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	You have to have radiation in your diet.
	Radiation in your diet is fantastic.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, March 10, 2016.
	Time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 806.
	This is no agenda.
	Monitoring D-Star 33 Charlie, the 2040 and 17-meter bands, and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's supposed to be raining like crazy because of El Nino, but absolutely nothing going on.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	Yo, yo, but it's raining up in Port Angeles in the Washington State area.
	Yeah, well, Port Townsend to be specific.
	Port Townsend, yeah.
	Eric.
	Yeah, we did not get a spreadsheet, Eric.
	The shill is offline.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	It's off his line.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But we got to talk to him about a Jenny.
	He needs to have some power up.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	I'm surprised he hasn't got one because this happened to him a couple of times.
	Seems like the kind of guy that thinks about those things.
	Yeah.
	Well, he probably wants to get something bigger than he can afford.
	That's probably stalling it.
	The way to go is the LPG. Well, I mean, I'd prefer a diesel over anything, but the LPG backups are pretty good these days.
	They're not cheap, but if you get a couple thousand dollars, they put it right next to the house, they build part of it in the ground, you never even notice it.
	Except for the diesel noise.
	How about getting one of those big jet engines?
	N1! I'll tell you, the most exciting thing I've ever...
	No, not ever.
	But when you start up a turbine engine, and of course I did that on helicopters, that is so cool.
	That is so cool.
	I'm just wallowing for a moment in the coolness.
	It's been a while since I've done it.
	When you fire that thing, you turn it up, you...
	I got goosebumps just thinking about it.
	You should buy some sound effects.
	It'll do the job.
	Yeah, but there's nothing like the smell of jet fuel, man, when you start that thing.
	I should fly again.
	In the morning?
	In the morning, yeah.
	I should fly again.
	Yeah, you should.
	Well, last night was challenging for me, personally, I felt.
	Why?
	Well, we had a Democratic debate, and then we had three town halls opposite that on Fox.
	I have the Bernie ISO. And we kick off the show perfect with the Bernie ISO. But!
	What did he say?
	But?
	Yeah.
	But!
	He screamed it.
	But!
	Oh, shit.
	Maybe we should roll into everything.
	What was the other thing you were saying?
	And then what?
	Something?
	By the way, the Democratic debate done by Univision was probably the worst of all the debates so far.
	Why do you say that?
	Because they didn't let people go back and forth.
	You've got two people up there who are willing to go at it with each other.
	They cut Bernie off a lot.
	A-holes that are running this show keep interrupting and stopping and interrupting and stopping as though everything has to be, oh, it has to be to the second.
	Oh, your 30 seconds are up.
	The guy's just starting.
	And they could go back and forth at each other.
	We'd actually learn something.
	But no.
	There's one instance where I have time there.
	I've got these timing ones.
	The question was 45 seconds long.
	And they gave the person like a minute to answer.
	A minute and a half.
	And then Bernie had 30 seconds.
	He couldn't do it in 30 seconds.
	What?
	I mean, it's on...
	No, I don't want to play it now.
	Maybe later.
	I found it to be the worst debate.
	It was horrible.
	We did get some good questions.
	I heard some things I liked.
	Well, I'm not saying there weren't a few good questions, but when they were trying to get into it about Clinton, Bill, that is, they just interrupted him.
	Stop, stop, stop talking!
	They interrupted Bernie a lot.
	They interrupted Bernie way too much.
	It was almost like they were all in for Hillary.
	Well, isn't one of her biggest donors owner of Univision?
	I don't know that for a fact.
	Yeah, I think, and he also recently...
	Why are they doing this debate?
	Why does he point that out?
	Trump would have.
	Well, because Bernie's a sap.
	He is a sap.
	He's a sap.
	He's a sap, man.
	And he's way out of touch.
	This 10 second clip really proved it.
	When you're white, you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto.
	You don't know what it's like to be poor.
	You don't know what it's like to be hassled when you walk down the street.
	Really?
	When you're white, you don't know what it's like to be poor.
	That makes him...
	Yeah, it's a little out of touch in today's markets.
	A little out of touch.
	It's always, that statement is out of touch no matter when you look at the United States.
	He's full of crap.
	It was also...
	You live in Vermont, yeah, maybe he's right.
	It was racist.
	It was racist.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And the blunt questions from the Univision host, I liked it.
	I totally agree with you that it was not a perfect opportunity to have a real debate to go back and forth.
	I guess those people feel they need to be relevant and continuously jump in and try and move it ahead or whatever.
	Yeah, it's not about them.
	No, it is to them.
	They really thought it was about them.
	Yeah, and to them it's about them.
	This is, well, here's the question about Trump being a racist, and don't pussyfoot around and just ask the question.
	Secretary Clinton, you've known Donald Trump a long time.
	You've seen what kind of campaign he's running.
	I love the laughter.
	He's running.
	Secretary Clinton, is Donald Trump a racist?
	What a great question.
	It is.
	That was a good question.
	That was a good question.
	Ooh, and the crowd goes, ooh.
	Karen, I'm going to follow my friend Senator Sanders' model here.
	Yeah, which is chicken shit.
	If I'm so fortunate enough to be the Democratic nominee, there will be a lot of time to talk about him.
	I was the first one to call him out.
	I called him out when he was calling Mexicans rapists.
	There's so much so wrong, and she'll start to repeat this as well.
	He didn't call Mexicans rapists.
	At this point, we do have to just...
	Do little callbacks to where these things originate from.
	And I'm not trying to defend Trump any more than I defend anyone else whose words are being taken out of context.
	But he did not say all Mexicans are rapists.
	He said, you know, this is what we're getting here.
	When he was calling Mexicans rapists, when he was engaging in rhetoric that I found deeply offensive, I said, basta.
	And I am pleased.
	That's actually interesting.
	She says...
	rhetoric, which is pandering to a certain audience.
	So she calls Donald Trump out on pan on rhetoric and then in the same sentence uses rhetoric by using the word Basta to kowtow to the audience.
	Yeah, she did that throughout the event.
	I just like it when she's actually saying she doesn't like Trump's rhetoric, and then she uses her own rhetoric.
	Rhetoric that I found deeply offensive.
	I said, Basta!
	Basta!
	And I am pleased that...
	What does she mean she said Basta?
	She's watching this.
	When did she say Basta?
	What's she talking about?
	She's used this a couple of times.
	This is her...
	The way she speaks to the Latino audience by throwing in a Basta word.
	I thought that was Italian, but I guess it's also Spanish.
	What's it...
	You know, I don't even know what it means.
	Basta.
	Enough.
	Done.
	Enough.
	Enough.
	Done.
	Basta.
	Offensive.
	I said Basta.
	No mas.
	No mas would have been better.
	And I am pleased that...
	Others are also joining in making clear that his rhetoric, his demagoguery.
	We were so right about that rhetoric word.
	His trafficking in prejudice and paranoia.
	Oh, good.
	Prejudice and paranoia.
	Nice alliteration.
	It has no place in our political system, especially from somebody running for president who couldn't decide whether or not to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David.
	Oh, here we go.
	At least you said Ku Klux Klan, right?
	People can draw their own conclusions about him.
	But I will just end by saying this.
	You don't make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great.
	They worked long and hard on that one.
	She does a lot of interesting stuff in this one.
	The two clips that I have that are relevant, I thought were interesting because One, first of all, she throws the audience a curveball by saying she's not a politician, and she really doesn't know what she's doing, and she's just lucky to be there.
	I thought it was kind of screwy.
	Play that clip.
	I am not a natural politician, in case you haven't noticed, like my husband or President Obama.
	So I have a view that I just have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people's lives, and hope that people see that I'm fighting for them and that I can improve conditions economically and other ways that will benefit them and their families.
	What was that about?
	I don't know what that was about.
	It was just a lot of weird noises came out of this speech or out of this event.
	Now, the one that I thought was interesting, and I think this was done throughout, if you listen to Hillary, Hillary really does have a problem with the truth.
	And she makes stuff up and she changes the timeline.
	She has changed the timeline.
	The Benghazi timeline?
	Sorry?
	The Benghazi timeline?
	Yes.
	The Benghazi timeline.
	I have the clip.
	And it's like...
	When did this timeline show up?
	Yeah.
	Now, do you have the clip with the mother and everything in that?
	I don't know about the mother.
	I have that.
	I think mine may be a little more complete.
	Is yours longer?
	Yeah.
	Okay, play yours.
	Yeah, here we go.
	On the night of the attacks in Benghazi, you sent an email to your daughter, Chelsea, saying that Arcade and I were responsible for the killing of the Americans.
	However, some of the families claimed that you lied to them.
	Here's Pat Smith, the moderate information officer, Sean Smith.
	Let's listen.
	Hillary and Obama and Panetta and Biden and all of Susan Rice all told me it was a video when they knew.
	They knew it was not the video.
	And they said that they would call me and let me know what the outcome was.
	So the way I remember the timeline, as we'll get this, we'll hear how she screws it up.
	They came out immediately, said this was the video.
	They were on the hunt for that guy.
	We played the whole video.
	It was dumb.
	They arrested the guy for some other charges.
	And by the time the bodies were brought back, which is when Hillary Clinton spoke to the families, and this mother in particular, they were still saying it's a video.
	And they said that to her as well.
	And, wow, Clinton really did a number on this timeline, as you pointed out.
	Secretary Clinton, did you lie to them?
	You know, look, I feel a great deal of sympathy for the families of the four brave Americans that we lost at Benghazi.
	Were there four or were there three?
	I thought it was four.
	I thought it was three.
	I think it's three plus the ambassador.
	And I certainly can't even imagine the grief that she has for losing her son.
	But she's wrong.
	She's absolutely wrong.
	Wow, that's really rough.
	You could have done so many different things with that.
	I and everybody in the administration, all the people she named, the president, the vice president, Susan Rice, we were scrambling to get information that was changing literally by the hour.
	And when we had information, we made it public, but then sometimes we had to go back and say we have new information that contradicts it.
	Which is what she did hours after that with an email to her daughter.
	So, I testified for 11 hours.
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	Woo!
	Woo, baby!
	11 hours!
	Woo!
	I answered every question that I was asked, and when it was over, the Republicans had to admit they didn't learn anything.
	Why?
	Because there had already been one independent investigation.
	There had been seven or eight congressional investigations, mostly led by Republicans, who all reached the same conclusions, that there were lessons to be learned.
	And this is not the first time we lost...
	And by the way, stop for a second.
	You notice something.
	She's been going on and on and on.
	She's like doing a filibuster.
	Bernie never got to talk this long.
	Yeah, she talked as I was editing clips.
	It is so hard to cut stuff out of this even because she's like a film girl, just rambling.
	That doesn't stop.
	This is not the first time we lost Americans in a terrorist attack.
	We lost 3,000 people on 9-11.
	What's that got to do with the question?
	Americans serving in embassies in Tanzania.
	It's America, baby.
	That's what you do.
	Trump does that, too.
	Vets.
	...and Kenya when my husband was president.
	We lost over 250 Americans, both military and civilian.
	Ronald Reagan was president in Beirut.
	And at no other time of those tragedies were they politicized.
	Instead, people said, let's learn the lesson and save lives.
	Please.
	All of that's politicized.
	And by the way, Trump on his...
	The rest of it is the part I have.
	Oh, good.
	Well, then it fits in perfectly.
	Because this is where she does the timeline.
	Oh, very good.
	And this is completely new.
	This is all made up.
	And then the way she covers it, her reference, you're going to get...
	It's just worth it.
	You have to laugh.
	Hold on a second.
	What was the name of the clip again?
	Somehow I lost it.
	Benghazi timeline.
	Let's see.
	Maybe Clinton.
	That's odd.
	Clinton knew Benghazi timeline.
	Ah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
	Thank you.
	Is that you told your daughter Chelsea one thing and a different thing to them?
	Well, but, Harry, that makes my point.
	At the time I emailed with my daughter...
	Yeah, I guess that makes her point.
	That's one way to put it.
	A terrorist group had taken credit for the attacks on our facility in Benghazi.
	Within 16, 18 hours, they rescinded taking credit.
	They did it all on social media.
	And the video did play a role.
	We have captured one of the lead terrorists.
	And he admits it was both a terrorist attack and it was influenced by the video.
	It's a dessert topping and a floor wax.
	This was fog of war.
	This was complicated.
	The most effective, comprehensive reports and studies demonstrate that.
	And look, as I said in the beginning, I deeply regret that we lost four Americans.
	And I, of course, sympathize with members of the families who are still, you know, very much grieving, and I wish that there could be an easy answer at the time, but we learned a lot, and the intelligence kept improving, and we learned enough to say what we think happened at Benghazi.
	You have 30 seconds to enter.
	Yes.
	Goodbye.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the timeline is a little off.
	I'd say.
	Timeline's crazy.
	And then she throws that social media bull crap in.
	Yeah, they're so powerful on the social media.
	So powerful.
	They really know how to do it.
	Previously we talked about the fence.
	We have a border fence.
	On the border with Mexico.
	About 600 miles.
	It's inadequate, obviously.
	And I really like that they did this research and went back and talked about the fence and the difference between a fence and a wall or a wall and a wall.
	And I thought it was quite telling.
	I think it was a good move that they brought this to the forefront.
	Let's see if it gets picked up anywhere.
	Secretary Clinton?
	You recently said, instead of building walls, we need to tear down barriers.
	However, last November in New Hampshire, you openly said that as senator, you voted numerous times to build the wall with Mexico.
	What's the difference between what you did, voting to build a wall, and what Donald Trump wants to do now?
	Well, I think both of us, both Senator Sanders and I voted numerous times to enhance border security along our border.
	We increased the number of border security agents.
	We did vote for money to build a fence, a pedestrian fence in some place, a vehicle fence in other places.
	What's a pedestrian fence?
	What exactly does that mean?
	I have no idea.
	Odd.
	Odd.
	And the result is that we have the most secure border we've ever had.
	Oh!
	Yeah, no.
	I actually got a couple of clips.
	Regarding this.
	See, I'll look them up in a moment.
	In fact, could not be the more opposite.
	We have the huge opioid problem.
	Actually, I'll drop into that right now.
	That'd be kind of fun.
	Here we go.
	This is clip number one.
	This is Mary Lou Leary.
	She is, I think, Deputy Secretary of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
	And let's hear what she has to say about the border.
	I think there's another issue which I'm sure the chief really appreciates, and that is that where is this heroin coming from?
	Oh, it's coming from New York or whatever.
	The power streets are flooded with heroin.
	It's not.
	Can you hear that at all, or is it muffled?
	It's really bad.
	Yeah, let's see if it gets better here.
	Domestically grown.
	Much of this is coming from Mexico.
	She's saying we have a heroin problem.
	The streets are flooded in America.
	And she says most of this is coming from Mexico.
	I encourage people to go back and listen to the clip.
	It's not good enough.
	And this ties in beautifully with something new.
	And I won't discuss it now.
	I just want to play the clip.
	Because there's such a problem with the heroin, primarily, and cocaine coming in from Mexico through the border that there's all kinds of bills being passed, but a very interesting one is the opioid bill.
	Well, this particular bill...
	This is Mitch McConnell.
	...is about opioids, and the border security issue is a huge problem.
	A huge problem.
	You can't do every single thing in this bill.
	Senator Blomit and his subcommittee already appropriated $400 million last year, specifically designed to deal with the treatment side of this.
	So we will be talking about the opioid bill, but I do want to point out that whatever she's saying about the most secure border ever is bull crap because there's drugs just flowing through with incredible ease and that's why it's so cheap.
	Apprehensions coming across the border are the lowest they've been in 40 years.
	See, I don't think that is actually a good thing.
	To me, that means the border is so porous that we can't even catch them.
	And now I'm thinking this whole border thing, and the reason why everyone's all pissed off about it, is because of the drugs.
	I think too many politicians are involved in this.
	Well, we always have to remember one of your basic theses, which I subscribe to.
	That it saved our ass.
	It saved the banks.
	Yeah.
	And Hillary's a representative of the banking industry.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	So put two and two together, bingo, it's working fine.
	Which just strengthens my argument that now it's time to do comprehensive immigration reform.
	Let's move to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship.
	And I think that makes a very strong argument in favor of doing it.
	But the question is, what is the difference between the wall that you voted for and Donald Trump's wall?
	It's a big difference.
	I mean, first of all...
	Yeah, it'll work.
	As I understand him, he's talking about a very tall wall...
	Now she catches the laugh wave and she decides to run with it.
	A beautiful tall wall.
	The most beautiful tall wall.
	Well, at least she picked it up.
	The Great Wall of China that would run the entire border that he would somehow magically get the Mexican government to pay for.
	And, you know, it's just fantasy.
	And, in fact, if he cared to know anything about what...
	Members of Congress, like the Senator and I have done, where it was necessary, we did support some fencing.
	Where it was necessary, we did add border patrol agents.
	We have done what by any fair estimate would have to conclude is a good job, quote, securing the border.
	So let's get about the business of comprehensive immigration reform.
	I don't understand how she can say this and why it's not challenged.
	Everybody, every politician agrees we need to do something with the border.
	They're always saying border security.
	Now she says it's great, it's tight, and we have zero or very low apprehensions.
	Is she in the drug cartel?
	Hello?
	And is Donald Trump so...
	Mina?
	Of course, Mina, Arkansas.
	I know, but you have to ask where Trump is on this.
	He also mentions all the time about the drugs coming in.
	Yeah, he talks about the drugs.
	Could this be the real agenda, the real problem?
	Because above anything that Trump has been talking about, it's his wall.
	And it seems to me there's a lot of politicians that Clinton's probably up front.
	Well, it's the people that want to keep this business going.
	Yeah.
	Which would have to include at least one intelligence agency.
	And we just, and we recently had a slam come out against, in fact, I have a clip of it.
	Not a clip of the slam, but a clip of the analysis of it, which turns out to be a very funny thing to listen to.
	Okay.
	George Clooney.
	Is a spy!
	Yeah.
	George Clooney comes out and says that Trump is a xenophobic Nazi fascist.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Why is he saying anything?
	But if you want to hear the analysis of that, I'm listening to Mario Lopez.
	Oh, Mario Lopez!
	On Extra.
	He's either on Extra or...
	He's on Extra.
	Yeah, Mario Lopez is on there with his sidekick, and they go back and forth on this during this little presentation, and...
	The way I see, you have to listen to this clip because it's actually outrageous.
	For me, I'll always remember Nancy Reagan for her Just Say No campaign.
	Huge impact as a kid.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And some more political news today, Mario.
