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	Take your soma, take your pills, be happy.
	Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.
	And Sunday, May 15, 2016, time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 825.
	This is no agenda.
	Hobnobbing with the Washington and New York elites and values.
	And broadcasting live from the Big Apple and FEMA Region 2, New York, New York, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I see the Zephyr.
	And it's late.
	Where's Mussolini?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning.
	Yes, yes, Mussolini would make them run on time.
	Well, here we go.
	Another dated reference.
	Yeah.
	Well, there you go.
	That's us.
	It was Mussolini, man.
	I'm here in New York City.
	Yes, you're in New York City.
	Yes, I'm near Soho.
	Are you downtown?
	Oh, not quite downtown.
	Not all the way.
	But we're close enough.
	We're within walking distance of Canal Street, let's put it that way.
	Who cares about anything else?
	Yeah, that's pretty downtown if you ask me.
	You know, Canal Street has, of course, changed.
	I had one request to pick up some bogative fake handbag, and you used to go to Canal Street in New York City, and there'd be hundreds of guys in stores.
	Yeah, like, hey, what do you want?
	What do you want?
	You want sunglasses?
	What do you want?
	And I knew that it had changed because I know that the copyright police had cracked down.
	That must have been five or six years ago, John, when that happened.
	I think it may have been longer than that.
	It's been pretty dead for a while.
	So I said to Tina, I said, don't worry about it.
	Watch this.
	And sure enough, on a corner, there's a spotter.
	He's like, hey, you want a handbag?
	You want this?
	You want that?
	Blah, blah.
	I said, yeah, I'm looking for this.
	And then she brings you to another guy, and then that guy takes you to a meeting spot near the McDonald's, which is two blocks away, and there's like 50 tourists hanging out.
	And then the guys go, and they go away, and they come back.
	Of course, you negotiate a price based upon picture.
	They've got catalogs they're handing out to everybody.
	It only strengthens the idea to me that a lot of these knockoffs are coming from the same factory and just keeping some form of something going in the future buying market.
	I've had that same impression.
	In fact, I had it when you go to Korea and buy some crazy stuff, you really get the impression.
	And I've had the same impression about some of the, not all of them, but I think a lot of the counterfeit, or not counterfeit, but the Compatible inks that you buy for various printers.
	Oh, exactly.
	And from an economic sense, I think it makes sense.
	Whereas you are buying some...
	Look, all this stuff is cheap anyway.
	It doesn't cost a lot to manufacture a bag.
	Certainly not $3,000.
	Please.
	The quality seems less, but they even go so far as to make knockoff boxes to put them in.
	There's a lot of effort.
	Well, the watches are the ones that are the giveaway to me.
	I mean, how do you get to the point where you've ramped up to make a complete, perfect copy of a Rolex watch?
	Exactly.
	So I was here attending the big Buckley Levy wedding.
	So that is my second cousin, I think.
	My cousin's daughter.
	That's my second cousin.
	Okay.
	Is it?
	I'm asking.
	I don't really know, quite honestly.
	You know, that Cousins thing is a mystery to me.
	Well, in Texas, Cousins is, you know, wife, same thing.
	So, this was quite the affair, John.
	I expected some, you know, elitist stuff, but wow!
	Oh, you were in elitist central.
	Oh, yes.
	And, now, you have to know...
	Did you feel comfortable?
	It's my family.
	Of course I feel comfortable.
	I've always felt comfortably uncomfortable around my family.
	I'm the black sheep of the family.
	I have no military or intelligence clearance.
	I have no college degree.
	You're a black sheep.
	Podcast.
	Podcast.
	Yes, this is my cousin Adam.
	He's a podcaster.
	Yes, okay.
	Gee, I've got to go talk to somebody else.
	Or that, or what's a podcaster?
	What was super interesting about these families coming together is Kat, who's my second cousin then, is daughter of Christopher Buckley.
	Christopher Buckley, of course, heir to the Buckley throne, and no doubt a Republican.
	But at the same time, we had in the same wedding parties, we had a number of very, very staunch Democrats, including my whole family.
	Everybody.
	Because, you know, just meeting everybody and hanging out, and they all want to hear me.
	Let me tell you, I was very cautious at this get-together.
	We had a party the evening before, like, you know, who hosted that?
	I can't remember.
	Everyone gets together, drinks a little bit, you have some desserts.
	Hey, so what do you think about Donald Trump?
	They said, you don't really think that crazy man is going to run the country, do you?
	I said, I didn't even say anything.
	No, I didn't say anything.
	But it can't be Bernie because he's stupid!
	Yeah, yeah.
	But Hillary, well...
	Yeah, it's too bad.
	But she has the most experience.
	That's what I heard all night long.
	But Hillary has the most experience.
	Everybody all in on Trump is going to kill us.
	We're going to die.
	We are going to die if Trump becomes president.
	I heard this verbatim.
	I got into this, not this completely, not the same exact thing, but I got into some little discussion, and I brought up the point that when Obama was elected, I got to see an interview with Farrakhan.
	Yes, who was a Muslim.
	I think we even played some of this on the show back when.
	And somebody asked him, do you think Obama's going to do anything that's like what he says?
	And Farrakhan says, I think he's well-intentioned.
	We had this attitude about him, too.
	He's well-intentioned, but he's not going to be able to get anything done because the system is in place.
	You just can't do anything.
	You can just do what they tell you to do, and that gets done, and it makes you look like you're doing something.
	And I, you know, always remembered that.
	And it kind of turned out that way with this guy.
	He just, I don't think he really initiated anything.
	He just did what he was told.
	Kept Gitmo going.
	It was the first thing he was supposed to shut down.
	How did that not work?
	And so I said, if Trump got in, this is what would happen.
	It would be the same thing.
	What do you expect him to be able to get accomplished?
	Right.
	Exactly.
	So that's the way I handle this now.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, go on.
	I'm sorry.
	At the dinner, it was loose and they had rehearsal things all day.
	They had wedding plans.
	This had been planned for a year.
	The evening was catered from soup to nuts.
	At Pier 61, the lighthouse, if you're familiar with this venue, but it's like right on the water.
	You know, it's got a corner where the ceremony takes place and you're basically looking out over the water with the sun setting over New Jersey.
	I mean, it's beautiful.
	But the whole thing is done by Abigail Kirsch.
	And I didn't know what that meant, because I was, of course, looking at the centerpieces and the menu, and I'm saying, wow, this costs a lot of money.
	And then one of my cousins said, well, Abigail Kirsch, she catered everything.
	This is all her show.
	Who's Abigail Kirsch?
	You should go look at that.
	She really doesn't start under $100,000 just for the dinner alone.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This was like a real wedding that we very rarely see nowadays, except in the upper elites.
	And black tie.
	Everyone black tie, which was nice.
	Now, because it was black, I don't own a tuxedo.
	I haven't owned a tuxedo for a very long time because I fluctuate in weight.
	How often do I need a tuxedo?
	Once every two or three years?
	If that.
	Yeah, it used to be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, you know, bit the Waldorf once a year, but so, of course, I ran through the talks.
	And Tina found this, I don't know if you've ever heard of this, this place where you can, it's called Rent the Runway.
	And you rent a haute couture dress from a designer, and they send you, you know, it's kind of like a tuxedo rental, except it's a dress that you've seen on the Paris runway.
	And you can rent it for significantly less than the dress would cost.
	Yes, well, those things cause the mint.
	Oh, yeah.
	And it's cool because they deliver it in a garment bag, and then you drop it in a UPS box, and it goes back the next day.
	But here's the problem with this fabulous app on this website or whatever the heck it is.
	One of the designers is Bagley Mishka.
	And Bagley Mishka had this year on the runway, I happen to know this though, had this year on the runway this gold kind of lame dress, which is very distinct.
	I mean, you're wearing a big chain mail piece of gold, pretty much.
	And it's available on Rent the Runway, and subsequently there were three women at the wedding wearing the same dress.
	Because, of course, this website doesn't track who's renting what.
	That's funny.
	It was hilarious.
	And I went to every single one of them and said, hey, by the way, you wear it best.
	To every one of them.
	Yeah, it would be you.
	Of course.
	I said, you really wear this dress best.
	It's bad enough that you've noticed.
	It's probably still considered that an insult.
	No, because all the women, you know, in the procession line going into where the ceremony was taking place.
	Don't these women have their own dresses to wear?
	Well, no.
	I mean, but doesn't everyone have their own limo service?
	No, we have Uber.
	Doesn't everybody have their own dress?
	No.
	No.
	You do it or rent the runway.
	So it shows you kind of two things.
	One is, you rented that dress, bitch.
	I've seen it.
	Most of the people that do the Oscars, all those actresses, they don't own any of those dresses.
	But those are made for them and they're unique.
	Now luckily, no one was wearing Tina's dress.
	I was very happy.
	I'm like, I'm going to have to take someone out if that happens.
	But we were looking like, oh man.
	So it was interesting to see that take place at this big elitist affair, which was really beautiful.
	No doubt about it.
	I learned something.
	Did you know that where tying the knot comes from?
	The phrase, tying the knots?
	I'm trying to think if I do, but I don't think I do.
	I did not know.
	So they had the priest, they had two guys.
	It was almost like DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
	Two drummers in a band.
	Yeah, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
	Two guys on stage.
	And then at one point, doing their vows and everything, clearly the senior guy, I wish I remembered their names, he took off his scarf, his shell, what do you call that?
	The...
	It has a name.
	The thingamajigger around his neck.
	The thingamajigger around his neck, exactly.
	Which has been blessed by, well, it could be the Pope.
	I don't know, it could be a cardinal.
	And so they put their hands together, and then he ties that around their hands in a knot as the vows are being made.
	And that's where it comes from, tying the knot.
	Isn't that some bondage ceremony that you weren't a clue?
	Well, I'm pissed off if that's true.
	Now, so again, Trump talk completely foreboding.
	Don and Meg, my uncle Don and Meg, of course, they're now in their late 80s.
	I think everything was quite overwhelming for them in general, and I certainly was not going to go, hey, good to see you guys.
	Hey, this is my new girlfriend.
	What the fuck is going on with North Korea?
	I was kind of trying to be a little calm in that regard.
	The girlfriend, everyone loves her.
	They're all saying, what are you doing with him?
	He's a podcaster.
	He's a podcaster.
	But, you know, I was sitting next to him and next to Meg.
	And so, of course, we had a chance to chat.
	And he said, you know, we'll probably talk later, which didn't happen.
	We said, I do have good, well, Thanksgiving, big Thanksgiving thing coming up this year.
	I do want to tell you about something that's going on.
	Something really interesting happened in Korea.
	I said, there's a brand new army general, four-star general, who is taking over, Vincent Brooks.
	And Vincent Brooks, before he took his post, which this is maybe this past week, I think, he went up to the dividing line.
	What is that?
	What do they call that?
	The 21st parallel, the 33rd parallel?
	One of those.
	Wherever the division is between North and South Korea.
	And he said, in a statement, he said, this is where we signed an armistice.
	Armatist.
	Am I saying it right?
	Armatist.
	Armatist?
	Armatist?
	What is it?
	You'll never say.
	I can't get it now.
	As soon as you said it, I visualized the word.
	I was about to say it, and then you started.
	Armatist.
	Armatist.
	I said it right.
	Armatist.
	There you go.
	Armatist.
	Yes, it is.
	A-R-M-A-T-I-C-E. Armatist Day.
	Armatist.
	Armistice.
	Does it sound right to you?
	Yes, it does now.
	Armistice.
	That's where they signed the Armistice Agreement, and then the four-star general said, what this really should be is a peace agreement.
	Yeah.
	And if you recall, this is what Don has said from day one.
	From day one, he said that this is all they want.
	Give them that, and you'll see things end.
	It's Armistice.
	Armistice, you're right.
	Armistice.
	Well, anyway, it's what they don't want.
	They want just a peace agreement.
	No, armistice just means it doesn't...
	Lay down your arms.
	It's just like a bullcrap.
	Okay, we're going to stop for now, but we're still going to fight someday.
	Exactly.
	One day.
	Someday when we're all pissed off enough.
	Yeah, well, this whole...
	It's something I... Just baffling why this...
	This has obviously just continued because South Korea is such a good partner to buy stuff from us.
	And it turns out somebody was bitching about, you know, let's shut down some of these bases.
	Oh, yeah.
	300 of them around, 800 of them around the world.
	Exactly.
	And somebody mentioned that they're paying half of the freight on this.
	Mm-hmm.
	South Koreans, that's a lot of money.
	Yeah.
	And although they'd be...
	You know, if we didn't have anybody up there, we'd probably save more, but it's beside the point.
	Mm-hmm.
	And, yeah, they're just suckers in this idea.
	They're suckers.
	Who gives a crap about North Korea?
	Just a backward operation.
	When they all become one country again, it'll be kind of formidable.
	But, you know, in the past, it's never really worked out, at least from the Japanese perspective.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Anyway, so Don was real hyped about that.
	So I'll send him a follow-up email.
	You know, conversation has been opened.
	You recall that the father of the bride, Christopher Buckley, who is no longer married to my cousin, but of course they're still both parents, that he had said some 25 years ago at the big family homestead in Armand, New York, when I was all hyped up on the internet.
	Yeah, internet meh.
	No, no, not meh.
	No, he said in front of everybody, Yeah.
	You know, that internet thing, that's...
	Maybe we'll be sending email.
	No one's going to write for the internet.
	There's no money on the internet.
	This is not going to work.
	We just got that right.
	I didn't want to give him anything.
	So, as I met his son, who was the bride's brother.
	Now, Connor, this kid, his admission video to Tufts, he was playing, I think, Rachmaninoff and solving a Rubik's Cube at the same time.
	So, this is the kind of family I have.
	You can understand why I'm the douchebag podcaster.
	I can't even pronounce Rubik's Cube or Armistice for that reason.
	So I said, he said, oh, have you seen my dad?
	I said, yeah, it's been a long time.
	And this is with his mom and Tina was there.
	We're just chatting a little bit on the evening before.
	I said, but I really want to remind him of how he told me this internet thing would never work out.
	And Connor is, you know, he's 25, I think, or 20.
	So he laughs.
	Yeah, just look at his career.
	How did that work out?
	I'm like, bam, snap.
	Nice.
	Wow.
	He says, my dad is the biggest Luddite in the world.
	He doesn't even text.
	He doesn't even text.
	And this is a guy who was a speechwriter for, I think, didn't he write for George H. Bush?
	I think he, H.W. I don't know who was a speechwriter.
	Yeah, I think that's where Don met him, I think.
	That's how Lucy met him.
	It's all very incestuous, Washington, D.C. So I did get my chance to say hi to him.
	He's the groom?
	No, to the father of the bride, Christopher Buckley.
	I got a chance to say hi to him and to remind him of what he had said.
	And what did he say?
	Well, first of all, I said, hey, Christopher, congratulations.
	He looked at me and I'm like, he doesn't know who I am.
	And I said, it's Adam Curry.
	And he took my head in his hands.
	He said, oh my God.
	Oh my God, Adam, it's so good to see you.
	I mean, you look like someone who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for physics.
	I'm not quite sure why he said that.
	And then he kisses me.
	Because you're wearing a tux.
	Yeah.
	And you look a little Swedish.
	And yeah.
	And he's like, oh, how's it going?
	I said, yes.
	Quick, quick, quick.
	Christopher, you're busy tonight.
	But I did just want to remind you when you told me that the internet would be, nothing would come of it and no money would be made and it was basically a dumb idea.
	And he looks at me and says, yes, I remember.
	But I also said the fax machine would never work.
	He says, I'm really the worst guy at predicting anything.
	So, okay.
	That was nice.
	I'm glad he at least copped to it.
	I'm glad he copped to it, but what he should have said was, if you presented him with that, he says, yeah.
	I finally caught up to it.
	It's a piece of crap.
	Well, I wanted to talk more with him.
	He said, I really need to speak with you.
	Of course, we didn't talk anymore.
	But we will.
	We will.
	I have his snail mail address.
	I'll send him a postcard.
	Air mail.
	Remember air mail?
	Yeah.
	It was just a piece of paper with stickums on it and you wrote on the paper and it was the envelope at the same time.
	Air mail envelopes.
	I think everyone who now listens to this show, and maybe we should do this too, Get some of those old airmail stickers or write airmail right across the envelope.
	For everything.
	For everything you send.
	Yeah, airmail.
	Airmail.
	What was interesting, of course, in this is we have the father of the bride.
	He does his speech.
	You know, the uber, uber Republican.
	You cannot get more Republican than Buckley.
	And he's cracking jokes.
	He must have made five Jeb jokes.
	And particularly, it started off when he had, you know, like, he was saying something and then he paused and then no one clapped or he was, and he said, please clap.
	That got quite an applause from the Obama-bot crowd.
	And he had beautiful words to say, and he choked up, and it was perfect.
	I mean, it was picture-picture perfect, like everything else in the wedding was picture-perfect.
	But then something very bizarre happened.
	Is it the matron of honor?
	The maid of honor?
	The bride's best friend?
	The maid of honor is the bride's henchman.
