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	We have plenty of stuff.
	They stole it from us.
	Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.
	It's Thursday, April 14, 2016, and time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 816.
	This is No Agenda.
	Degrading and ultimately defeating elitist rhetoric and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State here in Austin, Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm asking the question, why am I shouting?
	I'm John Steve Dvorak.
	It's Quackball and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Okay.
	You always want to know why you're shouting.
	I'd like to know.
	Yeah.
	Oh, so about an hour ago, I popped out to get some coffee and a pumpkin loaf, which I like to have on show days, I'll admit.
	Pumpkin loaf?
	Pumpkin loaf, yeah.
	You eat a whole loaf of bread?
	A whole loaf.
	It's a slice of a loaf.
	But you have a pumpkin loaf slice?
	Yes.
	Oh, that's different.
	Put butter on it?
	No.
	I warm it up, but I don't put butter on it.
	And sitting there, having a meeting in the coffee establishment, is the former New York banker.
	Your buddy?
	Friend of the show.
	Yeah.
	And he says, hey, hello, Mr.
	Curry.
	Hey, how you doing?
	What time in the morning is this?
	This is a little before nine.
	I'm sorry, you're two hours.
	Yeah, a little before nine.
	And he says, you know, so I was driving to Houston yesterday, and NPR was doing a fun drive, which is great for us, by the way.
	When NPR is doing their fundraising, it's unlistenable.
	So I said, no, I listened to the show.
	He said, you roasted every single one of the guests of my party.
	No, you didn't.
	You roasted them all!
	I said, I thought it was quite complimentary, actually.
	And he says, yeah.
	But everyone got raked over the call.
	Did they listen?
	Did they listen?
	No, only he did.
	Of course.
	But he said, yeah, I think you guys are right.
	About what?
	We had a quick conversation about the Panama Papers, about the banking war.
	Oh yeah, the banking.
	It's all for our banks.
	Good, I'm glad we got verification on that.
	That's nice.
	Well, the verification is that it is, of course, it's still the U.S. banks against the European banks, but also against Switzerland.
	What's going on there?
	Well, do you want to get into this now or do you want to save it for a minute?
	No, you're on it.
	Let's go.
	Okay, so this goes back to HSBC. And the original HSBC data leak...
	Which was leaked by a whistleblower, by a French whistleblower, about all the secret bank accounts in Switzerland.
	You remember this?
	This is...
	How long ago was this?
	Oh, let me see.
	A while back.
	Yeah, I wrote it...
	I think this was before the drug laundering money fine.
	Right?
	It's a separate case.
	Yeah, I know, but I think it was before in timeline.
	Could be.
	No, it's actually very close, because this was 2008...
	When this first leak came out.
	Well, it makes sense.
	They'd do that, the leak would happen, and then they'd get fined because someone was irked.
	Right, which they did.
	At the time, it was $1.9 billion that HSBC had to pay for nasty business shenanigans.
	Exactly.
	Now, HSBC was using...
	Mossack Fonseca as their registering agent for all of their money laundering and tax avoidance schemes.
	So that's how these two are connected.
	And by the way, Dame Angela in Nevada did a lot of research and I really appreciate it.
	Okay, so we have Mossack Fonseca Group Who did a lot of the shell companies for HSBC for their shenanigans.
	Then it was investigators from the USA, from the states, that got HSBC's internal documents.
	And it's many of the same mainstream news outlets that reported on the HSBC data leak.
	Are now on this Mossack Fonseca data leak.
	And they also spent a year, there was 130 journalists.
	It's crazy when you read the similarities between what was reported six or seven years ago about HSBC and what we're seeing now with the Panama Papers.
	But here is the kicker for me.
	This leak of HSBC was done by a French IT guy, dude named Ben, or dude named Benjamin.
	Benjamin en français.
	And he wrote a biography recently.
	And this is what I liked in his foreword.
	The presence of several intelligence services suggested an undeclared war in the background, a war between the United States and Switzerland to abolish bank secrecy.
	It is possible, therefore, that the HSBC files were an instrument of clandestine negotiation on behalf of the United States.
	And get this for an extra super kicker.
	This guy, again, he was an IT guy who saw all the shenanigans going on at HSBC. He leaked the documents to the authorities.
	He said, in Switzerland, while he was there, as a part of the HSBC intranet or some other service that was going on, he says, you'll never guess who was hanging out working in Switzerland at the time.
	I'm going to give you one guess.
	It's better than that.
	Okay.
	Snowden.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	So when you put together James Comey, board member of HSBC, around this time, and now director of FBI for 10 years, and that's a pretty solid position, you take this connection, this deeply rooted connection between HSBC, and we're going to throw USB in there and a couple others.
	UBS. UBS, I'm sorry.
	But it clearly seems to be U.S. banks, with help from an intelligence agency, screwing over whatever remains of these crappy little banks that we have won over, if you remember the words of the former New York banker.
	We beat them, and I think they're just going to put a jackboot to their head or something, just stomp the European banks down a little bit further.
	And Switzerland.
	The idea that Switzerland is the go-to place, as I think you pointed out in the previous deconstruction, we don't like that.
	We're the guys.
	Bring your money here.
	We know how to do it for you.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Do I like the Snowden?
	I love the Snowden thing.
	The whole thing is just, from the get-go, this thing stinks.
	I mean, you kind of spotted that it stunk.
	I just spotted it was stinking from a different way.
	But it just stinks.
	I mean, the whole thing is, there's documents out there, and I'm sure there's some good stuff in there that's going to be revealed as needed.
	Of course, this does look a little bit like a blackmail thing.
	Well, what's nice about this...
	Is there so many different people and institutions and agencies who are in the know.
	They see this crisis and of course we know we never let a good crisis go to waste.
	I tried for days to get an audio or video clip of this.
	It appears it's not available.
	But you'll like this.
	International Monetary Fund head honcho, Christine Fifi Lagarde, said in an answer to a journalist's question, I wish I could find the actual audio or video.
	I'm still looking for it.
	She thinks it's time to, quote, think outside the box on a global tax.
	This is what they've been wanting for all this time.
	Well, we can't quite get the carbon tax thing, so I know.
	Let's just tax everybody globally, you know, because you're moving your money around.
	Yeah, get some money out of it.
	Squeeze some more money out of the public.
	It's fantastic.
	And let's do it worldwide.
	I got a great idea.
	This will take a little guts, but we're going to do it.
	And a roadblock to this has always been Switzerland.
	Yes!
	And we're taking them bitches down, Swiss cheese mofos!
	We're taking you down!
	Well, I'm surprised that the Swiss ended up calling for this because they were...
	When I was in Switzerland once, I got nothing but lectures about how they were so protective of their customers and...
	They don't see any reason...
	If somebody's not doing anything illegal, there's no reason they shouldn't be banking with the Swiss.
	Hey, and wasn't it...
	Didn't we also have a CD full of names of Greeks who had shuffled money over to Switzerland?
	Didn't Fifi have a CD-ROM of that?
	And she was touting that when we were looking at the bailouts, the first bailouts?
	I don't remember that, but it wouldn't surprise me.
	Yeah, that everyone...
	All these politicians had cheated and taken the EU money.
	Taking their EU money and put it...
	Well, I mean, Switzerland was also the banker for the Nazis, and they remained neutral.
	I mean, they're troublemakers.
	In a very neutral way.
	And their cheese is a jip, because it's holes in it.
	It's not a full product.
	It's a jip.
	Cheese is sold by the pound, so it's not really...
	So you won't hear this next clip.
	I'm thinking you won't hear this news item in the United States or in the United States of Gitmo Nation Europe, Eurolands.
	Putin has been implicated in the Panama Papers by the media, not by the papers themselves.
	Most poignant is a couple million dollars his friend the cellist received.
	The cellist is the best.
	Well, the cellist responded.
	And quite honestly, I think it's so good that you won't hear this response anywhere in our media, because oops!
	It's claimed the paper showed that Putin's associates use offshore accounts to conceal funds.
	Cellist Sergei Roldugin's name appeared on the list of leaked documents last week, linked to $2 billion in offshore transactions.
	I was going around begging everyone for money, he says, because everything is so expensive.
	Musical instruments are expensive.
	The best teachers are expensive.
	So this guy is also a professor of music, and as you hear, he's saying, you know, I'm trying to keep the classical Russian performing arts alive, and I need instruments, and I need money to teach the kids, and...
	You know, a Stradivarius can cost you a million bucks right there, if that's what he's talking about.
	I think they're more than that now.
	To get the best, the best instruments, the best professors, the best concert venues, nothing but the best for Russians, for our musicians.
	Vladimir Putin's name does not appear in the Panama Papers.
	He says the scandal is part of a US-led plot to weaken Russia.
	Putin also defended Roldugin, saying his lifelong friend has done nothing wrong.
	I'm going to say it's plausible.
	Plausible.
	I mean, maybe the way he went about it was odd, but it's plausible.
	A couple million for some instruments and teaching materials, etc.
	I can see that.
	Like I said when this thing first cropped up, this is going to keep us busy for six months.
	Well, what I'm hoping for is the second wave, as you've kind of semi-predicted.
	Another one of these guys has got to go down.
	Yeah.
	Actually, they have to do two.
	There's no way.
	You can do one, and everyone says, well, they got lucky.
	It's not enough.
	This is like the reason we dropped two A-bombs on the Japanese.
	You can't do one.
	I've never heard this.
	I like it.
	It sounds very callous, yeah.
	But you can't do one because it's like, well, maybe that's it.
	They got there.
	They shot their wad.
	I mean, that's what you'd hope that if you're an optimist, that's what you'd think.
	And so you have to do two.
	So they're going to have to bring down some other big organization.
	So this is why we also double tap people with drone strikes?
	Because you just can't do one?
	Can't take a chance.
	Can't take a chance.
	We did a triple the other day.
	The triple.
	You know, I think the reporting on the triple may be bogus, but...
	Well, I don't know.
	The United States admitted to two, but they said, we don't do three.
	This is a waste of money.
	But it sounds good in a Democracy Now!
	report.
	Democracy Now!
	of course, we'll just take these reports...
	If somebody gives it to them, we'll just go along with that, whatever they said.
	I tried watching last night.
	What are they doing?
	Oh, okay.
	I better explain.
	Did you hear the quality of the sound?
	The whole show was shit.
	Everything was wrong about it.
	What's going on there?
	Because they're on the road.
	Oh, and it had big gaps, you know?
	They're on the road.
	I think they're doing the production from the full-on production back at the studio, so they have delays or something.
	It was very uncomfortable.
	That could well be, but they're on the road, so they had one background the other day that was like a photograph of In a frame that was supposed to maybe look like a window.
	I'm not absolutely sure.
	But it was against the blue wall.
	When I was working with these guys at Tech TV, we had a lot of pros there.
	And there used to be a common thing they would always say about some productions called Russia.
	It's called Russian TV. Where you're being shot in a studio in a...
	Situation where you're behind the mic as a talking head and your background is a wall about one foot behind your head.
	So there's no depth at all.
	This is Amy Goodman in San Francisco.
	I don't even know where she is.
	It's not KQE. It's no studio I've ever seen.
	It's a crappy place.
	Right behind her is this picture.
	It doesn't even cover the whole frame behind her.
	It's just a small picture of the pyramid, the Transamerica Pyramid.
	And it's crappy.
	It looks like a lousy photo.
	And then she sounds like she's in a bucket.
	The sound stinks, too.
	It's just a mess.
	They should stop now.
	Get off the road.
	She says she's going to be 100 days on the road going from city to city.
	Please.
	Fine.
	Good.
	Good, good, good.
	So that's why it looks so crappy.
	Let's see.
	Bank of America, I think, is the first to step outside the lines.
	And warning, Europe looks frightening.
	But now we get the information.
	What is that?
	Oh, this is a report they just came out with?
	Yeah, this is the...
	Let me see.
	I think they're right.
	Yeah, it looks horrible.
	Of course it does.
	Of course it does.
	Yeah, it's not good.
	I picked up a couple of things.
	I pointed my output of my virtual private network to London so I can get a lot of stuff from the UK directly that I just won't ship over here.
	Yeah, because you can't just connect directly.
	You have to...
	Yeah.
	Which is bull crap as far as the internet shouldn't be like that.
	No.
	The BBC's got a feed that I want to see from some one of their more obscure little outlets.
	Yeah, and you have to be a UK IP address.
	Yeah.
	That's nonsense.
	That's the main use of VPNs.
	Isn't that the thing that there was pride in the early days of, oh, you can't do the internet is great because it does all this stuff and you can't block it.
	Meanwhile, I can't get his fees.
	Well, do you pay the license fee, young man?
	No.
	You have no right to it.
	So I was listening to this guy, this talk show guy, and Talk London or whatever it's called.
	Yeah, LBC? Yeah, LBC. And this is a guy, Ferrari is a big, big shot.
	He's one of the best guys.
	I want to play this little clip because there's a couple of things going on regarding the Brexit that I think we should get into since it's a little bit, since we're talking about Europe.
	The Brexit is not going to pass under any circumstances.
	It's not even close.
	And now the British, the big scandal...
	How can you be so sure?
	How can you be so sure?
	These clips will make my point for me.
	Okay.
	For one thing, the British government just sent out a pamphlet costing like 10 million pounds or something and is telling people why they should vote against it.
	And everyone's up in arms about this.
	But let's listen to Ferrari, the British talker, kind of set up a couple of the clips.
	He's actually going to set up my clips.
	And he's...
	Unfortunately, he's...
	And this has been going on for decades.
	The British...
	Are getting so British that they're very hard to understand.
	So are the Americans.
	Let me ask you a question, Joseph.
	That's probably true.
	We're finally making the schism make it...
	We're just getting deeper.
	But let's see if we can understand this guy and listen to what British talk show guy...
	This might be like a...
	A rush limbo.
	In other words, he talks and talks and talks and never takes calls.
	A modern talker.
	Last week, he fired off the first salvo in what will be the narrative right up to the general election.
	It couldn't have been more delicious for the Labour leader.
	He had no legal argument, so he wheeled out the most venal one of all.
	The rich have some explaining to do, and they don't care about the poor.
	That kind of political sophistry should just be a bit hilarious, but it isn't.
	It's toxic.
	It's nasty.
	It is full of bilious intent, and it all works rather...
	Did he say bilious?
	Yeah.
	You listen to his language, it's nothing we would ever...
	Bilious, yeah.
	His wordage is outrageously British.
	What is bilious?
	I've never heard of this word.
	Oh, bilious, that's a funny word.
	Like full of bile?
	Yeah, exactly.
	In fact, I think that's the root.
	Okay, hold on.
	Ilius.
	Yeah, it means you're all worked up.
	Yeah, let me just see.
	Bilious.
	I had eaten something that didn't agree with me.
	I was a little bilious.
	Oh, I'm going to use this.
	You should.
	You would be perfect.
	You'd be the perfect guy to use the word bilious.
	Oh, I'm so bilious right now.
	Simply, you employ some fake anger, you caricature your opponent, a bit like the old 1970s racists used to do.
	They're taking your job.
	And then you give them both barrels, essentially telling them that you are a morally better person than them because they're posh And you're not.
	And then today, as if you hadn't heard it all, the head honcho of all things socialist and suspicious Dennis Skinner stands up, a man more left than an Albanian keep left sign, and he plays an utter ace.
	Dodgy Dave, he cried, as if the whole world...
	Supported his point and then proceeded to wheel out the same fatuous nonsense.
	I'm morally better than you because you're posh and privileged and I'm not.
	Therefore, you are fair game for anything.
	Now, polarity is fabulous in politics, a great thing, but this isn't about...
	Differences in political opinion.
	This is about fighting a class war, and it's as dishonest as it is grim.
	Over the last few days, I can't be the only one.
	I don't think I've seen so many conflated narratives, half-cocked accusation and weird inaccuracies, not to mention stuff that has been blatantly made up.
	But it doesn't matter to the classists.
	Note the debate today.
	Corbyn even managed to link food banks with the PM earning a few quid from shares.
	Six years ago, Skinner accused him of dividing the country just because he went to Eton and speaks nicely.
	Then you've got McDonald, Mann and Watson all wheeled out like Don Corleone's henchmen to stir it up a little bit more.
	And then every left-wing weirdo on social media making it up and then sharing it any old statement they like and wheeling it out.
	Into that well-used echo chamber of modern indignation, the Twitter.
	They're out of touch.
	They don't care about the poor people.
	They're just lining their pockets all because a decade ago Cameron invested 12 grand in the equivalent of an ISA. But it's all you need.
	Join up the wonky dots, look a bit angry, sprinkle in some hyperbole, and Bob's your uncle.
	In the real world, that kind of argument would be about as effective as a mudflap on a tortoise.
	He tires me a little bit.
	Yeah, well, he never ends.
	He goes on and on and some of his metaphors are just crap.
	I mean, the left turn sign is...
	What does that even mean?
	Well, more left-er than a left-hand turn sign in, what did he say?
	Albania?
	Albania?
	Yeah, I would.
	It's like, okay, whatever, fine.
	But this wouldn't...
	This guy...
	His vocabulary is nice.
	Yeah.
	So there's a couple things I just want to jump in for a moment, just tying into this.
