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	If I was, man, I'd be a lot different on this show.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, March 24th, 2016, and time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 810.
	This is No Agenda.
	Furring through the Belgian rabbit holes because I speak the language 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 going to be a scorcher.
	This show should be, too.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Somehow you just can't pull it off.
	You know, when you try to do the yelling announcer voice, it just doesn't work with you.
	I'm not a yelling announcer.
	No, I am.
	Yes, you are.
	You are a yelling announcer.
	This is true.
	Yeah, and I do that because I figure if people are going to listen to this show, like, oh, I feel comfortable with someone yelling at me, just like news television.
	It's like all the news guys now.
	Yeah, I should listen.
	All the top news broadcasts, the network guys all yell.
	Yeah, I should listen.
	What a week.
	What a week.
	I spent most of my time logged into VPNs watching Belgian news, Dutch news, a lot of RTL. Much better than our counterparts here in the United States.
	I was watching, when did this happen?
	Monday?
	Tuesday?
	Tuesday?
	Tuesday.
	This Brussels thing?
	Yeah.
	What happened there?
	I don't know.
	I don't remember.
	And I was watching MSNBC and everyone's just replaying these street scenes on loops.
	And it says live.
	Then it says live.
	It's crazy.
	And it says live, live, live.
	But you switch over to the Belgian TV. They're already doing analysis.
	It's dark.
	Let's make something clear here when it's like three in the afternoon here and they're showing a live feed and it's daylight.
	It's crazy.
	Something's up.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm sad that we predicted all this.
	Yeah, there's been discrepancies about the predictions, and I'll credit you with the prediction, but you said it that you predicted this was going to happen in Holland.
	Well, there's a couple of things.
	You've been saying for years, what about the unprotected area of airports?
	That's been you.
	And this happened.
	You recall it happened.
	Was it a German airport?
	I can't remember.
	Or maybe it was Scandinavian Airport with some guys.
	No, I don't think anyone was really hurt, but they blew up some stuff inside the passenger terminal a couple years ago.
	I've had a bad feeling about Brussels for years, and I think we've talked about it for years on the show.
	Yes, we have talked about it because it's a wide-open possibility.
	And I lived in Belgium, so I have a little bit of standing.
	But I picked up this in re-listening to 808, 809.
	I picked up this little clip, which this is really what I think is important of what's going on here.
	Don't respond to me, John, because I'm not really talking to you.
	This is just before the so-called deal was struck.
	Erdogan kicking it up in Turkey.
	As Turkey's Prime Minister meets EU leaders in Brussels, there is fighting talk from the country's president.
	Fighting talk!
	Fighting talk.
	Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned EU leaders to consider their own record on migrants before trying to tell Ankara what to do.
	His country will only listen to external criticism on its rights record when the comments are justified, he says.
	The bombs we've had in Ankara could easily go off in Brussels.
	Supporters of the PKK are allowed to demonstrate...
	And that bell ringing was from the last show, not just now.
	And that's exactly what happened a day later, or two days later.
	Hmm...
	Yeah, there was a couple of things that I caught that were kind of interesting.
	One of them I wanted to put off a little bit because apparently Erdogan or the Turks, I'm not sure who amongst them, had warned the Belgians about this one guy.
	Well, okay.
	Then let me give you the background because I've been deep inside of this.
	Here we go.
	That's the Dutch connection, which is even more interesting.
	The man wearing the hat on the CCTV image is still being sought, while Ibrahim El-Bakrawui, seen in the middle, has been named as the first airport suicide bomber.
	Turkey claims its authorities deported him in 2015.
	We informed the Belgian embassy about the deportation on July 14, 2015, said the Turkish president.
	The Belgian authorities released him.
	Despite our warnings that this person is a foreign fighter, Belgium could not establish any links with terrorism.
	The Belgian Justice Minister has denied the claim.
	He says the suspect was known as a criminal but not for terrorist acts, adding that he was sent to the Netherlands, not Belgium.
	This is what I've come to know since the announcement.
	It definitely wasn't an extradition, he said.
	This was something else entirely.
	It's a case of someone being sent back from the Syrian border, someone who wasn't known to us at the time for terrorism.
	All right, so this, of course, is the big converse.
	I went to sleep last night listening to Dutch news talk radio.
	It's been so fascinating to get some actual information.
	Thank God I speak the language.
	You can imagine how much we're missing from these world events, John.
	It's unbelievable.
	So poor journalism.
	Yeah, well, it'd be nice to speak Turkey.
	Well, so let me just explain briefly what happened here.
	Can I add a little clip to that clip?
	Yeah, sure.
	Play this clip, because this is who I was listening to this discussion to, and then this clip showed up out of the blue, and I think it was on, I'm not sure where, I think it was on Deutsche Welle.
	This is the odd clip, Turkey and Holland in Belgium.
	Play that clip.
	Okay, yeah.
	I got some background on this.
	The second is Ibrahim Elba Crowey.
	He was reportedly arrested in Turkey last June.
	A month later, he was deported, according to the Turkish president.
	Even Holland is involved in this issue.
	On the attacker's request, we reported him to Holland.
	And we have formed them with a diplomatic note, too.
	On the attacker's request?
	Yeah.
	So, the attacker...
	There's a couple of things we need to talk about this.
	But first, what happened?
	This was a guy who was living in the Netherlands.
	And I believe he was, he's originally from Moroccan descent.
	Not sure yet.
	Because all these guys are now being, in Holland at least, in the local press, are being called out.
	They say they were part of the Moroccan mafia, which is a well-known entity in the Netherlands, in the Benelux in general, but probably in all of Western Europe.
	And they're, you know, it's a mafia.
	Corruption, crime, grand theft, etc.
	And these guys had been apprehended by the Belgian authorities in the past.
	But this guy was Dutch, had left to go to Syria through Turkey, got stopped at the border and sent back.
	And the Dutch went, oh, hey, thanks.
	Hi, hey, you got a bike while you're at it?
	They let him go.
	Now, the thing you need to know about the Dutch and Turkey, and this is ongoing for years, this is part of what I lost my job over.
	It is extremely possible and strongly alleged that because of this, the pedo bear guy who was the highest in the Dutch justice system, he was the The top dog, kind of like the Attorney General.
	Yes.
	And he is now...
	He's retired, long since retired, but there's all this stuff and ongoing court cases about him abusing Turkish children.
	And there's a couple of people in jail in the Netherlands who've been sent there by Turkey who are, for everything we can see, are political prisoners.
	So the assumption is because of this, you know, child abuse stuff, which has been...
	And if you look at all the...
	Joris Deming is what you need to look up and you'll find enough information about it.
	The thinking here is that the Dutch justice system has been completely corrupted, co-opted, and is being blackmailed by the Turkish government.
	And this is about...
	Baybizan is the guy's name, who's in jail.
	Baybizan.
	So you can't trust the Dutch justice system and the Turks in this case.
	And the population of the Netherlands is beside themselves.
	How could you let this guy go?
	You let him go!
	He came back.
	He was a known fighter trying to get training, trying to get into Syria through Turkey.
	And they sent him back.
	Okay, whatever.
	This is big political issues are cropping up now with this.
	And of course...
	The mafia thing is interesting because...
	Or whatever that mafia is called.
	The Maroc Mafia, they're called.
	The Maroc Mafia.
	There was a couple of guys, some of the best analysis was on Democracy Now!
	I don't have a lot of clips, I have one, because it's better to summarize.
	They had a number of people that claimed that this particular group of people were criminals.
	They never called out the Moroccan mafia about it, but they said they were criminals and they got radicalized in prison.
	Which is where most of these guys get radicalized.
	And it's not like the normal route to radicalization.
	But there's this one guy who came on.
	Let's see.
	This is a clip.
	I just thought this was an interesting clip because it was so off the wall and it has to do with the way these cells are organized and the kind of people that are behind it.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Belgians late to the party.
	Look for something that says DN on it.
	Oh, I got it.
	The odd man out theory?
	Yeah, the odd man out theory.
	This guy wrote a book, and he's been following this by going back and reexamining the investigations that were done by the Europeans.
	And this little ditty may play into your thing somehow.
	At the time, he was the BuzzFeed News Michael Hastings fellow.
	Well, what did they miss?
	Well, that was a particular story about a raid that took place in a town in eastern Belgium in January of last year, and it was right in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and so it didn't really get a lot of attention at the time.
	But what I did is I went back and looked at it, and I noticed that the description of it, the reporting on it, the way that the prosecutor talked about it, Fit with the pattern that we tend to hear about these raids.
	Somebody who's a psychopath of some sort, who goes to Syria, who returns back to Brussels.
	He's a very Islamist radical, and he wants to blow himself up and kill everyone.
	And that made some sense, but there was a third guy in that house.
	And they grouped him together in that category, but he didn't really fit there.
	He seemed to be someone who had never gone to Syria.
	Everyone I met said he wasn't radicalized at all.
	Some people said he may have had no idea what he was doing there, but I think more likely...
	And this was which raid?
	This was a raid in a town called Verviers, where they killed everyone except him, and this guy jumped out the window, and the prosecutor conceded that he didn't seem prepared to die like the other two.
	And they killed everyone in a fierce firefight, right?
	Really.
	I mean, and you may have heard about the firefight in Saint-Denis after the attacks in Paris.
	It was exactly the same thing.
	I mean, it was many, many minutes long.
	But this was after Charlie Hebdo.
	This is after Charlie Hebdo, so it was much earlier.
	And what I realize is that people like this guy seem to exist.
	They come up all the time in these attacks.
	They're people who play kind of smaller support roles, who have connections to the people who we think of as the terrorists through childhood, through growing up in the neighborhoods together, through petty criminality.
	But they aren't terrorists in the way we think of it.
	And if we realize that actually those are the people we need to focus on, it helps us to understand that the foundation for the terrorism structure that exists in cities like Brussels and in Paris of people who are going abroad and coming back, it's maybe much more mundane than the sort of high rhetoric we hear about people trying to defeat democracy it's maybe much more mundane than the sort of high rhetoric we hear about people trying to defeat democracy
	It's actually people who exist within a sort of lower spectrum of local grievances and criminality and things that actually are maybe easier to deal with but also more complicated to try to understand.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'll agree with some of what he's saying, and this goes to what I've been saying since the beginning of the show, because I grew up in the Netherlands, I lived there, and I went back in 2000, and we saw what was happening, and we were told this was not going to end well, primarily by Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, both assassinated.
	And people about to win the Dutch elections a week before he won them posthumously a week before he was assassinated.
	This and you can see what you Americans have a unique perspective on this.
	Although when I look at the face bags, I'm sad because I don't think I think a lot of that perspective has been lost.
	But What you see is nothing but sadness.
	No one's allowed to be angry.
	The big symbol now, I guess, is the two cartoon characters with the French cartoon character with the Belgian cartoon character with the flags draped over their shoulders and they're crying together.
	This is very much the mentality in Europe.
	And this ghettoization has been going on for almost two decades.
	And you can't say anything about it because then you're a racist.
	And here we are.
	And still, it's like, well...
	Actually, I cut this just before...
	Just before we started the show, let me see if I can find the crazy...
	This was from one year ago.
	Hold on.
	One year ago today, we played this on the show, Marie Harf, then spokeshole for the State Department, went on the Think MSNBC, and here's what she said about the problem with these jihadists.
	Well, I think there's a few stages here.
	Right now, what we're doing is trying to take their leaders and their fighters off the battlefield in Iraq and in Syria.
	That's really where they flirt.
	Are we killing enough of them?
	We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them.
	So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians.
	That, by the way, is myrrh conspiracy.
	They're We're in this fight with us.
	But we cannot win this war by killing them.
	We cannot kill our way out of this war.
	We can't.
	We need in the longer term, medium and longer term, to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups.
	Whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs.
	We're not going to be able to stop that in our lifetime.
	Remember that?
	Jobs.
	They have no jobs.
	That's right, yeah.
	Yeah, the old jobs.
	Cleaning up rubble of jobs.
	Now, MSNBC had a new dude on, and this was an interesting guy.
	His name, maybe they mentioned it in the clip.
	This guy, total spook.
	I've never seen him before.
	I don't know if he's a regular on MSNBC, but he's a spook.
	And he comes kind of close to, I think, nailing it.
	And quick clip here.
	Oh, we want to bring in now terrorism analyst Evan Coleman.
	There you go.
	Evan Coleman.
	Georgetown University, FBI.
	You know, this is one of those guys.
	Checklist spook.
	We got anyone left!
	He said he feels this is the end point of a very difficult road.
	Would you agree with that?
	We were talking earlier, and you had a little bit of a different take.
	Yeah, I disagree for two reasons.
	Number one, we don't know if this is the end of this network.
	We don't even know for sure that this is the same network as was involved with France.
	Is he talking about MSNBC? Exactly.
	This horrible terrorist network, MSNBC. And even if this is the same network, and even if all the members are now...
	Hold on, I thought it was on CNN!...dead or arrested or under scrutiny, this is just the beginning, because we have to get to the root causes of why this happened, and those causes have not been dealt with.
	There are international causes and there are local causes.
	Of course, international cause, there has been a war going on in Syria and Iraq now.
	For going on five years.
	And that war, in addition to killing hundreds of thousands of Syrians, is now coming in the form of blowback to us here in the West.
	The second issue is more local concerns, right?
	Why is it that Muslims and other immigrants in Belgium have such a problem integrating with local society?
	Why is it that they do not feel like they are Belgian?
	Why is it that they are ghettoized into these communities?
	And that has a lot to do with what's going on here.
	Because again, if you look at the numbers, a much higher percentage of Belgians have gone to go fight in Iraq and Syria than French nationals.
	And it's right next door.
	What is the reason for that discrepancy?
	Yeah, it's called the multicultural society.
	It was the big drive starting around 95.
	And these are not immigration countries.
	That's why it doesn't work.
	The people don't know how to do this.
	The populations of Western Europe don't really understand that this wave of immigrants does not want to change.
	So it's a systemic problem.
	Well, one analyst that was on the Democracy Now!
	show, which they went over this...
	He says, and I think this is reiterated in one of the clips I'll play later, that they're not really...
	It's like our country, we're kind of bent over backwards to get people to integrate.
	We're an immigration country.
	We started on immigration.
	Yes, we kind of understand this.
	And so, okay, whatever, go ahead, do your own thing.
	But then, since they're in this culture, our culture is so decadent.
	Important difference, John.
	And when you come to America as an immigrant, you better find something to do pretty quick.
	You're going to be hungry.
	In Europe, in the Netherlands is what I know, they come in.
	Oh, here's my friend, my buddy over here.
	Okay, tell me what to do.
	I go over to this window.
	Okay, and then what?
	I get 600 euros.
	Okay, I got six kids.
	Okay, I get 200 per kid per month.
	You know, when there's free money...
	Then there's no incentive.
	And that's changing, sadly, dramatically in our country, but okay.
	That is why.
	But why would I change?
	I go in there, I get money, free money, I can hang out, drink tea, do whatever I want.
	That's a huge difference.
	I love these events, but you always have to be clipping stuff right at the beginning because there's all kinds of little bits of information you pick up everywhere.
	By a strange coincidence, the current TSA chief, Admiral Peter Neffinger, was in Brussels today meeting with his European counterparts when the attacks happened.
	Homeland Security today is once again reminding everyone at the airport who works here or travels through an airport, if you see something that's out of the ordinary, say something.
	If you see something, say something.
	Ooh, nice.
	Coincidence.
	Just coincidence he was in Brussels.
	Now, what I... What bothered me early on watching this, and we all awoke to it, is the...
	Almost like CSI Miami.
	But just CSI in general.
	Well, it looks like his DNA connects to the Paris attacks.
	This is the guy they arrested.
	That guy.
	I know what you're going to say and I feel exactly the same way.
	And?
	I think they made true, false, indifferent, rumor, however news organizations were able to report these unknown sources.
	Judge Napolitano nailed it.
	I think it's a catastrophic mistake.
	Now, of course, we have the benefit of hindsight.
	But think about this.
	He's being interrogated by Brussels investigators, Brussels magistrates, sort of a cross between a prosecutor and a judge.
	French interrogators and French magistrates.
	And they are revealing to the press what he's telling them as he's telling it to them in real time.
	What is this?
	It's a dog whistle.
	It's a sub-Rosa signal to his confederates in Brussels.
	It's time for you to get out.
	Create a diversion so that you can get out.
	Now, if the FBI began to reveal intelligence as it was getting it during an interrogation, the agents would be fired and might even be prosecuted for obstructing justice.
	This was a catastrophic mistake in which He used them to send these signals out there.
	Why, they even revealed that he told them he wants to sue whoever's leaking about his interrogation.
	He doesn't want to sue that person.
	By the way, such a lawsuit, I'm sorry to tell you, would be proper in the European Union.
	He doesn't want to sue them for this.
	He's using them to get this information out there.
	There are a lot of other issues about the weakness of Belgian police and intelligence services, not even knowing what's going on under their noses.
	But this behavior, quite frankly, is unprecedented, Stuart.
	I can't think of an example in which interrogators are revealing in real time what the person they're interrogating is telling them to an international press corps.
	And just before I started the show, there was news that the guy now is no longer, he's refusing to speak.
	He doesn't want...
	Nothing left to say.
	The job's done.
	Who is running this show?
	I think Napolitano nails it on that.
	Of course, it's so stupid.
	I don't even know if it's true or not.
	Well, the other thing, you don't know what's true, because, I mean, this idea that they got DNA results from a guy who has been blowed up, and then they're finding DNA all over the apartment, it takes longer.
	What kind of a lab do they have that can get instant DNA results?
