Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode 805.
This is no agenda.
Separating facts from fascism, hippie from Hitler, and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, and FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I awake the Zephyr, I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
So the Zephyr really is kind of an Ayn Randian type of looking train.
Well, the new one, well, originally it was a gorgeous train with these domes.
And then it's slowly, all it is now is the route.
It's not really the train anymore.
I don't know how Ayn Randian it looks.
I don't think it looks that.
It looks just like every of these other animals.
Oh, no, but whenever people post a picture of the Zephyr, it looks kind of Randian.
Well, it depends on which Zephyr.
Well, I didn't know there were multiple Zephyrs.
You should say, there goes the Zephyr old, classic, Zephyr classic.
Or the Zephyr Light, or whatever.
Give us some descriptors.
There's different Zephyrs, and there's the California Zephyr, which is the one we're talking about.
It went from California to Chicago.
And that one was the one with the domes, and it was actually a very attractive train.
There's one Zephyr that goes back a little earlier.
I think Burlington ran it, and it had this very crazy-looking engine, which I think may be the one you're thinking of.
I'm almost sorry I asked.
I can go on.
I know.
But I had a bad experience the other night.
Bad experience.
Oh?
Yeah.
Well, the Spin Studio was celebrating its third anniversary.
Okay.
You've been there since day one, I think.
No, early on.
Early on.
Not since day one.
But yeah, it's probably going on two years now that I've been there.
Anyone else does that?
No, never mind.
Go on, just tell me the story.
Right, okay, so you remember who owns the Spin Studio.
It's the former New York banker and his wife.
I did not know.
I may have known that, but I forgot it.
This is his big play.
He looked at...
What is it called?
Go look at SoulCycle.
SoulCycle has filed their S1 and they're going to go public.
Oh, this is a big business.
You can get some friends and family?
I will, of course.
Not from SoulCycle.
He's not SoulCycle.
He's Ride.
So SoulCycle goes public and then they're either an acquisition target Or they can do the same thing if SoulCycle is successful.
So pretty much SoulCycle is the canary in the coal mine.
Okay.
You should buy some of it.
They would keep it proper.
Well, I'm sure we'll get some friends and family.
No, I'm talking about SoulCycle.
Oh, okay.
We'll buy some SoulCycle.
So they're opening up a third.
They already have one in Houston.
One in Austin, one in Houston.
SoulCycle or Ride?
Ride.
Okay.
No, SoulCycle must have 40 or 50.
So they had a party.
And in general, the people who surround this community are average age 25, maybe even 24.
So, you know, Tina and I go, and we walk in South Congress Hotel, which is the new hotel, which we have not been to.
It's actually pretty nice on the inside, even though it kind of destroyed all the area where the food trucks were here.
No, not kind of.
It did.
And I realize I've never seen any of these people dressed up.
I've only seen them all sweaty and, you know, in Lululemon pants.
There were some dynamite hot people there.
It was fantastic.
But that was not the bad experience.
I wouldn't think.
No, no, no.
There were people counting, like, who the hell is this?
Was it the Zephyr Classic?
The Zephyr's going by at very slow speeds.
Okay, all right, good.
Thank you for the report.
Continue.
But anyway, so it's prep night, so I'm going to leave on time.
And the former New York banker's wife walks us out, and then she encounters someone else.
And this is a woman who's, I forget her name now, Tula Tolham.
Big publishing name from New York who recently moved to Austin as well.
And she's been at Vanity Fair.
She's been at, what's the outfit that owns Reddit?
Condé Nast.
She's like some big publisher woman.
And the former New York banker wife says, oh, and this is Tina.
She runs all communications at Ronald McDonald House.
And this is Adam, and he's a podcaster.
And for the first time, it really hurt.
Oh, please.
I realize I'm below VJ now.
I'm a podcaster.
Podcaster.
And the woman went, ah.
Well, that's the problem.
Ah, yeah, uh-huh, yeah, yeah.
It was gut-wrenching.
You should have said right on the spot.
Soul killing.
You should have cussed her out on the spot.
It still may.
And then said Tourette's.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, bitch, cunt, bitch, bitch.
Sorry, it's the Tourette's.
She didn't mention I also had Tourette's.
Oh, man.
Anyway, we now know that podcasters are very powerful.
We have done physical harm to our audience.
Oh, what happened?
What?
I know you received the emails.
I certainly did.
I didn't.
Oh, I get a lot of these.
Please do not do this.
Oh, the ring?
Well, you're the one doing the ring.
You'd get the emails.
I have a gong.
People don't like your gong either.
People are getting very mad at us.
Very mad.
Well, the gong is because, I think, the modulation problem.
Yeah, it's a frequency issue.
Because a lot of people listen on those little earbuds, which, by the way, I should gong the gong more so they can take those earbuds out.
You're ruining your hearing.
The earbuds.
And when will they make earbuds that actually stick in your ears?
Have you ever tried these Apple earbuds?
No.
Oh, they're shit.
They're no good.
Well, they have those ones that wrap around the ear and go in.
Yeah, but that's not the Apple ones.
The Apple ones are just the little things you stick in your ear.
Yeah, it's a little bud.
You have to jam it in.
It keeps popping out.
Yeah.
Anyway, so people don't seem to like it.
I think when we're in a donation crunch, that's when we need to bring out the pain devices.
Okay, we'll do that.
Back to the investing and the spending thing.
I just wanted to throw out two words to remember.
Two words of encouragement, no doubt.
There are more than two words, but a couple of concepts to remember.
And you can just take it or leave it.
Ready?
Yeah.
Trampoline parks.
Slot car tracks.
Slot car tracks?
That was before your time.
I know the go-kart tracks, of course.
No, no, slot car tracks.
Oh, were you racing little slot cars inside, indoors?
Yeah, a big, giant thing.
Slut cars.
These were, I can't remember the year.
I think it was me, still been in high school.
But there was all over the Bay Area.
They were propping up, and they were in New York, too.
They were everywhere.
In fact, I think the last one, probably they lasted for about...
Maybe a decade.
I mean, they were popular for only about two years, but they lingered for maybe a decade.
And there was an era, a cultural era of slot cars, and every kid would have their own car.
And there were bigger cars than the ones you did, little tracks that you have at home that you buy from Hasbro.
They were pretty good sized.
And you'd take them to the slot car track and you'd race with everybody else.
Really?
Cool.
And these tracks are huge.
I like that.
It sounds cool.
Oh, it was very cool.
Sounds like a cool father-son thing that I never got to do.
No fathers were involved, believe me.
Now, what eventually happened...
I don't know what I call it, the hobby expert phenomenon.
And it's something that has never really been fully studied, but it happens in a lot of things.
And with the slot cars, it was these guys who were not only incredibly adept at driving the slot car on these tracks, which was somewhat challenging because there's a lot of really wild curves and stuff, but they had souped up their slot cars and With these balanced little electric motors, a little motor probably the size of, I don't know, your thumb, a little bigger than your thumb.
Oh, okay.
Probably these guys had them generating about 10 horsepower.
And these things would fly around the tracks like it was unbelievable.
And eventually you just lost heart going to the shotgun track.
Because you knew you could never, never, never compete?
You couldn't even know.
It was a joke.
Hmm.
And except for these superstar guys who had these fast cars, they would race and it was something to see because it was like, I don't even know how they could see the car to make the turns and slow down and speed up.
And So you gave up.
And then all of a sudden, they just started to go out of business one after the other.
And then there was maybe a few left that were just the diehards.
And then I don't think there's one in existence anywhere.
There probably is.
Somebody will say, I got one here in Tuscaloosa.
But it was one of those kind of things, investments.
And then the same thing with trampoline parks.
They were another fad that came and went.
Didn't the trampoline parks go, I mean, eventually you had to have a batting cage and you had to have all this extra stuff.
No, no.
No.
That would never happen.
The trampoline parks are very compact and they were all over the place.
They were probably one in every little town.
And they were very small.
It was like the size of a tennis court and they could put 10 trampolines in there and you'd pay, I don't know what, 50 cents or something to go in there and jump up and down and up and down.
Liability issues.
Yeah, of course.
Kid breaks his neck.
Trampoline car is done.
They're all done.
Unlike the slot car tracks, they disappeared overnight.
I just registered slutcars.com.
Well, good for you.
Well, slotcars.com is already taken, so...
So that's another business opportunity for us.
Yeah, there's plenty of business opportunities.
Plenty.
Plenty.
I got some business opportunity for our producers.
Okay.
Yeah, just in case someone wants...
That's the way to do it, by the way.
What?
Give everybody else the opportunities, because let's face it.
Oh, yeah.
Alright, here comes your opportunity.
We have had a long run, and we even have another one today.
We have a very long run of jingles based on the Obama trying to kick a heckler out.
And, you know, we eventually wound up with this.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Hey!
Right?
Ben, we got a lot of mileage out of that one.
Well, we didn't get...
Yeah, we did too, because we took the advantage of the guys.
We got a lot of mileage.
Tons.
Ben, I got this little soundbite the other day from the Burncicle.
So, why did you put out a statement that was misleading on that front?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not my mistake.
Sounds like the barking dog.
You know what I'm talking about?
that we can do on that front.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
So there's plenty of opportunity.
And the barking doggy.
You got to Hillary Barking, which sounds a little like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh, let's see.
Was it called Hillary Barking?
Probably was.
I have a new one.
I could do this one, I guess.
Let me see.
Back, back, back.
on that front.
Hey!
On that front.
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Alright producers, go to work.
Knock yourselves out.
Please do.
Man, I gotta tell you, as much as I like doing European news and world news in general and trying to get a big picture of what's going on, what is happening in the United States right now, politically speaking, is really a magnification of what we've seen happening for the past 10-15 years, particularly in the United States of Europe.
With these crazy right-wing, insane political leaders cropping up.
And, you know, they're always compared to fascists and Hitler, etc.
But the Trump thing, and this is one for the history books, John.
This is really, it's gone far.
Yeah.
There is a precedent for it, which nobody obviously considers.
But the precedent is the 1924 Democratic Party elections and convention.
Okay.
The parties split in much the same way they're trying to split it.
The old liners of the Republican Party hate Trump and Cruz in particular.
Mm-hmm.
And they don't want them to get in.
We saw the Romney thing.
We caught the part of that on the last show.
And there's been some commentary about it that's been spread around.
I have some clips with the commentary, which is really interesting because the party is kind of splitting.
Can I ask you a question?
Because this is what I still don't understand.
I tried to bring it up on the last show.
I didn't articulate it properly.
But I hear all this talk about the party.
And so far we know the party is, you know, this secret...
Starfleet Command.
It's a handshake organization.
Yeah, must be.
Because we know Reince Priebus.
Okay, fine.
He's the spokeshole for the party.
And by the way, I can't emphasize this enough.
Anybody named Reince Priebus is obviously an elite.
Yeah, no kidding.
We should deconstruct his lineage.
Yeah, so, you know, and then, okay, apparently Mitt Romney is one of the elites, but where is everybody?
Where's their headquarters?
Do they have a central building?
Do they have a club, a hut, a hideout, an HQ? Who are these people?
I don't know.
And now we have, from the Republican Party leadership, you know, it's always Priebus.
Well, Priebus is the front man for a borderline secret organization.
Let's just put it that way.
It is a secret organization.
It's a secret organization, the Republican Party.
Thank you.
That's what I wanted to know.
Yeah, I think that makes you feel better, too.
What do you mean?
Well, because, you know, there's a conspiracy kind of thing.
Oh, yeah.
You don't know who's really in the...
It's much more settling to me to know that the Republican Party is a secret organization.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
I'm settled now.
I know you enough that you would think that was great.
Yeah, I'm settled.
I'm good.
The Democrats, same thing.
There's these machines within the organization, the Clinton machine, for example, the Bush machine on the Republican side.
These are the guys trying to, you know, they're trying to rule the world and they're using these party mechanisms to do it.
And so you get somebody like Trump to come along and you get all kinds of blowback.
And the Romney thing was the best because, in fact, let me go into that.
All right.
I also have some clips about Trump being Hitler, etc., obviously.
Well, he's obviously Hitler.
So I'm watching everybody in the news, all the news organization folks are completely beside themselves trying to analyze this.
How could we have been so wrong?
We don't understand.
Not only wrong, but befuddled.
You can just see them.
They just have this blank stare.
Yeah.
Okay, we should talk about why, but we can do that later.
So we have the governor...
I'm going to go to PBS to get two clips.
Yeah.
PBS has the governor of Utah coming on with this guy, Levitt, who is the economist for the Freedom Foundation or something, Freedom Works.
And this Levitt character who defends Trump in this little back and forth, you've seen him a million times.
He's always on.
He's one of the real famous TV commentators he comes on.
And now I've got clip number one, which is Levitt versus...
Did you see Louis C.K.'s memo?
Oh yeah, unbelievable.
All the facebaggers tagged it as, epic takedown of Donald Trump.
No, he's not.
It was like, the guy says, Donald Trump is Hitler.
Okay, epic.
Yeah, that's pretty much the summarize.
I'm backing away from your epic email, dude.
Disappointing, disappointing from...
Yeah, it was very un...
If it was George Carlin and say...
Carlin would probably be more...
It would actually do some analysis.
Yeah.
And if anything, condemn the public as opposed to, you know, going with this Hitler meme.
Yeah.
So here's Levitt versus Moore 1, and I want to set it up.
It's the end of Levitt, the governor of Utah, and Utah, of course, being a Mormon state and Romney being a Mormon, you'd think there might be some connection there, and I'm beginning to think that Mormons are going to hate Trump.
Uh-huh.
But he comes on and defends Romney because Romney wasn't really trying to do any harm.
Romney was just expressing his concerns.
He wanted to start the conversation about his concerns.
He was expressing his concerns, and he had to say it now because he didn't want to have people come up to him after the fact and say, why didn't you say something?
So here's where...
What's his name?
Levitt?
Moore.
Moore laces into him.
It's very entertaining.
And about a country he cares deeply about and a party he cares deeply about.
Stephen Moore, what was your reaction to Governor Romney's statement?
Hi, Judy.
Well, first, let me say, I don't have a horse in this race.
I like Mitt Romney.
I like, actually, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
So, I'm not necessarily in favor of one over the other.
But I will say this.
And, by the way, I did support Mitt Romney for president.
I've been in politics for 30 years.
I think what Mitt Romney did, with all due respect, Governor, today, was totally disgraceful.
I am so ashamed of him as a Republican to go after the Republican frontrunner, the person who is very, very likely to be the Republican nominee, and basically to say that he's dishonest, that he's a phony, to call his voters the millions and millions of middle-class, blue-collar Workers who Donald Trump has brought into the party, which is one thing I love about Donald Trump as a Republican.
He's bringing all these new people into the party to call them suckers.
I just am outraged by it.
By the way, I actually think that the American people and a lot of the Republican voters are outraged by it, too.
And I actually think, Judy, that this is going to help Donald Trump because it makes the point that he is representing the kind of middle-class, blue-collar voters who haven't seen a pay raise in 10 years And that, you know, the establishment Republicans are totally against him, and they will do anything they can to stop him.
And one last point, if I may, Judy.
You know, a lot of—I'm a conservative Republican, and I have kind of held my nose, and I have, you know, worked for Bob Dole to win and Mitt Romney, even though I had serious disagreements with them, because the establishment always said— You conservatives have to get behind the candidate.
Well, now the establishment, now they don't like the candidate, and they're saying they're not going to get behind them.
And, Governor, I just think that's duplicitous.
Governor, what about that?
I mean, could what Governor Romney did today backfire in what he said about the people who support him?
I did hear the hold my nose meme in there, which is now being used for Hillary.
Oh, really?
Where's it being used?
Oh, well, I want to vote for Bernie, but since he has no chance with his numbers don't add up, I'm just going to hold my nose and vote for Hillary.
So we got two memes in there.
Yeah.
The numbers don't add up, which is a...
I don't know how they got that going.
Someone did, yeah.
Genius.
No, that was, I received the, it wasn't an email, it was a webpage or something that the millennials were passing around, and I was so easy to see, it was paid for by the Democratic National Committee.
Yeah.
And this is Hillary stuff.
I'm like, oh, okay, I guess so.
Yeah, of course it is.
But it's just like, I didn't think something like that.
Apparently Bill Maher also said that.
It's like, how does that catch on?
Send me a clip, send me a clip.
The whole thing is like...
I don't know.
It just doesn't make sense that it would catch on because the numbers don't add up.
What numbers?
What numbers don't add up?
Specifically.
Well, you know what they're doing.
Well, I mean, but why do people buy it?
Why do people buy Pepsi instead of Coke?
Because they're being marketed all day long.
That's why people buy it.
Well, they're suckers.
Yeah.
Alright, hold on.
Do you want to go into part two of this?
Yeah, let's go to part two, because the reason I wanted to play part two is because at the end of it, Judy asks the governor and Moore, will you support Trump if he wins, since you're both Republicans?
And the governor, and I'd really fault her for this, it's the governor refuses to answer the question, which is kind of what Moore said.
These guys, these hardliners...
Yeah.
They want you to do one thing, but when it comes down to it, they won't do the same thing.
He refuses to say yes, and she doesn't call him out on it.
Concluded it was a mistake for him not to have done it sooner and in a way that's answered the questions.
He's saying the same thing to Donald Trump and has questions that I think many other people share.
Stephen Moore, you said a minute ago you think this could end up helping Donald Trump, but what about the other efforts out there?
We hear that big donors in the Republican Party are trying to raise money to help, whether it's Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz.
What about those efforts?
Well, they're out there, and there's no question.
I mean, this is the Republican establishment, and the millionaires and billionaires of the party think that they can, you know, buy this election.
