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	There will be no boots on the ground.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It starts April 28th, 2016 and time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 820.
	This is no agenda.
	Bobbin' to the beat of the Dutch Monarch and broadcasting live from the poop deck of the SS Plop in Amsterdam, the capital of Gitmo Nation Lowlands in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where everybody takes a plop at least once a day, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Nah, you nailed it there.
	Good work.
	Good work.
	All right, John, we could blow up at any minute.
	I'm just letting you know.
	Yeah, that's okay.
	We can restart it any minute.
	Yeah, but it's this, you know, for days, I've checked everything.
	It was great.
	The internet is fantastic.
	I mean, I set up the studio today, getting ready to do the show, and of course, all kinds of problems.
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	So we're on this houseboat, which is the SS Plop.
	Is it really?
	Yes.
	No.
	Yes, P-L-O-P. There's a...
	Well, there's a famous cartoon, a gnome, Gnome, Kabouter Plop is his name.
	And I guess they thought it was fun to name this boat after Kabouter Plop.
	But of course, outside of the Kabouter, the gnome, the cartoon figure, everybody else in the Netherlands, just like you at this moment, think of, you know, a turd dropping into the toilet bowl.
	That's...
	So, that's the great part of it.
	Hands across the border.
	Plop.
	So, it was advertised as having fantastic internet.
	And it's not a cable modem.
	It's a dedicated line.
	And that was true for most of our staff.
	I can see packets dropping from time to time as we speak.
	But even worse, he's got some kind of firewall.
	There's a box.
	It's a box of firewall.
	Like, oh God.
	And, you know, it randomly strips out JavaScript things and CSS, and it's horrible, and the DNS misconfigurations.
	And then, as I'm setting everything up with you, I plug in my MIDI controller, my little portable nano-cord control, too.
	And it seems to be sending rogue commands, which was screwing up everything.
	Buttons would fire, things would play, but you wouldn't hear them.
	Anyway, anyway.
	I'm here in Amsterdam.
	I'm glad.
	Yeah.
	And we arrived Tuesday, Tuesday mid-afternoon.
	We went straight kind of into the pre-festivities, the evening, King's Night, I think they call it, for King's Day, which was yesterday on Wednesday.
	And it was pretty sad.
	King's Night, the night before, they have parties until three in the morning, just people drunk.
	Oh, it doesn't, normally it doesn't stop.
	Three in the morning, they kind of get started around two.
	So three is just, you know, you're just getting started.
	Three celebration celebration.
	Yeah, but it was raining.
	And, of course, the whole country has the day off, has King's Day off on Wednesday.
	But it was raining, and there was wind.
	And, you know, Tina and I, we...
	Exactly.
	So we walked around.
	People are kind of slow to start.
	It just wasn't much happening outside.
	Although, I will say, the houseboat has a...
	So, pretty much, you live under decks.
	And above deck, half of this deck is an actual deck with chairs and a table and a little barbecue, which is cute.
	And the other half is kind of like a big...
	You know, just a cabin built around half of the ship.
	And the kitchen is on one end, but it's all glass, all windows, and it's really fancy, John, because it has these windows, double-glazed windows, and it has a blind inside the window itself motorized.
	Have you ever seen this product?
	Oh, I have, yes.
	Those are used, I think a lot of those used to be used in strip clubs.
	Yeah.
	I probably got a deal.
	So you can, you know, you press the button and they go, and they all change.
	And so you can set it just so the people can't really see you, but you can see them.
	And of course, the water side, you want to see as much as possible.
	You'd be sitting here, and maybe we're eating something in the kitchen, and you look out, and there's a guy who just walks up drunk, pisses right against the boat, right at the window.
	It is really disgusting.
	Really bad.
	Did you run out and yell at him?
	No, I didn't think it was a good idea.
	Here, take this.
	So, you can really tell the country is kind of in this waiting room depression-like state.
	Is it noticeable?
	Yeah, it is noticeable.
	When you have a King's Day celebration, people are really just happy.
	Now, the weather was not cooperating, so...
	People were less happy than they may have been.
	But everybody has the day off.
	We're looking at all the boats.
	And usually these boats, these diesel kind of sloops, if you will.
	Anywhere from 20 to 50 people on each one.
	And everyone's standing.
	Everyone has their own DJ on board, pounding music.
	It's crazy.
	It's very much like the Gay Pride Canal day.
	You can have a Gay Pride canal day?
	Yeah, you know the Gay Pride day here in Amsterdam with all the colorful boats through the canals.
	I was here one year.
	We did the show.
	I was on the boat with Christina.
	Wow, B12, dude.
	Um...
	You could see that people were dancing.
	I felt it was noticeable.
	I really felt that typically people would be much more happy and really waving.
	I'm sure the weather didn't help and it was a little bit cold, but the amount of alcohol they consume on these boats, they don't feel any cold anyway.
	I could kind of, yeah, I don't know.
	I felt it all day yesterday.
	Although it was nice, you know, it's like one big flea market.
	Everybody can sell their stuff.
	I saw a lot more.
	Oh, right.
	Well, here's, I saw differences with previous years, and I've witnessed this, you know, ever since I was eight years old, I think.
	Uh...
	It was much more toys that kids were selling instead of books.
	I remember there were just decades of old radios and vinyl record players.
	None of that is there anymore.
	It's just like plastic toys.
	If you walk by, it's just like blobs of plastic shit.
	You know what I mean?
	Maybe these kids don't have anything anymore.
	Maybe it's just all in the iPhone.
	I'm not sure.
	And then services.
	Services.
	Massage.
	Shine your shoes.
	Services.
	That's not typical for King's Day.
	Not that I recall.
	You know?
	Some other nice services, too.
	You know, a euro to go pee.
	And get a joint.
	For a euro.
	That's not bad.
	That's a pretty good deal.
	Pee and get a joint.
	Um...
	Yeah, I can't really put my finger on it, but I can, of course, that was really yesterday, and so now we've been kind of through normal life, and things are coming back to normal.
	I can kind of get a vibe for it.
	I don't know.
	The newspapers this morning, very interesting to see.
	You have the one populous newspaper, the Telegraf.
	And one could say that the royal family has a lot of influence on that paper.
	So they're kind of the number one in circulation.
	They've got pictures of the royal family.
	And, of course, we all like the king and his hot queen, you know, the Argentinian hottie.
	And it's a beautiful family, and, you know, we don't really care.
	Everyone thinks they're all symbolic, have no power, fine.
	And in the opposing newspaper, the Volkskrant, which would be your socialist leftist newspaper, I don't think there was one picture of King's Day or the royal family.
	The front page was Donald Trump with a picture of him.
	It just made him look like he was death warmed over.
	With his neck all stretched.
	You know, one of those just shitty pictures.
	And the headline was, Trump wants to go back to isolationism.
	Like, you know, I heard his policy speech.
	I did.
	That wasn't my takeaway.
	Are you even here?
	Oh, God.
	Hello?
	Oh.
	Can you hear me?
	I can hear you fine.
	You sound good.
	Okay, I couldn't hear you.
	And get ready to jump in and continue.
	They had nothing of King's Day.
	They had a big picture of Trump on the front page where it looked like death warmed over.
	One of those fantastic photos they have.
	Like with the neck all stretched out and you can splotchy and spotchy.
	And this hairline.
	Oh man, it was on the front page big and it said, Trump wants to go back to isolationism.
	And I saw Trump's speech on foreign policy.
	That was not my takeaway.
	That was nobody's takeaway.
	Yeah, it was the Dutch leftist socialist newspaper.
	And in fact, hold on a second.
	I have from, what is it, Euronews, I have it here somewhere.
	A little overview of exactly what the European takeaway, here it is.
	It's very similar.
	Donald Trump has set out his plan for foreign policy if he becomes the next president of the United States.
	Fresh from a winning sweep of five Northeastern primaries, the Republican presidential hopeful expanded on proposals that have worried experts with a lack of detail.
	He will, he says, put America first.
	My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all this.
	Has to be first.
	Has to be.
	That will be the foundation of every single decision that I will make.
	Trump delivered a withering critique of Barack Obama's international record, describing it as leaving a legacy of weakness, confusion and disarray.
	We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya to President Obama's line in the sand in Syria.
	Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper.
	Very bad.
	Despite the anti-Muslim tone of his campaign to date, Trump pledged to work closely with US allies in the Middle East to combat extremism from groups like ISIL. He also promised to improve relations with Russia and with China.
	So that's pretty much what everyone was saying over here.
	That was about it.
	America first.
	Trump's going to take America back.
	America first.
	America first.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, since you brought it up, I do have three clips that I want to play.
	Okay.
	And one of them involves the game Spot the Spook.
	Oh, our favorite.
	We still do not have a jingle for that, unfortunately.
	We need a jingle for Spot the Spook.
	I don't understand.
	Maybe we do.
	I don't think we have this.
	Spot the Spook.
	What is your melody?
	Spot the Spook.
	Everybody wants to Spot the Spook.
	Spot the Spook.
	Okay.
	Is there an actual clip called Spot the Spook?
	No, no.
	Not too bad.
	But there's this character.
	I saw him before.
	He shows up.
	He's an ex-ambassador.
	You should look him up and tell me if he looks like a spook.
	Uh-huh.
	The guy's name is Nicholas Burns.
	Nicholas Burns.
	Nicholas Burns.
	And he's got a number of earmarks.
	And I'm starting to think that we should make a checklist for Spot the Spook.
	Uh-huh.
	Well, what do we know about his background?
	We have to start first with, did he go to Georgetown?
	Hold on, I am going there.
	But of course, you know...
	I'm not going to go there.
	No, no, I'll be glad if I can go there and keep the connection going today.
	There is a Nicholas Burns actor now.
	How coincidental is that?
	It's always good when you start off that way.
	Safari cannot connect to the server?
	Really?
	Okay, here we go.
	Professor, columnist, lecturer, former American diplomat.
	Let's see.
	He studied professor, practice of diplomacy, international politics at Harvard's J.F. Kennedy School of Government.
	Education.
	Red flag.
	Oh, Wellesley High School.
	Yes, Wellesley.
	That's where Don's kids went to.
	Studied abroad in Luxembourg.
	American Field Service Program.
	Graduated Boston College.
	John Hopkins.
	He speaks French, Arabic, Greek, and English.
	I think we have a winner!
	But there's some new little checklist things that I've picked up with him.
	He hates Trump.
	And I want to say this to the audience because our donations have been very poor and today was one of the worst.
	And I think some of it has to do with what appears to be us supporting Trump.
	We're not supporting anybody.
	You really think that's why it is?
	You think that's it?
	I think it's part of it.
	But let's just say something.
	You said with us supporting Trump.
	We don't support Trump.
	That's what I said.
	Yeah, but that's not...
	It could be interpreted differently.
	You said with us supporting Trump.
	No, I said they think we're supporting Trump.
	Okay.
	Because we are interpreting...
	We're taking news stories that happen to be against Trump and then we're debunking them.
	Well, I'd rather be poor than be...
	I'd rather be right than poor.
	I'd rather be poor and right.
	Never mind.
	Let's start with this character.
	One of the things I like to do, I'm trying to figure out still, and it's going to take me a little while because they're starting to jockey for position.
	The various networks, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, all these groups, they're supporting one candidate or another, and they can't really bring themselves at this point to support either candidate because they're both douchebags.
	And have you noticed how you recall that we talked about Trump's new campaign guy coming in and say, oh, he's going to change his tune and everybody writes Trump's going to change his tune.
	And now it seems like they're all kind of a little pro Trump and against Cruz.
	Well, there's a lot of.
	I think there's some of that.
	There's a lot of people that have switched all of a sudden.
	And it's as though they're seeing the writing on the wall and so they want to get on the right train to success.
	But there's certain groups that are dead set against them and they want Hillary.
	Because that's going to be your choices.
	Because Hillary is an international globalist.
	Yes, of course.
	And the CIA, I'm now convinced, listening to this guy, the CIA is all against Trump.
	They're all in for Hillary.
	Because Hillary is still an internationalist.
	She's got a clue.
	She's been read in, I guess.
	A lot of people, I guess, they don't care that the Clinton Foundation somehow has collected $500 billion off the back of Haitians and others.
	And there's almost, you know, 500 million.
	And, you know, the two-some are becoming billionaires almost.
	And the way I see it is they're looking, ah, it's peanuts.
	Let her scam, get her little scam going.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	I think you're right.
	And the problem with Trump is he's kicking against very, very holy homes and houses.
	And it's angering a lot of elites.
	Yeah.
	They don't like it at all.
	Waleed is a Trump supporter who, and he's absolutely well-spoken, very...
	I think he's one of his...
	Informants.
	No, not informants.
	What's it called?
	Advisors?
	Well, it was the same thing.
	Informant advisors.
	So he was going off against this Nicholas Burns guy, and I've seen Burns before, and he just looks spooky to me, and he's got all the earmarks.
	But then I found a couple, and assuming that he is, and he's just a plant because the CIA hates Trump, and they don't want some guy in here who's going to mess up whatever's going on out there that we don't know about because he's an idiot as far as they're concerned.
	They brought this guy on to Deacon.
	And I want to play two of his comments.
	And there's a little lead in here, but not too much.
	And I want to jump to the German analysis, which I got from Deutsche Welle.
	And it just contradicts everything this guy says.
	Let's start with this.
	Oh, he's a terrorism expert.
	Okay, that's good.
	Nicholas Burns.
	He's been a top foreign policy advisor and diplomat for both Republican and Democratic presidents.
	He's currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
	And we welcome both of you back to the program.
	Ambassador Burns, to you first.
	We heard Donald Trump call the current American foreign policy a complete and total disaster.
	What was your overall reaction to the speech?
	Judy, I thought it was a very revealing speech about Donald Trump.
	And frankly, as a citizen and voter, I think that it revealed that he doesn't have the qualities to be a commander-in-chief and our top diplomat.
	If you think about the speech today, it betrayed, I think, a lack of in-depth knowledge, a lack of sophistication and nuance about the very complex world that we face.
	And a lack of humility about the restraint that America sometimes has to apply in the world.
	Those were the qualities in my mind that our best Republican presidents of the last 50 years had.
	Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush.
	You saw very little of that balance and restraint today.
	Instead, what Mr.
	Trump did today was he cast a series of ultimatums and threats, mainly against our allies, against NATO and against Japan and South Korea.
	He was very soft On Russia, I thought it was a very unwise speech.
	Waleed Faris, a lack of knowledge and a lack of humility.
	I wouldn't opine on the lack of humility because that would be basically the position of his critics.
	That's how they perceive him.
	I would look at Mr.
	Trump's new policy that he's proposing, that it is something new.
	His critics usually try to put him in a box.
	That's very interesting.
	Well, okay, go ahead and give me your analysis, and I want to come back to what I saw on the face bag about this.
	Okay, there's a couple things with this guy, with the Nicholas guy.
	The other guy is making a point that this is going to be a pivot in foreign policy, the way Trump gets elected, and that's not a big deal.
	It's just a pivot, and so why are you getting so bent out of shape?
	Although he was insulting, saying the last 20, 30 years has all been a failure, which I don't know.
	I haven't seen any super successes.
	No.
	In fact, even Hillary is saying that Obama didn't do a good job.
	Yeah.
	Nobody's done a good job.
	But here's the kicker.
	When you listen carefully to this guy, and if you're going to think that he's a CIA guy, and that's what we're going to assume because of his background.
	Even if you look at him, he's got that look.
	And he's out on a hit job.
	This is just a verbal hit.
	It's a verbal hit.
	When he mentioned the list, he ran through the list of Republicans, all the Republicans in any names, Eisenhower, H.W., because H.W. is a big hero amongst these guys, Reagan.
	He lists all the Republican presidents.
	That, you know, kind of a role, leaving, specifically leaving out Nixon.
	Oh.
	Now, if you remember Family of Secrets.
	Yes, Russ Baker's novel on the No Agenda Booklist.
	Russ Baker's fantastic book.
	He mentions that the CIA, and Nixon was going to bust up CIA. I'm sorry, it wasn't a novel.
	It wasn't a novel.
	I'm sorry.
	Anyway, Nixon was going to bust up the CIA. He was notorious for this.
	And they went after him by setting up, with his help, because he wasn't the brightest guy about this, the Watergate thing.
	It's a very interesting section of the book.
	And so this guy being operative, let's say, he specifically leaves out Nixon, who was, with Kissinger, in fact, probably the most effective president we've ever had for foreign policy.
	He's the one who opened up China, for God's sake.
	And he specifically leaves him out of this list.
	Well, I think it's naive.