	This is, again, this is the CIS bullcrap.
	I like to contrast this with something like 10 or 20 or more thousand rape kits in the United States that haven't been processed to the point where they're now throwing them away.
	Because of DNA slowdown.
	Yeah, because they can't, there's no way they can, yeah, it takes a while to do these tests.
	And they're not even bothering with the rape kits anymore.
	There's a huge scandal going on about that.
	Of course, you never want to let a good crisis go to waste, because everyone's crazy upside down and all emotional.
	Let's slip in something to scare people.
	I wonder who's behind this ditty.
	Security has been stepped up at nuclear plants around Belgium amid fears they could be the next target after the Brussels bombings.
	The alert follows the discovery of secret footage of a senior Belgian official who works at one of the plants in the Belgian flat of one of the suspects linked to last year's Paris terror attacks.
	Non-essential staff at the Dole and Tianj plants have been sent home, although key staff will remain in order to ensure the plants continue to operate.
	There are also concerns that vetting procedures of staff may not be sufficiently rigorous.
	It's understood that one of the accused in the Sharia for Belgium trial in Antwerp, who is currently fighting in Syria, had been a technician at the Dole plant for three years.
	There you go.
	We should shut down the nuclear power plants.
	Better safe than sorry.
	Better safe than sorry.
	Yeah, better be safe than sorry.
	Of course, over at Starfleet Command, they also are taking advantage of the crisis to integrate Europe even more.
	French Prime Minister Manuel Valls joins his Belgian counterpart, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, as they pause to pay respects at the Malbec metro station in Brussels.
	Shortly afterwards, both spoke up about the need to work together for the security of Europe.
	VALS renewed France's calls for a passenger name record system to be set up for European air travel.
	I reiterated the urgent need to better fight arms trafficking, the need to adopt a European PNR system to enable the tracking of terrorists' movements.
	Juncker, two called for Europe-wide cooperation.
	We also think we need to work together towards unified security.
	The Commission has proposed all the constituent elements for such a union of security.
	Let me see.
	We have the banking union.
	We have, let's see, now we've got the security union.
	Everything's in place to get the one European union.
	What is that, like an army?
	What?
	Army would be a good idea.
	I thought they promised there would never be a European Union army.
	Oh no!
	Play this clip, Belgians late to the party, PBS lead in.
	Well, yeah, I think the Belgians in particular have a problem, and they're very aware of it, and we're often saying these days that you're only as strong as your weakest link.
	In the case of Belgium, you've got a country that's got a fairly small police force, and if they have 100, by conservative estimates, about 100...
	ISIS veterans have returned to that country alone.
	Just the manpower involved in conducting surveillance and watching all these people, watching their phone calls, conversations, it sort of taxes their police forces beyond their capability, let alone the problem of dealing with counter-alloculization and just all the tracking and surveillance they need to be doing.
	So yeah, they have a problem there.
	They have a problem with coordinating with other agencies and other governments.
	And so yeah, that's a huge problem for them.
	And they think they really are aware of this now, but it's kind of late to the party.
	Yeah.
	Because the Europeans will not.
	They'll just shut up.
	Just be quiet.
	Don't say anything.
	Late to the party.
	The public doesn't help.
	The public does not help the law enforcement.
	It's just the culture.
	Ugh.
	Richard Engel.
	You love it when that guy shows up.
	Oh, Richard Engel.
	I got my...
	I got an Engel clip.
	The other guy in this spectrum, Richard Engel.
	You've got the Richard Engel clip.
	I've got the Brian Ross clip.
	Oh, beautiful.
	All right.
	Richard Engel, of course, a liar.
	We saw him in Russia pretending to be hacked.
	He was almost kidnapped.
	Oh, he was almost kidnapped.
	The guy has Peabody Awards.
	He's got all kinds of journalistic awards, but he's a liar.
	Yeah.
	And he's a spook.
	Well, that's what spooks do.
	And his report was genius for so many reasons.
	So far, there has been one claim of responsibility from ISIS. We have not verified it yet.
	But what we have seen is many ISIS supporters online, on Facebook, on different social media platforms, celebrating this attack, cheering this attack.
	So, now, this immediately was like, oh, but I'm crazy, not doing that proof, you know, it sounds like Trump with his Muslims cheering on the roof.
	The local story from Breda, which is just about, I don't know, 25 minutes north of the Belgian border, a teacher tweeted, he said, how can I still teach a class when all the kids in the class are applauding the attack in Brussels?
	Because Breda has a very big Muslim population.
	So that was his tweet.
	Then later, he tweets, I tweeted something about my classroom this morning, and the next day, there were three police officers at my doorstep saying, yeah, you have to delete that, and you cannot talk about that on social media.
	Where'd you get that one?
	It's Dutch local paper, Dutch papers.
	That would be clip of the day.
	Dutch papers, yeah.
	Fortunately, nobody covers it.
	So what are you going to do?
	You can't make a clip if there's no clip.
	Now, Engel goes on.
	ISIS had been actually weakened just as of yesterday or a few days ago.
	Their number of tweets was at an all-time low.
	Oh, no!
	Oh no, ISIS is weakened because their tweets are at an all-time low.
	Oh, that's a definite indication of weakness.
	It's just somewhere like this.
	Hello, Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed!
	Hello, Mohammed!
	Yo!
	We don't have enough tweets!
	What are you doing with your tweets?
	Oh!
	Hey, crank up the tweets, you idiot!
	We look down!
	We look like we're down!
	We look weak!
	We look weak!
	We have no tweets!
	Is that how the US government is evaluating the strength of ISIS? Is by the volume of tweets?
	Especially how can you make that claim when you have just had a sweep?
	On Twitter, of anyone who says anything, they leave their account.
	Just as of yesterday, or a few days ago, their number of tweets was at an all-time low.
	That's some Peabody journalism right there, everybody.
	Some might interpret this as a way for ISIS to show that it is back, that it is strong.
	I get it.
	I get it.
	Tweets down, light up the train station.
	From territorial losses and personnel losses that the group has been suffering in Iraq and Syria.
	And this was an interesting...
	Tweets down, light, blow up a thing, because what are we going to do?
	We're losing our tweet...
	Our tweet...
	Our tweet volume.
	Our tweet volume.
	We don't have good engagement!
	Tweet...
	Tweet thread.
	No, John, just we have...
	Our engagement is down.
	Engagement is down.
	That's the truth.
	Engagement is down.
	Now, this meme of, well, they're really actually quite weak.
	This is just the last dead cat bounce or whatever you want to call it, the last jerk motions from ISIS because they're really almost gone, according to the U.S. government.
	They have threatened Western targets now.
	This, of course, is Kirby, who went on live with MSNBC. Of course, MSNBC is worth watching now that Brian Williams is back on during breaking news.
	They have threatened Western targets now for a long, long time, and it's a threat that we are all too familiar with, sadly, and trying to better prepare ourselves for.
	I will tell you, though, that one thing I think is important to remember, that this group, Dash, again, I'm not saying that they are responsible for this, but they are under increasing pressure in Iraq and Syria.
	And we are seeing them resort to more traditional terrorist tactics like suicide bombings and car bombs and those kinds of things because they aren't able to hold and grab the territory they once were because they are suffering a lot of hits to their resources.
	They're having trouble recruiting.
	They're losing lots of defectors now in ways they weren't before.
	They're even hiring now child soldiers to go into the field with their adult male fighters.
	So this is a group that is not operating at all the way.
	He says hiring, and they're hiring the adult male traitors?
	Is that what he said?
	Traitors, I think.
	Child traitors.
	Adult male fighters.
	So this is a group that is not operating at all the way it used to, and we think that one of the reasons...
	But he did say hiring, didn't he?
	Yeah.
	Why you're starting to see more of these kinds of attacks, even in Baghdad, is because this group is under some pressure.
	Yes, but it's terrorism.
	We have NYPD with automatic weapons outside this building.
	Thank you, Brian.
	New York City and outside subway stations and train stations and airports and city upon city across the country because it's terrorism.
	So they may be on the run.
	They may be hiring.
	He's doing racing.
	What are you talking about?
	We have anti-terrorism troops in New York City.
	How can you say this is less?
	How can you say we're winning?
	Child warriors, but it is a gruesomely effective line of work.
	Oh, and there's no argument with that, Brian, and we're not dismissing at all the violence that these people are capable of or the danger that they represent, not just in the region, but to our allies and partners in Europe, and frankly, even here at home.
	Yeah, okay, thank you.
	I have a quick question, just kind of a little bit off.
	When that guy, one of the group of four that supposedly did this damage in Brussels, one of them blew up a train at the metro station.
	Yeah.
	Why didn't he...
	It's almost like right across the street from the headquarters of the...
	It's right around the corner, yeah.
	Yeah, right around the corner.
	Why didn't he just wander over there and walk into the lobby and blow it up?
	Good question.
	I have no idea.
	It seems to be...
	It would have more impact on the EU. That's what...
	Well, no, John.
	No, this is...
	Let's step back for one second and let's see what is really happening here.
	Now I have been able to view the Turkey-EU deal.
	So the Turkey-EU deal is key in this, I believe.
	This is just the beginning.
	The 3 billion euros that is going to be sent to Turkey is an annual fee, it turns out.
	So every year you send 3 billion euros to Turkey, to Erdogan.
	You say, hey, keep those guys in there.
	Yeah, and of course, use this money to feed them.
	I think 10% is okay to lop off the top, quite honestly, don't you think?
	Well, if you're earlier one, you probably want 20.
	Well, yeah.
	You take 300 to 600 million euros.
	And then it's already started.
	Greece can start sending people back.
	But here's what's interesting.
	Then Turkey will send back Syrians to be assimilated into Europe.
	Now, we know that there are at least three passport printing presses from Syria with blank passports in Turkey.
	So they can pretty much vet whoever they want, send them over, and it's almost like, hey, that guy over there, send him back.
	He's a dud.
	I got a new guy here.
	Take this guy.
	He's better.
	He's much better.
	Does no one see this?
	Does no one see that this is...
	Oh, and then once everything starts blowing up, we'll have visa-free travel into the EU so we can all just go in.
	The idea of the Ottoman Empire is not dead, and anyone who thinks Erdogan is not thinking that way is fooling themselves.
	But it's so...
	It's an arachn...
	What's the word?
	I don't know.
	An arach...
	What?
	Arachnism?
	Anachronism.
	Anachronism.
	Thank you.
	You've talked about spiders.
	Yeah.
	Their thinking is an anachronism.
	They don't think in kind of old terms of what has been going on for centuries.
	Yeah.
	Over a thousand years.
	And just listen to the guy.
	Listen to him.
	He's standing there yelling like a crazy, but no.
	He's yelling like a madman.
	Yeah.
	Now, at the State Department, of course, this is the odd part of what's happening, is we have a version of this European niceness over us that we don't want to offend anybody.
	This is what we've been talking about for years on our show.
	Don't offend anybody.
	Everybody wins.
	Just be nice.
	Don't be like that.
	Share a secret.
	Please.
	Let's all just share a secret.
	But whatever you do, don't say it's about religion.
	Now, on one hand, I hear even the president saying they hijacked a religion.
	But you still can't say radical Islamic terrorist or Islamist terror.
	You can't say that.
	And the State Department, this came up, and Kirby...
	Donald Trump was very quick to tweet about how this shows there's a problem with the Muslims, as he put it.
	I mean, when he does that as the sort of frontrunner for a major party, does it undermine the diplomatic work you're trying to do?
	This isn't about a religion.
	This is about a warped and brutal, depraved ideology.
	What's the difference?
	Ideology versus religion?
	Is that a huge difference?
	Well, technically, I think you can make the case that there is.
	Okay.
	But not when it's wrapped up in a religious interpretation.
	Okay.
	We're having a real problem just saying what it is.
	And I'll go with the, they hijacked the religion.
	I'll go with that.
	But it's just, we have to acknowledge it.
	What you're bitching about is not going to happen.
	Why not?
	This is going to continue until the Europeans all become Muslim.
	Yeah, that's what it seems like.
	Yeah, and that's where, this was, by the way, I had a, just before 9-11, I put up a site Oh, boy.
	showed the progression of how the different countries of the world are all going to become Muslims for one grand umma.
	And they had France going first, and then England was going to be next, and they had all these different countries becoming Muslim.
	And it was called the United Muslim, World Muslim something.
	And they had the United States.
	We're on the list too, but we're way back.
	Europe was completely taken over before that happened.
	And I just said, that was really interesting, and it would have been a funny map to still have.
	I'm sure somebody's got an archive of it somewhere.
	But...
	Okay.
	We have to admit that there is a religious element of this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and when you have the kids cheering in the classroom, and then the cops coming over to tell you to knock it off by mentioning it, this is a problem.
	You can just see this.
	It's going to continue to be a problem until they put the, I don't know, the kibosh on it.
	Well, Hillary Clinton had a long, long, long meeting, because on Tuesday morning, everyone called Trump right away, and we'll get into that.
	But before we go over there, let's get a couple of these other clips out of the way.
	Since you play, you got to play Angle, I get to play Brian Ross.
	I just want to wrap up what I was saying about the nomenclature with a quick Clinton clip.
	We need a commander-in-chief that defends America.
	And defending America means defeating radical Islamic terrorism and defeating ISIS. That's obviously not her box.
	Coming.
	Is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?
	Yeah, it's coming.
	It's a setup for the Clinton.
	Of refusing even to say the words radical Islamic terrorism?
	There you go.
	All right, go ahead and respond to the senator.
	Well, that's a long debate that people like him try to stir up.
	You know, I call it radical jihadist terrorism.
	How long was the meeting?
	We've got to say something.
	How about radical jihadist terrorism?
	Yeah, that'll do it.
	That'll fool them.
	How dumb do they think everyone is?
	Very dumb.
	Radical jihad.
	She was at Stanford.
	Yeah.
	And I got a couple of clips from her.
	Before I go with my Brian Rossing, you've made me distracted now.
	Sorry.
	She is at Stanford.
	I got two clips.
	One of them is...
	This is Clinton at Stanford.
	It's a short clip, and I want to comment on it.
	But listen, here's what I want you to listen for.
	This is Hillary on a prompter.
	She's not a good prompter reader.
	She's very unnatural.
	What you just played was her talking off the cuff.
	That's the way she sounds when she talks.
	When she talks from a prompter, she talks, she reads, and he has emotionless, emotionless reading from, and she reads like word at a time.
	And this is a lot of her word at a time.
	It's the worst, and here's what the worst part is.
	Unfortunately, we don't have video for this, but she looks, she tries to do what Obama has given up on.
	Now, good prompter readers, and I've read from prompters on...
	My career was based on being able to float in and out of the prompter copy.
	Yeah, but I'm talking about the live prompter read in front of an audience.
	Yeah, I've done that.
	Okay.
	So you have two prompters usually.
	Yes, two glass slabs.
	And in a real good setup, you've got two glass prompters, one on the left and one on the right.
	And one in the back and the middle.
	And one in the back and the middle, and you can always go to that.
	Obama does this, and I think most good prompter readers do it.
	You give up on going off prompter.
	You just get good at reading prompter copies so you sound natural.
	And you never remove yourself from the prompter.
	Right.
	Well, that depends, but okay.
	No, I'm just saying, this is what Obama does.
	And this is what a lot of people do.
	Because if you don't do that, and you do what Hillary tries to do...
	You'll get messed up, and then the prompter operators know where you're at, and they roll up, roll down.
	She's looking up, she's looking over here, and then you can see her go to the prompter, and she tags the prompter, and you can watch it.
	She tags it?
	She goes and looks right at it, and then starts reading, and then she tries to move around to be more natural, and then she almost like turns her head violently and tags the prompter.
	And she's looking at it again.
	It's terrible.
	She stinks.
	This is what she sounds like.
	In our fight against radical jihadism, we have to do what actually works.
	One thing we know that does not work is offensive, inflammatory rhetoric that demonizes all Muslims.
	There are millions of peace-loving Muslims living, working, raising families and paying taxes in this country.
	These Americans are a crucial line of defense against terrorism.
	They are the most likely to recognize the warning signs of radicalization before it's too late and the best positioned to block it.
	So when Republican candidates like Ted Cruz call for treating American Muslims like criminals and for racially profiling predominantly Muslim neighborhoods, it's wrong, it's counterproductive, it's dangerous.
	So she has, like, no emotion, no life to the read.
	She was trying to do something with that.
	I believe that she was trying to be statesman-like.
	That was my take on it when I saw it.
	My take on it was, this is the best she can do.
	Yeah, yeah.
	In fact, they had her on the local news, and there's another clip.
	But before you go, so what I'm missing from that, that would be great in Europe.
	Europe loves that kind of speech.
	America just wants to hear, hey, I'm going to take care of this crap.
	Be right back.
	That's what we like here.
	That's essentially what our local, I think it was KPIX, one of our local stations, had that speech and they just let her talk for a couple of words and then the guy, the local news guy, had to just summarize what she said because it was so dull.
	This is Clinton droning.
	Okay, hold on.
	Our enemies are constantly adapting, so we have to do the same.
	For example, Brussels demonstrated clearly we need to take a harder look at security protocols.
	Clinton specifically mentioned airports and other soft targets for security enhancements.
	She also said that America's alliances, such as NATO, are key to defeating ISIS. And she said that the U.S. must take on the Islamic militants in cyberspace.
	You know, Obama was better than this.
	Here's Obama when he's going after someone who's hurting people in the world.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, The world needs help.
	Nicole's on America.
	And that's the story.
	See, that's what America wants.
	And we can even make Obama sound good.
