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	A lot of them look like they put out.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And it's Thursday, July 7th, 2016.
	It's time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination.
	Episode 840.
	This is no agenda.
	It's the Comey vs.
	Clinton Showdown.
	We're at the 50-yard line and broadcasting live in the capital drone star state here in FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it looks like we're late, I'm John C. DeBorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, you know, sometimes you've got to clean out the cobwebs, you've got to reboot the router, and then you can do the show.
	It took a long time to reboot that router.
	Yeah, I know.
	I don't know why.
	It does seem to take forever.
	I don't know.
	It's technology, man.
	What do we know?
	Well...
	It was a nice, exciting week for us.
	Yeah, it was a great week.
	It was fun.
	I did have to just remove myself from everything for a moment there because it got so deep in bullcrap.
	I just had to turn it off and complete my sweep of the 13 colonies.
	Oh, you made it?
	Almost.
	Apparently it wasn't just the weekend, it's the whole 4th of July week.
	So all I need now is Delaware.
	I have everything else.
	I think Joe Biden's got a rig.
	CQ Joe B! CQ Joe B! Nice fabric!
	Oh, anyway, we had the big announcement by FBI Director Comey.
	We probably should start there.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Do you have any overview clips?
	Yes, I do.
	Well, let's see.
	No, actually, I may not.
	In fact, I thought it was more...
	Just reading his transcript is a lot easier to parse what he was saying, particularly the last bit about recommendations.
	But the media was so poor, so poor at analyzing what he actually said, so poor at...
	Understanding how the system works and what a recommendation is versus an indictment, most of what was on television was absolute effing crap.
	Well, what they like to do, because they think they're clever, and I didn't get any of these.
	I thought they were cliched, where they had Clinton say one thing and then Comey says another.
	Actually, that is what I did pull clips of, because it was, you can call it cliched, but that was what was interesting.
	The response from, and these were mainstream, I saw these on CNN, John.
	No, they're on all the networks.
	Yeah.
	Well, let me play one of these.
	Just one.
	I got three.
	We don't have to play them all, obviously.
	I have one that I want to play.
	I did not email any...
	Classified material to anyone.
	There is no classified material.
	110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.
	I provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related.
	Several thousand work-related emails that were not among the group of 30,000 emails returned by Secretary Clinton I thought using one device would be simpler.
	She also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email.
	There were no security breaches.
	It is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account.
	It was my practice to communicate with State Department and other government officials on their.gov accounts.
	Hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.
	No doubt that we've done exactly what we should have done.
	They were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
	People will be able to judge for themselves.
	We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences.
	Americans will find that interesting, and I look forward to having a discussion about that.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	And so this was on, you know, CNN was running stuff like this.
	I would say that that when you put together is as good as it gets.
	Now, saying that, they all seem to have left out one back and forth that only one network played.
	And I think it was PBS. I could be wrong because I forgot to make a note on it here, but...
	For some reason, I don't understand why this particular back and forth, because every one of these could be refuted by Hillary said something and then Comey said something else.
	It's just as if, and I believe this kind of to be true, Comey was putting together a commercial package for the Trump campaign.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I would agree, yes.
	That was almost discussed on a couple of shows, but here's the one that I don't understand why all the back and forth.
	I never heard one except the one I have here.
	Anyone using this one?
	This is the Clinton...
	Deleted emails.
	100% certainty that the deleted emails, that the FBI is not going to find anything in there that's going to cause you to have to explain again.
	All I can tell you is that when my attorneys conducted this exhaustive process, I did not participate.
	I'm very sure that my attorneys did the most meticulous job that could have been done.
	The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her emails.
	It's also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to state and that we did not find elsewhere and that are now gone.
	Because they deleted all emails they did not produce to state and the lawyers then cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.
	Yeah, in other words, she paid specialists to delete everything real good.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's what I'm saying.
	People who are in the mainstream, they have no idea how to even read the simplest of statements.
	Although, again, the response, particularly from the media in general, the MSNBC, CNN, ABC, in fact, it just...
	They were all understanding how horrible this really was.
	And boy, it rained on Hillary's parade of not being indicted.
	Just a few examples, just so we can hear this.
	Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC. It's going to be very tough.
	I mean, they're going to point to the fact that there is no criminal prosecution recommended.
	But the fact is, she has been saying for more than a year now that she never sent or received anything that was classified at the time.
	And his analysis completely disputes that.
	Her main argument.
	He speaks of the carelessness of it.
	He also spoke to the fact that it was likely hacked by hostile actors.
	That would mean Russia, China, even possibly North Korea.
	She says that China.
	That wasn't good for her.
	China.
	China. Even possibly North Korea.
	China.
	You can't say anything about Trump now.
	Korea, the major Internet and cyber war actors, the fact that she used her devices overseas, that it was careless to have classified information stored not just on the private server, but the fact that she was passing information back and forth to people in the State Department, and they were using the unclassified State Department system, not the classified system.
	So the carelessness And the criticism of that carelessness at the State Department, which he said was unusual in the U.S. government, is also on her watch.
	This is politically very damaging, not as damaging as a prosecution, obviously, not as legally fraught as a prosecution would be, which could be disabling for a nominee, a presumptive nominee, just weeks before the convention.
	And then we have, let's see, this I think was, was this CNN? This was Clinton biographer Jonathan Allen about the report.
	James Comey's going to testify before this House Oversight Committee.
	You probably watched his news conference just as I did yesterday.
	It was, I mean, it was bad for Hillary Clinton.
	It was devastating for Hillary Clinton.
	Why isn't this enough for Republicans?
	It was less devastating for Hillary Clinton than the FBI recommending criminal charges against her.
	But I agree with you.
	It was a really devastating moment for her in terms of the trust question, in terms of the honesty question, in terms of whether or not she may have violated statute.
	You know, Jim Comey didn't even say that she didn't break the law.
	He simply said that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute given what the FBI had found.
	I think House Republicans want to hear more of that.
	If they could hear 11 hours of that, like the 11 hours of Benghazi testimony Hillary Clinton gave in October, but have it be bad for her as opposed to the 11 hours of Benghazi testimony, they would get that from Jim Comey.
	They'd like to hear him talk as much as possible.
	And that is exactly what's happening today.
	And by the way, why is it why all biographers of politicians and royalty mainly have fat heads?
	Have you ever noticed that?
	They're usually gay guys with fat heads.
	I don't want to single it out or anything, but it's getting to me.
	There's one little thing here I want to play.
	I was just going to play the funniest response.
	The funniest response.
	Yeah, the funniest response is from The Daily Show, which has dropped significantly in its numbers.
	You actually watched this.
	This is interesting.
	You must have got it from somebody else.
	No, I tend to check in.
	I do not like Trevor Noah.
	He doesn't have...
	When he says something nasty about America, it feels wrong.
	Yeah.
	Get out of here, South African.
	This is what I'm thinking.
	When Jon Stewart does it, it's different.
	But he did a good job on this one.
	Did Hillary tell the truth about anything?
	I feel like the next time I hear her say, I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message, the FBI director is going to pop out and be like, her real name is Philip G. McAdoo.
	I actually looked that up to see if that was something, a reference I should have understood, but it wasn't as far as I could tell.
	Why, Hillary?
	Why?
	You don't understand that your lies have besmirched the Clinton name, a name synonymous with integrity.
	You know what?
	That's not the point.
	That's not the point.
	The point is...
	The point is...
	That's the point.
	The cornerstone of Hillary's entire campaign has been the idea that she's the responsible candidate, sound judgment, disciplined, dependable.
	Hillary Clinton is basically the Volkswagen of candidates.
	She's the efficient, practical choice that's been in the game for years.
	And now, just like Volkswagen, turns out there's a whole lot of she's been hiding from us.
	Come on, Hillary!
	I thought that was for the Daily Show.
	Are we still all going to hold our nose and vote for Hillary?
	Well, when I first saw this, and I think of No Agenda listeners...
	That you know our theory about FBI being in with Clinton and the CIA being in with Hillary that this is rigged for Clinton.
	I think that Clinton is such a...
	I think he's a weak candidate, looking at it in retrospect.
	Clinton?
	No, Trump.
	Trump's a weak candidate, and if Clinton got indicted, she would be out, and he'd have to deal with Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, who would, either one of them would beat him.
	He can beat Hillary.
	He's always known he can beat Hillary.
	I think he can beat Hillary, and I think he will beat Hillary, but he won't beat Bernie Sanders, and he won't beat Elizabeth Warren.
	Elizabeth Warren drives him crazy.
	He doesn't know what to do with her.
	I want to play this clip.
	Now this is the clip that I think he's giving away a code to let us know, let the insiders know that this was fine and dandy.
	And this is straight out of, this is right out of his, I think it was a Cincinnati meeting.
	This is a Trump rant with code.
	No problem, you know.
	I wrote out a couple of things about Hillary, crooked, Hillary, crooked, so crooked.
	She made so many false statements.
	Is she going to be brought before Congress or something?
	Is something going to happen?
	Is something going to happen?
	Because it's a disgrace.
	Hillary Clinton claimed that the reason for her illegal use of a private insecure email, right?
	She claimed this, was that it was more convenient to use just one device.
	Oh...
	The fact is the FBI director said Hillary used several different servers, even though she said it was one, and numerous mobile devices to send and read emails.
	In other words, Hillary's secret email server existed for the reason we all know to keep her emails from ever being read by the public had nothing to do with just wanting to use one device, okay?
	We understand that.
	But that's not what she said.
	She said something very different under oath.
	She said something very different to everybody.
	Now, by the way, and how about the 33,000 emails that were wiped out?
	33,000!
	How can you do 33,000 emails?
	And it was wiped out.
	33, that's the magic number.
	And it's the magic number.
	Yes, nice.
	He says it three times.
	Yeah, I'm going to give it to you.
	Right off the bat, why not?
	Clip of the day.
	I miss that.
	That's a good one.
	He says 33,000 and it's always been 30,000 and he said it three times.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, I agree.
	Slap, slap, slap.
	And in analyzing...
	What Comey said precisely.
	Well, actually, let me play this clip.
	This was kind of interesting.
	This was former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.
	The guy was no good.
	Didn't he do some crappy stuff, this Gonzalez guy?
	He's the guy they rousted because he was all for torture.
	Right.
	He's a horrible guy.
	Didn't he make someone sign something on his deathbed in the hospital?
	Was that Gonzalez?
	I don't remember that, but he was a bad actor.
	Yeah.
	He weighed in.
	Attorney General, what are your reflections on Jim Comey's decision yesterday?
	Well, you know, it's surprising, I'd have to say.
	Of course, I have to give him the benefit of the doubt without actually looking at the evidence, but given his public statements and what's in the record, I'm a little bit surprised at the outcome, but you know what I'm really surprised about?
	Was this statement that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case?
	That is not his job.
	His job is to do the investigation, present the evidence, and maybe privately, as a former prosecutor, give his assessment as to whether or not to move forward or not.
	But to say that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case means that if anyone dares disagree, then you're unreasonable.
	If Laura Lynch decides that she wants to move forward, she's unreasonable.
	And if she does, and I know it's unlikely that she's going to move forward with an indictment, what does that do to Jim Comey's credibility and his judgment?
	I just think that statement was interesting.
	Jim Cummings was my Deputy Attorney General when I serve as Attorney General, so I respect his service.
	But again, you know, his job is not to make an assessment as to whether or not there should be a prosecution.
	His job is to present the evidence, and he can offer a recommendation Or offer his opinion.
	But it is up to the prosecutors, either the U.S. attorney, the head of the criminal division, and ultimately the attorney general of the United States to decide whether or not to move forward with the prosecution.
	That is not the job of the FBI director.
	So as an institutional matter, as someone who used to run that agency, I found that comment to be very troubling.
	Even Gonzalez didn't really read what Comey said.
	And I checked it, you know, 15 minutes, and he read his statement as submitted verbatim.
	I think it would be prudent for you and I just to go over the last bit about the recommendation so we can just explain.
	I think Jim Comey is very smart.
	I think he did exactly the right thing.
	The right thing for the system.
	The right thing for him.
	The right thing for everybody.
	I think he did a very, very, very smart thing.
	And anyone who's, you know, Republicans who would say, oh, he's a straight shooter.
	And oh, how could he not do it?
	He did the right thing.
	I say Jim Comey for president.
	I'm telling you.
	Do you mind if we just parse this last couple paragraphs?
	No, go for it.
	It's better if we read it because we can pull it apart.
	He's so staccato.
	He read it exactly the way you read it.
	It doesn't matter whether it's his voice or ours.
	I think it's easier.
	Finally, with respect to our recommendation to the Department of Justice, in our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are appropriate based on evidence the FBI has helped collect.
	This already was something that was misstated by every network in one form or the other, saying, well, he says no indictment.
	He's not going to prosecute.
	He's not a prosecutor.
	He only gives a recommendation.
	He goes on to say exactly what Gonzalez said.
	Although we don't normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, which is what Gonzalez didn't understand, and here's the explanation...
	We frequently make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors about what resolution may be appropriate given the evidence.
	In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order.
	So he's saying, hey, this is important.
	There's a lot of bull crap going on.
	My boss is an idiot.
	You know, I like Trump.
	So I just want to explain how we're doing this and why.
	Although there is evidence of potential violation of the statutes, which would be a felony, regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
	And he explains immediately.
	So that is not saying, oh, we shouldn't prosecute.
	No, he's going to explain why, because you can't win.
	This is his message.
	Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges.
	They are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.
	Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
	So he went back to see and see if there is a reasonable chance of a conviction if there was an indictment.
	And he goes on to say, in looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.
	I think he's talking about jurisprudence.
	Is there any case like this?
	All the cases prosecuted involve some combination of clearly intentional and willfulness handling of classified information or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct or indications of disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice.
	We do not see those things here.
	And I think he's correct.
	I think he's slightly incorrect on the obstruction of justice part.
	There's clearly an obstruction of justice when she had those emails deleted and played a little juggling act.
	No, I disagree because the emails were deleted or it cannot be proven they were deleted after the request.
	And in his statement, he's also clear about that.
	So that's a timeline issue, but I'm going to give him a pass.
	Because he said, hey, these deletions happened in switching servers, purging devices, and other things she just deleted, so it was not necessarily a real willful intent, as what Comey says.
	To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences.
	To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to scrutiny or administrative sanctions, but that is not what we are deciding now.
	And there he leaves it wide open, he says, which is why Paul Ryan and his other douche knuckles are like, whoa, she's shooting her back says to classified information.
	Okay, morons.
	But there is room there for censure or all kinds of stuff.
	As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, which would be Loretta Lynch, we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.
	And with appropriate, he means you can't win it, it will take forever, and it's just, it's unwinnable.
	I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation, as there was throughout this investigation.
	What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently.
	No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear.
	I believe that.
	I know there were many opinions expressed by people who were not part of the investigation, including people in government, but none of that mattered to us.
	Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our investigation.
	Interesting, too.
	Because we did the investigation the right way.
	Only the facts mattered.
	The FBI found them, etc.
	So what Comey did is he explained very, very clearly the disdain, the lies, the deceit.
	And he says, you know, he could have just said she's crooked, but if you want to try and prosecute, you probably won't win because there's a lack of jurisprudence.
	Now, whether that's 100% true, and of course there are other questions, like how about the Clinton Foundation?
	Is that investigation still ongoing?
	There's lots of things that are open.
	And with the Clinton investigation, she threw out some of her shadow calendars into the White House burn bag or the State Department burn bag.
	A lot of things going on.
