
	But no one did that this year.
	Wow, good one.
	Yeah.
	That's the way to start the show.
	Well, I just needed to get it out because the racial stuff that we're going through is bad.
	It's exploitative.
	It's very exploitative.
	And the poor public is like, they unfortunately, because of their nature, lap it up.
	And unfortunately, I need to go straight into something regarding the most recent debate.
	And this never occurred to me.
	I started looking for it after I saw, of all people, Dave Weiner blog about this.
	And I couldn't figure it out.
	He actually said, if you can't figure it out, you're a racist.
	I'm paraphrasing.
	And I found a perfect clip from, of course, MSNBC, the Melissa Harris Perry show, Regarding something that is deemed to be super racist that happened during the debate.
	Did you catch it?
	No.
	I mean, maybe, but I don't know.
	I did not catch it, Ben.
	Dave Weiner is a white Jew.
	New York white Jew.
	I never expected, I mean, I never thought this way.
	The Thursday night's debate when attacks on the president's record occasionally devolved into comments that diminish the authority of his office.
	Donald is right that China is running over President Obama like he is a child.
	The president wants to do things without working with his Congress.
	This guy is a petulant child.
	That's what he is.
	To call the president a boy, those of us who understand African American history, because that's exactly what they called him, was a boy.
	And you don't do that to anybody, but especially an African American man who's going to walk out of the White House in the same way that he walked into the White House.
	Man, how do you get from petulant child, which just means grumpy, angry, petulant, To that being a racial slur, because when you call the president a child, that means you're calling him a boy, and boy is racist.
	That's a very interesting connection, yeah.
	It's very hard to do that.
	But you can get away with it if everyone's amenable to it.
	And people who listen to MSNBC are amenable to this sort of logic.
	But it did not come up in my mind.
	I thought, wow, you know, calling the president a child is, you know...
	It would only come up in the mind of Melissa Perry Harris or whatever.
	If you listen to this clip, so listen, when the other guest is speaking, listen to her huffing and puffing.
	Oh!
	Listen to it.
	It's a Thursday night's debate when attacks on the president's record occasionally devolved into comments that diminish the authority of his office.
	Donald is right that China is running over President Obama.
	Listen to when the guest comes back and then listen to the huffing and puffing from Paris.
	This guy is a petulant child.
	That's what he is.
	To call the president a boy, those of us who understand African American history, because that's exactly what they called him, was a boy.
	She was steaming, John.
	She was steaming.
	I'm sorry, and I'm pretty sensitive to, because it's my job.
	I'm sensitive to listening to these things and trying to catch, not for a second.
	And then, I should read you Weiner's post, and then you tell me, I didn't get it.
	Hold on.
	Read.
	I hadn't prepped it.
	I'm just bringing it up now.
	I'll read it for you.
	Here we go.
	You run into a lot of...
	So in other words, for example, if you stomped his foot and somebody's...
	Jeez, he's acting like a 12-year-old.
	That would be the same thing as calling him boy.
	Boy is actually an epithet in a funny kind of way.
	It's used for a purpose.
	And the word itself is the problem.
	It's not the meaning of the word or anything that surrounds the word.
	It's the use of the word.
	But if you don't use the word...
	Like gay.
	Yeah, like gay.
	Title, Republican nudist dog whistles.
	I don't know what that means.
	Oh yeah.
	With the Republicans running around like nudist streakers with apparently all the dog whistles gone, the truth laid bare.
	Their racism and fear out in the open last night.
	Candidate Christie used a shocking racist dog whistle when he called the President of the United States a petulant child.
	Of course, that's a stand-in for the N-word, which even a Republican presidential candidate of 2016 wouldn't say, yet at least, but he came pretty close.
	I don't need to explain it or how incredibly disrespectful it is of a race, a large number of Americans, and for crying out loud, the President of the fucking United States, you asshole.
	But I'm sorry, I had to think, how?
	How do you get from petulant child to nigger?
	It's just not the same thing.
	Wow.
	Troubling.
	Troubling.
	Well, it's troubling because I think your first segment there about the Oscars is being drummed into us.
	Of course.
	This is why I planned the segment.
	And I have to say that Obama has done nothing.
	That's why I like to hear, you know, observers like Tavis Smiley, who I never really liked.
	You want to hear it?
	I have his I have the clip.
	Here it is.
	Tavis Smiley.
	But now this was Tavis on C-SPAN.
	But he's a is he a Republican?
	No, I don't think so.
	It's interesting because I was I was clipping last night and I'm playing this clip and Christina says, hey, is he a Republican?
	I said, I don't know.
	I don't think so.
	When you play that clip, I'm going to listen to it with Christina's mindset and try to figure out if I can see what it was that triggered that.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	But at least in my writings, I want to stay focused on the facts, on what the data tell us.
	This is about a book that Tavis Smiley wrote about 10 years, I think it's called, is it called 10 Years After Obamacare?
	Let me just check.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Here we go.
	...falling behind in every major economic category.
	I went to Indiana University to the School of Public and Environmental Affairs to ask them to give me the data that I needed on these 10 issue areas.
	So this book is not my opinion.
	These are the facts.
	This is the data.
	This is the truth.
	If you want the truth about the state of black America today and perhaps some statement about where the future is headed, this text lays that out.
	But you can imagine, Peter, how when the data started to come into me and I I started to compile and edit what was in front of me from the Speer School in Indiana.
	It hit me really hard to realize that in every major economic category, black folk have lost ground over the last 10 years.
	Every category, black people have lost ground over the past 10 years.
	Yeah.
	According to what he says is data.
	I know where she came up with that, by the way.
	Why?
	It's his voice.
	Yeah, that's what she said.
	He sounds like a Republican.
	That's what she said.
	No, it's his accent.
	He's got...
	Oh, accent.
	Southern accent.
	Ah.
	It's a funny accent, though.
	It's not...
	It's like a little bit New Orleans, a little bit God knows what.
	And it's always put me off because it seems almost like it was designed...
	By him, for him.
	And I always thought it was pretentious.
	But having listened to him more and more, he's an outstanding interviewer.
	And this next clip, he claimed something which I, of course, also dove in and tried to do the research on to understand.
	Here we go.
	This is about Obamacare.
	The whole thing is kind of about Obamacare.
	And then what I cut off, to be fair, is he said, hey, at least the president did something.
	We got this going.
	We got something happening.
	Yes, more black people are insured.
	I wasn't happy with What the president got through.
	It wasn't universal healthcare.
	It wasn't what he promised.
	But something is better than nothing.
	And in the coming months and years, I hope that we can improve on that.
	And so the insurance rates for black people have improved.
	The problem is that most of these provisions have not kicked in as yet.
	The most important one to my mind, the pre-existing conditions provision.
	But when these provisions kick in, things will get better.
	But at the moment, 10 years later, black health is not measurably better, number one.
	And number two, even Obamacare didn't do anything about health disparities.
	What you'll read in this chapter about health care 10 years later is that black women, for example, still continue to die disproportionately, Peter, from preventable diseases.
	And so we celebrate the passage of Obamacare.
	I await the day that those provisions kick in and hope to see the impact positively it will have on African Americans beyond just being covered.
	But those health disparities and the racial element involved therein has yet to be addressed.
	So he's saying that the pre-existing conditions clause has not really kicked in Then this was very confusing to me.
	This is supposed to have changed in 2014, which, as far as I know, it did, but then it's a little complicated.
	I think what he's referring to is that the insurance companies have a number of tricks, and it started, of course, with losing your coverage entirely, because I guess what the president should have said is you can keep your doctor and your health plan as long as it doesn't violate the new laws of the Affordable Health Care Act.
	Known as Obamacare.
	But it comes down, I believe, to medication.
	And they have three classes of medication.
	You have the preferred tier, which is generics.
	That's what the insurance companies really want to, which has a lower copay, which they really want to push on people.
	Then you have the branded, approved, preferred tier.
	Medication, which has a higher copay.
	And then you have a third tier, which is the really good stuff, which you really could get if you wanted to have a higher copay.
	They've changed it now.
	The first tier now combines the two lower ones, so you have the generics.
	And then instead of going to branded preferred, it's branded non-preferred.
	And when you have a medication that doesn't have a generic version, then you're not going to be insured for that more expensive branded medication, which they now say is just no longer preferred.
	That's kind of, I think, what it is, and that's how he says that they're refusing pre-existing conditions, by kind of a trick.
	Well, I don't know.
	It doesn't sound right, but...
	That's the best I could do.
	I mean, the provision is there, but it apparently is just not working for everybody.
	But there's Tabitha.
	Whatever excuse they can to jack up, continue to jack up the prices, which is going to continue forever until somebody gets a clue and we just pull the plug on the whole thing and go to single-payer.
	Which brings in a whole new pile of garbage.
	But as somebody keeps pointing out, we have the most expensive healthcare system in the world, period.
	And we're like number 10 in so far as the results are concerned.
	We do not have a healthy population.
	We have a...
	The infant mortality rate is not even in the top five.
	There's all kinds of issues.
	So the system does not work at all.
	And I pulled a clip from the President's promise, which I thought would be good to reiterate since people do tend to forget, how exactly we were going to be paying much less for our premiums.
	Are you paying more?
	Everybody's paying more.
	Most of her complaints are bad.
	And the kids, they're all paying.
	Every year, about this time, everyone's bitching.
	Because everything's up 10% to 20% to $100 a month or whatever.
	It's always a lot more.
	And Christina...
	The Netherlands switched from their single-payer system to pretty much Obamacare system.
	She's poor.
	She has, I think, 50 euros a month health insurance.
	That's what she can afford to pay.
	It's the lowest one.
	She has very high co-pays.
	And dental?
	She used up her 500 euro credit.
	She says, hey dad, can I go to the dentist?
	My gums are bleeding.
	Why didn't you go to the dentist?
	No, I can't afford it.
	It's not covered by insurance after the first visit.
	So it's great.
	Here's the president.
	When you hear about the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, and I don't mind the name because I really do care.
	That's why we passed it.
	Uh-huh.
	You should know that you, once we have fully implemented, you're going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that, if you're an employee at a big company, you can get right now, which means your premiums won't go down.
	Bullshit!
	There you go.
	That was a good sales job.
	Yeah, sucker to everybody.
	Hey, dummies!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And all those co-ops are going under.
	All the co-ops are going under.
	It's only going to get more.
	The only guys making out on this, if you want to really, you know, cut down your health care costs and pay less premiums, invest heavily in pharmaceutical companies.
	Yeah.
	And then take some money.
	And apply that against your premium.
	Exactly.
	Be a capitalist.
	You can't do it any other way.
	Do you have any...
	Until they close this down.
	I mean, I understand the Republicans and their ideas, oh, we should go back to the old days.
	You can't do that.
	No.
	It's not...
	That doesn't...
	You can't do that.
	You made this step in this direction.
	You have to go single-payer.
	You have to continue, yeah.
	And to go back from single-payer like they did in Holland to this crappy system, which is just based on scams, is nuts.
	Who put that through?
	Oh, but the insurance companies.
	They're not just American insurance companies.
	These are worldwide conglomerates.
	These insurance companies are...
	And it's just a financial sector.
	Insurance companies, there's no doctors walking around with lab coats on concerned about your health.
	No!
	No, it's a money business.
	The insurance business is great.
	Why else is Warren Buffett in the insurance business?
	Because it's a great business.
	It's a great business.
	And Buffett is involved in this with reinsurance for these insurance companies.
	So, fuck them.
	Sorry.
	I'm just going to be mad.
	Do you have any clips from the debate?
	I have a couple things.
	I have one and I decided, I watched the first debate with Carly saying the same stuff.
	Yeah, I watched that too.
	It was very boring because there was no Lindsey Graham whining.
	Did you see her hair, her lips, everything was messed up.
	Her upper lip is solid, rock solid.
	It doesn't move.
	Well, that's the, yeah, that's not, no, that's not Botox.
	That's a filler.
	She has a filler.
	I have standing in this area.
	She's feisty.
	I have to admire that.
	The only thing that really came out of the debate...
	These were terrible.
	I don't even know why they put any more of these on.
	But the New York thing was kind of interesting because Cruz kind of stepped in it, but then he got out of it.
	I thought Cruz handled it.
	Do you have a clip?
	Well, actually, I decided not to use my clips for this because it was such a nice package put together by ABC about this exact topic.
	And the reason I'd rather do that is because I see ABC. ABC is the most political of the networks so far as pushing one candidate over another because they're owned by Disney.
	And Disney needs politicians because of the business, it's in.
	Yes, yes.
	And so I see very slowly, a very slow shift to, okay, maybe we can work with Trump.
	And no mention of Bush.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	After staying the course last night on that debate stage, saying Donald Trump embodies New York values.
	Could you explain what you mean by that?
	I think most people know exactly what New York values are.
	I think he meant old white gay men.
	Is that New York values?
	Old Jewish gay men.
	There you go.
	You're from New York, so you might not.
	But I promise you, in the state of South Carolina, they do.
	And listen, there are many, many wonderful, wonderful working men and women in the state of New York.
	But everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal or pro-abortion or pro-gay marriage, focused around money and the media.
	And I guess I can frame it another way.
	Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan.
	I'm just saying.
	Trump's response, controlled contempt.
	When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York.
	Everybody in the world loved New York and loved New Yorkers.
	And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement.
	Ted Nate.
	And now Cruz learning the risks of taking on New York.
	On the cover of the Daily News, Lady Liberty giving him the one-finger salute.
	New York's mayor and governor, both Democrats, outraged, demanding an apology.
	Cruz tonight, defiant.
	I apologize to the millions of New Yorkers who've been let down by liberal politicians in that state.
	I apologize to all the pro-life and pro-marriage and pro-Second Amendment New Yorkers who were told by Governor Cuomo that they have no place in New York.
	And David, just to show you how Cruz's New York values attack has really struck a chord, even Hillary Clinton siding with Trump on this issue, tweeting, just this once, Trump's right.
	David?
	This, I think...
	What Cruz did...
	I think Cruz is evil, and I think he did it on purpose.
	He's trying to put state against state now.
	That's what this is.
	New York State.
	I like your theory, but...
	For one thing, I thought, if I step back and look at the whole thing, I thought it was light-hearted and humorous, and he did have some good timing bits in there.
	He had great timing.
	He's got great timing, and he's a good debater, and he's good at the old, the whipsaw, the kind of like, get your counterpuncher.
	Yeah.
	Good counterpuncher, but Trump would have none of it.
	Trump could have let the thing slide as just kind of light.
	No, he did the right thing.
	He protected his domain.
	Well, I don't think it was so much that, personally, as it was he saw an opportunity to really flip the tables on Cruz, who thought he was coasting.
	Ah, yeah.
	And he just nailed him.
	And I think Cruz was taken aback.
	He did not expect it.
	And the way, if you listen to the thing again where Trump's yakking away and then he says, I think what you said was insulting, he throws that in at a moment.
	Where you're not really expecting it.
	It sounds like he's going on an exposition.
	This is something Trump did consistently last night, and I thought it was really good, particularly when he, I don't have the clip, but when he responded to the Republican State of the Union, the response, he said, Oh, I was real happy with her.
	Yeah, I am angry.
	Everyone expected him to go off.
	He turns it around and goes, Yeah, she's right.
	Absolutely.
	I'm an angry man.
	Yeah, I'm angry because of X, Y, Z. He was very, very good last night.
	I have another example of that.
	But first, here's the New York Post, I think, or the Daily News responded to Ted Cruz.
	Ted Cruz made his strongest attack yet on Donald Trump in the latest Republican presidential debate.
	He accused the frontrunner of acting like a socially liberal New Yorker, focused on money and the media.
