And Sunday, May 8th, 2016, and time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 823.
This is no agenda.
Back in Gitmo Nation proper, bearing news and deconstruction from the old countries.
And broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, and FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm back from the grocery store, where I went there yesterday, I'm John C. DeVore.
Oh yeah, okay.
Sorry.
I'm sorry I have such a cool life.
And you don't, apparently.
I don't.
I'm back home in Tejas.
We had a reasonably good trip home, except for the flight from New York to Austin.
Oh, great hell!
So, Amsterdam to New York was fantastic.
You can't fly direct, obviously.
KLM, and KLM is so superior to Delta.
You know, you can fly direct from Oakland and San Francisco on various carriers.
Mm-hmm.
Why not Austin?
Oh, wait, and they just initiated a new direct flights to London from San Jose.
Now, we have a direct flight to London daily on Virgin.
I'm sorry, British Airways.
I was talking to the KLM, to the senior purser.
The senior purser?
Senior purser, yes.
You know, it's one of the, it's the flight attendant.
Yeah, I'm close to purses.
She is in charge.
Okay, ladies, purses in the air.
30 years.
Stealing those drinks, those little drink bottles.
We know what you're up there.
30 years she would work with KLM. And I say, well, what about these 10,000 jobs that are going to be lost?
She says, oh, the French are fucking everything up.
Says, sometimes when I do the announcement, I'm supposed to say KLM Air France.
Sometimes I just forget to say Air France.
That is the way to go.
That's giving it to him.
I thought that was pretty cool.
These 777s...
I'll be here on KLM Airlines and Air...
Yeah.
So we flew on the 777.
The 777-300.
I think it carries more people than the Dreamliner.
Oh, no, it does.
452 passengers.
Yeah.
The Dreamliner doesn't carry that.
It should carry more than that.
I don't think so.
It's a nice big plane.
It's a great plane.
Yeah, I've always liked it.
That's an older model, I think.
I think they're beyond 300 now.
Well, this has the new interior.
Oh, that was nice.
Anyway, when they first came out, the 777, I remember the first time I got on one, and they positioned the buttons for their...
Entertainment system, right?
If you put your hand at all anywhere on the arm breath.
Or your elbow.
You're changing channels.
That hasn't changed.
That still happens.
That's just idiotic.
So then we had a little layover in New York.
And I knew that we would have Wi-Fi on the plane coming back, because I was trying to prep everywhere at the same time, because we weren't going to be home until around 11 p.m.
So we're on the Delta flight, and we're up, and they just turned the Wi-Fi on, and then all of a sudden there's this two rows behind us.
This guy goes, Ah!
And I got headphones on.
I'm like, oh, what's going on?
You know, Tina woke up.
I don't know.
It sounds like some guy was pissed at his wife or something.
What happened was a guy had some kind of medical emergency, older guy.
You know, older, like, he looked like he was late 60s, maybe.
And it was heart-related, I guess.
And so it was a lot of, you know, walking with back and forth with the oxygen.
And then, of course, he got puking everywhere.
Oh, jeez!
Poor stewardesses.
I mean, flight attendants.
That's when you really know, like, I'm glad that I'm bored, man.
Just deal with all that shit.
Then we had to wait.
Did you have to do emergency landing anywhere?
Well, let me tell you.
So I immediately went online to see if we were squawking 7,700.
Because the last thing I wanted to do was for us to make an emergency landing in Dallas.
I mean, okay, for the guy, sure.
But for us, no.
So I guess they determined it wasn't that bad, although they did have EMS come on board to take them off.
They all had to wait.
Oh, this was...
What?
This was at the airport before you took off?
No, no, when we landed.
So we did land in Austin.
Yeah, we did land in Austin.
I didn't need that.
We had a great trip.
Just puking, smell, and screaming and moaning.
I felt bad for the guy, but holy moly.
Throw him in the back.
They should have a little unit in the back that can do the isolation.
I mean, the first thing I was doing was like, It's Zika!
It's Zika, everybody!
I didn't really, but I thought about it.
Yeah, you're not the type.
And then we arrive in Austin to very, very bad news, John.
Very, very bad news!
And that bad news was what?
The final numbers have just come into the newsroom.
We want to give you a look.
And these are the total final numbers.
And the Prop 1 losing pretty quickly.
Wait, stop.
Yeah?
Final numbers.
These aren't just the final numbers.
These are the total final numbers.
Total final numbers.
Wait, wait.
Stop, stop.
These aren't the final numbers.
These aren't the total final numbers.
These are the last total final numbers.
The last ones that could be totaled.
We had a referendum, a ballot I call it a referendum, we had a ballot here in Austin for Prop 1, which was the only prop being propped, and despite Uber and Lyft collecting almost 70,000 signatures, only 44% of the vote, which was about, I don't know, 35,000, Yeah, we want Uber and Lyft to stay without all the restrictions from the city of Austin.
So the city, essentially the city, won.
And I'll get into just a bit of detail what the problem is with it.
And Uber and Lyft have both said, well, they said up until this report, they said, well, as of Monday, 8 a.m., we're not going to serve Austin anymore.
And we're just going to stop all services.
Convincingly, 56 to 44 percent.
Okay, since Kyla McGivern has been following the fellow in Pauline, joining us live from Schultz Garden.
Now listen to this.
How both sides are reacting.
Well, you can hear the excitement behind me.
This is a group of people who, as you can imagine, were against Prop 1.
A lot of celebration tonight.
People coming in.
So against Prop 1 means they wanted the city of Austin to regulate Uber and Lyft very similarly to other transportation companies like taxi cabs.
And here are all these people hooting and hollering, yeah!
Hey!
Wow!
We did it!
Wow!
We fucked the man!
The big company's evil, evil!
The screaming, the chanting, but of course there's a lot of questions now about what this means and what Uber and Lyft have to say.
So here's what we know.
Uber just...
Listen to these people.
What?
We released a statement.
This is from the general manager of Uber Austin.
And he said in part, disappointment does not begin to describe how we feel about shutting down operations in Austin.
We hope City Council will reconsider their ordinance so we can work together to make the streets of Austin a safer place for everyone.
And now we also wanted to talk about what Lyft had to say.
We reached out to them As the votes were coming in, and they recently told us, quote, Unfortunately, the rules passed by City Council don't allow true ride-sharing to operate.
Instead, they make it harder for part-time drivers.
Because of this, we will pause operations in Austin on Monday, May 9th.
Now, we do want to mention that Lyft said on Thursday that it would cease operations on Monday, and now they are saying pause operations.
Alright, so there's a little difference.
C pauses the same thing.
Well, Uber is saying we're out, and Lyft says we're suspending our presidential campaign.
A quick analysis of this, these two sides.
Of course, what's really going on in Austin is we have this overprotective nature, as we've seen with a lot of We've retarded America in general, because we are retarding in our intelligence and in what we think, being safe.
Can I jump in?
Sure.
I would, just if you were just told, I didn't even know this was going on.
I don't think anybody else did either.
We've talked about it on the show, but case in point.
Case in point, right.
Yeah.
Are you telling me that you have this kind of modern, liberal state, Austin?
Yeah.
By state, I mean an area that's got its own kind of way of doing things.
That's kind of new, happening, progressive.
They're progressive.
Not only that, John, we are the testing bed for the sharing economy for the depression jobs, which includes Favor and Uber and Airbnb.
Everything runs through Austin.
We're the first ones.
We have Google Fiber.
Silicon, what did they call it the other day?
Silicon Prairie.
Silicon Prairie is what they're calling us now.
And you're telling me that when given the chance to use the services that are cheap...
Hello?
Oh, cabbie.
Yeah.
They voted no?
This is what I did.
Just stop.
This reminds me of the California first initiative to legalize marijuana back in the day.
It was, I don't know, about three or four years ago.
Before anybody, before anyone legalized it, like Colorado, Washington, the rest of these, Oregon.
California made a big deal.
They pushed this thing through, and then the state of California...
And I'm pretty much a Californian, and all I've been hearing all my life is bitching and moaning about legalizing drugs, legalizing marijuana in particular.
They voted no.
Yeah, I remember this.
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, this is a woman named Ann Kitchens, I think.
Kitchens or Kitchens?
Yeah, Kitchens.
And she really spearheaded this.
Now, here's what they've asked for.
First of all, it's the more thorough background checks that the city would do with, you know, like deep, deep, you know, the same guys who, I guess, vet all of our intelligence people in government.
I don't think that's just a red herring.
That's what it's come down to.
Oh, it's about fingerprinting and background checks.
Well, no.
Actually, I'll get to the sticker in a second.
But they want to be able to say, because I read all of this last night, just reviewed, because the proposal has changed a couple times.
So you won't be able to just pick people up.
You have to stop in designated places, which is similar to cab legislation.
So we're so afraid of traffic.
The second one is, well, there's a lot of things that these companies already do about displaying, you know, fares, etc.
However, the city specifically says surge pricing.
The city at any point can say, hey, because of weather or any other event or an emergency, they can tell these companies no surge pricing.
You have to go for the regular fare.
Where most egregious, which is barely talked about, is the 1% of all revenue that the city of Austin wants.
Gross revenue from Uber for every ride on an annual basis in the city.
That, of course, is the real problem.
Because you start with 1%, and then it's 2%, and then it's 5%, and who knows where it goes.
But now the noise I'm hearing...
The gouging thing.
Yeah, what I'm hearing now from around town is that, oh, well, we really hope that now they'll come to the negotiating table.
This is your negotiating tactic.
Okay, fine.
But the part that's really messed up is who was spearheading this effort against the...
They call them transportation network companies, I think.
Because I want to classify them.
And it's this outfit that is all about the...
Hold on.
About...
Hold on.
I just got to find the actual page.
About B Corporations.
Have you heard about B Corporations?
Do you know what this is?
B? B as in Bravo.
B Corporations?
No.
Okay.
So there's this organization called Thumbs Up.
And I believe that they originated in Austin, and they are the ones that got funding to go out and fight Uber.
They want to create a non-profit corporation, a B corporation, with a non-profit component.
And, you know, it looks like, oh, this is what Ben& Jerry does, they're B Corporations, and I'm like, what the fuck is a B Corporation?
What is going on with this?
If they got a grant from the city of Austin to create this certification called Thumbs Up, and every car that has gone through the background check, they have to have a Thumbs Up sticker, if not, then they're in violation, $500 a pop.
Oh my god, there's no sticker!
500 bucks!
But I was looking into this B Corporation, and they tout a lot of corporations, like Etsy, and as I said, Ben& Jerry, and like, okay, B Corporation.
So they want to be a B Corporation, they've received funding, and they now want Uber and Lyft to be B Corporations as well.
And I said, let's investigate.
And I came across a little video with an explanation of what a B Corporation is.
We have a dream that one day all companies will compete not only to be the best in the world, but the best for the world.
Others share this dream and have begun to turn the dream into a community.
This community signed a Declaration of Interdependence.
Are you puking in your mouth yet, or how are you doing listening to this?
I'm aghast.
Continue.
And invited others to join them.
All that's missing is a little whiteboard action in this video, but unfortunately they didn't do that.
Now more than 900 companies from 29 countries are turning our community into a global movement to redefine success in business.
It goes on and on.
The idea is that nothing changes.
You have to just run through a set of qualifications to become certified, and the certification fee is a percentage of your revenue.
Which can be up to $50,000 for a corporation to get this coveted B Corp seal of approval.
What?
Which might as well just be the social justice warrior seal of approval.
Because this is what it's about.
Oh, we have to have background checks because women are getting raped on Uber.
Oh, we have to have background checks because there was a guy on drugs.
A couple.
A couple.
Yeah.
Sure.
There's been more than a couple women raped in general.
Yeah, of course.
But I'm just saying that what has happened in Austin is really sad.
It's really, really sad.
Because we have to be overly protected.
And to a degree, like, I agree.
That's okay.
I want my safe space.
Stop talking about this.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly the problem.
Stop talking about this.
You're talking about it.
I want my safe space.
I didn't come to do this show so I could be intimidated.
Yeah, that's the point.
Exactly.
It's disturbing.
That's pretty funny.
I like that.
So now I don't know what we're going to do.
I don't know what to do now.
Yeah, you're screwed.
I love the Ubers.
Now, of course, I'll be the first to agree that Uber...
I don't know about Lyft because I haven't tried Lyft, but Uber...
Yeah, I mean, the ride-sharing component, you know, I won't take those cars.
I won't take the bottom of the Uber pool.
No!
So it's pretty much a car service that just works much, much better.
And the guys who would drive those car services, who are kind of the guys in the car service level of Uber, they have all their ducks in a row.
You know, they got the proper insurance.
They have livery licenses.
They're just using it as a booking mechanism.
Yep.
And that part is, I think that's really the successful part.
I don't know about the ride-sharing, but A city like Austin, we're one of the top cities of drunk people, just drunks.
We're a drunk city.
Figures.
Party school drunk city.
You look at DUIs and other infractions, they have gone down significantly in Austin.
I think there's a public safety situation there, you're talking about, that's being ruined by these people.
Yes.
They just want people to be drunk and killing each other.
They're a bunch of ogres.
They want money.
They want money from these companies.
That's what they want.
Just money.
Money, money, money, money, money.
Anyway, back from the...
Stop a second, since we're on this topic.
If it's genuine ride-sharing as it was initially...
Originally intended, sure.
Which is my take on it was hitchhiking.
We had this 40 years ago during the cycle in the 70s.
Everybody's hitchhiking.
I had one friend that hitchhiked from coast to coast.
He could afford to take a plane, but he just did it.
And do you remember in the 70s when girls would be wearing hot pants with a backpack and they were hitchhiking?
Of course I remember that.
There was a lot of hot pants all over the place.
But you don't see that anymore.
People are afraid to do that.
Yeah.
And so ride sharing to me technically was what it says.
Ride sharing.
I'm sharing a ride with somebody.
Is that illegal?
I'm living in Austin.
You're living in Austin.
You say, let's go to the football game over there at Texas Stadium.
I'll pick you up.
Is that illegal?
Is it illegal for me to pick you up?
I mean, this was the original.
That was the original premise.
Yeah, the original premise.
Exactly.
That's the original premise.
Still, as far as I'm concerned, still exists.
Why can't they just say, I'm just ridesharing as a friend of mine?
Yeah.
That's the way it started.
Yeah, that's the way it started.
Well, I think that I've always said The true solution, this is just an interim step, the true solution is a cooperative organization where everybody, you know, there's a platform and there's an app and there's a small staff running that who create it and there's money paid to the maintenance of the platform and then you pay for the transaction fee and then the system just kind of works.
Everyone's a part of it.
I think that...
Then you can make that argument.
The problem is, these people see Uber valued at $40 billion, whatever bullcrap number it is, and think, alright, we want a piece of that, because we're losing revenue, because the cab companies are going, I think I actually saw them say that during one of those town hall meetings.
So, anyway.
To me, the travesty is just, it's all about, forget the money for a moment, just like, oh, we have to be as safe as possible.
But they want to do this with everything, so now they're going to have to go to the favor kids, which is basically me hiring someone else's millennial to go get me food, which I think is a great service.
And they make money.
Every single kid I've talked to here who's in college say, yeah, I ran five favors yesterday, and I got a little money.
But now they're going to have to be vetted and fingerprinted.
They're going to have to become little B-millennials.
So they're all, you know...
With the okay thumbs up sign sticker on their forehead.
I got a thumbs up on my car.
No, they walk or they ride the plates.
They should bootleg the thumbs up things.
Just bootleg them.
Hell with them.
It's already a ripoff of the Facebook like thumb.
I'm amazed they haven't been sued over it, quite honestly.
They should get sued.
Yeah.
So.
But forget that, John.
Being in Paris, completely different experience from the Netherlands, and I learned a lot about tensions, about what people are thinking.
A lot of that has to do, of course, because no one knows me.
I learned a lot in this week, and I'm excited to share it.
Well, we've been sitting here waiting.
But you insisted on talking about local issues.
So sorry about that.
First of all, you know, we brought the Amazon Echo.
Man, that is an interesting experience.
It really is.
Having, you know, your stuff.
Like bringing a parrot on a vacation.
No, it's a little bit of home, you know, because you can say, hey, play my so-and-so playlist or my, you know, my Pandora radio station.
And, you know, it's portable almost.
You can walk it around a little bit and put it.
It plugs in.
It's not hard to configure for a different Wi-Fi.
It's cool, I have to say.
It's a very interesting experience for a trip.
And I think that small one, the portable one they have, would be dynamite.
Really dynamite.
They have a small one?
Yeah, it's called...
Boy, this is a big one that doesn't sound bad enough.
Yes, Adam, we will play your playlist.
First song by the Rolling Stones.
Are you saying that it doesn't sound good?
I can't.
You can't?
I'm sorry, I'm missing...
It's too small.
There's no way it can push enough air.
It's compared to USB or Bluetooth-based speakers, travel speakers.
It's okay.
It's okay.
You're right.
Compared to taking two wires and sticking them in a dog turd is much better sounding.
Okay, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
Are you going to be like this for the next two hours?
No, no.
You know how much I'm against this Amazon thing.
I know.
I wrote a whole column bitching about this thing.
Well, then let me blow your mind right now.
Before this trip, without telling anyone, I acquired, for research purposes, an Apple Watch.
Stop.
I want my safe space.
I figured we had bitched about it enough that I needed to see if it's any good or not.
I like the way you're rationalizing this.
This is great.
It's the truth.
It's the truth.
Would you like my report or should we leave that for later?
Why don't we do that later?
We'll do a little tech news segment on it.
Yes, I have some tech news too.
I was going to go back to Paris.
I was going back to Paris.
No, I thought you never finished up on your story with the Amazon thing.
It's great.
I love it.
It's fantastic.
It's great on the road.
Better than I ever dreamed.
I've lost you.
Yes.
Yeah, you've lost me.
I'm sure you've lost me.
You're gone.
Yeah.
Yeah, but you know what?
At least I'm trying these things out.
I'm trying new things, John.
I'm open to your experience.
We need to see others.
We can have an open podcast relationship, surely.
In fact, we do.
You're always with that hussy, Horowitz.
She's just a friend.
Friend zone.
I can't have friends.
I gotta move on.
I gotta move on.
Okay.
First of all, some real things that are very, very noticeable in Paris.
Now, I was surprised how much French I actually knew.
Of course, it was mandatory French growing up in the Netherlands, and I took it all the way through high school.
And as the days progressed, I'm like, wow, I can actually kind of hold up a conversation if they don't talk too fast.
I watch television.
It's almost impossible.
But, you know, if I said, you know, parlez lentement, s'il vous plaît, and then, you know, just slow it down a bit, and then I could get...
But they also...
Every single French person we spoke to was kind, immediately, you know, no arrogance towards us.
Like, hey, you know, I can also speak English, but I love how you're trying your French.
You know, glad to have you here.
It's fantastic.
Bottom line.
Very surprising.
What?
What?
Bottom line, they're losing money.
They've got to turn it around.
So the most information, I got the most information from Uber drivers.
That's always been a thing of yours.
Yes, it has been.
Now, I think we took in total five Ubers.
Four of the drivers were Moroccans, and one was a born and bred Frenchman.
And the Moroccans, they were all like, they were definitely saying, hey, you know, it's been really strange here, but it feels like people are coming together and everything's okay.
But what we're really worried about here in Paris is World War III, which will be started by Donald Trump if he becomes president.
So now, imagine trying to hit someone in the mouth in French.
Okay?
But I did it.
And this one guy, he was like, I see it on the news.
Trump, of course, he said, I'm a Muslim.
He hates all Muslims.
He wants to start a third world war.
