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Adam Couring, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 31st, 2016, and time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 7, 9 or 5.
This is No Agenda.
Feeling the love and light from Gitmo Nation, producers worldwide, and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I can't find that thing I hit my gong with.
It's really annoying.
I'm John C. DeVore.
Oh, it's called a hammer?
A mallet?
A pounder?
A pounder?
Can't find my pounder!
Where's your pounder, Big John?
Where's your pounder, man?
That's too bad.
I like your pounder.
I got the big giant one, but it's too big and soft and doesn't really hit the thing with much...
It's just for the big giant gong downstairs.
As a two-gong household.
Wow.
How modern of you.
Yeah.
Tugong household.
Tugong household.
Very few people are Tugong households nowadays.
Used to be the rage in the 20s.
So today is the first day that I'm on the new MIDI controller, for what it's worth.
Right, it didn't crap out.
No, it didn't crap out, no.
This is part of the upgrade.
This is part of the whole system, yeah.
Agenda upgrade, sound upgrade.
Sound upgrade, ease of use upgrade.
And I want to thank the Funk Brothers for all the work they've done.
Ethan and Eric Funk.
There's nothing like software developers...
The Funk Brothers?
There's nothing like software developers who work in music and radio software whose last name is Funk.
It's just a beautiful thing.
It's ridiculous.
They must dedicate me.
They're good.
They developed an audio rack suite.
Oh, you know, I had completely forgotten to tell you.
We had a dinner on Friday night.
Oh, is this an Obama bot dinner?
Well, it was a completely different crowd.
It wasn't the artist.
This was the former New York banker.
It was his wife's birthday.
Okay.
And he invited a very small group of eight friends.
And, of course, Tina and I are included because, let's face it, if you can bring Monkey Boy from MTV to the dinner, it's fun.
Oh yeah, you're a celebrity stooge.
Everybody needs one in their life.
Every dinner party should have the celebrity stooge.
Now, the people who were here, a very interesting crowd.
Definitely Obama bots, no doubt about it.
Even though I think some of them were extremely wealthy.
I believe one guy and his wife.
Typical of the Democrats, of course.
Very, very rich.
People have been bamboozled about this fact.
Yeah, exactly.
But there wasn't a lot of political talk at the table, which was nice.
But when it did come up, when it did come up, Trump had to come up in the conversation.
No, no, no, no.
Wow.
Ted Cruz came up in the conversation.
Oh, it's a little Texas connection.
Well, but what's interesting is, you know, there was like a lot of, oh, we can't really know.
The way he's talking, this means it's gossip.
Yeah, it was gossip.
Oh, yeah.
And people were very wary of me.
But they so wanted to say, I said, you know, you really shouldn't say anything because I can't be trusted.
Five minutes later, like, well, here's what we've heard.
Ah!
I'm not kidding.
I've noticed this over the years.
Why, people?
If you have an outlet, in other words, you have a voice that is public, People that want this information to get out, but they know it's wrong.
Very wrong.
But they tell you because they know you're going to tell.
So here's how that part of the conversation went.
Well, yeah, I really feel bad about saying this, but we're pretty sure that it's going to come out any day now that Ted Cruz is having an extramarital affair.
Huh.
Interesting, right?
Well, I mean...
Well, here's what was interesting about it.
It's not unusual.
Here's what was interesting.
So the wife of big-time contractor, I mean, like, big-time contractor, building contractor, the way she said it, I said, you know...
I think someone said, oh, that's probably...
Adam, you probably think that's really hilarious.
I said, no, actually, I find that sad, if that's true, that his marriage is falling apart.
It's not hilarious.
Why would it be hilarious?
What do people think of you?
No, it wasn't that.
I said, but I get the feeling that when this was discussed, when you heard about this, everybody was saying that with some form of glee.
And the woman goes...
A young lady, I should say.
I mean, really nice people, but I did call her.
Especially the Democratic side of the ledger.
They get a kick out of Republican foibles that involve morality.
Yes.
Because the Republicans present themselves as highly moral.
The Republicans themselves see themselves, I believe, more, if you're going to take the religious side of it, I think they see themselves more fallible.
And so it's never a surprise that some guy at a high level, like Ted Cruz, would maybe have an affair.
And they would all see it the way you do.
Kind of, this is too bad.
I saw it as sad.
And I also said, well, hold on a second.
You say this with some form of glee.
Well, yeah, he's an extremist.
Like, hold on a second.
Back up one second.
This guy's a good senator, a very successful prosecutor.
Nine times in front of the Supreme Court is nothing to sneeze at.
The number of people that can say that.
Very, very few.
Very few people can say that.
Like a dozen, maybe.
And I said, in addition to that, I don't care who it is, even if it's the vermin supreme with the boot on his head, if you want to run for president, I give you respect.
But it went.
She said, no, but he's an extremist.
I said, you mean extremists like ISIS? Yes, yes.
Oh, okay.
Well, then I think we're done here.
Please.
He's creepy, but extremists?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think he's committed any jihad in the U.S. Senate.
But that was really the only political speak that was going down.
But here's what's interesting.
I found it.
What?
Sorry.
What'd you find?
The hammer.
Okay.
What is that thing called?
The hammer thing?
I don't know.
I think it's called a hammer.
Anyway, so I'm sitting next to this guy.
And this was, I should have mentioned...
How many people were there?
It sounds like there were dozens.
No, ten.
I said it was eight guests and then the banker and his wife.
It was her birthday.
I didn't get the number.
And it was at Jeffrey's.
I mean, this is the best restaurant in Austin.
Ah.
So we lived it up.
Tina and I are looking at each other going like, yeah, I'll have more of that wine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What was the wine?
Oh.
I'll get back to you on that.
It was a whole...
I don't remember.
I know you don't.
I'm sorry.
I should have taken a picture.
Everybody's this way.
Excuse me.
Let me take a picture of that bottle of wine you just ordered so I can tell my friend about it.
So I'm sitting next to this guy.
Nice guy.
And everybody in this group had moved to Austin from somewhere else.
And, of course, a lot of them were New Yorkers.
Some...
One or two from California.
And so I'm sitting next to this guy, and the way the banker introduced me, I don't understand why he did that, but he's like, Oh, hey, meet Adam.
You like guns?
Meet Adam.
I'm like, What the fuck is that?
What are you talking about?
Well, you get paid in guns.
I said, What are you talking about?
Just because at one point, one of our knights had...
New Yorker, right?
Yeah, of course.
Well, he's the first to say, I'm a pinko liberal from New York.
Fine.
So this guy next to me, that was an awkward introduction.
And I said, what do you do?
Yeah, baseball, sports.
I'm like, oh God.
I'm like, oh.
Because he seemed like a nice guy.
And I actually, I caught myself in the middle of saying what I despise.
What did you do?
Oh, people will say to me, MTV, I don't know anything about the music.
I don't care about videos or anything.
And I said, I don't know anything about sports.
I'm like, oh, I'm sorry, man.
That was a stupid thing to say.
What do you do?
You know, just talking.
Yeah, and I'm in Austin, and I'm coaching a little bit of baseball.
I'm like, oh, Little League?
He's like, no, no, I do some other stuff.
Are you familiar with Daryl May?
Who?
Daryl May.
Name rings a bell.
Is he a baseball player?
I would say it was a starting picture for the New York Yankees.
Daryl May is the starting pitcher for the Yankees?
No, he left.
He was the starting pitcher for the Yankees.
Was this Daryl May?
Daryl May.
The guy you were sitting next to?
And I'm like, you coach Little League?
What a...
Oh, I didn't know.
I didn't really know until I got home.
You had to look him up?
He must have felt like an idiot.
He was very kind about it.
You know, it's not a big deal.
This guy.
You're not a sports fan.
You don't know anything about it.
Why would you?
I didn't even recognize his name.
But I think that was a Yankee fan.
It was an epic fail.
Epic fail.
But it was okay that I didn't know who he was.
But when I said, oh, what did he do?
Coach Little League?
He's like, no, no, not really.
But he didn't say, I'm Daryl May.
You know, left-handed.
I'm the famous New York Yankees left-hander.
Starting pitcher.
Yeah.
You should have got his autograph.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, now that I don't care about sports, but I know you're famous, can I have your autograph?
Yeah.
Hey, nice fabric.
Oh, man, I felt like such a dick.
That was hilarious.
So it doesn't sound like a productive, in terms of the show, didn't it?
No, no, no.
I just wanted to let you know that I failed in front of Daryl May.
Daryl Strawberry I might have recognized, but Daryl, I don't know, Daryl May.
Yeah, only from the cocaine.
Strawberry, yeah.
No, I was on New York radio during the...
Strawberry days.
Oh.
Yeah.
He was one of the best players ever.
He was very good, yeah.
But he, you know, he just quit.
He was a starting pitcher, plus played for the Yankees.
That was a couple years ago.
It's got to be years ago.
Seven, eight years ago, I think.
No, no, no.
43, so it has to be a while ago.
I think maybe 2010.
He's not very successful.
If you were, it's like a sports fan.
Here's what I should have said.
Yes?
There's a bunch of guys out there, and Bill Ziff, by the way, was one of these.
Photographic memory for statistics.
Now, his was all basketball stats, but there were guys with baseball stats.
So you'd sit next to this guy, and you'd go, Daryl May Yankees?
How do you feel about having a horrible record of 26-43 with 5.16 earned run average?
That sucks.
How do you even keep on the team?
I would never say that, even if I knew, though, that information.
Uh-oh.
Am I wrong?
I just needed to get out of there.
He actually spent four seasons in Japan.
I know.
Now, that would be worth talking about.
What's it like playing on a Japanese baseball team?
If I had known, I would have brought it up because Japan did come up in the conversation.
You played with the Hanshin Tigers and the Yamori Giants.
Well, guess what?
Here's the good news.
We're now connected, so the next time I see him, I'll throw a whole bunch of stats at him.
Don't throw the stats.
The stats are embarrassing.
Hey, why do you suck?
That's kind of interesting.
Oh, totally.
So, do they really have small equipment?
That would be my only question.
What's it like in the locker room?
What else do we need to know, really?
Anyway.
Onward.
Yes.
So, we had a couple of things happen this week.
Obviously, the...
We saw what happened when Trump quit the debates and went off to...
Now, what were the final numbers?
What were the ratings numbers?
The overnights were a little unclear.
Fox numbers were 11 to 12 million, which was down from 25 or whatever it was.
Well, the previous debate was already less than that, wasn't it?
The previous one was actually the lowest.
So it's been falling off, so you can't really tell.
It's maybe trending down.
And Trump got four.
He wasn't even scheduled anywhere, but he somehow got full.
But now, a moment.
I was screaming at the television.
CNN cut to it live.
MSNBC cut to it live, but it was during Rachel's show.
And so the minute he was...
And I wound up watching the whole thing on C-SPAN. It was a pretty good little appearance he did.
It wasn't a lot of, I'm going to make America great again.
There truly was a lot going on for the wounded warriors and veterans.
It was great.
He had his friends coming up on stage like, here's Shifty LeVar, Shifty LeVar, Swifty, whatever his name is.
And he's got big sunglasses on.
Yeah, give a million dollars.
Yeah, a million dollars today.
Yeah, it's all good.
I don't like talking like my friend Trump here, but I'll give you a million dollars.
Yeah, Trump apparently called up about 20 people and got his $6 million before this even happened.
I have a Chuck Todd clip.
Listen to how Chuck Todd explains the difference between the Trump event and the debate, because he went back and forth between two venues.
It had a rock concert atmosphere.
Because, you know, Chuck Todd is Mr.
Rock and Roll, obviously.
There is this, and I've been to a lot of Trump events now, and there's always this same feeling, but particularly when it's on a college campus, you have people that want to just see the show.
Some don't like Trump, some love Trump, but it is sort of like this rock concert feel that has dedicated groups, like, think, Phish concert or Deadheads and things like that.
Wow, he's so relevant!
Hey, I'm thinking this is like a fish concert, man.
This is really dynamite.
Yeah, it was a real rock and roll.
The last concert I went to was Fish.
...concert or Deadhead.
I'm a Deadhead.
Things like that.
I think you have Trumphead.
Oh, Trumphead.
Wow, Chuck Todd.
Good one.
Trumphead.
...was just how much energy and excitement was at Drake, right?
On the outside, everybody's freezing.
And then you came here to the debate, and it was just so...
I don't know how else to put it.
I mean, it was fine, but there was just, you know, to borrow a phrase, it was low energy.
Low energy!
He's even using Trump's bits now.
Trumpism.
Low energy, weak.
He's weak.
Well, they had this...
There was an interesting thing.
I was watching the 3x3s again, and they...
It was interesting how they dealt with this situation.
The CBS guys, of course, slammed...
I'm sorry, is this an official 3x3 report we're doing, or...
Okay, yes.
And now it's time for 3x3.
You may sing along.
Experiment by JCD. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC. The memorandum 3x3.
Neverending 3x3, week 52.
Now, CBS hates Trump.
No doubt about it.
I'll say.
And just as an example of CBS hating Trump, they...
Well, their analysis of the whole thing contrasted with ABC, and I don't know if I clipped the ABC one, but I don't want to play them both because they're too long.
But ABC did an analysis of, you know, these are updates in the election cycle.
But let's listen to the CBS, which is, I believe, a hit piece.
Yes, Trump debates CBS hit piece would be the title.
Yes.
In South Carolina last night, Donald Trump played up his counter-programming move against the Fox debate.
From here, where do I go?
Going to Iowa.
What am I going to do there?
Who the hell knows?
We're going to raise, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to raise a lot of money for the vets.
That's what we're going to do.
Fox News scrambled to pull Trump back on the debate stage, using Bill O'Reilly to plead its case.
Forgive.
Go forward.
Answer the questions.
Look out for the folks.
Just want you to consider it.
The Trump campaign has not said what veterans groups would benefit from his event tonight.
But some have said thanks, but no thanks.
Peter Kaufman is with the progressivevotevets.org.
Veterans are not a political prop that they can just trot out and exploit because they don't want to answer tough questions.
Trump's top competitor in Iowa, Ted Cruz, ridiculed the GOP frontrunner.
He doesn't want to answer questions from the men and women of Iowa about how his record doesn't match what he's selling.
Chris Christie faulted Trump's hair-trigger temper.
This is a few days before the caucus, and the candidate who is leading in some of the polls decides in a snit not to come.
Snit.
That's not respectful.
It's certainly not.
What is a snit?
Snit.
What is a snit?
Snit.
Snit is dumb.
Oh, come on, Chris.
That's not respectful.
It's certainly not presidential.
Rand Paul has clashed with Trump in debates before.
I'd say that he's already hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.
Well, I've given him plenty of money.
He predicted more time tonight to discuss shrinking the size of government.
I'm concerned about the debt.
I'm concerned about borrowing a million dollars every minute.
I'm concerned about the government leaving us alone.
Jeb Bush running in the back of the pack here still clings to hope.
Can Jeb Bush be a surprise story here on caucus night?
Yes, since the expectations are so low.
Is he grabbing a little bit of humor all of a sudden, our boy Jeb?
Yes, since the expectations are so low.
Well, you have succeeded there, Governor.
Mission accomplished.
Wow.
And he brings that in?
The big fail of his brother?
He's going to use mission accomplished as his payoff?
What a dick.
I liked it.
So we have...
There was a couple things that happened that were interesting.
You got 30 more seconds.
You got 30 more seconds.
Want to play the whole thing out?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah, play it out.
Mission accomplished.
Rumors have run wild all day about a possible last-minute truce between Fox and Trump.
Scott, moments ago, Trump's campaign manager told us, quote, Mr.
Trump is not participating in the Fox News debate.
Seems clear.
Major Garrett, thanks very much.
CBS News, by the way, will be carrying tonight's Trump event on our 24-hour digital news service, CBSN. It's available on all devices at CBSNews.com.
CBSNews.com.
They're on the bandwagon.
Yes, CBSNews.com.
I'm hearing a lot of noise.
It's not even noise, but the way the networks are talking about Trump, I felt a change.
Did you feel this in your 3x3 analysis?
I felt it was a softening.
The CBS report was a hit piece, but they softened a little at the end to plug their own show.
I agree.
Now, we almost have to go into wounded warriors from this, but do you want to wait for that?
You didn't let me answer the question.
No.
I don't think there's a massive change.
I think there's just a softening.
Yeah, a softening, but a shift.
There's a shift.
I felt the shift.
I didn't feel a shift necessarily, but I... I may be, since I've been following it so closely, it may have snuck past me because you have small little changes.
Yeah.
Because I'm definitely not hearing the, oh, he's a clown, he's a bozo.
Well, take Chuck Todd.
Chuck Todd's report is right there as proof.
Yeah.
They've gotten the word.
What happens, and I think the thing about the New York Times, and I think I have a New York Times clip here.
Yes.
Where they go Clinton.
Yeah, play that.
Clinton was endorsed by the New York Times editorial board today and called her one of the most qualified candidates in modern history.
Sanders, the paper said...
Well, we've always said she's uniquely qualified to run the empire.
Well, she's qualified to run the empire, but she's not one of the most qualified in recent history.
I would say George H.W. Bush would be.
And I think her husband, Bill, is more qualified.
He was a governor for a very long time, and he knew how to govern.
I've been hearing two things about Clinton.
She's the most qualified.
Van Jones had a couple of things to say about her.
That guy is nuts about her now.
He's white now?
Well, it's gotten worse.
He said, and I haven't, I tried to find it, I lost it.
I did get one Van Jones clip, but it was essentially that.
Well, let's finish the New York Times.
Let's finish the New York Times.
We've still got some seconds on this.
The editorial board today had called her one of the most qualified candidates in modern history.
Sanders, the paper said, has brought important issues to the forefront, like income inequality, but does not possess Clinton's experience, Jim.
Ah, the experience.
What experience?
I don't know.
He's been a senator forever, and he's been, I think, in government most of his life.
He's got more experience than she does.
What does she do?
What's her experience?
Wife?
A phony, a senator who didn't do anything, much like Obama.
And then Secretary of State who screwed up the world.
Yeah.
Is that the kind of experience they're looking for?
So Van Jones is on Don Lemon.
Yeah.
And I have the clip if you wanted to play it, but I'll explain what happened because we can skip it.
Oh, wow.
That's my two favorite people.
Well, let me explain what happens.
Van Jones is a long thing.
I have only a piece of it.
Now, Van Jones was President Obama's green czar.
And then he got...
Didn't he get kicked out?
Didn't he...
He said something...
There was some controversy and he got...
He had to leave.
He's a communist and somebody pointed it out and so they kicked him out.
Oh, there you go.
But now he's a political, you know...
Yeah, a spokeswoman.
Yeah.
So he comes on and he's bitching and moaning about Trump.
And he says, it was expected that we take people from the reality world, the reality TV world, and bring them over to the real world.
But he brought everyone over to his world.
Everybody's now in a reality.
And he goes on and on and on and on, and he's bitching and moaning, and you can hear Don trying to come in, because Don, because Clinton's doing, or not Clinton, but Trump is doing something.
He's on stage, right.
He's on stage, and so Don Lemon cuts off Van Jones.
We are now living in a Donald Trump reality TV show, and we can't get out of it.
And so I think that it's fine for us to understand in some ways that politics has always had an entertainment component to it, but this has just gone so far away from what you would ordinarily expect.
It used to be, Don, and you remember these days, I don't know, a couple years ago, where a politician would fight to get on a debate stage.
And they would fight to get on the debate stage because they wanted to be able to engage the public.
This is the first time in American history a politician has said, I'm not going to debate and gotten more attention than everybody else combined.
Van Jones.
Something is terribly wrong with the system.
I just want to check in just for a moment.
Donald Trump looks like he's leaving the stage.
And the music is...
You know, they're singing him off.
Adele, rolling in the deep.
So, I think he's probably going to go over to the spin room, Ryan.
And, you know, two...
Van Jones' point.
We can talk about the spin room or whatever.
But has he fired the Republican Party?
Has he fired Fox News?
He's in a war.
Goodbye, Van.