	You recall Nigel Farage was in the Netherlands just before the big referendum.
	On the Ukraine Association Agreement between the EU and the Netherlands as the last holdout they haven't ratified.
	And the referendum said no.
	And it's only an advisory referendum.
	And the Dutch, not last night, the night before last night, they had their big meeting in the parliament.
	What are we going to do?
	Of course, the few parties who were...
	All four blowing up the agreement.
	They said, well, you can't ratify now.
	The people have spoken.
	Again, legally, they can do whatever they want.
	So they came out with a chicken shit move.
	Yeah, we're going to announce what we'll do about the results of the referendum after the Brexit referendum in the UK on the 23rd of June.
	What?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, you're right about the, you nailed it with the word chicken shit.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And the Dutch are like, oh, okay.
	Alrighty then.
	Sounds fair, sounds fair.
	What they should say is, we will tell you what we're going to do with the results of the referendum right after we view the radar images from the U.S. about MH17. Oh, wait, we're not going to look at those either.
	The poor Dutch, man.
	Well, it happens.
	It's not going to get any better.
	But the fact that it's...
	Anyway, okay, so it's chicken shit move.
	I have a Farage clip whenever you're ready for it.
	Okay, well, I had a Farage clip that was on one of these talk shows, and it was boring.
	Farage, for one thing, didn't say anything about the...
	He said that the pamphlet was not going to make a difference.
	I think it will.
	Have you seen said pamphlet?
	Have you taken a look at it?
	I have been trying to...
	No, I didn't get a look at it, but I got a look at a rundown that had every point in the...
	It was like the pamphlet analyzed.
	Right.
	And the pamphlet analyzed.
	It's just the pamphlet that's full of crap.
	But here, play the clip UK pamphlet to get a little idea about it, about why some people are irked about it.
	UK pamphlet?
	It should be something like...
	It doesn't say UK pamphlet.
	British pamphlet.
	I was looking at the wrong end of the list.
	Here's the problem you're going to have today with me.
	I know, I know.
	Take your B12. No.
	The problem you're going to have with me is that the printer is down.
	Oh, no.
	I had to write the name of the clips, and in some situations like British pamphlet, I stupidly...
	Put UK just to show you didn't have to write so much.
	Right.
	However, the clip isn't titled British.
	Yes, it is.
	...a million copies, 34 pence each, of glossy pro-European pamphlets setting out why we should remain in the European Union according to Her Majesty's government.
	The man with that task, Europe Minister David Lidington.
	After last week, David Campbell's going to face his own MP.
	So he sent out Mr Lidington.
	And you can hear the jeers in the background.
	Those aren't Labour jeers.
	Those are the distinctive jeers of Tory backbench MPs.
	It was this government which made the commitment to hold a referendum and which delivered that commitment through the EU Referendum Act.
	And the government has made a clear recommendation to the British people that we judge it in our national interest that the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union.
	But it is also important that this key decision by the British people should be made on the basis of the facts.
	And independent polling carried out on behalf of the Cabinet Office has suggested that 85% of voters wanted more information and in particular wanted the government itself to set out more information on the basis of which electors could take an informed decision.
	It was like being on safari, Ian.
	Mr Lidington hopped from foot to foot like a vulnerable impala as the hyenas circled behind him waiting to pounce and we didn't have to wait that long before Dr Liam Fox unleashed.
	Dr Liam Fox.
	But the weakness in my right honourable friend's case is that this dodgy dossier, the sequel, doesn't actually contain facts, but contains opinions, assertions and suppositions.
	Not only is it a waste of public money, but in effectively doubling the Remain campaign's budget, the government has betrayed any sense of fairness in the process of the referendum and has, with the content of this leaflet, abdicated its responsibility to tell the truth.
	I'm trying to understand something, John.
	You're saying the Brexit's not going to happen, and you're attributing this to the pamphlet?
	No.
	I think a pamphlet is just one element of all the things that are going on.
	But they did the same in the Netherlands with the Ascension Agreement, and everyone was pouring money in.
	I equate it more with what happened in Scotland.
	Hmm.
	There's no reason in the world Scott didn't want to split off what they scared him to death.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I'm just, you know, you'll see.
	In fact, right here on this show, I'm going to guarantee it's not going to happen.
	Put it in the book, my friend.
	Put it in the book.
	Here's the clip.
	Here's the clincher for me is the clip.
	This is, again, on these British talk shows.
	This is a bookmaker.
	Oh, well, if it's the bookies.
	Well, we know that, you know, there's been a couple of studies that show that these bookies, when it comes to these sorts of bets, tend to always, they always seem to have, they seem to have the pulse of what's going to happen.
	Often, yes.
	It's predictive.
	And these guys have got it nailed.
	And listen to these odds on the Brexit.
	What's happening with the betting on a Brexit over this last week or so, David?
	Absolutely nothing.
	In fairness to Mr Farage, he was spot on.
	This has had, this discussion about Mr Cameron and his tax returns has had the square root of zero impact on the odds.
	So let's just establish what the odds are.
	Two to five to remain.
	So it is odds on, quite significantly odds on, that we will vote to remain at two to five.
	And for us to vote to leave, that is fifteen to eight.
	So zero is, damn it, two to one.
	We do not have emotions.
	Right, but the bookmakers can change their odds as they go along, right?
	Well, they change them, but it's not like they're just ad-libbing the changes.
	The concept of a bookmaker is to set the odds in such a way that they somehow win.
	It's the magical somehow they win bit.
	Well, you're taking bets from both sides.
	Yeah.
	And if everyone's voting, yeah, we're all going to leave.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It changes the odds and you have to adjust.
	The odds are their balance sheet, basically.
	And the odds show clearly, by a huge margin, that they're staying in the EU. Here is Nigel Farage at the European Union Starfleet Command.
	Now on behalf of the EFDD Group, Mr.
	Farage.
	Very surprised.
	We're here in what I've been told repeatedly is the home of European democracy, and so surely we could have taken the opportunity this morning to celebrate.
	The Dutch referendum last week, in which the people said no to EU enlargement, no to the deal with the Ukraine, and no doubt had it been Turkey, an even bigger number of people would have said no to Turkish accession.
	So it was a victory for democracy, but in particular, it was a victory for a little organisation called Geenpile, a group of young bloggers who managed to get together 427,000 signatures.
	He is mischaracterizing that group a little bit, but the 470,000 signatures is correct.
	So it was a victory as well for direct democracy.
	And this in the week when we remember that Gian Roberto Castelleggio, the genius behind the five-star movement in Italy, has died.
	This, ladies and gentlemen, is the new politics.
	Did he...
	What did he die of, that guy?
	I didn't even know he died.
	I didn't know he died until you just played that clip, so I have no idea.
	Yeah, well...
	Let's see.
	No, I don't know how to figure it out.
	See if you can find it.
	And yet, we were told by Mr. Juncker that if the Dutch voted no, it would be a disaster.
	But he hasn't mentioned it today at all.
	And indeed, your predecessor, Mr. Van Rompuy, my old mate, says we should just ignore the Dutch and carry on blithely.
	So what we're seeing is the big battalions of vested self-interest doing their best to completely ignore.
	Now that, producer Paul caught this for me.
	That's one of those coded bits he likes to put into his speeches.
	Do you hear what he said?
	Let's hear it again.
	What we're seeing is the big battalions of vested self-interest doing their best to completely ignore the will of the Dutch people.
	This is from Voltaire.
	Dieu n'est pas pour les gros bataillons, mais pour ceux qui tirent les mieux.
	This is from his notebooks and the translations.
	God is not with the big battalions, but with those who shoot the best.
	That farage is deep sometimes.
	I wonder who else picks that up.
	Do the people there in the Starfleet Command understand this?
	Do they get these little jabs or not?
	Probably.
	I don't know, but they use words like bilious.
	Excuse me.
	I'm using that from now on.
	We're doing their best to completely ignore the will of the Dutch people.
	Well, I think things are changing.
	I don't believe these institutions can survive 21st century technology.
	I think the will of the people is changing politics in a way that makes all of you in this room deeply fearful, and so you should be.
	And as we in the United Kingdom enter the final countdown of our referendum, all eyes are on this Turkish deal.
	And I think what we see is we see the bosses of the EU bowing and scraping before Mr Erdogan, who gleefully walks all over you, tramples over human rights at every level, and for Mr Juncker to tell us this morning that we're making progress.
	Let's just examine that.
	1.8 million people have come to the EU in the last 18 months, and we've sent back 300.
	Doesn't sound, sir, like it's going very well to me.
	The one group that will be pleased, though, are ISIS. They have now managed to put 5,000 of their operatives into the European continent, according to the boss of Europol.
	Something that should send a shiver down our collective spines.
	Call of me!
	I have to say that in the end, I think is what the British referendum will turn on.
	I think we will vote for Brexit, and the reason is we'll vote to put our own safety first.
	It is going to be, as it was in the Netherlands last week, a battle of people versus the politicians.
	You may have the big money and the big businesses and Goldman Sachs, but we've got our armies of bloggers.
	And in the end, the people's will is going to prevail.
	This place won't survive.
	You know, and we'll talk about this later on.
	I have some things I want to discuss about, you know, the internet and how it's changed, you know, media in particular.
	And it's unavoidable that this changes politics.
	Absolutely.
	But I think Mr.
	Farage is wrong.
	We're not quite there yet where the internet provides, and of course it's a race, to shut down the functioning internet before, you know, we really figure out how to govern or...
	Influence.
	Governance.
	How to deal with this mess.
	Or how to deal with it.
	He actually got a question.
	He got a red card question.
	What does that mean?
	You get kicked out of the soccer game?
	I don't get that.
	Well, that's what I always thought, but no.
	Apparently, a red card question is like you have a number.
	You can ask three shitty...
	You can ask three yellow questions.
	What?
	I'm just kidding.
	I'm just kidding.
	I have no idea.
	I'm just kidding.
	I don't know.
	I wish.
	I wish.
	Well, look it up.
	Maybe it is like that.
	I don't know.
	I think this is one of the German members of parliament.
	I have a question to Mr Farage.
	Who is sitting behind the British flag?
	Now, don't you think that it's quite embarrassing for many Brits that a speaker who's speaking behind the British flag is celebrating a referendum which the only winner is Mr.
	Putin, who now is celebrating that Europe is not united behind cooperation with Ukraine?
	So that's the real thinking, John.
	They really, really believe this.
	Wow, we did a great job of propagandizing them.
	Oh my goodness.
	And remember, it started with the gays, it started with the shitty bathrooms he was building in Sochi, and he hated the dogs, and he eats babies for lunch.
	And the accommodations were no good.
	The toilets not working.
	There's going to be terrorism.
	Yeah.
	Don't go!
	Yeah, a little more.
	The social thing was outrageous.
	You want to hear his answer here?
	Yeah, obviously.
	Go ahead, Mr Farage.
	...but I'm equally not very keen on going to war with Mr Putin.
	Strikes me as being a very silly idea.
	What did we do?
	We encouraged the overthrow of a corrupt but democratically elected leader in the Ukraine and we, in effect, have poked the Russian bear with a stick and we're surprised when he reacts.
	We shouldn't be.
	I think we should all have our own individual nation-state democracies.
	And I want a Europe, Mr.
	Erickson, where we trade together, cooperate together, work together, our friends and good neighbours with each other.
	What I don't want is that flag, an anthem, and all these presidents.
	I don't want political union.
	I want genuine European friendship.
	Yes.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	Well, he's the idealist amongst a bunch of dummies.
	I think he's just...
	He's ten years too early.
	Or maybe five.
	Well...
	Before we can...
	I think he's too late.
	This should have been an issue.
	It should have been made an issue early on in this scheme.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I mean it differently.
	I think the Brexit...
	Or the idea that politics are changing because of the way the citizenry can communicate now directly and also amongst themselves, that will change politics.
	And it has changed politics.
	But just because the Netherlands squeaked by on 32%, Which is a very wired country.
	It doesn't necessarily mean it's all happening now.
	I think he's just a little hopeful.
	It's not happening ever.
	I don't think it's ever going to happen.
	I think it's going to be a civil war that makes it happen.
	Well, interesting you say that.
	Very respected newspaper in the Netherlands, the NRC, said, we expect the revolution to start here in May.
	In May.
	And then Fifi comes out, check this out, gets better.
	Mayday.
	Is this a communist operation?
	Probably.
	Probably.
	Christine Fifi Lagarde has an idea for the Euro crisis.
	And it's the perfect timing now.
	It's almost set up for this.
	With all of our cashless societies.
	Where does your money live?
	Your money lives in cyberspace, protected by your bank.
	We really don't have cash anymore.
	So Fifi says, well, the IMF is going to recommend, because the way we could solve the Euro crisis, and when I say Euro crisis, that's the financial part of the Euro crisis, is by charging a one-time 10% fee on everybody's savings.
	Holy crap.
	How come this isn't leading the network news?
	Because they're trying to avoid that revolt they're talking about.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Yeah.
	That's more than a bailing.
	So for every $1,000 you have in the bank, in your savings account, which you've been encouraged, especially in the United States, you've been encouraged to maintain, even though it pays zero interest in today's world, it may be...
	Such as, you know, at the end of the year, you get a little thing, you get an interest, 0.02 cents for this, you know, whatever your account is.
	And so you've been encouraging this all your life, and now, with every $1,000, they're going to take $100 and steal it from you.
	So Fifi wrote this...
	That's just theft.
	Okay.
	Well, Fifi wrote this in the IMF Fiscal Monitor.
	That's the new, you know, that's her big annual report.
	And she said, you know, this would really stop the crisis.
	And of course, it really only hurts the rich people.
	Yeah, you understand this.
	Oh yeah.
	Because they're the ones that stand to lose the most.
	Yeah, they'll lose the most of some poor schlub who's only got $1,200 in his bank accounts out $120 for nothing.
	Thank you for making me save my money instead of putting it in a mattress.
	It's a one-time deal, though.
	It's only a one-time deal.
	Of course it's a one-time deal.
	This one time until they want to do it again.
	You've got to see this.
	Who's ever bought the one-time deal?
	Let me stop you here for a second.
	I just want to have a pet peeve out of the world.
	I can tell you even better.
	The one-time deal.
	Here's my favorite one-time deal, and then you go into the one-time deal.
	Wim Kok, who was Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the 80s, I think.
	He said, people, we've got a problem with the economy.
	We're going to put in a one-time, and it's only temporary, tax on gasoline, 25-cent additional tax.
	It's known as the Quartier van Kok, the Cox Quarter.
	That's a show title, by the way.
	Cox Quarter.
	Yeah.
	And so that was 30 years ago.
	And people are still waiting for it to be removed.
	All right, well, I got one that goes 80 years.
	Golden Gate Bridge was built.
	It was going to have a one-time fee for about a month across the bridge.
	Oh, really?
	Then it's going to be free.
	Oh.
	San Francisco Bay Bridge.
	What does it cost now?
	Eight bucks?
	What does it cost?
	I think it's something like eight bucks.
	It's really high.
	Anyway, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, same thing.
	It was going to be, oh, this is a great bridge, and taxpayers pay for it, and then there's going to be a one-time fee, a bridge toll, and then it's going to be free forever.
	No, no.
	I've got clips from the old newspapers.
	I have framed that show this.
	Well, what's worse is not only do you still have the fee, but you have potholes.
	Potholes on top of it.
	Yeah.
	And then a scam bridge they built to cost too much.
	But going across the Golden Gate Bridge is not only expensive, it's over $6.
	Maybe it is $8.
	But they took the toll takers out.
	So you have to have a toll tag or some way to get across this bridge.
	Or otherwise you get a $200 file, $150 to $200 fine.
	Yeah, if you just ride through, sure.
	It's a joke.
	This is a one-time fee, so she's full of crap.
	That one-time fee is, well, they didn't object to us taking $150 out of their $1,500 savings account.
	Let's do it again.
	Now, of course, this is just Fifi.
	It's just Fifi saying what she says.
	No, but she's reflective.
	Fifi's not an independent, you know, loudmouth.
	She is reflecting thought that is being discussed amongst the elites, yes.
	Reflective is a good word.
	And they've already talked about this, and they're taking their money out of Cyprus.
	We know that there's certain Cyprus banks are stealing money from them, and they're going to steal money from the Greeks.
	They want to steal your money.
	That's simple.
	Yes.
	Well, they don't want to steal it, they just want to use it.
	They can't get enough taxes from the public at large throughout the world that they just want to steal money now.
	Yeah.
	That's fantastic.
	But I think we should just, if I can just smidge over a little bit into Ukraine, you'll recall that all of our operators, all of our intelligence network assets throughout the world were telling us that look for Ukraine to completely revamp the entire government.
	Fire everybody, start over, something's going to happen.
	And that something is starting to happen.
	As Yats, now Yats, Yats, the Prime Minister, he's resigned.
	Now Yats, as we know, is Victoria Nuland's guy.
	Yeah.
	He is the guy.
	Somewhere, we probably have the clip where she says Yats is the guy, where they're setting up the whole, it's Victoria Nuland and then the other guy, another State Department guy, and they're talking about, oh, we can get this guy in, that guy, keep the boxer out, we don't want him.