	Page Six says George Clooney plans to host a star-studded fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Well, we know he is not a fan of Donald Trump.
	George just publicly bashed Trump, calling him a xenophobic fascist.
	What is that?
	Basically, that he doesn't like outsiders or foreigners, discriminates, that's what he's saying.
	Fun fact.
	You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
	So he gives the definition, his definition of xenophobe, and she says, fun fact.
	Let me listen to that again.
	Foreigners, discriminates, that's what he's saying.
	Fun fact.
	I'm going to give you a borderline for that.
	I didn't even catch it the first time.
	Alright, good one.
	Fun fact.
	Fun fact?
	Fun fact.
	The funnest fact.
	When I heard that, I said, this is brain-dead woman even paying any attention at all.
	Yeah.
	Fun fact.
	Anyway.
	Let me see.
	The Hitler thing kind of came to a head as we had Saturday Night Live do a Hitler skit.
	Everyone's talking Hitler this, Hitler that.
	I picked a couple of them.
	I only have one besides that last one, which didn't mention Hitler.
	But I have the ABC News discussing it, including bringing in...
	I think I have the same one.
	Who'd they bring in on this?
	They bring in Good Morning America and Stephanopoulos.
	Oh, okay.
	I don't have this one.
	Who got Trump on the phone and he...
	Let's play this first.
	Before we play that, it really bears a quick discussion that there is no comparison.
	No.
	Yeah, you were pointing that out in a tweet of the, what is it, T-L-D-R. T-L-D-R, yeah.
	Too long to send around.
	Yeah.
	Well, you have to...
	It's tedious, to say the least.
	Yes, but you do have to go into the background to understand why this is ridiculous.
	It is ridiculous, but it has legs.
	People like the idea.
	I think it's going to backfire.
	It's going to backfire.
	I think it's going to just poop out.
	I don't think it's going to backfire on anybody.
	There's going to be someone who goes too far with it, and then that'll be the end of it.
	And by the way, I'm seeing old Jews like Dave Weiner saying...
	Parts of his family were annihilated by Hitler.
	And he's comparing Donald Trump to Hitler.
	It drives me nuts.
	There's no comparison.
	Well, let's play this.
	And there are a couple of things in here that are worth...
	I mean, a couple of things.
	One, ABC. I'm still trying to figure out who they're all in for now.
	Because it either has to be Cruz.
	I mean, Rubio would be the fallback.
	Because Rubio's from Florida.
	And it's a Florida...
	You know, Disney's got its Florida roots.
	It's not roots, but it's Florida.
	Most of its work has done a lot of Florida.
	And...
	So I thought they were going to...
	I noticed I'm trying to push Ruby a little bit, but now they got nobody.
	So ABC is just floundering around and they decided to just get mean with Trump.
	Here we go.
	I do solemnly swear...
	With that image now reminding some of the Third Reich and the infamous Nazi salute.
	The former head of the Anti-Defamation League, a Holocaust survivor, says seeing an audience of thousands of people raising their hands in what looks like the Heil Hitler salute was offensive, obnoxious, and disgusting.
	The candidate rejecting the comparison.
	Today on GMA, Trump pressed about critics comparing his tone to Hitler and Mussolini.
	It doesn't suggest to you that you should tone down your rhetoric and your tactics.
	Well, maybe so, but I mean, look, I have a tremendous following.
	Yeah, this is something that Trump's, I'm starting to analyze his speech very closely.
	When he answers a question, he gives you the answer right up front in kind of a toss-away, swallow-it-in way.
	So the question is, should you be toning down your rhetoric?
	Well, maybe so.
	And then he keeps going on.
	He does answer the questions, but they kind of get papered over by whatever flows out of his mouth after that.
	Maybe so, but I mean, look, I have a tremendous following.
	We want to make America great again.
	It's a strong following.
	I don't know about the Hitler comparison.
	I hadn't heard that, but it's a terrible comparison.
	I'm not happy about that, certainly.
	Now, in today's voting states, the Stop Trump movement in full swing.
	Mitt Romney recording robocalls for both Senator Marco Rubio and Governor John Kasich.
	Hello, this is Mitt Romney calling.
	I'm convinced Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton.
	Tom Yama's with us live tonight from Florida now.
	I know Mr.
	Trump expected to speak shortly, but in the meantime, Tom, you reported there Mitt Romney recording calls.
	We heard them.
	But for both Rubio and Kasich telling voters Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton, suggesting they vote for anyone but Trump?
	That's right, David, and it sort of sounds counterproductive that he essentially was supporting two candidates, but the goal is the same, to take votes away from Donald Trump, which could lead to a contested convention, and then the delegates would pick the nominee.
	I gotta hand it to Trump.
	You know, I think I would be pretty upset if people kept really, really comparing me to Hitler.
	And David Brooks, he's, what is he, New York Times?
	Yeah.
	Oh, listen to Brooks.
	By the way, there was something else that Donald Trump did yesterday that grabbed my eye, and David, I just had...
	This was on, what was this, NBC? News Hour.
	News Hour, yeah.
	To show it to you, and I want to get you to react to it as well.
	Here it is.
	Come on.
	And I love this shot because you're seeing people from behind, from a high vantage point.
	So yeah, it kind of looks like people are doing the Hitler salute.
	You're going to hold your hand up to give a pledge.
	It was great.
	It doesn't take much to make that look like a Hitler salute.
	Were they yelling Heil Hitler?
	No.
	Because typically in one of these events where you have a bunch of skinhead Nazis or any sort of fascists that are doing fascist-like things, they actually say Heil Hitler in the modern era.
	Were they doing that?
	Well, so I'm going to give you their thinking.
	Heil Hitler was, in a way, a pledge to the Fuhrer.
	That's where the comparison comes from.
	And David Brooks, David Brooks takes it quite far.
	David Brooks, who hates.
	Now, let's go back.
	Let's do a little background on the show, on our show.
	We have do we have documented this since the beginning of this campaign.
	David Brooks has been so wrong about everything Republican, especially Trump, by predicting how he's done.
	This is the end of him right from the beginning.
	And now he mocks himself because he's been so inaccurate.
	He is one of the worst at seeing anything.
	He's just like the newspapers who did not see their own demise.
	I mean, this is what we get from our media.
	They don't know what the hell's going on.
	And what he does, David Brooks, is he throws in an elitist reference, kind of off the cuff, which most will probably, probably most people didn't hear it, but it was like, wow.
	I've never done this before.
	Can I have a pledge?
	A swearing?
	Raise your right hand.
	I do solemnly swear...
	And I think he only did this because he's been asked to pledge so many times to be loyal to the Republican Party.
	That I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there's hurricanes or whatever...
	Is he expecting something?
	Remember that happened in Florida when the last election.
	Do you remember that?
	Oh no, it was the Republican...
	A convention.
	Wasn't that Sandy?
	Yeah, I think they whipped up Superstorm Sandy and they had to cancel that.
	Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
	I'm pretty sure.
	That's good enough.
	Alright.
	Now listen to Brooks.
	We'll vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president.
	Thank you.
	Now I know.
	David, the visual.
	The hands go up.
	Trump asks for a pledge.
	Wow.
	I just, I was flattered.
	We're going to get Trump.
	We might as well get the Nuremberg rallies to go with it.
	We might as well get the Nuremberg rallies to go with it.
	Okay, the Nuremberg rallies.
	Which was kind of like the party convention for the Nationalist Party at the time Nazi Germany.
	So it was more like the conventions that were held in Nuremberg.
	And of course, legendarily, they had the Nuremberg trials after that where they hung people for their war crimes.
	For obvious symbolic reasons.
	Yeah, obviously.
	But for Brooks to throw that in...
	And by the way, calling Trump Hitler is also calling the people who vote for him Nazis.
	It's insulting.
	And if that's true, let's just pretend for a minute it's really true.
	Trump is Hitler.
	His followers are Nazis.
	Removing Trump is not going to change anything if that's really true.
	Then we have a much bigger problem.
	Yes, I would think.
	A much bigger problem.
	This is just all...
	This is, you know, what you mentioned earlier, that we like so much rhetoric to try to demonize the guy.
	Marginalize, demonize, whatever they can.
	And they have that idiot Romney.
	But they keep trying this.
	They've tried it in Europe with everybody.
	With UKIP, with Wilders, with Le Pen.
	They keep throwing out Nazi Hitler, Nazi Hitler.
	People don't...
	It doesn't work.
	It just doesn't work.
	Here's ABC. I think this is a different version of their Nazi drive.
	Meantime, the number of prominent people...
	No, this is exactly the same one.
	I'm sorry.
	Let me see.
	That was.
	I don't think I had any more Hitler things per se.
	Well, here is the...
	Oh, yeah.
	Go ahead.
	Here is the...
	Not Trump, but this is another ABC rap.
	This is the one that raps Rubio and then goes into Sanders, Michigan.
	I think this ran just yesterday.
	This is the ABC roundup of Tuesday.
	I do solemnly swear...
	But that image now reminding some of the Third Reich and the infamous Nazi salute.
	The former head of the Anti-Defamation League, a Holocaust survivor.
	You've got ABC Trump rap, ABC GMA. That's what you're playing.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	It says ABC Trump rap.
	No, I know.
	I said this is Rubio.
	Rubio Sanders.
	We played ABC Trump.
	Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to find what the name of the clip is you want me to play.
	I'm sorry.
	It's right above it, ABC. Oh, I got it.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	It's weirdly labeled.
	You're okay?
	Yeah, I'm okay.
	Wait, let me take some B12. That'll help.
	Yeah.
	I'm Yama's live in Florida tonight, Tom.
	Marco Rubio with a miserable night.
	I asked him last week, did he regret going personal with Donald Trump?
	And he told me that Trump deserved a taste of his own medicine.
	But tonight, Rubio is saying something else?
	Thank God, Trump.
	That's right, David.
	He said when he launched those attacks, the media was covering all his speeches, but that's not what it takes to be president.
	Today, he's saying that his own kids were embarrassed when he went down that road.
	If he had the choice again, he would not do it.
	David?
	All right, Tom Yamash there in Miami, Florida for us.
	Tom, thanks as always.
	Next to the Democrats tonight, the candidates facing off this evening and Hillary Clinton left answering this question.
	What happened last night after the Sanders surprise?
	Senator Bernie Sanders, the winner in Michigan despite the polls.
	Clinton ahead in the delegate count, but so far unable to close the deal.
	She did win Mississippi.
	So right to the map tonight, Mrs.
	Clinton winning 12 states, all those in light blue there, and half the delegates she needs to be nominated.
	So why did she lose in Michigan?
	ABC's Cecilia Vega with Senator Sanders, who has his own explanation.
	And we ask, what's Clinton's game plan tonight?
	Tonight, instead of a victory lap, a rematch.
	Excuse me, I'm talking.
	The second debate this week.
	Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders going head to head.
	Fresh off that Michigan stunner.
	The upset that no one saw coming.
	Catching even Sanders by surprise.
	The Vermont senator throwing together a hastily called late night news conference to celebrate the victory.
	I just want to take this opportunity to thank the people of Michigan.
	But the win, now raising warning signs about possible cracks in Clinton's political armor.
	Sanders cutting into what had been her firewall, African-American voters in the South.
	In Michigan, she won by just a two-to-one margin, and the young black vote nearly split.
	We caught up with Sanders today during a break from his debate prep.
	Why did she lose Michigan?
	What did she not do right?
	Because we got more votes than she did.
	And I think it comes down largely to trade issues.
	I have understood from day one that these trade agreements, NAFTA, permanent normal trade races with China, were a disaster for American workers.
	She supported them.
	But here's the math.
	Clinton's delegate leads so strong that in all five states voting on Tuesday, she could lose by double digits and still win the nomination.
	Sanders would have to win everything left by double digits.
	So do I think we can win states by double digits?
	Yeah, I do.
	Cecilia joining us live from Florida tonight to debate hall and Hillary Clinton.
	So he's done.
	He wins and he's done.
	Yeah, he is done.
	Delroy gave her all the votes she needs to win.
	Regarding Rubio, and we know we love the insiders there on the Morning Joe show, they have not just a theory, but again, Trump answering questions with his first little utterance as he's on the phone with the Morning Joe's about Marco Rubio and Marco Rubio's future.
	We've been talking about Marco Rubio.
	You had a great night last night.
	Marco Rubio, not so much.
	And he has some decisions to make.
	Would you ever consider him as your running mate?
	Well, I don't want to say that.
	I don't want to say that.
	If we really listen to what he's saying, he answers all the questions.
	I don't want to say that.
	I think it may be that way.
	Well, I don't want to say that.
	You know, he has a big decision to make, and he should make his own decision.
	And I've always liked him, and then he really hit me very, very hard, and somehow it didn't work for him.
	But I will tell you, I got along with him until a few weeks ago when he started playing Don Rickles.
	You could have used a little more modern reference, Mr.
	Trump.
	I started playing Don Rickles.
	And, you know, it was very surprising to see.
	And he was out of character.
	Wouldn't you consider him, though, as your vice president?
	I became very nasty about it.
	So there's the question.
	Would you consider him being your vice president?
	This is a good question.
	And I guess he's really got a decision to make.
	I know what you're talking about.
	I just don't want to be involved in his decision.
	His decision is a personal one.
	If he decided to drop out, could you, since you need help with Hispanic voters, since you need help with the Republican establishment, could Marco Rubio, as your vice president, be a bridge to that Republican establishment?
	Well, I think this, I think if he runs and loses, and, you know, I don't think he would win right now, but if he runs and loses, I think he will never be able to But I'm asking you, though, if he drops out before losing Florida, would you consider him?
	Could he possibly be on a list as a vice president of yours because he could help outreach to Hispanics and help your outreach to the establishment?
	Sure, sure.
	I just don't want to say that yet, Joe.
	It's just not appropriate to talk about it until he makes a decision.
	I have respect for him.
	He's got great talent.
	And I just don't want to say that yet.
	It's too soon.
	Well, you said sure, so we will take that as a yes.
	I think this falls right into your theory, John.
	Of Trump winning, and then after a year or two, giving up and letting his excellent VP pick become president.
	Could happen.
	No one's ever done it before, but there's no reason you can't do it.
	Presidents in recent memory have quit.
	Nixon quit.
	Johnson quit.
	You know, they quit.
	They do this.
	It is a possibility.
	I mean, but as a scheme, none of them intended to quit.
	Right, right, right, right.
	They were just kind of driven out of office.
	It would help so much with the issues with the Republican Party, though.
	If what we hear is true, because we have Marco, he's the clear establishment choice.
	At the moment, yeah.
	At the moment, yeah.
	Everyone seems to hate Cruz.
	And he wouldn't be a very good vice president, nor would he take the job.
	I mean, it either has to be Rubio.
	Rubio would be ideal.
	Kasich would be a good pick because, you know, it depends on how he does in Ohio.
	Right, right, right.
	And, of course, who wants to work with that guy is a pill.
	As we know, he's a total douche.
	And he's a douche.
	And then there's Christie who is angling for something.
	Now, as for Trump answering all the questions, I got one where he doesn't actually answer the question.
	Okay.
	Even with his first utterance?
	Even with the first little words out of his mouth?
	No, believe me.
	This is a guy in the back at his press conference, after he plugs all his products, the meat and the magazine, which is a house organ for his properties.
	Yeah.
	Trump Magazine.
	It's not something you can subscribe to that I know of.
	This guy asks, Mr.
	Trump, how do parents explain to their kids the nature of the language you use?
	And so this is Trump slamming the guy.
	Trump slams this guy.
	Very, very stupid babies.
	Wait a minute.
	What babies are stupid?
	Did he say stupid babies?
	Very, very stupid babies.
	But you can pull Trump out of context for any reason.
	Oh, he's great.
	He hates babies!
	He hates babies!
	It's so obvious he hates babies!
	Very, very stupid baby.
	You see the guy's crazy!
	So I watched that ad and I don't think it's a bad ad for me.
	I actually think if I had my choice of saying I could have it down or let it run, let it run.
	Say that again.
	A lot of parents are trying to figure out how to explain some of the language you're hearing.
	Oh, you're so politically correct.
	You're so beautiful.
	Oh, look at you.
	Oh, he's so...
	Oh, I know.
	You've never heard a little bad, a little off language.
	I know you're so perfect.
	Aren't you perfect?
	Aren't you just a perfect young man?
	Give me a break.
	You know what?
	It's stuff like that that people in this country are tired of, okay?
	It's stuff like that.
	Sarah?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he did not answer the question.
	He did not answer that question.
	Something we talked about after the show.
	By the way, he could have answered it very easily.
	He could have said, he should have said, for one thing, you're not going to hear me swearing on network TV and what's the kids listening to cable?
	You know, he gets distracted.
	That's what happens.
	Well, he hates these guys.
	He really, I think he genuinely hates, not all of them, but a number of the media people.
	Oh, yes.
	He hates them.
	Oh, yes.
	Now, I picked up something.
	After the show, you and I were talking just...
	After show chatter.
	Post-mortem.
	Post-mortem chatter.
	And we were talking about Trump's use of his hands.
	With the finger up that goes to an okay sign.
	Finger up, down, up, down, up, down.
	He has another one too I picked up since that conversation.
	Which one is that?
	He holds his finger, he makes a circle with his pointing finger and his thumb, and then holds up to three fingers, and then he uses it to emphasize the point.
	Yes.
	He moves his hand back and forth.
	It's almost the same thing the Warriors do when they score three points, by the way.
	He holds it and he goes like this, as though there's another pointer.
	He has the pointer up in the air, the finger up in the air, and then he has the rounded thing, which also means a-hole in Italy, I believe.
	Ah, yes, yes, yes.
	And he uses that when he wants to make a finer point.
	So I finally saw one of my favorite body language experts show up on the Today Show.
	And that is Janine Driver.
	I think she's the real deal.
	Oh, she's great.
	I've seen her.
	She's the real deal.
	She's really good.
	Yeah, there's a book that she just came out with a new book called You Can't Lie to Me.
	And she used to be a federal agent.
	And her job was to catch people lying.
	And she became so good that she had quite a career.
	And then now she's doing that.
	She's teaching how to detect lies.
	To the corporate world and in her books.
	And I started reading this.
	I'm like, holy crap, this woman is so good.
	And she did a deconstruction.
	She did it for all the candidates.
	But I only picked out Hillary, Trump, and Bernie.
	And it's a little long.
	Obviously, it goes to a couple minutes.
	But I think...
	It's worth listening to and discussing because now you can pick up all these subtle little cues.