And, you know, where I disagree with—and again, I disagree with Donald Trump, Judy, on a lot of things.
I disagree with him fervently on immigration and trade.
I'm a pro-free trade, a pro-immigration Republican, just as the governor is.
But, you know, what I object to is this idea that we're not going to let the voters speak.
And, you know, I just think that a lot of the Republican establishment is insulting—you used that word, and I think it was exactly the right word—it's an insult to the people who go out to these things.
I've been to some of these Donald Trump rallies, Judy, and it is amazing the people who turn out.
They are, you know, bikers, and they're carpenters, and they're soccer moms, and they're veterans, and people who care fervently about this country.
I just am very reluctant— I hate to see them dissed this way by the Republican establishment.
I just think it's beneath the party.
And by the way, Donald Trump is going to be the nominee.
And you're right, Judy.
These insults are going to come back and haunt our nominee in November.
Very quickly to both of you, could you each support Donald Trump if he ends up being the nominee of the Republican Party, Governor Levitt?
I think we all want a Republican to win the presidency.
I think it's deeply important that, in fact, that it happens, and I think that's why Mitt Romney spoke as well.
I would certainly, Judy, support any of these Republicans over Hillary Clinton.
And I'll say this.
If Donald Trump is the nominee, he's going to win 35 states.
He's going to win New York.
I just disagree with the polls.
I think he brings tens of millions of new voters into the Republican Party.
We'll leave it there.
Stephen Moore.
Governor Romney also obviously disagrees with Stephen.
You guys are a douche.
Stephen Moore, Governor Michael Levitt.
Fucks up the end of the whole thing by jumping in.
She's rapping.
Yeah, that was dumb.
Inexperienced.
This is why, well, a good way not to get booked again.
Yeah.
This is why we do this stuff.
The Australian audience, we had a good letter from some guy.
You guys aren't getting any donations because you're doing too much of this stupid election.
I didn't get that note.
I was going to afford it.
I decided again.
So I wrapped it up right there.
You blocked him.
No, I didn't block him.
I asked him where is he from because he never said.
Oh, okay.
I have to assume he's from...
Oh, I did see this.
Was it like because the mainstream media is already doing all this?
I don't know that he said that about the mainstream media.
But he was bitching that we're not doing enough European news, which we do plenty of.
We probably do more than any other podcast.
Here's the European news.
The war is pending.
That was your European news.
Meanwhile, he mentioned he had gone to some of these events, and you went to one, and a lot of people complimented you for your rundown of the event.
But I was watching CNN a lot because there was another series of states that did their primaries.
And they had a couple of people on, both black women, who were making assertions.
And I believe these women were both, I would say, armchair analysts.
Okay.
All right.
In other words, they never do anything.
They sit there and then they analyze based on rumors and gossip.
Oh, you mean like our show?
Yeah.
Yeah, but we have feet on the ground that we can trust.
I know.
We kind of like our show.
Yeah, we do that too.
But I'm just saying that when you do armchair analysis, you have to be careful of your sources.
And I have two examples.
I just want to get them out of the way.
One is this one, because this involves me asking you a question.
This is the clip Trump rally violence discussed.
Kentucky and was physically pushed by several white men.
One of them was a guy who was on his way to an advanced program for the Marines who has since been kicked out of that program.
And that's you also you also have the students from Valdosta College who were crying because they got pushed out of the.
They weren't protesting.
They were just black.
The woman who was pushed should never have been pushed.
There's no excusing that, absolutely.
But here's the thing.
Just because one of your supporters does something egregious, it's not a reflection on you.
Just because the black dancers showed up at polling booths to bully people during when Obama was running, that's not a reflection on Obama.
You can't help the people who show up on your behalf.
So I hope that you didn't just make that connection.
You absolutely can make that connection.
No, you can't, because Donald Trump has been egging his supporters on to do this.
They get a call at the beginning, or a rallying call, at the beginning of every rally, saying, let me finish, because they actually tell them beforehand how to handle protesters.
There was a Muslim woman who was spat upon walking out just because she had on a hijab.
Like, you have to understand that this is a real problem, and it's very dangerous, and your candidate has to tone down some of this rhetoric.
That guy should have been punched.
He said it was great when they used to take people out on stretchers.
In Vermont, he said, don't give them their coats back on a freezing night.
He has repeatedly egged on these people in his row.
Couldn't he say, couldn't he say, if he wanted to, you know, from stage, tone it down, guys?
I don't know.
The answer is going to tone down his rhetoric in terms of...
You can kill it.
But I want to say first, a lot of these comments are very funny with the taken out of context of what actually happened.
Yes.
But here's the one where this woman said this.
She said at the beginning...
And you were at one of these and you were there early.
Yes, I was.
You were there so early that they had to replay the music over and over.
Three times.
So you were there.
Tiny dancing.
At the beginning of these things, she said, they tell you exactly what to do with protesters, and they encourage you to, I guess, and then she kind of concluded to spit on Muslims.
Right, right.
But she said there's a long thing about, if somebody protests, do this, do that, she doesn't say what they say.
Did that happen?
Well, it's interesting you ask that.
I happen to have recorded a little bit of what the guy was saying when he was walking around talking about protesters.
Okay, everybody.
Remember to spit on Muslims.
Spit on the Muslims.
No, of course not.
I think I did include in my report, there was a guy who came on the mic and he said, if you want to protest, this is a private event, this is not a public place, we kindly ask you to go to your safe space.
Safe space, we talked about this.
Right, you talked about it.
Safe space outside.
This is not what this woman indicated.
She indicated that he had sight to beat the crap out of protesters.
No, let me finish.
Allow me to finish.
Then, so, you know, protesters please, private event, if you want to protest, safe space outside, and the protesters were there.
And then, I think I reported this, the voice went on to say, if you're a protester and you still want to protest inside, that is fine, but we will circle you and keep going, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, as we slowly escort you outside.
But that is not quite the same as riling people up to spit on them.
All right.
Now, the second one, and then you can move me out of this topic.
This is another black woman.
I'm enjoying watching you flail in the water.
She writes for the Daily Beast.
Her name is Kelly Goff.
And this is her analysis of the election as she sees it.
And this, again, to me, is someone...
I don't mind armchair analysis, but not when this is what you end up with.
Weird analysis?
Yeah, weird analysis.
The GOP endorsed Donald Trump.
I think the GOP is shocked, stunned, and mortified.
Not just embarrassed, but a lot of the traditional GOP leadership is absolutely mortified by the existence and the success of Donald Trump.
What he's done is he has resonated with a small swath of American voters who are very vocal and who are very loyal to him.
But the reality is there are many people who now accept that he might win the Republican nomination.
I haven't met a single person, including among his supporters, who believe genuinely that he has a chance of winning the presidency.
What?
She speaks to all black people on behalf of all black people.
She said that she's talked to some of his...
In other words, she hasn't done anything.
This is what I'm talking about when I say armchair analysis.
She made that up.
If you go talk to any Trump supporter, I'm not talking about just some casual supporter who went to the rally like you did, but I'm talking about a serious Trump supporter.
They, of course, think he's going to win it all.
In fact, many of the analysts on these shows are now saying he could easily beat Hillary.
So what is she talking about?
And this is on CNN, and she's like a respected writer.
I find it extremely annoying.
We saw a lot of this, and that is the piece that really...
This will go down.
We're seeing history in the making.
We really are.
The analysis, the articles, the pieces that are being written, and all consistently comparing Trump to Hitler, Trump, Hitler, Trump, Mussolini.
We have...
Foreign leaders, okay?
You know, Mexican leaders.
Foreign leaders saying, he remember me of Hitler.
I mean, this is so crazy.
What country was that guy from?
Vincente Fox.
He remember me of Hitler.
I remember we played in the last show.
He remember me of Hitler.
Good.
Harry Reid, no Hitler, but at least he had something fun to say when he was on the floor.
Speaker of the House yesterday affirmed that he will vote for Donald Trump if he's a Republican nominee for president.
Senate Republican leader has not said he won't support Donald Trump if he is the nominee, publicly at least.
Republicans are supporting a man who refused to announce the KKK, a man who continues to denigrate immigrants, Muslims, and the disabled.
Wait a minute, when did he do something against the disabled?
Okay, this one is another one.
This is like the misogyny thing they keep throwing at him.
Is that still John McCain?
I guess he counts for veterans and disabled?
Oh, that's a funny...
Oh, and the reporter, I remember.
No, that's not it.
There was an event, this was early on, and there was some guy, I guess he had cerebral palsy or muscular...
I think this was the reporter, John, where he did...
And that was about the New York Times reporter.
The guy who's now dead.
Somebody that apparently had some issues.
Yeah, yeah.
It was a spasmodic is what it was.
Yeah, it's the New York Times reporter.
And so Trump mocked him on the stage.
He went and threw his arms around and then he was called out for it because Trump was unaware.
He just thought the guy had tics.
So you can be sure that Trump is against Tourette's too, but they don't mention that.
Oh, sure, but the thing is, he's doing that wrong.
At our meetup, the one we had in Fayetteville, we had one of our producers, hey, I'm the cripple, I'm the crip over here.
This is what you need to do.
If you just say, hey, just get it all out in the open, then everyone's comfortable, we don't have to be all politically correct.
Oh, I'm so sorry you are walking challenged.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
We need to stop all that.
Okay, onward with Harry Reid.
So, Donald Trump.
What a horrible man is Donald Trump.
And the disabled.
Donald Trump is the standard bearer for the Republican Party.
Republicans create him by spending seven years appealing to some of the darkest forces in America.
The darkest forces in America, John.
Real estate developers.
I agree.
Fact!
He makes a good point.
Real estate developers, dark forces.
The darkest forces in America.
Now it's up to the Republicans to try and do what they've done by denouncing Donald Trump.
It's time for Republicans to stop the Frankenstein they created.
So he says, it's time to stop the Frankenstein.
I can't even understand it.
What did he say at the end?
He says, it's not over yet.
I'm going to tell you the visual part.
He says, it's time for the Republicans to stop the Frankenstein they've created.
And then he takes a little, like a little velvet thing off an easel, and there's a big sign, Trump equals Frankenstein.
What?
Why did I miss this?
Should have been on the network news.
Well, it's the lead on my news report.
Donald Trump.
It's time for Republicans to stop the Frankenstein they created.
Trump is the...
You hear the reveal.
You can even hear the reveal.
Stop the Frankenstein they created.
Trump is the GOP's Frankenstein monster.
If Republicans fail to stop Donald Trump, they tear the party apart even more than it is now.
He is the GOP's Frankenstein monster.
Really, Harry Reid.
This is so, I mean, wow.
Gee, I mean, what are these guys so afraid of?
I think if it were Freddy Krueger, it would have been a little more relevant.
But no, he has to go to Frankenstein.
You could have done anything.
Such an old reference.
Yes, exactly.
Hello, 1940 Shelly out from behind a shrub.
Sometimes I just really appreciate your years.
Here's MSNBC O'Donnell show.
O'Donnell, Larry, Lawrence, Lawrence.
Any joy at any Trump event.
I'm watching a militaristic operation that physically...
A militaristic operation that plays Tiny Dancer three times in a row.
Yeah, no, that's exactly what's going on.
Tiny!
I'm watching a militaristic operation that physically kicks people out, beats people.
He's now converted Secret Service agents to be his bugs.
This is very good.
So there's a whole bunch of reasons why a Secret Service guy decked a journalist.
Arguably, anytime Secret Service is active, they can do whatever they want and you can't protest.
It didn't seem like a very good event that took place, but shit happens.
But this is not like the Secret Service.
I mean, I agree with Trump on this.
He's got 25,000, 30,000 people at these things.
Yeah, he needs security.
He needs security.
But it's the Secret Service.
He's under Secret Service protection, as is Hillary, as is Cruz and Rubio.
This is real Secret Service.
You know, the guys whose primary job is to go after counterfeiters.
So, you know, whatever happened, do an investigation or whatever, but don't say that Trump has recruited the Secret Service to be his thugs, like they're brown shirts now.
I mean, come on!
Be his thugs.
People are laughing when they do that.
What do you think of the people laughing?
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
This video of a Secret Service agent beating a Time photographer.
Well, have you seen Time Magazine lately?
I think he went easy on the guy.
This is a crime that's on video in a Trump event.
These are the Trumpiest, most vile political events I've ever witnessed.
Wait a minute, I just want to make sure, because I was at one of these events, I want to make sure I know what I am.
Trump event.
These are the ugliest, most vile political events I've ever witnessed.
It was one of the ugliest, most vile political events ever in history of all time.
That's not the way you described it.
That's not the way I witnessed it.
There were kids and it was a nice little atmosphere, but no.
What causes the crowd to cheer it on?
Trumpism.
Trumpism, John.
Write it down.
Trumpism.
This is Larry O'Donnell, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That guy is such a douche.
And he's, again, misreporting.
This is why I think Trump is always calling out the media.
This is a misrepresentation.
I haven't been to one of those things, so I'm doing an armchair.
But I'm doing it based on what you said.
Yeah, that's close enough.
We're one degree of separation.
It's the same show?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a very calm...
So this is a misrepresentation of reality.
What's the point?
Again, what are they so afraid of?
Of him winning, I guess.
I guess.
They must think that he can win, which negates what the black woman said from the Daily Beast.
But you've got to wonder.
Let's say Trump really is a...
It's very strange.
I think you're right.
I never thought to say it, but I probably thought the same thing.
But I think you're right, which you said at the opening, which is a phenomenon.
This is like, which I never got to tell the story, of the 1924 situation with the Democrat Party.
Wait, let me finish this clip and then I want to hear about that because that's important.
Cheer it on.
Trumpism, this is, look, these people began with 66% of them believing President Obama is a Muslim and hating him for it.
60% of them believing President Obama, according to Trump's own teaching, is not a citizen of the United States.
Trump's teaching at Trump University, no doubt.
Trump still hasn't revealed his investigators' reports from Hawaii.
Of course, he never sent anybody.
And people on TV laugh about it because he's a sick, pathological liar who is allowed to get away with it.
And the media thinks that, oh, he said something half funny, badly delivered at one of these events.
And so let's call this fun.
It's not fun.
This is ugly fascism in America.
This is 21st century American fascism.
21st.
Fascism in America.
America.
Ugly fascism in America.
One of the things he said in there.
He said 66% of his supporters believe that Obama's a Muslim and they hate him for it.
I might agree with the 66%, but nobody hates him.
No, you don't.
No.
No.
Then you actually are someone who questions that.
I do.
Based on what Daniel Pipes wrote in one of his pieces in Pipes.org, I think, Daniel Pipes is very critical of the whole Muslim worldwide situation, as was that woman that Bill Maher had on the show, this last show, which I didn't see it, but she's too long talker.
I didn't see it.
Because Mars hates all religions.
And she came on to pretty much defend Mars.
It was very interesting.
You should watch it.
But these people who believe that Obama's a Muslim, and there's a lot of documentation for this by Pipes.
Pipes does a great job.
And this was a couple of years back.
Nobody hates him for it.
Well, some might.
He does all these crazy things.
John, some people might hate him, but it doesn't mean everybody hates him.
I don't think that many people even hate Obama.
He's a pretty well-liked guy.
He's got a lot of personality.
He's funny.
I don't know anyone who hates him.
I'm sure you're right.
There's probably some people who hate him.
Alright, do you want to do the 1929 thing, or are we going to move forward?
1924.
Yeah, that one.
Yeah, in 1924, the Democrat Party split much the same way the Republican Party looks like it's going to split between the elites and the populists.
You mean the secret club?
The secret club.
In 1924, there was two main candidates.
One representing the urban part of the party, which was...
Was considered to be too Republican-like because they were urban.
At that time, the Urbans were the Republicans.
You mean urban as in black?
Is that what that means?
No, urban as in city.
Okay, I'm just asking.
Urban these days, urban, urban means black.
Like the record business.
Urban technically means city.
Versus the rural people, which were the most...
Rednecks, country.
Democrat Party.
And they had the Southern strategy themselves back in the day.
And the one site was represented by Al Smith.
Who was the governor of New York and a former Tammany Hall stooge who became a buster.
He became an anti-corruption guy to an extreme.
Very interesting politician.
A lot of the policies that we employ today stem from him in terms of anti-corruption.
And the other one was William Jennings Bryan, who was the guy who lost the case, the Darwin Monkey Trial.
He was taking the side that evolution was not something that didn't exist as bullcrap.
So he was the religious guy.
And William Jennings Bryan, I think, ran for president two or three times and lost every time.
And he was kind of a nutcase.
And his parents, Darrow, went after him.
Who would you compare him to in today's terms when you say nutcase?
Like Vermin Supreme nutcase?
Oh, Cruz.
Okay.
Just to be kind of there.
Cruz is a little more erudite.
But they were both lawyers.
They both, I think, practiced before the Supreme Court.
Cruz being an outstanding attorney.
And...
And they both had this speech affectation.
Cruz has one that's like, who talks like this?
Yeah, well, that's what lawyers are.
They're translators of a different language.
And who talks like him and who talked like William Jennings Bryan?
He was corny.
Corny is the way to put it.
So the party broke.
It's just split in two.
And it was decimated.
Well, hold on.
Decimated only means down by 10%.
Yeah, that's true.
You know, I don't know if I would be able to fix that, by the way.
It's a hard nut to crack, yeah.
It was ruined.
And we couldn't beat anybody.
And they got lost the next two elections, the next presidential elections, to Coolidge, I believe, Silent Cal, and then Herbert Hoover.
And then Roosevelt came in in 1932.
So, oh, the party's ruined forever, which is what they're talking about now.
The Republican Party will never be the same.
Trump's going to ruin the party.
The Democrat Party, which was ruined in 1924.
