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Oh!
What?
No.
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Sunday, July 31st, 2016, and this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode 847.
This is No Agenda.
There's trouble brewing in NATO land, and we're broadcasting live from the airstream of consciousness in Texas Hill Country, in the Drone Star State, FEMA Region 6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I have no idea why he's in the trailer, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning.
Well...
I love calling it a trailer.
And thank you because my daughter, who was with me, is also calling it a trailer.
It's caught on.
It's a trailer, but it just happens to be an expensive one.
It's a pretty one.
A fancy one.
It's a fancy trailer.
Yeah, no, Christina's visiting from Holland.
Yeah, you told us this in the last show.
Right, so she arrived and she's like, Dad, I want to go camping.
We never went camping when I was a kid.
Oh, she's trying to get you to do stuff that you didn't do when you were her dad.
No, we're doing fun things together we can do today.
Is she around?
She's out walking now.
I was going to warn her.
For what?
She's just in the woods in a trailer.
This is not a big deal.
Oh, you're so nice, John.
Yeah, so we decided to pick up the Airstream of Consciousness and...
Well, you might as well use it.
You got it.
You got it, flaunt it.
Exactly.
And the acoustics are better than my studio at home for some reason.
Okay, I've never noticed this, but...
Yeah, I get a lot of comments about it.
I apparently sound better in there.
Yes, you sound so much better today in the airstream of consciousness.
I guess my voice is meant to be listened to in a trailer for all the No Agenda listeners.
But we also picked an interesting time to drive out here.
We are probably three miles from Lockhart, Texas.
Which is where that balloon came down yesterday.
Oh, three miles.
Yeah.
So you almost got hit.
No, not almost.
What a day wrecker that is, huh?
Balloon, man.
Balloon.
Those things are dangerous.
Yeah, I've been in a balloon three times in my life, and not a single time did I feel very comfortable.
I think the last time, after I had my pilot's license at that point, I really didn't feel comfortable.
Well, I had been in a balloon twice, and I wasn't comfortable the first time.
And then I'd come...
This is one of those Napa Valley balloon rides.
Yeah, I've done that one.
It doesn't even land right.
It just hits kind of sideways and bounces and bounces and bounces.
No, landing in a balloon is known as controlled crashing, is what that is.
Yes.
Unless, which happened to me, you get a ride with the National Balloon.
Balloon champion, world class guy.
Oh yeah, they know how to...
In Switzerland.
So we go up as high as 10,000 feet.
Did you do that?
Oh yeah.
So did they have oxygen?
No, 10,000 you can still breathe.
No, you're fine at 10,000 feet.
But what's interesting is this guy can...
I don't know how he...
He looks at the mountains and he can visualize...
How to drive this thing.
So he goes to a certain altitude and he knows it's going to push him west.
Then he drops to another altitude and he knows it's going to push him south.
He just sees this.
That's what all balloon pilots do.
Yeah, not to this extreme.
No, no.
He'll go maybe 10, 20 feet and he'll catch a different airstream and then he'll float.
You can actually go east and all of a sudden you're going west.
These guys do know what they're doing.
So we go into the Alps, and then we come out, and then we head toward Gestalt, and then we go.
And so there's a spot we're going to land, because one of the guys I was with jumped out of the balloon at about 5,000 feet.
What?
Yes.
Well, he had a parachute on it.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Parachuted down to the truck that carried the balloon in, and he just took off in the truck to meet us where we're going to land.
And now this guy's bringing the balloon down to land it, and I'm saying, oh, here we go.
Now he kissed the ground, I'll bet.
He just kissed it.
He not only kissed the ground perfectly, and he said, okay, don't move.
Actually, now he was controlling the landing after the landing.
Right.
So we're all, he's down, it's flat.
Nothing was the damnedest thing you've ever seen.
Just lands it and boom, nothing.
So, okay, don't move.
And then he says, okay, now he points to one of, there's three of us in there.
He says, okay, you can get out, get out here.
And then the guy gets out and the thing just maybe just wiggles a little bit.
And he gets everybody out this way because he didn't want the balloon to move an inch.
And we all got out and then he just deflated the thing and that was that.
I would say, now if all balloon rides were like that, hey, go for it.
But I don't think, I've never noticed that this is not the norm.
But I think what happened, and I've just been reading, you know, there's no preliminary yet from NTSB, but it appears that their propane exploded.
Oh, that's why that gag was.
I didn't know that because somebody was pointing out they had a screenshot of the story and there was a propane advertisement.
Wow.
Hey, that artificial intelligence machine learning is working out great, isn't it?
That's probably exactly where it came from.
Some machine read the article and saw the word propane and figured it was the perfect time to drop an ad.
That's horrible.
It's horrible.
We've also seen the Cirrus, which is the carbon fiber single engine aircraft that has a ballistic parachute.
Which I'm kind of against that because I think it breeds complacency.
Like, eh, if I run out of gas, I can always pull the chute.
And this one guy pulled the chute and his engine was on fire.
Now what you are supposed to do is you are supposed to go into a dive and there's certain levers you pull and you open up your ducts and you try to basically blow the flames out.
He didn't do that.
He pulled his chute and they burned up while floating down to earth.
That's stupid.
Ah, yes.
That's terrible.
Another day wrecker.
And then last night, there was, for a moment, an active shooter on 6th Street in Austin.
Can you believe that?
One person killed, four wounded?
Got out of town.
What's interesting is, I woke up this morning, and I must have had ten text messages from people overseas.
You okay?
Are you okay?
Yeah?
People hear of a shooter.
I shot one guy, the likelihood of it being you is almost zero.
How many people live in that town?
I'm just saying, people are concerned.
But that also shows you when people hear stuff like this, 6th Street in Austin on a Saturday night, a lot of stuff happens there.
This is not a good one, of course.
So yeah, so I'm okay.
But forget all that.
Although severely underreported, currently there are about 7,000 Turkish troops and civilians surrounding Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.
Which is where we are with the US forces on that base.
Oh, this would be good.
No, it's not going to be good.
And the civilians, they're all antsy and crazy.
There's some video coming through now and they're all standing around and maybe we should rush the base, which seems like a very bad idea.
Rush the base.
Wow.
But right now we have Erdogan saying, hey, what's up NATO? NATO, led by the U.S., was responsible for this coup.
That is what he is now saying.
I told you this wasn't over.
This is not Erdogan doing it himself.
I didn't get a clip of this, but RT went with some guy who's some...
He's somebody big, but now they're claiming it was a combo effort between the CIA and the FBI. As soon as they ran that story, which I didn't clip because it was too long, I said, Adam!
It was your story.
What I understand, and they have thrown, let's see, they've removed Okay, so what I understand, this was, as we kind of already expected, a CIA-based operation.
And we know that, of course, because they run Fethullah Gulen, who was sitting up there in the Poconos.
Now, I still think it was CIA with a warning.
Well, it was a warning shot.
Let's just say it was CIA. But there's this, let me see, U.S. General has been kicked out.
Let's see, that's Joseph Foto, and then the EU comm general, David Haight, H-A-I-G-H-T. He has been just kicked out of the military for...
Allegations he had misused government resources while having an extramarital affair.
So, none of the stories talk about the misuse of government resources, but the extramarital affair?
Oh yeah, you're out.
So, I'm sure that there were operatives within our military who participated in this.
But it's obviously odd when, you know, Turkey is a NATO country and Erdogan is now saying, hey, NATO's not my friend, they're attacking us.
So we can be all upset about, you know, Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Let's give this a couple of weeks and see what happens.
I don't think this is a couple of weeks, John.
These civilians are in their cars, you know, just circled around the whole base, which has nukes, of course.
So no one's going to come onto that base.
We won't let that happen, but this feels a little tinderbox-ish, if you don't mind me saying.
Nobody was playing anything, including the strike that was reported in most of the European...
There's another round of these strikes in Syria that just more or less killed nothing but civilians.
And I think you played this clip before, or this is incorporated.
A clip you played before was incorporated in this, but it was pretty good.
This is from RT. It's Gaia.
Yes, we love Gaia.
And by the way, I got an ISO you can play.
This is how you pronounce this woman's name that we keep talking about.
Ina Chichakan.
Hold on.
I went a little too fast.
Try it again.
Yeah, I'm a little too fast, man.
Hold on.
Ina Chichakan.
Gaina Chichakan.
Yeah.
Gaya Chichakan.
Gaya is something.
It's unbelievable.
Try it again.
Gayan Chichakan.
Ina Chichakan.
You know, Matt Lee, our favorite journalist from...
Yeah, he tweeted you telling you that you had to buy him a beer for some reason.
I didn't understand what that was about.
No, because I've been tweeting him for a while, and someone actually tweeted him and said, hey man, don't you miss Marie Harf?
And one of our people.
And he replied saying, oh yeah, more than you know.
And so I came back and I said, oh, you know, man, you guys made such a cute couple.
Beautiful.
And I reiterated because we had already agreed that he would come and have a beer if he came to Austin.
I said, well, you've just been upgraded to beer and barbecue.
How do we get on that topic?
Maybe he'll come to Austin one of these days.
Oh, he will.
I don't see any reason.
No, he will.
He will, he will, he will.
I don't think so.
And then I'll get the inside scoop on Gaia.
That's right.
That's all I care about.
I don't care about the State Department.
I want to talk about Gaia.
Do you have a clip from her that we're going to play here?
I do.
I have...
Let's see what it says.
Too many clips.
Yeah, I agree.
It has to do with the...
50 civilian deaths is okay.
Ah, yes.
This is the...
This was the calculus that they made, how many civilians would die.
Within this is that press conference that has Kirby going off on Guyana again.
Oh, good, good, good.
One official telling CNN the U.S. was willing to risk up to 50 civilian casualties in this area to get the building, to destroy the building.
Well, the building mentioned was said to be an ISIL cash vault in Iraq.
Following reports, the Pentagon was prepared to risk civilian lives.
The State Department admitted there was a certain, quote, calculus involved, but did not give any further details.
Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof believes the policies allowed to happen because not enough people know it exists.
Not enough people know it exists?
This guy, I had clipped the whole thing, obviously.
I do have the clip of a guy in.
I don't know why that's not there.
The guy makes the claim.
He's Maloof.
He's an ex-Pentagon or State Department guy.
And he says, nobody knows, nobody's really talked about this on the mainstream media so that they don't know it exists, so they can't put any pressure on the government to stop it because it's essentially...
Exactly, yeah.
It's, for all practical purposes, a...