	Yats is the guy, he's our go-to guy.
	So Yats is now out, all of a sudden.
	And, well, hold on, I have a clip.
	Hit it.
	This is State Department, Mark Toner.
	Man, I never thought I would wish for Kirby.
	Come back, Toner.
	Toner's not fun.
	But there's some Asian girl who's new, new to the mix, and I don't know what organization she reports for, but she came up with something very interesting and said, hey, we have a billion-dollar loan guarantee that we're...
	That we're about to give to Ukraine.
	Could this have anything to do with it?
	The Prime Minister of Ukraine has any implication to the status of a U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine?
	Does the United States give Ukraine any assurance of giving a loan guarantee?
	You can hear Toner briskly flipping through his binder to get to the tab.
	If there is a new government for me.
	We'll continue to work with the government of Ukraine to finalize our loan guarantee agreement, which will specify the conditions for the loan guarantee.
	The reason I ask is because yesterday the president of Ukraine said on TV, said that while he was in Washington during the nuclear security summit, he got a word from the White House saying that Ukraine will receive a $1 billion loan guarantee he got a word from the White House saying that Ukraine will receive a $1 billion Could you verify?
	No, that's okay.
	It's a legitimate question.
	I'm not privy to whatever conversation he may or may not have had with the President on this.
	Again, though, all I'm saying is that exactly...
	What President Poroshenko may have been intimating, which is that, you know, what we need to see now are that they continue to deliver on and meet the reforms they need to meet in order for that loan guarantee to continue.
	But did the United States give Ukraine any assurance?
	Again, I just don't have a read on what conversations they may or may not have had.
	I just don't.
	Not saying yes or no.
	So this is an extraction, the way I see it.
	Get him out quick.
	Vyats is our guy.
	Get him out.
	Prediction, he'll be back in the new government once this one has to come down.
	Something's going to happen.
	And we already know how to install people there overnight.
	Like the finance minister, American, who became a Ukrainian overnight.
	So keep your eye on the government in Ukraine.
	Something's going down.
	And I don't know where the hell...
	This all sounds like...
	This almost is like a Back to the Economic Hitman playbook.
	Yeah.
	Who says they ever changed the book?
	Yes, they didn't.
	Well, I mean, they came out with Volume 2.
	Oh, man.
	This is laughable.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I have a related clip about that.
	No, I do have a...
	I'll talk about this at any time, but the Russians are irked about all this, of course, and they're buzzing our ships that are floating around the Balkans.
	And pretty close, too.
	To 30 feet, in one case, supposedly.
	Nice piloting skills.
	I have two clips of this.
	One on ABC, which I just cut short because it stinks.
	The one on, and I also cut up the CBS version, but CBS at least had a little background.
	ABC had, in fact, listen to the ABC clip, which is the one where I spell buzzing correctly.
	Good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a Wednesday night.
	And we begin here with that close call.
	Russian fighter jets barreling past a U.S. Navy ship in international waters just 30 feet away.
	The images just coming in tonight shot from the deck of that ship.
	U.S. authorities say those Russian jets there simulating an attack.
	And to give you an idea tonight of just how close they came, look at this.
	One of those Russian fighter jets hovering over the U.S. destroyer.
	What?
	I had to stop it there.
	Is it vertical takeoff and landing?
	Is this an osprey that they're flying?
	It's just hovering.
	Ever heard of like a photo stops motion, you moron?
	It's hovering.
	It's hovering.
	Look, it's hovering.
	It's new Russian technology.
	It's hovering.
	I'm going to give you Borderline for that.
	Borderline.
	I mean, this is a newsreader.
	Just reading from the prompter.
	And who wrote that copy should be fired immediately.
	Look at it hovering!
	I'm going to say that all the time now to my friends who are flying.
	Hey, I saw you hovering the other day.
	I took a picture and you were hovering.
	It's great how that works.
	So here we go to CBS. They have the same report.
	They talk about the Jets.
	Zoom, zoom, zoom.
	They have the same B-roll that everyone uses.
	Zoom, zoom, zoom.
	But they at least gave a little background as to why this might be happening.
	Ignoring attempts to contact them.
	This is the latest in a series of incidents over the past two years in which Russian aircraft have challenged NATO ships and planes.
	And the Obama administration is planning to lodge a diplomatic protest.
	White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
	We have seen a pattern on the part of the Russians in undertaking these kinds of actions that they at least, I think, intend to be provocative.
	The U.S. will file its protests, but Russia will have made its point.
	It resents American forces operating close to Russian territory and intends to push back.
	Scott?
	David Martin at the Pentagon.
	David, thank you.
	Well, those Russian fighters may have come out of the blue, but the tension has been rising for years along the old borders of the Soviet Union.
	In 2014, Russia took Crimea from the Ukraine, which the U.S. supports.
	Then the U.S. hit Russia's weak economy with economic sanctions, and the Obama administration moved tanks into the Baltic states near today's incident.
	In Syria, Russia bombed rebels that the U.S. supports, and recently the U.S. staged military maneuvers in Latvia.
	Oh, man, I'd like to stop this bullcrap.
	Who is tormenting who?
	Yeah, of course we'd like to stop, but that's why we've got to get some precedent.
	So sick of this.
	So sick of this.
	Well, I have a couple of, I think, kind of fun little military, just a little package of ditties here.
	In regard to ISIS, ISIL, IS, Daesh.
	Okay?
	Okay?
	I said it.
	Okay?
	No.
	Okay?
	Okay, right?
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	Okay.
	President Obama did a pre-announced interview on Fox News, and he said he was doing this because he wanted to make sure he reaches all of America, because apparently whenever he speaks on CNN or CNBC or MSNBC, we don't watch, I guess, or half of the country doesn't watch.
	And here's what the president had to say about terrorism and terrorists in general.
	Big words, big words.
	And some people wonder, they think the concern is, do you worry about terrorism and feel the threat of terrorism the way they do?
	I would say this.
	There isn't a president...
	He would say this?
	He would, but that's a performative.
	He would say this?
	Well, what about saying something instead of telling us what you would say?
	Because it's a performative, and it's a lie.
	There isn't a president who's taken more...
	Let me say this again.
	I did kind of like that bit.
	Say this.
	There isn't a president who's taken more terrorists off the field than me.
	I like this.
	That's probably true.
	In terms of those drone strikes, he's probably got a couple terrorists.
	Well, there probably has never been a president who has killed as many civilians as him.
	Oh yeah, that's true too, but he won't mention that.
	No reason to brag.
	Be humble, Barack.
	More terrorists off the field than me.
	Over the last seven and a half years.
	I'm the guy who calls the families or meets with them.
	Or tells them it was a video that caused it all.
	Or hugs them or tries to comfort a mom or a dad or a husband or a kid.
	By telling them...
	Did he say he's comforting imams?
	Imams and dads and kids.
	No, he said imam.
	You and your Obama Muslim thing, man.
	Imam or...
	You're right, imam.
	Imam.
	Shut up, man.
	We're never going to get through this clip now.
	...or tries to comfort a mom or a dad or a husband or a kid.
	Come here, a mom.
	...after a terrorist attack.
	So let's be very clear about how much I prioritize this.
	This is my number one job.
	No, that's not your number one job.
	We know what your number one job is.
	No, no, your number one job is to protect and uphold the Constitution.
	As a constitutional lawyer, you should know that.
	Let's be very clear about how much I prioritize this.
	This is my number one job, and we have been doing it effectively.
	So why do people sometimes think you're diffident?
	Well, I think part of it is...
	Ooh, ooh, another nice word.
	Diffident.
	Book of Knowledge.
	Definition of diffident.
	Diffident.
	Defendant means a person.
	No, no, stop, stop.
	Did I say it wrong?
	It's diffident.
	Yes, diffident with a D. We'll try it again.
	A book of knowledge?
	Define diffident.
	The word diffident has two uses as an adjective.
	One, showing modest reserve.
	Two, lacking self-confidence.
	I like the second definition.
	Okay.
	Lacking self-confidence.
	So why do you say that lacking such self-confidence, Mr.
	President?
	I sometimes think you're diffident.
	Well, I think part of it is that in the wake of terrorist attacks, it has been my view consistently that the job of the terrorists in their minds...
	Is to induce panic.
	Induce fear.
	Get societies to change who they are.
	And what I've tried to communicate is you can't change us.
	You can kill some of us, but we will hunt you down and we will get you.
	We're going to smoke you out.
	Isn't that what he's saying?
	We're going to smoke you out, mofo.
	You can kill some of us.
	I don't like a president saying that.
	It doesn't sound good to me.
	No, I just don't...
	How about you, John?
	You can kill some of us, but you can't kill us all.
	I don't know.
	Some of us.
	That doesn't bother me so much.
	I don't care.
	Ah, okay.
	You can kill some of us, but we will hunt you down, and we will get you.
	And in the meantime...
	Just as we did in Boston after the marathon bombing, we're going to go to a ballgame and do all the other things that make our life worthwhile.
	And you have nothing to offer.
	That's the message of resilience, that we don't panic, that we don't fear.
	We will hunt you down and we will get you.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, there's fighting words there from the president.
	We'll hunt you down and we'll get you now.
	Maybe I missed it.
	Maybe.
	I don't know how this happened.
	But we got news about the war on the caliphate.
	About ISIL, ISIS, Daesh, Khorasan group, name it.
	What is our strategy for defeating them, John?
	What is the strategy?
	We've heard it a million times.
	Smoke them out, kill them, hang them.
	It's the double D's, man.
	It's the double D's.
	It's the double D's.
	Degrade and ultimately destroy.
	Oh, it's degrade and destroy.
	I'm sorry, this is the Pentagon spokeshole who's over there in the sand.
	Operations against ISIL began on 8 August in 2014.
	In the 20 months since then, We have achieved much.
	A year and a half ago, we saw images of ISIL convoys moving freely into Mosul and throughout Iraq.
	Those days are gone.
	Our enemy has been weakened and we are now working to fracture him.
	Phase one was to degrade the enemy.
	We focused on stopping ISIL from advancing and degrading their military capabilities, both in Iraq and in Syria.
	This was an effort to eliminate ISIL's ability to operate as a conventional force.
	Phase one of the military campaign is complete.
	What?
	Phase one's complete?
	Come on, everybody!
	ISIS! We're degrading them, baby!
	How come that's not the top of the news?
	What?
	This is crazy!
	Phase one!
	We've gotten them!
	It should have been the top of the news instead of the Russians skimming past a destroyer out in the middle of nowhere.
	Mission accomplished!
	Well...
	Mission accomplished!
	Well, but still, if I were the president...
	What if you're the editor of CBS? I'm not running this story.
	There's very little risk of that ever happening.
	But if the mission is degrade and defeat ISIS, ISIL, ISIS, and you...
	Where did you get this clip?
	From C-SPAN. The Onion.
	From C-SPAN. Really?
	It's from C-SPAN. You know how the guys are sitting there in the tent and he does the...
	Good catch.
	I give you...
	No.
	No.
	Yeah, I'll give you a borderline clip of the day because that's such a...
	Hold on, hold on.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Don't step on my borderline, yes?
	Did you play it?
	I just did.
	Oh, yeah.
	I guess I stepped on it.
	You did.
	Because I never heard this.
	Of course not.
	I think this guy's off script.
	No, when you see him, he is literally reading from the script.
	He holds the papers up too high and they show up in the bottom of the screen.
	No, he's reading it.
	Somebody screwed up on the promotion then.
	Well, let's hear the last 15 seconds here.
	Let me see.
	Just go back to the we got him thing.
	Hold on.
	Here we go.
	Phase one was to degrade the enemy.
	We focused on stopping ISIL from advancing and degrading their military capabilities, both in Iraq and in Syria.
	This was an effort to eliminate ISIL's ability to operate as a conventional force.
	Phase one of the military campaign is complete.
	And we are now in phase two, which is to dismantle this enemy.
	Well, that was not what we were told.
	We were told destroy.
	But he's saying dismantle, so we'll wait for dismantle.
	Isn't degrade and dismantle kind of the same thing?
	No, no, I looked this up.
	Degrade is really, if you look at the definite, well, hold on a second.
	Book of Knowledge, definition of degrade.
	Degrade has a few uses as a verb.
	1.
	Reduce the level of land as by erosion.
	2.
	Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.
	3.
	Lower the grade of something.
	Reduce its worth.
	Yeah, so it's just like a scrape, really, the way I hear the definition.
	Well, it says reduce amount of land.
	I think that's interesting.
	And I like the, you know, by talking smack about them.
	That's also degrading.
	Throw in shade.
	Yeah, that's what the Book of Knowledge told us.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	Now, simultaneously, while all this great stuff is going down, we have a hearing on the Hill, in the Senate, about what are we going to do with violent extremism?
	Violent extremism.
	What are we going to do about it?
	Well, the first thing we need to do is we need to get some celebrities up here on the Hill.
	Did you hear about who was visiting and talking to the Senate committee?
	I'm about to hear.
	Bono.
	Bono?
	Bono, of course.
	The man who understands terrorism so well.
	Violent extremism.
	And I don't know if Bono was high...
	Bono, isn't he getting a little long in the tooth?
	Yeah, I think he is.
	A lot of people got turned off by him by the tax avoidance.
	I'll be very careful.
	I do understand the difference, people.
	They do the Dutch-Irish reach-around, jerk-you-off, rusty trombone thing.
	So that's how they hide.
	U2 has three buildings on the Kaiserskracht in Amsterdam just for their royalty handling because there's no taxes available.
	Anyway, so he is, of course, the guy to bring before the Senate so they can all cream their little jammies over Bono being there.
	But he had a very unique view on what we can do about ISIS, ISIL, ISIS. So he's come to the Senate and he's going to speak before the Senate as a consultant?
	As a witness.
	I think they're considered witnesses.
	Well, is he talking in front of a committee or before the Senate?
	Yes, in front of a committee.
	In front of a committee, yes.
	The violent extremism.
	You know the details?
	I have it somewhere.
	It's the Committee on Violent Extremism, which is probably a subcommittee of the Homeland Security.
	All right, go.
	And it makes sense.
	You have Bono there.
	I mean, that's the first guy I'd think of.
	And...
	Well, I'm torn, because I really, really don't like Bono.
	And I've met him, but I've had words with him, and he doesn't like me.
	You've had words with Bono?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yes, we've had words.
	He walked off an interview once with me.
	What did you say to him?
	I said, so why are you starting off your set with a cover song?
	Because I'd seen the set list.
	And he walked out.
	What?
	He said, screw you.
	And he walked out.
	There's got to be more to it than that.
	No, no.
	Was he on the edge?
	No, Edge was not in the shot.
	Were you supposed to be nice and not ask an actual question?
	I think it's a good question.
	Why are you starting off your set with a cover song?
	It's a question you can answer.
	Ask me.
	Hey, Bono Dvorak, why are you starting off your set with a cover song?
	Well, I think we can do a better job than the original.
	You didn't do the accent.
	I couldn't get to it.
	I tried.
	Here it is.
	Rotterdam, 1987, backstage.
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	And Edge is there.
	And then Bono just looks at me and just walks out.
	And Edge goes, I don't know.
	I think I was pissed off about something you said.
	He was offended.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Okay.
	How could he be offended by that?
	Because he's a dick.
	Okay, he's a dick.
	Okay, we got that.
	I'm sorry.
	Repeat after me.
	Bono's a dick.
	Can I add something to that which is a little bizarre, just coming from observing this culture and how elusive maleness is?
	We forget how elusive maleness is in a world where materialism decides your machismo.
	If you've no access to Why are you saying what the whole time?
	Why are you saying what?
	What is he saying?
	Materialism defines your machismo and he's stoned!
	That was the first thing I said.
	Is he high?
	Well, wait for it.
	Actually, I'm not against what he's saying here.
	He's saying when you have no stuff, which is why Americans are dormant.
	The guys who struck the towers on 9-11, a lot of them had stuff.
	No, they had no stuff.
	They were sand bunnies.
	No, no, no.
	They had plenty of stuff.
	But anyway, go on.
	Machismo.
	Please don't interrupt.
	Otherwise you won't get the full effect.
	Machismo is in a world where materialism decides your machismo.
	If you've no access to material things, you exaggerate your maleness.
	I think we have to think about young men and think about that.
	And it's funny, you're going to...
	What is he saying?
	Should we send stuff over to them?
	Should we send stuff to ISIS? So they feel...
	They have plenty of stuff.
	They stole it from us.
	And it's funny, you're going to...
	Supposedly.
	Don't laugh.
	But I think comedy should be deployed.
	Because if you look at National Socialism and Daesh and ISIL, this is the same thing.
	We've seen this before.
	We've seen this before.
	They're very vain.
	They've got all the signs up there.
	Really, it's a show business.
	And the first people that Adolf Hitler threw out of Germany were the Dadas and the Surrealists.
	It's like you speak violence, you speak their language, but you laugh at them when they're goose-stepping down the street, and it takes away their power.
	So I'm suggesting that the Senate send in Amy Schumer and Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen.
	Thank you.
	Clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	Too outrageous.
	You know what?
	I've long advocated sending Amy Schumer over to Iraq.
	I think it's a good idea.