Whatever Van Jones was saying, Don Lemon was already all in.
He's gone.
That was good.
He's gone.
He's into the reality thing using the term fired.
And I'm watching this take place and Van Jones is killed.
His segment was off.
And they had some new talking head in the box.
Perfect.
And I'm thinking, what is Van Jones thinking to himself when this happened?
Well, what happens is this is live television.
It's how it goes.
Don't take it personally, Van.
We love you, man.
Talk to you next week.
Now, O'Reilly was apparently assigned, I think, O'Reilly and me.
I was switching back and forth.
And he was on, so the Trump thing, everyone's live on the Trump thing.
And I have to say, Rachel Mano, but after the first 15 minutes and they came back to her, she was rolling her eyes, going, well, we're not going to stay with this all night.
Really, really childish.
Really childish.
She was funny.
I saw that, too.
But then I saw O'Reilly, and he had the split screen, and he had the debate, of course, on the split screen.
And he looks pissed.
He just looked mad.
Well, I'm glad you brought that up, because on Thursday, during the day they brought Trump back on the O'Reilly show, and I believe the following.
If you listen to this O'Reilly, this is the clip.
It says Trump O'Reilly.
If my interpretation is correct, and you can kind of hear it in O'Reilly's voice, O'Reilly is having a feud with Megyn Kelly.
Oh, for sure.
He's pissed off.
He's pissed off that they didn't have him on.
He's pissed off.
Done.
Yeah, he never got to be a questioner.
The controversies on Fox are supposed to be with him.
That's his problem.
Now, O'Reilly, I believe, since he's a blowhard of sorts, an entertaining one, he came out and I'm pretty sure he told the executives, I can get Trump back.
Oh.
Turn it over to me.
Ah, okay.
Step aside, boys.
Yeah, let me show you how it's done.
Let me show you how we do this.
So he does this thing with Trump, and it's one of the rare things with Trump, where Trump is on, he's on a split screen with Trump, but Trump is on video.
Normally he does all this stuff on audio, and you, you know, over the phone, which is insulting to the interviewer if you don't have to.
There's no reason for him to do that.
No.
And you could see it in Trump's eye that he could understand that O'Reilly was trying to work him.
He was trying to work him.
And then, and he wasn't going to get worked.
He wasn't going to get sold.
He made his mind up.
And so he showed the kind of sales resistance.
It was absolute.
That got O'Reilly actually aggravated.
And the last part of this clip, you can hear it in O'Reilly's voice.
He's like not getting Trump to go along with the program.
He's going to be embarrassed.
Meghan's going to be on him.
Oh, you said you could do this and you couldn't.
And he just knew that this was his last ditch to try to save the situation.
He couldn't do it.
And believe me, folks.
This is exactly how it works in television land.
This is exactly how it works.
In your Christian faith, there is a very significant tenet and that's the tenet of forgiveness.
Don't you think that's the right thing to do?
It probably is, but, you know, it's called an eye for an eye, I guess, also.
You can look at it that way.
No, no, no.
That's the Old Testament.
No, no, no, no.
You are taking it.
If you're the Christian, the eye for the eye.
Wait a minute.
That was his approach?
His approach is, I'm going to call Donald Trump out based on religion?
I believe he knew that Trump is kind of a lightweight religions guy.
He's not religious.
No.
He's like Sanders.
But he likes to portray himself as such.
I believe this.
This is what I'm thinking as somebody who has some clue about sales.
I believe he thought he could leverage that by kind of embarrassing him.
It probably...
Because if you were a Christian, you'd do this.
Right, right.
And so he figured Trump...
But I think that's dumb.
I think that's very short-sighted of O'Reilly.
That's not the way...
I thought it was very poorly executed.
Yeah.
You know, it's called an eye for an eye, I guess, also.
You can look at it that way.
No, no, no.
I don't take it seriously.
No, no, no, no.
You are taking it.
If you're the Christian, the eye for the eye goes out.
Here's what it is.
Turning the other cheek.
Let me tell you, you're taking this much more seriously than I am.
Excellent.
Yeah, and now go to the part two where this is the desperation.
All right.
Think about it.
Say, look, I might come back.
Forgive.
Go forward.
Answer the questions.
Look out for the folks.
Well, even though you and I had an agreement that you wouldn't ask me that, which we did, I will therefore forget that you asked me that.
Because I told you up front, I said, don't ask me that question, because it's an embarrassing question for you.
And I'm not going to listen to anybody.
Oh.
Oh.
It was chilly.
It is wonderful to see that Trump has now successfully alienated the left and the right.
He's alienated everybody but the public.
Except the public, exactly.
Except the public.
The public.
And there was a...
I tried to clip something, but it was just too long and nothing really good enough.
But I did put it in the show notes, a C-SPAN call-in.
You know, their call-in show.
And it didn't matter what line they were picking up.
It was one after another.
Yeah, Trump.
Now, whether that is his ground game or people...
We can't get our producers to call in on C-SPAN, so he's clearly got some mastery.
And the public...
I think what you're going to see is...
Now, going back to the New York Times thing when they endorsed Hillary, they did that for one reason from my perspective.
They're afraid of her.
Hell yeah.
They know that if they don't endorse her and she gets in, she's going to be trouble.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sanders won't be.
So if he gets in and they didn't endorse him, so what?
He got in.
Just on the public loving Trump?
I don't know if this is...
The way it happened, Trump landed his plane.
It was all coordinated.
I think it must have been 7 o'clock on the dot, whatever.
No, a little bit earlier than that.
And they actually break the news.
Oh, Trump is arriving, and his plane is...
They've lit it on the tarmac, John.
They've put lights out.
It's beautiful.
Oh, nice.
It's beautiful.
And they have a little podium.
He's got the red carpet stairs coming out of the plane.
It's a 757.
It's a great plane.
And he gets up there and he says, wow, I didn't expect all these people here.
I was going to get off the plane and go, and we have about five or six stops, and I see this kind of a crowd, so we can't just leave you flat, right?
We've got to talk for a little while.
Yeah, and he does something that always works.
I know this from my own experience.
It always works.
By the way, do we have any, like, young kids here, like 10 years old?
Okay, let's do this.
I have a little bit of an idea.
Look at that handsome guy.
Why don't we put him over here, and we'll let them, but without their parents, we'll let them run through the plane.
Does that sound good?
Right?
Trump!
Look, the parents are all upset.
So we'll get a little group together.
We'll get some groups.
We'll run them through.
That's like the helicopter rides, remember?
Yeah!
Before we had a helicopter ride, we let the kids go run through the plane.
No wonder people like this guy.
Come on!
How simple do you have to see things?
It's so obvious.
People love the guy.
Except...
Well, you're going to see Fox never liked Trump to begin with.
The Lutz thing at the very beginning of the first debate proved it.
Right.
The pollster.
Yeah, the pollster.
Now you can't trust him.
Somebody tweeted something.
something i mentioned this and he's not trustworthy and and now you're going to see o'reilly who's been kind of on the fence because he's objective he's the you know he's neither right nor left or whatever he likes to say he's going to start going after trump because he really sees himself as kind of a head of hopper uh one of those people who can make and break you and he's going to go after trump and he's going to regret it okay okay Thank you.
It's going to be a while, because Trump doesn't like the idea of slamming guys like...
He knows a fellow traveler, a guy who's nasty.
And O'Reilly's very nasty.
And he doesn't want to get into it with him, but he's going to have to at some point, because O'Reilly's going to start to go after him.
Now, I want to talk about the Wounded Warriors for a moment, before we move away from Trump.
But we have the same clip.
I saw it in your list, and I'm like, ah, we have the same clip.
Okay.
This is their out.
I also want to say, I received an email from the public relations director of Wounded Warrior Project.
Okay.
You want me to read it?
Yeah.
Because a lot of things happened with our conversation.
Yes, so we got sent to those guys and they listened to us.
Well, there's a couple of things.
Some people, I got a lot of military pushback.
From people in the military.
And, you know, these are people who send me encrypted messages.
Wisely.
Yes.
And they really, really don't like Wounded Warrior Project at all.
And I do have some theories about it.
First, Adam and John.
Sorry I couldn't find John's email address.
This is from Joanne Freed, the public relations director.
I appreciate the segment you did on Wounded Warrior Project.
Your segment helped put smiles on our faces just when we needed it most.
Thank you for noticing how shameful the reporting was by CBS. We wish more people had your take and we definitely need this type of support.
It's amazing how CBS with a few voiceovers and dramatization can cause such a media frenzy.
The story did not do the veteran population any good.
Don't know if you happened to see the 35-second video clip we posted on CBS. It should have been about CBS. I wanted to share it with you.
The stance you took on why this segment came about with such a harsh lashing out at our organization definitely makes sense, especially after you watch this clip.
So here is the clip.
I guess I enhanced this one a little bit.
I'm sure it's the same clip, so...
And this is, at the end of the interview, so CBS did an interview with the CEO, the guy on the horse, he wasn't on his horse in the interview, who came in with a segue, and at the very end, and this, I've seen this happen so many times, I have never done this, because it's a chicken shit thing to do, and it shows you how pathetic CBS was.
This isn't the letter, it is you.
No, this is me, this is not, we're done with the letter.
Ha ha ha.
No.
This is Chip Reid, who did the interview.
And so the interview's done, and he's just thanking the CEO, who he's just excoriated with a-hole questions.
And then he does this.
All right.
I think we're good.
I'd much rather be doing just a happy story about this, but...
I do love doing these stories when they're great.
In fact, I have a whole file full of stories, Wounded Warrior Project stories that I have been pitching over time and haven't gotten, but anyway.
So what he's saying is, you know, hey man, you know, sorry I had to ask these questions, you know, but I love doing it when the things are good about vets.
I have a whole file of stories I've pitched that are positive, but you know, they just won't do it, and then he ends with...
Anyway...
I got a job, you got a job.
I got a job, you got a job.
What's your job, then?
To be an a-hole?
Unbelievable.
Where did you get that?
From the woman who, from the...
Oh, is that...
That was...
Oh, jeez.
That's a very embarrassing thing to have recorded.
You don't have that?
That's not the clip you have?
No, not at all.
Really?
No, I have a clip that is CBS because there was...
I... Maybe you can read a couple of the notes from the vets.
But whether or not this...
We're not saying this...
No, no.
I have...
Let's discuss that in a moment.
I want to hear your clip, and then I have a theory about Wounded Warrior Project.
I did more work.
My clip also entails a little follow-up.
You just heard...
Sorry.
Hold it.
Yeah, sorry.
As you know, we did a whole thing.
We played a lot of the CBS hit piece, which was weak.
It was poorly done.
It was making the audience excitable about a guy driving a Segway, as though that's some sort of note of corruption.
And a $5 per head bar tab.
And a $5 per head bar tap.
It's an outrage, I tell you.
Outrageous!
And so it was weak.
It was weak.
So here's how CBS gets out of it.
Ah, you just heard Donald Trump mention our CBS News investigation of the Wounded Warrior Project, which exposed lavish spending for parties and conventions.
Well, today, Charity Navigator, a national evaluator of charities, put WWP on its watch list.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Their watch list.
Okay.
So they're on the watch list with everybody that's a charity except the Clinton Foundation.
Oh, gee.
They're not on the watch list?
You can go to this watch list.
The watch list is everybody.
Common cause.
Here's just the C's.
If I just started reading the C's.
Care.
Care.
Care!
Child Health, Child Leukemia Foundation, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, City of Harvest, City of Hope, Common Cause, Common Cause Educational Fund, Conservation Fund, Concord Coalition, Cousteau Society, Covenant House.
It goes on and on and on.
They watch everybody, and then they grade them all, and they just put them on the watch list recently, like just now, and then they gave them an immediate grade of a C, which wasn't an F, because there's plenty of veterans organizations that Charity Watch has rated as F- Okay.
I want to give you my opinion on this based upon...
Now, Tina and I did a lot of research yesterday.
One of the many things we share in common is our love for Form 990.
She works at a non-profit, so I said, you know, you could really help.
I'd love your opinion on this organization.
And so she went through the full 990, went through the whole website, and here's what she came back with.
First of all, The idea of huge salaries, which always comes up, you know, same with Planned Parenthood, although we don't really complain that much about the $600,000 Miss, what's her name?
Miss Cecile Richards is making.
Cecile.
Cecile.
The CEO of Wounded Warrior Project makes $475,000.
But when you have an organization of this size, that is not a crazy number if you want professionals running the business.
But as I said, I got a lot of pushback.
People saying, you know, these guys are corrupt.
You know, they outsource things to family members, which they need to disclose if that's true.
You can do that, but you have to disclose it on your Form 990.
It's not there.
It's very complicated to understand from the website what exactly their goal is, although it's to help vets, wounded warriors specifically, reintegrate, help them get jobs, help them with financial stability.
What's complicated from their communication is They say they help 8,000 families.
It's not more.
16,000 families and about 80,000 wounded warriors.
But we don't know.
They do not explain exactly what success is.
I think it's different based upon each case.
But they also don't say if that's unique 80,000 or if they help those 80,000, they get help multiple ways.
It's the same person getting help multiple ways.
And then...
If you read enough, and I did a lot of research, a lot of complaining about Wounded Warrior Project, and usually it's like, well, we're a small nonprofit, and we're called Helping Wounded Warriors, and we have a logo that looks nothing like theirs, but it's black and white, and it's one guy helping the other, and they sued us.
And this is what big organizations do, particularly when it comes to your trademark and your copyright.
So they have to defend that vigorously.
But it pisses people off.
The World Wildlife Federation sued the World Wrestling Federation.
And they won against the World Wrestling Federation, which is now the WWE. But you have to understand, the problem comes in.
So another example, a veteran wrote a book, and then he was invited to come speak at one of their big rallies, and they had a marketplace with stands, and you can buy.
And another complaint is that all of the stuff they send to veterans is only sourced through Under Armour.
Like, oh, there's money sticking everywhere.
That's the continuous complaint.
And so one of these vets had written the book, and he says, hey, since I'm at the event anyway, can I set up a little booth and sell my book?
And they said no.
For a number of reasons, I can understand why they said that.
But what happens, and I think the Wounded Warrior Project, it's only 12 years old.
To go from zero to $375 million in 12 years is astronomical.
And they have so much money.
A hundred million of it is invested just in stocks and bonds to have a reserve.
And then you get all the typical noise.
Well, they're only spending 60% on the veterans, etc.
The problem you get with this concept...
Is if you're a veteran, if you were wounded, and you somehow did not get any help, you're pissed off, not just because you didn't get help, and it's very difficult for anyone.
Look, the government, the Veterans Administration can't even help everybody.
Then you look at their commercials and their banners and of course now that we've been surfing around, every page shows a Wounded Warrior Project banner for me.
Then you're pissed off that your wounds and your brothers and sisters who have been wounded are being, in your view, abused Buy this organization who has so much money, and you're not getting it, and they're getting it, and these people have...
The premise of a large veterans organization, I think, is flawed.
I don't think it will ever work unless you can guarantee you help every single person.
300 million is not enough to do much action.
Of course not.
We have 21 million veterans in the United States.
Not all are wounded.
Although I would say most are affected in some way.
I mean, I'm glad the PR woman sent you this little note, but I will say that, and I'm not going to blame her, but there's a lot of, I believe this is a public relations problem.
For example, and I'll cite the one thing you mentioned, because I've done a lot of speeches to large organizations and much bigger companies than Wounded Warriors, and they all always not only invite you, but encourage you to bring some books and sell them at a little table outside your speech afterwards.
I never do it.
Because it's like, I'm lugging these books.
It's sad.
It's sad.
It makes you look...
It degrades.
No, it actually...
I've seen guys do it.
It's not sad at all.
It's actually kind of interesting because you get to meet the guy and sign a book.
And it's not a big...
It's not that bad.
In fact, a lot of people like to do it and they make a lot of money.
You make like $1,000 selling books in the little table in cash.
And...
So if somebody requests that, it seems to me you just let them do it because everybody lets you do it.
Everybody sometimes encourages that they want you to do it because it's cool for them.
So this is the kind of little errors.
These are mistakes.
And this happens because the people who are all upper management, not the top, But the VPs, they're all making $200,000 a year.
They've got big organization people, and they are trained to protect things, and not necessarily to think about what the longer-term results could be.
But I remain that the smaller groups, small pieces and bits and pieces who do things, It's very hard to do this on this kind of scale.
You're going to get people who are pissed off.
And the people who don't like Wounded Warrior Project, I respect a lot.
And if they're really pissed off, I take that seriously.
But I have not been able to find any real, hardcore, horrible accusation Except for PR fracases and things that could have been handled better.
And you have to understand that the premise of an organization that helps wounded warriors, if it's not helping every single one of them, you're going to have a lot of unhappy people.
And it's impossible to do it.
You need $2 billion.
To start.
Yeah.
I think all help is good help, but you're always going to get this kind of pushback from people.
I understand it.
What's interesting, if you listen to the report with Scott Pelley talking about how they're on the watch list, a charity watch, which is, everyone's on the watch list.
But they play, again, by the way, that was chicken shit reporting.
Oh, totally.
To do that.
But they also premised it with, Donald Trump mentioned it, because somebody at CBS asked Trump in an interview, Uh, where's this money going?
Where's all this vet money going that you...
Well, he said that they had looked at the 10 organizations and they had spread it out.
They looked at a bunch and they said...
And the guy specifically said, what is it about wounded warriors?
And Trump says, we're not going to do wounded warriors because of that CBS report.
Oh, I didn't hear him.
So that's great.
And so that kind of pulled the rug out from under the CBS thing.
So then you got this thing with Scott Pelley where he references Trump and then says they're on the watch list.
And then they drop it.
It's dropped.
A-hole.
Yeah, this is CBS. CBS is of the three networks.
They hate the veterans, man.
The CBS hates Trump.
And this is the group that has Major Garrett, who really hates Trump.
And this stems from a very, or I pointed this out in another show, this stems from one of the first encounters on the campaign trail very early on when Trump was on the front page of the New York Daily News as a clown.
And Major Garrett ran into him, and Major Garrett asked him something, and Trump says, if you were a good journalist, you wouldn't ask a question like that, and insulted him.
Insulted Major Garrett and walked.
Turned his back on him and walked and just walked off.
And I think Major Garrett should be taken off the Trump beat because he's got a bone to pick and he's doing his best to give Trump a bad time.
He just should be taken off this beat immediately.
It's like that turd girl, whatever her name is, on NBC. Turr.
I can't remember anybody.
Christy Turr.
Turr.
Turr, yeah.
Turr.
I don't know why turr comes up.
It just sounds...
So Christy said she had the Trump beat solely at the beginning, and she got into a beef with Trump, and he just gave her nothing but grief for being incompetent.
And she started going after him.
I mean, I don't know why he does this, but if these operations are legit, they say, okay, he insulted the reporter, the reporter's got to be taken off the beat.
It's just that simple.
I mean, you could leave him on if you just want to get after the guy, but you're not supposed to do that.
If the guy insults the reporter, the reporter has to...
It's done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have only two clips from the actual debate.
No, actually only...
Yeah.
No, one clip.
I have two.
I have the end of Kasich.
As far as I'm concerned, Kasich, I like that he's still up there.
I like his strategy is simple.
He repeats it over and over again.
I did this in Ohio.
I can scale it up for America.
Well, that's his theme.
But when he laid into this topic, he disqualified himself for any office representing the citizens of the United States, as far as I'm concerned.
You appeared to back in another debate, a so-called backdoor, to encrypted cell phone technology, which protects most smartphones that we all have from hacking.
And it includes our phones, and it also protects the cell phones of the terrorists.
Now, the tech companies and a group of MIT scientists, smart guys, right?
Smart guys.
If they create a way for the AI to have a backdoor into our encrypted communications, then the bad guys will exploit it, too.
And they say that this is going to cause more security problems than it would solve for everyday Americans.
Are they wrong?
Well, look, the Joint Terrorism Task Forces need resources and they need tools.
And those are made up of the FBI, state, and local law enforcement.
And, Megan, it's best not to talk anymore about backdoors and encryption.