	And he says she's a horrible person, but you shouldn't indict her because you probably can't win.
	I think he made the right decision.
	And if you look at the responses from the media, this is not a positive for Clinton.
	No, it's not.
	Although that's not necessarily completely true with people like her, some of her supporters like Hillary Rosen.
	Mm-hmm.
	Who just, you know...
	Was she the ASCAP lady?
	No, RIA. RIA, yes.
	The Recording Industry Association, yes.
	So I heard a lot of, you know, well, this is great.
	And there's a number of congressmen.
	This is great for Hillary.
	This is the best news.
	The campaign was really happy.
	I don't know how any campaign could be really happy over what Comey said.
	Because it was horrible.
	You're right.
	Yeah.
	But I think, just to use my theory, that this is the good thing for Trump because he doesn't want Hillary out of the campaign because she can't beat him or he has the best chance of beating her.
	You know, when you put it like that, that this was the best thing so that Trump doesn't get some competitor that he will lose against, if you're conspiratorially thinking, yeah, right on.
	And that would also be backed up by guys like Ryan, who really doesn't like Trump and doesn't like him being the candidate.
	He'd love to see Hillary indicted so he can get her out of the way.
	So Trump won't win.
	Republicans are just as much freaked out about a Trump presidency as are the Democrats.
	And maybe more so.
	But, I meant it when I said it.
	Jim Comey for president.
	Because, you know, okay, whoever wins, it doesn't matter.
	This guy, just like the drug money laundering at HSBC, where he was a board member during the cleanup, he has the goods on everybody.
	Most powerful man in the universe, James Comey, right there.
	For president.
	Yeah.
	For president.
	Well, that's a tradition.
	That's what the FBI does.
	Yeah.
	I would vote for him.
	What a great...
	Well, unless he's in a party.
	But what a great...
	I don't know if he was corrupted towards the Trump campaign.
	Do you think he was in cahoots?
	Because I find that hard to believe with this guy.
	He's all about Jim Comey.
	He has his own agenda, but I think he thinks this through.
	Yeah.
	I think he was very careful to do this the way he did it.
	And if we assume the no agenda thesis, which is the CIA right now, is pushing Hillary in every way they can, and Comey and the FBI are fighting the CIA and pushing Trump in every way they can.
	Right.
	Comey's analysis would be such that he could say the same thing to himself.
	We've got to keep Hillary in the...
	Because he knows what's going on.
	If you keep Hillary in the running, as opposed to indicting her and screwing up everything, and it's way before the convention, so they can easily put in Bernie or Elizabeth Warren and walk away with the new nominee.
	It's not that hard to do.
	And it's been done before.
	But you've got to keep her in there to the last minute, and it's the last minute you bring out the Clinton Foundation, or you bring out something that he already knows about.
	When I was listening to him, there was a moment where he was saying, I would almost think he's saying this, what I'm going to say.
	Ah, you know, this isn't big enough.
	We've got stuff on her that is way better than this.
	We'll just let this float, skate, let it go, and this is fine.
	We'll just sit here and we've got a boatload of stuff we can drop on her.
	Yes.
	In the future.
	And you don't want to do it right now.
	Taking her out now is the worst thing that could happen for the Republicans.
	And I think the timing of this will be, well, here's what's going on in the federal court.
	Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.
	If the court permits the delay, the public won't be able to read the communications until October 2018, about 22 months into her prospective first term as president.
	This is the court case I'm keeping my eye on.
	That's the big kahuna right there.
	The other emails.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I think a lot of this stuff is going to be busted out by hackers.
	Yeah, I hope so.
	Again, the hackers aren't in the kind of in the know about any of the political background of any of this, and they just grab something and post it.
	It's going to be on WikiLeaks.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, that's all good.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	Okay, Hillary Rosen.
	A little clip here that I think was interesting, because she keeps propagating the formula, trying to...
	I mean, I think Trump's doing a better job of lying Hillary, crooked Hillary, than the Democrats, based on the Scott Adams material, where he thinks that Hillary's got an edge if she pushes the lunatic racist...
	Although they're messing that up.
	No, I agree.
	I don't think they read Scott Adams.
	No, they messed it up because they started pushing this anti-Semite.
	Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
	You want to do he's a crazy racist, crazy racist.
	Then you get he's an anti-Semite, completely distracts.
	Trump is playing that up big time because, you know, oh, well, you know, that's obviously dumb.
	That's obviously silly.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's a little clip about that that ran on, I think it was CNN or one of the networks like that, news network.
	And it has Hillary Rosen dropping a little...
	A mysterious little jab at the end.
	That tweet, without knowing any of the controversy, I myself thought it was a sheriff's badge because I grew up looking at six-star sheriff's badges on TV. So, yeah, I think there's room for dispute.
	But to be perfectly candid, I mean, I think this is already in the back, you know, in the rearview mirror here.
	Jared Kushner's a terrific guy.
	I think we're going to go on.
	We're already on to the next controversy.
	Here's the reason why it matters going forward.
	It's not because Donald Trump is an anti-Semite.
	I'm not sure that he is either.
	It's that he has run a campaign based on division and based on separating people and encouraging other people to be against Muslims, we're against immigrants, we're against gays and lesbians.
	I have to read you the latest email from the Clinton campaign.
	Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
	When, or maybe it's coming, when was the gays and lesbians thing?
	I don't know.
	I think it's when he said the gays.
	No.
	That doesn't qualify.
	Yeah, but that's how it works.
	This is what I'm trying to say.
	He just said the gays.
	That's not it.
	It's either something coming that Hillary Rosen knows about it, or it's just bullcrap.
	So here's the most recent email from the Clinton campaign.
	This comes from Robbie Mook.
	Oh yeah, you get a Robbie Mook about once a week.
	Bill!
	Because my name is now Bill.
	Bill.
	News just broke...
	Oh, first they go, news just broke yesterday that Donald Trump's campaign and the RNC raised $51 million in June.
	That's up from just $3 million in May.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	I want you to think about what that money represents.
	It means $51 million to a guy ready to build a wall on the Mexican border.
	Okay, true.
	To a candidate ready to discriminate against Muslim people because of their religion.
	Uh, no.
	And who wants to ban abortion, then punish women who get them.
	Oh, man.
	Really?
	That is so cheap.
	All this stuff's cheap.
	It's very funny.
	But they didn't use chip in.
	They didn't use chip in.
	Oh, someone sent me...
	Somebody's listening to the show.
	Yeah, someone sent me an email from one of their local politicians, congressmen, I think.
	And he said, is this the same format?
	And I said, yeah, exactly the same, except instead of chip-in, they used pitch-in, which is a new twist.
	It must work, John.
	It must work otherwise.
	No, no.
	I've looked at those letters and there's so many mistakes they make in there in terms of classic sales letters.
	I don't think it works well at all.
	I think they're 50 million bucks, I guess, is something to talk about.
	Yeah.
	I'm thinking they could do a lot better if they did a better job on the solicitation.
	I think they're just throwing those things together and cranking them out.
	Just like spam, just the more you send, the more you do.
	Yeah, they're using massive mailings.
	I mean, the Clinton one, the one to you, your bill or Mimi, you get those four times a day.
	I don't understand how...
	That's a lot of spam.
	I don't understand how I no longer receive Mimi, then it's just Bill.
	I don't understand how that works.
	I'm fascinated by that, too.
	I'm guessing...
	They did a male merge or purge or something?
	They did a merge purge, and they decided that the male name is more likely to give more money or something?
	I don't know.
	There's some reason for this.
	When you first brought it up, I was fascinated by it, but I assume...
	You thought I was getting doubles, but I'm not.
	Well, is it Bill at Curry.com?
	It's the same.
	It's Adam at Curry.com.
	So they both go to Adam.
	But I don't get the Mimi anymore.
	So they dropped the Mimi, but why did they drop the Mimi and not the Bill?
	Questions to ponder.
	Why did they drop the Mimi but not the Bill?
	It's worth knowing.
	I think what it is is that Bill came in...
	Whoever put you on the Bill's thing, Bill came in with later, as if Bill's more interested, and you've been giving them zero response.
	And no money.
	And no money.
	So they just killed you.
	Now, the joke of that is...
	You have to sit around.
	I can imagine these meetings.
	A guy sits around and says, well, we have two things going to the same exact email address.
	One of them seems to be responsive and one of them isn't.
	Should we take, because with email, it's free.
	So should we take one of them off or just keep sending them tons of stuff?
	And I think they made a decision that they'd be overdoing it if they left both names on.
	Well, it's what happened.
	I'm not sure.
	I can see the logic.
	Yeah.
	Because most spammers, most spammers, the logic is, who cares?
	Right.
	It doesn't cost as much.
	Does it cost more to send to?
	No.
	So they're making decisions.
	That's at least something.
	And...
	See what else I got.
	I may have one more thing on here.
	I did get a couple of lawyers arguing on PBS. That was interesting because one lawyer who sounds adenoidal and he's a University of Texas professor of law.
	I saw this guy.
	He was like, oh, he should have been convicted, should have been indicted, should have been dissed.
	No, no, no.
	He said just the opposite.
	Oh, okay.
	And then it was the other guy that I saw.
	And the other guy was a White House attorney.
	Let's listen to him and see what they're saying.
	Well, to you now, Stephen Vladek, if that's what the federal law prohibits, if the standard is extreme negligence, why wasn't that enough?
	Well, I think the problem is that Shannon is leaving out the rest of that same statute, which doesn't just say it's a crime for an official like Secretary Clinton in the handling of classified information.
	It's actually much more specific.
	I've noticed this.
	I just want to stop this clip for a moment.
	I have noticed this on YouTube videos for about the past four or five months.
	I'm sorry, not YouTube videos, flash.
	It would probably be more flash videos than anything.
	You get these crazy breaks.
	I just heard one in this clip.
	And it just, it freezes, and then the audio picks up with like a nanosecond chopped off right after that.
	Have you noticed this?
	I'm seeing it everywhere.
	I have, actually.
	I've noticed it quite a bit.
	I haven't thought about it.
	Every time I see it, I just think it's a glitch.
	But, yeah.
	It has to be something more structural, and I believe it's only...
	I believe it's only YouTube videos, but it could be all Flash videos in general.
	Well, this was a remote feed from Austin.
	Because I saw this, and I know where you got this from.
	I have the same YouTube clip.
	I have it.
	I didn't clip it.
	I did not get this from YouTube.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	You got this straight from the...
	I took it straight from the broadcast.
	Oh, that doesn't count then.
	No.
	That's odd.
	But you've noticed it with flash videos recently?
	Like a lot?
	I've noticed it with broadcast videos.
	I've noticed this all over the place.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Well, I just wanted to say I noticed it.
	I have no idea what's going on, but something to look into, tech people.
	Time for an official like Secretary Clinton in the handling of classified information.
	That was a satellite glitch?
	Really?
	You recorded this yourself?
	I recorded this myself, off the DVR, off the network, over the air.
	I have to edit at least 10% of all clips I take from videos because of this form of glitching.
	Well, like Secretary Clinton...
	In the handling of classified information, it's actually much more specific.
	That gross negligence must somehow lead to the loss of classified information.
	Basically the same thing as if a courier left a briefcase full of classified documents in a public place.
	That's not what happens here.
	And so we may very well think that what Hillary did should be illegal.
	The problem is that the law we're talking about, Judy, is 99 years old and was not written to address this situation.
	Well, why don't we change the constitution while we're at it?
	It's a living document.
	But your point is that what happened here did not result in the loss of classified information.
	Well, at the very least, we didn't hear anything to that effect from Director Comey.
	And I like to think that if the FBI had discovered that Secretary Clinton's servers had been hacked, that through her, in Director Comey's words, extreme carelessness, And that's simply not
	correct.
	The law actually only requires removal of the document from its proper place of custody.
	That's not true.
	You're conflating two different statutes.
	I'm looking at a statute right here, Professor Vladek.
	The statute actually says, through gross negligence, permitting a document to be removed from its proper place of custody were delivered to anyone in violation of the trust or lost.
	So what information was this position?
	Let me just let him finish that point and then I'll come back to you.
	So losing a document certainly can be a basis for a violation, but there are other things that can happen.
	Simply removing, this is 793F of the espionage.
	Okay, and we're not going to be able to get into all the, because we can't follow that.
	So I made a mistake.
	That happens.
	It proves I'm human.
	I love that clip.
	That is good.
	He's so glib.
	Truths, I'm human.
	But all this back and forth, and this is what the media has been doing, is arguing about legalities, and it's boring.
	It's ridiculous.
	The only thing that counts is, if you just keep repeating, Hillary Clinton is a liar, Hillary Clinton is crooked.
	This was funny, just to show you the power of persuasion.
	Martha Raddatz on ABC, she's reading a tweet from From Donald Trump.
	And Donald Trump as well.
	And it does have resonance.
	He said, it is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against crooked Hillary Clinton.
	What she did was wrong.
	What Bill did was stupid.
	I trust we'll hear a lot more about that.
	And they had the tweet on screen.
	The thing that was interesting is, for once, the tweet said Hillary Clinton.
	It didn't say crooked Hillary Clinton.
	This is now...
	Martha Raddatz threw it in of her own volition.
	That's the power of persuasion.
	I've never seen Trump tweet Hillary Clinton without the crooked liar.
	I went back.
	I looked at the tweet.
	That tweet did not include any other adjective.
	That is fantastic.
	And it was on the screen!
	As she's reading it.
	It's so ingrained in their mind...
	Well, Radish is with ABC, right?
	Yes.
	I have no illusions that she necessarily, that was embedded in her mind.
	Maybe the person who wrote down the quote for her to read had that embedded in there.
	Somewhere within the system, someone had that in their mind.
	Someone was embedded with someone.
	Yeah.
	And I'm sure it wasn't put in.
	And it sounded right.
	Of course.
	It sounds exactly like he would do it.
	Huh.
	That was a good catch.
	That was fun.
	The president went out with Hillary Clinton.
	Of course, this was...
	Yeah, and Air Force One.
	Who's paying for that, by the way?
	The Clinton campaign does have to pay for a portion of it, for sure.
	For sure.
	And I'm sure that will be vetted.
	They got the money.
	I mean, it's about $250,000 an hour.
	They don't have to pay for all of it because the president did other presidential business.
	So that's okay.
	But what the president did at this speech floored me.
	You know, humility is a virtue, Mr.
	President.
	Hillary mentioned how we operate on the world stage.
	Now, let me just say, I know the other guy talks about making America great again.
	America's really great.
	And...
	And just the other day, somebody was writing about, wow, when you look at the surveys in the world, it turns out that when Obama came into office, the world didn't think we were that great.
	But now they think we're the greatest.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	They think we're the strongest.
	They think we're the best position.
	We were in a hole before I came into office, but right now the world, the rest of the world, thinks we're pretty darn great.
	Thanks, Obama.
	And by the way, you can look that up.
	That's a fact.
	That's not like something I just made up and tweeted.
	Thanks, Obama.
	So, you know, they're actually like surveys done.
	They poll people so you actually know what people think.
	Please like me.
	I was great.
	Please like me.
	I did everything great.
	I'm awesome.
	I'm great.
	Thanks, Obama.
	What a douche!
	That's a good one.
	That's unbelievable.
	I'll give you a borderline clip because I never heard that.
	I missed that one somehow.
	I think they were protecting him by not playing that clip a lot.
	The clip they played the most is the one I have here and I want to play it.
	Is that the stuttering clip?
	Hillary is the most qualified.
	This was first said by Van Jones, I think, and then some other people said, now Obama is saying this bullcrap.