The guy is insane.
I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, man.
I said, you know, this is propaganda.
This is little sound bites, which sound bites is a tough one to translate into French.
But what I liked is after this trip, you know, maybe 15 minutes, he said, hey, you know, thank you.
You really changed my perspective.
I'm going to pay a little bit more attention now because you may be right.
They've done that stuff to Le Pen as well.
And, you know, I've seen this.
So are you thinking they really do that about Donald Trump?
Yes, of course they do.
It's an establishment versus him.
So it was nice.
Now, the French guy...
He definitely wants Hillary Clinton.
Trump is a maniac, can't have this guy.
But then he talked about, as we moved into talking about immigrant migration, and particularly the Bataclan and the Charlie Hebdo attacks, He said, well, you know, this was really bad, but what's happening now is for the first time in 30 years, the tolerance index is going up in France.
And I'd never heard of this, but there is indeed a government study, which you can take it for what it's worth.
And tolerance index means tolerance for foreigners, but also internally for different religions, etc.
And he was very bullish that this had actually pulled everybody together.
We went to this one area, the Malene, I think it is.
It's kind of like the gay area.
They have a lot of male clothing stores, a whole street.
You know which one I'm talking about?
No.
It's not far from the Place de République where they have the demonstrations, where we also went to see some of the protests.
And the whole statue in the middle there, it's kind of like the Revolutionary Memorial, I think, for 1814?
Is that it?
It could be, yeah.
There's some statue.
And it's just, you know, it's almost like the dam in the 60s and 70s.
The hippies kind of, you know, well, today's version of hippies sitting around smoking dope, which also doesn't seem to be a problem in Paris in that case.
And this is very near where Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan are.
And so we went down the long row of male clothing stores, which, John, unbelievable.
You've got to go here.
I bought a suit.
Adam Curry in a suit.
Can you believe it?
I bought a suit for like $350, which anything that fits me in general is going to be $6 or $7.
You're distorted.
Well...
Yeah, I have body dysmorphia.
Body dysmorphia, that's exactly it.
But apparently I have a French physique, so these things fit me, and they have this new, this space-age material where you can, he said, here, take the pants, and he screwed them up into, you know, like a corkscrew, and let it go, and there's not a wrinkle!
I'm investigating.
Very, very close.
I bought that, so I'll shoot you a picture.
Yeah, now that you mention it on the show, it's a tax write-off.
Good for you.
Yeah, that's why I did it.
I know what you're doing.
But I was talking to the sales guy, Joseph, and I said, you know, what do you think this was?
Who were these people?
Where did he come from?
He said, it's unbelievable.
This is right here in this neighborhood.
We went to school with them.
We went dancing with them.
We were in blue jeans.
We grew up together, and all of a sudden, they flipped, and then this happened, which was not what I expected to hear.
I was kind of ready to hear, you know, where did they come from?
Outsiders.
And I said, we grew up with these people who did this.
So that is, you know.
Yeah, it's disturbing.
It is disturbing.
Now, a couple other things.
The beggars and homeless people.
Now, the homeless situation in Paris is interesting because they seem to be pretty well off.
And they're not bothered where they're sleeping in doorways, but with little tents and little Bunsen burners and mattresses.
And they don't really just look like they're temporarily experiencing homelessness.
Not that they're just really homeless.
You know what I mean?
I'm sure you've seen this in Paris.
Not really, not to any extent.
I haven't been there for about five years, so I think this is more recent.
Okay.
And maybe they're chemists.
Yeah, better living through chemistry.
Now there's about five people out there that will get that joke.
Let me go on, continue.
You won't get it either.
No, I was trying to think.
I'll tell it to you later.
Go on.
When it comes to beggars, there's a continuing theme, which is Muslim women, they plant themselves in the middle of the sidewalk with their head bowed down with a cup, and they just kneel there for hours.
Yeah.
It's really bizarre.
Yeah, I've seen that sort of thing throughout Europe.
And they don't get a lot of donations.
Well, they don't do a very good job.
Just standing there with a cub doing nothing doesn't really cut it.
We went to the Luxembourg Gardens.
Which, I guess it was a palace that was built at one point there.
And they had one of those, the true original crepe Suzette stands.
Oh, nice.
Oh, my God.
I didn't know that they, so at first they create the big pancake, the big crepe, and then you flip it over, but then they put the lemon on and the sugar, and then they fold it, and you get it in like a little folded piece of paper, and you just kind of tear pieces off.
I thought they only rolled it up, but that seems to be the way to do it.
I think foaling has always been the way to do it.
I didn't know that.
That was dynamite.
Now, in every single park we walk through, and Paris has just park after park after park.
It's really beautiful.
You see people sitting around.
They'll be eating, talking, reading a book, writing, drawing.
Total absence of cell phones.
Very, very noticeable.
Kids, same thing.
Students, high school kids, of course, some of them are on their phone, but really, I would say it was 90% were just hanging out and just talking and eating.
No phones.
Not even one in the group.
That's actually phenomenal.
It was so noticeable and so refreshing.
That's the only reason you noticed it, because it was so noticeable.
Yes, and refreshing.
Like, wow, okay.
And I think it might have something to do with...
If you look at the culture of online, France was online very, very early with the Minitel system.
Remember that, Minitel?
Oh, yeah.
We had one at InfoWorld.
Yeah, and it was like a terminal.
I used one in the Netherlands.
They tried to make it happen in the Netherlands, but they eventually just went to Teletext.
They still have that text sent along with the television signal.
But Minitel, the Parisians or the French were using that for decades before.
Yeah, they were using it.
It also turned into a texting system.
Yeah, exactly.
The end of its lifetime turned into a massive methodology for hookers.
Yeah, I remember that!
Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
It was huge for them.
And then most, besides that being noticeable, Paris, even with the conversion of euro to dollar, Paris is cheaper than Austin, Texas.
I wonder if it was that way before the Hebdo.
It may have.
I don't know what's going on in Austin, but I see...
I'm just looking at rent.
Austin's just being jacked up for no apparent reason is what you're thinking.
There's no reason, by the way, for Paris to be cheaper than Austin, Texas.
No, thank you.
Let's start with that premise.
And when you look at what you get for the money, if you're looking at one bedroom for 1,500 euros, which is kind of on par with what you'd pay in Austin.
I mean, you've got a view of the Eiffel Tower.
It's all new.
It's maybe an older building, but they have new windows and new kitchens and new floors.
Yeah, they fix them up.
Yeah, beautiful.
What's going on?
Yeah, just food, everything seemed...
Since your French is passable, it would probably improve quickly, and it's cheaper.
I think you should move to Paris.
Well, it's a consideration for a while.
I certainly learned a lot more than being in Amsterdam.
The French are very open about talking about how they feel and what's going on, and much more politically aware.
Even if it's, you know, misconstrued, or in my opinion...
They're brainwashed.
We don't have any patents on that.
Enjoyable.
Really enjoyable.
I had a good laugh with everybody about our, you know, hey, I don't want your freedom fries.
You can laugh with the French.
They like it.
Especially if you're self-deprecating, they fucking love you.
Yeah, I've never found it difficult to get along with the French.
Mainly because I have a lot of respect for their culture.
It's not dissimilar to ours or what it used to be.
You know, really nationalistic.
Of course, we were there on the 5th of May, which is Ascension Day.
And they have the 8th, which is today, is Liberation Day.
Or what do they call it?
I don't know if they call it Liberation Day.
It's a big party, and they've got parades.
And just looking at all of their...
It's like Washington, D.C. with all their monuments and monuments to war.
I mean, the Ark to Trump is unbelievable.
That thing is so huge.
The Ark to Trump.
That's what I call it.
The Ark to Trump.
Huge that thing is.
Yes, it's a pleasant sight.
And it's a war memorial.
And there's an unknown soldier.
There's a lot of things I'd either forgotten or didn't know.
It was going to be a giant elephant.
No.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah, balancing a ball.
No.
Yeah.
Tell me about it.
If you look into the history of the Arc de Triomphe, when they first came up with it, the idea, it was going to be something with a big giant elephant, like a circus elephant with a big ball he's holding up or it's on his back or on his trunk.
Really?
No, look it up.
Yeah.
Seems like a mistake.
Seems like a mistake.
Well, while you...
I'm going to continue talking about this stuff.
So you had some good food, I take it.
Yeah, we had some dynamite food.
Did you get...
One of the things I was hoping you would do, because I haven't been there, like I said, for a few years, is tell me what this modern French is.
Did you get a clue?
Well, the modern French is the ones that you had listed in the document you sent us.
Thank you again.
Impossible to get into.
Book for all of them.
Book for weeks.
All the modern French places were sold out.
It was in the second quarter or something, so you could go up there.
I told you when I sent one, I said, book now.
I tried.
They said, no, you have to call a couple days before because we have nothing.
The other one I called and I got their office.
It was the secret number to call.
Of course, we had an anniversary dinner at one of the restaurants you recommended, which was outstanding.
That was the celebrity chef restaurant.
I really, really, really enjoyed that.
They had just the chef free hors d'oeuvres.
It was crazy.
I don't even remember what it was.
They got to give you a lot of free food.
It was like a little homemade square marshmallow with some goose stuff on it.
I don't know.
It was just like explosions in my mouth of taste.
But we also went to a place like, you know, Le Grand Palais, and I had Duck Confit, which is one of their specialties, and, you know, very, very good.
But when you say the modern French, maybe we had it and didn't know that it was called.
I'm sure there was an element of it in that.
It must have been.
But what do you consider to be the modern French?
I don't know.
This is like a trend I just started to spot, and now it's like these places are bad.
What are they doing differently?
I have no idea.
I haven't been able to figure it out, and I don't know anyone doing it here that I know of.
So I'm completely befuddled by this.
It could be presentation is different.
I mean, now that...
I don't think so.
Now there's a...
I have to...
Somebody listens to this show and probably been to Paris recently and went to some of those places.
I mean, the only thing going on in this country, for example, is now apparently...
And I have a clip.
Oh, here we go.
The blizzard from Dairy Queen is now filled with fudge.
And here's what they have to say.
I actually fill the blizzard with fudge.
Science!
Really?
I hear that one again.
I actually fill the blizzard with fudge.
Science!
Science!
Alright.
Evergreen.
Nice.
Oh, you just cut out, John.
The ISO of science.
Oh, you just cut out.
Oh, I have the ISO of science if that one doesn't work.
Science!
Oh, nice.
That's another good one.
I can keep both of them.
Perfect.
I don't understand why there's like mocking.
There's some mocking going on in the culture of science.
Oh, but it's all part of the, you know, science is a new religion.
It's like the website, I effing love science.
You know, you can use science in the following sentence.
You're an a-hole because science!
That's the kind of stuff.
So it's replacing fact.
Yes, it's replacing fact.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And it's highly annoying.
You think?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
All right, so let's go back to the...
Okay, so you had the miserable flight.
You had the Paris experience.
Did you go outside of town?
Did you do anything?
No, we went to...
I think we talked about that before.
You went to Dorsey.
Dorsey, which was fantastic.
And we did a lot of things.
A lot of walking.
It was just, you know, nice.
It was beautiful weather.
And, of course, you know, we did the anniversary love lock on the bridge.
Yeah.
Which apparently the French don't like.
Oh, really?
Yeah, they're mad about tour operators who are saying, oh, come to Paris, and they give you the lock and everything, and they drive you to the bridge.
Because, you know, these shitty tourists are defacing our bridges.
Oh, yeah, I can see that.
But it's happening everywhere, and it's really not a Paris thing.
This started years ago, not in Paris.
You know, it's only been the last couple of years that...
The parents prefer their own traditions.
Which is what?
We should have done it.
You're throwing your girlfriend off the Eiffel Tower.
Oh, and we got...
When we were back, we went back via Schippel.
Just stayed overnight there and then hopped on the plane.
So we took the train back to the airport.
Is the Wi-Fi still working?
It sure is, yeah.
The No Agenda special Wi-Fi.
If you're ever at Schiphol Airport, just shoot me an email.
I'll give you the login details.
Oh, fantastic.
I love that.
Went and walked past the newsstand.
We hit the trifecta.
A hat trick.
All three gossip rags in a row.
You and...
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You want to hear a little bit of the headlines?
Yeah.
Send me the covers and photos of the good news.
I'm sure you took them home.
Send me the photo covers and so I'll put them in the next newsletter.
Where'd you go?
Put them in my show prep pile.
Hold on.
Okay.
Send me pictures of this.
I did, I did, I did.
I sent you pictures.
You didn't use them.
Oh, okay.
Well, I'll go get them.
I think we had mentioned the first one, right?
And this is really fun because now you can see how gossip works from the inside.
You didn't see the pictures of me storming the guy with the umbrella like I was going to hit him?
Maybe you didn't.
You know, I saw the pictures that the guy sent you of them, because apparently you guys shared the pictures.
Oh yeah, he sent them to me right away.
He said, oh look, they're all good, not a single bad one.
That's not true.
I thought you were unattractive in one of those pictures.
Oh, but no.
Tina was good looking in all the pictures.
Oh, they don't care what you look like.
No, of course not.
So you saw this like Adam Curry in love with lookalike Patricia Pye.
Yes, I saw them.
In fact, you sent me a link to the TV show.
Yeah, so did you see it with the VPN? Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I went to my VPN, pointed it in Holland.
I came through and it played the thing.
Even though I couldn't understand the Dutch totally, it's nothing like the idea.
You can figure it out.
Lookalike, lookalike, lookalike.
Which was an angle I hadn't expected.
So they found a picture.
I thought it was a very good angle.
They don't look alike.
A, they're both blonde.
No, they're both blonde and I have a picture of them both wearing sunglasses looking in the same direction.
Yes.
That's a lookalike.
But here's what Patricia did.
So when confronted, because of course she gave them a quote, when confronted with...
With the obvious look-alike nature of Tina.
Yes, I saw...
Now, this I did see.
I thought it was rich.
Patricia said, well, I'm happy to see Adam has...
His good taste is back.
Yes.
Very good.
She is an expert.
However, then we got...
The next magazine, and this was some other guy who was, I guess he was hiding behind the other guy.
And the headline on the cover is, Adam in love in Amsterdam!
Is Tina making him happy?
Question mark!
We don't know.
We have to go into the article to find out.
And then, well, when you read this...
The thing is, they pretty much just took tweets and Instagrams and just copied it like they did an interview with Tina almost.
It was pretty funny.
But they keep calling me a radio presenter.
Which I think is kind of good.
I think it is just a notch, just a notch above podcaster.
So I'm looking a little better.
The way the publicity has been going over the last, since the New York Times article and a bunch of other stuff, I think it's a notch below.
Well, that, you know, thanks.
So that one is on the inside.
Okay, if anyone has had a very troubled love life, it's Adam Curry.
Is that what it says?
Yeah, now it seems that the tide has turned for him.
The 51-year-old ex-husband of Patricia Pye and Mickey Huggendyke.
Appears to have found his luck and his happiness with the American Tina Snyder.
That the love doves are still in love after a year is very apparent looking at these exclusive pictures.
Now, the cool one was the last one for the trifecta.
What did Tina think of this?
She thought it was surreal.
Completely surreal.
Particularly the last one.
So I guess the third magazine.
They're like, we can't take the same angle.
Let's change it.
Headline.
Front page.
That's the way it works.
That's the way it works.
Patricia begs X for money, but Adam says no!
What?
Yeah.
Let me go to the inside here.
Patricia financially at ground level Patricia begs her...
The ground level means broke.
Broke.
Yeah, on the ground means you're all the way on the ground.
Patricia Pye begs her ex-husband for money.
Adam just...
The direct translation is let me choke, which is la mistica, but it means just ignoring me or just letting me...
Poor pound sand.
Pound sand, right.
Adam's letting me choke!
I'm a real a-hole.
Let me tell you that.
I'm a douche.
So that third magazine doesn't like you?
No, they just want to sell magazines.
I don't know if they like me or not.
But, you know, it was Patricia's words.
So I took a picture of her and I said, really?
Question mark?
She said, no, you know, that's some other guy.
And, you know, he was really mad.
Because it's true, she did ask me.
And it's true.
I said, no.
I'll help you any way I can, but we divorced six years ago.
Come on.
But I'm an a-hole.
You are.
Yeah, I guess.
You should have given that woman everything you owned.
Alright, well, never mind.
But it was interesting to see that that still works.
It's astonishing to me.
I haven't been in Holland for a while.
Almost like being on a blacklist, only the opposite.
Once you're on it, you can't get off it.
No, there's no way.
So when you're 90...
You could be hobbling around Amsterdam, and of course somebody says to me, yeah, he went there just to meet the family.
Sure he did.
You'll be 90 hobbling around, and there will still be Papa Rossi taking pictures of you.
Yeah, and they'll be 90 as well.
That'd be funny.
Hey!
Hey, 90-year-old man!
You're Adam Curry!
Oh!
Let me get your picture and you'll be on the front page or something.
Adam Curry's still alive!
Yeah, I saw my old radio buddy, Yurumfuninko, over there.
And we were just talking about old times.
I said, hey, remember we used to do the...
There was this sale camp for terminally ill kids.
And every year we'd go spin records.
We'd bring a whole drive-in disco show.
And after I left, he continued to do that.
And I said, do you still do that?
I said, yeah, I had to stop a couple years ago.
I said, why?
Because the kids had no idea who I was.
So I had to stop.
I'm like, yeah, that's what happens.
Can't even make sick kids happy anymore.
It's the fate.
It's the fate.
Alright.
That's the report.
It might as well be a dancing mic.
Well, one of the things you missed out...
Yes, tell me.
I didn't...
I kept pretty much in touch with what's going on.
You're propagandized over there.
You don't know what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
Fine.
Alright.
You have to listen to the show.
You've been listening to the show.
If I had listened to the show, I would know what's going on.
So let's do a rundown.
This is from ABC. This is probably the best of the group about what happened.
You know, Trump wins.
He won.
He got the other guys to quit.
First, Cruz quit.
You got no votes in Indiana.
Strangely, yes, they did report this, and every single newspaper...
That I saw Dutch newspapers, French newspapers all had some incredible caricature of Trump on the front page.
Photoshopped, crazy, you know, outside of Air Force One.
It just did complete like, oh my god, we're all gonna die.
This is CIA. You know, they run the American media, it seems.
I don't know what it is why they don't want Trump into such an extreme.
Although, look, it's the New World Order.
I don't know why they even bought into that, but apparently they did.
So let's just do a rundown here, run this.
The big news was actually Ryan kind of saying, well, I'll support him maybe, but I'm not supporting him now.
What is Ryan to Trump and why is it relevant?
Well, Ryan's the Speaker of the House, so he's the most powerful.
Not everybody knows what that means, so let's just give a little background.
Oh, the Speaker of the House, the guy who runs the House of Representatives, he's one of the two guys.
They have, when a dominant party takes over with the House of Representatives or the Senate, they put one of their guys in charge, and they get to be the boss.
Ah, okay.
The boss of him.
Right, I gotcha.
So Ryan...
I keep wanting to say Nolan Ryan.
Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan is the running things.
So he's the top Republican, supposedly, even though Mitch McConnell should...
I think he should be, but I don't know what they're thinking.
Anyway, so there's a big stink.
And Jeb...
There's a bunch of interesting little things in this three-part clip of a single report.
Let's play it.
While Republicans fight for the soul of their party, today, the president himself taking shots from the White House.
Is this one?
It's...
Oh, I'm so sorry.
It's the eyes.
I did an exact wrong...
My mistake.
Hold on.
One...
Oh, I see why.
Okay, it's just illogical.
Here we go.