We can kill a bunch of civilians and that's just tough.
Too bad.
No, it's better than that.
We calculated we might kill some civilians.
Up to 50 are acceptable, they said.
Well, of course, they're just humans.
Yeah, what about you?
Please.
Where's the other clip?
Let's see if I can find it.
A Gaia clip?
Let me see what I got here.
I do have a kind of a...
It might actually be good to start it off, but I need to talk about something else.
Do you have the other Gaia clip?
I'm looking.
Okay.
Well, you can play this one in the meantime.
This is a clip from the convention.
Look while you're playing this.
This is a clip from the convention.
Nobody really played that big.
It's apparently, I think, if I'm not mistaken, I have it in my notes somewhere.
Let's see if I've got this guy's name in here.
I have a lot of notes.
I've got a note thing to do.
Emmanuel Cleaver.
Yeah, this is Emmanuel Cleaver or Clever.
And he is one of the...
I don't know that they knew he was a preacher.
I think he's a congressman or something, or one of those state representatives.
They pulled those guys out of the woodwork for this convention.
State Assemblywoman for Arizona Assembly kind of thing.
And this guy was one of them, and I don't know that they knew he was a preacher, because he does this preaching thing, which is a very formulaic black preacher, and he's talking very normally until he gets to the end, and this is what he goes into, and nobody's really played this clip at all.
While you were talking, I was trying to figure out which clip it is.
I cannot find it.
Oh, I'm sorry.
She won't stay throwed.
Ah, okay.
Gotcha.
And that baby grew up, created a tumult.
They put him in a grave, and three days later, the world knew he wouldn't stay thrown.
Now, here's a warning to those who might be tempted to spend the next four years trying to knock Hillary Clinton down.
You better get ready for a woman who won't stay thrown.
They threw her down as the First Lady, but she didn't stay through.
They threw her down as a U.S. Senator, but she wouldn't stay through.
They threw her down as a Secretary of State, but she wouldn't stay through.
They threw her down in this very campaign, this campaign, but she won't stay through.
No, she ain't gonna stay through.
She won't stay through.
She won't stay through.
You better listen to me.
I said she won't.
Stay through.
Damn.
Yeah, I did see him.
I thought it was hilarious.
Yeah.
Classic.
And I don't think, I don't know what they were thinking.
I thought they were supposed to, I'm sure when they read it, they read the speech.
Oh, it sounds, yeah, of course, it reads very different when you put it in a sedentary type voice.
It reads a lot different than it's presented.
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.
Well, I have a...
I have that clip, by the way.
Oh, yeah, okay, all right.
U.S. airstrikes on Thursday.
Ah, okay.
Syria's foreign ministry has urged the United Nations to condemn U.S.-led airstrikes on Thursday, which it says left 45 civilians dead and 50 injured.
In a letter sent to the U.N., Syria compared the bombings to atrocities committed by Islamic State.
You know, I just noticed something as I'm listening to that.
We've become so, I will say, somewhat desensitized that when you hear 45 dead, you're like, oh man, but then you hear 50 wounded, whatever.
Whereas, you know, these 50 wounded could have, you know, their heads hanging by a thread.
Do you have that?
I'm like, oh, 50 wounded, you know, but you don't really think about what those wounds are.
No, you think they're the lucky ones.
Trades on a town held by ISIL came less than two weeks after another coalition airstrike is said to have killed dozens of civilians.
Here's Guyana Chichican.
Chichican.
U.S. Central Command said late on Thursday it had, I'm quoting here, initiated an assessment following internal operational reporting that a strike today near Mount Beach, Syria, may have resulted in civilian casualties, end quote.
Again, this is U.S. reaction to the latest strike on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the U.S. said there was sufficient credible evidence of civilian deaths in another strike, which the U.S. carried out last Monday, also near the city of Mon Beach.
It reportedly killed dozens.
So the U.S. is now investigating civilian casualties in a number of U.S. strikes in Syria that happened in less than two weeks.
Last week, when I asked the State Department whether the U.S. thought the strike in Monbeach last Monday was a mistake, State Department's John Kirby seemed visibly irritated with my question.
The U.S. strike that reportedly killed around 20 civilians in the ISIL-held city of Monbeach in Syria.
Was it a mistake on Monday?
That's another great accusatory question you've asked here.
No other military works as hard as ours.
None.
No other military in the world to prevent civilian casualties.
And when they happen, again, I'll say it again because apparently it didn't sink in the first time.
When it happens, we investigate it fully and completely.
And then we're transparent about it.
And then we take the lessons learned and we try to prevent it from happening again.
Just to be clear, one...
Is one too many.
While State Department's John Kirby says the U.S. views one civilian casualty as too many, we see reports from Syria saying U.S. strikes killed dozens.
The U.S. acknowledges that the strikes happened.
It is now assessing how many civilians, it estimates, may have died in those strikes.
So, we played parts of those clips, I think it was two shows ago.
Since you brought it back up, let me play the Barbara Starr, who's from CNN, the Pentagon reporter.
I think this is it.
And this is what she reported in January or February.
One official telling CNN the U.S. was willing to risk up to 50 civilian casualties in this area to get the building, to destroy the building.
So, it was known...
We didn't catch that back in the day, I have to say.
No.
But Kirby is such a dick.
There's a million ways he can play it.
Of course, yeah, he's a super dick.
He plays it like, you know, he was a Navy Admiral, I believe.
And he, although I don't know how much he actually...
He was the spokeshole for, he was in public affairs.
He's the spokeshole for DOD is what he was.
He has this kind of...
I've run into this.
You run into bosses.
There's different ways of doing management.
And one of the things you can do, the most irritating is these kinds of bosses that say stuff like, I guess it didn't sink in.
Oh, yeah.
That's very annoying.
Crazy accusations.
I remember one of these boss types when I was working for a living.
And they do stuff that was, for some reason, it was always galling when they put something at the bottom, like, at the end of the, like a memo, and say, a word to the wise.
Ugh!
That kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's what Kirby is.
He's one of those guys.
And he's not the boss of them.
Which makes it even worse.
No, he's just one of those guys.
It's not just, you have to be a 24-hour dick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Show title, show title, 24-hour dick.
Let me write that down.
Now, we have a lot to discuss about the last evening of the DNC, but I just wanted to bring something up, and I know you'll get it, and you'll have to help me explain it, because not everyone has had the experiences we have, but I was watching Trump...
And I don't even think I clipped this because it was on TV everywhere, where he did his press conference and he said, you know what?
Everywhere I go, I hear people say, lock her up.
And I said, first, let's beat her in November.
But I'm starting to agree with you.
The gloves are off.
What do you say, people?
The gloves are off.
I'm sure you saw that.
I did see that.
And I was watching him and then it hit me.
And maybe I'm late to the party.
Maybe this is very obvious to everybody, but...
I know this guy.
Then I'll explain.
John, you've been...
In fact, when I came back to Europe in the end of 99, just before the Y2K, for a while there, I was the prodigal son.
You're all going to die.
I had taken a company public, and I was the guru.
I remember reading about you in...
We met in 92 or 93, but I was in Europe floating around.
I think I may have been passing through Holland.
But I was reading about you around 2000 in a newspaper article about how...
It was unbelievable.
I said, what?
It was like you'd turn into this superstar entrepreneur and there's a picture of you on some computer or something.
It was on and on.
The most fawning piece I've ever read.
I said, wow, I didn't realize this guy.
Because you moved back to Europe.
You were in the United States for a while.
And I said, holy crap, I should get a hold of this guy.
Yeah, which is, I think, kind of how we met.
And I remember very well what you said to me the first time.
Hey man, what's your deal?
What are you?
No, wait!
Wait, wait, wait!
No, wait!
I remember exactly.
Hey man, what's your deal?
Are you rich or do people hate you for no good reason?
Something like that.
Well, that's how it came across.
I can imagine how it came across.
Well, anyway, so for a couple of years there, I was kind of invited into the elite circles in the Netherlands.
And when I say elite, I mean very wealthy people.
I'm not saying rich, I'm talking wealthy people.
Yeah, big difference.
Yes.
And politicians, and those go hand in hand.
It's very, very creepy to see when you're in some rich dude's house and the prime minister is on a 10-speed bike driving through his house.
I mean, there's odd things that I've seen.
And that's really when I first started to realize, oh man, this is effed up here at the top.
So for a while I was there.
And so we'd attend functions or parties, whatever, and I know that you have met this type of person.
A rich person, not wealthy, rich.
Now rich can be $100 million.
That's not wealthy.
That's just rich.
And a lot of these rich people who were at these parties, they started a supermarket chain.
Now they had 50 supermarkets or 100.
They started a sportswear clothing company.
Or they had construction companies.
And these people are...
They are accepted into these elite circles, but they're never really accepted, only because they have money.
And after a while, from the outside, it looks like they're just a part of it.
But these people are typically very gruff.
Yes.
I'm going to just interrupt for a second.
Yeah, that's what I need you to do, because you know what I'm saying, right?
This is what Bloomberg...
And I did have the Bloomberg thing clicked.
I don't know if we played it or not.
Do you have it for today?
It was in the last show.
You have to look it up.
I'll find it.
You talk.
I'll find it.
Bloomberg.
This is exactly what Bloomberg, who is wealthy...
And he's a mogul and he's got all these things going on in a certain kind of a wealthy way as opposed to just a rich a-hole.
This is exactly what Bloomberg accused Trump of.
He said that Trump is hated by all the other billionaires in New York.
They hate him.
They don't even know who he is.
He's meaningless.
Of course they know who he is, but they allow these guys in because they have, often it's media connections, sometimes they're a little exciting, they are the ones that have the crazy ass car, the great plane, they wear all their wealth on the outside.
But like my friend Michelle, he has nightclubs, he's got strip clubs, and Michelle can barely write!
He can barely read.
I mean, for all intents.
And I say that, Michelle, you're a complete moron.
He said, I know, but I'm good at what I do and I can count.
No problem counting.
And this is what Trump is.
And when he was up there saying, Gloves are off!
This guy is a builder.
I went into his history, although a lot of it's kind of well-known and discussed, but when you go back to his grandfather, who started in Seattle, of all places, building hotels and kind of quote-unquote brothels.
When there's a gold rush, you can either be looking for gold or you can sell the picks and shovels.
And it seems like the Trump...
Formerly Drumpf and at some point Trumpf and then Trump.
They are the pick and shovels guys.
And when you listen to Trump, he is a builder.
He talks like a builder.
And the builder is just another construction guy.
It's very blue collar.