	And what's nice about this is when she talks about Clinton and then about Trump, the Good Morning or the Today Show hosts are baffled.
	They're flummoxed.
	You'll hear some of that.
	Wait a minute.
	How come you don't see Trump as a Nazi?
	This isn't crazy.
	That's right, Janine J. Driver is a president of the Body Language Institute.
	She's here to help you read the body language of four of the candidates.
	Janine, good morning.
	Good morning.
	Good to see you.
	Nice to see you guys.
	We dissect their words so much, but you're going to clue us into their body language.
	And actually, the piece that I cut out was her explaining how she does this for corporations.
	And so hold up, you know, five hula hoops.
	And she'll say, okay, all you CEOs who are here for this course or senior managers, go through the hula hoops.
	But when she tells them to do that, she uses a wave snake-like motion while she's explaining it.
	And so instead of just walking straight through the hula hoops, These CEOs and senior managers follow her visual cue and start to go through it like a snake in a wave.
	Her explanation wasn't all that great, but so she's just saying it's very important, these visual body language cues.
	Because there's some tells there as well as to what kind of leader they would be, right?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	We actually will look at body language more often than words.
	All right, so let's start by taking a look at Hillary Clinton.
	Let's play the sound and tell us what you see.
	I've always been somebody who believed and That I, with my blessings, had an opportunity and obligation to do what I could to help others, and that's what I will do as president.
	Now, let's rewind.
	You might not have even seen it.
	Did you see it?
	No.
	It's a shoulder shrug.
	Watch this.
	A shoulder shrug indicates uncertainty.
	Look at this.
	Watch here.
	We have one shrug already.
	Two shrugs right here.
	We're going to have a third.
	There we go.
	We have the hat trick of shoulder shrugs right here.
	Woo!
	The hat trick of shoulder shrugs could not be good, I don't think.
	A shoulder shrug is uncertainty.
	So when you're saying a definitive answer, listen, I'm doing this not for me, I'm doing it for the public, and I shrug, it cancels out your message.
	You can hear the NBC, what?
	What?
	A shoulder shrug is uncertainty.
	But if I ever said to you, hey, Willie, James, eat on your wife, and you say no.
	That actually comes up.
	It doesn't mean you're a cheater.
	Maybe you know your neighbor is cheating.
	So we don't know what the catalyst is here for Hillary, but it will hurt her message.
	And you think voters pick up on those cues subconsciously?
	Yes, subconsciously we do pick up on it.
	Our brain, it's called an N-400.
	An N-400.
	This is something I'm very interested in.
	The N-400.
	It's neuroscience.
	It's a Lionel train, isn't it, no?
	Yes, just like the Zephyr.
	It's from neuroscience, and there is an O-Bot dinner coming up soon with a brain professor, so I'll be able to get all the details on N-400.
	Yeah, I'm making a note, exactly.
	...cheating.
	So we don't know what the catalyst is here for Hillary, but it will hurt her message.
	And you think voters pick up on those cues subconsciously?
	Yes, subconsciously we do pick up on it.
	Our brain, it's called an N-400.
	If I say, I'll have a peanut butter and jelly on my socks, please, your brain says, wait a minute, I don't understand that.
	It's cognitive dissonance.
	Isn't that kind of what takes advantage of that?
	Humility, maybe, though?
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	What are you saying about my girl?
	Maybe, though?
	No, it's always uncertainty.
	It's an emblem in the United States of America.
	This is, what do you want for lunch?
	I don't know.
	What do you want?
	I'd love to be president.
	She's imploding here.
	She's imploding.
	Okay, let's take a look at Donald Trump.
	Okay, finally, we can move on past Hillary, because I don't like that imploding noise you're making.
	Of course, again, we've heard a lot of what he's had to say.
	You read the body language.
	Tell me what you see.
	I want you to watch his hands.
	He uses the hands a lot.
	So I want you to rewind this.
	He does this move quite a bit, so let's rewind.
	Now, you know what move they're talking about here is when he has his two hands, his palms facing each other, his hands stretch out, and he starts moving the hands together.
	Watch Donald Trump's hands.
	I always think of like, you know, the monkey with the tambourines there, the symbols, and I'm not saying it to disrespect Donald Trump.
	This move right here that he does constantly, remember that when you wind up this toy, the monkey's like ding, ding.
	He does this move constantly, this banging of his hands in the air.
	And what does that tell you?
	It is connected with people who think outside of the box, creative thinking.
	Uh-oh, uh-oh.
	What?
	That's why you get someone that is from the real estate industry running for president.
	That's why you get a man who's going to be on the front lines talking to, you know, the people coming into our border, you know, border patrol.
	He's going to think outside the box.
	Creative thinking.
	If you want someone that has that strategy with creativity, Donald Trump might say that.
	We're not letting politics get into this.
	It's just you reading the body language.
	Well, he may be thinking out of the box, but he's an asshole.
	I mean, come on!
	Say that!
	He's a big chopper.
	He likes the okays.
	Let's go back to the Democrats and take a look at Bernie Sanders.
	Move on.
	Bernie is a good one.
	When I talk about democratic socialism...
	Yeah, you see that wagging of his finger?
	He's a big wagger of the finger.
	So we'll see.
	Let's rewind this clip again.
	And he wags his finger a lot.
	He does some palm down gestures.
	I'm not looking at Cuba.
	Wagging the finger, judgment lingers.
	So when we wave our finger at people, it's judgment lingers.
	He'll do a palm down gesture quite a bit.
	This is what cops do when they go in on a raid.
	They're like, on the ground, Natalie!
	On the ground, Willie!
	Right here.
	So he'll do this.
	It could be like you're feeling judged by him.
	But here's the deal.
	Is he, when he's talking, saying something that he does have judgment to?
	But it's almost like he's reprimanding us here.
	So judgment does come.
	So someone could be like, wait a minute, is he the right person for presidency?
	Or is he reprimanding what he's talking about?
	Right, right.
	We don't know what the catalyst is.
	That's right.
	You're smart.
	Have you come to a class of the body languages too?
	I know.
	I'd like to be a speaker.
	We've had you hear enough.
	What?
	So she says, hey.
	Who is she?
	She's all in for Hillary to such an extreme that she insults her at the end?
	That's the Today Show chick.
	What's her name?
	Do you know?
	Savannah?
	Savannah Guthrie, yeah.
	That was Savannah Guthrie?
	Yes.
	Wow.
	I had no idea that she was that caught up in this.
	Well, not only that, but when the woman says to her co-host, I forget his name, hey, you're pretty good.
	You should come and take one of our courses.
	And she says, no, no, you've been here enough already.
	Because, yeah, you want to hear this a little bit?
	That was quite telling.
	Savannah's pissed.
	He's reprimanding us here, so judgment does come.
	So someone could be like, wait a minute, is he the right person for president?
	Or is he reprimanding what he's talking about?
	Right, right.
	We don't know what the catalyst is.
	That's right, you're smart.
	Have you come to a class at the Body Language Institute?
	I know, I'd like to be a guest speaker.
	We've had you here enough.
	No, we've had you here enough.
	Well, I have one.
	I really like that.
	As I will be reading all of Janine Driver's books, I'll be sharing some of this knowledge of how to detect people wrong.
	I wish we could find her more.
	They don't book her enough on these shows.
	It's because she's not saying the right thing.
	Duh.
	Any booker who sees this is like, well, I don't want her on the show.
	She's going to say Donald Trump's thinking out of the box.
	Unless she brings up he's a Nazi.
	Yeah.
	I got a kick out of this comment.
	This is Megyn Kelly talking casually on this, and she was in a three box or something, and they're all talking about the election.
	They had this one guy who just, or about the last primaries, they had this one guy who hates Trump, and he's going on and on about it.
	And, in fact, Fox is still kind of, I still think they're hating Trump.
	In fact, play this first.
	This is, you know, Luntz, the guy who does the focus groups, Yeah, he comes on and he goes through a whole line of people after the last debate that Trump was in where they were getting into the bickering and they're talking about the size of his hands and all this.
	Listen to this.
	Describe tonight's debate.
	Sophomoric.
	Embarrassment.
	Disappointing.
	Shameful.
	Despicable.
	Angering.
	Disgusting.
	Schoolyard brawl.
	Low on substance.
	She's right.
	Now, if I'm in a focus group, if I saw that thing, why doesn't at least one person in this phony group say, hilarious?
	Because that person had already worked their hours and was on a mealtime penalty break, so they didn't want to pay the meal break for the actor.
	And then to top it, to make it worse for Fox, showing what a really miserable operation there, you have to listen to this Megyn Kelly clip on fact-checking.
	Fine tonight.
	He matched expectations in Mississippi and Michigan where they were open primaries and Democrats could come in.
	So you're not going to beat him talking about his conservative apostasies, but obviously it gets under his skin and he does the whole sham wow routine as he's talking about his stuff out there on and on and on.
	So obviously that got to him.
	You know, Howie, you could spend a long time fact-checking what we just heard.
	The remarks about Trump's stakes, the remarks about Trump University, the remarks about his head-to-head matchups with Hillary Clinton.
	You know, the last nine polls show him losing.
	Seven out of those nine he lost against Hillary Clinton.
	Two he won by a narrow margin.
	But the problem is, who's got the time or the energy?
	Hey Adam, who's got the time or the energy to do any fact checking?
	The problem is, who's got the time or the energy?
	I don't have the time.
	Isn't that your job, Megyn Kelly?
	Are you known as a journalist?
	This is the media.
	This is the media.
	They haven't got the time to check facts.
	Hey, what are you guys doing for lunch?
	I don't know.
	I'm working on a story.
	What do you need to do?
	I gotta check some facts.
	Ah!
	Don't check any facts.
	What are you checking facts for?
	Who's got the time for that?
	There was a little ditty on the Rubio town hall last night that I picked up where Rubio was complaining about how the media treats Trump.
	It is a state that's largely been operating off the national media.
	And the national media, to be fair, has given Donald Trump ten times as much coverage as every other Republican candidate combined.
	And part of it is because he says outrageous things, and part of it is because he knows how to manipulate the media, but it's had an impact.
	Hey, Rubio, if he knows how to manipulate the media, how come you're not learning that skill, boy?
	You know what I'm saying?
	That is not smart to say.
	You should know how to do that.
	Your people should know how to do that.
	He's saying I'm a dummy.
	That's pretty much what he's saying.
	It's not smart, dude.
	And part of it is because he says outrageous things, and part of it is because he knows how to manipulate the media, but it's had an impact.
	We're working on reversing that now here in Florida.
	It's going to be a lot of hard work, but you know what?
	I've been in tough races before.
	It's an election.
	You have to go out and earn these things.
	You haven't heard anything yet.
	So here's his issue.
	The dominant feature of the Trump campaign has not been that he ran a bunch of commercials.
	It's been that he's been able to dominate the earned media.
	And you had...
	He said the earned media, which is...
	So he's reading the reports saying Trump...
	Say that again.
	I'm going to.
	Let me play that again.
	Yeah, I'm going to.
	There you go.
	commercials.
	It's been that he's been able to dominate the earned media.
	And you had.
	So he says the earned media, the report you get is or you give as a PR agency.
	You say, look, we got this placement on this page in The New York Times, this this amount of page space that equals if you had to buy it, this amount of money.
	So they've really wrapped up in this.
	I guess that's the only point.
	But yeah, that's how it works.
	So when he says earned media, he's looking at this from a report that he's got.
	And you had the head of CBS saying the other day, I don't know if Donald Trump may not be good for America, but he's good for CBS because of ratings.
	Well, but I think that's true in every one of these networks.
	So there are millions and millions of dollars of media that's out there.
	And the other point I would make is every time we've tried to run a commercial, all these media outlets charge us.
	So we have to raise money.
	Because you guys keep charging us to run commercials.
	Right.
	What's your problem?
	Yeah.
	You know what's funny about...
	There's a little comment he made that I should mention.
	I think it was...
	I would consider...
	If I was on the board of directors of CBS Viacom, who's ever running that operation that has less Moonves work in there, even though he's, I think, high up on the board, I'd really question that comment.
	I mean, he is going...
	He's going to cost CBS money.
	Investors should take note.
	He says, I don't know if Trump's not good for the country, but he's good for CBS. Only talking about ratings, by the way.
	He's not going to get any advertising on CBS. No, that's the worst thing you can say.
	What a stupid thing to say.
	And Moonves is supposed to be a guy on the ball.
	But to say that he's not good for the country, but he's good for CBS is saying, we don't want your advertising.
	We don't want your money.
	Even though all we really want is your money and your advertising, but Moonves just lost the account.
	I don't know how much makeup they're going to have to do to do that.
	I mean, they're going to have to either do something else.
	And Trump tends to find out about this stuff.
	He says, okay, you know, we can always advertise on ABC and NBC, even though they don't like us much either, but at least they don't say stuff like this from the top.
	That's all he said was, I don't think it's good for the country.
	That means that CBS is biased against Trump.
	Yes, correct.
	Anderson Pooper, you know, this stuff really does work.
	The stuff people are talking about.
	You heard the...
	Although we saw these reports weeks ago about Donald Trump apparently changing his name.
	It was Trump for Drumpf or something.
	I think his dad may have changed his name.
	Yeah, his dad changed his name.
	And here's Pooper.
	Thank you very much, everybody.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you very much.
	And Donald Trump...
	Donald Trump.
	Thank you very much.
	And Donald Trump holding a...
	What an idiot.
	He is an idiot.
	This stems from the, you know, John Oliver did a whole takedown of Trump.
	Yes.
	He did as best he could, even though it was extreme.
	Which Stephen Molineux, who I don't watch him, it's tedious, it's too long, but he did an hour and a half He did an hour and a half on the half hour.
	Yeah, dissection.
	And it was good.
	The show was a half hour.
	Molineux did an hour and a half.
	But he broke it down and showed that the guy's a bigot.
	Yeah.
	I liked it.
	It was pretty good.
	You can only take it so seriously.
	But he's the one who's promoting the drum thing.
	And it stuck.
	And it stuck with Pooper.
	Somehow those terms, it stuck with Pooper, is just not...
	Pretty.
	Stug with pooper.
	Here's CNN's...
	What's her name?
	Costello.
	Carol.
	Carol Costello.
	Facebook.com.
	Well, let me ask you this.
	Oh, she has Mark Lamont Hill, black guy on.
	He's a pundit for...
	Oh, that guy, the fast talker.
	Well, he takes things in a cool direction.
	Well, let me ask you this, Mark.
	He's a really smart guy.
	He used to be on Fox all the time.
	That's where he got his chops.
	And he used to be like a regular on O'Reilly, and he would come on, and he was a professor someplace, but he fell in love with the media, so I think he's not even teaching anywhere.
	He wants to do this for a living.
	And he's one of those guys who's so quick on his feet that he's the guy I wouldn't even be in the same room with him who's going to be a debate kind of thing, because he just kicked my ass.
	Well, let me ask you this, Mark, because I want to ask you about angry white men because I just think it'll be kind of fun.
	How does that...
	What?
	How do we get to a state where it's okay for news models to say...
	News white chicks.
	Yeah, to say, let's talk about angry white men because that's funny.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Let me ask you this, Mark, because I want to ask you about angry white men because I just think it'll be kind of fun.
	That's my expertise.
	That block of voters, Mark, they're gravitating toward both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
	Why?
	Well, and I think that's an important question, and it connects to what John's saying.
	And I'm glad John made that distinction between Bernie Sanders' economic vision and Donald Trump's, because sometimes we lump them in together and say they're both economic populists.
	They both want to get rid of these bad trade agreements.
	But Donald Trump is a free market fundamentalist.
	At the core, he still believes in the free market.
	He still believes in a particular conception of free trade.
	He still believes in privatization.
	He still is pro-corporate.
	He still wants to slash taxes in a certain kind of way to invest in business.
	Bernie Sanders, as John said, wants to expand the social safety net.
	But both narratives resonate with voters who are tired of seeing Wall Street greed prevail over everyday people.
	Both are tired of seeing CEOs make out like fat cats while other people don't get bailed out.
	They both appeal to it.
	And then on the Donald Trump side, there's also the white male component to this, Carol, which you point out.
	There is a sense that we are losing our country.
	There is a sense that not only trade deals with Mexico, but also Mexicans themselves are the problem.
	There's this sense that, you know, ever since we've had a black president and a rise and expanded amount of opportunity for black people and brown people, that somehow we're losing our country and the we as white people and more specifically white males.
	And so Donald Trump's narrative of we're going to make America great again in some ways is we're going to make America white again.
	And that resonates with people, and it's a wicked mix of xenophobia and economic populism.
	There you go.
	What he really means is we're going to make America white again.
	40% of what I saw in Arkansas, in Vietnam, was brown people.
	Yeah, it was brown people.
	Children, families.
	Families.
	Maybe I just went to the wrong one.
	Hey, good news!
	Gary Johnson finally came out and said something as he is running as an independent.
	Did he send out a robocall?
	No.
	He needs help.
	We like him.
	But the guy, when he thinks on his feet, dumb stuff comes out of his mouth.
	Okay, listen to this.
	And this includes a little clip from the libertarian debate, which of course had the worst audio ever.
	Here he is responding because on that debate, I believe he called Donald Trump a pussy, which is...
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And I like the idea.
	This is...
	It's good, but he gives away his plan.
	He messes things up.
	He says things incorrectly.
	It's too bad.
	Here we go.
	Kind of a misfire on my part when I called him a pussy.
	Donald Trump's a pussy.
	But the point was, was that...
	I saw that.
	That's pretty good.
	You know what?
	I've climbed the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
	I'm going to do a 3,000 mile mountain bike ride here.
	Is this his campaign idea?
	To do a 3,000 mile mountain bike ride to promote his campaign?
	Is that what he's going to do?
	What it sounds like.
	3,000 mile mountain bike ride here.
	Upcoming.
	Trump's a pussy.
	I think that Donald Trump alienates more than half of Republicans.
	Is he a pussy because he won't go on a long 3,000 mile bike ride, so everyone's a pussy but him, this guy?
	Well, let's hear him out.
	Trump's a pussy.
	I think that Donald Trump alienates more than half of Republicans.
	Deporting 11 million illegal immigrants, building a fence across the border.
	That would be a wall, Gary.
	I mean, if you can't even get the...
	Stop smoking your weed, man.
	God, jeez.
	B12! Deporting 11 million illegal immigrants, building a fence across the border.
	How can you get that wrong?
	We already have a fence.
	Yeah, but how can you get that wrong?
	Fence across the border.
	He's not paying attention.
	I think when you...