It'll get solved, but it needs to be solved in the Situation Room of the White House with the technology folks.
This is a public testimony.
He watches too much television.
I just have to tell you that it's best with some of these things not be said.
No, I want to go back.
No, no, no.
You are a covert a-hole is what you are.
Some of this, oh, we'll take care of it.
We'll fix it in the back room.
We won't tell the American public that we're going to have back doors.
Sorry, Kasich.
No more.
You're gone.
That was really, really lame.
Huh.
Really lame.
Yeah, that was bad.
Bill was out on the campaign trail.
Yes.
And I think we have early warning signs of his health.
Okay.
Listen to him shilling for Hillary.
Who will do the most to make you a part of the future that the president painted in the State of the Union?
How are we going to do it?
And who's the best changemaker to do it?
It's not close.
Hillary is the best changemaker to do it.
I don't know.
Did you hear the beginning of that?
Did you hear how...
You sure that wasn't a recording problem?
No, that is him.
He's straining to get the words out.
Listen.
Who will do the most to make you a part?
I can't believe this.
Yeah, I took it straight.
No, that's the tape.
You're using an old tape recorder or something.
No, no.
I made the clip myself.
Who will do the most to make you a part?
That's terrible.
Who will do the most?
You've got to ISO that.
Just the who will do the most?
Yeah.
Yeah, I should probably do that.
Let's see how far we want to go with it.
Who will do the most to make you a part of the future that the president painted in the State of the Union?
Just who will do the most, I think, is probably the best part.
Yeah, it's where he's really falling apart.
That's the best part where it's really falling apart.
Yeah, we like that.
That's terrible.
I've been listening to some of these things and I never caught that.
Let's go back to the debate because I do have a couple of clips that are interesting.
Well, I'm just finishing up this ISO for you.
I'm just going to do who will do the most, right?
Yeah, that's all you want.
That's dynamite.
Yeah, hold on.
Save selection and we save the selection as...
Okay, play it out.
Bill, who will do the most?
This is end of show stuff, man.
I've got to do this right.
Hold on.
75.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
We have successfully created the ISO. And here it is.
Who will do the most?
That's the best.
Who will do the most?
Why do we do this?
Because it's hilarious.
That's why.
Who will do the most?
Poor Bill.
So I caught a little bitty, a little thing that I think we're going to start to watch for.
And this was during the debate when Bush and Rubio went at each other.
And play this clip and I'll tell you what the gimmick is.
Because you used to support a path to citizenship.
So did you.
Well, but you changed the path and the book.
So did you, Marco.
Okay, this is historical stuff with these guys, yeah.
Play it again.
Okay.
Because you used to support a path to citizenship.
So did you.
Well, but you changed the book and the book.
So did you, Marco.
Okay.
So this was an exchange that Bush won, but what was interesting here, and I think you're going to start to see this with Bush, that somebody, this was a consultant that came up with this.
Using the word Marco was a diminutive.
So did you, Marco.
Ah, yes.
Remember when Sarah Palin went up there to talk to do the debate.
Yeah, can I call you Joe?
She asked him specifically if she could call him Joe because it's disrespectful to use people's first names in these environments.
Correct.
So he's using, she's just using Marco as though he's a little boy.
And it was done that way too with an arrogance.
It was said, so did you, Marco.
Yeah.
Well, he doesn't like him.
We're going to see more of the use of the...
Instead of Senator...
It should be Senator, which is what you call...
It should be.
Yeah, it should be.
Yeah.
Senator Rubio.
That's not right, Senator, is what he should say.
I agree.
That's not right, Marco, is an insult.
And this is going to be used more and more, because Marco Rubio...
I don't think noticed it.
He may have, but...
He's too inexperienced, I think.
He's inexperienced.
He's a kid.
Now, meanwhile, we have all the stuff going on with new emails from Hillary.
I went back.
She's been very consistent, very smart this way.
I did not send or receive any emails marked.
Yeah.
Marked classified, although I believe that technically she has the responsibility not to do that.
Well, there's also a discussion that they never are marked per se.
Correct.
But there's, now remember, it's the FBI who was investigating Hillary Clinton for her emails and improprieties, and we don't really even know what the investigation is, but we do know who runs the FBI. That is the long-term banking Republican known as Jim Comey.
And you just gotta think that he's probably making a little bit of trouble.
And it's great when these things leak out.
And I love listening to the Morning Joe's dudes and Mika.
Because they like to be kind of elitist and let it slip out what people are talking about and what people aren't talking about.
It's very...
In fact, it is disgustingly elitist the way they do this, particularly Joe Scarborough saying, I know something.
We all know about it, but we don't really talk about it.
I'm going to let a little bit out.
And screw you, Scarborough.
Hey, Mark.
There's so much to get to.
He's on with Mark Halperin.
I'm a network executive high up at another network that we all know.
First of all, what are you doing talking to another network executive high up?
You don't like our station anymore?
Yeah.
That's what I'd say.
What are you doing?
Hey, Scarborough, what are you doing?
Network that we all know.
Is that a party?
No, maybe.
Maybe.
Network executive high up at another network that we all know that asked when we were going to start talking about what most of us around this table are hearing from multiple sources, and I'm sure you are too.
He's discussing a collusion in the news business.
Hey, when are you guys going to start reporting on, you know, that thing that we all know about?
This is playing into the basic public suspicion.
Yes.
Somewhat based on truth, by the way.
Yeah.
That the news media go around and they go hang out at bars and they drink and discuss things and collude.
Yeah, and that's exactly what's happening.
Most of us around...
He's giving a soft landing on this.
Very.
When we were going to start talking about what most of us around this table are...
I love that I'm really careful with my words.
Hearing from multiple sources, and I'm sure you are too.
That the Hillary Clinton investigation of the FBI is far more progressed.
And we're hearing it, Mika and I have been hearing it from the top officials in the Obama administration for actually several months now.
And we can't go to a meeting in Washington where we don't hear this.
I'm sure you're hearing the same thing.
Do you think Joe and Mika take meetings in Washington?
Hey, we want to have a meeting about you?
I doubt it, too.
We don't hear this.
I'm sure you're hearing the same thing.
All of our sources are high up for telling us, and Nicole is hearing the same thing, that this investigation is far more advanced than we, the public, knows.
What are you hearing?
Well, there are three things that people are keying off of, I think, Jeff.
First of all, there are a lot of chatter amongst FBI agents.
Many of them have never been big fans of the Clintons.
And we've talked about this a lot.
They do not like, especially Hillary, they do not like her.
And we have from inside, we don't know if those people are still working there, but the Secret Service always said, not FBI, but the Secret Service always said, we won't let her win.
We won't let her win.
A lot of chatter amongst FBI agents, many of whom have never been big fans of the Clintons, but a lot of FBI agents seem to be saying something's happening here.
Second is, from a legal point of view, you look at some of the recent developments that we've talked about here on the program, it's hard to see now how the Justice Department, the FBI, doesn't want to interview Secretary Clinton.
And that interview alone, short of an indictment, short of anything else, that would be a huge political development and would undermine confidence.
I like it.
So that's what we can look forward to.
We're now waiting for the indictment.
This is interesting.
Undermine confidence in some Democrats in the notion of going forward with Secretary Clinton.
And the last thing is, there are some people in the White House who are starting to talk about this.
It's not clear to me whether they know what's happening or there's just their intuition.
But the body language among some Obama administration officials is, this is more serious and something's going to happen.
Again, the timing of it could be, if not cataclysmic, pretty bad for Secretary Clinton.
Yup.
Well, maybe...
This invites all kinds of speculation about what could be done to change the news cycle so Clinton can get through this.
Well, also, I saw Elizabeth Warren...
And you may have caught it with that little ISO clip you made.
Bill!
Yeah, exactly.
Play it again.
Play it again.
I just played it.
Hold on a second.
I'm playing it again.
I can do it.
I'm good.
I'm getting there.
I got it.
Who will do the most?
No, I got it.
I nailed it.
Yeah, you've got it.
All I need is 30 years and a shaky hand, and I can be Bill.
That's terrible.
Chat room feels he's channeling Elvis, and I think there's something to it.
Oh, that's a good catch.
Who will be the most?
We're going to win this race.
Who will do the most?
Come on, boys.
Let's go to the big kahuna.
Who will do the most?
Yeah, good.
All right, I'm done.
Tourette's.
It helps.
Yeah, so Elizabeth Warren, let me see if I can find it.
She tweeted something that, I got a number of retweets even from it.
She's going to start lowering her odds.
I think the odds are 200 to 1 right now.
For her to run or win?
To win.
If she runs, she wins.
There's no doubt in my mind.
If she runs, she wins.
Republicans and Democrats will all vote for her.
She is Bernie Sanders and Trump rolled into one without the annoyances.
And she seems reasonable and she's full of crap.
Just what we need in America.
I get this phone call.
You know, she was the one who did the big investigation of the woman, the people that keep robocalls.
Oh, this is terrible.
She robocalled.
She didn't do anything.
She did nothing.
So I get this robocall.
It's come twice.
I'm going to record it and put it on the show if I can catch it.
It comes on and says...
Hello.
Are you Mimi Smith Dvorak?
If you're Mimi Smith Dvorak, press one.
If you're not Mimi Smith Dvorak, press two.
If you want to hold for Mimi Smith Dvorak, press three, and it goes on and on.
So I push, the first time it comes, I just press four.
I think it was four to disconnect.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, because it just kept playing.
And it just kept playing and playing and playing.
And so I just hung it up.
And so I went, so it came again, like the next day.
Are you Mamie Smith Dvorak?
Press one.
If you're, you know, and it goes on.
So I said, okay, I'm going to talk to these people and find out what's going on.
So I press one.
Are you Mamie Smith Dvorak?
Press one.
If you're not Mamie Smith Dvorak, I press one again.
Nothing.
It doesn't do anything.
You press all the buttons.
It just keeps playing this message.
What a gyp!
It's a total chip.
And so I just hung up on it.
But now I'm thinking, geez, I mean, this is the kind of thing that we're supposed to have ended.
And I'm just an aside, but I'm just saying Elizabeth Warren is a do-nothing, big talker, and she's just shoo-in to become president.
Well, she was tweeting some stuff that was very presidential.
And I would tell you what it was, but Twitter seems to be down at the moment.
Yeah, they've had some real problems.
Did you see that they're...
God, how often we've warned against this centralization trick.
Their URL shortener has been flaky.
Very flaky.
So if you paste a URL or you tweet a URL, it always gets changed to a t.co slash...
Right, a shortened version.
This thing is breaking.
So that means that not just if you post a link that people can't get to it, but every link you ever post it, people can't get to.
Good work, everybody, on the centralization.
And now Twitter's not even loading for me.
I should have saved it, my own fault.
It'll still be there when it finally comes back up.
You can bring it up later.
You know, with that, I think I should...
Thank you for your courage and passion.
Let's say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak.
Yes, your passion, sir.
Your passion.
C stands for what?
Compassion.
The C stands for compassion.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships to sea, boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Yes, in the morning to everybody in the chatroom, noagendastream.com.
Good to have you all here.
In the morning to, let's see, our artist was Network Dolly for episode 7, 9, or 4 of the best podcast in the universe.
And you'll recall that title was Party Boat, and the artwork was, that was, it was a nice piece.
It was the No Agenda, one with their listeners, and you kind of had the silhouette of a guy and a gal in their little yoga pose.
It was nice.
I liked it.
I liked it.
Well, it was a...
And we believe this is...
I like to...
If the artist has another...
Can say otherwise, this is the character PewDiePie.
Oh, you think?
Yeah.
Yeah, probably.
And I say that because he submitted too many pieces and many of them were meh.
No.
And he also has a style.
Most artists, by the way, have identifiable styles.
I mean, you can see the high-end, the ones who make a lot of money as artists, and we have about three or four of them that are high-end professionals.
Professionals are professionals, and there's a high-end professional.
The high-end professional is extremely stylish, and they have a real, like, oh, this is obviously so-and-so.
So you sent out an email which had a dire message.
I sent out an email, a plea.
I think the last one I sent at this level was probably two years ago.
But this January was particularly bad.
It was terrible.
And I did say that what really got to me was the last mailing, which was done for the previous show, It was 18, because I had just cleared the account, completely cleared the account of all the money and everything before I sent out the emailing, and I get to midnight so I can finish putting this together, and there were 18 responses.
And so I thought that was not right.
And maybe the headline, I mean, the response rate was what it was.
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great.
But the 18 just got to me.
So I put out a note expressing my disheartened attitude about this.
And so, of course, when we do this, we get to really see how many people really give a crap.
And you get a lot of interesting feedback.
We get a lot of feedback, and we get a lot of donations.
Of course, it slows down again, but we get a lot of donations right at that point.
So there's going to be a lot of donations to thank people for today, I have to say, which is fine.
I think it's great, and I really want to thank everybody for being so responsive.
But it was a...
It was an email that was asking for support.
Support.
Support.
And we got it.
Yeah, good.
I could not be happier.
We got a lot of support.
And let's thank the people who are there.
We got a lot of associate executive producers and executive producers because I also bitched in the note about we didn't get any last time or almost none.
Now I think we set the record.
We have a record.
In fact, I'm looking at this.
Yes, we set the record.
The record for associating is on this show, 795.
You know what, John?
It warms my heart because...
You know, there's a couple things that are bad in life.
One is being a celebrity with no money, right?
That's really bad.
That'll kill you.
Two is when, like us, when we're not celebrities, but we're doing...
People say, oh, you're doing great.
The work is great.
We love the show.
It's fantastic.
But the income goes down.
Because I'm questioning us.
Until today...
Yeah, well, it was a short and sweet note, and it paid off.
And we have to thank everybody.
And you're a part of a record-breaking day for executive and associate executive producers, and we're going to have to spend 15 minutes thanking them.
And I'm glad to do so, because we get a lot of material out of these notes.
Sarah Harris is at the top of the list as an Instadame from Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Dear John and Adam, while your theories on the media can sometimes verge on the utterly ridiculous, I have to say that I'm an Australian journalist working in morning TV. Yes, you're covered, girl.
You're covered.
No worries.
We got your back.
Yeah.
I've come...
I've come to crush hard on you boys and your show.
Whoa!
You look her up.
I have pictures.
Every week you make me laugh and think, plus your dulcet tones.
Help settle our newborn son, a.k.a.
the new human resource.
Can I please get some new mom karma and a thorough de-douching?
Perhaps this will encourage my highly paid co-host...
To stick his hand in his pocket.
Wait a minute.
Is this your actual co-host or it's probably your husband?
I think it's their co-host.
It might be their husband.
No, it's Sir Tom Ward.
Sir Tom Ward, right.
Cough up, Joe!
Love and light.
Love and light, baby.
Love and light.
Send in love and light.
Dame Sarah Harris, wife of Sir Tom Ward, who has already sent pictures to Adam.
Yes.
Received.
Okay.
So it's a thank you.
I think we need to expand.
I think it's thank you for your courage and passion and love and light.
I think now we have the full slogan.
Here's your day.
Thank you so much.
You've been deduced.
Yes.
And a new mom karma.
That's one mother I like.
There you go.
We've got karma.
Yes.
Thank you so much.
Looking forward to your ceremony.
So we have another mole in Australia.
James Mills in Hickson, Tennessee.
$800 from Hickson, Tennessee, just south of Saudi Daisy.
My favorite town in Tennessee.
A long time since the last donation.
$200 for a show.
$200.5.
That is a long time.
That's 500 shows ago.
This donation will bring me to the knighthood.
I got to $200.
$200.
From show 200.
That's funny.
So he's now a knight.
Do we have him down on the list?
I don't remember seeing him.
Let me double check.
Bring me the knighthood on the best podcast the universe has not already taken.
I'd like to be Sir James of the Form 990.
Yeah, he's not on here.
Hold on a second.
James Mills.
And he'd like to be Sir?
Sir James of the Form 990.
Nice.
During this election season, we need your commentary and deconstruction more than ever.
How about some house-selling karma and a whoopee get-out male rule follower?
I don't know the...
Oh, do you know who the male rule follower is?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't say it.
Okay.
And adios mofos.
And an adios mofo.
Okay, I can see that one.
Okay.
Yes, and what did she want first?
What did you want first?
You wanted whoopee.
Get out of my vagina, male rule follower, and adios mofo.
Get out of my vagina!
Huh?
I can hear them coming together.
I get it.
It's a joke.
Play them.
No, I get it.
Get out of my vagina!
I'm a rule follower, right?
What do you do?
Are you a rule follower?
Adios, mofo.
You've got karma.
Got it.
It was a good try.
It was good.
I like it.
It was good.
I don't know.
It could be.
Yeah.
We'll give him an eight.
James Brown in San Diego, California.
James Brown in San Diego, California.
$500.
We don't have a note from him, I don't believe.
And if you came in the email, we'll have to dig it up and we'll have to talk.
We'll say it later.
Let me just double check because I forward a lot of...
We're having email issues, but we're working on it.
Yeah, American Liberty in Provo, Utah, $500.
Sir Chase McCarthy in Gaithersburg, also American Liberty can send us a note.
We'll read it later.
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 43210.
As a fellow entrepreneur, I know the challenges of getting a business going, and if you and John can find it in your good graces, they give my website a shout-out, dogdeodor.com.
Oh!
This sounds like a good product.
Dog deodorant.
This dog stinks!
Let's get some dog deodorant.
Dog deodorant.
I'm looking at it right now.
Gets that doggy smell off any dog any day.
Yeah, I liked it.
I sent some to Mimi.
Regardless, she's got tons of dogs over there and some rooms smell like a big dog.
You guys are the best.
Wishing you both a great 2016.
I think we do have...
Let me see if there's a video that...
Why do I have all this space?
Yeah, that's a big...
I see the space too.
For some reason...
Something's wrong here.
Why is that...
Now this is...
Is this just a YouTube video not playing?
This is very odd.
Oh.
Oops.
Hold on.
It would help if I put it into the right system.
Let's see.
This could be interesting.
I don't know.
Let's see what this is.
Here we go.
Let's face it.
Dogs are pretty cool.
They come in different shapes and sizes.
There's a dog sitting in the toilet right now in the video.
Each one has its own character and personality.
Ah, cute dog videos.
Each one has its own adventures and dreams.
Two things they all have in common, though.
They smell.
They like to play.
And, man, can they smell bad.
Excellent.
All right.
There you go.
There's your shout-out.
Okay.
I have not tried this product.
I don't know if I can endorse it yet, and I don't have dogs, but I do like the idea.
Onward.
So, you've got this very long note, which is just...
I want to advise people to write more succinctly.
A little bit.
Because it screws up the spreadsheet to such an extreme, I can't read the guy's name.
Can you read it on yours?
Yeah, Todd McGreevey.
And where's he from?
Davenport, Iowa, 421.
He's one of our meeters, meet and greeters.
Yes.
Boots on the ground report from Iowa is there's no teeth in the preference voting that goes on in the Iowa caucuses.
Well, this is a note that's necessary.
Yes, it is.
For either party.
Republicans write in a name and then...
Actually, I have a clip and I want to play this clip before I read this note.
How caucuses work.
How caucuses work.
Here's the question, because I think a lot of viewers are confused about this.
Monday night comes.
What happens?
They go to local school, they go to local...
Where do they go?
You go, like, in your district.
And how many people do you sit around and talk to?
Great question.
The way I explain it to my students, actually, is a...
Do you consider that to be a great question?
I thought it was a great question, so I didn't, because I knew you were going to stop the clip because of that, because normally I'd do a bust in, and then you'd go, oh, I'm caught again.
No, it was a great question.
You go, like, in your district, and how many people do you sit around and talk to?
Great question.
The way I explain it to my students, actually, is a primary is a vote.
A caucus is a conversation followed by a vote.
I think that's where the grassroots come in.
That's also, if we want to talk later about fluidity, that's where some of the fluidity...
We don't have that much time.
Let's cut to the change.
Okay.
So the bottom line, they're going to go in, almost every campaign is going to have somebody designated to talk.