Historically, there's just no evidence to back that up, is what you're saying.
There's no evidence.
And eight years later, they not only take over, but they get re-elected four times in a row with the same guy.
They have to change the Constitution because of this.
And then Truman gets in after that.
So the guy who split the party running for president, that was who?
It was Al Smith.
So he clearly did not win.
Al Smith, no, he couldn't win, and William Jennings Bryan tried to win a number of times, and he couldn't win either.
And that's why the party split.
So it's almost the same thing that happened here because William Jennings, Brian ran and lost and ran and lost.
And we have the situation in the Republican party where, where McCain bad, bad pick lost.
They didn't really have anybody else to pick.
And it was his turn the way they always talk about it.
But the party, but the party didn't split them.
We have the split.
That's the point.
The Democrats had these same thing.
Lose, lose, lose split.
So we have the same thing with the Republicans.
Lose, lose, split in this case.
I guess there was a number of losses.
Which means we would have split, lose, and the next cycle in four years, that's when we get the big Republicans.
Eight years.
It would be eight years if we lost.
Eight more years of Democrat.
Trump can get in, even though I said from the beginning of this, when you first said, oh, I think this is great.
And I do want to point out, I said, I think this is great.
And you were skeptical.
I said, this guy can go all the way.
You did.
Oh, thank you.
And I said, I think...
You said Elizabeth Warren.
But I said they're going to screw him.
They're not going to let him go all the way.
You did say that.
And they, when I say they, I'm talking about the Ryan Suprebus.
The secret handshake people.
The secret club.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I stick with it.
Well, first of all, thank you for that.
This is very important.
You never hear anyone talk about this kind of historical analysis.
This is good.
I'm sitting here smiling.
There is a book.
The reason I got that, by the way, it's not like I'm at the top of my head.
I'm dreaming this.
It's the B12. I happen to be watching book TV over the weekend, and the guy just wrote a book on Smith, Al Smith.
And I listened to the whole lecture.
It was an hour and a half, yakking away about Al Smith.
I didn't know half of the stuff.
And when he mentioned the 1924 thing, I said, oh, that's interesting.
This is exactly what we're looking at here.
And it's nonsense that it would ruin the party forever.
Right.
Well, then what are they worried about?
Then they're just worried about Trump winning and taking their stuff.
Yes, exactly.
They're worried about Trump winning and taking their stuff.
Yeah, that seems to be what it is.
They don't really care about the people.
No.
I would say the Republican Party and the Democrat Party, neither party care about the people or we wouldn't all be in a depression like this.
And this is why what is happening now is also historical.
I'm now thinking, Bill, my current thinking on what we're seeing with the Trump support.
These are the people who have felt forgotten for a long, long time.
Forgotten by Democrats and Republicans alike.
They're in the flyover states.
I live in one.
And this is, I think, a form of American revolution.
They don't really care who it is, as long as you can say, you know what?
Screw you and your government.
It's a very American thing that's taking place here.
This is the Lost Voters.
We had that clip.
You might want to play it again.
It's called Lost Voters, just to remind people what's going on.
It was a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, I have it here.
Lost Voters.
According to a Reuters IPSOS survey, one in ten voters who went to the polls in South Carolina today is a so-called lost voter.
Apathetic Americans who had given up on the process until now.
Who was the last president you remember voting for?
Uh, Ronald Reagan.
That was 36 years ago, when 64-year-old Charles Parrish was a firefighter.
Indifferent since President Reagan left office, Parrish says he's now back, involved in politics, because of Donald Trump.
The man's a billionaire, so what is it really for him to gain?
Well, you could say more power, perhaps.
Wait, but I mean, the man's already powerful.
So, to me, he's more apt to do the right thing for the country.
Surveys show 27% of the lost voters break for Trump.
And if you follow the logic here, it moves right into the millennials who are children of the disenfranchised, the lost voters, if you will.
They do not have the experience of knowing what America used to be like or what it felt like or when I was a kid.
And they also have this revolutionary type of vibe in them.
And they go, well, Bernie, that makes sense.
Until, of course, they were told the numbers don't add up and you might as well hold your nose and vote for Hillary.
That's what's going on.
This is a revolution of sorts.
It's a great, great thing.
I think this is the most entertaining thing.
I agree with all these people who say this is fantastic fun.
And since we're...
I'll take a little detour because this cracked me up when I saw it on the debate.
Here's Marco Rubio talking about the Millennials.
You know, I see a lot of young people at my events around the country.
I feel great when they come.
And I always tell them that despite the hardships of the moment, I honestly believe that today's Millennials have a chance to be the greatest generation we've had in a hundred years.
I really do.
Because the world today has hundreds of millions of people that can afford to be their clients, their customers, their partners.
For what?
Shining shoes?
People that collaborate with.
You can collaborate with your customers shining shoes.
But that won't happen if the world is dangerous and it's unstable.
And that will require strong American leadership.
It's ridiculous.
Hey, there's hundreds of millions of people who will be your client for your web SEO business.
Ha ha ha.
Social media marketing.
That's right.
What are you worrying about?
It's fine.
That degree will be perfect in the future coming sometime soon when I'm president.
Luckily, they're really good.
Now, there is some reporting, some work that are on the right track, and this is where you really need to.
If you really want to bring down Donald Trump, here's where you need to do it.
But you may wake up with a horse head in the morning in your bed.
This is former New York Times reporter Judy Miller.
She's a...
She's now a pundit for...
She's the spy.
Refresh my memory.
Judy Miller was the one who wrote all those pro-Iraq Wars things.
Oh, she's the liar.
She's the one that really started the war.
Yeah, she works for the CIA. Yeah.
Yeah, she's the one that started the war.
Well, this does not bode well for Mr.
Trump.
I mean, look, it's just extraordinary.
I think in the beginning, as Mitt Romney said, he didn't take Donald Trump seriously as a potential candidate, certainly not as a front runner.
But once it became clear that Trump was gathering steam, you You needed to go look at the assertions that he has made about his own business career.
My family is in the hotel business and was in the hotel business in Las Vegas.
And I can tell you, you cannot do business in Las Vegas in those days when he's been doing business without dealing with some mob-related companies.
And many, many reporters have delved into this and found that to be true.
We had a book by Wayne Barrett in 1992 which made that claim.
We had Tim O'Brien in 2005 in another book saying that Donald Trump isn't even worth billions.
He's worth between $150 and $250 million.
How is it possible that this man may get the Republican nomination?
We don't know how much he's worth.
The media have failed to investigate him.
Absolutely right.
So she's bringing up the mob ties there.
Very good.
Well, the way she puts it, though, because of her family being involved in Vegas, she's from the mob too.
Isn't she mobbed up?
Yeah, well, isn't that what the CIA does?
Don't they infiltrate and become all mobbed up and work alongside?
Yeah.
Okay, fine.
This is, oh yes, this was another good one.
That's a good catch, by the way, to catch her saying it.
Oh, when you got her saying it, then, yeah.
Yeah, something's up.
So at some Trump event, there were apparently, maybe it was a podcast or something, you know, just a couple of guys said, hey, we want a podcast live, we want to do something.
Maybe it was real radio.
I didn't follow the whole thing because, of course, it's ridiculous.
But, you know, when you do that and when you're not careful and when you're not running your military-like event, which clearly something slipped through the cracks, then you might get white supremacists broadcasting from your event, which is a slight oversight on the Trump organization's part.
It seems that Donald Trump has now...
This is a White House spokeshole question and answer time where this came up.
It seems that Donald Trump has now...
Sorry, this is the absurdity of it.
So a couple guys, I think, podcasting from one of Trump's events.
Now, pretty much the story is Trump has his broadcasting crew on standby broadcasting the message to white America.
And that's pretty much the way this is being taken by the press.
Wow.
It seems that Donald Trump has now, he has a member of his press corps who is a- Donald Trump's press corps, John.
His press corps.
His press corps.
Who is this woman talking?
She is asking a question in the White House briefing with Josh Earnest.
She's a reporter.
Okay.
...who is a white supremacist and he has a radio show.
What do you think about that and the possibilities of that possibly coming here?
So she's saying, what do you think about that, that he has a white supremacist doing a radio show, she says radio show, in his press corps.
What do you think about that press corps coming here, i.e., when Donald Trump is president, then, gee, that'll be weird to have white supremacists asking questions in the briefing room.
Because, you know, we're elite and, you know, people don't do that.
That's not how the press corps is supposed to work.
There's a radio show.
What do you think about that and the possibilities of that possibly coming here?
Well, I have to admit I have not seen those reports, as you know.
But I'll espouse some bullcrap anyway.
And when it comes to our policies for people who sit in this room and participate in this briefing, there's no sort of...
I think we're good to go.
I think we're good to go.
It's interesting to listen to his cadence here, because words are falling out of his face.
He's looking stuff up and he's got the iPad going.
It's almost like all of a sudden he gets the message.
Oh yeah, now I know what to say.
You'll hear the difference, the shift.
But, you know, we regularly...
He's reading.
Someone's sending him the message on his iPad.
It's so obvious.
We regularly protect the ability of professional independent journalists to do their job.
Oh, here we go.
Ah, I got it.
Ah, yes.
The Independent Press Corps, the White House Press Corps, the professionals who work here day in and day out have an important responsibility, and they're critical to the functioning of our democracy.
And, you know, hopefully whoever the next president is will continue a tradition that has had a tendency to transcend political party.
Wait, hold on a second.
So, does he at all mention that the press corps in that briefing is so combed over that if you say one thing slightly critical or off anything, you get thrown out.
Or if you're a stooge, you get busted by the other guys.
This whole thing is nonsense.
Yes, it's posturing.
They're just trying to do anything they can.
And that woman, that question was prepared for her.
All the questions are prepared.
I take it back.
It couldn't have been because he wasn't ready for it.
Perhaps.
I think she might have ad-libbed the whole press corps bit.
Well, in fact, she did.
And that threw him for a loop?
Because he's clearly looking for the...
No, here's what I think happened.
These questions are already submitted beforehand.
He knows the questions that are coming.
You're not supposed to just pop a question on him.
I believe that the question was asked the wrong way.
He couldn't find the answer, and then all of a sudden he found it.
It's like you looking for clips when I have the thing misspelled.
Yes, it's exactly what it is.
He was like, what the fuck is this?
What question was that?
This is not the question we agreed to.
And then he speeds up.
Oh, I've got it now.
Yeah, he found it.
Yeah, exactly.
So they're trying another tactic.
Another tactic is to say that Donald Trump funding this himself is bullcrap.
And he has, in fact, been out electioneering and indirectly fundraising by going to fundraisers for his campaign.
And they even have a little soundbite.
It's unclear when it's from where he says, oh, well, you know, I might take some money or whatever.
But they're now trying to attack him on that front.
Trump appearing at fundraising events for outside groups supporting him, where donors are pressed for thousands of dollars.
One of them held at the home of Ivanka Trump's in-laws.
According to an invitation, the money going not only to a super PAC, but also a second group, one that can collect unlimited donations without ever naming its donors.
Trump's campaign dismissing the notion that the move could open him up to charges of hypocrisy, saying Trump himself did not solicit donations from any of the attendees.
But it's a sharp turnaround for a candidate who once said this.
I don't need anybody's money.
I'm using my own money.
To this take in a recent CBS interview.
I would even take big contributors as long as they don't expect anything.
Today, Trump's spending his evening at a $100 per person event in Massachusetts at the $1.9 million estate of an auto dealership executive.
While the host is calling it a fundraiser, the candidate dismissing it as no such thing.
I've done some meet and greets.
And downplaying his incoming donations.
We have a small group where people, I guess it's over here, where people can send in.
It's over here, it's like on the left-hand side of the lectern.
Over here, it's a small group of people.
One woman sent in $7 and 30 some odd cents and wrote a beautiful letter and people are sending in $10.
And I love how they had the $100 a plate with big, big dollar signs and everything.
$100?
Are you kidding me?
It's nothing.
You can't even get into an Obama thing for less than $10,000.
No, exactly.
A total joke.
Or is Hillary for that matter?
Now this last clip that I have, well at least on the bring Trump down tip, I can't remember where I got this from, but this was an, maybe I'll remember when we play it.
This was an analysis that was very long.
It was nine minutes and I chopped it down to like almost two minutes of a piece that I think just shows the thinking again on how Donald Trump is Hitler.
Then how it totally makes sense and is completely comparable to 1930s Germany.
Let's take a peek inside the Hitler-Trump political playbook.
This is Australian TV, that's right.
Those guys are getting it good there too.
Alright, hello, hello, Australia.
Please prepare to be propagandized.
Let's take a peek inside the Hitler-Trump political playbook.
Step one, inside fear and paranoia.
The German people.
This is good, right?
We're going to play clips.
We haven't gone that far yet in the United States.
It's clips of Hitler and then clips of Trump.
This thing is syndication worthy.
They could easily syndicate this package and get it.
Anybody could use this except for the Australian accent.
Take a peek inside the Hitler-Trump political playbook.
Step one, inside fear and paranoia.
Fear, please!
The German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, have lost touch with honor and freedom.
Sound familiar?
The American dream.
The similarities between Hitler and Trump are basically a huge disenfranchised part of the population.
A group who believes the economy's not working for them, that the government's not working for them.
Germany has suffered deterioration in all sectors of life.
Our country is going to hell.
Next, you need to find scapegoats.
There's no use having a problem if you don't have somebody to blame for it.
This poisoning of the nation will not end until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished.
Surely.
Trump's never gone that far.
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.
They're bringing drugs.
They're bringing crime.
They're rapists.
Hitler blamed everything from communism to the failures of the capitalist system on the Jews.
Trump is hedging his bets with Muslims and Mexicans.
You know, it's their fault.
A total and complete shutdown.
Of Muslims entering the United States.
The rhetoric is awful, and it's not a coincidence.
Donald Trump has long been known for keeping by his bedside books of Hitler speeches.
Trump denies that.
Either way, it brings us to step three.
Trump apparently has some of his favourite writings of Hitler next to his bedside.
Oh yeah, sure.
By his bedside, books of Hitler speeches.
Trump denies that.
Either way, it brings us to step three.
Offering overly simplistic solutions with little or no detail.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border.
And I will point out, there is already a fence.
You know, it's not like this is some crazy idea.
There's a 600-mile fence.
Or no detail.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border.
And he's given detail.
The time shall come when you once again can proudly state that you are German.
Make America great again.
We're going to do it.
Oh, and don't forget to ignore criticism.
Just assure everybody the ends justify the means.
And in the last analysis, success is what matters.
I say waterboarding is fine.
When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.
Most politicians, there is that sense of right and wrong that stops them going too far.
With Donald Trump, that bit that says, don't do this, it's wrong, just doesn't seem to be there.
I know it doesn't sound nice, but not everything is nice.
I don't think Hitler ever said that.
Now, there's some...
Here is the hump!
I should have stopped it at the time, but I can bring it up now.
This little trick that reporters that do these kinds of packages will slip in, because they have no...
there's a lot of missing facts here.
So what you say, this is regarding the Hitler propaganda that he apparently has by his bedside that he reads religiously instead of the Bible.
Yeah.
It's you say it's well known that Trump keeps.
Yeah.
Which, which he, which he then he refutes it.
But yeah, it's well known.
Yes.
It's a, it's a nasty trick.
Well known.
Yeah.
It's a well known facts.
It's well known to who?
Yeah, exactly.
way.
I never heard that.
News to me.
Also, the Trump little hands, that's also a Hitler reference.
Did you see the stories?
All the facebaggers are popping up like, oh, Hitler had micropenis.
Makes sense.
Donald Trump is Hitler.
Small hands.
Oh, that's an interesting little ploy.
I don't know if that was coordinated, but it certainly is interesting.
If you want to hear some real scary...
I read, by the way, I read the book, I Was Hitler's Doctor.
This was years ago.
Yeah.
I think it's still around somewhere.
I don't know that he had a micropenis because the doctor didn't say that, but he did say he had one ball.
I'm just saying this is just what showed up on the facebaggers.
The facebaggers, they're always going to be doing...
Yeah, I remember the one ball thing.
They're off the deep end.
I remember the one ball thing.
Now you say it, now you mention it.
I remember that.
Yeah, it's well known.
Abdel compared Lance Armstrong to Hitler.
Yet.
You want to hear someone scary in government today?
Here, listen to this guy.
Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
In certain countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms.
Protect their freedoms.
That's someone you want to be afraid of.
Mr.
Hague.
Well, I want to either go to a break or I can play this one.
What we could do in the B Block, I did pull a couple of quick quotes from the Republican debate, which I thought are discussion-worthy.
We can do that now?
We can do it in a moment?
You want to take us into the break with something fun?
No.
The second break I have something fun to take us in with.
But I think I have a Hillary clip that's interesting, but it needs more discussion, so I'm going to push that off.
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Ow, ow, ow!
Ow, ow, ow!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
I like the combination of the barking and then all the coughing.
With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and passion and send you love and light and say in the morning to you, John C with a C stands for Coughing Hillary Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you and in the morning to all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names of knights out there.
Yo.
Thank you very much.
In the morning to you in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
Good to have you all on board this morning.
In the morning to our artists, let's see.
You can find all of the submissions, of course, at noagendaartgenerator.com.
And episode number 804, which was...
What was the title of that one again?
Hey.
It doesn't show up on the art generator.
That's strange.
What?
Evidence-free zone.
That was the title of the episode.
What was the artwork?
Oh, yeah, this was the good one.
This was the three pills, the little pill men.
Yeah, you really liked that one.
Yeah, I liked it a lot.
That was very modern.
The three pill men.
Yeah, the three pill men.
Yeah, Trump in the middle, Rubio and Cruz on the sides.