	Well, that led to this attack by the New York Daily News with the headline, Drop Dead, Ted!
	Oh, man.
	Now I should bring that up.
	I have to bring another thing up.
	There was, because I think you've stumbled on something.
	I was watching O'Reilly, looking for some clips.
	And I got caught on it because he was going to bring Glenn Beck on, which is unusual because Beck was kicked off Fox.
	Yeah, he's kind of a competitor now.
	So he brought Beck on, and Beck is a Trump hater.
	Yeah.
	And he brought him on for the sole purpose of, I think, because Fox has gotten to the point, the way I see it, doing my three-by-three analysis of these networks.
	Fox can't be aggressive against Trump.
	They don't like him.
	And I'm sure everybody, the whole operation, doesn't like Trump at all.
	But now they know that it's going to hurt their brand if they go after him.
	So they have to do it in offhanded ways.
	So the offhanded way they've decided is to bring Beck on.
	Because Beck really dislikes Trump.
	And I got to hear Beck go on about it.
	And he's kind of like a lunatic.
	But I have to say, he's got this very interesting argument.
	That may have to do with what you just stated, which is to push Trump over into New York.
	He's really a New York liberal, let's face it.
	Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah.
	And which I think is maybe going to be the strategy.
	In fact, this whole thing...
	Is to make him look too liberal to be a conservative...
	To make him look like a New York liberal.
	Interesting.
	If you remember, if you listen to the last maybe 10 elections, there was this...
	Excoriation.
	Oh, the New England.
	We can't have people from that part of the world.
	We get New York liberals.
	It was like you can't have those people, those people, those New York liberals running the country because they don't know anything about what's going on in California.
	They don't care what's going on in Kansas.
	And so you want to put Trump into that category.
	And what Beck says...
	And I have to say, I was really taken by this because it's a great argument.
	He says that the proof that Trump is no conservative whatsoever is his basic thesis as to what's wrong with the government.
	His basic thesis is it's run by a bunch of incompetent morons.
	Right, instead of it's too big or...
	Right, instead of it's too big.
	He never says that it's too big.
	He never says it should be shrunk in size.
	All he says, according to Beck, all Trump ever says is that the government just needs to be run by smart guys like me at the size it's at and things will be fine.
	What I like about that argument is it doesn't bring in another divide.
	You know, black-white, red-blue, left-right.
	We're all...
	I mean, Trump is a pretty good example of, I believe...
	I believe, truly, I believe, I do believe.
	He's an example of someone who is, it's gray.
	You know, it's gray.
	It's a gray, not everyone is, it's not so cut and dry.
	But that's what we've been taught to believe.
	And Christina, it's so great to have her here, man.
	Damn.
	First of all, Facebook, screw it.
	He said, Daddy, why do you waste your time?
	I said, well, I want to make sure I keep up with you.
	He says, Instagram, pops.
	Instagram.
	Nobody's interested in your status updates.
	No one's interested in comments.
	We just want to know, what are their lives like?
	Okay, click.
	And also, liking?
	I think that's part of it.
	If you double tap on the picture and it's an immediate like or Facebook, you have to click on the little like link or button.
	So you get more likes.
	It's easier for people to go like, like, like.
	And comments aren't that interesting.
	She says, on Facebook, all I hear is people saying they're a-holes this, a-holes that.
	Why?
	Because that is how people have been trained.
	They've been trained to do that.
	And Facebook is the place for the Democrats to congregate.
	Now, there was one exchange, and it's a little long, it's about two minutes, and we can probably stop it a couple times, and this was about the Ted Cruz birther issue, which I want to remind everybody, it's been played very...
	This is the thing I think Trump has miscalculated, that even if you, and this happened to me many times in the press, even if you didn't do something, didn't say something, it gets attributed to you and it sticks.
	You cannot undo it.
	You can do interviews.
	You can say whatever.
	It doesn't matter.
	The population believes.
	Me and the mouse.
	Sorry?
	Me and the mouse.
	You and the mouse.
	Exactly.
	The population believes that Donald Trump, who, of course, the association with his Barack Obama birther comments, now they believe he has done the same thing to Ted Cruz.
	It's not true.
	A journalist asked Trump if he thought there would be an issue with Ted Cruz's eligibility, and that's where the information came out that apparently Democratic operatives are considering filing suit should Cruz win the nomination.
	Now, Trump did this so masterfully that it warrants deconstruction.
	Wall Street Journal just came out with a poll.
	Headline, Trump way up, Cruz going down.
	I mean, so you can't...
	They don't like the Wall Street Journal, they don't like NBC, but I like the poll.
	And frankly...
	That's genius right there.
	Who cares?
	I like the poll.
	Exactly!
	And in Iowa now, as you know, Ted, in the last three polls, I'm beating you.
	So, you know, you shouldn't misrepresent how well you're doing with the polls.
	You don't have to say that.
	In fact, I was all for you until you started doing that because that's a misrepresentation.
	Number one.
	Number two, this isn't me saying it.
	I don't care.
	And I believe he's truthful.
	He doesn't care.
	He cares for one reason and one reason only.
	I think I'm going to win fair and square.
	I don't have to win this way.
	Thank you.
	Lawrence Tribe, and numerous from Harvard, of Harvard, said that there is a serious question as to whether or not Ted can do this, okay?
	There are other attorneys that feel, and very, very fine constitutional attorneys, that feel that because he was not born on the land, he cannot run for office.
	Here's the problem.
	We're running.
	We're running.
	He does great.
	I win.
	I choose him as my vice presidential candidate, and the Democrats, too, Because we can't take him along for the ride.
	That's one of the best lines I've ever heard.
	And I think he means it.
	Well, you know, he's really...
	I think people that have kind of written off Trump from the beginning, in fact, when we started discussing Trump at the very early moments of his running for candidacy and you got blasted for, you know, even...
	I mean, people really are bigoted out there about Trump before they started to watch him in action.
	And a lot of people have come around, and you hear very strange things from millennials that say, well, I don't see how I could ever vote for the guy, but he's interesting.
	He's very...
	They got to that point.
	This continues.
	This continues.
	I'm sorry?
	Which is a movement in the right direction for him.
	Yes.
	But he is so...
	I mean, the stuff that he does, like that little bit, he immediately demeaned him by making him vice president.
	Yes, it's fantastic.
	On the fly.
	Personally, I thought he was overreaching with that.
	I didn't like it.
	I thought he was, oh, come on, come on, back off.
	Well, but he comes around on this in a very interesting way.
	Like that, okay?
	The fact is, and if for some reason he beats the rest of the field, he beats the rest of the field.
	See, they don't like that.
	They don't like that.
	No, they don't like that he beats the rest of the field because they want me.
	That is a genius crowdmaster right there.
	Taking the booze, turning it into laughter.
	I'm sorry.
	That's great.
	If for some reason, Neil, he beats the rest of the field, I already know the Democrats are going to be bringing the suit.
	You have a big lawsuit over your head while you're running, and if you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you can even serve in office.
	So you should go out, get a declaratory judgment, let the courts decide, and you shouldn't have mentioned the polls because I would have been much different.
	Why now?
	Why are you raising this issue now?
	Because now he's doing a little bit better.
	No, I didn't care before.
	So first he says, hey, the reason I'm doing this is because he's doing a little bit better.
	You know, I've got to attack the guy a little bit.
	No, it's true.
	Hey, look, he never had a chance.
	Now he's doing better.
	He's got probably a 4 or 5% chance.
	Because that was fucking...
	Come on, that was funny.
	I thought it was funny.
	I still see it as a scam between the two of them.
	Well, of course it's a scam.
	It's a show.
	It's a big show.
	And he gives Cruz the attention he needs.
	I mean, if it wasn't for Trump, I don't think Cruz...
	Cruz is right that when Trump does certain things, it brings his numbers up because it brings public attention to a higher level.
	And I don't know that he's...
	I don't even know if Cruz is in on it, but it seems to me as though...
	Maybe not.
	Trump is controlling the whole...
	He's like the puppet master.
	Yes.
	And here's how the...
	This is not a three-by-three, because I only got to Today Show and Good Morning America, how they responded to this.
	...against Wall Street and the big banks.
	I'm sorry, this was...
	That was a different issue.
	This was about...
	Sorry.
	About Cruz and his loan, which I think he played poorly.
	You know, the background, simplistically stated, is that he obtained a loan against his assets from Goldman Sachs in order to start the campaign, which is commendable in a way, but I think he forgot to declare on an important piece of paper.
	He filed it elsewhere because the obvious connection between his wife, who works at Goldman Sachs, although she suspended her vocation there until after whatever, It was bad optics, and so he tried to obfuscate that.
	He gets called out on it.
	And, of course, exactly what he didn't want to happen is now happening.
	People are saying, oh, he's an insider, he's a shill, he's Goldman Sachs, he's the big evil squid, and we don't want him.
	...against Wall Street and the big banks, and yet what people didn't know was that he had gone to one of those big banks, Goldman Sachs, where his wife worked to get a personal loan.
	Morning.
	For a lot of voters making up their mind, just tuning into this race, if one of the first things they learn about Ted Cruz is that he has a financial relationship with Goldman Sachs, there's no worse brand name for the populist wing of the Republican Party than that.
	By the way, I think that's bullcrap.
	What is bullcrap?
	That if you're associated with Goldman Sachs, it means you're evil and people aren't going to work for anything.
	I don't think it's a negative thing at all.
	I don't think anyone cares.
	I don't think anyone gives a crap that his wife works there or that he got it alone.
	No, the only people who give a crap are the news media.
	This morning, Senator Ted Cruz's campaign in damage control after a new report shows he took up to a million dollars in loans from big Wall Street banks to finance his run for Senate.
	The issue may hurt Cruz's credibility since he's railed against big banks and Wall Street bailouts.
	That unctuous style of announcer.
	By the way, having been doing this three, watching these networks, it's really bugging me.
	That's style.
	There's one guy, Al Gary or Galgar or something on NBC that is absolutely the worst.
	He's just screaming at it.
	And their borderlines sound like a surfer.
	Which is my wheelhouse.
	Yeah, you'd be right to be in business.
	Well, I do have one more clip about this topic if you're getting wrapped.
	Well, I have one.
	I have a quick Ben Carson clip.
	Why don't you do that first?
	The clip I'm going to tell you is David Brooks on PBS. Once again, this is the second time I've caught him doing this, telling the public, first of all, he's bitching about Trump because he hates Trump.
	He's like a type of Republican that really hates Trump.
	And David Brooks is a climatologist, right?
	No, no.
	David Brooks is just a generalist columnist.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	He hosted an entire program where he said that climate change was responsible for the problems in Syria.
	He did?
	That's David Brooks, yes.
	You sure?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	We talked about it on this show.
	Well, he makes a comment, which he's done many a time, and I've got another example of it where he says, you know, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.
	...with state legislators who are Republicans, congressmen, senators, local committeemen...
	A lot of whom are in panic.
	And so maybe they should do something about it.
	Maybe they should have a moveon.org type organization and get some rallying, which the other side has already done, and have a counterweight so they don't send the party into suicide.
	And that might involve, not now, but after New Hampshire, winnowing the field.
	And donors and other people going and saying, we're just going to pick this guy.
	We're going to pick Rubio.
	I'm sorry, Jeb, you're not going to be president.
	Okay.
	Christy, you can be Secretary of Treasury, but we're going to get organized here, and we're not going to go quietly into the night.
	So go back to some kind of smoke-filled room?
	I'm pro-conspiracy right now.
	Do you think it's that critical?
	Well, you know, I have no confidence in my judgment.
	I shouldn't say that on TV. Mark and I have confidence in his judgment.
	He's so old school, he's still saying things like, I shouldn't say that on TV. He is extremely old school.
	Like you're in the church or something.
	He's lost all confidence or credibility.
	He's been predicting the demise of Trump since day one.
	For like, you know, six months he's been saying this, and now he's like lost all confidence.
	He does say something very interesting there, where he says Chris Christie could be Secretary of the Treasury, which is a big joke, first of all.
	Um...
	You're not going to...
	That's not going to happen.
	But does that speak to his positive work in New Jersey?
	Is New Jersey so great financially?
	I don't think so.
	Not that anybody knows.
	There's a little more on your clip.
	Let's finish it up.
	Mark and I have confidence in your judgment.
	Because I thought Trump was fade, and I still sort of think he'll fade.
	But...
	Sort of.
	I mean, it's right now.
	Cruz and Cruz are both looking pretty good.
	And I don't think either is electable.
	And neither do a lot of Republicans.
	And so the question is, why do they just sit there and do nothing?
	Fine.
	Yeah.
	So tired of this.
	So he, this old school, I don't know even who he thinks is electable.
	He would think that Rubio...
	Who's an obvious stooge.
	I mean, personally, from my perspective, of course, I'm going to vote Libertarian no matter what, probably.
	But from my perspective, looking at that, I don't think any of those guys are any good.
	None of them.
	And I say the same on the other side.
	I think the most entertaining president would be Bernie Sanders.
	And to be honest about it, and this is where, you know, people are going to have to deal with my opinions about these sorts of things.
	If Bernie Sanders was president, we'd finally...
	Normally, throughout American history, we had a swing back and forth between kind of Republican business-oriented lawmaking and then public interest lawmaking.
	And it would be the Democrats that represent public interest lawmaking and the Republicans that represent business lawmaking.
	And it was never really a problem because this pendulum would swing back and forth and back and forth and thus it would create some sort of a long-term balance.
	But of late, when the neoliberals have taken over the place where you have Bill Clinton being more of a Republican than the Republicans and guys like George Bush being big spending Republicans when they're in office, there's been no swing back toward public interest.
	That's where the Elizabeth Warren thing would catch on.
	Well, she better hurry up.
	Hillary better make them out.
	The convention is when they make the decision.
	And the convention is a ways away.
	Anyway, so back and forth.
	So Bernie Sanders, although I believe he would ruin the economy and send us into a depression, that would happen anyway because of the cycles.
	At least he would do something about, you know, the scams that are going on with the bank fees and the ridiculous and the payday loans and all these things that are just ripping off the public at large.
	And it's going on unabated.
	With nobody doing anything except once in a while Elizabeth Warren comes out and says something like, oh, maybe we should do something about these robocalls and does nothing.
	We need some swing back because we're not getting it.
	We haven't had it since Reagan.
	To give you a glimpse in the future of Bernie Sanders as president, Christina was bitching and moaning.
	The Netherlands is a very socialist country.
	And she was bitching and moaning because, you know, she was diagnosed with autism.
	Okay, she's on the spectrum.
	But, you know, she won't take any medication or anything, which is nice for her to know.
	Okay, but I'm now...
	This is how I feel sometimes.
	I'm on the spectrum.
	At least I have a diagnosis.
	So she feels fine with that.
	But she's pissed off.
	Daddy, you and mom, you should have organized all this and this test before I was 18 because if you get diagnosed with autism before you're 18, you get 800 euros a month and you can work in addition on the side without having to diminish that fee because you're sad.
	You don't have a fair shake in life.
	800 euros a month.
	That's almost as much as the immigrants get in free money when they come in.
	Almost as much.
	Almost as much.
	So that's our future.
	And I can sit there and say, where does it come from?
	She understands that intellectually, but that's how they're thinking.
	Hey, screw that.
	I want free school.
	I want free health care.
	And if I'm nutty or if I'm different, then I need to have money.
	And that's what's happening.
	And that's what will happen.
	That's the mentality.
	And that's what will happen.
	The entire world economy has to collapse before that goes away.
	What she hasn't seen is that I have a chain here, so she can't leave.
	I'm chaining her.
	She can't go back to Europe.
	It's bad.