If not, citizens will naturally stand up and talk, advocate for their candidate, there'll be some conversation, and then you have a vote.
Almost immediately after that, even before the meeting's over, that vote will be transmitted through our new app with Microsoft, and we'll start adding up those results in Des Moines.
And then what is it?
What is this Microsoft app?
What was that?
They're going to do caucusing through a Microsoft?
I have no idea.
Even before the meeting is over, that boat will be transmitted through our new app with Microsoft.
Oh, this is fraud!
And we'll start adding up those results in Des Moines.
I can tell you what's going to happen.
This app will fail.
Something's going to go wrong.
It always does.
This is dumb.
And then what?
Is that the last round?
I mean, because they say that people can change their minds and there might be a vote and then they switch their candidates.
At this point, once that vote is taken in those 1,681 precincts, that vote is transmitted to us.
Actually, we've done something this year different in the GOP. We're actually going to lock those percentages in.
What I mean by that is, let's say candidate A gets 30%.
That 30% from that candidate will remain at the county convention, the district convention, and if it's contested, all the way to the national convention.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness.
Because I remember being on the air last year where there was the alleged rumor of the missing van and we thought, we're tired and we want to go to bed.
Let's just count the votes.
Good luck, John.
We're going to take care of that.
I promise.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, this is a good little piece, particularly what Todd is sending in.
People outside of America don't understand how it works.
Nobody does, because this is an old-fashioned system that nobody uses anymore except Iowa.
And what it amounts to me, because I was raised under the newer systems in California and elsewhere, it amounts to me to be electioneering.
You go into a big meeting, okay, we're going to vote, and normally people just vote, and there's signs in some places in California that says, no electioneering.
You can't be out in front of an election place with picket signs saying, vote for Trump.
Right.
That's illegal.
But in Iowa, this is just the opposite.
It's like you sit in there, you argue with them.
No, Trump sucks.
No, he doesn't.
He's okay because of this and this and this.
And we're going to, I think, yeah, okay, now let's vote.
But this is like, would be illegal in most places, but that's the way they do it.
So let me read from our contact there on the boots on the ground.
No teeth in the preference voting that goes on the Iowa caucuses for either party.
Republicans write in a name and then hand-folded piece of paper to candidates faithful within each precinct who have positioned themselves at each precinct to collect the pieces of papers or otherwise the votes.
I've watched the final vote count several times up close.
That's not where the sleight of hand comes in.
It's when the folded pieces of paper all gathered and whisked away to be counted soon thereafter that has no chain of custody.
I've proposed precinct meeting rules where at a minimum the number of so-called voters in the room was known before the pieces of paper were counted.
To no avail.
The voters are sheeple.
Regardless, the real vote that takes place in the Republican precinct caucuses is the election of local delegates.
This may be why, by the way, I'm going to stop.
This may be why it was wise of Trump to have the Santorum guy in Iowa because he knows the tricks.
And Santorum did it last time in Iowa.
He won.
Yeah, he won Iowa.
He won Iowa, that was it.
And went on to be a frothy mess on the internet.
You know, it's a funny thing, Santorum and Hucklebee.
Hucklebee.
They both went to the Trump event.
Yes, I saw it.
It was good.
What was funny was at the beginning of the debates, when they had the initial kids' table debate, they had Santorum who had a big smile on his face the whole time because he already had signed on to the Trump event.
And they were grilling him about, why are you going to this?
It was easy.
Yeah, veterans, a-holes.
That was an easy question.
But he was smiling because he says, and then he said, I've got nothing else to do at 9 o'clock, which is when the big debate was.
Good one.
Because they had demoted him.
I think if Trump gets in and say, I have not been predicting he's going to win the presidency, but let's say he does, you can be sure that Santorum and Huckleby will be on the cabinet or they'll get some position.
In fact, Huckleby's name will change to Huckleby.
It's going to be that great, that huge.
Our contact goes on.
Regardless, the real vote that takes place in the Republican precinct caucuses is the election of local delegates from each precinct to move on and represent the county convention.
That's hands on as as close to your neighbor as it gets and engaging in the political process.
Lots of speeches go on for all candidates before the slips of paper are handed around the room.
But how many of those people who gave a speech are stepping up to be delegates to agree to stay involved with the party and go into the next level meeting at the county convention?
Question mark.
Not enough.
This is where I think Sanders is going to have a problem because the millennials who are all in for him.
How much work do they really want to do?
They're not like workaholics necessarily.
They like to get involved.
They do a little bit and then the next thing you know, they are done.
Smoking dope.
They're smoking dope.
You can read it from here because I can't get this thing to scroll correctly.
From there, depending on that county's propensity for nepotism and sabotage, a guy or gal who stuck it out in the February snow and ice may or may not even get to run for a seat beyond county, especially if the chair of that county handpicks the slate that goes to district, including people who did not show up at precinct.
Members of the local media group Super Liberty in Scott County, Iowa, documented much of this over the last two general election cycles, and I contributed to the documentation of this corruption.
I sat front row center at state conventions and had been in the running as a delegate to go to national.
In 2012, Ron Paul had loads of delegates from Iowa and other states that made it all the way through the corrupt precinct, county, district, and state delegation process, and when they emerged at the national convention, Boehner bulldozed them.
It's a rigged system.
Now he goes on, but I think the most important thing to know is that Todd has a podcast that we also run on the No Agenda stream called Agenda 31.
And I think sometimes it airs right after our show, so you should definitely check that out.
Agenda31.org.
Okay, next is James Schmid.
I want to give him a little karma for his donation.
Thank you very much, Todd.
You've got karma.
Highly appreciated.
Good report.
Good report.
We're screwed is what the outcome is.
The result of the report is not good.
Well, you know, it's not going to tip the balance of anything.
And I think it'll be interesting if Trump really wins big.
I'm crediting the campaign guy.
Right.
I don't credit anything else.
This is definitely guys who work there.
James Schmid in Knoxville, Tennessee.
38529 maintains our list of numerous executive producers.
John and Adam, please find my attached Tumblr donation.
I hope this will help break the trend of substandard contributions.
The show continues to be a shining beacon of truth and clarity.
Something we desperately need in these dark days of misinformation, misdirection, and general bullcrap from the mainstream media.
Keep up the brilliant work.
Karma to all.
You've got karma.com.
Onward.
Scott Littler in Nashville, Tennessee.
Now we've got our 33333s.
Just opened JCD's email.
Seems like I have to do something calling upon all Sunday building fund plea wiring of my childhood in the small self-funding supporting church.
This makes me eligible for knighthood.
Yeah, yeah.
He's on the list.
He's on the list.
10-33-33.
I'm just too tired and busy to put any real thought into it tonight.
May I be the knight to be named later?
Yeah.
Sure.
Sure.
Mama, please, for Elizabeth, Izzy, Heather, and Natalie.
Best, Scott.
Yes.
Here you go.
You've got karma.
He does say that we're still the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you.
In a postscript.
Daniel Woodleaf in Pittsburgh, North Carolina.
In the words of one Mark Twain, in the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man.
Brave, hated, and scorned.
When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him.
For then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
We live in those inevitable times of inherited comfort and the naive self-destruction that...
That unearthed luxury brings.
Unearned.
Oh, unearthed.
Unearned.
Unearned luxury.
We know plenty of those guys.
Keep fighting the good fight, gentlemen.
Your voices are and will always be needed more this year.
Keep up the amazing work.
Thank you so much.
That deserves a karma for him.
Of course.
You've got karma.
Um, Sir Paul of Winooski in Winooski, Vermont.
It's 333.33.
Sir Paul of Winooski, wash me of my not donating lately sins.
You're washed.
You're thus washed.
Frenzy Designs in Brandonton, Florida.
Another 333.33.
The rest of you producers should be fucking ashamed of yourselves.
Sign Sir Haggis.
Or Haggis, yeah.
You know, this sort of cursing.
You smacked your lips big time.
Kevin Predik in White Salmon, Washington.
33333.
Thank you for the show and have a nice day.
Thank you.
He deserves karma for that simplicity.
Have a nice day.
Thank you for calling.
Have a nice day.
You've got karma.
Ah!
Boer.
Rhymes with lure.
Back and forth with the emails about how to pronounce his name.
It's spelled B-O-O-H-E-R and the tendency would be to pronounce it boo-her.
But that would be something if Hillary was there, you would boo-her.
33333, Aurora, Illinois.
This is my first donation to this executive producer.
My pledge for two more this year.
Keep up the amazing work.
Thank you for the pledge.
Great.
Love it.
Christopher Dolan in Brookline, Massachusetts.
No comment, at least on here.
We'll dig up a note from him.
Robert Dodd in Shoreline, Washington, 333.
That was also, Dolan was also 333, even.
And he's in Shoreline, Washington.
Robert is.
John and Adam, thank you for producing an outstanding show.
My job was recently offshored.
Please provide some job karma.
I'd also like to ask for some karma from my wife, Mary Dodd, for her loving support.
All the best, Rob Dodd, Shoreline, Washington.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
LDTEachers.net in Swanee, Georgia, 331.
No note.
Stephen Baker in Birmingham, Alabama.
I think he may have written one in an email.
We'll get to it later.
31415.
Sir Kent Zeisser in McKinney, Texas, who writes in.
I hope he writes in.
Hold on.
Just saying $300 is a token of my appreciation for you guys.
I've been a total douchebag since I last donated three years ago when I last met Adam in Clovis, New Mexico.
Okay.
At that time, our son Ronan was just a few months old and we were still living the real American dream.
Our jobs went to crap in New Mexico and we opted to move to Texas.
Welcome, Texans.
Now we have...
Now we have since moved to the Dallas area in McKinney.
Yeah, that's nice.
And I've started new careers, which we've started new careers.
They've been slowly getting off the ground.
Long story short, money has been in limited supply in our household and has been hoping to see things pick up financially, which has been a long time coming.
We're still not out of the woods, but after John's sad newsletter, I couldn't help but send a little money to your guys' ways.
Sorry, I couldn't make it to the Dallas meetup, but we were already in previously committed to a birthday party.
Anyway, I haven't forgotten you guys and...
I'm still an avid listener to the show.
Once things eventually turn around for our household, I'll be better about getting more supportive of the show.
Sir Ken, thank you very much.
We appreciate everything you do, and here is some well-deserved karma.
You've got karma.
And welcome to Texas!
David Kaye in Tempe, Arizona, $300.
Everyone should take a moment and imagine what their lives would be like if you two closed up shop and pursued more prosperous ventures.
I'd be a pretty miserable existence.
It would be a pretty miserable existence if you ask me.
Everybody needs to dig deep and find a way to donate once in a while and subscribe to.
Thank you.
On to associate executive producers, this is a big list.
This is the record breaker here.
You guys are part of this record.
Sir Keith Bradshaw at the top at $286.25 in Statesville, North Carolina.
He writes, here's a zip code donation.
28625.
To the best podcast in the universe.
Keep them coming, Sir Keith.
Herbert Harms in Durham, North Carolina.
Coincidentally, two North Carolinians next to each other.
250 bucks.
Adam and John, please send some job karma my way as I'm interviewing for an electrical engineering faculty job.
Love you guys.
Keep them with the outstanding work.
Sir Andrew Harms, KC0W. India, India.
It looks like an exclamation mark.
That's right, man.
That's right.
Seven threes.
Kilo Fox 5.
Sierra Leone November.
Soon to have my vanity call sign.
Ditto.
Except now I have a question.
Well, hold on.
First I got to do is jobs, karma.
Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
Yeah, that's your question.
Your question?
What's this?
What?
What?
You're getting a vanity call sign?
Yes.
What?
Well, since I'm a general, I can have...
Well, first of all, when you're calling CQ, and you have a lot of...
Well, it's a kilo.
That's two...
What do you call them?
Syllables.
Syllables.
Syllables, yes.
Kilo, Foxtrot...
5, Sierra, Lima, November.
It's a lot.
The new one, and so I can, since I'm a general, you know, a more important ham than you, since I'm a general, I can have a shorter call sign, and I've opted for Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
How about that for a ring?
Clark Curry.
Yeah, Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
Huh.
I know.
It's good, right?
Eh, it's okay.
They gotta approve it first, but...
Well, why wouldn't they?
Hello, FCC. Why wouldn't they?
Whatever they feel like.
They'll do whatever they want to do.
He's going to go, hey, we got this guy, Adam Curry.
He's a prepper.
He's a prepper.
Oh, that guy, yeah.
Look him up.
See if he's approved on Twitter.
See if he's verified.
See if he's verified.
No, he's not.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, I'm sorry.
We'll have to.
No, I'm sorry.
You're not verified.
All righty.
All right, where were we?
Sean Connolly.
Sean Connolly in Naperville, Illinois.
234, well, one of my favorite donations.
23456.
And why I'm not getting the...
Crackpot and Buzzkill.
Support has been down as of late in spite of the show being excellent.
So here's some additional value for value for the best podcast in the universe.
Keep up the great work.
Can you read the rest here so I can get everything?
Oh, I was going to let you do the whole one.
No, but I have to actually look at stuff.
Oh, okay.
Okay, I came up finally.
Keep it the great work.
Can you give me a Hillary?
What difference at this point does it make?
The sobbing Susan Sarandon, Bernie Sanders, which is, by the way, that's the clip of the year, followed by a Howard-Dean-Yeah combo, Sir Sean Earl of the Federal Reserve District 7.
New title, same protectorate.
Noted.
Okay, but he wants the Howard-Dean after the Susan Sarandon?
He wants to Susan Sarandon.
Yes.
So Hillary, Susan Sarandon, Howard Dean, Karma?
Yeah.
What difference at this point does it make?
I give you Bernie Sanders.
You've got Karma.
That was good.
I just have to play that Susan Sarandon again.
That was just so beautiful.
Yes.
I give you Bernie Sanders.
Yes.
What is wrong with these people?
I don't know.
It's bad.
It's bad, people.
It's getting bad.
It's getting worse.
Richard Henderson in New Westminster, B.C. 23456.
It's right next to Spuzzum, I understand.
Hey, John and Adam, I read your call out in your email, and here's a quick donation to move me a little closer to the knighthood.
I'd give more, but the Canadian peso is in the toilet today.
I haven't donated.
Canadian peso?
Yeah, so they changed the name.
You didn't know that?
No, I didn't.
I'm very happy to hear this.
Yeah.
I haven't donated since show 606.
I'm long overdue.
Please de-douche me.
Listening to you guys is the only thing that keeps me going when I'm out running.
And the rest of you cheapskates, donate a dollar.
Even a dollar would help.
Can you please play some jingles for me?
Adam's Choice.
P.S. Did you read the name of my town right this time?
Westminster.
Yeah, I think you got it right.
Yeah, I think you got it right.
All right, dedouches first.
You've been dedouched.
You might die.
Big-edge Deutschland, here is the hop.
There you go.
You've got karma.
Enjoy.
Mike Merva in Youngston, Ohio.
Another two, three, four, five, six.
We've got a string of them.
Very nice.
I saw a newsletter.
I felt I had to do my part.
I wanted to say thank you for reading my last donation note on the air and would like to apologize for sparking the great peanut rant of 2015.
Anyway, I'd like to say that No Agenda Karma really works.
It really works.
Since my last donation, I was able to get back to work and felt it's time that you two receive some value for value for what you two deserve for your outstanding work.
If I could request some more jobs karma to help keep the money flowing and keep relationship karma to help me get back...
Back, back together with a very special person, Adam Pictures.
Yes, oh my goodness.
You do need to go after this woman.
Tell me what else we can do, besides the karma.
Don't introduce him to Adam.
Thank you for all you do, and keep up the good work.
Okay, here we go.
Job.
Is that all he wanted?
Oh, shoot.
Messed that up.
He wants a dedouching.
Oh, dedouching, jobs, karma?
Was that the combo, or not?
Yes, yeah, he wants more jobs.
You've been de-douched.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Okay, anonymous douchebag in San Diego, California.
Could be anyone.
23456.
From an anonymous douchebag trying to keep you guys going.
This is only my second donation.
You deserve much more.
That's it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, ADB. Okay.
Did you get any karma?
Well, you didn't ask for it, but sure, of course.
Even douchebags deserve karma.
Dear John and Adam, according to, this is Jennifer Loveberg in San Marcos, California.
What a great name!
She grows fruit.
Hey everybody, it's Jennifer Lovebug here on Middays on Z100. Lovebug.
Lovebug is a good name.
Jennifer sent a box of tangerines.
Apparently tangerines.
I did not receive any.
No.
She has my address.
Okay, we'll take care of that.
2333 San Marcos, California.
John, please accept my donation of thanks and appreciation with like karma for my son James in college and on the roller hockey rink.
Though Leo no longer James is the reason I found you both.
Muchas gracias.
Muchas gracias.
Jennifer Lover.
P.S. Hope that John liked the tangerines.
They're classics.
Each tangerine has exactly one seed in it.
It's very strange.
Really?
Let's send some to Austin.
Yeah, I'll send you my address.
You've got karma.
And there's your karma.
Thank you very much, Ms.
Loveberg.
Oh, Dame Tanya Wayman in New York City.
She has a sling box that I haven't taken advantage of recently.
That's right, Dame Tanya.
233 period.
And she says, love you and thank you for your courage.
Or does she say more?
I haven't donated.
So might as well be an associate executive producer.
Love you and thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your courage and passion, love and light.
The thing is, thank you for your courage is now being used as a bunch of letters.
T-E-U-T-Y, thank you, something.
Y-Y-C. Adding the extra two letters I think might be asking too much.
We'll see.
Okay.
Well, a lot of L's.
Patrick Sullivan in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada.
$2.25 is where all the money used to be.
Canadian dollars killing me.
$2.25.
This is ridiculous if this is true.
I'd have to run it.
It is.
It's like 60 cents or something now.
It's gone completely haywire.
$2.25 what you donate is $3.25 Canadian.
Let's see.
$2.25 USD in Canadian dollars is, survey says...
He comes up with $314.48.
Okay, well, it's still ridiculous.
I'm going to Canada to shop!
Yeah.
If we should move to Canada, that's what we should do.
Well, if we're getting paid in American dollars, yes.
Yeah, but what does that mean, though, for Scandinavia?
Well, you know what's funny about this is that the Canadian dollar was...
Nothing's funny about it.
Above the American dollar.
Yes, but only a few years ago.
Yeah, during the Iraqi crisis.
This has got to be about the oil.
Oh, that's right.
It's about the oil.
It's all they got.
Yeah, and he's in Alberta.
A... He wants to shut up, slave.
I'll give him the karma, too.
Shut up, slave!
You betcha.
You betcha.
You've got karma.
All right.
Excuse me, John, one second.
Attention affiliates, the show will be going wrong.
The show will be going wrong.
That is all.
Eric Asbury in Tampa, Florida.
2-2-2-2-2.
I was going to call this my dropping the deuces donation, but maybe I should go with the deuces wild.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Love you, Gist.
Five twos.
Very difficult hand to draw on one deck.
Love you guys in the show.
Your deconstruction has really been eye-opening.
If it's not too much trouble, I'd like it.
Don't be a denier.
The science is in.
It's real.
And bullshit plus LGY plus little girl yay.
Sounds like a lot, but it sounds like it's doable.
Okay, here we go.
The science is in.
Climate change is real.
It's real.
Bullshit.
Wow!
You've got karma.
And that is because of the new mixer.
That was good.
Yeah, thank you.
Can you do it again?
No.
Keep going.
Move on.
Sir Patrick Coble there in Fairview, Tennessee.
A guy named Bill.
What was the guy named Ed?
I can't remember.
Ben.
He's three shows back and he responded to the email saying, you're the best podcast in the universe and we all need you.
Give some karma to yourselves and a favorite.
No, no, no.
I will get caught up ASAP.
I also hope the call to arms catches up with you guys.
You've got karma.
Bye. . you That's a great one.
Jeffrey Fitch in Orlando, Florida, $200.
I don't have a note necessarily, but we'll look for it and read it later.
John White in Jacksonville, or Jackson, Tennessee.
Please give the show itself karma.