Except he's the guy that can communicate with contractors.
And builders are very good at borrowing money and leveraging.
And that's what he is.
And that's what he'll always be.
So no wonder...
Thank you.
The blue-collar workers of America, whether you're in a factory or whether you're in construction, they hear a guy talking like they hear on the building site every single day.
He's talking their language.
And it may seem completely obvious to everybody, but all of a sudden I realize, oh my god, I know this kind of guy.
And there's always kind of a dark edge.
And the guys they hang out with is boxing promoters, ultimate fighting champion league owners.
It's their people.
It's who they hang out with.
Yeah, it's not hanging out with the Boeing CEO. No, but from the outside, all we see, and the way he's being portrayed, is this incredibly rich, a-hole, crazy guy, where really, he's the kid that, okay, he certainly did not come from a poor family, but not a wealthy family, a rich family, and his dad built up All these apartment buildings in Coney Island and Queens.
And he said, I'm going to go try my luck in Manhattan.
So he's really a builder boy from Queens who made it big in Manhattan.
And he does what all these types of...
And I'm not denigrating this type of person.
But he shows his wealth on the outside.
What he does is what he likes.
But there, I think, a large majority...
Not just a majority, but a large majority...
Of the United States is like him.
And all we're hearing is the elitist media from the coasts who of course don't understand him.
They didn't grow up under him.
I only understand it because I've met so many people like him and it just hit me like, oh, I know.
I haven't been a builder.
I haven't been in construction.
You know, summer job maybe here or there.
So, you know, you can recognize it.
But that is something you've got to keep in mind.
And I think that's...
The danger is that if...
I don't know if there's a danger.
I don't know if there's a danger at all.
No.
Not a danger, but I think there's a danger to the Clinton campaign.
If they don't really fully grasp this, which I don't think they do, they may really miss the boat.
Because that's why you can't target this guy with calling him names.
They don't give a crap about that.
Don't.
Just don't.
I kind of had to preface that, because once you keep that in mind, it's like, oh, okay.
But even wealthy people have this, I'll call it an affliction.
Like, I'm sure your buddy Hurst, to a degree, is like this.
There is a...
Who's a Democrat, by the way?
Well, there's that, yeah.
Well, I think traditionally, blue-collar workers have been Democrats.
Well, Hearst is not a blue-collar worker.
No, but I'm just saying.
Traditionally, blue-collar workers have been Democrats because the Democrats supported the unions.
But as we played that clip about a month ago, the guy wrote that book about what happened to the liberals, the liberal politicians.
They're all in for the white collar.
They're in for the guys who work at the banks.
You're a banker?
Then we're for you.
Was that Thomas Frank?
Was that the guy?
Maybe.
The Democratic Party, the sort of leadership faction of the Democratic Party, isn't really, at their core, bothered by inequality.
They think that, to a certain degree, it reflects the way things ought to be.
This is because the leadership of the Democratic Party is not who we think they are.
It's a different group of people serving a different agenda than their brand identity tells us they And you describe them as pretty much the opposite of the working class, the blue-collar workers in this country.
Yeah, that's not who they're interested in anymore.
I mean, once upon a time, you say they're Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson or something like that.
Yes, absolutely, that's what the Democratic Party was about.
They were about the middle class of this country.
Today they are about the professional, managerial, highly educated, white-collar, affluent, suburban class.
That's who they identify with.
They've sort of developed this enormous literature talking about how this class of people is at the pinnacle of history.
This is also the class that they themselves are drawn from.
They talk about these people all the time, and they see that this group of winners is the ultimate, the sort of number one democratic constituency.
They think that that class of people deserves to be where they are.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what's going on.
Yeah, I'll pop that clip back in.
And, you know, so when you see Hillary Clinton, and I found her speech to be very, almost sedentary.
It was kind of boring.
It was very boring.
She went into that kind of weird look that she puts on when she gives her stilted speech.
And if we can play another clip that's a past clip, not that this is a clip show, if you can play the clip, and this If you can find it, I should ask for it.
Do you have the clip where she's talking over herself at the same time?
What would you have titled that?
That's your clip.
You're the one that made it up.
Where she's talking over herself?
You found...
Oh, the mix.
Okay.
The mix.
While you're looking for that, let me set it up.
I was actually astonished by this particular clip because...
And you heard it again when she gave her speech at the keynote.
And what was funny as a...
I don't know if I have any clips worth playing, but Chelsea Clinton gave a speech that was so robotic and slow-moving.
And in fact, I took some notes on it.
And she'd do a couple of...
I think I do have a Chelsea clip.
Maybe we should play this again.
She says...
Constantly referring to her mother.
And mom, never, ever.
And she'd say, never, ever.
And she'd say it in a very robotic-like way.
And she'd do it over and over.
I first picked it up about the third or fourth time she said, never, ever.
As it was, you know, some...
I don't know what the point of it was, to be honest about it.
Do you have my Chelsea clip here?
Chelsea, never going...
Here, it says Chessie.
I got it.
How does she do it?
How does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics?
Here's how.
It's because she never, ever forgets who she's fighting for.
Never, ever.
She is...
Oh, Chelsea was so great.
Listen to the thing, audio, don't look at her.
And it's so slow.
Let's listen again.
I think she's on Paxil, to be honest about it.
Sorry?
There's certain things you can...
If you're not used to talking to a monster's crowd, the doctors can give you drugs.
And it sounds to me that this is Paxil.
How did she do it?
How does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics?
Here's how.
It's because she never, ever forgets who she's fighting for.
Yeah, it's interesting you say that because she seemed, yeah, she was either very calm and very good at it, Because it's hard to be calm when you're doing that kind of a speech.
I don't know.
Paxil, is that what you say?
Paxil.
Yeah, I think Paxil's the one that's recommended.
Yeah, I think I have the ISO mix of the two Hillary's.
Okay, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
I didn't get to finish the explanation.
Okay.
This is two different speeches that Adam, because of this cadence thing that Hillary has.
She's very robotic, just like her daughter apparently is, who has been trained.
And these are two different speeches that Adam has taken and just overlaid one over the other.
This is not an echo effect.
This is the two separate things put together.
I don't know if I have the long one, but this is the short one just so you can hear her tagline.
I have faith in the American people that they will make the right choice here.
That's two different interviews with exactly the same cadence.
Exactly the same cadence.
The same stuff between the words, the same spacing.
It's outrageous.
I did pick up just a short little thing here I want to play since we're talking about these people being robots.
This is more proof that Hillary is not a human.
Hold on.
Okay.
Here we go.
We need Hillary Clinton because she doesn't sleep.
She doesn't what?
Sweep?
She doesn't sleep.
She doesn't sleep.
Now we know she doesn't sweat.
We know she does not sweat.
Apparently she doesn't sleep either.
Come on.
Robot.
Yeah, actually we have that proof here.
What's the weirdest thing about you?
The weirdest thing about me is that I don't sweat.
There you go.
If you had a clip or she admits it.
It's from, geez, that's from October 15, 2015.
That's how long ago we actually had a clip of it.
Yeah, we knew about it a lot longer than that.
Well, there was, of course, a lot of fawning and fun stuff after the closing of the Democratic convention.
Oh, and by the way, everyone saw the gifs and the memes of the Clintons with the balloons and, of course, the one where Hillary does that crazy, crazy look.
Yeah, that was wild.
Well, no, it's not.
You just have to take into consideration she was putting on an act the entire time.
Because if you're an adult, and you're running for president, and you're at your convention, and balloons fall down, you are not actually that surprised.
Oh!
What?
No.
You know what's happening.
You know they're coming down.
And that face she made is because she's, like, we're children.
Oh, look at the blues, children!
So it was all an act as far as I'm concerned.
And Bill doesn't even hold her hand.
He clasps her wrist or something.
Like, don't leave, hold on.
They're not even holding hands.
It's a farce.
It is a farce.
Total farce.
It's a farce.
It's a perfect word.
It's really...
Now, let's play a couple of clips with analysis from your mainstream media.
This is NPR. I believe this is Lisa Desjardins, who is the new...
The new kid on the block when it comes to political reporting for PBS NewsHour.
NPR NewsHour.
No, not NPR, but NPR was doing a joint deal with them on this.
Yeah, they got a joint going on.
This dropped.
Lisa, let's follow up on that, this whole question of trust.
It's not just likability, it's trust.
And as Juana says, a majority of Americans' polls show don't actually trust her.
Can she convince them otherwise?
Did she go some way to convincing them last night?
Or is she just sort of leaving that issue on the table and attacking on a different front?
I think they are nodding toward that issue.
They recognize that issue.
But what the Democrats have been doing with this convention, what Hillary Clinton was trying to do last night, was to change the question.
You know, to ask a different question, and several questions.
One of them, the largest one probably, was national security.
And we saw from Republicans on Twitter reacting, saying...
I'm hearing things in this speech tonight.
I'm hearing about patriotism.
I'm hearing about the Founding Fathers.
I'm hearing a vision for America that reminds me of the way we used to talk.
Dick Cheney's former spokesperson said he was in his kitchen crying, wondering, how am I weeping at a speech by Hillary Clinton?
And he said, what has happened to my party?
Oh, shit!
I like that one, though.
I thought it was some pretty good propaganda right there.
I can see Cheney crying.
My ass.
Well, it was Cheney's...
It wasn't Cheney.
It was Cheney's PR person, or was it?
I found that...
In fact, Mark Shields, I believe, said it was disgusting the last day of the convention because it was...
There were literally waving flags.
They had millions...
And they were mostly actors because they refused to let the Bernie people back into the convention and they wouldn't let anyone walk out.
Not only that.
They locked the doors.
They locked them in.
If there was a fire, there would have been deaths.
And so they turned off the lights in the auditorium where Bernie supporters had left.
But they also had white noise machines behind those sections.
No, we've looked at that.
Oh, that wasn't a white noise machine?
No, that was a Wi-Fi repeater.
Oh, okay.
You went to look at it?
Good, good, I'm good.
I went to look at the real...
I actually have one of those antennas.
I know exactly what they...
I thought it was...
I went to look at white noise generators.
They're all bigger and they're round.
Okay, alright, good.
Then we're cool on that.
It takes a couple big speakers to make them work.
But, the disdain from the media towards the Bernie supporters...
Except for Democracy Now.
Well, let's play that first, and then I'll play...
Did you have something?
Yeah, I got a couple of things here.
This should be the woman...
No, no, no.
I'll start off, and then...
Yeah, you play yours, and I'll dig up mine.