That was high concept.
High concept.
High concept.
Pills, these guys.
High chat room.
They wanted me to say hi again.
Yeah, we had a couple of notes that people wanted to say.
The chat room guys have contributed this week.
But let's start with some of the executive producers.
We only have one.
But we have like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine associates.
Wow.
Crazy, crazy day.
Excellent.
We did send out a special plea because we were running so low on these donations that luckily a few people stepped up.
A lot of our nights.
You know, the secret.
You just got to remind people what we're doing.
Sir Bruce Wilkie of Puala, Washington, 23333.
And he says, John and Adam, love you guys.
Just a dude named Ben here adding something in addition to my monthly donation.
You're worth every penny.
Adam, give John a break sometimes.
He's getting slow in his old age.
What?
No!
What do you mean?
I never mean about your slowness.
I'm not slow.
No, because you take B12. I take B12. Yes.
You forget one little thing, you make one little misstep.
You take a walk into a room and go to yourself, why didn't I come up here?
Quick, quick, take two B12s.
Take two B12s.
Making sure it's methyl.
John has turned me on to this.
So whenever you have a senior moment, let's just call it that, which I have them, crazy things.
Mainly, what you just said, what am I doing here again?
What did I come to this room for?
And I only have two bedrooms.
Like, what am I here?
I've walked...
You came here for a reason.
Ten feet and I can't remember what I'm doing.
So John said, you've got to take these B12s.
Pop two of those immediately and it will save your brain.
And there has to be the methyl?
What?
The methyl word?
Methyl.
Methyl.
Methyl B12. Cobalamin B12 doesn't really...
From what all the things I've read, you can't even digest it.
It just doesn't go into your system.
If it could also prolong your erection, we could sell this on the show.
I don't think people are interested or need the senior moment pill.
Anyway, he goes on to say, John, give Adam a break.
Sometimes he's getting regular loving and hitting the peace pipe.
Yeah, hey.
Hey, dude.
Take it easy, man.
Man, I'm over here.
Jokes aside, thank you.
I'd like to hear more about your views on Bernie Sanders.
I think we talked about Bernie Sanders.
Mainly some talking points for us.
Oh, okay.
Here's your talking points.
The numbers don't add up.
Yeah, they don't add up, my friend.
I am a millennial, and they drive me insane.
I hear you.
Now, that's what all millennials say, by the way.
They all say that?
All millennials are so self-critical about their own generation.
You just notice, oh, they're hipsters.
And they call them out as hipsters and douchebags.
And I'm convinced, just my experience from this party, the spin party, they're all high, all the time.
They're on all kinds of stuff.
And I think it's legal.
I mean, I'm looking at the end, because when they're drinking, you mix the drinking with whatever they're being prescribed for their fear, and they go a little loopy.
When it's something out interesting, and I think it's true because the millennials that I know, my son, daughter, his wife, they're all millennials, Jay's boyfriend, all millennials, table full of them, they go to these parties and And because in our family, everybody's kind, they're not a wine, I wouldn't call everyone a wine connoisseur, but they know what good wine tastes like.
It's been instilled in them since birth.
No, almost.
And they know what good wine tastes like and what bad wine tastes like, and they know what corked wine is, they know all the basics.
And they have a palate, they know what's good from bad.
How do you know if wine is corked?
They get picky, they're picky.
How do you know if wine is corked?
It smells like...
It's got the worst smell.
It smells like a rotting cork.
Okay, got it.
Check.
And usually the cork smells bad.
You can smell the cork if you want, but the wine...
You've got to smell the wine.
It smells like cork, and then when you drink it, it's got this cork taste.
It's horrible.
No good.
And sometimes it can be mild, and you can kind of plow through it, but most of the time it's undrinkable.
Yeah.
Anyway, so they know all this stuff, and they talk about going to these millennial parties, because they have their partiers, the whole group.
Of course.
And they go, and they say, this wine, all I have to do is smell it, and I know it's going to get a headache.
Oh, yeah.
And apparently the millennials, and then Mimi says, the millennials don't know anything about wine.
They're just drinking a lot of wine, and they brought this up to her, because there was a clip I wanted to play a couple of shows ago, and I just got lost in the shuffle, about how apparently the millennials are now the big wine consumers.
44% of the wank drunk in this country is drunk by millennials.
From a box.
Well, I guess.
And you know what the big champagne is of the millennials?
I can't imagine.
Andres.
Oh, please.
Yes!
Andres.
Get a clue, people!
I know!
But actually, I served a decent champagne to one of the millennials, and she was like, oh man, this doesn't taste good.
What do you normally drink?
Andre's?
Oh, okay.
They didn't like it because it wasn't sweet.
Yeah, it wasn't Andre's.
Five dollars a bottle at the gas station.
Well, you're going to blow out your liver.
Yeah, with Andre's.
Learn what good wine is and drink it.
Drink that.
Yeah, drink a lot.
I drink a lot.
Let's give Sir Bruce a little karma there for being a millennial.
It's a tough gig.
You've got karma.
We hear you, man.
We hear you.
Feel your pain.
Mark Hall comes in from Austin, Texas.
Hey, Mark Hall, a documentarian extraordinaire.
Look for his new documentary, Killing Ed.
Hello, John and Adam.
Here's the belated donation of 800 Turkish Lira, the Bitcoin of the ISIS generation, to celebrate Noah Jenna's 800 show.
Congrats to a major milestone.
I'd like to ask for some film critic karma.
Perhaps Adam can use his new mind-controlled chime.
Yes, I think this is a very good idea, because when this comes out, you will want to see it.
You've got karma.
Thanks, Mark.
Very nice.
Burton Rosenberger from Woodbridge, Virginia, simply says, value for value, and he contributes $247.33.
Outstanding.
Dame Sam Menor from Box Hill South in Victoria, Australia, $222.22.
Greetings, Gog and Magog.
Apologies for the long time between donations.
I'm reporting from Gitmo Asia.
Oh, that's interesting.
She's up in Asia doing something.
Can I please get some job karma and a de-douching?
Yes, you can, my good day.
You've been de-douched.
Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Now we've got Christopher Gay with no note.
Let me see if he sent us an email.
Excuse me.
Oy.
Oh my goodness.
Oy.
Oy.
Christopher Gray.
Is it spelled with G-R-E-Y-G-R-A-Y? A-Y. A-Y. A-Y didn't come up.
He's gay with an R. Gay with an R. Well, come on.
You can do it.
Squirrel mail to the rescue.
It has the most advanced search features of any email client.
That's right.
Don't keep it in Threadview because John will never, ever see your note.
Ever.
Always change your topic with John.
Because it goes back...
Unless you reply immediately.
This is the trick.
Because you have squirrel mail threading, which is faulty.
I don't use the threading feature.
Yes, you do.
No, I don't.
Yes, you do.
This is all chronological.
So you have multiple with the same topic.
No, you don't.
Anyway, I can't find a note from him, but you can write us later.
I'm going to give him some karma.
You've got karma.
Ben Smith, and now we have $200 donors.
Ben Smith from Greenville, Texas, $200.
Do you know him?
Possibly.
ITM Gents.
I saw John's newsletter about the low donations and said to myself, this shall not stand.
Adam's analysis of the Trump rally in Arkansas was priceless.
Thank you.
Keep up the good work, he says.
We do.
That's why we take it out on the road, baby.
Black Knight, Ara Dardarian in Trabuco Canyon, California.
200 bucks.
Thanks for the great show.
Would like to request job karma for my daughter Stephanie.
Black Knight.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got time left.
Dr. Sharkey, Jackson, Tennessee, $200.
CP and BK, your podcasts have been even better than ever, if that's even possible for the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for filtering out all the noise from the rest of us, I've stopped listening.
To regular news, because my blood pressure can't take the unfair and biased talking head rambling about things anymore.
Can I please have some general karma, plus everything you have from Reverend...
Oh, yeah, you're not getting everything we have from Reverend Manning.
He's a Mac Daddy!
He does not understand the world!
Now, get out there and whoop Obama's behind the cab!
Whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping with the Constitution!
My hand down!
Whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping with the Constitution!
Get out there!
Whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping with the Constitution!
The black media!
Whooping, whooping, whooping all of them behind the Constitution!
Whoopin!
Black people love this man!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
All righty then.
That clip made me sneeze.
Sir Philip Meeson, Baron of Wales, in Welshpool, Pows, UK. $200.
ITM, John and Adam, the show continues to be outstanding.
Thank you for your putting in the time and effort to bring us the best podcast in the universe.
Please may I request relationship karma, as it's been over 18 years since I was last in a relationship.
Get a bucket!
This man's in trouble.
I would like to see that change this year.
F-Y-C-I, Sir Philip.
He's got weapons of mass destruction over there.
You've got karma.
Very surprised.
And who would not go for the Baron of Wales?
Come on, ladies.
The Baron of Wales, I would say yes.
Oh, a different Mark Klein.
In Baron, Wisconsin.
He could be the Baron of Baron.
That'd be interesting.
$200.
ITM from the Dominican Republic.
Ah, he's not in Wisconsin.
That's PayPal again, fooling us.
Ah.
Oh, Dominican Republic.
Give us some photos.
I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my beautiful wife, Carrie, on the 7th.
Please keep up with the great work, and my next donation should get me finally to my first knighthood.
Can you play the noodle boy at the end of the show for me?
Sure.
And karma for...
He's kind of a downer, though.
It's a long bit, but we can play this first in the set.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You kind of need us, you know, mocking him.
Karma for something which was cut off, but give him some karma.
You've got karma.
Karma!
And that ends our little group of producers, executive producers that is, and associate executive producers who will be named as such.
We're reminding people to do another show coming up next Thursday.
Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
And a reminder, these credits, both executive producer and associate executive producer credits for the No Agenda show are real credits.
You can put them anywhere.
Credits are accepted and recognized.
IMDB, if you got it, your LinkedIn also seems to work very well.
And if anyone brings us into any question, we'll hop on the phone.
We'll vouch for you.
And again, as John said, new show coming up on Thursday.
And we always need everybody out there, especially during these slow times, to do the important work of propagating the formula.
The formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Amen.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up, slay.
Shut up, slay.
Alright, I got a couple of clips here that I want to get rid of.
Oh, the first one is a good one from Hillary.
Good old Hillary.
I get to do the second clip because I have a Hillary clip that will follow it.
Oh, but I... Okay.
Unless you have...
Unless it's a bit.
Well, it's just a little bit that turns into an ISO. You know how these things work.
Okay, do it.
Take it, take it.
Little interview.
Given the fact that more than a thousand emails, and I recognize there's a dispute, have been described as...
I was playing this clip last night.
Tina was over.
She's reading, doing something else.
And she heard this clip.
Her head went whipped around.
She said, are you kidding me?
Classified, some even top secret.
Would you concede that you and the people who worked for you at the State Department were sloppy in the way you handled top secret information?
No, because let's be clear about this.
There wasn't a single one of those that was marked classified, either sent or received.
That hasn't changed.
Now, what I think the public may not understand is that when a process is undertaken to determine whether emails should be made public, and remember, I asked.
Nobody told me to.
I said, make them all public.
I've been the most transparent public official in modern times, as far as I know.
When that process is undertaken...
Did you hear it?
I've been the most transparent public official in modern times, as far as I know.
In modern times?
What, like Charlie Chaplin eating the leather shoe?
This lady is crazy.
She is.
In modern times.
Please.
Yeah.
Did you want to play a Hillary clip?
I have a clip.
I can transition to Matt and the Pixie.
It's a new one.
A new match.
Matt and the Pixie.
Why don't you go there and then I can bring my Hillary clip back.
Alright.
Matt and the Pixie.
Pixie is the Herridge girl.
The little Fox News girl who, you know, she got sidelined for a while, but then they brought her back, and she's connected.
She is way connected.
Huh.
Right?
Don't we think she's in deep...
Oh, Heritage, the CIA woman.
Yes!
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the little pixie girl.
Of course, she used to work for the agency.
So now she shows up in the State Department briefings, which is new.
Yeah.
And Matt and her are double teaming.
When did Ms.
Mills cease to be?
This is talking about Cheryl Mills.
You'll remember there were two people we had an eye out to take the fall for the Hillary emails.
One was Cheryl Mills and what was the other one?
Some dude, right?
Yeah, there's some dude, and Cheryl Mills was, I think, her lead on this.
She was going to fall on the sword.
So what is interesting to note is that, and the pixie will deconstruct it, I'll just let it play, she did not leave when Hillary left.
No, she stayed in the state to barb in and had a special job, which was pretty much handling the email thing.
Which is pretty fucking unbelievable.
She stayed there to cover anything up.
When did Ms.
Mills cease to be an employee of the State Department?
I do not have her exit date, Matt.
It was not when Secretary Clinton left, correct?
I don't know for sure.
She remained.
I don't know.
You're going to have to let me get back to you.
I'm...
Where?
I'm not.
That says what?
That she was having administrative...
Her clearance was going to be administratively terminated because her employment had finished.
But then Mrs.
Clinton asked that it be extended so she could do research.
But now we know the research was to go through the emails and determine what was government business and what should be deleted.
My question is not related to that.
No.
I'm getting all up in Matt's grill, too.
Roasting him.
Nice.
There's something going on there.
I can feel it.
I don't care about the emails, but there's something going on between Matt and Pixie Girl.
That could be.
That's exciting to me.
That's what I'm excited about.
A couple quick clips from...
Oh, did you want to do something here before I go into...
Let me get this one out of the way, because I do have a question.
You know, one of the things they talk about when they talk about Trump is that he doesn't have any specifics.
He just says stuff.
Now, how is that different than any of the other candidates?
Have you ever heard any specifics?
In a weird way, I've only heard Trump give specifics.
The specifics about the height of the wall, the cost of the wall, that people will have to go out.
He's been very specific.
And Hillary goes on, well, we're going to fix the middle class.
We're going to get more jobs.
And she has zero specifics on anything.
But they put this meme out there that Trump has no specifics.
Of course.
And I don't know why that caught up.
And they say, in the same breath, I'll hear someone say, Trump has no specifics.
All he talks about is the wall and about deportation.
Those are very specific.
Yeah, it's true.
You may not like him.
So this is the Hillary stump speech.
And I want to point out, for one thing, she says nothing specific, but listen to her carefully.
I want everyone to listen to this carefully.
She is tired.
She has no...
Trump's going to go after her for having no energy.
She is talking about low energy.
They're going to have to pump...
Here's my thinking.
To keep Hillary from sounding like this clip, where it's like she's walking...
I know what you're going to say.
They got to pump her full of B12. She's rushed and she's tired.
She sounds tired and she sounds bored and she sounds boring and she sounds low energy.
They're going to pump her up with Adderall and amphetamines and she's going to be all jacked up on this stuff and that is what's going to cause her to crash and burn.
She's going to go off on somebody in public.
Oh yeah.
I think that's what's going to happen.
But listen to this and tell me that they're talking about this.
I can't believe that her people are thinking, God, why does Bernie Sanders, who's like 75, 74, he's older than she is.
She's getting to be almost 70.
She's 69, yeah.
She's 69.
He's older.
He's got twice, three times the energy.
I'm telling you, there's another thing.
He is on testosterone.
They have pumped him up.
And so they're going to have to pump Hillary up, and the only way they do it, because you can't use testosterone on a woman unless she grows a mustache, and that would be embarrassing.
Well, you can use a little bit, a little bit of testosterone.
You can use a little bit.
You know what that does?
That turns them into crazy women.
Right.
So they're going to give her amphetamines.
She's going to be flying high.
Listen to this clip, and here you'll see the reason why.
We should work together for both inclusive prosperity and...
Well, she crashed right there.
I heard her go.
Did you hear it?
Prosperity.
It's worse.
We should work together for both inclusive prosperity and...
It's almost like battery low, prosperity.
Wow, man.
Inclusive prosperity and an inclusive society.
I believe with all my heart we can bring down barriers for hard-working families.
All across America, in old industrial cities and small Appalachian towns and farm country and Indian country, in every community that's been hollowed out by lost jobs and lost hope.
It starts with making very clear, and I've put this at the center of my economic policy, working families need a raise and more good jobs, jobs that pay well and provide dignity, pride, and a sense of purpose.
Isn't that called making America great again?
And don't let anyone tell you we can't make things in America anymore.
Because as you're proving every day here in Michigan, we can.
We are.
She's also nasal.
She's congested still.
And we will.
But it's not going to come from refighting battles from 20 years ago.
Another 15 minutes spent in the Dvorak auxiliary studio.
Good one.
She sounds terrible.
Yeah, she goes up and down, which, you know, maybe Rubio's, like, dropping stuff on here.
Take this one.
I think Rubio's on something.
Oh, yeah, well, we know Rubio's on something.
It could be breath mints, but we'd still like to know.
Yeah, I think you're right.
They will.
How about the B12? Just shoot the B12 in her butt.
Isn't that an old rock and roll trick?
The B12 in the butt would probably help.
She's probably already getting that.
That's what she said.
I think she needs the serious stuff.
To get her energy level up.
She needs the good stuff.
She needs the good stuff.
The stuff that makes you crash.
She's going to crash.
Because she won't be used to using it.
She won't know when to re-up, when to re-bump.
I think she might have been...
Because she came up during the era of cocaine use.
She may be a snorter.
Oh, totally.
And they could give her that, but that's risky.
And that's annoying.
You can't...
Yeah, it is annoying.
I should be touching her nose the whole time.
They're going to have to give her Adderall.
Yeah, I agree.
I think after our meeting, we should definitely recommend Adderall.
Yeah, I think if we were doing the consulting, it would be Adderall.
And then you have to time it so when she crashes, she's not standing out in public doing a Q&A. We'll time it with the C-block.