And if possible, I'd like Adam to play the very first jingle No Agenda Had, followed by the latest, If That's Not Possible, Whip It With The Constitution.
Do you know what our very first jingle was ever?
That's interesting.
That is one of the more interesting notes because it challenges us to remember.
I think the first jingle was actually our theme song.
Do you mean the Sir Jeff theme song?
Yeah.
In the morning?
Or it could be in the morning.
Well, this was the...
That is probably...
And if he wants, I'll play this one at the end of the show.
That's this one, remember?
All right, we'll play it at the end of the show.
Put it in the end of the show box.
It could be.
That's very interesting.
Somebody who...
If I had known the question earlier, I would have put some work into it.
But I'll work on it for Thursday.
And I'll give them some karma.
Thank you for the homework.
You've got karma.
I always appreciate it.
Raleigh Hawk in Anna, Illinois.
I don't think I missed anybody.
Cobble, Fish, and White.
Yeah.
Hawk in Anna, Illinois.
And I think I pronounce...
As people call me out on my pronunciation of Illinois, I think I pronounce it Illinois, which is Illinois is the way you pronounce it in...
In Illinois.
In Chicago.
Yes.
And Illinois is the way it should be...
Normal people pronounce it.
And I pronounce it both ways.
Yes.
You're bipronunstical.
Yes, I am.
Yes.
Best podcast in the universe, Raleigh says.
More like best media in the universe.
Oh, boy.
Every freeloading listener needs to get off his or her ass and donate.
Bless you guys for all you do.
Thank you.
Bless you.
Brian Hinman in The Colony, Texas.
They're all $200 donations here at the end.
Racking up the record.
It's interesting, Brian.
I know a Brian Hinman in San Jose.
Adam, it was an honor to meet you at the Dallas Meetup a few weeks back.
I think you should get LASIK Even though you thought it was dumb.
No, that's not true.
It invalidates my license if I don't lie about it, unless I lie about it.
There's issues for pilots for certain types of licenses that I'd like to have.
I don't think it's dumb.
It's not approved.
The FAA doesn't recognize it as good yet.
Huh.
Mm-hmm.
I think you should get lazy, even though you thought I was dumb.
John, I've been watching you since before your Newt Gingrich interview on ZDTV, Tech TV, back in the day.
A damn good interview.
I still remember it to this day.
So I'm interviewing Newt Gingrich.
And all he is doing is eyeballing the waitresses.
Ha!
That's all he's doing.
He never looked at me.
He wouldn't recognize me in a million years.
He's looking at legs.
Perfect.
Anyway, story memory.
If I could get a happy birthday to my wife, we got that.
You're on the list.
You're on the list.
I'd like a douchebag call out for David.
Douchebag.
Nick.
Douchebag.
And probably Ken.
Douchebag.
As a first-time donor, I obviously need some de-douching for some jingles to do the Hillary cackle, the laugh, and something funny from Trump.
Thanks again, Brian.
You've been de-douched.
Bing, bing, bong, bong, bing, bing.
You've got karma.
That'll do it.
Karma.
Dustin Marquez, Marquez, Marquez, Marquise.
It's M-A-R-Q-U-E-S-S in Wiley, Texas.
$200.
By the way, one of the benefits of doing this plea letter, which I did, you never know if it's going to do well.
It sometimes doesn't.
But you get a lot of this.
Long-time boner, first-time donor.
I've been trying to wait until finances were better, but John's email convinced me that right now you guys need it as badly as I do, so keep up with the good fight.
And thanks for giving us the real news and not just the BS. Karma for you.
You've got karma.
Sir HMIFIC, the head mofo in charge, everybody.
Salute!
Hello, sir.
In Vermont.
Got the newsletter while three-fourths deep in a bottle of Crown Royal.
Yeah, that's our service.
That's what we need.
That's what we do.
Perfect.
Answering the call to support the TBPITU, the best podcast of yours.
My advice to both of you is to drink heavily.
Back night of the U.S. Army.
Big karma for you, sir.
Always good to hear from the head mo-phone charge.
You've got karma.
Thank you so much for your support.
Sir Upper Decker in Carlsbad, California.
Love Sir Upper Decker.
Upper Decker.
It's unfortunate you guys are having such poor donations lately, and we were.
Your podcast has been getting better and better over the last year and year and a half that I've been listening to.
You know why, don't you?
You know why.
It's the new gear.
The new gear doesn't hurt, because the presentation is only half of it.
No, the content's only half the presentation.
Well, this gear, it's easier for me to get the jingles on the fly.
You sound so much better, for technical reasons I won't go into.
And also, a lot of the jingles sound better.
It's all technical reasons, and it's just easier, and I'm happy, and I'm smiling.
My heart is full of joy today, John.
Not only is the quality of the audio excellent compared to most podcasts, but you two have an excellent dynamic.
Yeah, we're not actually friends.
That helps.
Yes.
Yeah.
I have to, and I live much of my life through him.
Vicariously through me, yes.
Vicariously, yes.
I have, again, scraped up a few hundred dollars from my PayPal account to help you support you guys.
Does this make me a baronet?
Not sure.
But baron may need to wait a while, as it seems I have made the Dutch dominatrix pregnant with our fourth human resource.
Ah, it worked!
Good work!
To help me with my future lack of donation, I've sent Adam a different type of donation.
Oh.
Hmm.
Hopefully you will have more donations in the future and you will continue your ascent to the top of the pod.
Well, I'm not going to say anything.
Did I miss something?
Did I miss something?
Did you miss something?
Yeah.
Yeah, you got something.
He sent you something.
Hmm.
And it was a wink, wink, nudge, nudge thing, apparently.
I must have missed it.
I must have missed it.
No.
You two can converse amongst yourself.
We will.
Martin, Marvin, Martin, Marvin, Marvin, Britain or Britain in Bellevue, Nebraska.
$200.
When I see Bellevue, I immediately think...
Washington.
Hey, you poor donation slaves, I'm answering the call.
This is the husband of Dame Yano.
I thought I would go ahead and kick off my donations toward my own knighthood so she can stop lording her knight ring over me.
I would like the following clips.
Hillary, too delicious to believe.
Get out of my vagina.
We gotta talk about that.
I don't know what that one is.
It's Reverend Manning.
And finish it with a health karma for Dame Yano.
What is the talk about that?
I do recall it as a...
It kind of...
It almost rings a bell.
Talk about that.
Talk about that.
Talk about the Constitution?
I don't know.
We got to talk about that.
I think that's what it is.
Oh, maybe.
Yeah, I don't know if we can find that one.
Not that I'm going to tell Adam what to do.
Um...
I have one last thing to try.
I don't know if we have that.
Anyway, I'll play the other ones for him.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
Get out of my vagina!
You've got Carmen.
I'm sorry, we'll have to find that one.
That's something I've got to work on.
I think that reversing those two clips the way he wanted them, I think worked.
With Hillary first and then Whoopi?
Yeah.
So reverse those two, you're saying?
No, the way he did it.
We've normally been playing it in the reverse.
Yes, yes, yes, I agree.
I'm sorry.
I'll look for Matt.
I'm writing it down.
Manning, talk about that.
I think this is better.
Anonymous from Sultan, Washington.
$200.
Thanks for all the great work you do.
Short and simple.
Thank you.
Chris Johnson in Edmonds, Washington.
$200.
The job karma works!
That's all he says.
Sir Stephen Fettig in Delavan, Wisconsin, $200.
The entire universe...
Oh, I've got to expand these.
Pants on or off.
Best damn show.
Whether you're pants or on or off, it's the best damn show and analysis of the news in the entire universe's.
Listen to No Agenda show.
Go to noagendacd.com and take a look at No Agenda 2016.
There's something for everyone.
Absolutely.
I admire that.
Sir Festus.
Yeah, over here in Vallejo, California.
Hi, John and Adam.
Sir Festus here, the Baronet of Benicia.
Or so my card claims, anyway.
I have heard the call.
Here are some monies I hate to see a grown man beg, which is why I never video myself having sex.
Ha ha ha!
A lot of bump, he says.
Yeah.
I get it.
It's so delicious.
Don't eat me and LGY. Yeah, absolutely.
It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
Yay!
You've got karma.
Continuing in our record-breaking number of $200 donations, which is all members posthumously of the 200 Club, by the way.
John Mondro in Pickney, Michigan, $200.
Thanks for the show and for the newsletter, Kickin' the Pants.
De-douching, please?
We'll probably need a couple more considering how long I've been listening.
You've been de-douched.
Thank you, sir.
And...
That's an addition.
He adds at the very end.
Yeah.
Jeff Rees needs a douchebag call out.
Douchebag!
Got it.
Sir Atomic Rod.
Hey, Sir Atomic Rod.
Adams, nice.
In Forest, Virginia.
From Sir Atomic Rod, here are 800 quarters in honor of your amazing approaching accomplishment of 800 episodes.
800 quarters equals $200.
We have to add that.
That's a good one.
Yeah, great number.
Thank you, Sir Rod.
You know, it's funny.
I don't know why I didn't do that myself.
Sir Atomic Rod Adams.
Font of Nuclear Knowledge Publisher?
Yeah, keep up the good work, he says.
Atomic Insights, host, producer of the Atomic Show.
Atomic Rod Adams.
Yes, where you can actually get accurate information.
Yes, and he has a whole community of people who will give you accurate information about nuclear energy.
Yes.
From people who are in the industry.
Yeah.
Well, the media will give you accurate information.
Fear.
It was 1958.
Fear.
And fear.
Well, 1958.
Don't forget the China Syndrome.
Get underneath the desks, kids.
Duck and cover.
Jonathan Doty in Alpharetta, Georgia.
$200.
Hey, John and Adam, any of the listeners give a...
Drive a Cummins Ram?
Give me a call at Gino's Garage.
We were told to market the business and here I am.
Please give me Gino's Garage in Alpharetta.
Deals with Cummins diesels.
If you were told to market the business and here I am.
Please give myself and my friend Chris a shot of the mac and cheese infomercial with the woman that says yum.
Was that one of your clips?
Uh...
Maybe.
Wait, wait, wait.
Beautiful.
Yum.
Living the mac and cheese life.
Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
You've got karma.
I like that.
That's a good one.
Yum.
You should play that again because I forgot about that one.
That was one of yours actually.
Beautiful.
Yum.
You know, I've been trying to, you know, this woman comes on, she's a shill on Home Shopping Network, and she comes on pretty much only when that chef, the Gunter, what's his name, the famous chef?
Oh, from Spargo, Spargo.
Spargo's guy.
Spargo.
I met him a couple of times.
I met him too.
He's a nice guy.
I met him.
Wolfgang Puck.
Wolfgang Puck.
Fantastic cook.
Wolfgang Puck.
Wolfgang Puck.
And so she's always there and she's doing, she's yakking away about his great products.
He's got his branded products.
And she's just going nuts because they sell so many of them and the more nuttier she gets, the more they sell.
They must make up millions when they bring him on.
Millions.
John Cox in Atkins, Texas.
$200.
I wish him millions.
He didn't send a note and maybe he did.
I don't have that.
We'll read it later.
Josh McComas in Moncton, Maryland.
Also, noteless on this spreadsheet.
Sir Brian Lawson, $200 from Douglaston, New York.
John and Adam, I want your listeners to know that karma really works.
Last month, I became an Instanite and requested some karma for getting a new client.
The day after my donation, the potential client contacted me and asked me to start their project even before the karma was granted.
Dang!
Please give me a de-douching for my prior years of free listening.
Thanks for a great show.
You've been de-douched.
We've made this segment entertaining because we only have one left, which is Timothy Tillman from Prince George, Virginia.
And we don't have a note from him, at least not on the spreadsheet.
So if he has something, we'll dig it up and read it next show or beyond.
I want to thank all of you.
All these folks for really helping us out and setting a record in the process, which we appreciate to an extreme.
And we'll give you the best show we can.
We'll keep doing it as long as you say yes, do it.
And we do it.
This is a big yes.
This is a big yes.
I got a yes out of this.
We got a yes out of this.
Attention affiliates, once again, a reminder, we will be going long.
We will be going long.
Dvorak.org.
Slash N-A. That's right.
Please continue to do this great work helping us and propagating the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up!
Wait!
Wait!
Woo!
Long one.
Ants on the table.
Ants on or off.
Ants!
Ants!
No, you don't have ants again, do you?
Yes.
Oh, man.
Well, you know what that calls for.
It calls for the ants thing.
Maybe it chases them off.
You know, these ants are annoying.
Yeah.
I know, I get a bunch of notes every time somebody, you know, oh, you know, use this, use that.
You know, the ant song was one of the hits of the previous show closing.
I think we should play it again at the end of the show today.
It's a winner.
All right.
Well, you only talked about the Europe situation.
I got the 13-year-old kid not raped.
Let me see.
It's a great story.
Not raped.
Okay, raped, not raped.
Prosecutors in Germany say that a 13-year-old Russian-German citizen who accused migrants of raping her fabricated her story after spending the night at her boyfriend's place.
The girl disappeared from her home in Berlin in mid-January.
Afterwards, she claimed that Arab migrants abducted and raped her.
Her accusations ignited an international dispute between Russia and Germany.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused Germany of a cover-up, while the German foreign minister, Frankfurter Steinmeier, said that Moscow was using the case as political propaganda.
Can you imagine this idiot 13-year-old?
She sneaks out of the house and goes and spends the night with her boyfriend, and then they ask her for what happened.
I got raped by migrants.
She makes up this stupid story, and this is what creates an international incident.
Well, I do have a couple of migrant stories from the EUs.
The first one is more arrivals or non-arrivals in Greece.
More than 35 people, including several children, have drowned and 75 have been rescued after a boat carrying migrants and refugees to Greece sank off Turkey's western coast on Saturday.
Rescue efforts were continuing in the afternoon.
One man was detained by police on suspicion of human trafficking and organizing the voyage.
They rescued 31 people who'd been drifting on rafts near Kos and another 15, all Syrians, who'd been stranded on a rock off Samos.
More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe last year, and a further 3,600 died or went missing, according to the UN. I should maybe just look at that one note which was kind of odd.
Someone, a long-time supporter of the show, said the way you talk about Muslims and particularly the Dutch and the Belgians is so filled with racial hate.
I cannot support you anymore.
And I found that disturbing.
Am I filled with racial hate?
I think you reflect pretty much the Dutch skeptics.
Okay, fair enough.
I don't know if that's racial hate.
No, I don't think it's racial hate at all.
I think you reflect a certain perspective that can be misinterpreted.
Okay.
But in fact, you're just delivering a certain thought process, which I think is valuable, especially to the American listeners, to understand it.
Although, really, when I... I haven't discussed this.
It was jarring.
I even discussed it with Tina.
And I think what really sets this guy off is the...
Because he's in Belgium, I believe.
And what set him off is my endorsement of Donald Trump.
This is a big deal.
Okay, now that you mention that, I want to play a clip.
I was going to maybe save it for the next show, but I can play it.
I was...
I was listening to France 24.
They have these debates and these discussions.
And the Europeans in general are so...
They're worse, I think.
For one thing, I think they're more jingoistic.
They're more bigoted.
Well, and I'll interrupt for just a second.
From the Dutch perspective, having grown up there, this is what already...
Dutch people do not understand...
Americans, particularly, have a nice day.
Any Dutch person who's been to America for the first time, usually they do the van traveling, they love the romantic idea of Route 66.
But whenever I've talked to Dutch people who've come back from their first trip to America, it's like, Everyone says, have a nice day.
Have a nice day.
What is that?
It's so, so, so shallow.
It's so shallow.
I said, no, no, this is who we are.
When we say, have a nice day, that's all we mean.
Have a nice day, man.
Just have a nice day.
What could be more shallow than a classic European back-and-forth greeting?
The French are examples of this.
Oh, with three kisses.
Or you go, in Germany, we get this scene.
Oh, gut.
That's about as shallow as you can get.
Yeah.
But the Trump thing, it's like I eat babies for breakfast.
And if you really listen to what I said, it's a show.
And you're not going to be voting for Trump, I'm sure.
No, of course not.
You know who I vote for.
Vermin Supreme, it's obvious.
What is this, France 24?
You have a group of people.
There's a Brit, a bunch of French.
Some guy's an American who lives in France.
And they express with glee, what a clown.
It's the whole thing.
It's a jerk.
All of Europe, I think that what you're going to listen to here, so this is not a short clip, but what you're going to listen to, especially Americans, You should listen to this with it in mind that this is what all of Europe is kind of thinking, and that's what the Belgian guy is.
He is in this group, the guy who doesn't like you anymore because of Trump.
Only because of Trump, and I think your analysis is correct.
I'm interested to know.
I mean, is it that popular?
Is it...
I mean, if you change Muslim by any other religion, people would be screaming.
I mean, it's not...
Some of the statements are just not acceptable.
Yesterday was about Brussels.
I mean, so even Belgians now...
He said Brussels was a hellhole.
Yeah.
Which the Belgian papers translated as a rat hole.
A rat hole.
Which made it even worse.
I mean, he's just a, you know, an equal opportunity insulter.
He goes around spreading hatred and insults wherever he goes.
The Nigerian, people even make up insults.
Nigeria, he's probably the most hated man in Nigeria because the Nigerian paper made up a story about him making all these racist remarks.
Now everybody in Nigeria believes him.
Right.
He's a divisive figure as well.
In the U.S., the Republicans have a big problem.
He's more and more popular, and at the same time, more and more unpopular.
If you look at the latest polling figures, there you have it.
The blue line there is his favorable rating.
Well, he's unelectable, isn't he?
And that's why some people have joked that he's a former...
Member of the Democratic Party.
Maybe he's actually there to completely torpedo the Republicans.
They're five news cycles behind.
This is so old.
Maybe he's a Democrat secret dude.
Like yesterday.
He is playing havoc with the Republican Party.
I mean, they really don't know what to do.
Because he isn't really ideological.
We keep using sort of buzzwords like, oh, he's a conservative right winger, Tea Party support, all that.
But he isn't really an ideological candidate at all.
He's a Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is his ideology.
Ego is his ideology.
He borrows a bit from the left, a bit from the right.
Whatever feels right to him.
And he says what he wants.
You know, I think I should just review this email briefly that was sent to me, and I'll skip the...
Well, before we do that, I want to just go over what we just heard, because there's a couple things in there I think should be noted.
Yes.
One is the mistranslation of hellhole to rathole.
Yeah.
Which is just...
And nuance.
Nobody's calling out the newspaper for doing this.
It's a nuance.
And then the note that the Nigerian press had made up a bunch of racial stuff, and we've noted before that he's been called a racist, even though he never...
Xenophobe.
Yeah, yeah.
And none of them say, well, this is terrible.
It looks like it's a hit job.
Why would they do that?
And now all of Nigeria hates him.
And they just think this is hilarious.
And they're kind of laughing.
Meanwhile, they're doing the same thing.
Yeah.
Adam has stated he supports Donald Trump, and I understand that from the perspective of Trump kicking against the establishment, but I do not understand this with regards to Trump's gross simplification of reality and the world and his focus on protectionism, threats, and conflict instead of openness, reaching out, and diplomacy.
What video do you guys get to see over there?
I mean, if anything, Trump has only said he wants to sit down with Putin, wants to reach out, doesn't want to fight, not threats and conflict.
I'm just not seeing it.
He wants the Russians to take over the mess in Syria.
As far as he's concerned, he specifically said, I let them do it.
Why are we wasting our money?
How is that advocating conflict?
Yeah.
In fact, I've never heard him advocate any such conflict.
No.
I think early on, he said, well, we should bomb the ISIS, bomb him, bomb him, bomb him.
Fine, everyone says that.
That's it.
Yeah.
Hillary Clinton is so much nicer when it comes to killing people, honestly.
Lady MacDeath.
But definitely the Europeans are being fed a very negative...
In case you guys forgot.
And they also don't have a sense of humor over there, it seems to me.
In case you forgot, since you'll all be behind Hillary.
Unconfirmed.
Yes, we came, we saw, we died.
We killed Gaddafi.
I love myself.
That's fabulous.