Okay, so here's Don Lemon.
And I have two clips from Don Lemon.
But he not only, because he has a couple of Bernie supporters, and pretty much across the board you saw mainstream reporting saying, you guys should shut up.
Hillary was your nominee, you should shut up.
He's telling everyone to shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up.
You gotta shut up, shut up.
Shut up, slave!
And here's what Lemon said, channeling our current president while he was doing it.
Have some dignity.
If you come to someone else's house, show some respect.
I was thinking the same thing about Bernie Sanders supporters tonight.
If you didn't feel like this was your party, why come to the party?
Come to the party.
If you come to the party, if you come into my house.
Don't be rude.
43% of the house is there.
It doesn't matter.
No, that's not the case.
The nominee is Hillary Clinton.
And you're going to Hillary Clinton's party tonight.
So get on board with Hillary Clinton or be quiet.
If I invite you to my house, sit on the couch, have some drinks, but don't come in my house telling me that the drapery is ugly.
So where have we heard that you're in my house before?
Hey, listen.
Hey, you're in my house.
Hey.
Shame on you.
Shame on you.
Wow.
Yeah.
Douche.
I'll give you a clip of Borderline.
I'll take a Borderline.
That's a good thing.
And then just for Jolly's, just really for you and me, because some of the stuff that's said here is just so funny, because I think we both agree that Don Lemon is really a douche extraordinaire.
So it's now 2.30 in the morning, and he's still doing this stupid show.
It's crazy.
It's like 2.30 in the morning.
CNN barely gets 300,000 people watching in primetime.
Okay, so it's 2.30 in the morning, and he has this panel, and they're all tired, and they're punchy, and they're talking over one another.
And all of a sudden, behind Lemon, Triumph, the insult comic dog, appears over his shoulder.
Triumph!
Triumph, you're not part of the political dream team.
That's what he calls his panel, the political dream team.
Yeah, okay.
Lemon, it's a political dream team because it only appears to be a dream team in your dreams.
Triumph, you're not part of the political dream team.
Did you watch the speech tonight?
I watched the speech.
Speaking of dreaming, I fell asleep only a couple of times.
What's that?
It's not the right guy doing his voice.
No, it is the right guy, but it was 2.30 for him.
Then he lost it a bit.
Yeah, he lost a lot, actually.
You know who was really the dream candidate?
Who?
Hillary's dream vice...
They're calling Tim Kaine Hillary's dream vice president because if he talks for 30 seconds, you enter a REM state.
But now Lemon, his body language, everything.
And the guy's got the puppet right over his shoulder and the cigar keeps falling on Lemon's suit.
He's annoyed and pissed off because he's Don Lemon, I tell you.
Don Lemon is a serious man.
Why do you keep dropping your cigar?
Guys, there's a lot of stuff going on here!
Pay attention!
Pay attention!
Now he's yelling at the crowd.
No!
Nobody!
Nobody pays attention to Don Lemon!
Don Lemon is an overnight legend!
I love that.
Don Lemon is an overnight legend.
Now, those of us who have worked in radio particularly know that if you're the overnight guy, you're the bottom of the rung.
You're the loser.
You're the loser of the team.
Loser of the team.
He's an overnight legend.
Kevin is an overnight legend.
Oh, my God.
Lay on my.
I have called down.
Where's your cigar?
Finally, you're getting the respect you deserve.
Did you have rabies or something?
What is going on with you?
All right.
I just thought...
Okay, I got to...
Here's the clip.
This is the Brexit girl.
There's a new chant, which I thought was very creative.
And there's a girl walking...
And this is the outside the convention hall.
And this was only covered by Democracy Now!
Hell no, DSP! We won't vote for Hillary!
Hell no, DSP! We vowed to come here as Democrats but to basically leave the party and no longer, you know, affiliate ourselves with the party afterwards.
Now, there was a number, I'd lost the rest of this clip, but they went on to go through this crowd, and I'll tell you a couple of things that went on.
One was, everybody was irked about not getting, one woman went on, she said, I never got my credentials.
I was a Bernie delegate, and they never let me in, ever.
Oh, really?
And they kept most of the people out, and then the ones who did get in, they roused, they took their credentials away.
700 of them, at least, lost their credentials for the last day during the Hillary thing.
And that's beside that little video that was going around, the tweeter and on Facebook with this girl saying, look at all these seats.
They're blocked off, so we can't sit down.
They won't let us sit down.
And you can see that this was before the thing started.
She showed the whole convention center with all these little white sheets on these seats.
And those are the ones where they were blocked off for actors.
Now, do you have any details on the actor thing?
How many actors were there?
I mean...
It looks like there were about 700 or 800, maybe 1,000, but whatever it was, which would cost them $50,000.
Because it was 50 bucks an act.
That's what they were offering.
So this woman, this girl that was doing the report, she's the one who brought up the thing saying there was a white noise generation.
That wasn't true.
What they did is that they, in fact, I have one of these examples.
You can kind of hear it when John Allen came up.
John Allen was the worst speaker ever.
Oh, he's ever, ever.
He was, oh, he is so good.
And all he was doing was doing an act.
It seemed to me he was doing, I have three clips from Allen, let's play them.
One of them is, this is him being a World Wrestling Federation guy, clip one, just screaming at the audience because they're yelling, no more war up in the corner.
To those!
To those!
To those acting against peace, acting against civilization in the world order, we will oppose you.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Did he say acting against civilization in the world order?
Something like that.
But again, I don't know quite what he was talking about.
To our enemies, we will pursue you as only America can.
You will fear us.
This is a wrestler.
That's fantastic.
This is a wrestler.
I mean, this could be Hulk Hogan.
Here he goes off a little more.
America will continue to lead this volatile world.
We will oppose and resist tyranny, and we will defeat evil.
America will defeat ISIS and protect the homeland Okie doke.
You guys are nuts.
Yeah.
Now, I do have the one, John Allen, I think there's just another clip here from him.
Yeah, I have No More War.
Yeah, now this one here, you want to listen, you'll hear, and anyone who saw, followed, I retweeted this on Twitter, which was the little memo that went out to telling people, if the Bernie people start chanting this, you chant that.
And when they...
Sorry.
Wait, wait, stop.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
So when they stand, no more war, no more war, the audience is the ones that aren't Bernie supporters.
Some Bernie guys got in there, because you can tell them because they were all wearing a Dayglo shirt.
Yeah, and they were easy to see when the lights went off.
Yeah, when the lights went off, they glowed.
Because I guess there was enough blue light in the darkness.
Anyway, when they chant, no more war, which they were doing all during John Allen's speech, which is why he was yelling so much, you're supposed to yell...
They had a counter chant.
Like a little cheat sheet.
Hillary, or USA, USA, no more war, USA. And so they do it at the same time, the same cadence, and you can drown them out.
If you listen carefully to this clip, and I don't know how well it comes through over the Skype, or what we're doing here...
You'll hear the No More War chant.
You can hear a little bit, and then the other people pick it up and drown them out.
So we stand before you tonight to endorse Hillary Clinton for the president of the United States of America.
We trust in her judgment.
APPLAUSE We trust in her judgment.
We believe in her vision for a united America.
We believe in her vision of an America as a just and strong leader against the forces of hatred, the forces of chaos and darkness.
We know that she, as no other, knows how to use all instruments of American power, not just the military, to keep us all safe and free.
My fellow Americans.
Yeah, the USA is drowning it out, but you can definitely hear it in the background.
Yeah.
This guy was a lunatic.
He was also involved in the Petraeus affair, if you remember.
He was the one having sex, I think, also with the reporter.
He had a Yeah, that's right.
It was like a triangle thing going on that was weird.
Right, this guy's a complete douchebag.
Yeah.
And I think Trump called him out as a failed...
He was responsible for some of the Afghanistan crap.
Or Iraq, maybe.
I'm not sure.
I don't remember the details of his complaint, but I found that to be a very interesting moment at this convention.
Well, after the fact that we know about these cheat sheets, which there are pictures of, Yes.
So there was a lot of management going on.
It was pretty well done.
I thought, to be honest about it, if I was them, I would have done the same thing.
Oh, yeah.
And I would have, I think they did a wonderful job of covering it up for them.
And the media went all along.
The media wasn't going to show any of the Bernie people.
They weren't going to mic them, that's for sure.
They mic the front of the audience so they didn't have...
99% of the people watching John Allen screaming like Hulk Hogan...
I never would have heard any of this stuff because it wasn't Mike to be heard.
It was Mike definitely not to be heard.
Well, I was going to play a short clip just because you said the media was all in.
They loved it.
Joy Reid, I can't stop watching MSNBC. It's so much fun to listen to what they have to say.
She, of course, is the new superstar within the news team.
I think for the first time, Hillary Clinton was able to connect people like me, who maybe were, you know, sort of studying and watching this, but not really emotionally connected to what she was doing, to create an emotional connection with her.
And I think she did that not by herself, but over the course of this four days.
I agree.
It was a brilliant piece of television, first of all.
It was well done.
It was almost like an Oscars telecast.
It was well done.
It built to an emotional crescendo, where at the end, you bought Hillary Clinton as a president, you bought Hillary Clinton as fundamentally a mom and a grandma.
Yeah, because you were bought.
Come on.
Like an Oscars telecast.
You know, when it got real late and they had the very late, again after midnight, stuff going on with Chris Matthews doing the late ship.
There was a couple things.
He visibly hates that guy...
Oh, man.
What's his name?
The guy's the male lesbian.
We always talk about...
Oh, Chris Hayes.
Chris Hayes.
Chris Hayes.
Chris Hayes was on this panel with him, and he's running the panel.
And the panel was...
You couldn't hear where I think...
A small clip of what it sounded like most of the time.
I think Joy Reid was on this panel.
Oh, I'm sure.
And I think there's a clip that says something about...
Matthew's on Agents of Change?
Is that the one?
No, no.
That one I want you to play next.
But there's another clip there about what it sounded like.
It's just a very short clip.
Well, I haven't studied your clips, for people who don't know.
Hardball sounds like this.
Ah, okay.
Gotcha.
Yeah, that's exactly what it sounds like.
You couldn't hear anything.
It was just a bunch of people until Matthews kind of took over.
And every time Chris Hayes spoke, if you didn't watch him, you watched Chris Matthews, you could see this guy seething.
I mean, he was grimacing.
He was biting his lip.
He was just...
Steam was coming out of his ears.
I don't think he liked that woman either that you're so fond of now.
Matthews has been at MSNBC forever.