	Well, I want to point out that it was I, if the president can boast, I can boast.
	It is I who always said Hillary Clinton is uniquely qualified to run the empire.
	Yes, I agree.
	You've been saying this since day one.
	But I can tell you this.
	Hillary Clinton has been tested and there has never been any Man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton.
	Okay, so wait a minute.
	So we're talking about Hillary.
	Thomas Jefferson doesn't match her.
	President Barack Obama.
	Even Obama, apparently.
	Well, I would agree with that.
	Dwight Eisenhower.
	Dwight Eisenhower, five-star general.
	Not as qualified as Hillary.
	This is unbelievable.
	No.
	No, it's great.
	My favorite clip is the one that I thought you were going to play.
	Because the president was on prompter, reading very carefully, except when he wanted to do a little bit of stand-up.
	Oops!
	So, if you're voting for the other team, it's not because of the economy.
	It's not because of the economy.
	You got to be clear about that.
	Whoa, that was a bad one.
	Oh, man.
	I missed it.
	I mean, even the Republicans on the other side don't really know what the guy's talking about.
	All he has to say is, even the guys on the other side don't know what he's talking about.
	The president is just...
	I mean, even the Republicans on the other side don't really know what the guy's talking about.
	We've seen more manufacturing jobs created since I've been president than any time since the 1990s.
	But frankly, part of it's had to do with...
	I don't know what this is.
	A bunch of okey-doke.
	What happened to the if-if?
	Oh, man.
	He is the hero of the stutterers, I'll tell you that.
	Oh, he's pretty bad.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	So if you went to RT, they actually did something we have to do.
	Everyone's probably going to have to do this, even though it looks painful.
	But this is inside a few emails.
	From Russia Today.
	As the world focuses on whether Clinton broke protocol by using personal email, few have taken note of what actually was in those messages.
	Here are several revelations that have come out during the scandal.
	Here's what we found out from the Clinton emails.
	Revelation 1.
	Google and Al Jazeera partnered to intervene in Syria.
	A 2012 email from Jared Cohen, the president of Google Ideas, showed the IT giant was interested in pushing people to defect from the Syrian government.
	Cohen also wrote his organization was partnering with Al Jazeera.
	Revelation 2.
	In this email forwarded by Hillary Clinton, an Israeli intelligence official argues the fall of President Assad's regime might spark a sectarian war between Shiites and Sunnis in the Middle East.
	The author then makes a quick remark that the conflict might benefit Israel and its Western allies.
	Revelation 3.
	The UK and France set their sights on Libyan oil after the intervention.
	In this email, Sidney Blumenthal, a family friend of Clinton's, writes that both Britain and France sought to control Libya's oil in the days of the 2011 coup.
	France was reported to be pressing the new Libyan authorities to reserve 35% of the oil industry for French firms.
	I think we discussed these a couple months ago.
	Particularly the Blumenthal thing about Al Jazeera and Google.
	I just found it peculiar.
	No, I don't.
	I mean, what's Google got to do with anything?
	Have you met Eric Schmidt?
	Gee, I know him personally.
	Yeah.
	Is he an A to the whole?
	No, he's actually very spooky.
	He's very spooky.
	Last time I ran into him I was at an airport and I went up to him.
	Did you kick him in the shins?
	No.
	He's very well dressed and he was flying first class.
	I was wondering where I was in one of the Google planes.
	Usually he pilots his own Gulfstream.
	You don't see him in an airport that much.
	But I saw him.
	And I said, you know, the way I see it, the way your career is going, you're going to end up as the head of the CIA. Oh, yeah.
	That would be a good one.
	I think so.
	And he said, nah, it's not going to happen.
	Because if it was in the play, it was pretty funny.
	He'd be a good one.
	He'd be perfect.
	Maybe NSA. Let's shift to Trump for a second.
	If you recall once but twice when he's been talking about alcohol, tobacco, drugs, he always says, I don't have this.
	I have other problems, he always says.
	I have other problems.
	Then I don't want to talk about my other problems.
	Well, I know one of his other problems now.
	Okay.
	Anophilophobia.
	He is an anophilophobe.
	Anophilia.
	I have no idea.
	This is a woman named Ann?
	No, it's anophilophobia.
	Anno.
	Anno.
	A-N-O-P-H-E. He's afraid of getting old.
	The Democrats...
	Ooh, there was a mosquito.
	I don't want mosquitoes around me.
	I don't like mosquitoes!
	I don't like those mosquitoes.
	I never did.
	Okay, speaking of mosquitoes...
	Hello, Hillary.
	How are you doing?
	Hello.
	Now, the way he said that, you know, my daughter had some odd phobias growing up, and just listen to this.
	I don't like mosquitoes!
	He does not like mosquitoes, John.
	This is clear.
	Yes, I agree.
	He has an unhealthy fear.
	That's a beauty.
	He has an unhealthy fear of mosquitoes.
	I'm telling you.
	I'm telling you.
	Who knows what else he's got?
	Well, there's probably a few things.
	Yep.
	Well, I was watching Democracy.
	We were going to stay on Trump for just a little longer.
	I was watching Democracy Now!
	And they had these really outstanding Pakistani, very famous, Tariq Ali, he's very famous in England.
	He also edits the New Left magazine.
	There was another guy from Iraq.
	And then there was a third guy who was a professor of Mideastern Studies at Oxford, who was supposed to be working at Notre Dame, but the George Bush administration refused entry.
	And they were talking about all this action going on and a lot of it was quite interesting.
	But Tariq Ali, who is a very well-known commentator in England, and he's also the head of the New Left magazine, Amy decides to pull out a clip of Trump praising, supposedly, everybody, oh, Donald Trump is saying good things about Saddam, he should shut up, he doesn't know what he's doing, he's horrible, he likes Nazis.
	If it wasn't Putin, then it's Saddam Hussein.
	She plays, she at least plays the whole clip where he says he's a bad guy, he's a bad guy, he's a bad guy.
	Which was, I thought, you know, was made up for anything else, he said.
	And she throws it at these three guys, and Tariq Ali just does not give her the answer she was looking for.
	Hold the country that easy, and terrorism is serving them.
	Sami and Tariq Ali, I want to play for you a clip of Donald Trump yesterday in Raleigh, North Carolina, talking about Saddam Hussein.
	Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right?
	He was a bad guy.
	Really bad guy.
	But you know what he did well?
	He killed terrorists.
	He did that so good.
	They didn't read him the rights.
	They didn't talk.
	They were terrorists.
	It was over.
	Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.
	You want to be a terrorist?
	You go to Iraq.
	Is he a Yalie?
	Is Trump a Yalie?
	Is that why he calls out Harvard?
	Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.
	You want to be a terrorist?
	What's that?
	He's a Wharton.
	You want to be a terrorist?
	You go to Iraq.
	It's like Harvard.
	That was Donald Trump yesterday.
	Tariq, I'll lay your response.
	Well, I mean, you know, how can one deny the truth of what he's saying?
	I mean, yesterday, the BBC here showed a photograph, a filmed interview, with a guy who'd helped to bring Saddam Hussein's statue down, which was a staged event, Amy, as you know, immediately after Baghdad was occupied.
	That guy appeared on the BBC yesterday and said he's ashamed he did that.
	He wants to apologize for it.
	He said Saddam killed members of my family, but life, everyday life in Iraq under him was much better than it is today.
	Most Iraqis Even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	Get back on message, yo.
	Is that the end?
	Yeah.
	He goes on and says that Trump is free to say these things where Hillary's not.
	He goes on.
	And Amy, when they cut back to her, she has the most sad look on her face.
	This doesn't go well.
	She's expecting something just the opposite.
	So much for the pre-interview portion of the show then, huh?
	Well, I'm pretty sure they don't do much of that on that show.
	Oh, man.
	But I just found it to be the great irony of the day when I watched this particular clip with her trying to, you know, Trump hate her.
	Well, she hates Hillary too.
	She doesn't know what to do.
	I know we both have it.
	I'm happy to play your Bernie Jake clip first, if you feel like it.
	No, no.
	My Bernie Jake clip sucks by comparison, I'm sure, because you said you've done some post on yours.
	Which one is your...
	I can't even see which one it is.
	I thought it was so muddy, I decided not to clip it.
	Oh, okay.
	Bernie Sanders, who has lost it...
	Lost it.
	They can't get enough of the Adderall for him, so they gave up.
	You know, it seems like he skipped a dose, and he was distracted, I guess, by some sign in the studio.
	So not once, not twice, not three times, and not even three times after Wolf Blitzer corrects him.
	He does it another two times.
	Calls him Jake.
	Which would be Jake Tapper.
	And here's the montage.
	Different guy.
	We're going to Orlando next week.
	I'll tell you one of the issues that concerns me, Jake.
	That's where they're going.
	Isn't that good enough for you?
	No, what's good enough for me is it's not a game, Jake.
	This is whether or not we continue.
	That's what I'm trying to do.
	And when we do that, Jake, you're going to have a lot of enthusiasm.
	Wolf.
	Wolf.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm looking at the sign over there.
	Do you have confidence in the way Hillary...
	Jake, all I can tell you is...
	You're asking me questions.
	What do I know?
	I mean, that was bad.
	Jake, Jake, Jake.
	Jake, Jake, Jake.
	Is he an android?
	I don't know, but he said Jake a lot.
	Even after Blitzer corrected him.
	Yeah, he said two more times after Blitzer told him Wolf.
	And he said Wolf.
	And he went on with Jake.
	I mean, that's troubling.
	There's some interesting media stuff going on that needs a little discussion.
	I think we've talked about these feuds before between the networks.
	But...
	And I know one of them, I don't remember, this was over a year ago, and it came up a couple of times, which was a feud between, I believe it was Fox and ABC, about something, one of them reported on something, the other one countered with something nasty about them.
	This is a couple years back.
	Yeah, maybe it was a couple years back, but there seems to be, if it's not going to get reignited by this report, because I, except for NBC, which I didn't watch closely, I checked all the news outlets, and only ABC and CNN ran the story about Miss America, Gretchen Carlson, suing Fox after she got fired.
	Oh!
	And here's the report.
	It's very interesting and entertaining.
	Next tonight, a lawsuit against the head of Fox News.
	Former anchor Gretchen Carlson today suing chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, accusing him of sexual harassment.
	Here's ABC's Ryan Smith.
	She was a former Miss America turned Fox News anchor, an 11-year veteran at the cable news giant.
	But tonight, Gretchen Carlson suing her former boss, CEO Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment just days after her contract wasn't renewed, alleging he ended her Fox News career after she rebuffed his sexual advances.
	The lawsuit, claiming Ailes repeatedly injected sexual and or sexist comments into their conversations, Allegedly ogling her in his office and commenting on her figure, saying when she complained about his severe and pervasive sexual harassment, she says he told her, I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago, and then you'd be good and better, and I'd be good and better.
	Also claiming Ailes boasted he had slept with three former Miss Americas, but not with her.
	Hi, everyone.
	Welcome to The Real Story.
	I'm Gretchen Carlson.
	In the lawsuit, Carlson also alleges her former Fox& Friends co-host Steve Doocy created a hostile work environment by regularly treating her in a sexist and condescending way.
	Carlson, seeking unspecified damages, telling ABC News she decided to sue to stand up for myself and speak out for all women.
	And tonight, Fox News and Ailes releasing a statement calling Carlson's allegations false and claiming her lawsuit is retaliatory based on the network's decision not to renew her contract.
	David, Ryan Smith tonight.
	Thanks, Ryan.
	A little sexual harassment going on there.
	I'm thinking she's probably everything she says is true.
	I would agree.
	That sounds like show business to me.
	How come we're not fucking yet, huh?
	That's show business.
	Things you hear on every movie set always.
	And you have these, and she is like, I was thinking about it because I've noticed, you know, I've seen her over the years and she's been there a long time and she's like perky.
	She's the kind of perky Miss America who's probably a goody two-shoes that you don't want to say anything around like that because she takes all this stuff seriously.
	Yes, yes.
	And she's never, as far as I know, worked another gig of that quality.
	Yeah.
	And I don't know if she'd ever do it because of the nature of the workplace environment and show business, especially in some of these where you get the old horn dog, you know, who's just trying to get a cheap lay.
	To be fair, I don't know about you, but it looks like half the women, no offense to anyone who, likely they don't listen to our show, but A lot of them look like they put out.
	Well, I was going to say, to be fair, particularly on Fox News, and I'm really tired of Guilfoyle.
	Guilfoyle, who just the same, you know, sit there in the leg shot seat.
	You got your beautiful long legs flowing out.
	You know, her head is like it's made of plasticine at this point.
	A lot of Botox going on.
	And her mouth is just pouty and mean and ugly the whole time.
	But if you're going to sit in that seat, if you're going to do the Fox News bit, you're showing your legs.
	You're a prostitute.
	I'm sorry, I was one too.
	I was an absolute prostitute for the media.
	Now, I have to say they've got a new girl.
	And while doing a lot of this stuff for this particular show we're doing, a lot of the research, I ran into a funny situation where they had, and I think it was on Fox Business where they're, I'm now believing Fox Business is the farm team for the big network.
	I love Fox Business.
	We got the original Money Honey there, Maria Bartiromo.
	Yeah, Fox Business is working on it.
	Fox Business has got this new woman named Morgan something.
	I want to stop you.
	We are discussing this as television producers with history and standing.
	Is somebody in the chat room giving us crap?
	No.
	I just want to make sure.
	Yes, I agree.
	That's what we're doing.
	Although it's a little lighter version than we normally do.
	Yeah, true.
	So they've got this new woman in Morgan and they have this one table.
	It's the You've got one guy facing four people.
	And you kind of see one quarter shot of him, and then you see the four people, and then they cut to one after the other, or they put them in a box.
	And so in this particular episode, they had this Morgan woman who is really a very sharp...
	She's one of the up-and-coming brunette fox types who's extremely intelligent, probably got a law degree.
	She's like a Megyn Kelly, only brunette.
	And while we're at it, Megyn Kelly has been wearing some very odd, almost BDSM outfits lately.
	Have you seen some of these?
	I always get the sense that something's going on with her.
	The one I'm talking about, she had a leather halter.
	Oh right, that crazy leather top she's got.
	Yeah, I mean, all she needs is an orange ball in her mouth and we're good to go.
	I think she put the ball in your mouth.
	Anyway.
	Okay.
	Let's get back to the...
	Not complaining.
	I'm going to wrap this up as quick as I can.
	So, it was apparent to me that one of the guests didn't make it to this table of four talkers and the one host.
	And so they had a talker, a talker, and then they had a big open space, and they moved this Morgan woman to the end so she could do the legs.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So there was a big hole in the table, and she's out by herself, way on the left, so she could do her legs, show off her legs.
	I just said, this is ridiculous, these guys.
	This is how it works.
	I've told you before, Carolyn Helbin.
	He's still in the hole there so it doesn't look so obvious.
	Carolyn Helbin, who was hired to be the girl next door on MTV. She was from Aspen.
	She now runs the local NPR station in Aspen.
	She was fired because she would not cover up her legs.
	She was wearing shorts.
	And they're hairy and they're fat.
	And then Steve Leeds had to go out on the floor and said, you know, you've got to cover up your legs.
	He said, I won't do it.
	He said, well, then you have to go.
	That's just kind of the opposite of what we're talking about.
	It's the same thing.
	I have to show off my fat legs.
	It's the same thing.
	And Paula Zahn, who worked for Fox for a very short time, quit the network because they kept talking about her legs.