Turn next to the race for the White House tonight, and we have Donald Trump right here, one-on-one, responding to the deep divide within the Republican Party.
Trump now promising to unite the GOP, now that he's the last man standing.
But Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he's not ready to support Trump.
Trump responding tonight, he's not ready to support Ryan.
And late today, news of a meeting, a summit of sorts.
ABC's Jonathan Karl with what he's just learned.
Tonight in Nebraska, Donald Trump sounded mystified about that snub from Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan?
I don't know what happened.
He called me two, three weeks ago.
It was a very nice conversation.
He was congratulating me.
This was before we had the ultimate victory, but he was congratulating me on doing so well.
Ryan, the most powerful Republican in America, shocked the political world by saying he's not yet ready to support Trump, that the billionaire deserves credit for winning, but...
He also inherited something very special that's very special to a lot of us.
This is the party of Lincoln, of Reagan, of Jack Kemp.
Trump shot back on Twitter.
This is the party of Reagan, who is it again, Reagan, something, and Jack Kemp.
Let's play a little bit of Jack Kemp.
Trope shot.
Here it is.
Party of Lincoln, of Reagan, of Jack Kemp.
Lincoln, Reagan, Jack Kemp.
Okay, he doesn't mention Eisenhower.
Jack Kemp wasn't president.
Jack Kemp wasn't president.
He's a failed vice presidential candidate.
Why did you mention it?
Is this a trick?
It's code.
What's the code?
I don't know what it's code for, but he pushes Jack Kemp's name out there out of the blue.
Ignoring Eisenhower, which seems to me to be a guy you'd want to mention.
And, you know, there's others in between Lincoln and Reagan.
There was a few in there, that's for sure.
Jack Kemp was a closeted homosexual?
Ah, it's interesting you bring that up.
That's the chat room for you.
The chat room.
Okay, no.
I can tell you where that rumor came from, because I heard this during the era where I was working for the San Francisco Examiner, and I had an old-timer as my editor for a while.
He used to be the editor of Paper in Marin County.
I think it was at the Sacramento Bee.
But he told me this story.
He says, all the newsmen, the old-timer, all the old news guys.
Yeah, yeah.
All the news guys from the 60s.
This took place in the 60s when Reagan got in as the governor of California in 68, 69, something like that.
Jack Camp was an up-and-coming political big shot, but he was a football player.
Buffalo Bills quarterback.
Buffalo Bills quarterback.
Good-looking guy.
A good-looking man.
Do you like my sports trivia?
You're on the computer, I think.
I think the chat room is prompting me.
Oh, the chat room is keeping you up.
Of course, of course.
That's what the chat room can do.
Yeah, it's good.
So he was a big shot, and he was a good-looking guy, and there was none of this stuff about homosexuals.
Bye, Bobby.
But what happened, what happened during the early, when Reagan first got into governorship, and this is a complete rumor, and I can only say, as far as I know, Jack Kemp is dead, so I can say anything I want the way it all works.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm going to tell this story.
And then it was told to me by an old news guy.
Supposedly what happened was when Reagan started off, he was from Hollywood.
His contacts weren't all in Hollywood.
So he peopled his administrative staff with a lot of gays from Hollywood.
There's a huge gay contingent in the Reagan administration when he was in California.
Huh.
There was a big party up in Tahoe specifically where apparently they got everybody plastered to the point where they got Jack Kemp to pass out.
They walked in.
This is the way the story goes.
Somebody walked in on a line of these gay staffers, giving it to Jack Kemp, knocked out, pushed up against a hot tub or something.
There's a line of them.
He's giving it to them.
Wait a minute.
It was a gang rape?
Yes.
Oh, man.
And...
Reagan found out about it, fired everybody, the whole staff, and got rid of every gay that was in his administration that he could think of that he knew for a fact, and especially the ones who were involved in this.
And that's where that rumor that he was a closeted gay came from.
So you think that rape actually took place?
The guy told me, he said this is the story that they know.
There's a bunch of stories like this that the news media knows.
They can't report on it for various reasons.
And it takes until the guy's dead to even retell the story.
But that's the way the story was.
That's a horrible story.
It's a horrible story, of course.
Okay, so what is the code then about putting Jack Kemp in there?
The way I hear it, now thinking about it, it's code about his possible running mate?
Jack Kemp's dead.
No, a comparable person to Jack Kemp who would be Trump's running mate.
Obviously, he's not going to elect a dead guy.
That's obvious, but maybe something else.
I want the dead guy to be my VP. Get a dead guy elected in Holland.
Well, that's true.
His party won posthumously.
That's right.
Pim Fortan.
Interesting.
I don't know.
Was he a lawyer, Jack Kemp?
Was he a lawyer?
I guess everybody's a lawyer in Washington.
But he seemed like a very nice guy, and he's very popular.
Anyway, let's move on with the report.
We'll bookmark this one.
Yeah, just remember it.
Okay, part two.
Trump shot back on Twitter.
Wrong.
I didn't inherit it.
I won it with millions of voters.
Trump and Ryan today agreed to meet in person next week.
Caught in the middle, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus, who found himself defending Trump's widely derided tweet, eating a taco bowl and declaring, I love Hispanics.
He's trying.
Honestly, he's trying.
But every day is bringing new Republican defectors.
Today, two of Trump's opponents, who had pledged to support the GOP nominee no matter what, Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham, said they won't support Trump.
Hey, Marco Rubio.
Rubio.
Been rumored to be gay.
We've seen all the dancing photos of him with his shirt off.
Maybe that's the code.
Oh, that's a good one.
Rubio is VP. Is that chat room?
No, that's me.
Oh, okay.
Well, that figures.
Just dreaming about gay men, I know.
Oh, I'm a Rubio.
Yes, Rubio would be perfect, and there has been talk of this.
Sure, and then Cruz to the Supreme Court.
Beautiful.
Actually, Cruz probably wouldn't be bad there.
No, I think he'd be a good one.
He's spoken or done a number of cases for the Supreme Court, and he's a great debater, and he's got all these earmarks of, you know, kind of the type of jerk they're looking for.
Exactly, perfect.
So on this last one, and Rubio, by the way, didn't come out against Trump.
They're making it look as though everyone's defecting from the party, and they're going to have a third party candidate.
This is bullcrap.
But what is interesting to me is that, as you remember, the first debate, when Trump was up there and Kelly went after him, and they asked the question, who will support every...
The pledge, the pledge, the pledge.
And Trump was a little sketchy about it, and Trump came around and eventually signed a pledge saying he'll support these two douchebags.
We've forgotten.
Lizzie Graham and Jeb Bush signed this pledge, so they're just liars.
Yeah, I know.
That's conveniently forgotten, unless it's in this third clip.
No, they kind of mentioned it in the clip you just heard, very subtly, just before they did it in such a way where it's presented in a way that would make you forget the point that should be made, which is the one I'm making, that they're douchebags for saying out, and then forcing Trump to do it, and then they themselves failed to do it.
Fabulous.
Third clip!
While Republicans fight for the soul of their party today, the president himself taking shots from the White House.
This is not entertainment.
This is not a reality show.
It is 100% a reality show.
It is exactly what a reality show is, documenting, in this case, an elimination process on television.
The funny thing about, before you play the rest of that clip, Obama did on another show, he went on and on about Trump.
He's got no foreign policy experience, you know, trying to point everyone at Hillary.
But when Obama got elected, what foreign policy experience did he have?
Zero.
Zero.
This is not a reality show.
Okay.
This is...
A contest for the presidency of the United States.
Which is documented on television, therefore it's a reality show!
We have elimination.
The only thing we're missing in this as a reality show is the concept of a steal.
You know, I was like, I'm going to steal that candidate.
If Brunette was running this thing, we'd have something.
We'd have something like that.
And we'd be much more enjoyable.
The president saying it's not a reality show.
John Carl with us live from the White House tonight.
And John, you've learned that Paul Ryan and Donald Trump will sit down in Washington next week.
They'll meet here in Washington on Thursday, but I would not expect a quick breakthrough, David.
In fact, a source close to Ryan tells me he does not rule out supporting a third-party candidate.
Yeah.
Although he hopes it doesn't come to that.
I have a third-party candidate clip, which is appropriate here, I think, from Bill Kristol, one of the original neocons, and, of course, one of the architects for the project of a new American century.
Right.
If anybody wants to get us into World War III, it's those guys.
Yeah, which...
Thank you very much for pointing that out, because if Trump really was going to start World War III, these guys would be all for him!
That's the way I see it.
So, this new idea of stopping Trump and stopping Hillary Clinton by finding someone who can win six states big enough to keep either of them from getting 270 electoral votes.
We've been playing with the map today, and it seems doable.
Somebody just has to win six.
Medium-sized states, not the megastates, but Florida and Ohio, two megastates.
But then Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, you win those, you might be able to stop anybody from 270.
If you could pick anybody in the country to do that, leaving aside whether they'd be willing, who's constitutionally eligible, who's someone who could pull that off?
With the right money.
Yeah, I think someone like the person I did have conversations with, I think it's been reported, retired Marine General Jim Mattis, who I think could have run a very impressive campaign, a very impressive man, as a genuine independent.
He's more liberal than I am.
Yeah, I have no idea who that is.
I'm on a bunch of issues, which Frank probably would have helped.
Out of the blue, that guy's going to win.
Well, it gets better.
Wow, these guys are deluded.
It gets better.
A very impressive man.
As a genuine independent, he's more liberal than I am on a bunch of issues, which, frankly, probably would have helped for the particular strategy you're talking about.
I think there's even a winning strategy, honestly, which is premised on a long shot, obviously, that the independent candidate takes off some.
There's a debate.
Three of them are on stage.
A lot of voters see them together in October.
This candidate would have to be, what, 12, 15 percent of that vote to get on the debate stage?
But Madison said no.
Well, you asked me anyway, so I'm saying, so Madison said no.
So now that Madison's out, name, we got 20 seconds.
Name somebody who could...
Alright, name your two, John.
Name your two.
Gary Johnson?
No, no, I mean what Crystal's going to say.
Oh, what he's going to say.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
As the two who he thinks could run as independents.
Bush should be one of them on the list, but I don't know whether he is or not, because he's a total sellout.
And I don't know.
Go.
Do it.
Who might do it?
Is there anybody?
Ben Sasse or Mitt Romney.
I was with Mitt Romney last night, and I think he's thinking about it seriously.
Or he could be Ben Sasse's campaign co-chairman.
He and Joe Lieberman.
All right, those are two good names.
Ben Sasse, a young guy on the stage.
We're going to have you back to talk about the Romney option, Romney.
Wow.
And he said that he had dinner with him last night, or saw him last night.
Sounds like someone's getting corn-holed.
Romney should have tried to run as a Republican if he wanted to do this job again.
He kind of was flat-footed the whole time, and then he comes out with this anti-Trump stuff.
And, uh, what is it going to be?
The Mormon party?
What is this going to be?
Independent.
Independent.
I don't know.
I don't know.
And I'm seeing a lot of people now saying, hey, Gary Johnson is an obvious alternative.
I think Gary Johnson could go very far.
Gary Johnson is the obvious alternative, if you ask me.
I agree.
You're a third party guy.
I agree.
I think he's, man, now he's a libertarian party.
Better creds than Romney.
But wait, is he now officially the, the, the, the, I don't want to vote for anyone who's a member of any party.
I don't like the clubs.
I don't like the clubs.
And I'm not 100% libertarian, which I get accused of a lot.
I don't want to be pigeonholed.
I don't want to be something.
I just want to be a voter.
I want my safe space.
Yeah, I sure do.
Well, I wanted my safe space after this little clip, which I picked up from CNN. This is Sally Cohn, you know, the Rachel Maddow of CNN. And now this Trump, the big victory was Indiana, correct?
That was the state that he won that really just boom, that everyone dropped out.
Is that it?
Indiana?
Yeah.
Okay.
And by the way, Indiana is...
And the funny thing was, he ran against Cruz there.
Cruz got like 33%.
I think Trump got like 52 to 57, which has always cracked me up because he only had a ceiling of 30%, which is as far as he's going to ever get.
I love Nate Silver.
Remember Nate Silver from the New York Times who, oh, I predicted everything correctly that Obama would win and be like, yeah, because all those polls are bullcrap.
We all knew why, because that's what you do as television news to make it a close race.
And Nate Silver has been wrong on everything.
And he's like, well, I didn't expect the anger angle.
No.
So of our big data is for small minds.
He's doing statistical analysis based on some...
He's not doing psychological analysis.
No, but he's saying that's what he didn't take into account.
Now he's saying...
There's no number you can attach to that.
I know, I know, I know.
This is what's so crazy.
He got lucky.
538 Media, boo!
Okay, so Sally Cohn, she was very clear why Trump won in Indiana.
It's obvious, because Indiana is pretty much a racist state.
Did you know this?
Indiana, racist!
Here's the other issue, and both of you need to weigh in on this.
Does it even matter that the headlines, the wind is being sucked towards Ted Cruz today, with that whole dumping of polemics on Donald Trump?
The news cycle is really favoring the Republicans today, and not much mention of Democrats.
I think people really need to understand the history in Indiana.
Indiana was once known for being the state that had the most powerful KKK in the country.
In 1924, the KKK elected the governor of Indiana.
Indiana is a deeply, not only socially conservative, but very racially divisive and divided state.
And look, it's not going to be a surprise to see a Donald Trump landslide there.
And I think this is moving the country backwards.
I think there are millions who would say Backward?
1924 isn't that long ago, Ashley!
Come on!
Do you hear this woman?
1924 isn't that long ago, Ashley!
They're still alive!
They're racist!
They're like a hundred, but they're racist!
Isn't that that long ago?!
Wow.
Backwards?
1924 ain't that long ago, Ashley!
Come on!
Many of those who are watching today, if you're in Indiana, I'm going to stick up for you.
I'm not saying the voters of Indiana are active KKK members, but I am saying I'd like to see that state and our country move away from that kind of hatred and divisiveness instead of voting for a candidate who stands for it again.
Hello, Indiana, you racist, racist, racist state!
This is unbelievable.
It's fantastic.
1924 was not that long ago.
No, I remember like it was yesterday.
And they had everybody out.
I'm sure you heard about Rob Reiner on the Morning Joe's.
Did you hear about that?
Did you see this?
I heard about it.
I didn't bother to follow up.
We all know where he's headed.
But we have to clip it because he's Hollywood.
He's establishment.
Why else?
He's got the kid.
He was on there with his kid.
He got strung out on heroin or something.
He's not a very good dad.
I didn't see this.
I didn't see this.
I didn't say something.
There's another thing with him.
But anyway, go on.
How do you explain the millions and millions of people who do not watch this show, who actually like what they hear from Donald Trump and aren't taking messages and orders from us and the media, but they listen to what he says for themselves and vote for him?
How do you explain that?
Well, there are a lot of people who are racist.
Woo!
Racist!
Because there's a lot of people who are racist.
Sorry?
It's unbelievable.
So, somehow, the millions of people, a lot of them, who voted for Trump are racist.
Now, when the morning Joe Cruz says, hey, wait a minute, you did not just say that, he starts to walk it back a long way.
Racist!
Oh my God, did you just say that?
I'm not saying...
No, you just said that.
Well, that's true.
So you think that people that vote for Donald Trump are racist?
They're not all racist.
You led with that, though.
I said there are a lot of people who are.
There's racism in this country that has been submerged for a long, long time.
And all of a sudden, there's a man who's speaking.
So he's unearthed it?
He's unearthed a lot of it.
Let me say this.
Could this not be about working class Americans being left behind by a Republican party?
Yes, they're racist too.
Yes, if you're a candidate, and you've been one, and you're standing there, and there are people in your rally who are KKK members, members of the Aryan Nation, white supremacists...
Wait a minute.
The way I recall it, that they had the David Duke incident, where Trump was unhandy, definitely should have said, hey, screw that.
But he did that unhandily, for sure.
If you watch the clip of him on that, I don't think he's hearing the guy.
And then we had a protester Wearing a KKK t-shirt, you know, out of jest.
You know, that was his protest.
Like, hey, KKK here.
That's all that I recall that was a national story.
But okay, it seems that we have KKK, Aryan Nation.
I'm surprised that they don't have Goebbels' grandkid there, you know?
If I were you, I would say, you know, I don't really want that support.
That's hate speech.
That's hate mongering.
Hate speech.
Hey, is hate speech illegal?
Even if it didn't happen?
I don't want that support.
I don't see Donald Trump saying, I don't want that support.
He's saying, fine.
Oh, did you see him say, fine?
Maybe he is.
Oh, I disavow.
We were harshly critical of that as well.
That's to answer Willie's question.
There's a strain of racism there.
Ah, now he says strain of racism, which I need to talk to you about this.
So the way I, and it's always about language these days, the way I interpret strain of racism in the context with which Rob Reiner just used it is, it's like a vein, like a thin strain, like a little bit of a, just a, there's a bloodline under there.
Because that's what I thought it was, but when I looked at the definition of strain, it actually means a very powerful force.
Yeah, but he's going to be using a popular definition, not the real definition.
I didn't know.
And by the way, Obama carried Indiana in 2008.
Yeah, because it's such a racist state.
I know, it's great.
Thank you for that little nugget.
Hello, use that to hit somebody in the mouth, everybody.
And anyway, Rob Reiner kind of doubled down again on the strain bit on CNBC. These workers, these incredible workers, these middle class, many of them haven't had an effective wage increase in 20 years.
Don't you think just people are angry?
They're angry at Washington?
They're angry at their boss?
Yes, they are.
And that is what I said on Morning Joe, that there is a big chunk of the Trump supporters who are very upset at the income inequality, the economy has left them behind.
But the same can be said about a lot of the Sanders supporters.
Yes, true.
And yet, there is a difference.
And I'm not That's interesting, because he admits what we think is true, that Trump and Sanders, you know, the enthusiasm comes from the same kind of place, just different sides of the same coin.
There is a difference, and I'm not, I didn't say all Trump supporters.
I said there is a strain of racism that's there, because when you go to the Sanders rally, there are no racists at those rallies.
Wow!
No racists at those rallies.
Except for the ones who are talking about white privilege, you know, straight old white men, which is racist.
Well, you also look at the Sanders audience, they're all kids and they're all white.
Yeah, that looks more like Aryan Nation than anything.
Interesting collusion between the Hillary campaign and Obama.
In that same little stand-up he did where he talked about the reality show, he was very clear about telling the media how to do their job.
He does run a different kind of campaign than anyone else, certainly on the GOP side.
He makes himself more available to report.
I'm sorry, I did that out of order.
Here it is.
Every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to...
Exacting standards and genuine scrutiny.
It means that you've got to make sure that their budgets add up.
It means that if they say they've got an answer to a problem, that it is actually plausible.
And that they have details for how it would work.
And if it's completely implausible and would not work, that needs to be reported on.
The American people need to know that.
One thing that I'm going to really be looking for over the next six months is...
Oh, hold on, hold on.
This is the news cop.
Obama's going to be the news president.
The news cop president.
I know that.
One thing that I'm going to...
Really be looking for over the next six months is that the American people are effectively informed about where candidates stand on the issues, what they believe, making sure that their numbers add up, making sure that their policies have been vetted, and that candidates are held to what they've said in the past.
And if that happens, then...
Hold on, last bit.
...what they've said in the past.
And if that happens, then I'm confident our democracy will work.
So, that's a veiled threat, though.
I'm going to be looking at you people.
Be looking at all this, seeing what you're doing.
So, saying that news media has not done a good job, and here's the Clinton campaign picking up on that, in collusion with the president.
He does run a different kind of campaign than anyone else, certainly on the GOP side.