Who am I fond of at MSNBC? That woman.
That woman you just mentioned.
Joy Reid?
No, I'm not fond of her.
Well, I mean, you're fond of clipping her.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah.
That's fond.
That's fond.
I'll clip her in the morning.
I'll clip her in the evening.
It's fond.
I'll clip her in the summertime.
But when Hayes speaks, Matthews hates him.
Yeah, he does.
But also, it's because Chris Hayes, he tries to command the room with his oily-looking face.
High-pitched voice.
But you know, it's like this, right?
Because we all know the...
Right?
It's annoying to everybody.
Yeah, he's very annoying.
So this is early in the morning.
So this is Matthews actually making a decent point.
And I don't think Matthews is all in for Hillary by any means, even though he'd never not vote Democrat because he's a longtime Democrat.
He's committed.
But play this other clip.
What they're going to look at, is this person going to look out for the country I love?
Are they going to look out for me?
But more important, are they going to change this country?
Because I want change, and that's Hillary's biggest problem.
She's not a change agent.
She's continuing the direction of the country.
And most people, like the president thinks, she will continue what he's been doing.
He thinks she's careful.
And I say that's the one problem with the America is great thematics.
It made everybody in the hall feel good.
We were all there and felt it.
But for a lot of people out there, they're looking at the country and they're saying, yeah, we love the country, but it ain't great.
Our poll, which is non-partisan, done by Republicans and Democrats together for the Wall Street Journal, shows about two-thirds of this country objectively doesn't like the direction the country's going.
And that's a fact.
So all this nice stuff about let's keep it going, we're doing it great, we got it made, is not the way people look at it.
So here's what I thought was interesting, though.
Hillary Clinton in that economic portion, if you compare...
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, that's Hayes jumping in.
You know, Matthews, he's got to be careful because I think they're keeping a seat warm for him over there at RT. You know, that'll be his next gig if he keeps going like that.
Yes, he can't do that.
No, that's not okay.
He's very concerned.
And then, of course, that's when Hayes jumped.
I should have maybe clipped it further because Hayes jumps in and does everything he can to counter what Matthews just said in that high squeaky voice when Matthews starts to steam up.
And he's trying to get the conversation back under the Hillary thing.
No, no, you're wrong about that.
Hillary is an agent of change.
She's going to do this.
She's going to do that.
And I found that a lot of the stuff that's being promoted about Hillary is, if anybody actually steps back and thinks about it, there's a clip I have, which is the clip about, I may say B, oh, well, first play this.
This is Hillary's constitutional amendment, which I thought was funny.
Yeah.
If necessary, we will pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
Right.
Which, of course, that's not going to happen.
The thing was about her movie.
Well, Citizens United is about limiting who can spend what on elections for promotion.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, but you stemmed from, right?
No, I really...
Her movie.
I don't know about her movie.
Tell me.
They tried to roll out this movie about her, a condemning movie during, I think, 2008 or whenever this thing actually came down.
There's a movie about her.
You should read about it.
Yeah, I'm sure we've discussed it and talked about it.
We have discussed it like four years ago.
Yeah, I just tried to think what the title was.
Eight years ago.
We discussed it a long time ago.
But it was Hillary.
It was like this movie about bad movie blasting Hillary.
Right.
That they did everything they can to keep off the screens.
And then there was some lawsuit over it.
And during the lawsuit, and it was Citizens United that I think either produced or was trying to promote the movie.
Oh, brothers!
Yeah.
And so I still think this is just a grudge.
She's not going to get any amendment passed.
So the way the amendments work is, you know, if you overturn an amendment, the amendment doesn't go away, but you read it kind of from one to wherever it ends.
And an amendment further down the list can overturn, but she's talking about changing the First Amendment.
Because as far as I recall, the Supreme Court said, hey look, money is free speech.
Wasn't that the basic tenant of the ruling?
Well, what it meant was, I have...
I'm fighting you over something, so I'm buying ads.
Or you are, let's put it this way, you are Peter Thiel and you're paying for a lawsuit or whatever.
It's all money.
And what they're saying is we need to limit how much money can be spent on promotion in campaigns.
Yeah, which is against the Constitution.
Of course it is.
You should be able to spend as much as you want.
But why is it?
Why are all these people cheering?
Like, oh, yeah, we'll do that.
No, you can't do that.
You know, they've demonized.
They've demonized, as the bigots said they are.
They've demonized that particular thing.
And in this election, it doesn't even apply.
No, it doesn't.
There's no application whatsoever.
So this whole thing is bullcrap.
And now the latest Trump doesn't even want to talk to the Koch brothers because they stiffed him before.
Now, here's what I wanted to play.
This is the...
And then I'm going to stop playing clips.
All right.
Hillary Bayo could have been a bigwig.
This is from her.
At the beginning, they had God doing the voiceover of Hillary's...
Yeah, God.
Hillary's Bayo.
That was God.
She could have joined the big law firm, been a corporate bigwig.
What?
Instead, she chose the Children's Defense Fund.
What?
There, she went door to door.
What happened to the Rose Law Firm?
Well, the way it's told is when she just, the minute she got out, she went to Rose Law Firm later.
When she got out of college, she could have been a bigwig, but she decided to save the children.
This is part of her litany of what I consider to be a bullshit creation story.
Where's the evidence that any big law firm wanted her?
No, I don't think there's any.
I never heard, oh God, we wanted Hillary Clinton.
She just graduated from Harvard Law School and we wanted her.
Yeah.
No, she could have been a bigwig.
She could have joined any monster.
No, she couldn't.
Not everybody can.
Very few people can.
And what's to say that she could?
I've never seen any evidence of it, but it's in her story.
It's in her creation story.
It's bullshit.
Yeah, but that kind of stuff, man, that's...
No, I agree with you.
I agree.
Let's play it again.
I love it when God does that, Morgan Freeman.
She could have joined the big law firm, been a corporate bigwig.
Instead, she chose the Children's Defense Fund.
There, she went door to door.
Oh, won't somebody please think of the children?
Which is kind of the whole theme of the DNC. The DNC, it was all about the children.
They were abusing children.
Like children watching Trump on TV crying.
Of course.
Of course.
Now, I'm always looking for analysis of his body language.
One of our producers sent me a clip from KQED, which is, I guess, your PBS station out there.
Yep.
And this was the KQED forum.
They had a linguistics professor...
Lakoff, I think is his name.
But he analyzed Trump's name and how the name breaks down and how it can affect you.
And interestingly, I think he gave a few hints of how people could alter that if they wanted to try and provide some messaging.
I thought, in general, interesting stuff.
Now, Trump, I want to talk about the name Trump, which is very important, because TR... It tends to go with powerful words.
Triumph.
Train and triumph and so on.
The ump has to do with things that are powerfully packed together, whether it's dumping or pumping or whatever.
And so the combination of ump, the original family name was drumph, which is very, very different.
If you change it to twump, to just change the R to W, it sounds weak.
If you change the U to I, it's gone.
Twimp doesn't sound very good.
There you go.
Well, yeah, the name does make a difference.
It couldn't be, you know, Dorf.
Donald Dorf.
Let's vote for him for president.
That's why I actually wrote a column in the mid-80s for the San Francisco Examiner, not the Chronicle, when I was writing op-eds, where I said, it's funny because I met him years and years later, and he, of course, didn't associate me with this, but I said, no one will ever elect a president named Newt.
It's just not a good look on a president.
I say that no, the president of the United States is never going to be named after an amphibian.
It's just never going to happen.
Gecko.
No, it's not going to happen.
Biden had an interesting little speech, which was probably his presidential election, you know, his nomination speech.
He probably pulled that one out of the closet.
But what he said here I thought was interesting.
Donald Trump, with all his rhetoric, would literally make us less safe.
We cannot elect a man who belittles our closest allies while embracing dictators like Vladimir Putin.
No, I mean it.
Now, what he said there is Putin is a dictator.
That's the Vice President of the United States who said Vladimir Putin is a dictator.
And, of course, appropriately so, a question came up in the Daily White House briefing about this very point.
First of all, there's no official government designation about dictatorships.
But there was included in the State Department Human Rights Report a description of the political situation inside of Russia with regard to the Russian government.
And so I'll just read from it.
"The Russian Federation has a highly centralized authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin." That's a direct quote.
It went on to say that Russia's institutions, quote, lacked independence from the executive branch.
So that's the official language that's used by the U.S. government to describe the system of government that is currently in place in Russia.
I mean, I guess just for the finer point on it, does President Obama believe that...
I don't know if you can hear what he's asking.
The follow-up question is, well, does President Obama believe that Vladimir Putin is a dictator?
No.
Well, again, I think you'd be hard-pressed to draw a distinction between the word that Vice President Biden used and the language that was included in the State Department report.
What exactly does he mean by that?
You'd be hard-pressed to find distinction?
I have no idea what he's talking about.
So he read the State Department description of the Russian political system.
And then he said if you listen to that, you would be hard-pressed to draw a distinction between that and the word, he won't even say dictator, the word that Vice President Biden used.
Does that mean yes or no?
I think it means yes, but they don't want to say it because we still have to negotiate with the Russians.
We're not completely independent of their existence.
Of course not.
And the question, of course, if he's a dictator, well, I suppose you could make this argument that he still gets elected as one.
Right.
Even though he's freely elected, it's a democratic, kind of a quasi-democratic system.
And he was president for a while.
And he went back and forth to be president.
First president, then he's a prime minister and he's a president.
And if he's a dictator, what does he even fool around with this stuff?
Why don't you just take over the place?
Yeah, so a small Biden gaffe then, as per usual.
I would think.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had what is being touted as the joke of the century, which I didn't find very funny.
Personally, I thought it was...
What was the joke?
I don't know the joke.
Here comes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar coming out to speak.
Hello, everyone.
I'm Michael Jordan, and I'm here with Hillary.
I said that because I know that Donald Trump couldn't tell the difference.
He says, I'm Michael Jordan.
I say that because I know Donald Trump couldn't tell the difference.
Which is really...
You know...
A bit far.
Far-reaching there.
Why don't you just call him a slave owner?
The audience is going to laugh at anything.
No, they weren't laughing.
They were cheering.
It was the best joke ever.
So funny.
I thought the best joke...
They decided to...
They did these great little movies.
Somebody was either an ex-writer for Letterman or something.
Because they did this Letterman bit.
It was a Letterman bit.
Letterman used to do this bit.
Where he'd be giving his talk.
His stand-up.
And now we have a little feature for you.
The best...