	She is horrible.
	Yeah, she is.
	But did you...
	I noticed something very specific that happened immediately.
	All the Muslim hate and the horrible Muslim hate all went to Ted Cruz.
	All of a sudden, he's Mr.
	Anti-Muslim instead of Trump.
	I saw this.
	Here's the view.
	Here is how Ted Cruz...
	Ted Cruz, who was a candidate for the presidency, this is how he wants to handle the terror threat.
	He wants police in this country to patrol Muslim neighborhoods.
	Come on, right, but this is an example of anti-Muslim is not helping the situation.
	We need to take a long view of terrorism.
	These people, I don't even know why they want to kill us anymore.
	They just want to kill people.
	And the main thing you have to stop doing is recruiting new people.
	Otherwise, there is no end to this.
	And all of this hate speech against Muslim helps to recruit people.
	It does.
	But that's the bottom line.
	Ted Cruz is now getting the rap, instead of Donald Trump, for being the guy who's inciting all of this Muslim hatred.
	Gayle King, CBS with Charlie Rose.
	How about this point of view?
	There are so many people that say that your comments are decidedly anti-Muslim, and that you're playing right into the hands of ISIS, that you're giving them ammunition to come after us, to really take action against us.
	You're just teeing it up for people to come after us.
	Gayle, with all respect, People are fed up with the political correctness of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
	Yeah.
	And then we have Anderson Pooper, who even turns internment camps over to Ted Cruz's turf.
	So the question though is, what do you mean by empowering law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized?
	As you probably know, the Anti-Defamation League has put out a statement saying, demonizing all Muslims is a misguided, counterproductive response to the terrorist threat posed by those motivated by a radical interpretation of Islam.
	It's an irrational approach, harkens back to the fear and bigotry that led to the dark and tragic chapter in American history, the relocation of more than 100,000 Japanese.
	That does not mean targeting Muslims.
	It means targeting radical Islamic terrorism.
	And I'm not disagreeing with what he's saying, but he's getting nailed for it.
	You ask, what does that mean?
	You know, Mayor Bloomberg in New York had a very successful program to engage with the Muslim community.
	And to prevent radicalization and to identify radical Islamic terrorists before they carry out acts of terrorism.
	Mayor de Blasio came in and ended that program, said we're no longer going to do so.
	That was foolishness.
	That was political correctness run amok.
	Do you have the Bratton clip?
	No, I wish I had gotten it.
	I have two longer clips.
	Well, Bratton comes out.
	He's the police chief in New York.
	Right.
	He's the one who, and he does exactly like these other guys, only he, damn, it pisses me off I didn't get the clip.
	He tops it by saying, by naming Cruz as the guy who is inciting this, he's saying this type of policing didn't work here and it won't work anywhere.
	And he says, and then he says, and besides, Ted Cruz is not going to be president.
	Ha ha!
	Really?
	You said that?
	So Cruz is getting the wrap.
	Well, the question is, how did this happen?
	Well, I need to, yes.
	Hell froze over, John.
	I woke up and hell had frozen over.
	I could not believe what I was seeing.
	My mouth fell open.
	It was a 15 minute piece.
	I chopped it down to four.
	It's long, but I think you will enjoy the view.
	The morning that this became known.
	Are you sitting down?
	Because you will need to sit down.
	I'm sitting down here.
	I have to tell you, I woke up this morning and I saw the news and I got sick to my stomach.
	I got a little sick and I was angry.
	And a reminder that this is the program that I believe a lot of American women watch to understand what's happening in their world.
	It is a very popular program.
	Then there's a broad scala on women there.
	We have little Raven Simone from the Cosby kids.
	We've got a very broad scala of women.
	Also, this is continuing to go on and plague us.
	Hold on a second.
	A broad what?
	Scala.
	Scala?
	Yes.
	When have you ever used that word in your life?
	I think the Dutch use it a lot.
	Instead of saying spectrum, they say scala.
	Oh, okay.
	I never heard it before.
	I think it's a proper use of the word.
	Well, it might be.
	I don't know.
	I never heard the word.
	Well, then stop the show.
	Stop the show.
	All right, everybody.
	We're going to take five.
	We'll just stop and take it for a minute to check out some words.
	Okay.
	And the word, the word is Scala.
	Let us look up Scala.
	Okay, Scala.
	We have a machine formerly employed for reducing dislocation of the numerous or a term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea.
	Well, I guess I have no idea what I'm talking about.
	The word Scala is wrong!
	Alright everybody, we've cleared that up.
	We're ready to go.
	That this is continuing to go on and plague us.
	There's no end in sight what's going on in this world.
	Did you have a similar reaction?
	I've been saying this for a while.
	It's not official, obviously, for the government to say, but we're in kind of a world war situation.
	It's everywhere, and we need to definitely see what's going on and what's coming out of our mouths to fuel the fire.
	And people have been saying that.
	You hear that?
	What's coming out of our mouths.
	So now, this is very important.
	This is being said over and over again.
	It's what's coming out of our mouths that's making them do that.
	We, the people who say anything negative about Islam or Muslims, we, the people, are at fault.
	This is the continuum.
	We're just whipping ourselves.
	Like, oh, it's our fault.
	It's our fault.
	See what's going on and what's coming out of our mouths to fuel the fire.
	And people have been saying that for a long time, that we are at war.
	That we are at war with Islam.
	With what?
	I don't want to say at war with the Islamic faith, but we certainly are in a war with terror.
	This is what the front runner of the Republican Party had to say.
	Donald Trump, watch.
	Well, I'd be hitting ISIS so hard, and I was not in favor of Iraq, and I was not in favor of a lot of things, but with ISIS, With the chopping off of the heads, and this is ISIS related, of course, you've got to hit ISIS so hard and you've got to take them out and not play tiddlywinks like we're playing right now.
	I would use maximum, maximum interrogation technique.
	I would use waterboarding and I would try and expand the laws so we can go beyond waterboarding.
	Now, that's pretty much Trump's...
	That's what he says all the time.
	That's what he's been saying continuously.
	Now for the response from the ladies of The View.
	...to waterboard people, which a lot of people, including, you know, terrorism experts, say does not work.
	He wants to close the borders.
	He doesn't want any refugees coming in, just in case there are a couple of terrorists mixed in there.
	He wants to get tough on ISIS. He doesn't say how exactly, as if other things have not been tried.
	What do you think about these comments?
	I'll be honest.
	I went to law school because I want justice in our world and peace in our world.
	And it's sort of my moral compass is always on the side of justice.
	I'm a lawyer, so my moral compass is kind of on the side of justice.
	Not all the time, just in justice.
	Just a little bit on that side.
	I try to screw everybody, but I'm a lawyer.
	You can't hold it against me.
	The side of justice.
	And I am so tired of seeing this senseless death.
	I thought Donald Trump sounded really reasonable today.
	What?
	Stop the presses.
	Oh, but it didn't stop there, Jean-Claude.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Because we need to be forceful.
	We can't have these muted responses to terror.
	What's an example of a muted expression?
	I think that...
	Would it be what Hillary said?
	I think Hillary Clinton came out with what seemed to be a very muted response.
	And let me also say this about Donald Trump.
	You know, we trash him often here.
	Bottom line is, in January...
	My jaw is on the floor at this point.
	Now they're apologizing for trashing Donald Trump incessantly.
	But then they come out with a video that went very viral, and if you want, we can play the whole thing later.
	And this is a summary of the video from Lou Dobbs, which aired, I think, over the weekend.
	And you've been saying that, Raven.
	I've been saying that.
	In January of this year, he said Brussels was a hellhole.
	And this is an interview with Maria Baratiromo.
	Try Baratiromo.
	I believe CNBC. Baratiromo.
	I could be wrong.
	It could be Baratiromo.
	I believe CNBC, I could be wrong about that.
	He said there is something going on Maria.
	He said that, yeah, fine, go.
	Something going on Maria and it is not good, talking about Belgium, where they want Sharia law, where they want this, where they want that.
	You know there has to be some assimilation, there is no assimilation.
	You go to Brussels, I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything was beautiful.
	Now it's living, it's like living in a hell hole.
	He said that in January.
	Okay, and he also was right about, you know, the fact that we went into Iraq, which was a huge mistake.
	It's like the guy's doing a podcast.
	He called it.
	He called it in January, ma'am.
	The guy's from the future.
	Part of the problem.
	He was right.
	So he's right on a couple of things.
	So his foreign policy isn't so outrageous.
	You know, we were talking about this in the makeup room.
	Did we ever think that Donald Trump would be the voice of reason?
	I think his reputation and the fear that How many people have of him is that he's got the nuclear code.
	He's got his finger on the button.
	But, I mean, yesterday he came out with NATO and said, let's not be an interventionalist country.
	Let's not go where we can't fight these battles.
	Let's actually fix the problems here at home.
	Today he says this, we don't need to send troops over there.
	He actually sounds a little bit like a voice of reason.
	The voice of reason!
	Reasonable today.
	Let me tell you, because, you know...
	Oh, he said the same thing, but today he sounds reasonable.
	Yes, I'll agree with that.
	He hasn't changed his spiel.
	An iota.
	An iota.
	In fact, that 1988 clip that you played last show.
	Yeah.
	Same thing.
	But not so much about terrorism.
	But so now we've decided Trump is good.
	Cruz is the a-hole.
	It's beautiful.
	This is fantastic.
	It's unbelievable.
	In one day, Cruz has got to be beside himself.
	Yeah, because more.
	Reasonable today.
	Let me tell you, because you know me, I've been trying to watch it.
	I'm not a very big fan.
	And I look at it and I go, you know what?
	He didn't understand the...
	I'm going to use the word verbiage.
	I don't know if it's a real word.
	Verbiage.
	Verbiage?
	Verbiage.
	This is Raven Simone, and I like what she's saying.
	This is a fun girl.
	Use the word verbiage.
	I don't know if it's a real word.
	Verbiage.
	Verbiage.
	He uses the verbiage that you use when you close the door to your house and you say it with your family.
	You don't say those things outside the door.
	And that's what got everybody in an uproar.
	Whoa, nice analysis, little Raven Simone.
	He always had his points that people, the millions of people that are voting for him right now, are wanting him to be the...
	The forerunner, you know what I mean?
	He's a forerunner.
	They understood that.
	They weeded through the problems that we were having with him, which was the crassness, because we're not used to that as a politician and seeing our presidents talk that way.
	So which candidate makes you feel more secure?
	Hillary or Trump?
	Do you understand why I watch The View now, Joan?
	Don't you understand that this is top, top, top quality entertainment?
	I think a lot of people are waking up.
	What?
	Top quality crap.
	It's fabulous.
	So I think a lot of people are waking up today and they're saying, you know, what Trump is saying kind of resonates with me.
	He tweeted, he said, do you remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels was?
	Not anymore.
	It is from a different world.
	The U.S. must be vigilant and smart.
	There was a tremendous criticism in Brussels right now.
	And when he was on GMA today, he wasn't just talking about President Obama.
	He was going back 15 years and he said presidents.
	He wasn't just casting stones.
	15 years ago was when we invaded Iraq.
	Exactly.
	Hello.
	He was right again.
	What I'm just saying, the fact of border security, and that's what he has preached, is not necessarily just building that wall, but border security and securing the borders.
	He didn't know how to say it to make everybody...
	He didn't know how to say it because he said it in just the most bigoted way he could possibly say it.
	And that's the problem that I've always had.
	It's sort of the bigotry and the misogyny.
	But somehow this morning, and I'm terrified that I feel this way, he sounded reasonable to me.
	His message resonated.
	Okay, let me ask you something.
	You wake up in November.
	To President Trump.
	How do you feel?
	I just can't even go there in my head.
	You just gave him a valentine this morning.
	How do you feel?
	Her head blew up after that.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	Well, that was interesting.
	You're not going to give it to me?
	No, I know what you're angling for.
	You're not going to give it to me?
	Well, let me tell you.
	You want me to explain why?
	Why you're not giving me Clip of the Day?
	And I'm not giving you Borderline either.
	Because it's neither, it's not really a Clip of the Day.
	It doesn't have...
	There's some missing element.
	The element of...
	I know what you're saying.
	No, stop.
	You're right.
	This is what a clip of the day sounds like.
	Something the Cuban government believes it must now do.
	Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winning communist.
	Communist.
	Wow.
	Thanks, Brian.
	I think I have that on the mind.
	You are not, in fact, a communist.
	You are a friend of ours.
	Come on!
	Come on!
	Idiot.
	Come on!
	I'll give you a borderline, but it's not going to be...
	Borderline!
	And that's kind of...
	Anyway, that does exemplify more of the type of clip that gets recognized as clip of the day.
	And...
	And I don't normally whine about not getting Clip of the Day.
	but i wasn't whining i wasn't whining i wasn't whining uh there's more but i recommend we uh just break for a moment so i can thank you for your courage and passion and say in the morning to you john c where the c stands for clip blocker And in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground.
	Feet in the air.
	Subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to our artistes, our previous artist, by Melvin Gipstein.
	I guess it's Gipstein, Gipstein, Gipstein.
	He did the artwork for episode 809-er.
	Of course, that was the Velocity of Money episode, and the artwork was...
	Oh yeah, it was the dollar bill with the angry bird at the top of the Illuminati pyramid.
	Yeah, that was actually a good piece.
	Very nice piece.
	That little bird at the top.
	We appreciate everything that is always submitted.
	Again, another example of art that's not really too complicated.
	It's just an idea executed well.
	Yes.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	You can see all the ideas and how they've been executed.
	And also, in the morning to the chat room, make sure that I thank them for showing up today.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Let's thank some people, our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	This works very much like Hollywood.
	We have a program.
	You're watching a movie.
	There's not necessarily an ad in the movie, but there's the people who helped produce the movie, and we'd like to thank them with the credits up front.
	Well, let's thank a few people then, and starting with Patrick Seymour, who came up with $567.89.
	Five, six, seven, eight, nine.
	Beautiful, yeah.
	He's in Clayton, Ohio.
	Excellent shows of late, so here's some value for value.
	How about some karma for all of the subscribing producers out there?
	And any Sir Fletcher medley for myself, he'll take.
	Well, then let's do a classic here.
	Boo-tack!
	Amen!
	Fist bump!
	Unicorns!
	Yay!
	Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
	My Sharia 4-0!
	I addressed...
	Oops.
	There we go.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	And here comes Sir Thomas Nussbaum, Duke.
	Thomas Nussbaum from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who seems to be out here on the West Coast doing something.
	Nussbaum!
	33333.
	Currently we're working at Facebook as a contractor.
	And yes, they listen here.
	Got a couple of...
	He walks around with his badge and he's using one of the No Agenda lanyards.
	With his face bag badge?
	Yeah.
	That's cool.
	So he got a couple of in the mornings and a bunch of silence when he mentioned he was a Jew.
	Oh, so there are listeners at the bag.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	Very good.
	Christine Zachman.
	Let's give him some karma for working at face bags.
	Face bag karma.
	You've got karma.
	Bagger karma.
	Christine Zachman in Lost Wages, Nevada.
	250 bucks.
	She becomes an associate executive producer for show 810, which also commemorates the 810 split for all you bowlers out there.
	Oh, I've forgotten about the 810 split.
	Oh, the 810 split.
	It's just annoying.
	Because usually the 810 split comes with a pocket hit.
	It doesn't really do anything wrong.
	It comes with a what?
	Pocket hit.
	Bowling lingo.
	Okay.
	This donation will go towards Gary Zachman's future knighthood.
	Uh-oh!
	Please keep up the good work.
	Beware of the hillitants.
	Ha ha ha!
	Millery Millitants.
	The Millery Millitants.
	The Millitants.
	Okay.
	And finally, our last associate executive producer.
	We only have two today and two executives.
	Sir Brian Barrow, Baron Sir Brian, from Swindon, Great Britain, $200.
	Hi, John and Adam, from Sir Brian Barrow, the Black Knight, Baron of the Royal Wooten Basset.
	Still on course for my next title.
	Keep up the excellent work.
	I think we can throw a karma his way.
	I think that's a very good idea.
	Can we throw one Christine's way?
	This is for you too, Christine.
	You know what?
	Screw it.
	We'll just give her another karma.
	I'm feeling harmonious.
	You feel harmonious.
	Harmonious today.
	Give all the karma away that people need.
	That's it.
	And that's it.
	That's all we got today.
	Well, before we move on, I do have a little PR mention.
	It was, I think, it was a week ago or a week and a half ago.
	And I believe it was on the...
	It eventually wound up on the No Agenda Facebag group.
	But it first was sent through the No Agenda listserv.
	This pilot who drew a picture of an airplane.
	I think he also did some dick pics on GPS. Did you see that?
	I didn't see the dick pics, but I saw the proposed No Agenda...
	Well, you're ruining my surprise.
	Okay.
	So there was a guy who filed a flight plan, did all the...
	Because if you want to show up on websites like flightaware.com, etc., you have to have ADS-B, which is a certain type of transponder that also broadcasts a signal that can...
	There's a lot of people with these open-source USB sticks.
	And they, you know, which are meant for receiving digital television signals, and they reprogram them just to access a lower region of the band.
	It's basically a software-defined radio.
	And so they can listen to these signals being sent by aircraft, and so you have apps, and you can, you know, just type in the tail number of the aircraft, and it'll show you its path, its track, you know, all the telemetry of how fast it's going, altitude, etc., And then it draws a track, and then you can follow how the aircraft flew.
	So producer Charlie here in Austin, actually he's just outside of Austin, I contacted him, I said, hey Charlie, I got an idea.