	I didn't notice this before, and if you listen to him carefully the way his cadence is, I think you're right about the weed.
	He's on weed.
	Yeah, this is the way you get.
	Well, you've never noticed it when I do it.
	You were a different...
	You were actually...
	When I was on...
	I don't know how you avoided it, but you managed to avoid...
	Because you used to always ask me about, what am I different now?
	Because I'm stopped using it.
	And I always said, no, that's the thing about it.
	You were like a...
	Well, hold on, hold on.
	Let's just...
	We're talking about when the show started, the first several years, I was always smoking weed.
	Baked.
	Baked.
	I was always baked on the show.
	Baked.
	Always.
	And then when I quit...
	You said this is no different.
	Well, the possibility exists that you've been permanently brain damaged, and I've never really known you on any other time in your life.
	This is possible, yes.
	I could be brain damaged.
	So it's possible, because of being baked all the time.
	Now, when you made the transition, and I think it was around show two, less than show 200, between 100.
	Oh, no.
	No, no.
	It was 102 or 103.
	Okay, 103.
	Okay, when you made the transition, and we did talk about it quite a bit on the show, and I don't recommend people going back that far, but...
	I didn't, and I say, and I'm honest about it, I did not know the difference.
	And then you say, now on occasion you party, you go someplace, or you have some in the state of Texas where they like to cut your nuts off for Spoken Dope.
	But that's okay.
	Take a chance.
	I can't tell.
	Right.
	Well, I haven't done that since those episodes.
	I wouldn't be stoned on the show.
	But I would say that this guy sounds more normal to me of the guys I know that start smoking and the next thing you know they start getting slow and then they start sounding like Gary's sounding right now.
	He sounds like a stoner.
	We should try this sometime.
	We'll see if you notice it.
	Well, now that you're in the back of my brain, I can probably, maybe, maybe.
	I told you that I... But you've been kind of dingy on the show.
	And if you have one drink, it's over.
	Dingy?
	Dingy?
	Yeah.
	Once in a while.
	Well, I do know that one time my flight instructor was still flying helicopters and we had the castle.
	We landed, we were done for the day.
	He said, hey, why don't you smoke that joint?
	Let's go fly, see how you do.
	Which I did.
	And I had the best landing ever.
	It was fantastic.
	It was no problem.
	Probably concentrated war.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so onward with the stoner.
	Building a fence across the border.
	Killing the families of Islamic terrorists.
	Free markets.
	But I'm going to force Apple to make their iPads and their iPhones in the United States.
	If it gets down to being in the presidential debates and...
	He's got anything to say about me, which I'm sure he will.
	I'll just start off the fact that he's a pussy.
	He is stoned.
	I could have heard it now.
	Yeah.
	He's stoned.
	That's why he's been so lackadaisical about this election.
	He hasn't even, because he, when he ran four years ago, his goal, and I voted for him, his goal was to get at least one, to prove that you could get, almost start a third party.
	And he was going to show the Libertarian Party that he could get 1 million votes, something they've never done before.
	He ended up, I believe, with 2 million votes.
	Which is a lot for some guy random character on the ballot.
	And since then, I don't know, do you expect to win?
	I have no idea what he was thinking because he got his over 1 million votes, which was his goal, and he didn't build on that.
	He didn't do anything.
	Just the first time I've heard of him or heard from him, even though we talked and mentioned his name a few shows back, but this is the first time I've heard him actually say anything.
	And he's stoned.
	He's very stoned.
	That's too bad.
	Hey, before we go to a break, John, and check your email, Eric got connectivity again.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Just going back to that, the drug problem.
	With heroin coming in from Mexico and this opioid act.
	It's a great time to pass crazy stuff when no one's looking.
	Everyone's looking.
	There's too many debates, too many town halls.
	And then they are passing S-524.
	And this is a bill to authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address the national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use.
	So the short title is the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015.
	And I highlighted a few bits, and there's a very obvious conclusion.
	The total is about $400 or $500 million over the next three years, starting in 2017.
	So they start off with some obvious things.
	According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 22.7 million people in the United States needed substance use disorder treatment in 2013.
	One out of twelve or so.
	It's a lot.
	Yeah!
	And only two and a half million people received it.
	So, there's their problem they're trying to solve.
	They're not going to try and do anything but the border, stem the drugs, no.
	Research indicates that combating...
	Actually, there's a spelling error here.
	C-O-M-B-A-T-I-N-G. Wouldn't it be double T, combating?
	I'll look it up.
	Indicates that combating the opioid crisis, including abuse of prescription painkillers and increasingly heroin, requires a multi-pronged approach that involves drug...
	Drug diversion, expanding delivery of existing treatments, including medication-assisted treatments, medication-assisted treatments, hello, methadone, expanding access to overdose medications and interventions, and the development of new medications for pain that can augment the existing treatment arsenal.
	I'm not going to read through the whole thing for you, but they do have some terms that are important when we're talking about this.
	The term medication-assisted treatment, It means the use for problems relating to heroin and other opioids of medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration in combination with counseling and behavioral therapy.
	So now we're talking about an actual law that has treatment very similar to what we saw in the Netherlands.
	Even as early as the 70s, when you're on heroin, actually the Dutch had the methadone bus.
	It was a little Volkswagen bus and would drive through the neighborhoods, you know, like the ice cream man.
	Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
	And the druggies would roll up and say, alright man, time for my methadone shot.
	The term opioid means any drug having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability, similar to morphine, or being capable of conversion into a drug having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability.
	So then they go into what they're going to do about it.
	So there's a lot of money for a national education campaign.
	And they spell it out.
	We're going to have commercials.
	Nancy Reagan's dead, but she's not.
	We're going to have all kinds of say no to drugs or whatever they're going to do.
	Maybe they're going to say, if you're high, come get your drugs from the government.
	That's possible.
	By the way, combating with one T is American, two Ts is British.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	So then they go through best practices, etc.
	But what it really comes down to, and this is the thing, let me go down to the bottom here, and this was at the bottom, almost like an afterthought.
	Let me pick it up here.
	Yes.
	Now this, here we go.
	So the states are going to get all this grants, right?
	Right?
	I said right.
	Grant money.
	And it totals this $500 million over the next couple of years.
	And the bulk of it goes to the treatment with medication and therapy.
	There is also a huge grant for the, was it Noxone?
	What's the thing called again?
	The overdose drug if you're ODing and you're dying.
	Right, they're supposed to have ambulances.
	Yes.
	Okay, so here we go.
	In order to get all this money...
	We talked about this before, it has the odd effect of if you're on both heroin and speed.
	Yes, our buddy Chad in Colorado deals with this.
	He told you, give the guy the shot, knocks the heroin out, and now the guy's on speed and he goes nuts.
	They wake up, they start projectile vomiting and trying to kill you.
	Yeah, it's really nice.
	You can't even put the hood on them because they're puking in the hood and choking.
	It's horrible.
	It's what it is, man.
	So in order to get these grants, there are requirements.
	This is the crux of it.
	Requirements.
	An integrated opioid abuse response program carried out using an implementation grant under this section shall, here are the specifics, ensure that each prescriber of a Schedule 2, 3, or 4 controlled substance in the state Registers with the prescription drug monitoring program of the state and consults the prescription drug monitoring program database of the state before prescribing a Schedule 2,
	3, or 4 controlled substance and ensure that each dispenser of a Schedule 2, 3, or 4 controlled substance in the state registers with the prescription drug monitoring program of the state.
	And then we have four times a year they'll be checked.
	So I looked at what this really means, and I think there's something hiding under the blades of grass.
	A Schedule 2, 3, or 4 drug includes, right there on number 2, Adderall, Ritalin, all these little drugs.
	Not marijuana.
	Marijuana is still a Schedule 1.
	So the idea is, doctors now will be forced...
	To register you in a database which can be shared amongst the states and the federal government if you're prescribed anything such as Adderall.
	You're now on a list.
	You're on a list.
	And I thought that...
	And that you won't be able to get a gun.
	Well, that of course is next.
	You won't be able to be near children and all that.
	Even the schools...
	In order to comply at a state level for the state funding, we'll also have to screen kids.
	Now, this is now starting already in...
	Hold on a second.
	Where was this starting?
	It's a good catch.
	This is horrible.
	This is what they do.
	This is the back doorway of registering you so you can't buy a gun.
	But I don't understand how this works with HIPAA. Does this supersede HIPAA? Which is the data protection of your...
	Yeah, I know what it is.
	It's like your medical records.
	Apparently, it's got nothing to do with your medical record.
	It's outside of HIPAA. It's not superseding.
	It's outside.
	And Dame Angela from Nevada, she sent me a picture from her doctor's office yesterday.
	There's a sign, a red sign.
	It's not hanging yet.
	It's leaned against kind of the wall.
	It says...
	To improve patient care and assist the healthcare professionals, this clinic will require all, in all caps, patients to do a urine drug screen testing prior to prescribing any controlled substance medications, e.g.
	narcotics, pain medications, muscle relaxants, and anxiolytic medications.
	What state is she in?
	Nevada.
	Wow.
	Big time wow.
	So now you have mandatory drug testing, and I can only presume we're going to see more of this.
	This is a real, real problem.
	And it's being passed quietly.
	No one's really talking about it.
	Seems good.
	So now we're going to have...
	Yeah, well, it's got the good title.
	It does have the good title, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	Read the title again.
	Okay, the title is...
	I call it the Opioid Act, and that's what it's known as, but it really is the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015.
	It'll be 2016 by the time it's passed.
	Yeah.
	Tracking you.
	Someone needs to be talking about this.
	This is not...
	So your kids, your kids in school, and you have a one in seven, or yeah, probably one in three chance that your kid is on Adderall or Ritalin or Vyvanse or any of this stuff.
	Next time they want to go get their prescription filled, if this passes, they'll be in the database.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	There's the Stassi.
	Hey, let's call Trump Hitler.
	Maybe that'll distract him.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Well, with that, I want to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for...
	Can't read the spreadsheet.
	Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning, you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all the ships and sea boots on the ground feed in the air, subs in the water, and all the names and knights out there.
	In the morning, to everybody in the chatroom, know you in the stream.com.
	Good to see you all joining in the conversation.
	Thank you very much.
	They are all on board with Gary Johnson in the chatroom today.
	Everyone's high.
	That's good.
	They're all high.
	Hey, man.
	I really like that guy.
	I'm voting for him, man.
	There's something cool about him.
	I like the bike, man.
	He rides a bike.
	3,000 miles, man.
	Andy Peelman starts off the list here as our executive.
	I just wanted to thank the artist.
	Sorry to interrupt you.
	Artist for the episode 805, Mononuptials, which was a great little ditty that we covered.
	The artwork was created by Sub7Zero.
	Really liked it.
	There was something subtle I didn't see.
	So this is a rubber stamp of Hitler, and then, you know, it's been used on this apparently piece of paper.
	Did you see that the handle of the rubber stamp has a little Hillary logo on it?
	No, I didn't see that.
	I hadn't seen it either.
	That's great.
	But that's what, our good art has a lot of subtleties in it.
	Although, oddly, the stamp is mirrored.
	It's just a small mistake in the photo.
	So they never could have made with that stamp.
	But I love the Hillary thing on the handle.
	That was very good.
	So we appreciate that.
	And all of our artists who are always submitting fantastic work.
	By the way, two or three pieces in there that will get used later.
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	And now let's thank our executive producers and associate executive producers of this very episode.
	Andy Peelman from Leed, Belgium.
	6182 and he's going to be a night.
	Says in the morning, according to my accountant, the donation should make me reach night.
	He would like to be known as Sir Andy Peacekeeper of flooding Flanders.
	With this, I'd like to thank you, John and Adam and the entire team in the back office, including the fellow producers, artists and contributors for all your courage during these past years, since it's so rare for the average people to be conscious about what's going on outside the mainstream line of thinking. since it's so rare for the average people to be It's a true pleasure to have this show on the side.
	On the side as a guardian of reality, laughing in the face of political correctness and blatant ignorance.
	I also want to thank my wife, Sandra, for standing by me for 20 years.
	She's the one who helped me set things straight and stay sane.
	And thanks to Anais.
	Anais.
	How do you pronounce that name?
	Anais.
	I think it's Anais.
	Anais.
	For being such a sweetheart, it would be great if Adam could say this in Dutch.
	Dutch English or Dutch?
	Dutch.
	Peace and center of the Queen, Van Hoeven, and is our niece.
	All right, okay.
	Nobody wants you to stay in Dutch.
	Bedankt for our niece that you saw an outstanding lievered band.
	Is that what he wanted me to say?
	Did I say it right?
	I don't know.
	What else was there?
	Where is the Dutch?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Did it.
	Okay.
	Well, he said something in Dutch.
	Anyway, so he's got the accounting for his knighthood, and he didn't request a sound effect or anything, but immediately...
	Yeah, he did.
	Yeah, he did.
	I've got him.
	He has a little girl boom shakalaka, climbing a jingle, and obviously some karma.
	Boom shakalaka!
	To the gate, to the gate.
	You've got karma.
	Ooh, nice little mix.
	I like that.
	So I got the bell that you have.
	You mean the chime, the Zenergy chime.
	The Zenergy chime, but I got the three, the triple.
	Because there's only another ten bucks, so it's a triple.
	It's got three different chimes.
	Okay.
	This is the worst thing I've ever bought.
	Why?
	I don't even know how they managed to do this or how these things are manufactured.
	Well, the guy who started the company is a musician.
	Well, I can see that would come in handy in a big hall.
	This is the loudest, most piercing, painful thing.
	To people out there who want to think about buying a Zenergy Chime, my advice is do not buy one.
	It actually hurts.
	It does.
	It does.
	Although I got an email from one of our producers, his wife is a school teacher, and he said, please, this is great.
	She loves this idea.
	It really works on the children.
	Well, they probably put them in some sort of a stupor because this thing is so loud.
	How loud is it, John?
	It is horrible.
	Horrible device.
	Bang it, bang it.
	And it doesn't stop ringing for probably 10 minutes.
	Bang it for a second.
	I'll turn off your noise gate so we can get the decay.
	I don't have it.
	Oh, you don't have it?
	Oh, okay.
	I have it downstairs in the kitchen.
	I'll bring it up for the next show.
	Okay, good.
	All right.
	I didn't bring it up.
	You have one.
	It's the same thing.
	You only have one note.
	I got three.
	People don't like me using it.
	I'm only using that when we're down on donations.
	Then I will bring out the pain devices.
	The pain devices.
	I'll bring it up for next time.
	Okay.
	Let's go on.
	John France in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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	Can I get a You Will Obey, just send your cash, OMG amazing, and some house buying engagement and 10 CFR 50-4 karma.
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	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	OMG! Stop already!
	That is amazing!
	Science!
	You've got karma.
	A little remix for you.
	A little remix for you.
	I have to go get the note from Nikola.
	You get the note from Nikola, and I will play the first of our three entries today, which were the Bernie whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa mashed up with something else.
	This is GX2. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	On that front.
	On that front.
	And I did have a bowl of popcorn.
	on that front.
	Soon to be in DJ Tiesto's set.
	I'll see you next time.
	Are you back?
	Oh man.
	Do you need more time?
	Yeah, play something else.
	Okay, I'll play the second entrance.
	I can officially say I can't find the note from Nikola.
	Oh.
	Which is very annoying.
	I will make it up to her.
	Nicola Princip in Raleigh, North Carolina, 23456.
	There's probably some birthday in there or something.
	We'll fix it.
	Peter Hawkins in Belfast, UK. $200.
	He's in Northern Ireland.
	Very specific about that.
	Yes, Northern Ireland.
	He's in...
	Well, Northern Ireland's not...
	Yeah, it is.
	What am I thinking?
	Guys, we have lads in Ireland.
	Sorry.
	What did somebody...
	What did one of us say?
	We say guys, but in Ireland they say lads.
	Lads.
	Lads.
	Been a while since I've donated.
	Got to keep the show going for all our sakes.
	Peter Hawks, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
	Please do not say UK. Okay.
	Yeah.
	I did because it said it in the spreadsheet.
	I'm going to give him a karma.
	I'm going to give him a karma.
	You've got Carmen.
	Okay.
	Sir Norman McDonough in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
	Not to be confused with the one in New York.
	$200.
	Sir Norman Baranet, may I have a whoopee?
	Get out of my vag.
	Followed by an Obama, you could die.
	You might die, I think it is.
	Is that what it is?
	Yes, you might die.
	And a karma or anything else?
	Yeah, give me karma.
	Get out of my vagina!
	You might die.
	Not bad.
	You've got karma.
	I'm going to play those again.
	Get out of my vagina!
	You might die.
	That's outstanding.
	That is a very good combo.
	Yeah.
	Sir Luke of London in London, UK, in this case, $200.
	I can't wait for the No Agenda London pub crawl.
	I hope it doesn't go the same way as the Las Vegas dinner from a few years ago.
	I'd like to request some karma for my first cycle event of the year on Sunday.
	All right.
	It's with Gary Johnson.
	The no-no clip of Obama really is the gift that keeps on giving.
	As I write this, I have an ideal mash-up with the Rolling Stones get off of my cloud.
	Oh, okay.
	He sent it to me, so I have it.
	Oh, okay.
	And we'll roll right into his karma.
	Thank you very much for your support.
	Sir Luke of London.
	Hey, Luke, take it off.
	Come on.
	You take your firehouse.
	Let me escort this person out.
	That's pretty good, right?
	You've got karma.
	Hey, you get off of my house.
	Yeah, get out of my house.
	Yeah, okay.
	That's Sir Luke.
	Jeffrey Walso in Nealberg, Saskatchewan, Canada.
	$200.
	Gentlemen, keep your sticks on the ice.
	Just some simple general purpose karma.
	Very nice.
	Sticks on the ice.
	Feet's in the air.
	You've got karma.
	Sucks in the water.
	Daniel Sheets in Winchester, Virginia.
	$200.
	Standing work.
	First time donor.
	D-douche me.
	Karma and your choice to fit the mood.
	How about he came, he went, we died?
	Oh, Hillary?
	Yeah, I like that one.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	Lady McDeth.
	All right.
	So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
	Yes, we came, we saw, he died.
	We've got Karma.
	Oh, definitely.
	Lovely.
	Alright, that concludes our little group of producers and executive producers for show 806.
	Yes, sir.
	Mind you, we have 807 coming up sooner than later.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
	Yes, and a reminder, we have tons of meetups taking place.
	I don't have anything to promote specifically today.
	We're looking for 10 or more for mentions on the show, but I do want to keep hammering the meetup site, meetup.com slash noagenda.