He makes himself more available to reporters.
He calls in.
I mean, is that something you are going to start doing more of?
Oh, well, look, he did it and it worked for him.
And I think reporters now have a chance to ask some tougher questions.
It's not enough to call in and give somebody a platform.
It's now the time to make the tough decisions.
And you've got to ask him, OK, so what exactly would you replace X, Y and Z with?
I think it's time to get serious.
The man is the presumptive nominee, and being a loose cannon doesn't in any way protect him, I hope, from being asked the hard questions that he should have been asked during the whole primary process.
Elizabeth Warren tweeted out last night that Donald Trump has, quote, built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia.
Do you agree with that?
I think Elizabeth Warren's really smart.
You agree with all those things?
I think that anybody who's listened to him and how he's talked certainly can draw that conclusion.
Do you think he's a racist?
I'm going to let people judge for themselves, but I have the highest regard for Senator Warren.
Oh, I'm kind of a pussy.
There are Democrats who are just worried about you against Trump, that you're not ready for whatever he may throw at you.
I mean, he's brought up a lot of stuff about a lot of people that nobody could have predicted.
He was quoting from the National Enquirer just yesterday.
You know, he's made references to your marriage, to your husband.
LAUGHTER Are you prepared?
That's the same laugh, man.
It's the same laugh.
It's a big laugh.
It's very funny.
Not the first one, Anderson.
No.
Why don't you back it up?
I want to hear that laugh again.
Yeah, and I think I have our Hillary laugh.
Hold on, let me back it up.
We already have that ISO somewhere.
He's made references to your marriage, to your husband.
Are you prepared?
Yes, not completely.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Yeah, it's rising.
It's rising.
And she says she's a great CEO. Every time I see her on TV, I want to reach through and strangle her.
No, that's not this one.
No, it's a little different.
A little different.
No, it's not that different.
She just doesn't rise it up as much on the clip.
There was this other clip that, I don't know why this wasn't run over and over again.
I thought this was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Hey!
We'd be a lot better off if we actually talk to each other instead of yelling at each other.
She's saying we should talk to each other instead of yelling at one another, but...
She's yelling.
Forgive me.
She's yelling.
She's yelling!
That would have been used more if it was actually legible.
Yeah, that's the problem.
I'm sorry, audible.
Audible, yeah, that's the problem.
That is a problem.
I do like playing it.
We'd be a lot better off if we actually talk to each other instead of yelling at each other.
Let the other side do the yelling.
We're going to be talking and rolling up our sleeves and getting to work because it's not enough.
I'm not allowed to diagnose the problem.
We need to solve the problem.
Well, I've got to play my clip.
It's called Hillary Cadence.
And this is the Cadence she likes.
When she gets in front of a large audience, she gets to be...
I'm not going to say it.
She gets to be like Hitler.
And she starts yelling at the crowd in a very specific way.
It's a very kind of old-fashioned orator style.
I just want to note that you played the Hitler card.
I did.
Because whether you support Senator Sanders or you support me, there's much more that unites us than divides us.
We all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high, that Wall Street can never again be allowed to threaten Main Street and we should expand Social Security, not cut or privatize it.
We Democrats agree that college should be affordable to all.
And student debt shouldn't hold anyone back.
Yeah.
She's got a good job.
And you're talking about something she says, well, he's got to be more specific.
What was specific about anything she ever says?
We've got to do this.
We've got to do that.
Well, how?
But yeah, she does go into this screaming thing, and she does this other cadence thing, which is just like, I just, you know, I mean, I don't know.
I'm not voting for her or Trump.
Well, we have, we gotta take a break in a minute here, but I do have just two quick little things that I came home to.
Just discrediting Donald Trump in funny ways.
First one is some Republican Party lawyer.
I forget his name.
He's probably a consultant, whatever.
As I said, I'm unalterably opposed to Hillary Clinton.
I mean, the first segment on your show made me want to open a vein.
But Donald Trump is worse by far.
Hillary Clinton is a Democrat.
She's a mainstream Democrat.
She's no more loose than Lyndon Johnson, no more liberal than Barack Obama, no more transactional than her husband, and we will survive.
What do you think that means, no more transactional than her husband?
Like getting hookers?
Or what does that mean, transactional than her husband?
I have no idea doing deals.
Oh, it could be deals.
Well, deals, yeah.
Deals.
Yeah, they know deals.
Democrat.
She's a mainstream Democrat.
Who is this guy?
I forget his name.
Some lawyer.
I didn't write it down.
I'm sorry.
Johnson, no more liberal than Barack Obama, no more transactional than her husband, and we will survive.
Donald Trump is a fascist.
He's a dangerous man.
Dangerous!
And we can't have him be president of the United States.
No, we cannot.
Cannot have his dangerous dangerous.
And then Chris Hayes.
When you've got a guy that cites the National Enquirer as a source, that perhaps this isn't a guy you want to listen to.
And so if he keeps on saying things like that China invented this, that'd be actually helpful for our cause.
Because the more he makes the hoaxters look absolutely unhinged, to quote Jeb Bush, it really helps us because it causes...
It causes people that want a free enterprise solution to a huge challenge to come forward and say, you know what?
We're for these reasonable people, and we don't want to be painted with this terrible brush of reading the National Enquirer and deciding that's a good source.
The metaphor here is that Donald Trump is like a hot, wet rag applied to an infected wound that is drying up all of the stuff that you want to concentrate.
That's the hope.
Isn't that great?
That is a good one.
That's one of the better ones.
Yeah, and we shouldn't listen to the National Enquirer like when they told us about John Edwards.
Yeah, because they were what?
Oh, right.
Yeah, that's true.
And although very different, this is the last bit I have, I don't know if you have anything, but did you hear the Chris Matthews hot mic thing about Melania Trump?
Yeah, I heard it a couple times.
I thought it was...
You had to really listen to it closely over and over again to actually deconstruct what he said.
And it was pretty...
It was low end.
Yeah, it's only 16 seconds and Brian Williams is talking.
I think Brian Williams is also hearing it in his earpiece because he's getting a little...
Oh, definitely.
He's stuttering and getting a little confused.
But what Matthew says is...
Paraphrasing.
Look at Melania, how she walks.
She's got that model walk.
She's just dynamite.
He's salivating.
And then he says, I could watch that all day.
And the party will trust Trump to be able to make that decision.
Well, I think the party won't have a role in it.
We just heard from the likely nominee of the Republican Party.
We will go to a break here.
The discussion continues right after this.
What a horndog.
That was just embarrassing.
Yeah.
I could watch that all day.
How come Rachel Maddow didn't talk about this?
They got a hot mic.
They got somebody, you know, from my opinion, is that 90% of these things are done by some guy who hates someone in the control room.
I mean, he's in the control room and he hates someone.
I mean, there's some incompetence maybe, but I think let's leave his mic hot.
That could be.
I've always believed that there's guys in the control room, and there's guys that listen to our show that's been in control rooms.
They just leave the mic.
Oh, I left it hot.
Oh, the guy went to the bathroom?
Oh, sorry.
Let's light up his mic and see what happens.
Oh, yeah, that used to happen to me all the time.
Yeah.
Oh, all the time.
Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. With his E stands for Control Room Dvorak.
And in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Dan, in the morning, to our artists.
First, the chat room, of course.
NoagendaStream.com.
Thank you very much for helping out today.
Good work.
And thank you to Nick the Rat for the album art for our clip show, episode 822.
Apologies.
Something went wrong in my system.
And the previous show's artwork showed up.
It took a while to correct everything.
But Nick did some...
You sent it to me.
You chose it.
Some kind of, you know, No Agenda logo on acid.
You needed those blue and red 3D glasses to actually see it.
Oh, I didn't know that.
No, I'm just making that up.
I bet you it looks pretty cool.
Everything looks better with those glasses.
And I want to thank all the artists who always contribute to NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.
Happy Mother's Day, everybody.
We'll be doing a lot of that later on in our thank you segment.
And before we start, John, I would like to...
Do a double dip rain stick for Scandinavia.
These guys are in trouble out there.
Oh yes, we have a request from Scandinavia.
Yeah, they're in trouble.
Our best people are all in Alberta, except for a few in Saskatchewan.
Very much less, I think, in Toronto.
Yeah.
Spuzz them.
Spuzz them.
Let's give them a rain stick.
Okay, so they're burning up over there.
There's 200,000 people have been displaced.
So we're hoping that with the rain sticks, now it usually takes a couple days, but...
We've been very successful.
Here we go.
One, two, three.
rain stick.
One more for good measure.
Alright.
This will probably end up flooding.
California is screwed because it's not really concentrated.
We can have...
We need the rain.
We can have rain stick harmonics that then affect other areas.
It's a fact.
So let's thank a few people, starting with Terrence Harris in Niceville, Florida.
Where do you live?
I live in Niceville.
Niceville.
It's over by celebration, I guess.
No, I don't know.
$333.33.
Longtime boner been listening to the show before you really had jingles.
I hardly believe in free speech, but please stop saying...
Nigga.
And I grit my teeth every time Devorak says, the blacks.
Like we are a basketball team or something.
Oh, man.
But I've hit many people in the mouth and they have donated.
Doesn't that count for something, Terrence?
Of course it does, Terrence.
But are these words really...
The nigga thing, that was a...
I stopped that long ago.
Yeah, that was a long time ago.
It was in the clip show.
It was in the clip show.
That was actually the genesis of it because the clip show said we had that...
The millennial who said, no, nigga is okay, versus nigger, which is not okay.
But that was a clip show.
What is the, I say the blacks?
Yeah, you say the blacks.
Well, I say the gays, too.
Yeah, you say the gays.
Notice the blacks did not say anything about you calling the gays the gays.
Well, we should just call them gay Americans and black Americans.
I also say the Google.
The Googles.
Even better.
Or the Googles.
Or the internets.
The interwebs.
I don't know.
Hail Apple.
Yeah.
But I'm sorry, Terrence.
We don't mean to offend you.
The Ukraine.
Yeah.
That is wrong.
That is factually wrong.
Well, if that's wrong, these other things are wrong.
The faggot.
I'm sorry, Terrence.
I'm sorry, too.
Sorry we offended you.
I think you know we don't really mean to offend anybody.
I'm offended.
Yes, I am.
Thank you.
I'm going to give him a little bit of karma.
You've got karma.
Share that with the whites.
Are we the whites, then, John?
He's the only executive producer, by the way.
You'd think you'd have more on a day like this, a Mother's Day.
But no.
So he got lucky.
He's the executive producer for Shofa 823.
I'd just like to know what his preferred is.
If it's African Americans, I want to know.
I just want to know.
Is black Americans okay?
The black Americans is not okay?
The gerences.
The Jews?
No.
I think it's just, if you say black, I think it's saying the blacks.
I think it's the word the.
He just doesn't like the word the.
You say blacks in America, but if you say the blacks, yeah, I think he's right.
It's not about the black word, it's about the.
Putting it all in one big category, like, hey, all the blacks go stand over there.
I think that's...
Yeah.
Because when I said the whites, like, oh, yeah, now I know how it feels.
It's racist.
Oh, yeah.
Stop that, John.
It feels so bad when someone says the whites.
It's what they say all the time.
Well, we're gonna...
It's cisgendered.
That pisses me off.
Alright, here we go.
John Vogel, Bronx, New York, $269.69.
Dear John and Adam, I'm happy to donate from my very first associate executive producership.
It's become apparent I must pull my weight to make up for the brainwashed morons who want to pull support because Trump doesn't make you clutch your pearls hard enough.
I wouldn't vote for the guy in a million years, but your Trump segments are always great.
This mainstream media doesn't even bother to mask their usual BS when it comes to him, and he's a funny enough guy that the clips amuse me on their own.
It's radio gold!
Thank you!
And let's face it, he's the one guy who might have a chance of doing some measurable damage to the political parties we all hate so much.
For that alone, I'm thankful.
You know what, I talked to Mimi about this the other day.
I actually said it to a lot of people.
Whatever you think of Trump, vote for him or not, not vote for him.
He did the country, you have to admit, he did the country a huge, huge, massive favor by immediately eliminating Jeb Bush.
Yes, good work.
We shall all thank him for...
That he did that.
Apparently Bush spent almost a billion dollars just wasting his wheel spinning, which also makes a lot of memes look stupid.
Like, oh, the Koch brothers, you know, they wanted him.
Didn't do much good, did it?
Please clap.
He says this could be the USA's biggest ever political moment and people are complaining that your coverage diverges too much from the mainstream money machine.
Fellow producers, are you on crack?
Regardless, I'm calling on all Trump supporters listening to No Agenda to put your money where your mouth is and support the show.
John and Adam should not have to pay a Trump tax.
Oh, nice one.
A Trump tax just to keep protecting our sanity.
I'd like to dedicate the following jingle segments to the Trump boosters who will heed my call and support your show.
Send your cash, rule follower, and happy dance.
This rant probably went a bit long, but I had to get it off my chest.
Thank you for your courage and something or other.
Passion.
Passion.
Yeah.
We just need cash.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it.
I'm a rule follower, right?
What do you do?
Are you a rule follower?
Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it.
And then I'll have a long time.
Happy dance, happy dance.
Get it, get it, get it.
Okay.
Get it, get it, get it.
Thank you very much.
You know, that's what I said to the flight attendant when we left that crappy flight.
And I said, thank you very much for your courage and passion.
But she liked it.
Yeah, it sounds good.
I like it.
It does.
If you just say, hey, thank you very much for your courage and passion.
Sir Dave, who appears to be stationed or something, he might be in the military in Deutschland.
Wait, you're missing Philip.
You're missing Philip Gorski.
Oh, how did I do that?
I don't know.
I went down one too many blocks.
Philip Gorski in Issaquah, Washington.
258.16.
With this donation, I'd like to celebrate my wife, Carolina, mother of our only human resource, as well as my late mother-in-law, Halina, who passed away last summer.
Hence the amount 258.16.
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms listening.
Jingle request.
Sucking in soot.
Soot.
Soot.
You, a little girl laugh, followed by back to school karma for Carolina, just back to school karma for Carolina, who is training to become a radiography technologist.
The last shot out of Jobs Karma for her work, by the way.
Regards, Philip.
What's, oh, back to school karma.
Okay, you got it.
You might die.
Sucking in soot.
You might die.
Sucking in soot.
Yay!
You've got karma.
Alrighty.
Nice.
Sounds like the James Brown rhythm section.
It was, yeah!
Sucking in soot.
Sir Dave in Deutschland, 24680.
Sir Dave of Lviv here in Deutschland.
Lviv here, it says.
Thanks as always for your hard work and a great series of shows of late.
You guys are pretty much the only thing that keeps me sane when I consider the current state of the USA that we'll unfortunately be returning to in a couple of months.
We've been in Europe for the past four and a half years, and I thought it was crazy when we left.
It's going to be much batshit, so by now...
batshit, so by now, I guess.
So you guys are definitely cheaper than therapy.
Request a dedouching for my long, dry spell of donations and for not realizing that it was Mother's Day until my wife reminded me yesterday.
So my note...
Got him to remember his Mother's Day.
That saved him.
I saved you.
Some moving karma.
Whoopies get out followed by the Italian guys that is important.
What is that?
I don't remember this clip.
Was that one of your clips?
No.
I don't know what this is.
I don't know what it is either.
And not that it will do any good having forgotten Mother's Day.
A birthday shout out for my wife.
Melody is coming up on the 19th.
She's on the list.
A little early, but it will take me time to dig my way out of the doghouse.
If I may mix my metaphors, thanks again for your service to my sanity.
Sir Dave.
I just wish I remembered what that was.
Oh, was it the Guido-sounding guy?
What could it be called?
I don't know it.
It doesn't ring a bell to me.
Maybe, was it Bernie?
Oh, no, it was your clip, John.
It was the crazy Italian guy.
What was that called?
Oh, right.
It was an ISO or something.
It definitely says ISO. Yeah, yeah, that's not a normal.
I got it, I got it, I think I got it.
I think I got it, I think I got it.
Woo!
You've been de-douched.
Get out of my vagina!
Yeah, I nailed it.
You've got karma.
Thank you, chatroom.
On the ball today.
Excelente.
It's bound to happen by just random number.
Riley Kimball, 23456, Santan Valley, Arizona.
Hi, TM, and thank you for your courage.
Being an executive or associate executive producer is effective as peer pressure to get your friends, family, and coworkers to donate.
They hear your name, then seek you out and talk about the show.
On several occasions, donations have followed after said conversation.
This aligns with the anatomy of buzz marketing theory.
Customers will seek advice from experts before making purchases.
I admire both of you.
Your insight on current affairs has given me a...
Well, I think it's supposed to be calm.
Calm, cool, and collected view of the world.
It's a blessing that the No Agenda show exists.
I will do my best to hit people in the mouth and providing value for value.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm breaking the seal on knighthood today.
No penny needed.
Please knight me as Sir Null and Void, or just Null Void.
Null void.
Please play in order.
Lone wolf.
Adios mofo.
Two to the head.
You can take that to the bank.
Oh my goodness.
And, you can do that, but you gotta write this one down.
Please add meat and water.
I'll write that down in a second.
Adios mofo.
You can take that to the bank.
You've got karma.
Almost the right order.
Close enough.
Hold on, let me just write this down.
Meat and water.
Okay, well, you're the knight, sir.
Hookers and blow is an option.
I'm just saying.
Meet and why we meet.
To the best podcast in the universe.
Karma, please.
And birthday wishes to Jennifer Hendrick.
Okay.
And Carlos.
Give him some karma.
On the list.
He's in.
Carlos Pesina.
Harvard, Illinois, $200.
All good.
Oh, and we got one more.
Yep.
Sir Corwin Underwood in, let's see, he's got a note here.
No note.
Oh.
From Hamilton, Ohio.
Well, Corwin, I'll look it up as if I can find it in the email.
I will talk it up.
I wish I had something because I'm a little dizzy from the jet lag.
I need to get a little water.
Oh, let me see if I can find something.
This is Corwin Underwood.
Underwood, Underwood.
Corwin Underwood.
Hold on.
Is that coming up at all?
There it is.
Underwood.
Has anybody seen the newest version?
Corwin Underwood.
Here it is.
May 7th.
ITM gentlemen.
Sorry donations are low for this period.
For some deployment karma.
He needs some karma for deployment.
I'm going to be boots on the ground for six months in one of the most rich, oil-rich countries in the Middle East, which is the UAE. Nice.
Leaving behind my wife and child of nine months.
Sarcastically glad I have to Leave my family for undeclared wars overseas.
Contingency operation to protect our interests and airspace in the Persian Gulf.
Nice.
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Karma for him, then.
For sure.
For sure.
You've got karma.
All righty.
Okay, have fun, Corwin.
Yeah, well, he'll stay in touch for sure.
Give us some reports.
Yeah, reports.
Hey, thanks everybody.
Executive producer and associate executive producers.
That's nice coming home to that.
Highly appreciated.
And especially since I did all the clips this morning.
I got up at 6.
We in bed like midnight.
We got up at 6.
And for me, it's now, what is it?
Body time, I guess 7, 8 p.m.
So, just a little nutty.
And we will have another show on Thursday, of course.
You okay?
I am.
Oh, your mic went loud all of a sudden.
Hadn't done that in a while.
Interesting.
Please remember us for the show that is coming up on Thursday.
Dvorak.org slash NA. And even I can do it in France with my little bit of French.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
You should be doing it too.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Sleep.
Something odd popped up this morning when I was doing clips.
This is a report from Shawno, Wisconsin.
Shano, Wisconsin.
Local news report.