	And I sent him the article, and he sent me back, about an hour and a half later, a complete pre-programmed GPS coordinates, all the beacons, everything completely perfect to draw a huge ITM between Austin and Houston.
	Which we're going to do tomorrow in the sky.
	I thought it was an N.A. No, Tina clearly told me I was dumb.
	Are you nuts?
	You're going to do N.A., which no one will understand?
	How about ITM? I think, yeah.
	Anyone's going to understand that.
	Okay.
	ITM is better.
	ITM is much better.
	That's our thing.
	ITM is our symbol.
	It's our logo.
	That's why we listen to the women in our lives.
	That's why we listen to anybody but ourselves.
	So, Charlie, I love Charlie, man.
	It's actually much easier.
	Let me get this straight.
	I'll tell you how it works.
	You're going to paint In the sky.
	Over the United States.
	Yes, over Texas, no less.
	A giant ITM in the sky, but it's only viewable through all this rigmarole that maybe only 10 people can see, but it's going to be there, and it'll be there for all eternity.
	It will be thousands and thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of people who will be able to see this.
	You can watch it live.
	You can watch us do it live.
	On flightaware.com.
	Oh.
	Yes.
	So tomorrow, before we take off, because I don't have a death wish, tomorrow, before we take off, I will tweet out the tail number of the aircraft so that everyone can type that into flightaware.com.
	That way they can't plant a bomb on the plane.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what you're saying to the audience.
	That's what I'm saying, yeah.
	Hell yeah.
	They can still shoot you down, but they won't because that's not...
	Well, at least, yeah, they'll know where I am.
	They'll know where I am.
	So, yeah, it's about...
	They know where you are now.
	It's about 127 mile wide ITM in the sky.
	Okay.
	Which, of course, I'll also bring the chemtrail machine with me.
	So temporarily you'll be able to see it.
	I think it's a cool promotion.
	You don't sound so happy as I am.
	It's a fantastic promotion.
	Are you kidding me?
	Because I think that could go viral.
	No.
	Why not?
	I just don't see it.
	This podcast is so cool, its listeners draw their initials in the sky!
	Come on.
	Okay.
	I think we're getting a lot of potential for viral activity.
	I don't see this being...
	I think this is just kind of cool.
	Nah, well, I think it's more than kind of cool.
	Yeah, well, yeah, you do, of course.
	Anyway, the technology behind it is interesting because Charlie pretty much just did all the GPS coordinates, and then tomorrow when we take off, we feed all that into the autopilot, And we go up, and we don't know if we'll be, depending on the weather, we'll be above the clouds or below the clouds.
	And then you pretty much flip on the autopilot, and it draws it in the sky.
	Okay.
	I think I should step back for your enthusiasm.
	How long does this take, by the way?
	I don't want it to hit me in the face.
	How long does this take?
	An hour and 12 minutes.
	Oh, that's not too bad.
	127 mile wide initials.
	Okay.
	And what are you doing to promote the show?
	I am doing something to promote the show.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Really?
	Yeah.
	It's a secret.
	Okay.
	A lot of thanks to our executive producers and our associate executive producers.
	I hope you enjoy all the promotions we're doing for you.
	And remember, even if you're in the sky, please be propagating a formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, Slay.
	Shut up, Slay.
	All righty then. - Um...
	I did have one or two, no one I think.
	One clip left over.
	The President's response.
	And I'm sure you followed the outrage.
	Just outrage.
	I'm so outraged.
	The President was in Cuba watching a baseball game and the optics of this were not good, I would say.
	What was your feeling on that?
	Optics.
	I watched the game.
	You were interested in the game.
	I thought the game was, it was kind of, I don't know how the Cuban team didn't do better, but against the Rays, but okay.
	So the president got a lot of flack.
	In optics, I agree with you.
	I think it was, and then he's being interviewed by a bunch of ESPN guys, and he's hanging out with Jeter and giving him high fives.
	Yeah.
	All this stuff.
	Derek Jeter probably would rarely get to see the president if ever, but there he's hanging out with him.
	It was probably a pretty good idea.
	I don't know.
	I just thought it was a publicity stunt that didn't go anywhere one way or the other.
	I guess baseball fans.
	The game sucked.
	I can only watch parts of it.
	I can't believe you watched that game.
	Why would you even do that?
	I wanted to see how the Cuban team looked.
	The Cuban team is going to be part of a minor league system that the United States uses like a AAA team.
	Well, more importantly, Google is going to be providing wireless internet to the entire nation of Cuba.
	They're in.
	I've got to get over there before the regular airline service starts.
	That's going to wreck it.
	That's going to wreck the place.
	So the president did give a little speech.
	Nine minutes, cut down to one and a half.
	That's not hard.
	You just take out all the pauses.
	My God.
	This is going back to teleprompter.
	So he had no teleprompter.
	And he sucked.
	I mean, it was this impromptu response by the president, which they got caught off guard.
	I think they were probably all partying.
	Everyone's dead.
	It's the party plane.
	We're going to Cuba.
	We're going to watch a ball game.
	We're going to drink.
	We're going to have fun.
	We're going to live it up.
	It's going to be fabulous.
	And then, oh, crap.
	What do we do?
	What do we do now?
	Will the president do this?
	Maybe he just said, screw it.
	I can do this.
	I addressed this issue a little bit at the baseball game when I was interviewed by ESPN, but let me reiterate it.
	Groups like ISIL can't destroy us.
	They can't defeat us.
	They don't produce anything.
	They're not an existential threat to us.
	An existential?
	What is an existential?
	Like we would be extinct?
	Is that what existential means?
	No, no.
	We should look it up and discuss it because the word is being used a lot.
	Okay.
	So let's get it right.
	Alright, hold on.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Consult the book of knowledge!
	Existential.
	Here we go.
	Having existence of or pertaining to or having the character of existentialism, or specifying actual existence, rather than only possibly.
	So it is about the existence.
	I want to get the thing.
	Yeah, that's what existentialism refers to.
	I'm just reading the definition.
	That's the definition you read, which is what it is.
	But the existential threat is something else.
	And here's the jargon database.com definition.
	Okay, this is interesting.
	Surprisingly, not something one finds covered in a college philosophy textbook, which is where existential comes from.
	This is regarded as a military or terrorist threat to the existence of something, usually the United States.
	It involves nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
	So he's saying it's not an actual threat.
	Right.
	Huh.
	It's not that they're non-threatening to our existence.
	The threat itself is non-existent.
	That's what he's saying.
	Pretty much.
	But they use that because they can't say that these guys...
	I mean, the president can't say what we can say on the show, which is, this is nonsense.
	These guys are just jokers.
	And it's all theater.
	And everything we're seeing from the FBI and everything else, and see something, say something, and all the rest of it, and the security lines and all the rest of it, it's bullcrap.
	The number of people that are going to get killed by any terrorist nutjob that might be floating around Phoenix is beyond getting hit by a bolt of lightning.
	Percentage-wise, sure.
	And so it's bullcrap, but they can't quite say that because they're like, oh, oh, oh!
	And you can't sell stuff.
	You can't sell scanners.
	So you dream up this term, and I guess the military is where it came from, according to these guys.
	And it's not an existential threat.
	Everyone goes, oh, okay.
	I guess that's, I don't know.
	I don't even know what that means.
	So it's a scam.
	It's a scam phrase.
	Okay.
	Nailed it.
	It's a scam.
	It's bogative.
	It's bogative.
	But let me reiterate it.
	Groups like ISIL can't They can't destroy us.
	They can't defeat us.
	They don't produce anything.
	They're not an existential threat to us.
	That was the only word he had to remember.
	He blew it.
	That's why.
	They are vicious killers.
	And murderers who've perverted one of the world's great religions, and...
	Oh, okay, he's saying it too.
	They've perverted...
	So it does have to do with religion, and he's just admitting it.
	Their primary power, in addition to killing innocent lives, is to strike fear.
	In our societies.
	To disrupt our societies.
	So that the effect cascades from an explosion or an attack by a semi-automatic rifle.
	What?
	He's pulling in pieces of other speeches.
	An attack by a semi-automatic rifle.
	Yeah, just an attack by a semi-automatic rifle instead of, I don't know, what?
	An attack by a semi-automatic rifle.
	Even as we are systematic and ruthless and focused in going after them, disrupting their networks.
	Getting their leaders, rolling up their operations.
	It is very important for us to not respond with fear.
	As I said, that's hard to do because we see the impact in such an intimate way of the attacks that they make.
	We defeat them in part by saying, You are not strong.
	You are weak.
	We send a message to those who might be inspired by them to say you are not going to change our values of liberty and openness and the respect of all people.
	Get ready for it.
	One of my proudest moments as president was watching Boston respond after the Boston Marathon attack.
	Okay.
	The president says one of his proudest moments...
	How's that a proud moment?
	They're telling people to stay at home?
	There's a military state?
	People were told to cower in the corner, to shelter in place, stay indoors for...
	How long was it, John?
	Four days?
	No, it was two days.
	Maybe it was longer.
	I could be wrong.
	So he is so proud, so proud that everybody said, you know what, we're going to shelter in place and cower in the cornea and be...
	I was so proud.
	The slaves listened to what I told them to do.
	And then we had our military, I'm sorry, police, but they look like military, run around and bust into people's homes.
	So proud.
	So American.
	So proud.
	One of my proudest moments as president was watching Boston respond after the Boston Marathon attack.
	Because they taught America a lesson.
	They grieved.
	We apprehended those who had carried this out.
	But a few days later, folks were out shopping.
	Thank you, George W. Bush.
	They were starving to death.
	Thank you, George W. Bush.
	Remember after 9-11, Bush said, go shopping!
	Go shopping!
	Apparently that's what we need to do.
	Boston Strong.
	But a few days later, folks were out shopping.
	Boston Strong.
	And I'm not making light of what happened, but screw that noise.
	Boston Strong.
	And that is how we are going to defeat these terrorist groups.
	By shopping.
	We have to shop, John.
	As long as we're shopping, we're going to defeat these terrorist groups.
	No existential threat.
	In part because we're going after them, and we are strong.
	Our values are right.
	You offer nothing except death.
	And so it's important to...
	What about those 72 virgins?
	The U.S. president and the U.S. government to be able to work with people who are building and who are creating things and creating jobs and trying to solve major problems like climate change.
	Oh, brother, how does he get that in?
	That's the real problem we have to solve is climate change.
	It's not ISIS, it's climate change.
	You hear the latest thing about climate change where the reason the tides aren't rising, they're actually going down, is because the ground is rising.
	You know what?
	I didn't want to go there right now, but I will take this detour with you right now.
	No, I don't want to take the detour yet.
	It's very important.
	Okay.
	I want to get at least my two clips out of the way.
	All right.
	I'm going to hit you with some more.
	Well, what is our strategy on ISIS? What is our plan?
	Since the President just said, you know, we're going to go kick their ass and we're going to shop.
	He can't tell us because the plan was due by February 15th and this has not been delivered by the Secretary of Defense to Congress.
	It's a law and they're late and they don't give a shit.
	Mr.
	Secretary, obviously we're here in a day of tragedy.
	Tragedy for the Belgians, tragedy for the world.
	ISIS is now taking responsibility for the murders this morning.
	We had a Marine that was killed last weekend in Iraq.
	I know you feel that personally.
	We have a law that we passed called the National Defense Authorization Act.
	It required you to submit to the Congress by February the 15th a plan for defeating these people.
	I know you told the Chairman that it was imminent by February the 15th.
	You are in violation of the law.
	When an average American is in violation of the law, there are consequences.
	Would you care to explain to the committee why there shouldn't be consequences for your failure to follow a law that was signed by your president?
	We'll be in front of you imminently.
	Mr.
	Secretary, that's not my question.
	The statute says you shall do it by February the 15th.
	Do you not agree that you are in violation of that law?
	We are prepared.
	We are going to submit that report.
	It's taken some time.
	I'm going to ask you again.
	Do you not agree that you're in violation of the law?
	We will have that report to you shortly, Congressman.
	I don't think that's a satisfactory response.
	When we pass a law around here, it means something.
	Hell yeah.
	Now, people's lives are at stake.
	You know that better than any of the rest of us.
	Whoa!
	I don't think it's...
	Excuse me for a minute in the secretary.
	It's not too much to ask.
	That you comply with the laws that we pass and the president signs.
	It's not sufficient for you to say it's imminent.
	You need to give us a plan now.
	We don't even have a plan.
	I was not aware of this.
	I don't know how you got that.
	That would be closer to Clip of the Day.
	In fact, I'm going to give you Clip of the Day for that.
	Clip of the Day.
	He could be held in contempt, couldn't he?
	They can do all kinds of stuff.
	Unbelievable.
	Here's the problem.
	To be held in contempt and to enforce it with some sort of imprisonment.
	Waterboarding.
	Waterboarding.
	We should waterboard the guy to get the plan out of him.
	Waterboard the guy.
	It has to be put through by...
	This was explained in a clip we played a couple years ago.
	It has to be put through by the...
	D.C. district attorney or something, and they're all in the pockets of the Obama administration.
	It's not easy to do.
	So this is just wheel spinning.
	And the guy should have said, yeah, I'm in violation of the law.
	So what?
	Well, that's pretty much what he said.
	But he didn't know.
	He didn't say that.
	He was a wimp.
	He could have gone further.
	Talking about what's the solution to all this, I'm watching Judy Woodruff They finally, the PBS news are finally had Bernie on.
	Oh, they must have been on that.
	It's a nine minute, I think it's six and seven.
	Was he in the studio or was he on remote?
	No, he was on in another studio, but he was at least being interviewed.
	Yeah.
	One on one.
	Right.
	Mono a mono.
	Woodruff got into a brain freeze or something.
	She kept asking him the same question in the same kind of freaky way.
	She was very bad at this.
	And Bernie finally blew up at the end.
	But it was during all this discussion of Brussels and all the rest and ISIS. And so what I've done is I've only clipped...
	This is the Woodruff...
	Woodruff clip.
	What you're going to hear is Woodruff asking these stupid questions, and then I just put a little bit of Bernie in there, because Bernie went on and on trying to explain to her, and then after he finished, she asked the same question, and he went on and on and on trying to explain to her.
	Is this production?
	You've done pre-production.
	I did some work on this.
	So all you get is Woodruff, a snippet of Bernie, Woodruff, a snippet of Bernie, Woodruff, and then Bernie going off on her, and then I cut it.
	But to play devil's advocate, just one more question here, Senator.
	The approach you describe is one that is going to take many months, maybe even many years.
	Well, you know, Judy, I don't know.
	Let me tell you this also, Judy.
	Hold on a second.
	Is this the right clip, John?
	Because it's almost over.
	I can't be right.
	It is the right.
	I must have left it on the cutting room floor.
	I'll reproduce.
	I don't know how that happened.
	I only have nine seconds or 20 seconds of this clip.
	Oh, no.
	All that work.
	Okay, next show, next Sunday show, I'll have to do it.
	Well...
	And I even did, like, a whole, like, lead-in to it and everything.
	Oh, man.
	I still looked at the number myself, 378K. It should be more like 2M. Let me see if I can...
	It's a glitch.
	Don't worry about it.
	Let me see if I can save the segment with...
	With the Constitution...
	President Obama was a constitutional professor, correct?
	Constitutional lawyer!
	He's a constitutional lawyer!
	But he also taught constitutional law, correct?
	I think he was a lecturer.
	He wasn't a professor.
	But he should be able to...
	Okay.
	If you're a lecturer, do you think you should be able to explain...
	Yes, you should know something.
	Can you explain the...
	In America, we have a system where the powers are separated.
	What do we call that?
	Separation of powers.
	Separation of powers.
	Okay.
	And it's the legislative, which is Congress.
	It's the judicial, which is the Supreme Court.
	And it's the executive branch.
	Do I still have it right?
	Yeah, you're going.
	You're going for it.
	Well, the president didn't have his prompter.
	I also think that one of the great advantages of the United States system, even though it's very frustrating sometimes for the president, is that power is distributed across a lot of different institutions.
	Power is distributed across a lot of institutions.
	Okay, there's three.
	It's three.
	If you're talking about federal power, it's three.
	If you're talking about states' power, it's different, but we'll go back to the Constitution.
	But he's a constitutional lecturer.
	Well, here's what's happened.
	Do you want to hear the rest of him?
	Do you want to hear the rest of him?
	Oh, he's still talking?
	Oh, please!
	Oh, you interrupted him.
	You should have let it go out.
	I will now.
	It's what we call separation of powers and decentralization.
	So it's not just that the President and Congress are separate Centers of power.
	Dictators.
	It's also true that you have state governments that are powerful.
	The private sector is powerful.
	What?
	This makes it hard sometimes.
	So the president is explaining the separation of powers by bringing in the states and big business.
	And he forgets the Supreme Court.
	Centers of power.
	It's also true that you have state governments that are powerful.
	The private sector is powerful.
	And this makes it hard sometimes for America to change as rapidly as we need to to respond to changed circumstances or problems.
	Because it's sort of like herding cats.
	It's not like herding cats.
	And notice the audience is dead.
	So he's waiting for the guffaws and the laughter.
	Oh yeah, because the audience is wondering, what the hell is he doing?
	What's wrong with this guy?
	It's sort of like herding cats.
	Pin drop.
	Pin drop.
	You're constantly trying to get everybody to...
	Oh shit, where's my laughter?
	It says right there in the...
	Oh, I don't have a prompter.
	Oh man.
	Circumstances or problems.
	Because it's sort of like herding cats.
	You're constantly trying to get everybody to work together and move in the same direction at the same time, and that's difficult.