	Oh, sorry.
	I'm just thinking this is kind of, to me, a giveaway.
	And he does another one in the second half.
	He also talked a little bit more after this, and then Waleed came back, and I just cut this all out.
	I just want to play.
	This is the last part of his discussion.
	This is part two.
	Well, I think it's naive to think that you can sit down with Vladimir Putin and negotiate the future of Europe.
	President Obama and President Bush before him dealt with Putin from a position of strength.
	We now have sanctions against Putin because he crossed the brightest red line in international politics.
	He invaded another country and took over its territory.
	There was nothing in the speech about that.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	What country?
	Does he mean Ukraine?
	I have no idea what he's talking about.
	He says he invaded another country.
	I think he's referring to Crimea.
	Right.
	Okay.
	But that was a vote.
	Yes, thank you.
	That was an annexation.
	Yeah, it was a vote.
	He didn't send marching tanks and troops across the border.
	No.
	At best, it was troops, rebels, consultants, advisors who were supported by Russia.
	Do you remember the Crimean thing was based on this vote?
	They set up this vote.
	It may have been a phony vote, but everybody that lived in Crimea were Russian, so the vote was a no-brainer.
	But this lie, the way he's framing it, is just not truthful.
	It's a total lie.
	This is bullcrap.
	He's framing it as, therefore Donald Trump can't handle Putin?
	We're talking over each other.
	I'm sorry.
	What does Judy and Waleed say to the guy about this?
	Nothing.
	No, of course not.
	International politics.
	He invaded another country and took over its territory.
	There was nothing in the speech about that.
	There was very little in the speech about Chinese assertiveness in East Asia.
	And I think, Judy, the thing that bothered me the most about this speech, the lack of humility.
	Donald Trump castigated 35 years of American foreign policy.
	That includes George H.W. Bush.
	It includes Bill Clinton, George W. Bush.
	We've had a number of successes over the last 35 years, some failures too.
	But to say that we've been entirely unsuccessful for three decades is simply untrue.
	And I think it really means to me that he's out campaigning, and he doesn't really have an in-depth sense of how the world works.
	And we need to have that confidence in a commander-in-chief.
	Hillary Clinton has those qualities, but he surely does not.
	Oh, man!
	Oh, man!
	This is insane!
	And why is it...
	A couple of things I took away from this.
	One is that the Putin thing is very much to the forefront.
	Hillary, even though she did the uranium deal, which nobody has brought up yet, which we'll have to talk about in the show sometime.
	We certainly had it in the show notes, and I think we mentioned it once.
	But, this Putin thing is part of the problem with Putin is that he's not signed on with the, and this sounds a little nutty, but he has not signed on with the New World Order.
	He's not a globalist in that sense.
	He's not the guy who's going to be working with whatever this one-world government is.
	And I know this sounds nutty, but that's the real thing going on with Putin, because there is a distinct movement.
	I mean, you see it with the Brexit and all the rest of it, and whether Brexit's going to lose, they're just going to rig the election.
	There is a movement to take over everything.
	Oh, well, hold on.
	Can I just jump in here with a short little clip about the Brexit?
	Because...
	Of course, there's a lot more news about it here.
	I haven't been paying as much attention as possible.
	This PR move about the Brexit, do you see where they brought in the OECD, the European Economic...
	The guys who always do all the numbers on everything and advise on all the...
	What are the OECD? What do they do again?
	Hold on a second.
	Book of Knowledge.
	What is the OECD? It's really not my day.
	The Book of Knowledge is nothing.
	The Book of Knowledge is down.
	Hold on.
	Book of Knowledge.
	OECD Wikipedia.
	Oh, it's not working.
	I'm telling you.
	Yeah.
	What?
	I'm actually stunned that you would bring that piece of crap with you.
	It's heavy.
	Let me try it one more time.
	Hold on.
	Book of Knowledge.
	OECD Wikipedia.
	All right.
	That's it.
	It needs to be rebooted.
	You have to unplug it and plug it back.
	It might have to just jiggle the handle.
	Here is the latest PR stunt with the Brexit.
	It completely intended to scare the citizens of the Gitmo Nation East into voting against leaving the European Union.
	It will cost the average British household the equivalent to a month's salary of around 2,800 euros by 2020 if they vote to leave the European Union in a June referendum.
	That's just the headline.
	That's the warning from the West's leading economics think tank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
	That's what I was talking about.
	It was made by its chief, Angel Gurria, at a lecture in London.
	Brexit would, rather like a tax, hit the well-being in the pockets of UK citizens.
	Unlike most taxes, however, this one will not finance the provision of public services or close the fiscal gap.
	The Brexit tax would be a pure debt-weight loss.
	Bam!
	The Brexit tax.
	Oh, man!
	These guys are good.
	That's a good one.
	The Brexit tax.
	Well, now I understand that the Netherlands wants to do that.
	Do a referendum on Brexit.
	Or not, there'd be a nexit.
	Oh, no, a nexit.
	It would be a dexit.
	You could do dexit, duxit, nexit, nexit, nexit, probably good.
	Yeah, of course they were.
	Okay, let me finish this little segment with, this is Deutsche Welle's foreign affairs guy who's in Washington, D.C. on Deutsche Welle's foreign affairs guy.
	Kind of analyzing the exact same speech that this guy, Nicholas, just tore apart as best he could, even though it was pretty lame with some lies thrown in.
	All right, let's pull in our Washington Bureau Chief, Mio Drogzorich.
	He watched that speech today.
	Mio, I have to ask you, what are your first impressions when you hear Donald Trump talk about the world and how he sees it?
	My impression was, you know, let's put it that way, my expectation was very low.
	Donald Trump talking about foreign policy, you know, I thought about the wall that he wants to build along the border to Mexico, so my expectation was very low.
	But when I heard him talking today, just a couple of blocks from here, from our studio in Washington downtown...
	Hey, is this guy Dutch by any chance?
	I have no idea.
	It sounds a bit on the Dutch side.
	Washington, downtown, Washington.
	Maybe he learned English from a Dutch guy.
	I must say he has a plan.
	He has a vision.
	You and I may disagree or agree with him, but there is a plan.
	And bottom line is America's interest first.
	So that means no more interventionism a la Clinton, no more interventionism a la Bush, no more waste of taxpayers' money.
	And we're talking here about...
	I didn't actually hear Trump say that per se.
	I heard him say, we're happy to protect you, but you have to pay us for it.
	That's what I heard.
	I didn't hear.
	I think that was the main thing, but I'm thinking that, and he talks a little bit about that, but I think these guys, this is all interpretive.
	I mean, you can just play Trump's speech and take it to what it is.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But I'm just saying here, we had the one guy, Nicholas, interpreted it as a naive person, Lacking humility, blah, blah, blah.
	Right, right, right.
	Yeah, I agree.
	So I'm not, I don't care, you know, they're pulling from it.
	The contrast is understood.
	We're talking here about trillions of dollars for foreign wars that America and its allies cannot win.
	So, one of the highlights was, I think, that adversaries can become friends.
	And I think he was thinking about, meaning probably Russia, saying, you know, now we are not the best friends, but this may change in the future.
	So he's trying to reach out to Mr. Putin.
	And I think that's a good thing to do.
	No.
	There you go.
	I think it's a good thing to do.
	Why should we have these guys who are loaded to the gills with arms making trouble for us?
	We've worked with them before.
	Well, we've seen President Obama also go on tour and say to...
	Remember when he was on his way?
	Was it South America?
	He said, hey, hey, hey!
	No, it was in Vienna or something.
	Oh, you got a pony up.
	You owe his money.
	Yeah, he did the same thing.
	Yeah, but no one listened to him.
	Well, nobody bothered to bring out the heavy hitters and start to condemn him on PBS, that's for sure.
	Right, right.
	Anyway, I just thought that I didn't, you know, the speech was, I didn't like it.
	I didn't like him reading.
	I don't think his reading skills are very good because he doesn't do it that much.
	So he's reading off of a prompter because he made a big scene about, oh, prompter!
	Right, right, yeah.
	And like, you know, for that, and I thought...
	I didn't think he was that bad on the prompter.
	I just couldn't stand it.
	Oh.
	Well, I mean, it was so obvious he was on the prompter.
	I mean, hello, it was a completely different guy.
	Yeah, but it was just that robotic style, and it was like the energy, and it was just a...
	Yeah, it was a completely different guy.
	It had zero energy.
	And I don't know who chose the room.
	What the hell was up with the room?
	Well, this is another thing.
	The room was obviously not...
	If he had given the same presentation in front of his normal audience...
	They would have been going crazy.
	They would have been going crazy, but they put it in front.
	I think they were worried that they're going to have too many protesters.
	Because that's become a huge problem.
	These guys just don't have to go in there and disrupt.
	It's like eight people were there.
	Like, oh.
	Yeah.
	It's like smarts clapping.
	A tepid applause.
	Very lame.
	Yeah.
	A tepid applause.
	I did pick up a few other things I thought were just funny.
	Maybe more stuff that's playing over here that...
	Yeah, that's just getting attention.
	This has probably been played to death.
	This Trump about Kasich's eating.
	Did you see this?
	I saw it.
	I didn't clip it.
	It was very funny.
	It's actually so visual that I didn't think it was a clippable, but it probably is funnier than not.
	You have a copy of it?
	Yeah, I do.
	It's playing over here.
	That's why I caught it.
	And I wasn't going to do it either, but I just kept laughing at the end because he sounds like he's using words that I've used too much towards my kid.
	And he's saying it like a father, and it's funny, but at the same time, if you look at the pictures of Kasich eating, he's right.
	If you know me, I have problems with the way people hold their utensils, like you.
	You hold your fork incorrectly.
	I don't hold it incorrectly.
	You do.
	You do not hold it the correct way, according to Emily Post.
	And I don't eat with my fork upside down using my left hand either.
	No, I switch.
	I'm an American.
	I'm a switcher, and I have one hand on my lap.
	When I'm eating...
	Ah, if you were in France, you'd be considered to be a masturbator.
	In France, you have to have both hands on the table.
	What do you think I'm doing?
	What's the problem?
	Alright, here's Trump.
	Now you look at Kasich, I don't think he knows what...
	You know, did you see him?
	He has a news conference all the time when he's eating.
	I have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion.
	I'm always telling my young son, Barron, and always with my kids, all of them, I'd say, children, small little bites, small...
	This guy takes a pancake and he's shoving it in his mouth.
	It's disgusting.
	Do you want that for your president?
	I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	Honestly, it's disgusting.
	I'm not getting out.
	I don't care.
	I don't care.
	You ever see it?
	He's eating today, stuffing it.
	I never saw...
	Bites this big!
	He's pushing it in with his...
	I never saw a guy eat like this.
	I told my son he was watching.
	He said, Daddy, look!
	I said, don't watch.
	Little bites, little bites.
	Don't watch.
	A couple of things.
	Don't watch.
	When Kasich...
	This all began when Kasich was doing New York and went to Katz's Deli.
	Yes, yes.
	It's as though he's never eaten before.
	Or had any good food, or whatever they serve up in Ohio, I guess is bland.
	Because Katz has a lot of...
	So he's drinking this soup and eating this huge one of those pastrami sandwiches.
	He's going nuts.
	And I said, this is crazy.
	And he wouldn't even take questions because he had his mouth full of food.
	And so I guess this has continued, or I guess the news media finally caught on to it.
	But...
	I'm surprised somebody hasn't gone back and found those clips of Trump eating pizza with a knife and a fork.
	No, that wasn't Trump.
	That was Kasich as well.
	How does this go back?
	I'm talking about before the election, like maybe two or three years ago.
	Oh, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But you know what this reminds me of?
	You know who eats like Kasich when I see the pictures and the video?
	Tina Turner eats like that.
	Tina Turner.
	Well, who would know this?
	Well, okay.
	You went out with it?
	Yes, I had dinner with Tina Turner.
	This was back in my countdown days at Veronica Television.
	And I'm sure I've told this story before on the show.
	It doesn't matter.
	At the time, one of the big record retailers, and it was still Records, Was the free record shop.
	A guy named Hans Brokov.
	Married to this kind of semi-porno.
	Kind of like a Patricia only porno.
	Wow.
	There you go.
	Is that helpful?
	Hey, Dutch news!
	Is that helpful?
	And so because he was the most important retailer, when Tina Turner came, she was performing, and she was also on my show, and I was interviewing her, but then they had this dinner, or maybe it was a late afternoon lunch at this very exclusive club that he had rented out, and he gave her a big platinum record.
	And you want to talk about guys who talk like you're the Dutch, right?
	But this is how he presented...
	This is how he presented this award.
	Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's very good to be here.
	Especially a very huge welcome to our guest of honor, Tiny Turner.
	Tiny Turner, very nice to have you.
	Tiny Turner.
	And we're all just like, like mortified.
	I'm rigid in shock.
	But she plays it off, and it's okay.
	And I'm at her table, and I'm across from her.
	And I think one of her manager, tour manager, one or two other people.
	And the chicken comes out, and she's not, Hello, I'm Tina Turner.
	What am I going to do for you in this Mad Max?
	No, all of a sudden she's Annie Mae Bullock.
	With that both hands.
	It was unbelievable.
	Shocking.
	Shocking.
	And when I see Kasich, Tina Turner.
	Or Tiny Turner.
	That's what I think of.
	Another Adam Curry story that will one day be in my book.
	Yeah, it sounds like a good one.
	I remember the...
	The only eating story I have that borderlines that is that when I was a student at Cal, there's a really good cafeteria there and I would eat there commonly.
	It can't be as bad as it is now with the Asian population of the university being at least 50% or close to it.
	But they had most of these, there was a lot of Asians in the engineering schools, and Chinese mostly, and they were shipped over for, you know, somehow they got into the company at the time, it's hard.
	Shipped over for packaging?
	Yeah.
	They were shipped over to learn stuff.
	They were Chinese.
	They were not American Chinese.
	They were Chinese nationals, and they had different eating habits than the American Chinese would.
	And one of the things was, and I've always attributed this to the, and I've heard this from other cultures, representatives of other cultures say, well, it makes the food taste better, especially when the food is bland.
	These Chinese, because you'd never sit around them.
	Because they ate with their mouth full and the food was flying every which way.
	So they take a big handful.
	They're very nasty eaters, the Chinese, in general.
	Just generalizing.
	And the food was going out of their mouth.
	And they slurp.
	Makes me want to throw up.
	So you would always see a Chinese kid sitting there across from the tables and you would always go someplace else.
	Isn't that interesting though how our cultures are so different but it can actually create an anti-peristaltic motion of you wanting to vomit when you hear someone eat like that?
	That's bizarre.
	And I'd like to know from our Asian listeners, do they have the opposite when you see some American slob scarfing down a non-food containing product like a hamburger?
	A Big Mac.
	But what do you think when you see some upper crust Brit, you know, take a Milky Way bar and cut it into pieces with a knife?
	Oh, you know, this has been really fun with Tina.
	So I'm like, okay, first thing we have to do, we have to have poffertjes.
	She's like, poffertjes?
	Yeah, okay.
	And poffertjes, these little Dutch pancakes, you ever had those?
	They're about the size of a half dollar.
	Yeah, they're a little small.
	They're like, we, yeah.
	I don't know what they call them here.
	No, this is a Dutch thing.
	It's poffertjes.
	And they have a special, you know, they've been doing it for 500 years.
	And then they, with powdered sugar and everything.
	And then I say, oh, and now you have to have some bitterbolle.
	You've had bitterbolle, John?
	Bitterbolle?
	No, I don't know what bitterbolle is.
	It's like the croquette, you know, the croquette.
	You know, the thing you pull out of the wall?
	Oh, you know, I may have had these things with no way of telling me their name.
	It's a deep-fried croquette, essentially.
	Okay.
	With a calf ragu.
	So it's essentially a churro.
	I don't know if it's a churro.
	I've never had a churro.
	No.
	No, I think it's...
	Well, you open it up, and the texture is not really great.
	It's kind of between snot and sperm.
	It's really not good.
	But it tastes fantastic.
	But it's been fun to torture her.
	And I said, look at the raw herring.
	We can get one of these raw herring with onions.
	And I can see.
	It's interesting just how culture can actually make you sick.
	The herring thing bothers me too.
	Denmark, of course, is where you get the best experience with this.
	Well, okay, you probably have a herring netball there too.
	Yes, I have a herring bias.
	Now, the herring that Americans tend to prefer is pickled herring in various forms, which is very edible and tasty, and it's just a fantastic product.
	They sell it at Costco.