It's a problem at schools across the country, but Shano police wanted to find a new proactive approach when it comes to fighting bullying.
Without the parent getting involved, we feel that just giving a ticket to finding...
This is a cop talking, by the way.
...someone out of this isn't the answer.
The facts of the new ordinance are a parent will be warned if police determined their child was involved in bullying.
The parent will have 90 days to address their child's behavior.
After that time, if police determined the child is still bullying, the parent will be issued a $366 fine.
Two offenses in one year will equal a $681 fine.
I think something needs to be done for sure.
My son comes home and he's just not too happy some days.
I mean, they have three months that their kids can maybe go to counseling and maybe get to know the situation at hand on why they bullied to begin with.
A few parents told me they question how the ordinance will be enforced because they say labeling someone a bully can be subjective.
This isn't generated towards the kids being kids, some playground banter.
This is the person that is meticulously using social media or saying things that are vulgar and attempt to hurt, discredit, and really demean a person.
So, local ordinance.
If your kid is bullying on social media and get fined, but you have three months to correct your child, your little slave.
Now, along with this story comes another story, which we may have covered in 2014, but I guess I didn't remember.
Obama actually created an anti-bullying task force.
And they're also in the news by coincidence, but this is for the protected Pacific Islanders, who I did not know, but they're getting bullied.
No.
Yeah, so is this Hawaii?
Are they the protected?
Well, Hawaii is notorious for having mostly racial bullying in one sort or another.
Yeah, so it needs to stop.
We need to stop the bullying.
We will live up to our ideals.
We just have to keep speaking out against hatred and bigotry in all of its forms.
So I'm proud of all of you for rallying around the Muslim and Sikh and Arab and South Asian communities.
You face a rising tide of bigotry and harassment.
To support your work, we recently launched the AAPI Bullying Prevention Task Force to look at ways that the federal government can help your communities prevent and respond to bullying.
The Justice Department successfully recommended the addition of anti-Sikh, anti-Hindu, and anti-Arab, anti-Middle Eastern categories to the FBI's Hate Crime Reporting Forum.
Hate Crime Reporting Forum!
That's going to strengthen our efforts to end these despicable crimes.
Despicable crimes!
Crimes!
They're not crimes!
Is it a crime?
He said despicable crime?
These despicable crimes, plural.
It's not a crime?
No, they're not crimes.
It's freedom of speech, if anything.
Uh, no, crime.
The Justice Department successfully recommended the addition of anti-Sikh, anti-Hindu, and anti-Arab, anti-Middle Eastern categories to the FBI's Hate Crime Reporting Forum.
That's going to strengthen our efforts to end these despicable crimes.
But I guess he means hate crimes.
I guess he means the hate crimes.
Man.
Calling someone an a-hole is not a crime in the first place.
Even if it's because you hate that guy.
Whatever.
They're just trying to keep...
Shut up!
That's going to strengthen our efforts to end these despicable crimes.
And we will continue to stand in solidarity with all of our LGBT brothers and sisters against hateful rhetoric and discriminatory state laws targeting them.
How about just everybody?
It makes me feel so much better.
Just everybody.
Everybody.
Donna Roll.
Well, this is the better story is the one I have over local on Donna Gilroy.
Oh, okay.
So we got a douchebag pedophile teacher.
Where's Gilroy?
Gilroy is south of San Jose.
Oh, Silicon Valley area.
It's actually the southernmost tip of Silicon Valley in many interpretations.
Okay.
Because, you know, there is no such thing.
But, so they got this guy who is...
You have to listen to the whole story because there's a funny element to it besides the fact that they brought in Gloria Allred to sue the school district over this joker.
I'm sorry, that was my cue.
Well, Dan, the lawsuit centers around high school teacher Douglas Lay, who was arrested just last week on charges.
He was trying to get young boys to send him nude photos, but the charges laid out in this lawsuit go back more than a year ago.
As far as we're concerned, the school district gets an F grade on protecting the students.
And we are determined to hold them accountable.
At a news conference Thursday afternoon, high-profile attorney Gloria Allred announced she has filed this 29-page lawsuit against the Gilroy School District on behalf of a former high school student who received sexually explicit text messages from Gilroy High School teacher Douglas Lay.
It is time for the Gariboy Unified School District to take action to protect our children.
I am disgusted that the district did not do enough to protect my daughter.
She had to leave her friends, her classes, and Gilroy High School.
Those text messages, too graphic to repeat, were sent a year and a half ago.
The school district says they reprimanded Lay, but he was allowed back in the classroom.
And just last week, Lay, still a teacher at Gilroy High, was arrested, accused of posing as a woman online and enticing.
If the district had done what it should have done, Mr.
Lay would not have been in a position to engage in sexually inappropriate behavior with hundreds of minors who were reportedly current and former Gilroy students.
Allred says the district should have fired Lay on the spot when he sent those sexually charged text messages to his 10th grade chemistry student.
The girl's mother is now suing the district for negligence, emotional distress, and sexual harassment.
And because they failed to take meaningful actions, many more children were harmed.
I hope that Gilroy Unified School District has learned a lesson and that they will in the future do what is right and necessary.
Yeah, okay.
So here's the story.
Here's the story.
Oh!
Won't somebody please think of the children?
There you go.
Now, this guy obviously sends a dirty text, or, you know, borderline sex text to this girl, and she, ah!
And so she leaves the school, can't take it, reports him to the school, says, okay, okay.
Apparently half the teachers are doing this.
So now the guy, he gives up on women, or girls, as it were, decides to go after the boys by posing as a woman, which, gee, no one has ever done this on the internet.
Yeah.
Hello, second life.
So he poses as some hottie, I'm guessing, and has a picture he just randomly grabs from somewhere and says, this is me.
Will you send me your naked pictures?
You know a lot about this.
Now, the men, the boys, the boys that are in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade, I'm guessing, they're apparently damaged by this.
Because God knows any kid who's like 14, 15, or 16, who's chatting with a hottie, who wants to see his naked body, now is going to need therapy for the rest of his life because this is going to disturb him, whether he finds out that she's a he or not.
That's the way they present the story.
And then Allred makes it even worse with her analysis of this by saying he wouldn't have done, this would have not happened to these 100 boys who he had, I guess, texted, emailed, or met in a chat room or whatever, if he had been fired immediately after he had harassed this 10th graded girl.
But that's not...
This is a cognitive dissonance.
There's no way.
If he was fired, he probably just...
You would have started earlier pretending to be a girl to get the naked boy's pictures.
This is what I don't understand as a member, a non-binary white privileged male from the cisgendered community.
I do not understand why the LGBTQIA community does not see that this is a man in need of therapy.
He needs help.
But instead, everyone wants him fired, but to kill him.
Kill him.
The guy needs help.
This is very, very strange to me, coming from...
Well, no, just strange to me in general.
That everyone wants to help everybody, but when someone has a non-approved sexual disorder, or it's then called a disorder, then who knows?
Yeah, nobody wants to help him.
No.
They want to fire him.
Lock him up!
Yeah.
Put them on the sex offender list.
That's a very good point.
It always bothers me.
It's the same with abuse, with child abuse.
It's the same thing.
I'm not a doctor, but in a large amount of cases, abusers were abused themselves.
They need help.
They don't need to have their nuts cut off.
They need help.
They may not be appropriate help for society, but they need help.
We're all so concerned with everything, but not with all the right things.
I'm glad that's...
I don't have a jingle for that little thing you just did.
I will say...
Some common sense from a disc jockey!
Now a podcaster.
I wonder when...
I don't know how they can do this, but I would guess if they could, they would.
Wonder when you will be put on the sex list.
What's it called?
Sex offenders list.
Who, me?
No, not you.
I wonder when guys who pose as women online get put on the sex offenders list.
That's a good one.
Seems to me.
It's a sex offense.
It's offensive to me.
I bet you a lot of the...
If peeing in the park gets you put on that list, which has got nothing to do with sex, it's got to do with peeing, you can get on the list for peeing in the park, and there's plenty of people on the list for peeing in the park.
Then you should be, if you pose as a woman in a chat room, and I'm talking to our chat room probably has half of the users over there do that.
Yeah.
I've done it.
We've all done it, John.
I've done it.
I've done it.
Yeah, everybody does it once in a while just because it's funny.
It's almost like tucking your penis between your legs.
We all do it once.
I've never done that.
Never?
No, it's too damn big.
Ah!
In the morning.
You walk into these.
Whoa!
There was a brick wall I walked into.
My face hurts.
Oh, man.
Ah!
All right.
All right.
Well, change of topic then, perhaps.
Yes.
Let me take us somewhere.
I'd like to take you somewhere.
Oh, what?
I was going to do an entremant just so we get in the right mood.
Okay.
Earthquake coming.
Ooh, I always love that.
To the index and a new warning about the big one hitting Southern California, a leading earthquake scientist predicting the San Andreas fault is, quote, locked, loaded, and ready to roll.
He says stress has been building along the state's longest fault line for more than a century now.
The last big quake to hit the Southern San Andreas was a 7.9.
That was back in 1857.
You're going to die.
You're going to die.
You're all going to die.
The big one is ready, locked, and loaded.
Gotta love it.
To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
That's right, we're back in the climate gate.
We had the big, big meeting while we were on our European tour, EU tour.
The climate initiative.
And you recall, we looked at the climate initiative.
That is one of these funds that is being funded by taxpayer money.
That will be distributing these funds in carbon credits and other infrastructure projects.
Pretty much the money, and I have to say I'm not really against the concept because we're going to be taking this money to put into American companies.
The problem is they're going to be building infrastructure in other countries instead of it happening here.
So we do get some money, but it's not really a good thing.
And this is part of this whole Paris Agreement.
So jumping a little bit ahead of the gun, everyone was at this.
Everyone was being interviewed in relation to the Paris Agreement and this climate initiative.
And let me see what I have here.
First up, we have Sean Donovan.
He is part of the administration.
He's from the Office of Management and Budget.
Then he sees a very, very bleak future for...
When it comes to climate change, but he knows that Wall Street is going to pay attention, eventually.
We know what happens where we live impacts you.
When the surging seas storm onto Wall Street, that stifles commerce globally.
When infrastructure buckles, U.S. airports or seaports shut down, we all get stuck.
And what happens where you live impacts us.
When a heat wave hit Russia in 2010, damaging crops, the whole world saw a doubling of wheat prices, threatening food security.
Price shocks to stable crops don't just threaten food security, they can contribute to political unrest.
In Syria, drought contributed to mass migration and urban unrest.
Pay no attention to the bombs and the boots on the ground and the terrorists and all that.
Pay no attention to that.
It was climate change.
That's why I'm proud that the United States has committed to contributing $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund starting this year.
3 billion of your tax dollars going overseas.
Of course, you would not have any kind of initiative without Albert Gore standing up and spewing a little bit.
Ah, he's good.
The climate-related extreme weather events, and I won't go through them all, but every night on the television news now is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.
Every night on television now it's like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.
Thanks, Al.
And I could, believe me, show you thousands of examples.
The U.S. just relocated our first climate refugees domestically, too, right?
We just relocated our first climate refugees, yes.
John, did you know that in the United States we just migrated our first climate change refugees?
Did you know this?
It was everywhere in the news.
Did you not know?
I apparently missed that.
Missed the story.
This is a hometown story, baby.
Climate change refugees migrated because of extreme weather events.
In Houston, Texas, two weeks ago.
There you go.
We got refugees in Texas.
Two weeks ago.
Climate change refugees.
They got the 260 billion gallons.
That's three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls.
260 billion gallons.
What happened to three inches of rainfall or a foot?
Now it has to be 260 billion gallons of rainfall.
What kind of trick is this?
That's a good one.
Is this also cognitive dissonance?
Because it sounds like a lot more than, you know...
Three inches of rain.
Well, but there was a lot of water.
We had floods, but, you know.
Our first climate refugees, yeah.
In Houston, Texas, two weeks ago, they got the 260 billion gallons.
That's three and a half days of the full flow of Niagara Falls.
It's a reference within a reference.
Too many references.
I think so, too.
Less than two days into Harris County.
And it's the second year in a row that this has happened in Houston.
Today, they're evacuating.
Now it is weather.
You know that by now, extreme weather events.
Three more cities in Alberta.
70,000 people evacuated yesterday because of the fires right in the center of the Tar Sands region.
So Mother Nature turns out to be more persuasive than any of us.
The laws of physics are a little bit hard to deny.
The laws of physics now.
The laws of physics are hard to deny.
Not sure how that works into it.
I guess everything's physics.
Then there was this huge native ad that ABC ran.
I don't know if you caught this.
It was for globalchange.gov, which is all a part of this week, all a part of the Paris Agreement, part of the funding or the announcement of the funding.
It hasn't been ratified yet, but they're pushing for it.
And Jimmy Kimmel ran kind of like a PSA Which started with his lead-in, which was...
Kim has a lot of this on his show, I have to say.
This was an ad.
This was an ad.
It was funny from a comedic standpoint, but for it to end up with the URL, fullscreen, globalchange.gov, not very subtle, who paid for this airtime.
And you know it was paid.
This was not, hey, let's do something good.
No.
Big, big, big money, and they got the best writers.
They got the best producers, so they came up with a genius package.
The people you're about to see are scientists.
They're Americans.
They're not part of some imaginary conspiracy.
They're just a smarter version of us.
Watch this, and if at the end you disagree, while we're all underwater, I hope you'll be the last one who gets a snorkel.
Hi, I'm Aradna Tripadio.
I'm a paleoclimatologist and isotope geochemist.
Hi, I'm Alex Hall, and I'm a climate scientist.
I'm Jeremy Pell, and I'm a hydroclimatologist.
I'm Nina Karnofsky, and I'm a polar ecologist.
I'm Chuck Taylor, and I'm an environmental analytical chemist.
I'm John Dorsey.
I'm a marine environmental scientist.
Over the past 40 years, thousands of scientists have studied climate change.
Definitely happening.
And it's caused by human beings.
That's you and me.
And the consequences could be extremely dire.
Catastrophic.
Apocalyptic.
And here's the thing.
When we tell you all this, we're not f***ing with you.
We're not f***ing with you.
Definitely not f***ing.
Why don't we f*** with you?
Think about it.
If I wanted to screw with people, do you think I would have gone into climate science?
If we were f***ing with you, I'm sure we could do a lot better than anthropogenic climate change.
I'd probably tell you that a meteor was coming and then try to sell you a helmet.
We know about this stuff.
We have PhDs.
In science.
Science!
This is not a prank.
This is not a prank.
Once when I was younger, I locked one of my buddies in a port-a-potty, then pushed it over.
Now that's a prank.
So just to sum up, global warming real.
It's real.
Man-made.
Caused by carbon pollution.
Temperatures soaring.
Oceans rising.
Ice melting.
For real.
We're not with you.
Believe us.
If not for our generation, then for his.
You mother better not this up.
Paid for it by people who know more than we do.
Science!
Climate change is real!
There you go.
And there's nothing better or funnier than a little kid cussing like a trucker.
And they did not blur the kid's mouth so you could really see what the kid was saying.
Yeah.
Which, by the way, is child abuse.
Totally child abuse.
There are YouTube videos going around.
Thank you.
It's child abuse, making a kid cuss.
I mean, maybe he enjoys it, maybe he doesn't.
It's beside the point.
Yeah, it's not okay.
It's never okay.
Not okay.
Never okay.
By the way, the mudflats are still there.
But, man, that's a psychological operation right there.
Von Kimmel.
Yeah, that was a bit extreme, I have to say.
And by the way, my takeaway...
This climate change thing, ever since they switched it from global cooling in the late 70s to global warming, probably in the mid-80s, how often do they just go out of their way to try to convince everybody that this is going on and nobody's paying attention?
This must be very disheartening.
That is a piece that's trying to tell you that climate change is real.
Why do you need to do that piece after 20 years?
Because we need to tell the slaves what to think.
It hasn't worked for 20 years.
What makes anyone think this is going to work?
Well, it's working to a large degree.
I think that's not true.
There's about $3 billion about to flow.
Yeah, but that's small potatoes.
I'll take it.
Well, I'd take it too.
It's just like a rationalization for spending the $3 billion.
Look at our military budget.
Nobody complains about that either.
Well, it'd be interesting you bring that up.
There was another nice little piece of propaganda.
I think it's one of your favorite shows, NCIS. You like NCIS, don't you?
Oh, it's loaded with propaganda.
Yes, I do.
It's one of my favorite shows.
And the reason I like it is because I think it's one of the best structured shows ever written.
We know that there's a lot of issues with this administration and the military in so many ways, certainly when it comes to veterans.
There's no denying that the Veteran Association has been a disaster over the past, certainly, you know, couple of years that we've heard about it.
Who knows?
50 years.
Go on.
Okay.
But it hasn't gotten better, I don't think.
And Michelle Obama was in a whole episode, and she's in the...
I saw this episode.
Is Mark Harmon, is that the guy, the actor?
Yeah.
Mark Harmon is carrying the show, yeah.
Yeah, here we go.
I am so honored to have been a part of this.
I still can't believe I'm here.
Listening to everyone's stories, it made me feel like I'm not alone.
Because you're not alone, Anne.
One of the reasons we hold these roundtables is to stay connected to our military families.
Special Agent Gibbs, I've been briefed on everything you've done for Anne's family.
And before I go on...
What I notice about her acting is it is exactly the way she speaks when she's speaking in public.
Which means, of course, she's acting.
Good point.
From what I heard, you've gone above and beyond.
It's my job.
Both NCIS and Joining Forces, their support has been...
I can't thank you enough.
Ann, we should be thanking you.
I mean, we know the sacrifices our military families are making and it doesn't go unnoticed.
Nor do the sacrifices of our veterans.
Honor to serve.
Now, I understand that there's somewhere else you need to be.
Isn't that right, Special Agent Gibbs?
Absolutely.
So, about that, you know...
Like the piano.
I gotta tell you that, you know, I've acted...
I'm not a great actor.
I'm kind of more of a natural actor, but you give me a script and I can't act.
This is a problem.
I'm not good for anything.
But I've done a lot of, you know, like on Another World or, you know, as Adam Curry, all of a sudden I pop up in some shows.
And whenever I look back at it, It's always like I'm trying to act myself.
Then it's always forced and dumb.
It's hard.
It's hard to act like yourself.
But Michelle Obama does it very, very well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think your point's well taken.
That's because she's an actress.
Hey, before we have a Mother's Day thank you list that we need to talk about, And it was interesting.
I got an email.
I don't know if I put you on the reply or not.
One of our knights actually said, Hey, man.
I guess he hasn't caught up yet to all the shows.
We said, hey, you know, that thing about Plated, that food service, man, did you guys finally buckle?
You know, John was asking questions that he clearly didn't give a crap.
He was just asking him because he had to.
You know, as if we had taken money from someone for some native advertising.
So I want to do two things.
One, I just want to reiterate that when we talk about something we like or dislike, it's because we like or dislike it.
We have no other skin in any game.
That's because we don't take advertising money.
But I do want you to hear, What it sounds like when someone is doing a...
It's more like an in-show advertisement, but this was a podcast, the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.
Have a listen to this, and then you'll understand the difference between us talking about something we like, or like the Amazon Echo, and John, of course, doesn't like it.
Um, and, and someone who's doing a podcast, which is taking advertising money.
But first let's talk about bugs because this episode is brought to you by XO protein.
That's E X O protein.
And when you go to XO protein.com, you can use code Ben for a 10% discount.
Now, before you stop listening, because you think this is just yet Another protein powder or protein bar, you should know that exoprotein is actually made from crickets.
See, 80% of the world still eats over 1,600 species of insects, and insects are one of the solutions to humanity's protein dilemma.