	I'm all for it.
	Chris Rock.
	Chris Rock for Iraq.
	And send Kevin Hart while you're at it.
	And Adam Carolla.
	There's a whole bunch of people we can send.
	Yeah, send them all.
	Hilarious.
	And Tim Ferriss can teach him how to make money.
	Send him over there.
	My goodness.
	I got that joke.
	Thank you.
	Wow.
	Well, with that, I'd like to...
	Can I thank you?
	Or do you want to say something?
	Well, there's a funny one aspect to that, which I've always wondered about myself.
	Is that I think if you...
	The idea of making fun...
	The political correctness thing has made it so you can't do what he advocates.
	What he just did, yeah.
	Well, he's Irish, so you get to do shit.
	And...
	Because I've always thought that if you actually made just outrageous fun of the dummies who blow themselves up...
	Yeah.
	You know, the kid's somewhere in Wisconsin and he says, I'm going to go to Syria and become a suicide bomber.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that...
	Should be ridiculed as that means you're really stupid.
	Right.
	But political correctness has made it so you can't do that.
	You might hurt the suicide bomber's feelings.
	Seriously.
	I know, I know, I know.
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	Well, thank you for your courage.
	Well, I have to do the whole thank you for your courage.
	But I have to say thank you for your courage.
	And in the morning to you, John C! Where the C stands for Chateaubriand Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Curry.
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	Title of that was Political Perp Walk.
	And we used his art of Uncle Sam saying, Use our tax havens!
	Which was appropriate for that...
	Yeah, there was a little debate over the art on that one.
	There was.
	And it's hard because we get so many submissions and so much is so good.
	Well, in that case, there was like three that were good.
	Yeah.
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	Whatever happened to Martin J.J. was our question.
	I think, I don't know.
	Yeah, that we were wondering about.
	He may be man overboard.
	Could be man overboard.
	I think Martin's still in the chat room, though.
	No.
	Okay.
	This program is based on our value-for-value model.
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	I was talking to a journalist the other day who worked with Geraldo Rivera, and we're going to do a new 2020-type news show, if anyone remembers this.
	Yeah, we don't have enough of those.
	Well, this is about seven or eight years ago.
	And she was talking to me, you know, how they had everything set up.
	They were good.
	They spent $2 million on the studio, get everything going.
	And then when they started to do some, as she said, quote unquote, real reporting, then the advertisers pulled out and the show got canceled overnight.
	Overnight!
	Overnight!
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	So to preempt that and to be completely free men of will and speech and thought, we only survive thanks to the support of the program and its producers who are the people who listen.
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	Here we go.
	Yes, and we want to start with Sir Snorkel in Mango Hill, Australia, $359.97, with a long note of, after falling way behind on the show over the last six months, but still keeping my $5 a month subscription running, I've recently started some regular long-distance driving, and the show is the only thing that has been keeping me both awake and And sane on my regular late night shuffle back and forth.
	Nice.
	Which is really what the show...
	The target audience is really people who drive around a lot or exercise a lot.
	In radio, we used to call that drive time.
	Drive time.
	And that's where all the money is made.
	Three hour drive time show.
	And that's what most people have these days.
	Unfortunately, yes.
	I mean, I look out there at the...
	A combo.
	An hour and a half in, an hour and a half out?
	Easily.
	In a lot of cases, at least an hour both ways.
	Yeah.
	One way or the other.
	Easily.
	Recently, I've been enjoying...
	He says, as always, the show's been outstanding and I've had to do a top-up donation.
	Oh, thank you.
	Recently, I've been enjoying the...
	I don't know what I said.
	Recently, I've been enjoying...
	I see what it is.
	Recently, I've been enjoying the scam that is kale as the first salvo and hitting people in the mouth to great success.
	I have a friend who is a recovery nurse who unknowingly propagated the formula at her work where a urologist she works with added this little jam comment.
	All the millennials who insist on guzzling kale are keeping me in business.
	Apparently kale is a superfood, is well known in urology circles that cause kidney stones.
	Holy crap!
	This is amazing!
	Tina's daughter's in Arkansas, and there's kids who have kidney stones.
	Kids with kidney stones.
	It's the kale!
	I had a kidney stone.
	Oh man, that's horrible.
	It was horrible.
	It was like when I was about 60, that's how long it took to get one.
	And I know what it was.
	It was from being dehydrated while in China.
	Of all the cool things you could have said, that really topped it.
	In fact, I'm writing it down.
	Dehydrated in China.
	And the kidney stone, it was interesting because it did pass.
	It took about four hours.
	Oh, were you sick as a dog?
	Well, luckily, for some reason, I woke up at 3 in the morning with this stabbing pain in my kidney.
	Were you in a bathtub with ice and was it writing on the mirror?
	It was writing, you don't have a kidney.
	You got 10 minutes to live.
	So...
	I recognize it as a kidney stone for some reason.
	I'm not sure how, and I could almost feel it, although it was psychological, feel it moving.
	But it was about four hours of pain, and then it went away for good.
	And I guess I passed the stone, which is the way you want to do it, as I was having to have an operation.
	I had an employee once.
	It was a dehydration thing, which is how you get these things.
	I had an employee once in New York, and he passed out in a pile of his own puke while this thing was, you know, it was horrible.
	I can see where you...
	It wasn't a pleasant experience, let's put it that way.
	If kale is causing it...
	If you have a kidney stone and you're less than 50 or 60 years old...
	You've got to lay off the kale is what you've got to do.
	You've got to lay off something.
	There's something wrong with your diet.
	Seriously.
	Thanks again for you.
	I mean, I fear you drink enough wine.
	I think maybe it's because I wasn't drinking enough wine as usual.
	Because in China, you drink a lot of tea.
	Right.
	Thanks again for you and Adam and all the hard work you put in.
	Hopefully, the donation will put some value back into your pockets for the value you bring me.
	Thank you, sir.
	Could I please ask for Dr.
	Kiki?
	It was worth it and a large heaping of general karma for everything.
	It can do some help.
	Right now, work, family, and love life, as my world is about to be tipped upside down completely.
	We won't ask why.
	And then he has some, at the end, just no reason.
	Well, I like this.
	I think we should do this.
	I'm just going to quiz you.
	These are the four Australian place names, and with the pronunciation, I will give you my pronunciation, and here you go.
	So, Melbourne...
	She says we should pronounce Mel-bun.
	Mel-bun.
	I did it last show.
	We had a Mel-bun guy.
	He says, you got this one right last week.
	I'll give you that.
	Brisbane.
	Well, Brisbane is the way you're supposed to pronounce that.
	Yeah.
	Geelong.
	We have a little town.
	I should mention this.
	We have a little town near here in California, which I can see from here, called Brisbane.
	And Brisbane is where the airport is.
	I know.
	And we also have Houston Street in New York.
	I mean, yeah.
	And there's Houston Street in New York, and yes.
	Okay.
	Geelong.
	I don't remember ever seeing this word, which is pronounced Geelong.
	Geelong, yes.
	Cairns.
	He says it's pronounced Cans.
	Cans, yeah.
	And Queensland... Queensland!
	Land!
	It was worth it.
	You've got karma.
	Alrighty.
	Onward.
	Get back to the mic, boy.
	You're cutting out.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm just mumbling to myself.
	Sir K-Town in Milton, New Jersey.
	33333.
	He'll be the second executive producer for show A16. This will probably be my last executive producer donation in a while, as I am in the process of starting my own business.
	As such, I felt it necessary to complete my progress toward becoming a baronet while I could still afford to do so.
	The show continues to be my twice-weekly dose of much-needed sanity, and I have a feeling this might be your best year ever.
	I think it is, so far.
	Yeah.
	Could you please provide some love, light, and karma for all the producers out there currently taking their dose of anti-slave medication from the Guardians of Reality?
	Also, could you play that I'll Be Watching You GB Leadership mashup again at the end of the show?
	I find it incredibly entertaining and serve it as a reminder as to what makes this the one and only best podcast in the universe.
	I am incredibly talented and creative producers who support this show in whatever way they can.
	I think he's talking about the one that PewDiePie made for us?
	I think maybe.
	Yeah, I'll play that again.
	A lot of people like that, and I even shortened it up a bit, but it's really good.
	Thank you for your courage, sir.
	K-Town Baronet.
	And he goes, woo-hoo!
	Woo-hoo!
	Yes, a little bit of woo-hoo karma for you.
	You've got karma.
	With love and light.
	Love and light.
	Eric Olson in Water Valley, Mississippi.
	M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. $250.
	He'll be an associate executive producer for show 816.
	Says, John called me sir a few shows ago when I donated for his birthday in mine.
	I figured I'd better finish off my knighthood.
	I don't notice that he's on the list.
	Put him on the list.
	This is from Eric.
	Eric Olson.
	His son.
	No, he's not.
	His son is...
	What's his son's name?
	Where's the one that's got to do with his son?
	He says, happy birthday to my son.
	Liam Olson, who turns six on Friday.
	That means tomorrow.
	Yes.
	So is he on the list?
	Put him on the list.
	He is now.
	Anyway, so he finished off his knighthood as his first executive producer-level donation.
	All the ones who wish a happy birthday to his son.
	Okay.
	Barislav Marinov, sir.
	To you.
	23456 in Trabucco, Canada, California.
	Please send some job karma.
	I'm still waiting on the written job offer I was promised so long ago.
	Please keep up the good work.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Finally, no, we got more.
	Brian Mancuso in Terryville, Connecticut 23456.
	Bereslaw was also 23456, so we got two of those.
	This donation is way overdue for that.
	I'd like to apologize.
	That's okay.
	That said, I can be knighted now.
	So Sir Don Crap can stop lording his status over me.
	You can bump rings.
	I don't...
	I know.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I had a vision.
	I'd henceforth like to be known as Sir Shyster, the destroyer of cones.
	You got it.
	Now, I believe that the destroyer of cones is someone who drives along on the road and they see those cones.
	And you hit them.
	Yeah, I've done that, of course.
	But you hit it so they could fly.
	You don't want to run over them because they get under your carriage and they make a mess.
	But you bump them and then they go flying.
	It's hilarious.
	Yes, hilarious.
	Anyway, he also says, bring back the hookers and blow.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	When did they leave?
	Yeah, I didn't see that they left.
	I don't see any loss of hookers and blow around here.
	Onward, Anonymous.
	Did you give him his?
	Yeah.
	Anonymous, 2222.
	And then he says, one simple note, taxation is theft.
	Fuck the IRS. That's what he said.
	I'm going to give him some tax karma for him.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah.
	Jonathan Rowley in Edmonton, Alberta, 2-22-22, another one.
	In the morning, John and Adam, can I get a Hey Citizen, Jobs, Jobs, Karma for everyone affected by the downturn?
	Yeah, we can do that.
	Here we go.
	Hey Citizen.
	Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs.
	Let's vote for Jobs.
	You've got Karma, Jobs.
	And finally on the list is iAmsterdam and 200 bucks from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
	Can I keep it up?
	He says hugs or she.
	Yes.
	Hugs iAmsterdam.
	What is this?
	Well, that's the big logo that they put in Amsterdam and that's the city logo now.
	It's iAmsterdam with a heart.
	Where's the heart go?
	Well, if you just search for it on the web, the heart, I think, goes right where the A is.
	Is it the dot for the I? Could be.
	I don't know.
	Or between I and Amsterdam.
	If you just say I Amsterdam and you look at images, you'll see it immediately.
	Well, I'm going to do it now.
	I'm doing it now.
	What is this?
	Okay, it's I, heart, A, M in light color, stardam in black.
	They had a meeting.
	Boy.
	They had a meeting.
	So check this out.
	So Tina and I are going to Europe for two weeks.
	The big deal because she doesn't get a lot of time off at her job.
	So we're going to Amsterdam and as it turns out we leave I think on the 25th so we arrive on the 26th.
	Paparazzi take note.
	That is the evening of King's Day, which is on the 27th.
	Oh, King's Day.
	Which is, of course, King's Day is the new Queen's Day.
	It's a great celebration.
	She's going to love that.
	Yes.
	Now, here's the interesting thing.
	I thought it was kind of busy.
	I was looking for Airbnbs, and I'm like, oh, it's busy.
	I'm not getting anything good.
	And I wound up, and I booked this before I knew about King's Day.
	We're going to stay in a houseboat on the canal.
	Holy crap!
	Which should be insane during King's Day.
	Yeah, that would be the best because all the boats would be going right by you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I'm going to do...
	Paparazzi, take notes.
	John, what are you talking about?
	Are we going to make money on this deal or what?
	Don't give it away to the competition.
	I'm going to take pictures.
	I've tried to make money off of this, and I've never been able to do it.
	You're not doing it right.
	I've never been contacted by these jokers.
	I have photos.
	You have tons of photos.
	Photos that people, they would love to see you there in Holland.
	Now, then after the show after that, which will be, I think, on the 31st, then on May 1st...
	Does the houseboat have...
	Internet?
	Yes, it does.
	Yes, it has internet, yeah.
	And the deck, it's a pretty long ship.
	The deck, one half is open so you can sit on the deck, and the other half contains the kitchen and the dining room, and it's on top with glass all around, so I can see all around.
	Can you cast off and go into that celebration?
	I don't know.
	Well, there's some thinking.
	I don't know if it has an engine in it.
	I don't know.
	Not often.
	They don't always have engines anymore.
	It's taken out.
	So that's going to be fun.
	And then we're going to go to Paris.
	Now, here's the thing.
	I just didn't want to throw it out.
	Thursday the 5th, you and I discussed this, but we need to bring it up now.
	I'd like to take that day off.
	It is our one-year anniversary.
	And we're going to be in Paris.
	What?
	May?
	Of May, yes.
	May 5th?
	Yes.
	Kind of late to the game making this...
	No, we talked about it.
	Yeah, but I didn't pay any attention.
	Yeah, that would be correct.
	What about a guy who did that great show?
	He has a second show.
	There's a second one.
	I have to look it up.
	We need something for sure.
	Yeah.
	At this point, we could also just do two hours of songs.
	That might be fun, too, one of these days.
	I don't think we've got two hours.
	Oh, we have two hours easily.
	Easily.
	You think so?
	Are you kidding me?
	Easily.
	Yeah, we can put together two hours.
	I'd like to produce a couple.
	Yeah?
	Well, we like your interview shows.
	People really like that.
	Yeah, well, I don't have anybody lying.
	Maybe I could get a couple of interviews and maybe we can do a combination.
	I don't know.
	We'll have something that's more than a little entertaining.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Most of the shows that we do when we have to take a day off are outstanding products.
	They always are because we don't have to do anything.
	People make them for us.
	That's great.
	Well, that's good, too.
	That's a plus.
	Yeah.
	Well, we'll definitely look at, we'll have a listen to that other comedy show.
	I know it wasn't as long.
	But yeah, we will entertain for sure.
	And I appreciate it.
	It'd be just nice.
	You know, you said, hey, first anniversary, you said this to me privately.
	You should get her some flowers.
	Second anniversary, don't get her anything.
	She'll think you're a pussy.
	I think that's what you said.
	I think this is what I said.
	Yeah.
	So instead of flowers, a nice dinner in Paris.
	I mean, does it get any better than that?
	You got my note.
	I did.
	Thank you so much.
	So John loves to do this.
	A lot of listeners ask me for this kind of information.
	And I'm sure you give it to them.
	I always do.
	I always send them.
	Go here.
	Yeah, so I said, John, I'm going to be in Paris with a woman I love.
	You know, this is great.
	I'm going to be the first name.
	And he sends me this.
	I mean, it must be 10,000 words.
	Just all the restaurants where to go to, who to ask for, what to do.
	Book this one now.
	I mean, great.
	Love it.
	Love it.
	Thank you.
	Well, it also keeps me up to date on what's happening in this modern French thing that's going on in Paris right now.
	Yes, we're going to be your guinea pigs, your canaries in the coal mine.
	Yes, you will go and hopefully at least go to a couple of the places I highly recommend it.
	Yeah, we're going to have a full report, of course.
	So thank you, everybody.
	Thanks to our executive and associate executive producers.
	Nice list today.
	Really appreciate it.
	It's what keeps the show going.
	And which is why we're always here.
	Always trying to bring you the deconstruction that we know how to do best.
	And we will have another show coming up on this Sunday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And wherever you are, Amsterdam, Pear, it doesn't matter.
	Be out there.
	Propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Ah, let's see.
	I, um...
	There were two CNN events in the past couple of days which were interesting as they were sit-downs with Republican presidential candidates and their families.
	Last night was Ted Cruz with wife Heidi and her two kids.
	Did you catch any of this?
	No.
	I mean, I watched a little bit of it and I figured this is not something I wanted to do.
	I believe there was a Warriors game where they set the all-time record for most wins.
	I decided to watch that.
	I think it was very interesting that CNN did this.
	It was a good setting.
	Pooper did both interviews.
	Now, I didn't get any clips from last night.
	It was so creepy.
	Both the girls, the cruise girls, were dressed in identical yellow dresses.
	Did you ever see that clip where the kid looks like she wants to puke because he's trying to kiss her?
	Yeah, and the kids, they go away, and she wouldn't even, didn't want to be touched by him.