	It's not going to be good.
	All right, here's Ben Carson.
	I thought this was just sweet, sweet little Ben Carson.
	But, you know, here's the real issue.
	Is this America anymore?
	Do we still have standards?
	Do we still have values and principles?
	You know, you look at what's going on, you see all the divisiveness and the hatred that goes on in our society.
	You know, we have a war on virtually everything.
	Race wars, gender wars, income wars, religious wars, age wars.
	Every war you can imagine, we have people at each other's throats.
	And our strength is actually in our unity.
	You know, you go to the internet, you start reading an article, and you go to the comment section, you cannot go five comments down before people are calling each other all manner of names.
	Where did that spirit come from in America?
	It did not come from our Judeo-Christian roots, I can tell you that.
	Ah, it came from the devil!
	The devil on the interwebs, that's what it is!
	And wherever it came from...
	Woo!
	Devil!
	Thank you, Satan!
	We need to start once again recognizing that there is such a thing as right and wrong.
	And let's not let the secular progressives drive that out of us.
	The majority of people in America actually have values and principles, and they believe in the very things that made America great.
	They've been beaten into submission.
	It's time for us to stand up for what we believe in.
	It's not discussed, and I don't think we discuss it very much, but with all the talk about not Pissing off Muslims and not being racist against them.
	There's no talk of what is going on with Christians.
	Because the Christians are being belittled and shamed in this country, in our country, constantly.
	And I think that's part of the point he's making.
	Yeah, that's pretty...
	And then again, of course, there's these arguments about the Christians in the Middle East, they're all being just killed.
	And no one cares.
	And nobody cares about that, or seemingly so, because they can't get them to get involved with the...
	They can't allow them as refugees in many instances, at least according to the reports that you hear, whether it's true or not.
	Yeah, well, there's a lot of...
	It's nice, it seems to be like fair game to mock Jesus freaks, Bible thumpers.
	That's been the case.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	That's pretty much been the case since I was a kid.
	Right, but it's worth pointing out that...
	Not really that new, but it is continuing, yes.
	Well, the bottom line is...
	But a lot of it has to do with Obama.
	Yes, we can.
	I mean, until you pointed it out, I was unaware of this.
	What, you mean the thank you, Satan?
	Yeah, thank you, Satan.
	All right.
	Of course.
	Let me play the short one.
	Hold on.
	That's the long one.
	I think this is...
	I don't know.
	Where is it?
	Just played it.
	No, but it's...
	That's what he's saying.
	The more you hear it, the more you hear it.
	Yeah, which is part of the whole gag, I think.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and passion and keep pushing John C where the C stands for Caucasian Dvorak.
	Well, I would like to thank you, Mr.
	Adam Curry, for your courage.
	Also, thank you for your courage.
	In the morning, all ships to sea, boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs in the world.
	In the world?
	In the water.
	Oh, man.
	Never mind.
	Thanks to the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to everybody in the chat room.
	Thank you, Satan.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Thank you to our artist, Runtan Plan, who did the artwork for us for episode 7, 9, or 0 of the best podcast in the universe.
	Title of that, Climate Disobedience.
	And we got this.
	This is an evergreen.
	It was hard to choose.
	Maybe you have some comments on that.
	But we like this little May Day.
	Yeah, it was an evergreen evergreen.
	Yeah.
	What was wrong?
	I can't really remember.
	Well, there was nobody that was hitting anything.
	For one thing, the art wasn't funny.
	Yeah.
	It's nice for it to be funny.
	And there was a lot of just kind of like stuff that was, I wouldn't say it was just tossed.
	It was like, it was carelessly thrown into the pot.
	Yeah.
	That's the only way I can put it.
	And it's like, you know, I'm starting, I'm in the process of, in my own mind, blaming PewDiePie.
	Yeah, screwed it up!
	Well, he started, for one thing, he was nasty, and then he got Nick Duratt preoccupied, because Nick's a sensitive artist.
	Yes.
	And he hasn't produced anything good.
	Martin J.J., of course, has been kind of semi-retired, and so we don't have anybody taking up the slack or something like that.
	I don't know.
	Well, the thing I don't like about PewDiePie is the name PewDiePie.
	But it's not your name.
	You are not the famous PewDiePie, and I don't like that.
	Yeah, it's derivative.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we hope for better art.
	Yes.
	And it doesn't take a lot.
	In fact, I think PewDiePie did point out that Eason, which is a great art piece, can be done.
	And a lot of people have actually sent us notes about that one piece about George Bush with those nerd glasses on.
	Yeah.
	Very simple process.
	You take your glasses, put it on the guy's face, boom!
	Beautiful.
	But I want to reiterate, we love everybody who gives any try for this at all.
	Thank you.
	Noagendaartgenerated.com.
	It's highly appreciated.
	It makes a difference.
	It's a big deal.
	We are one of the few podcasts who change album art with every single episode.
	And some of the podcast clients actually display that, thank God.
	So, we're very appreciative.
	Very appreciative.
	But, you know, we do have to say, hey, you know, whatever's going on...
	It's a cycle.
	Yes, it's a cycle.
	Who do we thank today, John?
	We do have a few people who came in for show seven...
	Nine or one.
	Seven, nine, or one.
	And one of them actually pointed out something kind of interesting, and that's Timothy Crowe.
	From Bothell, Washington.
	He came in with $800 and he mentioned, he says, I was triggered by the new length of the NFL point after touchdown, which is 33 yards.
	This is a double credit for, will this be, he wants to know, is this double credit for the show 800?
	Because we do have show 800 coming up.
	Coming up, yeah.
	Nine more shows.
	And we've always offered, I sent him a note back, I said, of course, we've always offered double executive producer credits when you, like anyone who contributes $800 before show 800.
	If you contribute $800, I'll come over and blow you, really.
	He will.
	You'd probably do it for four.
	You are such a pimp daddy.
	Get a promotion.
	He says you got a promotion at work.
	Still needs more job karma, though.
	Good luck to Jerry and...
	Heavenly Johnson on their first human resource later this year.
	This makes me a knight, by the way.
	Is he on the list?
	I hope so.
	Yeah, he is.
	I donated 200-something a couple of years ago.
	I should donate more often.
	I'd like to be the Fiber Knight.
	The Fiber Knight, okay.
	Fiber Knight.
	I'd like to be the No Mexican Hat Dance.
	Oh, here's what he liked for things.
	The Mexican Hat Dance edition of the No No No thing.
	Predator Drones, Obama, and That's How We Roll.
	Okay, got it.
	Okay, you know what?
	Woo!
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hey!
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now.
	Hey!
	Come on.
	I have two words for you.
	Predator drums.
	That's how we work.
	That's how we work.
	That's all for us.
	And that's the story.
	You've got karma.
	It's a nice little combo.
	Sir James Brown out of San Diego, California.
	Comes in with $500.
	He said no note.
	I sent him a note asking if he wants to run something.
	We'll give him a karma for sure.
	But he's an instant night from 2014 who I guess just felt obliged for the $500 for this show, but with no mention of anything.
	So there he goes.
	Jay Anonymous, meanwhile, in Tigard, Tigard, Oregon, 23456.
	Sorry to hear the dismal donations of late.
	In fact, they were pretty bad.
	This is my second donation.
	Actually, this wasn't that good even with these high donations.
	This is my second donation to the show, but my first was below 200, so I've not been officially de-douched.
	You'd be so kind, I'd be much obliged.
	Okay, we'll do that right now.
	De-douchement.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you for all you guys do.
	I've been listening for almost a year.
	It was the case of love at first listen, which to me is extremely rare.
	I have always been skeptical of media and the state mouthpieces.
	Well, that's not rare.
	So I was hooked immediately.
	I was hit in the mouth by the writers of a WordPress blog called the Farah Yop.
	F-E-R-A-Y-A-W-P. So I should send some love back their way.
	Hoping for a better 2016.
	I lost my brother a few months back and I hope to make him a posthumous night this year.
	If I could request a clippity-clop climate gate Hillary laugh, that would be great.
	Along with some novel writing karma.
	Keep up the superlative work.
	Okay.
	Let me see.
	Where's our clippity club?
	It's clippity club.
	Just clippity club.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	You've got karma.
	Woohoo!
	Also a nice one.
	Yeah, not a bad combination.
	Nice combos.
	We've got combos today.
	Good combos.
	We've got combos on sale, everybody.
	Aaron from Gitmo Nation Falafel, $201 worth of note that he sent in.
	Shalom from Gitmo Nation Falafel.
	Shalom!
	Y'all, shalom, y'all.
	This donation is in appreciation for the wonderful New Year's Eve show.
	Oh, thank you.
	About that.
	Yeah, that's nice.
	It's great to know that I can always depend on no agenda, even when everyone else is off the air.
	Yeah.
	Yes, we worked.
	We worked.
	Please send some healthy pregnancy karma for my wife.
	We're getting ready to welcome human resource number five into our family.
	Best, Aaron.
	Very nice.
	Congratulations.
	Let us know what happens.
	We've got karma.
	We shall put that human resource on our list.
	Indeed.
	Okay, let me move this down a little bit.
	Yael, I think.
	Yael Asowski.
	Yael Asowski.
	Is that really why A-E-L is pronounced Yael?
	Yael, yeah.
	I think the Superman comic tells me that's Yael.
	Vienna, Austria.
	Vienna.
	Oh, Vienna.
	$200.
	With this $200 donation, I successfully reached my knighthood.
	Another knight.
	All righty.
	Years in the making.
	Years in the making.
	But what can you expect from a millennial slave?
	Can I get a hey, citizen?
	I'd like to be known as the knight of the non-hipster man beard.
	Hey, citizen.
	Last month.
	Your phone is ringing.
	Yeah, it is.
	Last month, let me go turn that phone off.
	Why don't you just answer it, and then we can have a little laugh.
	Finish reading this for me.
	Okay.
	Years in the making, but what can you expect from a millennial slave?
	Can I get a hay citizen?
	I'd like to be known as Knight of the Non-Hipster Man Beard.
	I have to put that into the notes here.
	I don't think Eric did that.
	Last month, I hit Michel Landel in the mouth, and he's due for his first douchebag call-out.
	Douchebag!
	Welcome to the club.
	Speaking of a no-agenda club, it's time to unite the slaves of Central Europe for a meet-up in Vienna.
	Let's make it happen, schnitzels, with schnitzels and beer.
	And that would be at meetup.com slash noagenda.
	As for the value-for-value karma model, it works!
	I'm a journalist who has followed the show for years for my student days in Montreal to the front lines of today's Gibbon Nation refugee group.
	Nothing gives better satisfaction than donating to the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you for a great product.
	Are you back?
	Yeah.
	For today, he didn't ask for anything specific, but I have a new little ditty that I'd like to share.
	This is done by William Eby, and he's not a professional editor, but he tried something.
	I gave him some pointers, and he came back, and I think he did a very good job.
	Are you ready to ramp it up, John?
	It's got to be your favorite song.
	All right, everybody!
	Hit me now!
	Hey, come on, guys!
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Ah, there you go.
	Needs a better ending, what is it?
	You've got karma.
	It's getting there.
	It's getting there.
	Yeah, it fits in with the Louis Louis beat.
	Yeah, and he tried to do a little karaoke to get the original lyrics.
	It's not bad.
	He needs a better ending, but I think it's pretty good.
	I need to work on it.
	These things are not easy.
	Dmitry Rabinovich in Cleveland, Ohio, $200.
	Bless me, Podfathers, for I have sinned.
	Please kick some house-buying karma my way, and thank you for another year of solid infotainment.
	Yes.
	Eric didn't put all of the notes in here.
	Hold on a second.
	Non-hipster man beard.
	Okay.
	I'm just writing some stuff down.
	Okay.
	He needs a karma.
	Oh, sorry.
	I was doing administrative work here.
	What are you doing?
	You've got karma.
	When I read it, so here's what I do.
	Because, you know, the one thing I try to do is have less bullshit for us, John.
	So when we miss on the...
	So Eric sends me, here's the nights, here's the birthdays.
	And then I'm looking at the spreadsheet and it very clearly says, I want to be the knight of the non-hipster man beard.
	I go down to my notes that he sent me and that's not included.
	Hopefully you're still working on it.
	I have to second guess everything.
	We need to have us chat with him.
	Well, talk to him.
	You talk to him.
	He doesn't respond.
	He hates me.
	He doesn't hate you.
	He hates me.
	He hates me.
	Well, maybe he does.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Onward.
	You should say, welcome to the club is what you're supposed to say.
	Eric Shearer.
	Did you do him?
	No.
	No, I'm doing him now.
	All right.
	But now you got me...
	Since I missed a one-liner, I'm extremely upset.
	Yeah.
	Luckily, I have an upsetting clip for you.
	I don't know when to play this clip because I'm on pins and needles.
	I got one for you.
	Eric Sheeran, Anchorage, Alaska.
	$200 and he sent a handwritten note on Halliburton Station.
	Something to save.
	Dear John and Adam, it's been a pleasure listening to the best podcast in the universe for years.
	I have no clue when I started listening, but it was definitely sub-episode 100.
	In 2010, you convinced me to become a Minuteman.
	Remember that?
	We stopped doing it when I mentioned this.
	That's double nickels on a dime, right?
	No, it was part of it, but we had this thing, the Minuteman Club.
	And then we said, wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	This is the kind of thing we don't want the government...
	Oh, that's right.
	That's right.
	It was an associative thing, so we had to drop it.
	So we dropped the Minuteman thing like a hot potato.
	Yeah.
	Because it was going to be bad.
	Although, I wouldn't mind being on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list.
	I mean, at least we get some promotion.
	Anyway, he says, I started monthly donations in 2011.
	I have enjoyed no agenda in excess of what I've given to you.
	Oh.
	Uh...
	According to my calculations, my next round of PayPal payments will vault me into nightdom, but I thought I would send a check and a thank you.
	I don't really care about anonymity, but the title Sir Anonymous would be great if it isn't already taken.
	Can I get a science?
	Hold on a second.
	Is he now a knight?
	Yes.
	No, no.
	He's working on it.
	Oh, okay.
	I got you.
	He hasn't declared knight them.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Good.
	It would be great.
	He just wants to reserve.
	Oh, okay.
	In advance.
	All right.
	I guess.
	Well, I think you should put a down payment.
	That's kind of how it works with a Tesla as well.
	You want a Tesla?
	You got to give us some money.
	Can I get a science, karma, and the Gitmo National Anthem?
	We can play the Gitmo National Anthem at the end.
	It's just a little too long to play in the middle of the show.
	Okay, well, why don't I give him a full-on denier science, then?
	That'll make up for that.
	Don't be a denier!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	You've got karma.
	There we go.
	And that concludes our little group of well-wishers and executive producers and associate executive producers for show 791.
	And we do have 792 coming up.
	We have been getting crappy Thursdays for some reason.
	We do have a holiday tomorrow, which is going to...
	In America.
	Only in America, though.
	Yeah, that's true.
	So we're counting on you, Furners.
	Well, good luck with that.
	A little PR mention, the No Agenda Jingles app has been updated.
	That's iOS only.
	But I just want to let you know this.
	Go ahead and update.
	And I believe our producer has also, maybe later on in the $50 donations, he sent us some share of the value for value.
	And people seem to like that app a lot.
	It's unfortunately only...
	IOS. But what's nice about it is you can make your own jingle combos, and it'll play in sequence, in order.
	So you kind of hear what it's going to sound like.
	Sometimes it's just cool to listen to.
	And then you can request them on this show.
	Yes, exactly.
	And the link to that is, of course, in the show notes at 791.noagendanotes.com.
	And we appreciate our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Real credits, you too can be racially divided by the Academy.