So in the commercial, we can hit her up.
It's sick, but there's nothing saying that.
It's sick, but true.
I think a lot of that is true.
If anybody in this country does not, or any country.
Well, ever been to a rock concert?
All these guys are pumped up and jacked up.
And girls.
Yeah, they are.
Yeah.
It's what you do.
And Bill is like, you know, I don't think he can take enough of anything anymore because this guy is on his last legs.
Yeah, he's not looking too good.
I don't have any Bill flips, but...
All right, here's Trump during the debate.
A couple of things.
He did a couple of interesting things.
First, he did a whole 9-11 truther thing, which I like, which is total...
He was alluding to the Bin Laden family, I presume.
It was a little confusing.
First it was then the wife of the guy who crashed into the plane.
He wasn't really doing a good job explaining it, which is rule number one with the truth or stuff.
You gotta get it out good.
You can't fumble around.
But he did try.
Even targeting terrorist families.
Well, look, you know, when a family flies into the World Trade Center, a man flies into the World Trade Center.
It's like a man walks into a bar.
It flies into the World Trade Center.
Look, you know, I got to tell you, this was bad.
A man flies into the World Trade Center and his family gets sent back to where they were going.
And I think most of you know where they went.
And by the way, it wasn't Iraq.
But they went back to a certain territory.
They knew what was happening.
The wife knew exactly what was happening.
They left two days earlier with respect to the World Trade Center, and they went back to where they went, and they watched their husband on television flying into the World Trade Center, flying into the Pentagon, and probably trying to fly into the White House, except we had some very, very brave souls on that third plane.
Saved it!
Saved it!
Nice save!
Very good.
Oh crap, I'm going nowhere with this truth or theory.
What am I going to do?
Very brave people on the plane!
Very poor performance.
I have my one last clip on this I want to get out of the way.
And this is the ABC rundown.
And the only reason I want to play this is because...
You mean Trump-Clinton summary switching?
ABC, yeah.
The word rundown is not anywhere in the clip.
ABC, what?
The word rundown is nowhere in the clip.
Oh, it should be.
I used the word summary that time.
You're right.
ABC, as we studied it during the 3x3 era...
Was all in for Jeb Bush.
And they apparently, it still appears as though the Disney Corporation is pretty much going to stay with the Republican.
With the elites.
With the elites.
The Republican elites.
Reince Priebus and Powell.
I believe that they're in the process of turning to support Trump.
Now, hold on one second.
Something we need to bring up right now, which I was miffed we didn't bring it up on the last show.
You told me that a lot of the right-wing talk guys were all saying that Fox is all in, is going to go...
I know you're not talking about Fox here, but is all in and is now going to be real easy with Trump in this debate.
And I thought there was nothing but smiles between...
Megan and Trump.
And I think there was a lot of really easy giveaways that they planted right in front of him.
I agree.
Did we not talk about the show?
No, we forgot to talk about it during the show.
Okay, let me back up and talk about that for a second.
The right-wing talkers, and I listen to most of them.
I don't listen to them that much, but I listen to them enough to see what...
Because it turns out that if you want to listen to right-wing talkers, and that would include Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, a little bit.
Hannity's like kind of a...
Loose cannon.
I think he's all in with Trump and he's going to stay that way whether he likes it or not.
I agree.
He likes to stay close to him.
I mean, he's all in with Cruz and I have a clip kind of to prove it.
And the rest of them are all kind of like, except for Mark Levin, they're all kind of leaning toward Trump a little bit.
And they...
They're the ones who say that Fox is sold out completely.
And because the right wing guys are kind of like they're all over the place, but they say Fox is sold out.
And after they said that, then they're going to go all in on Trump.
After they said that, we both and I talked to Adam about it after we watched the debates and they were obviously.
Yeah.
Backing off Trump.
Yeah.
Except when the thing went crazy and they were yelling amongst themselves, they kind of let it go.
Yeah, but that had nothing to do with Fox.
It had nothing to do with Fox.
They were just going to do that.
They were lobbing softballs.
The three videos she showed in a row was clearly meant for him to be able to refute those three simply with ease and His candor, his tone was calm.
I could see it, the whole thing with Meghan, the back and forth.
Now, some kind of meeting took place.
No doubt about it.
So Fox isn't with Trump now, so I think that's going to stay for a while unless something bad happens.
And that is Murdoch making a play.
That's the way I see it.
Yes, I agree.
That's a big one.
Murdoch, who was against Trump from the beginning, hated the idea that it was running.
He sent him some notes, apparently some personal notes not to do this.
Now, he's like, okay, if this guy's going to win...
And I'd say Murdoch is in the previous party room.
Don't you think?
Yeah.
But ABC, when they were backing Bush, I didn't think they switched to Trump, but I get the sense they switched to Trump.
They still sound like they're critical.
They sound like they're.
But it's still a still a network that doesn't like Hillary.
They now are going to go soft on Trump.
And this is the result.
This is this is part of the report.
This is the rundown.
As that debate got uglier and uglier, Hillary Clinton's team took to Twitter, mocking the GOP meltdown using images from her face off against Republicans in Congress.
End this.
How many more of these do we have to sit through, asking for a friend?
A Republican, presidential, I don't know what to call it, I guess, debate.
There were so many insults flying back and forth.
It was hard to keep track.
I thought I was watching a sixth grade recess fight.
You know, what's interesting is you were just really watching what people watch all day long.
Conflict on television.
That is the number one driver of ratings.
Conflict on television.
It's called drama.
But drama could be...
It doesn't necessarily have to be conflict.
There's usually conflict involved.
It's always conflict.
I know what to make of that deal last night.
Well, I gotta listen to that again, man.
Bill, is he throwing up?
What's he doing?
Is his pancreas coming out?
I didn't want to make that deal last night.
I just was speechless.
While some Democrats are happy the GOP spectacle has drawn attention away from Clinton's email controversy, there's also cause for concern.
Just a look at Super Tuesday, a record eight and a half million Republicans turned out to vote, compared to fewer than six million Democrats.
I have not started on Hillary yet.
Believe me, I will start soon.
I haven't even started.
Clinton's advisors privately acknowledge Trump could be tough to beat.
And John Carl with us live tonight.
John, right now, the Clinton campaign telling you they're prepared to go one-on-one with Trump?
David, the Clinton team is proceeding with the assumption that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.
And while they see him as a deeply flawed candidate with lots of areas of vulnerability, they believe that he could be a much more formidable candidate in a general election, much harder to beat than the polls suggest.
You know, Trump is not a politician.
He's a hacker.
He's really hacked into people's psyche.
He's hacked the system.
He has.
He's really hacked it.
That alone is commendable.
Did you want to play the Cruz thing before I move on?
Didn't Hitler, wasn't he a hacker?
Clearly he was a hacker.
Yeah, if you want to get this out of the way completely, this was CPAC, which is this conservative event.
Yeah, where they chose Cruz.
Well, yeah, they chose Cruz, but this is a, where do I have it, where is it?
Cruz Hannity?
Yeah.
They bring Cruz out with Hannity, who's his biggest booster, and Hannity asks him some simple questions.
It's very weird to listen to it, but I think it's at least worth listening to.
Here's what I want to ask.
I want the crowd to answer with me.
Do you not see that of the 14 of 15 contests that have happened, and I think this is true, that the establishment has lost 14 of 15?
Did you see that?
Now, the only question I have is, there seems to be an organized, well-funded effort to push this to the convention.
In the hopes, maybe I'm reading into it, to prevent you or Mr.
Trump from getting the nomination because the establishment is angry that you're winning.
Is that true?
Look, Sean, you are exactly right.
Wait a minute.
So now he's jumping on the Trump coattails?
Well, he's jumped.
No.
Watch the way they switch it around.
I mean, he's not really.
He's just he's trying to make it seem as though this whole thing is all about about Ted.
This reminds me.
That's what I'm saying.
He's throwing it on and he's like, oh, throwing it in there.
But then he'll do a switcheroo.
Let's listen.
Let's listen.
He's angry that you're winning.
Is that true?
Look, Sean, you are exactly right.
Anytime you hear someone talking about a brokered convention, it is the Washington establishment in a fevered frenzy.
They're really frustrated because all of their chosen candidates, all of the golden children, the voters keep rejecting.
And so they seized on this master plan.
We go to a broker convention and the D.C. power brokers will drop someone in who is exactly to the liking of the Washington establishment.
If that would happen, we will have a manifest revolt on our hands all across this country.
1924.
Yeah, revolt, you're right.
1924.
You're right, I like it.
From the debate itself, three quickies here.
First of all, Rubio gets his Golden Star Comedian Award.
He did a one-two punch which was outstanding.
Outstanding it was.
You know, the pundits all criticized the crap out of him for starting this stand-up idea.
I think he's good enough to actually do about a 20-30 minute set.
If they even get some writers.
At Caroline's?
At Caroline's?
At Caroline's.
Or Ha Ha.
Tonight is Michael Robin!
He could do it because his timing is so perfect.
SNL, baby.
He's got to do SNL. Call Lauren.
Call Lauren Michaels.
He could do a bunch of gags.
That would nail the nomination for him if he pulled it off.
Well, it's a little late for that.
His people should have put him on SNL earlier.
A long time ago, yeah.
Well, it was a genius joke.
It was an interruptive joke between Cruz and Trump.
They did a callback To something Trump said earlier.
Really good.
Really, really top-notch.
But let me point out, if Donald actually cares about...
That is not what you said in the op-ed.
Donald, please, I know it's hard not to interrupt.
But it's not what you said in the op-ed.
Breathe.
Breathe.
You can do it.
You can breathe.
I know it's hard.
I know it's hard, but just...
When they're done with the yoga, can I answer a question?
You cannot...
I really hope that we don't see yoga on this stage.
Well, he's very flexible, so we never know.
Damn.
I mean, that was damn, damn, double damn.
That was good.
That was an ad lib.
Of course, because it only came up in the debate, so it was that ad lib that really nailed it, I felt.
That, to me, was like, that's top-notch.
I think so, too.
He's got the chops.
Totally.
Totally.
You know, bringing those guns out so late, they all criticize.
Oh, don't you think you went too far?
They should get him on SNL. It would be dynamite.
It would be good for the show.
Hello, Lorne Michaels.
It's good for our show.
Okay, Trump, we had some serious things, and the one that you and I both like a lot is something he brought back, and he brought it back himself.
It was a question that came earlier, but he wound it back around, and I like this.
And Vladimir Putin, who you've expressed admiration for.
Wrong.
Wrong.
You expressed admiration.
Wrong.
I know you said it.
Someone you see as a strong leader is now dividing Europe up.
He said very good things about me, and I said that's wonderful.
I'm going to finish my statement here.
And he's also sowing instability in the Middle East.
I think he said, you bitch.
I couldn't really hear it, but I think Trump says, yeah, you bitch.
Or maybe you wish.
I'm going to finish my statement here.
And he's also sowing instability in the Middle East.
I've been hearing this man so long talking about Putin.
Putin said about me.
I didn't say about Putin.
Putin said very nice things about me.
And I say very nicely, wouldn't it be nice if actually we could get along with Russia, we could get along with foreign countries, instead of spending trillions and trillions of dollars?
Yeah, it would be nice.
I think that's a strong suit.
It would be nice.
Like kittens are nice.
It would be nice.
It'd be like kittens.
Yeah, we love it.
It'd be very, very nice.
And then when this came by, and I'm surprised, he said it before, but never on this type of stage ever.
And then he just came out.
I was expecting this to be number one trending topic, and I'll tell you what, it was the number one trending topic after Trump went into this.
Mr.
Trump, you've repeatedly deflected calls for specific national security or defense policy plans with the claim that you'll ask the best people.
When you become president and take their advice.
So who are the best people?
Can you reveal two or three names that you trust for national security?
I think Richard Haas is excellent.
I have a lot of respect for him.
I liked him just with these names.
Haas, I know, but I thought that was good.
This was actually pretty damn good if he was just throwing out a couple of names.
Richard Haas, we know him.
I think General Cain is excellent.
Do we know General Cain, who that is?
No, but I'm assuming this question, this Q&A right here was given to him in advance.
Of course.
That's why he's all calm.
This is the idea of Fox is going to go soft on him.
Yeah, I agree.
We're going to ask you this question.
you might want to do a little reading.
Yeah, exactly.
...is excellent.
I have a lot of respect for him.
I think General Cain is excellent.
I think that I like Colonel Jacobs very much.
Colonel Jacobs.
All right.
We have our agents out there.
Get back to us on these guys.
We want to know about them.
What's going on with them?
I see him.
I know him.
I have many people that I think are really excellent, but in the end, it's going to be my decision.
When you just asked the question about Snowden, I will tell you, right from the beginning, I said he was a spy, and we should get him back.
And if Russia respected our country, they would have sent him back immediately, but he was a spy.
It didn't take me a long time to figure that one out.
Nice.
But I would get the best people, people that I'd become.
Snowden is a spy.
I think that's great.
That's really good.
Yeah, well, poor Snowden.
Poor Snowden.
Trump is reminding me more and more of Reagan when he ran for governor, when he first got into the business.
You know, Nancy just died this morning.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
There's an opportunity, I think, in this.
Yeah, there's some sort of opportunity to leverage that.
He could try and get some of that Reagan juice on him.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Good.
When he first ran for governor, this was during the era where the University of California was having daily riots.
They finally took care of that by pretty much not letting white students go to that university.
But the students were having issues.
Reagan made all these promises.
The one I remember the most, I just remember it because he kept saying it.
He says that he's going to take the ex-CIA chief John McCone.
He's going to hire John McCone to do a blue ribbon panel on what's causing all these riots.
And he went on and on with this spiel about John McCone, the blue ribbon panel, all the rest of it.
So he comes in as governor.
And that's the end of it.
He never does any of this.
No.
It was just bull crap.
And then the other thing that I remember about Reagan was if you were in school during that era at any level...
And we've talked about this on the show before, but I'm going to bring it up again.
Just to tell you that these guys say one thing.
All politicians, and I think Trump is one.
They say one thing, and then the next thing you know, something crazy happens.
During this entire period, there was nothing but grousing in high school, grammar school, colleges.
About the number of mental institutions in California.
And it was like the situation with prisons that we have today.
Where we have way too many prisons and too many people in the prisons.
And especially people that shouldn't be in the prisons.
And there were too many people.
There were too many nuthouses, as I would call them back then.
And there were too many people in them.
And all the Democrats, it was always the Democrats.
The Democrats, the Democrats were bitching and moaning.
About how this was terrible.
There was a mental thing these people should be on.
They shouldn't be locked up in these horrible places.
And so Reagan gets in as governor and they wanted them all released.
He released them all as the Republicans.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
And then he gets blamed for it.
Yeah, I remember this, yes.
It was just the strangest thing you've ever seen.
So, question for you.
Now that Nancy Reagan's dead, can we do drugs again?
Too soon?
Too soon.
You know, it's actually not too soon because I don't think anybody that listens to this show or anything ever listens to this show.
Knows the reference.
That is such a callback.
Really?
No, people know that.
No.
Well, wait.
Wait for the delay and I'll tell you what the chat room says.
I'll bet you someone knows it.
Someone said too soon.
Just say, just say.
People know the reference.
I do.
Just say yes.
Hey, it's no Zephyr, but I do what I can.
Okay.
Onward.
Yes.
I have an interesting Bernie clip.
One of the guys I really like on CNN, even though I don't like CNN, I think it's crap.
Oh, come on.
I do like that.
Brooke Baldwin.
No, the kimono guy.
What's his name?
Cuban.
Cuomo.
Oh, yeah, Cuomo.
The Cuomo kid.
Yeah, the Cuomo kid.
I think he's really slick.
Yeah, he's pretty good.
He's got a good look.
He's establishment.
He shouldn't be on a two-bit network like that.
Nah, he's establishment.
But he's there to counterbalance pooper.
I guess.
Pooper's probably worried about him.
He's coming up a little bit in the ranks.
Well, Pooper Cooper is...
He's got a charm that I think people like.
And Cuomo does not.
He's just a hard ass.
But he's very presentable.
Who do you want on your network?
I'd put Cuomo.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
And I think he'll go big network.
I don't think he's going to stand his cable.
He's going to take over Brian Williams' spot and piss that guy off, too.
I got a little, yeah, he could be good news.
Are you doing Bernie?
Back to Bernie?
Yeah, this thing got cut off because something was going on, but I just thought this was interesting because it just overlooks the obvious, and I'm going to say it.
Why doesn't Bernie Sanders do better with African Americans?
It doesn't make sense in terms of his message.
I don't know why it wouldn't resonate.
It's not his weakness, it's Hillary's strength.
I think we're looking at the wrong side of the equation.
What is her access to that community?
First, we give Bernie his due.
I don't buy it when you give Bernie his due, though.
I don't buy it.
No, I'm not being disingenuous.
As a 20-year-old, he got arrested trying to integrate housing at the University of Chicago.
He's a horrific record.
Hillary has a better record in the eyes of those voters, and she's got long-standing ties.
Someone's going to come up with a monster mix with these guys like GX2. Someone's going to do a great job with something really phenomenal.
Okay, maybe we can do something just a little offbeat.
Oh, yes.
Oh, this is a nice transitioner.
We're going to transition from the politics in the United States to Agenda 2030, i.e.
the climate gate, to the gate, to the gate.
And we do that with rap mogul extraordinaire Russell Simmons.
Now, I have an Ask John for this.
I'll tell you what the Ask John is up front, so you can think about it while listening to this clip.
Are you ready?
Okay.
What is Russell Simmons smoking?
Are you endorsing someone for president?
Yes, I have just decided to endorse my longtime friend, Senator Clinton.