	And it looks like lots of people are getting together.
	It's very cool.
	That's good.
	Thank you.
	We should remind people that it's not a bad thing to do because...
	You may have different backgrounds, but the like-mindedness of the way your brain works is so nice when you meet other people in the No Agenda community.
	It really is.
	It's like meeting children from other lands who still speak kind of the same language, the language of thank you for your courage in the morning.
	It's very good.
	I always say in the morning.
	And a special thanks to our executive producers and associate executive producers for today.
	These, of course, are real credits.
	If anyone questions them, we'll be happy to vouch for you.
	And we have another show coming up on Sunday.
	And, of course, we thank the people in our segment later on.
	But in the meantime, propagate our formula, will you?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Amen.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up!
	Ray!
	Shut up!
	Ray!
	All righty then.
	I think we got our discussion of the...
	This is going to go on forever.
	This is actually...
	I don't know how...
	Maybe we should put a time limit or something on this election analysis, which is really...
	I think it's still entertaining, but jeez.
	Well, it's still...
	It is important for the entire world, these elections.
	Well, actually, when you...
	It's kind of centric to the U.S. One of my main stations...
	I still listen to France 24, but if you listen to Deutsche Welle, even though it's kind of oriented toward the English-speaking audience, they're doing very elaborate reports on the American elections from Germany.
	Yeah, but they always have the same Trump as a Hitler thing in there.
	It's an anti-Trump...
	You know, it's not as bad as you'd think, especially in Germany, where they actually had a Hitler.
	They had a Hitler there, really.
	Yeah, they had a Hitler there.
	They're not going to fall into Trump as Hitler.
	I had something from...
	Let's see, was it two shows ago?
	Hold on a second.
	I had a European report about Trump from Euro...
	From Euronews.
	I don't know if I can find it anymore.
	But it was kind of...
	Oh, here it is.
	So this is last week, just to give you an idea of how it's viewed overseas.
	In his victory speech, the billionaire businessman struck a different note and was generally conciliatory towards his Republican rivals.
	But Trump didn't save any niceties when referring to Hillary Clinton.
	You know, I watched Hillary's speech and she's talking about wages have been poor and everything's poor and everything's doing badly, but we're going to make it.
	She's been there for so long.
	I mean, if she hasn't straightened it out by now, she's not going to straighten it out in the next four years.
	It's just going to become worse and worse.
	She wants to make America whole again.
	And I'm trying to figure out what is that all about?
	Make America great again is going to be much better than making America whole again.
	Despite Texas Senator Ted Cruz's victory in his home state and triumphs in Oklahoma and Alaska, the Maverick faces a severe uphill struggle to reverse Trump's blooming fortunes.
	As for the Republican establishment's last fading hope, Marco Rubio, he recorded his first win to boost his fading chances, which makes it unlikely he'll withdraw from the race before the next big nominating contest in two weeks' time.
	So, no Hitler stuff.
	That was decent.
	Pretty straightforward.
	You can cover this in a straightforward manner without all the hysterics that these networks do to get us all worked up.
	And I want to mention one thing we talked about.
	The Bernie thing in Michigan has to be at least discussed for a second.
	This guy was down 30 points or more.
	Let's just say the polls predicted something very different.
	The polls are so often.
	And as, of course, one of my friends on Twitter mentioned, I don't know why people haven't gotten a clue about the pollers.
	They don't have cell phone numbers to call to poll anyone.
	All they have is old landlines.
	And so all you're getting are fogies who have...
	Most people don't even use landlines anymore.
	They just use the cell phone for everything, which I find is dumb.
	If you can get a landline, get a landline.
	Most of these services will give you one.
	You can get one on Comcast.
	You can get them everywhere.
	And they're better because the latency is so much lower.
	But people don't care.
	They want to use a cell phone all the time.
	They never use a landline.
	And that's your younger voters are always going to vote for Bernie.
	And so they couldn't.
	So these pollsters, they either have to get their act together because you know they're using fudge numbers.
	Well, what do you think?
	Because we're not getting any young people taking our poll.
	I'm enjoying Nate Silver, Mr.
	Hero of the Obama bots with his 538, whatever that thing is, because he so accurately predicted Obama winning.
	I'm enjoying him failing.
	Is he failing?
	Oh yeah, of course.
	He was wrong on Michigan?
	Oh yeah.
	We find the guy who was right on Michigan.
	There's two guys who are right, Trump and Sanders.
	And the reason is very simple.
	This is exactly what's happening in the United States.
	And some people want to lean that way, but they're both tired of the system.
	Both sides, whether you're for Trump or for Sanders.
	Michigan has been destroyed.
	You were there.
	You were in Detroit, right?
	Yeah.
	And I was around there, too.
	I went through some of the other little towns.
	Right, but it's destroyed, and people see the government doing that.
	So screw the government.
	Let's go with the guys who are not...
	Well, although Bernie sounds like he's anti-government, but of course he's the opposite.
	But I understand that.
	That seems so logical.
	Doesn't that tell you what the American people are thinking right there?
	If you got those two guys winning Detroit?
	Come on, Michigan, the whole state?
	Yeah.
	I promised on the last show...
	The harbinger.
	Michigan's a harbinger.
	Harbinger.
	Although they're not going to be, you know, still not going to be paid attention to.
	They're still going to force Hillary in because, you know, they're going to shoehorn her.
	By the way, I ran into a clip.
	I don't have it in front of me, but it's on YouTube.
	Harbinger.
	Harbinger is a good word.
	Is that frontrunner?
	It's a foreteller of what's the things to come.
	Oh.
	It's like you're a foreteller.
	In other words, you're a harbinger.
	Whatever you're doing, everyone's going to do.
	California is a harbinger of culture.
	Harbinger of douchebaggery.
	Well, that's culture.
	So, anyway, we missed this.
	I don't know.
	I'm going to make a clip for the next show, but it's Hillary making the bull.
	Hillary is full of crap.
	She's sitting in this thing.
	This is in, I think it was November of last year, at some meeting, and somebody caught her at the meeting, and she was called out.
	Only one news operation called her out, and they did it with Debbie Schultz.
	Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	And it was the woman that's married to the ex-Fed chair, what's his name?
	Andrea Mitchell.
	Andrea Mitchell was calling out Debbie on this.
	And she's the only one who picked up on the story.
	Nobody did the story, and it was on MSNBC. I was very shocked, but it was Hillary sitting around talking about how she tried to join the Marines during the period when she was a peacenik.
	You know, she was right in the middle of the Vietnam War when everyone's protesting and they're not putting up with any of this stuff and her friend Bill's got a big beard and he's a hippie and all this sort of thing.
	And she claims she tried to join the Marines when she was 26.
	Yeah.
	And she was turned down because she was too old.
	And then she turned this into something about women.
	Women.
	This is a bullcrap story.
	Yeah, even Andrew...
	Do you have the clip?
	Because I didn't clip it.
	No, I don't.
	I'm disappointed in myself.
	I clipped it and threw it out.
	And thought to myself, eh, who gives a shit?
	Well, it's mostly a clip of Andrea's haranguing Debbie.
	Yeah.
	And Gabby's sitting there all nervous.
	It could have happened.
	She is a horrible...
	She's as bad as Rance Priebus.
	She's the female version of Rance Priebus on the other side.
	That tells you something about these organizations.
	Yes.
	They're identical.
	These parties are horrible.
	They're corrupt.
	Anyway.
	They're just on the side.
	So I'd promised to talk about the MH17 report in the Netherlands, which has now been well over a year since the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed, is the appropriate downed, over Ukraine.
	And the Dutch, everyone wants this report.
	They want to know, who do we blame for this?
	Who do we blame?
	And of course, the Dutch politicians do not, they want to point to Russia, but they don't really want to say Russia did it, because 60% of the GDP of the Netherlands runs on Russian oil and gas and companies and accountancies and tax shelters.
	It's a big deal.
	It's a big part of the GDP. So, they're waffling.
	There's now questions in Parliament.
	People are getting pretty pissed off.
	And the question, and what has now risen to the top, is that the U.S. military has radar images of what happened to this aircraft, or where it was flying.
	Apparently, radar images even of the path of the Buk missile.
	Woo-hoo!
	But the Dutch have never seen it.
	They say, well, we never really saw any of that.
	Instead, they went to Bellingcat, the blogger, and they put all the hell of his information into the report.
	It's un-fucking-believable.
	So now we have the State Department with Kirby, and he's pretty much being humiliated by the new team of Matt Lee and the RT hottie.
	God, she looks great in the morning.
	Have you seen that?
	You know what I'm talking about, right?
	Yeah, when her hair is all wild and thick and stuff.
	RT hottie.
	What kind of data has the U.S. shared with Dutch investigators on the downing of MH17? I asked Mark Turner about this yesterday.
	He said he would look into it.
	I wonder if you have anything.
	Yeah, I'm actually not going to be able to give you a lot of information on that.
	Do you know data included?
	Satellite images or radar data?
	As I said, I'm not going to be able to give you much on that.
	There is an active...
	Still an active review going on.
	You could tell he finally got his page.
	He's actually very slow at this.
	The women that used to run this operation, they would get to the page almost halfway through the question.
	You'd see them looking down, putting their fingers right into where it goes, as it were, and flipping over, boom, ready to go.
	By the time the question was finished, they were on the page.
	I wonder if in the State Department briefings the questions are also submitted ahead of time, like the White House.
	I think that binder is just full of topics.
	Well, he couldn't find the topic because, of course, I don't care about that.
	Still an active review going on, and I'd refer you to the Dutch government on that review.
	We have been and will continue to assist as is appropriate, but I'm not going to be able to give you much more detail than that.
	You didn't give any detail at all.
	Not much more.
	There's none.
	Can you confirm at least...
	That's a subjective opinion on your part.
	I thought I gave information.
	I said we're helping.
	I'm just not going to talk about exactly what we're helping.
	Okay, so you did give them some kind of information.
	We continue to work with the Joint Investigation Team and Law Enforcement Authorities, but I'm not going to go into the details.
	Does that mean that you have given them...
	I'm not asking what specifically.
	Does that mean you've given them information?
	It means that we've continued to communicate and assist them.
	Well, I don't know what that means.
	We're continuing to communicate right now, but I'm not getting any answers and no one else is here.
	So what does that mean, continue to communicate?
	It means that we are cooperating with them and assisting them in their efforts.
	I'm not going to get into the details of what that is.
	But that answer means nothing, though.
	Have you given them information, data, any kind?
	I've answered the question.
	Have there been a text from Dutch investigators for radar data or satellite images from the U.S.?
	You can contact Dutch authorities and ask them about the progress of their investigative efforts and what they've needed and how they're doing on it.
	I'm not going to be able to give any more information.
	Bullshit!
	Exactly.
	It's all a cover-up.
	It's been going on for over a year.
	They just got to blame the Russians for no apparent reason.
	I mean, I can assure you that if the Russians had shot that thing down and it was the Russians, this would have been ten minutes later they would have had all the evidence.
	They laid it all out and pointed their finger at Russia.
	You know, they just kind of imply it's Russia.
	I believe this is going to be...
	It may be fixed in the coming few weeks.
	Because really what has to happen is someone in the Ukrainian government has to admit it was a mistake and it was them.
	It's obvious.
	If it was Russia, then you're right.
	It would have been out and known.
	It's not Russia.
	But what's happening now, this news report just came in.
	Natalie Jaresko.
	Does his name ring a bell?
	It shouldn't, but it might.
	No.
	This is the woman who overnight...
	Became Ukrainian.
	American.
	American woman, Natalie Juresko, became Ukrainian, and the next day she was the finance minister.
	And now it looks like she will become the prime minister in the next week or so, as Yatsenyuk, Yats, is about to step down.
	Let's get this woman who's one of our people.
	She is a former ambassador to Ukraine.
	Of course, she's a senior fellow at Brookings and you want to have that.
	She became the finance minister by receiving her passport the next day.
	Oh, she's the finance minister, which kind of works when America's handing you money or involved in whatever you're doing.
	Joe Biden's kids involved in all of the oil.
	One kid involved with gas and fracking.
	And now she could be the new prime minister.
	That's outrageous.
	So if he's the new prime minister, then maybe she would have a way to smooth this out if the Dutch get too crazy about it.
	In all likelihood.
	And actually try to get to the bottom of it?
	Yeah.
	Well, she could say, oh, well, that's these guys, they're out, you know, we're done, I'm now in charge.
	The Prime Minister, an American, does it get any nuttier?
	It's crazy.
	Of course, this won't be covered by anyone.
	No.
	And of course, I immediately went to see you.
	In other words, they're so screwed up in Ukraine that we have to actually put our own person into the job of prime minister because it's a mess.
	It's a quagmire.
	Yeah.
	Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
	Where is Victoria Kagan Noodleman?
	Of course, I immediately went to look and expected to see her in Ukraine.
	Oh, it gets better.
	Today and tomorrow she will be in Malta and Greece.
	Perfect.
	Malta is just to visit the elites.
	Greece is to see how the destruction is going.
	You're right.
	Malta, that's what she's doing.
	She's having a meeting with a few people over coffee.
	Maybe tea.
	I think she's more a tea drinker.
	Don't you think she's tea?
	Okay.
	Definitely Chardonnay after three.
	Hell yeah.
	Yeah.
	Please go to Malta.
	The Knights of Malta.
	It's a fun place to hang out.
	It's not coincidental she's going to Greece as Turkey and Greece have hammered out a deal outside of the European Union regarding the migrants.
	Turkey and Greece have held a bilateral meeting filling in the details on the proposed EU migration plan, which includes a controversial refugee exchange program.
	The prime ministers of both countries are hoping it will end flows of people across the Aegean Sea.
	The two leaders met in the Turkish city of Ismir a day after the EU summit in Brussels.
	Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmad Davutoglu said, yesterday during the summit and today here at this meeting, Turkey and Greece are giving a common answer with a common perspective to those in Europe who have the attitude that Greece and Turkey should deal with the crisis on their own.
	Once again, we are reiterating that Turkey and Greece are taking up this matter with a common perspective.
	Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told a joint news conference the readmission agreement would help reduce what he called the unbearable flow into Europe.
	A readmission agreement means they can send them back.
	I would like to stress that the implementation of this readmission agreement sends a clear message to migrants coming from third countries that there is neither the political will nor the ability to cross to Europe within the framework of the measures we are taking.
	More than one million people fleeing war in the Middle East have entered the EU in the last year.
	Most make the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece before heading north through the Balkans to Germany.
	Alright.
	Before you go on, I do have the report.
	From Deutsche Welle, the latest update, the way they're describing it in Germany, which is the migrant route shutdown latest.
	The main migrant route from Greece to Northern Europe has been slammed shut tonight.
	Western Balkan countries have closed their borders to transiting refugees.
	Slovenia announced that only those with valid documents would be allowed through, allowed to enter the country.
	Fearing a bottleneck, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia, they've also closed their borders.
	On the southern edge of the Balkan route, migrant traffic has been at a virtual standstill for the last two weeks.
	Hungary is responding to the migrant crisis by extending a state of emergency to the entire country.
	The Interior Minister says that the country is bolstering police and military patrols to keep migrants from entering.
	New measures also include stricter border checks and enhanced police powers.
	So with borders along the Balkan route closing, even more refugees are likely to be stranded, you guessed it, in Greece, with more and more arriving every day.
	Frustration is building at Greece's border with Macedonia.
	Up to 14,000 people are stranded here, and the gates are closed, sealing off the Balkan route to Western Europe.
	Conditions are dire.
	Heavy rain has turned the camp at Idomeni into a swamp, and illnesses are spreading rapidly.
	The situation is so bad that some migrants have given up and returned to camps in southern Greece.
	Oh, man.
	And I love how the world over, of course I read the European press a lot, people talking about the crazy xenophobe Donald Trump, you know, stop the Muslims from coming in.
	Meanwhile, they're just shutting down their borders.
	Boom.
	Okay.
	Oh, this is horrible.
	And when you look at the...
	I mean, and they have these reporters that go over there and they shoot this stuff and it's like, oh man, this is just outrageous.
	Now we have a...
	How gruesome it is.
	We have a big vote coming up in Germany in the next couple days.
	And here's a boots on the ground report.
	You know that Angela Merkel already strongly suggested Facebook start deleting anti-migrant posts, which has been adhered to.
	Now, boots on the ground, German newspapers have all closed their comment sections.
	You can't comment anymore on their articles.
	This is all pre-the vote, the election.
	Yeah, but you don't want to have any sort of dissent from the public.
	But we're talking the big newspapers.
	They've just shut down their comments.
	Yes, they're corrupt.
	Here is the little report on one of the parties that's emerging called the AFD, which is the alternative for Germany.
	Who probably won't get into double digits, but...
	Well, I don't know.
	These guys think they will get into double digits, but it's low double digits.
	Well, here in Germany, the migration crisis has given a big boost to the alternative for Germany political party, also known as the AFD. Now, it opposes mass immigration and has been holding a big demonstration in the eastern German city of Jena.
	The party is highly critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and it's demanding an end to her open-door migration policy.
	Members of the right-wing Pegida movement in Dresden have called for people to vote for the AFD when three German states go to the polls on Sunday.
	The AFD is likely to gain a significant number of seats in all three.
	Is that today?
	Is today the vote?
	I guess it is today.
	Sunday?
	Oh, it's Sunday.
	Sorry, B12 time.
	And further challenge the chancellor.
	These will be some regional elections to definitely watch.
	Melinda Crane, our chief political correspondent, she'll be watching them for us.
	Good evening to you, Melinda.
	So what happens if we see the AFD win more than 10 or even 15 percent of the vote?
	Well, practically speaking, that would certainly change the coalition options for the more mainstream parties that have been governing in these states until now.
	They may find themselves looking for some new partners at state level, but you can be sure that they will not be asking the AFD to join them in government.
	And such a result would definitely provoke a lot of head-scratching and worrying of the type that we saw here this week after municipal elections were held in the state of Hessen last weekend.
	We saw a result of over 10 percent for the AFD in Hessen's main city, Frankfurt.
	And nonetheless, the main newspaper there, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, which is one of Germany's leading newspapers, said, look, this is not really reason for alarm alarm.
	We don't need to start planning candlelight vigils.
	Let us be pragmatic about this.
	Okay, be pragmatic.
	So does that mean that the German chancellor probably would not make a U-turn on her refugee policy, even if the AFD did show these strong returns?
	No, I cannot see that happening.
	I have seldom in the entire time that she has been in office seen her take so steadfast and so principled a stand as she has done on the refugee crisis.