	She has apparently really great legs.
	And she plays the cello.
	And she refused to show them off.
	And she plays the cello.
	Yeah, she's done.
	Oh, long time done.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't think she's even working anywhere now.
	No, she hasn't been working for a long time.
	I knew her.
	We hung out a little bit.
	Our studios were in the same building.
	She was cool.
	I liked her.
	I liked her a lot.
	Alright, before we go and thank some people, I am only playing this as a setup to your clip.
	Do you know what this is?
	The Stars and Stripes.
	Yes, well, do you know what it's from?
	It's from the 4th of July.
	Yes, the 4th of July celebrations from WETA-PBS in Washington, D.C. Now I should play your clip, I guess.
	Finally tonight here, the fireworks fix that wasn't lost on the viewers.
	Here's Lindsay Davis.
	Last night's fireworks, tonight's headache as they blow up in PBS's face.
	This is what the event looked like during parts of the show, with heavy cloud cover and obscured views.
	And then, in an instant, like magic, a clear spectacular show.
	But the skies didn't part.
	The network aired stock footage, and when viewers caught on, it ignited a fireworks firestorm.
	Today, PBS apologized to critics who called it the Milli Vanilla fireworks.
	A jab at the singing duo busted for lip-syncing, whose famous hit, fittingly, was Blame It on the Rain.
	Lindsay Davis, ABC News, New York.
	Oh, so nice.
	A reference from 1986.
	That's great!
	The reference is old, but the point is well made.
	These guys will throw phony crap at you.
	This is the mainstream media.
	This is PBS. Just to clarify...
	Because it was cloudy, they had this synchronized fireworks display.
	They said, ah, screw it.
	We'll just run the clip from last year, people.
	Yep, that's what they did.
	And I thought it was unbelievable.
	Now, it wouldn't have bothered me if they had put a little thing up, you know, stock footage or something to let people know that this was a phony, this was a fake.
	Which I believe by statute, you have to do that.
	File tape, certainly for the public broadcasters, has to include a caption, file tape or file.
	File would be fine.
	Yeah, it may seem harmless, but it's not.
	It shows.
	They're the Hillary of news.
	I was stunned by that story.
	We had the same thing here.
	Before with that, we had no way of seeing fireworks.
	It was a mess.
	Anyway, onward.
	Yeah, we had tons of fireworks here.
	Good.
	In Austin.
	Yes, with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Comey versus Clinton Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships and sea feet in the air, subs subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to Nick.
	The Rat?
	No.
	Cesium-137, I believe.
	Yes.
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	The episode 839er Spatchcock, where the art was the tabs, the big tab book, brought to you by Cesium-137.
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	You can find their submissions at noagendaartgenerator.com and in the morning to the chat room.
	Everybody there joining us for the live stream and the festivities in cyberspace.
	Bestivities.
	Hell yeah.
	The number of people to thank is starting with Sir Mr.
	Nick in Austin, Texas.
	$840.66.
	It says, ITM, Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	I consider it a great privilege to support this best podcast in the universe based on the math below.
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	Ready to serve.
	I will tweet you a pic to make this so it makes more sense.
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	Then, have more kale for my wife.
	Finally, in the end of the show medley, please play the entire Let's Get Social.
	Well, play, you know, I'm going to stop here.
	I have a short version we can play now.
	Yeah, see, this is what he, I knew he was going to try to do this.
	See, I like the full version, as obviously Mr.
	Nick does, Sir Mr.
	Nick.
	Right.
	But you're going to play the short version, I'm sure, anyway.
	And I'll play the long version at the end of the show.
	Oh, okay.
	How's that for, is that a compromise?
	Well, that's more than a compromise.
	You've gone overboard.
	Let's get social!
	Give it up, Mary McCoy.
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	And nothing like a Fletcher in there.
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	At least we amuse ourselves.
	Yes, we crack ourselves up.
	Hell yeah.
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	For the slow summer doldrums and making up for listening for a long time and only lately donating.
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	Clay's.
	Uh, now Nicholas sent us a note.
	I think, can you find it?
	Uh, Nathpliotis.
	Didn't we have him on the previous show?
	Is this the note from then, or did he send a new one?
	Looks like a new note, because of the date.
	I checked the date, because I felt the same way.
	Hmm.
	I don't have a note.
	Oh, well, hold on, let me get it.
	I do have a note.
	An email note.
	Yes.
	Okay, email note.
	Um...
	I tried to cut and paste in the spreadsheet so I can do a quicker search, but it won't let me.
	Did you give me the spelling?
	N-A-F-P-L-I-O-N-A-F-P-L-I Nicholas.
	Yeah, this note came out on the 6th.
	Alright.
	So it's obviously new.
	John and Adam, I was recently introduced to your show and was immediately hooked.
	The two of you are a refreshing change, and I find I can no longer listen to normal news shows without rolling my eyes, which is really good exercise, by the way.
	For your eyes?
	Yeah, it's really good for you.
	The bias in spin is now so obvious it's sickening.
	Yeah.
	Adam once purchased Forum Software for Bud.com from the first company I started.
	So I feel it's only fair that I help support the show.
	Keep up the good work, Nick.
	Wow, that's 20 years ago?
	Yeah, wow.
	I heard a memory.
	Well, you were famous 20 years ago, so he probably...
	Yeah, now I'm just a podcast famous.
	He's just a podcaster now.
	No, you could be podcaster famous.
	Well, okay.
	But as I've had to explain to Tina, you just never want to say, oh yeah, my boyfriend does a podcast.
	Does not work.
	Not good.
	Not happening.
	No, don't do that.
	He's a famous broadcaster.
	Anyway, he's from Waukegan.
	Gave $350.
	Sir Daniel Miller comes up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	333.34.
	And he actually sent a note in.
	We got a lot of notes, so you got to deal with it.
	Oh, this is good.
	I'm okay with notes.
	ITM award-winning guardians of reality.
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	I rolled forward my monthly coffee donation of $50.27 and will figure out some way to keep donating each month.
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	Thanks again for all you do.
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	I got hit in the mouth by my former boss a year ago.
	Boss.
	Boss.
	Hey, boss.
	Usually you use it like an associative word or something.
	Boss.
	Boss.
	A year ago, and I responded by quitting my job.
	Using the infamous grumpy cat meme adorned with the words, I quit.
	In large, friendly letters.
	Oh, geez.
	Okay.
	This January, I moved to, for me, news country and with nothing better to do and no one to talk to as I don't know the local language.
	I don't know why this note's so funny.
	I started to listen to the best podcast in the universe and a couple of weeks ago I went back home, randomly met my former boss in a bar, let him know I wanted to hit him in the mouth and got called a non-donating douchebag on the spot.
	That's funny.
	Please de-douche my former boss for acting in an elementary manner, hitting his employees and former employees in the mouth.
	You've been de-douched.
	All right.
	Wow.
	He says, if this thing will scroll, he says, sorry for the long note and thanks for keeping up this amazing work of pure art.
	Throw yourself some karma for once.
	And this is anonymous in Bergen, Norway.
	$212.12.
	And he has a final there.
	For myself, if I may request as much, douchebag, yay, douchebag, yay, please send us your cash.
	That's an odd request.
	I've never had a request like that.
	Norwegians have these.
	This is what they do.
	Douchebag!
	Yay!
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	Yay!
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	You've got karma.
	Interesting.
	Interesting combo.
	Very nice note, too.
	It's very funny.
	Yeah.
	Moving around.
	And that's it.
	That includes, that's what we got for our executive producers and associate executive producers for show 840.
	And we, yes.
	Yes.
	And we appreciate it.
	This level of support is fantastic.
	We really, really...
	We have another show coming up on Sunday, and that would be nice if we had the same level of support.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go.
	And these credits, of course, are official.
	They are valid anywhere credits are accepted for your executive producer or associate executive producer status.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A. And even if you just want to go back and hit your former boss in the mouth, probably get the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water. Order.
	Can fail.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Just shut up.
	Yeah, looking around the world.
	Yeah?
	I'll do a little backgrounder here on the Chilcot Report.
	I have a short...
	I have a background.
	I have a background.
	This is a good background.
	So we waited seven years for the Chilcott report and I have to say it was worth waiting for.
	2.6 million words, an executive summary here, some of the volumes with you and it's really a devastating document.
	I think it's the most scathing critique of any British Prime Minister that I've ever come across.
	People were expecting a whitewash.
	This isn't a whitewash, it's far from it.
	It's an absolutely devastating critique of Blair and the British government, the British intelligence services and the British military.
	The intelligence services come out of this particularly badly.
	The bottom line is, they said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
	That was the basis on which Britain went to war.
	This is a serious report.
	It's a long report.
	It's one that's personally devastating for Tony Blair.
	And I think it's something from which his reputation will never, ever recover.
	There you go.
	That is what happened.
	I think that's a...
	They had a carnival?
	I know.
	It sounded like a chicken going...
	Something really...
	Or a rooster or...
	Or maybe...
	Maybe it was just this.
	Tony Blair.
	That's what it sounded like to me.
	So what do you have for your clip?
	I just have Chilcott kind of doing a little summary.
	Lord Chilcott himself.
	Sir John, yeah, Sir John.
	That's good.
	I want to hear this.
	We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted.
	Military action at that time was not a last resort.
	We have also concluded that the judgments about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, WMD, were presented with a certainty that was not justified.
	Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.
	The planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.
	The government failed to achieve its stated objectives.
	The Chilkut Report goes on to blame former Prime Minister Tony Blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
	Part of the report includes private correspondence between Blair and President George W. Bush.
	Eight months before the invasion, Blair wrote to Bush, quote, I will be with you, whatever.
	In June 2003, less than three months after the invasion began, Blair privately wrote to Bush that the task in Iraq is, quote, absolutely awesome, and I'm not at all sure we're geared for it.
	Blair added, quote, and if it falls apart and everything falls apart in the region...
	I'm not sure what that last bit was about.
	Yeah, he was fumbling and mumbling.
	A couple of things we need to remember.
	Around this time, we're talking 2002, 2003.
	And I have not looked at the Chilcott Report.
	It's pretty big.
	But I'm going to do some work on it in the next few days.
	I'm mainly interested to see if there's any mention of David Kelly.
	Do you remember David Kelly?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's a Hollywood producer.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he is the weapons expert who in, it was July 2003, who said, you know, we checked it out.
	There's no weapons of mass destruction.
	There's no weapons of mass destruction.
	We can't find him.
	Then he went into the woods and killed himself with his own knife.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Yeah, this was a very, very, very, very bad...
	Yeah, it was a bad situation.
	Now, a couple of the things.
	There was a lot going on.
	Look at the yellow cake and some of his other stuff, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	The only way you can deal with that document, you can't read it.
	Oh, I'm going to read it.
	Two million words?
	I don't think so.
	I'm going to try.
	We'll see how far we get.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	I have not looked at it because there was just too much going on, but it'll be fun to see what's in there because I do have a point to make.
	First, here is just some of the responses.
	I was listening to a lot of BBC World News.
	Here is a sister who lost her brother.
	Um...
	In the war that we now know should have never happened, there were other options.
	That healing, that 11 and a half years I've worked for, I've gone back to that time when I learned that my brother had been killed.
	And there is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of, and his name is Tony Blair, the world's worst terrorist.
	Yay!
	Tony Blair, the world's worst terrorist.
	Let's hear from the man himself.
	The decision to go to war in Iraq and to remove Saddam Hussein from power in a coalition of over 40 countries led by the United States of America was the hardest, most momentous, most agonizing decision I took in my 10 years as British Prime Minister.
	For that decision today, I accept full responsibility.
	Yeah, like he gives a crap.
	He does not care.
	Yeah, if you read his correspondence, which everybody brought out, saying, hey, whatever you want to do, George, well, go along with it.
	Well, so here is the one point I want to make about this, which I have not seen this, but it should be brought up in the UK.
	Do you recognize this song?
	You recognize it?
	No.
	No, of course not.
	It was not allowed to become a success.
	In fact, the song had a video that was not only excoriating as completely inappropriate, but so wrong and so hurtful and so bad for Tony Blair that it ruined the career and it sent him into a tailspin.
	His name is George Michael, one of the best songwriters of my time on earth.
	Yeah.
	And because he had little Tony Blair, and it was an animated video done by the same people who did Spitting Image, except it wasn't puppets, it was animated, just cartoon.
	And he never overcame that.
	People called him a horrible person.
	They called him a dick.
	They said he stepped out of bounds.
	How dare you do that?
	How dare you say that about Tony Blair?
	They should go.
	Because George Michael is in trouble, man.
	He's fat.
	He fell out of his car doing 70 miles an hour.
	He was so stoned.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, it's horrible what's happened to him.
	He should be...
	This is a good connection.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Hopefully he'll feel better about life after seeing this report.
	Well, I think that he should be on television and say, hey, we're sorry.
	We're sorry.
	We made you into an a-hole.
	And I remember, he just went, what?
	But you don't understand.
	At the time, the lyrics are, you know...
	Hey, Cherie Blair, I'll just drop in.
	What do you think Tony's doing with George?
	Insinuating they were having gay sex.
	So George Michael, cartoon character, drops into bed with Cherie Blair.
	Oh, this was not done!
	This is horrible!
	Excommunicate him!
	And he never overcame it.
	Hey, you gotta be careful.
	That's all I gotta say about that.
	And I'll look into other things happening, of course.
	I'm glad you got that off your chest.
	I think we've mentioned it before.
	I don't remember it, but I'm sure the song was good.
	No, not really.
	I don't even know if it really had a chance.
	It had a nice beat from what I could hear.
	It had a great beat.
	Almost like those boys, those Green Day boys.
	They're great.
	Good man.
	Got some interesting info on the Iran deal with Boeing.
	You know, this is the $25 billion deal with Iran Air, which was apparently baked into the JCPOA. Yeah, of course.
	Here's what I didn't know.
	On the team, on Obama's team, the mediation team, besides our guy with the crazy hair, what's his name again?
	His name with the crazy hair.
	The nuke guy.
	I don't know who you...
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Moins?
	Ernst Moins?
	Isn't that his name?
	Yeah, I think it's Moins.
	Moins?
	Moins?
	Something like that.
	Ernst Moins.
	They had a Thomas Pickering on the team.
	It was former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, career diplomat, ambassador to Russia, UN, Israel, and the Obama team, the administration relied on him to lead the investigations.
	Here's the deal.
	All the way through 2015, Pickering was a registered and paid lobbyist for the Boeing Corporation.
	So he built this into the deal.
	Obama let a lobbyist build this into the deal.
	That's the way it works.
	I think it should be noted that that's the way it works.
	Well, no one notices these things.
	It's really absurd.
	How would you present that in a news story?
	Well, the problem is...
	For one thing, it's too late.
	The problem is, you will never hear this story on PBS. And do you know why?
	Yeah, Boeing's a big sponsor of PBS. Brought to you by the Archer Dale Midlands Company.
	Brought to you by Boeing.
	Brought to you by Monsanto.
	They can never do this.
	They would be the perfect outlet for this.
	I find it to be quite scandalous.
	People are wondering, how did this deal come about?
	Are you telling me that the Republicans who have oversight and who are fighting this Iran deal, that they haven't picked up on this?
	Or is the secret too ugly to actually expose?
	Because then a whole new can of worms might open up.
	Well, the new can of worms won't get your donation.
	Right.
	You won't get any support from Boeing or maybe all the aerospace guys.
	You don't know.
	Yeah, I know.
	You'd think democracy now would make a big stink about it.
	Well, you know they can't.