	No, no.
	I thought that was a very disturbing clip.
	And if you see, the response from the mainstream media is, oh, they were so adorable, they stole the show.
	No, they were freaking creepy.
	One wouldn't say anything, and the other one sat there, don't embarrass us by not saying anything.
	I mean, it was creepy!
	I missed that.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't have time for clips because I pulled apart the Trump family.
	And it struck me.
	When you look at them on stage, Handsome Family, when you look at them on stage, it's like the Von Trapps.
	It's like the Sound of Music.
	It is the Von Trumps.
	You've got the Captain.
	You've got Maria, who's Melania.
	You've got the kids, Heinz and Heinrich and Dieter and whatever.
	It's completely like the Von Trumps.
	The Von Trapps, sorry.
	But Trump, he played this extremely well.
	I'm sure it had no ratings, but he played it extremely well.
	And since probably you didn't see it and most other people didn't see it, I'm going to play a few clips because there is some substance here and it's nice to hear that once in a while.
	And he started off, and he'll finish up this way as well.
	This is, again, his message, and he knows how to pump it now, about money and politics.
	A lot of time, he had a lot of organization going out, reaching out to people who wanted to be delegates to run in the process.
	I mean, it was a whole electoral process to get delegates.
	President Anderson, we had delegates there.
	We had a lot of delegates and they were not heard because the Republican Party out there was 100% probably controlled by the RNC, which maybe doesn't like this happening because I'm a self-founder.
	I'm putting up my own money.
	They don't like when I put up my own money because it means they don't have any control of me because I'm working for the people.
	I'm doing for the people.
	And, you know, when you talk about winning, I've won most of it.
	There you go.
	So he's spending his own money.
	Now he's even kind to Bernie Sanders.
	Again, drawing the line between the outliers and the establishment.
	I just want to read you what Cory Gardner, who's a Republican senator from Colorado, said.
	Because he's really annoyed at what you've been saying.
	He said that essentially you're insulting these delegates who ran, who are just regular people.
	I'm insulting the system.
	The system is not a good system.
	He says, how on earth are you going to defeat ISIS if you can't figure out the Colorado GOP convention?
	Oh, we can figure it out, but it's stacked against us.
	I mean, you can have people that are totally against you.
	How come my people went there?
	Delegates, great delegates, they're all over the internet now, burning up their Republican card.
	How come my people went there and they wouldn't- So how is it stacked against you?
	Because the Republican Party in Colorado wanted Cruz.
	Or maybe they wanted somebody other than Trump.
	I don't think anybody really wants Cruz.
	Why would they want him?
	There's no reason to want him.
	But the Republican Party wanted somebody other than Trump.
	And you know the funny thing?
	I am the only one that's going to beat Hillary Clinton, assuming she runs, assuming she gets out of a problem, which she probably will because that's a system that's bad, too.
	I'll give you another example, though.
	I'm no fan of Bernie Sanders, okay?
	I'm no fan at all.
	To me, he's, you know, forget it.
	But every time I turn on, he's winning.
	He's winning.
	Every week after week, he wins, he wins, he wins, he wins.
	And then I watch you, and I watch all of the pundits, they say, but he can't win.
	You know why?
	It's stacked against him.
	It really is.
	It's stacked against him.
	In his case, it's superdelegates.
	In my case, it's the obvious.
	There you go.
	Yeah.
	Got a little ISO from that.
	He wins, he wins, he wins, he wins.
	I like that.
	Nice.
	Yeah, nice ISO. That could be turned into a lot of songs.
	So, of course, now we need to talk to the family about husband, daddy, etc., etc.
	I noticed one thing, which, if anyone has a hunkering to go watch this, I see bad vibes between Melania and Ivanka.
	And the way the chairs were positioned, so Trump was closest to Pooper on the right, kind of a semicircle, and then next to him, but not really next to him, was Melania.
	Then twice that really not next to him space was the kids.
	I think there's a couple of dynamics here.
	I think that's one of them, but I also think the other sister, what's her name, Kim?
	Yeah, the Tiffany.
	Tiffany.
	Tiffany, who's, I think, the daughter of...
	Marla Maples?
	Marla Maples.
	She is like the odd man out in most of this.
	Yes.
	And she appears to be the odd man out.
	She's very pleasant.
	She tries to be pleasant.
	She's not as good-looking.
	Ivanka is the beauty.
	Oh, my God.
	That woman is like a freak of nature.
	She's a freak of nature beauty.
	And, of course, her mom was gorgeous, too.
	And I think she has, like, the really, you know, the big kind of...
	Her teeth are clearly beautifully done, but they're a little bit thicker than her mouth would allow for, and therefore she has this incredibly sexy way her mouth opens and shuts when she's talking.
	Yeah, probably all veneers.
	Yeah, veneers.
	Yeah, veneers.
	But whatever the case, and I said that purposefully.
	Yeah.
	She stands out as the queen bee of the kids.
	Yes, yes.
	And I think that's what rankles the wife.
	I think that part of that is language barrier related.
	She's frustrated that she can't speak as eloquently as Ivanka.
	Ivanka also talks a little too long each time, but she has the talking stick.
	She's like, okay, shut up, we get it.
	But at one point, Ivanka was talking, and I saw Melania looking in another direction.
	Like looking straight ahead.
	Yeah, very, very, very poor form.
	I don't know.
	I got a bad vibe between those two.
	It makes sense.
	It does.
	Here we go.
	So here's Ivanka talking about daddy.
	Ah!
	And we are back with Donald Trump.
	And joining us is his wife Melania, son's Donald Jr.
	His daughter Kai just jumped on the stage as well.
	She's eight years old.
	Eric is with us.
	Daughters Tiffany and Ivanka, welcome.
	It's great to have a whole family together like this.
	Thanks so much.
	Ivanka, I've got to start off with you.
	Congratulations on your baby.
	How's everything going?
	Thank you.
	Everything's going incredibly well.
	So Theodore is two weeks old as of...
	Yeah, I saw this woman.
	She had a baby two weeks ago?
	Hit me over the head with a frying pan.
	Man, where did it go?
	It's just...
	Amazing.
	Are you sleeping through the night?
	No.
	Not even close.
	Not even close.
	But it's a blessing.
	So we're very happy.
	Well, congratulations.
	That's the most important thing.
	I'm curious when your dad, your husband...
	I mean, how did the conversation come up?
	Was there a family meeting, like on the Brady Buns?
	Did he call each of you individually and say, you know, I'm going to do this this time?
	And what did you think?
	Well, I think it's such a personal decision that ultimately it was one he had to arrive to on his own.
	And obviously, as we've all seen over the last several months, it's a vicious industry politics, much more so than real estate or anything we've ever experienced.
	But we were just incredibly excited for him.
	I mean, we know what he's capable of.
	We've stood by his side for the last decade in my case, a little bit longer in Don's case.
	And watched him do these deals at the Trump Organization.
	And we know what he could bring to the country.
	So we're just happy to support him.
	Very nice.
	Couldn't be better rehearsed.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	This was fantastic.
	You know, rehearsed?
	Not as rehearsed as the cruises, I'll tell you that.
	Not as rehearsed as the cruises.
	Well, the cruises probably need it more.
	Now, here was a planted question, which was a genius question and the perfect one for this setting.
	Good evening, Mr.
	Trump.
	I was wondering, do you talk to your wife and children the same way that you speak at the GOP debates?
	The same way?
	What?
	I think I'm much nicer to them.
	I will say, you know, you talk about the debates.
	I never knew about debating.
	My whole life has been sort of a debate.
	But the politicians, they debate every night.
	And I didn't know how that was really going to work out.
	And the debates, I've loved the debates.
	I've really had fun with them.
	I think I've done well with them.
	I guess I wouldn't be.
	I've been on the center stage every single debate.
	I've really enjoyed it, but I will tell you, I speak to my wife and children much, much differently.
	But it has been an interesting process.
	They're always saying, be nicer on the debates.
	I said, wait a minute, they're coming at me from all these different angles.
	How can I be nice?
	But Melania in particular would say, be nicer in the debates.
	I said, I can't do that.
	I have to win first, but we'll be nice.
	But we've had a lot of fun.
	What do you say to him?
	Because I think I saw, Mr.
	Trump, you saying on the campaign trail that both Melania and also Ivanka were telling you to be more presidential.
	What do you want?
	What would you like him?
	How would you like him to be different?
	Just to use nice language.
	Better language.
	Better language.
	Not all the time.
	Sometimes I agree with it.
	Somebody yelled out something at one of his rallies.
	Correct, and she repeated.
	You were upset with that.
	Yes, and I was thinking, just don't repeat it, because next day the press, all what they will talk, it's about the word, an appropriate word, and that was correct.
	I really believe she is a really, really nice gal, this Melania.
	I think she's probably really a good woman, don't you?
	Yeah, I've never thought anything other.
	Where's she from again?
	Czechoslovakia or Poland?
	She's somewhere in the eastern block.
	Maybe she...
	Let's look it up.
	Book of Knowledge.
	Wikipedia Melania Trump.
	Melania Trump is a Slovene-American Jewelry.
	Slovenia.
	Slovenia.
	Okay.
	Hey, Book of Knowledge, stop.
	A lot of pretty women there.
	Yes, yes.
	Maybe, are they Catholic in Slovenia?
	I think they're Orthodox.
	Orthodox?
	Maybe this is her problem with Ivanka became Jewish.
	Ivanka became Jewish?
	Yes, she converted to Judaism to marry her Goldman Sachs banker boy.
	Huh.
	Uh-huh.
	Okay, onward.
	Ivanka, what have you said to him about being presidential?
	Well, I think one of the interesting things about this process is it's very easy to have an opinion on things, but when you're not in the arena, it's a different ballgame.
	So I've definitely said things of that kind to him, but I also then watch these debates and It's a hard thing to observe because I see them, it's like a cage match.
	You know, they're jumping on him and they're hitting him from the left, hitting him from the right.
	Everyone's attacking him because he's been the frontrunner for so long.
	He's the man to take down.
	So while I do sometimes tell him to withhold some of that sort of fire...
	See how she's talking too much?
	This is where Melania starts looking away.
	She might be the family boar.
	Boar?
	Boar.
	You know, the stone who just yaks all the time.
	Yeah.
	And that's when, you know, the eye roller type.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's fine you see her because she's so gorgeous and you see her yakking away here.
	But can you imagine if this is the way she is all the time?
	She's just yak, yak, yak, yak, yak.
	You know, there's a lot of girls and a lot of people have families with the one girl who just talks all the time.
	This is Shut up.
	But she's so pretty.
	I can just keep looking at her.
	Yeah, but I'm sure...
	We're going to keep talking.
	We'll just let her drone over us.
	Go ahead.
	What were you saying?
	That was what I was saying.
	Through this process, you have to have fire and passion.
	I don't think you can be particularly...
	I can't even listen to her anymore.
	It's too much.
	And she has a nice voice, too.
	It's not like she has a horrible, screechy voice.
	She speaks beautifully.
	She looks pretty.
	But she does drone.
	It's a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And too long.
	Too long.
	Slow talker.
	She's the film girl of the Trumps.
	Just talking too long.
	Slow talker, though.
	Okay.
	Which is a different type of yak.
	Most of them are fast talkers.
	She's not a fast talker.
	She's a slow talker, which must really get on your nerves after a while.
	That's what's going on.
	Couple more quickies here.
	Of course, a question came up about Mr.
	Trump's attitude towards women.
	Because, as you know, he's horrible towards women.
	He says horrible things.
	He hates women.
	Let's listen to Melania's take.
	I just truly feel that my father is the best father, the best.
	I'm sorry, that's, I guess, tail end of Ivanka.
	Husband that he could be, truly.
	Melania, thank you.
	He treats everyone equally.
	So if you're a woman and he attacks, they attack him.
	He will attack back, no matter who you are.
	We're all human and he treats them equal as men.
	So I think that's very important.
	He doesn't make a difference.
	And he encourages everybody, you're a man or a woman.
	I believe that to be true.
	I believe that to be true, too.
	I also think it probably applies to his racism or non-existent racism.
	Of course.
	He's just one of these guys.
	I know this type of guy.
	And he just as soon punched out a woman, too, by the way.
	Sure.
	If she deserved it.
	Yeah.
	But she didn't clean the kitchen, right?
	And punch her in the face.
	Where's my dinner?
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Now, here's Trump talking about the change in the political process, and of course, he is the one who has most effectively made use of social media by really using it the way people who are not in politics use it, by just, you know, being...
	You know, very honest.
	On it too much and constantly commenting.
	Yeah, there you go.
	You know, it's interesting.
	I started off a number of years ago, and I now see that over the weekend I picked up like almost 100,000 people, and I have 7.5, 7.6 million people there.
	I have almost 7.5 million people on Facebook.
	I have a million and a half on Instagram.
	You know, I have millions.
	And it's really an asset.
	I really enjoy doing it, but it's really an asset.
	You see what's going on.
	And there is some genius there.
	I mean, you will get...
	You will read some of the stuff.
	There is genius there.
	You have to find the right genius.
	But it is a powerful thing.
	I mean...
	As president, though...
	No, I wouldn't be doing it.
	You wouldn't.
	Or I would do it very little.
	I wouldn't.
	It's different.
	But right now, if I'm fighting one of my opponents, I can tweet out things or my feelings.
	And...
	I had it in CNN. I mean, there was one instance where I was at a town hall and somebody got up and made a pretty negative statement about the president.
	You probably remember, very negative.
	The guy said the president's a Muslim, I think.
	I'd forgotten about that scandal in so long.
	Yeah, that was very early on.
	I never found out who this guy was.
	I don't know, was he a setup or what?
	I think you know what I'm talking about.
	And he made a pretty negative statement about the president and they said I didn't defend him.
	And it was a big deal that was going on.
	And I remember I tweeted one line and then another line and I put it out and it broke into CNN.
	They broke into this major broadcast.
	Donald Trump breaking news was like, I'm sitting there.
	I just did this and it totally solved the problem.
	And it was good.
	So it doesn't all work badly, but it is a modern method of communication.
	I can just imagine that, brother.
	Everyone's yelling about you on CNN, and then you tweet something, and then three seconds later, it's like, hey, breaking news!
	You're sitting there in your underwear, scratching your nuts.
	I can imagine this.
	That's pretty cool.
	Thanks for the image.
	Sorry.
	I'm almost done.
	I hope you don't mind.
	It was nice to hear some actual words.
	AdamMcCurry.com for those Trump haters out there.
	Exactly.
	Give it to me.
	I'm the stooge.
	Spot the stooge!
	One of the big things about the Trump, the Von Trumps, I think we should just call them that.
	The Von Trumps.
	I'm in.
	All right.
	None of them drink or smoke or have ever done drugs.
	Or at least that's what they say.
	I wonder about Tiffany not doing drugs, but okay.
	And I don't really have many clips of Tiffany, but she's very loved in the family, very accepted, very inclusionary.
	Apparently, Melania has had several lunches or dinners with her boyfriend, who she's going to get married to.
	There's some tightness there.
	It seems like that's pretty good.
	But here, there's a little kicker at the end of this about alcohol and drugs and smoking in the Trump family.
	We know you lost your older brother from alcoholism at age 43.
	I lost an older sister from alcoholism at age 37.
	And I know it's a life-changing event, and you really have to take stock in your life.
	Another great setup question, by the way.
	Fantastic.
	The question is...
	How did you, you know, we've seen so many, you know, the children of so many wealthy people who have, you know, they've ended up being a mess.
	How did you instill, you know, with your kids, how did you protect them?
	How did you, you know, instill a sense of, you know, personal responsibility with them?
	And what advice would you give for parents whose children may be struggling with addiction?
	Well, it's such an important question and a great question.
	I had a brother who was a fantastic guy.
	I talked about this to Anderson once because you had some difficulty, right?
	See how beautiful this is?
	You bring in Pooper.
	Everybody has someone who died.
	It's just well structured.
	It's good.
	It's well done.
	Very similar nature.
	My brother was this phenomenally handsome guy.
	Great guy.
	Just great in every way.
	The best personality.
	Everything.
	But he started drinking.
	It became a real problem for him.
	And he used to tell me, he was quite a bit older, he used to tell me, don't ever drink.
	And he'd say, don't smoke.
	And in those days, it wasn't the drug thing.
	It was really the alcohol thing, much more so.
	Today, you have to add the word drug.
	And he would really, you know, he knew he had a problem.
	And he was one of my truly great teachers, my father and my brother.
	I say that all the time.
	My brother, because of this, and other things.
	But he'd say, don't ever drink, don't ever drink.
	And I've never had a drink.
	I mean, I've never had a glass of alcohol.
	And yet I own the largest winery in the East Coast.
	It's a crazy thing, but that's okay.
	But my brother is...
	I think, you know why he doesn't drink?
	I know why he doesn't drink.
	Okay.
	He's a Muslim.
	So instrumental in probably shaping my life, because I just don't know what the outcome would have been.
	And when my children were growing up, even when they didn't even know what drinking was, I'd say, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no drugs.
	And I'd always say it.
	I used to add cigarettes because, you know, I have friends that just can't kick it.
	But I'd say, no alcohol, no drugs, no cigarettes.