Great quotes in history or something like that.
And then they play, hail to the president.
Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right.
Some stupid George Bush thing.
George Bush would say, is the door open?
And then da-da-da-da.
Yes, you're right.
And they come away with it.
I have probably the best one that they did on this show.
This is the Letterman gag convention movie.
They played the little movie.
It was Letterman's bit, and this was how it went.
Nailed it.
So Belgium is a beautiful city.
Yeah.
Wow, you're right.
That is a blatant rip-off.
I didn't even think about that.
Oh my goodness.
The same music and everything.
Well, there's a lot of...
And again, this guy's a builder, and I've been around builders, and they have difficulty communicating in general.
But Charlie Rose had Eric Holder on his program.
Yes.
And Holder was elitist, to say the least.
You also said that Donald Trump, you question his gray matter.
His gray matter.
Yeah, I wonder.
You know, I sometimes think that he hides behind a certain bravado to hide a lack of substance that he has.
And because you don't see any intellectual interest, but you don't see anything other than...
Leading the witness.
...a businessman.
Who?
Yeah, one of the other things that makes me doubt his intellectual heft is he sees everything in black and white terms.
And that's the realm of people who aren't very smart.
Oh, okay.
If you see things in black and white terms, you're dumb.
What?
You're dumb.
The realm of people...
Who aren't very smart see things in black and white.
No, no, no.
That is a hallmark, John.
It's a hallmark.
Well, I don't think Trump sees things in black and white, nor does anybody really.
I think that's just disingenuous, what he said.
Yeah, you think?
But to make this sort of generality and plaster on Trump...
Okay, these guys are idiots.
They keep trying one thing or another.
Now they're trying to pace Trump as a dummy.
Dummy, dummy Trump.
I don't know how he got a billion dollars.
And so, well, you've got to start off with a free million.
I don't know about that being even true, but I'll tell you this.
You can give 100 people a million dollars.
They're not going to roll that up to a billion.
It's just not doable.
Most people can barely double it, double their money, if they don't lose it all, which most of them do.
So that's nonsense.
And you can't be a dummy in his situation.
It's just not possible.
But if you want to call him a dummy, you're making a mistake.
We've already deconstructed the fact that we know if you just keep on crazy racist...
That's, yeah, crazy racist is the way to go.
They're straying from that.
They're straying from it.
They're straying.
And it shows how the Democratic Party is really not unified.
Because I hear the gay guys on Sirius Progressive, Channel 127, and they're all, you know, Trump hates gays.
They got Barney Frank on every ten minutes.
Oh, he doesn't protect gays?
No, just only from foreign threats, not from the crazy Christians.
So the gay guys are saying he doesn't care about gays.
He hates them.
Then you have the black faction is saying he hates blacks.
That's the crazy racist.
But then there's this, you know, the elites are going, he's just dumb, he's just stupid, he's dumb.
You're right, there's no focus.
There's no focus at all.
Whatever you do, just lambast him.
Now, I have to say, Amy Walters, who's kind of this very interesting analyst who's on the PBS NewsHour all the time, she's one with kind of the clipped hair, looks like she might be a lesbian, she might not, you don't know.
She's very intelligent, it seems to me, and she's very analytical.
Probably much more so than the Brooks and Shields guys, especially David Brooks.
I suggest she's going to replace one of the two, or both of them, because she's actually thoughtful, but you can tell she's all in for Hillary.
And she is, but she's very depressed.
She was on there the last day.
FYI, I just looked up her picture.
Yeah, lesbian.
Well, she presents herself as well.
I'll ask Christina.
She'll give me the down low.
You give her the gaydar.
But whether she is or not, she's really good.
And she's very thoughtful and she's very objective.
And I just got this one clip of her talking about the mistakes.
And she just had this depressed quality about her as she talked about this.
And I think she was in the same boat as Shields.
They were both, I think, a little disturbed by the Republican...
Style of the Thursday speech, where there's literally flag-waving.
Half of Hillary's speech was lifted from Trump.
It was all kinds of crazy little...
Hillary had this little part of her creation story.
Let me see.
I want to play that first now that I've thought about it.
I'm going to get rid of all my clips too quick.
Yeah.
She...
Hillary about...
Well, here's this one.
There's Hillary about...
Oh, no.
Here it is.
Oh, damn it.
Hillary on Jobs General...
No, I'll play these later.
Play the Amy Walters clip and just listen to the nuance about what she's trying to say here.
It's very interesting.
A vote for Hillary.
Republican statement, Amy Walter.
Well, here's what's a really interesting dilemma for Democrats right now.
We've now had...
Outward appeals to Republicans not to stay home, but to come out and vote for Hillary Clinton.
But that works against what Democrats running for the Senate are trying to do.
They're trying to make the case.
They would love for those Republicans to stay home, because it helps their down-ballot candidates if those folks don't turn out.
And so what we're seeing is really the White House running a very different strategy than the down-ballot candidates.
Already we're seeing that many voters are not linking Donald Trump to Republicans down the ballot.
This convention and this strategy from Hillary Clinton isn't going to make it any easier for the Democratic Senate candidates.
She was very depressed about this.
What she said was that it turns out the way the Republican campaigns are going is that there's a disconnect between Trump and the ballot.
You have Trump, then you have U.S. senator, and you can vote for, you know, they're separate.
You can click on Trump or not.
Right.
And they're worried.
They've decided to try to cajole Republicans into voting against Trump by voting for Hillary, but come out because the other possibilities, they just stay home.
A lot of people that don't care for any of the candidates, they don't vote.
So they're trying to get them to come out to vote, trying to get Republicans.
They're trying to get the Republican vote out.
And she says, what are they doing?
They're idiots.
This is not what she said, but that's what she means.
Yes.
you And I thought that was very observant, and it was like, you could see her shaking her head over the whole strategy, and this last day with all the flag waving and fireworks, real fireworks inside the place, and the balloon drop.
It was ridiculous.
Nice pyrotechnics.
I say they were within five seconds of catching the whole joint on fire because they dropped the balloons while those fireworks are still going off.
A lot of noise, a lot of people complaining about President Obama's speech, particularly this one passage from it.
That's why we can attract strivers and entrepreneurs from around the globe to build new factories and create new industries here.
That's why our military can look the way it does.
The way it does.
I love it when he gets in his preaching mode.
For people and folks who need help?
Every shade of humanity forged into common service.
That's why anyone who threatens our values...
Listen carefully.
Anyone who threatens our values...
...of humanity.
Forged into common service.
That's why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.
So you put Trump, because that's what he means, obviously, right up there with dictators, fascists, and then, of course, homegrown demagogues.
He's a homegrown demagogue.
He's a homegrown demagogue, and Bernie Sanders was the demagogue.
If anyone looks up his definition, you'll see that.
And no one ever accused Bernie of being a demagogue, and he is the demagogue of this campaign.
Of the cycle, sure.
This kind of thing reminded me of one, the Granholm speech, which I want to play, or part of it.
She, Granholm was the ex-governor of Michigan who's probably responsible for the state's...
For the water poisoning?
Everything.
She's got to be responsible.
She was the one who failed the biggest.
But she was a pretty good public speaker, but she screams, and she reminds me of somebody as she's screaming and screaming in this speech.
And I was listening to her, and it's nonsense, bullcrap.
She says miners are going to become high-tech steel mill workers and all the rest of this nonsense.
But all through this, what you're going to hear, all through this, she obviously has...
Her mouth has dried up.
I hate it when that happens.
Yeah, of course.
It can happen to anybody.
Her mouth dried up and she is struggling with it.
Her tongue is coming out.
She's trying to get moisture into her mouth.
There's no drinking water available at the podium.
You've never seen anyone drink.
Can I just ask you a question?
Why is the chat room going crazy saying she's a Canadian?
Granholm?
Yeah.
She might be.
Okay.
Alright.
She's not a Canadian.
I mean, she's an American citizen, but she may have been Canadian.
She sounds a little Canadian when she talks about what she mentioned.
Anyway, so she's screaming and screaming and screaming, and I'm thinking, who does this remind me of?
Listen.
Here's what I know.
We have got to stop Donald Trump.
Our great country spans a continent.
Oh, I know who she reminds me of.
The little lady in Poltergeist who says, Run to the light, Carrie Ann!
No?
No, I'll tell you.
Okay, all right.
Here's what I know.
We have got to stop Donald Trump.
Our great country spans a continent, but we are all connected to each other no matter where we live.
So when a miner in Virginia has the dignity of a new job in the advanced steel industry, we all have dignity.
When the engineering student in the Sunshine State When the auto worker in Detroit builds the electric vehicle that drives us forward, we all win, right?
Whether you're in Michigan, or Maryland, or Missouri, or Montana.
And Oklahoma, and Arizona, and North Dakota, and New Mexico!
And we're going to California, and Texas, and New York!
And we're going to South Dakota, and Oregon, and Washington, and Michigan!
And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House!
Yeah!
I'll give you that certainly for your editing.
I was a dynamite.
Clip of the day.
A little Dean action in there.
How many people recognize that?
Are they old enough?
They listen to the show.
This, by the way, I didn't realize this before, but I realize it now.
It is sheer nonsense.
That a miner in West Virginia is going to work for a high-tech steel company in some other state.
Most people do not leave their neighborhoods.
We have to get over the idea that each state is going to be a draw.
I mean, yeah, some people move to California if they're in the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma in 1935.
But for the most part, people try to work around the area that they're in.
They stick around, generally speaking.
This is bull crap that they're going to...
I mean, they're...
Well, what do they do?
They just empty out West Virginia and all they'll be left with is a college and the Mountaineers?
What are you going to do?
Yeah, that's what...
Is that the plan?
That's the plan.
Okay, that's the plan.
That's the plan.
Well, when your water is poisoned, move out of the state.
That's what you should tell these people in Flint.
Hey, you don't like the water, the poison water?
Leave.
Go someplace else.
I think we should transit...
Actually...
I'd like to transition to Russia as that pertains to this election cycle as well.
But first, perhaps we should take just a small break.
So I can say thank you very much for your courage, and in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for, a constitutional lawyer!
Dvorak!
Yeah, well, in the morning to you, and in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, subs in the water, feet in the air, and all the names tonight's out there.
Yes, in the morning to everybody in the chatroom, noagendastream.com, got some interesting people in there, talking some smack here and there, but that's okay.
In the morning to our artists...
Yeah, woo, I tell ya.
In particular, this would be Mark G who brought us the album artwork for The Tardy Party.