They're actually as natural to eat as fruits and vegetables in most cultures, at least popular Western cultures that we live in.
And they're a more complete form of protein than many of the livestock alternatives.
And even though they have just as much protein as other forms of meat, Also, notice this is a fitness podcast, so it's targeted advertising.
Crickets are 20 times more efficient to raise for protein compared to cattle and produce 100 times less greenhouse gases.
Yes, apparently crickets fart less than cows.
Nice.
Anyways, they're high in protein.
They contain all the saline acids.
They've got over twice the iron of spinach.
They've got a ton of B vitamins.
And the ones from ExoBars...
are cricket protein sources that I like because they're natural, they're dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, paleo-certified, etc.
I love bugs!
Bugs, bugs, bugs.
And then he doubles down with...
And I've eaten them.
Peanut butter and jelly is a fantastic flavor.
There are no legs.
There are no antennae.
Don't worry.
They taste amazing.
I'm going to show myself old 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.
Wow.
Yeah, we do have a few people to thank, and that way we don't have to advertise eating bugs.
And I have a buggy story, too, which I'll discuss.
Well, give it to us now.
Go ahead.
All right, so I'm coming back.
I went to the city on BART, and I'm coming back on BART. This is the train.
And so I sit down next to this woman who is reading.
It's like a text.
It's like some school thing that she's got there.
And she's flipping through it.
And she gets to this page on why bugs are better to eat.
And it's a long thing.
And I'm looking at this.
And I took a picture of it, which I'll try to remember to put in the newsletter.
I'll tweet it out, too.
I'll definitely tweet it out at The Real Dvorak.
And so I said, what is this?
I said to her, I didn't mind interfering with her.
What is she doing?
And I said, let me take a picture of that.
And she said, yeah, sure.
And then we started chatting.
And she turns out to be a woman who teaches English as a second language.
And this is the book.
That the newbies coming into the country, the immigrants, are reading about eating bugs.
Why they should eat bugs?
That was the most insulting thing you could give somebody that just moved into the United States.
Do we know the title of this book?
Can we get a copy of it?
I have the...
It may be in the photo.
I just took a picture of the article.
Oh, man.
Dynamite.
Dynamite.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
It was dynamite.
And she went on about it.
And she thought it was kind of silly to have this article.
She didn't think about it until I pointed it out to her.
And I said, the vegans are behind this.
And so she cracked up.
And there was somebody else listening in and they cracked up.
I just had a great idea for a chain.
For a franchise chain.
Doug's Bugs.
Like Shake Shack.
Doug's Bugs.
Dynamite.
Another billion dollar idea that will never be followed up on.
I think in this case, it's probably wise not to follow up on it.
That's what you say.
If you watch, someone will have a version of Doug's Bugs one day.
We'll be screwed.
People that put up with this bull crap is beyond me.
Let's start thanking a few people who came in with lesser amounts than the executive producer amounts.
Sir Corwin Underwood, who was the last...
I'm sorry, I got him there.
Sir Don, the Knight of the No Agenda, has sent a note in.
Okay, we always break for nights, yep.
We always break for nights, and it's kind of a good note.
It's a little long, but here it goes.
Thank you for the many lessons on the mainstream media.
I naively thought that people did their jobs as I did when I was working back then as a scientist for the good part of the time I worked for the military-industrial complex in And one time in 1972, I admit that in order to keep the funding going, I completely ignored the evidence counter to the funded project.
So I'm guilty too.
This is a climate change argument.
Ignore the evidence counter to the funded project.
So I'm guilty too.
It must be a human failing that wants to keep the butter on the bread.
Today, we should get a birthday call out.
Let's get my birthday call.
I didn't ask for it.
Oh.
Corwin.
Okay.
Today I am 80.
Holy moly!
And retired with the number of houses that I rent out.
I sit and reflect.
I live 10 feet from the high water mark on the ocean.
Wait, this is Sir Don?
Sir Don?
Yeah, Sir Don.
Night of the no agenda.
All right, that's what I want.
Okay.
80.
Wow.
I live 10 feet from the high water mark on the ocean and it's pretty quiet.
The air is growing by leaps and bounds.
Shopping malls are coming up all over the place in the new homes.
Where will we get all the water we need and who will take our garbage?
Maybe it was what Pierre Teilhard de Chardon lectured long ago.
I can't pronounce his name.
We are creating a new organism.
Whether we are humans on the cells of a larger organism, I don't know.
I don't want to know.
I know you have thoughts about where humanity is going in the long, say, 100 or 1,000 years from now because it sure looks like we are doomed to I wrote another note.
I apologize for not contributing much lately, and I did not want to.
But then a gem of a lesson comes every now and then, and I cannot not support you, too.
Double negative.
Aloha.
Aloha to you, sir.
Thank you.
I'm going to give him a little bit of karma for that one.
80.
You've got karma.
He probably should be a ham doing Morse code, CW. That's who they are, man.
I talk to them all the time.
We'll talk.
Yeah, and they're all 80.
Yeah.
Older some.
Yeah, it keeps you going.
The one guy was at the Battle of the Bulge.
Oh, geez.
He must have been in his 90s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Battle of the Bulge.
Yeah, he was telling me all about what happened there.
And in Morse code.
That's the cool part.
Yeah.
Took a long time for him to tell his story.
Yes, it's a very low bandwidth.
Very low bandwidth.
Letter at a time.
Hey, that's the guy's mode of communication.
I'm open to it.
Andrew Young in Cincinnati, Ohio, 12345.
He says, been basking in the No Agenda Karma too long without donating.
All right.
Vlad Andre, I guess it's Giegla in London, UK. Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
One, two, three, four, five.
Stuart Allen in Trumansburg, New York.
11139.
David Vossen in Duluth, Minnesota.
108.
At some point, somebody once said that Duluth, Minnesota is America.
Oh.
John Robinette, 100.
Josh Thibodeau in Dayton, Texas, 100.
He's been behind because he's been out of the country.
On his honeymoon.
On his honeymoon.
Anonymous in Hoboken, New Jersey, 100.
Sir Herb, In Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8220.
John was on fire for the May Day show with his just date the black guy and self-immolation comments almost brought tears from laughing so hard.
Come for the deconstruction, stay for the comedy, says Sir Herb.
I have a guy.
Somebody sent in a...
I thought it was up higher.
It should have been like 108 or 100 or something.
It was a double call out to two moms.
I don't know if it got on here.
I don't know where it is.
Take a look at those other...
I'll be looking.
You move on.
I'll be looking.
Oops.
Damn it.
I just pushed the wrong button.
The thing jumped.
Okay, we did have Christopher Lemon in Olath, Kansas.
8008.
Boobs.
Matthew Helley in Gatineau, Quebec.
8008.
Boobs.
I want to thank you for doing all this hard work.
Carla Kruger in Montgomery, Alabama, and 8008 Boobs.
She says, please credit Boobs to my wonderful spouse, Joe Kruger's quest for knighthood.
Now, that's a woman right there.
Yeah, that's a keeper.
Nathaniel Westvere in Jersey City, New Jersey, 7777.
He also loves it.
It's a very long note to read to ourselves.
Sir Pete in Amsterdam.
But I just want to say, he felt he needed to tell us how no agenda saves his wife, and he...
Oh, yeah?
How?
Well, a long story.
But we're very happy about it.
I've got to read this.
I haven't read it yet, so I'll read the story.
We'll talk about it maybe on Thursday.
Okay, 7777 for Nathaniel in Jersey City.
He missed a meetup at Sparks.
Sir Pete in Amsterdam...
That's our friend, Sir Pete.
7175.
Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, 6432.
Christopher Dolan in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He is at 6171.
Now we have the call-outs to the moms.
Mm-hmm.
Starting.
And by the way, I want to mention this.
We will have...
There's going to be some overflow.
Some people are going to miss this.
They still want their moms to call.
We will do one...
We will do this on the Thursday show.
Now, do we have a problem with the newsletter?
Was there...
I saw you sent out something.
Yes.
The newsletter did not get picked up for some reason.
It looks like it got...
Some people...
I talked to one guy.
Mm-hmm.
And he says it got thrown to spam and then he sent me a note showing that he got taken off the mailing list by MailChimp for no apparent reason.
Was this by any chance...
I tweeted it.
I saw that, but you had Mother's Day in the subject line?
I don't remember what the subject line was.
That would trigger it, I think so.
Yeah, because everyone's sending Mother's Day offers.
What do you think?
Possibility?
It's a possibility.
There's no other violations that I knew of.
Sounds like something Google would do.
But I put the Mother's Day thing for sure in the second mailing everybody seems to have gotten that.
Yeah, but it had no links or anything.
It was just one text.
Right.
So it made a different score.
Interesting.
That's always something.
Bastards.
Sir Patrick Coble in Fairview, Tennessee, 5816.
Karma to all the moms out there.
That's simple.
It's to the point.
Marek Kladik.
Kladik.
Kisimi.
I think it's Kisimi.
Kisimi.
Kisimi.
That's what it is.
Happy Mother's Day to my mommy, Jana Kladikova from son Marek.
Kladikova.
Padakova.
That's what it would be.
Padakova.
Right.
Jeff McReynolds in Garland, Texas, 5816.
These are all 5816s and we promised to read the names of the moms.
Happy Mother's Day to my awesome mom, Pat McReynolds.
I thought this would be a great opportunity to honor my mom and be my first donation.
Nice.
We'll deduce you at the end.
Consider yourself dedouched.
Howard LeHarrow in Worcester, Massachusetts, 5816.
He's got no mom listed.
Oh, no, there it is.
Happy Mother's Day to Lucy.
Ryan Showalter in Providence Village, Texas.
Dame...
What is this?
Showalter?
There it is.
Is this right?
What does it say on your thing?
Which one are you looking at?
I'm looking at Showalter's.
Ryan.
Ryan Showalter, Providence Village.
Dave Chantel for being a wonderful mother.
From Teddy and Ryan, Sir Thomas of the Apocalypse.
That sounds right.
Sorry, this is going to take forever.
Lynn Fogwell in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Lynn Fogwell.
Lynn Fogwell in Raleigh, North Carolina, 5816.
Ann is the happiest, most well-adjusted person in the planet.
Happy Mother's Day to Leanne Fogwell, my wife and mother.
Here's what I'm going to tell you what the problem is.
Since these are all single lines, I have to click on each one to open up the text.
Okay, then I'm going to run through them.
Let me take over.
Step aside, son.
Okay.
Lynn Fogwell comes in twice.
Happy Mother's Day to Lorraine Mae Fogwell, my mom.
She passed away in 2002, but I'm sure she'll get the message.
Yes, we have harmonics on the podcast.
Sometimes it does get through to other dimensions.
Jason Fortune, Geneva, Illinois.
No mom mentioned.
Carl Linder from Cary, North Carolina.
Happy Mother's Day.
Isaac Piggott from Trustville, Alabama.
I'm shocked that more people don't honor great mothers like Thelma Piggott and Brenda Piggott.
William LaRock from Locust, North Carolina for Julie, Millie, Chrissy, Cassie, Susie, and Thea.
And I believe William will be a knight today with that final donation of 5816.
Paul Ranum from Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
Happy Mother's Day to Leslie Ranum.
Sir Craig Porter from Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Laura Lee.
I'm sorry, pronounced Laura Lee.
Porter from Sir Craig Porter.
Vale Pili from Boulder, Colorado.
Happy Mother's Day to Volley Pili.
Pili.
Pili.
Anonymous from McCutchenville, Ohio.
Anonymous says, Happy Mother's Day, Willow, from your son.
W-I-L-O-U-G-H. Amanda from Minnesota.
John Adam, I prefer my last name and city of red.
Does my city be anonymous on the show?
And thank you.
Happy Mother's Day.
Brian Hall from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In honor of my mother Charlene Hall, my best friend who, alas, doesn't like no agenda very much.
Well, still, cheers from Sir Fudge Fountain.
Kilo Bravo Tango.
India Yankee.
A kilo eight, Tango India Yankee.
Sorry, the eyes.
Sir Mark, Duke of Japan, 58-16.
Happy Mother's Day to Natasha.
Fantastic mother to Mila and Max.
Put your feet up today and for the rest of the month.
I hope your broken ankle heals quickly.
Love and life, but I think he also meant love and light.
Sir Mark, Duke of Japan, Japan Sea, and all disputed islands with new runways or not.
He's a poet, that man is.
Dan Reeder from Maud's Land, Queensland, Australia.
French restaurant bill plus no agenda donation is happiest mom ever.
The math checks out.
Michael Smith II, Jacksonville, Florida.
To my wife, Rachel Smith.
Robert Kane, Columbia, Alabama.
Happy Mother's Day.
Did you miss David Arlanes?
I may have.
David Arlanes from San Marcos, California.
Call out to the memory of my mother, Rosa Ricardes.
Thank you, John.
Robert Kane, Columbiana, Alabama.
Happy Mother's Day to my awesome wife and mother of our two human resources from her knight in shining underwear, Sir Arcane Code.
Dave Fugazzaro from parts in the military.
For Melody, my lovely wife and mother of my little girl.
William Granger from Marion, Indiana.
If this gets read, I just want to say Happy Mother's Day to my mom and that I can't wait to see her tomorrow.
Brian Sidorowicz from Hamburg, New York.
Denise wouldn't be listening to you if not for her.
Happy Mother's Day.
A fine mom indeed.
Roberto Gutierrez from Homestead, Florida.
In memory of Caridad Gutierrez.
First Mother's Day without her.
Now, I know what it feels like, man.
Sorry.
Michael Chamblin from Hillsboro, Ohio.
Happy Mother's Day to my wife, Katie Chamblin.
Wesley Clark, Stanley, North Carolina.
Happy Mother's Day to Abby, the mother of our two-year-old human resource.
You're one hot milf, baby!
Sarah Schisler from Midland, Texas.
Happy Mother's Day.
Caitlin Williams from Seven Springs, North Carolina.
That's 55.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yes, I'm done.
So now you can pick it up.
Now you can continue on my way.
Man, that's hard.
You do that every show.
That's hard.
Well, it's harder if there's this one-line issue.
Caitlin Williams in Seven Springs, North Carolina, 55-55.
James Zuckel in Los Angeles, California, 55-16.
Quinn Bailey in Cerritos, New...
Where is this?
Cerritos, New Mexico.
Cerritos, New Mexico, 55-16.
These are all actually...
May Day donations that carried over.
You missed May Day, by the way.
Quinn Bailey, that was Quinn.
Cinco de Mayo.
The Duke Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 55-16.
Then look over on the right if there's any blatant, blatant mistakes that refer to Mother's Day.
Sir Otaku in Louisville, Texas, 55-16.
Greg Darr in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 55-16.
Double nickels on the dime from Vladimir Landman in Sioux City, Iowa.
Brandon Welch in Faftown, North Carolina.
And he has a happy first Mother's Day to my milf fiance, Kristen Minotti.
And he had a douchebag for Mark Karsten.
Douchebag!
Okay.
Kevin Reeves.
And he's in Faf... Faf... Faf Town?
Faf Town. Faf... Faf Town. Kevin Reeves in Kalamazoo. 54-50.
Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia.
I think it's Sir Kevin Reeves, actually.
Pretty sure.
What?
I think it's Sir Kevin Reeves.
Okay, I don't...
Sir Kevin Reeves to us.
Luke Rayner in London, UK, 5533.
Daniel Tomash in Washington, D.C. Oh, Washington, D.C., 5116, which is another callback to Mayday.
And coming from Washington, D.C. is perfect.
Miles Comer in Walnut, California, 5116.
David Woodfine in Alton, Hampshire, UK. 5116.
Brian Klimzak in Naperville, Illinois.
5116.
Chris Davidson, 5116 in Bella Vista, Arkansas.
And Ben Truman and Abby Della Zuch Lester.
Great Britain.
Leicestershire.
Great Britain.
Congratulations to Leicester City.
Xavier Eret in Paris, France, where you are.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
We had a bunch of these.
There's a whole slew of these.
Bonjour, Xavier!
How are you?
Laurie Jutilla, Dame Laurie, as I recall, in Helsinki, 5116.
Richard Hyde, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK, 5116.
Robert Bruckner in Gilbert, Arizona, 5116.
Brent Bente Held Ehrlich in Biningen, Switzerland.
Is that Switzerland?
Yeah, CH.
So, Bennett Held Ehrlich in Biningen.
Biningen...
Biningen...
Die Schweiz.
Either that or it's Czechoslovakia.
Could be.
It's a CH. No, Czechoslovakia is CZ. Czechoslovakia is CZ. And CH is Switzerland.
Yeah.
If you're using internet terminology.
No.
If I'm using...
I know because it's on...
They have the...
Throughout the EU and Europe, they have stickers on the back of the cars.
It's a white oval sticker.
Oh, and CH is this.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
That would do it.
Richard Hyde, Robert Bruckner, and Gilbert has got him.
Bente, we got him.
Joshua Brickman in Holland, Pennsylvania, 51-16.
Vincent K. James in Madison, Alabama, 51-16.
And finally...
Christine Kleckner in Trenton, New Jersey.
And she wishes out a May Day call-out.
Barry Coggins drops it to $50.27.
Parts unknown.
Adam Beck has lost wages in Nevada.
$50.
The following people are $50 donors.
And I'll be read in order of name and city.
Matthew Januszewski in Chicago.
Justin Barber in Los Angeles.
Danny Luce in Shawnee, Kansas.
Ryan Vann in Mesa, Arizona.
Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona.
Edward Musereck in Memphis, Tennessee.
Tim Abel in Bergfeld, Berkshire, UK. Tim Abel.
Tim Abel.
Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
Edgar Almagyre in Wachahachie, Texas.
Wachahachie.
Something like that.
I think I have a pronunciation guide for that, actually.
Wachahachie.
Maybe I don't.
Alexander Sokovy in Moscow.
Man in Moscow.
Sir, by the way, I think right now, if I'm not mistaken.
In fact, I think he is for sure.
Francis B. Lanzer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Matthew Narocki in Green Valley Lake, California.
Robert Bruckner in Gilbert, Arizona.
There's a lot of people in Gilbert, and that's just Bruckner came in twice in the last week.
Jared Seuss Chicago.
I don't know.
In Chicago.
Sir Alan Bean over here in Oakland waving.
Sir Paul from Horseheads, $50.
And finally, Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier.
And Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sir Brett Farrell, a lot of sirs coming in here, OKC. And Jason Deluzio in Shadsford, Pennsylvania.
That concludes our long list of well-pushers and helpers.
And this, of course, was for two shows worth, so we really appreciate you guys for supporting us.
And I want to say again, thank you to Sir Cyber for putting together such a dynamite clip show for us.
I really enjoyed it.
You are very funny, Mr.
Dvorak.
I'm hilarious.
You are.
Here comes Brandy.
Yeah.
And I want to say Happy Mother's Day to my sisters, Tiffany and Willow and TMTK, known as Tina Marie the Keeper.
They're all great moms.
Our moms are dead, so we know that...
I'd like to wish them a posthumous Mother's Day, and I'd like to wish Mother's Day to my wife and also to Eric's wife, Dee.
Mm-hmm.
Who was a mother, and so we got all the mothers covered.
And all the mothers of the world.
Thanks.
Without you, we wouldn't be here, that's for sure.
And if you read the newsletter, you know that Mother's Day was not, as I always claimed.
A Hallmark invention?
Hallmark didn't pick it up for almost 10 years before they finally got a clue.
They were on the ball, though.
Ten years later.
And remember, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
Dvorak.org slash N-A. You've been dedouched.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
All right, here's the list for today.