	The herring that they have back there is usually oil-based, and so it's this horrible, oily product with the herring flavor infused in the oil, and it's slimy.
	What are you talking about?
	Whose herring are you talking about?
	The Danish Harry.
	Oh, the Danish, yes.
	Okay.
	The Matt Jesses, M-A-T-J-E-S or something.
	How can they be the happiest people on earth?
	I don't see that they are.
	But they seem to love this herring.
	And I know that Dutch eat this herring.
	I saw some Dutch Holland page where they hold the herring up in the air.
	Yes, that's what I do.
	You buy the tail and then you sloth it through the onions.
	And of course, it's not completely raw.
	It's being in salt.
	And you clap like a seal afterwards and bark.
	No.
	But I will for you.
	You know what's weird?
	I don't know if it's the motion of the boat or the weed.
	That is all.
	The weave?
	The weed.
	Oh, the weed.
	I don't know if it's the motion of the boat or the weed.
	Probably a combination.
	All right.
	So you eat the herring that way, which is, I'm talking about disgusting.
	I'm going to teach Tina how to do it.
	I think she can do it.
	She probably can do it.
	I think anyone can do it, whether she wants to or not.
	Of course.
	The fish still has its head on, right?
	No.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	You chopped the head off.
	No, it's been chopped and it's been gutted.
	It's not halved all the way.
	It's just sliced open.
	So it's clean.
	It's clean.
	We'll take a video.
	We'll take a video of me doing it.
	Okay, how about that?
	We need to move on.
	Yeah.
	I didn't even know what we were talking about until we got to food.
	The way people eat.
	Trump criticizing Casey.
	Through Tina Turner, my goodness.
	From Tina Turner to...
	Called the shaggy dog story.
	...to start to...
	to raw herring.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Well, then let me pull one out quick.
	You want a punchline?
	Yeah, punchline.
	Okay, punchline.
	Remember we had the new woman, Sanders, she's on TV all the time, Nomiki Kunst.
	Nomiki?
	Nomiki is her name?
	Nomiki?
	Nomiki Kunst.
	So she's arguing.
	It's not so much about the argument, but she comes with this gem, which I knew nothing...
	Well, of course, we've known about this for years about the Hillary camp and what she does, certainly when she was in government office.
	But I hadn't heard about this yet.
	Okay, with Dawson's comments...
	I don't think there's any sort of secret agenda here.
	I think that Bernie Sanders is very focused on campaigning, and he's not always there for every speech.
	Now listen, I know Rosario, and she's one of the most dedicated, intelligent surrogates.
	This was just some surrogate who talked about Monica Lewinsky.
	It's not important what comes next is.
	Activists in Hollywood out there.
	She understands the issues, the policies in depth, but she understands the mechanics of Washington.
	She's the founder of Voto Latino, an organization...
	So why did she bring up Monica Lewinsky?
	Well, I'll explain that to you.
	So Correct the Record, which is an organization that supports Hillary Clinton in correcting the record on Hillary Clinton.
	Just put a million dollars more into, and they publish this on their website, they put a million dollars into To buying internet trolls to attack Bernie Sanders supporters.
	I mean, I've been getting them.
	This is outrageous.
	They're trying to create their own propaganda campaign right now to take down Bernie Sanders supporters online.
	They press release this.
	Yahoo.com has written about this.
	The Daily Beast has written about this.
	This is what this campaign has come to.
	They're trying to shame Bernie Sanders supporters into supporting Hillary Clinton.
	And this is what we've been seeing, John.
	We've been seeing these emails, this messaging, like Bernie's numbers don't add up.
	The memes.
	Sorry?
	The memes.
	Yeah, the memes.
	But now we know that this correcttherecord.org, or I think it's correctrecord.org, of course, have a private Whois registration.
	If you go to the website, pretty much all it has is just, we're here to correct the record on everything wrong about Hillary.
	And it's entirely her operation.
	It's the techno experts, babe.
	You remember them, the techno experts?
	Oh, yeah.
	Here, play this clip.
	This is my only Sanders clip.
	This is Sanders Says.
	Okay...
	Sanders rejected the notion that he's helping Republicans by continuing to criticize his party's likely nominee.
	They don't need my speeches to talk about Hillary Clinton.
	They will go after Hillary Clinton, by the way, in ways that I have never, ever gone after Hillary Clinton.
	Oh, well, it's true.
	Yeah, hopefully.
	Hello.
	Hold on a second.
	I have a whole bunch.
	This is Hillary Clinton's techno experts.
	What's this?
	Our next question comes from our Farsi feed at USA. Oh, that's when they were all sitting together.
	That's an oldie.
	That's from 2012.
	Man, this is Victoria Nuland.
	On the support, dating back, I think it's almost two years.
	That's one of those long clips.
	I think we have a mix.
	I'll just play the mix at the end.
	Let me see if this is it.
	Hold on.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is the mix.
	You know, techno experts...
	Yeah, end of show.
	Perfect.
	Forgotten all about the techno-experts.
	Yeah, the techno-experts.
	That's fantastic.
	So she's got them all back.
	I wonder how long...
	The beginning of that Bernie clip, that was part of this smear campaign.
	Let's just play the beginning.
	Sanders rejected the notion that he's helping Republicans by continuing to criticize his party's likely nominee.
	They don't need advice to talk about Hillary Clinton.
	They will go after Hillary Clinton, by the way, in ways that I have never, ever gone after Hillary Clinton.
	Yeah.
	It's the beginning part where she says that Bernie's being accused of this.
	That accusation comes from this group.
	Get out, Bernie, because you're ruining Hillary's chance.
	Yes.
	I wonder if this...
	We need to find out who some of these people are.
	Hold on a second.
	I think it's correctrecord.org.
	Let me just check.
	Correct.
	Yeah, correctrecord.org.
	And then, so it has, oh, the complete guide to the Benghazi Select Committee, blah, blah, blah.
	But about, I think the whole about page only says, let's see what's coming up here.
	Yeah.
	Correct the Record is a strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks.
	And that's it.
	But it's not true.
	They're designed to protect Hillary against all attacks.
	And most attacks aren't baseless.
	Well, it's only partially true.
	It's only partially true.
	But it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
	Apparently she gave him a million bucks.
	Well, it's money well spent.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, I agree.
	I think that is the way you have to play it.
	I mean, if you're going to play hard, you've got to play this.
	And the Clintons are very good at this.
	They're very good.
	They're very, very good.
	It was kind of fun to watch the town hall that she did with Rachel Maddow, MSNBC. And, you know, these things are so highly scripted that when someone yelled out a question, of course, it didn't have the microphone.
	I have a feeling it was a question that MSNBC perhaps had scrapped or they wanted it phrased differently.
	But Hillary certainly wanted it.
	And this may even have been the impetus or the genesis of Trump responding to the woman's card.
	But it's also fun if you just listen very carefully how Rachel Maddow kind of says, oh, this is not our format or something, or just off-topic or off-form.
	I don't know.
	It was well-handled by her, well-handled by Hillary, which makes me think that this was a question MSNBC, Nix, didn't want, and it got out there anyway.
	Canada has a new prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
	He promised when he took office that he would have a cabinet that was 50% women.
	Right.
	And then he did it.
	He made good on his promise.
	Would we make that same question?
	I'm cool with that, but is that the criteria?
	Isn't that exactly what the complaint is?
	That you're just saying, I'm making it 50% whether the people are the best people or not?
	Isn't that a valid complaint if someone says...
	It seems like...
	Right, I agree with you.
	It's bullcrap.
	I just find it hard to understand how you...
	Would you rather have the best people you can find, and if you can find as many women as possible, that would be good?
	Yeah.
	You can have 90% women for all I care.
	I don't care.
	Yeah, it could be all women.
	There's plenty of companies around that.
	In fact, I think, really, the way I feel about these kinds of statements...
	Well, worse, it's anti-women.
	If Justin Trudeau says, I'm going to make half of my cabinet women, to me that doesn't sound like he's giving them an opportunity.
	To me it sounds like he just limited them to 50%.
	Oh, that's a good, yeah.
	Am I crazy?
	Am I crazy?
	No, no, I think you're dead light.
	I'm more pro-woman maybe than other people, like women.
	Women, are you pro-women?
	And Hillary Clinton's going to do exactly the same.
	I promise you, 50% women.
	Wow.
	What a jip, ladies.
	Well, I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America, and 50% of America is women.
	Oh, hold on!
	Hold on!
	If it's going to look like America, let's make sure we get black, brown, red, yellow, Jew, gay, lesbian, transgendered.
	It's limiting this.
	This is limiting.
	It's very...
	It's sad for women.
	Right?
	I want to introduce you now to...
	What did you say?
	What about the lives of the women that are in births right now?
	This is outside of our format, but let me just rephrase the question.
	Uh-oh, did you hear Rachel go, this is outside of our format?
	I'm going to rephrase the question now.
	I'm sure something was going on here.
	Yeah, the question, she'll listen to it.
	Let me just rephrase the question for you.
	Hold on, let me roll it back a little further.
	You can hear it.
	It was so odd.
	This is the odd bit.
	What did you say?
	What about the lives of the women that are in births right now?
	This is outside of our format, but let me just rephrase the question for you.
	Tell me if I get it right.
	Asking about women and families in family detention, immigration detention facilities.
	Yes, I'm against that.
	Absolutely, I'm against that.
	I've been against it for a long time.
	I've said we should end family detention.
	We should end private prisons and private detention centers.
	They are wrong.
	We should end raids and roundups.
	And when I'm president, Raids and roundups?
	Where's this taking place?
	Is that within immigration communities?
	And raids and roundups?
	And when I'm president, we are going to get comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship.
	So we will end all of these problems.
	And I want to say something else.
	We currently have an immigration system that has a path to citizenship.
	But we have this.
	I've done it twice.
	It's not broken.
	I don't know what the comprehensive reform will be.
	But it's just everyone who says a path to citizenship makes it sound like it's some big benefit, big deal.
	It's already there.
	Five years green card.
	Do your test.
	What color is the White House?
	Boom!
	Pay your $400 and you got a green card.
	Or marry somebody and it goes a little faster.
	There's a path to citizenship.
	That's after you green card to your citizenship.
	First you're a resident, and then after five years you become a citizen.
	How is this a big thing?
	Help me, John.
	I don't understand this.
	You're just the boat everyone else is in.
	This is all a smokescreen.
	But people are sitting there applauding it.
	They're idiots.
	What's that?
	I'm plotting anything.
	I mean, they just love Hillary, these people.
	Let's talk about Hillary's concussion.
	I did have a note.
	Yeah, you put something in the newsletter about some weird things going on.
	I have tons of notes from producers who have...
	I'm just going to bring these up as well.
	Some of our producers whose family members...
	It's a wide variety of...
	Theories about what she may have and what severity she may have.
	Well, one of our knights, our friend over in Oakland, we have two Oaklanders, Alan Bean, it turns out to be one of them, and he is an optician.
	And he didn't see anything peculiar about the glasses that Hillary had on him, although if you read that link that was in the newsletter, that's a great link.
	It's probably the best, one of the best things you can ever read if you want to read some conspiracy stuff that's about Hillary being some really bad habiture.
	She had a stroke.
	Yeah.
	And it was all outlined and they talk about wearing...
	glasses that were Fresnel lenses that she was having she was seeing a lot of double and this apparently this specific pair of glasses would fix that Beans just said either regular glasses and he could even tell what the diopters were by looking at her eyeball and the glasses and I guess you can just kind of tell if you've been looking at these things long enough and didn't think so much of the idea that this other guy had had posited but it's very interesting and
	And the only thing I would say to him about this is that I've been watching Hillary since she was the president's wife.
	I've never seen her wear glasses.
	Ever.
	And in fact, if you look up, if you do a Google search for Hillary and glasses, there's only these specific pictures.
	Hmm.
	Now, Bean says that everyone who wears contact lenses, they get tired of them for a while, or they fatigue the eyes, or you gotta wear your glasses once in a while.
	But he says, I don't know, when I wear contacts, you can go without glasses.
	I don't know, but I don't have her vision problems, whatever they are.
	Why doesn't she just tell us what's going on?
	I mean, I hear it could be MS, it could be Parkinson's disease.
	In fact, here's a Clinton, a Bill Clinton talks about what's going on as far as he's concerned.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Depending on how you answer it, it has to do with health, but it's about your wife's health.
	Karl Rove asked yesterday, or raised a question over the weekend, I guess, about whether Hillary Clinton is well enough to run for president in 2016 and whether, in fact, she had suffered a brain injury.
	Dr.
	Rove wants to know, as much as we do, whether that's true and whether it will affect her decision making.
	Well, first of all, I've got to give him credit, you know, that embodies that old saying that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
	First they said she faked her concussion, and now they...
	This is always what they do.
	The Clintons always do this.
	Go into all the crazy theories first.
	It's a very good trick.
	They're not afraid to laughingly talk about all the crazy theories instead of saying, well, people are crazy out there.
	No.
	Make all the theories, make them sound crazier, and then come up with their answer.
	And now they say she's auditioning for a part on The Walking Dead.
	I mean, you know, whatever it takes.
	Look, she works out every week.
	She is strong.
	She's doing great.
	As far as I can tell, she's in better shape than I am.
	She certainly seems to have more stamina.
	Yeah, hello.
	Stop right there.
	What kind of self-image does Bill have?
	It sounds like he's like, I'll just toss this big compliment toward her because I'm actually much healthier than her.
	Did you hear that?
	This is what you do.
	Husbands and wives do this sometimes, especially in a public setting.
	She's much better looking than me, just like Obama says.
	I'm married up.
	Michelle's a lot smarter.
	But really, it's really being disingenuous, and he really thinks he's better than Hillary.
	And I hear this.
	Did you hear that when he said that or not?
	You're exactly right.
	He does think he's better than Hillary.
	Full of shit, which means she's really sick.
	About every week, she is strong, she's doing great.
	As far as I can tell, she's in better shape than I am.
	She certainly seems to have more stamina now.
	As far as I can see, she's certainly in better shape than I am.
	This man is death on stilts.
	This is not a compliment.
	You know, the funny thing when you watch him nowadays, he can't seem to close his mouth.
	And when he talks, he leaves his mouth kind of half of him like he needs a drool cup.
	All right.
	In the morning.
	I've never heard that laugh before.
	As I can tell, she's in better shape than I am.
	She certainly seems to have more stamina now.
	Because it was one of the meanest things you've ever said.
	And I love it.
	And there's nothing to it.
	I was sort of dumbfounded.
	They went to all this trouble to say that she had staged what was a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious surgery.
	Work to get over.
	What?
	Something she never lowballed with the American people, never tried to pretend it didn't happen.
	Hold on.
	Wow.
	Did it really take her six months?
	Was she out of action for six months?
	Have you ever heard this before?
	I've never heard this before.
	He says that she hasn't tried to hide it.
	She tells the American public.
	I've never heard it.
	I've never heard it.
	That she was out for six months from a bump in her head.
	Wow.
	And that's, you know, it sounds like she had a little aneurysm.
	Well, this guy, if you read that article, again, it was linked in the newsletter.
	The guy mentions that there are...
	Actually, the Twitter people have a lot of discussions about this.
	The most interesting one, according to one, some publication, it's a right-wing publication, so, you know, you get...
	I kind of question it, and it's a little bit conspiratorial, but, and I'll have to get the name of it, but they claim that there was a secret mission, and of course this has not been documented, a secret mission the State Department had on a small airplane to Iran to get some negotiations going about the...
	The nuclear, the centrifuges?
	Yeah, the nuclear.
	Yeah, I think so.
	But they don't have any details.
	But they apparently, on the way back, the plane had trouble and it crashed.
	Small planes crashed.
	So it crashed, killing a couple of her, at least one of her staffers, the guy who was named as, it was a military guy who was, I guess, a chief bodyguard at the time during this mission.
	And she cracked her head.
	She had a fracture.
	Fractured her skull.
	And that's why she was out for six months.
	And this other guy, they've been trying to cover up his death because no one can really explain it.
	But why would they cover that up?
	I mean, they were on a mission.
	They were trying to get something started.
	It was a secret mission.
	It was off the books or something.
	It may have been off the books.
	I don't know.
	Wow.
	Nobody...
	I mean, this is bullshit.
	There's no proof of any of this, but it's an interesting little piece.
	And what's the name of the guy who said he knows?
	Well, wait a minute.
	I forgot.
	This actually stems from a report from DEBCA. Yes, Tina asked me, what is DEBCA? And I said, what are you talking about?
	She said, I'm reading the newsletter.