	Because they're no different from the Academy except we're upfront and honest about it.
	And please consider us for the Thursday show.
	And obviously, when you're out having a good time, propagate the formula!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order! Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	All right, before you hit me with the disturbing clip, may I do an Ask John?
	I don't really have an Ask John very often at all, at all, at all, at all.
	Okay, I can try.
	Now, I'm not sure if this happened during your time as an environmental inspector.
	What exactly were you?
	Environmental?
	It was an air pollution inspector.
	Air pollution inspector.
	For the government.
	Of California.
	Well, it's actually regional government in this case.
	All right.
	When were you that?
	It was a while ago.
	Do you mind?
	Was it 70s?
	Yeah, it was the late 70s.
	Okay.
	Then, even if you weren't working at that exact time, you will be able to help.
	Now, this is President Obama, and he was at a school...
	I can't think off the top of my head.
	I think it was Missouri.
	Missouri.
	And he did a little stand-up, and he brought out this thing about climate change and how horrible the air is, and he made a number of claims about California in the 70s, and I thought to myself, how, self?
	It just so happens you have a guy who knows everything about this topic, about the quality of air of California in the 70s.
	Yes.
	First of all, it's important for us to understand how much environmental progress we've made in my lifetime.
	And the reason is sometimes when we talk about the environment, it sounds like something far away.
	But we don't realize, we don't remember what we've accomplished already.
	In the 1970s, In California, there would be regular days where people did not go outside.
	Is this true?
	No.
	It's not true?
	It's a lie.
	Okay, let's keep going.
	When Ronald Reagan was governor in California...
	And I think, as an aside, when the president really starts stammering, That's when he's lying.
	This clip is the first time I noticed it.
	And I left most of it in.
	Because a lot of it, you know, like pauses.
	I had to take that out.
	The show would be nine hours if we didn't do that.
	I believe he's lying whenever he starts stammering.
	It's his tell.
	So let's continue.
	There would be regular days where people did not go outside.
	When Ronald Reagan was governor in California, there were regularly days where the smog was so bad, it was like it is in Beijing now.
	Is that true?
	In Los Angeles.
	Yeah, it was like Beijing is now.
	Yeah.
	I would not...
	Well, the fundamental basis for what was happening in Los Angeles Basin back then, it was a different...
	The components of the pollution were different than what's in Beijing.
	Beijing is more like London fog from the 50s, where they had the kill, where a bunch of people died from...
	Jack the Ripper.
	No.
	It was from the smog.
	We had a smog problem in London that was outrageous and it was killing people and that was more along the lines of what's going on in Beijing as opposed to photosynthesis that went on in LA to an extreme during the 60s mostly.
	People just wouldn't go outside and if you had asthma or some respiratory disease you might die.
	No.
	There's something about...
	I ISO'd this.
	I ISO'd this.
	You might die.
	And someone needs to talk to the president.
	Because when he stammers, it removes all of the seriousness that he's trying to portray.
	Here he is saying you might die without the stammer.
	You might die.
	Now that sounds much more forceful and powerful than...
	You might die.
	You might die.
	He needs to work on that.
	It's too late.
	He's not taking your advice.
	Well, now he's going to go back, and he remembers because he was in California in the 70s, apparently.
	Sure he was.
	I don't think...
	When did he go to college?
	Never went.
	You're confused with me.
	When did the president go to attend...
	Let me see.
	What school was he at?
	Harvard?
	Harvard?
	He was at Harvard for a while.
	He was also at Columbia or some other place.
	That's pretty vague.
	I think he went to Occidental for a while.
	They never released his records.
	We don't even know that he ever went to college.
	Let's just stay with it.
	This is why I'm asking you to focus on the problem.
	He's saying that he was in college during the Reagan governor days.
	He's my age, this guy.
	I wasn't in college in the 70s.
	Yeah, Reagan.
	Okay, I knew it.
	79, I think.
	We've got to deconstruct this.
	Let's start with Reagan.
	Okay, when was Reagan governor?
	Well, here, you do the Reagan thing, I'll do his school thing.
	Okay, Reagan.
	I can do this.
	Education summary.
	This is handy.
	Kindergarten.
	Okay.
	Columbia University.
	Okay.
	Freshman.
	Okay.
	Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1979 to 1981.
	When was Reagan governor?
	I think he was before that, but I think he...
	My keyboard stopped working.
	Oh, no!
	This is not good.
	I think the battery went dead.
	Oh.
	Do you need to go get a battery?
	You can do it.
	It's worth it.
	Get a battery.
	You know what?
	Let me look at my thing here.
	Okay, you want to just stop tape?
	Yeah, we'll stop tape.
	Okay, I'm going to get a battery.
	We shall stop tape.
	Stop tape.
	There's no tape!
	I'm sorry.
	Stop tape.
	Stop tape.
	Stop in tape.
	All right, we're stopped.
	All right, we're on a five-minute hold, everybody.
	Five-minute hold.
	Five-minute hold for talent.
	Five-minute hold for talent.
	We have a technical.
	Technical issue.
	Don't worry, we'll be paying for overtime if we go over.
	Stop tape.
	Stop tape.
	We're all stopped.
	Okay, that's good.
	Ah, this is unbelievable.
	Okay, let's start it out again.
	All right, everybody.
	Places, please.
	Places, please.
	Talent walking in.
	Are we ready?
	All right, everybody.
	Places.
	Places, please.
	Places, please.
	Tape rolling.
	All right, roll tape.
	Roll tape.
	Roll tape.
	So tell me, John, when was Reagan governor?
	Well, no.
	You already gave us the dates of Obama.
	Yes, he was at Occidental College, apparently, between 1979 and 1981.
	Okay, that's when he would be in California then, which is one year of the 70s.
	Well, yeah, two years, I guess.
	Ronald Reagan was governor from 1967 to 1975.
	Okay, so the president is lying.
	When did we clean up the California air?
	Well, they began cleaning it up in the 50s.
	But when would the president...
	I'd say by 75, it was pretty damn clean.
	So 79, it would not be that bad.
	No, not the way he described it.
	Now, if he was down in Occidental, it's possible that they were having some, you know, because of the bowl effect down there, they could have had some bad days in L.A. I don't know that people wouldn't go outside.
	Let's listen to the president's description of how bad it was.
	Wait, stop.
	Play the whole thing again, because I want to get these days and times down.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second.
	Can we re-rack that clip?
	Please re-rack the clip.
	All these terms are coming back.
	Rerack the clip.
	First of all, it's important for us to understand how much environmental progress we've made in my lifetime.
	And the reason is sometimes when we talk about the environment, it sounds like something far away.
	But we don't realize, we don't remember what we've accomplished already.
	In the 1970s, In California, there would be regular days where people did not go outside.
	Okay, so we've already established that is just not true.
	I'm sure someone didn't go outside, but it wasn't like Beijing.
	There were moments in Los Angeles again, just Los Angeles, not California, but Los Angeles, the basin, or Pasadena, where it would be really a bad, foggy, smoggy day.
	Well, he's talking about all of California, but then he narrows it down to him in L.A., Yeah.
	Which I'll get to.
	All he's talking about is him.
	Well, of course.
	There's no reason to talk about anything else.
	Reagan was governor.
	Also, there's a little condescending tone that we're not regular governor.
	Let's back a little bit.
	Of course I'm backing it up.
	In California, there would be regular days where people did not go outside.
	When Ronald Reagan was governor, in California, there were regularly days where the smog was so bad, it was like it is in Beijing now.
	People just wouldn't go outside.
	And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die.
	You might die?
	You might die?
	I remember as recently as 1979, when I first started college, I started college in Los Angeles.
	When I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes, I'd start feeling a burning in my chest.
	And it was just me sucking in soot.
	And smoke.
	And soot.
	What?
	There's no soot in California air pollution.
	It was so bad that his chest started burning.
	London there was soot.
	Boston there was soot.
	New York there was soot.
	But certainly not in 1979 there was no soot.
	There was no soot.
	It was me sucking in soot and smog.
	Sucking in soot.
	You've got to make an ISO of that.
	Yeah, hold on.
	Let's play the whole thing and then I can do all the work we want.
	I want you to respond.
	It's only 16 seconds.
	We can't seem to get to the end.
	Sucking in soot and smog.
	And now you go there and that smog isn't there.
	And the reason is because we institute things like catalytic converters and unleaded gasoline and we change the technology to reduce smog.
	We've changed the technologies.
	Hold on, let me run the ISO first.
	Help me with this, because we're doing a professional job here.
	I remember as recently as 1970, I started college in Los Angeles.
	When I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes, I'd start feeling a burning in my chest.
	And it was just me sucking in soot.
	So we do that?
	Yeah, just sucking in soot.
	Sucking in soot?
	And smog, or just sucking in soot?
	No, no, just soot.
	Sucking in soot.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me just ISO. Sucking in soot!
	Okay.
	All right.
	I'm saving this ISO. A couple of things you should mention just to straighten out for people who care.
	I think at this point we're probably gone beyond it.
	But the catalytic converters were used to reduce the amount of nitric acids, any sort of nitrogen that was in the form of...
	Of an acid that would go into the atmosphere and it's the nit- which was caused a problem with the Volkswagens, by the way.
	They let this stuff go out of the, you know, and they lie in their testing.
	That's what causes photochemical smog, turns out.
	And so once you put the catalytic converters on everything, that stuff stopped coming out of the cars, and so now you couldn't have the photochemical reaction that took place that caused that kind of orangey smog that you always talked about in Los Angeles.
	Unleaded gas had nothing to do with any of this.
	Unleaded gas was a completely different animal.
	It was removed from gasoline for a different reason.
	Mostly because gasoline, it turns out, they used to put tetraethyl lead.
	And I was at Union Oil when they were making this transition.
	They were using tetraethyl lead in gasoline to the point of almost four grams of lead per gallon of gas.
	So the gasoline would have a higher octane and burn more smoothly in an automobile.
	Uh-huh.
	And that's what, so you wouldn't have pinging and you'd have more horsepower.
	It's great.
	The problem was, is that the tetraethyl lead when it combusted in the chamber with the gasoline, We threw out elemental lead and some lead salts, which are toxic, out of the gas pipe.
	So you'd have, for every gallon of gas you burned, you threw out four grams of lead into the atmosphere and usually got into the soils nearby roads.
	And most of the roads, here's a real obscure data point.
	Most of the highways, roads, and cities were contaminated with so much lead, it was completely out of control.
	And that's what no one wanted to talk about because it was like, holy crap, if you went along the highways, any freeway in California or anyplace else, and you started doing soil samples, it was all lead.
	And so they had to do something about it.
	So that's how they...
	One of the main reasons they got rid of lead, there's some other reasons.
	But that's the real killer, literally killer.
	Turns out...
	That I did not...
	That's new.
	I did not know that at all.
	That's horrible.
	Another no-agenda historical fact, people.
	And here's another little tidbit for you.
	Another no-agenda tidbit.
	Once you remove the lead from the gasoline, because of the nature of the cheap, crappy engines that we made in Detroit, the engines wouldn't work right because they require the valve seats.
	When the valve hits the engine block, if it doesn't have lead, lead is like a lubricant.
	It was actually...
	Right, that's why we had to get all...
	That's why the synthetic oil industry started with viscosity breakdown.
	Was that it?
	Was that where that came from?
	No, no.
	It had nothing to do with it.
	I should shut up.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you probably.
	This is just specific to the valves.
	And so the valves would hit the engine block, and since there was no lead, literally lead metal there, which was like a lubricant, and it was like, you know, you're hitting this, it was like lead.
	I love when I'm hitting it that it's lubed.
	Once the lead was gone, it would just be metal to metal, and it would just start digging into the engine.
	Yeah.
	And it was ruining all these engines.
	That's why old engines need these special additives, otherwise they get ruined by today's gasoline.
	So they had to leave at least a half a gram of lead in there, which they did for just a little while.
	Then it turned out, the longer story, they changed some specs, so they had to just remove lead altogether, and then they had to deal with redesigning engines and not telling the public that their car was ruining itself.
	For about 10 years this was going on.
	Meanwhile, here's the data point I wanted to bring up.
	The lead that was in the gasoline, which was to the point of four grams a gallon of lead, and it was getting into the atmosphere of the soil and everywhere and contaminating cities and most of the country, it turns out that the...
	Rate of violence, and gun violence included, and everything since the removal of lead from gasoline, went down progressively as the amount of elemental lead and lead salts in the environment lessened and distributed itself, went down to what it is today, and a lot of people believe that the violence, the gangs, some of the crap that was going on in the 50s in particular, was all because everyone was poisoned.
	Hmm.
	And it made you violent.
	That's why they decided to use chemtrails instead.
	Makes so much sense.
	Yeah, I'm telling you.
	Chemtrails.
	It's nice that you did that.
	Yeah.
	But this is one of the little tidbits you'll get from the No Agenda show from our basic knowledge.
	Nowhere else.
	Do you think that...
	Who else would you get that?
	Would democracy now have an expert like John C. Dvorak do this deconstruction?
	No.
	Not possible.
	But it's safe to say the president is full of shit.
	Because he was there at 79 and he couldn't walk out because he was sucking in soot.
	Soot?
	He was sucking in soot.
	Sucking in soot.
	Sucking in soot.
	Sucking in soot in Hollis, Queens.
	The president's doing one more thing that I don't like.
	Then I'll get off the president, so to speak.
	He's running around, and this is again from this college speech.
	There was, you know, they're both from the college speech.
	The first, the somewhat longer one, and then the shorter one that have come.
	I have a question for you.
	Since you can't run again for another term, is there any way that we, as a group, can talk the first lady into running?
	No!
	Now, do you hear this?
	And I want you to listen to this whole sequence of no, no, no's.
	The phrase, no!
	Which I... I have a problem with his...
	Just listen.
	And talk the first lady into running?
	No.
	He's clear.
	No.
	I know that's right.
	Let me tell you.
	There are three things that are certain in life.
	Death.
	Taxes.
	And Michelle won't come in your mouth.
	And Michelle is not running for president.
	That I can tell you.
	So, that's kind of...
	What does Michelle think of this commentary?
	Well, it gets...
	That's my point.
	But listen to this next one where someone is saying, oh, you know, please, please, please.
	You know, you really have to...
	If you could run for a third term, would you run?
	Oh, well.
	I can't do that.
	I can't do that because the Constitution.
	I like that.
	Because the Constitution.
	Does he get his answers from Facebook now?
	Because the Constitution.
	Yeah, that's not English.
	Because the Constitution.
	And?
	And I can't do that because Michelle would kill me.
	Now, I find this offensive.
	It's very misogynistic.
	Well, it's very misogynistic, but the honor of being president...
	Then to say, oh, Michelle would kill me because it's been so hard.
	She hates me being president.
	What is his point?
	What is he saying?
	That came across very unlovable to me.
	Yeah.
	I would say so.
	That's rude.
	It's just rude.
	Huh.
	That's a good catch.
	Not quite clip of the day.
	Not even borderline.
	I like the soot.
	The ISO is the clip of the day.
	When the clip of the day is shorter than the jingle, then I suck it in the soot.
	The jingles?
	Right, that's a rule.
	The clip of the day has to be shorter than the jingle clip of the day.
	Longer than the jingle.
	Oh, it has to be longer, yeah.
	Sucking in soot.
	Sucking in soot.
	Nice.
	Sucking in soot.
	Oh, I wanted to bring something up.
	Where is it?
	Attention, attention, our songmakers.
	Attention, attention, songmakers.
	I have a couple of elements for y'all that would be worthy of a remix.
	I'm looking at you, GX2. Did you see these The Freedom Girls with the official Donald Trump jam?