Just another fantastic original piece by Mark G with Hillary with little angel wings and her, just, it was a good caricature.
Nice.
Well done.
Very well done.
I liked it.
Yeah, and we love the work that our artists do.
Check out all of their work at noagendaartgenerator.com and that's where you can also submit if you want to be in consideration for your artwork to be used as the album art on the show.
Indeed.
We didn't get anybody except a couple of guys, three guys.
Nobody came in with a...
This always happens after a big show.
I forgot to remind people that this is an opportunity to get an executive producership pretty easily.
So we only have three associate executive producers, something of a disappointment.
And so the leading one, which is Sir David Fugizotto in Gladstone, Missouri, with $246.80, becomes the executive producer for show 847.
He writes in, Good day, gentlemen.
Great shows of late.
I've been fortunate.
You wouldn't know it from today's donations, by the way.
Great shows.
But, you know, the show, again, ran long.
Ran long.
Yeah, we ran long, and then it wasn't how well.
It is what happens.
Yeah.
Great shows of late, and I've been fortunate enough to have the time to listen to them more or less uninterrupted while covering the 5,000 kilometers of Gitmo Nation roads.
Oh my.
We moved back after 4.5 years in Deutschland, and then it cuts off.
Is that PayPal cutting it off?
Must be.
I have no idea.
It's probably PayPal or something.
You have to be careful when you write these notes if you hit a carriage return.
Yeah, it does something.
We should figure out what that is.
Let me see if I have his original notes.
Because not everybody does that.
I mean, there's another note I know wasn't mailed in, and it's long.
But it has something to do with carriage returns.
I think you should have to keep typing and typing and typing.
I'm not sure.
Hmm.
Well, I don't have a copy of his notes.
Okay, well, anyway, he's going to be an executive producer.
Why don't I give him a karma?
Yes, of course.
You've got karma.
Sir Snorkel in Mango Hill, Queensland, Australia, 23456.
Amazing analysis, as always, and at a time where it's more important than ever, which is what we say to you.
Typically my friends and family have always been or seen my addiction to the show.
Hey guys, nuts!
What's they listen to that crap for?
As a sign that I was in a tinfoil hat-wearing crackpot conspiracy theorist.
But with everything happening in the news, I feel the common folk are hitting their collective MSM bullshit breaking points.
And that's long overdue.
Just last week, I had three people from completely different circles independently seek me out.
Aha!
To ask with desperation, what is the no-agenda take on all of this?
He's not obviously the brand specifier.
He's the guy who's the no agenda guy.
So they have to seek him out.
He's like a guru.
Just last week I had three people, he says.
My analysis, the common folk brains are exploding and all of us know and all...
That know of us, the No Agenda gurus, are turning to my enlightened No Agenda listeners to help make sense of it all.
So I have been doing what all the good producers do when this happens.
I hit him in the mouth.
Okay.
Jingle request.
He needs...
I know it is.
I got that one.
Anything else?
One last...
Let me see if this is right.
Is this in this note?
He says, one last boot note.
I wish to play trumpets to herald the triumphant return of my Liege Baron Sir Funk back from exile in Melbourne.
I'm not quite sure.
He has returned to the land of sunshine, so I stand to greet our liege.
Baron Sir Funk with an XXXX and a stogie.
Okay.
Provide him with a hooker?
Alright, Sir Snorkel, here's your jingle.
If you wake up with the blues, trying to figure your day with news.
You must remember no agenda in the morning.
For a healthy, balanced news diet, try NoAgendaShow.com.
And a karma form.
You've got karma.
And last but not least, Nikola Nikolov in Northboro, Massachusetts, 20907.
Thank you for your courage, gents.
I want to use your stage to send a special bouquet to my wife, Kate.
Please play the following clips.
That's one milf.
6969 Dudes.
Little girl yay with Adam screaming nailed it at the end.
Keep the shows coming, Nicola.
Okay, and does he want karma as well?
Of course.
Okay, let me see how far I get with this then.
That's one hot milk, baby.
69!
69!
Yay!
You've got karma.
All right.
Nailed it!
Nailed it!
Something like that.
Perfect.
That's it.
That's all we got.
So I want to remind people we do have another show coming up on Thursday and we'd like to get them to join in with the...
Become an executive producer, associate executive producer for show 848.
848.
848.
Well, we thank our one executive producer, by default, being the highest associate executive producer, and the two other associate execs, thank you very much.
And, of course, we'll be thanking everyone else who came in at $50 or above during our full-on thank you segment.
I did want to mention that I got a couple of notes.
One, someone said, the shows aren't too long because of the two-times-half-hour thank you segment.
Everyone hates it.
And then, you know, in the chat room, it's like, we'll start to thank people, and then someone will go like, bro, time for a smoke break!
So I, of course, kick them out of the chat room when they do that.
It's such an asshole thing to say.
This should be permanently banned.
Use their IP address.
Okay.
Brian, ban him.
Boys, ban him.
Ban him.
You banned.
And you banned.
It's just rude.
You're in my house.
You're in my house.
Don't be rude in my house.
Now, you have to remember when we used to do everyone below $50 and everything in between.
Yeah, that took too long.
And we read all their notes.
I mean, we used to read all the notes, which meant, unfortunately, what happened was that people would donate a small amount of money and then have a two-minute note.
Yeah.
And that was slowing things down.
This is not a bad thing.
This doesn't happen.
How often does this happen where we have so many people?
I think people would rather hear half-hour commercials.
Maybe that's what they want.
And no analysis because we could never say anything because we get fired or the advertisers will pull out or there would be boycott of advertisers because that's the same people who say this horrible shit will come in and say, I'm going to boycott your advertisers.
But, you know, funny enough, sometimes during these segments you actually learn something.
It's not all just money, thank you.
No, there's tons of stuff.
And if you'd stop complaining, we wouldn't be wasting time like this we're doing exactly right now, grousing about your grousing.
Exactly.
So grouse all you want, as long as you're grousing about the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water. Order.
Shut up, slays.
Shut up, Slade!
All right.
Onward.
Can you play...
There's a clip I want to play.
I've heard this a couple of times now from Hillary.
And I wanted to just ask you.
This may be like an Ask Adam.
Play a clip that says Hillary won.
Hillary won.
This is Indian.
I don't have a Hillary one.
Hold on a second.
Why do I not have that?
It should be between a woman with hijab, and you already played, or you haven't played, U.S. Airstrikes on...
Yeah.
Oh, WEF. Okay, I'm sorry.
WEF Hillary one.
Oh, oh, WEF. See, when you say Hillary one, I go to H. I'm sorry, I forgot that WEF. I don't know how WEF even got on.
What is WEF? I don't know.
Can you give me two pounds of WEF? Because I'm ready for it.
I need some WEF right now.
Okay, just listen to this carefully.
Listen to this carefully.
I want to ask you a question.
Okay.
I will listen to four pounds of WEF. My primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States.
From my first day in office to my last.
Especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind.
From our inner cities to our small towns.
From Indian country to coal country.
Okay.
What the heck is Indian country?
Is she living in the, what, is this the 1800s?
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Let me hear that again.
Holy crap.
Left behind.
From our inner cities to our small towns.
From Indian country to coal country.
How, that is so politically incorrect.
It triggered me.
It triggered me.
It should be Native American.
You can't say Indian country.
Indian country.
That's what she said.
She should have said Indian.
Indian country would have been better.
First thing I thought of was she talking about Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Warren.
A point for you, man.
Good catch.
That's outrageous.
Yes, and I've heard it before.
She commonly uses Indian country.
What is it?
Besides the political correctness, What century are we living in?
Do we have Indian country?
Wow, I can't...
And when I listened to the clip, it didn't even register.
It shows you how screwed we are, really.
Damn, that's good.
Just another point there.
That was very good.
Huh.
Indian country.
You nailed that.
Now...
I need to get into Russia, and the reason why, well, there's a lot of reasons why, but I have a great piece from our friend, Professor Stephen Cohen.
Very excited to play this for you.
You know, he's married to that crazy left-wing nut that is the editor of the Nation magazine.
I don't know who that is.
Oh, you've heard her before.
She's...
I can't imagine the two of them being married because of their demeanors, but it's just very strange.
One of our producers, the dude named Ben in Fayetteville, he's the guy that took me to the Trump rally.
Oh, right.
So his wife is a total all-in Hillary bot.
Okay.
But it works.
They get along.
Somehow it worked.
But he'll text me from time to time.
He's like, oh my God, she's freaking out.
She's freaking out.
They're freaking out.
But it works.
It works.
Somehow it works.
And I gave him a good line.
I said, come on, man.
You've got to be nice to your wife.
Here's what you say.
Isn't it great that they're showing herstory?
It's not history, but it's herstory.
Herstory.
I love Hillary's herstory.
Anyway, those relationships work.
It can work.
Until you get kicked in the nuts.
Well, there's that.
There's that.
Okay.
So, on the day after the convention, we have not, you know, red alert, red alert, red alert.
It looks like the Russians have also hacked into the Clinton campaign and some other PAC and all these systems and, oh my goodness, and the WikiLeaks is promising more coming, more coming.
They were freaking out about that.
Yes, I witnessed this.
It was hilarious.
Yeah, so there's a couple of things here.
Let me see.
First, we have...
Well...
Why can I not find this particular one?
Well, what we'll do here is...
This is the Not Find the Clip Day show.
It is the Not Find the Clip Day show, I agree.
But here's what I want to play.
This is Stephen Cohen, who was on CNN, which rarely happens that he gets on CNN. Usually he's on, you know, kind of right-wing talk radio shows.
He's on RT. You know, he gets on Democracy Now!
all the time.
Well, I've never heard him speak like this on Democracy Now!
He's on the Schmerkonis show.
That's the guy who does the media reporting, who's been on a lot during this election cycle.
And I have to say, we can stop it at several points.
It's about four minutes long.
And I tighten it up.
I think it's worth every minute of what he's saying.
I'm looking to blame someone for the cyber attack.
Russia was more than convenient.
But is this a new Cold War or political pot-stirring?
Does this accusation have any basis in fact?
And if not, could it harm?
Could it cause real harm?
Here to discuss is Stephen Cohen, an American scholar of Russian studies at both Princeton and New York universities.
Professor Cohen, does Vladimir Putin indeed have a dog in our U.S. fight?
Shouldn't that be hunt if you want to do it properly?
The dog in the hunt?
Yeah, dog in the fight.
He was a mixed metaphor.
Yeah.
Blame someone for the cyber attack.
Russia was more than convenient.