	DEBCA. Oh, isn't that the Russian agent?
	Spy?
	What is that?
	Who is DEBCA? Oh!
	It's an independent Israeli news agency.
	Not a news agency, a spy, an independent spy agency.
	And do they have a blog or something?
	They have a big website.
	Just type in DEBCA and find them.
	Hello!
	This is DEBCA! I have some news for you!
	Hey!
	Really?
	I'm a blogger from Demka!
	Hello, it's me.
	Um...
	That's my Adele.
	Your Adele is dynamite.
	Wow, okay.
	I want to hear this last bit of Bill now.
	Do you have a link for me?
	I didn't get the link, the Debka link, so I want to put that in the show notes.
	I was just putting the Debka stuff in as an aside, because I want to look into it a little more.
	Especially the death of this one guy.
	Oh, he committed suicide.
	No, he didn't.
	The chat room is not impressed with the Debka weblog.
	Whatever they're running.
	Well, they should read it.
	Okay, hold on.
	...work to get over.
	Something she never low-balled with.
	Hold on, hold on.
	Low-balled?
	Why does he say low-balled?
	What does that even mean?
	All this trouble to say that she had staged what was a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over.
	Something she never low-balled with the American people, never tried to pretend didn't happen.
	Wow.
	Now they say she's really got brain damage.
	Wow.
	If she does, then I must be in really tough shape because she's still quicker than I am.
	My God, another slam at the end.
	Bill.
	Yeah.
	Bill.
	Everybody's quicker than you are.
	Okay.
	It's really slow.
	So something's screwy about this whole thing.
	The chat room, you can take or leave Depka.
	I thought I was kind of bullshitty myself.
	But something is up with the story.
	It's not playing out correctly.
	Bill's dropping these bombs like, oh, she was down and out over a concussion for six months.
	I mean, I like that there are people in the American football leagues or the NFL that get knocked out cold and they have horrible concussions.
	They have to quit the league, but they're not out for six months.
	Well, they're also not 69 or 70.
	I mean, when that happened, she was, what, 66?
	Okay, well, that's a good point.
	That's true.
	But I'll come over there and beat on your head a bit and see how you like it.
	Hey, did Bill say at the...
	Did Bill say at the very end there, did he say she has brain damage or said they say she has brain damage?
	Hold on, listen back.
	That chat room caught something.
	They went to all this trouble to say that she had staged what was a terrible concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over.
	Something she never lowballed with the American people, never tried to pretend didn't happen.
	Now they say she's really got brain damage.
	Oh, okay.
	If she does, then I must be in really...
	They say, okay.
	They say.
	All right.
	No big deal.
	No catch.
	You know what we should do?
	We had a little rocky start.
	We had some issues with connectivity.
	But I feel right now like I would preferably thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C with us.
	He stands for Cup of Drool Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea, boats on the ground, feet in the air, and sobs in the water.
	Also the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, everybody in the chat room hanging in there despite all of our connectivity issues.
	But hey, we're on the road and we're bringing you a show no matter what.
	We love you.
	Thank you to our artists.
	We need to thank...
	Hey, was it Martin JJ, I think?
	No, wait a minute.
	Was it Nick the Rat?
	Now I gotta take a look.
	Who did that great artwork for us on...
	819er, that was non-binary person.
	Right now nothing's loading for me.
	This is very odd.
	Here, let me look.
	Oh, here we go.
	Oh, it was the do you like me, yes, no, yes, I like you as an international trading partner.
	That was very cute.
	And it was Mark G. I'm sorry.
	Mark G did it.
	There you go.
	Mark G. Remember that one with the checkboxes?
	Good guy.
	Yeah.
	It was a very good one.
	Good piece.
	Good piece of work.
	We appreciate it.
	We only have three executive associate executive producers for today's show.
	It's been dwindling.
	Taylor Kuzela in Alpharetta, Georgia is our executive producer for show 820.
	Three, four, five, six, seven.
	It's a very nice donation.
	Let me get his note here.
	Adam and John, I'm shocked and outraged by the email sent in regarding Ebola and Zika from the other producers.
	You guys break down complex sham so succinctly that I have to rewind the show to make sure I understand your analysis.
	Donations aren't down because of Jews.
	Right?
	What?
	What did he say?
	Jews?
	I don't remember saying they were down because of Jews.
	He says, donations aren't down because of Jews or boobs or taxes.
	It's down because people, producers, are too busy arguing their MSM views back at you instead of listening and donating.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, there you go.
	And you're right.
	Did you see that whole thing with one of our knights?
	Who, by the way, I know our knights.
	And I said, hey man, don't argue.
	Don't be like that.
	If you have some information, give it to us.
	And he came around.
	But how much work was that?
	Five emails?
	I'm surprised we haven't gotten more flack about the Zika money.
	People should go back and listen to your breakdown of the requested money from the Obama.
	I think I may have a clip on this.
	It's $1.9 billion.
	$1.9 billion for scam money.
	If none of it goes to Zika.
	But meanwhile, they...
	In fact, I'll play the clip after I'm done with this.
	There's only three people.
	Anyway, thank you for the best podcast in the universe, says Taylor.
	Can I get a Don't Be a Denier Man Overboard?
	And Dr.
	Kiki, shut up.
	Thank you, Guardians of Reality.
	No homo.
	I love you, mean it.
	How about some karma?
	Don't be a denier!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Man Overboard!
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	You've got karma.
	There you go!
	Thank you so much, Taylor.
	A associate executive producership goes to Cameron Dodd in Perlan, Texas, 23333.
	On Valentine's Day, my girlfriend and I were in a car crash.
	This was Valentine's Day 2015, so last year's Valentine's Day.
	Valentine's Day 2015.
	Right.
	My girlfriend and I were in a car crash outside of Austin.
	The car was totaled.
	And I had to be carried out by ambulance.
	When I was assigned a room at the hospital...
	I should mention something to people if they just want to do this.
	I've never done it.
	I probably would never do it.
	But I'm going to explain.
	I had a friend at the air pollution district who's made a living...
	Giving it to the insurance companies because he used to be an insurance company employee adjuster or something like that.
	He says, his advice is, if you get a rear-ender, somebody rear-ends you, and apparently he would do this constantly.
	One of his favorite tricks was to drive around Lake Merritt and keep an eye in the rear-view mirror and look for some woman doing her makeup in her mirror.
	Oh, slam on the brakes.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	Is that an instant moneymaker?
	Yes.
	Wow.
	Instant moneymaker.
	But he says when you get rear-ended, and this is nothing I'm advising, I'm just telling you what this guy said, and he did well for himself over the years.
	Don't, when you get rear-ended, don't get out of the car.
	Just stay stiff in the car driver's seat.
	Yeah, of course.
	Holding your neck.
	And say, don't, I need an ambulance.
	Claim you need an ambulance.
	Right away.
	By the way, I don't believe for a minute that Cameron did this, because it sounds like he got in trouble.
	But he said you'll always get huge payouts.
	Anyway, he says he was in a car wreck.
	The car was totaled and he had to be carried out by an ambulance, which when I was assigned a room at the hospital, I noticed that the room number was 33.
	Times have been tough, and I haven't been able to donate.
	By the way, the Warriors won their final game of the current playoffs by a score of 33 points over the other team.
	Times have been tough, and I haven't been able to donate more since I would like to request some engagement karma as I plan to propose to the love of my life, my girlfriend, Abby.
	She was also my girlfriend at the time of the accident.
	I've been a faithful listener since my junior year in high school.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Fantastic.
	Very sweet.
	I hope she's not listening.
	I hope we didn't blow it for you.
	You've got karma.
	Congratulations, you crazy kids.
	Congratulations.
	Get a skywriter.
	Will you marry me?
	Yeah, it's a winner.
	There's got to be some gags you can do with that.
	So if the wind shifts at all, they send somebody else's name.
	Have you seen the ones in Los Angeles that do the dot matrix printing in the sky?
	Yeah, no, that's old technology.
	I saw that.
	I like those, though.
	That's pretty good.
	Yeah, they're called sky typers.
	Oh, sky typers, yeah.
	Johnny QT in Monrovia, California.
	$200.
	He's our last associate executive producer.
	I've been listening for about three months and greatly enjoy the show.
	I prefer to remain anonymous.
	You can refer to me as Johnny QT. Are you sure that's a Q? It looks like an O to me.
	It's an O. Hey, John!
	I can't read it.
	Is it an O or a Q? Because I look forward to one day becoming Sir Johnny Oti.
	I wonder what it stands for.
	Give him some karma.
	Yeah, of course we'll give him some karma.
	Happy to do that anytime.
	You've got karma.
	I'm not in on the gag.
	I'm not in on the Oti gang.
	I don't know.
	Overtime, maybe?
	I don't know.
	Could be.
	Anyway, that's all we got for our associate executive producers and executive producers for show 820.
	And the whole, this was a very low donation.
	In fact, let me look at the, even including the people that had donated a dollar.
	Which actually cost us money.
	Doesn't a dollar cost us money?
	Actually, I think we get about 50 cents of it.
	Oh man, PayPal.
	Oh well.
	Okay.
	I just want to...
	Look, it is what it is.
	We've made our case.
	This is a value for value proposition.
	These people who stepped up are executive producers and associate executive producers for the program.
	Well, actually, there's no executive.
	Is it just the associates?
	No, there's one executive.
	Oh, no, Taylor was the associate.
	And there was an executive.
	And that's...
	Look, all programming goes through ups and downs.
	It's never easy for everybody, but it depends on the crew you're working with, so...
	I think they're blaming us for...
	No, I like the point that instead of considering helping us with information or finances, they're arguing.
	Thank you.
	It's taking a lot of time away from me, too.
	And even if you have nothing, you can always be out there doing one thing, propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Hey, citizens.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Before we continue, do you mind if I read a couple of notes?
	Sure.
	From our producers.
	Okay.
	Is this a new segment?
	Is this a new segment?
	No, it's not John's notes.
	John's going to read his email.
	No.
	On the No Agenda Show.
	No.
	That's my Adele.
	In the morning, John, I'm right.
	This is from Craig.
	And I'll leave the last names out.
	Who knows?
	I'm writing to you after my Euro trip with a report.
	When going to Paris, we got off on the train after going through the channel.
	And we were inundated by refugee women that asked if we spoke English.
	Oh, wow.
	The first time I said yes, then she beamed and shoved a paper and pant at me and said, sign this.
	I refused and walked on.
	This happened countless times whenever we went to a station or a tourist attraction.
	After the third day of this, I asked one woman what it was for.
	And she said in a breathless, anxious manner that it was for adoption ad.
	For an adoption ad.
	She insisted I sign but walked off.
	But I walked off refusing.
	If you're going to France, Adam, you should be able to find out more.
	Because he apparently didn't find out anything.
	Okay.
	Also in Paris, there was a big protest going on one day.
	But I couldn't find out for what.
	When we were in Munich, refugees would ask for money or try and sell you a selfie stick.
	I wonder how much does a selfie stick go for?
	I don't know.
	There was definitely a protest going on as the police were scrambling around, courting off the area, but we didn't stick around to find out.
	Very sorry if this seems to be more like a stream of consciousness.
	No, no, but I've also heard that there's every night, every day, there's now starting in Paris, you know, protests, pockets of people just protesting all over, just saying, hey, we're sick and tired of it.
	I'm excited to see some of this.
	It's not being covered.
	I know we had something in the show notes recently.
	We may not have even covered it.
	It's possible we just ran out of time.
	Maybe I just was hoping.
	I'm hoping.
	Next week we'll be in Paris.
	I'm hoping there's riots.
	I want rain in Amsterdam and riots in Paris.
	Honey, we're on vacation!
	Yeah!
	Alright.
	Any more notes or is that your note for now?
	I got another note.
	Alright.
	I don't know why I was zoned out.
	And this is from Anna.
	Dear John and Adam, I cannot thank you enough for making the No Agenda show.
	It barely keeps me sane here at Yale.
	People here are ridiculous.
	As a sophomore, it's crazy to think I have two more years left among these climate-obsessed, sensitive, immature peers.
	I still have not found any like-minded people to hold a normal conversation with.
	I feel like I always have to hold back my sense of humor and true opinions or else face being shamed for offending some group of people.
	There's never a day in this place where people aren't outraged about something completely insignificant.
	Here's one example.
	The email we got today from President Slavone and she sent a copy of the President's it's like Three pages of very small type apology for the recent incidences that took place and how they're going to change the name Master and all these other things.
	I will put this in the next newsletter coming out on Saturday.
	It's actually a very good segue into a couple of clips.
	Let me finish.
	I'm sorry.
	I've been meaning to email you guys for a while to, first of all, express my gratitude for what you do, as well as apologize for not donating.
	You can take out a small subscription, it wouldn't hurt.
	Anyway, I promise I'll do so once I get a job and pay off my student loans.
	Okay, well, the show won't be in existence 15 years from now, but okay.
	I appreciate the note.
	Seriously.
	Let me know if you would like to hear more.
	Well, maybe not as Curry Dvorak.
	Let me know if you would like to hear some more of this absurdity in the future.
	Of course!
	Yes!
	We need a role at Yale, so that's your new job.
	Yeah.
	You know, you don't hear a lot about Yale.
	Like, the real Ivy Leagues haven't quite had the freak-out yet, have they?
	We haven't heard it at Stanford or Harvard.
	Well, not yet.
	One of the Harvard schools.
	Yeah, we have the minor schools in the minor.
	Well, I have a couple of clips of this fits in perfectly.
	Yes, you have more?
	I thought this was over.
	Meanwhile, I'll be studying for finals instead of discussing the heinousness of naming one of my new colleges for yet another rich old white guy with my classmates.
	She's being sarcastic.
	Having a real major chemistry seems to...
	There's no time for that.
	Anyway, so she sends a nice note with a PDF of the president's stuff.
	And we appreciate that.
	And we would appreciate...
	If you're not going to be able to donate, then you can give us an inside scoop.
	Yes, particularly from the Ivy League schools.
	This is good.
	I like this.
	Let's have a clip.
	A couple of clips.
	First, it's spreading.
	Here's how I look at it.
	It won't be Donald Trump that'll kill us.
	It won't be Hillary Clinton.
	It won't be ISIS. It won't be Putin.
	It's going to be the generation of children who are coming into the workforce.
	Certainly the United States.
	I'm not sure about the rest of the world yet.
	I'm evaluating Europe.
	We're not going to get anything done.
	And the whole generation, I am generalizing, are pretty much full of crap.
	This is Mona Chalabi.
	Now, she's from Guardian, so...
	There you go.
	Yep.
	She's a millennial, and she takes great issue, and this has been going around, people have emailed me this as well, about grammar snobs, which people, of course, immediately email this article to me, and I think to you as well, and I have the video that she cut, that we, you and I are grammar snobs because we try to, you know, I don't know if it's really, is it a grammar snob?
	Is that the correct word even, just to be a snob about the grammar snob moniker?
	It's not just grammar, it's a snob at all.
	Well, listen to this.
	I'm sorry?
	I mean, you should, this is how the language is, you don't let things deteriorate.
	Ah, no, no, no, ah, no, no, no.
	You, sir, on the wrong side of history!
	Grammar snobs are patronizing, pretentious, and just plain wrong.
	Put grammar in front of the word snob, and suddenly some people feel strangely proud.
	They shouldn't be.
	Most grammar snobs use an elite and increasingly outdated form of the English language.
	And they think they're somehow superior because of it.
	In most cases, the mistakes being highlighted really don't matter at all.
	If I look around the room and say, there are less people here than I expected, does it really, really need to be pointed out that because people can be counted, I should have said there are fewer people here?
	So that's example number one.
	That's a very minor, minor one.
	No.
	What?
	I just don't see that being...
	No, no, no.
	No, it's not.
	She's getting into it, but her conclusion is the opposite of your conclusion, so you'll like it.
	...most of us use the words less and fewer interchangeably without much confusion.
	I've never been to a supermarket where shoppers are scratching their heads about the ten items or less lame.
	We get it.
	Some of these snobs believe that language evolves, but grammar doesn't.
	That's not true.
	It was once considered incorrect to start a sentence with words like and or but.
	And what about the rule that the standard pronoun in writing should be he?
	There are grammar snobs who will say that we need some sort of a common language, a set of rules that everyone can understand.
	But all too often, they conveniently overlook the fact that the rules they're talking about aren't commonly held at all.
	They're just their rules.
	Take the word literally, for example.
	I literally don't care if I'm using the word literally in the correct way according to some Elizabethan definition of correctness.
	And neither does the Oxford Dictionary.