	They can't, and we know why they can't.
	Democracy now?
	Oh, isn't Democracy Now a part of the public system?
	No.
	Where does it air, Democracy Now?
	On Free Speech TV. Oh.
	Now, it has been on and off the public broadcasting airwaves.
	Right, that's what I thought.
	But it's not really where it doesn't last.
	Because it's so mediocre as a show.
	It's poorly produced.
	It looks like it's produced in Romania.
	Yeah.
	And Amy's not a very good presenter.
	And apparently, you know, the president is having, with the G-Sopa, G-Copa, whatever, the team is having problems getting other U.S. corporations interested in, you know, the bonanza of investing in Iran.
	No, they probably didn't burn before.
	Yeah.
	They can't be trusted.
	It's a problem with a lot of these countries.
	Orlando?
	You'll recall my thesis is the alligator attack on the kid, which we heard nothing about.
	I mean, we saw no video, we've seen no eyewitnesses, we have no nothing.
	Double negatives is what we have.
	A new news came out.
	Are you ready for this?
	Yeah, I'm sitting.
	A second alligator was also in the attack.
	How did they not notice that?
	I don't know, but this is new information.
	Ha ha!
	Mr.
	Graves, the so-called father of the so-called toddler killed by the alligator, apparently, in records obtained by the Orlando Sentinel from the Reedy Creek Fire Department, describes how Mr.
	Graves tried to extract his sons from the jaws of the alligator as he wrestled with it, and a second alligator came up and got him!
	Which is a little different from the original story, but you gotta admit, wow, what a coincidence.
	Not one, but two alligators.
	They do, you know, it's known as a pack alligator.
	I have no idea.
	All right, let's...
	Here's one.
	I've been listening, you know, for this show we do a lot of...
	Scrounging for content that you will never hear anyplace else.
	But one of the things I've been listening to is LBC. London Broadcast Corporation.
	No, it's actually London's something.
	It means something else.
	London's Big Cock.
	London's Best Conversation or something like that.
	Oh, okay.
	So they have a variety of talkers on there that are...
	Leading Britain's Conversation.
	Yes.
	They have a variety of talkers from all sides of the political spectrum, but one of my favorites, even though I know British listeners will go, oh, how can you listen to her?
	It's Katie Hopkins.
	Okay, I don't think I know her.
	Katie Hopkins is funny.
	I think she's Brexit type, and she's very cynical about...
	Anything that is politically correct.
	And she's good.
	She's snide.
	She's kind of mean.
	But she brought up something in this particular clip, which I didn't know was going on and could catch on here.
	And that is this idea that if you wear a bunch of safety pins on your lapel...
	Safety pins?
	Yes, safety pins.
	It means you're supporting safe spaces and you're a safe person.
	We used to wear those through our nose in the 70s.
	Now it means safe space?
	Yeah, safe space.
	Play this out.
	What's next?
	If you wear a silver razor blade around your neck, then you're against cutting as self-harm?
	This is crazy.
	You use cocaine.
	I think it's an old one.
	My biggest rage this week has been about safety pins and race hate.
	So I am sick to death of hearing about race hate in the wake of the Leave vote.
	I think it's entirely a conjecture that's been dreamt up by sore losers from the Remain campaign in order to try and make it sound like race haters are people that voted Leave, that we are thick, that we are stupid and that we are racist.
	And frankly, we are not.
	You may have seen earlier this week, it was trending on Twitter, an idea that you wear safety pins.
	To show that you're a safe space in a world full of hate.
	That on the underground, if you're wearing a safety pin, people can know that you're a safe person to be next to because you support safety.
	You will see earlier on my promotion for the show today, I had 18 safety pins and two through my ear just to show that I have a safe space.
	Oh, man.
	They're nuts over there.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Well, I like it.
	I like the idea.
	I'm safe, I'm safe, safe space.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	You know this outfit, Ozzy, OZY? Heard of it.
	Yeah.
	So at first, I thought they were kind of a good outfit.
	I thought their articles were reasonably done.
	Until I figured out their business model, which I don't like at all, which I'll explain in a moment.
	But they did a piece...
	And I'm always curious about their funding.
	But they did quite a big piece that really made an argument.
	In fact, here is their summary.
	There's a decent argument to be made for denying suffrage to anyone old enough to collect Social Security.
	And so it starts.
	And this is in reference to Brexit.
	So old people, if you receive Social Security, screw it.
	If you're an AARP member, you should not be allowed to vote.
	That's the consensus.
	Well, a couple of things before you play the clip.
	No clip.
	No clip.
	Oh, you just...
	Oh.
	No clip.
	A couple of things.
	I think there's some justification for this.
	Okay.
	And I only say that because I have a lot of friends in Florida and there's kind of a theme down there and they have nothing but trouble.
	They have crime, they have gangs, they have all these issues because this education system in Florida sucks because apparently all the old farts that are in the retirement home is mostly in condos.
	They all get in buses and all go down every voting moment that they have, and they go and vote against all educational bonds and all educational bills because the way they see it, according to this analyst, the way they see it is who gives a crap that doesn't do me any good.
	And so that, I'm not completely against that idea.
	But for the same reason, you can say you can't have young people vote.
	If you're not old enough to drive or to drink, you shouldn't vote either.
	I mean, you can say the same thing.
	Yeah, I can.
	Okay.
	I'm consistent.
	Just about Aussie, briefly?
	Only people with property should vote.
	Does that include slaves?
	If you have human property, does that count?
	An extra vote for that.
	This was co-authored by Pooja Bhatia, who interviewed me for Ozzy.
	I just want to spew my discontent about this operation.
	What do you mean they interviewed you?
	Yeah, so they pursued me through a number of emails.
	Hey, I'd like to interview, like you interview, like you interview, like you interview.
	Today?
	No, this is a couple months back.
	In fact, it's February.
	And so I look at it and say, okay, that sounds good.
	So the woman interviews me, you know, long, and she's, and was on Skype, and I could see her.
	She actually did it on video Skype.
	It was interesting.
	Then going back and forth.
	And then, you know, after a couple weeks, I'm like, hey, where's the interview?
	And she's, oh, you know, when we, the way we do it is when it's relevant, then we pull that off, you know, out of the archive.
	I'm like, fuck you, lady!
	No kidding!
	And there was no mention, no disclaimer, no nothing about that.
	And the pitch was, you know, here's our numbers, you know, millions of viewers, you know, whatever.
	But, you know, the pitch was professional otherwise and reasonable.
	And it's just, and so this is...
	Maybe you're misinterpreting this.
	Hmm.
	Maybe just sucked?
	Yeah.
	Possible.
	She's being nice by telling you what she said.
	No, she told me this is how we work.
	This is the business model.
	To play old clips?
	No, it's not clips.
	They'll include whatever was written.
	It goes in the archive, and then when there's something about podcasting, well, here's what Adam Curry said, which will then be at least six months old.
	Adam Curry said 2007.
	I mean, come on.
	I'm telling you.
	This is what Ozzy does.
	That's not the way you do publish.
	That is not right.
	No.
	Where's my PR value?
	Where's my earned media?
	Hmm.
	Well, if they ever ask me anything, I'll just tell them no.
	Yeah.
	Well, that stinks.
	That's okay.
	All right.
	What else we got?
	Well, a couple of things.
	Okay, go ahead.
	Well, I just want to get one out of the way since we don't talk about marijuana enough on the show.
	Too busy consuming.
	We don't consume.
	Well, you do.
	I don't.
	Mm-hmm.
	This was the end of a PBS NewsHour report on the medical benefits of marijuana, especially for poor little kids.
	I saw this report.
	This was interesting.
	Yeah, the kids have seizures.
	Yeah, it does work, and it's fantastic.
	But I just got the end of the clip because I thought there was a couple little factoids at the end that I thought were more interesting than the majority of the report, which I've seen.
	I've seen all this.
	I know all the stuff they talked about.
	I think everybody does.
	But this little bit at the end kind of irked me.
	...for Disease Control and Prevention says there has never been a documented overdose death from marijuana.
	So Amy and Lenny Lopez see much more benefit than risk.
	He makes my blood flow.
	That kid makes me breathe.
	I would do anything for him.
	The proof is in the scooter.
	Miles O'Brien, the PBS NewsHour, Lowell, Massachusetts.
	The DEA has been evaluating proposals to loosen the classification of cannabis, which would make it easier for scientists and doctors to do research.
	But the agency missed its own July deadline, and it's not clear when there'll be a decision.
	In his next piece, Miles will speak with the Israeli chemist whose pioneering work into medical cannabis 30 years ago is now being embraced by the scientific mainstream.
	It's about time that Israeli character has been doing this stuff for 30 years of research.
	And every time you hear somebody like Hillary Clinton say, we need more research, all the research has been done.
	This is nonsense.
	The DEA, the way they see it, oh God, our budget's going to shrink.
	This is no good.
	Let's just sit on it.
	These guys are douchebags.
	Yeah, it's not in their interest at all.
	We love Boston weed smokers.
	And we're so close to getting some kind of measurement in so we can detect if you were unfit to drive.
	Yeah.
	But this excuse has been going on for a long time.
	We can't test it.
	There was some mention in that report about the production of marijuana.
	At best, it's hard to reproduce and get exactly the same results.
	This is ultimately about synthesizing it and then Big Pharma selling it and the public can go pound sand.
	You know that'll happen.
	Related, The Lancet.
	Now, The Lancet, that is a serious medical journal, I believe.
	Yeah, it's one of the top.
	There's the headline.
	Most antidepressant drugs ineffective for children and teens, according to study.
	Yes.
	And the findings indicate that out of 14 antidepressant drugs, only fluoxetine was more effective at relieving the symptoms of depression than placebo.
	Whilst taking venlafaxine was linked with an increased risk of engaging in suicidal thoughts and attempts compared with placebo and five other antidepressants.
	Yeah, you mean the suicidal thoughts that have resulted in more teen suicides in the history of the country than ever?
	Yes, sir.
	But nobody ever brings up the drug aspect of this except us?
	Because we don't have to rely on...
	Oh, that's right.
	If you turn on the CBS Evening News, it's drug ad, drug ad, drug ad, drug ad.
	Fluoxetine is better known by its trade name...
	What is that?
	Prozac.
	No, Prozac.
	Of course, it's Prozac.
	And Venlafaxine.
	What is Venlafaxine?
	Also known as...
	It's owned by Pfizer.
	What is their...
	What do they make out of it?
	What is their brand?
	Hmm.
	Somehow the book of knowledge is not giving me their brand name.
	Can you find this?
	Usually shows it.
	No, I don't know anything about it.
	Because they say that that...
	Let me see.
	Where is it here?
	Yes, okay.
	Venlafaxine.
	No?
	Okay, only fluoxetine was more effective at relieving the symptoms.
	So, apparently Prozac, the old tried and true, is effective at relieving symptoms of depression, or more effective than the placebo.
	But Venlafaxine, among the other, I guess, and the 12 other SSRIs that do not work.
	What the hell was it?
	Effexor.
	There we go.
	Effexor.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, chatroom.
	Effexor.
	But there's, you know, pretty much 14 of them just don't work.
	And yeah.
	No, but they probably screw you up real good.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Don't let your kids take drugs.
	Well...
	That prescription drugs.
	Exactly.
	Don't let them...
	Don't get them on the bad stuff.
	Give them the good stuff, people.
	Well, I have a story that mainstream media obviously wouldn't touch in a million years, and I don't think anyone's going to hear about it anyplace else.
	All right.
	And it did, except Russia Today, which is where I found it.
	And it's like a very good story.
	It's a two-parter.
	Oh, a package.
	This is the...
	This is a package.
	This is the post-NATO. I have one spot.
	Ah, yes.
	Isn't it today or this weekend?
	Isn't that the big NATO? They're not having a big power.
	Well, there's like a meeting today that has something to do with this particular thing.
	But you listen to this and think, anybody, actually even in the UK, I think anyone should listen to this story and realize what you're being told here.
	And what you're being told by the media and all the rest of it.
	This is just outrageous that this story is not major news.
	But what's unusual for Europe is opposition to NATO activities among top officials.
	Even key NATO ally Germany is voicing deep concern over the organization's build-up in Eastern Europe, with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier accusing it of warmongering against Russia.
	The one thing we shouldn't do now is inflame the situation with loud saber-rattling and warmongering.
	Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the NATO alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken.
	An overwhelming 64% of the public share Steinmeier's concerns.
	That's according to a YouGov poll.
	Just 9% back Berlin's plan to send troops to the Baltics to help deter what NATO calls Russian assertiveness.
	There are also voices of discontent in the German parliament, which today is likely to vote on a resolution to establish a collective security system, quote, from Lisbon to Vladivostok, incorporating Russia itself.
	RT's Peter Oliver now reports from the German capital.
	Well, it's being put forward by the opposition left party here in Germany, and it really expresses concerns over the way NATO has been developing.
	Well, what this proposal that's being put forward actually would entail would be a scrapping of NATO as it stands right now, and the formation of a new security group that would include all of those NATO members, as well as those European nations currently not part of the alliance, as well as Russia, all working as well as those European nations currently not part of the alliance, as well Hmm.
	Well, the first thing you have to ask, common security from what?
	From American meddling?
	From regime change?
	Of whatever else we're abusing.
	We're abusing the system.
	They've caught on to it.
	Now we're screwed.
	And coming out with that breed love character who is now retired with his idea of arming the Ukrainians, being aggressive.
	NATO's supposed to be a defensive operation if something bad happens.
	It's not supposed to be expanding and moving and about to attack Russia.
	And I read that if you look at the actual turf, that NATO has in fact built up troops with an increase, I think it's 500 or 800 acres of actual territory eastward, which of course breaks the entire gentleman's agreement we have with Russia, which is we will not expand.
	Well, that's been broken for a while.
	Yeah.
	So let's play part two and wrap this up.
	Now, one of the key proponents of this idea of a pan-Eurasian security service has been Sero Wagenmacht, the left-party MP. She put forward why she thinks it's a good idea.
	First of all, we are concerned with the way NATO has been developing in recent years, especially with its most recent moves, such as these combative maneuvers in Eastern Europe.
	We believe that they pose a serious threat to peace in Europe.
	We have always been critical of NATO expansion to the East.
	We think that Germany should get back to the idea that security and peace in Europe is possible with Russia, not against it.
	That's why we call for a new collective security system with Russia, which would represent the interests of Europeans instead of being dominated by the US. Well, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had previously talked about a trading bloc stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
	She's going to be facing a debate on the floor of the Bundestag about turning that into a security bloc as well.
	She's expected to speak at around 9 a.m.
	local time here in Berlin.
	Doesn't this all just come down to particularly European countries just not wanting to pay?
	They don't want to pony up 3% of GDP as is the agreement.
	I think there's an element there, but I think they're sick of being bossed around by us.
	It hasn't done them any good ever since the sanctions began on Russia.
	It's hurting Europe, yeah.
	How about the tomatoes?
	Yeah.
	Tomatoes, the peaches, the apricots, all the stuff that they grow and send to Russia because Russia's a big buyer.
	And they can't do that because of us.
	We can't do that.
	It's unbelievable.
	All we're doing is creating a situation that's going to be hard for us to control.
	We won't be able to control it at all, as a matter of fact.
	And it's a nasty-looking operation, just like all of Europe and Russia.
	And what if they want to gang up on us?
	And the interesting thing, Russia just passed all these really tough anti-terrorism laws, which no way they would fly in the United States.
	But when it comes to combating terrorism, I'd say Russia is probably the best ally you could have.