	Yes, the maid of honor.
	And she gets up to talk, and she's about the same age, millennial, and she says, well, you know, really the only thing that Kat and I have in common is both our grandfathers have an F as their middle name.
	Both our grandfathers have an F as their middle name, because of course we had William F. Buckley, and she said, and my grandfather, Robert F. Kennedy.
	So this is Kick Kennedy.
	This is Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter.
	Was he an F2? I guess he was.
	Yeah, he was.
	And so we just had the most Republican family talking and then the most Democrat family talking.
	That was very bizarre.
	That's very bizarre.
	If this was further back in history, you'd be watching some Spanish woman who was related to the crown marrying a French woman.
	So they combined the countries into one.
	Yeah.
	And she was funny.
	She was really funny.
	She had some good stories to tell.
	And she's named after Kathleen Kennedy, who was another dead Kennedy.
	Did you know about Kathleen Kennedy?
	I lost.
	She was Robert and John's sister, and she died tragically in a plane crash, and her nickname was Kick.
	I had never even heard of her, which is just interesting.
	You know, and so we danced.
	It was great.
	Don and Meg were dancing.
	It was beautiful.
	We had the photo booth.
	We had the wedding cake.
	It was all great.
	Of course, Tina and I are a tattoo artist.
	I think that would have topped it.
	Oh, man.
	I can't believe they missed that opportunity.
	Of course, Tina and I got back, and it was like 1.30, and we left early, and I still had to prep.
	It's been a little challenging, but well worth it.
	There's one other thing that happened, which I'm going to follow up on.
	At the dinner...
	I'm sorry, before...
	I'm sorry?
	I was going to say, before you discontinue the story, do tell what you ate.
	Ah, yes.
	We had...
	Thank you for asking.
	We started off, there was kind of a, like a ceviche.
	There was a, oh, there was a salmon, oh, I think it was tuna tartare, you know, like stack, like a, you know, like a ashtray size tuna tartare thing.
	And I had the beef, which was, I mean, it was a dino.
	It was like, in a restaurant that would have been a $40 piece of beef and fish.
	I didn't have the fish, but everyone said the fish was great.
	And they had all kinds of...
	I mean, there was so much food.
	There were meatballs on a stick.
	It was, you know, little bacon.
	Yeah, it was good.
	Little bacon strips with stuff on.
	Just a little tiny strip of bacon you can pop in your mouth.
	And so it's bacon with something on it.
	Who cares?
	It's bacon.
	There were just, you know, little blinis with caviar.
	Just a little one just passed out.
	He's a little blini with caviar.
	Okay, nice.
	Full-on bar.
	Champagne.
	No.
	No one had weed.
	Very disappointing.
	Don't understand what's going on.
	But those two families, I can't imagine.
	So, at the dinner before...
	I'll bet you that cat girl probably...
	Oh, cat.
	Well, come on.
	She's a millennial, of course.
	But I did not ask her.
	She's the bride.
	The evening before the dessert and drinks, a guy came up to me.
	And he says...
	Wait, you're Adam Curry, right?
	It turns out he's 61.
	He looked like he was my age.
	The guy looked really good.
	Almost a George Pappard kind of, but not sickly, tanned, but no wrinkles.
	White hair?
	No.
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	Really beautiful Italian wife.
	From D.C. The D.C. insiders.
	He might as well have a sign, D.C. insider, stuck on his forehead.
	But he beelined to me.
	At least that's what it felt like and that's what was observed at this dessert and drinks thing.
	And I'd say, hey, Adam Curry, I'd say, yeah, yeah.
	I couldn't place him, but he was obviously from the bride's family, some connection that I didn't know.
	He says, well, don't you know so-and-so who started up MTV with Bob Pittman?
	I said, nah, I really kind of came at the last days of Pittman, so I don't know many people.
	And then he's talking.
	He says, you know, this podcast.
	And he says, what are you doing?
	I'm working on podcasting stuff.
	I'm a podcaster.
	And he's like, you know, this is very interesting because I represent a lot of broadcasters around the world.
	And now I'm like, uh-huh.
	And, you know, it's very hard for them to come up with good quality, and he was very interested in this.
	And he does this radio stations that you can listen to through a phone line, which apparently 40% of the world, there's no way they can get online.
	You know, they can't stream audio.
	So I think one of his companies, he may be an investor, I'm not sure yet, That company takes thousands of radio stations or radio streams and then puts it into a system so people in Africa or other countries, Middle East, who may not have adequate internet, they can just call into a phone number and then put it on their speaker and listen.
	And of course, when you really think about it, it's not that much different from streaming audio directly over IP. Right.
	And the quality.
	There's some differences.
	So he's talking about, you know, these broadcasters in Africa.
	They need, you know, better equipment.
	So I'm thinking ultimate podcast device.
	Like, yeah, I'll sell you a couple of those as Africans.
	Yeah.
	What you got going on, bro?
	And then, you know, I said, yeah, it's very interesting.
	He talked about Voice of America.
	I said, yeah, well, of course, Voice of America now is propaganda.
	He said, yes, Smith Mundt.
	I'm like, what?
	What?
	Yeah, Smith-Munt was overturned.
	There's only one other person in the universe who I know would even bring this up anywhere, and that's my partner.
	And you're now all of a sudden talking about the Smith-Munt Act, which was repealed, which now allows the United States government to propagandize its own citizens, even if it's accidental.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I know all about that.
	And so, well, we should definitely talk.
	Then, at the dinner, he beelines to me, Adam, Adam, Adam.
	Wow, man, I had no idea I looked you up.
	You're the real deal.
	You're the proto-podcaster.
	He didn't say that, but he might as well have.
	And I said, we really need to talk.
	So he comes over to you in the first place because probably somebody told him to.
	Well, this is my question to you.
	If you said he'd beeline, he had to be told to go.
	But he was not introduced.
	He beelined to me.
	And he was way over the other side.
	He beelines to me.
	Very flattering, by the way.
	Extremely flattering for someone to say, I looked you up.
	You're the real deal.
	You're a visionary.
	Let me tell you a quick story on the side.
	I'm at this big event in Vegas, and there's this beautiful woman across just the same exact situation you're dealing with here.
	She beelines right to me.
	And she says, can you introduce me to Bill McCrone?
	It wasn't quite that bad.
	He's done his research.
	And he's now spouting, you've got to come to D.C. I'd love to sit down and meet.
	And I said, yeah, Tina's not been to D.C. and I'd love to come.
	It used to be really cool when Don was really in the administration.
	He could get a White House tour.
	And without a beat, he says, oh, what do you want?
	Oval Office, White House?
	You want to meet some people in the Obama administration?
	I'll make it happen.
	Just tell me when.
	I might not be able to get you a meeting with the president.
	I said, okay, it's alright.
	I'll take that meeting if he has time.
	Don't worry about it.
	So now I'm like, oh, really?
	Did you look him up?
	I did.
	I'm not going to tell you who it is, but I will tell you he has a master's and a JD from American University and a master's from Berkeley.
	Oh, jeez.
	Ha ha ha!
	Cha-ching!
	So, as I'm...
	What I should better say is...
	Uh-oh!
	Well...
	Oh, hold on, what happened?
	I was gonna...
	To me, that was like, hmm, now I definitely need to take this meeting because this guy is going to be one of them.
	Spot the spook.
	Spot the spook.
	Everybody wants to spot the spook.
	So anyway, somebody tipped him off to begin with, so he took the beeline, talked with you for a little bit.
	You were interesting enough that he left to go look you up.
	Yes.
	That's kind of the giveaway.
	You're at a wedding.
	I don't know if I'm at a wedding.
	Somebody was looking you up.
	I'm telling you, either I have my new handler.
	This is my new best friend.
	It's very possible.
	Yeah, could be.
	But I'm taking that meeting.
	I'm going to D.C. I'd be crazy not to.
	Crazy not to.
	Yeah.
	And so...
	I'll start looking for a backup host.
	Thanks.
	Oh, et to Brutus.
	Dang.
	Dang.
	Yeah, so that was truly bizarre, but I can't wait to find out more about that.
	At least you want to meet the twerp.
	The twerp?
	I saw the twerp on TV this morning.
	No, I don't.
	And she looked orange like Trump.
	I thought it was kind of interesting.
	Susan Rice, when we refer to the twerp, Susan Rice.
	She's looking for a job in the Trump administration.
	So everybody was dead against it.
	They all had this hatred, this crazy, I don't know, hatred of Trump.
	It's like, I'm listening to Deutsche Welle more than usual.
	And...
	There was this one clip.
	My list is right in front of me.
	I have to go get my list.
	I'll have to play it later.
	But it just was like, what do they think in Germany?
	Describe Sanders.
	With one word?
	That's a funny little clip.
	But that's not the one you were looking for?
	What do they think of Germany?
	This is a good clip.
	We'll play this then.
	Since he's just about wrapped up his party's nomination, and of course the ongoing battle between Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her resilient rival, leftist Bernie Sanders.
	He's just simple.
	He's a leftist.
	Her resilient rival, leftist Bernie Sanders.
	Nice.
	Alright.
	There's a report.
	The other one from Deutsche Welle, which is the...
	See if you can see it.
	It should be a report on Donald Trump and rap or something.
	Trump Audio.
	But this is...
	No, that's...
	No, that's the Trump Audio.
	That's a funny clip, though.
	Trump's butler?
	What am I looking for?
	Get your list with...
	Why'd you get your clip list?
	Crazy clips today.
	So you don't know...
	I guess I probably coded that wrong.
	I have to go get my list.
	this but go get your list this is a good one all right have you heard this story about trump's butler yeah i read this morning i read the headline uh something and he was talking crazy is this his current butler or is it a former butler this is some old butler and the way they the way the headline is the headline is trump's butler so you think it's his current butler Alright.
	Well, the way they play it on Democracy Now is guilt by association and that kind of story, because they're afraid of Trump, too.
	I don't know what everyone's afraid of, but anyway, play Trump's butler.
	Meanwhile, the Secret Service says it'll investigate Donald Trump's former butler over a Facebook post in which he referred to President Obama as a, quote, Kenyan fraud and called for him to be hanged.
	Anthony Senecal worked for Donald Trump for nearly 30 years.
	Trump's campaign has said it disavows Senecal's statements.
	Trickle to be hanged.
	He's an old guy.
	I just remembered by one of my cousins.
	And she's pretty level.
	She has a big-ass job at marketing.
	A big retailer.
	And I like her a lot.
	She's really cool.
	She says, oh, Trump.
	She knows he can talk with me, and I can be a little more open with her.
	And she says, you know, there's only one thing I really, really despise about Donald Trump.
	One thing that really sickens me, this man.
	Can you guess what it was?
	His hair?
	No.
	No.
	She said, I cannot believe that he talked about his daughter like he wanted to date her.
	I was like, did you see the clip?
	She said, yeah, I think so.
	Did you see the whole thing, what the context was?
	No, but still, you can never say that.
	I said, ugh, okay.
	I don't know if I got through to her.
	But, you know, it really...
	And, man, there's stuff going on right now against Hillary.
	How many documentaries are out right now?
	Ten?
	Ten?
	We've got the Clinton cash.
	We've got this new one about Anthony Weiner.
	The Anthony Weiner scandal was one of the strangest political episodes of our time.
	This documentary, with extraordinary behind-the-scenes footage, dredges it all up again at the worst possible time for Hillary Clinton and her closest aide.
	Worst.
	What I would like to talk about is housing in the Bronx.
	Any questions about that?
	For Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife, Uma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's closest aide and constant presence at her side, a new documentary about his sordid political tale couldn't come at a worse time.
	Ta-da!
	Couldn't come at a worse time.
	Well, I'm spending a lot, even though you can't say spending time, it's just you try to put it in the back of your head.
	But before I go in that direction, I have to back up, back to your stories, because I did interrupt.
	You said you will follow up on something that was at the dinner, at the party, and then I took you off to another track, and you never finished that thought.
	Chat room may have to help.
	I can't follow up on...
	There's something...
	I'll have to follow up on this, and then I interrupted you.
	Maybe it was about the new four-star general in Korea?
	I'm going to follow up with Don on that.
	You talked about that before you said that.
	Okay, well, we'll worry about it later.
	You always listen to the show.
	When I listen to the show, I'll remember what I said.
	Anyway, now I interrupted you again.
	I'm sorry.
	No, it's okay.
	I was waiting for you to finally give us your Deutsche Welle clip that we've been waiting for.
	Well, I think it's this day.
	Okay, so I didn't even know this took place, but the Democrats have a convention in Berlin.
	The American Democrats?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Yeah, and at that convention, I think they have something like, I don't know, either 11 or 13 or 19.
	There's 19 delegates that will go to the regular convention that come out of this convention.
	Oh, nice.
	It's all the expats from all over the world.
	They meet in Berlin.
	Excellent.
	And I think this is, at the end of this, I think they throw that little kicker in there.
	But this is a good little rundown.
	It's a Democrat convention in Berlin.
	It looks like America and sounds like America, but we're actually at the headquarters of Germany's Social Democratic Party as the Democrats abroad get together for their global convention.
	There are 13 delegates up for grabs and the overwhelming majority are for the so-called democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
	Bernie's older brother Larry says that's not surprising.
	His policies, domestic policies in particular, free universal health care, paid leave from work for various reasons, are very close to what people experience in European countries.
	Most of those present are pretty certain Hillary Clinton will get the nomination.
	They can live with that, as long as the Democrats stay in power.
	The convention's German hosts are full of praise for Obama's achievements over the past seven years.
	You have achieved a lot as Democrats in the last years, and you can be very proud of that.
	For us...
	But there is one person threatening to spoil the party, Donald Trump.
	Could a populist billionaire really become president of the United States of America?
	For me as well, it is a wonder that someone who bears so many characteristics of a carnival barker, a narcissistic carnival barker, could come this far.
	It would be the worst thing in the world, and I might not.
	I don't want to ever go back to the United States.
	I might just stay in Mexico.
	And that'd be hard because my family is in the States.
	Oh, so hard.
	But when it comes down to it, most of you are sure that Clinton will win the election in November.
	Even if the Democrats abroad are throwing their weight behind Sanders for now, giving him nine of their eleven delegates.
	Huh.
	Huh.
	Interesting.
	This guy seems to be winning somehow, even though he's losing.
	It's very odd when I see 25,000 people in a stadium, another 15,000 outside, but you only see a picture somewhere on a blog because it's not being shown anywhere.
	It's pretty typical.
	BBC has a big article today about the headline, A Trump presidency has Americans looking north.
	And Google searches for how can I move to Canada spiked after Mr.
	Trump won 7 out of 11 primaries.
	This is not a new story, of course.
	They've been playing this up for some reason.
	It's a rerun.
	I call these rerun stories.
	You have to wonder why.
	There's been a couple of them.
	Because they're out of ideas.
	And listen to who the celebratis are.
	Lena Dunham of Girls.
	Raven Simone, formerly of the Cosby family and of The View.
	She says, I'm going to move to Canada with my entire family.
	I already have my ticket.
	No, I literally booked my ticket.
	I swear.
	Cher says, if he were to be elected, I'm moving to Jupiter.
	John Stewart says, I would consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet because clearly this planet's gone bonkers.
	I'm a little sick of John Stewart, actually, with his holier-than-thou bearded, like, I'm somewhere between Clooney and Letterman attitude.
	And he's putting together a farm with his wife for abused animals.
	That's great.
	But he's not really doing the work anymore.
	He's really just all bought stuff.
	Yeah, I'm disappointed.
	Yeah, me too.
	He has some little production aspect to do with the Colbert show.
	He's got some angle on that.
	Yeah, and John Oliver show.
	And he's got little pieces.
	Yeah, a little bit of John Oliver.
	Yeah.
	And, let's see, so Whoopi Goldberg, of course, says, maybe it's time for me to move.
	You know I can afford to go.
	Good.
	Miley Cyrus.
	I'm moving if this is my president.
	Well, this may actually be the benefit here.
	I'm seeing it's a huge benefit.
	A lot of people are going to start voting Trump and just get rid of some of these people.
	Where's Barbara Streisand?
	Oh, I'm sure she said something, I'm sure.
	She said she was going to move if George Bush got re-elected, and she didn't.
	Did you hear the new London mayor about Trump?
	Oh, the new guy.
	Yeah.
	Took over for Boris Johnson.
	Yeah, and if you want, I'll be happy to read the text I received from my uber-British friend, Michelle.
	You know, the one with the nightclubs?
	With the strip clubs?
	Oh, right.
	Right, the strip club guy.
	I sent him a note.
	Actually, this was...
	I think before the previous show, I said, I'll read it to you verbatim.
	Hey, I'm prepping for the show.
	What's the vibe on London's new mayor?
	Are you ready?
	Are you ready for this?
	Okay.
	An elected...
	I'll do the accent.
	An elected Muslim?
	Question mark, question mark, question mark.
	In the bastion of democracy?
	Liberal tolerance?
	No booze?
	No birds?
	Sharia law?
	Conquer from within?
	Breed your way into governance?
	What does the Queen think?
