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	The brainwashing that's going on in this country is frightening.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	And Sunday, March 13, 2016, and time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 807.
	This is No Agenda.
	Wading through a cloud of vapor, tracking the douchebags at South by Southwest, 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 raining and the ants are on the move, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's crack, blood, and buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	The ants are on the move.
	You're on the move.
	Oh, yes.
	What are we going to do when the ants are on the move?
	It's bad out there in northern Silicon Valley.
	I got ants.
	All right.
	You can play it.
	I'm a dealer.
	Well, no, it's long.
	It's like a minute, minute and a half.
	End of show.
	I got the little ringer.
	Oh, you got the Zenergy chime.
	Yeah.
	If you turn off the noise gate, I'll play it for you.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	And in three, two, one.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that was nasty.
	It's piercingly annoying.
	The thing, even though it's not loud, I don't think, maybe it is in decibels, but it hurts.
	Yeah, it has a certain frequency.
	Yeah, it's a certain painful frequency.
	And the thing is that all these things, it's just a piece of tubing.
	Not tubing, but...
	A metal.
	It's a piece of steel.
	Steel, isn't it?
	I think it's steel.
	I think it's steel.
	I don't know what it is.
	Yeah, we got an email.
	I got the triple one, and it doesn't make the NBC sound, which would have been cool.
	I got an email from our producer, Matt.
	Adam, want to throw in my two cents concerning the chime?
	He's talking about this energy chime.
	My wife works in childcare and is currently teaching preschoolers, three to five years old.
	She's been using the chime for years with loads of success.
	I was visiting once.
	This is what you don't do when you're visiting your wife at school.
	I was visiting once and rang the chime, not knowing what it was.
	Instantly, a dozen tiny little heads focused in my direction.
	They sat patiently waiting for me to speak.
	My wife interjected, saying, we only ring the chime if we have something to say.
	It's Pavlovian.
	It's fact.
	It works.
	It's great.
	There's something pathetic about it.
	Yeah?
	The fact that it's used at all?
	Well, not only that, but I forgot how this came up.
	I had it at the dinner table, and so everybody's banging on it.
	You're a horrible father.
	I forgot which...
	We have to have dinner with Dad again.
	It's just new noisemakers.
	We love it.
	All these millennials are coming anytime there's free food.
	That's for sure.
	And they're not ashamed to say it either.
	I'm here for the free food, if you don't mind.
	One of them, I don't remember which person said that their teacher used to use one of these devices.
	One of your millennials?
	Yes.
	I don't know who I think that you mentioned.
	I can't remember which one.
	Oh yeah, that's pretty common in some school setting of some sort, that thing.
	It's like it was no big deal.
	I have to tell you that I was watching some of the arguments going on outside the Trump rally in Chicago.
	It was like a 20 or half hour video of, well, unfortunately what it comes down to is not Bernie, Hillary versus Trump.
	It turns into black versus white.
	And when I just hear these, and they're all millennials arguing, my heart drops.
	There is no way they can see each other's or respect each other's opinions.
	It's ruined.
	These children are ruined.
	They don't know how to do it anymore.
	It's just it's all fact.
	Go away.
	At the time we brought it up and there was a little debate about it and everyone kind of reconfirmed it.
	That millennials can't tell somebody not to cut in line.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	Because it's not, you know, they're afraid to.
	But most millennials won't cut in line anyway.
	No, this is true.
	So it works out fine if it's just a world of millennials.
	I have a great millennial clip, actually.
	So part of all the controversy going on, and make sure I don't forget, I remember to talk about South by Southwest and Obama.
	But this reporter from Breitbart, what's her name?
	Michelle Fields, I think?
	Who's the notorious attention getter.
	Yeah, she's a complainer.
	I liked her.
	She's pointing at her arm.
	Look at the bruise.
	There's nothing there.
	So she said, well, I got, you know, janked down by Trump's campaign manager and, you know, look at my bruise and I was abused, abused.
	And she's doing interviews now everywhere.
	Oh yeah, she's got a lot of attention.
	I have the audio of the full event.
	Of what happened.
	Now, we don't have video.
	There's no photos of the event, sadly, which is so odd, considering these are the most covered events of our day.
	But okay.
	Listen to her distress and the horror when she is abruptly yanked and grabbed so hard and bruised by, apparently, Trump's campaign manager.
	Mr.
	Trump, you went after the late Scalia for affirmative action.
	Are you still against affirmative action?
	Thank you.
	Hey, Ben.
	Ben.
	Come on, Ben.
	I appreciate it.
	Yeah, he just, like, threw it out.
	I can't believe you just did that before.
	That was so hard.
	Oh my, was that 40?
	Yeah, like what front were you?
	That was insane.
	You should have felt how hard he grabs me.
	That's insane.
	Oh my gosh, I've never had it.
	Can I put it in my throat?
	Yeah, go for it.
	That was really awful.
	She's so shocked and so hurt.
	She says, Can I put that in my article?
	Yeah, go for it.
	Please, please.
	Well, they made a big fuss about it on ABC, that's for sure.
	Did you get any clips?
	They had the woman on.
	Did you get any clips?
	Yeah, I got this.
	The Yamas Breitbart incident.
	Okay.
	Tom Yamas.
	We just heard what happened.
	If you really hear, and she doesn't even know, it's just, was that, what's the guy's name, Cameron or something?
	Well, the guy is here.
	You've got to just listen to this clip.
	And now the Trump campaign dealing with a police investigation.
	Michelle Fields from the conservative news site Breitbart accusing Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of battery, claiming Lewandowski grabbed her so hard her arm bruised.
	The thing is you don't grab a female reporter or any reporter.
	You don't grab them the way that he grabbed me.
	Lewandowski calling Fields delusional.
	The Trump campaign calling the accusations entirely false.
	You know him well.
	Is that something you could see him ever doing?
	I know him so well he happens to be right here.
	I can tell you I don't see him doing that in a million years.
	Okay, now, the line was, I know him so well, he's standing right here.
	The guy is standing right next to Tom Yamas.
	As Yamas has got the mic on Trump, talking to Trump.
	The guy is right there.
	He could have turned.
	I mean literally right next to him.
	No, we can't do that.
	That's no good.
	He could have turned and asked the guy directly when he's talking to Trump.
	This was the stupidest report I have ever seen.
	Oh, man.
	It was very, very funny.
	And I just love this girl when she shows up.
	You know, she's like, oh, I was abused battery.
	And you can hear it.
	There's no distress.
	Like, can you believe he pulled me out of the way?
	Well, yeah.
	Reporting is sometimes a rough and tumble, a hustle and bustle job.
	Can you believe he pulled me out of the way?
	I'm charging battery!
	Can't pull me out of the way, you big bully.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on.
	Hey, Michelle.
	What's her name, Michelle?
	Michelle Fields.
	Hello, Michelle.
	Trump should just use one of these at the beginning of all of his rallies.
	And see, all they go...
	They've done a good job, I think, this whole violence thing that's going on, which was discussed to an extreme.
	And Chicago, of course, he couldn't even do his rally there.
	And they had...
	What they've done is that since he draws these huge crowds, that...
	They've got to stop this because the guy is very personable at these events, as you know, because you've been to see this.
	And so they've got to stop these events.
	Someone's going to get hurt.
	Well, I don't think anyone's going to get hurt.
	Trump.
	In the beginning, well, yeah, there's always that.
	But in the beginning, but I think that they want to just stop these events.
	They just have to stop Trump.
	I mean, this is coming Tuesday.
	We cannot have any more big events.
	Stop the big events and by just putting in Asia, all giant provocateurs, do the Chicago thing with dynamite.
	Hold on a second.
	I got Trump on this, actually.
	You just turn on the TV and just have the recorder ready and there's always something on this guy.
	Here we go.
	We cannot let our First Amendment rights be taken away from us.
	Okay, Mr.
	Trump, your First Amendment rights have nothing to do with this.
	Nothing.
	This is not the government stopping you.
	This is not that the government is prohibited from this.
	I understand what you're saying, but no, that's incorrect.
	We cannot let our First Amendment rights be taken away from us, folks.
	We can't let it happen.
	We can't let it happen.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on, listen.
	About the agent provocateur, I got the clip for you.
	We have a right to speak.
	I mean, we are law-abiding people.
	We're people that work very hard.
	We're people that have built this country and made this country great.
	And we're all together.
	And we want to get along with everybody.
	But when they have organized, professionally staged wise guys, we've got to fight back.
	We've got to fight back.
	And he's correct.
	I agree.
	In Chicago, there's a lot of Muslims involved in the protest.
	Well, you know, the Bernie Sanders, one of their organizing entities, I'll just call it that, on Twitter, even said, hey, congratulations, everybody.
	Just remember, this was not by coincidence.
	There were thousands of people involved in what we did today.
	Yeah.
	No, it's Sanders behind it.
	I don't know why.
	I don't know why either.
	I don't think Hillary would be behind it.
	I know you have clips.
	For people who maybe missed it, because it's been chopped down now into such small pieces, this is about 45 seconds of CNN Live when it started to kick off.
	Yeah, it was, you know, hustle and tussle, tumble, rumble.
	You know, it happens, particularly on a university campus.
	Please.
	Simply rocking back and forth.
	Bernie!
	Bernie!
	As my cameras pan back over, you can see this large section of protesters I was referring to earlier.
	They're now shouting, Bernie!
	Bernie!
	Obviously in support of Bernie Sanders.
	Aaron, I've just never seen anything like this.
	This place has just erupted.
	Woo!
	Never seen anything like it.
	Have you ever watched the L.A. basketball team win, douchebag?
	Have you ever seen that in your life?
	You're hearing Donald Trump people on the other side of the arena yelling Trump, Trump, Trump.
	The security does not have a handle on the situation here.
	It is total chaos.
	Chaos!
	This is a pretty terrifying thing.
	Terrifying.
	We're going to keep these pictures up.
	We're going to keep listening.
	Jim's going to come in every time something happens there.
	That they don't have this under control.
	The police department, the fire department, the Secret Service, this was canceled at the last second.
	It is a pretty stunning statement about this situation that this is happening now.
	And last night, as Tina and I are watching MSNBC, who cut live to Trump in...
	Where was he last night?
	It doesn't matter.
	They show this five-hour videotape of what happened in Chicago, and they just keep this loop.
	It's like a 15-second loop of some guy, and they're pouring water on his face, and they say, oh, there's rumors that someone got shot with the pepper spray.
	But it's all protesters.
	It's all protesters who are getting arrested and are, from what I can see, starting...
	Yeah.
	It's protesters.
	It's well organized.
	It's well done.
	Yeah, they can't have any more of these huge Trump rallies.
	I mean, Nuremberg rallies.
	I'm sorry, what am I saying?
	Nuremberg rallies.
	That's what they like to equate with.
	There was one guy, there was a long story about him, but I only have the small clip of his analysis after the fact.
	CBS seems to be getting...
	A little pro-ish, pro-Trump-ish.
	Because this blogger that CBS had that was arrested.
	CBS is going to bloggers now?
	They have a blog.
	Ah, okay.
	Good, good, good.
	You know, it's one of those.
	For more information, go to our blog at cbs.com.
	You mean it's the Robert Scoble of CBS? Okay, gotcha.
	So this Robert Scoble of CBS guy got knocked to the ground, a boot on his throat.
	They had most of it filmed by a different reporter.
	Because he was filming, this guy's getting beat up.
	Most protesters getting beat up by the cops.
	And so there goes the Zephyr.
	And so they show the whole thing on the national news.
	It's not that interesting to cut all that out.
	And I just went right to the guy's little analysis at the end.
	The blogger himself comes on the air and he says these things.
	And apparently he has been following the Trump campaign all along, so he knows what these rallies are like.
	So Pandab says Trump's rallies have grown more hostile.
	There have been protests going on at Donald Trump rallies for months and months and months.
	This is nothing new.
	However, there has definitely been a recent uptick.
	I have certainly never seen anything like last night.
	That was unprecedented.
	There have been other groups of coordinated protests at past rallies, but nothing as massive as what I saw last night.
	You can see Cepan Deb's full interview.
	So the guy has made the observation, which is what everyone can easily make themselves.
	The thing has gone out of control.
	Now, the thing that's interesting to me is that the analysis, people like to equate Trump with Hitler and the brown shirts and all the rest of it.
	Now, who sent these guys in to disturb and bust up a Trump rally to the point where Trump never even showed up?
	This is Bernie Sanders.
	This is the brown shirts.
	It is a page out of the playbook.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's what you do.
	So who's the Nazi here?
	And then Sanders comes out and he says, it's just not, it's not nothing I did.
	I know, I know.
	Now here's the clip that kind of wraps it up a little bit.
	This is the...
	Well, let me do something before you wrap it up.
	I have a Katie Turr report.
	Your favorite girl.
	Oh, you got a Katie Turd report.
	I got a Turd report.
	The past few weeks, past week and a half or so...
	And this is the girl who has been...
	Hates Trump.
	Hates Trump.
	She's in charge of following him on the campaign trail.
	She's from NBC. The past few weeks, past week and a half or so, there has been a lot more tension at these rallies, a lot more violence.
	And when Omarosa says that it's just one protester who's done this, or Mr.
	Trump says that it's just one supporter who's punched a protester, I have to take issue with that because we've seen a number of occasions where protesters have been roughed up by Trump supporters.
	So the idea that it's just one guy acting out of bounds is just frankly not true.
	And I tried to press him on his tone and his rhetoric at these rallies, and Jake Tapper did during the debate.
	We have felt at times, me and the other reporters in the room, that we are on the precipice of something potentially very bad happening.
	Good!
	This is where you want to be as a journalist.
	Well, that's what you want to do, isn't it?
	You want to be right there where the action takes place.
	Something potentially very bad.
	That's why I went to the Trump rally.
	I was ready.
	So it's not just one person.
	It happens very frequently and it's happening even more so.
	I also asked Mr.
	Trump, as you saw, about this Michelle Fields incident and his campaign manager.
	His campaign manager has been extraordinarily antagonistic towards the press this entire time.
	Clearly, he did not like that line of questioning.
	So far, there has not been video yet to prove any of her allegations.
	But there is an audio clip that's out there, and she has posted a video of bruises on her arms.
	Yeah, well, we heard the audio clip, the real audio clips.
	I didn't even ask Mr.
	Trump what he would say if that was his daughter.
	But so far, when it comes to pushing back on the campaign in any way, or trying to get them to admit that maybe at times they've gone a little bit too far, they have not done that.
	In fact, I spoke to somebody who's very close to this campaign earlier today, and he said that they basically thought that Corey was a ticking time bomb, and they were hoping, the campaign manager, That he didn't go overboard, that nothing like this happened, but they're not surprised that these allegations have surfaced from this Breitbart reporter.
	Wow!
	Character assassination!
	Let's use that!
	Isn't that good?
	Holy crap!
	I know.
	Well, you know, you can go back to that audio clip, and I think if you reposted it and you have our scream kind of drop in the middle.
	Oh, oh, oh, this is a very good idea.
	Let me see.
	Yeah, we can have it.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's see.
	Yeah, and we'll post it as the official audio.
	You went after the late Scalia for affirmative action.
	Are you still against affirmative action?
	Thank you.
	Ah!
	Wait, it was too early, too early, too early.
	Hold on.
	I think it was a good spot.
	No, I think it was a little too early.
	Hold on.
	Let's try it again.
	Hold on a second.
	I can't believe he just did that.
	What?
	The scream makes it work.
	Ah!
	I'm going to post that.
	I'm going to post that.
	We should do it in a different way.
	If we do it like this, John, I was so, so, so disturbed and disgusted by what happened to the bridebird girl, Michelle Field.
	Did you hear what happened to her?
	I heard.
	The guy beat the crap out of her.
	I mean, just listen.
	I got the audio here.
	Listen.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Listen to this, where it really goes after her.
	Thank you.
	Here he goes.
	And now look!
	He's touching her!
	Oh my god, John!
	Can you believe that?
	So let's play, uh...
	This is the one that...
	I didn't clip Bernie going on saying it's not me.
	I didn't do nothing.
	But there's the...
	This is the Tom Yamas...
	This is another Tom Yamas thing from ABC. On Trump violence.
	Because to me, this whole bit led me to a punchline to this clip.
	To be honest with you, it adds to the flavor.
	But lately, that flavor, red hot.
	In North Carolina on Wednesday, a protester sucker punched and knocked to the ground.
	That guy, I found out, was 78 years old.
	Yes, very few people.
	I think they reported his age on ABC, but Democracy Now!
	I'm sorry, was that your punchline?
	Like a young punk.
	He's a 78-year-old guy with a ponytail.
	I'm sorry, was that your punchline?
	Because I feel bad about it then.
	I didn't realize.