	And she herself has said very clearly, look, I am not playing party politics and tactics here.
	This issue is far too important for Europe to do so.
	Man.
	No bueno.
	No bueno.
	There's more stuff going on.
	I have two quick little reports that are kind of fun.
	It's surprising that this didn't happen decades ago because I've been to Spain during the summertime.
	The summer holidays, of course, Ibiza is where people go to party and take ecstasy and have love and light and all that stuff.
	But you have all these other places where I would say the British mainly go to and just behave like...
	Animals.
	Mallorca, Spain is the topic of this report.
	The popular Spanish tourist island of Mallorca has brought in a nighttime booze ban.
	The sale of alcohol in shops, vending machines, and street cellars is now forbidden in several areas between midnight and 8 a.m.
	The measure was introduced after complaints that tourists were often behaving badly.
	Alcohol ban in the place where people go to get drunk.
	That is pretty bad.
	Yeah, that's going to work.
	Everyone's always talking about how great the NHS is, the national health system.
	We've participated in it when we lived in the UK. I wound up paying for things privately.
	Christina needed a CAT scan on her knee.
	Come back in two months.
	I put down my credit card.
	It was empty.
	I could walk in the same moment.
	So there's good and bad with free health care or government-controlled health care.
	Right now, there's a 48-hour strike by the junior doctors.
	And these are general practitioners, but they do make up a large percent of the GP facilities under NHS. And they're on strike over pay and conditions, particularly long working hours.
	A 48-hour strike by junior doctors in England over working conditions.
	The doctors are angry after being told a contract which reduces how much they're paid for working weekends will be imposed in August after negotiations failed.
	It's a very stressful job, high intensity, and to have the government, particularly our Secretary of State for Health, telling us that We're not listening to you.
	You're saying that the contract isn't suitable and it's not what you want, but I'm just going to impose it anyway.
	In my entire time as a doctor, I've never heard so many people say that they're considering either leaving the profession completely or at least leaving the country.
	Leaving the country.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	But we could use some more doctors over here, so come on over.
	Sweden has shortened its work day.
	We're going from an eight-hour workday to a six-hour workday.
	Gee, they could have at least stopped at seven.
	No.
	Then gone to six.
	And, of course, they do this to give more people jobs, which is how it works.
	But then if you already have a job, you're going to be working less hours, and so I guess you'll have to take a second job or something.
	I don't know.
	Just letting you know what Europe is up to.
	You have to become a podcaster.
	Oh, man.
	If only we could get six hour workdays.
	Update from Gitmo Nation.
	Happy?
	From Paul Piedermonts, Hey Adam, just a bit of an update from Denmark.
	There are two things in the past few days which blew me away.
	I was told by my boss that he got word the labor inspection is doing extra checks on any company employing foreign workers and I need a copy of my residency permit on file, even though as an EU citizen I'm allowed to work and live in the country regardless.
	The other thing I found out when I tried to get a mobile phone subscription, according to every major provider I tried in Gitmo Nation Happy, Denmark, you can only get a...
	Yeah, but what?
	You can't get a card?
	Here we go.
	I'll read it again.
	The other thing I found when I tried to get a mobile phone subscription, according to every major provider I tried, you can only get a subscription if you are a Danish citizen.
	Everywhere else, a local bank account and sometimes an ID suffices, but in Denmark, it can only be done with a Danish passport for now.
	So now foreign slaves have to use prepaid SIM cards.
	Huh.
	Well, that's pretty...
	That's not good.
	No, and it kind of flows into...
	I think I heard you on Horowitz talking about a couple weeks ago.
	The main reason why Americans are giving up their citizenship when they are abroad is to get a bank account.
	You can't get a bank account as an American citizen anymore.
	I know.
	Banks don't want to do it because of the reporting requirements, and they just don't want to deal with it.
	So that's the main reason people are doing that, living abroad already.
	I don't think they're just leaving in disgust.
	Well, that's pretty drastic.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	I'm not completely buying that.
	Buying what?
	The bank account thing?
	Well, no, I understand that the bank account is impossible to get.
	The phone thing.
	You have to renounce the United States and renounce your citizenship just to get a damn bank account because of our government?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	We'll get a whole bunch of emails about this now that I brought it up.
	Yeah, well, I'd like some emails explaining what the problems are.
	I think we've talked about this a couple years ago, because that's when it started.
	And it's stupid.
	Because they're afraid that somebody's going to set up a bank account and then cheat the government from their taxes while these large corporations are hoarding tens of billions of dollars overseas.
	I know.
	And they're worried about some guy's bank account.
	I know.
	We are celebrating 30 years of the Chernobyl disaster.
	And there's problems with this.
	I had to consult our resident nuclear energy expert, Sir Atomic Rod Adams.
	Here's the report briefly.
	Thirty years on, and Ukraine is still feeling the effects from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
	According to a Greenpeace report, tests show that people are exposed to higher than normal levels of radiation and are still eating contaminated foods such as grain, milk, mushrooms, fish, as well as firewood collected from forests.
	For some reason, they want to get these people out.
	They're eating firewood?
	I don't think they're eating the firewood.
	That's the way the report reads.
	It was a little strange.
	There's an article that I linked in the show notes.
	Here's what Atomic Rod said.
	Because I said, dude, 30 years, the radiation, this is always the big question.
	Is it true?
	Is that how much radiation is too much?
	Are they dying?
	And this was a real disaster, this Chernobyl.
	And it was a military disaster.
	It was not a...
	It was not a civilian outfit.
	Sirad says, yeah, we're commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident.
	There are defiant, stubborn babushkas who refuse to leave the area when ordered by the Soviet government.
	They've been living off the land for the past 30 years and appear to have better health than those who followed orders and abandoned their homes.
	And there's a link.
	The Guardian has an article and some video about the babushkas of Chernobyl.
	And they're living there.
	The gardens, everything looks great.
	They never show us that.
	And they're not dying.
	It seems that people want these people out of there.
	And they're just not leaving.
	This is my home.
	I'm going to stay here.
	And they're not dying.
	And you see this report.
	They're like, oh, look at all this radiation.
	They've been there for 30 years.
	They're not dead.
	You have to have radiation in your diet.
	Yes.
	Radiation in your diet is fantastic.
	In fact, there was a, still there, there's a beach in Brazil on one of the coasts that is radioactive.
	And people go there for the cure.
	You sunbathe there for a couple days or a day.
	I don't think you stay there too long.
	And then it gives you health benefits.
	This is like the radiation cup they used to sell, which was a small cup, a radium cup or something to drink some water out of it.
	And then it would be good for you because you need a little radiation in your diet.
	But of course, you have too much and you drop dead.
	So it's touchy.
	So we just decided there's too much hassle to deal with this.
	Well, the bottom line is we have nuclear experts saying it's bullcrap.
	There's no problem.
	Yeah, of course, in the early days.
	But there's no problem.
	There's no reason.
	And it's Greenpeace.
	Greenpeace has an agenda.
	The guy who founded, the co-founder of Greenpeace, left Greenpeace, says they're a political bullcrap organization.
	I'm all in on nukes.
	What's his name?
	You know his name.
	Yeah, that guy.
	The guy who ran it.
	The guy who started it.
	There's a Japanese farmer in Fukushima who has 330 cows right in the exclusion zone.
	Cow's fine.
	Guy fine.
	But I always love doing these stories on No Agenda.
	It's very hard for the No Agenda audience.
	I think they've been contaminated slightly by the seed, man.
	Remember we were measuring radiation for the beat?
	Oh, yeah.
	The radiation cloud.
	Yeah, get your iodine.
	The radiation cloud from Fukushima.
	Get your iodine.
	Yes, the water, the beaches.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, I've got a North Korea update if you want to change topics.
	Keep us up to date with what's going on in North Korea.
	South Korea today.
	That's the best way to start a report about North Korea.
	South Korea today imposed new penalties on North Korea for recent nuclear and missile tests.
	The sanctions ban financial dealings with 40 individuals and 30 organizations with suspected links to the North's weapons program.
	In Seoul, a top official also announced new rules designed to cut off traffic by sea.
	We will strengthen sanctions on shipping related to North Korea.
	We will entirely ban foreign vessels that have stopped at a North Korean port within 180 days.
	And we will also continue the measures prohibiting the vessels of third countries from sailing the sea route between South and North Korea.
	In a related development, South Korea's spy agency accused North Korea of hacking the cell phones of dozens of top South Korean officials.
	Like we did with Merkel?
	Yeah.
	Like we did with the woman in Brazil?
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't know they had those skills.
	You played Kirby recently, but we're kind of ignoring good old Josh Earnest.
	I try not to ignore him, but he's boring.
	And he's propagating a meme, which just is one of my pet peeves, this particular one.
	We're reviewing those reports, and obviously the use of chemical weapons by anybody is an atrocity, and one that the international community will not stand for.
	However, if those reports are correct, It would not be an outlier in terms of the tactics that we know that ISIL uses.
	We know that ISIL is an extremist organization that seeks to achieve their aims by terrorizing innocent people.
	So their use of chemical weapons, if true, would be consistent with those kinds of tactics.
	It's certainly something that the United States and our international partners take quite seriously.
	So I think I'd leave it there.
	What can the U.S. do to prevent the development of American gases?
	Well, certainly one of the things that we have done already is we worked effectively with the Russians a couple years ago to ensure that the declared chemical weapons stockpile of the Assad regime was faithfully rounded up and destroyed.
	That was important, not just because it took one dangerous weapon out of the arsenal of the Assad regime, That was important because the Assad regime was using that arsenal to attack innocent people.
	Bullcrap!
	I'm sorry.
	Bullshit!
	How many times does this have to be debunked?
	Apparently an infinite number of times.
	But, okay, let's just go with it.
	Well, go ahead.
	Very annoying that this continues.
	It's not the only thing that bugs me.
	No.
	Well, uh-huh.
	Okay.
	How about...
	Let's talk about this for a moment.
	We talked about it, I think, on the last show.
	We talked about it in the past.
	And now it's really ratcheting up the Mosel Dam.
	And there's got to be a reason for this.
	There's got to be a reason for it.
	It's funny you brought it up because I forgot all about it.
	We brought it up on this show, but then I forgot about it.
	You're right.
	Okay.
	I have two clues.
	They keep bringing it up.
	Yeah, what's going on with this?
	Okay.
	So the main thing to know about the Mosel Dam...
	It's in northern Iraq.
	It supplies a lot of electricity, the Kurds.
	The meme, though, is if this dam breaks, the catastrophe, people will die.
	It's like 40,000 people have to get out of the way.
	It's not like a whole city is going to be flooded.
	And that's why I'm suspicious of these reports.
	There's always been concern about the Mosul Dam.
	As you recall, ISIS took over that dam briefly in August of 2014, and then Kurdish and Iraqi forces backed by the coalition managed to retake the dam.
	But at that point, there were also concerns being raised about the stability of the dam, about its maintenance.
	And now we're hearing, after a few months of the Iraqi government really not Going into the details of the situation of the dam, overnight, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad releasing a very worrying statement saying, quote, there's serious, unprecedented risk of catastrophic failure when it comes to the dam.
	And they're warning, Errol, that this could...
	The flooding from that dam, though they don't give a timeline of when this could happen, if the failure does happen, they say that there could be significant flooding in the pathway of the flood which hits cities including Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and downwards towards Tikrit, Samara, and even reaching some parts of Baghdad.
	And they say it could reach Baghdad International Airport.
	And they say that this needs to be dealt with fast.
	They say that the Iraqi government has an...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	You know where that is?
	It's like a thousand miles south.
	It's like going from here to L.A. Like, you know, the Bay Bridge, or like the Bay floods, it's going to flood LA somehow.
	This is crazy.
	Well, here's how, because I've tried to figure out how they determine this.
	If you look at the way the Mosul Dam is situated, it's on the Tigris River.
	So the idea is, if the dam breaks, then the Tigris River...
	I think it's pronounced Tigris.
	Tigris?
	Oh, I'm from Holland.
	The Tigris would start to overflow, and then, yeah, it could get down to, shoot, man, maybe to Crete, maybe.
	But Baghdad...
	I wonder what is that distance?
	Flood the airport?
	Let's see.
	I think it's very specifically flood the airport.
	Mosul Dam.
	Okay.
	Get that.
	And we're going to travel to...
	Get directions.
	I'm doing this live.
	Baghdad airport.
	See how many miles it is.
	Okay.
	What do I do now?
	Do I hit...
	Oh, they couldn't find Baghdad airport, really?
	Just say Baghdad.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Let's go Baghdad.
	It's Baghdad International Airport.
	Okay.
	That is...
	Oh, it's not as far as I thought.
	It's 463 kilometers.
	It's closer than...
	It's about 300 miles.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's almost here to L.A. It's bullcrap.
	Even reaching some parts of Baghdad, and they say it could reach Baghdad International Airport, and they say that this needs to be dealt with fast.
	Hold on a second.
	Where did you get this report?
	CNN. Okay, so they're just playing to the stupid Americans.
	Okay.
	Yeah, and there's a reason for this, I think.
	...to be dealt with fast.
	They say that the Iraqi government has an emergency plan in place.
	We're hearing from the Iraqi prime minister also at the same time releasing a statement saying they have an emergency plan in place.
	But they're also downplaying it.
	Errol's saying it's an unlikely scenario that they will have warnings if that happens.
	And they say right now the water levels are at 307 meters.
	And for the dam to overflow or to burst, it needs to reach 319 meters.
	But they're reassuring people that they have a plan in place at this point.
	Okay, this is weird.
	This is odd, because now they're talking about the height of the water in the dam, and they have another 12 meters to go, and then it'll break or overflow.
	I think she's just saying whatever she has to say about how dangerous it is in the flooding, which I don't think is a problem.
	They just put open the spillways and dropped the height a few dozen feet.
	Let's listen to CENTCOM, Commander General Lloyd Austin.
	Because these are the guys who know more about it, apparently.
	Yes, sir.
	We remain concerned about the status of the dam since the conflict started here.
	As you know, when Daesh captured the dam, the employees initially left and the grouting ceased.
	We have encouraged the Iraqi government to Since the dam has been back in the hands of the Iraqis, to make sure that they're doing the right things to go about repairing the dam to ensure that it doesn't fail.
	They have most recently hired an Italian company to perform maintenance on a dam.
	Are Italians experts in dams?
	Well, they have the hydropower expertise.
	I mean, they have to keep the city of Venice propped up, for one example, and also keep it from flooding.
	They're not the Dutch, but they're probably the second.
	The Dutch are more dykes and stuff.
	Okay, I want to talk about this once he's done.
	I hired an Italian company to perform maintenance on a dam.
	It may be several weeks or months before that company is up and running, so there is a time period that we're concerned about where...
	There will be limited to no maintenance being pulled on the dam.
	If the dam fails, it will be catastrophic.
	There will be thousands of people downstream that will either be injured or killed, certainly displaced.
	And the damage could extend all the way down to close to Baghdad or into Baghdad.
	We have worked with the Iraqis to ensure that they are doing the right things to warn people about this, and in the event that it does fail, what actions they should take to get to safety.
	And we certainly have placed measures in place to ensure that U.S. citizens are...
	U.S. personnel are accounted for and are able to be evacuated in case of a dam failure.
	I'm thinking this is a false flag set up.
	There's something up.
	We need to get troops...
	One thing, they should be lessening pressure on the dam as we speak.
	Yes.
	And that doesn't sound like they're doing anything.
	And the other guys are supposed to be grouting all the time?
	Yeah, the problem with the dam is it's structural.
	It's underneath.
	They built it on gypsum or something.
	I don't know.
	I'm not an engineer.
	But I don't care.
	This to me sounds like we need to get troops for humanitarian reasons into that area.
	It's a strategic area to be there.
	I'm thinking it's being used to get people in humanitarian.
	Oh, the dam broke or whatever.
	Even if the hood's going to break, let's run in and help.
	That's what it sounds like.
	It has a funny sound to it.
	You're right.
	It's been going on about this forever.
	It sounds fishy.
	That's the word.
	And as predicted, only maybe six or eight weeks ago, we predicted ISIS would be in Libya.
	We heard from our military contacts.
	And look at the map.
	Look at where ISIS is and look at Libya.
	These guys didn't just like, oh, I'm going to ride my Toyota to Libya, to North Africa.
	So predicted this would get out of control.
	I don't understand why they don't ask these questions on these debates when it comes to Benghazi or Libya.
	Here is AFRICOM commander, which I think is still in Italy or Germany, General David Rodriguez on ISIS in Libya.
	And his good friend John McCain is helping him out.
	Do you think we're doing enough now to stop this spread, particularly expansion in Libya?
	The spread in Libya continues to be a challenge because of the lack of governance, as well as the breakup of the military and the multiple militias on the ground.
	And we continue to develop our situational understanding.
	I guess my question was, do you think we need to do more?
	I think the international community and Libyans all have to do more.
	I'm not asking about the international community.
	I'm asking about the United States of America.
	Are you a warmonger?
	Yes, I think we as a part of that international community have to do more.
	Yes, sir.
	Okay, we need to do more.
	What a douche.
	It's so disappointing.
	It's all so disappointing.
	McCain warmonger.
	So there's one funny little development in the ISIS community.
	Apparently a lot of people are bailing out and taking docks with them.
	Yes!
	This is covered mostly by the European press.
	It was covered a couple of times.
	I think some American media kind of glossed it over.
	But Deutsche Welle did a really good report.
	This is ISIS Docs 1.
	German authorities say they have obtained sensitive documents belonging to so-called Islamic State.
	Now, the documents are said to not only contain personal details of IS fighters, but also shed light on the inner workings of the jihadist group.
	Some of the revelations are surprising.
	They show, for example, that it's not easy to become a member of IS and that recruits need references.
	These documents could mean the difference between freedom or incarceration for returning German jihadists.
	They contain information collected by the so-called Islamic State's Border Authority.
	The files list the personal details of foreigners travelling to IS-controlled areas of Syria, as well as information on whether they want to become fighters or suicide attackers.
	The files are marked as classified.
	They record the skills or professions of would-be recruits.
	One interviewee said he used to be a German soldier.
	But one additional detail particularly interests terrorism researchers like Peter Neumann.
	An interesting aspect of these documents is that it's not actually that easy to become a member of Islamic State.
	The applicant usually needs a referee, someone they know who lives within the Islamic State or is a member of Islamic State and is willing to vouch for the recruit.
	One German name that comes up frequently as a sponsor is Christian Emde.