	I have a Muslim in charge of her capital city.
	What would Richard the Lionheart say to the Moors governing England's capital city?
	Washington next or New York?
	What happened to the free speech, the right to dislike things and express?
	Or is that discrimination against our freedom to our opinion?
	I guess he's not so happy with the new mayor of London.
	And that may be a sentiment amongst this type of British subject.
	I wouldn't be surprised, but they voted him in.
	Yeah.
	Muslim population.
	That could be rather large.
	You know.
	Could be rather large.
	Be quiet.
	Here's what my concern would be.
	If I was over there in London and he got elected and I looked over at the polling that always comes out and it was like 99% of the Muslims all voted for him.
	Yeah, sure.
	That's how it works.
	That's a problem.
	But that's what's happening everywhere in Europe.
	It's in Rotterdam.
	There's a Muslim mayor.
	And it's mayors.
	It's very smart.
	They're doing mayors.
	And maybe it's...
	You know what?
	If the population is...
	That's the majority of the population, at least who are coming out and voting, you get exactly what you deserve.
	So I have no problem with it.
	The hypocrisy, though...
	The way the game is normally played in a democracy is you vote for the best candidate.
	If you're a Muslim, you just don't vote for a guy just because...
	There's a special place in hell for Muslims who don't vote for Muslims.
	Oh wait, that was Hillary with women, I'm sorry.
	The hypocrisy of this guy is quite astounding.
	You've been talking about Donald Trump quite a bit just in the past couple of days.
	It's a hot topic in the United States for obvious reasons.
	And you've been quoted as saying that defeating Donald Trump is now personal.
	Can you elaborate on that?
	Look, It's quite clear to me from my experience during my campaign that my Conservative opponent sought to divide communities here in London.
	He had a campaign that was a politics of fear.
	And what's quite clear from Londoners last Thursday with the overwhelming mandate that I received is London chose hope over fear.
	London chose unity over division.
	The reality is, I'm quite clear in my mind that Western liberal values are compatible with mainstream Muslims.
	Interesting, he's saying a couple of things here that are noteworthy.
	He uses a term which I do not believe has been used, mainstream Muslims.
	I don't think I've heard this term specifically from any politician.
	Mainstream.
	I think you've caught something.
	And mainstream, would the mainstream not mean the majority?
	I mean, do we have data?
	If someone is not mainstream, i.e.
	the mainstream being love, peace, and unity and harmony, which, sure, I'm willing to buy that's the mainstream, what do you call the non-mainstream?
	Alternative media?
	Wrong?
	Incorrect media?
	Podcasters?
	Right?
	So what is, if you say mainstream for Muslims, you can't say alternative Muslims.
	You can't say, you know...
	Wrong Muslims.
	Maybe that would be the right phrase.
	So there's a new one in here.
	So there's mainstream Muslim, which this girl from MSNBC messes up later in another interesting way.
	That Western liberal values are compatible with mainstream Muslims.
	I didn't decide to stand for office to be Donald Trump's nightmare.
	The point I make with respect...
	To Donald Trump and those advising him is I think that your views on Islam are ignorant.
	I think, yes, it is the case that there are a small number of criminals, terrorists, who do really bad things and really horrible things and seek to justify their acts of terror in the name of Islam.
	Has this gentleman, has he looked across that little pond there at Calais?
	The Muslims who are being kept in tents, pooping in the mud, climbing over barbed wire, and you're complaining about something Donald Trump said.
	Whereas your entire union is marginalizing mainstream Muslims of all people.
	And of course there may be one or two bad apples, but please, you know, pot, kettle, what are you talking about?
	But the vast, vast, vast majority of Muslims, not just in London, but around the world, are peaceful.
	A vast, vast, vast.
	I gotta understand the terminology.
	I think this is very, very poor showing of this London mayor.
	He needs some words that mean something.
	Law-abiding.
	They love being Muslim.
	Many of us love being Western.
	Many of us love America and love Americans.
	Many of us.
	So it's vast, many, mainstream.
	My worry is, by Donald Trump and his advisers giving the impression that Western liberal values are incompatible with Muslims and Islam, you're inadvertently playing to the hands of the extremists who say that Islam and the West are not compatible.
	Mayor Kahn not only called those views ignorant, he also said that they were risky, that they risk alienating mainstream Muslims.
	Mayor Kahn is a liberal...
	Sorry, are you talking to me?
	What?
	What is she saying?
	Back her up.
	Why didn't she get those quotes?
	She's got the guy blabbering about nothing half the time, and then she says he also said there's ignorant, and she starts listing off this.
	I'd like to hear that.
	He said ignorant in the beginning.
	He did say ignorant.
	The very beginning, he kind of muffled it.
	The West felt compatible.
	Mayor Kahn not only called those views ignorant, he also said that they were risky, that they risk alienating.
	That part we didn't hear, you're correct.
	Mainstream.
	Why didn't we hear it?
	No.
	I don't want to hear her saying it.
	Well, because maybe she didn't get it.
	But it gets better.
	Alienating.
	She's making it up.
	Could be.
	Mainstream Muslims.
	Mayor Kahn is a liberal.
	He's a member of the Labor Party.
	He supported same-sex marriage despite threats from Muslim Islamic extremists.
	So she went with the Muslim mainstream Muslims and then she said Muslim extremists, which would be even worse than Islamic extremists or jihadists or whatever.
	I... Well, in terms of keeping the memes in the right...
	Exactly.
	But that only highlights the bogativity of mainstream Muslims.
	What does that mean?
	We're bitching about his position on same-sex marriage.
	Was it one person?
	And were they mainstream?
	Makes sense.
	Two or thousands?
	We don't know.
	Is a liberal.
	He's a member of the Labor Party.
	He supported same-sex marriage despite threats from Muslim Islamic extremists, excuse me, in this country.
	And he's a self-described feminist who backs Hillary Clinton.
	A feminist.
	He's a feminist, John.
	I don't think we...
	You certainly don't look too kindly upon men who call themselves feminists.
	It's bullcrap.
	It's like the men who call themselves lesbians.
	This is like a bogus attempt to get a date with some dummy.
	So this guy's looking for dates?
	I don't know.
	I don't know what he's looking for.
	But it's keeping my eye on him.
	He's a feminist.
	I'm a feminist.
	We're going to get along just great.
	That about sums it up.
	I think you're right.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, it's a douchebag to say that.
	Anybody who says, any male who says he's a feminist.
	Yeah.
	Unless he's like, you know, transitioning, he's transgender.
	There's something going on where he's going to become a woman.
	Okay, so we might as well go right into that.
	Okay, well, let's see.
	I'm going to see what I've got on my list here.
	Caitlyn Jenner, man.
	We've got to go straight into Caitlyn Jenner.
	How can you avoid this?
	We've got a lot of notes on Twitter and elsewhere.
	You've probably got them on Facebook.
	Yeah, well, we nailed it.
	Now, there's a couple of things I learned.
	Now, you started, we predicted this.
	When it all started, we said, and your theory was what we adhere to, this is about a big book deal, the movie, the reality show, of course, that is not doing so well.
	But we have a big Sports Illustrated coming out.
	She's supposed to be wearing his medals, scantily clad.
	And now we're hearing, you know, we figured the best, the best...
	Scantily clad.
	Yes, the best...
	Gambit, if you will, was to reverse.
	And we talked about this quite extensively.
	We should find out what show it was on.
	Yeah, and it was one of those things, if you listen to this show, you know that these things come onto the show as an element of the show.
	We deconstructed on the spot in real time.
	I didn't go on that show thinking I was going to come up with that thought.
	I did.
	But not quite the way you had it with the book deal.
	But that came from...
	We have listeners who are in transition or transgender.
	They are very valuable to the intelligence network.
	And I think we've saved a lot of them from...
	They say, oh, you saved me because I'm thinking a little differently about my position.
	I'm not quite sure how that works either.
	But we did.
	It doesn't matter.
	I think it has to do with the analysis and showing that the bullshit that comes out, a lot of it affects people adversely.
	And we kind of try to cure that.
	And so I think I said one or two shows ago, I'm not even, because now there's talk of he's going to detransition.
	You're not convinced of any of it.
	You think the whole thing is bogus?
	Yes.
	He just hasn't done anything.
	Yes, yes, and I'm going to tell you right now exactly how I know this.
	So from our listeners, from our producers, our audience, so first of all, we got a lot of pushback saying, hey, the guy is not even trying to transition his voice.
	And that is, you know, everyone's different, but that appears to be pretty much, you know, across the board, it seems to be, you know, what men transitioning to women want to do.
	And they start working on their voice.
	And Caitlin has done no work.
	Might as well talk like this while smoking a cigar.
	And so I've been looking at some other anomalies.
	I'm pretty good at this.
	I looked at Sheryl Crow the other day and I said she's always wearing bell bottoms.
	I bet you she's an Oompa Loompa.
	And it turns out she's 5'2".
	I can see the tricks.
	And I said on the show, I don't even think the breasts are real.
	I don't think Bruce Jenner got implants when becoming Caitlyn.
	From one of our producers, now this is not one of our transgender producers, I don't think.
	It could be.
	I don't know.
	It doesn't matter.
	Oh, Adam, I thought you knew.
	Those are not breasts.
	My friend worked at the Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon's Office that routinely had to remove both Bruce Jenner and Kenny Rogers, quote, breasts that result when you have liposuction on your torso.
	The fat displaces.
	Once you stop that procedure, eureka!
	You get breasts, not implants.
	Your keen eye impresses, was the final parting word there.
	And I think that's true.
	I don't think he has breasts.
	He already had pecs as a guy, as an athlete, he had pecs.
	And I think, maybe I even recall that he had.
	Or maybe all those, oh, he's in there to shave his Adam's apple.
	Maybe it was just lipo.
	And then stopping the fatty tissue moving up into his breasts.
	Hmm.
	I'm not going to say that this isn't the case.
	I mean, from all the evidence so far indicates that this is something of one of the Kardashian...
	The Kardashian cabal.
	The cabal.
	The Kardashian cabal with the genius behind it.
	One of the women, the older ladies.
	Yeah, Chris the momager.
	Chris Jenner.
	Yes, she.
	Yeah.
	And this was a scheme to, and all acted, all the, oh, I can't believe he did this, and all the rest of it.
	It's just a money-making scheme that he wanted to get a little more attention.
	All the girls were doing the best job.
	They were doing great.
	You know, and everyone hanging around and doing fine, getting a lot of publicity.
	He felt like the idiot that kept walking in the scenes.
	Yes, yes.
	Here I am.
	Hi, Ollie.
	Hi, Dad.
	Hey, move.
	The camera's shut.
	You're in my camera's shut.
	You're in my line.
	So he had to do something.
	With the mom, who's the genius, and she says, well, here's what we can do.
	I've got this.
	I've been thinking about this for a while.
	Now, just listen to me.
	Don't say anything until I'm finished.
	And then you can tell me what you think.
	And then she laid it out, and he said, okay.
	Yeah.
	I'm all in on that.
	Oh, before I just remembered.
	The groom at the wedding, he's at Morgan Stanley.
	Finance and the family.
	Finance.
	A lot of broships in finance.
	Good looking guys all in finance.
	And I was talking to one of them, and of course, politics came up, and I think it was about Trump, or, you know, this guy, I said, yeah, Trump knows what he's doing.
	He probably has his taxes ready to show.
	He's just going to wait until Hillary goes completely nuts and says, oh, well, here, I want to stop you.
	Yeah.
	He said, this would be something we're not going to put in the book, but I think it should be in the book.
	It could be in the book.
	I think you're dead on on this.
	This taxes thing looks like a red herring.
	It looks like a setup.
	It's so obvious now to me.
	Because he made such a big mistake.
	I don't think I need to show my taxes to anybody.
	And I love the way, you know, it's none of your business.
	When the question was, is the voters business?
	No, not really.
	It's not a requirement.
	It's not a necessity.
	But it doesn't...
	But it doesn't matter.
	Where's the list of qualifications that makes him unqualified?
	Not to show the taxes.
	But he's going to show.
	I think you're right.
	He's going to show.
	Roll the taxes.
	Are they going to be boring?
	And I said, yeah, it's going to be boring.
	You're going to see whatever it is.
	And he's going to turn around and say, now, where are your transcripts?
	And I looked at the guy and I said, there are no transcripts because there were no speeches.
	It was just checks.
	And the guy looks at me and goes, holy crap.
	How did I miss that?
	I think that is going to be a problem.
	I think it's a long game.
	It's got to be.
	He's not going to roll them out.
	That's a great flip.
	Actually, to use that as leverage for the transcripts, which you're right.
	I think everyone who listens to this show has to agree.
	You nailed it.
	There are no transcripts.
	We know exactly what the transcripts would be.
	Oh, you're an important blah, blah, blah.
	You're this, you're that.
	Oh, great.
	I mean, how horrible could...
	If she did a speech, she's not saying, hey, we really stuck it to those fucking peasants in 2008, didn't we?
	No, she's not saying that.
	You know, it's not going to be super embarrassing, anything she said.
	We've only heard one or two people off the record say, well, it was kind of...
	I'm sure she did one or two speeches, but what is it, 25?
	How many are supposed to be...
	How many is she supposed to have done?
	I think her and her husband did $150 million worth or something last year.
	I don't know, lots.
	But she's a boring speaker.
	She's very boring.
	Any speeches for Goldman Sachs, they're writing one up now.
	We'll get one, sure.
	We'll get one.
	Here's a transcript.
	The transcript was written by Uma Abedin over the last couple of months.
	Let's go back to the LGBTQIAP thing.
	And just all the coverage that kept coming through on the transom over the past couple of days.
	We are so pathetic.
	And having listened to Sirius XM 127, Progressive, You know, Michelangelo, Signorelli, this, you know, people don't agree at this bathroom thing.
	What bathroom can you use?
	People don't agree, and it's okay.
	But I'm going to think, I'm going to state that Big Gay has pushed this.
	They are pushing it.
	It's not even transgender people who are pushing it.
	It's male homosexuals.
	They are pushing, and they're the ones that are just outraged and just want to, just, rah!
	And it's come to this head where it's just...
	Now we look like a moron country.
	Where can you poop?
	It boggles the mind.
	And somehow, if you're transgendered, you have the right to any bathroom you want.
	If you're not transgendered, you don't.
	So where are the equal...
	I don't know.
	It's just driving me crazy.
	Here's...
	They're getting...
	Well, let me interrupt again.
	They're getting way...
	If you watch...
	I've been doing the 3x3.
	And if you watch these stations, they are starting off their newscast with this.
	Yes.
	It's outrageous how much coverage it's getting.
	I'm going to have to listen to Gay USA or whatever that show is.
	It's called the Michelangelo Signorelli show.
	But it might as well be called Gay USA. Yes.
	But it's so...
	I don't hear...
	I pay attention.
	I pay attention to anything.
	I listen to my daughter.
	Who can I listen to?
	Who else is complaining about this?
	Well, it's really only...
	And quite honestly, white...
	Gay men.
	And they're so angry at Republicans.
	And they're so angry and so angry because we want a cake and we want this.
	And it's because of the cake stuff that these laws came up.
	And then the president does something very bizarre and comes out with...
	It's not a directive from him.
	It's not a presidential directive.
	I despise the reporting on this.
	It is...
	It is from the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, and the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.
	And it is titled, Dear Colleague Letter on Transgendered Students' Notice of Language Assistance.
	They've got it in a whole bunch of language.
	They have some terminology.
	And if you don't mind, it's just about Title IX. Of, what is, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972.
	Yes, which has ruined everything.
	So I just want to run through a few pieces of this, because I don't see anyone even reading anything from the document.
	It's, oh, Obama's presidential directive.
	No, a presidential directive, PD, is a very specific document, and that's not what this is.
	This is not a directive.
	This is a colleague letter.
	Okay, a couple of definitions which are important for us to understand in this conversation.
	We have terminology.
	Gender identity refers to an individual's internal sense of gender.
	A person's gender identity may be different from or the same as the person's sex assigned at birth.
	So, I would be...
	Male sex assigned at birth, because that is the next piece of terminology, sex assigned at birth, refers to the sex designation recorded on an infant's birth certificate should such a record be provided at birth.
	That even is removed from the actual biology, but okay.
	And transgender describes those individuals whose gender identity is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
	As an example, a transgendered male is someone who identifies as male but was assigned the sex of female at birth.
	A transgendered female is someone who identifies as female but was assigned the sex of male at birth.
	But, without doubt, gender identity refers to how I feel about myself as an individual.
	But I only have a few choices.
	This is the part that makes no sense to me.
	If you can only be...
	And the lumping together of LGBTQ, LGBTQIAAP, that's impossible for all those letters in the acronym to all feel the same about something, which is also bigoted and you're lumping people together.
	It's...
	It's very contradictory to what I think these people are trying to achieve.
	Compliance with Title IX. This is the big deal.
	As a condition of receiving federal funds, a school agrees that it will not exclude, separate, deny benefits to, or otherwise treat differently on the basis of sex and Any person in its educational programs or activities unless expressly authorized to do so under Title IX or its implementing regulations.