Yes, perfect.
If you ran against Hillary and you just played that clip over and over and over again, you'd have to wonder, what kind of a ghoul is Hillary?
Is she?
Ghoul.
That's a very good one.
Ghoul.
She's a ghoul.
Okay.
Onward, of course, we still have real issues with the migrants.
Now, we're going to Deutschland.
Here's what is happening.
People are pissed off.
Germany's justice minister has pledged to take steps to crack down on attacks against migrants.
It comes after unidentified attackers threw a hand grenade at a refugee center in the southwest town of Willingen-Schwenningen.
The device had been primed with explosives, But it's not clear whether a detonator was attached.
The degree of violence against refugee homes is frightening, he says, if now hand grenades are being thrown into buildings in the middle of Germany.
This has to be investigated.
The perpetrators must be severely punished.
We do not want to see dead people as a result of such acts.
No, that would be a day wrecker, I guess.
Pfft, dead people.
Meanwhile, Angela Merkel also under fire from other political parties.
We have the AfD, which, what is that, the alternative, what is AfD?
The right wing, I know for sure.
Here's what they're thinking about doing.
In Germany, right wing opposition party leader Frauke Petri has stoked a social media storm with provocative comments about refugees.
In an interview published in a German newspaper on Saturday, Petri, who's one of the party leaders of Alternative for Germany, or AFD, says police should have the right to shoot at illegal migrants.
She told the paper, quote, Now we're talking.
Now we're getting some news bites.
Or AFD. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been appearing to try to appease critics of her open door policy on refugees.
When refugee numbers are low, we will make visible progress.
The numbers need to be reduced further, and they mustn't increase again in spring.
Merkel has also repeated calls for a Europe-wide solution to address the crisis.
She's so far resisted pressure from her critics to cap the number of refugees allowed to enter Germany.
But the popularity of Merkel's conservative bloc has been slipping.
The Chancellor's loss, however, has been the AfD's gain, with its support across Germany now in double digits.
There you go.
Things are heating up politically for Ms.
Angela.
It's not going to end well.
No, well, Sweden is already ahead of everybody, and it looks like they have the right idea.
Sweden is preparing to send back nearly half of all the asylum seekers that entered the country last year, and is ready to charter planes to take rejected applicants back home.
Now, mind you, this is an official procedure, what is going on here.
Chartered planes?
Oh yeah, they're going to 80,000, John.
They're going to fly them out?
80,000 of them, listen.
And is ready to charter planes to take rejected applicants back home.
Up to 80,000 people could be involved in an operation the Interior Minister is calling a very big challenge.
No kidding.
We're not planning to deport anyone, but we're planning that those people who don't get their asylum approved should return to the country of origin.
So the headline is a little, the truth is a little nuance versus the headline, because there could be 80,000 who do not qualify for asylum, and that is who they will be sending back.
And I believe that they will be sending them back.
Currently, 45% of asylum applications are rejected.
In 2015, Sweden took in 163,000 people.
Do the maths and it's clear many refugees will be leaving Sweden.
I think this is not really because this is writing this 80,000 people go back to the country.
This is an immigrant, obviously.
Which people, which country?
I don't know.
We didn't.
We came out of our country.
We've left our country to come to Europe, a place of human rights, women's rights, children's rights.
This decision from the Swedish government does not help us.
No, of course it doesn't help you.
Do you want help?
On Monday, a 22-year-old female caretaker was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old in an asylum seeker's teenage center.
This and similar incidents have led some Swedes to harden their hearts and Stockholm to end its previous open doors policy.
It's introduced border controls and much stricter document and identity checks.
I can't wait to see how the American press deals with the oh-so-fabulous Sweden sending everybody back.
Oh no!
How can that be?
I thought that we idolized them.
They're so great.
Them and the Danes and the Norwegians.
And I'm very happy that we talked about Lillehammer, the television show.
Steve Van Sant's gangster show.
Hopefully people have now watched the first couple of episodes of season one where you see the whole subplot of these migration centers where, and this plays out in Norway, where the immigrants are taught culture and value and how to integrate.
And this bit from Bill Maher where...
Tom Hartman was on.
Tickled me to hear how he has swung to the other side, Mr.
Lefty.
Sweden, one of the most liberal places in the world, announced this week they're sending 80,000 refugees back.
Let's just correct Bill Maher that's not true, but your overall point is made.
They have a little buyer's remorse.
One way to put it.
Go ahead.
They're also doing something in Sweden, and I believe in Norway as well, that is actually, I think, quite useful, and that is when new people come in, number one, they're taught the language, number two, they're taught the culture.
And, you know, I think back to all the years that I've been debating right-wingers who've been like, you know, immigrants have to learn English first!
You should see him when he does that little imitation.
I saw it.
I saw this.
He didn't really do well on this show.
I'm sorry?
He didn't do well on this show.
Very poor.
Very poorly.
Immigrants have to learn English first.
And it actually makes a certain amount of sense.
You want to be able to function in a society.
You want to be able to buy bread at the store.
It seems like the first step In any country, including in the United States, and we're starting to do this now in our public schools, but we need to do it more extensively, is when people come in from another culture to say, you know, your culture is fine, but here's our culture.
Wow, what's next?
Pro-life, Tom Tom Hartman?
This is exactly the kind of guy who's against all that.
Do you have more of this clip?
No.
Okay, because when he said your culture is fine...
Marr came back at him and says, but it's not fine.
Excuse me.
I cut that off.
I didn't think that was...
You thought that was a good line by Marr?
Well, I thought it was kind of epitomizing the point you're trying to make, which is that Mars kind of...
I mean, he's always been anti-Muslim.
He's anti-religion, but he's really anti-Muslim.
And it just pounds home the point you're making, which is that Mars kind of in some screwy position right now, and he is...
Liking these guys getting kicked out of Europe.
He sees it as a problematic situation.
And he also doesn't think the culture is fine.
He doesn't like the culture.
He thinks the culture stinks.
The racial divide within the United States continues to be abused for entertainment purposes.
Thank you very much, Hollywood.
You are doing it.
In this case, it is now spilled over from the Oscars So White.
Luckily, we have some now, of course.
I'm the guy who doesn't know who...
Daryl May is.
But I know Barkley.
I recognize him.
Charles Barkley.
I know him.
And he was on one of these radio sports talk shows, which I never listened to, of course.
But he said something that was equally as concerning as Oscars So White.
It is a racial component, to be honest with you.
He's talking about the Super Bowl, and I believe we're going to have in this Super Bowl, correct me if I'm wrong, the way it looks, we may have black quarterback versus white quarterback.
Am I correct?
Well, it even goes further than that.
We may have won the team with the black quarterback in an all-black uniform against the team with the white quarterback in an all-white uniform.
This is not by mistake.
It is a racial component, to be honest with you, Dan.
I hate that because we as black people got way more important crap to worry about than stuff like that.
Preach Barkley.
ESPN has already started their crap about black versus white, good versus evil.
And I know a lot of those fools over there got radio talk shows.
But you can still see their frame of this narrative.
Black against white.
Good against evil.
They really annoy us the hell out of me.
We really just can't appreciate the greatness of Payton.
And clearly Cam is on the track to become one of the greatest players ever.
But I just hate.
You can already see them framing the narrative.
Black versus white.
Good versus evil.
And that's the problem when you have two weeks in between games.
But they're both great players.
They're both good guys.
But, you know, a lot of these fools on Aspen got radio shows, and the best way to make talk radio good is make it racial.
You bring in every fool in the world when you bring up race.
Because race is a very serious subject, but you've got so many fools out there, they can't have an unfair conversation on race.
I love this guy.
Thank you.
Thank you, Charles Bartlett.
Everybody likes Mark except the Golden State Warriors.
Well...
Because he thinks that you can't win with the style of team that they have.
It's a long story.
Sports guys know what I'm talking about.
I went down kind of a bit of a rabbit hole, which I'd like.
Well, in talking about the race thing, I thought you were going to bring up this, and I just wanted to throw this in, but I want you to keep on this topic, which is the SAG Awards were up.
What?
Did I miss them?
Yes.
I missed an award show?
Yeah, you missed the SAG Awards.
SAG-AFTRA as it is now.
What channel was that on?
It wasn't on a network.
It was on one of the cables.
Like Reels or something.
I don't know.
I think it was TNT or TBS. One of the two.
And it was on, and they had this guy, the guy who played...
Did they have good celebrities there?
Oh, it was packed.
Yes, all the celebrities were there.
I can't believe this.
So it was no...
It was good viewing in that regard.
And they're all blowing each other.
Just blowing each other.
Yeah, blowing each other.
So the guy who...
I got this clip.
So they're coming out...
Every opportunity to give a black an award...
Oh, SAG was going to be better than everybody now.
I get it.
Yes, SAG is going to be better than everybody.
So they have this one British actor who won the award.
He won two of these SAG, called the Actor Award.
He won two of these awards, and he's coming up.
He's British.
He's a British black guy who played one of the characters in The Wire, and he wouldn't know he was British until he comes up.
Oh, now I understand.
If they're all blowing each other, of course, you want to blow the black guy.
So he's now coming up to give awards after winning two, and he's following a black woman who just won an award, and he's coming up, and he makes this commentary, and I think he blew the line, and I'll tell you what, he should have said one thing, he said another.
It is such a fabulous young cast.
This is Diversity at SAG, that's the clip?
Yes.
Okay, let me just roll it back a second.
Here we go.
It is such a fabulous young cast.
It has been the joy, pleasure of my life.
Thank you so much.
Ladies and gentlemen, Abraham Atta and...
Hold on a second.
That called for something else.
Hold on a second.
I want to be the director on this.
I can do this.
All right.
Roll track.
Roll track.
And kill a voiceover.
Ladies and gentlemen, Abraham Atta and Idris Elba.
And camera, please zoom in and go.
Track down.
Track down.
That's it.
Where are they?
On that wall.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Diverse TV. Um...
It actually works against him in this case.
Well, I think he's British.
Ah, so it's British humor.
He was making a joke.
Yeah, well, he was making a joke, but I think the joke was written for him was, and I'm sure it was written, because they were making a point out of giving every black person that could an award.
I think the joke was diversity TV. He said diversity TV. He flubbed the line.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Diverse TV. Diverse TV. Oops.
It's not like diversity specifically means something specifically diverse.
Diverse is wrong.
He flubbed it.
He flubbed the line.
I just rolled my eyes and said, I gotta put this clip on the show.
He flubbed the line, John.
He's an actor.
He flubbed the line.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Diverse TV. But yet...
That was not the code word.
You get the wrong word.
People, but yet, it worked, kind of.
It kind of worked.
They still applauded him lightly.
They laughed.
He won for Best Actor in something.
I think in Best TV Drama or Movie Made for TV or something.
I just really like this guy when he's an actor.
As a personality, I don't think much of him.
He's just another snooty Brit.
But he's really good.
He played that main character.
What's his name again?
It's like Idra...
He's got a screwy name.
Idra Elba or something like that.
Idra Elba.
Idris Elba.
Okay.
I went down a rabbit hole, and I think I also came up with an opportunity, which I think we should discuss.
Business?
Yep.
Business.
Business.
You better get your Curry-Dvorak.
Yeah.
This is the Curry-Dvorak Software Development Group.
Okay.
Well, let's start first.
Okay, so we have a new semester, has started, pretty much.
We've got the new semester for universities all over these fine Gitmo nation states.
And both in California as in New York, the state of New York, state of California, we have new laws.
Which is the consent laws.
Yes means yes.
Consent laws.
And this is law.
This is not just a university thing.
This is law.
And you must receive consent for sexual acts.
And I want to read some of the...
Some examples of how to adhere to the law.
But first, this was a long report.
It's not professional.
It's an NYU student who is clearly on some committee.
She decided to do man on the street and went out and asked everybody Do you understand this law?
Yes means yes.
What is consent?
And she also want to know if kissing is...
you need consent for kissing or not.
I just want to play a couple...
cut it down just to about a minute and a half just so you can get some of the key...
What is the status of kissing?
Well, we're going to get to that.
That comes up in this clip and roll with it.
Hi, I'm Shelby with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education.
That's the troublemakers.
You know she's a troublemaker.
We're here today in New York City to speak with college students about New York's new affirmative consent or yes means yes statute.
The law was enacted earlier this year in order to address campus sexual assault and it goes into effect this semester.
So we're here today to get the take from students right here on campus.
You just had a chance to look at the new sexual assault law that was passed in New York.
They use the word sexual act, but they don't define it.
So I wanted to ask you, for example, is kissing a sexual act?
Maybe not.
Um, I think so.
Definitely.
Yeah.
No, not really.
Not really.
Well, no.
Consent can be given by words or actions.
So actions, I mean, there's clearly, like, they're cleaving words and actions, but then they go on to say silence does not demonstrate consent, so it seems a little bit of a conflict there.
Doesn't seem very clear.
Now, have you ever kissed a guy after a date before he's actually said, please kiss me?
I have, and I normally find it cheesy when they ask.
I would ask.
Putting my arm on you or anything, I should know whether or not it's okay to touch you.
Do you mostly go through body language or what do you use?
Body language.
Body language.
I feel like you have to get a verbal confirmation that they're ready to have sex with you.
That could be really drunk and corny but not consenting to you.
You can see the confusion.
That verbal confirmation that it's okay with them.
Looking at body language, I think a lot of the times people can say something but not really mean it.
When it goes too far, the person will say no.
You talked about being drunk, so what's the difference between being drunk and being incapacitated?
Well, I think it's kind of...
That's a question for Bill Cosby, but we'll move on.
Oh, man, it's hard to...
It's a very...
It's a gray area.
It's hard to tell whether you're too drunk or whether they're too drunk.
I mean, sometimes when you're drunk, you do stuff that you don't do when you're sober.
I mean, I think it's a good thing that we should be like, hey, don't rape anybody.
Wording.
How would you go about proving that, that you got the consent?
Oh my gosh.
I like the guy who says, well, you know, raping people is not okay.
Very nice.
Now...
There are a couple of...
So this is confusing.
Is kissing a sexual act?
Do you have to ask...
Do you have to have consent for it?
What happens when you're drunk?
I mean, how do we deal with this as college students?
And having a 25-year-old who's no longer of college age necessarily, I think that most college kids qualify as moronic.
That's what they are.
That's why you go to college and you learn how to live or you die.
I mean, lots of stuff happens in college.
So, California's USC system hosted a consent carnival to teach students how to properly hook up under the Yes Means Yes state law that does require affirmative consent throughout any sexual encounter.
So first, I will give you their five different forms of consent.
They wrote this out on the...
They were handing out these little leaflets with Hershey's Kisses in it.
So cute.
What a cute idea.
Lovely.
They have five different types of consent.
And I'd like us to review them, and then I have some thoughts.
One is the consent, the affirmative consent.
And this is an example.
We're really excited to share this kiss with you, and we're letting you know...
Again, this is what the university proposes as ways to affirm your consent with a counterparty.
Then you have the coherent consent.
We're present and able to recognize exactly what's happening when we give this kiss to you.
We have the willing consent.
We've made the decision to give you this kiss ourselves without pressure or manipulation from you or anybody else.
And notice, by the way, they're using the proper pronoun of we so that we don't have I or him or whatever.
So it's very, very politically correct.
Cis.
Cis, cis, cis.
Ongoing consent.
Should you come back for another kiss?
Check in to see if we'd still like to give you one.
And then finally, mutual consent.
Sure, we offered you a kiss, but that doesn't mean you have to accept it.
Coming over to our table does not forfeit your right to say no.
Whatever happened to the old days, by the way?
Where I can imagine the situation devolving into you kiss somebody who didn't want to be kissed, and then she yells rape.
Well, this is exactly the problem, John.
That would be the modesty.
What happened to the old days?
Let's go back to the 30s and 40s.
Well, before you do that, can I give you one little tidbit of info?
Okay.
Now, we just heard all this.
We heard the confusion.
This is about sex, about sexual relations, about, you know, sexual intimacy, maybe even, and contact.
I want to read a line to you from a book, and you tell me what book it is.
The party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort and dirty it.
Which I think is exactly what's happening.
Well, definitely.
I would agree that that's what it's trying to do.
1984.
Bing!
You got it.
1984.
That is the book.
Correct.
You've gone to the second round.
You have the board.
So, whatever happened to the good old days when you...
Some unsuspecting woman or somebody who didn't want to be kissing, you give her a big kiss, and then she just leveled you with the slap across the face as hard as she could.
That is now physical contact, and you could go to jail as the woman who slapped.
But I have...
John, just stop all the presses.
And I know we have app developers out there.
And I discussed this for about two hours, and Tina came up with some good extra ideas for this app until I said...
I'm crazy.
I'm not an app developer.
This thing, you could sell this to every single university in the United States.
It's the consent app, and here's how it works.
You get the app, and it ties into your Facebook friends.
So if you are thinking of maybe hooking up with someone, the first thing you do anyway is you friend them on Facebook.
Then this app is very simple.
You open up the app, you select the friend, which pulls in the data from Facebook, and then you just click Consent.
And we could do it like DocuServe.
It'll be legal.
It'll be binding.
And the way I see it is you can have all these subcategories.
By default, maybe they're all turned on, but you could say, no, I don't want oral.
Yes, tongue kiss.
Yes, touching.
Or maybe you have categories, you know, first base.
And what's even better is you can pre-approve someone.
So you see some hottie walking on campus like, yeah, click, I'm going to approve.
So then when you're together and you have a drink or whatever, it's like, oh, I see you approved fellatio.
Oh, very good.
All right.
This, John, it is the future.
It is the Uber of consent.
This is a great idea.
You have plenty of people that can develop an app like that.
You can make it legal.
A legal binding document between the two of you.
It's a contract.
Click, click.
Yeah.
Contract in the ether.
This is a huge idea.
And every single university in America.
So something has to be done?
Yeah.
This whole thing you read was bullcrap.
I mean, I don't think the kids are going to do anything, but there is...
Let's put it this way.
Anybody in their right mind is not going to pay any attention to this, or they're going to kiss somebody when you can tell when you want to be kissed, and you kiss.
That's going to be the way it's going to continue, but...
The problem is the once-in-a-lifetime, the one oddball, the woman that wants to just sue anybody.
We know for a fact, and you know this, in Silicon Valley, in fact, this happened with Kyler Perkins.
It happened to me.
Somebody gets into the organization.
That's right.
And they're just looking to be harassed, somebody to say something funny, and then sue the company for millions.
Yeah, and I was imprecated once.
That's a risk.
It's a huge risk.
But we eliminate all of that.
That's what I'm saying.
Most people will ignore this whole policy thing, but is it worth taking such a risk?
That's what would sell the app.
Why take a chance?
Universities could make it mandatory.
I mean, just imagine.
Then you got it made.
99 cents an hour.
That's a moneymaker.
It's a big moneymaker.
99 cents.
You can get millions.
We make millions of dollars so we can just retire.
We need a name, though.
We need a good name.
We need an Inder-type name.
That I couldn't come up with.
You know, like Tinder or Grindr, and we need something good.
But I think we really...
Oh, hold on a second.
Apparently the sexual consent app may already exist.
Ah, typical of us.
Oh, jeez.
That will not surprise me.
Nah.
We can't do it, and we could maybe do a better one.
We can do it much better.
We-consent.org.
Wow, these guys are kind of on it, I see.
Sex?
Yes.
Oh, man.
Okay.
All right.
Well, great idea, everybody.
Oh, geez.
The chat room scores again.
We-consent.org.
I'm going to look at that.
Maybe we can still bring in something special.
Maybe still sneak in, unless they patented the whole idea, which is possible.
Yeah, well, I'm really happy I didn't start the company over the weekend.
Yeah, well, I am, too.
That would have sucked.
Yeah.
Oh, a concenter.
I got a thing for you.
Do you want to change gears?
Yes, please.
This is why I'm a podcaster and no longer an entrepreneur.
This is like that commercial that's on TV where this guy's trying to sell this app.
And there's a lot of commercials on TV now where a guy, they always present themselves as kind of a Steve Jobs.