Amanda Carl says happy birthday to her brand new daughter, Lyra.
Oh boy, I'm butchering that one.
Anyway, she was born May 2nd.
It's pronounced, oh here we go, Lyra.
Lyra, oh man.
Sir Dave says happy birthday to his wife Melody.
She celebrates on the 19th.
Carlos Pesinas says happy birthday to Jennifer Hendrick.
Sir Greg Birch turned 50 on May 6th.
We say happy birthday to him belated.
And Sir Don Knight of the No Agenda turns 80.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast Day on the Universe!
It's your birthday, yeah!
The jet lag is getting to me.
Here we go.
We have two nightings today.
We have Bill LaRock and Riley Kimball.
I have the big blade back here in the...
Hello, Jean-Claude?
You've got to pull out with two hands.
That's what she said.
All right, Bill, Riley, step on up to the podium.
Right here, either side of the lectern is great.
Now, Neil, because you're about to...
Become Knights of the No-Gen Roundtable, which is coveted and only reserved for those who have supported the show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
And I'm therefore very proud to pronunciate the Sir Bill of the Rock!
Oops!
Stop!
Stop!
Sir Bill of the Rock!
And Sir Nolan Boyd!
There we go.
For you gentlemen, we have meat and water, garlic and broccoli, espresso and hemp milk, fried bread and fembots, dildod and dramamine, crickets and cream, DMT and astral travel, black hose and MD-2020, Cuban cigars and single malt scotch, shibari and fat rooster crass, beer, cheap wine and chili dogs,
This is the best gift bag in the business.
Ha!
Ah!
Yeah.
*clap clap* Thank you.
We do have the goods in the goodie bag, for sure.
For sure.
I have one little thing that I thought you would be able to help with.
Fauci.
Fauci, he's a CDC guy.
Yeah, Fauci's the CDC guy.
And he is the Brolf guy, right?
Brolf.
Good to be here, Brolf.
That guy.
That's Fauci, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
So he had this long statement about Zika.
Of course, they're still trying to get the $1.9 billion from all the people who pledged it, from all the countries mainly.
Half a billion from the UK alone.
It was kind of ramping up the pressure.
That was the Ebola money.
Man, that's supposed to flow over to Zika.
So he's out there promoting it, and he is now talking about the, do you know the name of the mosquito?
Because he mentions it, but I couldn't really understand it well enough.
I'd have to look it up again, and then I would have to read it, because it's a very screwy mosquito.
Well, he has some stuff to say about it, and you, of course, are the resident expert as a professor in the biological sciences.
Entomologist.
Aedes aegypti is a very difficult mosquito.
The Aedes aegypti?
Gypti?
The Aedes aegypti?
I guess it's from Egypt.
Aedes aegypti is a very difficult mosquito to control and eliminate.
That doesn't mean that it's impossible to have a significant impact on it, but it will require a very aggressive, concerted effort for the reasons that I very briefly outlined.
Their ability to exist and stay in places that are difficult to eliminate mosquitoes, for example, They're like a super mosquito, it sounds like, John.
Super mosquito.
Well, you need that larvicide.
Oh, oh, it comes up!
They like to stay indoors as well as outdoors, which makes the spraying, the outdoor spraying, ineffective for those mosquitoes.
We have to spray in your homes.
Chemtrail inside.
So what one would have to do is to raise public awareness, have cooperation at the community level to get people as best as they possibly can, where they can to eliminate and diminish standing water of any type, as well as to push and try and to utilize environmentally friendly larvicides and insecticides.
Oh!
Oh!
Environmentally friendly!
I can't wait for that.
Having said all of that, it's still going to be very, very difficult to do.
Now, years ago, in the 50s and the 60s, Brazil itself made a very aggressive attempt to eliminate the 80s Egyptian mosquito.
They did it successfully, but they did it in a way that would be almost non-feasible today.
Very heavy use of DDT. Very aggressive use going into homes, essentially spraying in homes.
Now, this is one of my favorite topics.
Then he says it would be very difficult to do it today because of the accepted science and truth about DDT. And notice that Brazil didn't have this problem once they did that.
And DDT, you know, we've talked about it several times in the past years, or over the years.
People would eat DDT, dive into big mountains of it, you know, they wouldn't die.
The big problem was, I believe it was a form of eagle that was dying from it or something.
Pelican eggs.
Pelican, thank you.
Pelican, that's what it was.
The pelicans.
But DDT, I think we should revisit DDT. I think this may be part of that movement.
Huh.
He's telling me that, well, he says we have to do something.
Actually, I caught a word here.
Hold on.
Let's listen to it.
To eliminate the Aedes aegypti mosquito, they did it successfully, but they did it in a way that would be almost non-feasible today.
Almost non-feasible.
Why would it be almost non-feasible?
Because DDT is illegal, and they use DDT to do this trick.
This is a DDT. I think that you brought up a clip that I'm going to interpret as trying to reintroduce, because I heard a long, long show on PBS, it was on the public broadcasting system, on the radio, NPR, I guess, going on about how DDT was...
It could have been on the Podcast One app.
Wrongly.
Taking off the market.
Oh, really?
And I think that they are working on the propaganda necessary to reintroduce DDT to be a huge moneymaker, and it does a very good job.
The thing about the eggs may actually be wrong.
In fact, you know, the funny thing is this year, I've seen no pelicans in the Bay Area, which is very strange.
But there's something about...
Now, hold on.
Hold on.
Right now, stop.
Collaborate and listen.
Is there a company that we can invest in now that will be producing the DDT when the propaganda comes to light?
I think Chevron would be a good one.
They make all these bug killers and they can make DDT in the drop of a hat, I'm sure of it.
Who historically manufactured Chevron?
Well, let me see.
Book of Knowledge.
Who was the manufacturer of DDT? Sorry, I don't have the answer to that question.
Now then, how about this?
Book of Knowledge.
Wikipedia DDT. DDT is a colorless, crystalline, tasteless, and almost odorless organic chloride known for its insecticidal properties and environmental impacts.
Tell me if you'd like me to read more.
Oh yes, please read more.
Thanks.
Good work.
Chloricide.
Is that what she said?
No, she didn't say chloricide.
Did Monsanto ever make it?
I don't know.
I doubt it, personally.
Can you talk to Horowitz?
What an opportunity!
Yeah, I think you're actually correct.
This is a buying opportunity.
That's assuming my theory is correct.
Who cares?
You're not going to lose a lot of money investing in a chemical company.
Now they're going to get screwed.
True.
I can make a couple hundred dollars.
I'd love to try that.
Let's listen to the rest of him.
Maybe we'll learn more.
In the 50s and the 60s, Brazil itself made a very aggressive attempt to eliminate the 80s Egyptian mosquito.
They did it successfully, but they did it in a way that would be almost non-feasible today.
Very heavy use of DDT, very aggressive use going into homes, essentially spraying in homes, Cleaning up areas, things that I think the general public would not be amenable to accepting.
So it can be done, but historically, it was done in a way that might not be acceptable now.
Wow, he's really couching it, isn't he?
Sounds like it.
That's good.
Well, the chat room's saying that Monsanto definitely also produced it.
You know, some of them are sure looking it up.
I'm just looking for the favorites.
If Chevron's going to do it, I'm sure they're a favorite.
They're Victoria Nuland's second home.
It's dynamite.
Oh, before I forget, a reminder that we do have show summaries for the No Agenda show.
And we have our producer, our producer who does, it's at blugs.com, and that is, sir, hold on a second, I'm sorry.
Moses Hall, who's also done great jingles for us.
Okay.
And so it's blugs, B-L-U-G-S dot com slash N-A. And what's cool about it, this is what I love about our network, our, you know.
So you look at 8, so here's 821 Manteruptors.
I click on it.
It has a whole bunch, it has a summary of the next each summary, a timestamp.
You click on that, it goes over to noagendaplayer.com to that timestamp.
Oh, okay.
There's some software out there that can do that.
That's great that he's got this up.
But it's also two different projects connected.
I love that.
Really good.
Really, really good.
Really, really good.
I think he also publishes the whole thing, all of the episodes in one large PDF, if you want that.
Well, I should also mention, and this is my big fear about all these initiatives, Although it's not really a fear.
One of our producers sent me a note saying, noagendastickers.com, I guess which ran out of steam or ran out of time, has been picked up by a Chinese porn site.
Nice.
So now you go to noagendastickers.com and it's like some crazy porn from China.
Well, I'm on my way.
Hold on.
Stop the show!
Crazy porn from China!
We love that.
What do we got here, people?
Oh.
Hmm.
Takes a little while to load.
Yeah.
That's what she said.
Hey, yo.
Okay.
Go on.
I'll show.
It's not my category.
It's not my category.
Okay.
What else, Jean-Claude?
Oh, tech news!
You said you had a tech news segment.
Yeah, I went to...
Wait, wait, wait!
We need to do our tech news, Gene.
Where's tech news?
I always do this.
I can't find it.
There's something with the tech news jingle.
Yeah, I know.
There's something with the tech news jingle that I need to put it somewhere on the desktop.
You should make a copy of it with a different title, so you have two of them to look for.
Okay.
Well, there's so many techs in titles.
The only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
iPhone schmy phone.
There we go.
Time for tech news, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go.
John C. Dvorak, well-known tech analyst, with the tech news.
So I went to the demonstration and opening of the new IMAX, laser IMAX, that's in San Francisco, I was invited.
What is new about this?
Well, it uses a laser for a light source.
Oh.
And it doesn't use any prisms.
It actually has three separate DLPs and three separate laser light sources, blue, green, and red, that hit each one of those directly.
Right.
And it gives you, so the image, and they gave us a demo of a bunch of the images, and they gave you a, and this is a screen, full-size IMAX screen in San Francisco at the AMC, with 100 feet wide, 80 feet high.
So that's a big screen.
100 feet?
Yes, 100 feet wide, 80 feet high.
And so we got to see that.
In fact, I took a movie inside the projection room.
I think somebody might want to look at that, so I'm going to post that on YouTube.
That's kind of interesting.
The guy's lecturing us about stuff.
And so what I learned, though, besides this new projector that they're rolling out, And it's actually two projectors, two 4K projectors side by side, and they're either giving you a 2D image that is combined two images, they run both of them, or they can do a 3D with the 2D. So they overlay those two images entirely, or is it for the 3D effect?
Yeah, they're overlaid.
They overlay them or can do 3D option.
Oh, cool.
And so what I learned, which I thought was kind of interesting, I don't know how many people thought it was interesting, but me, but it seems as if most of the IMAX movies are upscaled with original IMAX content within the movie.
For example, Star Wars The Force Awakens movie, or Judy, or whatever you want to watch.
But there's only one part of it that's actually shot with pure IMAX gear.
Oh, really?
And with a lot of these movies, they apparently go from the IMAX, like with this giant screen, they will use the entire screen for some IMAX content, and then drop it back down to Letterboxd.
Right in the movie, you don't really notice it.
But you don't notice it.
You don't.
In fact, they did a couple of examples of it.
Because this damn screen is so huge and they have stadium seating and it goes straight up.
It's like in a baseball stadium.
And you don't notice it so much.
And when they go to Letterboxd, you don't really notice it.
But they shoot certain scenes in all IMAX. I guess it uses so much bandwidth or so, you know, just costly.
Very few movies, although there are some, are shot entirely in pure IMAX. Most of them are upscale from 2K. And the upscale is so tiny.
But isn't that just the resolution?
I mean, it's shot on 70mm film.
Then they transfer it.
You mean it's shot digitally?
Those days are over.
Forget it.
That's done.
It's shot digitally?
Yeah, there's one Aeroflex camera, which apparently costs a mint to lease.
And this camera is used both for the newest iMac stuff, and it's used for the Adobe HDR. Oh, wow.
Same exact camera.
And it's got this, it's just this huge and very expensive Aeroflex digital camera.
And they're going away from the 70mm.
In the projection room, if anyone ever watched this movie, there's still the 70mm projector in there, in a big box, and then the two new digital ones.
So they're not, you know, they're moving away.
Are there still cases where it's shot digital and then they print it to 70mm for IMAX theaters, or do they all pretty much, they're all going digital now?
I think it's pretty much all digital.
Dynamite.
So film will basically not be preserved.
It'll be just like Flickr.
It'll be preserved in somebody's garage.
Yeah, on some drive that has a connector that doesn't work.
There's that.
What is this Thunderbolt stuff?
You got an old IMAX? Let me finish my little anecdote.
So they showed us, in the Star Wars movie, there's only one set of scenes that was actually shot in IMAX. And it's that scene, if you remember, at the beginning of the movie where the black guy and the girl first meet, and then they run around as they're getting shot at, and then they jump in Han Solo's old device, that old ship, and take off, and then they get chased around, they go in a hole, and they're all over the place, and then the other planes are chasing and get blowed up.
And it's Fliverr.
It's about a 10-15 minute scene and they showed it to us in pure IMAX and the rest of the movie is kind of shot in I don't know what and they're upscaled.
So this is the way they're doing it.
They're shooting these important scenes in pure IMAX and the rest of it is questions just big.
But eventually they'll do it all in the big digital format, right?
I think it's all shoot digitally anyway, it's just not necessarily shot in the IMAX Super Res.
Right, so it's just a cost issue.
I'm sure it is, and a storage issue.
Yeah, you think?
And speed of storage, you know, if you're not compressing.
I don't know enough about it, but...
Anyway, you see this, it's a nice, impressive thing, and I asked, the CEO was there, so I got to chat with him for a while and ask him about Dolby.
And who's that?
Who's the CEO? I don't have his name.
But CEO of what?
Of IMAX? Yeah, IMAX is a corporation that has shares.
Oh, cool.
And did you introduce yourself as a podcaster when you asked these questions?
I'm John the Podcaster, and I'll be talking about IMAX on the podcast.
So I did talk about IMAX on the podcast, but it was interesting.
I had a good time and got to see a lot of demos.
Cool.
Cool.
The screen, I have to say, I wouldn't mind having one of those screens.
So overall, your experience on a scale of 1 to 10?
I thought it was an 8.
That's coming from you.
That's pretty good.
Sorry?
Coming from you, that's pretty good.
Yeah, it is.
It was enjoyable.
They showed us a copy.
We got to watch Captain America bull crap, whatever it was.
I'm getting sick of these Marvel films.
And what would have made it a 10?
What was missing?
There were no dancing girls.
There was no food.
I mean, there was a little snack for breakfast that wasn't that interesting.
Bagels.
It's taking a little more to be a tan.
Tans are hard.
Yeah, I agree.
Hey, okay, I have my review of the Apple Watch.
Go to an IMAX movie.
You'll see that it goes letterboxd a lot.
Sorry, you totally broke up there.
Yeah, what time was that?
I've been tracking this, by the way.
255.
Oh.
Now, that sounds like your connection.
But don't worry, it's good enough.
No, no, it's not my connection.
I can't guarantee you.
Oh, okay.
My connection?
I'm not sure.
I think it might be Skype or something.
This has been going on a very long time.
I've been tracking it, and you've been blacked out for very short periods of time.
30 minutes again.
Yeah.
You know, router flap.
There's something going on.
Router flap, yeah.
Anyway, so you had tech news.
Yeah, so I acquired an Apple Watch with a discount, I will say.
Was it a five-finger discount?
No, it was a family and friends discount.
Oh.
Yeah, from Tina's daughter who works part-time at the Apple Store.
Oh!
So she can give away discounts.
It was actually different.
We were out in that area and we dropped in to say hi to her.
And then we're talking.
And I have to say, she was pretty brave.
She says, hey, since you're here, Adam, why not show you the Apple Watch?
And she went into her spiel.
She sold you.
And here's how she said, from your style, I think that the butterfly class would be exactly what would be good for you.
And the programming came over me.
I didn't know what happened before I knew it.
I was walking out with an Apple Watch.
But thinking, okay, we can have a real review.
I have hate for the Apple Watch, so it was very difficult for me.
So is this her daughter?
Her daughter, yeah.
And she obviously is a good salesperson, I think.
Oh, they go through tons of training, five interviews before you're even hired.
I can hear the wedding bells already.
What does that have to do with it?
It runs in the family.
Sales.
Go on.
Sales!
Sales!
She's playing long game.
You are a car, Dvorak.
Okay.
All right.
So first of all, feel free to jump in with questions because this is a real honest review.
And we've been very negative towards the whole cult of it, the hail apple.
And that is, of course, the number one problem I have with it on my wrist.
So now, of course, like buying a 10-speed bike or a certain type of car, now I see these things everywhere.
I'm like, oh, my God.
And it's so visible.
And somehow it's not the same as your phone because that's in your pocket.
Okay, you take it out.
It all kind of looks the same.
But the watch is very, very distinct.
And then you go, oh, I'm wearing the same watch.
Am I the same person?
Am I in a club?
I find it, in general, ugly.
Just ugly.
It's an ugly thing.
But that kind of being in the cult, it's a little odd.
Now, I wanted to use it for two reasons.
One, I wanted to configure the face to have all this, you know, the watch face with all the information that would be handy for me, such as local time where I was in Europe and then Austin time so I could remember, you know, showtime, weather, all of this stuff.
I've always liked dual times.
I usually have, you know, UTC. In fact, I had that programmed, UTC as well.
And, you know, yeah, it's okay.
I have the information.
I don't have to calculate.
But, you know, there's lots of watches that can do that.
It doesn't have to be an Apple Watch at all.
Then, I had it configured for only certain things to alert me.
So, you know, when you get a text message or a WhatsApp or a calendar notification, those are kind of the things.
And you can determine, you know, who, what, or whatever comes through.
So, I just said pretty low.
I don't want a lot of notifications.
It is cool because you get a notification around the house, you know, like walking around, get a notification.
I look, okay, that's so-and-so.
Yeah, you can reply from it if you're willing to speak like a moron to Siri and then you wind up doing it 20 times because you can't type it.
So that's completely stupid.
You look like a douchebag talking into your watch.
But the notifications are rude.
It's just rude, because what happens is, and I noticed this when we were in Amsterdam and Paris, and then I get a notification, I'd look, and then I'd see Tina looking at me like, am I boring you or something?
You're looking at your watch?
Because that's exactly what it feels like.
And then you're really conscious, like, I want to look at my watch when they're not looking.
Oh, okay, quick, take a quick look.
And I know people are having the same thing.
Can you do the following?
Yes.
You're talking to somebody, yak, yak, yak, and then you go and you jump.
You say, oh, hold on.
I hate to do this, but my watch just told me something important happened by giving me a jolt.
I like that.
That would be a good way.
Then you look at it.
Hold on one second.
Then you look at it.
Hello one second.
Oh, jeez.
What is wrong with this watch?
I'm sorry I own it.
Go on.
Okay.
What were you saying?
All right.
Then you have the health app, and it's measuring your heartbeat and your steps.
I found it interesting at the end of the day, as we were walking around town, to say, oh, we walked 10,000 steps, or near the last day was 15,000 steps.
How many miles?
I don't know.
I have not found that, if it's in there.
What?
I couldn't find it.
Very complicated app.
That's what Fitbit gives you, the miles.
I'm sure it's in there because they have a lot of data.
Here's the thing that really pisses me off, the heart rate.
Because, you know, you get these alerts.
Like, oh, your heart rate is 118.
I'm like, is that good?
Is that bad?
My heart rate's going up because of the alert.
Like, what is this?
And you know when these...
Well, there's a couple times when my heart rate goes up.
But it's always trackable back to the opening of our show, to the nighting ceremony.
You can see it right on time.
You can see my heart rate go up.
I'm energized.
I'm yelling.
I'm screaming.
Yeah.
And then once in a while you'll get a reading where it'll say, oh, your heart rate is 198.