	Of course.
	It was ridiculous.
	The guy is 78, and he apologized.
	He was very sorry.
	When you're in a crowd, this is almost human behavior, which proves that when people are all riled up.
	And the 78-year-old got all pissed off.
	But yeah, it's not like some young millennial punk.
	And knocked to the ground.
	Police arresting 78-year-old John McGraw.
	Trump saying today there are instances where his crowd should fight back.
	When I said, like that, bang him, that was a very, you know, he was a guy who was swinging very loud and then started swinging at the audience.
	And you know what?
	The audience swung back.
	And I thought it was very, very appropriate.
	His rival, Senator Marco Rubio, pointing the finger at Trump for the violence.
	There's only one presidential candidate who has violence at their events.
	That's because there's only one presidential candidate that has anyone at their events.
	Bingo, boom shock.
	I'll give you an in the morning for that one.
	In the morning!
	Now, the debate itself...
	Just circle back to that for one second.
	We could have predicted this.
	Trump went completely the opposite direction, kept everything nice and civil, and it really disturbed everybody.
	And the ratings fell through the floor.
	Of course.
	And if you listen to what NBC said...
	The rising display of civility at the Republicans' final debate before next Tuesday's high-stakes primaries.
	It was a striking turnaround from their 11 previous clashes.
	For the Republicans, turns out the 12th times the charm.
	So far I cannot believe how civil it's been up here.
	Instead of insults, finally a substantive battle over immigration, trade, and foreign policy.
	I have to say I was stunned because this race, Donald Trump, is four days away from putting this race away.
	And to see Cruz and Rubio just sort of take a pass, again, I get what Kasich is doing.
	It's been working for him.
	But the other two, while I understand they didn't want to go in the gutter, They may have overcorrected here.
	Wait a minute.
	I understand that NBC said, hey, hey, hey, hey, a little more of the rough stuff, people.
	This is boring.
	Didn't he just say that?
	I'm sorry.
	They overcorrected.
	He said they overcorrected.
	I don't know.
	You know, this whole thing at that level is just beyond me what they're thinking.
	I have no idea.
	No, they're thinking boring no ratings is what they're thinking.
	Well, they saw the no ratings.
	What happened was as soon as it started...
	I watched the whole thing.
	I couldn't get it.
	I got a couple of clips.
	They're good.
	You can use yours.
	Okay.
	So I didn't see anything worth clipping, but...
	I was watching it, and it was very civil, and Trump waited his turn.
	You see the guy say something that Trump wanted to jump in and say, you're full of it.
	And no, no, he just stood there and waited, because he knew he was going to be next, because the guy mentioned his name, and that's the rules.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So they went to Trump, and then Trump blasted him, and then the other guy came.
	About halfway through it, I can see people tuning out.
	Of course.
	I could feel the public at large turning this thing off.
	It was a turd.
	Yeah, of course.
	And that was his point, I think.
	Now, before we go any further, I need to read an email.
	Very important, because these emails are not uncommon these days.
	Adam...
	I'm writing to out myself as a douchebag.
	I've listened to the No Agenda show for the past six months or so and have found aspects of it really refreshing and entertaining.
	So he's been enjoying the program for six months.
	And that was a big but.
	Sadly.
	Whoa.
	I know.
	This is a big but.
	This hurt me.
	Sadly, shows in recent weeks have forced a decision and I won't be listening any longer.
	He's a Hillary fan, obviously.
	If I did carry on, then I would definitely have thrown you a few quid.
	Oh, sure you would.
	It's just that you do have...
	I love that.
	This is like, I am no longer subscribing to your publication, my favorite thing, of course, when I was at PC Magazine.
	You can look them up in the database.
	The guy wasn't a subscriber.
	This is the old, oh, I'm going to give you some money if you didn't offend me somehow.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm interrupting.
	Go on.
	It's just that you do have an agenda.
	Oh, that guy.
	You have an agenda guy.
	I get those letters every so often.
	The Hitler-Trump idiocy irritates me as much as you, but we have to acknowledge that the guy has said and done some pretty stupid shit.
	As much as I enjoy the rapport and intelligent analysis between you and Dvorak, the persistent softness on DJT has become too much.
	I'm out!
	Having said this, I've enjoyed many of your shows and not given you a penny.
	I'm sorry for this.
	In the future, I may once again wash up on your internet broadcast shores and pay you for your hard work and obvious talent.
	Man overboard!
	I told him, I said, congratulations on being a freeloader.
	Why don't you just ignore these guys?
	Keep your quid.
	I don't need your quid.
	A few quid.
	Anyway, why are we soft on Donald Trump, John?
	Let's just talk about this for a quick moment.
	Well, I might as well play my anti-Donald Trump thing, a ridicule that I downloaded from my...
	We do this rarely, but we do it once in a while because some of these news media guys or comics have a full-time staff that they can actually put a clip together like this, which is...
	This is Donald Trump's friend's clip, which was stolen from the Jimmy Kimmel show.
	You know, that's like Muhammad Ali.
	He was a friend of mine.
	Michael Jackson was actually a very good friend of mine.
	Tom Brady is a very good friend of mine.
	Bob Craft, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, they're like great friends of mine.
	Ted Cruz is a friend of mine.
	Chris Christie's a friend of mine.
	Carl Icahn is a friend of mine.
	I like Oprah.
	She's a friend of mine.
	Howard's a friend of mine.
	I remember Tim Russett very well.
	He was a friend of mine.
	Roger Ailes has been a friend of mine.
	Herman Cain, my friend.
	My friend Elton John.
	We have a rich guy from New York City, a friend of mine.
	A friend of mine who's one of the biggest and richest people in China.
	A friend of mine who's Chinese.
	Chinese.
	They say they're friends of mine.
	I have friends that aren't Christian.
	I have many friends that are Muslims.
	I have friends that are Muslims.
	I have so many Jewish friends.
	I have friends that are reporters.
	I have friends in Iowa.
	I have so many friends in New Hampshire.
	I have friends.
	I have so many friends.
	I have a friend.
	I have friends.
	I have a friend. Friends of mine. Friend of mine.
	A friend of mine. Friends of mine. Friends of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine. Friend of mine.
	I have no friends as far as I'm concerned.
	Wait.
	I have one minute of the comedic genius of George Carlin to fit into this.
	Are you ready?
	Yeah.
	I mentioned something about language.
	There are a couple of terms being used a lot these days by guilty white liberals.
	First one is, happens to be.
	He happens to be black.
	I have a friend who happens to be black.
	Like it's a fucking accident, you know?
	Happens to be black.
	Yes, he happens to be black.
	Ah, yeah, yeah.
	He had two black parents?
	Oh, yes.
	Yes, he did.
	Yes, that's right.
	And they fucked?
	Oh, indeed they did.
	So where does the surprise part come in?
	I should think it would be more unusual if he just happened to be Scandinavian.
	And the other term is openly, openly gay.
	They'll say, he's openly gay.
	But that's the only minority they use that for.
	You know, you wouldn't say someone was openly black.
	Well, maybe James Brown.
	Or Louis Farrakhan.
	Louis Farrakhan is openly black.
	Colin Powell is not openly black.
	Colin Powell is openly white.
	He just happens to be black.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	Just throwing it out there.
	Yes.
	Well, anyway, that kind of balances our Trump coverage for sure.
	Yeah, except...
	But it's bullcrap.
	That's not what we're here to do, is to say, oh, we think Trump's an idiot or whatever.
	We do think Hillary's an idiot, but that's different.
	Maybe that's got something to do with it.
	Well, I do want to remind everybody, every nation gets the government it deserves.
	That always happens, whether it's corrupt or not.
	And so we'll see what we get.
	You know, I might have the Bernie thing where Bernie comes off with this.
	It's not my fault.
	It's not my fault I got the guys there.
	You got that?
	Try violence at Trump's rallies.
	This is the rundown.
	And this is actually CBS. It says ABC on there.
	...
	has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence.
	But Trump's rivals are walking a rhetorical tightrope.
	On the one hand, they're trying to hold protesters accountable.
	On the other hand, they're blaming the billionaire businessman for fostering a hostile climate and trying to avoid alienating his supporters.
	We've seen some protesters that take speech into intimidation, into violence, into trying to silence anyone who might disagree with them.
	That is wrong.
	I think it is also true that any campaign Responsibility begins and ends at the top.
	Some of the protesters last night did confirm to CBS News they are supporters of Bernie Sanders.
	And Trump tweeted, it is Clinton and Sanders people who disrupted my rally in Chicago.
	I don't think our supporters are inciting.
	What our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways encouraged violence.
	Both Sanders and Hillary Clinton say it's up to Trump to tell his supporters to stand down.
	If you play with matches, you're going to start firing the head control.
	That's not leadership.
	That's political arson.
	President Obama also weighed in at a fundraiser today in Dallas, China.
	Jim, he said leaders, or those who aspire to be leaders, must reject violence and efforts to spread fear.
	And he said if they refuse to do that, they don't deserve our support.
	All right.
	Now, I just want to say a couple of things.
	First of all, Bernie Sanders there is blaming the victim.
	Yes.
	In a most abhorrent way.
	Yeah.
	So Sanders is a total douchebag in this regard.
	It's his people, and he's not scolding them in the least.
	He says, nah, he brought it on himself.
	It's the way he dressed.
	What do you expect with a woman if she's going to wear a tight skirt?
	Ooh, good one, John.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That's exactly what he said.
	Well, I mean, in an analogy sort of way.
	In a good way.
	But they can't, you know, this is like, these are the brown shirts.
	And Sanders is the one who has them.
	So I'm very disappointed in Sanders.
	And then Hillary with this political arson.
	Wait, before you go to Hillary, I got a special delivery from the No Agenda Production Studio for you with your name on it.
	Yeah.
	From Matt Baish.
	What was the problem with Bernie?
	He's blaming the victim.
	Not in this case, no.
	The problem with Bernie is he can't get black Americans.
	Right.
	Millennials, socialists, Jews, but no love from the minorities.
	Uh-oh.
	B-b-b-b-Bernie and the Blacks.
	Bernie! Bernie! Bernie and the Blacks!
	God damn it.
	We have some of the best producers in the business.
	It's funny because the Chicago thing had a lot of Black Lives Matter.
	I know, I know.
	They were from Move On, of course, and Black Lives Matter, exactly.
	Yeah, same from another group.
	They double teamed him.
	They didn't want him speaking in Chicago.
	Who needs it?
	Meanwhile, Hillary says this, you know, you got a matchbook.
	She has this matchbook analogy somebody wrote for her.
	Then that clip, they had it in there where she's talking about it, and she says it's political arsonist.
	Political arsonist, yeah.
	She has said that, I don't know if I have any more clips today with her saying that, but she's said that over and over again.
	She thinks it's so cute.
	No, it's not.
	Oh, it's dumb.
	Now, back to the debate for a second.
	I did pick up a few clips.
	There was some substantial stuff being said, which, of course, none of this is discussed at all because of the...
	Oh, yeah, and I don't think it was a riot.
	I keep hearing riots, riots.
	It wasn't a riot.
	Is there...
	Not unless people are stealing televisions.
	Yeah, thank you.
	At what point is it a riot?
	What is the actual definition of riot?
	People stealing televisions.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hold on.
	I don't know.
	Well, let me see.
	A violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.
	Yeah, well, I guess it does qualify as a riot then.
	Okay, it was a riot.
	As a verb, to riot, take part in a violent public disturbance.
	Yeah, it was a riot.
	Okay, I take it back.
	It was a riot.
	You got it.
	Oh, and of course, it's so important to talk about, you know, a riot.
	And meanwhile, the president signed an order to drone 100 people in Yemen.
	Crickets.
	Crickets.
	Oh yeah, we got a couple of, what's the word they use?
	Collateral damage.
	Eh, a couple of civilians got killed, but who gives a shit?
	Who cares?
	They're brown people, you see, in sand.
	So we understand that it's okay if they die.
	Rubio had a couple of good ones in this debate.
	He had a couple of his...
	And the more I listen to him, the more I agree.
	If we could actually have a comedian, a true comedian run for president, he would be president in a heartbeat.
	Rupio could do it if he just...
	They shouted him down on the media and everybody.
	Oh, he went too far.
	And they discouraged him, even though I think he was on a roll.
	He was doing well.
	And he had a good line here.
	Climate change means rising ocean levels, which in South Florida means flooding downtown and in our neighborhoods.
	It's an everyday reality in our city.
	Will you, as president, acknowledge the reality of the scientific consensus about climate change?
	And as president, will you pledge to do something about it?
	Unquote.
	Senator Rubio, the Miami mayor, has endorsed you.
	Will you honor his request for a pledge and acknowledge the reality of the scientific consensus of climate change and pledge to do something about it?
	The climate is changing.
	And one of the reasons why the climate is changing is because the climate has always been changing.
	There has never been a time when the climate has not changed.
	I think the fundamental question for a policymaker is, is the climate changing because of something we are doing?
	And if so, is there a law you can pass to fix it?
	So on the issue of flooding in Miami, it's caused by two things.
	Number one, South Florida is largely built on land that was once a swamp.
	And number two, because if there is higher sea levels or whatever it may be happening, we do need to deal with that through mitigation.
	And I have long supported mitigation efforts.
	But as far as a law that we can pass in Washington to change the weather, there's no such thing.
	On the contrary...
	I like that.
	You can't make a law that will change the weather.
	Yeah, that was actually a good clip because they were trying to corner him.
	Yeah.
	You change your attitude if you get the help from this guy.
	This guy is all in.
	But he's still open to mitigation, so he's not anti-climate change regulations the way I heard it.
	He's open to mitigation.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that means they can put a levy up or something.
	Trump.
	Because there's fish.
	There's fish flopping around in downtown Miami.
	Although you'd think that would be a benefit.
	It's easy to catch.
	Sucking in soot!
	Donald Trump, just before this debate, had an interview with Anderson Pooper and he said, Islam hates us.
	I'm paraphrasing.
	This came up in the debate.
	Mr.
	Trump, let me start with you.
	Last night you told CNN, quote, Islam hates us.
	Did you mean all 1.6 billion Muslims?
	I mean a lot of them.
	I mean a lot of them.
	That was a funny line, I thought.
	What exactly did Pooper say?
	Did he say just Islam or radical Islam?
	Listen again, I didn't...
	Mr.
	Trump, let me start with you.
	Last night you told CNN, quote, Islam hates us.
	That's a very interesting way to put it.
	Just the word Islam by itself.
	You know, you can't just say, does Judaism hate us?
	Does Christianity hate us?
	Sounds a little weird.
	Yeah, it makes no sense.
	No, because it's not a person.
	It's a...
	It's a belief system.
	Did you mean all 1.6 billion Muslims?
	I mean a lot of them.
	I mean a lot of them.
	Actually, that's an ISO. That's actually not bad.
	I mean a lot of them.
	I mean a lot of them.
	Yeah, I can do that later.
	Do you want to clarify the comment at all?
	Well, you know, I've been watching the debate today and they're talking about radical Islamic terrorism or radical Islam, but I will tell you there's something going on that maybe you don't know about and maybe a lot of other people don't know about, but there's tremendous hatred and I will stick with exactly what I said to Anderson Cooper.
	Okay.
	Now, I thought this was a unique moment.
	Let me put in, before you do that, let me just grab the ISO. Hold on a second.
	Did you mean all 1.6 billion Muslims?
	I mean a lot of them.
	I mean a lot of them.
	The second part or just the beginning, what do you think?
	I think the first one is only all you want.
	I mean a lot of them because you can drop that into all kinds of interesting things.
	I mean a lot of them.
	Okay, let me just, ISO, save as Trump.
	Oops.
	Okay, Trump.
	A lot of them.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	Okay, and...
	Okay, we're good.
	We can continue.
	Now, I thought this was an interesting turnaround because the way the memes were going was Trump hates Muslims.
	Yeah.
	And they were using it well with a lot of leverage, even though I don't see any evidence of him hating anybody, really.
	But you could take this thing about blocking the Muslims from coming into the country as a hate thing, even though Jimmy Carter, by the way, did that.
	He actually, when he was president, actually stopped Muslims from coming into the country.
	A group of them.
	Not radical Islamists, because they didn't exist at the time, but he prevented Shiites from Iran and parts of the Middle East from coming into the country.
	He blocked them.
	But no, we don't need to bring that up.
	No, and I've thought about this, as I have, I think, mentioned on the show before.
	I see, when I was growing up in Europe, 1972 was when I got there, when we had sports, athletic clubs, and men and women would shower, co-ed, make showers, no one cared about, you know, naked bodies were naked bodies, and this is all gone.
	This is all gone from the open, liberal, European thinking to And it has washed over here into such a degree where we think differently.