I think that Bernie Sanders is over-promising.
He's insensitive to the plight of black people.
And what good is it if you don't take lobbyist money and you don't acknowledge the number one threat to America and to the world is the factory farming lobby, because it is poisoning the planet quickly, and it is poisoning its inhabitants.
So the shift has to be made away from the animal product, away from the beef industry, specifically, but all the animal products, into a plant-based diet, or there will be no planet.
And in the next 50 years, we won't even have an ocean.
And when the oceans die, we die.
So we must change the rate at which we consume animals.
And we cannot have a lobbyist take advantage of all our natural resources in order to poison the planet and its people.
I asked him about it, and he brushed it off, even though he knows.
That your earthquake and certainly all of these storms are a result of factory farming.
We now have all the proof in the world that the fact that climate change is man-made and we have to do something to derail it.
So that to me, aside from his insensitivity to black voters, Do you really think Bernie Sanders is insensitive to the needs of the black community?
Yes, he's insensitive in a number of ways, and I would get into it if we had time.
But I think Senator Clinton has been sensitive, supportive of a progressive agenda.
She's realistic in what she can get done.
She's able to beat the Republican candidate, and I think that Bernie Sanders would not be able to, or could lose, and I don't want to take that chance.
Alright.
What is Russell Simmons smoking?
Crack.
No, science.
Science!
Smoking science is what he's doing.
What a crazy, crazy clip.
I'll give you a borderline clip of the day for that.
I'll take one of those.
That's a crazy, crazy guy.
I tried to figure out what he was talking about.
We don't know.
Earthquakes are caused by climate change.
That's a new one.
No, it was caused by the farming lobby.
Earthquakes are caused by farmers.
Farming lobby.
No, not just farmers.
The farming lobby.
And I looked into it.
Bernie Sanders has one huge supporter outside of the nurses' union, which is pretty big.
He has the sugar lobby and indeed the farming lobby.
He hates that one, but I don't know if he hates them all.
And what is this we have to...
Stop.
We have to go to a plant diet?
What is all this about, all of a sudden?
Oh, yeah.
You know what the logical conclusion is to that talk?
Meat grass.
No.
Bugs, man.
It's got to be bugs.
I love bugs.
Bugs, bugs, bugs.
Tastes like poop.
Bugs with sorghum.
We've got a great future ahead of us.
I can't wait for it.
Have your sorghum with crunchy ants and other bugs and other assortments.
I'm not going to get the bugs in there anyway.
It's going to be beautiful.
Now you don't have to have all the inspectors.
Just let the bugs stay in there.
Oh, okay.
This last one, I'd like to go to a break.
I only knew this the minute I saw it because I recently started watching it.
But it wasn't until this news story came out that was like, oh my god, they'll do anything!
It's being treated as we would all evidence, so it has been submitted to our lab.
They are going to study it and examine it for all forensics, including serology and DNA and hair samples, and that is ongoing as we speak.
And that is the three-year-old knife that was found.
Three?
It was found three years ago.
Oh yeah, it was found three years ago.
Yeah, this is a promotion for O.J. Simpson versus the people, or the people versus O.J. Simpson.
This is the TV show.
I thought you were going to go toward this clip, which is, this is my, this one is, I think, is a very interesting, scandalous clip.
And this is the, this is the bacteria clip.
This is the new breakout, the weird bacteria.
Have you heard about this?
No.
You have two.
Which one do you want?
The killing?
What's the other one?
This says weird bacteria killing.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I got it.
Yes, I'm sorry.
I missed it.
Janice with the commute there behind her here in New York.
Thank you.
We turn now to an alarming health headline tonight.
Alarming health headline!
Investigating the trail of mysterious and deadly bacteria.
ABC's Alex Perez in Wisconsin.
Tonight, a medical mystery.
CDC disease detectives hunting for the cause of an outbreak of a rare blood infection.
To have an outbreak of this magnitude is very unusual.
Dr.
Nazia Safdar has been tracking the outbreak of Elizabeth Kingia.
States usually report five to ten cases a year, but since November in southern Wisconsin, 44 cases.
18 people have died.
If they are related, we have to look for a common source.
I mean, what is it that's common to all these 44 people that they got infected with Elizabeth Kingia?
The victims, mostly 65 or older, many already sick with other illnesses.
Symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, and skin infection.
The bacteria can survive in sinks in water.
Most concerning for officials, the victims are scattered across 11 counties, which makes pinpointing a cause even tougher.
And David, the illness is treatable, but doctors say the bacteria is resistant to many antibiotics, so early detection is critical.
Wait a minute.
Wow.
These people are old sick people.
No, there's this thing going around.
If you're in the hospital, you're going to get some.
You're going to get some, yeah.
But this is different than MRSA. The rest is some new thing.
I've never heard of this thing.
And all it does is all these stories do, and I think it may be done on purpose, but I don't know who would be behind it, is point out that we haven't developed a new antibacterial product in a long time.
Forever.
Because these other pills, because the thing that the pharmaceutical companies, one of many of them just discontinued antibiotics altogether with the research.
Pfizer used to be the lead in antibiotics, and they don't do it anymore.
They drop the program, so they don't make anything.
But pills that if you start taking them, you have to keep taking them for the rest of your life.
Which is a great money maker.
Or sex pills and hair pills.
Make your hair grow and your...
Sex pills.
Sex pills.
And hair pills.
Yeah, you're right.
Hair pills.
And B12. Because you keep taking...
Yeah, that stuff's cheap.
How about...
How about turkey?
Let's talk about turkey for a minute.
Yeah, yeah.
Why don't you start?
Because I want to finish with something.
Well, that's why I wanted to talk about turkey.
I figured you could talk about turkey.
Well, you know what's going on in Turkey?
Yeah, this is another Gulen thing.
They raided the newspaper that is at least a strong supporter of...
It's the number one paper in Istanbul, Zaman, and this is the clip that describes the situation, Z-A-M-A-N. Okay.
Hello, Turkish police have fired tear gas and plastic bullets at protesters outside...
Did she say hello?
Hello!
Death and destruction.
Oh, and I want to mention one more thing.
Possible show title...
In brackets, you know brackets, like real insert here?
Alarming health headline.
In brackets.
Because the way that newsreader did that piece.
Alarming news headline.
Health headline.
It could have been just still on the prompter.
They hadn't filled in the headline yet.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, it's funny.
Hello, Turkish police have fired tear gas and plastic bullets at protesters outside the offices of the country's biggest newspaper.
What happened to rubber bullets?
Why is it plastic all of a sudden?
I don't know, they gotta hurt more than a rubber bullet.
I'll bet.
Authorities have seized control of the Zaman publication in a crackdown on a religious group whose leader the government has accused of treason.
The European Commission is urging Turkey to respect media freedom.
Caroline Malone reports.
Police in Istanbul use tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets against people demonstrating for media freedom.
They're taking a stand after police raided the offices of a popular opposition newspaper, replacing its editors with state representatives.
Where in the world have you seen this tyranny before?
This didn't happen even when Hitler was in power, let alone Turkey.
Even the incidents going on in Syria are not much better.
Hundreds of protesters tried to block the entrance to the Zaman newspaper offices on Friday night.
But riot police pushed through the crowds.
And by early Saturday morning, they got into the building.
They pushed out journalists covering the story and evicted the editors.
Unfortunately, it has been a habit for the last three, four years that anyone who is speaking against the government policies is facing either court cases or prison or such control by the government.
The police were acting under a court order to replace the management of the newspaper.
The daily Turkish paper has a circulation of at least 650,000 copies more than any other newspaper.
It's run by a US-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who was once close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
But he's been accused of trying to overthrow the government and of leading what the Turkish authorities describe as a terror organization.
In the last few months, businessmen close to Gulen have been arrested and media groups linked to him have been taken over by pro-government managers.
Back on the streets, people held up a copy of the last salmon newspaper printed before its offices were raided.
It reads, the constitution is suspended.
Caroline Malone, Al Jazeera.
I don't see how they're going to get in the EU as a full member doing this bull crap.
And you know, the Turkey, the Iraq-Turkey pipeline is restarted again.
These guys are bad actors.
Yeah, they're bad actors and it's not going to end well.
But here's the crazy thing.
Now, our officials are saying, hey man, you can't do that.
Fethullah Gulen's a good guy, man.
Good guy.
See Killing Ed, the documentary.
Okay.
I found this particular sub-segment of the story to be even more disturbing, which is that apparently CNN has an operation in Turkey.
And play this little clip here.
Another Turkish media outlet, CNN Turk, has been criticized for not covering the takeover of the Zaman newspaper.
While people were protesting outside Zaman's headquarters on Friday, the channel broadcasts a speech by President Erdogan.
A report on weight loss...
And a book presentation.
It has been reported that the channel also canceled several talk shows on Friday featuring prominent journalists who are critical of the government.
Journalist Frederik Girdink was deported from Turkey last September while covering the military operation against Kurdish militants.
She says almost all Turkish media depends on the state.
Most of the big papers and the big channels also the ones we call...
Hey, wait a minute.
Is she dirt, John?
What is going on here?
I want to get in on the action with this.
This is great.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Most of the big papers and the big channels also the ones we call mainstream and not necessarily like totally...
I'm telling you for 100%, man, she's Dutch.
Mouthpieces of the government.
Oh, yes.
They have economic ties to the government because they are part of big companies.
So they have to report in line with the general government policy.
Yes, they must do this.
This is what we call a conspiracy.
These companies lose contracts in the telecom markets, in the construction markets.
So they are really, the papers are 80%, let's say, under the control of the government.
And now even more with Saman, because Saman is a big paper.
Yes, come over here and stick it in.
This points out one of the reasons that our show requires money.
Assistance from the public directly, because what they describe there is that all these news operations, which have been turned into giant conglomerates, very few independent papers left that survive in this country.
And once they do, they still have to subscribe to AP and all the rest of these news feeds.
Yeah, they get all the compromised news at the source.
Yeah, at the source, exactly.
Yeah, no, you have to.
This is why we ask for donations.
And then some things were supposed to happen, but it was so tight!
I'm gonna show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
I mean, I got to tell you, I can't believe I messed it up.
I'm sorry.
We do this about once every six months.
To be honest, I was already...
You had forgotten the whole thing altogether.
No, I didn't.
Yes, you did, because I was like, hey, let's talk about turkey, dot, dot, dot.
Well, here's the problem.
And then you said, oh, well, yeah, go ahead.
I got some.
I was setting you up.
Let's just tell people what's going on.
John sent me a note.
This happens.
We do this about once every six months to try to set up a bit.
A bit.
It has never worked.
Let me read the bit to you.
Hold on a second.
This is worthy of...
Here we go.
Yeah, it's discussable.
Yeah, here we go.
Behind the scenes on the No Agenda show.
Yeah, I probably already...
Oh, here we go.
Here.
Here.
Clips to and then in all caps.
And note, note, note for you!
I did this because you always, every time I do this, I say, did you read the note?
Note!
Go to donations after I discuss the clip.
Zaman CNN Turkey!
I will set it up!
This comes after the Zaman clip, which leads to the Zaman CNN turkey.
Turkey.
Turkey.
So I say, hey, let's talk about turkey.
And John says, oh, go ahead.
You do your clips first.
I might have something left.
No, that was your setup.
That was your setup.
You wanted me to do this whole thing earlier in the show for the first donation segment.
No, that's not the donation segment.
That's executive...
Get your vernacular corrective order.
You said that you were trying to set me up.
I just pushed it off.
So this time comes around, you make the transition, and here's the problem I had.
I'm looking at the clock.
Normally, we do the second donation segment at about 11.30 mark.
And it's like 11.05 or something, and you're wanting this.
And so I'm thinking, well, maybe he's talking about something else.
So then you said the turkey thing.
Let's talk about turkey.
At 11.25, your time, which is right on schedule, even a little early, you should be thanking me.
And then you go, oh, you're okay, Max, play your clip.
I figured when you said that, I said, ah, he's got a clip, then I can go to my clip.
But you didn't have a clip.
You're overthinking all of it.
So I said, okay.
And so I do my bit.
And so it's working now.
Nobody would notice.
And then you hit the button and nothing happens.
We are doomed to never be able to work one of these things out.
We cannot do scripted media.
We should be shot in the neck.
Well, we try.
Anyway, the point is well made, though.
I mean, they make the point for us, which is these corporate media outlets that can't deliver the product.
They did a new thing on diets.
It's almost as bad as us messing up the one scripted bit every year.
Yeah, actually we've done that.
I wrote a script once, if you remember.
That was the last time I did that.
I think I rejected that out of hand.
I actually wrote a script.
What was that?
I don't remember.
And we were going to do it, kind of.
And then when we started to do it...
It was a Freddy the Firewall bit, I think.
And it really sucked.
It was something.
And then the whole thing just...
It fell apart.
Yeah, it sucked.
It fell apart on the fly.
Yeah, because we are improv artists, John.
Yeah, we can't do the script of anything.
But we can do one thing.
We can thank a bunch of people for helping us on the show.
Whoa, smooth!
805.
Smooth!
Kyle Romagus in Splendora, Texas leads the list at $160.10.
And he says, him and his lady from FEMA Region 6, formerly Texas.
Sorry if the donations have been so low, so here's our next contribution toward each of our knighthoods.
That's a double dose of 80.05.
It's a double dose of 80.05.
80.05.
Sir Chad Biderman in Round Lake, Illinois.
One of our nights, $160.
Billy Talty.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.
Sir Chad Biderman.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
This is in purple color.
Purple is always important.
Purple.
Let's see.
I believe this donation makes me...
It's green on your spreadsheet?
No, it's not green.
I believe this donation makes me eligible for a barony.
I'd like to become the baron of Guam if the territory's not already taken.
Yeah.
He's on the list for that.
Yes, good.
You have no knights, I believe.
You have him becoming a baron.
We have no knights.
Of Guam.
So he's actually in Guam, I'm guessing.
He's not in Illinois at all.
Yeah, probably.
Billy Talti, which is a really interesting name to me.
New Orleans, Louisiana, $100.
Crocuda Computer Services in Pacifica, California, $100.
Benjamin Radar.
Radar.
Raider. Raider. Raider. Vienna. Peretz. 100.
Derek Winks.
And I bet he does.
Clarkston, Michigan.
A hundred.
William Oakley.
A hundred.
In Wildwood, New Jersey.
Where's Derek Winks?
A hundred.
Eric Brawley in Paulsbo, Washington.
Oh, he sent us four nines.
Niner, niner, niner, niner.
Niner, niner, niner, niner.
Yeah.
And he has some...
He wants a request.
You can put it at the end of the show.
What does he want here?
Alice Shrugged request.
Oh.
At Palsmo, by the way, if anyone ever drives past that little town, you should definitely go drive through the downtown.
It's fantastic.
It is a Norwegian replica.
It's a replica of a Norwegian village.
James Thurman in San Antonio, Texas, 89.95.
John F. Bell in Clarksville, Maryland.
88, 88, 88, 88, 88.
CSS Computer Solutions and Services, which is not going to do much good since I don't have a city that they're in.
$80.50.
Oops, sorry.
We'll get it plugged later.
Russell Girton in Beaumarie, Victoria, Australia.
$80.08.
This is our special $80.08 coming up.
We have $80.08 coming up, which is all lucky numbers.
Yeah.
This is nice.
Yeah.
Uh...
We're recommending 80.05.
We got a few of those, but these guys jumped the gun.
Russell Girton in Beaumari, Victoria, as I just mentioned.
Sir Patrick Coble, our buddy and dude named Ben in Fairview, Tennessee, 80.08.
He wrote me a note saying that he'll come to California if I ever get my act together and put the Zephyr ride up to the train museum.
What do you have to do to, quote, get your act together?
Derek LeJack Dundinsky, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 808.
Jason Daniels in Dallas, Texas, 808.
And then we have today's show, Will, which is Taylor Kuzela.
Yeah, this is your new idea, is do a special club, but do it with a lower donation, or you can do whatever you can do either.
Yeah, because we can't...
Because just casual $800 donations...
That doesn't happen, yeah.
It's not really fit...
We have a poison pill built into our business plan.
That's not good.
It's really high.
It's a high number.
I mean, we totally appreciate the instant nights and all the rest of the people that do give big amounts all out of the blue.
But to look for it commonly is non-realist.
No, no, no, no.
Okay, Jason there, 805 in Dallas.
Taylor Cussell, I just mentioned him, in Alpharetta, Georgia, which is a really interesting place.
Sir Jim Zuckel in Los Angeles, California, 80.05.
David Clevenger in Sterling, Virginia.
We've got a birthday coming up.
Somebody does.
80.05.
Craig Mazzella in Easton, Connecticut, 80.05.
Rick LaBanca.
I thought it was LaBlanca.
No, it's LaBanca.
Rick in Hope, Rhode Island.
Sir Keith Edwards in Gilbert, Arizona, 80.05.
Mark...
Alcacer, I believe.
I think you're right.
In Houston, Texas.
Todd Elgee.
Did you read Todd's note?
No.
Why don't you read it?
He said Todd Elgee in Katy, Texas.
According to James Pennebaker's Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, I guess he's been running your newsletters through the Pennebaker Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count generator online.
Yeah.
Would you like your report card?
Yeah, I want to hear what it says.
I should be doing this myself.
You should, and you will, after you hear.
John's last ten newsletters exhibit analytic and formal thinking.
Here's your score.
Analytic, 82.
Very good, very good.
High score for analytic.
Very good.
Clout.
I guess that's who you represent yourself.
Very, very good.
Very, very good.
Emotional tone, 86.
John, 86.
We have clout, 76.
Emotional tone, 86.
Analytic, 82.