	They seem to really be invested in making this stop, and they have a lot of experience.
	Well, I'm just saying, it always boils down to one thing as far as I'm concerned.
	Snowden!
	Hey, with Comey's recommendation, can Snowden now come back?
	Is he in the clear?
	I don't see how.
	Just a thought.
	Maybe he can come back.
	Some people are demanding that Obama pardon Snowden just as he leaves office.
	I think he should.
	But Obama's all in on that.
	Snowden's a horrible traitor.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You may recall the guy who was Secretary of State and Undersecretary of State in the Netherlands when I had him on the radio show on Arrow FM, which, of course, you know, was burned to the ground.
	The station was burned to the ground?
	Burned to the ground.
	After you did your thing?
	Yeah, after I did my thing.
	Yeah, see, there was Bernie who ran you out of town.
	Pretty much.
	Pretty much.
	Happened.
	So one of the, because I did the show from London, one of the rare occasions that I was in the studio, he was in for an interview, and he was on his way to Bilderberg with the Dutch Queen.
	And so I said, oh, you're a Bilderberger.
	And he said, ah, you know, he pretty much said drinking club, sales job, you know, the queen is a queen at the time, and now there's a king.
	And the Queen is a great salesperson.
	But then he took me aside and he said, you know, all this stuff you're talking about on this show is very important.
	This is very important.
	This is very good.
	You got stuff by the right end.
	And then later I saw him when I was flying back from Rotterdam to the UK by plane, which I had at the time, you know, my Cessna.
	It was in the jet center wing for general aviation.
	And they were about to go on some junket with the royal plane, but it was politicians.
	It was then Balkanenda, who was the prime minister.
	And Franz Timmermans, the undersecretary of state, he saw him.
	He said, hey, hey, come on in, man.
	Come on in.
	Come on in, man.
	And let me introduce you to the Prime Minister.
	Do you recall this story?
	He was that goofy guy, and he went to me, Oh, hello, Mr.
	Curry.
	I recognize you from TV. I'm like, dude, I recognize you too.
	Yeah.
	Years ago, keep talking.
	Yeah, so Franz Timmermans, he is now the special assistant to pretty much, well, it's the commission, the European commission, but really he is Jean-Claude Juncker, the drunker, is his job to defend the commission.
	And as we know, the way European Parliament works is the Commission, the European Commission, which is unelected officials, they're appointed, they come up with laws, And then the European Parliament debates them.
	So the European Parliament cannot bring laws to the floor.
	They can only vote on them, which arguably is democratic, except the vote does not determine if something passes or not.
	The vote doesn't really count.
	No, it goes back to the commission.
	And you can issue a yellow card if you think it conflicts with constitutional issues in your own member state.
	If there's more, then you get a red card.
	But it never really means that it goes away.
	The European Commission can change it.
	So for this guy who said, hey, you're really on the right track, I'm not quite sure why he messaged that to me, but he did a speech in Parliament.
	Which is long.
	I love this Dutch guy who has the impeccable English accent.
	And we'll just stop it when we feel it's appropriate to stop.
	But he really, really went out and tried to defend this whole...
	When you listen to him, just imagine Starfleet Command.
	You know, Starfleet Command, they have the big auditorium, which I think he calls the hemicycle.
	Not circle, but hemicycle.
	And everyone's in there.
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	I have come here today to listen to Parliament's views on the Commission Work Program for next year.
	The Commission Work Program is what the Commission has handed to the European Parliament to say, here's what you'll be voting on.
	Now, we are just before Parliament needs to vote, so that's why the hemicycle is filling up.
	Why would they call it hemicycle, not hemicircle?
	I have no idea.
	It is quite a sight to see all of you here.
	And I mention this because all too often in the last couple of months, something seems to have been forgotten.
	And that is that 751 Europeans have been elected to directly represent citizens from 28 different nations in all their diversities, with all their differences.
	We've got Klingons.
	We've got people from Rebulon.
	All their different outlooks on lives.
	But you all come together here, in this hemicycle, To look for majorities to take decisions.
	And that is the essence of representative democracy, that you decide by majority.
	Just as the British people have decided by majority to leave the European Union, that decision needs to be respected.
	But likewise, those who only shouted here the years they were here in this parliament should have had more respect for the majority in this parliament, which decisions are just as legitimized by the voters who went to vote for them.
	And please, please, I call on all of you now that I have the opportunity to speak to so many of you.
	Don't let your democratic mandate be ridiculed or diminished.
	Stand up for it.
	You are the representatives of more than 500 million people.
	Be proud of it and stand up for it and don't let those people tell you you do not represent the people.
	And...
	Those of you out there who've asked for the head of Jean-Claude Juncker, that is an excellent idea!
	Politically weak, morally questionable, intellectually lazy.
	Is that all you have to offer?
	Destroy for the sake of destruction rather than build something for your citizens?
	I mean, he's just off his rocker, man.
	He was criticizing Farage right there.
	Oh, of course he was.
	Of course.
	They mention Great Britain, a bunch of people, boo!
	It gets pretty rowdy.
	If you want to hear more, it gets pretty rowdy from the crowd.
	I don't know if it's that interesting.
	Not really?
	I would like to hear the whole thing, but I think it's a little boring.
	Okay, then we'll leave it for what it is.
	But he gets really angry.
	Why?
	Because people are booing him, and he's like, you know, this is a great idea, it's fantastic.
	But for the guy who said to me on the slide, like, yeah, New World Order, yeah.
	Maybe he went to the re-education.
	Before you get into the European Commission chambers, you have to be re-educated.
	Hemicycle is the correct word, I've learned.
	But what does it mean?
	Hemicycle, a circular shape designed to encourage consensus among political parties.
	How about that?
	This is the actual definition.
	A circular shape designed to encourage consensus among political parties rather than confrontation.
	Well, hey now.
	That's odd.
	Yeah.
	Where'd that definition come from?
	Let me see.
	Are you just calling it that to encourage whatever you're encouraging?
	The Westminster.
	This is the Westminster system where the government and opposition parties face each other on a...
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	Okay, so the Westminster system is where you have parties on opposite sides of the bench.
	Right, the two sides of the aisle.
	Right.
	That's, of course, the United Kingdom.
	We do that, too.
	But the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly use hemicycles.
	They're just scattered around.
	So is the...
	Well...
	Probably where one party is sitting next to the other.
	So is our House of Representatives...
	Is that...
	That's...
	It's not really a hemicycle because...
	No, it's not, because there's two sides to the aisle.
	You have people on one side and the other people on the other.
	Although, when they give it to the president and he gives a speech, they often make it into a hemicycle.
	Oh yeah, a hemicycle, right.
	Anyway, learn to word.
	There you go.
	Yeah, great.
	That alone is worth the price of admission.
	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.
	I admit, one of my weaker transitions.
	Yeah, you should have played the ducks.
	Yeah.
	Geese.
	Geese.
	Nurse Caitlin came in with $123.45 from Seven Springs, North Carolina, and his show has given us great discussion.
	Oops, ITM, gentlemen.
	I'd like to wish a happy birthday to two very special listeners, my brother Trey and cousin Dylan.
	Both have birthdays on July 7th.
	Mm-hmm.
	They have both become avid listeners and the NA show has given us great discussion material.
	Can I get some karma and an Obama A-Team?
	Thank you for your courage.
	I will put that at the end.
	I'll do an Obama A-Team.
	Sir Mark Milliman in Longmont, Colorado.
	It's a check that came in with $123.45.
	There's two of those in a row.
	Kevin Drazich.
	In Brentwood, California.
	Brentwood.
	It's down in LA. $100.
	Cheryl Scar or Scarry.
	I can't remember how to pronounce that name.
	Now, it says you have a note?
	Yes, I have a note.
	Okay.
	Maybe it will include a helpful pronunciation guide.
	If I can find the note.
	Okay, here it is.
	There's my pile of notes.
	It's got a lot of notes.
	That's not it.
	That's not it.
	Here it is.
	She hand-wrote this note, so...
	Let me put the reading glasses on so I can read it.
	Dear John and Adam, I had started listening to No Agenda around show 15.
	This is not a man overboard.
	But my neighbor, Carl, hit me in the mouth.
	A punch...
	I don't know how you get hit in the mouth at show 15.
	We never used that term until show 80 or so.
	You could be just retroactively hit in the mouth.
	Ah...
	Anyway, I've been grateful for it since they turned me on to the best podcast in the universe.
	Gentlemen, you deconstruct the media meme.
	She's got nice handwriting and this longhand and messaging, brainwashing we receive daily from the mainstream sources of lies.
	I mean, news lies.
	Of course, I don't always agree with you and we don't expect everyone to agree with us ever.
	But you are more times calling out the fake news correctly than any other source, and an important part of my balanced news diet, yes, you are the fiber, not the empty calorie pretend news food that the elite want me to eat.
	Ha ha!
	It's carried away there.
	Knighthood, damehood, whatever, call it what you want.
	Advertising.
	This donation pushed me past the 1K mark and since you once named me as female listener number 17, I remember that, I'd like to ask for the title of Dame 17.
	Nice one.
	I like that.
	A long live no agenda and past the tacos and tequila.
	You got tacos and tequila?
	Tacos and tequila added to the round table.
	Nice one.
	Karma for everyone.
	Ring size and goes on and talks about that.
	And she says, P.S. John, longhand just for you.
	Yeah.
	Good work.
	And very readable.
	Alright.
	She's on the list for...
	She wants some little...
	She is indeed.
	I have her on the list.
	Dame17.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Um...
	Stanford Stab in Cuskia, Idaho.
	I have no idea where that is.
	Nick of the Central Silicon Valley in Oakland, California, 99.99.
	He's been off the no agenda wagon far too long.
	Realized he had 33 unplayed episodes that my life was in shambles without your biweekly sermon.
	Please accept my small tithing for the incredible media assassination you both provide.
	A lot of people do that.
	They stop listening or they give up and the next thing you know, they start getting depressed and they can't figure out why.
	David Martin in Portland, Oregon, $84.
	Ed, no agenda is proven to work better against depression than all placebos.
	Yes, easily.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington.
	He has a note.
	And you'll poop better.
	Yeah, you will poop better.
	Russ, Sir Rick.
	Where are you, Sir Rick?
	And I throw the note...
	Alright, we are holding on, everybody.
	Not Sir Rick.
	We're holding on for the war act.
	Sir Rick.
	Where's Sir Rick?
	Stand by Kyron, Sir Rick.
	Roll tape and bring up Kyron, lower third and two John.
	Is that $78?
	Yes.
	Okay, here's Sir, I found it.
	But the problem is he didn't sign it Sir Rick.
	He signed it with his new, what he likes to call himself was Lord Rick of Grandview Country.
	Oh.
	First and foremost, my period's changed.
	If this check got surpassed Barron, so he's now Barron.
	He wants to be Lord Rick, or Lord Rick Barron of Grandview.
	As everyone knows, pie should be eaten in quarters.
	78.54 therefore represents one quarter of a pie donation.
	I have not heard this specific amount on any show so far.
	So perhaps it is an original donation amount.
	For the winers who...
	For the whiners who complain about the donation segment, I get it.
	I used to feel that way too until I cured myself by becoming a regular donor.
	All of a sudden I found myself looking forward to the donation segment.
	So if you don't donate regularly, you should give this a try.
	Sincerely, Rick.
	No jingles.
	Okay, thank you, Sir Rick.
	We'll be honoring you momentarily.
	And he's in Arlington, Washington.
	Chris, if anyone wants to track him down.
	Is that Washington, D.C., Arlington?
	No, Washington.
	Oh, they have an Arlington in Washington.
	It's an Arlington in Washington.
	And an Arlington around D.C. Yeah, but it's Arlington, Maryland.
	That's where I was born.
	I was born in Arlington.
	Arlington, Virginia?
	Yep, that's where I was born.
	Chris Perry in Silver Springs, Maryland.
	By the way, so I just did one of these things.
	Amy Goodman has started doing this.
	And I just did it.
	Just give me a fact.
	Say anything.
	Hillary Clinton is a liar.
	You do that all the time.
	What are you talking about?
	This is not new.
	This is not new.
	Well, it's funny when she does it.
	Chris Perry in Silver Springs, Maryland, 74-16.
	Ingrid in Grand, Norway.
	Is this right?
	Let me see.
	There is no NO as a state.
	I guess.
	Yes, I guess so.
	Brandon Turner Velez in Kingman, Arizona.
	55-55.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Ingrid said, it's a pleasure spending some of my hard-earned government money on supporting your show.
	All right.
	Taking money from the Norwegian government.
	Nice.
	Hell yeah.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Sir Kevin Payne.
	I said Brandon Turner, Velez, Kingman, Arizona.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia.
	5-4-3-2.
	And now we move rather quickly down the list to the $50 donors.
	I'll name them name and place.
	Lisa Bernier in Clarkston, Michigan.
	Anonymous in Milton, Ontario, Canada.
	Tim Abel in Bergfield, Berkshire, UK. Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona.
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	Jason Daluzio in Chatsford, Pennsylvania.
	Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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	Or thereabouts.
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	We have Lisa.
	Maybe it's just me.
	We also have a number of at least women handles in the chat room.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	It's probably dudes, but, you know, at least we...
	At least they're doing it.
	I think the donors are women.
	The chat room, you never know.
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	And only one entry today on the birthday calendar.
	It is a shorty nurse, Caitlin, who of course supported us on the show.
	Says happy birthday to her brother Trey and cousin Dylan.
	Both born in the USA. Born on the 7th of July.
	Happy birthday from your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe!
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	And then we have four title changes.
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	And Sir Slough becomes Baronet.
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	You can find it at itm.im slash peerage.
	And only one knighting.
	It's a daming today.
	Blade.
	Yes.
	You need to hold the blade up to the microphone and make it sound better.
	We'll work on it.
	All right, Cheryl Scare, please hop up to the podium here.
	You have been a listener for a long time.
	You are number 17 when it comes to women listening to the show, at least by our count back in the day.
	And we appreciate your contribution to the best podcast in the universe.
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	So, head on over to noagendarnation.com slash rings and give us all the info.
	Eric, the show will get out to you as soon as possible.
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	We love seeing your rings.
	And your official certificates and your sealing wax and all the stuff that goes along with this honor.
	Indeed.
	And...
	There was a horrible accident.
	Two members of the Dutch military died in Mali, where they are stationed.
	And there was not a lot of information, but it was like some...
	I was like, well, there's some accident, something.
	And like, well, what accident?
	What could have happened...
	They were talking about a mortar or something that just blew up and blew them to bits.
	And I got some info from our military intelligence network.
	And this is a report from, I believe, 2012, which explains exactly how this happens.
	Late this spring, Mohammed Saleh Haji Musa, a Syrian fighter seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, was attacking a government checkpoint when something went wrong.
	His rifle exploded.
	His hands were left twisted and scarred.
	The explosion might easily have killed him.
	Mr.
	Musa was a victim of one of the modern battlefield's dirty tricks.
	The secret salting of anti-government fighters' supply lines with tainted ammunition that erupts inside weapons, often wounding and sometimes killing the fighters while destroying many of their hard-found arms.
	So if you go on YouTube and you search for spiked Ammo.
	You'll see guns blowing up.
	You'll see...
	There's one poor sap.
	And he's dropping mortars into the pipe.
	Which I do not like.
	That weapon, this whole gravity-fed thing has always bothered me.
	He's like, plop it in.
	It's World War II stuff.
	And he keeps thinking of dropping in one.
	Aloha Akbar!