	You know, I've seen that people keep sending me that clip, but where's Donald Trump?
	The whole thing looks phony to me.
	Well, they're lip syncing, and obviously it's phony.
	Well, that's for sure.
	No, this is before the rally.
	It's before the rally, and then they got up, and these girls did this little ditty here, which is just begging for a remix.
	Let's play a little bit.
	Cowardess!
	Are you serious?
	Apologies for freedom!
	I can't handle this.
	When freedom brings.
	Answer the call.
	On your feet.
	Stand up tall.
	It's unlistenable, but...
	It's unlistenable.
	I don't get the lyrics.
	Well, they're saying that everyone's weak, and Donald Trump is standing up for freedom.
	He's taking the call.
	He's coming in.
	This thing wants a remix, and I have something else.
	Some more.
	Well, I have a full-on and then some ISOs.
	Now, what happens when we have faulty equipment here on the show?
	What happens?
	We stop tape.
	We stop tape.
	And what makes me mad is, you know, people be, you know, saying, jiggle the handle.
	Exactly.
	So Trump had a microphone issue.
	And I think he channeled me.
	By the way, I don't like this mic.
	Whoever the hell brought this mic system, don't pay the son of a bitch to put it in, I'll tell you.
	No, this mic is terrible.
	Stupid mic keeps popping.
	Do you hear that, George?
	Don't pay him.
	Don't pay him.
	You know, I believe in paying.
	But when somebody does a bad job, like this stupid mic, you shouldn't pay the best, sir.
	Terrible.
	Terrible.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	And you got to be tough with your people because they'll pay.
	They don't care.
	They'll pay.
	So we're not going to pay.
	I guarantee I'm not paying for this mic.
	Every two minutes I hear like, boom, boom.
	Anyway, I hope it's okay for you out there, but it really is.
	What?
	The mic doesn't sound good.
	No, it doesn't.
	He's absolutely right.
	Boom, boom.
	Boom, boom.
	I just thought it was funny.
	Well, the guy you should blame is the setup guy that goes in there and checks the mic.
	Yeah.
	Seems to me.
	Well, it's probably the same guy.
	Oh, maybe.
	Yeah, typical.
	Anyway, so people, get on that, eh?
	Get on that.
	Oh, there is, just to finish, wrap this all up, I did get the official documentation, the rules about eligibility of a president, just to call back to Cruz.
	Do you know that in the case, and there's a very long, well it's not very long, it's actually 12 pages, but it's a lot of legalese and a lot of jurisprudence.
	If there is indeed a question about Ted Cruz's eligibility, ultimately, I didn't know this, Congress can decide.
	I didn't know this.
	Oh, I didn't know this either.
	Yeah.
	And this document...
	I think somebody would have brought that up if they're talking about it to all the news media folks.
	Yeah.
	Let me see.
	I can find the exact line where it mentions this.
	Here we go.
	Referring to process...
	I think just put a bill or whatever...
	I think they can just take a vote.
	Referring to the process by which members of Congress may raise objections...
	That's just the...
	Let me see.
	Where is it?
	I thought I'd highlighted it.
	Here it is, I think.
	There's still a potential objection.
	Yes, not even the Supreme Court.
	Congress makes the determination during the process of counting electoral votes.
	Honestly, I need to do a little more work on exactly, but the conclusion of this, and this is the Michigan Law Review, Their conclusion is that members of Congress would ultimately be responsible for deciding.
	So that...
	Even if Cruz gets a justification letter from the court, it still could...
	Yeah, it doesn't mean anything.
	Yeah, it still could go to Congress.
	Apparently.
	But who am I? We need a definitive answer to this.
	I'm no constitutional scholar.
	Just nobody...
	Constitutional lawyer!
	Constitutional lawyer!
	But, yeah.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't know if I should drop this bomb on you now.
	I'll tell you what, why don't we, you want to thank some people first?
	That'd be fine, because that way it won't be a depressing segment.
	Okay.
	I'm going to show myself old 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 fall.
	Moving right along.
	All right, we have a few people to thank for show 791.
	As we head toward show 800, which will be the 800th show of Notre Dame.
	800th show.
	That will almost be as many daily source codes as I've done.
	Which I think is 816 or something.
	Well, we'll pass the daily source code sometime this year.
	Yes, we will.
	Unless you get back on the stick.
	I'm going to probably get back on the stick.
	But it's not going to be daily anymore.
	No, I don't think so.
	Von Glitchka in Salem, Oregon, $116.16.
	He wants me to say, stop your whining in his classic cranky fashion when he's highly annoyed.
	I think maybe it's for his phone?
	Yeah, why don't you try it?
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on, we're going to do an ISO, everybody.
	Quiet on the set.
	ISO, quiet on the set.
	John, three, two...
	Stop your whining!
	I think you can do a better job.
	One for safety, John.
	One for safety.
	Stop your whining!
	No, John, I think you really want to be Stop your whining!
	The classic DuBois.
	Stop your whining!
	Alright, everybody.
	I can't do it.
	I don't do that.
	Stop your whining is not in my wheelhouse.
	And that's lunch, everybody.
	So let's go on to...
	By the way, these are the people that helped us celebrate this crazy day, 16-1-16-16.
	Oh, that was a good...
	Yeah, good.
	Yeah, we have two of them.
	Yeah.
	That's the kind of great promotional job I did.
	I sold on the newsletter.
	Great job.
	With puppies.
	With puppies.
	Good job.
	The puppies.
	Puppies are always good.
	That didn't work.
	Randall Brown is the other guy.
	He's in Providence Village over there by you in Texas.
	It's $116.16.
	It's 30 times the charm.
	My wife finally decided to submit my donation under the correct name so she's not stealing funds for my future knighthood.
	I love the family conflicts that take place.
	It's always good.
	Onward.
	David in Fargo, North Dakota.
	$100.55.
	Got a birthday coming up.
	Tim.
	Oh, brother.
	This is one of these.
	This came in as a bunch of crazy characters.
	He's in Copenhagen.
	And it is...
	I'm not sure about the middle name, but it's just Lange would be his last name.
	Lange.
	Yeah, he's got some middle names.
	Yeah, Lange.
	WJB Rat.
	It hits $100 from Copenhagen.
	WJB raps in Kerkrada.
	Kerkrada.
	Limburg.
	Very good.
	South of Holland.
	The South of Holland.
	James Zuckel in Los Angeles, California.
	87.
	These are 87.
	These are 87 in memory of the 87th birthday of Martin Luther King.
	Oh, good.
	Yes.
	And happy Martin Luther King Jr.
	Day to you, everybody.
	Yes.
	That's tomorrow.
	And he'd be 87.
	James, I said Zucal, Thomas Carney in Portland, Oregon, $87.
	Taylor Kuzela in Alpharetta, Georgia, $87.
	Jason Burt in Kanshaken, Pennsylvania, $87.
	Huh.
	Jason, that's what I just said, Donald Winkler in Berlin, Deutschland.
	Big H Deutschland, here is the Hoffman.
	I just love that so much.
	He says, expect his nighting in February.
	Go podcasting.
	Big H, Deutschland!
	Here is the Hoff!
	Josh Johnston in Kingston, Ontario.
	It's infectious, isn't it?
	The Hoff is always good.
	And that concludes our well-wishers, people who really appreciated Martin Luther King's 87th birthday.
	We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
	See, I said this was not a...
	Overall, this day was not that good.
	Caitlin Williams, I don't think anyone's listening.
	Seven Springs, North Carolina.
	What is her note here?
	In the morning, I love the show.
	As usual, last week, someone wrote in asking for nurses to voice why we should listen to No Agenda because his nurse girlfriend wouldn't listen.
	To her, I say, we nurses are in a very good place to witness much of what is discussed on the show.
	In particular, we see the dirty and stingy government hands involved in what should be a very personal thing, our health care.
	But, and she says...
	Trigger warning...
	Paying more attention to these happenings will increase any frustrations you experience at work.
	I can personally vouch for that, but it's all worth it to be in touch with the truth.
	Happy listening.
	Also, I'd like to request some travel job karma as I'll be hitting the road soon as a travel nurse, hoping to hit others in the mouth along the way.
	Thank you for your courage, Nurse Caitlin.
	I'm going to give her a...
	We love our nurses.
	I'm going to give her a little karma.
	You've got karma.
	Just some spontaneous karmage.
	That was good.
	Richard Chow in Fullerton.
	Sir Richard Chow to you.
	Fullerton, California, $70.
	Lucero Mose in Vala Beach in New South Wales, Australia.
	They haven't been getting a lot of Australian donors.
	Paul Rudkin.
	And the rest of these people are $50 donors, and we're going to go right down the line.
	Starting with Paul Rudkin, parts unknown, William Granger, Sir William Granger, I think, Rosalind Furness in Turnbridge Wells, Kent, Matthew Mungan in Baltimore, Maryland, Joel DeRuin in parts unknown, Adrian Bollinger in Falls Church, Virginia, Amitav, Hajra in Daleville, Virginia.
	Chris Perry in Silver Spring, Maryland.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Great name for a town.
	I say it every time.
	Simon Horn in Manly, Queensland.
	Manly, Queensland, Australia.
	Sir Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Patrick Thomas in Petworth, West Sussex.
	And that concludes it.
	That's it.
	That's our group.
	That's our very short list today.
	Hopefully it'll be picked up a little bit and maybe some Australians will chime in for a change.
	There's only one today, I think, or two.
	We've got Simon Horne.
	We appreciate these donations and this support to the best podcast in the universe since we refuse to be corrupted by any type of payment from third parties.
	It's just between you and us.
	You are producers and we are just the talent.
	You do it.
	Make it happen.
	Yep.
	And we do have to do an F-cancer for Donald Winkler, who lost his dad, Gert Winkler, ten days ago.
	So let's get that out.
	And remember that we have this show on Thursday.
	We need as much support as we can get.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. You've got karma.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you very much.
	on with the show.
	Well, the jingle is longer than the birthday list, David in Fargo, North Dakota, celebrating tomorrow.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe.
	And then we have two nightings, so I got my blade here.
	Here it is.
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	Then, so those will be dispersed soon.
	We ship that as we speak.
	Yes, so make sure that you tweet when you receive your ring, your official certificate, and your...
	Take a picture of it.
	Yeah, pick a picture and then...
	And we'll retweet it.
	Tweet it, yes.
	Okay, I'm ready.
	I'm ready.
	You know, this story is like, it really, like, knocked me on my ass when I heard it.
	And I said, oh, Adam is going to be so irked by this.
	And then when they went on and discussed some of the details, I had to say to myself, what is wrong with this country?
	And apparently this has been going on for a while.
	And...
	It just was a shocker.
	This is quite the setup, John.
	This is quite the setup.
	You are, yes.
	Should I be sitting down?
	You know, I stand during the show.
	Should I be sitting down?
	You'll be sitting down.
	You're not going to believe this story.
	This is the Yosemite clip.
	Play it.
	A trademark dispute is forcing Yosemite National Park to rename some of its beloved buildings and landmarks.
	The famous Awani Hotel in Curry Village, built back in the 1920s, will be renamed the Majestic Yosemite Hotel.
	What?
	And Curry Village will become Half Dome Village.
	What?
	The National Park Service has been in a legal battle with a company which bought the rights to the names.
	The changes are sparking outrage with longtime park visitors and environmental groups who say this is nothing more than corporate greed.
	To charge the National Park Service $54 million to use the name Awani in Curry Village, it's incredible.
	It's just crazy.
	The Iwani Hotel has been visited by numerous luminaries over the years, including three U.S. presidents, movie stars, even the Queen of England.
	Well, this is very upsetting.
	I told you it would be.
	It was upsetting to me.
	I need to give you the history.
	Curry Village, which houses Camp Curry, In Yosemite.
	It used to belong to my family.
	Margaret Curry and...
	I forget the old Coots guy, his name.
	Whoever her husband was.
	They set this up.
	They maintained it.
	They had this great event every night, which I don't think they can do that anymore because of environmental whatever.
	They used to go up to the top of the cliff there and build a big bonfire and...
	Firefalls.
	Let the fire fall!
	That would be my...
	Great.
	I think that ended in the 80s.
	Yeah, they can't do that anymore.
	I've been to Camp Curry many times.
	I've met people who traveled halfway around the world just to meet them in Camp Curry.
	And now they're going to get rid of the name.
	That's very...
	What were they called?
	Half Dome Village?
	Half Dome Village.
	Half Dome Village is what that is.
	Well, what is the deal that they sold the names?
	This is the problem with today's copyright laws.
	You know, you can't take anything out of copyright anymore, and now you can just sell the names like it was a football stadium, and somebody sold Awani and Camp Curry to some douchebag?
	Why don't they just call it Camp Verizon?
	You know, that's much better.
	But then they were charging $54 million.
	I've got to look into this.
	It's insane.
	$54 million to use the name Awani and Curry?
	Well, if it were up to me, it would be a lot more.
	But unfortunately, the Curry sold Camp Curry decades ago.
	Yes.
	Along with the...
	But then they sold the name separately?
	Yes.
	Apparently.
	No, they sold the camp.
	The name was sold.
	When we sold it, we sold it with a name.
	I don't think there was any separate deal.
	You know, the Currys also owned all of what is now known as Flagstaff, Arizona.
	Sold that for dimes.
	Idiots.
	I could have been rich.
	I could have been a contender.
	You could have been a contender.
	Instead of a podcaster.
	Wouldn't be doing this.
	You're a podcaster.
	Podcaster.
	Right.
	Yeah, that's disappointing.
	Reconstructing news.
	I believe that we need to have a meetup in Camp Curry.
	That's what we have to do.
	Before it changes name.
	I would like to know what this $54 million deal was about.
	That's what gets me.
	The camp is still there.
	Will it still be called Camp Curry?
	No, the camp is now called Half Dome Camp.
	Half Dome.
	Wow.
	But it's still there.
	So there was just only this name?
	These people own just the name of Awani, like that great hotel?
	And they also lamented when they did the story, oh, presidents, and as though the place is burnt to the ground.
	It's still there.
	The hotel is exactly the same.
	Yeah.
	Except that now it says Yosemite Majestic or something stupid.
	Oh, man.
	This is crazy.
	Yes.
	Well, I think we need to do a meet-up, Camp Curry meet-up.
	Yeah, we could.
	I'd drag the Airstream out there.
	It'd be fun.
	Oh, it'd be a ball.
	A big ball.
	I've always wanted to go.
	Here's the thing I've never done.
	I've been to Yosemite numerous times, but I've never gone in the back way.
	So I could go to Sequoia National Park, which is another park that's kind of on the other side that it's a pain in the ass to get to.
	But that's the one that's got that big giant tree that you can drive a car through.
	Yes, and it's well worth it.
	Although they're dying from climate change, in case you didn't know.
	Well, it was actually the drought.
	That's not how it works.
	That's not how you promote that stuff.
	Entremar, let's go over to the migrant situation in the EUs.
	Of course, it continues to be kind of pushed down the newsletter because, let's face it, who cares?
	But we're seeing barbed wire fences, big rolls of barbed wire now, borders being drawn up.
	And the title of this BBC report was, The Welcome is Cooling at Borders Across Europe.
	At every border across Europe, the welcome is cooling.
	Here at the Greek frontier with Macedonia, families can still pass.
	It's clear they're fleeing Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan.
	Young men in particular are facing tougher scrutiny.
	Many have fake papers.
	And even old ladies are turned back if their documents are suspect.
	But they're not giving up.
	We found dozens in the woods, Libyans, Iranians, Moroccans, all trying to evade the border checks.
	The man singing is Afghan.
	He was denied entry to Macedonia because he's dark-skinned.