	We don't think anymore like the Donald Trump American, who is now almost 70, and I'm 51.
	He's 70.
	He's 70.
	You know, there's a different thinking.
	And it's not even that the thinking is different.
	It's the way we express it.
	And that is, I think, the core is political correctness.
	And I went back to this morning.
	I read the Technological Society and its Future, the Unabomber Manifesto, which is all about this.
	It is the first 50 pages.
	Is this what is happening right now?
	I encourage you to read that.
	Put a link in the show notes once again.
	Well, so what I saw here was him doing a jujitsu move.
	And I thought it was very elegant, even though nobody credited him for doing it.
	But what it was, was everyone, you know, the meme is, he hates Muslims.
	No, no.
	He just turned it around.
	They hate us.
	He turned it around that they hate us.
	Very smart.
	And he's never said that before in any of the other debates.
	He never said that until that debate.
	And he followed up with, I thought, another good piece about, you know, they hate us.
	And sadly for him, Marco Rubio walked away with it.
	He let Rubio in and I could see, you know, he was wincing over this.
	But I thought he still kept his cool.
	Marco talks about consequences.
	Well, we've had a lot of consequences, including airplanes flying into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and could have been the White House.
	There have been a lot of problems.
	Now, you can say what you want, and you can be politically correct if you want.
	I don't want to be so politically correct.
	I like to solve problems.
	We have a serious, serious problem of hate.
	There is tremendous hate.
	There is tremendous hope.
	We're large portions of a group of people.
	Islam.
	Large portions want to use very, very harsh means.
	Let me go a step further.
	Women are treated horribly.
	You know that.
	You do know that.
	Women are treated horribly, and other things are happening that are very, very bad.
	Now, I will say this.
	There is tremendous hatred.
	The question was asked, what do you think?
	And I said, there is hatred.
	Now, it would be very easy for me to say something differently, and everybody would say, oh, isn't that wonderful?
	We better solve the problem before it's too late.
	Senator Rubio.
	I'm not interested in being politically correct.
	I'm not interested in being politically correct.
	I'm interested in being correct.
	And in order to be correct...
	Yeah, I heard that.
	Yeah, it was good.
	I thought the same thing.
	I thought the line was good, but I thought because Trump had stretched out his explanation for too long past the bell, that the callback to the political correct, no, I'd rather be correct, I thought was mistimed.
	It was the best he could do.
	That was way too late.
	It was the best he could do, and it worked.
	It worked.
	Come on, you gotta admit, it worked, it worked, it worked.
	Because that was his group in there clapping.
	Well, of course, of course.
	Now, just before, we had CNN's Erin Burnett, and who was she talking to?
	She was talking, oh, to Governor Scott, Rick Scott.
	Is that Rick Scott?
	Governor Rick Scott?
	I think so, yeah.
	And just because she's Aaron, and I'm very disappointed, you know, ever since she pooped out the twins, it's just been nothing with her.
	She's just been following scripts.
	She's given up.
	I'm very sad about this.
	Very sad.
	She's given up.
	I had such high hopes for her.
	She's doing her job.
	It's no surprise that radical Islam does not like our country.
	But when I think about this, I think about what's happened to people like Stephen Saltlough.
	He had to be asked several times until finally Anderson Cooper asked him, do you mean radical Islam?
	Then he said yes.
	He didn't take that at the beginning.
	And part of that, it's comments like those that are causing some to compare him to Hitler.
	People who do not like him.
	The current president of Mexico, two former presidents of Mexico have compared him to Hitler.
	Vicente Fox, former president, specifically said, quote, he reminds me of Hitler.
	No!
	That's not what he said.
	I have to call her on it.
	Again, here's what Aaron Burnett says he said.
	He reminds me of Hitler.
	No, that's not what he said.
	We go to the videotape.
	Turkey's president has issued a warning to the country's top quotes.
	This one I meant.
	He remembers me of Hitler.
	It's not he reminds me of Hitler.
	He remembers me of Hitler, Aaron Burnett.
	You can't say, quote...
	If it wasn't a quote.
	He reminds me of Hitler.
	She does it again.
	She does it again.
	It's direct.
	It's not an illusion.
	It's a direct thing.
	He reminds me of Hitler.
	He didn't say that, so that's not okay.
	I'm just saying as a small, minor journalistic point, that is not okay.
	Do they have a point?
	Do they have a point?
	Well, I'm not sure exactly what Donald meant, what he said.
	But I can tell you what happened after the Paris attacks.
	What I said is, until the federal government can make us comfortable with what their vetting process is, I don't want any more Syrian refugees to come into my state.
	Because as we know, in Paris, we had one of the terrorists had posed as a Syrian refugee.
	Right.
	We've got to make our country feel safe.
	Okay, fine.
	Whatever.
	Then, while we're talking about lies, there's one lie that keeps coming back with Hillary Clinton that I would like to point out to everybody right now.
	This is a very important one.
	This was last night.
	This was on MSNBC. It never stops.
	The town hall, the special little question and answer session, whatever, about Hillary's emails.
	Someone has to call her on this, and I'm very disappointed in the mainstream they're not doing it.
	Let me clarify this, because there's much misinformation going on around here, and let me just start with the basic facts.
	I have said it wasn't the best choice to use a personal email.
	It was a mistake.
	However, I am not alone in that.
	Many people in the government, past and current, have on occasion or as a practice done the same.
	No, no.
	I'm sorry.
	No!
	No!
	There is no evidence anyone in the government...
	Had their own email server.
	It's not the same.
	They had a Gmail account or an AOL account in the case of Colin Powell.
	It's a good point.
	No, it's not a good point.
	It is a boldface lie.
	No, it is a good point.
	Because it's bullcrap.
	She had an actual...
	She's like you.
	She has her own email server.
	And let me ask you a question.
	Why is it when I set up in my own email server, I'm a kook.
	Yeah, kook, Curry.
	What are you, a friend?
	Yeah, kook.
	Hillary Clinton sets it up.
	She's great!
	11 hours!
	Why am I the kook when I set up my own email server?
	Yeah.
	It is not the same thing.
	I'm on board with that.
	It is not the same thing.
	I want to hear it again.
	Let me clarify this.
	It's a fact, and this is, oh, it's misinformation.
	Because, you know, there's much misinformation going on around here.
	Sure.
	And let me just start with the basic facts.
	I'm shocked.
	I have said it wasn't the best choice to use a personal email.
	Personal email, she says now.
	Personal email.
	Server!
	However, I am not alone in that.
	Many people in the government, past and current, have on occasion or as a practice done the same.
	No, not the same.
	Oh, wait, if she just says personal email, this is not the same as personal email server.
	No.
	I think she's got you over a barrel here.
	You know what I'm saying.
	Well, okay.
	All right.
	But when she says it's the same...
	Nothing I sent was marked classified or that I received was marked classified.
	Which is never the case.
	And specifically...
	We don't need to talk about that.
	That's just the one thing that's really bugging me.
	Before we leave the Trump thing, I do have to read a letter from one of our listeners.
	Good, because I have a kicker.
	I have a Trump kicker for us.
	Good, you can use the kicker as a kicker.
	I'm a 61-year-old student at a local community college.
	I'm taking an American government class as an elective.
	I have first-hand evidence to back up something I heard discussed on the No Agenda show by you and Adam.
	Obviously, the majority of the classes fill with students much younger than myself.
	A professor, a former ATF employee, was discussing Trump and wondering out loud why no one has killed him yet.
	Wow.
	This suggestion brought loud cheers and applause for most of the young douchebags.
	Oh, man.
	Some even claimed that if they could get close enough, they'd stab him themselves.
	Now, I'm no Puritan, but listening, this turned my stomach.
	It goes to the point made by you two guys in the show.
	These kids are being led around by the nose due to the influence of what they see and hear in social media.
	Anyway, for what it's worth, I thought you guys might like to know, you were spot on, so greetings from the sphincter of America.
	You've got the city in there, which will be out.
	Okay, yeah, this fits in perfectly with my kicker clip.
	I can't believe how beautiful this is.
	Well, let me just, I do want to mention one thing before the kicker clip.
	The thing that kind of caught my attention only after I thought about it for a while was the kids who said, this is really bad, what I'm going to say.
	This is, the kid says, if he could get close enough, they'd stab him.
	Now, there was a kid that was recently deported because he was on Facebook saying that if he could get by close, you know, same kind of thing, he was deported because he was on a green card or something, a student visa.
	And they threw him out of the country for saying he'd like to stab Donald Trump.
	Huh.
	Now, This generation of this stabbing thing is like, I think people like our age would say we'd shoot him.
	I was waiting for that, yeah.
	But no.
	No, that's un-American.
	That's un-American.
	So here we go.
	It's un-American, I tell you.
	Guns are bad, but it's okay if I stab him.
	Oh my God.
	Is this outrageous?
	Yeah.
	The brainwashing that's going on in this country is frightening.
	And I will add to that, Sacha Baron Cohen, who I love as a filmmaker, he has a new movie out called The Grimsby Brothers, or The Brothers Grimsby, I believe.
	I've not seen it, there's not a lot of PR about it, but he's about to get it.
	So he's Borat, of course, if you don't know who that is.
	And he was on CNN on the morning show with our friend Michaela.
	And at the end of this movie, there is what he calls a Hollywood ending, like a sweetheart ending.
	And it plays right into what you just read from our millennial producer.
	Right.
	And by the way, this is Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed like a cowboy.
	He's nutty.
	But he's speaking as himself.
	And by the way, our producer was 61 years old, not a millennial.
	I'm sorry.
	I take it all back.
	Get it?
	Right.
	And I think this might be a clip which is there's a fairytale ending in that Donald Trump gets AIDS at the end.
	This is true in the movie.
	Donald Trump gets AIDS at the end of the movie.
	And the interesting thing has been throughout the world where we've shown that scene.
	What has the reaction been?
	Well, people have been cheering.
	This is overseas.
	This is overseas in the Americas.
	This is when Donald Trump contracts HIV. Oh, goodness.
	People are cheering.
	They're standing ovations.
	And this is round the world.
	This is insane.
	Are you wondering how that scene is going to play here in the United States, given the fact of what is going on right now?
	Well, I've just been in Miami.
	I played in Miami two days ago, New York last night.
	What was your reaction?
	People are cheering their standing ovations.
	And, you know, I'm a comedian, but I think this shows something quite...
	Pointed about what's going on, that if there's that much latent hatred, that when the potential future president of America contracts HIV, people are standing up and cheering, that means something wrong is going on.
	You think?
	You think there might be something up in the country?
	Yes.
	Is there anything that you won't touch?
	Now, I take Sacha Baron Cohen, and I think, yeah, you're doing something very important.
	It's not, I don't believe it's anger towards Donald Trump, but he is showing America something's very wrong.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Well, you know, there are always...
	The irony to the whole thing is that if you look at the commentary that Trump is a hater...
	The amount of hatred directed toward him is outrageous.
	Besides these kids in this classroom that I described with cheering, and one of them saying, I will stab him, and the other guy on Facebag that was talking about killing him, and I think there's a lot of that on there.
	Yeah.
	Oh, totally.
	The whole thing is riddled with it.
	And then this other incident, yeah, there's the haters.
	Unbelievable.
	And then Bernie, you know, with his, you know, sending his brown shirts.
	Brown shirts.
	Bernie and the brown shirts.
	Yeah, Bernie and the brown shirts.
	Meanwhile, this will wrap it all up for me.
	There is an actual fascist dictator on the rise in our world, and he's our friend!
	Turkey's president has issued a warning to the country's top court.
	He says its survival would be up for debate if it repeated rulings that were against the country.
	Recep Tayyip Erdogan was referring to a decision that led to the release of two detained newspaper editors.
	He says, excuse me, but I said I do not respect the decision of an institution that does not respect the rights and interests of the people of this country.
	I hope the Constitutional Court will not act in such a way again which will leave its existence and legitimacy up for debate, he says.
	The release of the journalists was described by one of them as a clear defeat for Erdogan.
	Both were freed on bail last week after a ruling by the Constitutional Court that their rights had been violated.
	They were detained after their newspaper published material it said showed intelligence officials trucking arms to Syria.
	The journalists faced trial and, if convicted, potential life sentences.
	To recap, we are all upset about Donald Trump, Hitler, I'm sorry, Adolf Trump.
	In the meantime, now forget what we know about Fethullah Gulen and his involvement in this newspaper.
	When you have a dictator, I'm sorry, a president, saying...
	Hey, I don't like what the court did.
	You know, I might not recognize you anymore because this newspaper that you let the two journalists go free, they had evidence of my agents trucking weapons into Syria Yet that is not important to us.
	And we're like friends.
	EU is doing a big deal with the guy, which includes visa-free travel into Europe, joining NATO, joining the EU. This is the fascist.
	At least the optics of him are a fascist.
	Let's just put it at that.
	Everyone in Europe is just, I mean, every thinker in Europe is wondering what the EU Parliament's up to, but cozying up to this joke, Joker.
	I'm just disturbed by an actual fascist, again, optics, but I believe it to be true, an actual fascist, and there's just no coverage.
	It's all Trump is Hitler.
	Sarah Silverman went on Conan's show as Hitler.
	Yes.
	It wasn't even funny.
	I saw that and it was like, oh, it wasn't funny.
	It wasn't funny.
	I know.
	I tried.
	I tried.
	It was hilarious.
	I tried.
	It's great.
	It's very funny.
	It's very funny.
	Very creative.
	No, it wasn't.
	It was not creative.
	She was uncomfortable.
	Thanks.
	Now, there's one.
	There was a Democrat debate.
	D.H. Slammer's kid did that, by the way.
	I came up with that idea.
	It was a good one.
	After our show last day.
	I only got one clip, and I actually didn't get any clips, and then I was watching somebody do a rundown of the democracy.
	Now they were showing some clips, and then I caught this clip a second time around.
	I realized, oh, this is interesting, because this tells you something kind of...
	I don't know.
	My analysis will be...
	I think poignant.
	Let's play this.
	This is Clinton on deportation.
	Can you promise tonight that you won't deport children, children who are already here?
	I will not deport children.
	I would not deport children.
	I do not want to deport family members either, Jorge.
	I want to, as I said, prioritize who would be deported.
	Violent criminals, people planning terrorist attacks, anybody who threatens us.
	That's a relatively small universe.
	I want to be very specific.
	So you're telling us tonight that if you become president, you won't deport children who are already here?
	I will not.
	And that you won't deport immigrants who don't have a criminal record.
	That's what I'm telling you.
	We always have to play this clip when that happens.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
	Children are worried.
	Now, one thing I don't like being...
	I think it's annoying when you see somebody making pledges like that tax guy.
	Do you pledge?
	Why am I pledging to you?
	I don't like this whole thing where you have to guarantee something to a reporter.
	No.
	But the thing in there that was interesting is that she said she'll deport people who are planning terrorist attacks against us.
	Now, what good does that do?
	Well, you deport them.
	You should arrest them.
	You should arrest them and send them to Gitmo or do something with them.
	You don't deport them.
	Oh, they're going to blow up the World Trade Center again?
	Deport them.
	Just deport them.
	Get them out of here.
	That's what she said.
	And I'm sure she means it.
	Hillary!
	Hillary! - Hooray!
	Father!
	What?
	Nothing's happened to Jeff.
	Look at him.
	What is it, girl?
	Is it Jeff?
	Nothing's happened, can't you see?
	Easy, Ellen, easy.
	Where's Jeff, girl?
	Where is he?
	You know?
	Ah, the love is deep.
	Yes, that's good.
	I'm the guy who quit the show.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and passion and say in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water, and all the dames and knights.
	In the morning to all of our artistes.
	In particular, I want to thank the artist who brought us the artwork for Babushkas of Chernobyl, episode 806.
	And that was a nice piece by Mark G. He does high concept.
	This was the Mosel Dam with pushing on both sides and the dam cracking.
	It was a beautiful piece.
	Yes, he does modern, very contemporary looking stuff.
	Yeah, noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload your submissions.
	We appreciate all the work all of our artists do.
	We use it for all kinds of stuff.
	For newsletters, for just when I'm in a bad mood, I just go to the art generator to have a laugh.
	Yeah.
	Which is often with you.
	Yes, all the time.
	Alright, so we have a few people to thank.
	Mostly one, two, three, four executive producers who took advantage of Pi Day, which is tomorrow.
	We'll leave that open for another day.
	But somehow, Eric left off the list our check that came in.
	One lone check of...
	Any interesting amount.
	$334 needs to be at the top of the list here.
	Oh, who's this?
	This is Roy Pierce.
	Oh.
	And he's in Florida.
	And he's got a note.
	Pundits keep saying he wants to correct, I guess, our thinking.
	And so he's got...