	The advantage is that even if we end up with somebody who I might not consider a great president, there's a limit to some of the damage that they can do.
	Do.
	Do.
	Because...
	And I'm sure Republicans feel that about me.
	They're glad that there's distribution of power.
	Distribution of power.
	Because they imagine that I would have turned the United States into Cuba, I suppose.
	Yeah.
	No laughs again.
	They tend to exaggerate a little bit my...
	Yeah, no laughs.
	Fail.
	How I see the world.
	Epic fail.
	They fail to see the world the way I see the world.
	The guy's gone off the rails here.
	You're right.
	I think we can apply something we've learned today instead of constitutional lawyer.
	I think we can call him an existential lawyer.
	Well, let's play something that I've kind of been saving.
	What's happened to the government, the United States in particular, and I think Obama exhibited Well, the inability to explain that we've become a regulatory system.
	Right.
	Which is why he's talking about distribution.
	And the regulatory system is...
	Funny he was able to do it without mentioning the court at all in that two minutes.
	He doesn't need to, because...
	And I have to say, after I listened to this long interview with John Yu, who was...
	Who was he again?
	Was he an attorney general?
	John used the guy who wrote the thesis that torture was okay for the abortion administration.
	Oh, that's right.
	He's a professor over here at Berkeley.
	And they had the guy sign it on his deathbed.
	I don't remember.
	They did, yeah.
	But Yu is a very controversial figure, but he's very smart.
	And he is discussing one of his newest books.
	Which is a compilation of essays that other people have written.
	But he discusses how we've changed from this separation of powers operation run by Congress, who makes the laws, to this regulatory-driven system where you have agencies writing laws.
	Rules.
	Yeah.
	They're not writing just rules.
	They're writing laws.
	Yeah.
	And they write these laws and there's a blanket approval process that Congress gave them or something somewhere along the line.
	So these agencies are just writing laws left and right.
	It's like the Clean Air Act gave the EPA all that license that they have been using.
	It's acts.
	It's acts of Congress that give them the license.
	That's the way I see it.
	Well, there's that element, but the problem is they're writing laws, and technically the way the system's done, it should be done, all laws should be written by Congress, not by some bonehead in a special district.
	I worked for one of these operations.
	Yeah.
	Enforcing the law, and then watching the guys who disobeyed these rules and regulations and laws, and got to see them go to essentially a kangaroo court.
	Where everybody stands when these phonies come in.
	The whole thing is outrageous.
	Now, the history of this is elucidated here on this C-SPAN show, Book TV, by John Yu, and it's kind of interesting.
	All along, we don't have all these agencies.
	When did it start and how did it start?
	It's really interesting.
	So as we talked about crisis in command, executive power really expands during two periods of crisis.
	That's the name of the book.
	Wars, emergencies.
	But when those crises would pass, the executive branch would shrink and the government would shrink.
	Woodrow Wilson, I think, is really an intellectual father figure of the kind of administrative state we have today.
	He saw the expansion of agencies and government power during wartime, and he wanted to make it permanent.
	He wanted to make it last beyond wars.
	He thought that was efficient government.
	He got those ideas, actually, from Germany, where he, I think, came to admire the Prussian system of government administration.
	That's a whole But really a very influential political scientist before he was president and this was his view.
	And then expanded by?
	Then FDR. FDR, though, was the one who made it permanent in the crisis of the Great Depression.
	He took Wilson's ideas and Wilson's model and made it permanent.
	And those are the agencies we're still living with.
	Then it got kind of supercharged by LBJ and the Great Society programs.
	And then I would say President Obama is sort of the last version of the great expansion that we're living through right now that builds on FDR and LBJ, but then even farther.
	It's like now we're on Great Society on steroids.
	Yeah.
	And so...
	He's partially responsible for the TSA through his work on the Patriot Act, I'm reading here.
	And so what you end up with, yes.
	Actually, you used part of the problem.
	Yeah.
	But what you see in that clip that you played is Obama in this administrative era.
	Oh, yes.
	So confused by it.
	He's confused.
	Oh, my goodness.
	He doesn't realize that this was at one time a constitutional republic.
	It's an existential republic.
	It's unbelievable.
	That's a good one.
	I'd give you a clip of the day if it was a clip.
	Yeah, I know.
	It was a clip.
	No.
	But I'm not going to whine about it.
	Give me a partial clip of the day.
	Okay, all right.
	Do you remember what I overheard, what actually was told to me directly at that birthday dinner where I sat next to the famous baseball player?
	You probably don't recall.
	You remember that though.
	It was an Oba dinner.
	It was kind of an Oba dinner with the former New York banker and his wife and then the famous baseball guy whose name I forgot already.
	That I sat next to and I said, what's it like coaching Little League?
	He said, yeah, yeah, fine.
	But he was actually like with the Yankees.
	Wasn't he with the Yankees and the Mets?
	I don't remember any of this.
	Oh, we both need a B12. Desperately.
	We should take a B-12 break.
	Anyway, it was at that dinner that they told me that there were rumors about Ted Cruz having an affair.
	You don't remember that either?
	Okay, here's what you're leading into.
	We should at least discuss the lead-in to this.
	The lead-in is the only thing that's interesting, I guess.
	No, not your lead-in.
	I'm talking about the lead-in to analyzing what's going on between Cruz and Trump and their wives.
	Yes, yes.
	Do I have a clip?
	I have a clip.
	This is a small clip from Anonymous.
	Mr.
	Cruz has been hiding behind some very dirty secrets that lie beneath the surface.
	Secrets that you believed would never haunt you.
	But as you should know by now, Mr.
	Cruz, we are Anonymous.
	We expose the fraud that seeks to have power over our great country.
	It's time that American knows your deep and dirty secrets.
	We have done our homework, Mr.
	Cruz, and since you can't stop your disgraceful and ridiculous political manipulation, it's time that we tell America what's hiding behind the curtain.
	Have you heard the expression, candy wrappers?
	Do you recall visiting prostitutes?
	Mr.
	Cruz, we...
	Do you know the phrase, candy wrappers?
	Here we go.
	Play Tom Yama shouting about Trump's naked wife.
	And tonight, Trump and Cruz locked in a nuclear war of words over their wives.
	It started with this anti-Trump super PAC ad we had to blur.
	Trump lashing out on Twitter, posting, lying Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a GQ shoot in his ad.
	Be careful, lying Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife.
	When you read that, what did you think?
	I will say, even for Donald, though, he reached a new low.
	It's one thing to try to attack another candidate.
	It's another thing.
	To come after my wife.
	And in a rare move, Heidi Cruz also firing back against Trump.
	You probably know by now that most of the things that Donald Trump says have no basis in reality.
	David, today Senator Ted Cruz received the endorsement of Jeb Bush.
	And Donald Trump reacted on Twitter saying, honestly, I can't blame Jeb in that I drove him into oblivion.
	David?
	Tom Yama's on the campaign trail again tonight, Tom.
	As a follow-on to that, I have in the rundown here, in the B block, we have another production element.
	This is what Ted Cruz said.
	And if Donald wants to get in a character fight, he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league.
	And this, of course, was plagiarized by Lyon Ted from an American president with Michael Douglas.
	Again, Ted Cruz.
	And if Donald wants to get in a character fight, he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league.
	You want a character to debate, Bob?
	You better stick with me, because Sidney Ellen Wade is way out of your league.
	Work for word!
	Work for word!
	Wow.
	Where's that floating around?
	One of our producers sent that to me.
	He said this is exactly what he's doing.
	It's verbatim.
	It's right from the movie.
	Let's do it when we're done.
	And if Donald wants to get in a character fight, he's better off sticking with me because Heidi is way out of his league.
	If you want a character to debate, Bob, you better stick with me because Sidney Ellen Wade is way out of your league.
	Even the character debate.
	Well, I think there's been other examples of Cruz lifting things.
	Oh, he's talking about a wall now.
	Yes, he is.
	He's talking about a wall.
	And I think this thing that got him into trouble, the Muslim commentary, was him thinking that the way he presents stuff, he can get away with what Trump did.
	But Trump did another thing, John.
	Of all the things he's done, this is the first time he's actually endeared me.
	Me.
	Of all people.
	You talked earlier about the notion that we're losing to ISIL, that they're making us look foolish and soft.
	ISIS. ISIS. ISIS. ISIS. ISIS. You know, it's one thing with the president.
	He always says ISIL. Whatever.
	ISIL, ISIL, ISIL. Everyone else says ISIS. And it's almost like he does it to bother people, okay?
	You understand?
	I'm not doing it to bother you.
	No, I know that.
	But you know what?
	The President of the United States always says ISIL, and everyone else says ISIS, and I actually think he does it to bother people.
	Finally!
	Someone picks up on it.
	It has to be Trump.
	I never thought of the theory that he does it to bother people.
	Yeah, I'm all in now.
	I'm like, okay, that makes sense.
	I'm sure you heard when Trump was asked a question about Elizabeth Warren.
	No, I did not.
	Warren, today on social media went after you calling you a loser.
	How are you going?
	Who's that?
	The Indian?
	You mean the Indian?
	Are you prepared to deal with that kind of sustained...
	The Indian?
	The Indian.
	We need to teach him Pocahontas.
	Wouldn't it be awesome if he started calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas?
	Yeah, he's got to start calling her Pocahontas.
	That's much funnier.
	But I like that he said, oh, you mean the Indian?
	He didn't even say Native American.
	He just went straight to Asian.
	Everybody should tweet to the real Trump, whatever he calls himself on Twitter, to start using Pocahontas.
	Pocahontas.
	I think we can have enough influence.
	I think we do.
	I think we do.
	We should...
	My face is hurting.
	Now, as a final one, this was another beautiful television moment.
	What a great time to be alive and doing this podcast.
	I'm proud to be a podcaster, I gotta tell you.
	No one else can do this stuff.
	So Larry Wilmore, who has that fake talk show on Comedy Central.
	Wilmore took over the old Stephen Colbert show.
	Yes, he did.
	And I have to say his show is full-on Obama bot, but it's okay.
	Sometimes it's funny.
	And he brought in a panel of black voters who are going to vote for Donald Trump.
	This is interesting because this was done, I don't know what the date of that show was, but this was not done in that manner, but it was done by Samantha Bee on her show on Showtime.
	Another spin-off of Jon Stewart.
	The way that's edited is just edited to make you laugh about stupid people.
	Well, she did it.
	It was actually the way she handled it was a lot different than what you think.
	She brought in a bunch of Trump bots, including a black guy.
	Let's call them Trumpeters.
	Trumpeters.
	That's good.
	I like that.
	So she brought in a bunch of trumpeters, and she let them actually win the debates.
	Were they a mixed group?
	Yes, there was a Chinese guy, there was a black guy, there was a white...
	There was a whole mixed group, and they were...
	She made it clear that they had beaten her down.
	And the black guy was the best!
	She says, how can you believe it?
	It's just the way he talks.
	It doesn't mean that.
	Their interpretation of everything Trump said, which I think is accurate, is he's not really saying these things.
	It just sounds like he is.
	Well, listen to this group of American voters who see through all the bullshit and I think really surprise Larry Wilmore.
	Now, he still makes it funny because he's a comedian, but I know that, well, I think it was at the end of the clip where he's flummoxed, I think is the right word.
	Ah!
	There's phenomena happening in the Trump campaign, and I'm not talking about the Trump campaign.
	It's about some of its followers.
	You have a lot of black people supporting Trump.
	Black people supporting Trump?
	You see the setup and the audience is all in!
	So where are these black people?
	Well, I had some of them in my studio the other day, where I asked them the simple question, what the are you thinking?
	I just want to ask a very straight question from the beginning.
	Why do you support Donald Trump?
	I'm a registered Democrat.
	Let me start first.
	And I lost faith and belief in the current state of our party right now without two candidates.
	I'm open to Donald Trump because I feel like he's a gangster.
	He's a gangster.
	He's a gangster.
	Is he a gangster or a gangster?
	This is a middle-aged woman.
	A nice woman.
	Looks like she's kind of milfy, you know, mom type.
	And he's like a gangster.
	That's why I like him.
	He's a gangster.
	He's a gangster.
	Is he a gangster or a gangster?
	He's a gangster.
	He's going out here and he's kind of gangster in the whole situation.
	He's like, if you come up to my mic, you know, I'm taking you out.
	Coming from the hip-hop community, I understand his language.
	Right, because he is kind of like a rapper.
	I mean, he's into gold.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Right?
	He has his own vodka.
	Absolutely.
	He's got a private jet.
	That's right.
	And he really likes white women.
	Exactly.
	And his wife is a model.
	Correct.
	Would that sway anybody else?
	Those qualities?
	And his wife is a model.
	Without a beat, he said, uh-huh, that's right, he likes white women, uh-huh, yeah, and his wife is a model.
	That's right.
	I'm from the hip-hop community.
	Hip-hop for the Trumps.
	Those qualities?
	The way you expressed it, I never thought of it that way, but, you know, he's pretty cool.
	Have you told other black people you're voting for Donald Trump?
	Be honest.
	Absolutely.
	Kevin, be honest.
	Have you told family members?
	I've told family members.
	You told your mama that you're voting.
	I told my wife that we fight every morning about it.
	Kind of a racist thing to say.
	You told your mama about it?
	I stand on my own, too.
	Donald Trump is the president who can get black people those low-paying jobs again.
	No, we don't want the low-paying jobs.
	Lower-paying jobs are the first rung on the ladder.
	So you can't climb up the ladder until you start someplace.
	Don't try to get black people back on that first rung on the ladder.
	If you're on the ladder here, you're going to climb up more.
	Should the Mexicans be allowed to use that ladder to climb the wall?
	Not the wall.
	Do you have a message for other black people out there telling them why they might want to vote for Donald Trump?
	I would say just know that Donald Trump is not going to make you a slave.
	He's not going to make you a slave.
	He's not going to make you a slave.
	And you're sure about that?
	I'm pretty sure about that.
	Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with the blacks.
	Okay, as one of the blacks, how would you describe that relationship?
	The fact that he says the blacks means that his relationship is a little skewed because he wouldn't call us the blacks if he really understood where we were coming from.
	Does it feel like he's in an abusive relationship with the blacks?
	Are you guys secretly trying to get out of this relationship?
	Not at all.
	Okay, so how did you guys feel when Trump said he wants to ban Muslims from coming into the country?
	We don't have any Muslims here.
	I'm Muslim.
	You're kidding me.
	No, I'm not kidding me.
	And you're going to vote for Trump?
	Most certainly.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Would you be opposed to having Trump waterboard you just to get more information about Islam?
	If Trump came in here and he had to pick one person to waterboard, who do you think he would pick?
	Rhymes with shmuslim?
	I thought that was a great piece.
	I like that.
	Yeah, it shows the bigotry of these comics.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of that whole channel.
	Yeah, that channel's very bigoted.
	Viacom, just say it.
	Well, Viacom is Viacom.
	Yeah.
	Somebody was complaining about them calling out CBS. They're basically in the same bed, even though Viacom and CBS broke up.
	They're still in a relationship.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well I've got a couple things that are a little off the wall.
	Although we're never going to get through my Brian Ross clip.
	Yeah, let's do Brian Ross.
	He's queued up and good to go.
	Set him up.
	Alright, hit Brian Ross.
	Let's get back to this and get this out of the way.
	Alright.
	It's increasingly clear tonight to U.S. authorities that the deadly terror attack this week in Brussels...
	And last November in Paris, were the work of one interconnected ISIS cell based in Belgium, made up of at least 16 terror recruits, mostly European, 13 of them now dead, one under arrest, and two still being sought.
	It's got more moving parts.
	It's got people attacking in different ways.
	It's a more resilient kind of terror cell, I think.
	The culmination of more than a year of careful planning by ISIS Central Command in Syria that allowed the cell to avoid detection for so long.
	They do train their people in the fundamentals of being a spy, of being a terrorist.
	Richard Clark.
	Sorry?
	That's Richard Clarke.
	Ah, Dick Clarke, yes.
	People in the fundamentals of being a spy, of being a terrorist cell, fundamentals of secure communication.
	Among those with documented ties to both Paris and Brussels is that suspected bomb maker, 24-year-old Najeeem Lastrowi, whose remains were discovered today in the rumble of the Brussels airport.
	Authorities say they have found his DNA in fingerprints at bomb factories that produced explosives for both Paris and Brussels.
	And David, officials tell us that even with those two men on the loose, they believe the Brussels terror cell has already carried out its mission, now out of people and out of bombs.
	The concern now is that there are other terror cells across Europe still covert and still actively plotting, David.
	Well, if they're out of people and bombs, it's just up the tweet quotient.
	As a follow-up, play this clip, which is the AP-400, and I think this is kind of an interesting clip based on what Obama had said earlier.
	The Associated Press, among others, have been reporting today that there were as many as 400 people being trained by ISIS to carry out these attacks in Europe.
	So did they not leave any footprints or any signs?
	No.
	Well, the number's a little bit soft, I think, but it's not unrealistic to think that if you have 5,000 Europeans that went to Iraq and Syria to fight, if only 10% of them came back home, you know, that's a pretty good base for future attacks.
	You know, Abu, the guy that carried out the November attacks in Paris, claimed that there were 90 people that he knew of involved in cells getting ready to carry out attacks.
	So it's not something that could be easily dismissed.
	From what you know from writing your book on ISIS, is this the sort of thing that the United States should be wary of?
	Are there footprints as well leading here?
	Well, it's a different situation for us.
	Fortunately, we don't have the kind of radical communities that you see in Europe.
	We have radicalized individuals, but not so much a community problem.
	And we also have, fortunately, oceans separating us from some of these jihadists.