	They've updated their definition of the word to reflect modern usage.
	It doesn't take much to see the power imbalance when it comes to grammar snobbery.
	The people pointing out the mistakes are more likely to be older, wealthier, whiter or just plain academic than the people they're treating with condescension.
	All too often, it's a way to silence people.
	And that's particularly offensive when it's someone who might already be struggling to speak up.
	We should spend more time listening to what others have to say and less focusing on the grammar what they say it with.
	This is a very, very loaded piece, because it brings in ageism, racism, bigotry, oppression, and somehow, if I, I'll just take it upon myself, if I mock someone and say, hey man, you said axed instead of asked, then I am an old, white a-hole.
	Yeah.
	And I agree.
	I think that language changes, of course.
	Of course it does.
	Gay has meant several things, as many, many words.
	Why does that one pop to the top of my head?
	A movie titled The Gay Divorcee.
	I would assume that when people see that movie title, they go, oh, some guy was married and he got divorced and he became gay.
	Right.
	So, Mr.
	Dvorak, as a professor of the languages, I'm very curious.
	What is your take on how do we evolve language?
	The literally example is quite an often discussed one.
	In fact, sometimes I use the word literally and the chatroom explodes that I'm an a-hole, that I don't know what I'm doing.
	Literally.
	It explodes.
	It literally explodes.
	Yeah, it doesn't literally explode because it can't.
	It's literally something that actually can happen.
	But do you think, apparently, the Oxford Dictionary that showed it on the screen has now added a second meaning to literally, which can say you kind of, it's not exactly literally, but kind of literally.
	Okay.
	Who determines the rules?
	If the Oxford Dictionary puts it in, I'm good with that.
	Okay.
	But that is our set of rules then, the Oxford?
	Pretty much.
	I would go along with the Merriam-Webster and the other dictionaries, especially if they're big ones.
	The random house, that giant thing, the unabridged.
	Any of these dictionaries, if they see something and then say something.
	If they see something, say something.
	If they see a trend that they believe is enough of a trend, enough people are using it, and they put it in the dictionary, then it's got the impromateur.
	They've been knighted.
	Okay, this stupid phrase, which you might think is stupid or not, is now okay?
	The impromateur, you said?
	The impromateur?
	Yeah, I think.
	Is that the way you pronounce it?
	I don't know.
	It's a great word.
	Hold on a second.
	Where is the book of knowledge?
	Definition of impromateur.
	The word imprimatur means formal and explicit approval.
	Yeah, formal approver.
	She pronounces it imprimatur.
	Okay, I'll make that change.
	It's alright.
	Where do you think Donald Trump learned to say Tanzania from?
	He learned it from...
	I don't even use her name anymore.
	What's her name?
	The Amazon Echo.
	What's her name?
	I don't know.
	Siri.
	Kelly.
	Kelly.
	No.
	Alexa.
	That's what it was.
	Alexa.
	That's where Trump gets all his foreign policy from.
	Alexa.
	Are the Jews to blame for everything?
	Sorry.
	I can't find the answer to the question I heard.
	It works on Alexa, too.
	What, still works with Alexa?
	Huh?
	It still works with Alexa.
	Yeah, of course it does.
	It also works with Echo.
	You can't, unfortunately, this is, alright, I'll tell you a little bit about the hack.
	Here's the bad news.
	The bad news is, you could set something else, but you can't set one.
	Unless it's the standard ones.
	So then it becomes all three.
	Alright, I didn't want people to know that.
	My hack was kind of good, but not good enough.
	Anyway.
	So, how does language evolve?
	How does language evolve?
	It just evolves naturally with the usage.
	People like to say something a certain way.
	Right, but when are you an asshole for correcting somebody?
	I want to grow.
	I don't want to be seen as an old coot.
	I want to participate with the kids.
	I want to be swag.
	I don't think most of the time it depends on how you present it.
	If you present yourself as an asshole correcting someone, then you're an asshole.
	But we get lots of email about something we said or did or something where we're corrected.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's all about the approach.
	You're right.
	It's all about the approach.
	In such a way that it's a very positive thing.
	You guys are doing this wrong.
	It should be...
	Or the pronunciation of Brisbane.
	Yes, thank you.
	Australia.
	Yes, very nice to know Brisbane.
	That's true.
	I have actually changed language in this country, in the Netherlands.
	Two cases.
	Two cases.
	In 1983, 4...
	We had, and I was working at the television station.
	The whole country would say, Madonna.
	When they're talking about Madonna.
	When talking about Madonna.
	Yes, the singer.
	When talking about, because it's 84, she was big.
	And I got on television, I started saying Madonna.
	And people lost their shit.
	Now, of course, there was only two stations on at the time.
	You know, from 7 to 11 p.m.
	on Sunday night.
	You got that same guy that's been following you around all your life?
	Do you know how many people will yell on the street at me?
	Hey, Curry!
	Madonna!
	To this day.
	To this day?
	To this day, people say, Hey, Curry, I remember you, man, Madonna!
	Just like that.
	Just like that.
	I do that way.
	That's fun.
	Yeah.
	Madonna.
	And I also, when they first started showing Dynasty...
	The announcer on TV in Dutch would say, now it's time for the next episode of Dynasty.
	I'm like, it's Dynasty.
	No, it's Dynasty.
	That's how you pronounce it.
	Okay, listen.
	Does the guy say, last time on Dynasty?
	No, he says, last time on Dynasty.
	So I don't get any credit for that one, but I helped that too.
	And I just corrected.
	I've just helped him a lot.
	Yeah, you're doing your job.
	Yes.
	Now we have an editor from Huffington Post...
	About cultural appropriation.
	This is another thing we need to be on the lookout for, John.
	I think we're pretty good at this one.
	What do you mean?
	We've followed cultural appropriation.
	We've seen people bitching and moaning about it.
	But now it's Huffington Post with their little cool videos.
	They've got their little millennial lets running around working for free.
	As long as they don't have those videos where the guy's doing little cartoons on the screen as fast as possible.
	I hate those.
	I don't like those.
	The first 100,000 times were kind of cool.
	Yeah, the first two were good.
	It's almost like I can't do slideshows either.
	I can't.
	I won't do it.
	But I won't do a slideshow.
	I won't tab through your shit.
	Number seven's always the ad.
	No!
	Okay.
	Cultural appropriation.
	Which, you know, some would say you would not have Beyonce without cultural appropriation.
	You would not have Madonna without cultural appropriation.
	You wouldn't have Elvis Presley.
	You maybe would not have Bill Clinton.
	A lot of people have been talking about cultural appropriation, but what exactly is it?
	A quick search tells you.
	The adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture.
	But there is a blurred line between appreciation and appropriation.
	Like when you're jamming out in a Native American headdress just because it looks cool?
	That's appropriation.
	No, it's not.
	Oh, yes it is.
	That's appropriation.
	No, it's not appropriation at all.
	It's just clowning.
	No, that's appropriation.
	You are stealing someone else's...
	I think this is an issue right here.
	I think we should stop right now.
	Okay, stop one second.
	I want to ask one question.
	Book of Knowledge, definition of appropriation.
	Appropriation has several meanings, as a noun.
	1.
	Money set aside, as by a legislature, for a specific purpose.
	2.
	Incorporation by joining or uniting.
	3.
	A deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner.
	Ah, so interesting how the lowest-ranking meaning is the vicious act.
	That's usually not the lowest.
	It's kind of the lowest-ranked, but it's actually the most recent.
	Oh, is that how it works?
	The lowest-ranked is the most recent?
	Yeah, the most traditional definitions used.
	So it went from integrating someone's culture, like how we got jazz, and how we got disco, and how we got punk rock, and we still integrate classical music into every piece we have, the basic tenets.
	That's cultural appropriation of Vienna?
	Yeah.
	And that's a better definition than the headdress.
	The guy wearing the headdress, that's ridicule.
	There's a big difference, it seems to me, between ridicule, where you take somebody's culture and then you just ridicule it, and appropriation, where you take somebody's culture and then you move it into your culture and use it without credit.
	It doesn't make any difference because there's no credit given to classical music.
	That's for sure.
	Although I did have to say that I listened to a long speech, I talked about it a couple times on the show, with Phil Spector.
	At the University of California, he gave a three-hour lecture.
	You were there for that?
	You were there for that?
	Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	That must have been fantastic.
	Oh, it was fantastic.
	And then you got to talk to him down in the bowels of Wheeler Auditorium shortly after, because he was down there holding court.
	But his speech on the music industry, it was about the music industry, he's...
	He overtly mentions, and he does the bars, and he plays it kind of with his mouth, plays the appropriation of various classical riffs that he got from Rimsky-Korfsikov, and here's something he stole from Beethoven, and he told about all these different things that he incorporated in his big sound.
	Excuse me, his wall of sound.
	Yeah, I'm sorry, you're right.
	The wall of sound.
	This is like, what's his name of the idiot?
	Was it the Cruz that comes up and says, oh, we really like those basketball rings.
	The basket ring, yeah.
	Even that made the news here, yeah.
	Yeah, that's dumb.
	Anyway, so, yeah, the wall of sound.
	And he talked about the specific appropriations.
	He says, you're going to steal, you steal from the best.
	And as far as he was concerned, that was positive.
	Right, but that's a little...
	Is classical music a culture?
	Is it a culture?
	It was the culture of the Europeans in the 1800s.
	And by the way, from now on, I pronounce this a very important day.
	No longer may any millennial everywhere, because I will police this, and you will start to police yourselves.
	You may not dance to anything by the village people.
	Those were culture appropriation mofos.
	Particularly the Indian with the headdress.
	No more dancing to YMCA. Does anybody even play that anymore, anywhere?
	It always gets played.
	At the end of the night, it's always, don't stop, it's Village People YMCA, and then you close off with don't stop believing, and there's always some girls crying and shit, and then turn the lights on and everyone goes home.
	I've done this a million times.
	No, it's not.
	We know, we just argued that whole thing.
	Stick with it.
	Oh, and just a reminder, blackface is never okay.
	Blackface is never okay.
	Yeah.
	What's that got to do with cultural appropriation?
	Nothing!
	It's not the definition, is it?
	No.
	No.
	Although, I will say, and I think this is now that you play this, I'm glad you did, because it reminds me, there's a play, if you're in New York, you should go see Shuffle Off.
	Shuffle Off.
	Which is very, it's just an outrage.
	Darling, after Paris, we're going to New York, we have to see Shuffle Off.
	John says it's fabulous.
	Yeah, I think you got the voice there.
	One of the themes of this musical is exactly that.
	Because the blacks were in blackface.
	It was very interesting.
	But the coolest thing, wasn't Al Jolson who started that, the Jew?
	He didn't start it, but he used it as a gimmick.
	So would that be cultural appropriation or ridicule?
	Well, it's definitely not ridicule.
	What it was at the time, there was these minstrel shows, which those were the cultural appropriations.
	That's a classic, to me, cultural appropriation.
	The minstrel show itself.
	Yes, the minstrel show itself.
	That's one that logically makes sense to me.
	Yeah, there's a bunch of black guys that did this show amongst black people, and you're a white guy, and you steal the show.
	Right.
	Put on blackface.
	Yeah.
	And you do their show because the white folks weren't allowed to see their actual black show.
	And that, to me, is the only example I can think of.
	The rest of this was like incorporation.
	If you do incorporation, okay, you have a black jazz artist and now you're Benny Goodman, you're still playing with the black guys and you're also doing shows with them.
	But you have, you know, there's a lot of riffs and there's certain notes and there's certain things that these guys play.
	In fact, there's a mention of Benny Goodman stealing a bunch of notes from some black And when Prince or Jimi Hendrix rip off into some crazy guitar stuff, which Prince, Purple Rain, he admits that he was heavily influenced by, I think it was a Journey song.
	I think he even played the song to Shone.
	I think he played it and said, hey, I really was influenced.
	I want to play this song to you.
	I think it was without lyrics.
	He played it over the phone.
	He said, you know, because that's one of their ballads.
	I forget which one it is.
	He said, are you going to sue me?
	And I said, no, Billy maybe was.
	He said, no, it's great, I'm honored.
	But is that appropriation?
	Reverse appropriation, because you have to, I'm saying reverse appropriation, I'm making up terms, but I'm saying that.
	I know, I know, I know.
	Because what it would indicate to me is that all appropriations from minorities to the ruling culture, stealing from the subcultures would be where the appropriation takes place.
	But if it went the other way around, you wouldn't call it appropriation.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Well, that's a general problem.
	That's a general problem.
	I think it's all...
	It's like racism.
	Reverse racism is racism.
	And I'm so happy.
	I'm so proud of myself.
	To say you'll have 50% of the women in your administration, 50% of the women, it's limiting towards women and you should be scolded for it.
	Alright, on to more appropriation.
	And neither is Red Face for that matter.
	Appropriation occurs when a privileged culture borrows from a marginalized one.
	Oh, there it is.
	When a privileged culture...
	Did he say steals?
	Hold on.
	Oh, borrows.
	Borrows.
	So what is it?
	That's appropriation.
	So that's wrong.
	If you're a privileged culture, you know...
	I think this, again, applies to minstrel shows, but does not apply in the way they're trying to make it sound.
	So you take a new black music form, because the blacks are extremely, you know, American blacks.
	The American black community is very musical, and they have a great history of creating new forms.
	So they create a new form, and then the whites take it and say, this is great.
	Let's use it, and they start bringing it in.
	It's not borrowing, because they keep it.
	Yet no one seems to be really mad at Eminem.
	Eminem is completely, you could say, appropriated.
	Well, they should be.
	And by the way, let me just say, Bianchi, I'm sorry, Beyonce, you see Beyonce with her lemonade?
	Does anyone else notice that she's wearing a blonde wig?
	It's appropriation or not?
	What is it?
	Yeah, but it's reverse appropriation.
	But it's cooler because she's saying, I'm a press Black Lives Matter, but she's wearing a blonde wig.
	My head's going to explode, man.
	Let's listen to the rest of this.
	I think this is part of our cognitive dissonance.
	Well, it's working.
	And then add to this, this despicable Huffington Post video.
	I mean, how can you, in good conscience, as an editor, allow this to pass through?
	I think it's destructive, too.
	I think it's really destructive.
	Listen, I have to be worried about what I wear, how I do my hair, because I'll be shamed for it.
	So, a celebrity rocking cornrows when their hair really doesn't need it.
	A celebrity wearing a blonde wig when her hair doesn't need it because she could be wearing cornrows is okay, though.
	What?
	Who needs cornrows?
	The words needed is what got me.
	Do you know anyone who needs cornrows?
	Oh, my God.
	If I don't have cornrows, I don't know what I'm going to do.
	Let me tell you, black hair is a bitch.
	Yeah, but it doesn't have to be cornrows.
	You don't need cornrows.
	It's a lot of work.
	It depends on what you're doing.
	What line of your work you're in?
	Okay, what line of work needs cornrows?
	Wrapper.
	You don't need cornrows.
	You don't need cornrows.
	Member of the Fugees?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't know enough about black hair.
	I know black people complain about their hair.
	Tell us when you absolutely need cornrows.
	Maybe once you get the cornrows and you don't have to do any work, maybe that's possible.
	Ben, this is only a one-minute video.
	Look at the controversy it has already had.
	Yes, because it's bull crap.
	It's the extreme of bowl crap.
	And it's trending.
	Their hair clearly doesn't need them.
	Or even someone sporting a tribal tattoo when they have no idea what the design actually means.
	Wow.
	A tribal.
	This city is filled with tribal tattoos.
	It's okay to have a tribal tattoo, but not if you know what it means.
	Okay, I was at a bar with some friends, and the waitress, good-looking woman, comes over, and she's got a tribal tattoo on, and I spotted it as such.
	It looked like, you know, it was just a very simple thing.
	I said, what's that?
	Where'd that come from?
	Or what does it mean, is what I said, I guess.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And she told me.
	She knew exactly what it meant.
	It was a Maori thing of some sort or dated back to such a day.
	If you talk to people about their tattoos, nine times out of ten, they will give you a long lecture about the tattoo.
	You have to be careful if you don't want to hear the lecture.
	But they know what they're doing.
	She says, yo, that's pretty.
	But it's...
	This is really, this is not good that this is being, you're right, it's trending and it's worrisome that people are buying into this crap.
	When they have no idea what the design actually means.
	Culture is more than just a cool style or a new trend.
	And it doesn't matter if it's just a Halloween costume.
	Because in case you didn't realize, he's a racist.
	I'd be saying that someone in a Mexican costume, someone in a Chinese person's costume, that's all racist.