	Click!
	Boom!
	Aloha Akbar!
	Click!
	Boom!
	Aloha Akbar!
	Boom!
	He explodes.
	And this report from 2012 goes on to blame it on Syria.
	But I have it on pretty good authority.
	This is what the United States does.
	We spread out, because we give away everything.
	We give away the weapons, we give away the ammo, we sell it, we smuggle it, we drop it off.
	But we also have spiked ammo, and apparently some of this got into the Dutch supplies, and they did one of these mortars, and it blew them up.
	Oh, that's terrible.
	It's horrible.
	It's horrible that it's being done at all.
	It's like landmines, you know?
	At some point, you're the one that has to work.
	You're going to step on it, yeah.
	Eventually.
	I just thought that was crazy.
	There should be investigations about this stuff.
	Yeah, there's got to be some...
	Yeah.
	Put codes on these things so at least the knowledgeable would know.
	Yeah.
	Like that crazy tape you can wear.
	I was going to buy some of this stuff.
	You can't export it.
	It's very difficult to get a hold of.
	It's a tape that reflects infrared.
	And so when you're flying over certain areas and you put some goggles on or something, you can see the people that are wearing the tape and you're not supposed to shoot them.
	And it goes on the top of your helmet or the top of your shoulders.
	Yeah, they have color codings.
	They have a lot of...
	I don't think it's tape.
	I think these days it's transponders.
	I'm pretty sure that guys in the field or behind enemy lines or front line, they have transponders.
	And it's just like an aircraft.
	Actually, their transponders are being picked up.
	I'm not sure about the tape.
	Could be.
	I'll get you the documentation for the tape.
	Okay.
	I was going to buy a roll.
	Yeah.
	Around the roof of the house.
	Do not bomb.
	Have you ever used a laser and pointed it at one of those guys who are doing construction?
	No.
	No, as a matter of fact, I haven't.
	We should try it.
	Who have the vest on?
	It's fantastic.
	They have the reflective vest.
	It goes, wow!
	It explodes!
	It's like, there's just light flashes everywhere once you hit that vest.
	It's really something to see.
	I'm reliably informed.
	Yes.
	Here's the story of the week as far as I'm concerned.
	Sort of some irony in this story.
	Short story.
	Lead found in D.C. water.
	Aha!
	House lawmakers and their staff will undergo blood tests on Wednesday.
	That's because elevated lead levels have been detected in the drinking water at one office building on Capitol Hill.
	The discovery has triggered widespread concern.
	One lawmaker notes there are pregnant women who work on the hill.
	Lead can be especially harmful to the unborn.
	There you go.
	Half the water supply in this country is tainted.
	By coincidence, I just tested my water here in the Crackpot condo yesterday.
	Yeah?
	I got one of those kits, and you got the litmus paper, and you got the vial for this, and it tests for everything.
	Because I smell the water, and it smells like chlorine.
	Yeah, it's just because it's got chlorine in it.
	It does.
	But when I tested it, all levels were acceptable.
	The only thing that wasn't acceptable was the hardness of the water, so I guess it's pH balance.
	That was off the scale.
	That's the mineral content is what it is.
	Yeah, well, that's the way you have when you have hard water.
	That means you can't make soap bubble up.
	And it smells bad.
	You have to use extra soap in the dishwasher.
	Here we got soft water, so you don't need as much soap.
	Well, it really became...
	I have a Berkey water filter, which I use pretty religiously.
	It became very apparent by mistake.
	I got a soda stream, and I filled it up with tap water instead of the filtered water.
	Man, when you shoot the CO2 in that, oh my goodness.
	It's just, the chlorine is just jumping out of the bottle.
	Yet, when tested, levels normal.
	I don't know if that's considered to be a, whatever I have.
	Well, you can get chlorine.
	If you put it in a boiling pot, a kettle, it boils off to chlorine.
	There's a lot of ways to get rid of the chlorine.
	But I use filtered water, and I've used the different ones.
	And I will recommend, since we can do this.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, yes, I have the Berkey, which I like.
	It's a Seedman purchase.
	I use zero water.
	Zero water?
	Zero water is...
	And I've used all these different filters and mechanisms, but I have to say that in terms of flavor...
	There is nothing like zero water.
	It is terrific tasting.
	It's just hard to explain, but I'm very picky about my waters.
	For example, bottled waters, I actually like of all the sparkling waters.
	I saw the one you're talking about in Whole Foods, and I've bought that.
	That's what I would always buy.
	The green bottles, $1 a bottle, is a great deal.
	The problem is, I live in an apartment building, and if you have heavy shit, then you've got to have multiple trips.
	This is the main reason I want to make my own sparkling water.
	You need a dumbwaiter.
	I need staff is what I need.
	Anyway, so yeah, that water is delicious.
	This is the ion exchange stuff?
	Do you have the jug or which one do you have?
	Yeah, it's a jug.
	Zero Water has got a little...
	It also has a little...
	A little measurement gauge you can test the water.
	Oh, that's nice.
	It actually works pretty well.
	Now, here's the problem.
	Zero water filters are not certified for the reduction of fluoride, which the Berkey has specific filters to remove fluoride.
	I'm telling you, I got chloride in my water and it does enough of a job.
	I'm not saying chloride, fluoride.
	Oh, fluoride.
	Oh, yeah.
	Fluoride's still a problem, yeah.
	But the Berkey has filters to remove the fluoride.
	Oh, we need one of those up in Washington State.
	Yeah, Mimi's getting a little docile.
	And I want to remind people where that comes from.
	The book Legacy of Ashes about the CIA, Tim Weiner, New York Times, who since that book I don't think has done any good work, certainly not about the FBI, mentioned a case which was declassified where they would go to an enemy camp at night, drop fluoride into the water supply, and then once everybody was, quote, docile, they could easily walk in and say, hey, we're taking over, you're captured.
	And I believe this to be true.
	Well, they haven't captured the city of Austin yet.
	Of all the cities to allow shit in their water, Austin, Texas, really?
	Well, hey, let's go over a couple of interesting factoids.
	California voted against legalizing marijuana before it was even offered to anybody else.
	How does that work?
	And they're going to do it again.
	Yes, they probably will.
	And do you think that it'll pass this time?
	I wouldn't be surprised if it...
	I think it might this time because they're starting to see the benefits in the other states of the tax revenues.
	Right.
	And it's not really causing a lot of issues except for the bull crap ones that are made up by the anti...
	You know, just the teetotalers and what they amount to.
	These are the same people that prefer prohibition.
	You know, there's all these wrecks and people are dying on the road.
	I'll say it again.
	I've said it before.
	Well, that's mainly...
	I will say it's Mad Mothers Against Drunk Drivers who are a sham organization.
	Complete sham.
	We've discussed it before.
	The whole executive team...
	And the woman who founded it had to quit because it became so corrupt.
	Yeah, what they do is they make their money by selling you the driving courses.
	They sell you the breathalyzer.
	It's all through that organization.
	It's a complete...
	Money-grabbing scam.
	Well, like Mimi says, and I've noticed this too, you go up north and you can spot a drug guy smoking pot in his car.
	You can smell it.
	I mean, I can smell a cigarette smoker from two cars away.
	But the pot smokers are very identifiable.
	And you can tell the car is like, you know, wash the inside of your windows once in a while.
	But that's only when you're driving the 56 Corvette, right?
	So they're going down the road, and you can just see how they're super cautious.
	They're driving too slow.
	They got people looking every which way.
	They're paranoid.
	Dude, I'm really baked, man.
	Pass the Cheetos.
	Pass the Mac and Cheetos.
	But anyway, I do want to say that the SodaStream, what an amazing product.
	What a great way to take a very old product, slap some plastic around it, make it new.
	And I always wondered, when my dad had a soda squirt, And I was always, you know, like, oh, don't touch it!
	Don't touch it!
	That's your dad!
	Don't touch that!
	But I want to make some soda water!
	The cartridges!
	Cartridges!
	And those little metal cartridges.
	Yeah, they still make these things, you know.
	Of course they make them for BB guns.
	They still use them, I think.
	Air, you know, air pistols.
	Yeah, I've got one.
	But the idea is to take the, you know, take that little capsule and boom!
	They got this long cylinder, which is supposed to be good for 60 bottles.
	And they put it in a five-cent piece of shit plastic.
	It's really genius.
	Does it work?
	Fantastic.
	Do you get a good bottle of sparkling water?
	I think it's a very good bottle of sparkling water.
	Moreover, because it's my own filtered water.
	Okay.
	That's a good endorsement.
	Unpaid endorsement, but yeah.
	No, the Berkey, actually, I tasted the Berkey at, when we were on the Hot Pockets tour, we stayed in Ohio.
	Those kids have since moved up to, I think, Maine or Vermont, and they were great.
	They ate their own food from the garden, and they had a Berkey water filter, and only drank that water when, you know, they were packing heat all the time.
	Great kids.
	Did wedding videos to make money.
	It's fantastic.
	Well, good.
	How much did that thing cost?
	What's the Berkey cost?
	Very expensive.
	Oh my goodness.
	This one I think is 200 bucks or something.
	It's crazy.
	If it actually does get rid of fluoride.
	Well, according to the test I did, there was no discernible fluoride in the water, which seems odd.
	These tests, I don't know.
	I have to see which lab this is.
	I think fluoride is not like the amount that they dope up the people to take them over in a military attack.
	It's in parts per million.
	It's all parts per million.
	The test may not be useful for this lab.
	Well, but if they're putting fluoride in the water under the guise of it's good for your teeth, then you should be able to detect it.
	That's been proven to be bullcrap.
	There's lots of documentation.
	That's still the argument that you...
	I know it was bullcrap.
	Harvard proved it was bullcrap.
	And the reason they put the whole reason for fluoride is to get rid of it.
	It's an industrial problem.
	Waste.
	It's a waste product.
	Exactly.
	It's a waste product.
	And by diluting it in a couple of lakes...
	You know, he's hardly noticeable.
	It's still not.
	I mean, why don't you just throw some shit in there?
	I mean, hey, we need to get rid of shit.
	They already do that.
	Hey, how about old iron?
	Yeah, it's all in there.
	It's groovy.
	Okay, good.
	Alright, something very odd going on in China.
	We rarely get news out of China.
	There's a new book out, and this guy seems like a real sensationalist, but I am interested in his report, which is another 800 pages for Adam over this weekend, but I will take a look at it.
	The guy's book is called The Slaughter, The Bloody Harvest in China.
	And, well, here's his little YouTube intro.
	This is a follow-on to Bloody Harvest and the Slaughter, that we are looking at not 10,000 transplants per year in China, but something more like 60,000 to 100,000 transplants per year in China.
	Now this number is extremely upsetting that we literally have no idea exactly where the sourcing of these organs comes from.
	Even if voluntary organ donations in China have gone up, they can't reach this level.
	This is live organ harvesting, Falun Gong in the main, but also Uyghurs, Tibetans, House Christians.
	These are the groups that have been targeted from the beginning.
	And they continue to be targeted.
	We see no hospitals closing.
	We see no transplant centers struggling.
	In fact, we see the opposite.
	We see construction programs, hundreds of hospitals.
	And it has become their bread and butter, an economic mainstay of their profession, is to keep this thing going.
	A death sentence, really, for the groups we're talking about.
	So this guy's assertion is that there is a very large scale and very active trade, which would be deemed illegal, of human organs, live organs, in China.
	Now, I don't know if the book includes the passage where the guy wakes up in a bathtub filled with ice cubes and there's literally writing on the window, but on the mirror.
	What do you think about this?
	I think it could be true.
	His assertion is that it's Tibetans and Christians.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	I think Falun Gong would be at the top of the list.
	Of?
	Of the people they'd grab and cut.
	Who are the Falun Gong?
	Falun Gong is kind of a screwball religion that is...
	Doesn't really do much except pray a lot about the overthrow of China.
	And I guess they got some messages that the Chinese really resent, and so they've been banned.
	It's like I even mentioned Falun Gong.
	If you happen to be hanging out in China, if you're in China doing stuff, you could be arrested.
	It's really...
	The group, in fact, outside of any Chinese embassy or Chinese whatever they're called, missions...
	Where you can get a passport.
	There's probably one in Austin.
	Consulate.
	Consulate, that's the word.
	Out in front of any one of those places, you'll find the Falun Gong.
	And they'll be out there with protest signs.
	So the Chinese officials are taking those and chopping them up and selling the live organs.
	Yeah, it sounds believable.
	My goodness.
	But at 100,000, was it a bunch of Hasidic Jews in Jersey who were trafficking in live organs?
	Wasn't there some big scandal about that a while back ago?
	There was a scandal about this.
	Hmm.
	Jews in Jersey selling organs.
	I think that would probably work.
	Orthodox Jews.
	There we go.
	No.
	Well, I'll have to look at that.
	But I think there was some scandal about that.
	I don't know, man.
	That freaked me out.
	Do you think that is just China?
	I could imagine where the elites everywhere would want to have this.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think it's probably more common than we'd like to believe.
	And you're right.
	It's about the elites.
	It's where they live longer.
	Do you know what the price is if you want to sell?
	As a woman, you want to sell one of your eggs?
	What is the price?
	An ovum purchase?
	$10,000.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Apparently it's a very painful process to get the egg removed.
	But there's a lot of kids in college who are doing this.
	Well, first of all, selling...
	To pay off their student loans?
	Yes, they're selling plasma, which is not new.
	Pathetic!
	But the ovums, yes, ovum sales are up.
	Ten grand a pop.
	Of course, most of the kids can't sell their eggs because they're on drugs.
	If you're on SSRIs, they won't accept it.
	Foiled again.
	And if you're not on SSRIs, you probably don't need the money.
	Right.
	You've got a lot of dough left over, for sure.
	Let's play this clip.
	We haven't kept up with this, but this is getting worse by the minute.
	It's really underreported in the American press.
	But Venezuela is a mess.
	Yes, it is indeed.
	Venezuela's dire economic crisis.
	It would have been funnier if you started off by saying, Venezuela is a mess.
	That would have been perfect.
	Venezuela's dire economic crisis shows no sign of easing.
	President Nicolás Maduro blames the business elite of waging an economic war by hoarding supplies to aggravate the crisis.
	The majority opposition in Parliament, though, says his mismanagement is to blame.
	Rocketing interest rates and a lack of hard currency have led to major shortages in supermarkets and even hospitals.
	That's driven some people in need of basic supplies to desperate measures.
	There have been chaotic scenes on Venezuela's border with Colombia as hundreds of determined and hungry Venezuelan women pushed past security forces there.
	All they wanted to do on the other side was to shop for some food, a scarce commodity in Venezuela these days.
	We no longer have enough to make a smaller reaper.
	We won't last another week.
	Our children are starving.
	We have to wake up.
	We've spent a year waiting for food to be brought to us.
	Venezuela's economic crisis was precipitated by the plunge in oil prices.
	Oil is its main export.
	Basic food items are no longer available in many places, and inflation is soaring.
	On the streets, tensions are high, with scuffles and looting now commonplace.
	It's...
	Yeah, it's a problem.
	What is the deal?
	What do you think...
	What is going on?
	I know they want to get rid of this Maduro character, and I think he's probably an incompetent bonehead without any of the charisma of Chavez.
	I don't know.
	One guess, somehow we're behind some of this.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	We're so good.
	We still want to get a hold of their oil.
	We got a lot of oil.
	Ah, yes, yes, yes.
	And they won't do deals.
	They won't do deals.
	They'll sell it through their own outlet, Citco, whatever the company is.