	The Europeans have a much more acute problem.
	They're really waking up to it now.
	It's almost too late for some of the actions they're taking because the threat is really at hand.
	So, Daniel Benjamin, you agree that this idea of alienation makes it different with the Muslim communities or the radical Muslim communities in Europe and here?
	There's no question that there's a higher level of alienation and of radicalization.
	European Muslims are several times more likely to go to fight in Iraq and Syria, perhaps as much as 10 times as much.
	And if you look at just the casualties that we've seen since 9-11, there's been vastly more violence in Europe, 10 times as much at least.
	Oh, at least.
	Compared to the United States.
	Mm-hmm.
	So I thought that was interesting because he brought up the radicalized communities.
	Yep.
	Which, of course, you've been talking about.
	For years.
	For years.
	I see in my notes here that even Pierce Morgan wrote an article in the Daily Mail saying we should listen to Donald Trump.
	Has the world gone crazy?
	Well, just in the last couple of weeks, apparently, yes.
	And this is not going to be the last...
	I think there's going to be a bunch of these attacks in a short period of time.
	And I'm very worried about Holland.
	You know, it is now the...
	They have the presidency of the EU. So they've got a lot of meetings going on.
	You know that...
	I was explaining to a couple of people here.
	So my daughter only lives, you know, 75 miles from where this took place.
	I think all of Europe is within 75 months.
	It's like from here to Waco.
	I mean, this is not like the huge distance.
	No.
	But they make more of it as a distance.
	It's very interesting to me, the psychology of distances amongst the Europeans.
	For example, when we took a trip to visit some friends in Cornwall, we had an apartment in London.
	We drove all the way to Cornwall.
	Which is west.
	Is it west?
	Cornwall?
	Yeah, Cornwall is where the pirates are.
	It's due west.
	That's what you told the kids.
	Shut up.
	It's considered a place where they like to retire.
	The Brits like to go there, or the south of France, which seems like a more logical place.
	But it's like, it's divorced from the rest of England, even though it's not really.
	And when we're, okay, we're going to leave, we're going back to London.
	Oh, how long are you going to take a couple days?
	You have to stop along the way.
	I mean, they were thinking this was like some horrible trip.
	And it's like a four-hour drive.
	I know.
	That's just what you're used to.
	The human being can handle a lot more than we give ourselves credit for.
	But here's what Christina says.
	She said, Daddy, the people here are so angry.
	They're all on edge.
	They're all angry.
	And she's even worse.
	She works in an organic grocery store right now.
	Which is, they come in, and...
	Now, Christina has...
	Her hair has dyed very black right now, and her mom is of Greek descent, so she has kind of an olive complexion.
	And she says, I see it.
	A lot of people think that I'm Muslim, and then they treat me like shit.
	She says, the racism is crazy.
	When her friend Juan was over there, Juan the Mexican ex-boyfriend, they didn't get served in a restaurant in Holland!
	Because they look like Muslims.
	They should go out of their way to serve them faster.
	It's all bull crap.
	And what's happening is the anger is brewing underneath and it's going to explode.
	And certainly, well, if we see something happen in Holland, everyone's going to be like, oh, screw it, here's my bike, I'm going back inside.
	We know they won't.
	They'll capitulate.
	That's what they always do.
	Sweden, this was a great little bit from...
	60 Minutes, the Australian version of 60 Minutes.
	They went to Sweden.
	They wanted to film in one of these no-go zones that we talked about on the last show.
	There are now 55 declared no-go zones in Sweden where police have to escort ambulances to ensure their safety.
	And as we found out, the temperature is similar in the suburb of Rinkeby, home to mostly Somali migrants.
	Within minutes of us arriving, a group of young men make it clear we're not wanted, and deliberately run down our cameraman.
	Whoops!
	Hey, hey, hey, hey!
	Go on!
	Shit!
	What happened?
	Your leg.
	We call the police.
	To be honest, we hadn't anticipated such intense aggression.
	Our cameraman was...
	And even they fear their presence will be provocative.
	I think it's better if you go in without us, because I think it would be...
	Very aggressive.
	Yeah.
	We will stay here.
	That's fine.
	You watch us.
	Perfectly.
	So the cops say, well, we're not going to go in there.
	We'll just stand here.
	You guys go in and keep an eye on us if you have any problems.
	Just wave at us.
	Sweden.
	From the land of ABBA and IKEA. Hero.
	Hero.
	That's a great clip.
	It's sad.
	That shows you the problem.
	This is the political correctness thing run amok.
	But the cops are saying, no, we don't want to get them all angry.
	So we'll just stay here.
	You guys go in.
	Don't worry about it.
	Yeah.
	And we were told, by the way, I think during the initialization of Trump's campaign, where he mentioned something about these no-go zones, and other people have talked about him being...
	That's crazy!
	It's not true!
	Crazy!
	Yeah, in fact, there's some in England, and the Brits, because they've all hated Trump, this is the point.
	This is at the point where they were trying to pass a law to ban him from going to the UK. That's right.
	Which I had a bunch of clips of.
	Yes, we did.
	Because of him saying stuff like this.
	Yeah, he's saying there's no go zones in London where nobody goes.
	You can't get in there because you just get beat up or whatever and nobody does anything about it.
	In Ireland, a man tweeted...
	He said, I'll read this.
	A man whose Twitter message about confronting a Muslim woman about the Brussels terror attacks and got a mealy-mouthed reply spawned scores of parodies online.
	So, he said, I asked this woman who, here it is.
	Here's his tweet.
	I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon.
	I asked her to explain Brussels.
	She said, nothing to do with me.
	A mealy-mouthed reply.
	And apparently this is very funny in Britain.
	I had to look it up.
	So mealy mouth means you don't want to talk.
	You don't want to say anything.
	You have meal in your mouth, I guess.
	I'm not going to say anything.
	So this got parodied.
	And then this guy got arrested.
	On suspicion of inciting racial hatred on social media.
	What?
	Yes, in Ireland.
	Yeah.
	So the guy says on Twitter or Facebook, what was it?
	Tweeter.
	I quote, I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon.
	I asked her to explain Brussels.
	She said, nothing to do with me.
	A mealy-mouthed reply.
	And of course it went viral with the mealy-mouth.
	So people had all kinds of funny memes, funny versions of it.
	And then I guess that's because that went viral.
	They traced it back.
	So, for instance, someone said, I confronted my five-year-old son yesterday.
	I asked him to explain the mortgage rates.
	He said, I don't know.
	I like Batman.
	A mealy-mouthed reply.
	So it's British humor, kind of.
	Yes, it's funny.
	Yeah.
	And there's a whole bunch.
	So then they came back and said, you know, we're arresting you because you were inciting hatred, racial hatred on social media.
	Yeah.
	Is this, do we, can we document this as fact?
	Well, I can only go by the news report.
	It's from, you see, this is, let me see where this comes from.
	And of course, in our system these days, or for the past five years, everything we link to is saved offline.
	This is from independent.ie?
	That's credible.
	I would think so.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's not a good thing.
	Can't say anything.
	I didn't find that racially inciting anything.
	A mealy-mouthed reply is just a fact.
	But that's one of the...
	But if you said I didn't get an answer, and then that same joke floated around with that, you can't say I didn't get an answer?
	Is that like something you're going to be arrested for?
	I don't know, John.
	I don't know.
	You're asking, unfortunately, the wrong guy.
	And what's wrong with these Irish cops?
	It's the political correctness.
	And people are now starting to wake up to this and saying, hmm, maybe there's something to that.
	I mean, we are being accused.
	I hear every news model spokeshole is all saying the reason they're pissed off is because of what we say about them, meaning Donald Trump or Ted Cruz or anybody.
	That's what we are being blamed.
	Well, it's because the rhetoric we are using makes them mad.
	It makes them want to kill people.
	So, it's like, shut up.
	Yeah, you have to shut up, otherwise it's only going to get worse.
	That's the thinking.
	That is the instruction.
	Oh, and go shopping.
	But otherwise, that's the instruction.
	This is a common thread of the No Agenda show for the last five or six years.
	It's all a subtle attack on free speech.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	But if you look at how we're educating kids, it's no...
	We got a lot of millennial feedback.
	In fact, we get a lot of that in general.
	People saying, it's kind of divided.
	You don't know anything about millennials.
	I'm a millennial.
	You don't know anything about millennials.
	We got a millennial note.
	Yeah, that's a good note.
	It's worth reading.
	Because I told him that there's a couple of issues in that note, and he didn't disagree.
	He thinks we actually know what we're talking about, about millennials, because we're surrounded by them, and we ask them questions.
	From producer Zach.
	Great work, as always.
	I always want to offer email about your more recent show to say, I believe your analysis of millennials to be spot on.
	And this is coming from one.
	While I'm considered to be a millennial, I am known as the older one.
	I have observed everything you're saying from my friends and coworkers who fall into this category and want to tell you about my observations and rationale for what led to this.
	This is the email you're talking about, Yep.
	When discussing millennials, you often get a lot of pushback from them, and that is because we can't take criticism.
	I struggle with this myself, and this is something I recognize as a problem if I wanted to grow and become better at specific talents and practices.
	I think the biggest thing that contributes to this is our education.
	I've noticed most people are taught that they have the most up-to-date form of education, and often in schools we see examples of things that were once acceptable a certain way, until, for example, the planet Pluto was no longer a planet.
	This constant updated change gives the false notion that anything taught before is out of date and easily dismissed.
	Furthermore, when challenged to defend a position, most people don't even know how to do something like that and just dismiss you as crazy or just someone who was behind the times.
	What millennials lack is wisdom, but wisdom is something our society dismisses as important.
	If knowledge is power, then wisdom is the control to be able to direct that power as needed.
	Like a pitcher and a baseball, all the power in the world doesn't mean much of anything unless you have the control to wield it.
	In this case, to be able to have a rational discussion.
	The other things I've noticed is how unintelligent most millennials sound when they open their mouths and have a discussion.
	I think this stems from several issues.
	The first and most obvious one is how most millennials are embedded into their phones and use this as a primary form of communication.
	It is one thing to write out sentences, thoughts, and opinions in text, and another to do it audibly where there is no ability to proofread and proofread again.
	The second reason for this is a combination of the lack of talented role models most kids or teenagers or young adults look up to, which constantly display a lack of intelligence in communication.
	People now are more concerned with making sure their perception of them is trendy or glamorous than intelligent.
	This is due to a combination of stars being made overnight that in reality haven't worked to even accomplish anything, which sends the message you can be rich, famous and influential without needing to actually work on becoming that.
	And I think I've read the crux of it at this point.
	Now, okay, a couple things I wanted to say.
	One is that I think he's wrong in a lot of these points.
	And this was all triggered by those two clips, three clips that we had on the last show.
	Yes.
	Of that dumb guy going, and then velocity of money, and just throwing words together.
	Blockchain.
	Blockchain.
	I just do that all the time.
	Hey, baby, would you like a drink and some blockchain?
	Blockchain.
	Blockchain.
	A couple of things.
	One, he talks about the changing of what is true and what's not true, mentioning Pluto as an example.
	That is a universal thing that's happened even when I was a kid.
	There was a moment that...
	I was alive when Pluto became a planet.
	Well, the other thing was there's even more egregious issues, it seems to me.
	And this was within recent memory.
	They came out with something that if you use iron pots and pans, you're going to die.
	Remember that?
	No.
	Yeah, that was a big deal about this.
	Like cast iron?
	Cast iron?
	Yeah, cast iron is going to kill you.
	Oh, no.
	And then they all pulled back on that because it was such bogus.
	I don't even know what public relations company was behind it.
	But in 1957, there was an event called the International Geophysics Year.
	And that's the year when they discovered plate tectonics.
	Before that, anyone in the 30s...
	Sorry?
	Donald Fagan.
	Anybody in the 30s, 40s, or 50s, when you looked at a globe or a world map and you saw Africa and South America, it looks like one fits into the other.
	Yeah.
	The word was no.
	That's just a coincidence.
	I remember that.
	And they said, have you ever thought that?
	You were wrong, wrong, wrong.
	And then the geophysics year, they determined they were hooked together at one time.
	That was how plate tectonics worked.
	It was all one big gob of earth.
	So were people yelling science, science, science?
	Probably.
	They always do.
	And then we're talking about these vapid celebrities that are just coming in out of the blue.
	This is not new either, if anybody remembers Ava and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
	Especially Zsa Zsa.
	Or even Marilyn Monroe, if you want.
	Well, Marilyn Monroe at least did some work.
	But Zsa Zsa Gabor didn't do anything, really.
	She was more of a Paris Hilton.
	She didn't do any more work than Paris Hilton does.
	So these elements are always in play.
	There is something else that Because all you get is likes.
	And all you get is likes, and that's all part of self-esteem.
	Self-esteem, the self-esteem movement, which you can research and read about online, just look it up on Google.
	It's horrible.
	It was horrible.
	It's the old, oh, Johnny, oh, you can't catch the ball.
	You should still be on the baseball team.
	Well, we are in the very, very beginning of an evolution and we are not intellectually or in some ways even physically prepared for the internet.
	We're not ready for it.
	And if it's coming, we'll figure it out.
	Right down to the smartphones.
	We're changing our posture holding these things.
	There's a lot of things that are going to change.
	What also changes is, I will agree with them there, the education system is pretty poor if you listen to this.
	A new study shows only one-third of kids here in King County can tell time on an analog clock.
	Blame it on the digital age.
	The survey asked 100 kids between 6 and 16 years old to figure out the time on a clock with hands, and only one in seven of them scored full marks, and it's no wonder only one in ten even owned a watch.
	How about that?
	I think this is specious, personally.
	I'll tell you why in a moment.
	Go ahead.
	Why it's not.
	Alright.
	If you've never seen...
	There's no reason in the world...
	The clock is an anachronistic...
	The old with the two hands.
	There's no reason that anyone should have to learn that.
	I mean, unless you want to travel in Europe and look up at the town clock, which is probably wrong anyway.
	But generally speaking, everything's digital now.
	There's no reason.
	And I don't blame anyone for not being able to.
	I disagree.
	I disagree for two reasons.
	One, I believe learning to tell time visually on a clock is very important for understanding the physical world.
	Why we have mathematics that were divided into 12 hours, 12 months.
	There's a lot of important things there, but maybe more importantly is the ability to do pattern recognition.
	To recognize a pattern and it's a brain exercise that you and I did all our lives until the last 20 years probably.
	It's a brain exercise.
	I still do it.
	I still like analog clocks.
	I like it.
	I think they're pretty.
	Yeah.
	And without that constant training, and I'm not saying it's necessarily a problem with the education.
	But to not be interested in teaching the division of our physical world and the way we interpret that into units of 12, I think is a mistake.
	I'm not seeing it.
	I don't think it's any more important than learning how to read a sundial, which also takes a little skill.
	But will you agree that pattern recognition is important?
	Yeah, but there's pattern recognition.
	There's so much pattern recognition.
	Like what?
	Oh, he's white.
	He has privilege.
	I recognize the pattern.
	Like that.
	Yeah, I'll leave it at that.
	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.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank.
	It's starting with Sir William Durkin in Greenville, South Carolina.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	He needs some longevity.
	Lexus Karma for his 2006 GS. Okay, let's stop right here.
	Uh-oh.
	Do we need to stop the show?
	No, just stop my read.
	Stop your read.
	John, stop in the read.
	We have a problem on the floor.
	We needed the floor director to be on this, but I have a 1993 Lexus SC400. Yeah.
	It needs no longevity karma.
	It's just like a truck.
	These things go run forever.
	But we'll put some karma at the end.
	You can take it for that.
	But believe me, I was talking to some guy about it.
	I have like 150,000 miles on it.
	Another guy, he says, oh, that's my spare motor.
	In the morning.
	And he's got like 350 on his Lexus.
	There's more people, especially these early Lexuses.
	It's ridiculous.
	Wow.
	You have to have the things reupholstered.
	You have to do all this extra work.
	I will say, I said it before, I'll say it again.
	This 1993 car, which is all I can afford, Especially with down donation days.
	This car has never blown out any bulb.
	The headlamps, the interior lights, the turn signals, all bulbs are the originals.
	Which, to me, really makes you wonder.
	Do you ever drive it at night?
	Yeah, of course I drive it at night.
	Just asking.
	Alright.
	That's odd.
	Who makes those bulbs?
	Well, I'd like to find out, but now it's too late.
	They're incandescent, obviously.
	Don't touch it with your fingers.
	That ruins them.
	They can heat up a little bit.
	Yeah, but the oil from your fingers can make them die.
	Well, that's...
	Okay, let's stop.
	Oil from your fingers only really affects those extremely hot...
	Quartz, Xeon, and other bulbs that are like...
	Oh, I was always taught never to touch the bulb with my fingers.
	From early on.
	A little 60-watt bulb?
	I'm just telling you what I was taught.
	I could be wrong.
	I could be wrong.
	You don't have to excoriate me.
	You're in a mood, man.
	60-watt bulb you have to use.
	How do you screw it in without your fingers?
	With a glove.
	That's what I was taught.
	I worked with mechanics.
	You were taught wrong.
	Yeah, okay.
	Let's just say you're incorrect and that's fine.
	The bulb failure, typically speaking, is the loss of the vacuum.
	Because their vacuum, that's why the ones filled with gas usually last longer.
	But those little bulbs, yeah, you're not supposed to touch them.
	The little bitty ones.
	Donald Borosky in Spokane Valley, Washington.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	And he...
	It says a note that unfortunately you have to read because it's from the United Federation of Planets.
	Always have to read that one.