	So already I have a problem because the sex, as a word, the sex of a person, it says, on the basis of sex any person, treat differently on the basis of sex of any person, that's not defined.
	You mean gender identity or sex assigned at birth?
	They're just throwing out sex, so it doesn't really...
	What is it?
	They didn't define it in this memo.
	So what is sex?
	Is that the physiology?
	Is that the biology?
	I continue.
	The departments treat a student's gender identity as the student's sex, which I'm just going to presume they mean sex assigned at birth, For purposes of Title IX and its implementing regulations.
	This means that a school must not treat a transgender student differently from the way it treats other students of the same gender identity.
	But they are!
	Because the transgender student may choose any restroom he or she or the transgender Z desires.
	So they are being treated differently.
	That's an excellent point.
	It's bigoted!
	It's totally bigoted.
	Extra privilege!
	A school may provide separate facilities on the basis of sex, that would be male and female bathrooms, but must allow transgender students to access such facility consistent with their gender identity.
	I'm okay with that.
	But I should also be able to say, I won't, but my gender identity today...
	I'm going to use the female restroom.
	None of this makes any logical sense.
	Any whatsoever.
	Any.
	And the way it's being handled is even crazier.
	Listen to the White House, Josh Earnest, putting his foot in it.
	The challenge here is not to isolate anybody.
	It's not to discriminate against anybody.
	It's not to make anybody unsafe.
	It's actually to ensure that our schools are as inclusive and respectful and safe as they can possibly be.
	And that's why the guidance that we've put forward includes tangible, specific suggestions for how that can be achieved.
	So let me just give you one example.
	There are some school districts across the country that have sought to enhance the privacy of their students by making relatively minor changes to shared-use facilities.
	In some cases, that means just putting up curtains.
	Really?
	People have more privacy when they're changing their clothes or taking showers.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, my God.
	What has happened?
	What has happened?
	What happened to co-ed?
	What happened to...
	Oh, man.
	People are going to be, and certainly in America, are going to be so messed up about their sexual identity, their gender identity.
	Maybe that's the idea.
	It is the idea, John.
	And I'm blaming Caitlyn Jenner for a lot of this.
	All this really started with Caitlyn Jenner and the conversation.
	I'm all for love and peace and harmony and everything.
	But this, who can use what bathroom?
	This is why I'd like to move to Canada.
	This is a reason to move to Canada.
	They'll be doing that up there for sure.
	They have...
	I'm reminded of the practicality of bathroom use in most situations where you go to a sporting event and women have always been...
	If they want to get into fixing something, when you have a man's bathroom which has, let's say...
	Say, five toilets and ten urinals.
	And the women's bathroom has five, maybe six, seven toilets.
	They really need to have the number of urinals as toilets in the women's bathroom so they can get in and out.
	Because if you've never noticed...
	Long lines.
	At a football game or any event, there's a long line of women waiting to get into the bathroom and they don't have the same structure to hold it as well.
	And they're miserable.
	When I went to...
	And so smart women who do have, you know, the ballsy ones, they just go into the men's bathroom.
	And so you...
	Yes, yes, yes.
	There's always women in there.
	Yes.
	And so there's a couple gals in the bathroom, you know, in the toilet, obviously not using the urinal, but they're in there and they come out, you go, what the?
	And they leave and nobody gives a crap.
	You're just kind of shocked by it when you see it.
	But it's like, what's wrong with that?
	When I was in college all three months, the dorm, the showers had no doors.
	It was all dudes walking around.
	I was not particularly comfortable with it because I have what is known as a pop and grow.
	I look like I'm really, really pathetic.
	I'm being honest.
	I haven't heard the women complain.
	Go on.
	Pop and grow is the...
	Yeah, I don't need the details of that.
	Go on with your story.
	Alright, here's Nancy Pelosi lying.
	Hold on, why did she all of a sudden go mono?
	Why don't you go mono on me?
	Let me fix that.
	Hold on.
	Eh!
	Pelosi!
	Can I even do that?
	I don't know if I can make it mono anymore.
	Crap.
	Just listen to it in mono, in one channel.
	...of the administration for the directive that they have given to the schools across the country, the Justice Department and the Department of Education.
	It is nothing new.
	It is nothing new.
	It is just a guidance to the schools.
	We're talking about transgender people and we're protecting their rights to participate as they identify.
	Well, there you go.
	Their rights, protecting their rights to identify...
	As they identify.
	As they identify.
	Yet...
	Whatever that means.
	I don't have that right.
	I guess.
	Well, you can...
	Yeah, but do I have to declare myself?
	Do I have to say, I'm 100% transgendered?
	Or can I say, today I'm feeling a little female?
	Well, I think your complaint should be with your attorney general there in Texas.
	The guy who went ballistic.
	Oh, that guy's an a-hole.
	Yeah, he's the education guy?
	What is he?
	Who is he?
	I think he was like the attorney general.
	Do you have a clip?
	Do you have a clip from him?
	No, I didn't get a clip from him.
	He was just spouting off like a douchebag.
	I mean, but really taking it...
	Well, of course, this is a local issue for everybody, but still.
	Have we gone insane?
	We've gone insane.
	This problem will not persist.
	Well, maybe it will.
	I don't know.
	I have no words for it.
	I have no words for it.
	Maybe part of that's my European upbringing, but I'm not only seeing bigotry, I'm just seeing idiocy.
	You cannot explain to me how you have to wear it.
	Let's put it this way.
	In the United States of America, the vibe now, the vibe in general from people...
	What is that?
	Did you just hit the bell?
	What did you just do?
	No, that wasn't me.
	What was that?
	That was crazy.
	I don't know what that was.
	Something you're doing.
	You have to actually label yourself before you can have this so-called right.
	Isn't that inherently wrong?
	Like, I have to say, hold on!
	I'm trans!
	Isn't the whole point that you can just live your life?
	You should be wearing some sort of an identifier, like a badge.
	How about a yellow star?
	It's always my favorite.
	You're stepping on my joke.
	It's my joke.
	It's my punchline, and I've delivered it.
	Oh, man.
	But that's, yeah, that's exactly it.
	Everyone's going to have to have some sort of a label.
	Let's label everybody.
	Yes, and you have to have it, you know, somewhere you have to identify.
	It's right in the suggested, you know, conduct.
	Identify.
	You have to identify.
	Identify.
	Apparently you can't identify privately.
	Alright, I'm done.
	I'm done with that.
	I'm sick of it.
	Well, play the pet peeve thing then.
	I might as well.
	Adam C. Curry's pet peeve of the day.
	Moving right along, I think it's time to say in the morning to you, John C. Where the C stands for connect the dots.
	Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
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	Thank you for your courage and passion, of course, for showing up today.
	You're on the left here today, so I can't see you all the time.
	And in the morning to our artist, Nick the Rat.
	Was it a hat trick, a trifecta?
	Has he done three in a row now?
	I think he has.
	Yeah, nobody else has given up.
	But that's not okay.
	Because, you know, it's impossible for Nick to keep going like this.
	No, he just got lucky.
	I think he also picked up a newsletter.
	And the controversial missing art, which seems to be missing everywhere.
	Oh, what is this?
	Controversial missing art?
	That's the one for the clip show.
	It showed up as the previous.
	Oh, right.
	Which was also by Nick.
	He's got five in a row.
	He's got to stop, Nick.
	Come on, people.
	Let's put some art up against this guy.
	This program, as you might have already figured out if you're a new listener, if you were in the wedding party yesterday, you probably aren't listening anymore.
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	Yeah, I listened to it.
	You know, I couldn't get past the Trump love.
	Podcasts are no good.
	These podcasts are no good, and it's so hard to listen to.
	Yeah, but you can stop it and fast forward.
	Listen at double speed.
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	So we have our producers, and we like to treat them the same that Hollywood does in this case, as executive producers or associate executive producers.
	And of course, we have all of our producers in our donation segment.
	And today we kick it off with...
	What do we have, John?
	We have a single loaner for an executive producer.
	This was not a great day, by the way.
	But it wasn't actually as bad as the last show.
	Really?
	And we have one, two.
	We do have one, two, three, four associate executive producers.
	Let's start with Sir Robert Alter, who became from Kansas City, Missouri, with $300 as the executive producer for show.
	What is it?
	825.
	Yes.
	Eight and a quarter.
	And he says a note.
	His note is actually, I checked it and looked, and his note is nada.
	So he doesn't care to say anything, which is fine with us.
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	Alright, I'm Sir Robert Alter.
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	Next is Sir Norman Baronet from Woodstock, Ontario, California.
	23456, one of my absolute favorite donations.
	He says, keep up your great work by letting us hear that piece of work Al Gore blamed the distress of the people of Fort McMurray on climate change.
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	May I have a Bill Nye?
	Come on, champ!
	Followed by, whoop, get out of my end.
	Oh, bozo, you might die.
	What was the...
	Okay, the thing I don't understand is that Al Gore blamed the distress of people at Fort McMurray on climate change.
	Do you remember?
	I don't have a clip of it, but I believe he did something like that.
	Because I have the clips here, but it's just...
	Okay, it might be that one.
	And then what was the other one he wanted?
	Come on, champ.
	Whoopie.
	Okay.
	Hold on.
	You might die.
	That's all?
	Oh, that seems so.
	Whoopie.
	He wants to, with Carm, obviously, but he wants, come on, champ, get out of my vagina, and you might die.
	Okay, I'll start with this Al Gore thing.
	I hope it's the right one.
	Fiscal stimulus in a coordinated way aimed at infrastructure that the country needs, which means decarbonization, renewable energy, batteries, I don't think so.
	I don't think that's it.
	No, I don't think that's it.
	So come on, champ.
	Show us how tough you are.
	Get out of my vagina!
	You might die.
	You've got karma.
	I'm a little handicapped in the mobile setup.
	That's a funny combination.
	The speed of which I can put things together.
	You might die.
	I like the way the producers dream these.
	They can kind of hear it in their head and they say, I'll bet you that'll sound good.
	Get out of my...
	You might die.
	Sucking in soot would be another good follow-up.
	Hell yeah.
	Sir Christopher Gray in Grande Blanc, Michigan.
	23456.
	Holy fuck, thanks for all your help keeping me sane.
	Sir Gray.
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	And thanks for helping us keep ourselves sane as well.
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	23456.
	ITM Deconstructors of the MSM from Sir Chewy.
	Keep up the Scandinavian angle.
	Thanks for the...
	We're going to have to because half our listeners are going to be up there.
	Thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
	And he's...
	How many dollarettes was this?
	This is $312.20.
	Dollaretts.
	Dollaretts.
	It's a very nice term.
	Talk for a second while I go grab the note.
	Yeah, so I want to thank Sir Chu.
	I'm actually going to give him a little bit of karma because...
	You've got karma.
	Yo, yo, yo.
	It's going to rain here in New York in a minute.
	It's going to pour.
	Love it.
	I actually used part of this note in the newsletter.
	Ah, good, good, good, good.
	Um...
	This is my third contribution.
	This is Jim Carlson from Denver.
	23456.
	This is my third contribution.
	I've been waiting until my birthday, my 70th, and I guess I have to accept it May 12th.
	Could you please put him on the birthday list?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Jim Carlson.
	May...
	I regularly listen to your show normally two or three times for all shows so as not to miss all the information.
	I think it's a show you could probably listen to, double listen to.
	Yeah.
	Hold on, Jim, he was turning 71?
	70.
	70 on what date?
	On the 12th.
	12th, okay.
	Gotcha.
	All right.
	A couple days ago.
	And he was putting it off.
	Putting it off.
	I have to admit it, I'm going to be 70.
	You can't stop it now, Jim.
	Next stop, 71.
	I enjoy your comments in the news that I don't have the time or the interest in listening to.
	Your request for donations do not represent all the hours you spend in preparing for the two shows per week.
	Your analysis of the clips are great and clearly identify the key statements in each clip and what is indeed being said or discussed.
	That's what they're really saying.
	Right.
	Eventually I'll become a knight, not my intentions to listening to your great podcast.
	I don't know what that sentence makes no sense.
	Keep up the great work for all of us.
	If you ever have a meeting in the Denver Sanctuary City area, I would like to attend.
	Your comments are very necessary to keep us all informed and current.
	I like that the Zika info is being represented as what it is, more political contributions to other than what it is intended.
	Zika's not the problem that 1.9 billion is going to resolve.
	Like the monies directed toward Ebola, those who disagree really do not get it.
	Thanks again for the greatest podcast on Earth.
	Alright.
	That's James.
	I'm going to give him some karma for all that.
	Well deserved.
	You've got karma.
	And that's the only, that's it for our Executive and Associate Executive Producers show.
	And we will have a few more to mention at the next break.
	Yes, and of course I'll be back in Austin on Thursday and we'll do another program.
	Did you hear...
	Oh, okay.
	Go on.
	Finish this up because I know you have to fly back and there's a lot of news about that.
	And I think I've figured out why.
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	I do want to say before you move on.
	I do want to say hi to Mary.
	Mary Gregg.
	She's my cousin's wife.
	I live up in Vermont.
	She listens.
	And does she?
	Yes.
	And she sat next to me for the dinner and from time to time she'd say, she'd lean over, she'd go, you're going to have a fantastic show tomorrow.
	It's going to be great.
	It's going to be fantastic.
	You have so much material from tonight.
	You're like, I love that girl.
	Like, you are going to have a good time tomorrow.
	And I'm like, what do you mean?
	With the show?
	Oh, wow.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, well, she can see it.
	If she listens to the show, she can see material.
	And it's also the only state that never receives chemtrails.
	Maybe she's just healthy.
	Yeah, that'll do it.
	Chemtrails.
	Alright, what did you want to say about flying?
	Well, there's a big thing going on, and I figured out what causes this.
	This is a...
	Oh, is this about the lines at TSA? Yeah, the lines at TSA lines.
	Oh, my goodness, yes.
	Shut up, slave!
	Okay, I got them in the right order.
	I'm going to put them in the right order.
	I have a number of clips, too.
	Depending on what you have, we'll see what I need to do.
	Okay, well, let me do...
	I can do three.
	I got three, maybe, but let's do the two for sure.
	TSA story one.
	This is the PBS report on the situation.
	The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is appealing for patience as travelers face growing security delays at airports.
	Lines have gotten longer in the face of tighter security procedures and fewer transportation security officers, or TSOs.
	At Washington's Reagan National Airport today, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Jay Johnson, promised corrective action.
	Our job is to keep the American public safe.
	We're dealing this spring and summer with increased travel volume, which obviously puts an added burden on our TSOs and increased demand on the system.
	But we're not going to compromise aviation security in the face of this.
	Congress agreed this week to inject more money into the TSA to hire more officers and take other steps.
	In the meantime, officials are warning passengers to arrive at least two hours ahead of their flights.
	Jed Johnson is a dick.
	He's out in three months.
	He only has a couple months left.
	He does not give a crap.
	He's just showing up.
	He's a dick and he's ruined it.
	This guy should be fired.
	Don't let him resign.
	Fire him.
	It's an atrocity.
	Well, they said three hours in Midway.
	And so I listened to all the reports on this, and I kind of figured out what was really going on here.
	Because this is out of the blue.
	And she mentions that they have less TSO officers than before.
	Yeah, because I know what's going on.
	I read the bill.
	I know what the...
	Do you want me to say what I think, or do you want to deconstruct?
	Yeah, I want you to say what you think.
	It was my understanding that the timing of everything was there would be so many people using PreCheck and Clear, clear.me, which is now everywhere, all over Austin, no one using it, no one using the lines, that they said, oh, we can have less staff because we'll have so many people going through the fast lanes.
	I agree with this.
	And that's what happened.
	And that is a management blunder.
	On Wall Street, you would be out on your ass.
	I don't think that's what the real problem is, because this is, they had that cutback some time ago, and this result is only recent.
	Oh, they want more, and of course everyone wants more money.
	You let this come to a head.
	There's always, they want some more money, but I think what we're dealing with here is a slowdown on purpose, and I think I know the reason why it's kind of suggested in the CBS story.
	Well, some mysterious audio tape circus today.
	They were provided to the Washington...
	No, no, no, you get the wrong story.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Wrong CBS. You got it.
	I'm sorry.
	My mistake.
	It was late.
	That's a good story.
	I can't wait for that one.
	Western edition.
	Airport lines are getting longer and tempers shorter.
	Today, the Secretary of Homeland Security promised action.
	At JFK in New York, average wait times have nearly doubled to more than 20 minutes, but the wait Monday at Chicago's Midway Airport was more than 90 minutes.
	It took the passenger who shot this video so long to find the end of the line, we decided to play it in real time as you watch our report from Chris Van Cleve.
	The long lines at airport checkpoints stretch from coast to coast, about as long as the line at Midway must have felt.
	We've been in this line ever since St.
	Louis.
	Many frustrated flyers are using the hashtag, I hate the weight, to complain about the problem.
	It's terrible.
	Look at the wrong line.
	I've never had to do this before.
	Yesterday in Phoenix, it was checked luggage that got waylaid.