	And you get a pencil because he's also changed his title.
	He's now a baron.
	Okay.
	He says, pundits keep saying fully automatic weapons are illegal.
	Fact is the U.S. government has no such prohibition, although nine socialist states do.
	The Treasury Department maintains documentations on weapons they deem transferable and require a $200 tax to do so.
	The first step for acquisition is to befriend an in-state firearms dealer who is familiar with the process.
	His participation is only necessary for the first transfer, and he can help with such information as parts availability and reliability.
	Price escalates whenever government limits the supply of a commodity, so be prepared for sticker shock.
	The Army paid $17 for an M3 submachine gun in 1943.
	They can sell today for $10,000.
	That's if you want to emulate Steve McQueen in Hell is for Heroes.
	So you can buy...
	Machine guns.
	Sure.
	They are legal, except in nine states.
	So he says to research the words transferable weapons for more information.
	Okie dokie.
	He's got a now, he's got a, so he's obviously a gun guy.
	Sir Roy of Ancona is who he is.
	Baron of the Treasure Coast.
	Sir Roy of Ancona, Baron of the Treasure Coast.
	Got it.
	And we want to thank him.
	Should I give him a little karma shot here?
	Yeah, I think he needs one.
	All right.
	I thought I... There we go.
	Let's do it again.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	Baron of the Treasure Coast.
	And so you get yourself a machine gun.
	Okay.
	I didn't say I didn't have one already.
	You might.
	I might.
	Andrew Goodman in Byron, Georgia, $314.59.
	And he writes in to say, Happy Pi Day, gentlemen.
	Yep.
	Or Pi Day Eve.
	I want to know if you, I want to, I want you to know that I have your backs in the light of the flack you've been receiving by some of your listeners for supposedly defending presidential candidate Trump.
	Yep.
	I know, along with probably most of your listeners, that you're simply following your protocol of deconstructing the media and calling out the frequent misinterpretation of tactics they use to influence your viewers.
	Thank you.
	We should give this guy the other guy's email address.
	Why don't you just go meet on the Reddit subreddit?
	I bet you Goodman can kick his ass.
	Thank you for remaining consistent amidst listener opposition.
	Keep up the good work.
	Please send some of the job and relationship karma to my best friend, Morgan, who so kindly hit me in the mouth four years ago.
	All right.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	David Ellis comes in with his 3, 14, 16.
	Actually, Goodman did 59, which is more accurate.
	Well, yeah.
	Yeah, 3.1459627.
	Well, it should be 3.14159.
	Oh, yeah, you're right.
	You're right.
	3141592617?
	I get what he's saying.
	It also pushed him to the top of the list in a sneaky way.
	David Ellis in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
	In the morning, gents, I've been listening to the show since May.
	You just mentioned something I hadn't realized.
	What?
	That if you add a few pennies, then you get pushed higher in the list.
	Oh, there's a bunch of people.
	Have you noticed?
	No.
	I always wonder why.
	$50 in one set.
	I always wonder why that happened.
	Kidneys, man.
	In the morning, Jen.
	I haven't been encouraging it, so I never mentioned it.
	Time for some B12. Now we're going to get all kinds of crazy.
	It's going to be like, the price is right.
	I need some B12. In the morning, gents, I've been listening to the show since last May, and while I have made one small donation, I'm still in need of a de-douching.
	All right.
	Oh, a dedouching.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	Here we go, dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	Also, while my credit card information says I'm from Crystal Lake, I've lived in Chicago for about a year now.
	And I'd like to touch on what occurred at the Trump rally.
	I did not attend, but as a millennial, I witnessed many of my peers organizing and attending the protest.
	That they deny the Trump supporters and those curious about Trump's platform their right to engage the political process disgusted me.
	What disappointed me more was the violence and hate that followed the rally's cancellation.
	I have yet to see one of my peers disavow the violence and fascist tactics used to scare and intimidate those who attend peacefully.
	Many of my peers are quite pleased with what they accomplished.
	they have even gone so far as to create a fund to get the protesters that were arrested at the event out of jail.
	This has led me to the conclusion that I need to get the hell out of here.
	The inmates are truly running the asylum.
	If it weren't for the bi-weekly respite of the show, I don't know where my mental state would be.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Finally, please call out Jeffrey Baker in Atlanta as a douchebag.
	He's hitting me in the mouth and he never donated.
	I hate that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sir Scott Spencer is next on the list of Barron of North Georgia in Dawsonville, Georgia, 314-16.
	He says, just from the Black Knight Barron in North Georgia, I like pie.
	I like pie, too.
	Everybody likes pie.
	Don Tommaso de Toronto in Kettleby, Ontario, Canada, 314-15.
	From Don Tommaso di Toronto.
	It's been a while, so here's a small piece of the pie.
	Just a de-douching and some karma.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	And that's it.
	Oh.
	Oh.
	That's it?
	It's an abrupt ending.
	Yeah, very.
	Yeah, no associate executive producers today.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Strange day.
	Well, yeah.
	Who knows?
	It's the Ides of March are upon us, my friend.
	Well, we got show 808 coming up, which is a super lucky number.
	So we're going to do the 80.08 donation.
	Right.
	And that's palindrome, lucky numbers, number eight, Chinese lucky number.
	The number 8 plate in China.
	It sells for millions of dollars in Hong Kong and elsewhere, wherever they produce them.
	We appreciate our pie producers.
	That's pretty much what we had today.
	Thank you so much.
	These, of course, as always, are real credits, especially the executives and the associate executive producers.
	You can use them anywhere credits are valid.
	Please try it on your LinkedIn.
	It does seem to work.
	And again, as always, another show.
	We do two a week on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A. And of course, you can do the thing that we all want you to do, is go out, propagate our formula!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Hey, a quick update, John, from Germany.
	Update from Germany.
	I have a bunch of German clips too.
	I have an update on the voting polls.
	Today is the election.
	Let's see.
	So far, we have AFD doing slightly better than expected.
	We have, unexpected, I predicted incorrectly, a two-digit result for AFD. This is the alternative for Deutschland party.
	Let's see.
	We have, in Rhineland, Palatinat, I guess.
	That's West Germany.
	We have SPD, who was in a coalition with Merkel, of course, 36%.
	Merkel, 33%, so she went down.
	And AFD, 11%.
	Yeah, that's what's kind of expected.
	Now, the question is, how did Julia Kleckner do?
	She's the heir apparent to Merkel, at least in some...
	She's in the same party.
	But you have to look at this woman.
	You have to go look at her picture.
	Oh, what's her name?
	I got it on one of the clips.
	You can see how I spell it.
	And you might as well play this clip.
	German Elections Julia Kleckner.
	Okie doke.
	Chancellor Merkel has been on a campaign tour to boost her party's fortunes in Sunday's regional elections.
	She came to Saxony Anhalt to support the incumbent state premier.
	But many people in this eastern German state are angry at the government, chanting Merkel must go.
	Social media is ablaze with hostile posts by right-wing populists who are critical of Merkel's position on the migrant crisis.
	Many see this vote as a referendum on the Chancellor's open-door policy toward refugees.
	It could be a nail-biter.
	If Merkel is nervous, it's not showing.
	She made 20 campaign appearances in the three states.
	She's convinced her stance on the migrant crisis is the right one and that most Germans are backing her.
	Over 90% of the people in Germany still agree that anyone fleeing war, terrorism, and other forms of violence should be granted protection in Germany.
	And I think that's a very good thing.
	If Merkel isn't nervous, her party is.
	The CDU's candidate for state premier in Rhineland Palatinate is Julia Kleckner.
	She's afraid of losing votes in Sunday's election if people use it to register their displeasure with Merkel.
	Yeah, so first of all, I'm looking at pictures of Julia Kleckner.
	And if Germany ever wanted a boomerang and wanted the pendulum to swing the other way from Angela Merkel, this is your girl.
	That's for sure.
	She is so photogenic.
	Oh my goodness.
	I would say if you take a look at the image page of her.
	That's what I'm looking at.
	If you want to look it up, spell it.
	It's K-L-O-E-C-K-N-E-R. Yeah, O-E. Clickner.
	And she is so photogenic.
	She looks like she also has a look of a certain type of Berkeley character.
	Yeah, she does.
	The beautiful...
	I do not like the blue dress and the green top.
	That's dumb.
	But the one where she's standing next to Merkel and she's got the kind of the lacy top on with a blazer jacket on.
	But she still looks Germanic, which I like about her.
	Yeah.
	She still has that, you know, by the way, I could crush your head between my knees.
	She is quite the pretty woman.
	She lost a lot.
	She lost a lot.
	She lost a lot today.
	Did she lose?
	Well, she's been losing votes.
	We're not done yet, but she's been losing votes.
	She's in Rhineland, so she went down.
	Yeah, well, this is going to be the problem they're going to have over there.
	She gets kicked out.
	That's the end of that progression.
	And it's possible that she will because we're kind of implying that on Deutsche Welle.
	But they have stuff going on in Germany right now, which I have probably over-clipped a little bit, mostly has to do with their...
	These companies that are not making money and they're attached to the cities.
	Well, let's do it.
	I'm interested.
	Let's do it.
	They have a lot.
	The problem with Germany is they've decided to close all...
	We've talked about...
	Well, they had the Energiewende, but they come back from that.
	The Energiewende was we're shutting down the nuclear power plants.
	They did this after Fukushima.
	And, oh no, shut them down, shut down coal.
	It's like wind, love and light, wind and light, my friends.
	It'll work great for Germany.
	Energie wende.
	Yeah, well, it's not working great so far.
	I have just one obscure clip that's...
	Let's see, I don't think I see it.
	But let's start with German Nukes 1.
	A total of 29 nuclear...
	Oh, I'm sorry, stop, stop, stop.
	Start with 0.
	This is the one that set me up to start following all this stuff.
	This is German Nukes 0.
	The Lubmin nuclear power plant near Greifswald stopped producing power 27 years ago.
	Decommissioning work has been in progress since 1995.
	It's clear that the originally planned 3 billion euros are not enough to finish the job.
	The work was supposed to be completed in 2008, but it will probably take another 10 years after that.
	For years, Germany's major energy companies made good money with nuclear power.
	But today, the same companies are making huge losses.
	Okay, so it's going to take them 30 years to decommission this old nuke plant.
	And they got about 20 of them to take down, and they're taking them all down.
	I thought they'd reverse course on this.
	No.
	I'm incorrect.
	Okay.
	This is a myth.
	They have not.
	They're shutting this stuff down.
	They showed the charts.
	They expect to be completely free of all this stuff.
	That 80% of their power is going to be renewable.
	Hashtag true story.
	Yeah, at some point.
	And so they're continuing to take these plants down left and right.
	So here's the ramifications of all these energy companies that relied on nukes to make money that were also attached to certain cities.
	Now there's no dividends, the cities don't get the money, and then they have all these other issues.
	So let's go with a little exposition here with Germany Nukes 1.
	A total of 29 nuclear power plants in Germany need to be dismantled in the coming years.
	Companies have set aside some 38 billion euros for decommissioning, but experts say it won't be enough.
	The companies are responsible for decommissioning and disposal.
	It's the polluter who pays.
	But Germany failed to establish a nuclear fund, where partial financing would have been insured.
	Now these companies are having trouble, so taxpayers are on the hook, and that is unacceptable.
	As part of Germany's transition to renewable energy, the proportion of electricity generated by nuclear power and fossil fuels has been falling.
	Today, renewables provide around one-third of the country's energy needs.
	The long-term goal is around 80%.
	But there's still the problem of nuclear waste.
	A final storage site has still not been found.
	This year another search will begin for a site that could be up and running by 2050 at the earliest.
	Until then, German taxpayers will continue to pay billions for temporary storage.
	The green energy revolution is dragging entire German cities into the red.
	Many municipalities are shareholders in RWE, which we mentioned in that previous report.
	It suffered a 7 billion euro loss last year.
	One thing that the power utility isn't generating is a dividend.
	Wow.
	And these guys kind of need electricity for their industry.
	They are the industrial heart of the European Union.
	Yeah.
	So they're tearing down the 29 nukes that were doing fine.
	And it's for political reasons.
	Doomkopf!
	Doomkopf.
	This is unbelievable.
	So this continues with a couple more little follow-up reports.
	So you can go to clip two.
	Essen's bus drivers are always on the road, going from one end of the city to the other.
	They all work for the city-owned transport services company EVAG. Lately, rumors about cuts have been circulating, a dampener on their mood.
	We always hear a lot about what's planned, and then nothing happens.
	We're waiting for the day things actually change.
	The local authority has made cutbacks.
	And it's public service companies like EVAC that have to suffer the consequences.
	They've already had to lay off 700 people over the past few years and freeze vital investments.
	All while passenger numbers are actually on the rise.
	Everything that's limiting the city's budget, including the RWE dividend, will automatically affect us.
	Whether it'll involve concrete measures, we can't say yet.
	First, it's Essen's turn.
	The city's debt stacks up to more than 3 billion euros.
	As energy giant RWE has decided against paying a dividend this year, another 18 million euros are gone.
	Treasurers had budgeted for at least half of that.
	Usually we manage to make up for such budget deficits as we go along.
	But this time, I have my doubts, because funding refugee accommodation has already stretched our funds.
	Essen has to take on 8,000 refugees this year alone. - Hey, hey, hey!
	That's further straining the city's treasury, which is already stretched.
	An unemployment rate of 12% means that welfare spending is high.
	12%?
	RWE expressed its understanding of the city's predicament, but the board is firm in its decision to not pay a dividend this year.
	Local authority representatives had agreed.
	After all, RWE has slipped into the red.
	Well, this sounds like a house of cards to me.
	It doesn't sound very good.
	Cities in bed with corporations that provide energy and do what they do, and in a funny kind of a way that we don't understand in this country, because we're corporatists to a bit.
	They're very much so in Germany.
	And so you have these interrelationships.
	You also have interrelationships with the welfare system, the refugees coming in that need to be accommodated, the movement away from the reliable nuclear power to unreliable wind and solar.
	Love and light.
	Love and light.
	And so the energy companies now can't make any money.
	And so they're in the red and they can't do the dividend, obviously.
	I mean, you could, but then you'd just be more in the red and be ridiculous.
	This does not sound like a formula for long-term success.
	No.
	And you can place your bets accordingly, I guess.
	Yeah, this is a disaster waiting to happen.
	The Germans are kind of loony.
	I mean, the way that they went, just on a whim, dropped all the nukes, just 29 of them, plus the ones they already had shut down before, like that one that they're still working on.
	I don't know why they don't entomb these things.
	Maybe Rod Adams can explain it.
	But they don't tear these things down.
	I mean, what it takes to decommission and why it takes so long.
	Yeah, why does it take...
	They chop the things up and then they ship the...
	I don't know why it takes so long.
	It takes 30 years to decommission a power plant?
	That's expensive.
	It is, yeah.
	And what would entombing just make a big...
	Right.
	Thinking it would be an eyesore, but it wouldn't be that big.
	But, you know, it's just, I don't know.
	Meanwhile, we have the continuing unfolding of the borders and migrant situation.
	For this report, I remain obsessed with this humanitarian disaster in our lifetime.
	We go to the Macedonian-Greek border.
	Migrants battle for free bread, potatoes, and eggs thrown at them.
	What?
	This is Europe.
	The muddy tent city at Greece's northern border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
	Ido many.
	Chaotic.
	And conditions show little sign of improving.
	Aid groups say more than a third of the people here are children.
	Many struggle to sleep in their cold and flooded tents.
	We are in Europe from 20 days ago.
	I'm in Europe.
	I cannot find even a safe place.
	Now I'm fighting the nature.
	In Syria, we are fighting ISIS. Now we are fighting the nature, and I think it's worse than ISIS. ISIS have a limit, but the nature has no limit.
	Many people have run out of money, so they stay here, getting up early every day to scramble for firewood and food.
	Officials say the border will stay closed, preventing their trek further north towards Germany.
	Let me tell you a little bit about this deal that has been outlined.
	Who is throwing eggs at them?
	No, no.
	People are hungry, so they just open a truck and they throw eggs and bread out of the truck, kind of into the crowd.
	Oh, okay.
	Real orderly.
	Yeah.
	Monday, there was a proposal that was outlined in Brussels.
	And here's the deal.
	This is the EU-Turkey plan, rough outline.
	All migrants who travel from Turkey to Greece will be returned...
	person sent back to Syria, one Syrian already in Turkey is allowed to resettle in a European country.
	Right.
	In exchange, Turkey wants more aid, which is, you know, three billions here, six billion there, tens of billions.
	Visa-free travel for Turkish citizens to Europe, speeding up the country's application to join the EU.
	And by the guy whose optics show us he's a fascist.
	Yeah, genuinely.