	Thanks for helping me keep my attitude properly aligned.
	Due to your deconstruction of the news on the No Agenda show, now I can hardly hold back the giggles...
	When I see and hear the network TV news anchors as they start their newscasts in the highly conceived tone of voice.
	That's where he ends with that.
	By the way, I haven't made a clip of this yet, but it's every one of these, especially David Muir.
	Every show starts off...
	Donald Trump.
	Hello, I'm David Muir.
	Breaking news!
	Followed by Donald Trump...
	Breaking news.
	It could be.
	It's just breaking news.
	Breaking news.
	Donald Trump.
	Clay Gilliland in Chandler, Arizona, $111.11.
	Mike Bateman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, nuts, $100.
	Bente Helt Edlich.
	Edlich, I guess.
	In Fredericksburg.
	Switzerland.
	Switzerland.
	Bente Helt Edlich?
	I guess it's Edlich.
	You've been listening on and on for years, Adam being the father of podcasting, to find out what was next when you started the NA show, but I wasn't really ready for the truth back then.
	I'm ashamed to admit Adam's divorce, reported with reference to the NA show and Dutch media.
	Brought me back.
	Now my favorite show, so here's my first donation.
	Please de-douche me.
	Love and light.
	Oh, okay.
	You've been de-douched.
	888.
	Simon Leonard in Victoria, B.C., 8010.
	And he's got a note, too, because it's in red, meaning he's going to call someone out.
	I'm pretty much a boner, but I love your work and decided I should put up another meager donation.
	$80.10.
	Please call out Mr.
	Carl Plasterer as a douchebag.
	I hit him in the mouth a few months ago and we have joked about who should donate first.
	I guess I win.
	Your show constantly creates great conversation here at the office.
	Oh, lovely.
	And he says, thanks for an excellent, we like to call it an outstanding product, but yes, an excellent product.
	Thank you.
	Sir, elongated G-string.
	I have to stretch this cell out to read it.
	And we wonder why people have trouble listening for the first time.
	Sir, elongated G-string, Alan Hawes.
	Yeah, I can see you.
	The show puts people off.
	7531.
	He's in Windsor, Berkshire, UK. Luke Hunter in Bundesburg, Australia.
	Hello, Foundation Helping Others Go On.
	7120, Bundaberg.
	Miles Comer in Phoenix, Arizona, 70.
	Alvaro Sanchez Ramirez in Huntington Beach, California, 70.
	These are the 70 ones that we'd come up with the last show, the show before.
	Richard Warfield Jr., Charlotte, North Carolina, 70.
	And Sir Stephen of Oswego in Oswego, Illinois, 70.
	Randall Brown, 6789 in Providence Village, Texas.
	Andy Walker, 6333 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Matt Seaver in Knoxville, Tennessee, 5510.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Vladimir Landman in Sioux City, Iowa, 5510.
	Adam Wilcoxon.
	5416 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
	Timothy Kiernan in Plymouth, Michigan.
	5333.
	There's a bunch of meetups in Michigan.
	Go to meetup.com slash noagenda.
	There are quite a bit.
	Michigan is a particularly hot bet.
	There's a lot of No Agenda listeners there.
	Brian Kaufman in Phoenix, Arizona, 50-50.
	And then these following people, each and every one of them is a $50 donor, starting with Thomas Riley in Wheaton, Illinois.
	Then Joe Schwarzbauer in Florissant, Missouri.
	Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	Kim Von...
	Twiver, Twiver, Twiver, Twiver in Georgetown, Massachusetts.
	Twiver, I would say.
	Twiver, yeah, maybe.
	Jason Daniels in Parts Unknown.
	Sir Patrick Maycomb in New York, New York.
	Brandon, maybe I'll see him when I'm back there for my birthday.
	Brandon Mank in Tempe, Arizona.
	Sandy Geisler in Watkinsville, Georgia.
	Anonymous in Milton, Ontario.
	And it says $450, I think, is its total.
	Michelle Gearing in Manhattan, Kansas.
	And I'm getting down to the end here.
	Benjamin Smith in Oakland.
	And Joshua Denenbaugh in Alameda, both in California here, right down the street.
	Sir David Trotsky in Romeoville, Illinois.
	And finally, Paul D. I have a weird note from him.
	While you're looking that up, you did have a number of birthday wishes, well-wishers.
	Yes, we should mention that and thank them all.
	Yes, and the way you did a tricky one this year, which I understand because I'm also, you know, once you hit, I'm 50, I don't want to, let's not talk about my age anymore.
	Instead of an AIDS donation, we're now going for a date donation, which is April 5th, 2016, which is an interesting one.
	And we're just getting started here, so we didn't have a lot of people...
	But people who wish you a happy birthday with their 4516, John, was Ralph Massaro, Thomas Nossbaum, or Thomas, David Ritchie, David Lamoureux, E. Pontfort, Jason Daniels, Kenneth Foster, oh, that's Vale, it never shows up right on the spreadsheet.
	The guy from Boulder.
	I don't remember what his name is.
	Kenneth Sire, and, oh, Tina Snyder.
	I have a note.
	Oh?
	Yeah.
	Do you know Tina Snyder is the keeper?
	Yeah, everybody knows Tina Snyder.
	She's Tina's keeper.
	Mm-hmm.
	John, I just made a donation in honor of your birthday, and at the same time, I'm inching my way to being a dame.
	Thank you for my twice-weekly dose of humor and knowledge.
	Maybe someday soon, I'll finally get to meet you.
	Have a wonderful birthday.
	And you can only imagine here.
	I'm like, don't donate to the show!
	No!
	No!
	It's really not for him!
	What are you doing?
	No!
	Not for him!
	Luckily she's not pushed around by a bossy boyfriend.
	Misogynist boyfriend.
	So, the note from Paul, I guess, yeah.
	Paul says, he wrote this little note, he says, Any listener that is a, there's cards against humanity, or cards against humanity, one of the cards against humanity, king or queen of the castle should move one of their decrees.
	No agenda show themed.
	Hmm.
	It's code.
	I don't know what it is.
	I don't know what it is, but someone's taken action somewhere.
	I guess.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you for supporting the program.
	We work on a value-for-value model, and it's really appreciated.
	It's nice to see it because we do a lot of work, like watching book TV. There's always a documentary I've got to tell you about that I watch that may spark a new era of thinking here on the show.
	We can do all this because you enable that, and it is highly appreciated.
	Another show is coming up on Sunday, so please remember us at dvorak.org slash NA. I think we need to do one general purpose karma for everybody, just in case.
	You've got karma.
	And...
	It's a shorty for today.
	In fact, it's all kind of low and short today.
	But Alan Hawes does say happy birthday to his brother David.
	He will be very, very old, he says, on March 25th.
	All right.
	Congratulations with your birthday and happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	And no nightings, but we do congratulate Sir Joe Cool Design becoming a baronet today.
	And that will be reflected at itm.im slash peerage.
	Congratulations.
	I, uh, so, two things.
	Alright.
	This, uh...
	Oh, wait, before we go there, I got one clip to get out of the way, which you'll appreciate.
	It's another spook that is the guy who did that 60 Minutes report on the NSA, and now he's working for the police department in New York.
	In New York, he's right back in, what is it, the CBS, what's his name, what's his name, that?
	Miller.
	John Miller.
	John Miller, yes.
	He did the bogative CBS interview.
	The bogative thing as though he was a CBS reporter.
	Yeah, when he was really an insider.
	You've got to listen to this, and of course this is taking advantage of every crisis and coming up with this.
	And tell me what you think, how you interpret this, because I have my thoughts on W-I-C-K-R. W-I-C-K-R. Well, after what happened in Brussels today, tonight, one of the top counter-terrorism officials in the country is calling out a Bay Area tech company.
	Mark Kelly is in our newsroom right now.
	Mark, what is this all about?
	Well, Ken, it all has to do with an app.
	An app that allows users to send self-destructing messages.
	We're looking at what we call going dark.
	That's NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller talking about apps like Wicker and Telegram that he says are getting into the hands of terrorists and allowing them to communicate secretly.
	We are seeing not just iPhones that can't be cracked, but entire communication systems that are designed to be impenetrable.
	And we're seeing those become the primary tools of terrorists.
	San Francisco-based Wicker calls its app a secure communications platform.
	You can send text, video, and photos, and it's all encrypted.
	Another app, Telegram, is similar.
	Security analysts worry apps like these allow ISIS to plan attacks without detection.
	So when you ask a question like, how could they miss this, technology is becoming a big enabler.
	But Wicker calls that online privacy a universal human right and one it's willing to defend.
	Earlier this month, Wicker joined other tech companies in this amicus brief, defending Apple against its ongoing privacy challenge from the federal government.
	Miller says he fears terrorists speaking to each other on the dark Internet could lead to direct attacks here in the U.S. We reached out to Wicker for a comment, but have not yet heard back.
	Okay.
	I smell honeypot.
	Yeah, I'm looking at this now.
	So they've raised $69 million with a series...
	Well, they had some seed funding with a series B of 30 and two rounds of 39, which may be a down round.
	Let me see.
	I happen to know a lot about this shit.
	Let's see who's in it.
	Briar Capital, Alsop, Louie Partners, CME Group, Dolby Family Ventures, Eileen Burbridge, Gilman Louie.
	I guess that's part of the Louie Partners.
	The Knight Foundation, Juniper Networks, Richard A. Clark.
	Richard A. Clark.
	Isn't that Dick Clark?
	Yeah, it's Dick Clark.
	That's Dick.
	We just had him on a minute ago.
	He got in on the seed round, the Series A. Not the seed, the Series A. Personally.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so the ex-NSA guy.
	They do a better job of covering this crap.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Hold on.
	I gotta go hit the chime.
	Be careful.
	Wow.
	How easy was that?
	Doesn't take much.
	It could have been a nice little tagline by saying, oh, by the way, former NSA deputy, was he a deputy?
	No, I think he was something like that.
	He was one of these hot shots.
	Yeah.
	He's an investor, an early investor in the company, in the Series A, for this so-called secure plot.
	Well, maybe we should ask him some questions in Congress.
	How come you're investing in that a-hole?
	And it could go both ways.
	I'm sure at least one fund in there has got some sort of...
	I mean, obviously they didn't make it too obvious by having that CIA investment group jump in.
	Although they could be in there for all you know.
	You mean In-Q-Tel?
	I don't see In-Q-Tel in there.
	Yeah, but it's also possible that they may...
	In-Q-Tel can go in, because they've got enough money, and say, here, we're going to give you some rounds, but you have to sign this document because this can't be discussed.
	Right.
	That's unbelievable.
	It even has his initial, Richard A. Clark with the E at the end.
	It is the same guy.
	He's an early investor in the Going Dark app.
	This is an outrage!
	Yeah, and I'm sure he called up Miller and says, Hey, I got a bunch of money in this little operation.
	Can you find some way to promote it?
	Hey, tell me that isn't worth your $5 a month, huh?
	Come on, that was good.
	Yeah.
	Jeez.
	Well, we gotta stay all over this now.
	We gotta keep it.
	We gotta tweet him.
	How much did you invest in Wicker?
	Hey, are you contributing to the terrorism problem, Dick?
	And by the way, the thing that kind of the giveaway, I'm always reminded of like these operations.
	I'm floored by myself here for a minute.
	I'm sorry.
	There's offers that are run by the mafia, for example.
	White Front used to be a mafia organization.
	And they always like to put in the name, somehow in the name, what's going on.
	So the Cognacetti, this is like code, it's like 33.
	Wicker, wicker, like a wick and a candle.
	Drawing the moth, honeypot, hello.
	I think I need to do the New York Times crossword.
	So there you go.
	That's a callback, huh?
	You like that one?
	Yeah, it's for the...
	Rubicon.
	Which is getting harder and harder to get hold of.
	So, this is a quick little clip, just a thing that came on the news this morning.
	I clipped it to lead into something bigger.
	The city of Houston is trying to save money by limiting its recycling service.
	So residents who want to recycle glass will now have to drop it off at a recycling center themselves.
	The city will no longer pick it up.
	The mayor says that the move will help them close a $160 million budget shortfall.
	Now, I believe this to be a big mistake after...
	Wait, play that whole clip again.
	It's really not that interesting.
	Well, it is to me.
	Sorry.
	The city of Houston is trying to save money by limiting its recycling service.
	So residents who want to recycle glass will now have to drop it off at a recycling center themselves.
	The city will no longer pick it up.
	The mayor says that the move will help them close a $160 million budget shortfall.
	Okay.
	What does it mean?
	Because in California we've had this...
	I worked, again, I'll go back to my olden days when I worked at the air pollution district.
	I did a lot of inspections of glass plants.
	And there used to be bins and bins and bins.
	It's not as though that glass wasn't being recycled.
	It was called cull, I think.
	They had a name for this stuff.
	They had just huge containers full of broken glass that they ran through the glass factory a second time.
	And they would do this constantly.
	And that's where the most brown glass, for example, is a result of this mixed glass, although they tried to keep the colors separate.
	And then the CalPIRG, this operation, this activist operation came up with the bottle bill where you have to now pay five cents or six cents extra every time you buy a bottle.
	So for recycling costs, even though this was going on Commonly and effortlessly.
	And then in places like Berkeley, you have to recycle your glass in a special bin and all this other nonsense.
	And it's for no good reason.
	They've always been doing this.
	But now that this happens, you're telling me that this is a money loser?
	So all the money we're supposed to be paying for these bottles and then the recycling process is losing money so the whole thing is a loser?
	This is bullshit.
	Yeah.
	Moreover, when you learn, or when I've learned, that recycled glass is going to be a very valuable commodity.
	So they're making a mistake in Houston.
	I don't care how you want to cut the budget, but glass is the wrong one.
	And I based this on an anonymous producer who clued me in and suggested I watch a documentary.
	Which I did.
	And I'll start by asking you the question, after air and water, what is the most voluminous and most traded and most smuggled commodity in the world?
	Well, since you're talking about Vest, I would assume sand.
	Absolutely.
	Sand it is.
	And this documentary called Sand Wars, which I recommend everybody watch.
	You can probably get it on the Torrance, but I recommend you pay the people who did that and get it off Amazon for $2.99.
	Sand, we have been dredging the oceans, and now we're dredging the rivers for sand.
	And sand comes from the mountains, you know, thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years journey to finally get into the ocean.
	And sand is interesting, because if you dredge sand out...
	You don't really control what happens.
	You don't control the ocean and sand that is around the hole that you dredged out just starts to flow in to that hole that you made and over time it just fills up.
	Now where does that sand come from?
	It mainly comes from places that are built up out of sand like land.
	Now The number one consumer of sand, crazily enough, because they're in the desert, is Dubai.
	Because you need sand.
	It's how all modern buildings and construction are put together.
	You can't just change this process overnight of how they use sand to create concrete, mainly.
	And there are smugglers.
	There are...
	I mean, this is an incredible trade of just sand.
	And the sand in the desert is unusable.
	It's kind of crazy bringing sand to the Arabs in the desert.
	They can't use that sand because it's been blown around so much.
	It doesn't have the structure, which is why people are now looking at recycling glass to turn it back into sand, which does have pretty much the same structure and can be used for construction.
	But what is interesting is that all this talk about sea levels rising...
	It's because the sand is making the land masses disappear.
	The number one place in the world where sand mining is so prevalent that it has affected the country.
	Can you guess which country?
	No, Florida.
	The Maldives.
	The guys who are always fucking complaining.
	Yes, because they've sold all their sand.
	In this documentary, you see the island is just slipping away into the ocean.
	You can't stop it.
	By the way, when I said Florida, I know it's not a country.
	Some idiots.
	Don't worry about it.
	So this documentary was mind-blowing.
	This rising of the oceans is because the land masses are slipping away due to the dredging of sand for outrageous amounts of construction.
	Well, actually, the oceans are actually lowering, and this would explain it, too.
	Although it's a minor amount of sand threading.
	Right.
	So watch this documentary, Sand Wars.
	And all of a sudden you just get it.
	You're like, oh my god, no wonder.
	And it's a disaster.
	In Florida, because you did bring up Florida, they've had erosion of their beaches for as long as I've been going.
	They call them the groins or the girders or whatever they call them, you know, things in the ocean and trying to stop the sand from flowing away.
	What they're doing is they these communities like in Florida, they go out, you know, maybe 15 miles and they dredge up sand 15 miles out.
	And then they spew that back on to recreate the beach.
	But, of course, what it's only going to slip back within a year because it's trying to get back to fill up that hole that was just dredged at 15 miles out.
	And so the beaches disappear and then it's sold to us, sold to us as sea level is rising.
	We're going to die, but that's because, you know, we're all going to die.
	But it's not necessarily because of global warming, and I have not heard anyone talk about this problem.
	And, guess what?
	Nobody ever will.
	I don't know, I think recycled glass is going to be a good business.
	Well, it's always been a very important part of the glass manufacturing business.
	It's always been a very important part.
	It's nothing new.
	And my complaint was that now they've kind of institutionalized it so you can get two or five cents or a dime for every bottle that they sell at the grocery store.
	And where does that money go?
	It's just a scam.
	Yeah, I understand that.
	But that's what I was bitching about.
	The sand thing is different.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	I will say.
	Sand wars.
	Exactly why you can't use the sand in the deserts that you're talking about, which is really very powdery.
	I will say that there is, because I've been in a sandstorm, I will say that I don't see how it can't be used, maybe not used in concrete, but I don't see how it can't be used in glass manufacturing.
	That's not the big business.
	It's construction.
	That's the business.
	And they made all this whole man-made islands and everything in Dubai, which is now empty, of course.