	A glitch in TSA's automated screening process left thousands of bags sitting in a hot parking lot.
	The TSA says the checkpoint delays are being caused by about an 8% increase in airline travel and a shortage of security officers.
	The agency has also intensified its screening process to more carefully monitor all passengers after a federal investigation revealed significant security vulnerabilities.
	I would not characterize it as a national crisis.
	Today, Secretary of Homeland Security June Johnson outlined plans for hiring more officers and deploying more canine teams to busy airports ahead of the summer travel season when lines could get even longer.
	Thousands of people have missed flights during this period.
	Did you do a good enough job preparing people for this new reality?
	I'm focused on what we do going forward and making sure that we are focused on this, that we are anticipating that this has both the personal attention of myself and the TSA administrator.
	It's a crisis.
	Congressman John Micah sat on the floor of Washington's Reagan Airport to hear the Secretary's briefing.
	I asked the Secretary if he felt they had done a good enough job preparing the American public for these lines, for the situation that's been created.
	No, I don't think so at all.
	Unfortunately, the way it's been brought to their attention is by the media, by thousands being left behind at almost every airport.
	And it seems many airports agree with the Congressman.
	Scott, last week the three New York area airports joined Atlanta and Seattle in threatening to kick out the TSA for private screeners.
	And we just got to the end of the line in that smaller picture at Midway Airport.
	Chris Van Cleve, thank you.
	Yeah, and this is also poorly explained how, you know, what is the TSA if airport can hire their own security firm to do it?
	Which they used to always do.
	Yeah, and it's the same people and the attitudes.
	When we arrived at Newark, I'm a little tired of JFK and LaGuardia.
	So Newark is usually pretty good.
	It was Friday.
	We landed, so we were in the car around 3.00.
	And, so just to give you timing, but leaving the airport, just from the gate, We walked past the line very, because I saw this report, very similar, and it snaked all the way through.
	I mean, it was incredibly long.
	When we went to New York a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago, I don't know how long ago it was, just recently, we landed in Newark, too.
	Yeah.
	And I know exactly what you're talking about.
	As you're leaving, there's this huge line that you just have to, you kind of parallel it, only you're going out.
	Yeah.
	And it's ridiculous.
	Here's what's going on in the way I see it.
	Okay.
	Oh, by the way, give us the timing.
	How long did it take to get from the exit to the car?
	What do you mean?
	As I was like, no, the line, we were walking fast.
	The line was going the other way.
	We were walking past the line in.
	And, you know, it was through corridors.
	It was snaking around bathrooms, you know.
	And everyone, everyone looking grumpy, of course, but...
	Mainly, and when we went from Austin, Bergstrom, and of course, it was busy in general on a Friday, and we walk right up to the premium line with our economy tickets, walk right through, no one says anything.
	Ladies and gentlemen, this is a no-agenda travel tip.
	Just do it.
	What are they going to do?
	Arrest you?
	No.
	And you should do the same, but TSA, if they have a line, just walk through.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Now, we had...
	I had pre-check, Tina did not.
	But the pre-check line, because I went through the regular line with her, the pre-check line was zero.
	It was just nobody.
	And big sales, big booths, clear.me, go sign up now.
	And all I can say is, it costs $420 for the global entry, which gives you the pre-check, sometimes.
	$420.
	The amount is hilarious by itself.
	Thank you, Homeland Security.
	I got the joke.
	But it shows that America, if you want, you can get better service from the government as long as you have money.
	Yeah, you got to pay for it.
	Here's what's going on, the way I see it.
	Because it was mentioned in two of the...
	I listened to four reports on this, and two of them kind of hinted at it.
	This all stems from...
	And I'm saying this from a perspective of someone who worked for the government, and it was also an inspector of Trailmobile, and I've pulled this stunt.
	I've personally done this.
	Because most of the time, a lot of the jobs that you'll have, you really...
	We are very sensitive to a lot of things like complaints that are unnecessary.
	This all stems from those boneheads in one of the government agencies that decided to sneak a gun through.
	Oh, yes.
	And then humiliate the TSA, showing, look, there's no security here.
	We got a gun through.
	Look, here's the gun.
	And so TSA's decided, oh, really?
	So you want us to be so thorough that an expert who obviously knows what he's doing snuck a gun in, a pro snuck a gun in, and now we have to, okay, we can do that.
	No problem.
	Show up three hours before the flight.
	Yeah.
	And do a slowdown.
	I agree.
	A slowdown, classic slowdown.
	Unions do it.
	Everybody does it.
	Nobody's calling them out on this.
	And they just are rude.
	All of them.
	They're just...
	They're pissed off.
	Except for the people in the pre-check line.
	They always seem quite happy.
	Because they don't have anything to do.
	Yeah, they kind of like that.
	Well, there was a...
	I think this is so much pre-check as it is a screw you, which is I did this at Trailmobile.
	I've told this story before when I was an inspector there.
	A guy, I was used to joke around with some guy who exchanged jokes and did his foreman and came over and chewed me out.
	I wasn't working for him.
	He wasn't my boss, but he told me to get out of there.
	I shouldn't be wasting his employees' times.
	So I started doing ultra...
	I was red tagging everything.
	Because it was all red taggable.
	You have to have a lot of leeway when you're doing this.
	But at the same time, they throw out a glitch.
	Oh, it was a glitch.
	A glitch for the...
	Yeah, but those glitches happen everywhere and baggage is always held up somewhere.
	But I agree with you.
	And hey, I'm all for it.
	Get rid of the TSA. Get rid of your Viper teams.
	Get rid of all this trauma you're thrusting upon people.
	And your shitty ass attitude.
	San Francisco's been talking about the same thing.
	Throwing the TSA out and putting in the Filipino mafia that used to run the place.
	Whoever.
	There was a hearing on the Hill with a TSA administrator.
	His name is Peter Neffinger.
	And Neffinger is no small dude.
	He retired as Vice Admiral of the Coast Guard.
	Served as vice commandant of the Coast Guard.
	And so he's an administrator and he should, I guess, know how it works.
	But when I listen to a guy like that, I'm always thinking procurement.
	That's all he cares about.
	And he was asked some questions about the problems.
	And also about...
	There were apparently 73 people who were working at TSA agents...
	Are we calling them agents?
	I think we call them agents.
	Even though they cannot arrest you.
	No, TSO is the boss of the agents, but even a TSO cannot arrest you.
	They have no power.
	They can call a police officer to arrest you.
	They have no power.
	So 73 of them were in the Tide area.
	Which I had to look up.
	Tide.
	Case a while ago, I think there were like 70 or 71 employees who were on that no-fly list, terrorist watch list, that were actually working at some of our airports.
	And you came in and you changed that system.
	And I want to ask you, were those employees, were they removed?
	Well, just to clarify, they actually weren't on the no-fly or the watch list.
	They were in what was called the TIDE database, the terrorist information data mart environment.
	And this is information that may or may not indicate a direct association with terrorism.
	So one of the first things we did was I wanted the FBI's read on every one of these individuals.
	And the answer back was that none of them met sufficient information to actually...
	Directly call them a terrorist or associate of a terrorist.
	But that said, we look back at it.
	Many of them no longer hold their credentials.
	Two of them had their credentials removed.
	And the remainder have actually been scrubbed out of the database on the advice of the FBI. Scrubbed.
	Scrubbed out of the database.
	But it was very valuable.
	What it did for us, though, is it allowed us then to get automated access to the categories of that This TIDE database is not discussed often.
	I've never heard of it.
	Now, there are some specific technical uses for the jargon of a data mart, but it usually is something that you can be able to distribute it or sell it or share it or whatever.
	The Book of Knowledge has an entry tied as the U.S. government's central database on known or suspected data There are over one million names in Tide.
	In 2008, more than 27,000 names were removed from the list and was determined they no longer met the criteria for inclusion.
	But what you just heard is they're now looking at adding new categories to this terrorist identities data mart environment.
	And I find it very unlikely that there were 73 international suspects from the TSA in the database.
	If it's only supposed to house known or suspected international terrorists, then you probably got a lot of people there in this database, one million, who are not international by any means.
	Probably not terrorists, it sounds like, from the way the FBI had them scrub those names.
	Scrub, yes, scrub.
	Get those guys out of there.
	How did these guys get on that list?
	You cannot get yourself off the...
	You cannot get yourself off the no-fly list, which is a subset of the Datamart environment.
	The database, in turn, is used to compile various watch lists, such as the TSA's no-fly list.
	So, I would like to know if I'm on the list, and do I have a right to ask if I'm on the list?
	Do you have a right?
	Just send a Freedom of Information Act in.
	Request in.
	We need to do that more often.
	Yeah, we do.
	We do.
	I don't like this database.
	Well, they finally pulled the plug on that idea.
	I don't like this database at all, at all, at all.
	I don't like it.
	And I think they're very cavalier.
	They're very cavalier.
	There's like the credit reporting bureaus.
	Yeah, the Stasi.
	I'm surprised they don't combine all of them.
	No, you can't have this apartment, but it's only a studio apartment.
	I can afford $150 a month.
	I've got enough cash to pay for a year in advance.
	No.
	You're on this list.
	You can't get an apartment.
	Get out.
	That's right.
	Yeah, there was some news about that, about who was using that now.
	Someone was going to be using that type of information.
	Social media.
	Here we go.
	Feds will now check your social media history before granting security clearance.
	Well, that kind of makes sense, I guess.
	Sure does.
	I guess.
	If you're going to be stupid enough to post all these pictures on Flickr, you're so drunk and...
	If you're arm up in the air and dumping booze on somebody, you know, hiking up your skirt and having photos of yourself taken, if you're dumb enough to let that get posted, I wouldn't hire you.
	Yeah, I think you got a point.
	I mean, really?
	Yeah.
	I've always do due diligence on people.
	You know, I'm going to meet somebody, I'm going to do something.
	I'll check it out.
	I'll look and see if there's any photos of them on the internets.
	See what they're doing.
	See if they're, you know, plastered.
	I was going to play...
	Let me see.
	I had a thing here.
	Hold on.
	It was...
	What was this?
	Well, if you want to...
	While you're looking at it...
	Yeah, I got to look for something here.
	What you got?
	It was about...
	I have a one clip on Zika.
	Oh, okay.
	Trying to sink the Olympics.
	Of course, this is all, everything as far as I'm concerned, this is looking more and more like intelligence, folks.
	Sinking the Olympics, yeah.
	And then the end of this clip, there's a kicker.
	Kenan, thank you.
	We turn now to the Olympics in Rio and new concern tonight for the American athletes.
	The game's now just three months away.
	And this evening, one health official saying the games should be postponed.
	Oh, there we go.
	Just as we get new images of an American patient and what Zika looks like.
	The symptoms after he came down with it.
	Here's ABC's Lindsay Davis.
	Nail that exit point.
	As these athletes prepare to represent the U.S. in rowing, a call for the Summer Olympics in Brazil to be canceled or postponed because of Zika.
	An article in the Harvard Public Health Review this week calls it a no-brainer for the Olympic organizers that the Rio 2016 Games must not proceed to avoid a full-blown global health disaster.
	But the nation's top infectious disease official disagrees.
	There is not a universal systemic threat to anyone there because Zika is generally a mild disease.
	While Megan O'Leary and Ellen Tomek say they may want to have children in the future, right now they're focused on bringing home the gold.
	So is there never a question in your mind whether you would go to Rio or not?
	Never a question.
	This is going to be just another hurdle or another obstacle to have to face, but, you know, we're going.
	They plan to take the necessary precautions to avoid this.
	These are pictures of the infection on a New York man who returned from Puerto Rico with bloodshot eyes and a painful rash that spread all over his body.
	Today, health officials told Congress its short-sightedness is making the Zika problem even worse by failing to provide the necessary funding to fight it.
	David?
	Good to be here, bro.
	The necessary funding.
	You gotta slip that in.
	Yeah, it's the funding.
	It's all about the funding.
	We want that $1.9 billion.
	Let's have it now.
	I got the clip.
	This was in relation to the total police state that we have.
	That is, we are now starting to rival the United Nations of...
	United Nations of Gitmo Nations, of Gitmo Nation East.
	And this is something that's going on in your backyard.
	We are exposing a surveillance program operating all around the Bay Area.
	Federal agents planting microphones to secretly record conversations.
	Mm-hmm.
	KPI X5's Jackie Ward is at the Oakland Courthouse.
	Now, Jackie, can they legally do that?
	Yes, they can, which may surprise a lot of you out there.
	Just imagine standing at that very bus stop, having a conversation with your friend, and having no idea that your conversation was being recorded.
	It happens all the time, and the FBI says that they don't even need a warrant to do it.
	They plant microphones under rocks.
	They plant microphones in trees.
	They plant microphones in equipment.
	I mean, there's microphones that are planted in places that people don't think about because that's the intent.
	FBI agents hid microphones inside these light fixtures and at this bus stop without a warrant to record conversations between March 2010 and January 2011.
	The feds are trying to prove real estate investors in San Mateo and Alameda counties are guilty of bid rigging and fraud.
	Jeff Harp is a former FBI special agent and is now a KPIX 5 security analyst.
	An agent just can't go out and grab a recording device and plant it somewhere without authorization from a supervisor and, you know, the special agent in charge.
	The lawyer for one of the accused will ask the judge to throw out the recordings, telling me that, quote, speaking in a public place does not mean that the individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy.
	Private communication in a public place qualifies as a protected oral communication and therefore may not be intercepted without judicial authorization.
	So Jeff also says if you're going to conduct criminal activity, do it in the privacy of your own home.
	That was the original intention of the Fourth Amendment, but we'll see what the judge has to say on May 25th.
	Shut up, slave!
	You will obey.
	What?
	You got to ISO what?
	You have to ISO. If you're going to conduct criminal activity...
	Do it in your home!
	...do it in the privacy of your own home.
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	I probably should do that right now.
	I thought it was pretty funny.
	But how you feel about that in the Bay Area?
	In the Bay Area!
	Yeah, the Bay Area.
	Yeah, welcome to the Bay Area.
	That, I mean, that is just, you know, insane.
	You know how good, you know, so windy and crummy.
	I mean, I don't know how, what kind of recordings you can get if you're not using specialized shotgun mics or something that really can target.
	Hold on, hold on a second, let me get this.
	So Jeff also says if you're going to...
	Let me ISO it right now while we're doing this.
	Might as well.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second.
	I can do this part.
	So Jeff also says if you're going...
	I'll get it there.
	If you're going...
	...says if you're going to conduct...
	Hold on.
	I can make it tighter.
	I can make it tighter.
	I can do this.
	If you're going to...
	Here it is.
	If you're going to...
	There it is.
	Okay.
	If you're going to conduct criminal activity, do it in the privacy of your own home.
	Ah, nice.
	There you go.
	Perfect.
	What do we call it so we can remember?
	Criminal activity.
	Activity home.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	There you go.
	All right.
	Excellent.
	All right.
	Good call.
	Good call, Jay.
	Well, I think that having these mics all over the place, it seems to me...
	I mean, yeah, put a mic and a lamp.
	What are you going to get?
	You're going to get a lot of street noise.
	Well, there's a lot of these already that are doing the shot monitors.
	If gunshots are being heard...
	Yes, no, the gunshot thing is all over.
	But regardless, people buy into this no matter what because it's CSI. We know this works.
	We've seen it all the time.
	Yeah, we know it works.
	We know it works.
	I mean, we can't even record the president because of the sound of phony digital cameras going...
	Let alone that we're going to record something at the bus stop.
	But it puts people...
	I think it does...
	It's achieving what it needs to do is make people afraid.
	Yeah, they're all afraid.
	But see, here's the thing I think is being lost on this.
	If you can see one of these mics someplace, you steal it.
	Hell yeah.
	These are probably some...
	They have to be...
	It's government stuff, so it's not like a cheap Radio Shack.
	And I wonder if they're RF. Are they wireless RF, or are they wireless...
	They have to be.
	Are they Wi-Fi?
	I mean, in Austin, we have...
	I think it's starting everywhere.
	Every stoplight now has a Wi-Fi access point.
	They've got a whole backbone they're building.
	Yeah, there's something that the hackers out there should let us know.
	And of course, the more that this happens, the more fun it's going to be.
	I mean, this is why you're seeing porn running on these digital street signs.
	It's just going to get more fun for everybody.
	What's not fun for people is the droning that continues.
	And I, by coincidence, caught an interview with Jeremy Scahill.
	He was on CNN with Tapper.
	And he's written this book about the drone industry, our drones and the president and how you get killed and how you're designated to be killed.
	And I thought it was well worth sharing with our producers here, if you're interested.
	Yes.
	Skahill is always good for...
	He's a strange character.
	I like to figure out where he's really working.
	I think he's just a little manic.
	Really?
	Do you think he's an agent?
	Do you think he's someone...
	He dropped a lot of names on this book, like everyone participated.
	Let me see.
	What the hell is this book called?
	Let's take a look.
	Skahill Drone Book.
	It's the ugliest cover I've ever seen, but very recognizable.
	Orange here.
	The Assassination Complex.
	Let me see.
	$24.99.