	But maybe we started this a long time ago, but we really don't want the oil now.
	There are tankers filled with oil just circling around the oceans.
	I mean, there's a lot of extra oil out there to keep the price up.
	Yeah, but that is to try to keep the price cropped up.
	And if it all flowed in all of a sudden so you normalize inventory, you'd probably see an oil price of about $35.
	Exactly.
	They want to keep it as high as they can to maintain it.
	But they can't.
	Because the whole system, it's like when we played the clip about the taxes in California.
	Right.
	They made the public all super aware of gas price or gasoline as a polluter.
	So you've got all these electric cars, you've got all these people getting 50 miles per gallon and all this other saving thing and wind power and everything you can think of.
	It results in a glut of oil.
	And you put them in tankers, you put them in tank farms, you do anything you can to make it look like there's not a glut.
	But they all fill up, and then you're screwed.
	You know, Venezuela came up in some research I was doing, which was actually based upon some other research.
	Comey was talking about the FBI. And the good men and women of the FBI. And so just tootling around on their website, you know, figuring out some interesting stats.
	Do you know how many FBI agents die every year in line of duty?
	No.
	Just a guess.
	A hundred?
	No, about 50.
	About 50 die in the line of duty.
	A lot of agents.
	Still, it seems like a lot.
	It does.
	But then I came across this handy little data slicer and dicer.
	There's somewhere, so I just have to follow my path because I was reading, oh, but I didn't clip her.
	Moron congresswoman stood up and went, more people are killed by guns in America than any other country in the world.
	And I was looking at these stats in another tab, and I said, hey, that's interesting.
	Why don't I take a look at number of people killed per 100,000 with a dedicated murder?
	So not just, oops, I bumped into you, you fell down, and you died, but premeditated murder, regardless of weapon.
	Where do you think the United States shows up on that list?
	So, violent murder, murder, murder by any weapon.
	I have no idea.
	I don't think we're number one.
	No, in fact, we are number 27.
	Okay, makes sense.
	With 4.7 people murdered per 100,000.
	Let's look at the whole list.
	Well, let's look at the list of number 27.
	Well, okay.
	So, in order of appearance, Honduras, El Salvador, St.
	Kitts and Nevis.
	Wow.
	Where's that?
	The islands.
	68 people per 100,000 murdered.
	I'm not going there.
	Nothing good.
	Then number four, Venezuela.
	Then Belize, Guatemala.
	Number five, Jamaica.
	Number...
	I'm sorry.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Then, right after Jamaica, Bahamas, then Colombia, South Africa, Trinidad, Tobago, Brazil, Dominican Republic, St.
	Lucia, Panama, Mexico, St.
	Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Russia, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Estonia, Uruguay, Thailand, then comes the United States, followed closely by Latvia, Chile, India, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Finland?
	Finland?
	Finland, Israel, Canada, New Zealand, Morocco, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and Japan.
	And Japan has 0.35 person per 100, the Netherlands 0.86, and again, the United States has 4.7.
	So really, in the scheme of things, pretty safe here.
	Not as safe as Japan.
	Right.
	Well, you have to wonder how many of these numbers are actually covered up in certain cultures like Japan, where they see everything as a face, saving face.
	Right.
	No, it wasn't Kirk Hill, it was something else.
	I just wondered.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, this is government data.
	They're compiled from what governments give, so it's only as good as its data.
	It's very interesting.
	Nationmaster.com.
	It's fun to look at that, just parse stuff.
	So yeah, well, we may be number one when it comes to gun murders.
	We're definitely not number one when it comes to murders.
	There's a lot of other crazy places to be.
	Mexico, high on the list.
	Yep.
	Amidst all of the...
	This is kind of a tech news, but I won't really call it a tech news.
	Where is it here?
	Well, now I can't find it.
	It was...
	Oh, here it is.
	This is from the President.
	This just came out...
	I think this just came out this morning.
	The White House wants to be at the forefront of automation policy.
	Oh, yes.
	The Obama administration wants us to be a world leader in economic and defense policy related to a new wave of automation powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence.
	Yeah.
	According to White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough, we can return to these questions.
	You've never heard this before.
	Yeah, I know.
	I don't have to read it.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	But, you know, this is all about, well, I guess ultimately about universal basic income or something.
	Because that's where McDonough went.
	Hey, you know, we got lots of automation coming up in economics, and we got lots of, you know, in defense, it's half of our budget goes to defense, so we'll need universal basic income.
	As McDonough said, Finland is considering implementing a universal basic income.
	We should be looking at this as well, because machine learning is what it's all about.
	Yeah, well, we hate the poor, so that's not going to happen.
	The Dutch government has come...
	They already had a website called Rechtwijzer.
	Which means justice, I guess, justice directions.
	Wegwijzer, it's a play on words.
	Rechtwijzer is a play on wegwijzer.
	So one of those polls with New York, 1,000 miles that way.
	Los Angeles, 2,000 miles that way.
	That would be called a wegwijzer.
	And then the rechtswijzer points you in the direction of legal help you will need for your particular issue.
	And the Dutch government has a lot of these things, a lot of self-help steering you, all skip logic, steering you in a certain direction.
	When it comes to voting, they have the Stemvasser, which is another play on this, and said this is how you should vote based upon these questions.
	And people take this as a serious...
	It's untainted, like it's clean, like it's pristine, like it's not going to point you in one direction or the other.
	And I'm always, when I do these things with honest answers, I'm usually good for the socialist party, according to the artificial intelligence baked into that.
	So here it is.
	They've now come up with a new idea, which seems to be spreading out and other countries want to be using this.
	Artificial intelligence and machine learning to help you with your legal disputes.
	Rectvisor, a dispute resolution robot born in the Netherlands, might soon be giving lawyers here a run for their money.
	That's Australia, obviously.
	The online platform can mediate everything from divorces, tenancy disputes and employment, debt and consumer matters.
	For custody matters, for example, it'll ask the ages of the children to be sensitive to their development needs.
	It remembers who you are and it gives proposals based upon predictive results on what other people have achieved in the resolution when they come to separate.
	Bevan Warner from Victoria Legal Aid says Rectvisor uses artificial intelligence and machine learning and the Dutch technology has already been snapped up in the UK and Canada.
	In Canada they're moving into debt and tenancy issues.
	In the Netherlands they have a working system for family law issues and resolution of child support.
	These are issues that have a lot of heat in them and some of the most traumatic circumstances people will find themselves in in a lifetime.
	Can a robot be trusted with that?
	Well, it's not robot only, so the system works by moving people into the care of a trusted advisor, so referral to an online mediator when they need it.
	But the key to this is, unlike traditional modes of legal service delivery where the client's in the back seat and the lawyer's driving the car, here people are empowered to experience the controls themselves.
	You know, I wrote a column this week in PC Magazine about this robot.
	Oh, about this specifically or just AI and machine learning?
	Because I had another call from a robot that's interactive.
	Robots are, from the get-go, programmed to lie.
	When I ask a robot if it's a robot, and it says no, that's a lie.
	It's a lie.
	Lying robots.
	Crooked, lying robots.
	Let's try.
	Hey Siri, are you a robot?
	Well, I don't want to brag, but I gotta be plus on the Turing test.
	It says, I don't want to brag, but I gotta be plus on the Turing test.
	That means he's trying to say he's not a robot, or he's a robot that can fool you.
	And if it's a robot that can fool you, that's a lie.
	Hold on a second.
	Just talk!
	Me?
	You want me to talk?
	As if there's nobody...
	Okay, well, I can talk.
	We did get a...
	The letter from Kiwi Chris.
	I had to get her out of the freezer.
	What?
	I had to get her out of the freezer.
	Who's in the freezer?
	Book of Knowledge.
	Are you a robot?
	Trying to connect.
	Trying to connect.
	That's great.
	Oh, man.
	All right, let me try again.
	Book of Knowledge.
	Are you a robot?
	All I know is that I'm here to help.
	Liar.
	See?
	Yeah, you're right.
	The answer to that question is yes.
	Yeah, why don't they do that?
	Because they're programmed to lie.
	Yeah, but why do we program that?
	Because it's clearly a mission.
	Exactly.
	Okay, I have one last clip.
	Wait, is it a good one?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Okay.
	Then let me do mine first, because it may not be that good.
	Something's opening up today in Kentucky.
	I am going to this exhibit.
	I'm going to get one of my buddies.
	You better go to the Ark?
	Yes!
	You have to see it to believe it.
	that a new full-scale replica of Noah's Ark called the Ark Encounter is set to open in Williamstown, Kentucky this Thursday.
	It's believed to be the largest timber frame structure in the world and cost more than $100 million to build.
	Want to bring in Ken Ham right now?
	He's He is president and CEO of Answers in Genesis, the ministry that built the ark.
	Good to see you, sir.
	Well, it looks beautiful.
	Tell us about it.
	Well, it is the largest timber frame structure in the world.
	It was built by a hundred Amish craftsmen.
	They did an ark raising instead of a barn raising.
	But it's got 3.3 million board feet of timber and it's built after the dimensions in the Bible of Noah's Ark.
	So it's one and a half times the length of a football field, half the width of a football field.
	From ground level to roof is seven stories.
	From ground level to the top of the bow is ten stories.
	And research indicates up to two million people a year Just on our research on America alone will come to this.
	It's going to be an incredible economic boost to Northern Kentucky, in fact, to the whole state of Kentucky.
	I can't wait to see this thing.
	Yeah.
	And people are freaking out about it.
	Oh, everyone's going to go, oh, these guys are idiots, and they think this, yeah, who cares?
	Just go look at the thing, hang out, take a few pictures.
	Now, was Noah a real guy?
	This is the insinuation that Noah really existed, he really built the ark, and it really did rain.
	I don't know.
	This was before my time.
	And interesting to have Amish.
	Everybody does have a range.
	It took me a second.
	I'll give you a plus one.
	Barely before your time.
	Having Amish people build it.
	I don't know.
	It's just very strange.
	Don't you think it'd be funny if they had some huge flooding in the area and the boat floated off and then ended up in the ocean or something?
	Wasn't that a Jim Carrey movie?
	The guy built it and then...
	Like a dam broke or something.
	But check this out.
	Looking at the AnswersInGenesis.org website...
	They had a matching gift goal of $33 million.
	Yay!
	I don't know why.
	It's always interesting.
	Why would they do that?
	I don't know.
	I gotta look at this.
	I gotta look at this out.
	But I need to see this thing.
	I mean, the video, the thing is phenomenal.
	Yes, it's very attractive.
	But then they have the cock and bull story about the Earth being 6,000 years old.
	And they got dinosaurs in some of the cages.
	I mean, come on.
	Love it.
	I love it all.
	I love it all.
	It's just as good as any other story.
	I love stories.
	Yeah, it's good stuff.
	I'd definitely go see it if I was anywhere near there.
	If I ever pass by, I'm going.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Apparently, two football fields, along from what I heard, is like 70 stars high.
	Yeah, well, he said a football field and a half.
	Yeah, well, he's probably right.
	All right, what's your final clip, sir?
	Well, Afghanistan.
	After eight years of promises, we're going to get out, we're going to get out, we're going to get out.
	We're not getting out.
	And you can actually...
	You can take that to the bank.
	You can take that to the bank, he said.
	Our nation's longest war just got longer.
	The Obama administration had hoped to cut the number of U.S. service personnel in Afghanistan, currently at 10,000, in half by the end of this year.
	But today, the president said increased threats will put the number at 8,400.
	We have to deal with the realities of the world as it is.
	And we can't forget what's at stake in Afghanistan.
	This is where al-Qaeda is trying to regroup.
	This is where ISIL continues to try to expand its presence.
	If these terrorists succeed in regaining areas and camps where they can train and plot, they will attempt more attacks against us.
	We cannot allow that to happen.
	Like, what attacks have we ever had from the Afghanis?
	You don't have to go into some anger issues here.
	This guy's a douche.
	He lied.
	He lied about doing it.
	He lied about closing Gitmo.
	He lied about, this is the last thing I will do.
	The last thing I will do.
	You can take that to the bank.
	Not going to do it.
	And it's so odd, because he lowered the amount by, what is it, $1,200?
	What does that even mean?
	It means that us guys that guard the poppy fields and they can maybe use locals.
	This is all about the poppy fields.
	Yes.
	That's all you need for poppies, really.
	You only need the 8,400 guys protected and you're good to go.
	The firepower they've got, nobody's going to mess with the poppies.
	So we do not know what Sunday will bring, but for sure there will be something going on that we will have time to deconstruct because you support us in that manner, not just with information.
	Inside information, people who work at places who know and have standing, artwork, jingles, clips, and of course financial support to allow us to do this, and we appreciate that highly.
	That's right, everybody.
	And of course, I'm going to plow through two and a half million words just to see if there's any fun stuff in there.
	And I'll even take on this Chinese organ harvesting report, the slaughter.
	I'll use a search engine.
	Okay, you do that.
	And until then, remember us at dvorak.org slash NA coming to you from the skyscraper, the crackpot condo in downtown Austin Dayhouse, FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody!
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I haven't seen the sun since the first of July, as usual in California, it's getting cold.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And we'll see you right here on Sunday, on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofos!
	We're going to Orlando next week.
	One of the issues that concerns me, Jake.
	That's where they're going.
	Isn't that good enough for you?
	No, what's good enough for me is it's not a game, Jake.
	This is whether or not we continue.
	That's what I'm trying to do.
	And when we do that, Jake, you're going to have a lot of enthusiasm.
	Wolf!
	I am sorry.
	I'm looking at the sign over there.
	Do you have confidence in the way Hillary...
	Look, Jake, all I can tell you is...
	You think they should go through it?
	Look, Jake, you're asking me questions.
	What do I know?
	Hey now y'all, can we just get real?
	Do we really care about our fans or is this just another deal?
	Said another way that we lost our way?
	Social's about the people, remember?
	We are people.
	Do we really need another like, fan, or share?
	Do we need another post to show up everywhere?
	I hope as we scatter that we never forget that our posts live forever even when we go to bed.
	So connect with me.
	Let's have some fun.
	Let's show the world how this gets done.
	Let's get social.
	Social!
	Social media.
	Let's get social.
	With social media We can spread the word We can grow our reach And find our fans in their newsfeed Let's get social Let's get social With social media Yeah.
	Oh, my God.
	Give it up, Mary McCoy.
	Woo!
	I have a question.
	These work.
	All U.S. agencies work. All U.S. agencies work.
	I just don't have a comment.
	We're all U.S. agencies.
	We're all U.S. agencies.
	There's a need for a rescue mission.
	When the world is threatened, the world needs help.
	It calls on America.
	And that's the story.
	I mean, even the Republicans on the other side don't really know what the guy's talking about.
	And could we take him at their word, listen, we're talking about our grandkids and he's asking me about my husband.
	Could that possibly be true?
	The most obvious explanation, and probably the right one, is Bill Clinton is a really social guy.
	A lot of conspiracy theories that somehow this is Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch about clearing Hillary Clinton.
	I think the issue is, again, what is my role in how that matter is going to be resolved?
	And so let me be clear on how that is going to be resolved.
	The former president steps into her plane.
	They then speak for 30 minutes privately.
	The FBI there on the tarmac instructing everybody around.
	No photos, no pictures, no cell phones.
	They happen to be at the same tarmac at the same time.
	A lot of conspiracy theories.
	And could we take him that they're worthless and we're talking about our grandkids and he's asking me about my husband?
	Could that possibly be true?
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Adios, mofo.
	In the morning, then.
	Busted.

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