	A real one.
	Yeah.
	This is a...
	No, it's a bad thing.
	When do you think it's all gonna...
	We're gonna see some huge...
	The show will be over by the time this finalizes.
	This will be decades.
	Right, you're right.
	The Turkish thing, unless we...
	Until war...
	Well, actually, when we get to 2020 and you have some sort of an outbreak of war...
	That's going to...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	We get 2017...
	I'm just trying to track all your cycles.
	We get 2017...
	That hasn't changed, by the way, my cycles.
	That's why I'm asking you.
	2017, we have the...
	The downturn.
	The downturn, and that is with a new president, regardless of who it is, but only lasts for about a year.
	Only lasts for about a year, right?
	But it's a whopper, and it's one of those...
	I'll give you some examples of how this...
	It's one of those...
	This was, again, modeled after the 1857, which is right on the cycle, depression that took place in the United States, which was considered by all the writers of the era until probably 29.
	It was considered the...
	First, even though it wasn't, but it was considered officially the first and worst American Depression in American history.
	There you go.
	It lasted about a year.
	It wasn't anything like...
	I'd go on about the Federal Reserve on this, but I won't.
	But it was 1857.
	It was studied to death.
	Yeah, don't do that.
	And they concluded that it was...
	Monetary policy that caused it.
	Although if you look at any of the books that were written, there's a bunch of books written in 1858 and so on to describe the problem.
	And I think one book came out in 1857 with just the gloom and doom.
	They had all these, what caused it?
	And they had a bit, there's a list in one of these books I read.
	And one of them was, there's too much gold.
	Oh yeah, we've talked about this before.
	And so this was, to me, this is the analog of too much money being printed.
	Which is going to cause the next one.
	Ah, gotcha.
	And another example of this is 1977, which was a period when...
	1849, it was the 49ers, it was the gold rush, right?
	Yeah, it was the same as printing money.
	Right, right.
	And which pushed off the depression that should have taken place sooner, or made it more mild in our case.
	So compared to today's quantitative easing, just as a comparison, taking all inflation, etc., which is also a problem, into account...
	How does the 1849 gold rush, the creation of new money, compare to the creation of new money today?
	Yeah, our quantitative easing pales by comparison.
	That's what I thought.
	The equivalent that I calculated was $15 trillion in free money.
	And that's just for this week's donations.
	Now, that to me, the only thing I can interpret, I can say, well, with that kind of money, push this thing off to 1857, the depression should have happened sooner.
	The depression that's being pushed off to 2017 can't possibly be as bad as it was in 1857, which has to be the worst case scenario.
	So it may be something you can coast through, I'm not sure.
	But it's going to happen one way or the other, people are going to freak out.
	But in 1977, another good example of this, there used to be a guy named Howard Ruff, and he used to write...
	R-U-F-F? R-U-F-F. Ruff, don't ruff.
	And he, Ruff, Howard, and Howard Ruff wrote the Rough Times.
	And he documented the depression of the 1970s, which was price controls, all these crazy things were going on.
	High inflation, interest rates, over 20% for home buying and all the rest.
	Very extreme.
	And that would have the same phenomenon where it would peak in 1977.
	Howard Ruff, by coincidence, I wrote a book in 1977, which I have a copy of.
	And I'm not sure where this copy came from, but I was reading it a few months back.
	And it was hilarious because in 1977 would be actually where the whole thing finalizes.
	It bottoms out, and then things start to pick up, and that would be the time you start investing.
	You start investing for the long haul.
	In 2017, when this thing collapses.
	And we invest in real estate?
	Stock, real estate, anything, good companies.
	Do anything you can.
	Get your money out there.
	At the moment when...
	Trampoline parks?
	That probably would work.
	Some people send us notes saying...
	There's a lot of them.
	Yeah.
	But...
	When you think it's that absolute, where you just think, this is terrible, we're never going to survive this, that's when you go all in.
	Now, which nobody can do, because your mindset's not.
	Well, let's say we're still around, then we will ring the bell.
	I'll write the bell.
	Chime.
	Time to invest.
	Time to invest.
	Now, Howard Ruff wrote a book in 77, and almost, just like perfectly timed, all the book is about, the entire book is about, we're all going to die.
	The economy is over.
	The American way is done.
	There's never going to be the same again.
	We can never come out of this.
	We're all going to die!
	Perpetual downturn.
	He wrote it right at that moment, which is classic.
	You might die.
	The model is pretty much the same.
	I'm not quite sure where I was going with this.
	I don't remember exactly why I was bringing this up.
	Yeah, you need two vitamin B12s.
	That's what I need.
	Thank you.
	Hey, you know, there's something great about this particular podcast.
	Some people have to have a budget for a podcast like this.
	We have no budget.
	We have no budget.
	The budget would be travel, hotel accommodation, you know, the $2,000 pass.
	I am here in Austin, Texas during South by Southwest.
	Ah, the South by Southwest stories, here they come.
	Yeah, I gotta tell you.
	It's great here.
	Austin, of course, the blue dot in the red state.
	Where President Obama is in town with Michelle, and he was in town on Friday.
	And I just heard you can't go out on your balconies.
	Well, first things first.
	Wednesday, the mayor, Stephen Adler, who I met recently, nice guy, bad suit, brown shoes.
	Nice guy.
	Big announcement.
	Everybody, work from home on Friday if you can.
	Because the president was scheduled to speak not once, but twice.
	And that's how it works.
	Because you can't just use Air Force One to come in and do some fundraisers.
	Because he had two fundraisers.
	One at a private home in Austin.
	Some construction guy.
	Then one at the Austin Music Hall, which is the building next to mine.
	How about that?
	And that was also a private fundraiser.
	And then he spoke at the Long Center, which I can see behind me.
	I was also able to see the action.
	You're well positioned.
	Perfectly positioned.
	Now, if we went out into the hallway, I had an even better view of the guys on the roof.
	And that was pretty interesting.
	Tina's worked from home here.
	On Friday, then I'm just roaming around, you know, doing my ham stuff and listening to, I got walkie-talkies, I'm listening to, you know, you can't receive everything of the Secret Service, etc.
	But there's a lot of, you'd be amazed how much you can actually listen to, you know, when you have the president's detail plugging into the Austin or the Travis County fire and talking to them about traffic handling, which is, it was geeky, but cool.
	Now, I had a direct view, not just of the Austin Music Hall, But of the tent where the president's car would pull into.
	Actually, did you see the video I posted?
	No, I missed it.
	Oh, I posted a video of the whole procession leaving.
	And it was right under my building.
	They crossed my street, which was really cool to watch.
	That's a nice little motorcade he's got.
	And he has some truck of death, man, with this square box on the back.
	That crazy thing on the back.
	Now, before we had all that, the Black Panthers did a little protest in Austin.
	As you know, Austin is in Texas, and so it is an open carry state.
	You can also open carry handguns now if you have a concealed carry license.
	I have yet to see one person in Austin, and I don't get around that much, but I'm downtown.
	I do walk around downtown.
	I've never seen anyone open carry downtown.
	But the Black Panthers were open carry with long guns, with rifles, with AR-15s, and camouflage gear.
	That's okay.
	You can do that in Austin.
	That's totally cool.
	It's what they were chanting that bugged me a little bit.
	Oi, oi, bang bang!
	Fuck the pigs and everybody fuck Widow!
	No, that's right.
	Black flour! Black flour! Black flour! All flour! All flour! All flour! Oi, oi! Bang bang! Oi, oi! Bang bang!
	Oi, oi! Bang bang!
	Oi, oi! Bang bang!
	Ab.
	Remember these chants at any point from the Chicago riots?
	Oink, oink, bang, bang.
	That means pigs, we kill you.
	Oink, oink, bang, bang.
	That's what they're implying.
	What were the things they were saying earlier?
	Oh, something about fuck the police.
	Yeah.
	Any coverage over there?
	Of armed black guys walking through the street in camos with AR-15 saying oink, oink, bang, bang.
	Any coverage, John?
	Any coverage anywhere?
	No.
	It wasn't on Democracy Now.
	No, I didn't think so.
	Huh.
	Or Breitbart, for that matter.
	So the president, his motorcade was very, it was fun to watch how just everything came together.
	And so they had these guys on the roof, and now I'm in the hallway near the elevator.
	Who's on the roof?
	Guys on the roof.
	Guys on the roof.
	Guys on the roof of the building, the roof of the building, to make sure that there's no snipers anywhere.
	And so there I am with binoculars.
	I got my...
	Yeah, you look like a sniper.
	I got my handheld radios, and I'm looking at the guy, and I see him looking right back at me.
	And he's staring, he's staring.
	I just wave high, high, and I put my handheld radios down out of sight.
	Maybe that's not a good idea.
	Yeah.
	It's like, whoa.
	Yeah.
	So they had two identical cars.
	You have the Beast, two of them.
	They had the same license plate number, even.
	They're so identical.
	The beast has the same license plate number on both cars?
	Yeah, 800-002.
	I thought one would be-001, but they're both-002.
	But slick, man.
	Slick, how fast that goes.
	And then there's all the black cars, and you've got the communications car, and I had a great view of all the antennas and everything.
	The video's kind of worth watching, I think.
	I'll check it out.
	Is it in the show notes?
	No, I tweeted it yesterday.
	Or Friday.
	Then there's, there must have been 10 or 12 white vans, also blacked out windows, and that has more of the luminaries, and then the press corps, and they had the horses out.
	I mean, everything was big, big, big.
	So the president did two speeches, and I have some clips from both.
	Horses.
	Horses, yeah.
	The Mounties, the mounted police were out for some reason.
	I have no idea why.
	Other than everybody was out.
	So, hey, we want to be with Obama.
	Okay.
	Of course, this takes place during South by Southwest.
	Yeah, the traffic was, of course, is horrendous.
	Although it's always kind of horrendous.
	You know, and it's fun to watch all the douchebags running around.
	I'm telling you, it's just a cloud of vape, vape smoke everywhere.
	Everybody vaping here in Austin.
	I thought it was cool.
	Okay, so the president, he did a sit-down interview at the Long Center for South by Southwest.
	A big coup, and of course, the reason why, well, there were multiple reasons.
	One is he had to do an actual presidential deal because his two other appearances were fundraisers.
	You can't use Air Force One.
	The way it pays for it.
	Yeah, you can't use Air Force One just if you're going to go fundraise.
	And he had the talking stick with him.
	He was very casually dressed.
	And here is...
	We've got a couple of clips...
	Just to hear where his thinking is at.
	But he did have some messages to address the young people here who are shaping the future of technology and entertainment and information.
	And I can tell you, as a participant and a witness to South By, there's no one here who's going to change the fucking future, okay?
	Before I came in here...
	I met with an incredible group of people, entrepreneurs, movie makers, organizers, tech leaders, to talk about how we make a real difference on countering violent extremism.
	It's not enough if we're going to defeat ISIL just to take out their leadership.
	Well, what do you think is coming, John?
	If it's not enough just to take out ISIL and their leadership, what more do we have to do as tech leaders?
	Take out Merkel.
	Take out their leadership or to control certain territories if in the virtual world they are consistently reaching kids here in the United States or elsewhere in the world and recruiting them and twisting their minds to do terrible things.
	Wait a minute.
	Shouldn't the Department of Education be doing something about that then?
	We have stupid children here, John.
	The President says the children are stupid in America.
	Because they get sucked up by propaganda.
	And twisting their minds to do terrible things.
	Twisting their minds to do terrible things.
	We've got to be able to penetrate that.
	Penetrate.
	What did he say?
	We've got to be able to penetrate that.
	Oh, I thought he says, okay, penetrate.
	But only the tip.
	And twisting their minds to do terrible things.
	We've got to be able to penetrate that.
	For good reasons, we don't want the government to be the lead on that.
	How about that little group of techno-experts you have in the State Department, President Obama?
	First of all, we're not credible.
	Hold on a second.
	What are the good reasons?
	What's wrong with having the government take the lead?
	He's going to tell you.
	To be the lead on that.
	First of all, we're not credible with the people who might be receiving those messages.
	Why is that?
	Because he's not credible.
	And the people who might be receiving those messages are U.S. citizens.
	Remember, it's the children who...
	The government is admitting that...
	Our own government is admitting that it's not credible.
	With children whose minds are twisted easily by propaganda from ISIS, yes.
	Oh.
	Yeah, I know.
	The government to be the lead on that.
	First of all, we're not credible with the people who might be receiving those messages.
	I thought he was supposed to be the hit president.
	The one who was credible with the kids.
	Misunderstanding.
	Second of all, it's dangerous if the government gets in the business of propaganda.
	I see.
	He wants the tech leaders to create...
	Who is he kidding?
	He wants Mr.
	Smith and Munt to the podium.
	He's asking the tech leaders to do the job of the government.
	What he's doing is passing it off.
	It's also fascism.
	It is fascism.
	It's dangerous if the government gets in the business of propaganda.
	So what I said to them was, we'll help convene and put you guys in a room together where there are resources that are necessary, we can help provide it.
	What kind of resources?
	Donuts?
	Bagels?
	Just a room?
	A whiteboard?
	Internet connection?
	You could go to Starbucks.
	Why do you need to have these children there in your propaganda chamber?
	Essentially, you figure out how we can reach young people who might be vulnerable to extremist messages.
	You tell us.
	I'm smelling free money.
	that's what i'm smelling tell us based on the analytics and the data and the algorithms that you're oh hold on a second chat room is correct the Besides donuts and a whiteboard, we will be providing Nutella for all of you tech leaders who are coming to the White House.
	...to extremist messages.
	You tell us, based on the analytics and the data and the...
	The analytics and the data and the algorithms that you're working with on a day-to-day basis to sell products.
	Hold on, hold on.
	You're saying something here that I need to comment on.
	Hold on.
	What is it saying here?
	Algorithms that you're working with on a day-to-day basis to sell products.
	What is it that's going to really penetrate here?
	Okay.
	You mean the algorithm that shows me the very item I just purchased for three weeks in a row?
	Is that the algorithm you wanted to apply to stop ISIS from twisting children's minds?
	Is that what you're talking about, Mr.
	President?
	Shut up.
	You're right, John.
	There's a money grab coming up and the tech leaders.
	I consider you to be a tech leader.
	You should have been there.
	I should have been there.
	I'm a tech leader.
	I'm in Austin.
	I'm not here.
	I'm not invited to the park.
	Well, you're there in some sort of virtual sense.
	True.
	Well, the president made a funny joke.
	He actually had a couple of jokes.
	He was pretty good.
	When we passed the Recovery Act, the stimulus that was very controversial at the time and That continues to be criticized by the other party, despite the fact that unemployment is now below 5%.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop.
	The stimulus was never criticized by the other party.
	Well, unemployment is also not 5%.
	And unemployment, this is bullcrap.
	I mean, the stimulus, the idea of the stimulus came from the Bush administration to begin with.
	It's just the Obama guys took it over and took credit for it, and then the other party started to bitch and moan.
	But they weren't bitching and moaning about the basic idea.
	No.
	They were just bitching and moaning because they weren't getting credit for it anymore.
	And then they spent the first two or three years of the Obama administration blaming Bush for everything, which was convenient.
	I mean, the Bush administration...
	They should have seen this coming and like the nurse who gives the patient oxygen on the graveyard shift to keep them from dying at night.
	They should have pushed the thing forward into the Obama administration and let the whole economy collapse under his.
	They screwed up.
	And the president, I'm convinced the president knows he's talking out of his butt when he says this, which is why he throws in a joke.
	And it's a self-deprecating joke, which I like about it.
	But he also mumbles kind of, he's frustrated, if you listen to this bit, he's frustrated that he's not getting the credit he feels he deserves.
	Unemployment's now below 5%.
	Yes, I think he believes it's below 5%.
	Of course he does.
	Of course he does.
	But he's not lying.
	The unemployment number is 5%.
	Doesn't mean that it reflects the true unemployment.
	All right, now don't step on it, otherwise you'll miss it.
	The unemployment's now below 5%.
	We avoided a Great Depression, but...
	Thanks, Obama.
	That was good.
	That was actually very good.
	It was well-timed.
	He had a lot of comics that should be, you know...
	He waited for the applause to die down, but he didn't...
	The applause was too early because he said, you know, I avoided the Great Depression.
	But you don't really hear that, but he's clearly frustrated that people don't recognize him for that.
	We avoided the Great Depression, but...
	Thanks, Obama.
	We're in a great depression for all practical purposes, is Thanks for nothing is what I'd say.
	Thanks, Obama.
	So here's my place.
	Oops, sorry.
	My mistake.
	You should...
	It's ISO'd.
	Oh, you did?
	Thanks, Obama.
	Of course it's ISO'd.
	Of course, of course, of course.
	Okay.