	It's not cheap.
	Okay.
	Oh, this is funny.
	What does he have on here?
	He has...
	Inside the Government Secret Drone Warfare Program.
	The Assassination Complex.
	Jeremy Scahill.
	Oh, I can't even read it.
	Hold on.
	And...
	And the staff of The Intercept, forward by Edward Snowden, afterward by Glenn Greenwald Don Raff.
	You got everybody in there.
	I really got to make some dough with this, guys.
	Come on.
	That's the usual stuff.
	Come on, man.
	Hook a brother up, man.
	And his colleagues collaborated on a new book called The Assassination Complex, inside the government's secret drone warfare program.
	Jeremy, thanks so much for being here.
	Really appreciate it.
	Thanks, Jake.
	So your book has a lot of disturbing details about the process through which the United States...
	Legally executes people with drones, legally in the United States point of view.
	How does the process of killing someone with a drone begin?
	It's actually quite a labyrinthine process that often begins with foreign governments that are allies of the United States providing the initial intelligence on people that it alleges are involved with terrorism or maybe connecting with terrorists.
	So, for instance, in Yemen, the Saudi government provides the United States with a lot of the intelligence that's used to develop profiles of people that the United States wants to take out.
	The African Union countries in Somalia that are there as part of a peacekeeping force provide a lot of the intel there.
	And then the U.S. uses networks of spies and other informants around the world.
	That information gets fed into a system.
	It's sifted through by U.S. intelligence analysts.
	And then they develop what are referred to internally as baseball cards or BBCs.
	And, Jake, this is very similar to what we had as kids when we were collecting baseball cards, where you would have your favorite baseball player, their RBIs, their home runs, etc.
	Except these are profiles of people that the U.S. is contemplating killing.
	And they have their statistics.
	They were connected to the Mumbai attacks.
	They have been on the telephone with X, Y, and Z people.
	And it goes up the chain.
	And then one of the secret documents that we got shows how the president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and various military and intelligence officials all are part of a process that ends up on the president's desk with an up or down on whether or not this person is going to die.
	Wow!
	Thumbs up, thumbs down like Julius Caesar.
	Hail Caesar!
	Hail Caesar!
	And this baseball cards, or what they call BBCs, that means something entirely different on Craigslist, I'll tell you, man.
	They might want to change their acronym.
	Speaking of such...
	I don't know what that was.
	Go away.
	That was weird.
	No, I have a couple.
	I bought a bunch of the Saddam Hussein baseball cards that came out.
	I got them in Iraq.
	They gave me all the Taliban guys or whatever.
	Yeah, whatever they were.
	Deck of cards, yeah.
	I think I paid a buck or something.
	I'm pretty sure that if I keep them long enough, they'll be worth a couple bucks.
	So, there's junk around the house.
	Hey, before we go into an inevitable break, I was very pleased to see yesterday on Logo TV, of all but never heard of Logo TV, I was very pleased to see the Eurovision 2016 Song Contest being aired live exactly the way it should be, with an over-the-top gay guy and a sidekick doing the commentary.
	One of the best things I've ever seen on television.
	Did you get the gay guys from Logo TV or did you get some other feed that you watched?
	I didn't get any feeds.
	Oh, you didn't watch?
	This is your beat.
	I thought you would watch.
	Oh, man.
	I've never watched this show.
	I think it's a dumb show.
	I think it's overproduced.
	But we should have done our predictions because...
	Why?
	It was the same prediction we made last year.
	We would have nailed it.
	But it was even better this year because they did so many new things.
	They changed the way the voting runs.
	Now, they say it doesn't change the way it actually works, but the reporting of the voting could not have been a more exact example of how the European Union wants the people, the slaves of Europe...
	To shut up and listen to the smart people who understand how it all really works.
	And we will get to the Brexit with this, and I got really stoked by watching Brexit the movie, which is a brilliant piece of propaganda from...
	What is this?
	Brexit the movie.
	You have not seen this?
	No.
	Oh, immediately.
	You know what?
	Right now, it's just like, all right, stop the show.
	We'll be back tomorrow.
	You should watch...
	It is a brilliant piece of propaganda.
	It's brilliant, which takes us all the way back to World War I.
	That's when the government will take care of everything started in Britain.
	And, of course, after World War II, as things progressed in Germany, all regulations were dropped.
	And Germany became the powerhouse of production and economy and commerce in all of Europe.
	And Britain is pretty much the ugly stepchild that has just been regulated by people who know exactly this is how you should be.
	And they take that through a logical conclusion in the European Union, where this is exactly what the EU has wanted, what all the politicians want, is they want technocratic people who are not elected, who will just run everything for the stupid people.
	So they couldn't get away with it entirely in the Eurovision Song Contest voting, but the way they did it is, we have televoting, we all can vote, whatever you want, democratic, right?
	But that'll only count for 50% of those, because we have the other 50% is from expert juries in each individual country.
	It's just so incredibly rude and demeaning.
	Of the European peoples.
	Listen, here's their own promo video.
	Oh, here's how it works.
	Delighting Kiev among Crimean Tatars.
	Ah, screw me.
	That's the wrong one.
	Sorry.
	This is the one I want.
	Here's the one I want.
	In this video, we are presenting an exciting big change in the voting procedure of the Eurovision Song Contest.
	Exciting change!
	This is how it works.
	Wow.
	This voice alone is worth the price of admission.
	It's an exciting change.
	And it's animated.
	Take your pills.
	It's animated.
	What did you say?
	Take your Soma.
	Take your pills.
	Be happy.
	I can't even start it.
	In the voting procedure of the Eurovision Song Contest, this is how it works.
	First, each national professional jury will award 1 to 8, 10, and 12 points to their favorites.
	Professionals!
	In the grand final, these points will be announced by the spokespersons from all participating countries in the usual way.
	Oh, the Dutch lady was great.
	Oh my god, I should have clipped it.
	I just remembered.
	She came out in full force.
	Hello!
	Yes, it is the Netherlands here, everybody!
	It's a great show!
	This show is so fantastic!
	Great show!
	Great job, everybody!
	I should have clipped it.
	Based on the televoting, each country will award a second set of 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points to the 10 songs they like most.
	The televoting points from all countries will be combined and announced by the host, starting with the country receiving the fewest points from the public.
	And ending with the country that received the highest number of points from the televoting.
	So the winner will only be known at the very end of the show.
	In the semifinals, the same voting system will be used, but only 10 qualifiers will be announced as usual.
	After the grand final, you can find the individual jury votes and televoting rankings on our website, eurovision.tv.
	Well, extremely exciting, as you can tell.
	Very exciting, this change.
	He sounds like a character in a Paul Verhoeven movie.
	That's another fine Dutch reference.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	So now what was interesting is how it wound up Ukraine winning Australia, who, of course, are a member of the European Broadcast Union and have been transmitting the the contest for 30 years, I believe.
	But now they participated.
	Of course, Russia participated.
	And the way it was taken was, oh, screw Russia.
	They, you know, they couldn't even beat Australia.
	So was Ukraine, Australia, Russia, whereas I thought I heard that Ukraine gave Russia all their points, their dues, their millions of points at the end there.
	I didn't read it that way at all.
	What I saw was, hey, Europe, you're called the Eurovision Song Contest.
	Look who's in the top three.
	No one from Europe.
	No one.
	Well...
	I want to say one more thing.
	The powers, the elites want to make people get used to it.
	Get used to it.
	Yes, there you go.
	So let's just make them win the contest.
	Now they're kind of European because they won a European contest.
	The whole thing was fruity.
	But I learned something, and I am going to force us in the near future to do this.
	This is a new format, and it is a winning format.
	This is going to be a huge, successful format for you and I if we can get our asses in gear.
	Doing live audio commentary on live televised events, it is...
	I don't know if it's a moneymaker, but it can be hilarious.
	And I can see you and I looking at this thing and just going, you know, just ragging on everything, which this gay guy and his sidekick, I don't know who she was, were good.
	It was funny.
	No, but I didn't have a way to clip it.
	It's a logo TV. No, no, no, no.
	But it was good.
	It was just funny.
	The campy gay humor really works when you see some woman show up screaming at the top of her lungs with huge wing-like shoulder pads shimmering from the heavens.
	The whole thing is insane.
	Go back and watch it.
	No, you don't have to.
	But I want us, because we should have done the correspondence dinner, I think we could even do sports and make it fun, you and I. And people, all they have to do is watch the TV. There may be some slight delay, but I think we can get it pretty real time, like maybe a second, if we need to.
	And just do commentary on any big televised event.
	Yeah, we could probably do as well as Joan Rivers.
	Better.
	I think we could do better.
	Or that other guy?
	What's the guy that does...
	He used to be on Leno and he's super gay.
	And he's doing Hollywood Live Today or whatever it is.
	Oh, Ross.
	Ross.
	Ross.
	Ross the intern.
	Yeah, but you and I can make it funny without it having to be gay.
	I think you and I can...
	And by the way, it's so stereotypical that the gay lobby should be against it.
	Yeah, you'd think.
	Yeah, I mean, it's hilarious.
	That stereotypical Hollywood gay, which doesn't even exist, I don't think, very rarely.
	Maybe some antique shop owner in some part of San Francisco, perhaps.
	Yeah.
	But generally speaking, that guy is just a Hollywood stereotype.
	Mm-hmm.
	Prancing around.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	And all the straights laughing.
	Oh, that guy's so funny.
	Prancing around like he's gay.
	Oh, he is gay.
	Oh, ho, ho.
	Yeah, that's terrible.
	Yeah.
	We're bigoted.
	Yeah.
	It was funny, though, which is the way it used to be.
	We could just laugh about things and not go all crazy and get all up in our safe space about stuff.
	I like to be in my safe space.
	Safe space!
	Alright, here's the one you were talking about.
	This is the CBS report.
	And by the way, the giveaway on this...
	CBS, as we both read the Carl Bernstein report on the CIA and the media.
	Yeah.
	Which was written in 77, something like that.
	It's available online.
	People should all read it.
	It's very interesting.
	And I think it was written because his partner, I think, was always an intelligence agency of some sort.
	And he had a story.
	So he wrote this long thing.
	He cited CBS as being more or less in the employ of the agency, just straight up.
	Well, some mysterious...
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	And so you have to consider the source on this at CBS, but to compound it, the two other sources that are brought into this story, and by the way, I'm kind of all in thinking this is Donald Trump that is on this tape, but the two other sources though are the worst.
	The Washington Post has become a stooge.
	For the Hillary Clinton campaign, which means they're in Washington, D.C., they're astute for the agency.
	And for some reason, they were all in on Hillary.
	And the other one is the New York Daily.
	These are the only two they use.
	They use Washington Post and the New York Daily News.
	The New York Daily News is the one that had these horrible front pages of Trump.
	He's a clown.
	He's an idiot.
	It's been all dolled up to look like, you know, Krusty the Clown.
	And so that's, you can see, this is just ganging up.
	But this is a great story.
	Okay, and, oh, here we go.
	Well, some mysterious audio tapes surfaced today.
	They were provided to the Washington Post by an anonymous source.
	The question is, is the voice on them Donald Trump?
	Here's Chip Reid.
	Here we go.
	In 1991, a People magazine reporter recorded a call from someone identifying himself as John Miller, who said he was representing Donald Trump.
	The recording has now been published by the Washington Post.
	I have somebody that knows, and I think somebody that he questions and likes.
	You might have noticed Miller sounds a lot like Trump.
	For about 14 minutes, Miller talked and boasted mostly about Trump's exploits with women.
	Tactics is people that you like about.
	Including, he said, Madonna.
	He's living with Marla and he's got three other girlfriends.
	He's coming out of a marriage that he's starting to do tremendously well financially.
	And he just thought it was too soon to make any commitment to anybody.
	Soon after the interview, Trump admitted that he was John Miller and called it a joke gone awry.
	But today, he denied it.
	It was not me on the phone.
	And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that.
	Yes, of course it's Donald.
	Linda Stacey of the New York Daily News has covered Trump for years.
	How sure is she?
	On a scale of 1 to 10, I am 10.
	I'm 11.
	Everybody in the news business knows this goes on with Donald.
	He's been doing it for 30 years.
	It's like you'd be in a newsroom and say, oh, it's fake Donald Trump again.
	Today, the Washington Post was interviewing Trump about his finances when a reporter asked him if he had ever employed someone named John Miller.
	Scott, we're told the phone suddenly went dead.
	No!
	Why are you ruining minutes of my life with this story?
	Well, I just thought it was a funny story, and I wasn't going to necessarily play it, but you had heard, you had pre-played it a little while ago, and you wanted to hear it.
	Okay.
	So you were asking to ruin your own life.
	Oh, well.
	By the way, John Miller, it's kind of interesting, was the CIA guy.
	Yeah, from CBS, yeah.
	Does he sound like that?
	CBS, coincidentally, and then, I just thought that was peculiar.
	Yeah.
	It's like...
	You know, this is...
	This presidential election...
	Is there nothing left?
	Is that it?
	That's it.
	Oh, he lied 25 years ago and he calls up.
	Shit, I've done this.
	I'm pretty sure.
	Everyone has done this.
	I've done this for sure.
	I've done this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you call in and you get some sucker listening to your bull.
	Yeah, I don't do it.
	No, I don't.
	I'm not looking for anything.
	I never heard of John Miller.
	I mean, when I... It's bad enough if I call up as John Miller, if I call up as Adam Curry, they're like, who?
	It's the same thing.
	John Miller, Adam Curry.
	They don't know who they're talking to.
	They hang up on me.
	Well, there are some other...
	I just have a couple other lame-o things I think should be played here I'd like to share with you.
	Let's see.
	This was our friend, our pal Clooney.
	After George Clooney saying this about Donald Trump at the Cannes Film Festival.
	There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.
	That's not going to happen.
	The room full of international journalists applauding the actor.
	Not everyone applauding back here at home.
	Clooney has raised money for Hillary Clinton.
	Now, what I found interesting was the long version.
	And this truly is the election cycle of the soundbite.
	You know, it was something we talked about in maybe the 70s.
	Is that when the soundbite idea really kicked into high gear?
	Late 70s or some election was, it's all soundbites, it's all soundbites.
	The concept of the soundbite was born.
	I remember that.
	But I can't identify the period.
	I do remember that because it was all soundbites.
	You have to speak in soundbites.
	You have to speak in soundbites.
	And, of course, with today's editing capabilities, digital editing, you can edit things so quickly.
	Witness this program.
	We run somewhere between 20 and 50 clips a show.
	And it's just two guys.
	And we're old.
	We're at age.
	And we can barely push the buttons.
	And we can still make it happen.
	We can even do ISOs on the fly.
	As everyone witnessed on today's show.
	You've done it before.
	Here's a longer version of what Clooney said.
	There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.
	That's not going to happen.
	And by the way, that's the press applauding.
	Just so you know.
	That's not an audience.
	That's the press.
	That's right.
	This is a press conference.
	Good catch.
	The press is applauding.
	Go, George!
	You hottie!
	It's unbelievable, the press.
	Yeah, the press.
	Oh, thank you.
	We weren't able to do it.
	And then, of course, Clooney's going to yell at the press.
	There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.
	That's not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen because we're not going to be...
	Fear is not going to be something that we're going to...
	That's going to be...
	What drives our country?
	What is he saying?
	This is odd.
	Is he fear?
	I guess fear.
	What has he been witness for the last 20 years?
	I don't know, but aren't the Democrats, specifically Hillary Clinton, saying be afraid if Donald Trump becomes president, we're doomed?
	Isn't everyone using this fear?
	I'm moving to Canada.
	You know, I'm so sick and tired of people saying, when they say something, it's okay, and you say the same thing, but change name and it's not okay.
	From all sides.
	That's going to be what drives our country.
	We're not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or, you know, women.
	We're not actually afraid of anything.
	So, you know, we're not going to use fear.
	Yes, you're afraid of Donald Trump.
	That's what everyone keeps saying.
	So afraid that you want to move to Canada.
	I think it is.
	I'm sorry?
	He said fear of women.
	Something that's going to be what drives our country.
	We're not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or, you know, women.
	That's very funny.
	George, it's okay.
	You can just tell us.
	We know you're afraid of her.
	You're trying to get out of a bad relationship.
	We know Amala is no fun, George.
	You're afraid of women.
	He did say that, did he?
	We shouldn't be afraid of immigrants or...
	What was the other thing he said?
	Let's listen to it again.
	Or women.
	Can I go on the record?
	I'm afraid of women.
	That's going to be what drives our country.
	We're not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or, you know, This is where Clooney got his wires mixed, because the statement you throw out as a bot, as an Obama bot or a Hillary bot, you throw out, you know, he calls women sluts and pigs!
	He calls these immigrants and no Muslims allowed!
	This is why he used to have Prendergrass as his handler.
	As his handler, and they didn't let him go out by himself.
	But now that he's, I guess, divorced himself from whatever agency he was working for, which I doubt he's still not working for him, but he does stuff like this.
	That's why they have to clip it.
	We're not actually afraid of anything.
	Because he says stupid shit.
	He does.
	Well, this was dumb.