	But we're building ourselves out of our land.
	And so the funny thing in Florida is you've got these people that are building all these constructions with the sand, and it's taking away their beachfront.
	It's going to go away.
	And pretty quickly.
	Well...
	I'm glad you're panicked about it.
	I'm not panicked.
	I think it's really interesting.
	Well, are you going to have a link in the show notes or whatever this documentary is?
	Of course.
	How do you get it?
	Does it come on YouTube or is it something you have to download illegally?
	As I said, you can get it off of Amazon for $2.99.
	Okay.
	But I also put in there the Maldives sand mining problems and you can read all about it.
	The Maldives, those guys are always the number one with a handout.
	Hey, we need some money for climate change.
	Yeah, why don't you not sell your sand?
	Which is part of your land.
	You know, hello.
	Look, our beaches are gone.
	There's rising tides.
	They're digging themselves into oblivion.
	Very good.
	That's all I got, John.
	What do you got?
	Okay, that was good enough.
	I mean, I always have a real newser, if you want a real newser.
	Well, let me play something first.
	I've got a Bill Nye, if you really want a Bill Nye.
	I do want to get us back on track.
	I noticed that Fast Company Magazine said that the food of the future is bugs.
	No!
	Yeah, some a-hole there is promoting eating bugs.
	And we've been pushing the starvation, you know, the depression style of food.
	Yes, when people eat kale, it's a depression food.
	They eat mac and cheese, it's a depression food.
	Bugs is not a depression food, but it's a great idea.
	But here's a new one, a new way of going about this.
	Play this one.
	This is the Cell...
	Sell food date law.
	Well, there is a push to clear expiration dates on food labels to save a lot of wasted food.
	It's all in response to a report presented at Stanford this month that found the U.S. loses $215 billion in food waste every year.
	Assemblyman David Chu believes part of the problem is that there are too many different kinds of food labels, like best used by or sell by.
	His bill says there should only be two kinds.
	So what they want to do, obviously, is to change the day so we're eating rotten food.
	This is just adding to the bug eating, kale eating.
	But John, aren't bugs, can't you keep those indefinitely?
	Do they need to be dried?
	They're dried bugs.
	I don't think you're going to keep a fresh bug indefinitely.
	Well, why not?
	Won't there just be a bug counter like there is for a butcher and there's the fish guy at Whole Foods and then we'll have the bug guy.
	I think a bug counter at Whole Foods would do it for me.
	And he'd have one of those beekeeper outfits on.
	He'd be in a cage.
	And he catches them for you live.
	A little net.
	How many grasshoppers?
	Hold on.
	Ants.
	So I played those clips of Hillary earlier.
	And I've noticed that one thing about her that if you just...
	It doesn't really take a lot.
	You can just tweak her voice a little bit, and she comes out sounding like a man.
	Our enemies are constantly adapting, so we have to do the same.
	For example, Brussels demonstrated clearly we need to take a harder look at security protocols.
	All right, borderline for you.
	Borderline.
	I used three variables.
	Tempo, speed, and pitch.
	And that's what she sounds like as a man.
	She had a set of balls on her there, man.
	Good one.
	Big balls.
	I could have pumped up the balls.
	That was very good.
	I like that a lot.
	I'm going to work on that.
	My face hurts.
	Oh, man.
	Too much.
	Too much.
	I got one.
	I was actually going to ask you before you do another one on me.
	Do you have anything to share with us?
	I mean, so two things happened.
	First of all, in the Netherlands, I should mention that there will be no talk about the terrorist who was sent to Holland and then to Belgium.
	There'll be, you know, we can't have any of that because Johan Cruyff passed away.
	I don't know Johan Cruyff.
	You might know him as Cruyff.
	He was the legendary number 14 soccer player for the Dutch team and for Ajax, of course, the Amsterdam team.
	He passed away very young, 69, I think.
	And the whole country is just like...
	I mean, this guy is the country, in a way, for many, many years.
	It's him and Pele, pretty much, if you ask real soccer nuts.
	They'll tell you that Johan Cruyff was one of the greats.
	It's unlikely that an athlete would pass away at 69.
	Yeah, cancer.
	Oh.
	But I thought maybe you could share something with us, because I think he deserves a lot more, and it always happens when, you know, you don't want to die when there's a terrorist attack in Belgium, but Andy Grove of Intel passed at 79.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I thought maybe you would have a little thing to share with us.
	I have a couple of anecdotes about him.
	He's actually kind of a prick.
	So let's make sure that that's not mentioned in any of the obituaries.
	Too soon, maybe?
	I don't know.
	No, no.
	I mean, it's like Steve Jobs was not a nice person.
	Oh, yeah.
	But Andy had a bunch of characteristics.
	One, he was the hardest-driving CEO the company's ever seen since or before.
	And he is the one who also started the feud with AMD, which should have never happened.
	Why not?
	There's a long story behind that which I could tell sometime.
	But he did it against the wishes of Robert Noyce and he started a feud with AMD and Jerry Sanders who ran AMD at the time who used to Post-Noise in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, where Sanders lived most of the time.
	And they made a gentleman's agreement that AMD would always have access to second-sourcing Intel chips, and Andy put a bosh on that, which caused a feud between the two companies, because Andy was just a hard-driving guy.
	The funny stories about Andy was that he had always used a Macintosh, That's interesting.
	Yes.
	And his nickname at the company was Mr.
	Clean.
	He apparently was an obsessive compulsive character.
	A cleanliness freak?
	A Purell person?
	I don't know about the Purell part, but he apparently kept a very neat and tidy environment and was very not happy with anybody who didn't do the same.
	And did you ever meet him?
	Yeah, I met him a number of times.
	I've chatted with him a lot.
	Any anecdote?
	No, all he did was complain.
	He would complain mostly about AMD. It's like, oh, those bastards, you know, they should be out of business.
	He would go on and on about it.
	And last time I saw him, when he was just getting sick, I don't think he recognized me or anything.
	It was weird.
	Yeah, that's Andy Grove.
	I never liked him.
	That should be on his tombstone.
	I never liked him.
	Why would he care about that?
	No, he doesn't care.
	But I appreciate your frankness.
	Yeah.
	And, of course, Rob Ford died, the mayor up there in Toronto.
	Yeah, that was a weird death, I thought.
	Well, he had cancer, too.
	Everyone has cancer.
	Yeah.
	It's like he's floating around, the pricker.
	Okay.
	Let's fall back.
	Okay.
	Remember the Pricker?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, the Americans are starting up again on FX, so we'll have more Prickers soon.
	Yeah, the Pricker.
	Yeah, the Russian Prickers.
	Look at that people out there, just go Google Pricker.
	The Pricker.
	The Pricker.
	So I have a clip that I got a question for you.
	Let that be a lesson, children.
	Hookers and blow is not always good.
	Everything in moderation.
	This is the anti-marijuana report.
	Okay.
	Do you have a question for me or should we play this?
	It'll be after the clip.
	A new study by UC Davis finds people who use marijuana regularly ended up with lower paying and less skilled jobs.
	Researchers say they also face financial difficulties and relationship problems and those who oppose the legalization of marijuana say this is one reason why it should not be legal.
	What they're now seeing is what we've been saying for a long time.
	So it's not surprising.
	Not surprising.
	The study followed close to a thousand participants in New Zealand from birth until age 38.
	Okay.
	I feel the question coming.
	What's wrong with this report?
	Well, here's what I heard.
	I heard if you smoke marijuana...
	You get less high-paying jobs.
	You get shitty jobs.
	Your relationships break apart.
	And I'm thinking, wait a minute.
	I'm a twice-divorced podcaster.
	Maybe there's something to this report.
	Maybe there's something I should pay attention to.
	I don't think that's what you meant, though.
	No.
	I'm going to let you...
	This is a short clip.
	So I want you down to listen to the report.
	Okay.
	Instead of laughing at it because it's so idiotic and some Berkeley woman comes out with some quote.
	This is why we didn't want to have it.
	I thought you were playing it to ask me if I recognize any of these patterns.
	Well, these patterns...
	No.
	That's...
	I'm high right now.
	Hold on, let's play the clip.
	A new study by UC Davis finds people who use marijuana regularly ended up with lower paying and less skilled jobs.
	Researchers say they also face financial difficulties and relationship problems.
	And those who oppose the legalization of marijuana say this is one reason why it should not be legal.
	What they're now seeing is what we've been saying for a long time.
	So it's not surprising.
	The study followed close to a thousand participants in New Zealand from birth until age 38.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Where is this study from?
	New Zealand.
	No.
	University of California at Davis, up the road.
	Oh, you're right.
	Yes, that's what they said in the beginning.
	Okay.
	So what has this got to do with New Zealand?
	That's where they tested it, I guess.
	Are you telling me that somebody gave UC Davis a bunch of money to do...
	This is one of those paid deals.
	You can do this.
	Anyone can do this, by the way.
	You can go to the university and give them money to do some work for you.
	This is not an unusual thing.
	Yes.
	Pharmaceuticals do it.
	Everybody does this.
	Everybody does this.
	I could do it.
	Now, who gave them money to go to New Zealand...
	As opposed to just coming over here to Berkeley or going down the road to Sacramento.
	Well, I don't know who, but I know how the conversation went.
	Hey man, I got a great idea.
	Let's go to New Zealand and smoke some weed, dude.
	That's how I would pitch it, but I'm not sure who paid for that.
	This is bullcrap, this report.
	You can't check on it because it's in New Zealand.
	This is a nonsense report.
	This is a scam to keep to public in California where it should be legalized.
	And it's as though, gee, you shouldn't be legalized.
	Everybody's smoking it now.
	You know how hard it is to get one of those prescription drug, prescription for using marijuana from one of these guys?
	It doesn't take anything.
	Everyone I know who likes to smoke pot all the time, I tell them, get the prescription so in case you get pulled over and the cops decide to do something about it.
	This is just another one of these moments to try to screw the citizens of California, make it as illegal as they can so they can keep growing it at ridiculous prices and have an underground that makes all the money.
	This should be, it should be like, it should be legalized, period.
	I'm done.
	Anyways, a bogus, bogus news story.
	I hate it.
	Yeah, I can tell.
	And you're not even a user.
	Not even a user.
	You're not a user, man.
	If I was, man, I'd be a lot different on this show.
	You'd be nailing every intro, dude.
	No, you're still on that.
	Yeah.
	No, I'm not really.
	All right.
	Well, what can we expect?
	What is happening for the rest of the week?
	I won't be able to get much news out of Holland.
	It'll be nothing but soccer retrospectives.
	They're just off.
	They're done.
	The Belgians...
	That's a good one.
	They probably killed him.
	Well...
	This is what's going to happen.
	Have you seen Bill Clinton recently?
	Yeah, that's the one I'm looking at.
	He's looking worse by the day, isn't he?
	God, I'm going to put these in the newsletter.
	I got some pictures of him that were isolated.
	It's like, holy mackerel.
	Wake up.
	Have some coffee.
	Do something.
	I think Cruz is going to be taken out with this.
	I don't know about the hookers.
	That's not what I heard.
	I heard that he was having an affair.
	The National Enquirer front page today.
	Five prostitutes talk about Ted Cruz.
	No.
	Yes.
	Well, that's got Trump written all over it.
	But we heard about it months ago.
	Months ago.
	Yeah, but they didn't open the valve.
	Okay, here's the spigot.
	I'll read you the headline.
	I'm looking at it now.
	Cruz's five secret mistresses, and one of them is a hooker.
	No wonder the Mormons liked him and voted him in Utah.
	Makes sense.
	Private detectives are digging into at least five affairs Ted Cruz supposedly had claimed a Washington insider.
	The leaked details are an attempt to destroy what's left of his White House campaign.
	I'm sure this is the reason.
	Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is trying to survive an explosive dirt file on the finger-wagging conservative senator.
	And the new issue of the National Enquirer on newsstands now reveals how the reports say that...
	I like the use of the finger-wagging as an adjective thing to put right there.
	Boom.
	Yeah, finger-wagging conservative senator.
	That's dynamite writing.
	For this sort of writing.
	Yeah, reveals how the reports say the staunch Republican is hiding five different mistresses.
	Staunch.
	The Inquirer reports that Cruz's claim mistresses include a foxy political consultant and a high-placed D.C. attorney.
	There are also whispers of other intimate late-night sessions Ted has had in Washington, and even a wild sex worker makes the cut.
	Wild sex.
	I love Merck.
	I love how we roll.
	People always ask why Americans are pretty much happy.
	This is the reason.
	We're happier than the Danes.
	We're happy about this stuff, man.
	This is great.
	Now, we want to mention something because people don't, new listeners especially don't have a clue about what we feel about the National Enquirer.
	People always say, oh, consider the source.
	Consider the source.
	That's exactly what we're doing.
	The source of the National Enquirer as a source for this sort of thing is absolutely top-notch because they pay for these stories.
	Journalists generally won't do it.
	It's unethical.
	It's unethical!
	It's fantastic.
	It's an outstanding product.
	I have to go get my paper copy.
	Most of it's just garbage.
	When it comes to political stuff like this, they nail this.
	So this is happening.
	So this is the end of the Ted Cruz campaign.
	Yes, he's over.
	And this Donald Trump turnaround is interesting.
	I wonder if he can keep it alive.
	I wonder what he's going to...
	He's been very quiet.
	He's just waiting for Cruz to die out.
	I guess he knows that the...
	We're going to expose...
	We're going to have photos of the woman, the other woman.
	Now, I said in a couple of shows ago that...
	And we talked about this maybe a month ago about how the right-wing talk show guys are talking about how Fox is going to sell out to Trump.
	Yes.
	And then I've been observing...
	I don't see any evidence of this.
	Right.
	Ah!
	I've now, as of today, changed my mind.
	Okay.
	I watched the lineup of the Hannity and Riley and...
	Oh, was this the thing?
	They were on stage, you mean?
	That thing?
	No, no.
	The network itself.
	Oh, just the network, yeah.
	And Hannity, who's the real tub-thumper for the Republicans, they're all in on Trump now, all of a sudden.
	To an outrageous degree.
	He had Laura Ingraham on, and I'm surprised that Trump wasn't there so they could both blow him.
	It was outrageous.
	Yeah.
	So Fox, I think, is in the bag.
	I think that what they said is true.
	So this will be interesting to see how this shakes out, but I don't know.
	I think Rance Priebus was on one of these shows, and he was being excoriated by one of these guys, and he said, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
	You're just imagining this.
	This is not going to happen.
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	If I had my conspiracy hat on, I'd say, Trump is working for the Jews.
	The media is doing exactly what he wants them to do.
	He'll be president.
	That's just my conspiracy hat.
	Yeah, I could see how you could work that up.
	But again, I'm high, so it doesn't really matter.
	All right.
	Yeah, all eyes on Bill.
	All eyes on Cruz.
	The Hillary-Bernie thing continues to heat up with Democrats being very mean to each other now, saying horrible things, which is fun.
	Yeah, Bernie.
	And sadly, you know, we'll see more action in Europe.
	I just don't see how it can not be happening in any of the EU countries or member states.
	And I think it's not going to be on a six-week cycle.
	No.
	Oh, no.
	It's going to be much tighter.
	The question is, will we see something in the United States?
	That's the question.
	I doubt it.
	Well...
	I think the analysis where we don't have these communities like that, these radicalized communities where there's no-go zones.
	I mean, there's not a no-go zone that I've ever known of.
	I mean, yeah, after midnight in some parts of New York or Cleveland, I wouldn't go there.
	But it's not like a no-go zone.
	When is Easter?
	Easter's this coming Sunday.
	Oh, we're working on Easter!
	And the word is that Easter is the next attack is what I'm getting from Intel sources.
	In Europe?
	Yeah.
	Well, we're working on Easter.
	The two of us seem to work on holidays more than any other podcast, broadcast, whatever you want to call it, advertising.
	We're going to be working on Easter.
	I hope people support us for doing that.
	That would be highly appreciated, but also we'll be on Vigilant Watch.
	If we see something, you know we'll say something.
	Easter would be a good time for us.
	Yeah, a nice religious thing.
	So we can say it's not about religion.
	You know, it's fun.
	Cognitive dissonance again.
	It's like, it's not about religion why they did it on Easter.
	My brain is frying.
	Please clap, everybody.
	Thank you very much for listening to the best podcast in the universe.
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	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's supposed to...
	I think it's going to get really hot today.
	Hot, hot, hot.
	I'm going to see Dvorak.
	We will return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos. Adios, mofos.
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	Adios, Adios, mofos.
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	Adios, Adios, mofos.
	No, no, no, no.
	I told you that the civil rights of LGBT Americans is...
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	Okay, you know what?
	No, no, no, no.
	Hey!
	Listen, you're my house.
	You're not going to get a good response from me by interrupting me like this.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Shame on you.
	You shouldn't be doing this.
	You can either stay and be quiet or we'll have to take you out.
	Alright, can we have this person removed, please?
	I'm just gonna wait until we get this done.
	Okay, where was I? As a general rule, I am just fine with a few hecklers, but not when I'm up in the house.
	My attitude is that if you're eating the hors d'oeuvres, you know what I'm saying?
	I don't want a door.
	I don't want a window.
	I don't want a sliding glass door.
	I would like people to comply with court orders, and that's the conversation we're trying to have.
	Can this bitch run the country?
	Hey, come on, guys.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Our enemies are constantly adapting, so we have to do the same.
	For example, Brussels demonstrated clearly we need to take a harder look at security protocols.
	Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
	We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
	In some countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
	In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms.
	Protect their freedoms.
	Adios, mofo.
	You might die.
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