	You know, I saw a report, I just brought it up here, on Sky News about this, the Islamic State files, the so-called gold mine of information.
	This is a huge propaganda job.
	Let's listen to this report.
	And this is highly stylized.
	You need to look at this.
	It's in the show notes to see the dark setting.
	They've got the interviewing people in the black background.
	So it's completely.
	This is not just a news report from Sky.
	It's a package.
	It's a beautifully produced package looking very scary.
	They've got boxes with documents in them.
	And on the front of the box, they've stuck with scotch tape a printout of the ISIS flag.
	And this is odd.
	Well, wait, before you go on, that's contrast with the German report.
	The German report, which I don't see as a propagandist thing, is pretty straightforward.
	And they say that these documents were stolen on thumb drives.
	Yes!
	This is exactly what I wanted to play for you.
	...obtained by Sky News on Islamic State are an extraordinary intelligence resource.
	Their sheer scale is impressive.
	And they're panning over these documents, which are all printed out.
	It's bullcrap.
	It's total bullcrap.
	The more valuable is the level of detail.
	Well, it's a fantastic coup, and it will be an absolute goldmine of information of enormous significance and interest.
	This is the former MI5 global terrorism director.
	To very many people, but of course particularly the security and intelligence services.
	In fact, there hasn't been anything at all like this really since the discovery of the Sinjar records they were called in 2007.
	What was that, the Sinjar records?
	Wow.
	I don't know what that is.
	I'll look it up.
	Okay, so now they're doing close-ups of these printed documents.
	One telling detail who recommended them to the Islamic State.
	It will give them an indication of not just who they are, where they come from, but we'll be able to potentially lead them to the people that radicalized these individuals as well as facilitated their departure.
	This guy's completely in a black background.
	It's all, like, spooky-looking.
	And so apparently we'll be able to get the recruiter Those people that are really key, it's these people that are capable of radicalizing and sending out foreign fighters in the dozens.
	This is what we've got here.
	Now you see this again, it's a black backdrop, they've got these boxes, they have the flag printed out and stuck on the front of them.
	They're making it look like these are files that they got in boxes, but you're right, it came on a thumb drive.
	How exactly, though, will the security services make use of this unique detail?
	Understanding the ways in which people were recruited, how they travelled, what connections they made on the way there is hugely important because we've learnt over the last two or three years that it's the relationships that allow you to map the provenance but also the capability of IS to recruit and retain people.
	And these networks are the basis of possible future recruits as well.
	So I think this is very significant.
	The cache includes 22,000 documents.
	Oh, that's less than Hillary's emails.
	Each document has 23 fields, giving more than half a million points of data in total.
	Hold on a second.
	So, in order to hype up this treasure trove or goldmine of information, they take the printouts and they say, okay, there's so many cells on each printout, it's like a spreadsheet.
	And they're saying this is half a million data points.
	Each document has 23 fields, giving more than half a million points of data in total.
	That might sound like a bewildering...
	It's like dramatizing bullcrap.
	Yeah, it gets better.
	Wait, it's almost over.
	This is funny.
	Points of data in total.
	That might sound like a bewildering amount of data for a human to wade through, but that's where machine intelligence comes in.
	Computers can plug in this data, look through it and create...
	He's totally selling big data.
	Oh, and what's going to pop out the other end of IBM Watson?
	You're a terrorist.
	Computers can plug in this data, look through it, and create entire network structures of the Islamic State, and hopefully find links that human analysts would miss.
	The documents also contain categories for level of obedience and time and place of death.
	Those could be useful in counter-propaganda.
	It is an information war with the Islamic State as much as anything else, and this is a huge weapon.
	Yeah, that's being used against the people of Britain themselves.
	Yeah, it's bullcrap.
	Now, if you play part two of the other report, that seems to be a little more down-to-earth and honest.
	By the way, the Sinjar documents was a discovery of...
	Al-Qaeda documents listing fighters in Iraq.
	Oh, was that that they found in the safe house or on the laptop?
	Terror laptop of doom.
	Another non-event that has not helped us.
	This was pretty non-event.
	But these guys have much better conclusions to make.
	It's a much funnier effect than the other reports.
	One German name that comes up frequently as a sponsor is Christian Emde.
	He became known after being interviewed by the journalist Jürgen Todenhofer.
	We will definitely go back, and it won't be pleasant.
	It'll be with weapons and without fighters.
	One of the foreign fighters Christian Emde vouched for was Ahmed, from the town of Ennepetal in North Rhine-Westphalia.
	According to his personal documents, Ahmad traveled to IS-controlled Syria on June 10, 2014, with the intention of becoming an IS fighter.
	Five weeks later, the 21-year-old German of Turkish descent blew himself up in Baghdad.
	His suicide attack killed 54 other people, including many school children.
	German journalists from NDR and WDR Television, as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, obtained the files.
	As Islamic State in Syria comes under increasing pressure, many of its members are fleeing and taking documents like these with them.
	German security agencies have also obtained the files.
	We believe it's very likely that these are authentic documents.
	We are using the contents for security assessments and to pursue prosecutions.
	The files could have a crucial impact on measures taken against returning jihadis, such as in the case of Abdel Karim B from the state of Hessen.
	Public prosecutors in Frankfurt have charged him with preparing a serious act of violent subversion.
	His IS personnel file could also lead to him being charged with membership of a terrorist organization.
	Not many terrorist groups write down who their members are and where they can be found.
	What we're seeing with Islamic State, and this is confirmed by the documents, is that this is not just a terror organization, but it's also a quasi-state.
	And they go on to say they seem to be bureaucrats.
	Well, we have Osama Bin Laden documents where he says that, you know, y'all got to work with Obama to stop climate change.
	Come on.
	Which I question.
	Yeah.
	But there are a bunch of bureaucrats and they went on about it.
	The funny thing about all these different reports, and I think the German one's the most sensible, is the American reports that I've heard.
	I don't have a clip of it, but they kind of question the authenticity of any of this.
	They think it might be a bunch of bull crap.
	But I think that's just us because we're not the ones.
	Because we're not the ones with the scam.
	It's not our putsch.
	Well, it's not our thing.
	We didn't do it.
	We didn't start it.
	If the documents are legit or not, we didn't find them.
	So, you know, maybe they show up on WikiLeaks eventually because they're passing them around Germany like there's no tomorrow.
	Anyway, it's an interesting little site thing.
	I say we take us a little break.
	What do you say?
	Sounds good.
	Hit it.
	I did.
	And it didn't work.
	And I did it again.
	There we go.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on your agenda in the morning.
	All right, well, let's start with the missed note from Nick, not Nicole or Nicola.
	This was some sort of, he's a baronet by the way, KM4 DMO. Oh, 7-3's from Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	Dittos.
	ITM, you all deserve much more than this for having to watch those god-awful Democrat-Republican debates.
	We're going to have to stop soon, you're right.
	Yes, it is.
	But somebody's got to do it.
	And it's, you know, there's just one moment of humor.
	You know, I think it is painful, but if we don't do it, then people miss out.
	Because the audiences are starting to tune out slowly.
	All you get is the regurgitated clips.
	So at least we can do a little bit of analysis.
	I think it's important.
	And in fact, we do.
	And if it wasn't an important or very historically important election cycle, it would be much less.
	But this is, of course, interesting.
	He says he had to throw in some money after all the other North Carolina producers on the show.
	We have quite a few.
	803 included is a Fuquay Varina bumper sticker.
	I liberated it from the town hall.
	Proof the tour exists.
	We talked about the Fuquay Varina Tour.
	I don't remember.
	For a jingle, get...
	And this is, you know, he's 233, so we have to...
	All right.
	Get Adam to find the OMD Ebola Gay Parody.
	Okay.
	It's not the Ebola.
	It's not that.
	It's Ebola gay.
	Yeah, I know.
	Ebola gay.
	He claims to be in Fuquay, Verena.
	Okay.
	I don't know if I can find that.
	Well, you can look for it and we can play it later or you can play at the end of the show.
	Let's go on with thanking our regular producers, starting with Jennifer Loveberg, who I believe is a dame in San Marcos, California, $180.
	And she does have something to say.
	Hello.
	Please accept my continual thank you for all the deconstruction work.
	Please send belated 10th birthday.
	Do we have?
	We don't have this.
	You've got to put it on the list.
	Okay.
	What am I putting on the list?
	It's a 10th birthday wish to James from March 3rd.
	And then please send karma to the CSU. We'll put this at the end.
	CSU Fullerton Roller Hockey Titans, which includes James.
	They made it to the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships.
	They have these?
	Yeah.
	Next month in Cedar Rapids.
	Huh.
	Never heard of such a thing.
	And this is from Nick?
	No, I'm sorry.
	Jennifer Loveberg.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Jennifer Loveberg.
	I'm doing a lot here today.
	Alexander Burr.
	Hmm.
	Famous name.
	$177.11 from Laval, Quebec.
	He's got some requests for maybe we can do at the end.
	Borislav Marinov, 12345 in Trabuco Canyon, California.
	I think he's a surf, if I'm not mistaken.
	Keith Warford in Lafayette, Arkansas, or Fayetteville.
	Fayetteville, that's where you were.
	That's right, Fayetteville.
	Or you should have.
	Or you should have.
	Byron Walls.
	Jean Bernier. Bernier. Bernier. Bernier.
	He's in France.
	Jean Bernier.
	Think?
	That's what I think.
	He's in Ipene Sersenne.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	I'm getting all these.
	My French is now deteriorated to the point where I can't say anything.
	Jean Berniol.
	Epine sur Seine et France.
	And by the way, thanks for coming in from France.
	We get so...
	The French...
	I don't know what...
	They hate us.
	The French hate us.
	They do.
	They hate us.
	But I'm going.
	Tina and I are going.
	We're going to France.
	We're going to go visit France.
	Eduardo Martinez in San Jose, California, 98-91.
	Amanda Pitts from...
	Hold on, 98-91 in honor of Leon Festinger, author of The Theory of Cognitive Dissidence, whom died February 11th, 1989.
	Oh.
	That's nice.
	Thank you.
	Amanda Pitts from San Carlos.
	She's right up the street from me here.
	And she actually wrote a check-in, sent it in, and sent a note.
	So I'm going to read her note.
	Because it's a very pretty little note.
	It's kind of on cardstock.
	As promised, this is my March check of 8888 because we kicked AT&T to the curb.
	I heard you mention that you took some classes at Foothill back in the day.
	I did.
	So I took broadcasting, as a matter of fact.
	So I suppose I should disclose that I teach chemistry there.
	Ah!
	I also took some organic chemistry there.
	And are living through chemistry.
	In the olden days, I should say, when I was going there, they had a different structure for the entire state of California in the way they financed these schools.
	This was a little community college on the peninsula.
	But it was in the tax area of Lockheed Martin.
	So this school was loaded with money.
	Right.
	And then, of course, they've changed that, so you don't do that anymore, where you have a local big bucks operation, you know, right next door that pays the bills.
	Anyway, she says, as always, it's about increasing enrollment.
	If higher education is some sort of private business, oh, well, thanks again for your great choice of moaning about something.
	Okay.
	And she said 8888.
	That was just a fluke.
	I don't think so.
	She's not a ham?
	She didn't say.
	She didn't give her license.
	Okay.
	Well, what do you mean her call sign?
	Josh Thibodeau in Dayton, Texas.
	Her call sign, John.
	Not her license.
	Her call sign.
	Her call sign.
	Yes, exactly.
	I know that.
	Uh-huh.
	Imagine.
	It's like my French.
	Josh Thibodeau in Dayton, Texas, 808.
	Ah, this is for our 808.
	Yes, coming up.
	Lucky number, 808.
	It's also palindrome.
	BrianBarrow.com in Royal Wooten Bassett in Wiltshire, UK, 808.
	Josh, I guess, I think it's Jose, I bet.
	Jose Abreu in Lisbon, Portugal.
	Brian Matthews in Balbrigan, Dublin.
	And he's at 8.06, which is today's show, which is also requested.
	Also good, yes.
	Derek Hughes in Appleton, Wisconsin.
	8.06.
	And then he has something to say.
	Is this anything we should be talking about?
	Is this his birthday?
	Uh...
	Okay, so this is, we got a lot of, not a lot, but we've had a lot of emails of people saying, you never caught Trump!
	You're too nice to do Trump!
	There's a whole Reddit conversation.
	About what?
	About us, you know, that we're not fair, we don't mock Trump enough.
	Do you understand what we do?
	This is a deconstruction.
	When the whole mainstream media is mocking somebody, then we're going to look at the other side of the coin.
	If you want mocking of Trump, just turn on the television.
	Yeah, there's plenty.
	I'll just read this.
	I think it's my birthday today.
	I can't think of any other way to celebrate it than treat myself to another contribution to your fine show.
	I don't like hearing you two constantly talk about that pussy, Trump.
	Yes, he's a pussy.
	Why don't you spend some time, more time talking about Gary Johnson?
	Uh, yeah, we did.
	The man who called Trump a pussy.
	And a man, I believe, and John happens to agree with, I think.
	After all, I know at least John is sensible enough to lean libertarian.
	And you, on the other hand, Adam, I'm starting to wonder.
	Two things.
	Call Jim Hansen out as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	And for God's sake, John, Christopher Walker is from De Pere.
	De Pere.
	It drives me nuts when I hear you pronounce it the way you do.
	Either way, thanks for the great show.
	I don't know what my life would be without it.
	If you could please give me a little shot of karma.
	We'll do that at the end for you.
	Well, at least he likes the show.
	He doesn't seem to like me.
	And I brought the Gary Johnson clip today.
	Yeah, you did, and you were all over Trump.
	You were ridiculing him like that.
	It was horrible.
	You called him a Nazi pig.
	Yeah, I should have done that.
	Then people would be happy.
	Eric Payne, Alpharetta, Georgia.
	$80.05 was the last show.
	Sir Brian, green eggs of green ham of green...
	Green eggs of hams or something.
	Green of hams.
	Green of hams.
	He's the ham.
	73-73.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	I'm going to give him a little 7-3 back for you.
	Kilo 5 alpha.
	Charlie, Charlie.
	And kilo-centric, yet young 9 JM. And I get a lot of pushback on the hams thing.
	Like, don't play that man.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	Right?
	Don't play that man.
	It's annoying.
	Yeah.
	I like it.
	I like it too.
	John Tirada, and I think I have more standing to say whether you should play it or not.
	John Tirada in Pasadena, California, 69-69.
	Nathiel Friedman in Draper, Utah, 69-69.
	Sir Endroball in St.
	Louis, 55-10.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Howard LePereau in Worcester, Massachusetts.
	Worcester, 55-10.
	Donald Sedaro C-dario C-dario Donald C-dario in Riverview, Florida Double nickels on the dime Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia 5-4-3-2 Andrew Goodman in Byron, Georgia 54-13 Roger Esty in Palm Harbor, Florida 51-1 James Green in Sugar Hill, Georgia $50.05, a palindrome.
	And the rest of these people are all producers and have all contributed $50, even.
	Starting with Paul Vela in Milton Keynes.
	And Kevin Johnson in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Juan Obando Echeverry in Brookline, Massachusetts.
	Ryan Martinez in Seattle, Washington.
	David Peet in Aubrey, Texas.
	John Culver in Lincoln, Alabama.
	Jan van der Laan in Assen, Drenthe.
	And Drenthe.
	And Jan...
	Drenthe, Drenthe.
	Drenthe.
	Jan heard our call, and he looked, and he says, oh, crap.
	Yes, I am a knight.
	He is a knight.
	He's in the ceremony today.
	And he got his subscription killed by PayPal.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, I don't know if he knows it or not.
	Or maybe he did it.
	But he should be knighted.
	Have we knighted him?
	You want to knight him?
	He's being knighted today.
	That is what I just said.
	Good, good.
	Don't know.
	I don't know.
	I can't tell.
	Chris Malmy and Cherry...
	Because I don't look at these lists.
	I like to be surprised.
	Chris Malmy in Cherry Valley, Massachusetts.
	Nuts.
	Edward...
	What is this?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Masaryk in Memphis, Tennessee.
	John Mayer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Alexander Sokovi, who also should be a knight, isn't he?
	I think so.
	He's Sir Alexander.
	In Moscow.
	Tim Abel in Bergfield, Berkshire, UK. Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Edgar Almaguer.
	Almaguer.
	Almaguer.
	I think it's Almaguer.
	Oh, man.
	There's a baseball player or a football player.
	Al McGuire?
	Al McGuire or something like that.
	Waxahachie.
	Waxahachie, Texas.
	Simon Callahan in Southwold, Suffolk, UK. Sir Brian Watson.
	Good group today.
	Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Jason Deluzio in Chatsford.
	Sir Jason, I believe, in Chatsford, Pennsylvania.
	Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
	And that's the end of it.
	That's the last but not least.
	A pretty good list.
	I want to thank all these folks profusely for helping us out.
	We do have another show coming up on Sunday, which is a short couple days away.
	So, think about...
	And a reminder that...
	807.
	You're part of something unique by supporting the No Agenda show.
	I cannot find any other type of media programming that even comes close to resembling what we do.
	And what I'm talking about is not us, but the deconstruction, the information, the experts that we have built up over eight years, eight plus years, we're really able to do some phenomenal stuff.
	And because it's without commercials, because we're not beholden to the man, to any man, and what we're working for, to any advertisers, you get to have this, I think, outstanding product.
	That's a fantastic product.
	All because of the donation model that we have with our producers, listeners, and everybody else who wants to do it this way, because it does give us the freedom.
	There is no way we would have this kind of freedom, even if we were selling Casper mattresses.
	Who the hell wants to listen to a bunch of ads?
	I'd rather listen to people's names who helped us.
	Oh, thank you.
	Yes, exactly.
	I'm always tickled by Sirius 120, was it Progressive 127?
	They're all like talking, and then, hey, it's time to get some super beats.
	Just go to mamasbeats.com.
	Super beats.
	Hi, I'm Tom Hartman.
	Time for some super beats.
	And the funniest thing, they have Uber.
	Wow.
	And that's problematic.
	You never hear a story about Uber and how horrible they are, which these guys would love to do.
	They would love to do that.
	I defy you to find one negative piece of anything on Sirius 127 about Uber.
	Of course not.
	And there's plenty to talk about when it comes to Uber and the state of the country.
	Even Bernie Sanders you can fit into an Uber story.
	But no.
	Instead, Tom Hartman's saying, hey, we'd like to earn some extra money with your own car.
	Please, douchebag.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm no one champion.
	And we say happy birthday.
	10th birthday to James, who celebrated March 3rd.