	Well, the good news is, and thank you, George, uh, I don't have to be afraid of women, finally.
	Or, you know, women.
	We're not actually afraid of anything.
	So, you know, we're not going to use fear.
	So that's not going to be an issue.
	I think it is, if you're asking if it's a harbinger, I think that, you know, and I think you would agree, and I think we all sort of see it, I think that sort of landed in a way.
	Trump is actually...
	I'm not sure what he said.
	Let's listen to that again.
	I didn't get that either.
	What the hell did he just say?
	This is why I liked it so much.
	Just playing that stupid sound by, it's not going to happen, what?
	Because Clooney's going to stop it, beat him up, I don't know, but no.
	So, you know, we're not going to use fear, so that's not going to be an issue.
	I think it is, if you're asking if it's a harbinger, I think that, you know...
	What is a harbinger?
	A force to be reckoned with, or a book of knowledge.
	Define harbinger.
	The word harbinger has two different meanings.
	As a verb, foreshadow or presage, and as a noun.
	Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone.
	Oh, okay.
	It's a bad omen.
	Foreshadowed.
	An omen.
	Foreshadowed.
	An omen.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Thank you, Book of Knowledge.
	Very good.
	If you're asking if it's a harbinger, I think that, you know, and I think you would agree, and I think we all sort of see it, I think that sort of landed in a way.
	Trump is actually a result in many ways of the fact that much of the news programs didn't follow up and ask tough questions.
	Didn't ask tough questions.
	There it is.
	So now he's blaming the news media.
	Who are happily there clapping.
	Where do they ever ask tough questions?
	Thank you.
	And by the way, let me point something out.
	The public doesn't want to see tough questions.
	It just looks like you're hounding the guy.
	No, we don't care about that.
	You didn't answer the question.
	You didn't answer the question.
	Well, I thought I answered the question.
	We want conflict.
	No, you didn't answer it.
	You didn't answer it.
	No, all we want is conflict.
	We just want conflict.
	That's what drives ratings, conflict.
	And George, do you think he really doesn't know this?
	...didn't follow up and ask tough questions.
	That's the truth.
	It was, you know, it's really easy because your numbers go up.
	All these cable news numbers.
	Oh, there you go.
	24-hour news doesn't mean you get more news.
	It just means you get the same news more.
	So the more and more and more.
	And the press is laughing at them.
	Or you hear, you know, these guys, you know, the ratings go up because they can show an empty podium saying Donald Trump is about to speak, you know, as opposed to taking those 30 seconds and saying, well, let's talk about refugees, which is the biggest crisis that's going on.
	Ratings loser.
	No.
	No.
	This is why you don't run the network or the studio, George.
	It's about refugees, which is the biggest crisis that's going on in the world right now.
	In the world.
	Amal's looking at him with laser eyes.
	You better say refugees.
	That's my thing, say refugees.
	I think you're right.
	I think he is afraid of women.
	Would really all of the corporations fall on their knees if we did actually inform a little bit?
	So I think that this movie is pointed and talking about...
	This is his movie.
	One of the things I think that is a great disaster in the way we inform ourselves right now, which is we've lost the ability to get to and tell the truth and get to the facts.
	George Clooney is a spy.
	You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
	Call Clooney.
	Call Clooney.
	George Clooney.
	Is a spy.
	There we go.
	You got the a cappella version from it.
	I'm giving you Clip of the Day for pulling out.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	Clip of the Day.
	The only one I have is competition, which I now eliminate from the clip of the day.
	Are you sure?
	You can get a second.
	Because this is a call back to something you talked about earlier.
	Okay, I'm ready.
	Oldest person dies.
	Ooh.
	And the woman believed to be the world's oldest person, Susanna Muschette Jones, has died at the age of 116.
	She passed away Thursday at a senior's home in Brooklyn, New York.
	Jones was born in Alabama in 1899 and moved north as a young woman.
	She never drank or smoked, but said she did eat bacon every day.
	Okay, you get a borderline for it.
	Borderline.
	Borderline.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	I have a couple other clips, but just some ridiculous election clips that I picked up over the past couple days.
	The first one here is, let me see.
	Oh, this is, there's a little scandal brewing about a $2 million payment made.
	From the Clinton Foundation to a company of which I think a 30, it may be 33%, but that would be too good to be true.
	A 30% shareholder, a woman, let's see, what is her name?
	Julie, what is her name?
	Here it is, Julie something or other.
	Hold on.
	The name of the company, here it is.
	At Bill Clinton's behest, a $2 million commitment for Energy Pioneer Solutions was placed on the agenda during a September 2010 conference of the Clinton Global Initiative.
	As it turns out, the commitment is a bit of an issue.
	At the heart of the issue is that the foundation sent the funding to a company that has significant ties to the Clinton family.
	The IRS website states that any 501c3 should not be operated for the benefit of private interest, of course.
	Here we go.
	Energy Pioneer Solutions was founded in 2009 by Scott Klebe.
	A Democrat who twice ran for Congress from Nebraska, an internal document from that year showed it as owned 29% by Mr.
	Klebe, 29% by Jane Eckert, the owner of an art gallery in Pine Plains, New York, and 29% by Julie Tauber McMahon of Chappaqua, a close friend of Mr.
	Clinton who also lives in Chappaqua.
	And as this is being reported, I think this was CNBC. Steck sent me this.
	He nailed this one.
	This is a catch and a half.
	This company, which is a for-profit company, Energy Pioneer Solutions, which was actually 30% owned by Clinton's friend, who lives in Chappaqua.
	Right.
	And part-owned as well by the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.
	Right.
	Let's not forget that.
	But yes, just up the road is this woman who visits the Clinton household every so often when Mrs.
	Clinton isn't there.
	Woo!
	Oops.
	Oops.
	Great catch deck.
	Love that.
	Here's Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who used to be Tina's senator in Florida.
	Is she a senator?
	She's a senator, isn't she?
	No, no, she's a congressman.
	Congressperson.
	Yes.
	About the FBI email investigation, it was just lovely to hear her finally sputter and just go completely off the reservation, not know what to say.
	Got into an argument over...
	If it's an investigation or an inquiry, it was just a beautiful piece of television history.
	We are conducting an investigation.
	That's the Bureau's business.
	That's what we do.
	I'm not familiar with the term security inquiry.
	Is she taking this as seriously as the FBI is?
	I think it's important to underscore that Secretary Clinton isn't even a target of this inquiry, investigation, whatever I-word you want to use.
	Okay, hold on.
	Whatever I-word you want to use, she's not the target of the investigation, John.
	This should be headline news.
	Yeah, it should be top of the news.
	What other I-words could we find for Debbie Wasserman?
	Investigation, inquiry, inquisition.
	Inquisition would be good.
	I have my dictionary in front of me.
	I can find all the I words.
	We need some more words.
	Idiotic, imbecile, ignoramus, idiot, impotent.
	We can use a lot of I words.
	This election is going to be decided.
	How do you know that?
	Because I've repeatedly been told that.
	I mean, my understanding is that Secretary Clinton...
	How do you know that?
	Because I've been told that?
	How do you know that it's not targeting her?
	Because they said so?
	How do you know that?
	Because I've repeatedly been told that.
	I mean, my understanding is that Secretary Clinton is not the target of this investigation.
	Has the FBI shared that with you?
	I am only repeating what my understanding is, but beyond that, this election is going to be decided by voters who care about making sure that they have a president who has their back, who will build on the 74 straight months of job growth we've had in our economy.
	Wow, that's brazen.
	74 straight job growth.
	That's a lie.
	That's a lie.
	We've had jobs added, but we've had, in some months, more lost, correct?
	Yeah, the magic number is 150,000.
	But they've lost them.
	In and around.
	Everything under that number means that you're losing.
	It's not good.
	It's negative.
	Just the replacement market alone in this large 300 million plus country, the replacement number, in other words, people quit their jobs or they retire and new people come on board to keep that even is 150.
	So if you're below 150,000, you are losing jobs.
	So anyway, I believe that to be a lie.
	...job growth we've had in our economy, who won't take people's healthcare away now that 20 million people have it that didn't have it before, who won't drag us back to a time where the last Republican president plunged our economy into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
	That's how voters are going to make this decision on who they want to be their president, and that's why our nominee will eventually win this election.
	Yes or no?
	Is she taking this FBI matter seriously?
	Yes or no?
	When you release 55,000 pages of emails and demonstrate the transparency that Secretary Clinton has throughout this I-word, yes, most definitely.
	And that's still not what the voters are going to be making this decision on when they decide who they're voting for for president.
	I also just want to reiterate that I have, in my time, I have sent one email with 50,000 pages.
	You know, just an attachment or whatever.
	This 50,000 pages is completely meaningless.
	So then we had Trump.
	He was coming out defending himself and he had his little...
	This woman is so bizarrely interesting to watch, Katrina Pearson.
	She has like the very tiny head, really jet black hair and scrunched up and she's of some ethnicity which I can't quite identify.
	I said she looks really interesting, interesting, but she's really full of it.
	Everyone knows by now he's not a traditional political candidate, but he is seemingly softening his positions right now.
	Now that he no longer has to worry about getting the nomination, the Republican presidential nomination, he has to worry about a general election.
	He seems to be softening his position on some sensitive issues like A temporary ban on Muslims coming to the United States.
	He now says that's a suggestion.
	He seems to be softening his position on tax policy.
	Is he now moving away from the right, shall we say, towards the center as he worries about a general election?
	Because that's what regular politicians, as you know, do.
	And we also need to have some definition of regular politicians and irregular politicians.
	How do you become a politician?
	Do you have to be a politician to become a politician to be a politician?
	Elitist is what that is, Brolf.
	No, not at all.
	What Mr.
	Trump is saying is that yes, all of his policies are suggestions like any other candidates.
	Yeah, no.
	Katrina, no, no.
	He was very clear on this.
	Very clear.
	Oh, recall that time when if you liked your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
	I think that is funny, but it's not working.
	This is a flaw.
	This woman is a flaw now in the strategy.
	Guess what?
	That actually didn't save the policy.
	This is the woman who's always representing him?
	Very often, yes.
	Very often.
	I didn't know she was short.
	I don't know.
	She looks very tiny.
	I don't know if she's short, but I think that she's...
	Don't set a smile on her face.
	She's blundering.
	This is not good.
	This is weak, and they don't have anything.
	Mr.
	Trump is just being very...
	Which to me...
	Well, I'll deconstruct.
	...with voters, and he has not backpedaled...
	And let me repeat this.
	He has not backpedaled on his Muslim ban.
	He said he would back off of it in an instant if...
	Things have taken place to where we could properly vet individuals.
	So this media outcry of how Trump is somehow backed off of his Muslim ban, I find quite absurd because that is just simply not the case.
	What I don't know, John, is did Trump himself say these were recommendations or is that someone else's words?
	Because that could be going on here, that someone else said extrapolated The temporary Muslim bans...
	No, I've not heard a Trump clip where he says, oh, this is just suggestions.
	Yeah, I think that's what's happening here now that I think about it.
	But she is handling it poorly then because she said he never said a suggestion.
	He said, until we figure it out.
	Which is a fair statement.
	Which is what he said.
	Which is what he said.
	And I don't know where he ever said it was a suggestion.
	I don't know that he did.
	Okay.
	This seems like a...
	The Trump operation seems discombobulated.
	It just kind of does its own thing.
	I don't think they have a structure.
	No.
	And I think everyone's...
	He puts somebody in there that's supposed to be able to just handle it.
	I can just see him doing that.
	Take care of it.
	And even worse, or better...
	Take care of it until I fix it, because he's got, as we probably suspect, he has his tax documents ready.
	He has his plan ready.
	He's ready for whatever it is.
	He's playing everybody.
	Shoot, I would do it.
	It's so easy now.
	So easy at this point.
	Here he is finally calling in, just giving George Stephanopoulos some crap, and deservedly so, because, of course, he was the White House spokesman.
	And he's still associated with the Clinton Foundation.
	And the thing that I find pathetic, and there are clips of this, and I think we may have played one once.
	He is on the record as saying Bill Clinton is a psychopath.
	And not a very good person.
	So people are sending me a link to somewhere where Trump says that.
	So good.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I said, sure, I'll back off.
	Okay, I gotta look at that.
	I can't play it right now.
	But we'll check that for Thursday's show.
	So here's Stephanopoulos, who donated to the Clinton Foundation.
	I know if he's ever had a full-time job or part-time job, but he's a Clinton insider.
	Everybody knows it and everyone's okay with it, except he forgets to disclaim it every single time, which you should do as a good journalist, if he's considered a journalist, which I don't think he is.
	You said you would release your tax returns when Secretary Clinton released her email.
	She has turned over all the emails in her possession.
	She didn't.
	Turnover.
	Oh, there's plenty missing.
	I read yesterday where there are a lot of emails missing.
	I know she's a good friend of yours, and I know you worked for him and you didn't reveal it.
	But, you know, she did not turn over her emails.
	There are a lot of emails missing.
	There are emails from her staffers missing.
	She turned over the emails she has.
	There are emails missing all over the place.
	The whole thing is a scam.
	There are emails missing all over the place.
	Where's Vlad?
	Vlad's going to come out now.
	That was so cool.
	It was a good setup.
	For Vladimir Putin to come out and say...
	You know, the emails.
	He would even probably do something in English.
	That's what's missing from this whole thing, is the Russians just to release the whole cash.
	To release it, yeah.
	Because that would say, yeah, it was insecure, and here's the Russians.
	I don't understand why they don't do that.
	It's timing, John.
	It's timing.
	It's just waiting.
	It's timing, it's timing, it's timing.
	I think it's going to happen.
	And if it comes out with Putin saying, oh, by the way, here's all of the emails that we took, that we hacked, Game over.
	Yes, it would be game over for Hillary.
	So I think that's waiting in the wings.
	It could be the October surprise.
	Woohoo!
	I'm going to show my salute 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.
	The October Surprise.
	October.
	Surprise.
	Surprise.
	Russian Rocktober.
	Baroness Janice Kang in Milpitas, California.
	I can almost see it from here.
	$154.
	Karma All Around, Love and Light.
	Baroness of the Mutton and Mead.
	Anonymous Chicks.
	Or Chick in Washington, D.C. That's interesting.
	I don't know.
	Maybe someone I met at the party and just don't know.
	That may have been that guy.
	Anonymous Chick.
	The guy's name may be Chick.
	No, his name is not Chick.
	His nickname is Chick and you're just not privy.
	Onward.
	Bray Patel in Hermitage, Tennessee, 101.
	And he is a...
	First donation.
	Yeah, thanks to Patrick, my boss, who introduced me to the show earlier this year.
	I've been enjoying the show and recommending it to my friends and family.
	Outstanding.
	Thank you.
	You've been de-douched.
	Welcome, Brett.
	Sir Patrick is doing his work.
	Yes.
	News guy Peter Goodman in Reykjavik.
	$100.
	This is the guy, one of the guys who's been sending stuff about Hillary's accident.
	Yes, he has a lot of aircraft information.
	Yeah, he sent us a whole bunch of stuff that we have to read.
	Okay.
	I saw it come in this morning, and it was a lot.
	Yeah, it's a lot.
	But somehow he slipped chemtrails in there, and I got distracted.
	Sir David, yeah.
	Sir David Bozeman in Wilmington, North Carolina, $100.
	David Tentalo.
	And he is in Lakewood Village, Texas.
	And he contributed $80.08.
	Boobs.
	Boobs.
	Les and Abbotsford, British Columbia, 75.
	Anonymous, 75.
	Sir Brian Green of Hams, our buddy.
	KC9YJM. Seven threes.
	Kilo five.
	Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	73.73.
	Nathaniel Friedman in Sebastopol, California, 6969.
	Sir Jeff Yerke, who you haven't heard from for a while over here in Concord, California, who him and I are working on a record project.
	6789.
	Wait, is that the Red Fox project?
	Yeah.
	Eight years.
	I've been exposed to your project eight years.
	Red Fox is going to be dynamite.
	You should release it on 8-Track.
	If nothing else, we'll have a Red Fox show on this radio station.
	Don't tell anyone about that.
	Sir Jeff, 6789.
	Sir Insight Jobs in Seattle, Washington, 666.
	Richard Moffitt over here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5516 in Short Drive.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia, 5432.
	Brian Matthews in Belvergan, Dublin area, Ireland, 5181.
	You know, we haven't gotten much in the way of UK donations recently.
	I haven't seen anybody from London for a while.
	Jared Glidewell, and I think they're all lockstep in on the, oh, those guys are speaking poorly of the EU. No, we're speaking poorly of the mainstream Muslims.
	Mainstream Muslims.
	Which is MSM. Mainstream MSM. Yeah, MSM. Jared Glidewell in Muncie, Pennsylvania.
	He's got a birthday boy there.
	Yeah, got it, got it.
	Mike Williams in Rancho Santa Margarita, 5150.
	Patrick Comer in San Diego, California.
	Man, here's a note there about something.
	He says he's going into debt for the donation.
	It's totally worth it, he says.
	I'm a broke millennial but had to donate because the analysis was too good.