	And, you know, I think it had an impact.
	And I have so many times where their children have this problem.
	And it's a tough world out there to start off.
	But when you have that as an additional problem, the drugs or the alcohol, it's awfully tough to really do it.
	So I just tell the parents, if you can, keep your children away from the drugs and the alcohol.
	And it's going to make their life so much easier.
	And, you know, you don't have that longing.
	I don't have any longing because I never drank.
	So I don't have a longing.
	For drinking or for drugs or any of that stuff.
	I have other problems and we won't talk about them, okay?
	But the drugs and the alcohol are so important that your children just stay away from it.
	What other problems could he have that he doesn't want to talk about?
	That's interesting.
	Yeah, and of course Anderson immediately said, what other problems are we not going to talk about?
	Well, no, he didn't actually say that.
	He didn't say anything.
	No, of course not.
	But I'm like, well, what could that be?
	It must be said.
	Talk about opening a huge doorway and then you see this typical modern journalist.
	You just drop it because he says he wasn't going to talk about it anyway.
	So if I bring it up...
	Here's the deal.
	You have to at least bring it up so you should...
	As a guy doing interviews, you have to be aware of what somebody's saying.
	I mean, that's why Larry King was always so good.
	Yeah, because he would listen.
	He would listen.
	So you listen, you hear the opportunity.
	You have to, once in a while, this is like the stories I tell about using certain words just to indicate you're aware of something.
	You have to at least ask the question and then drop it to show that you're listening.
	Yeah.
	You just don't drop it in advance knowing he's not going to answer.
	He's not going to answer.
	Keep him on his toes, exactly.
	But what Trump did here, what I hear, is a guy who has been or is in therapy and is understanding of his issues.
	You don't say that stuff unless you've done some work.
	My feeling.
	I agree 100%, and here's one of the things I think happened here.
	Well, he was extolling the virtues of non-drinking, non-smoking, and non-drug.
	And by the way, if the kids are all that way, I don't know how he managed to do it in his situation, because he's a busy guy.
	He's not spending all his time with a family that I know of.
	He's floating around in his jet.
	So, I mean, that was astonishing that the kids are...
	I think that Ivanka's got something to do with it, too.
	She looks like a...
	Oh, maybe he's into domination.
	Being dominated.
	Which is not an issue as far as I'm concerned, or a problem as he categorized it.
	Well, it's not an unusual thing for high-powered executives to be.
	In fact, there's a huge scandal going on now that I'm running through London.
	When I go to Twitter and they show me the front pages of all these newspapers, there's a huge dominatrix scandal going on in London right now with one of the MPs.
	Oh, anybody I know?
	No, I was just one of the lesser guys.
	But it's like, every front page of all the screwball newspapers, and there's lots of them in England, has this picture of the dominatrix.
	That's like Billions?
	Have you watched that show yet, Billions?
	I've already mentioned that I tried watching the show.
	You didn't like it, right?
	I thought the gratuitous thing at the beginning was lame.
	Yeah, it's important later on, though.
	Well, it might be, but I thought it was lame, and if it's lame and foreboding, it's just offensive.
	I found it to be unnecessary.
	I like it when you're offended by this stuff.
	That's my favorite.
	It's offended.
	I'm trying to watch a good plot, and I'm watching...
	Well, the point was, so in Billions, the attorney general for the Southern District of New York or whatever, he's a very powerful guy, but then his wife dominates him and does crazy stuff to him because he needs that, I guess, to balance out.
	Who's the guy, the...
	Oh, yeah, with an S. We got caught with the hookers.
	Hookers and who knows.
	But this is, I mean, Ivanka has this air about her that's kind of a dominating...
	Ivanka or Melania?
	Melania.
	Melania and Ivanka both.
	They could be competing dominatrixes.
	Elliot Spitzer.
	Thank you, chatroom.
	Chatroom, chatroom, chatroom.
	There could be some sexual perversion going on here.
	I think that's it.
	I think that's it.
	But I don't see if that's why it's a problem.
	It being a problem is kind of odd.
	Well, it's a problem if he thinks it's a problem.
	Yeah, that's true.
	If he doesn't like it or he likes it much.
	But I like the fact that it sounds like the guy's done therapy.
	This is good.
	Okay, I'm just going to wrap this up.
	Last one.
	And by the way, just what we just talked about, I want to remind listeners and producers that no one will talk about this stuff.
	Ever.
	Because they have advertisers.
	Yeah.
	Does not work that way.
	Who do not like the idea of going a little bit that way.
	Well, just, yeah.
	Well, not even just a little bit, just talking.
	Any kind of discussion of anything that might be happening.
	Just talking, like people talk about stuff, please.
	Yeah.
	Okay, then, you know, just to prove that this whole thing was a beautiful, agreed-to, scripted event, but perfectly executed, and well done, Anderson Pooper, who I think would be a Trump supporter.
	You know, they've traveled the same circles.
	Within a couple of days of this, there was another event where Anderson was with his mom.
	Yeah, Gloria Vanderbilt.
	Yeah, Vanderbilt, who's a very interesting woman.
	And very reticent to talk about anything.
	Yeah.
	And he was like a little, he looked like a little kid.
	Oh, yeah.
	His mom was there.
	Oh, yeah.
	Very interesting.
	Oh, he's a mama's boy.
	Mama's boy.
	Totally.
	Anyway, so Trump gets to do his whole pitch at the end, just to hear it one more time.
	This has been an amazing process.
	And, you know, again, I said at the beginning, but I'll say it again, I'm spending my own money.
	And I understand politicians.
	I understand what motivates them.
	The thing that motivates them are special interests and they're lobbyists.
	And they won't do the right thing.
	The people that are really getting them are the people that give them money.
	By my not taking money from all of these special interests, I'm going to be able to do the right thing for the people.
	They do so many bad deals and people think, oh, why are they so stupid?
	They're not stupid.
	They're doing it because they're told to do it by the people that give them money.
	That's why, whether it's Ted Cruz or others, I mean, I will tell you, they're not going to do the right thing for the country.
	And it just is the way politics works.
	And nobody knows the system better than I do.
	And you know, though, how politics works.
	At the convention, if you don't make it in the first round of voting, a lot of those delegates who have to vote for you in the first round, they're free to go elsewhere.
	Well, I'm not an establishment.
	Are you ready for that?
	Sure, I'm ready for it.
	Look, my life would be a lot easier.
	I have some wonderful things and my life would be a lot easier.
	I just want to do something.
	The country, as my children have said, the country has been great to me, and I want to give back.
	And, you know, if people want me to do that, I think I'll do a fantastic job for them, and we'll bring the country back, and we'll save Social Security, and we'll save Medicare, all this.
	I mean, our country's in such trouble.
	People don't realize what a trouble.
	We're sitting in a bubble.
	Our country's in tremendous trouble, so I think I do a really good job.
	There he is with his bubble again.
	He's very aware of the bubble.
	Yeah.
	Very good.
	Well, the bubble is the bubble.
	It is what it is.
	Yeah, well, it's being denied.
	There's bubble denialism going on.
	Not in this house.
	The house that no agenda built.
	I only have two more political clips if you're interested.
	Well, I have a counter clip to what you just went through there.
	Okay.
	This is the hit piece, and it's a damn good one.
	Oh boy, love it.
	I mean, this is a damn good one.
	There's assertions that are unproven.
	There are conclusions that are just bull crap.
	This is a piece of...
	This is a really...
	Somebody's not used to seeing how this is structured.
	There are people that aren't no agenda listeners.
	You could easily be taken in by this.
	But this is the hit piece that CBS produced.
	It says ABC. Oh, this is the ABC hit piece, right?
	This is the hit piece that ABC produced.
	ABC, of course, was the big Bush boy.
	They wanted Jeb.
	And now we don't know who they want.
	Unlike CBS, we know is all in for Hillary.
	I've been trying to figure out what these networks are representing.
	This is a hit piece.
	It's almost as though Jeb and the Bush people who have been trying to screw over Trump, you mentioned in the last show, because Barbara's mad that her boy was insulted.
	I think this hit piece on ABC is a good example of how you can do it if you want to do it.
	Playing a huge role in the race for the White House, and tonight a major new development there.
	Donald Trump taking on the Republican Party.
	Oh wait, I saw this.
	And in the background, the background title card is Trump at War, I think.
	Was it something like that?
	It was like Trump at war.
	They load up.
	It's a doozy.
	It's a doozy, yes.
	Public and party saying the process is a scam.
	His family right there with him during the latest town hall, even though two of his children didn't register for the New York primary in time.
	And tonight, new allegations that...
	You know, they addressed that in that Von Trump sit-down.
	Lame.
	I saw that.
	Very lame.
	Yeah.
	Well, and to be fair, Ivanka...
	Well, you know, it's so hard.
	No, Ivanka is a, she's an independent.
	And she said, I'm independent.
	I'm not going to register for the Republican Party.
	Trump later said, you know, hopefully we'll make the party better so that Ivanka will join it.
	But nice and good opening to the hit piece.
	Register for the New York primary in time.
	And tonight, new allegations that delegates for the convention are now getting death threats from Trump supporters.
	Woo!
	Of course, could make or break Trump in the end.
	ABC's Tom Yamas is in Pittsburgh.
	Thugs.
	Tonight, the race for the Republican nomination taking a dark turn.
	Allegations of death threats against delegates and their families by Trump supporters.
	This is a crooked system.
	These are dirty tricksters.
	Oh, it's rigged!
	Trump now insisting the Republican National Committee wants him to lose.
	You're saying that you don't think the RNC wants you to get the nomination?
	No, I don't think so.
	I really don't.
	He points to Colorado, out-organized by Senator Ted Cruz.
	Trump failed to win any delegates there.
	Nice.
	Out-organized.
	Nice.
	Good verbiage.
	Tonight, the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party tells ABC News he's been flooded with 3,000 angry phone calls, including, he says, death threats.
	And he said, I need you to do me a favor.
	Get your gun, put it in your mouth, pull the trigger.
	I'll call you back in two minutes.
	If you can't do that, I'm going to send somebody over to the house and help me.
	Wow.
	Now, I want to hear that lead in again.
	Because the way it was cut, you almost think that it was Trump himself who called.
	Well, I never got that impression.
	The first thing I heard was there was no evidence that this is not a...
	The word dirty trick was used in there, which I think should have keyed the possibility that these so-called death threats, if there were any, weren't necessarily from Trump's group.
	Cruz would be the guy who was still in the game.
	They're the guys who are using the dirty tricks.
	You'd have somebody...
	You know how to do this.
	The dirty tricks are guys in politics who know how to do this.
	You're not going to get caught.
	So you can go someplace, some phone booth or somewhere, burner phone, who knows?
	And you make these phone calls on behalf of Trump, even though you're...
	Yeah, you're not.
	And then you tip off the news people that this is going on, or you have somebody call them.
	I mean, the whole thing is a little too packaged for my taste, and it makes no sense.
	Right, but Trump gets the disadvantage here of the New York...
	These are like mobster tactics.
	It feels like they're mobsters, kind of.
	The whole thing is, it's a beautiful piece.
	It's very good.
	You don't mind if I just stop it from time to time.
	No, it's a little long time.
	He's been flooded with 3,000 angry phone calls, including, he says, death threats.
	And he said, I need you to do me a favor.
	Get your gun, put it in your mouth, pull the trigger.
	I'll call you back in two minutes.
	If you can't do that, I'm going to send somebody over to the house and help you.
	It's not just Colorado.
	A number of Indiana delegates tell us they too are getting threats from Trump supporters.
	Very spooky, very personal, referencing things about my family.
	One email saying, quote, think before you take a step down the wrong path, warning of, quote, a future in hiding.
	Trump's longtime ally and confidant, strategist Roger Stone, has urged supporters to vent their anger at the Republican convention in Cleveland.
	We will disclose the hotels in the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal.
	We urge you to visit their hotel and find them.
	But behind Trump's anger, the hard truth that he could get more votes and still lose the nomination at a contested convention.
	Hi, South Carolina.
	I'm Ivanka Trump.
	Hi, Nevada.
	I'm Ivanka Trump.
	Aloha, Hawaii.
	I'm Ivanka Trump.
	His own daughter Ivanka in these videos reminding voters to register.
	You need to actually be registered as a Republican.
	And that's it.
	Very exciting.
	Now admitting she herself isn't registered to vote in the New York primary.
	Her brother Eric, same thing.
	We're not a family of politicians.
	We haven't been in politics very long.
	New York has one of the most onerous rules in terms of registration.
	It was our first kind of foray into politics.
	We didn't realize how the whole system worked.
	And tonight, as the Trump tirade continues from the RNC, exasperation.
	Chairman Reince Priebus tweeting, quote, You know, just hearing that, I think they're lying about that, I agree.
	About the registering.
	And I like the use of the word, as the Trump tirade continues.
	Now...
	You just played a whole bunch of stuff.
	There's no tirade involved there.
	And that would have been part of the so-called tirade continuing.
	So you make it sound as though you have a madman shaking his fist and he's doing it continuously.
	He hasn't stopped.
	And I don't remember him ever using the word scam, which is the way the piece was set up, I might add, by David Muir.
	So this is like a wonderful example of a...
	Media assassination.
	Media assassination.
	And tonight, as the Trump tirade continues, from the RNC, exasperation.
	Chairman Reince Priebus tweeting, quote, nomination process known for a year-plus beyond.
	Complaints now give us all a break.
	And now, a Trump spokesman firing back at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg after he criticized the billionaire.
	I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as others.
	And that Trump spokesperson saying this about Mark Zuckerberg, I think I'll take Mark Zuckerberg seriously when he gives up all of his private security, moves out of his posh neighborhood, and comes to live in a modest neighborhood near a border town.
	David?
	That was the response to Zuckerberg, Tom.
	Meanwhile, any response from the Trump campaign tonight on those allegations of death threats against delegates?
	David, we don't know if the Trump campaign condones this.
	We don't know if the Trump campaign condemns this because tonight they are not commenting.
	David?
	Tom Yamas with us tonight from Pittsburgh.
	Tom, thanks.
	Tom Yamas, yes.
	We don't know if they condone it.
	We don't condone it.
	There's no way they condone it.
	But we don't know.
	That little bomb in there to me was like the cherry on top of this baby.
	That's really horrible.
	It was, oh, we don't know if they condone it.
	We don't know.
	Which assumes maybe they condone it.
	Because you asked that question.
	It is unbelievable.
	ABC is unbelievable.
	I caught two memes in this.
	One is dark.
	We start off, you know, things turn dark and the wrong path.
	And I caught Charlie Rose on CBS in the morning show.
	Combining those...
	I want to get to this.
	You were saying in a speech today that...
	I'm sorry, he's talking to John Kasich.
	There are two paths.
	Right.
	One is a path of darkness.
	Correct.
	Who is articulating the path of darkness?
	Trump and Cruz.
	The path of darkness, John.
	Trump is.
	And Cruz.
	Of course.
	This started with the Casey campaign.
	This wrong path.
	Path of darkness.
	Casey would be the guy who could pull off these dirty tricks because he's one of those types of politicians.
	Old school.
	Exactly.
	Maybe more so than Cruz.
	And Charlie Rose is also old school.
	Charlie Rose is all in on anybody but Trump.
	And I think that's been...
	I think we've pointed that out on a couple of occasions.
	Yeah.
	Now, I also like the word, they use the word, since it was used by the Brits so much in this recent class war thing that's trying to do it.
	Billiards?
	Posh.
	Oh, posh.
	Posh, yes.
	Posh.
	Posh spice.
	It's not a word anyone uses.
	Who uses posh?
	Posh spice.
	Well, yeah, and she's British, right?
	Yeah.
	Posh.
	Posh.
	Okay, let's go.
	I want to get to this.
	It's only 20 seconds.
	You were saying in a speech today that there are two paths.
	Right.
	One is a path of darkness.
	Correct.
	Who is articulating the path of darkness?
	Trump and Cruz.
	Both of them.
	Oh, I think so.
	I mean, look, one hand, you're targeting Muslim neighborhoods, or secondly, you're deporting...
	You're targeting Muslim neighborhoods?
	What?
	The word targeting is pretty good, too.
	How is it targeting Muslim neighborhoods?
	Well, Amazon targets Muslim neighborhoods.
	I mean, you know, hey, you might be interested in this carpet after you just bought one.
	Let me ask you a question, because I haven't heard this clip.
	Right after he says they're targeting Muslim neighborhoods, Charlie says, how are they doing that?
	Explain.
	Right?
	Let me think.
	Okay.
	No.
	Both of them.
	Oh, I think so.
	I mean, look, one hand, you're targeting Muslim neighborhoods, or secondly, you're deporting, you know, 11 and a half million people, or you're making crazy promises that are not going to be fulfilled.
	Then why are so many Republican voters voting for them?
	Well, I think, first of all, Charlie...
	Did you hear it in his voice?
	You stepped on it.
	You stepped on the last bit.
	Okay, you can back it up.
	But Rose goes, oh, that's horrible!
	Why are so many Republicans voting for them?
	Walking down the path of darkness.
	You're going down the left-hand path, my friend.
	A million people, or you're making crazy promises that are not going to be fulfilled.