	I'm doing this.
	That'll be our legacy.
	I'm sorry?
	Our ISO's.
	For our legacy.
	There'll be a plaque somewhere next to a men's bathroom.
	Here we go.
	In a park.
	So this is chronologic order, and now we get into the crux of the president's message that he wants to deliver, besides please commit propaganda, we're going to give you resources, Nutella, Maroon, come to the end with his money, his money maybe.
	So now we get into Snowden, and I appreciated the president's Dispelling the rumor that the services we have in the United States government are not quite like what you'd see on CSI or NCS. What is it?
	What do you watch?
	CSI, NCS, NCIS. CSI is the one that really goes overboard with the nonsense.
	CSI Cyber.
	Does that still exist?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that one.
	It's doing quite well.
	So the president did make a pretty funny joke about that.
	And let's face it, the whole Snowden disclosure episode elevated people's suspicions of this.
	So does popular culture, by the way, which makes it appear as if, you know, I'm in the sit room and I'm moving things.
	And I'm...
	You've been watching Homeland or something right now.
	There's like some half a fingerprint and, you know, half an hour later I'm tracking the guy in the streets of Istanbul.
	It's not nearly that cool.
	It turns out it doesn't work that way.
	It doesn't work that way.
	Sometimes I'm just trying to get a connection.
	Good, Abdo.
	It's funny.
	I had another good line.
	Yeah, I liked it.
	So once you've got the crowd laughing, then you've got to hone in on them.
	Now we're going to go in and talk to them for real.
	Now we get down to the crux of the apple crack.
	Because it's South by Southwest, and these are the tech leaders, and these are the people who are going to have the conversation and are going to determine the future of America as we try to balance security versus privacy.
	...versus security debate.
	Well, first of all, I can't comment on the specific case.
	So let's set that aside.
	Yeah, he's the president.
	Of course he can come.
	He's doing whatever he wants.
	Ah, shoot.
	I should have clipped it.
	What do you mean you can't comment?
	The guy is dead.
	I wish I had clipped it because at the end...
	He says, the guy says, well, we're out of time.
	Thank you for coming.
	And President Obama says, well, I'm the president.
	I'm going to have one more minute here.
	Which was funny.
	And I didn't clip it because I should have, in this context of this, where he said, well, I can't comment on that.
	Of course he can.
	He's the president.
	He can comment on anything he feels like.
	Correct?
	Yeah.
	If he wasn't the president, why couldn't he comment?
	There's no reason.
	The guy is dead.
	It's about a phone and some negotiations going on between FBI and Apple.
	You can say whatever you want.
	You can comment.
	Maybe he's part of the grand jury.
	He doesn't want to comment.
	That's what he should say.
	I don't want to comment.
	That would have been more honest.
	I agree.
	First of all, I can't comment on the specific case.
	And the guy goes, right, right.
	And this guy, I will say, was one of those journalists from a newspaper.
	He had a million questions.
	The president really didn't let him ask his questions.
	His body language is all leaning back, because he wanted to do a serious interview.
	I'm going to talk to the president.
	The president had none of that.
	F that noise, boy.
	Move away.
	I'm going to run this interview.
	So now when the guy has a chance to say, well, that's bullcrap, you can't.
	I can't comment on the specific case, so let's set that aside.
	All of us value our privacy, and this is a society that is built on a Constitution and a Bill of Rights and a healthy skepticism about overreaching government power.
	So we've got two values, both of which are important.
	Right.
	Right?
	Right.
	Right.
	And the question we now have to ask is, if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key, there's no door at all.
	He corrected himself well there.
	Then how do we Apprehend.
	Well, and ask John.
	If we have an impenetrable box, how do we apprehend?
	What's the top of the list, survey says?
	Terrorists.
	Oh, that is not the top, John.
	Sorry, that is not the number one concern.
	I don't understand how you can have that wrong.
	Bad doers.
	No, not bad doers.
	Evil doers.
	How do we apprehend the child pornographer?
	Oh, won't somebody please think of the children?
	How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?
	Ooh, he caught himself there.
	He caught himself.
	Caught himself.
	What did he say again?
	Let's play it again.
	Play it again.
	Solve.
	I mean, stop.
	Solve.
	I mean, stop.
	How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?
	What mechanisms do we have available?
	To even do simple things like tax enforcement.
	Well, I'm thinking I need one of these black boxes now.
	If, in fact, you can't crack that at all, government can't get in, then everybody's walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket.
	How does that work?
	That sounds good.
	Yeah, it sounds good, but it sounds like bullcrap.
	Well, of course it's bullcrap.
	The bullcrap is encryption exists.
	You don't need your encrypted iPhone.
	If you have something you want to keep encrypted, you can do it.
	And it's not going to be easy to get at it.
	You don't need an iPhone security.
	And most people already have a Swiss bank account in their pocket.
	Exactly.
	The Swiss should be outraged.
	They have done nothing but turn over information to the U.S. from their bank accounts.
	They've totally sold out.
	That is so not true.
	Now, here the president continues on this, and I'm flabbergasted by some of the things he said.
	We're going to have to make some decisions about how do we balance these respective risks.
	And I've got a bunch of smart people sitting there talking about it, thinking about it.
	A bunch of smart people.
	Maybe they're in the Nutella room.
	We have engaged the tech community aggressively.
	Aggressively, yeah, I'll say.
	To help solve this problem.
	My conclusion so far is that you cannot take an absolutist view on this.
	Hold on a second.
	Encryption is absolutist.
	The definition of encryption is absolutist.
	There's no additional key or it's not encryption.
	So if your argument is strong encryption, no matter what, and we can and should, in fact, create black boxes, that, I think, does not strike the kind of balance that we have lived with for 200, 300 years, and it's fetishizing.
	What?
	Yeah, wait for it.
	Wait for it.
	You're stepping all over everything today.
	200, 300 years, and it's fetishizing.
	Our phones above every other value.
	And that can't be the right answer.
	What was the question, if that was the answer?
	Well, he's just...
	The question is, should we have black boxes?
	And if we say yes, then we are fetishizing our phones.
	We already have.
	We've already fetishized the phone.
	I mean, hello?
	Does this guy ever look at anything?
	Does he look at people?
	No.
	They're wandering around staring at these things, walking.
	They're walking in the trees.
	I have this new thing I do, because when I walk down to Starbucks, so it's down my elevator, out the door, and I have to cross one street, and then it's on the far corner of the next street.
	And because it's Starbucks, even if I'm just going to the Blue Grocer, which is our little local grocer, I have to walk past the Starbucks.
	Now, with South By, there's a million people in front of Starbucks.
	And then they're walking towards me on their phone, and I have this new trick.
	So they're walking towards you, and so they don't quite have you in their view yet, and when you're walking, you slam down your foot really hard.
	It's even better if there's a metal grate or something.
	Man, it's so cool to watch them jump.
	Now let's get this, let me get the, okay, so they're all, everybody's looking at their phone, of course.
	Yes.
	So some, now how many feet away are they when you pull this stunt?
	About, I'd say seven to, about seven feet, no, ten feet, ten feet away.
	Okay, so somebody's coming up 10 feet away and they're doing the normal modern millennial thing where you're looking at the phone and you're trying to use what little peripheral vision you have outside the phone as you're trying to read something.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	To see if there's anything moving that you're going to walk into.
	Exactly.
	Because most of these people have walked into enough trees or fallen off curbs and they've learned their lesson and now they're developing new skills.
	Yes.
	So they can walk and look at the phone.
	So they're walking, and so about 10 feet away, you stomp on something?
	As I'm walking towards them, I either...
	Are you walking right towards them or to the side?
	To the side.
	Okay, so you're in the right lane there and the left lane as if it were cars.
	Yes.
	And you're walking toward them and you're going to walk by them if everything goes...
	If you didn't do anything, you'd walk right by them.
	Right.
	You wouldn't walk into them.
	Because I'd be more inclined to slowly move over so they walk into you.
	No!
	I don't want to have a confrontation.
	I just want to see them jump.
	I just move over so they bump into...
	Hey, hey, hey, hey!
	Well, I was lucky enough as I'm walking there and it's the rear entrance of the W Hotel...
	Where there was a grate, you know, and I just like, just hit him.
	It was beautiful.
	Then they jump.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	That's good.
	Your goal then, it's like, you know, my goal is always to get people to spit out water or something.
	My goal is just to see them jump.
	No, your real goal should be to see them jump A. And drop the phone.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	I will report back.
	Drop the phone.
	It's like cow tipping.
	I will report back.
	Totally cow tipping.
	Here we go.
	And that can't be the right answer.
	I suspect that the answer is going to come down to how do we create a system where...
	The encryption is as strong as possible.
	The key is as secure as possible.
	It is accessible by the smallest number of people possible for a subset of issues that we agree are important.
	How we design that...
	Forget it!
	Wait for it.
	Wait for it.
	It's not something that I have the expertise.
	Now, hold on a second.
	This really bothered me, what he said here.
	A subset of issues that we agree are important.
	How we design that is not something that I have the expertise.
	Isn't he a constitutional lawyer?
	Isn't that exactly what he's supposed to have the expertise in?
	No, he's talking about the expertise in actual making an encryption system.
	No, no, no.
	Listen to it again.
	That's what he said.
	No, listen to it again.
	For a subset of issues that we...
	Hold on back a little bit.
	He's talking about the issues.
	Accessible by the smallest number of people...
	This is what he's talking about.
	He's talking about what he feels should be the way it works.
	No, I think you're wrong.
	Oh, let's listen one more time.
	...is as secure as possible.
	It is accessible by the smallest number of people possible for a subset of issues that we agree are important.
	How we design that is not something that I have the expertise to do.
	Well, okay.
	I guess you could see it both ways.
	To me, it's how we design that.
	How we design that balance is what I thought he was referring to.
	No, not even close.
	Alright, alright.
	Then I had...
	This is the final bit.
	Oh, yes.
	Final bit where he's wrapping it all up.
	And, of course, he's...
	Oh, you know, there was a little interim thing that was kind of interesting.
	Because he was pretty negative on...
	He was pretty negative on Texas.
	He was?
	Yeah.
	He was making jokes about voter registration.
	Oh, yeah.
	Texas, I can see him getting all uppity about it.
	Don't say uppity, man.
	That's racist.
	Don't say that.
	Here you go.
	I'll give you a second example, and that is the issue of voting.
	I mentioned this earlier.
	We're the only advanced democracy in the world that makes it harder for people to vote.
	No, you're laughing, but it's sad.
	We take enormous pride in the fact that we are the world's oldest continuous democracy, and yet we systematically...
	No, long, no.
	Bring the buzzer.
	Iceland kicks our ass in that regard.
	Hold on, let's go back to the videotape.
	We take enormous pride in the fact that we are the world's oldest continuous democracy...
	I'm sorry.
	Now you're talking.
	What is the correct answer, John C.W.? Iceland.
	Iceland.
	And there's actually another one.
	I can't remember what it is, but there's another continuous democracy that goes away.
	The journalist guy should have called him out.
	No, the journalist guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
	Well, he was a journalist guy.
	You go to Iceland, by the way, and you go anywhere, they keep telling you this.
	I am fantastic.
	It's a much older democracy than you ever were.
	The world's oldest continuous democracy, and yet we systematically put up barriers and make it as hard as possible for our citizens to vote.
	We're actually a republic, not a true democracy.
	I know.
	I don't even have to play the rest.
	You understand how that went.
	We would disagree with most of what he said.
	Now, back to his...
	I'm just going to sit here and kibitz.
	You better get to the end.
	This is the last one.
	We're wrapping it up.
	The president's wrapping it up.
	He's getting ready to go.
	I am way on the civil liberties side of this thing.
	Oh, fool.
	You know, I anguish a lot over the decisions we make in terms of how to keep this country safe.
	And I am not interested in overthrowing the values that have made us an exceptional and great nation simply for expediency.
	because we've mixed.
	Expediency, which I think means the ability to use a couple digits to passcode on your phone.
	Yeah.
	Simply for expediency.
	Because we make compromises all the time.
	I haven't flown commercial in a while.
	But my understanding is...
	Now remember, we're still talking about the black box, the Swiss bank account in your pocket.
	And he is now going to tell us that we make these kinds of freedom compromises all the time.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	But my understanding is it's not great fun going through security.
	But we make the concession because it's a big intrusion on our privacy, but we recognize it as important.
	We have stops for drunk drivers.
	It's an intrusion, but we think it's the right thing to do.
	Not everybody in Texas thinks it's the right thing to do.
	And this notion that somehow...
	Our data, you know, is different and can be walled off from those other tradeoffs we make, I believe is incorrect.
	Now, this is interesting.
	This is truly the crux of the intellectual debate.
	Is our privacy, when it's digitized, different, or is it the same?
	And interestingly enough, I think that the pro-privacy advocates are saying it's the same.
	The president here is saying, why is that different?
	Or am I in lack of B12 again?
	I don't even know what you said.
	Well, what did he say?
	Here.
	Trade-offs we make, I believe, is incorrect.
	We do have to make sure, given the power of the Internet and how much our lives are digitalized, that it is narrow.
	Okay, if you don't understand it, then no one will understand it.
	I don't understand what he's talking about.
	He's saying...
	We give up freedoms to travel safely so that there's no drunk drivers on the road.
	We give up those freedoms, he's saying.
	There's no freedom about getting on an airplane that's in the Constitution that requires anything that the government to do or not to do.
	Correct.
	So we're not giving up any freedoms.
	There's no freedom involved.
	Freedom of movement.
	You still have freedom of movement.
	You can move around.
	Freedom of movement on a private aircraft that's owned by somebody else.
	There's no freedom to do that.
	It's something you have to even buy to do.
	This is not a comparison that makes any sense to me.
	Next question.
	This other comparison was traffic stops.
	Which, if you're under no suspicion, you do not have to comply with.
	This is true.
	At least the courts have determined that they'd be true.
	Yeah.
	But he's saying, all he's saying is saying, we give up this.
	True or not, he's saying, if you give up this, why should your data be any different?
	You should be giving up your data.
	It's a false analogy as far as I'm concerned.
	I'm in agreement.
	You have to make sure, given the power of the internet and how much...
	I don't even know why he's discussing this to such a ridiculous extreme.
	I'm just trying to convince.
	There's everyone in the audience that you're in Austin.
	They're all stoned.
	Very few of the people have a clue what he's talking about.
	They're just there to be there.
	To tweet it.
	To periscope.
	Yeah, so they can tweet it.
	And they take a stupid picture, a selfie with him in the back.
	Facebaggers.
	They're all facebaggers.
	But the president makes an assumption here that is concerning.
	...sure, given the power of the internet and how much our lives are digitalized, that it is narrow and it is constrained and that there's oversight.
	The joke of this, the irony and the stupidity of this whole thing is that if you consider that these people are all facebaggers, they're giving up most of their privacy voluntarily on facebaggers.
	When you're right, you're right.
	And it is constraint, and that there's oversight.
	And I'm confident this is something that we can solve, but we're going to need the tech community, software designers, people who care deeply about this stuff, to help us solve it.
	Okay, so that's what we need.
	We need you all, y'all, you smart people to...
	Help us to solve this problem or else.
	Because what will happen is if everybody goes to their respective corners and the tech community says, you know what, either we have strong, perfect encryption or else it's Big Brother and Orwellian world.
	What you'll find is that after something really bad happens, the politics of this will swing and it will become sloppy and rushed and it will go through Congress in ways that have not been thought through.
	And then you really will have a danger to our civil liberties because we will have not done...
	Did he just call for a false flag event?
	That's what I heard.
	Every other meeting they do that.
	He said because...
	The thing that Kerry keeps bringing up, let's just bomb them casually.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Syrian thing.
	Yeah.
	Some very funny news stories going around.
	Anyway, go on.
	So he just called for a false flag.
	Okay.
	I heard it.
	I want to listen again.
	I want to listen again.
	The politics of this will swing and...
	I'm back a little bit more.
	I'm done.
	I'm just obsessing.
	Yes, I know.
	What you'll find is that after something really bad happens, the politics of this will swing and it will become sloppy and rushed and it will go through Congress in ways that have not been thought through.
	Just the tense that he's using and everything, I don't like it.
	It will go through Congress.
	I'm not getting that.
	Well, the chat room got it immediately.
	He's not calling for a false flag.
	Okay, he's not calling for one.
	But he's saying this is what will happen.
	Yeah, well...
	Not what can happen.
	This is what will happen.
	That's what he said.
	Okay, that's what he said.
	Words matter.
	Words matter.
	Words matter!
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Obama.
	All right.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Obama.
	This will be your ringtone.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Whenever you send me a text message, I just want my phone to go.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Oh, John's texting me.