	That's kind of interesting.
	Racist Macedonians.
	While at the official border, facilities built by aid agencies at a cost of millions stand empty.
	At the border, on the Greek side, they have big United Nations Human Rights Council flags and big Quonset huts with brand new tents inside, completely empty.
	But there's nobody here.
	No, there's nobody here, unfortunately.
	No, there's nobody here.
	Not even the girl to put the dick in.
	Greek police, anxious it seems, to stop this becoming a permanent camp, keep all the migrants away.
	At the moment, they don't have the possibility of using those facilities.
	This, for us, as humanitarians, is unacceptable.
	Clearly unacceptable.
	And I must say, I don't know if you're getting the same type of email, but a lot of people continue to email saying, well, you know, it's a genre provocateurs, it's not true, and I'm sorry.
	It is true what's going on.
	It's been going on for 15 years, this crappy integration.
	I'm flabbergasted, I would say.
	That people who, you know, they go, Curry, you're buying the party line.
	But I think it's actually worse than the party line.
	Well, if you could be, I've been watching a lot of the German televisions.
	And it's pretty challenging there.
	But the most interesting clip I pulled down from Deutsche Welle was...
	It was something that we never consider.
	We don't think about.
	The American media definitely doesn't think about.
	Our show doesn't think about.
	And it's the relationship with Merkel and her public.
	Yes.
	And the problem that she's had with this.
	But it's the kind of odd lament and observation that's in this particular clip.
	It's a long clip discussing some of the stuff going on and the pushback that's happening.
	But At the very end of the clip, the thoughts about Merkel, which is the name of the clip, the way it's presented comes off as, wow!
	It's like, I didn't know that it was this kind of...
	I didn't play it.
	It's about how to integrate the more than one million people who arrived in Germany last year, and 3,000 more are coming every day, Brent.
	Yeah, and that's an essential part of the story, right?
	Once they're here, what happens then?
	We know that the German Chancellor, she's under increasing pressure from her own party on this issue.
	Is there any chance you see, Simon, of her changing her position?
	Well, I think there'll have to be some correction of the policy, but the overall policy of welcome towards refugees...
	I think Angela Merkel is far too closely identified with it to change it and retain her credibility.
	But she's under attack from all sides, from within her party, but also from without.
	For instance, the former Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said today, it's an illusion to think that there's no limit to Germany's ability to integrate people from abroad.
	So pressure grows.
	The European countries are not helping Angela Merkel to get out of this fix.
	The problem remains.
	We have not seen a story like this with Angela Merkel ever before.
	Simon Young, thank you very much.
	We have not seen a story like this about Angela Merkel ever before.
	This is like a moment.
	Yes.
	I was taken aback by that comment because I didn't realize that she was like the flawless genius or whatever.
	Yes.
	Oh, yes.
	German kind of thing.
	How long has she been Bundeskanzler?
	A long time.
	A long time.
	And she can do no wrong.
	But now everyone's turning on her.
	And then there's this other remark that was made in there, which was kind of telling, which is that she can't change her position.
	Because she's associated with this.
	So are you telling me that she can't have said one thing and then said, holy crap, this isn't working out.
	Let's stop and do something else?
	Is the German mentality such that she can't do that?
	That's what it sounds like.
	Well, what happened here...
	This is just my opinion, but having lived in the region and having lived in and amongst Germans, they really want to be great and helpful towards migrating people because of their recent history.
	Really, World War II is pretty recent history.
	And they understand what it's like to be a migrant and to either be welcomed or not welcomed.
	And as they've been very welcoming, the Germans have no monopoly on being mind-controlled by the entire EU idea that we can have the multicultural society, and don't worry, they'll catch up, because it hasn't happened.
	Now they're banning migrants from public swimming pools after they've gone after young women in the swimming pool.
	Sure, it's one small incident, but this stuff counts, and then people go, you know, screw this.
	At a certain point, they just got to say, screw this.
	I'm not going to participate anymore.
	Well, Washington's German media is the way to go with this right now because they are in the thick of it.
	And there's a lot of reports.
	There was a good, I didn't take any clips from it, but there was a whole half hour on Deutsche Welle TV. There was a half hour report on, they took one of the, I think there's, I don't know if it's outside of Frankfurt or where, but there's an old abandoned airport just recently decommissioned.
	Mm-hmm.
	And they've turned all the hangars and everything into a bunch of internment camps.
	And of course then they're surrounded by fences.
	And so they have all these people coming in, mostly women and children and a lot of men too.
	And they're talking about the guys explaining the difficulty.
	They've got to get water in there and every once in a while a fight breaks out.
	And they're handling it as well as I think the Germans can.
	And I don't think any other culture could probably handle it as well because they are organized.
	It's the same thing.
	It's like a concentration camp.
	Yeah.
	It's the same with the Energiewende.
	Well, we're going to shut down all nuclear.
	Shut everything down.
	We're all going wind and solar.
	And then people looked at their bill and went, I want you to unvend that Energiewende, Angler.
	We need to turn that back.
	Yeah, stupid decision making.
	The Germans are smart.
	And I think they do have power over Merkel.
	I think she'll do whatever the...
	If she's getting a lot of heat, she's going to change the policy.
	There's no doubt about it.
	She's probably sick and tired of this crap too.
	Well, according to the news, she's stubborn and she won't.
	Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
	She's on the move.
	Pay attention.
	Whenever Victoria Kagan Noodleman Newland is on the move, we've got to be careful.
	She'll be traveling to Trakai, Bucharest, Sofia, Davo, Ankara, and she will have closed-door talks with some Russian muckety-mucks near Kaliningrad.
	Kaliningrad, I'm sorry.
	Kaliningrad.
	Is it time for Davo?
	Is it that time again?
	It might be.
	It must be.
	She's not trying to overthrow the government of Switzerland.
	No, although Switzerland is under attack for the same thing that's been going on in Finland and other countries.
	Anything over a thousand euros, if you show up as a migrant with...
	Cash or assets over a thousand euros, it will be taken away from you.
	And this is very confusing.
	And of course, it's often reported as, you know, they're stealing from them.
	But Switzerland is, you know, they're following their own rules, which is if you want to receive payouts for being a migrant, everyone in Europe, you get in, you get into the system, you're an asylum seeker, you make money.
	You will receive money.
	But their law is, hey, you can't have assets over a thousand euros.
	So we have to take that away.
	And of course the migrants are like, oh, this is crazy, this can't happen.
	Then the politically correct press is all over it.
	The United Nations Human Rights Council is criticizing what Denmark is doing this now as well.
	I think they should be very happy.
	Well, this is a strain on these economies.
	Of course it is.
	And I have a bunch of clips.
	If you want to go through this, I don't normally talk about this sort of thing on this show, which is the stock market situation.
	I've been waiting for you to do this.
	I saw the clips come in.
	Of course, I have not listened to them.
	For those who don't know, John and I don't speak in between shows.
	I have no idea what clips he has.
	He has no idea.
	In fact, last night I was thinking...
	Yeah, I don't want to pull any debate clips.
	John will probably have it.
	And then I thought to myself, self, don't take that risk.
	And see, it worked out perfectly.
	So I'm ready for your financial market package.
	Okay, the reason I wanted to do this is because there's a lot of...
	Because I have a bunch of friends who are always...
	You actually studied this stuff.
	This is what you do.
	Yes.
	And I have a bunch of friends who are sending all these emails.
	Oh my God, we're doomed.
	We're dead.
	Based on what?
	What are they responding to?
	They're just looking at watching the news.
	If you watch the news in general, you just hear, oh, the market went down 500 points.
	The market went down 300 points.
	The market's gone down since the beginning of the year pretty consistently.
	And it's a correction.
	It's a little radical for most corrections, but it's a correction by all All analysis, anyone who knows what they're talking about, no one's saying that this is the beginning of a bear market.
	And that's the thing you have to realize.
	It's not the time to panic.
	Although it is a good time to short.
	There's some nice shorts out there.
	But that's beyond most people.
	And short is the...
	The way you sell a stock without owning it.
	Well, that's the method, but the idea is to make money on a stock's decline.
	Yeah, you sell it at $10 and you buy it back at $2 when it hits bottom.
	Now, so I was looking around, because I figured, well, maybe we should do this, because we don't do this rarely, I don't think we've done it for years, a little market segment.
	And so I was looking around for someone with a good analysis, and I found one.
	The woman, because you brought this woman on, she's a very elegant lady.
	This is PBS? PBS is on NewsHour.
	And she's like the chief strategist for Charles Schwab, I believe.
	And I think that she just did this.
	I think she just nails it, calms people down.
	If people would just listen to this, they wouldn't be so panicky because I think she's right on the money.
	Now, the market plunge that is sweeping across stock exchanges from Asia to Europe to New York.
	Well, that setup, that's part of the problem.
	No, the market plunge is sweeping across the nation.
	Yes, it is part of the problem.
	Yeah, sentiment is a big part of the markets, of course.
	Now, the market plunge that is sweeping across stock exchanges from Asia to Europe to New York.
	It has been relentless since the year began, and today was no different.
	The closing bell on Wall Street signaled the end to a turbulent day and a tough week for markets worldwide.
	Fueling the sell orders, another plunge on China's Shanghai Composite Stock Index.
	It's down 18 percent since the year began, as worries about the Chinese economy mount.
	And plummeting oil prices are dragging down energy company stocks and the broader market.
	In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S. officials are closely monitoring the global sell-off.
	There's no denying that weakness in other markets with whom we do extensive business is going to be a headwind for the U.S. economy.
	We're mindful of that, particularly as the international economy becomes more integrated.
	We have to be...
	Sensitive to movements that we see in the economies of other countries.
	Okay.
	All right.
	She then brings this woman.
	I'm sorry, that was the setup to give us a background on what's going on.
	By the way, Josh Earnest has a lisp.
	Have you ever noticed this or am I just noticing it?
	No, I haven't really noticed it.
	Start listening and you'll hear her listen.
	Okay, let's go to part two where she talks to the woman.
	Lizanne Saunders, what is behind this volatility today in the market?
	Many of the same things, actually, that contributed to the volatility that we saw last year.
	You've touched on certainly oil, but it's more broadly what's happening in the commodity complex, and not just the huge plunge in and of itself, but what that says about global growth.
	Of course, related to that is China, the weakness there, not only in its equity market, but its economy, its currency.
	That's tied into commodity prices.
	And then maybe even more importantly would be uncertainty regarding the Fed.
	You know, we got past the uncertainty that defined 2015 in terms of will they, won't they, and if they will, when.
	They got the first rate hike.
	Now it's what are they going to do from here?
	Are they going to continue to raise interest rates?
	What will be the justification?
	So a lot of it really is unfinished business from 2015.
	It's just conspired to occur in a condensed period of time, unfortunately, right at the beginning of the year, which I think adds to the angst for investors.
	Okay.
	Alright, so in other words, there's nothing really radically different going on.
	It's just sentiment.
	It's more than sentiment.
	The real issue is China is all screwed up.
	And they've been lying.
	We know this.
	They've been lying about what's been going on over there.
	They've been overbuildings.
	They've got the ghost cities.
	They spend money on stuff.
	They're liars.
	China as a country, insofar as their economy is concerned, they think...
	Oops, sorry.
	They think this is the way you do business, which is to fake your number so you don't get in trouble with the party.
	Everybody's dead, but don't say anything.
	Well, didn't they learn from the best?
	That's what Wall Street does.
	Not to this extent.
	Not to this extent.
	Because we have checks and balances.
	We have all kinds of systems in place.
	Yeah, in the 20s, we have systems in place that have prevented, although some of those systems have been taken out.
	But most of the systems prevent...
	Prevent this sort of scamming because our investment vehicles have to be the ones that attract everybody from all around the world.
	And you can be sure that if you put your money in US Steel, let's say, which is an out-of-favor company right now, and you put your money, you're actually putting it into a company that's called US Steel.
	They have facilities.
	We've seen them.
	We've met their CEOs.
	We know all this.
	When you're putting your money in some company in China, Every so often, there's no company there.
	It's all bull crap, and nobody does anything about it.
	And so the numbers that come out of China and all this other stuff has created this little mini panic, and now we have to readjust for it.
	The second thing, which is the guy who talks about oil, who's the second clip.
	I don't know if I got two or three clips.
	You got two more here.
	It should be a third clip.
	Yeah, this is the third.
	You have four clips total.
	This is the third.
	Okay.
	Play the third clip and I'll explain a little more.
	The reason I'm doing this, by the way, is because I want people not to be freaky about what's going on.
	I like Chinese.
	I like Chinese.
	So is this the kind of anxiety that's justified, or is this something that's just gotten out of hand in the last few days?
	It's really hard to say at this point.
	I'd love to know where this correction stops right here.
	We do not think that this is the beginning of a big, nasty bear market, but it could get worse here before it gets better.
	I think investors have been fairly skittish, really, for much of this bull market all along.
	And when you get these bouts of volatility, particularly if it's got some fairly dire news associated with it, we really hunker down much more quickly than we have in the past because I think...
	We really changed the psyche of a generation of investors, not only because of the severity of the financial crisis, but the fact that it came within 10 years from the bear market that preceded it.
	So I think that explains why we see this sense of urgency and sometimes panic kick in so quickly in this environment.
	And what she's referring to is what we call the dot-com collapse, which was a confluence of a number of things, including Y2K, by the way, which people tend to forget.
	Oh, man.
	I probably haven't relayed this story in a while, but I was the chief technology officer of Think New Ideas, a publicly listed company, and there was a mandate from the SEC. You had to be Y2K compliant.
	And we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	Yeah.
	Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	And we were lucky.
	Nothing.
	We were lucky.
	We were lucky.
	You were on the low end of the money that was wasted over this.
	Yes.
	And I will say proudly, we were the first public company that was Y2K compliant.
	The first suckers in the door.
	Well, good.
	It's kind of good, kind of bad.
	Yeah, it's kind of sad.
	Now, on top of this, what she's talking about, what she's referring to is that when the collapse happened in 2000, the 1998, 1999, 2000, it was boom.
	It stayed down largely because of the Attack on the World Trade Center.
	It had screwed up everything.
	The psychology of the market, everything is screwed up.
	And so it lingered for a very long time.
	I thought the decade of 2000 was one of the worst I've ever experienced.
	And then it was topped off by this collapse in 2007, 2008 of the housing market and the crazy, phony vehicles they put together, these scam bonds or whatever, based on crappy housing mortgages.
	And so it just got worse, and so it made everybody nervous because it amounted to a long depression, which is still going on.
	I keep reading in official White House documents.
	It is capitalized G, capitalized D, the Great Depression.
	They have named it the Great Depression, and they are using it as a noun in all written statements.
	The one from the 30s?
	I'm sorry, Great Recession, not Depression.
	Recession, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, they call it the Great Recession.
	Capital G, capital R. I don't know why.
	Well, I guess maybe it's a trademark now.
	Because the president brought us back from the brink of disaster, you see.
	You have to give the recession a name.
	Well, the brink of disaster, he has not brought us back from anything.
	Luckily, he kind of stayed the course by being a neoliberal like Clinton.
	He's really more...
	He brought us back from a fun-loving, we're okay with each other country to one when we hate each other.
	Well, there's that too.
	And Bush started that.
	Bush started that.
	Bush started that.
	Yeah, okay.
	And on top of this, there's the oil situation, which is dropping like a rock, and that seems to be causing trouble.
	Today is still under 30 bucks.
	Just a hair, but it's 29 and a tad.
	It's great.
	Now, the thing about oil you have to remember is that it's cheap.
	Energy is good for the public at large.
	Good for business.
	It's good for everything because it's cheap energy.
	Energy equals work.