	Okay.
	Thank you very much, Patrick.
	Thank you.
	John Haller, Missoula, Montana, 50.
	These are all $50 donors.
	I'm going to read them first name, last name, and city.
	Simon Horn in Manly, Queensland, Australia.
	Robert Gusick in High Point, North Carolina.
	We have a lot of North Carolinians that contribute to this show, more so than we do Virginians.
	Well, there's a lot going on there, and we talk about their state.
	Where's the Virginians?
	Where's the Virginians?
	Robert Gusick, High Point, North Carolina.
	Patrick Thomas in Petworth, West Sussex.
	There you go.
	There's your Great Britain.
	Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
	That's Dame Patricia.
	Dame Patricia.
	Brandon Savoy, who I believe is also a knight.
	And Mike Westerfield, Sir Mike Westerfield.
	I don't know why he can't get his city in here.
	Kyle Mayer in Atlanta, Georgia.
	And they, Melody Mon in Ringo, Louisiana.
	She's in for 50, and that's it.
	Yes.
	That's a group of well-wishers for a show, whatever.
	Okay, please do better for the next show, producers.
	We need to help.
	A little better, please.
	A little better, please.
	I spent an extra day in New York.
	I spent an extra day.
	You know, because you can't just get a late checkout until 5.00.
	Yes, this is a problem.
	So we're leaving.
	Are you going to be there all night?
	Yes, yes.
	And Tina had to take an extra day.
	And she doesn't have a lot of days off.
	Well, she's got one less.
	She's done it for the show.
	She did.
	She did it for the show.
	Everything for the show, darling.
	Everything for the show.
	Alright, some karma for everybody.
	Thank you so much.
	You've got karma.
	And a reminder, we'll be back on Thursday.
	We do need your support.
	Dvorak.org slash NAB. And we got two.
	We got Jim Carlson, who turns 70 on May 12th, and he still reads all of his newspapers without glasses.
	And Gerald Gladwell says happy birthday to Jim Fozzie, celebrating today, Sunday, May 15th.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	All righty, then we are off to the races as, let me see, it's time to, we have one nighting, and, uh...
	Is your blade there?
	Yeah, here it is.
	Oh, I got it.
	All right.
	Good.
	Hey, Brian Matthews.
	Come on up here, man.
	Step up.
	Thank you so much.
	You came in today with a donation of 5181 that rounded out your knighthood.
	It really does work, and we're so proud to have you here at the table of the Knights of the Dames.
	It is round.
	It is for no agenda.
	And I hereby am very proud to pronounce-icate thee.
	Sir Crack!
	Night at the Noah General Roundtable, spelled C-R-A-I-C-N. For you, we have the requisite hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, meat and water, garlic and broccoli, espresso and hemp milk.
	We've got crickets and cream.
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	Along with some ginger and gerbils if you want them.
	Thank you so much.
	And go to knowadgeneration.com slash rings, pick up your, or give Eric all your info, and then the ring will be sent off to you post-haste as soon as it can get to you.
	Thank you all.
	Thank everybody.
	Also under $50.
	It's really highly, highly appreciated.
	A little quickie here on millennials.
	What is wrong with millennials?
	Newsweek did a big survey on teens.
	Apparently in 1966, Newsweek surveyed a new concept then, which was teenagers.
	I thought teenagers started in the 50s.
	The term teenagers.
	That's a good question.
	I'm sure it did.
	I think it did.
	But I wonder if it goes back further.
	Anyway, Newsweek did a retrospective.
	They looked at what they reported in 1966.
	And in 2016, so 50 years of...
	Yeah.
	There are distinctive...
	What did you say?
	It has to be interesting.
	There are distinct differences, says Newsweek, between today's teens and teens in 1966.
	Fifty years ago, teenagers' most admired icons were JFK, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Lyndon Johnson, and Helen Keller.
	Today, only one of those names remains the same, Abraham Lincoln.
	And only one other president, President Obama, made the list.
	Rounding out the 2016 list of teen heroes, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Selena Gomez.
	That is progress, ladies and gentlemen.
	That is progress.
	Holy crap!
	That's progress right there.
	I'm telling you, Taylor Swift's the most dangerous woman in the world.
	And you were the one that identified her very early on in this program.
	I did.
	I think within the first few shows, I identified Taylor Swift before anyone knew who she was as a dangerous woman.
	Because she was noodling.
	She was noodling.
	Is that clip still around?
	I'll see if I can dig it out.
	Hold on.
	But Taylor's strive for perfection only makes the people who work with this young star respect her that much more.
	Now this is from, this is February 14.
	Let's go!
	Let's go!
	There's been times where I've played a solo, and then she'll say, well, can you kind of do this?
	And she'll sing me a melody, and I'll incorporate that.
	And that's very impressive for someone her age.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Somewhere there was noodling, but...
	The noodling takes place in there somewhere.
	Yeah, somewhere there.
	Too many notes, she says.
	Too many notes?
	Stop noodling.
	Which I think was what Scaliere said about Mozart.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes.
	I have a...
	Okay, I've got one.
	All right.
	I'm going to get this out of the way.
	Out of the way, we're at the end of the show.
	What?
	We're almost at the end of the show.
	Because we talk about the Brexit, I want to keep my Brexit propaganda.
	Ah, I have some Brexit.
	I got some Brexit.
	This is to get the Brits to vote, not vote.
	Oh, God, we're all going to die if we vote the Brexit.
	This is Lagarde.
	Oh, I have the same clip.
	The Lagarde Brexit clip.
	Lovely.
	IMF director Christine Lagarde was in London Friday, underscoring what she calls significant downside risks of a Brexit.
	Should a sharp drop in external financing follow an exit vote, for example, this would imply a significant depreciation of the sterling and large contractions of investment and consumption, implying lower output, lower growth, and higher domestic prices.
	Will the warnings from outside be enough to keep Britain within the EU? Britons go to the polls on June 23rd to show their true colors.
	We're all gonna die!
	Yeah!
	There was an even better one, which had big, this is Cameron, in-studio, big signs that showed like a big price tag, you know, a price tag that has...
	Kind of one end is sharp, you know?
	How like a clearance sale tag might look.
	That's what I'm talking about, clearance sale tag.
	And it had on it, you know, per household, per year, 4,999 pounds.
	Huge!
	The thing was as tall as the Prime Minister himself.
	The EU referendum campaign has courted controversy in the UK with Leave campaigner Boris Johnson comparing the EU's aims to Hitler's, while Remain campaigner and Premier David Cameron claimed that Britons will be out of pocket if they vote to Leave.
	Both have drawn criticism for fear-mongering.
	On the 23rd of June, we will be voting for higher prices.
	We will be voting for fewer jobs.
	We will be voting for lower growth.
	We will be voting, potentially, for a recession.
	That is the last thing that our economy needs.
	Remain campaigners are pushing the economic argument, which they say the leave camp are losing, while Boris Johnson said that Europe suffered from a massive democratic void.
	I'm telling you that if we Vote Leave on June the 23rd and take back control of this country and our democracy and our economy, then we can prosper and thrive and flourish as never before.
	Adding fuel to the fire, Johnson told British paper The Telegraph that various people, including Napoleon and Hitler, had tried to unite Europe under a single entity, but it ends tragically, adding that the EU was trying to do the same by different means.
	Best use of Hitler ever!
	You know, he's right.
	Yes!
	You know, it's always ended poorly.
	Yeah.
	Who else tried it?
	That's what's going to happen with this deal.
	It's going to end in a civil war because these guys in Brussels, you know, they don't care about, you know, they just want to homogenize everything as a giant German state.
	It's not even homogenization.
	It's they want a ruling class.
	So the counterweight to this propaganda is Brexit the movie, which is paid for by the Leave campaign.
	So this is propaganda.
	Well done.
	Just well done.
	You sit there and go, huh?
	What?
	It's crazy.
	Why are we doing this?
	Well, it is propaganda, but...
	What isn't?
	Of course, of course.
	Everything these days is propaganda.
	My goodness.
	It's gotten bad.
	Here's my final, I think, of some import.
	We're back with the 28 pages, and John Lehman, who I think was on the 9-11 commission, is talking about what may be in these 28 pages.
	What do we think is in there?
	Is it important?
	It's an allegation that has lingered almost since the moment the towers fell.
	Yeah, I want to That Saudi Arabia was somehow tied to the 9-11 attacks.
	Now, speaking to CNN by...
	Weren't the so-called hijackers, weren't they mainly from Saudi Arabia?
	That's not a secret.
	No, that's not a secret.
	So when he says somehow tied to Saudi Arabia, isn't that a tie right there?
	Yeah.
	Revision.
	Quite revision.
	They're all from Saudi Arabia.
	It's an allegation that has lingered almost since the moment the towers fell.
	Yeah, I want That Saudi Arabia was somehow tied to the 9-11 attacks.
	Now, speaking to CNN by telephone, former 9-11 Commissioner John Lehman says the classified 28 pages of a congressional report into 9-11 contain evidence that as many as six Saudi individuals supported al-Qaeda in the run-up to the attacks.
	Those individuals, he says, worked for the Saudi Embassy in the U.S., Saudi charities, and a government-funded mosque in California.
	Lehman makes clear that the 28 pages, which are mostly FBI summary reports, contain no smoking gun.
	And like the 9-11 commission concluded, Lehman does not believe the Saudi government or any of its senior officials supported or were aware of the 9-11 plots.
	However, Lehman says that evidence of lower-level Saudi involvement was never sufficiently investigated and should now be, quote, vigorously pursued.
	Other commission members, including former federal prosecutor Richard Benvenista, are echoing Lehman's call.
	We would not be so arrogant as to think that we, with our limited time and resources, have investigated every single aspect that there is to look at In the 9-11 disaster.
	You know what gets me about this reporting is they make these comments, well, there's no evidence that it hooks to, they worked out of the embassy, but there's no evidence that it has anything to do with the Saudi government.
	Right.
	Because I'm thinking, yeah, because everyone's so liberal that Saudi government, they're not strict rulers who would let these guys go freelancing like crazy and do a stunt like this.
	And they have no knowledge of such a thing because, yeah, they let a lot of stuff slide.
	Sure they do.
	That's why they chop everybody's heads off constantly.
	This is bull crap.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	It is.
	But there it is.
	That's what it is.
	There it is.
	That's what it is.
	Don't let anyone see those 28 pages because they may make some inferences.
	Yes.
	Oh, I'm going to save this for Sunday.
	I got a very important from the brain professor who listened to the show.
	Of course.
	It was about him.
	Yeah, but his wife also listened.
	And I think, did I save that?
	I thought I saved her.
	Oh wait, it was an email.
	That's what it was.
	Hold on, I have it.
	Did she lace into you for being a douchebag and calling her out?
	Yep, that would be correct.
	I thought it would be only fair to...
	Oh yeah, you have to air these grievances.
	Only fair to read it.
	Yes?
	Yeah, you don't want them to pile up these grievances because then they all have to be revealed during Festivus.
	Okay, so...
	Festivus.
	Too long to wait.
	Anyway, this was following on on the Brain Professor.
	No, actually, I'll say it anyway.
	Following on the Brain Professor.
	You teaser!
	Okay, I won't say it.
	I'm keeping his response for the next show.
	It's important we can delve into it and it'll actually have some...
	Yeah, but we always make these promises and never deliver.
	I'm doing it because I had to order a book about this specifically.
	Oh.
	However, Jennifer said, nice show!
	So she listened, that's always nice.
	But FYI, I did not realize Flotus had eaten at Salty Sal.
	I accused her of being an Obama bot.
	Right, accused her of following Hillary's...
	I think we were wrong on that one.
	And she says, that bone marrow was presented perfectly pleasingly.
	You, sir, apparently, are just a pussy.
	So...
	I'll take my knocks.
	She called you out.
	Good for her.
	I'll take my knocks.
	I'll take my knocks.
	I deserve it.
	Good, finally!
	Maybe she could be bullshitting you too.
	She may have gone to that restaurant just for that reason.
	But then she has to live with that and she'll have to account when she meets her maker.
	She doesn't have a maker.
	I'm sorry, she doesn't have a maker.
	Atheist.
	Has no maker.
	Just showed up.
	Alright, one last one to get out of here.
	You got something for us to leave with?
	I don't have a good kicker.
	I mean, I've got a couple of shorties.
	Just one.
	You can choose one and one only.
	Alright, let's play...
	Well, this is actually kind of interesting.
	This is a two-parter, very short, but this is interesting because I didn't know this information.
	Actually, screw that.
	Play cyber attacks.
	Somebody has attacked the banking system, which I believe could be done constantly, and then they somehow imply it has to do with North Korea.
	A cyber heist that stole $81 million from a Bangladesh bank now appears to be part of a wider campaign.
	The global financial network SWIFT reported today the same hackers also hit an unnamed Vietnamese bank.
	And Europe's largest weapons company BAE Systems said the same malware is linked to the cyber attack on Sony's Hollywood studio in 2014.
	Oh, yes.
	Hello, North Korea.
	Oh, brother.
	BAE, aren't they also part of the consortium for Airbus?
	I think they are Airbus.
	So that's troubling.
	If there's malware in the BAE systems...
	Well, their software has never been confidence-inspiring.
	Yeah, I know.
	Nor is the plastic that surrounds their aircraft.
	But that's just me.
	Yes, I know it's carbon fiber.
	Thank you.
	All right, John.
	I want to thank the hotel.
	Actually, I'm direct wired.
	Time to set everything up, so that worked beautifully.
	How did you find a wire?
	Yes, this hotel has a wire.
	It still has a wire.
	It's beautiful.
	Plugged in a wire.
	Dynamite.
	So, yeah.
	We're going to...
	Relax, I guess.
	I don't know.
	We've never really gotten to plans.
	Maybe another hour.
	Just go to a nice restaurant.
	We're going to do that.
	Another two hours or so before...
	By the way, last time I was in New York, I noticed a lot of taco restaurants.
	I'll pay attention.
	And I went into them, walked in, to look around to see what the food looks like.
	And it's classic, like, northern Mexico tacos, you know, and the two tortillas and a bunch of carnitas on their thing with some different onions and cilantro.
	It's just like a taco truck taco.
	The only difference, of course, is a taco truck taco is $1.50.
	These are $8.00.
	This concludes Taco Talk.
	We'll be back on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	Oh, brother.
	You had the taco thing lined up for the kill shot, and then you blew the end.
	Yeah, but the music was ending.
	Don't you understand how that works?
	You're not professional.
	I didn't hear the music.
	I'm not hearing the music.
	Oh, well, the music was playing the whole time.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, I didn't know.
	You wanted a do-over?
	You want to talk about tacos?
	What's the point?
	What's the point?
	All right.
	Sign off.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I'll see you next show.
	All right.
	See you on Thursday, everybody.
	Right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos.
	You're going to conduct criminal activity.
	Do it in the privacy of your own home.
	I have a really great replacement.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
	This is Darrell High.
	The old people.
	You just watch what I do and I think you'll be blown away.
	Oh, yeah.
	We about to make you try.
	And live from New York.
	Only for the hardcore.
	Bung, boom.
	Strictly for the hand and strong.
	Are you ready?
	But I guarantee you, it's the best.
	I just learned yesterday.
	It's Saturday night.
	Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	It's Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	First, nobody puts me on the spot.
	The ratings bong boom are going to be used.
	Bing bong boom.
	Bing bong boom. And boom.
	They're back.
	Bing bong boom.
	Most of you know who I am already because I'm rich and I'm handsome.
	Second, I can buy and sell you and your little freak show dog and pony act, whatever this is.
	Best with the party.
	Nominated a joey candidate.
	It's about a man who kicks ass and makes a ton of money.
	I can beat all of them.
	Boom, bong, boom.
	Sing, sing.
	What do you say doesn't matter?
	Boom, bong, boom.
	Because I'm golden, you're losers.
	Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump
	Trump Trump Trump shout out loud
	Mexicans, you're fired.
	Boom!
	Boom!
	Jeb Bush or Hillary or one of these politicians, all talk, no action.
	All controlled by lobbyists and donors and donors.
	All controlled by lobbyists and donors and donors.
	People like me from previous months.
	Okay?
	They're going to call me.
	Bye.
	Not going to be any good.
	They didn't give me any money.
	Not going to be any good.
	They didn't give me any money.
	They didn't take care of me.
	I don't need it.
	I don't want it.
	I couldn't care less.
	Couldn't care less.
	You are going to love President Trump.
	Bing, bing, bong, bong.
	Bing, bong, bong.
	Banana.
	China. China.
	And I love China.
	Nothing wrong with China.
	I love the Mexican people.
	They have tremendous spirit.
	They're taking your job, taking your money, they're taking everything.
	And I'm going to win the Hispanic Club.
	Sure.
	Thank you.
	China.
	China.
	China from China.
	You are going to love President Trump.
	China.
	China from China.
	You are going to love President Trump.
	Trump.
	You know what that is, right?
	Adios, mofo.
	Thanks, Obama.
	If you're going to conduct criminal activity, do it in the privacy of your own home.
	Amen.

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