	Then why are so many Republican voters voting for them?
	Well, I think, first of all, Charlie...
	Walking the path of darkness.
	Walking the path of darkness.
	Oh, my God!
	Oh, okay.
	Then I have a funny.
	This is, who is this guy?
	One of the Clinton surrogates.
	Joel Benenson.
	And talking about reporters not listening and not saying anything.
	I mean, after the gaffe, I shut it off.
	But believe me, the reporter never said, oh, by the way, you said that incorrectly.
	You know, when it comes to the question of judgment, let's be clear.
	Hillary Clinton ran a spirited campaign against then-Senator Obama, and at the end of that campaign, he made a decision about her judgment and trusted her to put her in as Secretary of State overseeing American diplomacy relations around the world.
	He listened to her in the situation room time after time, including around decisions about whether or not to go after Barack Obama.
	I think it's unfortunate.
	It was a quid pro quo.
	We knew that.
	It was just a deal.
	Get out of the race and I'll give you a secretary.
	I'll get out of the race.
	You missed it.
	She was actually the smart politician.
	But you missed it.
	You missed the gaffe.
	What was the gaffe?
	It's at the end.
	Play it again.
	Play it again.
	I wasn't listening for a gaffe carefully.
	I was looking at my clip list.
	Sorry.
	So you're commenting on something that you didn't even hear.
	Okay.
	Take your B12. He listened to her in the situation room time after time, including around decisions about whether or not to go after Barack Obama.
	I think it's...
	I mean, we've heard people make mistakes.
	That was a huge one.
	I'll give you a...
	I deserve all the criticism that you have.
	It's so obvious.
	Yeah, because you actually proved the point that when you're not listening, you don't hear this shit.
	Exactly.
	So what were you going to give me?
	I'm giving you a point.
	That's a ding on the bell.
	That's not a point.
	It's a point.
	Okay, well, everyone, plus one Adam.
	Plus one.
	Yes, plus one Adam.
	Plus one Adam.
	We're going after Barack Obama.
	Very good.
	What a moron.
	Well, it proves it.
	The clip I want, it says we're going to bashing Hillary a little bit.
	Yes.
	And again, I will mention, I've tried to...
	Find out who's for whom and what, you know, so you can use it to...
	They never tell you, but you can figure it out.
	What do you mean, who's for whom?
	Like, why is ABC, who are they for?
	Oh, which network is for?
	Okay, yeah.
	Well, it changes.
	Whose network's for what and who's what?
	Oh, by the way, before we play that, you might as well play this, which is the AJ, the Al Jazeera...
	It says goodbye forever, but we'll never know who they're for.
	From our first moments on the air when Rochelle and I welcomed you on August 20th of 2013, we've tried to bring you the stories that other news organizations don't, and we hope we have lived up to our promise to be the voice of the voiceless and to speak truth to power.
	To those of you who have supported us on air and online, we thank you for allowing us to tell your stories.
	Good night and goodbye.
	A sad day for democracy.
	Play your sound effect.
	Where's your sound effect?
	I would have bet money that...
	Good point.
	Oops.
	That's the drain sound.
	Let's see.
	No, that's not it.
	Never mind.
	This is why I do the sound effects.
	Alright, so democracy now is so in on Bernie that they're the only ones doing any critical analysis of Hillary.
	And this is one of a couple.
	The other one I had to produce a little bit, so I'll probably run it on Sunday, where they go after her.
	They bring a professor in and go after her on her Secretary of State moments.
	But...
	This is a clip from one of her little town halls where she's...
	I don't know what drug she's on this time.
	Oh, boy.
	But she's talking like this.
	And this is Clinton on guns from Vermont.
	Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton attacked Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on the issue of gun control.
	Most of the guns that are used in crime...
	Wow, her voice got really high, John.
	If any of our listeners know what drugs will do that, it sounds like her vocal cords are even affected.
	Up instead of down.
	Something's wrong with her.
	The guns that are used in crimes and violence and killings in New York come from out of state.
	And the state that has the highest per capita number of those guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont.
	Federal data shows of the nearly 4,600 out-of-state guns recovered in New York in 2014, just 55 came from Vermont.
	Oh, that's great.
	Hey, Uma, Hillary needs a bump.
	So, 55 out of what huge number comes from Vermont, but Hillary makes this claim.
	And if you parse it, she learns from her husband.
	If you carefully parse what she said, you have to play it again.
	If you can just play her, it'd be great.
	Sure.
	She's right.
	Hold on.
	That was around the middle, I think, yeah.
	And the state that has the highest per capita number of those guns that end up committing crimes in New York is Vermont.
	Come from Vermont.
	Federal data.
	No one lives there.
	No one lives there.
	That's why it's the highest per capita.
	No one lives there.
	It's per capita.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Which is a stupid statistic.
	The fact that she would say this without somebody condemning her on the spot, it's, okay, there's only 55 guns out of over 1,000.
	You know, which is a spit in the bucket, but there's not that many people in Vermont.
	Thus, the 55 is the most.
	Yeah, but this is...
	You're right.
	But they're building up this defense because I saw someone else going around saying that Bernie Sanders is a living, walking advertisement for the NRA. That he's all in with...
	This is the only weak spot that they can find with him.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Guns.
	Yeah.
	Ugh.
	She's totally disgusting.
	And the other stuff that's coming out about...
	She lies.
	She's a horrible person.
	Yeah, she does lie quite a bit.
	I agree.
	There's something wrong with her.
	The way she speaks in this situation.
	Something's wrong.
	I have another clip where she's constantly clearing her throat like she's going to choke the death.
	Yeah, which one is that?
	I don't have it produced yet.
	Oh, okay.
	Sunday, Sunday.
	Now, when the Trump is Hitler meme was going around, it was pretty strong.
	We're probably the only people that were saying, first of all, it just doesn't hold up because there's too many differences between the two.
	But we're also, I think, kind of flabbergasted that the American media would be so callous with this comparison about anybody.
	We have laws for this, people.
	You know, Godwin's law.
	We have laws.
	When you pull the Hitler card, then it's over.
	Discussion over.
	We figured this out a long time ago.
	Did we ever hear Wolf Blitzer?
	I think Wolf Blitzer, he never defended anyone using that, did he?
	He never said, hey, cut that out.
	No.
	Because I'm a Jew and Hitler did horrible things to Jews and Trump's no comparison.
	Not that I know of.
	I don't think anybody did in the media.
	I wonder, do I have a clip where maybe he talks about it?
	Let me see.
	What is it?
	A brawl?
	I noticed we're not getting a lot of Blitzer clips.
	Well, I have one for today.
	Good.
	I'm just looking to see if I had a Blitzer...
	Hmm...
	Well, I don't think anyone except us said that's kind of out of order.
	But something happened a day or two ago where the Trump campaign, it's so silly, but the Trump campaign or someone from the Trump campaign said, Ted Cruz is using Gestapo tactics.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Here's Wolf Blitzer talking to, I like this girl, Katrina Pearson.
	She's the kind of multi-culti Asian girl with the silly bangs and the long, really dark, sleek hair.
	What's her name again?
	Her name is Katrina Pearson.
	Papa India Echo.
	Yeah, take a look.
	So here's the hypocrite blitzer.
	...and quote, Gestapo tactics after the clean sweep of the delegates on Saturday in Colorado.
	Is that characterization, Gestapo tactics, really appropriate?
	What?
	Well, you know, it's not just our convention manager.
	I mean, even Kasich's people were talking about some of the tactics that were being used in Michigan.
	For example, they used the word strong arm, which essentially is the same thing.
	There are a lot of delegates that are receiving, let's just say, interesting phone calls from people that might sound intimidating.
	So we're going to find out, aren't we?
	Is it appropriate to use the word Gestapo?
	Because I assume you know what the Gestapo did.
	This is the Trump spokeswoman.
	Yeah, the Trump spokeswoman.
	Oh yeah, no, she's dynamite.
	So Blitzer, the man who never said anything about calling Trump Hitler, he's not going to stop.
	He's not going to stop about this.
	He should call him out right there.
	I'm sorry?
	I think she made a mistake if she doesn't call him out.
	She does, actually.
	She calls him out.
	Well, it is a word to define exactly the type of malice that is involved.
	And by the way, her excuse is bullshit.
	It's just as stupid to say this, but it's about the hypocrisy.
	With going after some of these delegates in a very hostile and intimidating way.
	But Katrina, you know what the Gestapo did during World War II. That word should not be used to talk about the tactics that the Cruz campaign engaged.
	That was inappropriate, right?
	Well, again, you're talking about a campaign that doesn't really care much for political correctness.
	And if it's a term that just simply describes how malicious this activity is...
	But it's inappropriate.
	You don't use the word Gestapo to talk about a political campaign.
	Because the word Hitler is so much better to use during a political campaign.
	A political campaign in the United States.
	That gives the Gestapo too much credit, right?
	Don't you wish you could have taken that back?
	But where was all this hostility and concern when Mr.
	Trump was being called Hitler?
	So no, I think this is just another situation where it is a word to determine just how hostile that this has gone on in these states for these delegates.
	And I think it was a word that just lets everyone know exactly what he was talking about.
	So you don't want to back away from that word, Gestapo?
	No, and the Kasich campaign also talked about the strong-arm tactics that the Cruz campaign has been using.
	Strong-arm tactics is one thing, but the Gestapo, you know what they did during World War II. You know the millions of people, especially Jews, who were murdered.
	Yes, he was talking about exactly the same thing, the strong-arm tactics that the Cruz campaign has been using, the intimidation, and a lot of people feel a little hurt by that.
	So, Brolf.
	What is he trying to do?
	Is he single-handedly trying to protect the Jews?
	I don't know what he's trying to do if he didn't do the same thing.
	Never.
	No, never.
	Of course not.
	I don't think we have any record of that.
	No, this is zero record.
	No, this is the same thing.
	CNN is all in for Hillary.
	I know, I know, I know, I know.
	Hey, this is something I'm working on.
	Maybe this is one of these hoaxes that's been around a lot, and I haven't checked Snopes.
	But there's people who are coming up with a new interpretation of the 13th Amendment.
	And I'm not really prepared for it, but I wanted to get it out there so people could maybe help me with this.
	Well, read me the 13th Amendment.
	So that's how unprepared I am.
	I'll just say what's going on and then we'll look into it.
	Just ask the machine there.
	Oh, Book of Knowledge.
	What is the 13th Amendment?
	The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery, an involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
	That's not the full text, obviously.
	The Book of Knowledge is kind of off today.
	Don't worry.
	I'm working on it for Sunday, but let me just tell you what their extrapolation is.
	Their extrapolation is that the 13th Amendment somehow determines or sets that there should be no lawyers in public office.
	Which I really like the premise of it.
	Have you ever heard this?
	I don't see the connection.
	Well, there is something.
	I'm going to find out.
	I'm going to find out.
	I think there's a dead end.
	Maybe.
	I sniff dead end.
	Could be.
	Hey, but that's what I do.
	I sniff dead ends.
	Okay.
	I like your dead end.
	Let me sniff it.
	There you have it.
	In a nutshell.
	So there was another one of these articles that came out about NPR and podcasting.
	Did you read that article?
	No.
	Oh, huge.
	I might have, but right now I'm in denial.
	I think it was Slate.
	You know, huge article about NPR and their problem with podcasts, and the business model is taking over, they're antiquated, they're an arachnid.
	An arachnid.
	No, the old-fashioned thing, the word I can never remember.
	Anachronism.
	Yeah, I know what the word is.
	Anachronism.
	Anachronism would be a good one, yeah.
	So the title of the article is The Fight for the Future of NPR. Can public radio survive the podcast revolution?
	And...
	Yeah, everybody.
	I guess you got your boy in there at the NPR one of your hotels.
	Yeah, Lee Masters.
	He's obviously all shook up.
	And we're rescheduled for our debate at Syracuse University for, I think, November.
	The debate was supposed to happen in January.
	Can you do this for us again, please?
	I'm sorry?
	Can you reiterate?
	It's the Syracuse University, what is it, the something school of broadcasting, famous school of broadcasting up there?
	Okay.
	I don't know anything about a school of broadcasting.
	Or communications or something.
	Probably the communications department.
	So there's going to be a forum and a debate and it'll be radio.
	It's focused on radio.
	Yeah.
	And Lee Masters will be there and I will be there.
	And I think someone else...
	I will be...
	Yes.
	And I will be...
	I'm going to take him down.
	Take him down.
	I got to take him down.
	How are you going to manage this?
	Here's the problem with all of this thinking.
	Everyone's looking at CPMs.
	You even tweeted a couple things about the CPMs and how people are trying to figure out how to compare podcasts to radio.
	And then this article pontificates about how all these great NPR hosts and producers have left and they've formed their own networks and now they're going to be the new NPR. I see these networks.
	The one thing about that Al Jazeera clip Where they said goodbye?
	I was going to say that I don't think 95% of our listeners and producers ever watched one episode of this thing over two and a half years.
	They heard a couple clips on our show.
	I've used a couple clips, but that's very minor.
	There was these two guys standing up there saying goodbye, and there was behind them the staffing.
	It had to be 200 people.
	200?
	It was a huge organization.
	Right.
	Okay, so we're going to talk about exactly why NPR and radio in general is, you know, you're seeing it now.
	It could take another 10, 20 years before it's really completely dead.
	Maybe there's some alternative use found for the transmitters that'll be hanging around.
	The transmitters are, yeah, and they're costly.
	But here's the thing.
	See, everyone is still thinking.
	It's taken me 10 years before I kind of got, I'm able to almost verbalize it.
	Because I raised a lot of money and built a company to do exactly the dumb shit these people are doing 10 years later.
	I mean, it's dumb.
	Pod show.
	Pod show, yes.
	Pod show, Mevio, whatever you want to call it.
	It definitely was about advertising, which really was never, you know, I thought advertising would change.
	So I was wrong about that.
	Um...
	But the actual people in the industry don't understand that When you talk about a network, the CBS network, or the CNN News network, or whatever kind of...
	But I like the idea of network like CBS and ABC and NBC, but even BBC is a network.
	Yeah, but they're networks and they buy shows and programming.
	Classic network.
	Classic network.
	And the reason why they were able to make money so fabulously for such a long time is because they controlled the network.
	Now, once you put that onto the actual network, which is the internet, you cannot monetize that network.
	You have no standing.
	You have no rights unless somehow you can do it with...
	I think that's what, obviously, part of the net neutrality bullcrap was about.
	But...
	You cannot monetize the network.
	So the old system was you have the network and people really can only get programming through you.
	So they're forced into your network.
	That's your, you know, your network is really your listeners or your viewers at that point.
	And then you control everything so you can control advertising and how it's measured.
	No, that's bullcrap too, by the way.
	It's not that television measurement is any better than podcast measurement.
	We still don't know if you're actually sitting there with your eyes on the screen.
	In the new world, again, 10 years before I figured this out, in the new world, The network, you're not going to make money off the network.
	No, what happens is the network builds itself around you.
	And then it supports you in whatever way is appropriate for the community, the network you have built.
	So for us, that's donations, but it's a lot more.
	I mean, the 200 people that you were talking about on the stupid show...
	All these people who are behind it and working on it?
	That's our network!
	We get songs, jingles, ideas, inside information, artwork, you name it!
	That's the new model.
	It's completely inside out, and you have to take advantage of the technology.
	So if you're doing a podcast and you can't edit, or someone on your direct team can't edit, you can't outsource that.
	So making money in a network is over.
	Any of these, like This American Life, although I think that still they're a little too...
	I think those are exceptions.
	A lot of NPR programming is just not interesting enough because they're not honest.
	They can't be honest because of their sponsors, underwriters, advertisers call you what I want.
	Now they're even trying to talk more hip in NPR programming.
	It was in this article.
	We're trying to say things like, like.
	I mean, they're insane.
	They're crashing and burning.
	Whereas every single individual...
	In slow motion.
	It's very, very slow motion.
	Yes, very, very slow motion.
	Which makes it more fun to watch.
	It's totally fun to watch.
	You don't have to stop the action.
	You get to watch it in real-time slow motion.
	It's fantastic.
	So, the problem with the thinking, to wrap it up...
	It's not the business model.
	It is the actual concept of what broadcasting and a network is.
	That's what people aren't seeing right.
	And it's the same with the newspapers.
	News is worthless.
	It's worthless.
	You're in the news business?
	Get out.
	Get out.
	But your networks will support you.
	Maybe you just want to sell clothes hangers because that's what your deal is.
	Your network will support you one way or the other.
	There you go.
	Well, these networks are, I'm looking at them, and every once in a while I run into one, I sent you the one, I forget the name of it.
	Yeah, that was the one with Chip Gregory.
	Chip Gregory is now working for a podcast.
	And did you hear that thing?
	It's still episode zero, like he's doing a, you know, this is how anachronistic he is.
	What he's going to do.
	No, that's old school thinking.
	Oh, this is a pilot.
	Yeah, it's a teaser.
	No, it was lame and you're reading a script.
	Yeah, and you know the following without any other knowledge.
	He's got a producer that's writing stuff for him.
	He's got an engineer who's working the board while he yaks into the mic.
	There's probably two other support people.