Yeah, with the turtleneck.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're making commercials ridiculing this whole model.
And the guy goes on and on about some car app and some woman in the audience, a press woman, does they do this here already?
Don't they do this already?
And then eventually the guy turns around and the developer's standing back behind him on a computer and he says, I think I screwed up.
And the guy cancels the IPO and that's how the commercial ends.
And so yeah, you probably are better off.
But it's not an unusual thing apparently.
So here I got an Ask Adam.
Does it warrant a jingle?
Yeah.
Okay, hold on.
Well, I don't know.
Where are we, Ask Adams?
It doesn't really need a jingle.
Yeah, well, it does.
It does.
What is this?
I should say.
I'm out of time and effort.
These are just Ask Adams.
I need the jingle.
Here we go.
Ask Adams.
There we go.
Ask Adam.
Good to go.
Yeah, I got a double.
I got two Ask Adams, actually.
Got a double.
And I want to start with the one that I just want to ask you a simple question.
This is the first one.
This is the Ask Adam Obama on Hillary.
Okay.
Noah's set up.
Ready to go?
It's just Obama talking about Hillary.
...seem to tilt toward Hillary Clinton in an interview with Politico.
She can govern and she can start here day one.
More experienced than any non-vice president has ever been who aspires to this office.
Hold on a second.
Do you want to ask the question first or do I get to respond?
I'm going to ask the question first.
Yes.
His first comment is, she can govern.
So I'm going to ask you, what has she ever governed?
The state of New York?
No, that she was a senator.
That's not a governing role.
Secretary of State is not a governing role.
Nothing.
No, it's an administrative job.
So what has she governed, that she can govern?
I have no answer for you.
I'm stuck.
Okay.
I have the answer.
Can I listen to that clip one more time?
May I listen to the clip one more time, please?
Sure.
Can I have the clue one more time?
...seem to tilt toward Hillary Clinton in an interview with Politico.
She can govern, and she can start here day one.
More experienced than any non-vice president has ever been who aspires to this office.
What?
I don't understand the non-vice president?
Well, it's because vice presidents know how to govern by default.
I guess.
I don't know how that works.
So you want to know the answer?
What she governed?
Yes, I'd love to.
What has she governed?
I'd love to know the answer.
What has she governed?
Nothing.
Okay.
Okay, now we go on to the second one.
Oh, there's more.
All right.
All right, now this is Glenn Beck.
This is a two-parter.
I'm going to play the first part of the Glenn Beck clips and the first part.
You can see the difference, I hope.
Do you need a setup or are we going to go straight into it?
I'm going to give you a setup.
Okay.
Because this is Glenn Beck getting upset.
And he's upset.
He gets into these moods.
And, you know, right now he's in the big thing to support Ted Cruz and he's worried sick about...
Donald Trump.
He hates Trump, yeah.
And so he's into this...
He's going to get himself worked up.
So play part one.
Oh, hold on a second.
I've got to play that after the Ask Adam jingle.
This will be cool.
Cool, here we go.
Woo!
That was good.
I'm going to end the show with a personal note on something that happened to me today.
Is he going to cry?
Just play it.
That really made my blood run cold a bit.
We're entering really serious and dangerous times in different ways than I expected.
And...
Okay.
Where is he going with this?
I think I know the answer.
But I don't want to kill your gag.
I know the answer.
I know the answer.
I'll write it down.
Okay, play it out.
Wait, let me just reiterate.
Let me just roll it back a little bit because it's funny.
It's well worth it.
Actually, I have the...
You have an ISO? I have a rollback on this part, too.
Okay, here we go.
Hmm, I wonder where he's going.
We're entering really serious and dangerous times in different ways than I expected.
Right now people feel some economic security.
When they start to feel physical insecurity, all bets are off.
When financial insecurity becomes really truly real...
Who doesn't know what's coming next?
...for more people than it already is, all bets are off.
I would suggest when there is a time that you can't trust anything, you go back to biblical times.
There's one thing you can trust.
Gold.
Yeah, there it is!
The numbers are at the bottom of the screen.
Call Goldline.
Find out if buying gold or silver is right for you.
But do it now.
Gold, I tell you!
Ladies and gentlemen, buy gold!
Buy gold!
What an incredible deuce knuckle!
Good one.
These are the worst.
I'm going to give that to you.
Clip of the day.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
And we do not try to sell you gold.
My goodness.
That was shameless.
Or seeds for that.
Shameless.
That was shameless the way he brought it in because I was listening to it and say, oh, well, this is going to be interesting.
And then he goes right into the gold picture.
Oh, brother.
It was shameless.
So let's thank a few people who helped us out for this show, $7.95.
Yep.
Record-breaking executive and associate executive producers, I might add.
I don't know if we're going to see more than that, ever.
But we have a lot of other people, too.
I want to thank them.
Andy Clements in Ireland.
I guess it's E-I-3-K-F. Echo India 3 Kilo Foxtrot.
Echo India 3 Kilo Foxtrot.
So it's the Ireland.
E-I, Ireland.
Well, they must not have a lot of hams.
Keith Gibson in Holly Springs, North Carolina, $150.
That was $170 from Andy.
Thank you.
Donald Davis in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, 1-2-3-4-5.
Charles Bennett in Boise, Idaho, 1-2-3-4-5.
We do have a few.
We'll put a de-douching in there for a couple of these people, including Donald.
Sir Sam Lung in Toronto, Canada.
He's always around helping us out.
1-2-3-4-5.
I think he's going to be upgraded sometime soon.
Sir Thomas Weiler in...
Wow.
Oberdiesbach.
Close.
Oberdiesbach.
In Swiss.
In Switzerland.
He says he's in Bern.
Would have been a lot easier to pronounce.
He's in Bern, Switzerland.
We thank the Swiss for listening.
Alan Lowe in Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia, thanks.
12321.
Dennis Covell in North Tonawanda, New York.
$121.
Mark Klein, $118.72 from Barron, Wisconsin.
Andy Peelman in Leed, Belgium.
He still supports us.
Leda.
Sorry?
Leda.
Leda.
Oh, you're cutting out for some reason.
Leda!
Do you hear me?
Oh, okay.
Leda.
Elias Kakesh in Hiram, Georgia.
$111.11.
Sean Mooney in Saskatoon.
Here's a very long note that we'll read to ourselves.
$111.11.
Patrick Oberam in Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
Is that where the yogurt comes from?
Noosa?
Noosa?
Yeah.
I've never heard of Noosa.
Oh, Noosa is high-end yogurt.
No.
Robert Clayson in London, UK, 107.95.
Catherine...
He says he's confirming he's still alive.
This is good.
We're happy to hear it.
Yes, thank you.
A lot.
Catherine in San Francisco, $106.06.
Got a...
Do you have a birthday thing here or something?
Read that note and see if you have to add her to the birthday list.
Um...
No, well, she says my father hit me in the mouth last July or before I set off a trip around the world.
I was fed up with life in the bubble called Silicon Valley and needed a break.
In that time, I visited 35 countries and listened to your show religiously.
In addition, I became so hungry for more real information that I read 57 books.
Oh, that's how many states the president thinks we have.
Thank you.
Though I'm sure my father is an anonymous producer, I would like my first donation to credit his account to bring him toward a much-deserved knighthood.
$100 plus his D-Day, dad's D-Day birthday.
Oh, D-Day birthday of 6'6".
Very nice.
More to come, since I know I have a job again.
And we look forward to that.
Thank you very much, Catherine.
Appreciate it.
And congratulations on getting out.
Family of Secrets.
Make sure you get that on your list.
Family of Secrets.
Russ Baker.
Robert Wood.
Robert Wood in Benbrook, Texas.
104.15.
Thor Hanks in Seattle, Washington.
$100.33.
He's changing titles today.
He's going to be a knight or something.
What is he doing?
He's upgrading.
Thor will be a baronet.
Yeah.
Kevin Smith in Sunnyvale, California, $100.
Anonymous in the Woodlands, Texas.
Second person from the Woodlands, $100.
It might be the same person.
Raymond Fahran in West Kilauna, BC, Canada, $100.
We're going to read off a bunch.
These are a bunch of people who came in with $100, so we'll just read them off.
I'm going to appreciate them.
Michael Reif in Orlando, Florida.
Maggie Hamilton in Fair Play, Maryland.
Hans Peter...
Hans Peterfeld.
Hans Peterfeld in Oslo.
Norway.
Pierre Trudell in Ottawa.
Justin Jovic in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Scott Schoenberger in Malibu, California.
Living it up.
CID Compeador in somewhere Oklahoma.
El Cid Compeador.
El Cid.
Well, it just says Cid here.
We know who he is.
We know who he is.
Would they show up at the meetup there in Texas?
I don't think so.
Jennifer Chocolatchick.
Chocolatchick.
I'm sure it's not Chocolatchick.
It's Chocolatchick.
Well, however you pronounce her name, Jennifer is in Calgary, which means she gave us about $500, I guess.
Seth Griffin, in Highland, for the year.
This doesn't make sense.
Highland Park, Illinois, Seth Griffin.
Lon Baker is the last of our $100 donors, and he is in Parts Unknown.
David Myers, $99.99 and...
In Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Sir Mike of Wakefield in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
That's 8888.
And also Joseph Green in Stevenson Ranch, California.
8888 along with Carlos Sanchez.
8888 in Chicago.
And Tim Schallberger in Bend, Oregon.
Or Bendover.
8888.
Zachary Gilbrecht in Cordova, Tennessee.
80.
Sir Richard Chow in Fullerton, California.
80.
Bob Rathmel in Santa Isabel, California.
80.
These are all 80s.
I'll just list them.
Matthew Windedal.
Windedal.
From Vernon Hills, Illinois.
And he's got a birthday coming up.
Dan, or somebody does.
Dan Reeder in Maudsland, Queensland.
Maudsland.
That's where Maud used to live.
Christopher Gray in Covington, Louisiana.
That's where Julie Covington used to live.
I was on a roll, too.
Chris Terhart in Abbotsford, B.C., next to Spasm.
Scott Thompson in North Tonawanda, New York, 80.
David Van Sunder in Pacific Grove, California, 7950.
Sir Sloan of the Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 7373.
They're going to shut down the falls, by the way.
Peter Tang, on the American side.
Did you know that?
No, I did not know that.
Why are they shutting it down?
Too much energy?
They're going to shut him down.
Too much power?
It'll be an interesting time to go see him.
Because all the water's then going to run over off the Canadian side.
It'll be very strange to see.
To fix a bridge.
Was that 7-3s he had there?
Yes, 7-3.
7-3, 7-3.
Sir Sloan of the Falls.
Yes, got it.
Peter Tangney in Randolph, Massachusetts.
That's 69-69.
Gordon Walt in Austin, Texas.
Rob the street from you.
69-69.
Jordan DeMoss in Pearl City, Hawaii.
69-69.
A lot of 69s today.
Max Turnquist in Somerville, Massachusetts.
69-69.
Edward Martinez.
69-69 in San Jose, California.
And finally...
Steven Krauss with a just plain 69 in New Paltz, New York.
That was false, but it says Paltz.
Michael Padinich in Hubbard, Ohio.
6789.
6789.
Rob...
Rob Seelock in Cochran, Alberta.
A lot of Albertans coming in today.
Alejandro, more than the rest of Canada.
Alejandro Vasquez in Denver, 6667.
Sir Kevin Dills, our buddy in Charlotte, North Carolina, 6433.
Ashley Blanco in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, $60.
Stephen Tucker in Varango, Nebraska, $60.
Scott Waldherr in...
Middleton, Wisconsin, 5678.
Lisa, I think it's Lisa.
Lisa Jones, spelled L-E-I-G-H.
Could be Laysa Jones, but I think it's one of those spellings of a name.
5637 from Longwood, Florida.
Suzanne Goddard in Saugus, California, 5555.
Michael Dougherty in Chicago, Illinois, 5555.
Tim Taylor in Rosendale, Lancaster, UK, 5555.
Rick LeBlanc in Hope, Rhode Island.
We got an interesting note from Rhode Island.
Computer Services and Solutions.
Computer Solutions and Services is the right way to pronounce it.
5533.
Mac Tank in La Jolla, California.
Double nickels on the dime.
Mike...
Baird in San Antonio, Texas, 5510.
Andy Benz in St.
Louis, Missouri, 5510.
James Green in Mesquite, Texas, where you get Mesquite, 5510.
Simon Reed, New York, New York, 5510.
Scott Edlund in Wesley Chapel, Florida, 5510.
I'm going to just read these off.
These are all 5510.
Shannon Phillips in Davenport, Iowa.
Sean Zinsmeister over here in San Francisco.
I'm waving.
Sir Josh Mandel in Greenville, South Carolina.
Rob Warren in Sunderland, parts of the UK. Howard Lahoreau in Worcester, Massachusetts.
A.J. Brown Imaging in Rock Island, Illinois.
These are now $55.
Adrian Vernoy in Hasselt, Netherlands.
Pronunciation is actually?
Hasselt?
Hasselt.
No, Adrian Vinoy.
Vinoy, very good.
Vinoy.
Vinoy, you did good.
Oh, okay, good.
Good, good.
Josh Daly in Tempe, Arizona, 5432.
Geek Rolling in Pasadena, California.
That's interesting, 5342.
James Streck in Miamisburg, Ohio, 5333.
Biolife member, Stephen Drury.
Oak Grove, 5150.
That's funny.
Ashley Eisner in Louisville, Kentucky, 51-31.
Kenneth Brodzinski in Marengo, Illinois, 51.
Damian Barrios in Scottsdale, Arizona, 51.
And then Levy Wagner in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 50-50.
Herb Lamb, Sir Herb Lamb to you.
Sugar Hill, Georgia, 50-33.
Thomas Dolina in Cheek, Tawaga, New York.
Indian village of some sort.
Robert Gutierrez in Homestead, Florida, 5113.
And Darren Christie, Spokane, Washington, 5101, along with Elias Kakesh from British...
No, he's from nowhere, he says.
5101.
Now, these are the final ones.
These are the $50 donors.
We want to thank each and every one of them individually.
Starting with Lachlan Oliver in Qualicum Beach, We're good to go.
Stafford Lumsden in Minden, Nevada.
No, he's in South Korea.
Oh, he's got an address in Nevada.
He's somewhere in South Korea, which is good.
South Korea is great.
Jackson Ray Hamilton in Carlsbad, California.
Richard Feddersen in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Seth Harper in Ripley, West Virginia.
Joseph McLeod in Winnipeg.
Benjamin Garcia in La Habra, California.
John Keckish in Chardon, Ohio.
Daniel Torello in Charleston, South Carolina.
David Schneider in Wade Hill, Ohio.
Cotton Robinson in Fresno.
Michael Henderson in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, which is all of Georgia.
Ed Laboutier.
Laboutier.
Laboutier, that's it.
Ed Laboutier in Hesperia, California.
James Green.
These are names that we haven't heard for a while and we're glad to hear from them.
Sugar Hill, Georgia.
Ralph Massaro in Kirkland, Washington.
Christopher Wilcox in Tarporley.
Cheshire, UK. I don't know.
We don't have that one.
Dennis Trusty in Noblesville, Indiana.
Jeff Hofer in La Habra, California.
Mark That's one we've had.
Mark, we always mispronounce your name, I think.
Madison Heights, Wisconsin.
John Hayes, R. Hayes in Naperville, Illinois.
Bruce Klassen in Valencia, California.
James Burke in Bile in Mount Sterling, Illinois.
Mark Neiman in Renton, Washington.
Eric Thorson in Bergen, Norway.
Melissa Hodges in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
TinyEmpire.com in Walnut, California.
Tom Weaver in Fowlerville, Michigan.
Michael DeCock in Chandler, Arizona.
Paul Ranum in Sandy, Utah.
Chris Geelen in Brussels, Belgium.
Geelen.
At least he's still with us.
Matt Lovett in Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Hey, New Zealand.
Jeffrey Walsow in Neilberg, Saskatchewan.
And Andy Clements.
We'll give you, by the way, Jeffrey, just some karma coming at the end.
Andy Clements in Trim, Meath, Ireland.
We're getting more Irish.
That's great.
Dustin Martin in Salem, Oregon.
Arthur Kessler in Mesquite, Nevada.
Sir Paul from Horseheads.
50.
Sir Mark Tanner, who sent us a nice note too, by the way.
Sir Mark.
In Whittier, California.
Paul St.
Laurent in Renton, Washington.
That concludes our very long list.
What a great list.
$50 donors.
It's astonishing.
I could hold my voice.
Thank you.
Thank you all so much.
That was very, very well received.
We love it.
It shows you that we have to just keep doing this show first.
Somebody wrote in complaining about the note saying...
You know what, is this your full-time jobs?
Did you get that note?
Did you get that note?
No, I didn't get that.
It's one of our guys, too.
It's one of our knights.
I would say it's our full-time job.
The only reason we can do it is because of this overwhelming support.
This fix is January.
11 more to go.
Yes, it is our full-time job.
Is this your main source of income?
Yes, it's our main source of income.
And I wanted to do two.
First, I picked one out.
I got a nice note from the $25 category.
We can't mention everybody under the 50s.
Greetings from Gitmo Nation corrupt hot dog.
Where's that?
Where's the corrupt hot dog?
Well, that could either be Chicago, which is the Chicago dog.
Ah, that would be right.
It's very corrupt.
Got your email today.
I felt bad money has been tight for me, but no agenda has been an important part of my life.
So I added you to my bill pay for my online bank account and sent a check for $25.
I'm close to nighthood, hopefully by giving a little bit, even without getting credit.
Sorry, that's my ego talking.
I will still feel good.
The check has a memo of, oh, about dryer balls.
I bought them, but now my laundry is staticky as hell.
I may try a hybrid of natural dryer sheet with them, and perhaps you can have a moment of silence for Buddy Cianci, the former Providence, Rhode Island mayor and convicted felon who died this week.
He was basically Richard Daly, but went to jail.
All right.
In the morning to you.
I had sent him a note back.
Oh, nice.
Suggesting, I don't know if he's using the wool dryer balls, because I think the wool dryer balls.
I have the sheep's wool.
The sheep's wool.
Yes, the ones that are made from sheep's wool.
I believe will kill the static cling.
I don't have static cling.
I know, I've been using the balls, I haven't gotten any static cling recently.
I don't have any static cling either.
But then there was a little...
A lot of it has to do with the humidity, by the way.
There was a little Twitter thing that you and I both responded to, and I ordered them.
You said that they look bogus.
Someone said, hey, there's natural oil soap nuts, soap berries.
Oh, yeah.
Well, listen to this.
How could I pass up this opportunity?
An eight-pound bag?
No, wait a minute.
Good for 240 washes, only $18.
That's a deal if it works.
I question whether it works.
Well, I'm going to find out.
I mean, I think they foam up.
That wouldn't surprise me.
A lot of things in the world foam up.
You know how I'm going to test it?
I'm going to wash some of Tina's clothes that she left here.
Then we'll know.
If she goes, hmm, my clothes are so soft.
So you're going to test it on her, even though she may be allergic?
She's not allergic to nothing.
She'll put you out of luck for about a month.
She's not allergic to anything.
No, sir.
Thank you all once again.
This is so highly appreciated.
We have a couple of things we'll play at the end of the show in our end montage, but do want to hand out some jobs karma.
Everybody can use it even if you have one.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yay!
You've got karma.
And one quick PR mention before we move into the birthdays.
If you have Apple TV, Mike Mills, at Mike Mills, M-I-L-Z-Z, has created an app, no agenda app, for the Apple TV, which not a lot of people have this device yet.
But it is very cool because you can, when you go to the channel, the app, I guess channel app, whatever, you listen to the live stream and you can follow along with the chat.
So that kind of makes sense if you're watching it, if you're watching, I guess, live.
It also, of course, has back episodes and everything, so fun stuff.
That's not a bad idea.
That's a very good idea.
So for the video, it's just the chat.
It's the chat, yeah.
It makes total sense, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And a reminder, we'll have another show on Thursday.
Dvorak.org slash NA. A nice list for today.