	Well, Halloween's blown.
	What can you be now?
	You're racist or misogynistic or racist against ghosts.
	I mean Halloween.
	The dead.
	Can girls still dress up as sexy sluts and nurses or is that over now?
	Is that ruined now too?
	They can dress like that all year.
	But you can still appreciate another culture by learning about other traditions, trying an authentic cuisine, traveling to new countries.
	Oh, okay.
	Try a new cuisine and learn about other cultures.
	But don't you dare incorporate it into your own cooking!
	So what is fusion all about?
	It's like one of the major cooking trends.
	They have a great idea.
	They use coconut water here in Hawaii for this dish.
	I'm going to show you how you can do the same thing with beef.
	I think we're on to something.
	We'll call it appropriation cuisine.
	Yeah, they must be banned.
	No, no, no, no.
	You should just call it Appropriation Cuisine and make a book.
	It's a cookbook.
	You, by the way, recommended some restaurants for you since you're in Europe.
	There's at least two or three of those places could be called Appropriation Cuisine because the French do that.
	All living cuisines are always stealing from other cuisines because they're good ideas.
	So what's wrong with that?
	What's wrong with a restaurant saying, well, that's a good idea.
	I like the way the Japanese do that type of chicken.
	I'm going to incorporate that into my cuisine.
	Let's go back to it.
	This all stemmed from a note from one of our listeners who said, I can barely take it anymore because we have to be so politically correct, can't hurt anybody's feelings, have to shut up, can't say anything.
	This is all a part of it.
	Well, that's what the girl from Yale said.
	Yeah.
	I said this comes from our note from the girl that you just read.
	This whole conversation.
	Now we're down to changing food.
	I thought you were referring to a different note.
	No, that note.
	She's just upset because she can't have a simple conversation with her classmates.
	I don't like it.
	I have a clip here which I'm just going to play a bit of until you say stop.
	This popped up on the No Agenda face bag group.
	Oh, this is the group that was going to get us all these donations.
	Oh, God.
	Mind you, Mimi was in charge of that, so you might want to back off on yelling about it.
	Well...
	Or step it up.
	Step it up.
	I'll step it up.
	At the University of Massachusetts, there was, by huge, I guess, exception, invited to have a conversation was Milo.
	This is the conservative British guy who's overly gay and is just ripping everybody to shreds when it comes to political correctness nature.
	You've seen this.
	He was the guy who got unverified on Twitter.
	Okay, yeah.
	Then there was this guy, Steve Crowder.
	I don't think I've ever heard of him.
	And so they're doing a sit-down on stage, and there's a bunch of students in the audience, an auditorium.
	And then they start protesting and yelling, and this Steve Crowder gets up, and he just starts railing on them to such...
	The second time around wasn't quite as pleasurable as I was clipping it this morning, so I'll just let it play and you tell me if you want to stop or not.
	He's yelling at the audience because they interrupted and just started yelling check your privilege and all that kind of crap.
	Time to listen up you silly liberal fruitcakes!
	I came out and I wanted to tell some jokes.
	Let's do some reality checks here.
	Do you have any idea, sir, how pathetic it must be to be you?
	These people wanted to come out and have a good time, hear a few jokes, some thoughtful discussion, but your head pops off the pillow in the morning with, oh, how can I be a professional victim today?
	Let me go in.
	And screw with their act just because, oh my god, your parents didn't tell you that your opinion wasn't worth that much.
	Look, look, they're confused.
	They're confused.
	You know why?
	Because I'm not your gender studies professor who has to cater to your trigger warning, microaggression, safe space bullshit.
	Do you like it?
	It's okay.
	It's a little, sounds rehearsed.
	You know, that's maybe what bothered me the second time around.
	But I'll put it in the show notes so people can listen to it.
	I think the guy's a comedian or he does this professionally or whatever.
	He writes rants.
	But it was nice because he actually was just yelling at the children to just start to pretty much cry.
	Like, check your privilege!
	Check your privilege!
	The way to do it is you have to yell, yell, and don't stop talking.
	That's apparently how it works.
	Yeah, I thought it was funnier the first time.
	And maybe seeing it is more important.
	But I agree, it sounded a bit hers.
	So he's rolling out lines.
	That's what you do with hecklers.
	You've got to have your stuff ready.
	Yeah, you have to have your...
	There's things...
	In fact, a little insight...
	There are these stock put-down lines that all comedians use, and they get written along the way, and these put-down lines, which are aimed at hecklers, the comedians have an unwritten rule that they can be shared freely without anyone saying how you stole my show.
	Do you have an example of a heckler line?
	One is when the hissing takes place, you say, oh, I see somebody brought her inflatable date doll.
	Ha ha!
	There's a bunch of donkey jokes.
	I didn't think that so-and-so bred.
	There's probably about 50 of these lines that I don't know if they've been fully documented, but they're freely used.
	I came through this morning.
	They have one of the terrorists from the Paris attacks, one of the Belgian guys, Abdeslam.
	They have him in custody, right?
	Yeah.
	The gay guy.
	The gay guy.
	Well, exactly.
	And there's no...
	It's in French.
	It's no good.
	So I don't have audio of it.
	But he made a statement about...
	The lawyer of this, Abdeslam, made a statement.
	In French newspaper Liberation, and there was a little statement of video, he said, And he told me that he had read his interpretation of it on the internet.
	For simple minds, it is perfect.
	The net, it's the maximum they can understand.
	He has the intelligence of an empty ashtray.
	He is abysmally vacuous.
	Vacuous.
	That's quite a testament.
	Am I being a grammar snob now?
	He added, it's not easy to take on his defense, which brings me nothing but crap.
	I've been repeatedly assaulted verbally and physically.
	Two types even waited for me in front of my office, and blows were exchanged, but I can defend myself.
	On several occasions, the police had escorted my daughters to school.
	Poor lawyer.
	That's terrible.
	Yeah.
	So this guy, he had read bits and bobs of the Islam online.
	That was his big...
	I mean, if that's really true, if this is...
	I bet you it is.
	That's that.
	Now I'm really scared.
	I'm okay if it's our own intelligence services doing it and blowing it up.
	I mean, I have problems with it.
	But that's one thing.
	If this truly is happening...
	And how far off is Abdeslam from the appropriation kid?
	I don't think there's much difference.
	Exactly.
	We haven't even seen any good example.
	I mean, I would assume a lot of people think Trump comes from this kind of internet phenomenon.
	I think Hillary does more than Trump.
	Yeah.
	Because she's done a really good job of...
	Of using the tech experts to help her.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Right down to her email.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, okay.
	Well, that's depressing.
	Let's see if we can find something fun.
	Play this clip.
	Here's a clip.
	All right.
	This is just to me, this is just one of these out-of-the-blue clips that comes in.
	What?
	What?
	I have no idea what this is about.
	I don't know.
	I haven't found nothing.
	Heavy water sail.
	Oh, I actually saw a clip about this.
	The United States announced today that it is buying roughly 35 tons of so-called heavy water from Iran.
	The liquid is used to make weapons-grade plutonium.
	And last year's nuclear deal calls for Iran to sell its excess stockpile.
	Republican leaders in Congress today criticized the purchase as a dangerous precedent.
	Yes, so I understood the same thing, that this was part of the deal, and so they had to sell.
	I didn't know if we specifically had to buy it or not, but I know one guy who does know.
	Atomic Rod Adams.
	He'll help us.
	He'll get us.
	Atomic Rod should be able to sell it.
	Was your question about heavy water itself?
	No, no, I know about heavy water.
	It's used to make H-bombs, but...
	Why are we buying these tonnages of this stuff?
	Maybe he's going to have to explain it.
	Was that your idea of happy news?
	Fun news?
	Yeah.
	Okay, then play this.
	Play happy dance.
	Oh!
	Happy dance!
	Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it!
	And then I'll have a wonton!
	Happy dance, happy dance!
	Get it, get it, get it!
	Who is that?
	Who is that?
	There is a guy, I think it's called, I think his name is Dave.
	He's the Dave show on QVC. Oh, nice.
	I was fascinated by this show because they were selling a Ninja Super Blender of some sort for $99.
	They almost sold me on getting one.
	Wow, QBC, huh?
	Is that above or below C-SPAN? This character who does the cooking show, and they sell cooking stuff, is just a kind of, he's like, I don't know, he's almost like Robert Tilton.
	The evangelist who's always scrunching up his face and he's just for some reason he's hard to not listen to because he's got some hypnotic way of doing things.
	This guy seems like he's like one of these types of guys and he's always doing weird stuff.
	And I ended up watching his show for about 20 minutes before I realized I was being hypnotized.
	Uh-oh.
	And I didn't buy the Ninja device, even though it looked like a great idea.
	The Ninja device.
	Yeah, it's some Ninja.
	It's a chop.
	It's like a blender.
	Oh, okay.
	High-end blender.
	I have something that is funny.
	I thought it was hilarious, actually.
	In fact, I went through a little bit of editing just to spice it up a bit.
	This happened in the State Department, and I think it happened on...
	Maybe it was last week?
	No, Thursday.
	Maybe it was Monday.
	And Kirby's back, which makes it a lot more fun.
	Not just Kirby, we have Matt.
	We have Matt's hottie from Russia, from RT. What's her name again?
	Hottie from Russia?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, Natasha Hotsky.
	We got her.
	Natasha Hotsky.
	I'm rude because I just can't remember her name.
	She's got an unpronounceable name.
	We will get it eventually.
	Natasha Hutsky.
	But before I do that, I want to remind us about the concept of no boots on the ground, which we have talked about on this program.
	I think my main concern with the use of the phrase boots on the ground is it diminishes the feet and legs and human body that are in the boots.
	And it's just not a nice way of talking about putting American men and women, boys and girls, into harm's way.
	I just find it...
	I don't like it.
	And particularly for people who haven't been in military service.
	Yeah, boots on the ground!
	Why don't you get your fucking boots on the ground, then we'll talk about it.
	How many times did we hear the President say, no boots on the ground?
	In Syria.
	A hundred.
	And was it just the president?
	Or was it everybody?
	Everybody.
	Here's a little medley.
	I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria.
	I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan.
	The resolution we've submitted today does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Iraq.
	It is not the authorization of another ground rule.
	We are not, obviously, contemplating returning.
	We're not contemplating putting boots on the ground.
	President Obama has been very clear that American combat troops are not going to be fighting in Iraq yet.
	We won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL or conducting such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground.
	Boots on the ground, boots on the ground.
	There will be no boots on the ground.
	There is no doubt this was said hundreds if not thousands of times.
	Now, we have discussed also on this program what exactly does it mean, boots on the ground?
	Because we've heard no boots on the ground in Iraq, but they weren't boots on the ground.
	They were advisors and consultants, but they're also kind of leading and doing stuff.
	Then there were Delta Force, but no boots on the ground.
	It was clear.
	And that was said, I just want to make sure that you agree you have heard this many, many times, many more times than you just heard in that little montage.
	Thematically, yes.
	This is a question from Matt to a rear Admiral Kirby about yet another 250 troops being sent to Syria.
	There were 50 there, but that was just placeholder guys or whatever.
	We all kind of swallowed that.
	But now there's another 250 going in.
	And the question is, when is it boots on the ground and when is it not boots on the ground?
	And then something really amazing happens.
	It is not mission creep if it's the same mission.
	And it's the same mission.
	And he introduced about 50 special operations forces on the ground.
	They've had a positive impact on our ability to go after Daesh inside Syria.
	So the president has decided to increase it to the tune of 250.
	And there was never this, you know, there was never this no boots on the ground.
	I don't know where this keeps coming from.
	Well, yes, yes.
	No, there wasn't.
	We're not going to be involved in a large-scale combat mission on the ground.
	That is what the president has long said.
	We have three, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait.
	We have 3,000-some-odd troops In Iraq already, in a devise and assist capacity, at bases throughout the country.
	Don't tell me, don't tell them or their families that they're not on the ground.
	They are very much on the ground.
	But they are involved in large-scale, conventional ground combat.
	For months and months and months, the mantra from the President and everyone else in the administration has been, no boots on the ground.
	No, that is not true.
	What?
	It's just not true.
	It is!
	It's just not true.
	It's true.
	No, it's not.
	I just flatly, absolutely disagree with you, but I've been speaking to this when I was in uniform for over two years.
	Okay, your predecessor up here, you know, all options are on the table except boots on the ground.
	That was the...
	I never said that.
	Well, that was the whole line from the president on down.
	Anyway, are you saying that this is not the same thing as saying one thing and then doing the other completely?
	I'm absolutely rejecting that thesis, yes.
	Pretty good, huh?
	Holy crap, that guy is just lying.
	You want some more?
	It didn't stop.
	Doesn't he have a clue?
	Or is he oblivious?
	Maybe he doesn't know.
	Maybe he's just stupid.
	Well, check this out.
	So then we get the...
	By the way, that's Clip of the Day right there for me.
	Oh, thank you.
	That's kind of...
	Clip of the Day.
	It's hard to believe that a guy could just blatantly lie like, oh, let's never have, never heard of such a thing.
	Well, hell froze over because it got so desperate that Natasha Hotsky, she asked the question a little differently, and Kirby, all of a sudden, he's in love with her.
	You know, he's the one who's like, bah, you're just, oh, you Russians, you whatever, propaganda, you're gonna ask me...
	Did I characterize that right, kind of how he talks to her?
	I think you nailed it.
	Okay.
	Within 24 hours, we have seen two headlines.
	One of them being, President Obama rules out ground troops to Syria.
	And he told the BBC, I can give you an exact quote.
	And then shortly after, President Obama to deploy 250 more special forces troops to Syria.
	My question is, what is the difference between the troops that the President ruled out and the troops that he's going to send to Syria?
	You know, that's actually an intelligent question.
	He's also so denigrating by even saying it.
	Like, wow, stupid Ruski.
	You actually came up with an intelligent question.
	He was that desperate.
	This is, by the way, I've talked about this before and I'm going to talk about it again.
	We have a lot of Navy listeners.
	But there is nothing, when I was in the air pollution game, and you had to go on board these Navy ships, because none of the Navy guys gave a crap about local pollution laws.
	So you'd go on there and you'd go to give these guys a citation for blowing their tubes.
	This is before everything is nuclear.
	Blowing their tubes.
	Blowing their tubes.
	They blow their tubes in the bay.
	Boom!
	It's a big pile of soot and crap that goes into the atmosphere.
	And it's illegal.
	It's fun though.
	Sorry?
	It's fun.
	I don't know about that.
	Dynamite.
	So you go on there and you bitch about these.
	You guys are extremely arrogant.
	They're so arrogant.
	It's like outrageous.
	And this Kirby exhibits these characteristics.
	I remember one of the guys that was a pollution inspector was a chief petty officer before, you know, and was in the Navy for a long time.
	And he would just have a broad smile when I was bitching about these guys.
	He says, aren't they the worst?
	Interesting.
	Management of the U.S. Navy has an arrogant prick quality, and this Kirby is a perfect example.
	You know, that's actually an intelligent question.
	That's a good question.
	And I appreciate that you asked it because it's very relevant.
	When we talk about boots on the ground, in the context that you have heard people in the administration speak to, we're talking about conventional, large-scale ground troops that are designed to actually engage in, plan, coordinate, integrate, and engage in combat operations.
	Did you get that, John?
	I'm so sad that we never understood that that's what boots on the ground actually means.
	It's a lot more than just some boots, isn't it?
	Oh, apparently.
	...on the ground as units.
	We're not doing that.
	We've never done that in Iraq or in Syria, and we're not going to do it now.
	Let me finish.
	Let me finish.
	Introducing additional advisors and assistance troops in the form of special operations forces, which we've done now.
	We've had 50 or so on the ground.
	Well, you know what I would have done, and no one did this.
	I would have said, okay, thank you.
	Stop right there.
	Since you have now defined boots on the ground to us as this multiple units and coordination and planning front lines, etc., would you mind for defining for us specifically what advising and consulting, what that means?
	Because that's the problem.
	We have too much word gaming going on here.
	...in Syria for a while.
	We're adding another 250.
	That's very much in keeping with the mission, one of the core missions that the U.S. military was designed to do from the outset in the fight against Dash, from the very outset.
	And I know because I spoke about it myself in my prior life, which was to help...
	...in his prior life.
	You mean your previous career?
	...help improve the battlefield competency and capability of indigenous ground forces.
	So we can have a nice little debate about boots on the ground, but I'm telling you, having been in the military, there is a big difference between saying no boots on the ground, we've all recognized since almost the outset, we've had U.S. troops in Iraq, which are very much on the ground, and the colloquial meaning of the term, which is what...