	Energy equals everything.
	Yeah, and so you want it to be cheap, but because we got so tied up with these high prices and fracking and these large oil companies making tons of money, and the oil companies are big parts of the indexes that when the market goes down, it's because the oil company went down.
	The oil company goes falling like a rock.
	Yeah, it's the underlying asset for everything.
	Everything goes down, or everything looks like it's going down, but it does eventually bring everything down with it.
	Now, this guy who comes on in clip four, He's also on the show.
	Discusses the oil thing a little bit.
	We discuss it on this show a couple of times about why oil is collapsing.
	But he brings a little kind of an interesting couple of angles.
	He doesn't discuss the political reasons, like Saudi Arabia hates Iran currently, and so they're going to keep pumping to screw Iran who's entering the market.
	And Saudi Arabia also is not going to start...
	Back off because they did that in the 70s and they lost market share and they hate that.
	We've discussed that on the show.
	That warrants one.
	Would you mind just re-explaining that?
	I don't think everyone heard that.
	In the 1970s when OPEC first got its act together and decided to screw the world by price-fixing oil, which caused all kinds of Recessionary things in the 70s, including the price of gasoline going way up and rationing gasoline because they cut off the oil supplies.
	Rationing gasoline.
	There were lines you had to get into.
	You had to have odd and even numbers.
	It was unbelievable.
	This was in the 70s.
	You could only drive on an odd or an even day or you could only get gas on an odd or an even day depending on your license plate.
	If it was a two, you could go get gas.
	If it was a three, the next day.
	And there was lines.
	It was unbelievable.
	Did we have driverless days?
	No, we had that in Europe.
	I remember in Europe we had driverless Sundays.
	I think there may have been.
	I'm losing a little bit of the...
	No, no.
	Yes, we had driverless Sundays in the U.S. I remember that.
	Okay.
	Well, one of the things that took place when OPEC did its thing to make this all happen is Saudi Arabia cut back on production because the idea was if everyone cuts back on production, prices will go up and we can make a ton of money.
	Saudi Arabia in particular cut way back And then in the process, lost market share.
	And when they came back into the market full tilt, a bunch of their customers were gone.
	Right.
	And so they had decided collectively that we are never going to do that again because we don't want to lose our customers.
	And so now we have this situation where they're going to keep cranking it out even though we're going to cut production.
	No, we're not cutting production.
	So nobody's cutting production.
	And there's a compounded thing here, which I didn't realize until I listened to this guy.
	I kind of knew it, but I didn't think much about it.
	Which also makes the capitalistic system in America great because we don't do this, even though it would be cool if we did.
	Which is that if you, as a country, a lot of small countries, the oil in the ground underneath the country is owned by the country.
	Right.
	And so the country, when they pump oil, they take the profits and it goes right into the general funds.
	And so they finance their government and the whole operation with oil money.
	Yeah.
	And so you have this situation that if the oil is selling for $100 a barrel, you get a budget of X amount of money.
	You get used to spending that X amount of money.
	When the oil goes down to $50 a barrel, your budget either gets cut in half or you have to sell twice as much oil.
	So it encourages, as the oil prices come down, these guys, because they're running their government from oil revenue, to keep their budget at the level that it has to be at, because as you know, we can never lower it.
	Oh, no.
	To keep it at the same old price, you've got to crank, you've got to sell twice as much.
	And then it goes down.
	Yeah, it's a vicious cycle.
	Yeah, and the further down it goes, the more oil you've got to pump.
	So it's creating this problem, and this is part of the problem, along with everything else, all these other elements.
	Now, before you lead into the clip, which you're about ready to do, I've never really understood what the actual number is for the price of oil, because you have WTI crude, NIMAX, you have Brent crude, And they have different prices.
	Which number is the most important to look at?
	The one that's used generally that I think, and you see, what's the price of all today is West Texas, which is, that's the basic number.
	That's the WT, whatever it is.
	Okay, WTI. So that's currently $29.42 per barrel, but the Brent is $28.
	Brent is a higher grade product that is a European, the Europeans use that number because they really base a lot of their products.
	Budgeting on that number.
	Now, that number broke 29, so it's at 28.
	That's pretty outrageous.
	In fact, when the two numbers are the same, that's crazy.
	There's about 70 cents difference between the two.
	It's usually about five bucks difference, or three or two.
	Brent's more expensive.
	But West Texas is what we always refer to when we talk about the price of oil.
	And...
	I mean, a lot of this stuff is all academic.
	Not every gallon of oil is coming from West Texas.
	In fact, not that much.
	Alberta provides a lot in Venezuela.
	But anyways, right now, the situation is, to me, hilarious.
	And it really should be booing the market, it seems, but it's not.
	Bradley Olson, let's talk about the oil side of this.
	What is driving this continued drop in oil prices?
	Well, there are two main factors at play.
	I mean, the first one is a little bit tied to what's driving the fall in stock markets worldwide, and that's China.
	China has sort of always been the golden goose when it comes to oil markets, particularly with demand.
	China's about the second largest oil consumer in the world, and so whenever there are indications that the Chinese economy perhaps isn't going to be as strong as people had expected, it causes a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to oil.
	The second factor is Iran.
	The sanctions are about to be lifted that were imposed by the United States and the European Union.
	And once those sanctions are up, a lot of people anticipate a significant amount of oil coming into the market from Iran, perhaps as many this year as 500,000 barrels of oil.
	So the market is already oversupplied and you're going to dump additional barrels into the market from Iran and then you have problems or questions about demand that would have been able to bring up the price.
	So there's just a lot of indicators that are not positive at this time when it comes to the oil markets.
	So is it though expected that these countries are just going to continue to pump regardless of how low the price is going?
	That's right.
	I mean, one of the things that you see happening when the price goes down is that everybody's trying to make up for the lost revenue.
	And so this is something that's actually happened in the history of oil crashes, is that all the producers and companies actually try to pump more oil because they're trying to make up for whatever they've been losing by producing more.
	In this case, a lot of people expected the U.S. shale companies and U.S. companies that were behind a major boom in production in the last few years to slow down, and they just haven't done that yet.
	They've been a lot more resilient than anybody expected.
	All right.
	So it's a spiral.
	It happened before, and it's going to happen again.
	Yeah.
	What do you think the bottom is on oil?
	Well, my thinking was always around 28 to 30.
	30 was kind of my target.
	But the way this is being described, and people fearful that it could go to 10.
	Sorry, it's almost laughable to me.
	10?
	Do you think it could happen?
	I don't think so because this guy went on and on and he did say something that was interesting.
	He says the cure to low prices is low prices.
	It's like an adage they say in the business.
	And what it means is that once you get the price to get so damn low, people stop investing.
	And once they stop investing, then they kind of fall behind the eight ball.
	And it takes about two years of, oh my God, we can stop putting money into this business because we're just killing ourselves.
	You still try to pump as much as you can, but you don't invest in any new properties or you don't do anything.
	You don't spend money.
	He mentioned, I didn't realize this, he said that the stoppage of the investment started about two years ago.
	So we're at the point.
	We're at the point where it should be breaking apart.
	It should be breaking, but this big glut that's going to come in from Iran is probably going to exacerbate the situation.
	So I'm thinking...
	If I was thinking that from an investment perspective, I'm thinking that what it's going to do is going to make this, the exacerbation is going to make it linger or go longer and maybe drop to some ridiculously low prices where it will just skyrocket after that.
	Ooh.
	Well, would you like to do some Red Book data, some numbers, and put something in the book?
	I don't know.
	$13.50 is my number.
	13, 15, you think it's going to go that low?
	Yeah.
	I think 15 will be seen as a major breaking point, and then we'll go through that.
	It will never go to 10.
	Yeah, I don't think it will.
	I would find it extremely hard to believe.
	And I'm just making this up.
	I have no idea.
	It's just feeling.
	I would say, to me, where it is right now is pretty much the bottom.
	But I think it could probably go...
	With Iran, it could get worse.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	So that's what I'm thinking.
	I'm thinking maybe it could be kind of tricked into going down to $22, $24 as a bottom.
	All right.
	So you think $22, $24, and I'll say $13.50.
	Just put it in the book.
	Why not?
	Yeah, I'm putting it in the book.
	I mean, you gave us a great background.
	I'm highly appreciative.
	You said $13 to $17?
	I said $13.50.
	$13.50.
	Oh, $13.50.
	Yeah, and what are we doing?
	Should we do it on Brent, or should we do it on WTI? No, no, you do it on WTI. WTI, okay.
	There's a ways to go.
	So we have a moment here, and it's kind of interesting, but this is not the big one.
	No.
	The big one's coming 2017.
	The big one is going to be frightening, I want to tell you right now, and it's going to happen next year.
	All right, hold on a second, everybody.
	One moment.
	Could you explain this in a very, very slow, methodical voice?
	The big one is in 2017, and it's going to be frightening.
	Perfect.
	Thank you very much.
	That'll be a ringtone.
	You didn't hear the echo I put on it, did you?
	No, I'm sure you put an echo on it.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	Which reminds me a lot of this.
	It reminds me a lot of this jingle we did.
	So, have more kale.
	Well, it's worked.
	Well, it's worked.
	It's worked, John.
	When we first started seeing kale, and of course, coming from the Netherlands, we give kale to the cows in Holland, okay?
	And I said, okay.
	It belongs.
	I'm sorry?
	It's where it belongs.
	It's where it belongs.
	It's a garnish.
	And in the war...
	The Dutch came up with...
	It's depression food.
	Farmer coal, or farmer kale, which is depression food, because the Dutch made soup out of rocks, out of nettles, sugar beets.
	Rocks.
	Yeah, rocks.
	Rock soup.
	Rock soup with nettles.
	But you were very specific, and you said, this kale bullcrap is leading to...
	What?
	Bugs.
	Superfoods.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, it was a superfood thing.
	And...
	Woe is me.
	I see an article.
	Eight superfoods to watch out for in 2016.
	Oh.
	Let me give you the top three in reverse order.
	Can I just preface something here?
	Yeah.
	The fancy food shows and some of these events that happen here and there around the country, this is where this data comes from.
	There's people that study this.
	They have big events.
	You go to it.
	This is not somebody just pulling it out of their butt.
	So, generally speaking, these articles, when you run into them, are right.
	Okay.
	That makes it even better.
	Yeah.
	Let us start with number eight, John.
	Number eight, waste-based food.
	Ah!
	This began...
	Can I interject?
	Let me read the caption, and then you give us the background.
	This isn't as weird as it sounds.
	In order to reduce food waste, restaurants are finding creative ways to use edible parts of plants and animals that are often thrown out.
	Last year, award-winning chef Dan Barber had a two-week pop-up at Blue Hill, his restaurant in New York City, where he cooked with spent grain cocoa beans, pasta scraps, and vegetable pulp.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that guy is the guy who popularized this idea.
	And it was on all the 3x3s.
	They all had stories on this guy.
	And they said, well, yeah, carrot trimmings garnished with, you know, paper.
	Paper.
	And it's like, you know, people were eating.
	All these crazy people lined up around the block in New York, of course, where they have New York morals or whatever the comment was.
	They're all lined up and they're in there eating this.
	And they describe it.
	And the guy would come by.
	The waiter would come by.
	It's in a tent.
	Of course, it makes it even better.
	And I think we had some clips of this.
	And the guy says, yes, this is some scrapings from such and such.
	And this is some pulverized, you know, dirt.
	I have that clip.
	Hold on.
	It's draped with a white fabric that farmers use on their crops as a cover to fend off pests.
	The tables were lit up with tallow candles, which is rendered beef fat.
	So we basically made a broth that was fortified with flat beer.
	Michael Perillo and Margie Verbe just finished a dumpster dive salad made with bruised apples and pears salvaged from a food processor in the neighborhood.
	I'll put this clip back in the show notes, people.
	Need to listen to that.
	It's a little long.
	Need to listen to that best clip.
	It's titled, Idiot New York City Chef Selling Garbage.
	Exactly.
	So that's the genesis of that.
	Okay, onward.
	All right.
	Hold on, I need to put this in notes there.
	Okay.
	Number seven.
	Kelp.
	Kelp.
	What is kelp?
	Does it come from the sea?
	Yeah, it's a seaweed.
	It comes and goes.
	I like kelp.
	It's come and gone.
	It never becomes that popular.
	It's got a little kelpy flavor that gets on your nerves after you eat too much.
	The thing with kelp is if you eat it, then it gets stuck in your teeth and it just jams in there.
	You can't get it out.
	It's disgusting, actually.
	It's gluey.
	Number six.
	Often called the miracle tree or the tree of life.
	Any one to wager a guess?
	Pine?
	Moringa.
	Well, that would be a guess I wouldn't have made.
	Moringa.
	Okay, moringa.
	Number five.
	Teff.
	Teff.
	What is teff?
	I don't know.
	It's sometimes written as teff or teff.
	This pseudo-grain, technically it's a seed, has a high nutritional profile and a taste similar to that of amaranth or quinoa.
	This ancient grain has survived for centuries.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, this is like quinoa.
	Yeah, that's what they say.
	It's like quinoa.
	Quinoa, which so many ones say, I should try some quinoa.
	And so they have a lot of quinoa.
	And it's a little ball.
	I got two stories.
	Did I tell a bird's story about quinoa?
	I think so, but I don't care.
	Do it again.
	Quinoa became this extremely popular grain, and it's like starving apparently a lot of...
	Hold on, John.
	Hold on, John.
	Stop one second.
	Chat room.
	You do not need to correct us on the pronunciation of this shit food, okay?
	Rerax piccola people.
	Do you even get that joke?
	Indigenous people in South America that rely on eating quinoa, but it's being stolen from them so the yuppies can eat this crap.
	So some guys decided they were going to grow quinoa without the hard husk.
	It's got a little hard.
	It's like a seed with a hard thing on the outside.
	So they grew.
	They did some genetic engineering.
	They got it to grow without the husk.
	And as soon as it hit the plant and started to show up, millions of birds came and just wiped it out.
	Because apparently birds love this stuff, but they can't get through the hard husk.
	So if someone says, would you like some quinoa, you can just say, nah, that shit's for the birds.
	Well, you can say that, or you can say, no, it's starving indigenous people.
	It's exploitative.
	It's bad.
	Now, this other stuff, I'll bet you, it's the same thing.
	Well, next one.
	I'm sure this will be right up your alley.
	This is number four.
	Hold on.
	Kefir.
	Yeah, kefir.
	Which is fermented goop?
	No, no.
	It's kefir or kefir as we tend to pronounce it here in this country.
	Kefir.
	Kefir.
	It's available.
	It's been around for years.
	I drink it.
	People in the Caucasus drink it to an extreme.
	They drink it in...
	In Ukraine and Russia and the people that are...
	You had me and I drink it, John.
	Kefir is good.
	If you drink it, I'll drink it.
	It does say here, it is the trendiest fermented food right now.
	It says fermented food.
	You live to be 100 years old if you drink it all the time.
	All right.
	That's a testimonial.
	You've got to get the good kefir.
	And I'm going to tell you right now what it is that's been around for a while.
	It's the one brand.
	They have all these different brands.
	Crap.
	And you don't want to have any with lactobacillus.
	There's a bunch of these essentially buttermilk cultures in...
	Should not be in kefir.
	It's a different bunch of cultures.
	Now...
	Lifeway.
	That's all you need to know.
	Lifeway?
	Lifeway.
	Lifeway is a group of guys who came over from Ukraine with real kefir cultures.
	Oh, with camel urine?
	Sorry?
	With camel urine?
	No, no.
	That's a different brand.
	You've got to find that for someplace else.
	These guys came away.
	It's buttermilk is what it is, only it's a little milder.