Authenticity.
Oh.
20.
You got a 20 on authenticity.
Ha!
I have no idea why that is.
You've got to work on that, man.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
I know.
I think I know what it is.
It's disturbing is what it is.
Well, I don't think that's necessarily true.
I'm not saying that Pennebaker is the end-all and be-all.
I think I know the reason why.
Okay.
Why I would come in low at that number.
And it's something I really can't say.
I know why.
You are a marketing genius.
That's why.
Yeah.
This guy.
Zachary Gilbrecht in Cordova, Tennessee, 80.05.
Matthew...
By the way, thanks, Todd, for doing that.
I think it's fun.
Keep doing it.
Matthew Mullen in Brick, New Jersey, 80.05.
Sir Dingaling in Sutterland, Illinois, 80.05.
Dropping down to 75 bucks from Frank Pugh in Tallahassee, Florida.
It says, thanks guys.
Christopher Baylor in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.
6789, one of my favorites.
Sir Inside Jobs there in Seattle, Washington.
6666.
Benjamin Dykes in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where you just were.
It says, dude named Ben from Fayette-Nam.
And he is a real Ben.
6174 is known as Kaprecker's Constant.
Blue dot, fire hydrant.
Kaprecker's Constant.
Benjamin Dykes in...
Oh, that's Benjamin, sorry.
Craig Dashnow in Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, 60 even.
Nicholas Blexrud in Portland, Oregon, 5678, another good one.
Vision 9, 5678 in Mamora, Ontario, Canada.
Scott Strait in Deerfield Beach, Florida, 5678.
Michael Kernelstein in Chicago, 5657.
James Clancy, 5555 in Pineville, Louisiana.
You've truly changed the way I see the world as reported by the mainstream media.
Figured it was time to repay value for value.
Thank you.
Good work.
High Mountain Products in Helsinki, Finland.
We should visit them.
Get us some reindeer meat.
Some reindeer jerky.
Sean Zinsmeister in San Francisco.
I'm waving.
Hey!
Tyler Sink in Benton, Illinois.
By the way, Sean was 55.
Tyler Sink is 55.
Oh, he's 5432.
Sorry.
Sir Christopher Barron of Brown County in De Pere, Wisconsin, 5432 also.
That's a callback to something.
John Cruz in Evergreen, Colorado, 53-35.
Don Pablo in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 52.
Jeffrey Anderson, $50.31 from Stewart, Florida.
Bill Bill.
Bill.
5031 in Ada, Oklahoma.
Paul Ranum in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
5005.
And the following people are $50 donors.
I want to thank each and every one of them, starting with Simon Callahan in South Wold, Suffolk.
Michael Thompson in Chertsley, Alabama.
Ryan Martinez in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Steph Baker in Heemskirk, Netherlands.
Heemskirk.
Heemskirk.
Steph Bucker.
Yes.
Steph Bucker.
Heemskirk.
Yeah, Steph Bucker in Heemskirk.
Yeah.
Brandon Gruber in Vista, California.
Pierre Trudell in Ottawa, Ontario.
Matthew Januszewski in Chicago.
Adam Beck in Lost Wages, Nevada.
And finally, last but not least, our buddy Sir Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
I want to thank all these folks for...
Helping us out and bringing our show numbers back up and responding.
Apparently I'm not authentic.
No, you're 20-20.
I'm insincere.
I think a 20 score on authentic is insincere.
No, there's not the opposite of authentic.
What does it mean?
Fake.
Fake.
If you look down all the way to the bottom in Amstelzine, somebody sent us two cents.
That's the Dutch for you.
It's the Dutch.
Amstelfein.
Who is that?
Sergio Sampson.
Just my two cents.
Keep up the good work.
When I'm solvent, I'll donate properly.
Are you doing that little game?
I'll tell you the problem with the two cents.
It's fine.
It costs us three cents, doesn't it?
No, it costs...
The two cents negates out.
It's the minimum.
That's the minimum.
I think it's a nickel.
So it doesn't really show up.
You mentioned San Francisco and you kind of did your little gay lisp.
I didn't.
I was a mistake.
I apologize.
I heard it.
It reminded me I got an email from Obama about the professor's wife who moved to San Francisco.
Gay lisp?
Well, yes, because they're in San Francisco now and he's a brain professor at Stanford.
I thought they lived in Palo Alto.
No, he works in Palo Alto.
They live in San Francisco.
He commutes to Palo Alto every day?
She makes him do that.
I know.
Oh, that's right.
She's the one who wanted him to live in San Francisco.
Yes, yes, yes.
It's so expensive.
Although I can't say, let's just say, Palo Alto's just as expensive.
But you don't have to drive that horrible ride.
He takes the train.
He takes the train.
You don't have to take that horrible train every day.
So Russ and I are heading to Austin in May.
We'd love to see you and catch up if you can swing it.
And so she's inviting the artist and her husband and Tina and I. And so we're going to have a big, full-on Obama-bot dinner.
Are there going to be any newbies at this event?
I don't know.
But what made me bring this up is, she says in her email, how are you doing?
We're doing well out here in San Francisco, but man, this place is full of crazy liberals.
We feel like right-wingers by comparison.
And they're Obama bots.
Well, that's interesting.
So this might throw a wrench into the conversation.
It may screw things up.
It might.
I don't know.
I'm a little worried.
Huh.
Well, it's not until May, so we'll wait until we hit May.
And we want to thank everybody who supported the program today on our Value for Value model, and of course everyone who came in under $50, often for reasons of anonymity, but people are also on these monthly plans.
Those are great when you can get on one of those in addition to a regular donation.
Thank you very much, and remember we do have a show coming up on Thursday.
Dvorak.org slash NA. We have David Clevenger turned 65 yesterday.
We say happy birthday.
Mark Klein says happy birthday to his beautiful wife, Carrie.
She'll be celebrating tomorrow on the 7th.
And Brandon Gruber says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Natia Gruber.
And we say the same.
Send pictures for her run by your friends here.
The best podcast in the universe.
And we have one title change, which we mentioned earlier.
That is Sir Chad Biederman becomes the Baron of Guam.
We're very happy to have him taking over that protectorate as per the No Agenda Peerage map, which you can find at itm.im slash peerage.
I was tickled by the reports...
From the mainstream media, you'll hear too, CNN, but the BBC really took the cake.
When all of a sudden, for some reason, the military-industrial complex needed to ratchet up some rhetoric about North Korea and say that Kim Jong-un had said, he had said, he has nuclear arms at the ready!
Nuclear arms at the ready, I tell you!
So I have two reports.
The CNN report, which is short, just, you know, alarming global health line here.
And then we have the BBC, who do the headline, but then go into deconstruct it, which I just thought was an odd, interesting, and somewhat funny thing they did.
First, CNN. Right now, we want to turn to some compelling international headlines.
See, this is another one of those inserts, John.
You just got to write it down.
Hold on.
So we already have alarming health headline, and now we have compelling, what did she say?
Compelling international or something like that again.
Yeah, that's interesting.
This is a new thing they're doing.
Right now we want to turn to some compelling international headlines.
Compelling international.
They're just not even making the headlines up anymore.
Now, let's stop here for a second.
I'm on to something.
I know I'm on to something.
Because I think you're definitely on to something.
And something I've also noticed is that not everyone, but I'd say four out of five, the ABC News, network news that shows up, four out of five during the week, starts with, we have breaking news tonight.
Right.
That's getting old now.
Yeah, we have breaking news.
We have breaking news.
We have breaking news.
They keep saying it.
And I think we should start paying attention to this because this is obviously some gimmick that these guys have been using to get your attention, I guess.
Does this get your attention when she says that?
You just have to just imagine the teleprompter rolling by and there's a little sentence in brackets and it says, Alarming health headline!
Ward says, Compelling international headline!
And they're just not even making up the headlines anymore.
They're just putting that in there.
So what could we expect as well?
Frightening.
Yeah, frightening for sure.
For sure.
Frightening terrorism headline.
It has to end with headline, you see.
Let's just do a couple.
Frightening terror headline.
Terrorist headline.
Maybe a frightening terror attack headline.
We should have something with the...
I got one.
Disturbing medical headline.
Yes.
Yes.
I think disturbing medical headline would get my attention.
Moving medical headline.
That could be like assisted suicide.
I like to put some alliteration in there.
It's even better if you can do that.
Yeah, the ABC will be doing that.
They're the most artistic of the three networks.
Monstruously manufactured headline.
Alright, here we go.
Let's go back.
Bullcrap headline.
Right now we want to turn to some compelling international headlines.
That's right, a threatening rhetoric coming from North Korea and the leader Kim Jong-un there a day after the UN Security Council passed strict sanctions against Pyongyang.
The state news agency KCNA says Kim has now ordered nuclear weapons to be ready for use, quote, at any time.
At any time!
The news agency also confirming the test fire of a new multiple launch rocket system.
The Pentagon says it's aware of these reports and is closely monitoring the situation with its regional allies.
Now, here's what was great during this CNN version of this, this fearful headline ahead.
They had photos, video, actually no, still photos of Kim Jong-un with a couple of other dudes and, you know, fruit salad, looking up like they're looking at the launch.
They're looking up in the sky.
Oh, and he's pointing to the sky.
There goes my nuke.
Yeah.
So BBC, of course, they had to do that.
Hey, Betsy, do we have anything from Getty images that we can use showing him looking up?
No?
What about Corbis?
Do those guys have an image we can use?
What do they want for it?
No, it's too high.
That's exactly what it is.
Exactly.
Now, BBC, they did the headline, but then they went in to go and actually tell you what could be, you know, so you're now assuming, of course, which would make an ass out of you and me, that Kim Jong-un said, I have my nuclear arms at the ready.
Finger on the button, almost.
Almost said finger on the button.
But that's not exactly what he said.
And the BBC does the headline and then backtracks the whole thing.
Very odd.
The United States has urged North Korea to refrain from provocative actions that aggravate tensions.
That's a direct quote from a Pentagon spokesperson made after the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told his military leaders to be ready to fire nuclear weapons at a moment's notice.
So he said, be ready.
He told his lieutenants to be ready at a moment's notice to fire nuclear weapons.
That's your headline.
Be ready to fire nuclear weapons at a moment's notice.
The BBC's Steve Evans gave us his assessment of the situation from the South Korean capital.
Boots on the ground.
Here we go.
He was watching the launch of missiles, and according to the state-controlled media there...
Controlled.
Unlike the BBC, which is not at all controlled media.
And according to the state-controlled media there, he said the nuclear force of North Korea should be bolstered, both in quantity and quality.
It should be on constant standby, and it should be ready to attack preemptively.
That's a little different than I've got my finger on the button.
This is total bullcrap, their headlines.
This is outrageous bullcrap.
So it's pretty blood-curdling stuff.
It's pretty blood-curdling stuff, John!
Pretty blood-curdling headlines!
That's not blood-curdling.
He said, yeah, we have to have a bolster, we've got to beef it up.
That's exactly what every Republican, that's what everyone says.
We've got to beef up our military, get everything ready, you know, make sure we're good to go.
That's not like, oh, I'm ready to fire at a moment's notice.
Quantity and quality.
It should be on constant standby.
Yeah, engines warmed up, of course.
Should be ready to attack.
Yeah, use some extra gas.
Preemptively.
So it's pretty blood-curdling stuff.
Pretty blood-curdling stuff.
I'm so blood-curdled right now.
Talking about blood-curdling, you have our scream?
Oh, yes.
That's blood-curdling.
I need to put the scream in hot rotation if I can access it faster.
Okay, let's roll him back.
Let's get him to some pretty blood-curdling stuff.
There we go.
Controlled media there.
He said the nuclear force of North Korea should be bolstered both in quantity and quality.
It should be on constant standby and it should be ready to attack preemptively.
So it's pretty blood-curdling stuff.
This is going to Montreux.
And it's very similar to the situation back in 2013, when North Korea also did a nuclear test.
At that time, Kim Jong-un told foreigners that they had to leave Pyongyang, for example, and Seoul here, actually, because war was so imminent.
It's a cranking up of the rhetoric, which happens quite frequently.
Having said all that...
And he throws in, having said all of that, with my blood-curdling, so frightening.
When the leader of a power which does have the ability to detonate nuclear devices makes this kind of threat, you have to...
Take it seriously.
It doesn't mean he's going to carry it out.
And outside experts actually doubt that he could carry it out.
Wait a minute!
There is no doubt at all that he is moving down the path.
He's walking back the whole report.
I know!
This is nutty!
He spends a minute on the report and then a minute walking it back.
Being able to carry it out, probably some years away.
No, they can't even do it now.
What happened to the blood-curdling stuff?
There is a ritual going on, a particularly high state of tension.
Next week, that tension will be cranked up even more, because there will be the annual exercises, joint exercises, between the South Korean military, shoulder to shoulder, With the U.S. military, forces from both sides on maneuvers in this country.
North Korea says that's clearly a preparation for invasion.
The rhetoric will get hotter and the tension will get higher.
It doesn't mean war is imminent, but it does mean the tension is high.
OK, thank you.
What a non-report.
I know.
Because it's a non-event, and the only thing that we need to question is, why?
Was it because of the Republican debate?
They wanted to use that as an extra, like a little gotcha, and try and mix it up with North Korea?
And why else does that get inserted?
Half the time this North Korea stuff shows up, I just think it's still, you know...
But we know from Uncle Don.
Uncle Don was very clear.
He said, that's military-industrial complex.
You've got to ratchet it up.
Yeah, they're trying to sell more crap to South Korea.
Yeah, exactly.
Bastards.
And there's no excuse not to buy more stuff.
And never get fired for buying from the U.S. government.
It's almost as though we're the ones behind the North Korean nuke program.
Yeah.
Because it's a moneymaker.
Well, in a certain way, we are behind the program.
It's non-existent.
The guy just said, well, I can't really fire him.
Maybe in a couple of years he can fire something.
Not right now.
We are the North Korean nuclear program.
Yeah.
Dude, just making it up.
But, you know, so the BBC had to do the headline, but then had to walk it back.
It's disgusting.
Right.
We need to talk a little bit about the migrant crisis.
I almost have a clip blitz kind of thing.
We can do a clip.
I'm just going to do three clips and then I'll let you jump in here.
Okay.
How is it going with the migrants in Europe?
When this first started, I think I was one of the few people who was on it consistently and said this is a humanitarian disaster of epic proportion.
I wasn't disagreeing with you.
No, you were not.
But it was not big in the news.
And it's still not big in the news.
Well, I don't know about that.
It's getting bigger.
It has to be.
I have the lightest clip if you want to play it first.
Okay.
I have the Tusk who's trying to set up some sort of...
This is the guy who said, do not come to Europe.
Yeah, well, here's what he says now.
President of the European Council Donald Tusk says he sees the first signs of Europe reaching consensus on how to manage the migration crisis.
He's been visiting Turkey in his diplomatic drive to get that country to help stem the flow of immigrants.
After meeting Turkey's President Erdogan, Tusk said that common ground is emerging for the first time.
Tusk has been on a tour of Turkey and the Balkan nations that lie on the route that most refugees take from Greece to Northern Europe.
There's to be a crucial EU summit on migration next Monday.
Yeah, okay.
Well...
This does not show the picture of what is happening, primarily Greece, which has the borders with other countries to flow into more Schengen area.
Blocked.
Blocked, blocked, blocked.
And I have to say this.
I have to give the credit to some of the reporters and boots on the ground that do this.
I give them credit.
I think it's sick, because they've got footage to sell.
Hmm.
But they have these pictures, these pathetic, actually very attractive kids, little kids.
Beautiful kids.
You know, that look like they're just, they look like they'd be fine anywhere.
They'd be, you know, adoptable.
And they just look so sad.
These little kids are just, oh, just a heartbreaker.
I mean, this, I think, is exploitation.
It is befuddling.
That with all this beautiful material these child migrants offer up, and I've seen this, when I went to Iraq, it was the same thing.
All people, really, that I saw, but the children specifically, in the right light, if you get that desert sun, they look so pretty, so beautiful.
And that they still can't get anything moving in Europe.
These pictures are everywhere.
It's just not working.
Greece has been urged to declare a state of emergency on its border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, where some 12,000 migrants and refugees are stuck, with authorities only allowing a handful through the governor of Greece's central Macedonia region wants action.
The former Yugoslav Republic needs to open immediately the borders and the European Union needs to implement severe actions against the countries that are closing borders today.
Traveling with his daughters, it's been a long and dangerous road to the border for Tahir from war-torn Syria, one of some 35,000 migrants and refugees currently stranded in Greece.
We managed to cross over with great difficulty and harsh conditions.
We were mugged and robbed on the road and lost everything.
Even our passports are gone.
Border restrictions in several countries have led to the backlog.
So this is Europe, he says.
Very good.
Had I known I wouldn't have moved an inch.
Asked if he's thinking of returning to Syria, Tahir says, no, I'm thinking of committing suicide.
While the EU and Turkey seek a consensus at an emergency summit on Monday on how to stem the influx of migrants, Greece looks set to remain Europe's waiting room for months to come.
Yes, the warehouse of souls, as we previously said.
Yeah, this is a screwjob again.
The Greeks are getting screwed by the EU. Of course.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But wait, it's going to spread.
Can I mention something here?
Yeah.
That's your clip.
Yeah.
You've seen these migrant things.
As far as the eye can see, tons of these guys.
Tons of them.
Tons?
Like ants.
Actually, pretty much like ants.
It's just like this huge pile.
How do you get mugged and have your passport stolen amongst this crowd?
Yeah, well, by your own crowd.
There's a whole bunch of people in there that are no good.
There's no gooders.
There's no gooders in there.
For sure.
Or maybe just highwaymen.