	The SCU Fullerton Roller Hockey.
	And that is from Jennifer Loveberg.
	John Howler.
	Wait, Derek Hughes, 39 on Today.
	And John Howler, 72 years old.
	And he listens regularly to the best podcasts in the universe.
	He'll be celebrating on the 12th.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the best podcasts in the universe, the No Agenda Show!
	Yeah!
	Title change, Sir Beardmaster General becomes a baronet today.
	And we have two nightings.
	It's been a while since we've had some nightings, so I'm happy.
	I brought my blade.
	It's all sharpened up and shiny, and there's yours.
	And I'd like to ask Andy Peelman to join us here on the podium, along with Jan van der Laan from Ascendrente.
	Gentlemen, both of you have supported the best podcast in the universe, the no-agenda show, in the amount of $1,000 or more, and therefore I'm very proud to welcome you to the table of the Knights and the Danes.
	It is round, and I pronounce the cake, the Sir Andy, peacekeeper of flooding Flanders, and the Bears' night.
	Yes, for you we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, fried bread and fembots, crickets and cream, DMT and astral travel, black hose and MD-2020, Cuban cigars and single milk smoked scotch, cheap wine and chili dogs, Johnny Walker Green Label, sake and sushi, root beer and Legos, ass cream with bear fillings, ginger ale and gerbils, sparkling cider and escorts, and of course, mutton and mead.
	And the karma everyone requested.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Done.
	Nice.
	Thanks, Eric, for...
	He apparently drove near the border and he got a Canadian cell signal to connect to 4G and Tether.
	Well, I'm glad he did that.
	Get a generator into something.
	Yes, a generator.
	I don't know what you can do if you can't get the internet.
	You can't get the internet.
	You have to drive somewhere.
	Everyone's trying to get their budgets ready in America.
	So they have these appropriations committees, and they talk about, hey, do you need more money?
	What do you need the money for?
	And the IRS is also looking for more money, and representing the people, we have Durbin.
	Is that Senator Durbin, I believe?
	Congressman Durbin?
	I think it's Senator Durbin.
	Yeah, no, it's Senator Durbin.
	And in the hot seat, the guy who's responsible for the IRS, our Secretary of the Treasury, who rarely makes an appearance.
	Rarely.
	And I can understand why, because he's a dick.
	Secretary, thank you for being here.
	I read the statements by the Inspector General as well as the Commissioner, and I would just say that until we can devise a government which does not involve the collection of taxes, we owe it to taxpayers to treat them fairly and in a courteous way.
	What we have done to the Internal Revenue Service In terms of their taxpayer services by virtue of cutting back dramatically on appropriations is a sad commentary.
	So what now here's the because these guys are, of course, in cahoots.
	This is how it always works.
	And he's saying, oh, because you don't have enough money in the IRS, it's not working well on Congress relationship with the IRS. And I think we owe it to the American taxpayers who, by and large, are people doing their best to lie with the law and do everything they're required to do to treat them with more courtesy and respect and efficiency.
	I couldn't agree with you more, Senator.
	When I look at these numbers from the Inspector General...
	Is this Jacob Lew?
	Yeah.
	That the IRS received approximately 8.3 million calls and provided a 37.6% level of service with a 23.5 minute average speed of answer.
	It's terrible.
	There's no senator or congressman who could get re-elected if they tried this in their home states or with their constituencies.
	I find it unacceptable to preside over an agency that has no choice but to have such a bad performance record.
	Oh, really?
	Because it doesn't have people answering the phones.
	You go to the call center.
	There's a thing called, in labor, there's a thing called slowdown.
	Slowdown, yep.
	And that's where you slow down.
	Because you're not getting your raise.
	A-holes.
	And then unions will actually tell you to do this.
	Just slow down.
	Cut your production down to half.
	Just slow down.
	And it's called slow down.
	But he is sitting here not taking responsibility.
	He's saying, that's a shame.
	We don't have any money.
	He's part of it.
	Of course he runs it.
	He should be responsible.
	He is responsible.
	He's the one who made him do slow down.
	They're slowing down for a reason.
	Yeah, but he's not owning up to it.
	He has no choice but to have such a bad performance record because it doesn't have people...
	By the way, another element of slowdown is that's the way you always go.
	You never own up to it.
	I can't go any faster.
	I can't believe our performance record.
	It's so bad.
	It's sad.
	It's such a bad performance record because it doesn't have people answering the phones.
	You go to the call centers and there are empty seats.
	That's why the phones don't get answered.
	Well, and also when it comes to compliance, If the word is not out and about that there are cops on the beach...
	This is my favorite part.
	We know what's going to happen.
	Yeah.
	People are going to continue to try to cheat this government.
	Yeah.
	The overwhelming majority of people are doing their legal best.
	But we have to get the cheaters...
	...to pay their taxes, and we owe it to them to make sure everyone pays their legal share of taxes in this country.
	Shut up, slave!
	Pay your taxes, slave!
	They're in disarray, man.
	They're in disarray.
	They want money.
	Yeah, that's exactly what they want.
	Everybody wants money.
	They want money.
	Especially if they're working in the government.
	Loretta Lynch, the country and western singer, was up on the hill.
	And she, of course, was talking about Department of Justice.
	And we had Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Republican.
	So he's always going to be difficult.
	That's the worst.
	He made a very interesting comparison.
	He's not a Republican, by the way.
	He's a Democrat.
	I'm sorry.
	He's the Democrat of Rhode Island.
	I'm sorry.
	My mistake.
	And that makes a lot more sense when you hear what he has to say with Loretta Lynch.
	And he's pushing for something.
	He gets a little...
	Now, Loretta Lynch answers nothing because everything's an ongoing investigation.
	It's boring to watch the woman.
	I sat through it and finally got one little piece.
	Madam Attorney General, the similarities between the mischief of the tobacco industry pretending that the science of tobacco's dangers was unsettled and the fossil fuel industry pretending that the science of carbon emissions' dangers is unsettled has been remarked on widely, particularly by those who study the climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has erected.
	Hold on.
	Can we please receive a check from the climate denial apparatus?
	I would like a check from the climate denial apparatus, please, as soon as possible.
	You know, I think that we've done a good job for you.
	We got ripped off.
	We are getting big time.
	Well, we're done.
	We don't.
	We decided to work for the people instead of for the climate...
	What does he call it?
	The climate denial apparatus.
	Yeah, the climate denial apparatus.
	...that the fossil fuel industry has erected.
	Under President Clinton, the Department of Justice brought and won a civil...
	By the way, where did they erect this?
	It's in my pants, the erection.
	Oh, okay.
	...that the fossil fuel industry has erected.
	I can tell you, I think he mentions it where he gets that from.
	You can guess who it is.
	Who is the biggest douchebag non-profit with $700 million who tracks this kind of shit?
	I don't know.
	Clinton, the Department of Justice brought and won a civil...
	RICO action against the tobacco industry for its fraud under President Obama.
	The Department of Justice has done nothing so far about the climate denial scheme.
	A request for action by the Department of Justice has been referred by you to the FBI. My question to you is, other than civil forfeitures and matters attendant to a criminal case, are there other circumstances in which a civil matter under the authority of the Department of Justice has been referred to the FBI? Senator, thank you for raising that issue and thank you for your work in this area.
	Courage.
	I know your commitment is deep.
	Yes, which is why we organized this together.
	This matter has been discussed.
	We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for what we could take action on.
	I'm not aware of a civil referral at this time.
	I will look into that and get back to you.
	But I'm not aware of a civil referral outside of the one that you just raised.
	Are there any civil cases with the United States as plaintiff within DOJ's civil division in which the FBI is preparing the case for the civil division?
	Regarding climate change issues?
	Regarding any matter.
	I'm not...
	I couldn't give you that information right now in terms of whether or not...
	We're actually going to take that as a question for the record.
	I like it.
	So they want to...
	So apparently there is a request from DOJ to FBI. Hey, take a look at this climate denial machine.
	And this information comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
	That was where...
	SPLC. Yeah, that's the one.
	We could be arrested for being part of the climate denial apparatus.
	Shut up!
	Shut up!
	Shut up, you Rico!
	We've got a scheme underway.
	We've got a scheme underfoot.
	It's money-making for us.
	We don't need you to say anything that may upset the apple cart.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	So let's get one more update.
	Wait, wait.
	I should play the jingle.
	Don't be denied.
	The science is in.
	Science!
	Actually, there's two.
	One, I want to get the China in Africa update because we're one of the few presentations that anyone does anywhere that actually knows what kind of follows.
	The first 10,000 people out of Libya, four years ago now?
	Was it three years ago?
	It was a while ago.
	Yeah, 10,000 Chinese, the first people to evacuate Libya because they're all over Africa.
	But that was after we first started talking about China and Africa.
	Well, they're still building their roads and hospitals and doing all this stuff.
	You'd think we'd do, but they're doing it anyway.
	But things aren't looking so good because, you know, this is where China's downturn is hurting Africa.
	China's been investing heavily in Africa for years, but now the economy back home is slowing.
	The Chinese are less eager to spend.
	While the country's foreign minister promised to keep the cash flowing, exports from Africa to China have slowed.
	Some are starting to feel the pinch.
	Chinese development helpers at work.
	They're set to build some 3,500 kilometers of highway in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	Add to that rail lines, hospitals, and schools.
	All in exchange for 10 million tons of copper and 200 tons of cobalt.
	The massive deal is estimated to be worth over 6 billion euros.
	But China's appetite for raw materials is cooling.
	Its economic growth has sunk to just over 6%, the lowest rate since 1990.
	And Africa is paying a price for the slowdown.
	The continent's exports to China fell by around 40% last year.
	Three major African commodities exporters, Angola, the Republic of Congo, and Nigeria saw their exports to China halved.
	The falling demand has driven down the price of mineral resources even further on world markets, worsening the situation for African countries.
	And the outlook is grim.
	Continuing moderate growth in China and a weak global economy, mean demand for Africa's commodities won't reach their previous highs anytime soon.
	World slowdown, I guess.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's been going on for a while.
	It comes to a head in a couple of years.
	It's not going to be pretty.
	And it'll affect us.
	I think it's going to affect us adversely, but it's not going to be, I don't think it's going to be a major thing, but it's not going to, it's not going to be good.
	It's not going to be comfortable.
	I remember the, I was looking into that money and the lawsuits with the Iran, $150 billion, and no one says $100 billion, it's all confusing.
	Well, check this headline out.
	Iran was ordered by a US judge to pay $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and to a group of insurers.
	How does that work?
	It was against Iran?
	Yeah.
	I used to know about this case, but I can't remember for the life of me why Iran was even involved in it.
	It should have been suing the Saudis.
	Let me see what it says here.
	Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran, which means they didn't show up, for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
	It includes $2 million to each estate for the victim's pain and suffering.
	Plus $6.88 million in punitive damages.
	He also awarded $3 billion to insurers, including Chubb Limited, who of course, did they now, were they involved in the tower insurance?
	I don't know what Chubb had to do with anything.
	Here, earlier in the case, Daniels found that Iran had failed to defend claims that had aided the September 11th hijackers and was therefore liable for damages tied to the attacks.
	Sounds like a trumped up case.
	Well, the good news is the money is with us, so, you know, I think the people will get their money.
	But it's odd.
	I think it's just a grab, a money grab.
	It's a good idea.
	I mean, we had, it was Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, oh, fuck it, Iran.
	Who did this?
	Throw them in.
	What happened to the Saudis?
	Why don't the Saudis have to pay anything?
	Yeah.
	Mm-hmm.
	They're really behind it all with their mosques and all the stuff they promote.
	And it was all Saudis that were in the planes, as it were.
	Well, I have one last clip.
	Okay.
	Which is just an annoying clip to me.
	It's here you live in a beautiful town of Carmel, California.
	It's right on the ocean.
	And whatever you do there, it doesn't seem like it's a small operation.
	Is this where Clint Eastwood is?
	It has a house there, and the Doors Day lives there.
	And there's a lot of Hollywood types that live there.
	And here's the fireplace.
	Ban fireplaces.
	What?
	What?
	Good evening, everyone.
	Dan Green is off tonight.
	We are beginning tonight with a possible ban on wood-burning fireplaces.
	One city is considering it.
	Which city?
	Carmel.
	Action News reporter Caitlin Conrad joins us now with more.
	Erin, it's no surprise the direction for this is coming from the top.
	Mayor Jason Burnett has made it clear he really cares about clean air and he's asked the city to look at this ban and it definitely would make Carmel's air smoke-free.
	For many, the dream of the quaint Carmel Cottage by the Sea includes a cozy fireplace.
	The fireplace is the charm of the Carmel Cottage, so it's a real influential part of the building.
	That's why builders say a warm hearth is a high priority for many of their clients.
	In very high demand.
	But wood-burning fireplaces could soon be a thing of the past for new construction or remodels in Carmel if the city gets its ban.
	Okay.
	Now, Berkeley, of course, has done this already.
	And it's so pointless, especially in Carmel.
	It's not like it accumulates and forms small.
	It just blows all over the place and goes away.
	This is ridiculous, this ban on fireplaces.
	That's what I always tell people.
	If you want to get a fireplace, get one of those little bins.
	It looks like a giant bin.
	And burn coal.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there's stupid stuff going on like that.
	Also, Harvard Law School.
	There's protests now going on to change the Harvard Law School logo.
	Why?
	Because it contains a slaveholder's crest.
	Wow.
	The Royal R-O-Y-A-L-L family crest.
	A celebration of agricultural wealth and three sheaves of wheat.
	I guess somehow that's a slaveholder.
	Oh, yeah.
	I don't know what is going on.
	This political correctness pendulum will swing back.
	It will.
	And as it comes back, you better duck because it's going to hit a lot of people in the head.
	But it could take a while.
	It could take a while.
	It could take a while.
	My final clip is the television superstar known as Al Sharpton with Congresswoman Karen Bass.
	She's from California?
	I don't know where she's from.
	Talking about the replacement for the open seat on the Supreme Court of the United States.
	We have no idea where the president is leaning in terms of making a nomination or who he would name, but I'm starting to hear new buzz around the name Loretta Lynch, the sitting attorney general.
	What?
	Guy, you be.
	The sitting attorney general.
	Well, I think many people would like to see an African American on the Supreme Court.
	We don't really need to go into Clarence Thomas' background or his behavior on the court, but I think to have an African American voice that has definitely not been there since Thurgood Marshall would really be an incredible contribution.
	That's really quite incredible.
	She completely dismisses Clarence Thomas as not black or not a black thinker.
	No, he's not black.
	That's crazy.
	Yeah, it's totally crazy.
	I mean, you can say that he's dissing.
	What's her name again?
	Karen Bass.
	Oh, Karen.
	You can say that he is not engaged, but to say, oh no, we won't talk about his behavior before.
	Yeah, we all know about Long Dong Silver, but he was confirmed anyway.
	He's on the Supreme Court.
	But he's not an African-American thinker.
	That's, you know, what is that?
	She doesn't think like she does.
	Yeah, but what does that mean, African-American thinker?
	So he thinks white?
	Racist.
	She's a racist pig.
	That's what I wanted to hear.
	He's not in LA. She's from LA? Yeah.
	His background or his behavior on the court, but I think to have an African-American voice that has definitely not been there since Thurgood Marshall would really be an incredible contribution to our country.
	And, you know, I'm sure that the president is going to nominate somebody that is going to make it very hard for the Republicans to come up with a legitimate justification for why they won't conduct the hearing.
	But let's see.
	I'm hoping public pressure will make them do their job.
	Do you think that whomever the president would nominate, be they African-American or not, that would be more moderate, would in any way temper some of the hostility of the Republicans to going on with the process?
	Or no matter what he did, or no matter who he nominated, there are some that are going to dig in and try to stall this until we have a new president.
	But resist, we much.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	All right, Congresswoman Karen Bass, and I might note, neither you or I are suggesting Clarence Thomas is not African-American.
	We just may agree with how he has used his...
	It's an African-American voice.
	That's right.
	All right, I just wanted to clarify that.
	There's no real conflict!
	African-American voice.
	Ugh.
	Well, it's insane.
	And there's another debate tonight, I believe?
	Is there?
	No.
	Yeah, there is.
	There is.
	There is.
	I'm watching Billions with Tina tonight.
	You seen the show, Billions?
	Yeah, we talked about it before.
	I don't like the show.
	I do, man.
	There's good stuff in there.
	I can't help myself.
	It's another thumb twiddling.
	Who cares?
	Crap.
	TV crap.
	Yeah, but you know what?
	It's our job to do it, John.
	Not that, no.
	Yeah.
	It's our job to listen to C-SPAN and suffer through these debates.
	Well, there's that.
	We'll do both.
	Amy's on to some new show, too.
	She's going on and on about...
	What's it called?
	She definitely says, you've got to watch 11-22-63.
	What?
	That's the hot show.
	Oh.
	That's the backwards in time show, where they go back in time to try to stop the Kennedy assassination.
	And it's done by, I think, some hot shots.
	I think J.J. Abrams might be.
	And Stephen King.
	Oh, nice.
	That was not a slouch of a thing.
	Well, I'll be watching this stupid debate again.
	That's what I'll be doing.
	I'll go watch the debate, too.
	Coming to you from the skyscraper.
	Hey.
	Oh, that was weird.
	Here in downtown Austin, FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm still waiting to be slammed by today's version of El Nino.
	It's supposed to be raining this morning.
	It didn't rain.
	It's still not raining.
	It's just kind of muggy out.
	And this is bullcrap.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And I want to thank GX2, Bill Walsh, Sir Luke of London, Daniel Luce, and Hassan Maynard for the end of show.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	I don't know if you had ants.
	We had ant invasion.
	I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine grind of black pepper, we were having dinner and I got an ant somehow in the meal and I ate it.
	These things are peppery.
	I got ants.
	These ants, they don't need a lot.
	And then you see, you find all the ones that are roaming around you.
	Well, I backed them off by doing the burning trick.
	You just torch them.
	And you leave them there.
	The only ant, there are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back.
	I got ants.
	Ants. Ants. Ants. But!
	Oh, they're not that bad!
	On that front.
	I did have a ball of popcorn.
	On that front.
	The problem is, who's got the time or the energy?
	Hey, you take it out.
	Firehouse.
	Hey, you take it out.
	Firehouse.
	We escort this person out.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	This is Hillary Clinton.
	The American people.
	Yes or no.
	In fact, we came, we saw, we died.
	We saw, we saw, we saw, we saw, we saw, we saw, we saw, we saw, we saw, we saw.
	Adios, mofo.
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