	Oh, the colloquial.
	The colloquial?
	The colloquial meaning?
	What is that?
	For morons?
	Is that the new, when we put a new definition in Oxford?
	What does colloquial mean?
	Colloquial.
	It means...
	The common man?
	Street chatter, yeah.
	Kind of.
	Go on.
	Real meaning of the term, which is what many people when they say new boots on the ground are referring to, which is large-scale, intentionally combat ground troops engaged in combat operations that they themselves are conducting independently and integrating and coordinating that way.
	That's not happening, and that's not going to happen.
	Parsing.
	All right, Matt doubled down on this in the final short clip.
	Why didn't the administration come out and say there will be no large-scale combat around, instead of saying no boots on the ground, which is what they said over and over and over again.
	These people, unless they're not wearing boots, are boots on the ground.
	Listen, on this point, I totally agree with you.
	They are wearing boots, and they are on the ground.
	But that doesn't mean that they are in large-scale ground combat.
	And I can't speak for every other administration official, Matt, but I can certainly speak for what I've said from this podium and the other podium.
	Well, you know what?
	You can't say that you're setting a red line on chemical weapons and then not act on the red line, and you can't say no boots on the ground and then send boots onto the ground and say that you're not doing the opposite of what you intended.
	I just don't...
	The mission set of these troops is very much consistent with the mission set of those that have gone to Florida.
	But...
	I mean, there's no point in arguing the boots-on-the-ground rhetoric.
	It's absolutely no point.
	I'm not disputing the fact that we have troops on the ground and they're wearing boots.
	God, unbelievable, this guy.
	I'm sad that never made it to television or somewhere where people could see it.
	Because, you know, that is...
	The American people really do understand something.
	When your president says no boots on the ground, when the Secretary of Defense says no boots on the ground, when the Secretary of State says no boots on the ground, everybody was using this term, boots on the ground.
	Everyone was saying boots on the ground.
	Everybody.
	And people.
	That's outrageous.
	All right.
	But again, it brings back to my anecdotes about these Navy guys, the officers at that level.
	They're out of control.
	And by the way, the one I was fishing about the most when I was telling my old story is this ship was an oiler.
	This is like the lowest level of piece of crap equipment that they float around, these oilers.
	And the guy wasn't even a true captain.
	He's like some lieutenant commander, but he's the captain of this ship because he doesn't require the ship such a piece of crap.
	He doesn't require a captain, a real captain.
	And the guy was this arrogant a-hole.
	I'm surprised when I gave him the ticket that he just didn't tear it up in front of me and throw it at me.
	Seriously.
	Well, those are the same guys.
	Isn't it the Navy that runs the NSA or they just call them admirals because it's cool?
	Maybe it's part of this whole mystique.
	The whole thing is disturbing, let me tell you.
	This is your cognitive dissonance.
	This is your new speak.
	Boots on the ground doesn't actually mean boots on the ground.
	Red line doesn't actually mean red line.
	Fear is freedom.
	Yeah, play that clip.
	Yeah, I should do that.
	What else do we have in the...
	This, by the way, is all from...
	Is it from Brave New World or 1984?
	It was Brave New World, I think, the new speaker.
	No, this is from some video.
	Freedom!
	Subjugation is liberation!
	Contradiction is truth!
	Those are the facts of this world!
	And you will all surrender to them!
	You pigs in human flesh!
	The minute someone says pigs in human clothing on television, then I know we've had them, we're done for, and we're toast.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	And we can read a couple of these notes since we didn't have many execs.
	Yeah, we'll read a couple of these notes, including soon-to-be Dame Dagger in Hamilton, New Jersey, who gave $138.
	And Dame Dagger wrote a...
	What is this?
	Well, she met you at Sparks.
	She met you at Sparks.
	Oh, she was one of the...
	Yeah, she was at Sparks.
	I can go on and on about how I get stoned at the corner with Nick the Rat and a bunch of other producers.
	Keep it going!
	Saying, start me up karaoke with two other producers.
	We left after a while.
	A few blocks away.
	I guess the party continued without us.
	Watch another accidentally smash his iPhone screen in the middle of 2nd Avenue?
	Oh, wow.
	Cool.
	But enough of that.
	No agenda producers, man, are outrageous.
	Get them together.
	It's beautiful.
	At Sparks, I had just arrived and wanted to get one scotch in me before I mingled.
	I spotted John as soon as I walked in, but before I knew it, he was grabbing his coat to leave.
	That's when I got up to him, and I love you, and the rest is history.
	Do you remember this?
	Although John's account of us meeting is a little inaccurate, the narrative is the same.
	I have loved the show since Adam's appearance on Stern five or six years ago.
	In fact, I replaced Stern with No Agenda.
	Well, that is very interesting, for you will probably remember how, when I did that Stern interview, the next day on the show, you reamed me, you excoriated me.
	No.
	Yes, you did.
	No, I mentioned something.
	You said it was a horrible interview.
	Oh, I did think the interview could have been better.
	No, that's different.
	That's different.
	Well, it got a producer.
	There you go.
	Who loves you?
	I'm actually your wingman.
	You're welcome.
	Thank you so much for being my wingman.
	Anytime.
	But I'm your wingman.
	That's correct.
	That's correct.
	But we're keeping that private.
	I am actually your wingman.
	You actually are my wingman.
	That's right.
	And I'm trying my best, but I don't even know if I can do the job anymore.
	Sir Borislav Marinov.
	What the fuck does that mean?
	And you know what I mean.
	No, I don't.
	No!
	Hey, Snow, stop!
	I started with the candles in the bathtub.
	I tried to dissuade you from that, but anyway, I won't go on to it too much.
	It's too personal.
	Sir Bereslav Marinov, our buddy in Trabuco Canyon, California.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Actually a great donation.
	Thank you for the job, Carmen.
	My waiting's over.
	You've seen the Urban Dictionary's words of late.
	Webmate.
	Gender neutral noun refers to a person about to get married very soon.
	Or wedmate.
	A wedmate.
	Wedmate.
	I'm a wedmate.
	I'm a wedbetter.
	Sorry.
	Synonyms.
	Bridegroom.
	Just want to talk and never be surprising.
	Wedmate.
	Wedmate.
	Prespouse.
	How about that?
	Just make it more romantic.
	Prespouse.
	I think you got something there.
	Prespouse.
	Write that one down.
	I'm looking for some prespousal sex.
	I wasn't going to say it.
	I'm looking for some prespousal sex.
	No, I don't think so.
	Presposal.
	Alright.
	That's funny, Sir Borislav.
	Thank you.
	Borislav, thank you.
	It was great.
	Todd Rathkamp, $101.01 from Rippon, Wisconsin.
	Sir Kelly Spongberg in Rocky Mountain someplace.
	Where Rocky Mountain do you see it?
	I'm going to stretch it out.
	Rocky Mountain House.
	Oh, Rocky Mountain House.
	There it's famous.
	In Alberta.
	Alberta.
	Alberta.
	100.
	Grebulon from Tel Aviv.
	8888.
	Sir Robert Goschko, Earl of Alberta.
	Another Albertan.
	We've got the Canadians coming in.
	$82.
	Bill Hudick in Timonium, Maryland, $62.20.
	Paul Hughes, $60.00, parts unknown.
	Josh McDonald, parts unknown, $55.10.
	Earl Hochul in Berlin, Deutschland, $52.00.
	That's Eric Hochul.
	Eric.
	Eric, yeah.
	Eric.
	Eric Von Martyr in Van Nuys, California, 51-52.
	Eric.
	What?
	Three Erics in a row?
	Oh no, two with a C, one with a K. Number three is the three, like the three dead guys.
	Eric Osnes.
	When one celebrity dies, expect two more.
	It's the three dead guys.
	Or three dead women.
	That's why we have to expect at least one or two more after Prince.
	Right?
	Something happened to you?
	What's-his-face died?
	Who?
	Old guy.
	Was he a singer?
	Yeah.
	Like, I want to say old...
	Oh, that's right.
	Oh, no.
	Billy Paul died from Me and Mrs.
	Jones.
	Right.
	We had another...
	Who else am I thinking of?
	I think there's...
	Well, there should be one more.
	There's not.
	At least one more.
	Could be two.
	Well, Merle Haggard, I think Merle Haggard counts big time.
	Yeah, but that was a while back.
	I think he's in the same range, so he counts.
	Maybe he was the first one that initiated it.
	Well, no.
	Bowie was first, then came Merle, I think.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, that's it then.
	Bowie.
	These are the big three, because these are huge.
	Bowie, Haggard, and Prince.
	I think we kind of have it.
	Anybody else who dies, you're just kind of a loser.
	No, you've got to be in a different group.
	That is the group.
	That's the group.
	Big shot.
	So we're safe.
	So no one else is going for a while.
	Good to go.
	Eric Von Marder in Van Nuys, California, 5152.
	Eric Osnes in Lawndale, California, 5150.
	Adam Barrett in London, England, 5116.
	These are our 5116 donors, the people that took advantage of the idea of donating for May Day.
	Adam Barrett is London.
	Chris Malmy in Cherry Valley, Massachusetts.
	James Moore in San Pablo, California, which is right up the street from me.
	Brandon St.
	Armand.
	I was, in fact, just in San Pablo going to that Mexican grocery store.
	There's a big one there.
	It's fantastic.
	Brandon St.
	Amand in Woodstock, Ontario.
	Alejandro Chapa in Houston, Texas.
	And that's about it.
	So that didn't go over.
	That was another lost cause.
	We do what we can.
	We do what we can.
	Two, three, four, five people.
	Brian Kaufman in Phoenix, Arizona.
	50-50.
	And the following people are the $50 donors.
	We'll give their name and location.
	And you know they did 50.
	Ben Dural in Malta, New York.
	Matt Comstock in Wolcott, Connecticut.
	Keith Powell in Swansea.
	Swansea.
	Great Britain.
	50.
	Zachary Saldivar, I guess.
	Saldivar in San Antonio.
	Saldivar?
	Let's say Saldivar.
	San Angelo.
	Saldivar.
	Saldiver.
	Texas.
	Texas.
	San Antonio.
	San Angelo.
	I keep saying Antonio.
	I don't know why.
	Anonymous in Cobalt, Tennessee.
	Shad Rich and Abednego.
	Parts Unknown.
	Donald Napier in Oviedo, Florida.
	Brian Evans, Parts Unknown.
	Peter Totes, Sir Peter Totes to you.
	I thought he was in the UK, but it says US. Rosa Ross Turpin in Troy, Kansas.
	And last two, Gerald Inabene.
	Inabene?
	Inabene in Union, South Carolina.
	And Stephen McConnell in Cortland, Ohio.
	50%.
	Yes, well, I want to thank everybody who came in under $50, usually for reasons of anonymity, but we also have a lot of subscriptions.
	You know, if everyone who's donating, if you're donating, you know, about $50, please also consider a subscription.
	You can get them for $5.
	In fact, we have someone who's becoming a night.
	I think it's $4 a month or a week?
	I think it's $4 a week.
	$4 a week.
	Is it going to be a night pretty soon?
	Today.
	Is that today?
	Yeah.
	Is that Paul Graham?
	Yeah.
	Paul Graham, who wrote a long note.
	Where's his note?
	Well, his note's not there because it came in email and was sent to me.
	Can you read a little bit of it?
	Yeah, let me go find it.
	Why did I opt-talk on that?
	I'm not sure why I'm doing that.
	You can talk, you're good.
	Why am I opt-talking like that?
	I'm not logged into the email because of the earlier problems we had.
	Oh, okay.
	Well...
	But I can find him.
	I can find him.
	It only takes a second.
	You can say something.
	Something.
	You can play that ISO again.
	That's pretty good.
	That's a good idea.
	I think I will do that indeed.
	I will play your anthem.
	Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it.
	And then I'll have a won't on.
	Happy dance, happy dance.
	Get it, get it, get it.
	Have we gone stark raving nuts?
	So come on, champ.
	Show us how tough you are.
	Come on, champ.
	You got that email yet?
	I'm on it.
	I'm clicking on it.
	It's just not showing it.
	It's not bringing it up.
	Just give me a second.
	Okay.
	There it is.
	Okay.
	Hey, boys.
	Just noticed that my $4 weekly donation, dollar an hour plan, 75 cents actually, since June 9th, 2011, Has accumulated over a thousand in total donations.
	I've donated a few one-offs and $5 a month for about a year before that.
	But wanted to do a cheapskate knighthood based solely on the $4 a week just to prove it can be done.
	That's how long did it take him?
	All my donations were made under his name.
	It's a little verification thing.
	I would like to be knighted, Sir Lunch Money of the Boreal Valley.
	I will fill out the knight ring form when I can verify my current ring size.
	Thank you for your courage and I look forward to another 250 weeks of donations.
	That's fantastic.
	See, it works!
	Yeah.
	And just remember, this show doesn't run on any advertising.
	We are only produced with your information, with your kindness, and with your value for value.
	This is my vacation, by the way.
	Yeah, he's on vacation.
	I'm on vacation.
	We cannot do this show with advertising.
	People just don't want to accept it.
	I mean, we could do it.
	Then the show's no good.
	I mean, we make it kind of entertaining, but it's not going to have half the stuff we talk about.
	We just can't talk about this stuff.
	You know what happens?
	Every time I open my mouth, some sponsor will walk away and says, you've got to check your privilege, Curry.
	We can't be sponsoring you because of your cultural appropriation.
	There you go.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	In fact, I got one.
	Let me play this clip.
	I still have birthdays and nightings to do.
	You want to do the clip now?
	Just before the birthdays and night, I want to play this one.
	One birthday, one nighting.
	Miserable and lying.
	These networks.
	There's a whole thing.
	Now, you're going to roll your eyes when I say this.
	I hope so.
	The big news in the United States.
	The big news.
	Wait!
	I know what it is.
	The football player left the midget.
	The football player left the midget on the live show, live with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan.
	Very strange show anyway.
	She's like this little dynamic fireball.
	She's a former soap actress, is she not?
	Yes, she was a soap opera star.
	And Michael Strahan is a defensive end from a football team.
	He talks with a lisp.
	He's got a big gap-toothed smile.
	Seems like a nice enough guy, but I don't know how he got this job.
	He's got a great agent.
	He's always getting to work doing something.
	He's going to quit the show.
	It's going to happen in the future.
	Then it turns out, by the way, after you hear this little Ripa clip that I have, which has a punchline, He quits the show that day, quits his two weeks' notice, because apparently the two of them now can't get along together, of course.
	And they were the show.
	Their personalities together was the show.
	Yeah, so now they have to get somebody, a new guy, and who knows what they're going to get.
	But let's listen to her.
	She just comes back after walking off the show last week and staying out until they apologized to her for not telling her that Strahan was going to leave the show, and then she comes up with this bull crap that you have to listen to.
	Of course, her fans think it's fantastic, but what I hear is something different.
	The fire, though, over the course of a few days has been extraordinary in the sense that it started a much greater conversation about communication and consideration and most importantly, respect in the workplace. over the course of a few days has been extraordinary And since we're being honest, I don't consider this just a workplace.
	This is my second home.
	This is a place that I've devoted myself to, not just because of you, our loyal viewers, but because of all of the producers and the crew who work on this show.
	We have an incredible team.
	We are incredibly devoted to one another.
	We are family.
	Apologies have been made.
	And the best thing to come out of all of this, you guys, is that our parent company has assured me that live is a priority.
	Sierra Hotel.
	Sierra Mike Hotel is what I say.
	Man, this is our priority.
	Sure it is.
	Hello, unemployment.
	No.
	How do we get rid of this woman?
	Let's find a way to fire her.
	Oh, man.
	All she'll have to say is one thing.
	One thing, and the show's gone.
	This was the Regis and Kelly show.
	No.
	It was the Regis and...
	Yeah, because it was...
	No, what's her name?
	No, it was Kathy Lee.
	Kathy Lee.
	Yeah, Regis and Kathy Lee.
	I don't want to talk about it.
	You're right.
	It's stupid.
	It's...
	But the fact that she says that now, and she buys it.
	She buys into this.
	This is show business, darling.
	You're dead.
	You're over.
	You're gone.
	Gonna be done, yeah.
	Oh, my.
	But this is the kind of thing we'd be dealing with if we were doing anything but this show.
	Exactly.
	And then, you know, you, of course, would get offered the better gig on the Today Show, you know, with Savannah.
	And what do I get?
	And I gotta go hang out and do, like, the voice.
	I get to do the voice with Carson Daly.
	I would be very pissed off, too.