That's what I was thinking.
They make it sound like highwaymen.
Greek highwaymen.
Greek highwaymen.
Well, you can imagine when you have a whole warehouse of souls and they're all sitting around in the same spot.
This is your number one question.
Yeah, where do they crap?
Yeah, and what does that mean for hygiene and overall health?
Again, we go to the videotape in Greece.
An estimated 13,000 migrants are camped in these muddy fields in Greece, waiting to cross the Macedonian border.
The migrants are hoping to reach wealthier countries in Central and Northern Europe, but Macedonia is only allowing a small trickle in.
Aid workers say just 187 people entered on Friday.
One man from the battle ravaged city of Holmes says he's been here waiting for two weeks.
We're suffering, all suffering right here, you know.
We run away from the war.
They don't want us to pass.
I don't know the situation.
We need a solution.
The squalid conditions are beginning to take a toll on the migrants.
Many, especially the children, are falling ill, according to Cécile van Cottenenburg with Medicine Sans Frontières.
When it's raining and they don't have a shelter, it will be cold.
They will catch a cold.
They will catch respiratory diseases.
The problems began when Austria imposed border restrictions, setting off a domino effect throughout the so-called Balkan Corridor.
Until those restrictions are eased, the migrants may find these camps very difficult to escape.
And now we have disease, which you can just wait for the poop diseases to show up.
Or, yeah, let the UN come in and sit off.
But wait, John, we're not done with these poor souls yet.
No, no, no!
No, what can we make even worse?
They're stuck there.
They got disease.
Wait, wait, wait!
Adding to the misery of thousands of migrants blocked at the Greek-Macedonian border.
Heavy rain has flooded parts of the makeshift town, where up to 12,000 people have sought refuge.
Children and the elderly are among those living in cold and difficult conditions.
Oh, stop whining!
Those affected by the flooding have tried to salvage what they can of their few possessions.
You can swim and sleep.
He says you can't swim and sleep.
At the same time.
What's wrong with you?
What?
We do that all the time, man.
Come on.
Come on.
Get with the program.
Only a handful of migrants are being let through the border every day, causing a long, agonizing wait for those seeking asylum.
The images' hair are coming to symbolize the migrant crisis in Europe and the failure to find adequate solutions.
And...
The solution that is coming, I guess they have the meeting on Monday, is not good.
This is going straight back to a coalition of the willing.
Merkel now talking about giving Turkey $3 billion a year to...
Yeah, this is an extortion racket.
It's a total extortion racket.
And she's fighting back.
Merkel is under pressure, no question.
In the three German states that are holding regional elections on March the 13th, her party is bleeding support to the AFD, the Alternative for Germany party.
This is a party that was set up in 2013, really is an anti-Euro bailout party, but it's since morphed into an anti-immigration party and is now profiting from widespread popular concerns in Germany about how the country is going to manage the massive Influx of migrants.
Yeah, these are clearly Nazis and Hitlerjugend who are doing this.
Over a million migrants poured into Germany last year.
A lot of people worried about how the country's going to cope with that.
Merkel herself wants to pursue a Europe-wide plan, working together with Turkey to try to fix this problem.
However, she's facing a lot of resistance, even within her own party, to take national measures.
Some people actually want Germany to close its borders, as some other European countries have done.
That resistance is coming from within her own party.
The leaders of the CDU in two of those three states that are voting on March 13th issued a joint statement in which they said that no one else without grounds for asylum should be allowed in to Germany.
Oh, man.
So, I don't know if you've noticed on the videos of the migrants, The despair is now unreadable.
People just weeping openly.
Kids just weeping uncontrollably.
It's heartbreaking.
It really is.
And I know people care, but the European Union is not giving a very good impression of caring.
Except for the Dutch who have now said, oh, we'll build an air bridge.
The Dutch are insane.
They're going to build an air bridge to airlift the migrants into Holland.
Yeah, this is not going to work.
This is going over very well with the population.
They're very, very happy about this idea.
But, you know, it is unavoidable.
It may be even this week.
Someone's going to flip out.
There's going to be an eruption of some sort, and it's going to be ugly.
It's going to be ugly.
These people are, you know, it's too long.
This is taking too long.
People have no idea.
You can't push people.
We're complaining about waterboarding here in America during our elections.
This is nothing compared to waterboarding.
I bet these people would say, waterboard me, please.
Just not this.
A little perspective needed.
Well, of course, the propaganda mill is cranking up all kinds of different stories, and the RT is, of course, goading everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So there's these reports, which is just to annoy everybody, including this.
Let's see, I got two clips here.
Okay, I think this is about...
It started with this one, RT Pork.
Okie dokie.
There is one defining element of Germany's food culture.
It is the pork sausage.
And you cannot visit the country without sampling a good old-fashioned verse of sorts.
However, in times of a refugee influx from Muslim countries, many food outlets in Germany have been dropping traditional pork meals to make room for halal dishes.
That has gotten a group of regional lawmakers from Angela Merkel's party really worried.
In fact, so much...
Oh, they're worried.
Pushing for a law to ensure pork remains firmly on the menu.
Oh, man.
This is insane.
It's insane.
Yeah.
And then if you want to just throw a little more gasoline on the fire, let's play this clip.
This is the...
Of course, this is, again, RT just chiding everybody.
They just love this stuff.
This is the bowing to Muslim needs.
The Russians have dealt with this problem for decades.
They know what this is.
They know this.
They understand the cultural issue.
Germany has been making a number of changes of late to accommodate migrants from Muslim countries.
A school in Bavaria banned girls from wearing short skirts because a refugee center is located nearby.
Did I wake up in a whole different universe?
I gotta hear that again.
That was just crazy nutty, man.
How does that even work?
Jeez, here we go.
Germany has been making a number of changes of late to accommodate migrants from Muslim countries.
A school in Bavaria has banned girls from wearing short skirts because a refugee center is located nearby.
Another German town canceled a New Year's fireworks display so that those fleeing war zones would not be scared by loud banks.
And elsewhere, a church where Muslim migrants were being housed removed crosses and other religious symbols to make them feel more comfortable.
That's RT. Yeah, of course.
Oh, man.
RT, giving him the needle.
Wow, big time.
Just, like, stick it in there, man.
RT, I want to just step aside from the normal stuff here and do a little of our Curry DeVore consulting.
RT makes a huge blunder.
And I've started to notice that PBS NewsHour is starting to do this now, by the way.
Not as bad as RT, but they're starting to do it.
And this, let me give you an example, because I have one little clip of the, and you're going to ask me afterwards.
I want you to play, this is an example of the blunder.
And this, by the way, is taking place on PBS NewsHour.
This is the clip that is RT's serious problem with presentation.
Okay.
Germany is not the only European country debating the future of pork.
What is going on?
I was wondering when you were going to stop.
What is going on?
I'll listen.
This is what they say.
They're flashing.
Printed, like, in Hungary, blah, blah, blah.
And one after another, they get all this information that they're throwing up on the screen.
And, like, not infographics, but just statements.
It's like watching one of those stupid, you know, presentations where YouTube has all these words.
Pre-packaged, yeah, pre-packaged thing.
No, it's not even that.
It's a bunch of stuff to read.
It's like this and then this and then this.
The PBS NewsHour has started to do this in between segments.
They'll put up something to read.
QT word cloud.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is no good.
No.
No.
There's no...
What does it take to do a read?
Have somebody do a voiceover and read what they're saying?
Because PBS NewsHour, for example, is played on the radio.
I think we need to call a Section 508 on these people.
Hello?
What's the section?
I don't get the joke.
Oh, hello.
For the Americans with Disability Act, you need to read what is on the screen.
Otherwise, if we can't see it, then you're being singling us out.
Absolutely.
And I have low vision.
Excellent point.
We can sue them, John.
We can sue them.
Class action lawsuit.
Well, they should do something because it is annoying.
And we'll put it right in the lawsuit.
It's annoying.
It's annoying.
Why are you suing?
It's annoying.
And we can't read it.
And actually, PBS NewsHour should be called up because they do play their show on the radio, on the regular PBS. And...
Or NPR. They play it on the NPR. So every time one of these little graphics things show up with a little comment, 2011, five people fell off a cliff, and they'll be up there.
They never voice over it, so you don't get that information if you're listening to it just audio.
Yeah, so it needs to stop.
It needs to stop.
It needs to stop.
I'm telling you, we have a case.
We have a case.
That is a case.
You're right.
The more they do this, and I have low vision.
I have vision issues, and I need to hear things because I'm sitting across the room.
I can't really see, and so I'm always listening to the news hour because, you know, that's where I get all my worldly information from.
It's where I often can find a compelling international headline.
RT is the worst at this.
And even when they do, they mix it up a little bit.
But generally speaking, when they bring some guy from Turkey, let's say, and they ask him a question.
MSNBC is doing this too, John.
They're doing this too.
Bumpers with little cutesy things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It has to stop.
Unless you do a voiceover, it has to stop.
Yeah, it's a 508.
I think you're right.
Section 508 violation of the American Disabilities Act.
We have a case.
It's called Judge Judy.
I just have two little things just to play us out.
It's not even a clip blitz, really.
Just something fun.
Well, I have a couple of two.
Just to lift our spirits.
I'll do one, you do one, I do one.
We'll do back and forth.
Here we go.
One way to de-stigmatize menstrual periods may be to give women a week off every month.
At least that's what one British company hopes to achieve.
Bristol-based Coexist has a largely female staff, and the company's directors say it's unfair for women to have to work while in pain.
Director Bex Baxter told the Bristol Post, everyone at Coexist respects the company and gives more than 100% to their work, so I don't think we will have an issue with people deceiving us.
This is an uncommon business practice throughout the world.
In the US, most companies don't even offer paid maternity leave.
However, several Asian countries like Japan and Taiwan offer working women the ability to take a few paid days to a week off every month during their menstrual cycle.
Some activists have said allowing women to take off for their period pain doesn't improve gender equality.
For female workers that coexist, they aren't required to take time off.
It's just an option.
First of all, I wonder if that's true in Japan.
That's a borderline clip of the day.
Oh, I know.
He goes for the second borderliner.
Borderline clip of the day.
So I agree.
I think that you don't have to work if you're in pain.
I think there should be a law that women should have a week off, one week a month, but they should also go to their own special hotel.
Doesn't that sound fair?
It's a round out the idea.
You're right.
Your own special hotel.
You can check in.
It's free.
It's free healthcare.
With other women with the same ailment.
In fact, Planned Parenthood should be providing this service.
It has to be mic'd up.
Look, you get free time in the Planned Parenthood week off facility, and you will be mic'd.
Okay, I've got...
Here's my...
And you know, just to be completely misogynistic, we could probably sync up all the women in the world to kind of like the same timeline, and that would just be a thing.
And in the future, children would...
Wait, what do you mean?
I mean, don't all women go away for the last week of the month?
Yes, it's always been that way, Tommy.
It's always been that way, Tommy.
Well, if you're going to go in that route, I gotta...
What is the other way I can go with this thing?
You do the Tommy thing.
It's creepier when you do it.
What?
What?
You mean to be Tommy?
I'm supposed to be Tommy?
No, you be Uncle John.
Hey, kids.
Yes, the way it's always been.
Alright, fine.
That's not good.
You did the creep one a minute ago.
While you're on the topic, let's play this.
This is dad, number four, who needs him.
Quality time with children is key, says Victoria Cabrera.
A study by the University of Savannah showed a two-parent household doesn't necessarily assure greater results in development.
The children we interviewed in our studies said that they count on their mother, friends, and the internet, in that order, more so than their fathers.
Having fathers be in that fourth spot is a call on dads to be more involved in the education and formation of their children.
The traditional family structure is changing, and while mothers are choosing to raise their children out of wedlock, studies show the most important question is whether or not they can dedicate the time necessary for the development of their child.
Michelle Begitt, CCTV, Bogota.
Wow.
Yeah.
This falls right in with the article which I tweeted, and if anyone wants to add the real Dvorak, about the big trend going on in England and parts of the United States where women are getting married to no one.
Wait a minute.
How does that work?
You go, you get the wedding dress, and you bring all your buddies, your friends, and you get married to no one.
It's a wedding with one person.
It's a one-person wedding.
And it's a trend.
No.
No.
Yes!
Mononuptials.
Yeah, mononuptials.
Look into it.
Oh, yeah.
I can't wait.
I'll get right on that tip, John.
I can't wait to see that.
All right, your next clip.
Wow.
That's pretty bad.
Yeah, just when you thought the best defense was...
What was that kid that had affluence?
Affluent disease?
He was too affluent?
Yeah.
Affluenza.
Affluenza.
Thank you.
That's what it was.
Well, we have a new one now.
After affluenza.
A diagnosis of sexsomnia comes after a sleep study where doctors chart a patient is asleep while engaging in sex acts with no recollection of it afterwards.
If your partner is sleeping and they're not aware of it, that's not it.
Dr.
Saul Rothenberg is a sleep specialist with Northwell Health.
He says sexsomnia falls in the same category of parasomnias as sleepwalking and sleep talking.
In parasomnias, including sexsomnia, you would have an incomplete awakening so that you're stuck in sleep, but you start doing things that are normally restricted to waking.
Sexsomnia was used as a defense in two high-profile rape cases overseas.
The juries in those cases bought the argument.
The cases were a man in England in 2007 acquitted of raping a girl, and a man in Denmark in 2013 acquitted of molesting two girls.
Shocking to me if that held up in court.
Rape victims advocates worry more criminals will use it as a defense.
Researchers tell those who have sexsomnia, avoid stress, sleep deprivation, sleeping pills, and excessive alcohol and drugs, and try separate beds, even separate rooms.
What's the point?
If you're excessively drinking and doing drugs, sexsomnia may occur.
It should have it on the label.
You gotta put it on the label.
Right there.
Just put it right on the little bag of weed.
Smoking this may result in sexsomnia.
My goodness.
Yeah, I've got a Mugabe clip.
Okay, and that'll be the last one, man.
We've got to get out of here.
A Mugabe clip.
All right.
Do we need to set it up or we go?
No, this is kind of just a classic Mugabe clip.
This is what goes on in Africa.
Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe says his government will seize control of all of the country's diamond mines.
Speaking in a TV interview, President Mugabe accused mining companies of robbing the country of its wealth by siphoning off gems.
He said that Zimbabwe will now own all the diamonds mined in the country.
Zimbabwe was the eighth largest diamond producer in the world in 2014.
Now there'll be the 800th.
Shut the diamond mines down, and that'll be the end of it.
The world is a mess, but we are here to carry you through all the mishigas with laughter.
Yes, we do.
We've got a million of them.
We are a barrel of laughs headline.
Sexy, scintillating headline ahead.
Anything we need to watch today?
Oh, shit, we've got the Dumbacronts.
Yeah, the Democrats are up tonight.
There's also, I think, the Warriors play the...
That's on right now.
The Warriors play Los Angeles to continue their record-breaking pace, which is the only sports thing you'd want to watch.
Nah, screw that.
No, no.
I'm going to get me some lovin' and some herb.
That's about it.
Good.
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George Clooney.
is a spy.
The only dark-gazing 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, no, you have to be, that's the guy you want to let go for?
Yeah, that's the guy, the guy, the guy.
That's on the side of a hill.
You think that hill is just one big ant hill?
No, it's mostly bedrock, bedrock, bedrock.
That's on the side of a hill.
That's a big rock.
Okay.
But there's enough soil.
These ants, they don't need a lot.
There's enough soil.
That's soil.
That's soil.
That's called siege mode.
Yeah, ha, ha.
What other modes do your ants have?
Well, they have sneak attack.
That's called siege mode.
Yeah, ha, ha.
What other modes do your ants have?
Well, they have a trick for people who are special.
Let's go start to deal with these Argentinian ants.
And this trick does indeed work.
So one of the things that the ants will do in the kitchen is that they'll send a scout.
One, two, three, or four scouts out.
Every single person.
For people who are special.
Let's go start to deal with these Argentinian ants.
And this trick does this trick.
For people who are special.
Let's go start to deal with these Argentinian ants.
And this trick does this trick.
They find something.
They go back and report back.
Go back and report back.
Go back and report back.
Next thing, there's a line.
It's a little long extension.
Yeah, it's a line.
It has a...
You can bend it.
A bendy.
Some of them.
I recommend the metal bendies because then you can...
You see them.
You find all the ones that are on your...
And you leave them there.
Wouldn't I? Wouldn't I? Well, like I described earlier, there are two fundamental classes that are just a plain fact in society.
You either work for someone else or you work for yourself.
And most people work for someone else in a way that they aren't free.
You don't really get to decide your work.
For example, I work at Noodles, a restaurant.
And basically it's a dictatorship there.
We're told exactly what we're going to cook, how we're going to cook it, what time we're going to get there.
And basically, if they don't like what they're doing, they try to tell us what to do.
If we don't listen, they get rid of us.
And so we're not able to actually cooperate in a way that we make decisions together.
I try to convince my fellow employees that we should have a union at Noodle, so it's a source of power to start with.
And then I think in terms of the bigger picture, when you look at revolutions, the way that you actually get rid of any sort of dictatorship is by having workers take control of the place where they work.
Would your plan, your vision for Noodle?
Sure.
Would it include the owner?
What capacity would he be granted?
If the owner wanted to cooperate with us as an equal and provide his skills that he had, we would definitely cooperate with him.
We'd have to abdicate his position as being an owner and controller of us, and he would have to recognize that we run noodles together, and basically if he doesn't want to cooperate with us, he's against us.
I do not take dick pics.
I do not take dick pics.
I do not take dick pics.
Hey.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
I've told you that you're in my house.
If you're eating the hors d'oeuvres and drinking the booze, we'll have to take you out.