	It's somewhere between yogurt and buttermilk.
	But Lifeway is the brand.
	That's the brand you want.
	Everybody else's stuff is pretty mediocre, and it's not even tasty.
	Lifeway is tasty.
	Excellent.
	And just as an aside, we had a conversation about kombucha and all that crap, and you would like to recommend people stay away from that?
	Yes.
	Because?
	Because there's no consistency in what...
	Nobody knows what's growing in there.
	It's like...
	It's like some sort of mold.
	What is it growing in there?
	And acetylbactors.
	And it's just a colony of craziness.
	Anyone who...
	You're taking your life in your own hands with some of these crazy things.
	I think it could be incredibly bad for you.
	No.
	Number three on the list, and I will tell you the name of number three according to trend expert Daniel Levine.
	This superfood is the new quinoa.
	What do you think?
	I thought that other stuff was the new quinoa.
	No, this is the new quinoa.
	Amaranth.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sure.
	A grain-like seed that cooks quickly and can be added to salads, soups, and stews.
	It looks a little bit like...
	Yeah, a little...
	I don't know.
	What does it look like?
	Like little puffy things of goop.
	Yeah.
	Looks like Rice Krispies.
	Rice Krispies.
	There you go.
	I've heard of this thing getting traction.
	It's been shown to reduce inflammation and lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
	Yeah, it might.
	It probably does.
	All right.
	Number two.
	Is it tasty, though, is the question.
	Number two.
	Has been declared by the United Nations.
	2016 is the year of this superfood at number two.
	You want to take a guess just for yucks?
	Uh, cat poop?
	Pulses.
	What?
	Pulses.
	Pulses?
	Papa Uniform Lima Sierra Echo Sierra.
	Dried seeds of lentil, beans, and chickpeas.
	And the United Nations has declared 2016 to be their year.
	They already make up 75% of the average diet in developing countries, but only 25% in developed ones.
	Pulses, they're called.
	So far, everything on this list is depression food.
	Yeah, it's all depression food.
	And then number one, the number one superfood to watch out for in 2016.
	I'm going to let you have one guess.
	Well, it's probably something that's already showed up and it's becoming a big thing.
	Um...
	And I would suspect it's a variant of kale.
	No.
	Wrong.
	Remember, we're talking superfood.
	This food is loaded with protein.
	I don't want to give it away.
	Maybe it's some form of soy.
	Nope.
	The number one superfood.
	You say that this list is probably pretty accurate because these guys do this all the time and they make a study of it.
	And so far the list has been reasonably accurate for bull crap we're going to have to eat.
	The number one superfood is crickets.
	Oh.
	I love bugs!
	Wow.
	Bugs, bugs, bugs.
	I did not see that coming.
	No.
	Although, it's not as though we haven't seen it coming.
	Yeah, of course we saw it coming.
	I just didn't see it was going to be official.
	But that's the number one superfood because they're loaded with protein.
	They also thrive in hotter climates and survive off decaying waste and very little water and space.
	For this reason, crickets and other insects have been hailed as the next climate-friendly superfood.
	Oh yeah, baby.
	They can be ground into baking flour, protein powder, added to cookies, brownies, or milkshakes.
	While eating crickets, or any type of insect for that matter, hasn't completely caught on in the U.S., it's making progress.
	Last year, fast food chain Wayback Burgers put out a fake press release as an April Fool's joke about the insect-filled milkshakes, but the idea was so popular they rolled out their Oreo mud pie cricket protein milkshake.
	Alright, slaves, it used to be mac and cheese, now it's just down to crickets.
	Hey, mac and cheese, cricket mac and cheese.
	That would have been clip of the day.
	I've had two of those.
	Yeah.
	I'm doing very well.
	That's astonishing.
	That's disgusting.
	And may I point out how fortunate we are on this program, which of course includes everyone who's producing and listening, to have an expert like you to be able to discuss this.
	You are not that much of an expert.
	More than anyone else, I know.
	We did call the crickets.
	We called the crickets.
	About a year ago, actually.
	Yes, number one superfood.
	But I didn't expect it to actually show up on a list.
	That's disgusting.
	Especially number one.
	Yeah.
	That means people...
	You know what's the problem is that these idiots, you know, I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there's all these restaurants, and you know that some of these one-star places, some of these other places, will be experimenting with this crap.
	Of course.
	And we'll have many more of those, you know, cute girl working for the news show, goes into the restaurant, oh, my God, I can't believe you're going to be bugged!
	And then, you know, sit down, oh, I'll...
	Oh, they're not that bad!
	We're going to see a million of those packages.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you might as well start making them in advance.
	You'll know when we're really, really in trouble when you'll only be able to eat cricket food by paying with Bitcoin.
	I mean, that's when it will be over.
	The end will be nigh.
	Yeah, I think the end is pretty damn close with the crickets in the first place.
	Alright.
	It takes about a two-year rollout before these lists.
	They don't all take off.
	Not all the issues.
	These are the ones that the food shows will be having.
	If you go to the food show, you'll find all these.
	They'll be there.
	The cricket guys will be there.
	They'll have these pitches.
	They'll have the brochures.
	I should go to the next show.
	We should be making something with bugs, man.
	It's cheap to raise them.
	I don't really want to grow a bunch of bugs.
	I got ants.
	Why don't you sell them?
	The ants?
	Yeah, crunchy.
	Ants said there's some nutrition to ants.
	I'm having lamb tonight.
	I've never seen an anteater look hungry.
	Yeah.
	Here's an interesting story.
	Yeah.
	You're talking about idiots and brain dead.
	Okay, what you got?
	This is a horrible situation.
	This is a European story.
	It's not really played much in the United States, but this is because we don't like to say anything bad about our drug companies.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, I heard.
	This is the drug trial story.
	That's what this is?
	Yeah.
	In France, an investigation has begun into a drug trial gone disastrously wrong.
	One man is brain dead, five others are hospitalized after volunteering to take part in a trial for a painkiller.
	Al Jazeera's Nadeem Baba has more.
	It was a clinical trial that went badly wrong.
	Now, with one person declared brain dead and five others in hospital, the French health minister has ordered an investigation.
	The families are devastated.
	We'll make sure they are given all the answers, particularly as right now I'm not aware of any comparable case.
	What has happened is unprecedented and requires the greatest possible vigilance in the coming investigation.
	The drug was being trialed at this private clinic in Rennes, in Western France.
	It was meant to act on the body's endocannabinoid system, which deals with pain.
	Hey, question.
	The endocannabinoid, how does that relate to marijuana for pain management?
	Not at all?
	Okay.
	Marijuana talks to it?
	I think so, yeah.
	So marijuana talks to it makes you feel better.
	The condition of the other patients got worse over the first few days of this week, and today four of the five other patients have neurological problems of varying gravity.
	One patient does not have any symptoms, but is of course under intensive surveillance.
	A lawyer for the victim says there was clearly some kind of error or oversight.
	How come in 2016, with all the means we have, such an accident could still happen?
	Okay, I'm very interested in what it was that caused the brain damage.
	I have a theory.
	Well, I think, and this company is a Portuguese company, BL, that sent it to these biotrial guys.
	And since I have had experience, I think I've told this story before.
	When I was an oil analyst or a chemical, not an engineer, but a chemical analyst at the Union Oil Company, and I was doing testing.
	And I came up with some wrong tests.
	Uh-oh.
	Because I screwed up.
	And I would probably have gotten fired if I hadn't have unscrewed up by slowly easing myself backwards out of this by continuing for about 10 hours.
	Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Did I tell this story before?
	No, I've never heard this story.
	This is a classic.
	I can't wait.
	Well, I should probably save the story, but let's just put it this way.
	I made a mistake, a factor of 10, because just the math.
	It's very easy with Western math to make a mistake.
	I think that's what happened here.
	I think somebody looked at the numbers and they said micrograms and he thought milligrams or...
	Seriously, this happens if you're in the lab and you're...
	And so he mixed up a batch.
	I'm sure the pills didn't come over already pre-made.
	I'm sure it was something they were doing because they had different dosages.
	Maybe they were, but even if they were pre-made, it could have been done.
	I think somebody just got a hot dose.
	Most pain medication are...
	Are they bent?
	No, they're not bent.
	They're SSRIs?
	No.
	Opioids.
	Opioids.
	Well, maybe they OD'd.
	Maybe these people OD'd.
	I think somebody screwed up the dosage and they don't want to talk about it.
	It happens.
	Because this happened to me, and when it happens to you, I don't know how it even happens, because you should know.
	In this case, I could see where you wouldn't notice until the guy's brain died.
	You said, what the hell?
	And then you look back, oh my god, I gave this guy 100 times more than I was supposed to.
	You know what I do?
	I blame this on Common Core.
	Yes, exactly.
	I got a final one.
	The United Nations of Gitmo Nation East were very, very proud of their boy, Tim Peake.
	Tim Peake, the national hero.
	Finally, we got the Union Jack up there in space.
	He's the first British space-tronaut to do a walk.
	He did a walk.
	And this clip is interesting for a number of reasons.
	I implore people to watch the video.
	It's in the show notes.
	7901.noagendanotes.com.
	Under Clips and Docs is where you can find it.
	Very strange report.
	We'll discuss afterwards.
	Now, in other news, the spacewalk to repair the International Space Station has ended early after one of the astronauts reported a water bubble in his helmet.
	Both of the astronauts, the Britain Tim Peake and the American Tim Cobra, on the spacewalk have returned to the station and they are safe.
	Our science editor, David Shookman, now reports.
	A moment of exploration history as Tim Peet prepares to venture outside the space station.
	Weightless but jammed into a bulky space suit, he needs his colleagues to guide him into the airlock.
	And when you see this video, now, I'll just tell you what the conspiracy is about this, and you can laugh at me later.
	The conspiracy is that all astronaut movement you see so-called outside of the space station is actually done in a swimming pool where they film it.
	And activity inside the space station, people are suspended by wires for them floating around.
	It's just a conspiracy theory.
	But when you look at it, they're floating around.
	It's quite a long piece of video.
	You see that the shoulders have these suspicious points that are being raised with shoulder pads underneath it, apparently.
	And then we get this bubble of water inside the spacesuit, which leads me to the next question.
	What have they ever done on the International Space Station except fix the damn thing?
	They're always repairing it!
	Ever since I can remember.
	But we have to repair it.
	So now there's something wrong with the...
	I wrote it down.
	Hold on.
	Hand by hand, Tim Peake and a fellow astronaut inched along outside.
	That's perfect framing right there.
	We like that.
	Filmed by his American colleague.
	Who sounds like, I don't know, a movie director.
	That's perfect framing.
	Stay right there.
	Block the shot, everybody.
	We're good to go.
	Tim Peake is perched at the very edge of the space station, in position to help carry out a key repair job.
	Stepping outside the International Space Station is always risky, but spacewalks are essential to build and fix things.
	Now, the astronauts emerge through an airlock here, and if we take a closer look, we can see how they had to make their way about 60 meters to replace what's called a sequential shunt unit.
	What is a sequential shunt unit?
	What is that?
	And how does it break and how do you fix it?
	What is that?
	I have no idea.
	Hold on a second.
	Sequential?
	A shunt.
	This is funny.
	It's one of those general words if you ever work in a factory.
	You need a shunt?
	I need a shunt.
	Yeah.
	Here we go.
	Like a shim.
	Electrical system of the International Space Station.
	Here we go.
	Let me see if there's a shunt.
	What is the shunt?
	82 separate solar array strings feed a sequential shunt unit, known as the SSU, that provides coarse voltage regulation at the desired voltage.
	The SSU applies a dummy load that increases as the station's load decreases.
	Okay, I understand.
	So it's kind of a regulator, so that the batteries discharge evenly.
	It's not technically a regulator, but shunt is not the word I'd use.
	Well, it's called the SSU. Now, if you have an international space station, international being the key word, why is the voltage 120 volts?
	Well, 120 is always known to be a safer voltage.
	Yeah, but...
	So only Americans can bring their stuff up to plug it in?
	There's plenty of places that have 120 that are not American.
	Let's continue.
	That's part of the power supply connecting the solar panels.
	The main task was to replace that power unit.
	They had to get it done within 31 minutes, because that's how long night lasts on the space station, and if sunlight hit the solar panels, they could have been electrocuted.
	You might die.
	Really?
	They're gonna be electrocuted by the sword?
	Good job with the clips there.
	In the event, all went well.
	And here it comes, suddenly, drama!
	Woohoo, drama!
	Then, a problem.
	A problem.
	We know it's a small amount of water.
	If there's any way to get a temperature of the water I don't know if you can move it around So there's a water bubble.
	Now, I think it's the other way around.
	I don't think this came from his pack.
	I'm thinking, you know, his suit is leaky, he's in the swimming pool, and water's going.
	We've got to get this guy out.
	Get to that.
	Or to try to drink it and note the taste.
	Mission Control says, why don't you try to drink the water bubble?
	Tell us what it tastes like.
	Is it yellow?
	That was my first thought as well, strange.
	Found in the helmet of Tim Peake's companion, Tim Coppera.
	It's about three inches above my head, and see if I can make it mobile.
	They were ordered back inside.
	A syringe was used to collect samples of the water.
	This matters because three years ago, an astronaut nearly drowned in his spacesuit.
	This time, no harm was done, and the main repair task was completed.
	International Space Station back to full power.
	We really appreciate all the dedication and hard work.
	But there'll be questions about what went wrong, and all of this is a reminder of the dangers of working in space.
	Yes, the dangers of working in space.
	All right.
	What do they do?
	What goes on up there?
	Oh, science experiments.
	But what?
	Experiments.
	Like what?
	All kinds of experiments.
	You can look it up.
	Look, space station experiments.
	There's thousands of them.
	Are you there?
	Yeah, I'm not looking it up.
	Oh, okay.
	I mean, I admire some of these crazy ideas, like the water and the space station.
	We don't have anybody in orbit and God knows what.
	But the problem with this is like, hey, how long are you going to run this gag on us?
	It's a little too long to be running a gag like this.
	It just doesn't make sense.
	I mean, unless you're completely a psychopath.
	No.
	Whoa!
	Did you just contradict yourself?
	Of course!
	They're psychopaths.
	No.
	I have just a final thing I want to leave everybody with for the face bag since it's so unbelievably hypocrite.
	Hypocritical?
	Hypocritical.
	I've seen so many people making jokes about Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch.
	Oh!
	I'm all with you on this.
	Didn't we talk about this on the last show?
	We did, and something hit me after the show.
	Oh, okay.
	If someone makes jokes, and on the face bag, these are all Democrats, Obama bots, you know, everyone's better than the next.
	Everyone knows it so, so well.
	Oh, wow!
	Gold digger Jerry Hall.
	My question is to these people, really?
	Whatever happened to you should be able to marry the person you love?
	Hypocrite.
	It's okay if it's gays and lesbians.
	But if there's an age difference...
	Oh, no.
	Then we all have...
	Then it's not okay.
	Ooh, I like that.
	Try that one out.
	Try that one out.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's dynamite.
	Yeah.
	Does it need perfecting, or is it...
	It's kind of there, right?
	I think you're fine.
	Boom.
	Okay.
	Good.
	And with that, we wind up yet another media deconstruction.
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	I think you opened the show with a bang with that Academy Award bullcrap.
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	All right.
	Anything I should be watching?
	Yeah, you should probably, after we get done here, you should go watch the end of the...
	Now the football is kind of interesting.
	You want to catch the end of the Seattle game.
	Okay.
	And then there's another game this evening that would be worth another pro...
	Because now we're wrapping up the playoffs for the final couple of games next week and then the Super Bowl.
	Excellent.
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