Robert Woods says happy birthday to his son Moses, who was born October 4th.
Brand new human resource.
Christopher Gray says happy birthday to his son Ryan, one month old.
Yesterday, Brian Hinman, happy birthday to his wife Lori.
She's celebrating today, as is Matthew Windendahl's BFF Bill, also celebrating on January 31st.
Happy birthday for the best podcast in the universe.
And then we have two title changes.
Sir Thor Hanks becomes Baronet, and Sir Jordan DeMoss becomes the Baron of Pearl Harbor.
Nice.
We have all kinds of destinations to go check out.
I like that a lot.
Get ready for the podium.
Zach Gilbrek, Scott Littler, James Mills.
Here's my sword, John.
John?
Hello?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, there you go.
Alright, gentlemen, all three of you have contributed to the best podcast in the university in an amount of $1,000 or more, and I hereby am very proud to pronounce KB's Zachary, Sir Zachary, Knight of the Bluff City.
We have Scott Littler, the Knight to be named later, and James Mills, Sir James of Form 990.
For you gentlemen, of course, we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
Whoops!
What's happening?
That sounds like a lot.
Fried bread and fembots.
Delon and Dramamine.
Crickets and cream.
DMT and astral travel.
Puppies and tailors.
Vintage pork.
Dos Equis and guts dominatrix.
We have porn stars and pot.
Maker's mark and mushrooms.
Opium and warm orange juice.
Three gates and a bucket of fried chicken.
Hot pants and booze.
Wenches and beer.
And of course, mutton and mead.
Always a fan favorite.
Go to noagendanation.com slash rings and tweet us when you receive it.
We're happy to retweet that.
Affiliates have been alerted.
They know we're running behind.
Time for...
My phone!
My phone!
Tech news, everybody!
Here's the tech news that you really can use.
I've been following something that I think needs discussing.
I've not heard much discussion of it.
Well, that would be common.
Nobody discusses anything unless PR people are behind it.
Common for this show.
Well, first we need to discuss the relationship between the Electronic Frontier Foundation, heralded by many, lauded by most, as the bastions of freedom.
I don't like them.
I've had my run-ins with John Perry Barlow.
No one wanted to support me at the MTV.com domain name dispute, even though they're supposed to help with legal stuff like that.
But, you know, it's commercial.
I was MTV, so they turned their nose up at me.
You should recuse yourself from this debate.
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
I just did a disclaimer.
No, I'm the one bringing it up.
There's no debate unless I bring it up.
The relationship between EFF, the Mozilla Foundation, and Google needs to be discussed up front.
Google donates a lot of money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
In fact, I believe they're one of their largest donors.
Google also pays the Mozilla Foundation, I want to say it's $100 million a year, Some outrageous number to have Google be the default search engine in the browser.
So now we have the HTTPS Everywhere.
Have you been following this?
A little bit, but I'm sure I haven't been following it with any alacrity compared to what you're about to present.
Okay.
So the HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension, this is how it starts, that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
Encrypt the web, install HTTPS Everywhere today.
And they play this off, and if you look at the whole page from the EFF, about what a great idea it is.
And first of all, the first line pisses me off.
HTTPS Everywhere is produced as a collaboration between the Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
We know who funds the Tor Project, and we know that the Tor Project is not necessarily a complete end-to-end secure solution.
They continue by saying, To review requests to these sites to HTTPS, information about how to access the project's Git repository and get involved, and the development is here.
So first of all, the first thing I wanted to know is, so they're proxying.
What they are pertaining to do is to turn unencrypted, unsecure connections, which, by the way, if you go to the No Agenda pages, there's no HTTPS. It's just HTTP. And the reason for that is there's no reason to the overhead, I'll say, of having a certificate.
I agree.
There is expense to it.
For secure transactions, absolutely.
What's the point?
I'm getting to the point.
No, I'm saying what's the point of doing HTTPS? Oh, well, there is no point other than when you are running HTTPS, guess what doesn't work?
Ad blockers.
I'm all ears.
Ad blockers.
What?
Ad blockers.
Oh, that's interesting.
So here's what they're even saying.
Where did you get this?
This is a great story for me.
You should be all over this.
You should be all over this here.
So let me just give you a few.
So they start to let up a little bit in this.
Sadly, many sites still include a lot of content from third party domains that is not available over HTTPS.
As always, if the browser's icon lock icon is broken or carries an exclamation mark, you may remain vulnerable to some adversaries that use active attacks or traffic analysis.
Adversaries who use active attacks or traffic analysis.
You mean Google's competitors?
Yeah, that's what they mean.
However, the effort would be required to eavesdrop on your browsing should still be usefully increased.
So they're even giving away that this is pretty much being done to circumvent the ad blockers, but it gets worse.
In the Git code at GitHub, they have the icons that will be displayed if you go to a website that does not have HTTPS by default, and it will be a big red X. So, let me get this straight.
Now, hold on.
I will say that I'm getting pushback from the chat room that it does not stop ad blocking.
I disagree.
I think this is a psychological trick.
The psychology of it is, ultimately, I'm going to predict it for you right now, That the HTTPS everywhere, everyone will be told, this is what you have to do.
And really, when it's HTTPS, who's going to be handing out the root certificates?
What will be easy?
It's going to be real easy to get your certificate from the same guys who are pushing this.
And it will be free and fine.
But I'm telling you, this is about advertising and tracking.
They don't want other people tracking.
They want to have some kind of control over the advertising.
And they certainly don't want ISPs down at the other end inserting ads over theirs.
This is a complete, and I think almost anti-competitive move.
Well, it does beg the question.
And by the way, chat room, instead of just saying I'm wrong, please tell me why I'm wrong.
And keep going, John.
I'll listen to you.
It does beg the question.
I'll ask the chat room this question.
Why do you need it on 90% of the sites out there?
It's overhead that's unnecessary.
I don't care when I'm looking at Amazon and going through all the books there, because I'm looking for a book, that it's encrypted.
Oh, God.
See, people can figure out that you're looking for books.
Or why, when somebody goes to the noagendashow.com site, why does it need to be encrypted?
The show is put into the public domain.
You can put it on your own website.
What's so secret about it?
What does it need to be encrypted for?
Encryption is now being marginalized by making everything supposedly so important that it be encrypted.
When it doesn't need to be encrypted.
And everyone has all these...
And everybody has all these technical...
Exactly, thank you.
Everybody has all these technical answers.
Well, the ads are inserted after the...
No, listen.
You're right, John.
Why?
Why?
Because they love you and they want to protect you from the bad trackers?
Oh, please, get over yourself.
Grow up, people.
Google our a-holes alphabet, whatever they are.
This is not okay.
And EFF is complicit.
And everyone's going to have it installed.
And these extensions...
Well, that's not an HTTPS ad.
No, we have to...
We're not going to proxy that.
You watch!
You watch!
And notice that Safari is not in this little consortium.
They have not been pulled in.
Or they're not participating.
You know, you can say whatever you want.
This is about ad blocking.
And they're being very, very sly about, you know, oh, we need to protect you.
Well, they wouldn't roll something out like this with immediate ad blocking because it would be so obvious.
No, of course not.
What you're saying is this is part of a scheme and I will watch.
We'll all see if you're right or wrong.
I think you're probably right.
You have a pretty good sense about these things.
We all know what happens when you go to a website that for some reason Google deems inappropriate.
It's happened to Dvorak.org several times.
Then you get a big, scary burglar reaching through a little cartoon screen on your browser saying, oh, this is not secure.
You should go back.
Go away.
Or if you really, really want to take that risk, click three more things you can get through.
Now, if you have an HTTP website versus HTTPS, you will get an X. It's going to be a big red X. This is...
This is breakage.
This sort of thing is not good.
I like that everybody knows so much about everything, but...
Mark my words, this is about advertising.
The only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
And, as always on the No Agenda Show, we are very open to feedback and criticism.
You just let us know.
We'll follow up on this.
Guaranteed, you're not going to hear about it from all the tech hornies.
They love it all so much.
Google's saving them.
Keeping them all safe.
Safe from bad websites.
That's a good voice.
Thank you.
By the way, Tina thinks people in Holland are angry because I do the Dutch accent thing.
She thinks that's probably why.
Did you get some feedback of the Dutch giving you crap?
No, most people like it, but they're not Dutch.
No Dutch people have written me saying they think it's hilarious.
It is funny.
Yes, I know.
The Dutch have a screwy sense of humor, and if they say that it's funny, even though they might not be laughing, they mean it.
It's the most honest culture you'll ever run into.
John, I think we should get 10 more minutes out of this poppy for today.
We're way long.
We're long.
We're so long.
We're long, dong, silver long.
I got one more thing for sure.
I can put it off or I can do it.
We have to put some stuff off.
We got to talk about this someday.
We got to talk about it.
Wait, I have the lead in.
Wait, I have a lead in.
Hold on.
I have the lead-in.
The race is on to find a vaccine as the mosquito-borne Zika virus takes hold in the Americas.
It's being linked to severe birth defects.
Around 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly have been reported here in Brazil.
I think that's enough of a lead-in.
Everybody knows about this horrible Zika virus that is making children being born with small heads.
I believe this to be some sort of a hoax or lie that we can discover who's behind it.
And I agree.
We both exchanged a couple of documents.
And I believe there's a couple of theories out there.
Most of them are nutty.
But, you know, my favorite one Mimi brought up, because she got off Facebook.
Oh, it's a genetically engineered rubella.
And it's been made for the government to kill people or something.
It's one of these crazy Facebook things.
I believe it to be what it is.
And this will turn out to be the case.
And I think it's a...
No, no.
I know what it is.
It's climate change.
You know specifically what it is?
It's climate change.
There's a bunch of people that said that, too.
Oh, sure.
Which is funny.
Oh, sure.
It is some sort of pesticide or new pesticide or herbicide that is being used extensively in Brazil.
And Brazil is fairly well known in that community, the poison community.
From what I've learned.
Yeah, whatever.
Bring it over.
It'll kill the forest.
It'll kill the bugs.
Some of these pesticides are banned in 22 countries.
The ones that are being used in Brazil.
We have the...
Yeah, they'll do anything.
And this is bull crap because this virus has been around since...
40s?
It's been, I think, first identified or more.
Yeah.
I heard that in the 1930s it was identified.
But it's always beautiful to use a virus because it's nature.
You can't even say conspiracy theory or anything.
It's just, oh, it's nature.
Well, we're screwed.
We can't fight nature.
It's great.
Besides the pesticides, John, they had the pertussis vaccine that has been introduced in 2014, and they were giving it to pregnant women, as were they giving the influenza vaccine.
And then there's the Mel and Melinda Gates genetically modified mosquitoes.
Yeah, I don't think that's it.
But that's a lot of people who hate Bill and Melinda Gates, and so they blame them.
But I also have a possible...
Operation, kind of a category of product that might benefit from this and may be behind some of the promotion of it.
Play the repellent story and tell me what you hear in there.
That's why if you have any symptoms when you return, see your doctor and use repellents so you don't get bit.
And tell your family and the people around you to use the repellent too.
And you've also pointed out...
The repellent.
I heard him say the repellent the second time.
Is there a repellent?
This is a funny piece.
This is like a little native advertising on ABC again.
I'll say.
And the guy, the first guy talking, he blows his line.
And he says, when you get diagnosed with the disease, use repellent, which he's got it wrong.
You're supposed to use the repellent.
Let's listen again.
That's why if you have any symptoms when you return, see your doctor and use repellent so you don't get bit.
And tell your family and the people around you to use the repellent, too.
And you've also pointed...
Well, it depends on how you want to interpret what he said.
But regardless...
I know, you can interpret it the other way.
But Muir was thinking like I was thinking, so he reiterated.
Well, he actually said the repellent.
What is the second time he said it?
Well, he was ad-libbing.
It's the best you can do.
He's newsreader.
He shouldn't be doing that.
Now, okay, so this thing looks to be, to everybody, at least my logic says it's something.
Also, notice the headlines.
Zika virus in the Americas.
The Americas.
It could hit us any time here.
The Americas.
Well, you might as well scare the public, but this looks like a cover-up to me, because here is Deutsche Welle.
They brought a WHO person in, which everyone said, oh, the WHO is all freaked out.
This is one of the analysts at the WHO... World Health Organization.
World Health Organization, who loves to get on board with these things, but they can't even bring themselves to get on board.
If you listen to this guy, you will realize that there is no connection between this virus that they can find and the little-headed babies.
...are bitten by virus-carrying mosquitoes.
In Brazil, more than 4,000 babies have been born with abnormalities thought to be caused by Zika.
Gregory Herschel is the spokesperson for the World Health Organization.
He joins us now from Geneva.
Gregory, why has Zika not been declared a global health emergency already?
It is clearly spreading.
Thousands of children are being born with birth defects, which are being blamed on the virus.
Why the holdup?
Yeah, so the thing is there's actually not enough evidence.
There's very little evidence to connect the two with cause and effect.
Oh really?
So Zika in itself is a very mild virus.
And Zika in itself would definitely not warrant a public health emergency designation.
What is worrying, however, is this perhaps link to microcephaly to Guillain-Barre, that is to say, to some neurological disorders.
Oh, interesting, because Guillain-Barre comes primarily from adverse reaction to vaccines.
Which happen at birth or after birth when one's older.
But this hasn't been proven yet.
There certainly is circumstantial linkages in terms of time and place, but there's no cause and effect yet.
So that's why we haven't rushed into a global emergency.
Now, Gregory, there was a lot of criticism in the wake of the Ebola epidemic that the global health community simply waited too long, that the response was not quick enough.
Is the World Health Organization doing anything differently to help prevent that from happening in the Zika case?
Well, I think certainly what we've done is quite fast and thorough in this case.
And yes, I think everyone has learned from the Ebola lessons.
And so certainly since May 2015, when the first cases in the Americas were notified to the World Health Organization, we've sent various teams to the countries affected to help them improve their vector control.
Ooh!
Oh, John!
I need some of that.
I need my vector control improved.
Improve their vector control.
What the hell is vector control?
Mosquito abatement.
Their vector control to do case detection studies, to look at other means of controlling, detecting the virus and studying or trying to determine whether or not it really is linked to birth defects.
Gregory Hertel with the World Health Organization's response in the wake of concerns over the Zika virus.
Thank you.
The Zika virus thing is a fraud.
It's a hoax.
Yeah, it's like Ebola.
It's like peak oil.
It's like the killer bees.
I'm sorry.
It's the bee colony collapse.
What other crises have we witnessed?
When you get old enough, you hear enough of this bull crap.
Things like the bee colony collapse can be probably traced, probably, to these problems.
They were inventing too many screwy sprays, and they test them in Brazil.
This is a chemical.
If you could find the public relations people pushing the story the hardest, you could find out who their clients are.
You will find the company responsible.
They're going to get this thing off the market because they know, oh my God, what are we going to do?
What if somebody figures out what we've got here is making these small-headed babies.
We've got to pull this product, create some bogus story, let everybody think it's Zika, which has been around forever.
Yeah.
It's nothing new.
You wouldn't even know you had it.
This is what is poorly known, because this came up at the dinner, and I spewed a little bit of this on them, but I saw the huge question mark faces.
They don't know me yet, so I backed off a bit.
I said, you know, this thing has been around since the 40s.
Really?
Really?
No, it's not like some crazy head-shrinking virus.
People get afraid, man.
They get...
It's terrorism.
What it is.
Terrorism.
It's a form of terrorism.
Of course, no agenda.
I can guarantee that the company that makes the head-shrinking product...
Which is an outstanding product on its own.
Has pulled this thing off the market.
So if you can find out in Brazil...
We have Brazilian listeners.
What product has come and gone?
That's probably it.
And then you can find the public relations people that created the smoke screen.
This story is a smoke screen.
To get these guys out of business...
Get that product gone before anyone discovers it.
And suddenly, this problem is going to go away with a head shrink.
I feel so sorry for those kids.
They look so weird.
They're going to get rid of the...
The problem will go away.
And they say, well, it must have been a mutation.
Or they have some bogus excuse.
You can wait for it.
You can just wait for it.
You can just wait for it.
You can see it coming down Broadway.
Now, we don't recommend repellent.
We recommend doing other things to protect yourself from the horrible Zika virus.
And wash your hands after touching any raw meat.
Less than ten minutes to go.
Alright, I think we should go.
This is one of the longest shows we've ever done.
Well, it was worth it.
Oh, totally worth it.
It wasn't boring.
No.
And even during the mention of all the people that helped us, we had a lot of stories in there.
I feel sorry for anyone who went fast forward.
Yes.
Especially for the first part.
Always, always, always, always.
Try to get funny stuff in there.
All right, everybody.
I'm good.
Thank you so much for the support today.
It is just incredible.
It's highly, highly appreciated.
Thank you for fixing January.
That really helps.
Just in time.
Just in time.
Yeah, exactly.
It's tomorrow's February.
That's right.
Oh, I have to pay my rent.
Thanks for reminding me.
Let me see.
Any award shows or football games I should be watching?
The Pro Bowl will be on today.
It's not that interesting.
I would say wait until the Super Bowl next Sunday.
Is that next Sunday?
Wow, okay.
It's next Sunday, Sunday.
Thank you again.
I don't think there's anything else.
Thank you again, everybody, who supported us.
Thank you to the Funk Brothers.
And coming to you from the skyscraper here in downtown Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6, the capital of the Drone Star State.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where, you know, it's supposed to be pouring rain.
It's nice and sunny.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We will return with the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for your courage and passion, love and light.
And we'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
Adios, mofos.
Beautiful. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum.
Yum. Yum.
We'll be right back.
Get the ground running, it's a media assassination.
Pick up the pieces and tear them apart.
Send it on to every nation.
I wanna step back, I wanna shut up, and let the puppets call the show.
No more mainstream, pumping out the new means, tell me where I should go.
It's a little bit cracked by a tiny bit buzz Can reach you right in the mouth It's time to do it now In the morning I want to do it now In the morning There's nothing better when it's in the morning In the morning In the morning Watching a puppet show from up on the hilltop As the world had burned fast by Same old history Switching off the TV
Switching off the sky It's a little bit cracked by a tiny bit buzz Can reach you right in the mouth It's time to do it now In the morning I want to do it now In the morning There's nothing better when it's in the morning In the morning In the morning It's time to do it now In the morning I want to do it now In the morning
There's nothing better when it's in the morning In the morning In the morning Shut up Hey, citizen Shut up Hey, citizen Shut up Hey, citizen I want to do it now In the morning I want to do it now In the morning There's nothing better when it's in the morning In the morning
In the morning I want to do it now In the morning There's nothing to do now In the morning I don't know what gender In the morning Who will do the most Can you see that juice?
Get out of my vantina!
The only anti-darkation moment is 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, well, you have to be, that's the guy you want to let go for?
Yeah, that's the guy, the guy, the guy, the guy.
You think that hill is just one big ant hill?
No, it's mostly bedrocks.
Bedrocks that wreck your house.
That's on the side of a hill.
That's a big rock.
Okay.
But there's no soil.
These ants, they don't need a lot.
This is the siege mode.
What other modes do your ants have?
They have a snake attack.
This is the siege mode.
What other modes do your ants have?
We'll be right back.
bendy.
Some of the bends are not sure.
I recommend the metal bendies because then you And you leave them there.
Wouldn't one of those cockpit lighters be better?
As a general rule, I am just fine with a drink and a booze.
Hold on a second, and drinking the booze.
Okay.
You know what?
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, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Listen.
No, no, no, no.
And drinking the beer.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on.
Hey, it's not, you know what, it's not, it's not respectful when you get invited to somebody.
No, that's right.
Come on.
Come on.
You're not, you're not, you're not gonna, you're not, you're not gonna get a good response from me by interrupting me like this.
I'm sorry.
No.
I'm sorry.
Come on.
No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Shame on you.
Hey.
No, no, no, no.
Shame on you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You can either stay and be quiet or you'll have to take you out.
All right.
Can we have the words to move, please?
Okay.
Where was I?
The best podcast in the universe.
Adios, mofo.
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