	Yeah, that's a good idea.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Oh, brother.
	All right.
	The floor is yours.
	Well, I think we should go to a break, and then I will discuss something that's very important that no one's talking about.
	All righty then.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	We have very few people to thank for the second little segment here.
	We had a slow day.
	It was slow in the mail, too.
	There's like two pieces of mail came in.
	The one check that wasn't listed.
	That's odd.
	Is there some slow down?
	The last show, the mailbox is full of checks.
	So I don't know.
	Random number.
	Check out the check thing, people.
	But let's go and start with Mika Gafford.
	I think it's Mika.
	Mika.
	$102 from Milwaukee.
	He has an interesting note here, I think.
	What is this?
	Yeah, he says, it's going to be my magic number birthday.
	And despite being the only income earner with six kids, because my awesome wife homeschools them, And falling officially below the poverty line, I couldn't help but save up to squeeze in this donation.
	I need a dedouching.
	I'd like to give him a dedouching.
	Yes, here we go.
	You've been dedouched.
	I'd like to call out Dexter as a douchebag.
	Oh, no.
	I hit him in the mouth a while back, and he loves the show, but not enough to donate yet, I guess.
	He happens to also have a 316 birthday like me.
	So throw him in the birthday call out if you see if they're both in there.
	I don't think so.
	May not be.
	I think so.
	Call out if you'd like.
	My...
	$102 number comes from adding my month, day, plus year.
	Can I get a 33 is the magic number jingle?
	Well, yeah.
	Yeah, I can do that real quick.
	Considering you got 60.
	It's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	I can't fully say that.
	Is he 133 kids?
	Is that the reason for this?
	I don't know.
	He sure is on his way.
	So who else?
	Is it him as a birthday?
	Who else?
	Him and his buddy Dexter.
	Oh, and Dexter.
	Okay.
	Dexter the douchebag.
	Yeah, we got him.
	Call him Dexter the douchebag.
	Dexter the douchebag.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Jason Wall comes in with $80.08.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	He comes in twice with $80.08.
	What's up with this?
	And by the way, $808 is also, I'm going to mention this in the newsletter, is also the first true Intel microprocessor.
	Ah, the 8008.
	8008.
	And there used to be a 4004, which people would say, well, no, that's the real one that was, no.
	The 8008 is the first one that was practical.
	Mm-hmm.
	Anyway, he says, this is an intentional second donation.
	My fiancé pointed out 1-800-8 donation, she's calling.
	It would be unbalanced.
	Huh.
	I wonder if that's some joke about the 800-8 shit.
	That's probably a sex joke.
	Yeah, there's something to that joke.
	Something we don't get.
	Someone's going to have to send us a note.
	James Barnett in Southampton, Hampshire, UK. 73, 73, 73, 73.
	What is his call sign here?
	What does he have?
	I don't see his call sign.
	Gulf 7, Gulf India, Juliet.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	That's right.
	7-3 is kilo 5, Alpha Charlie, Charlie.
	Dittos.
	Scott Waldhair in Middleton, Wisconsin, 55-10.
	Steven Buzinger in Erie, Colorado, 55-10.
	Double nickels on the dime to you.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	He has a call-out.
	He has a call-out, call-out, call-out.
	Oh, he has a call-out.
	This is your moment, Chad.
	I'd love a shape-shifting Jew to celebrate his introduction to the family.
	Well, that's not a douchebag call-out.
	I know what Eric's doing today.
	I'll put that for end of show.
	I'll do that.
	Yeah, we'll put that end of show.
	Yeah.
	Damien Tame in Perth.
	Western Australia.
	5432.
	Mike Westerfield.
	Sir Mike Westerfield.
	Parts Unknown.
	Patricia Worthington.
	Miami, Florida.
	These are all $50 donors.
	That's how fast we've gotten down to this.
	That means we're damn near wrapped.
	Patricia Worthington, Midame Patricia, in Miami, Florida.
	Brandon Savoy, parts unknown, 50.
	Yakub Wachiak.
	It's actually, you know, I looked up the spelling of his name.
	He actually has, I think he sent a note in or something, an email.
	Yakub.
	We'll have to do that in the next show.
	Hey, I got a message.
	8008 is also an ASCII joke for boobs.
	Oh, it is.
	Why would it be unbalanced?
	There's boobs.
	8006 is unbalanced and it's hanging to the right.
	Okay.
	Jacob will take care of you in the next show.
	There's something he wrote.
	He wrote some convoluted thing he wanted and I lost track of it.
	I'm sorry.
	Jesse Nolet.
	In fact, Jakob, send me a letter.
	Jakob Nolet in Arlington, Texas.
	Michael Vickland in Almhut, Sweden.
	These are all 50s.
	Jason Brockman in Hamilton, Ohio.
	And Sir Richard Gardner in our racer.
	No, no, no.
	This is Sir Richard Gardner.
	He's of the law books.
	Oh, the law books guy.
	Andrew Gardner is our racer.
	Andrew is the racer.
	Wow.
	We know these people like family.
	Well, you see them once in a while.
	We do, we do, we do.
	That's $50 and that's it.
	That's all we got.
	I would like to point out that the No Agenda show has no problem with unbalanced boobs.
	Most of them are.
	Well, I thought A06 was the unbalanced and A06 balanced.
	Yeah, I'm just saying that in real life...
	Why would she...
	What did she say?
	I don't know.
	Don't know.
	Well, I think it's complicated.
	Yes, it's very complicated.
	My fiancé pointed out that one, 8-0-0-8, oh, boob.
	Oh, she wants two boobs.
	Okay, the 8-0 is Haxor and it's boob spelled boob.
	So you need not a boob, you need two boobs.
	Now I get it.
	I know, I know.
	It's beautiful.
	Let me see.
	There was one email that I got I wanted to pull out here from Donnie Zaltzberg.
	Hey, what up, popcorn player?
	I was listening to the show the other day.
	Someone asked for human resource karma.
	Well, I just had my first human resource, who is a complete bitch.
	So I recorded her in what we call a full Reagan.
	She goes zero to I'm going to wake up the dead in.02 seconds.
	Feel free to use this as much or as little as whatever you need to help the show.
	Ha ha!
	Holy crap.
	That's great!
	The kid's gonna be a podcaster!
	Sounds like one.
	Thank you, everybody, for supporting the program.
	We do have another show coming up on Thursday.
	Hopefully, we'll do better.
	And special thanks to everybody who is coming in under $50, mainly for reasons of anonymity or on one of our monthly programs.
	Please go to...
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Oops.
	Yeah.
	Hit it again.
	Well, no surprise.
	Very much like the donations, very short birthday list, we only have two.
	Celebrating today, Mika Gafford and...
	or Micah.
	No, Mika.
	Mika Gafford and Dexter the Douchebag.
	Happy birthday, everybody.
	Here's the best podcast in the universe.
	Okay, we have a title change.
	Sir Roy of Ancona becomes Baron of the Treasure Coast and we have one knighting to do.
	How do we pronounce the name?
	Jakub Wojciak?
	Is that what you think it is?
	It's...
	You think it's woe, but it's wa.
	Jakub Wojciak.
	The anglicized version is pronounced Wojciak.
	It's Wojciak.
	Wojciak.
	But the Polish pronunciation, which I actually looked up, I can't even copy it.
	It's like...
	Take that.
	Very difficult.
	Copy my sword, man.
	Copy my blade.
	Very good.
	Alright, Jakub Wojciak.
	Come on up to the podium.
	It's good to have you here, my dear sir.
	And no surprise that you have contributed to the best podcast in the universe, the amount of $1,000 or more.
	And therefore, I'm happy to welcome you to the round table filled with our knights and the dames.
	And I pronounce the KD, sir, Jacob of the Cloud.
	And for you, we have hookers and blow, remboys and chardonnay, hot pants and booze, malted barley and hops, root beer and pepperoni, pizza, pork ribs and pale ale, crickets and cream, fried bread and fembots, hot pants and booze, long-haired heavy metal guys and scots, wenches and beer, Mutton and mead.
	A favorite.
	I'm going to make my own mead one of these days.
	Some time ago, one of our producers sent me a bunch of noisemakers.
	Yeah.
	And they slipped this thing in, which is the Mountain Dew Dale Earnhardt Jr.
	duck call.
	Nice.
	You want to hear it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and you actually have to blow into it to get it to do this.
	That's a duck call?
	Well, in the commercial, the Mountain Dew commercial, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
	comes out of the duck thing with his car driving around.
	Oh, okay.
	Then he riles up all the ducks.
	That's cool.
	So it's electronics in it that's triggered by your breath or something?
	You blow into it.
	do it.
	That's cute.
	Yeah, very cute.
	I found a cute clip.
	Collectible.
	I found a cute clip of a, let's see, the Polk County Sheriff in South Florida.
	Sheriff Grady Judd, just to make sure we get some redneck on the program.
	It was just hilarious what he did in this.
	He has a real problem with Apple and their newfangled iPhone devices.
	They should open it up so we can get rid of tourists.
	You cannot create a business model to go, we're not paying attention to the federal judge or to the state judge.
	You see, we're above the law.
	The CEO of Apple needs to know he's not above the law, and neither is anyone else in the United States.
	Because I can assure you right now that the United States Supreme Court is not going to say, so you got a product, you got a business model here that allows you not to comply with the legal court orders executed by the government, it'll never stand.
	But believe you me, If I get a toehold in this county, and I can get the state attorney's office to agree to prosecute and a judge to back us up with it, I'll lock the rascal up.
	I just love thinking of Tim Cook as being the rascal he locked up.
	Come here, you rascal!
	I'm going to lock the rascal up!
	I'll lock the rascal up!
	I'm going to lock that rascal up, I tell you!
	Sure you will, big talker!
	America.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, America.
	Well, so I ran into, I think, one of the more suppressed stories based on a U.N. report.
	And I felt this story was moderately interesting since we've only heard from George Clooney recently when he condemned Trump.
	Mm-hmm.
	And, well, George Clooney, of course, was notorious for helping get to set up the South Sudan, a new country.
	Yes, and he had his Eye in the Sky, his Sentry project, where he's taking pictures.
	He had a project of Eye in the Sky and all this stuff going on.
	Project Sentry, yes.
	And so he's a, you know, do-gooder, and he was working with this Prendergast guy.
	He also organized the Haiti Benefit, remember that?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there's that too.
	But I want to stick with the Sudan thing because I want to start with just play this South Sudan repressed report.
	This has not been I believe my scour that I didn't see this even on Democracy Now!
	I did not hear about it on any of the news stations.
	It's not in our interest, I guess, to discuss this.
	Report detailing horrific crimes against humanity.
	Children and the disabled burnt alive.
	Parents forced to watch their children being gang-raped.
	Women and young girls abducted as payment for soldiers.
	South Sudan claimed its independence just five years ago.
	The United Nations now says it has one of the worst human rights records in the world and that its government bears most of the blame.
	The United Nations is calling it one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world.
	The report today accusing the South Sudan government of grotesque rights violations, including the systematic rape of women and girls.
	According to the UN, civilians including children have been murdered.
	The report says the government allowed soldiers to rape and pillage in lieu of wages.
	Yeah, in lieu of wages.
	Yeah, well that sounds like a good deal.
	Yeah, yeah, a good deal.
	And so, where's Clooney?
	Yeah, doesn't he have pictures?
	He might have pictures of it.
	This is his whole thing.
	He has pictures of what everyone's doing in South Sudan.
	Yeah, well he doesn't seem to be coming out of the woodwork, does he?
	So Clooney, you know, helped me set this thing up.
	So let's just do the background here on this, a little more information so we all know, at least people who listen to our show will know that South Sudan has become an outrageous hellhole since its independence.
	There has been profound suffering of the civilian population.
	So the conflict that began in December 2013 has intensified in 2015, particularly in one state, unity state, where there's been a push by the government, both through the military leadership and the political leadership, to displace, kill, rape, abduct and pillage large portions of the civilian population.
	And the consequence is that there's been much terror.
	In Geneva, UN officials said the suffering in the region risks being forgotten.
	The situation is extremely serious.
	Tens of thousands of children's lives are at risk and there is a need for a similar and increasing level of commitment in a place that we start describing as a forgotten emergency.
	South Sudan won its independence in 2011, a move that was supposed to bring peace.
	But since fighting erupted in 2013, thousands have been killed and millions more displaced.
	Thanks, Obama.
	There you go.
	There's your friend of grass, CIA, George Clooney.
	Good work.
	Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
	Now they brought on a woman who had, I guess she's boots on the ground there and she just kind of summarized things.
	It's kind of a mini-report, and it's worth playing.
	It's the final.
	This is all on Deutsche Welle, by the way.
	It was not on the BBC. It wasn't on ABC News.
	Of course not.
	Of course not.
	It was on anything.
	Well, it's interesting because there have been several human rights reports that have been published over the course of the conflict, but this report in particular accuses mostly the government and allied militia of human rights violations.
	The report focuses mostly on the most recent phase of the conflict in the sovereign part of the United States, which is a very old area of South Sudan.
	And basically what happened here in the final stages of this conflict was that the government launched a major military offensive to regain some of these areas from the rebel movement led by Riek Machar and accompanied by this military campaign were really horrific atrocities against the civilian population with the main objective of really removing any kind of possible support for Riek Machar's rebel movement.
	And there you have it.
	No agenda show provides at least something.
	So just about Clooney, he's changed handler.
	So what's his face?
	Prendergrast.
	Prendergrast.
	I don't think he handles him anymore.
	It's his wife, Amal.
	She has a whole other agenda.
	She's all about the Muslim tip.
	Yeah, there's something.
	He's a goner.
	He's not working with that other guy anymore.
	He's out.
	He's out.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Disappointed.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Oh, did you see this declassified news about, well, the drones that were used to spy on American citizens?
	No.
	High-tech military spy drones.
	They've been used to track ISIS in the Taliban.
	And according to this once classified internal government review, they've also been used to spy on U.S. soil.
	The investigation by the Department of Defense Inspector General found that's happened fewer than 20 times since 2006.
	But some of those non-military missions are blacked out in this document, still top secret.
	It's clear that the American people think that any kind of aerial spying is very sensitive.
	The Pentagon has made public this partial list of missions, mainly emergency preparedness training exercises and also responses to natural disasters like forest fires and floods.
	In Ohio in 2015, at the request of Governor John Kasich, a spy drone participated in this emergency training exercise called Guardian Shield.
	In South Carolina, a drone was called in by FEMA in 2015 to help in emergency response to flooding.
	The IG report found in all cases the drone use was, quote, fully compliant with laws.
	The IG also highlighted some drone requests that were denied by the Secretary of Defense.
	Okay.
	Pay attention, John.
	I got a kicker in this clip for you.
	One mayor wanted military spy drones to be used in his town to check for potholes.
	Yeah, how about you spending the money not on the drone, but on the pot?
	Thanks, Obama.
	Isn't that great?
	Yeah, we'll send $30 million worth of aircraft to go look at the potholes.
	This clip, this next clip, this came to me like, oh wow, is it John's birthday already?
	When is your birthday?
	April 5th?
	Yeah, April 5th.
	This clip came as a gift.
	The state recently passed a law allowing West Virginians to drink raw, unpasteurized milk.
	Now, this is an interesting story, for it is no agenda history that we have discussed many times in the...
	Three, four hundreds maybe?
	Maybe even earlier?
	The use of raw milk.
	And you are a big proponent of raw milk.
	You find it delicious, actually.
	You like raw milk.
	Quite tasty.
	And we had government come in and arresting people at dairies because they're...
	Even though this is the way milk used to be sold always.
	But okay.
	Right.
	Right.
	But so this is good.
	So we have a law now, which is kind of weird when you think about it.
	How weird is it that we have to have a law that allows you to drink raw milk?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You're low energy, man.
	You're low energy.
	Raw milk.
	Was that as far as it went?
	No, no.
	By the way, of all states...
	West Virginia is a dairy state.
	I know.
	That's why it's so odd.
	But the clip is telling.
	The state recently passed a law allowing West Virginians to drink raw, unpasteurized milk.
	So the people responsible for passing the law decided to drink it when one delegate brought it in to share.
	Then they all got sick.
	They interviewed a guy.
	He's on a gurney.
	He's on a gurney.
	He's been puking his guts out.
	It's fantastic.
	That was, turns out, in this report, and I just cut it down, the suspicion there was food poisoning going around to the office, and that was responsible, and this guy's like, and then they turn it into still an anti-raw milk native ad kind of Hmm.
	Some are saying it's just a coincidence and that a stomach bug is going around.
	Caught me in the hallway and offers a little more anti-raw milk propaganda.
	Very well done.
	This guy's on a gurney.
	He's on a gurney.
	And he's saying, I don't think it was the raw milk.