Like, that can't be right.
198.
I can see giving you bogus numbers.
It must be bogus numbers.
But now you're conscious of it.
And then even Tina's saying, hey man, that's too high.
I'm like, but I'm sure it's a bogus number.
Yeah, maybe not.
I don't know.
Maybe not.
This is bad.
I'm concerned.
No, I'm not.
Huh?
That's bad.
It's like a battery on a Tesla.
My battery's going down.
Will I make it?
Do not like it.
Yeah, that's the problem with those electric cars.
Except for the Volt.
Yeah.
Although, of course, you know, you can't get more energy out of something you put into it.
So, you know, anyway.
Fine.
Then the biggie for me, which was really disappointing, is the maps.
I really, really hoped that we could walk through the streets of Paris with my phone in my pocket and the subtle haptic twitches on my wrist, which felt very comfortable as a Tourette's sufferer, And, you know, to turn right and to turn left.
And always walk in the wrong direction.
It's always, you know, you're standing somewhere and then it decides a different route and you go that way.
And then it says, oh no, you go backwards.
And meanwhile, Tina just pulled out Google Maps.
Fantastic.
And then you can do Google Maps.
You can send it to the watch.
But, you know, it's...
Also, Apple Maps, when it says right, it's kind of like a curved...
Off to the right, not a complete 90 degree angle arrow, but more like 45 degree, which is like, is it a curve?
Is it to the right?
I don't know.
It's horrible.
Really, really disappointing.
And everything takes forever, especially when I was overseas.
I have the T-Mobile free data forever everywhere, but you're like 2.5 or 3G, so it's pretty slow data.
So then if you're connecting to pull up anything, like, oh, I'll use the KLM app to see if the plane is on time.
It's like 25 seconds because it has to talk to the watch.
The watch has to talk to the slow network.
It's like I'm putting slow pieces in on purpose.
Complete, complete fail.
I can see no case for this product.
Can you get your money back?
No, but I'm going to sell it on eBay.
Or what is the thing Leo always talks about?
Gazelle.
Gazelle, don't they take Apple Watches by now?
I'm sure they do.
Ben, I think just the whole feeling you're a member of a cult, that really bothered me.
It was very, very hard.
Oh, and Apple Pay.
Oh, this is hilarious.
Do you want to look like a dick?
Use Apple Pay.
Because you've got to swipe your wrist upside down, and then your hand is covering the terminal so you can't see if it's done it or not.
And then you pull your hand away too soon, and then it's like, oh, rejected, they have to do it again.
And the people behind you are like, who is this asshole?
What is he doing?
I run into that with the, I say the same thing, it always works for me.
It fails sometimes.
It just fails.
I mean, it doesn't always work.
My favorite one is the boarding pass on your phone.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a number of things.
I've witnessed this a couple of these.
One, I've witnessed all of these.
One, it doesn't work.
And so the whole line stops while they're going back and forth.
They bring somebody over and then they're trying to get it to work and it never works.
And you're standing there.
Waiting for this douchebag to get this thing to work.
And you've got a paper thing, you just throw the paper at him, you're on your way.
Okay, fine.
That's one of the things.
The other one, somebody starts to use it.
This has only happened once that I've seen, but I'm sure it happens every once in a while.
A phone rings.
Oh, that's another good one.
Why were they putting it on?
Oh, yeah.
It blanks out the screen.
So is Jim's calling.
And so they got to go.
I can't talk right now.
And so they yak a few minutes because they got to take the guy off the phone without being rude.
And so then they get the thing.
And then they got to go fiddle around on the phone to get the boarding pass to come back up because it's not right there on the backside of the phone call.
It's just like, what is the point of this?
You've got a printer at home.
Just print the damn boarding pass or print it in one of the kiosks instead of going through this, look, I've got a phone with my boarding pass on it.
Well, it gets worse, and this, of course, relates directly to industrial society and its future.
A fine manifesto you should read one time by some guy, also known as the Unabomber, How technology is really not helping us.
This is one example, but in the Sheraton Hotel in Amsterdam at the airport, brand new hotel, we were hungry.
We were in late.
We got in late from the train.
I'm going to go find some needs.
I walk out and say, hey, refreshment center.
I go over there.
It's a vending machine.
The big one, but it had all kinds of Dutch snacks and other, like something that we could snack on seemed good.
I stick my card in and it freezes up.
And then freezing up, I mean, there's a little display.
It says, put in your card, pull out your card, and it freezes up, and it's not working.
I go down to, or I go up to the eighth floor.
I put it in, pull it out, and it says, no server found.
So what used to be easy, I put in a couple of quarters, a couple of quarters, or even the money thing in the little slot.
No.
Server not found.
I go down to the sixth floor.
And I put my card in and it says, this account is already in use.
Oh!
Classic.
And now I've ridden the elevator three times.
And there's this sign of a burger and fries that they're selling that they say, hey, call us.
We're selling this in the hotel.
And it had aroma advertising.
It had the smell of a hamburger coming out of the sign.
Who needs that?
Well, what happened was, I'm like, I need a burger!
And I went down to the club floor.
But I go up to the guy and say, hey, I smelled the burger.
He says, oh, the kitchen just closed.
Are you kidding me?
But it was just that the whole vending system throughout the whole hotel went out because it couldn't find the server.
I mean, this is bad.
This is really bad.
Yes.
And I can see the guys who sold that to him.
Oh, this is great.
We have tracking.
We know exactly what person...
Oh, that's like the...
Because you're putting in your room key.
The parking meters.
Yeah, you're putting...
The parking meters in, I think, actually Berkeley and the ones in San Francisco, the parking meters are now all, you know, credit card.
If you put a coin in there, it chokes on it.
But so you go into these parking meters and a lot of them, especially the ones that take care of a whole block and there's one big machine you have to go to.
Pay here, it says.
You go there and it's like the sun is hitting this non-reflective LCD screen.
You can't read it.
It's not an L.A. It's an L.C. Oh, right.
You can't even read it.
Yeah.
So the sun is pounding.
That's like all the gas stations.
Gas stations around the country are like that.
You can't read it.
You got to cup it.
And then you find the Jokers.
And this is the one.
As soon as I saw one of these.
The first time I saw it, I said, oh, my.
This I know isn't going to work.
Because graffiti guys.
They got the little can with them.
And they walk past one.
And they see, boom, right over the screen.
Yeah.
And then you're standing there.
And then you're trying to figure it out.
And then it's like...
Welcome to Gas Station TV! Oh yeah, that's another one.
Right.
LCDs.
Or LEDs.
No, it's LCDs.
I think we should cap it.
Are we done?
Yeah.
iPhone!
My phone!
And of course, I obviously want to say that I appreciate Tina's daughter selling me the watch.
There's no bad reflection upon her.
She did a great job.
She shows that Apple knows how to do it.
They sure know how to do something.
By the way, our text news thing is always grousing.
This is what's missing in a lot of these things.
Everyone's too positive about how great it's all going to be.
It's all crap!
So let's listen to a short clip from Rachel Ray.
And I want you to pay attention to the audiences making noise at this most banal of cooking tips by Rachel Ray.
Anytime you're making burgers, once you get the meat and the ingredients you're spicing it with together, push it back together into one even mound.
Score the mound with the side of your hand into equal portions so that as you make the burgers, all the burgers are the same size.
Wow!
This is a genius idea!
Yeah, they all gasped.
What a great idea!
I can't believe our luck that we're here to witness this.
Beautiful.
I got another little clip.
There's a new woman that came in at Voice of America to kind of run it.
The new CEO, I guess the other guy was a jerk.
They implied that throughout.
This was on C-SPAN. And some guy just, this is a guy from NPR that comes out to ask, this is the question and answer moment, and he's asked this question, but in there I think he drops a little interesting, to me, an interesting nugget.
I don't know what I'm playing.
Oh, I'm sorry.
NPR VOA meeting.
I got it.
Welcome.
Jeff Rosenberg, NPR. One of my jobs in my 38 years there was as head of NPR worldwide.
Which is the international distribution side, doesn't come to, as David can tell you, doesn't come to the attention of the government unless it occasionally has some friction with the government.
Fortunately, that hasn't happened in quite a while.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You heard it too.
Fortunately, it hasn't happened in quite a while, because we're in bed with the government.
Jeez.
Who are approving it all and making sure we do all the right things so we don't get blocked from our broadcast.
Yeah.
Jeez.
Hello, Mr.
Smith and Munt.
Are you rolling in your graves yet?
I don't even know if they're dead, but they should be.
They should die of a heart attack.
Propaganda.
New product coming out.
This could have been in the tech news.
Of course, it's not really tech.
It's kind of tech.
You've got to listen to this report.
I'm surprised this isn't getting national attention.
KFC fingernail polish.
KFC thinks you should take its finger-looking good slogan literally.
The chain has produced an edible nail polish.
It comes in two flavors and colors.
Original, the beige color, and hot and spicy in red.
Customers paint the polish on their nails, let it dry, and then lick it away.
Right now, they just have it in Hong Kong.
But the company is asking customers to pick their favorite flavor to go into mass production.
Remember lickable wallpaper from Willy Wonka?
Yeah.
It's a fantastic product.
I'll tell you this thing sells like hot kids.
Oh yeah, the kids will love it.
Kids love this.
They'll be sitting in class and what we'll get, I can already predict the news report, the new edible nail polish has been banned in this school because kids were doing it all day, licking each other's fingers.
Hey, pull my finger!
Smells like poop!
You can just see all the problems coming.
I think you're right.
You can see the problems coming.
Oh, man.
Let's see.
I have...
Do you have another...
I have something that actually just needs to be discussed.
You can just play the clip while we're talking about it.
This was Turkish Parliament the other day.
Oh, God.
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.
You know, the prime minister, quote-unquote, left.
Everyone was...
Quit.
Quit.
This was about a vote to give the entire parliament indemnity.
Erdogan is, you know, in his mega castle there, his palace.
And no one is looking at how evil this guy is.
And now he's got one of his son-in-laws, like, coming into the picture.
All of a sudden, this guy's the advisor.
You watch, he's going to be the new prime minister.
It's crazy.
And the guy who left, the Prime Minister who left, he was the key guy in the negotiations with the EU. So we don't even know if that deal is on or not.
And the visas, they're happening.
They're happening by the end of this month.
Yeah.
I'm surprised that it's actually happening.
Like, I thought, I didn't think it was going to go through.
I know you said it wouldn't happen, but...
That's what I said.
They're desperate.
They're desperate.
They don't, people, they don't know what to do.
And Erdogan is just, he's laughing at him.
Ha!
Give me your money.
Six billion is going to be more now.
You know, he's put the journalist in jail for five years for showing Turkish tanks, materiel being sent to rebels in Syria.
There's actually another little aspect.
I have the Turkish journalist being sent to jail, and I think it's worth playing.
Yeah, because there's a tidbit.
Turkish journalist John Dundar has been handed a sentence of five years and ten months by a court in Istanbul for revealing state secrets.
The charges relate to a report that he wrote about alleged arms shipments from Turkey to Syrian rebels.
The verdict came just hours after he survived an attempt on his life by a gunman outside the courtroom.
Police arrested the assailant who shouted traitor as he fired at least two shots at Dundar, who was briefing reporters about his trial.
Critics say that the trial is yet another attempt by the Erdogan government to stifle freedom of the press.
Dundar is editor-in-chief of the Jamhuriyet newspaper.
Let's bring in correspondent Dorian Jones, who is standing by for us in Istanbul, with reaction to all of this.
So, Dorian, it's not just Jundar, as we mentioned.
His colleague also, Erdem Gül, received a similar sentence.
What does this mean for freedom of the press in the country?
Well, I think we'll just add to concern that the freedom of press is all but ending in the country.
There's been a lot of condemnation, travesty, final nail in the coffin of freedom of press.
Turkey's already rated, according to one pressure group, as 151 out of 180 countries for press freedom.
And it's the second worst jailer in the world after China for journalists.
Thirty-three are currently in jail as we speak.
And this newspaper has already, early this year, two of its leading columnists were sentenced to two years in prison for publishing a copy of the controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoon.
So it is this concern that what's little remaining independent media, most of which is under the government control, is slowly being snuffed out.
So with so many people there in jail, one might assume that this might not be the last of these verdicts.
Just remind us, if you will, just briefly, Dorian, what is the background to all of this?
What exactly were they charged with?
Well, they were in charge of a whole host of crimes, working for a terrorist organization seeking to overthrow the government.
These were thrown out by the judge, but they were convicted on publishing state secrets.
Now, there is a strong whiff of political, as has been a politically motivated prosecution.
The Turkish president has been in the forefront of demanding their prosecution.
And the fact is that what they wrote had been published by another newspaper only six months before.
Which newspaper was that?
He mentions it later, but one of the state newspapers.
But this has been published.
Huh.
So the story they're getting thrown in jail for has already been published by somebody else who wasn't thrown in jail.
Hmm.
This is a mess.
And the EU, they don't know what to do, but okay, whatever.
Yeah, we'll make him member.
Yeah, come on in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got one more clip that would be of interest.
This, because you know one of my other theses, that I get most of them, that the Brexit is not going to happen because the British are going to be cowed.
Manipulated psychologically.
Yeah, they're going to be manipulated psychologically to vote not to leave the EU. And if that doesn't work, we can always rig the election.
Yeah, but you don't want to have to do that.
That's a lot.
That's going overboard.
But we have our triggers.
You can do it if you really want to give them crap.
So let's listen to the latest.
Of course, this comes from Deutsche Welle.
So they're, you know, against them leaving.
Let's listen to the latest.
Britain is a proud country with a rich history but many people there would like to see a future outside the European Union.
Surveys in recent months have shown a nearly even split between supporters and opponents of the Brexit.
But if voters do choose to go it alone in June it could be costly.
A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation concluded that if Britain left the EU, its GDP would decline by up to 3% by 2030.
The costs could be as much as 300 billion euros.
Studies by the OECD point to even greater costs for Britain.
The organisation says a Brexit would deliver a blow to the country's economy.
The adverse effects for other EU members would be lower, depending on how much they rely on Britain for trade.
In Germany, GDP would decline no more than three-tenths of a percent by 2030.
But Berlin would have to contribute two and a half billion euros more to the EU budget to make up for payments no longer coming from London.
The political fallout is likely to be more problematic.
A Brexit could even threaten the European Union's very existence.
Okay.
300 billion is a new number.
Yeah, 2030, which is not a new year.
That's the year when people like us don't care anymore.
And the new generation won't care anymore either.
So this is continuing.
It's all subtle.
It's good enough.
Well, here's what could happen.
It would do two things at once.
Let's say there's someone who wants two things to happen.
A well-timed, multi-continental terrorist attack, both in the United Kingdom and in the United States, before June 23rd, would put Donald Trump in a position of being the next President of the United States and would guarantee the Brexit.
Okay, so that won't happen.
Put it in the red book for me, just in case.
You think it's going to happen?
Look, you know how when the rap guys get up and say, I thank God for the lyrics?
Well, I thank God because he gave this.
He just put that in my head.
I just wanted to get it out there.
I don't want to ignore it.
Okay, I'm going to put in a pre-Brexit attack.
Multi-continental.
Multi-country.
Multi-continental.
Oh, well, it's multi-country to me.
But I'll tell you, if you want to make ISIS or whatever look really strong, you do that, pop, pop, couple places at the same time.
Yeah, that's the old Al-Qaeda technique.
Exactly.
Well, they're going to bring it back.
They're bringing everything back.
Well, they're bringing stuff back.
There he is.
I got one more.
Okay, then that's it, because we are long today, my brother.
Are we?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, we are.
Okay, this will be a lot.
I just want to get this out of the way because this is only reported.
I have no idea.
This was not on PBS. This was not on Democracy Now!
This was not on ABC. I did not check NBC. But this was on CBS. And it seems like a big deal story to me.
Today's a political story that says...
Green zone.
Yes.
Today, a political crisis has much of Baghdad in lockdown.
Thousands of security forces were deployed to prevent a repeat of last week when protesters broke into the so-called green zone, which houses Iraqi government offices, foreign embassies, and the United States Embassy.
And swimming pools.
Charlie Daggett is in Baghdad tonight.
Charlie?
We saw those heavily armed security forces everywhere today, Scott.
New blast walls that sprung up overnight.
Rows of armored personnel carriers, even tanks.
And we were forbidden from filming any of it.
And here's why.
Last weekend, thousands of protesters stormed the Green Zone and overran Parliament, accusing the government of corruption.
It looked like an uprising.
They were acting largely on the orders of Mactana al-Sadr, the powerful Shiite cleric whose militias fought raging street battles against U.S. soldiers at the height of the insurgency in 2004.
Today, the massive security cord meant his supporters were confined to Sadr City, the sprawling Shia neighborhood on the edge of Baghdad.
It hasn't changed much in the years since the war has ended.
We met Saeed al-Bataad, who told us why he took part in the Green Zone protest.
They don't care about us, he said.
Look at the poor, the hungry.
There's no electricity, no drinkable water, and no jobs.
How shameful is that?
We asked Maktana al-Sadr's deputy, Hakim al-Zamali, about Sadr's strategy.
Is there a danger of destabilizing this government at a time when this country is at war with ISIS? For 13 years, all we've gotten are bombings, corruption, very little security, a weak economy, and ISIS, he said.
We've run out of time.
We cannot wait any longer.
Those guys got an even better goodie bag than we do.
And they say they won't wait any longer.
Scott, they'll be back at the Green Zone if their demands for government reforms are not met.
And U.S. military officials say that 25 more Marines have been sent to the U.S. Embassy inside the Green Zone as a precaution.
Oh, man, you're so right.
I'm glad you got this clip because I saw it.
Out of the corner of my eye somewhere.
Maybe it was at the hotel.
The Green Zone is like a city within a city that's supposed to be protected ground.
Yeah, and these protesters.
I mean, could this be like a mock protest or something?
Because clearly if something's going to happen in our embassy, we're going to send troops to Green Zone.
This place is not supposed to be broached, breached, broached, breached.
Yeah.
Well, that's nice and uplifting.
Do you have anything to get us out?
Is there anything funny that I can follow that with?
I probably do have one little shorty.
Let me take a look.
Thank you, because I'm totally bummed out.
I'm dizzy.
You seem to be dizzy.
Yeah, well, I'm jet-lagged.
Yeah, you should be jet-lagged.
Yeah.
Oh, I do have a...
I'm going to save this for the next show.
The Thursday show is good stuff.
There was also North Korean Report Science...
Oh, I got the biggest kick out of this teaser that was used.
I think it was by David Muir or one of these guys.
But just listen to this teaser and...
When you hear the teaser, this is the...
I'll tell you what the teaser is.
It's the Stop the Press' Russian Athletes.
When you hear the teaser, it's a no-shit, you know, kind of a response you have to have.
Whistleblowers have told 60 Minutes about Russian athletes using banned drugs at the Olympics.
Oh no!
I'm shocked!
I'm shocked, I tell you.
I get the biggest kick out of that teaser.
Oh man.
Really?
Holy mackerel!
Alrighty then.
Ah, okay.
Well, everybody, I'm glad that we could meet again on this program.
I'm happy to be back home.
Although I had a fabulous time with Tina the Keeper.
We like each other a lot.
What?
Nothing!
All right.
If you talk, talk in the mic.
Exactly.
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The fact that they both have unpronounceable Italian names appears to be the theme.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
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I know I was a little late tonight.
I was running on CBT.
I have heard teenagers say that things don't feel real until you see them on social media.
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The inequality is too low.
The main streets never again be allowed to threaten Wall Street.
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