	He's probably got a secretary or an administrative assistant.
	So he's probably a five- to six-man operation just to do a podcast on one side.
	And it's not going to get any listeners because they're...
	They don't understand the model of distribution.
	In other words, you've got to do a lot of this stuff yourself.
	You can't expect a network.
	And because he's on that network, which I can't remember the name of, it's called Lameduck.com.
	Yeah, I don't remember either.
	Well, it'll show up.
	They must have 100 shows.
	Yeah, and the top show is going to get all the money and all the advertising.
	Everyone else is bitching and moaning underneath it.
	Well, you experienced that at Podshow.
	Yeah.
	The Podshow model, which is being copied over and over and over again, even despite its...
	Earwolf, John.
	Earwolf.
	Earwolf.
	The Earwolf Network.
	Very interesting.
	Earwolf.
	Ear, like you're hearing it.
	Yes.
	Wolf, like they've got some wild thing going on.
	Earwolf.
	Everybody, it's the Earwolf Podcast Network.
	I'm Chip Gregory.
	How you doing?
	So you have this group, and the podcasts are all the same range of podcasts.
	I'd have to open the site and discuss this in a critical manner.
	But they have all these political things.
	It's all doomed.
	Podcast one, it's all doomed.
	Adam Carolla, he's got a whole network around him.
	Yeah, but he's breaking it up to go sit in other people's networks.
	Podcast One.
	Because they're doing the sales.
	Oh, it's so stupid.
	No, he had his own network, a whole slew of shows.
	Same thing, exactly the same as Podshow.
	A bunch of shows, and the only show making money is his show.
	And so you got all these other guys that want money.
	I'm telling you, Apple or Google, both these guys, actually Apple, it's really only Apple.
	You look at podcasts that are consumed on devices, it's iPhones.
	It's such a huge gaping business opportunity to facilitate supporting podcasts through your system, and maybe not raping everybody for 30%, but make it something that's affordable.
	Just like you revolutionized the music business by burning it to the ground, you actually revolutionized something that is already smoldering and needs to catch fire.
	It's so obvious.
	Well, no, it's not.
	It took you 10 years.
	Give me a break.
	Yeah, well, okay.
	Thank you.
	It's obvious.
	It's obvious to me.
	You're right.
	No, good point.
	I will give you a break.
	In fact, here's your break.
	Can I get my point back?
	No, no, no.
	Donate to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	All right.
	I give you your point back.
	Here's your point.
	Take your point.
	Plus one.
	We'll just be plus one then.
	We have a few people to thank.
	Starting with...
	Okay, I'm going to have trouble with this.
	He's in Rotterdam, so he's in Dutch, and his name is Oistenberge.
	Let me see, where are we here?
	Oistenberge.
	He supported us the other week, too.
	What was his donation number?
	17312.
	There's a reason for that.
	Well, I don't remember his name.
	I would have stopped the show in the same way.
	Well, I remember the name.
	He's donated before.
	But I don't know what the...
	Well, thank you, Oyston.
	Sir Ben Natus in Brooklyn, New York, 16463.
	Oh, well, he was, I guess, in New York at the meetup, and he left on Tuesday before.
	I left on Tuesday.
	I stayed there a long time.
	He was late.
	He was late.
	Oh, I suppose you don't have too much for D-Bag guilt, being a member of the 800 Club and one of the few black nights.
	This is, however, I regret not giving you spending money for your birthday celebration.
	This goes into the bank.
	Or you do not take in-person donations as Adam does.
	No, we took the things on the envelopes.
	I got quite a few of them.
	They were in a couple shows ago.
	I'm so glad you got to do that meetup.
	Yeah, so is Mimi.
	Why was she glad?
	She likes to get out of the house.
	You guys should get out of the house more.
	He says you should do more meetups.
	Three of us ended up somehow singing Start Me Up on karaoke that night.
	I feel I best approximated...
	This was a great event, by the way.
	I best approximated Mick Jagger's voice.
	I think a lot of people made friends at this event.
	I hope so.
	Like they did in Detroit.
	We have a whole bunch of people that are all buddies now.
	He did Mick Jagger's voice.
	Well, maybe he should do something for us.
	He's got Nick DeRat's phone number.
	Oh, well, that's trouble brewing right there.
	That was not a good...
	Hey, can I crash?
	Hey, can I crash?
	I've got to listen to Nick's show.
	Anyway, thank you for showing up at that event.
	Lovely.
	Jared Wolfe in Netherland, Texas.
	Netherland.
	Is it Netherland?
	Netherland.
	He's going to be a knight, 1-3-3-4-2, and he wants to be knighted as Sir Lone Wolf of Vidor, Texas.
	Uh-huh, and he's also got a birthday.
	Do you have him on the list for being knighted?
	Uh, let me see.
	I think so.
	Yes, yes, knighting and his birthday.
	Yes, got both of that.
	My wife allowed me to finish my knighthood as my present.
	Ah!
	That's nice.
	Can I get a Lone Wolf, Howie?
	Ah!
	Okay, we're giving karma at the end here.
	Ned, karma for everyone at the end.
	Ned Jeffrey.
	A boob donation.
	A what?
	A boob donation.
	What's a boob donation?
	Boob!
	Oh, boob!
	8008, boob.
	Ned Jeffrey, Dural in New South Wales, 8008, that's the boob donation.
	And you can do the boobs, which is 800.85.
	It's a big one, but I like it.
	Oh, yeah.
	It'd be $800.
	Anonymous mom in Lakewood, Colorado, $77.
	And she is anonymous.
	Keep my name out of this, she says, but she wants a birthday call out.
	It's anonymous, okay.
	Nadia Gruber.
	Hold on, we have to read this.
	Hold on, we have to read this.
	Your dad and I are so proud that we raised a kid that would hit us in the mouth.
	Your embarrassing wild hair smother.
	Please play Donating is Love.
	I don't know if I still have that.
	Well, we do have the one I want you to play at the end of the show if you make a note.
	Okay.
	Donate to No Agenda.
	It's a risk podcast in the universe.
	Donate to No Agenda.
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	I just remember we haven't heard it for a while.
	Well, we'll have a little donate mix-off at the end here.
	Nadia Gruber in San Marcos, California, $60.
	Take a look at her notes, see if there's anything there.
	Fabrice Shumi in Anaheim, California.
	Bless you.
	Yes, thank you.
	5533.
	Also a birthday on the 27th.
	27th birthday on the 17th.
	Got it.
	This is a good one.
	Ekaterina Atanasova.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Ekaterina Atanasova.
	Who names their kid, etc?
	Northborough, Massachusetts.
	That's 55.
	Vital Vital de Torre Rivas in Barcelona.
	Vital de Torre Rivas.
	Barcelona is the best.
	Barcelona.
	5432.
	And McGillicuddy.
	Wow.
	And McGillicuddy in Phoenicia.
	Random numbers, John.
	We have three crazy names in a row.
	Yeah.
	It's true.
	She's also known as Connie Mack.
	5115 from Phoenicia.
	William Wellborn in Kennesaw, Georgia, 5033, famous Civil War place.
	And now the rest of these people are $50 donors, and I'll read them in order with their location.
	Alejandro Schapa in Houston, Texas.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana.
	Jason Brockman in Hamilton, Ohio.
	Michael Vickland in Sweden, someplace.
	50.
	Richard Gardner.
	I think it's Sir Richard in 50.
	It is.
	Jakob Wojciak, who's also, I believe, a knight now.
	I think so, too.
	In North Vancouver, British Columbia.
	North Vancouver.
	And Natalie Strange in Norwich.
	Got a birthday for her.
	Patricia Worthington.
	Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
	One of our favorites.
	And Brandon Savoy.
	Parts Unknown.
	And last but not least, Sir Mike Westerfield.
	Also no location there.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us out as the people that keep the show going.
	There's also a lot of people that helped in lesser amounts.
	I want to thank them too.
	Yes, and those of course come in with subscriptions.
	Those are highly appreciated.
	If you don't have one, go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Check that out.
	And yeah, for reasons of anonymity.
	Alright.
	We have some title changes, we've got some nights, and of course we've got some birthdays.
	First, the promised...
	Donation mix-off karma thingy.
	Why?
	Because donating is fun.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
	They give us shows week after week.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
	It's a show that's really unique.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
	Listen to John and Adam speak.
	Donate to a No Agenda.
	Science is turning into a clique.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	Very nice.
	Thank you, everybody.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, quite a list today.
	Jared Wolfe turned 32 on the 12th of April.
	Sir Joe Ho says happy birthday to his hot Afghan wife, turning 33 today, the magic number.
	Eric Olson says happy birthday to Liam Olson, turning 6 tomorrow.
	Sir A.J. Reistat says happy birthday to Katie, who turned 9 on April 2nd, and Nate, who turned 7 today.
	Can't get him started early enough, Sir A.J. It's your birthday, yeah!
	Cool!
	Let's see.
	We have Sir K-Town, who becomes a baronet today.
	Congratulations.
	And Sir Ben Nidus, also baronet status.
	That will be updated appropriately in the peerage map.
	For those of you who don't know, we have our knights.
	And once you get to baronet status, do you get anything with baronet?
	No.
	Only with baronet, right?
	I think so.
	Right.
	Then you can get a protectorate.
	And so after the Armageddon and the ham radio guys save us, What did the ham radio guys say?
	He said, after the Armageddon, he said.
	I think.
	You want to hear the ham radio, guys?
	Yeah, I know.
	Now, here we have ham radio, guys.
	Ham radio is the public service network of last resort.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	Mm-hmm.
	Don't drop the soap in front of the hams.
	That guy.
	And we have, let me see, one, two, three nightings today.
	So I've got my...
	We got my sword.
	What is your sword?
	Your sword of knightage.
	Ah, there we go.
	Let me see.
	Let's get Brian Mancuso up here, Jared Wolfe, and Eric Olson.
	Gentlemen, three lecterns here for you at the podium.
	You see there, we have the table that is round.
	It's where the knights and the dames congregate for our meetings, how we will protect all of the protectorates.
	I'm very proud today to pronounce the KD, Knight of the No-Gen roundtable, and hereby name you Sir Shyster, Destroyer of Cones, Jared Wolfe, Sir Longwolf of Vidor, and Sir War Bacon.
	For you gentlemen, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, crickets and cream, Cuban cigars and single malt scotch, malt with barley and hops, hot pants and booze, vodka and vanilla.
	Gerbils and ginger ale and mutton and mead.
	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Pick up what you need there.
	Which is information so Eric can send you out the ring.
	And please tweet it.
	We love retweeting knight and dame rings.
	It's a groovy.
	Alright.
	What are we doing on time?
	We're long, baby.
	We're long already?
	I think I did too much Trump.
	I'm sorry.
	That Trump thing was a little bit long.
	I enjoyed it though.
	Okay, well then that's good.
	I do have...
	I have a couple things I could put off, but I do have, since I talked about the British kind of brouhaha, I do have a clip if anyone's interested.
	It's a little long.
	Okay.
	But this is how you get kicked out Of the House, of Parliament.
	This is Dennis Skinner, the left guy who's more left than a stop sign or whatever.
	Then the left-hand sign in Albania.
	He is in the House or in Parliament.
	Oh, this is the Dodgy Dave thing.
	He brings up Dodgy Dave, and the whole thing unfurls, and they kick him out.
	Yeah, this is Dodgy Dave of Dave Cameron, of course, is what he's talking about.
	Yeah, he's talking about Dave Cameron.
	I don't know, it's a good way to end this show, because it's kind of funny.
	Okay.
	It's a little long, but it shows how they do this in England.
	All right, here we go.
	The Prime Minister recalled that at the time after he became Prime Minister under the coalition...
	At the time when he was dividing the nation between strivers and scroungers I asked him a very important question about the windfall he received when he wrote off the mortgage of the premises in Notting Hill and I said to him he didn't write off the mortgage of the one the taxpayers were helping to pay for at Oxford I didn't receive a proper answer then.
	Maybe Dodgy Dave will answer it now.
	And by the way...
	Scandalous!
	Order! Order! Order! Order! Order! Order! Order!
	Order!
	Order!
	Girls!
	I must ask the honourable gentleman, order!
	Don't require any assistance from some junior minister.
	It's an absurd proposition.
	I invite the Honourable Gentleman to withdraw that adjective that he used a moment ago.
	He's perfectly capable of asking his question without using that word.
	It is up to him, but if he doesn't wish to withdraw it, I can't reasonably ask the Prime Minister to answer the question.
	Do you mind if I just stop for one second?
	Book of Knowledge.
	Definition of dodgy.
	Dodgy has a couple of uses as an adjective.
	1.
	Of uncertain outcome, especially fraught with risk.
	2.
	Marked by skill and deception.
	Hmm.
	I was just wondering how bloody is bad in the UK. If you say bloody, it's like using an F-bomb.
	I guess the dodgy as deception is like accusatory and that reason this was at least...
	Could the sun print it if the sun doesn't exist anymore?
	Everyone says bloody in the newspapers, but it's not the same.
	To answer the question, all he has to do is withdraw that word and think of another...
	Sorry?
	I think he knows the word beginning with D and ending in Y that he inappropriately used.
	What is it?
	Deviant?
	I know what you're talking about.
	What is she called?
	Withdraw!
	This man has done more to divide this nation than anybody else.
	He's looked after his own pocket.
	I still refer to him as Dodgy Dale.
	Do what you like.
	Order.
	Hang him!
	Order.
	I'm sorry.
	I must ask the Honourable Gentleman to withdraw the work.
	Very well.
	Under the power given to me by Standing Order No. 4.
	43.
	I order the Honourable Member to withdraw immediately from the House for the remainder of this day's sitting.
	Yeah, harumph.
	Ha, ha.
	Ha, ha.
	Off with his head. - That's true, right?
	No reply is required to that question.
	We will take next, Sir Edward Lee.
	Oh, man.
	Those guys have too much fun.
	That's great!
	You hear the thing carefully.
	You hear all these guys in the background saying all kinds of stories.
	Horrible things.
	Yeah, like Dickie Dave.
	Yeah, Dickie Dave.
	Horrible, horrible things.
	Somebody said that.
	Horrible things.
	That was a fun little bit.
	I encourage that.
	That was funny.
	Yeah, I got a kick out of it.
	But how about free speech?
	You'd think that in the hallowed halls of Parliament, you could exercise free speech.
	You can't say dodgy.
	It's not right.
	Dodgy.
	Dodgy.
	Evasive.
	Shifty.
	Unsound.
	Unstable.
	Unreliable.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Alrighty.
	Bye.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much for being here today.
	Thank you, Book of Knowledge.
	You like the Book of Knowledge?
	I like that bit.
	Oh, people keep asking me how I did the hack to change it.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sworn to secrecy.
	Sorry.
	Remember, I had...
	Yeah, right?
	Remember, I was talking about this thing first.
	I said, if this thing had an Apple logo on it, people would be losing their shit.
	And now people are losing their shit over it because I knew it was a great piece of kit.
	Good piece of gear.
	So somebody told you how to do this hack?
	Yeah, but I... You're not going to tell anyone?
	No, Amazon does not want people changing that, at the moment, at least.
	Did you get it from Amazon?
	And on Sunday, we'll have more.
	Maybe some tech news, you never know.
	Hey, after all, I am the Podfather.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Tejas, in the skyscraper, where I inhabit the crackpot condo, FEMA Region 6, and more than everybody.
	My name's Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we've apparently, at the very end of the show, opened up a can of worms.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	And you never get it!
	I'll never get it.
	I'll never get it.
	I'll never get it.
	I'll never get it.
	is now, in some parts of Europe, seen as a threat.
	As a threat.
	Diversity comes with challenges, but diversity is humanity's destiny.
	There is not going to be, even in the remotest places of this planet, a nation that will not see diversity in its future.
	That's where humanity is heading.
	And those politicians trying to sell to their electorates a society that is exclusively composed of people from one culture are trying to portray a future based on a past that never existed.
	Therefore that future will never be.
	Diversity or war?
	Diversity or die?
	Diversity or war. Diversity or die. Diversity or war. Diversity or die. Diversity or war.
	Diversity or die.
	You're a...
	We'll be diverse.
	Like all other parts of the world, we'll be diverse.
	The only question is, how do we deal with that diversity?
	Destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny.
	And my answer to that is, by ensuring that our values determine And not giving up our values or views.
	Diversity.
	That will bring us down as a society.
	Destiny.
	Diversity. Diversity. World War.
	Diversity.
	World Die. Diversity. World War. Diversity. World Die. Diversity. World War. Diversity. World Die.
	Diversity. World War. Diversity. World War.
	If you don't get this right, I truly believe Europe will not remain the Europe we've built.
	Europe will not remain a place of peace and freedom for very long.
	For very long.
	For very long.
	Europe will be diverse.
	Destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny.
	Europe will be diverse.
	Destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny.
	Europe will be diverse.
	Destiny, Destiny, Destiny, Destiny, Destiny, Destiny, Destiny, Destiny, Destiny.
	You might die.
	We're all gonna die!
	Nothing could be finer than to be in my vagina in the morning.
	Adios, mofo.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	He wins, he wins, he wins, he wins.

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