	Yeah, well, she's pissed off.
	Alright.
	So the point is, if you don't want us to be in that situation, quite honestly, I'd rather be poor.
	I won't do it.
	MTV's playing music again.
	I get the tweets.
	Hey, would you go back if they offered you a lot of money?
	It's like, no, I'm completely incompatible.
	No, that's not what I asked!
	No, no, I can't.
	I can't even do it.
	I couldn't even...
	The one thing we did for iTunes got so corporate and crazy.
	Just because one logo to promote the show.
	It took weeks.
	It was painful.
	No, I'm incompatible with this.
	Once the genie's out of the bottle, it can't get back in.
	How about you?
	Nah, you can do it.
	You know, you don't have that.
	You're easy.
	If someone throws money at you, you're good to go.
	I'm essentially a mercenary.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Devorah.org slash NPA. Karma for everybody.
	No matter what.
	You've got karma.
	Ha ha.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm so a champion.
	Now, we only have one birthday for today, but it does come from one of our knights, Sir Adrian Furneu.
	And he wrote me a note in dust.
	He said, Dear Adam, I'm translating on the fly, could you please say happy birthday to my very, very dear brother, Benjamin Fornoy?
	He will be turning 40 on the 29th, and as a very loyal No Agenda supporter, I would really appreciate it if you could say happy birthday to him right now.
	I'm broke!
	I got fired, but I'll be back soon with a donation.
	Don't worry about it.
	We're always happy to break for our night.
	Happy birthday to Benjamin Frenoy from Sir Adrian Frenoy and the entire staff and management of the best podcast in the universe!
	And then we have the lunch money knighting.
	Oh, a second.
	I brought this sword with me.
	Sounds a lot like the regular one, but it is a different one.
	The shorter one, it sounds like.
	Oh, is that yours?
	Okay, good.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, I can't.
	What'd you say, Joe?
	What'd you say?
	This is the same old one.
	I don't have a...
	Oh, it's okay.
	It's fine.
	We would like to have Paul Graham step up here on the podium, please.
	Careful, we're rocking back and forth a little bit.
	Here on the water, the Dutch Amsterdam canals.
	Paul Graham, we are very proud to welcome you to the table of the Knights and the Dames, and I hereby pronunciate the lunch money of the Boreal Valley.
	For you, of course, we have hookers and blow.
	We have red boys and chardonnay, if that's what you're into.
	We've got espresso and hemp milk, garlic and broccoli, fried breads and fembots.
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	And please remember, everybody, when you receive your rings, tweet them out to us.
	We love the pictures.
	And please support the program.
	It's value for value.
	I think we're giving you value.
	We're doing everything we can.
	And it's not easy.
	And it's not, I'm sorry?
	I said they should have heard the show and all the trouble you had to go through to get.
	And then now it turns out you were doing this over an Apple.
	I'm doing this over the iPhone.
	It's going to cost me...
	I don't think this can be the two and a half.
	Gee, I can't be streaming and having you on this connection.
	It's going to cost you.
	It's going to cost a fortune for what you're doing.
	I think it must be tapping into my...
	I had like...
	I think 20 gigs of high-speed data.
	I hope that's what it's tapping into.
	It doesn't matter.
	The show is the show.
	I don't care.
	One of those little devices that you have, the little portable...
	Recorder?
	No, that little bitty thing.
	It's like the Jetstream from Verizon.
	Oh, the MiFi.
	MiFi.
	Yeah, it's a little, you have the MiFi.
	And anyway, I got this.
	I had it in New York because I was always paranoid about not having a good connection to the hotel.
	And then I had a good connection.
	I never use it.
	But it came in so handy.
	Mimi uses it because every once in a while she'll lose her internet connection for even five minutes.
	God knows that's going to ruin her life because she's on Facebook.
	Oh no!
	She needs to get online.
	Now she's got the device.
	I have to say those are great little devices once you get them hooked up.
	Well, I have one.
	I use it when we're in the airstream of consciousness.
	I use it all the time.
	But you do not want to take Verizon data overseas.
	Uh-uh.
	Uh-uh.
	You go broke.
	It can't be done.
	They have no regular place.
	They have a CMA over there anyway.
	No, it works.
	It works here.
	They do have that.
	They do.
	I got a UK travel advisory people should pay attention to.
	A UK travel advisory.
	Let's have a listen.
	Britain's issued a formal travel warning to LGBT travelers leading to Mississippi and North Carolina following the passage of anti-LGBT laws in the two states.
	This comes as a handful of other U.S. states are considering similar legislation.
	There you go.
	Stay away.
	Where was everybody?
	Where was all the protests?
	Who's protested so far?
	Demi Lovato was protested.
	Who was the other?
	Was it Nickelback?
	They protested.
	Where were they when these states were turning down Medicaid and doing all horrible things?
	When the bathroom issue comes up.
	Bathrooms are important.
	Okay, I have a clip.
	I think that if you went back and looked somewhere in the book of knowledge, John, I think if you go back and you look to 2008, 2009, I think we had conversations.
	We said, if you want to win any kind of debate, any kind of election, you got to bring gay into it.
	And then slowly we got not just gay.
	That was your story, by the way.
	I signed on.
	Could you find, not today, obviously, but if you run across one of the older books, I mean, we were very clear, I think, about what specific instances.
	I'd like to know what we talked about.
	Because, you know, it seems like we...
	There's so much stuff in these books, I can't find anything.
	Really.
	I mean, I got an old one right in front of me.
	Well, you don't have to do that now.
	You don't have to do that now.
	Give me a couple of clues.
	I have the German airline strike because, of course, that's...
	Ah, I have the German airline strike.
	You want to just play mine?
	Yeah, we'll play yours.
	Labor unions in Germany are flexing their muscles again to the dismay of airline passengers.
	90,000 of them were stranded at airports on Wednesday as workers in safety control, ground services, or at check-in counters walked off their jobs out of contract negotiations.
	Germany's biggest services sector union is demanding a 6% pay rise.
	Today's action was only a warning strike, so there may be more to come.
	The strikes have hit the Munich and Frankfurt airports the hardest.
	Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa alone already cancelled nearly 900 flights with 87,000 passengers.
	The strikers want to see a 6% salary increase.
	Germany's largest workers union Verdi has already turned down an offer of a 3% wage hike paid out over two years.
	It says that's not even close to what they want.
	What they've offered us are wage reductions.
	Calculating the sum over two years, it wouldn't even cover inflation for 2016 and 2017.
	Real wage reductions aren't really called for in a situation where the state budget surplus has never been so high in the history of the republic.
	Yeah, never been so high.
	Uh...
	What I think is I'm seeing Germany fall apart.
	People are tired.
	They're tired of...
	They have some austerity issues as well.
	I think they're tired of these unions, man.
	The German unions, they're not to be messed with.
	And this is just trial.
	Yeah, they must look fondly upon the United States, which has nothing but a weak union system.
	Except for the Teamsters.
	Who knows?
	Yeah.
	Let's see.
	Yes, Austria.
	I'm just doing two little quick European nuggets here.
	The Austrian parliament has passed controversial new legislation restricting the right to asylum.
	It would allow the government to declare a state of emergency and clamp down on new claims.
	Some say the vote has a political aspect, coming just days after a far-right party won the first round of the country's presidential election.
	Others, though, think it's in response to a predicted surge of migrants through the Brenner Pass.
	Austria is reportedly considering building a fence here at the main border crossing with Italy.
	The Brenner Pass is the busiest route through the Alps.
	It's Italy's main transport link to Germany, its top trading partner.
	Controls will slow down traffic and could impact on trade.
	Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says the plans are against European rules, history, logic and the future.
	Tension has already fled at the alpine border.
	There were scuffles at the weekend when demonstrators tried to breach barriers put up by the security forces.
	I would recommend for our producers who are interested in this humanitarian crisis of this incredible magnitude, which is, you know, we're all used to hearing it now, but I still see and feel what's going on.
	Still in the media here, of course.
	The Brenner Pass, I suggest you look it up.
	The Brenner Pass has been really the important trade route ever since I lived in the Netherlands.
	There's songs about it.
	hmmm met de flam in de pijp scheur ik door de Brennerpas met mijn dertig tonnen diesel.
	Per van huis, marimassas.
	Jadel.
	A little update on refugees in Greece.
	Greek authorities are urging refugees to leave a makeshift Idomeni camp close to the border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and move to official reception centres elsewhere in the country.
	After weeks in the sprawling camp trapped by Balkan border closures, the migrants are facing the prospect of removal to processing centres and the possibility of deportation to Turkey.
	We go to Portugal.
	We'll stay here.
	Where can we go?
	If we go back, there's a bigger problem.
	Nobody should forget what's happened to us.
	All the people who've moved away say it's just the same, the same kind of life.
	They give you a portion of pasta and a piece of bread.
	Is that enough for a human being to survive on?
	Many cling to the hope that the borders will reopen and they will be allowed to continue their journey across Europe, primarily to Germany.
	Human rights groups say living conditions are appalling and the health risks are high.
	But the flyers make great paper planes.
	I just thought that was a nice little beautiful end to the human tragedy.
	Oh, but they make nice little airplanes out of the flyers.
	Man, and how about Austria?
	How about Austria?
	Hey, just no asylum.
	You can't get asylum.
	Go away.
	Yeah, they got these guards.
	Looks like the SS. Could we see history repeating?
	That Austria, like we gotta do something about Austria first?
	Because they're being a-holes?
	Yeah.
	Actually, that wasn't exactly what happened, but, you know, I'm just saying.
	No, it's not really.
	No, it's not at all what happened, because I saw the sound of music.
	I know what happened.
	You know what happened.
	You saw the sound of music.
	I know, yeah.
	You know, Colonel Van Troop didn't want to join with the Nazis.
	He was an Austrian, and yet the Germans said, you've got to be part of us, and then he said, let's go to Switzerland.
	The hills are alive.
	So, you remember we did a piece on the suicides that are going on in the United States.
	There's an increase in suicides.
	Yes, yes.
	And we concluded, we had a number of conclusions that were all reasonable.
	One is there was no research on SSRIs.
	That and a couple of other things.
	And so all of a sudden I hear Tom Hartman.
	And you love him because you listen to that station, which you can't get in Europe.
	I can.
	I have my SiriusXM app, but honestly, I have not hunkered for Tom for a couple days.
	It's hard to listen to this stuff.
	Yes.
	So, there's all these different reasons they think for the suicides.
	I think a lot of it has to do with social media, perhaps.
	There's all these different things.
	But what do you think Tom Hartman would think is causing this?
	Oh, I know.
	A lack of super beats.
	Yeah.
	Funny you say that, because other people are selling this stuff too.
	He sells the Super Beats.
	Does he?
	He sells Super Beats?
	Yes!
	The whole channel sells Super Beats.
	TomSuperBeats.com That's terrible.
	That jack-off in the morning, that woman said, Mama's Beats.
	They're all Mama's Beats and Uber.
	Oh my God.
	Anyway, let's play the Tom Hartman's an idiot clip and you'll see what is causing this.
	But I wanted to talk to you also about suicide.
	The U.S. suicide rate now is at a 30-year high.
	Well, where were we 30 years ago?
	We had another Republican in office.
	Another.
	We had a Republican in office.
	Bush did it.
	And this is the Sabrina Tavronisa in today's New York Times.
	Actually, it was Friday's New York Times.
	Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults.
	The rise was particularly steep for women.
	It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans.
	The overall suicide rate rose by 24% from 1999 to 2014.
	Now, we go back, I've shared this with you many, many times, to the BBC back in 2002.
	The headline, More Suicides Under Conservative Rule.
	Australian scientists found the suicide rate in a country increased significantly when a conservative government was in power.
	And, you know, again, we have Barack Obama in the White House, but the power, President Obama is in the White House, but the power of the House and Senate is where the power to appropriate is.
	In other words, to make life better for all.
	The president doesn't have that power.
	And the House and Senate are in the hands of conservatives, of Republicans.
	No, the reason people are killing themselves is they're listening to Tom Hartman.
	That's why people are committing suicide.
	Suicide statistics from 1901 to 1988.
	The researchers took into account periods of drought in World War II, but after adjusting for these factors, the figures clearly showed the highest rates of suicide occurred when both conservative state and federal governments were in power.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	So that's it.
	Republicans kill.
	Republicans.
	Republicans make you want to kill yourself.
	Play the rest of it, the part two, because he raps a little bit.
	There's a rap, but it's a ludicrous rap because of his conclusions about where this report came from, and they're playing him out.
	While he's rapping, that's kind of sad.
	The other story I wanted to open with today, I've got a whole bunch more that I want to share with you.
	Oh, gee.
	But, you know, again, this has to do with our culture, frankly.
	You know, another part of military, of a draft, as it were, is that it gets people out of their comfort zones and out of their normal areas and out into the world.
	I'm sorry, this is...
	Even if it's just, you know...
	Yeah, this is Thawm is an idiot, too?
	Huh.
	We'll play it out.
	Quite honestly, it says two, and there's a T after your two.
	You know, the way you write your clips sometimes.
	The world of the hospital.
	We can talk about it later.
	No, I don't want to talk about it.
	I may have misclipped it.
	Even if it's just, you know, the world of the hospital, you know, on the other side of town that you're volunteering at.
	Conversely, the lowest suicide rates occurred when state and federal governments were both labor.
	That would be our Democratic Party.
	They say they end the article over...
	Keep in mind, this is the BBC. This is a news story.
	This is not a commentary.
	Overall, they say the figures suggest that 35,000 people would not have died had the conservatives not been in power.
	Equivalent to one suicide for every day of the 20th century or two for every day that the conservatives ruled.
	Want to stop suicide?
	Abandon conservative governance.
	Okay, I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
	I think that was worth it.
	That was well worth it.
	Clip of the day.
	And everybody, you know the answer.
	You know what to do.
	You don't want to harm yourself.
	Just do the happy dance.
	Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it.
	And then I'll have a wonton.
	Happy dance, happy dance.
	Get it, get it, get it.
	All right.
	Beautiful.
	Well, that's what you get when you listen to this guy.
	I think your theory's right.
	He's causing the suicides.
	At least.
	All right, everybody, thank you very much for hanging in there on the stream.
	It was a tough one today, but on Sunday, we'll do it all over again from the same location with the same challenges, but at least I'll know how to set it up so we get some form.
	I know people are not able to catch the stream continuously.
	It's kind of coming in and out.
	But, hey, I'm sending 56 kilobits of stream.
	We've got Skype going.
	Doing what we can.
	Sounds good.
	You sound good.
	Doing the best we can.
	From the good ship SS Plop here, which is located on one of the lovely canals in the capital of Gitmo Nation, Lowlands, Amsterdam.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where, by the way, I think the paparazzi should be hanging out around you.
	And we have Plop City around here.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Did you call him?
	Did you give him the location?
	Did you give him the bank account?
	Nobody has contacted me, so I can do that deal and make some cash on the side.
	But these guys aren't that...
	I could...
	John at Dvorak.org.
	And we'll be back on Sunday.
	Yeah, John at Dvorak.org.
	I can set you guys up.
	Once again from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
	Until then, adios mofos in the morning.
	All right, are we ready?
	I can't help but think about Upton Sinclair, who said, "It's hard to get a man to believe something when his salary depends on his not believing it." That's your business too, Bill.
	I say you must believe this.
	Okay, he's got the Upton Sinclair quote wrong.
	It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
	Ah!
	He used the word, he substituted the word believe.
	So you must believe this.
	This is not a scientific anything.
	This is a belief system.
	And he actually proves it by using the word belief instead of understands.
	Shut up, slave!
	Science!
	So I predict that the year 2016 will be among the top 10 hottest years ever recorded.
	Oh, I'm not a scientist.
	I'm not a scientist either.
	Believe this.
	You believe in the wrong religion, my friend.
	Douche.
	Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron?
	Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry?
	So I can see where people are very concerned about this and are pursuing criminal investigations.
	So we'll see what happens.
	We'll see what happens.
	So what we want to do is have a fee for carbon.
	There it is.
	If you see something, say something.
	I have this group of young, you know, techno experts.
	I'm a techno expert.
	Techno experts.
	I'm on the techno expert team.
	I'm on the techno expert.
	I'm on the techno expert team.
	What are you doing?
	Because Trump and Carson, they sat together and said, I got a good one.
	Let's use code to call a Harry Tubman a hole.
	Yeah, good one.
	Good one.
	Good one.
	And that's exactly what Carson and I like.
	Two dollar hole.
	$2.00 home.
	Bye.
	And you can always follow me on Twitter.

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