	But, you know, the whole, the image is there.
	A stomach bug.
	Yeah, the image is there.
	The one that's missing is the IV....around.
	Caught me in the hallway and offered a cup to me.
	And you want to try to be a gentleman?
	I had a small sip and then walked away and tossed the rest of it.
	And I highly doubt...
	You didn't even drink it.
	He had a small sip.
	Yeah, but he's saying he highly doubts.
	They need to do that.
	So they're being journalistically correct.
	They're saying, well, it may not have been that.
	But listen to the end.
	Gentlemen, I had a small sip and then walked away and tossed the rest of it.
	I highly doubt raw milk had anything to do with it, in my case.
	Raw milk can carry a higher risk of containing dangerous bacteria and parasites, but supporters say it's much more nutritious.
	It's nutritious.
	Supporters.
	They may have a fan club, these supporters.
	Thanks, Obama.
	You never know.
	Anything.
	I'm going to be in New York on my birthday.
	Oh, nice.
	I'm thinking of just doing a quick meet-up.
	Ooh, good one.
	Are you taking the fam?
	Yeah, I'm taking the family.
	Maybe I'll do a meet-up with the whole family.
	Everyone can now meet the Dvorak family.
	I'll put money right now on this that not all of your family will show up.
	I'll put money on it.
	You know who will show up?
	Mimi.
	Mimi loves it.
	She gets to meet her face-bagger friends.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I've got a clip.
	Here's one.
	This only shows up on the progressive radio.
	This will probably show up on that crazy station you listen to.
	Because they won't play this on the mainstream at all.
	They won't play it on the Democrat stations.
	This is the Debbie Schultz clip.
	Debbie Washerwoman Schultz.
	We have the leader of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, who wants to work with Republicans to gut financial regulations against the payday lending industry.
	An industry, by the way, that makes hundreds of millions of dollars preying on low-income Americans.
	This is coming from the leader of the Democratic Party.
	And she wants to gut something that Senator Elizabeth Warren put in place to protect consumers.
	Ooh, that's a double whammy there.
	No, I don't know anything about it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Schultz figures because she's not assailable in her...
	She's running, you know, obviously every two years.
	She's a House member.
	But she thinks she's unassailable, and so they're attacking her with...
	There's a guy, a progressive, a Bernie Sanders-like guy, going after her in her district to try to get her ousted.
	She could actually be ousted in her last year as the Democratic National Chairman, which would be great.
	I think she's a horrible person.
	Yeah, I'm not a fan.
	I'm not a fan.
	Although I like her for the show because she's funny to watch and sometimes she says dumb things.
	I like that.
	So here's another one.
	This is...
	Oh, actually, here's a couple.
	This one here, this Iditarod incident brought to mind some thinking.
	This is the big sled race up there in Alaska.
	A shocking act of sabotage at the Iditarod.
	That is musher Allie Zirkle after she and another competitor, Jeff King, were repeatedly ambushed by a man on a snowmobile.
	King's lead dog, Nash, was killed.
	A number of other dogs were injured.
	A suspect has been arrested.
	Wow.
	We're getting rough up there.
	The guy turned out to be a drunken Eskimo.
	Or whatever they call him.
	Native American, John.
	No, no, it's something else.
	There's a specific word for us.
	A native Alaskan.
	No, no, no.
	Indigenous person.
	Somebody in the chat room will know.
	A brown guy.
	Well, wherever he was, he was drunk.
	At least he says he was.
	But he kept going, apparently coming back after her, and she thought he was trying to kill her.
	Inuit.
	An Inuit.
	Inuit.
	Yes, he's an Inuit.
	At least from what I can tell from what he looks like.
	Now, why I got interested in this story, it's not for that part of it, is I swore that I heard about Three, a couple months, maybe less than a month ago.
	I'm not sure when.
	On the radio.
	The Iditarod's been cancelled because of global warming.
	I missed this one.
	Yeah.
	And so I decided to look it up.
	And so what I found was that in 2012, there were stories about Iditarod having to move because of global warming.
	2013, there was Iditarod had to move.
	Then I couldn't find 2014.
	I finally found it.
	2014, Iditarod had to go to Fairbanks because of global warming.
	2015, global warming has changed.
	Iditarod...
	Pathways.
	There's no snow in Alaska.
	And so this every year, apparently, and I bet you I can go back further than 2012, they've had this meme going around every year.
	The Iditarod had to move because there's no snow or global warming.
	That's a good catch.
	Yeah, I was just...
	So when I heard the story about Iditarod, I said, wait a minute, I thought there was no Iditarod anymore because there was no snow in Alaska.
	We can likely predict when this one will be used again.
	Yeah, next year.
	Right.
	But there's probably something else coming up soon.
	Something else that'll either be too hot, like really, really scorching hot.
	It's always something.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's cool.
	So my last clip...
	Well, let me throw, just to mix it up a little bit, I'll just throw one in.
	Just a little update.
	Throw in two if you got them.
	Okay.
	You got two.
	I'll do two.
	No, I only have one left.
	I have two.
	Thanks, Obama.
	So...
	Just an update on the Oregon author situation.
	There has been a development.
	There is something new going on.
	Then whenever, you know, in America, of course, we're always very worried when law enforcement kills a civilian.
	Oh, yeah.
	Gets us all worked up.
	Yeah, gets us really worked up.
	Rare.
	Yeah.
	And especially if, you know, law enforcement was superseded secretly by one of our federal agencies, like the FBI. Yeah.
	But for some reason, one big news.
	This is local.
	This is what is new in this is a in-car video shot by the woman.
	We've played this woman previously.
	When Roy, I'm sorry, was it?
	Lavoie Finnecum was, you know, he said, okay, I'm going to drive away, and then he hit the snowbank, and he hit the roadblock, and then he got killed.
	And so she has video of this, and it's a little different than what we learned the first time around.
	Investigators figure Finnecum hit speeds of 70 miles an hour and was going at least 50 when he slammed into a snowbank at the roadblock.
	Hang on.
	Okay, so they're shooting.
	Hang on.
	The moment of the crash as Finnecombe got out of the truck, someone from the FBI, maybe two people, fired.
	One bullet broke the side window, another apparently came from behind and above into the roof of the truck.
	A particular concern to all of us is that the FBI HRT operators did not disclose their shots to our investigators.
	Nor did they disclose specific actions they took after the shooting.
	That's why federal investigators are now digging into who fired, from where, and why.
	Oh man.
	They should charge these people with murder and put a stop to them.
	Where's the outrage?
	Where's the outrage?
	Thanks Obama.
	Riot wingers, all of them.
	We have a little update.
	Some major fallout in the Wounded Warrior charity investigation.
	The CEO and COO of the charity were just fired.
	In 2014, the Wounded Warrior Project raised $300 million in donations.
	However, public records reported by Charity Navigator showed the Wounded Warrior Project spends only 60 cents of every dollar on veterans.
	CBS News spoke to more than 40 former employees who described a charity with spending that's out of control.
	Well, they certainly succeeded in their mission, didn't they?
	Well...
	They got rid of those guys.
	The numbers were pretty normal for most charities, but the one that really, I think, was the funny icing on the cake with this story...
	Was the Segway?
	What was the segue?
	That he came in on a segue.
	Oh, no, no.
	The funniest guy on the cake was George Bush.
	It was listed as one of the problems.
	He gave a speech to the Wounded Warriors organization, I guess, to the solicitors.
	I don't know.
	One of the part of the group.
	Yeah.
	That was his tab, which is about right for an ex-president, as opposed to Clinton, who gets millions.
	So he got $100,000, and so everyone was up in arms.
	Why would George W. Bush charge these poor wounded veterans to give a speech?
	He should do it for free.
	And so that was a big scandal.
	And I think it was semi-scandalous, but at the same time, there's plenty of things that George Bush isn't going to do at all.
	He doesn't really like to do anything.
	And to get him to do a speech for $100,000 is probably the best.
	Yeah, a good deal, I'd say.
	Yeah, probably it's a good deal.
	I'm not quite sure why, but Hillary charges $250,000.
	Yeah, and that's a deal.
	Well, she says.
	But I'm not sure why NBC did this, but they put together a hit piece package on Putin based on some kind of older news and then really went back and just made him look like a killer, I guess.
	Putin!
	For his aggressive control of Russian media, Mikhail Lesin was called the bulldozer while serving Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	Now, new information about his death in a Washington, D.C. hotel is raising questions about a man Putin publicly praised when he died late last year, but who had an apparent falling out with Putin's associates in late 2014 and stepped down from running a media empire.
	Four months after Lesin's death, police and the medical examiner now say he died of, quote, blunt force injuries of the head.
	Woo!
	And had injuries to his neck, torso, arms, and legs.
	Police say surveillance video shows him entering the hotel the night he died looking disheveled, suggesting he might have been injured before coming back here.
	The suspicious death of a former Kremlin insider raises obvious concern.
	British authorities say former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned, possibly on orders from Putin.
	And a fierce Putin critic, Boris Nemtsov, was shot and killed in Moscow shortly before he was to lead a protest.
	Yeah!
	Yep.
	Well, the Nemsov thing has been looked at from all kinds of different angles, and it seems as though that head of the Chechenians that's in bed with Putin.
	Sure, but that's not the point.
	It's not about fact.
	Come on, hello.
	It's not about fact.
	They put this piece together.
	Putin's a killer!
	A killer.
	He kills his own friends.
	I'm guessing that it's in lead-up to one of these one-hour specials about Putin.
	The BBC's done a number of them.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Maybe they bought something from BBC. Yeah, and they're going to run that, and this is just a promotion.
	Alright, then this is my last, and then I want you to close it out.
	Just because of the story, I wanted to bring it up and make sure we pay attention to it, because it's a parallel to something we've already seen, it's marketing.
	Machine has triumphed over Man in the complicated board game Go.
	While the Man is one of the world's top players, he proved No match for a computer, though a human was required to put its chosen moves into practice.
	Losing 3-0 in a best of 5 contest in Seoul, Lee Seedol was consoled by Google subsidiary DeepMind behind the AlphaGo program.
	Compute tens of thousands of positions per second.
	But what's really incredible is that Lee Sedol can compete with that just with the power of his mind and ingenuity and stretched AlphaGo to its limit in the last three games.
	The computer program sought to approximate human intuition in tackling the game, popular in countries like China, South Korea, and Japan, in which contestants move stones on a square grid with the aim of seizing the most territory.
	Please clap.
	AlphaGo.
	Well, this is going to be like IBM's Watson.
	And we're going to have AlphaGo Medical, AlphaGo Insurance Estimation, AlphaGo Homework.
	Well, actually, this really more competes with Deep Blue.
	That is what I'm saying.
	No, Deep Blue.
	Watson is Deep Blue's consumer brand name.
	Deep Mind has AlphaGo as their consumer brand name.
	Well, I'm sure they're going to do that.
	These robots, which is all we're dealing with here, they do expert systems, which was first introduced in the 70s, I believe, or the 80s, and never got anywhere because people didn't like them, and they weren't that good, and they're not that talented.
	But they make them look so talented because they can do this analysis, which is, okay...
	Not quite the same as being a doctor, but probably a lot cheaper.
	And we're going to need something cheaper.
	And there's no doctors.
	People don't want to be doctors anymore unless they're from India.
	And the whole thing is a nightmare.
	But I'm sure it'll do a great job of diagnosis.
	What'll be interesting, IBM kind of knows how to brand.
	Google is not always that successful.
	No, they're very incompetent.
	So it'll be fun to watch.
	They're so insular because they don't really like to mix it up with the public at large.
	Right.
	So that's when they do G +, it's a piece of crap compared to Facebook.
	They were hoping, oh, it's going to kick Facebook's butt.
	Yes.
	And it didn't do anything.
	It's just a horrible product.
	And, you know...
	They're trying to revamp it.
	I've noticed they're trying to revamp it.
	Oh, they just keep trying.
	It's hopeless.
	They got their photo thing, which is kind of interesting, I guess.
	What I like about...
	The only reason I'm on Google Plus is because...
	Well, two reasons.
	One is there's all the hams somehow.
	They got tired of using Yahoo.
	Yahoo Groups is kind of archaic.
	So they moved over to Google Groups and Google Plus eventually.
	And the only other reason for Google Plus is Mike Elgum.
	He posts there all the time.
	He's fun to read.
	He's very popular on these social networks.
	Yeah, whereas no one else is.
	I'm Mike.
	I'm the king of...
	I don't know why he made the decision to do that.
	I'm the king of Google Plus.
	He could have been the king of Facebook.
	I think it's funnier.
	I read a lot more of him because he's on Google Plus.
	Yeah, I guess.
	I have a Google Plus account.
	I only use it because I have to.
	Certain things you can't sign into.
	I don't really look at it.
	In fact, I find it to be annoying.
	It's not that easy to figure out what to post and where, where's it going to show up, and how many people are going to see it.
	It's weird.
	It's a weird product.
	Yeah, you should be happy you don't have to use the face bag.
	It's just as weird.
	Who are you sending to whom?
	Well, FaceBag has gotten worse, I understand, because they keep, you know, they're editing some sort of algorithms, cutting stuff out so you don't get to see everything you're supposed to see.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Okay, my last clip, and after that, tech news we just did, is...
	It's an interesting story.
	The Wall Street Journal only showed up on one news outlet that I could tell.
	I never saw it on any of the networks.
	And it's an outrageous story that should be getting all kinds of ink.
	And this is the outrageous banking scandal.
	Oh, okay.
	You know, I can't read Wall Street Journal because they took away...
	I know, they block you, so you, you know...
	Well, they had the Google hack where you just copy and paste the headline into Google and then you click on the Google link and then you'd be in.
	You'd find one.
	Yeah, they turned that off.
	Damn it.
	And the Wall Street Journal has exposed nearly half of the $110 billion Wall Street banks have paid in settlements in recent years, has been pocketed by the federal government, and has not been paid out to homeowners.
	In recent years, the United States' largest banks, including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, have paid billions of dollars to settle charges of financial crimes in the mortgage market in the years leading up to the 2008 housing crisis.
	Top regulators have lauded the record fines extracted in these settlements by saying the money would help homeowners struggling with their mortgages.
	Yet the Wall Street Journal's new investigation shows while about $45 billion did go to homeowner relief, even more of the settlement money, about $50 billion in total, has been simply pocketed by the federal government itself with almost no disclosure of how the money is being spent. has been simply pocketed by the federal government itself with Huh.
	That's odd, because I remember looking into exactly how that money was being distributed, which went mainly to the governors had most of the power, as I recall it.
	Well, this is like a story you think somebody else would be working on some democracy now.
	How about Matt Taibbi?
	And all they're doing is just reading clips from the Wall Street Journal article.
	What's the deal?
	Matt Taibbi should be doing this.
	And Wall Street Journal is owned by Fox.
	Same, you know, same operation.
	We're defining her on Fox.
	Hmm.
	I could be wrong about the Fox.
	I want to look into that.
	I want to see the documentation.
	I'll look into it.
	I'm interested in that.
	Okay, good.
	Unlike the people on Fox...
	Well, since I don't really follow Fox News that closely, I could be wrong about that.
	I know CBS, NBC, and ABC. I keep tabs on those guys.
	Nothing.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you once again for tuning in to the best podcast in the universe.
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	Adios, mofos.
	Adios, mofos.
	Millennials, socialists, Jews, but no love from the minorities.
	Uh-oh.
	B-B-B-B-Bernie and the Blacks.
	Bernie!
	Bernie!
	Bernie and the Blacks!
	Everybody!
	Hillary!
	Father!
	Father!
	Nothing's happened to Jeff.
	Look at him.
	What is it, girl?
	Is it Jeff?
	Something's happened, can't you see?
	Now, easy, Ellen, easy.
	Where's Jeff, girl?
	Where is he?
	Ow, ow, ow, ow, you know.
	Roll up, roll up for the magical shapeshifting Jews.
	Step right this way.
	Roll up.
	Roll up for the shapeshifting Jews.
	Roll up.
	The magical shapeshifting Jews.
	Roll up.
	A little illustration.
	The magical shapeshifting Jews.
	Roll up.
	It's such an aggravation.
	The magical shapeshifting Jews.
	I mean a lot of them.
	It's a beautiful place.
	I mean a lot of them.
	It's a beautiful place.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	I don't know if he 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 just see, you find all the ones that are roaming around you.
	Although I backed them off by doing the burning trick.
	Just torch them.
	And you leave them there.
	The only ant, and 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. The problem is...
	Who's got the time or the energy?
	Thanks, Obama.
	You're really saying he reminds you of Adolf Hitler?
	We haven't been deported anyway.
	We haven't been deported.
	Fist bump.
	Adios, mofo.
	Thanks, Obama.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Amen.

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