But is this a new Cold War or political pot stirring?
Does this accusation have any basis in fact?
And if not, could it harm?
Could it cause real harm?
Here to discuss is Stephen Cohen, an American scholar of Russian studies at both Princeton and New York universities.
Professor Cohen, does Vladimir Putin indeed have a dog in our U.S. fight?
Vladimir Putin wants to end the new Cold War, and so do I.
Let me say I have no ties to the Trump campaign or the Clinton campaign.
By the way, last time you're ever going to hear this guy on CNN, and you'll find out why.
But if I were to write your headline for you today, I tried on the way down here.
I couldn't fit it on the front page, but it would go like this.
We're in a new and more dangerous Cold War with Russia.
We're approaching a Cuban Missile Crisis nuclear confrontation with Russia, both along Russia's borders and possibly over Syria.
There is absolutely no discussion, no debate about this in American media, including, forgive me, on CNN. Then along comes, unexpectedly, Donald Trump.
Who says something that suggests he wants to end the new Cold War, cooperate with Russia in various places, what we used to call detente, and now...
What is detente?
What does that mean when he says we used to call detente?
Detente was the thing during the Gorbachev period where you were going to...
I think...
If it meant anything, you're both going to put down your guns and go sit at a table and chat.
Ah, okay.
All right.
...with Russia in various places, what we used to call detente, and now, astonishingly, the media is full of what only can be called Neil McCarthyite charges that he's a Russian agent, that he's a Manchurian candidate, that he's Putin's client.
So the real danger is what's being done to our own political process.
This is the moment.
When there should be, in a presidential year, a debate.
Because Mrs.
Clinton's position on Russia seems to be very different.
Has been a long time.
Trump speaks elliptically.
You've got to piece together what he said.
You know, that's finally someone who was able to say it right.
Elliptically.
That's true.
You've got to listen to all the bits, and like a puzzle, you put it together.
Right, and you have to listen to the whole thing in context.
You can't just pull stuff out of context.
Yeah, it sounds like the world's greatest jerk.
Well, he's great for making end-of-show bits, that's for sure.
But yeah, elliptical, I like that.
Russia seems to be very different.
Hasn't been a long time.
Trump speaks elliptically.
You've got to piece together what he says.
But he seems to want a new American policy toward Russia.
I'm sorry?
Did he say clump?
I don't think so.
Yeah.
Trump speaks elliptically.
You've got to piece together what he says.
But he seems to want to know.
What?
Never mind.
Just keep playing.
American policy toward Russia.
And considering the danger, I think we as American citizens deserve that debate.
And not what we'll be given in the media today.
Including on the front page of the New York Times.
I end by saying that these reckless branding of Trump as a Russian agent, most of it is coming from the Clinton campaign, and they really need to stop.
Okay, I don't know where to begin in unpacking all that you just offered to us.
Smoke.
Smoke was magic smoke coming out of his ears.
I don't even know where to begin to unpack that.
God, that's such an overused term.
How do we unpack what you just said?
I don't know where to begin in unpacking all that you just offered to us, but I guess I'll start as follows.
As one who can't match your credentials...
Here's what I see from the outside looking in.
I see Donald Trump having said to the New York Times just within the last ten days that he's not so sure he would stand with NATO allies, and I'm paraphrasing, he'd want to know whether they've been pulling their own weight.
The impart of his comments seems to suggest that he could provide Putin with unfettered, undeterred access to the Baltic states whose independence he resents.
And so it all seems to fit, therefore, that Putin would have a dog in this fight, would want to see Donald Trump win this election so that he, Putin, could do as he please in that part of the world.
CNN is covering that.
I mean, I have to defend the network in that regard, but why does that not all fit?
And why does it not all fit with the headline in today's New York Times, which says, Russian spies said to hack Clinton's bed?
Said to have.
Said to have.
That's not news.
That's an allegation.
James Clapper.
I don't know who hacked.
Everybody hacks everybody.
I mean, we hacked into Chancellor Merkel's cell phone.
We learned that from Snowden.
The Israelis hacked.
The Americans hacked.
The Chinese hacked.
Everybody hacked.
The point is, and I know you said it not to defend it, but as a provocation, that let's take the position you just set out, that Putin wants to end the independence of Baltic states.
At this point, the line producer is getting nervous at CNN. There's no evidence for that.
None whatsoever.
The point is, is that on the networks, and I'm not blaming CNN, and there's none on any network.
There's none in the New York Times.
I'm old enough to remember that during the last Cold War, all these issues were debated and that you had a proponent of each point of view.
But you've now got accusations both against Putin, both against Trump, which needed to be debated.
Let's go back to what Trump said about NATO. Trump said early on he wanted to know, 60 years after his foundation, what was NATO's mission today?
A hundred policy walks in Washington since the end of the Soviet Union, 25 years ago, have asked the same question.
Is NATO an organization in search of a mission?
For example, its mission for the last 20 years has to expand ever closer to Russia.
So people have now asked, Why isn't it fighting international terrorism?
That's a legitimate question.
But we don't debate it.
We don't ask it.
We just say, oh, Trump wants to abandon me.
I don't defend Trump.
Trump raises questions.
And instead of giving an answer to the substance of the question, we denounce him as some kind of criminal agent.
That's bad for our politics, but it's still worse.
Well, he hasn't, he hasn't.
Don't, don't, don't, don't.
He's addressing it.
I love this conversation, and I could go on for hours with you on this subject.
I wish time afforded that.
And I think that we've just had this conversation.
The conversation that you say is so desperately lacking.
Thank you for being here.
I appreciate your time.
And we're off to commercial.
Good job.
I just threw him out.
Holy crap!
I just threw him out!
We just had the debate you've been wanting.
Okay, thanks.
Goodbye.
Holy crap, that's like you getting cut off when you said that Michael Jackson was probably murdered.
Yes.
Wasn't that CNN too?
No, that was MSNBC. Oh.
Yeah.
Holy mackerel.
I know.
That is so obvious.
Yeah.
They don't want to hear any of it.
No.
It's not, I guess, we have a line, we already know what the truth is, or what we want to promote.
We want to promote the idea that Trump's a Russian spy because he needs the money.
Yeah, no, he's borrowed hundreds of millions from Russian oligarchs, and Pence was the consultant for the democratically elected president of Ukraine.
The guy we had to throw out.
Right, right.
Yeah, there was that story, too.
Wow!
Yeah.
That is unbelievable.
Well, you know, that's what you have to listen to the No Agenda show for.
I would hope so.
Because you're getting screwed if you listen to CNN. You're not going to get any kind of thought at all.
Well, luckily he said some good things.
We've got to stick with the story.
That's right.
I have some notes.
I know you have notes.
Although, just in this vein, I'm already seeing.
This is from the Washington Post.
Take it for whatever you think that's valid.
Headline, headline, headline is, By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines.
You know, we've been talking about the Diebold machines for, well, since the previous election.
No, since eight years ago, two elections ago.
And now, all of a sudden, we're worried about it.
Oh, please.
Well, it would be good if it came out, if we just went back to paper, and, you know, take it one step further.
I think we should all just have ink on our hands.
You know, that does away with the purple ink popper.
Yeah, so then you can do away with the voter registration, you know, all that stuff, with the voter ID. Yeah, just, thank you very much for voting.
Dip it in some ink, you're done.
Because, of course, it's never a good idea to have any kind of voting done like this.
Now, did you see the pictures that were, maybe it was a day, a full day ago, and I haven't really seen much about it, of Hillary Clinton while she was doing her speech.
She's laughing with her mouth wide open, and there's a visible hole in her tongue.
Have you seen this?
No.
That's just got to be an anomaly.
There's no hole in her tongue.
Yeah, there is.
Go ahead and look at it.
I'm sure it's all over if you just do an image search.
What it looks like is perhaps a biopsy.
It's too big for a biopsy was the general analysis, but it could have been a piece that was cut out.
It would possibly be HPV. It could be a genital wart.
But it's pretty creepy.
Oh, now I gotta slow down the show.
No, I'd say I gave you time.
I know, but I had to...
I was listening intently as you were giving me time, so I actually couldn't do both at the same time.
You were frozen.
I was frozen.
I choked.
Well, look, even with the hole in her tongue, she looks a heck of a lot better than Bill, who did doze off during her speech.
There's no doubt about it.
He was sleeping.
Okay, she has a hole in her tongue.
Maybe she had a piercing.
No, it's off-center.
You wouldn't have a piercing off-center.
It is off-center, I see it.
And it's way too far in the back for a piercing.
It's disgusting.
It's not fun to look at, I agree.
Well, the piercing is too.
I'm just looking at images, and there's an image of the scream.
Yeah.
With Hillary's head, it...
Hold on.
John, hold on.
I lost you there for a second.
Yeah, this is a famous painting from, I think, Norway's or Sweden's famous painting or Denmark.
I can't remember.
Testing, testing, testing.
Yeah, I got you now.
I got you now.
Anyway, Scott, I'll send you the links later.
It's very funny.
Okay, I only got the one or two pictures, but yeah, very interesting.
I wonder what that's...
Well...
Maybe it's...
I don't know.
Okay, well, thank you for bringing that up.
I think it's important.
Maybe it's where a control panel is.
It's an Anderson power pole socket.
Yeah, I gotcha.
And Bill, yeah man, everyone was saying that he did not look good.
No, but he did perform.
Yeah, you jack him up.
I've talked about this before, about Toynbee.
These guys could do it.
I want to just play this little offbeat clip before we get off the story completely.
I'm just going to sit in here.
I thought that this was very kind of observant.
O'Reilly brought in, and it also brings up like the clip you just played.
O'Reilly brings in this woman who's some sort of a professional sociologist shrink of some sort to give an analysis.
And she gives us really, I thought, a very interesting take on the whole election.
And O'Reilly just says, O'Reilly just cuts her off and goes off to talk about something else.
This pays no attention.
She gets visibly irked.
You can see her just kind of bristle.
But play this so you can hear this kind of, this very simple, but it very, may have some truth to it.
It's hard for me to even believe there is an undecided voter in this country.
What do you say?
Well, the thing that I would say is that, yes, I think you're right.
They are polar opposites.
It is a personality contest.
And the one other dichotomy I would throw in there is actually that the Democrats are the party of motherhood and the Republicans are the party of fatherhood.
Because I do think what you've seen is Hillary Clinton attempting to be a strong mother, and what you see is Donald Trump attempting to be a strong father.
That's an interesting observation.
I think that's very astute, Doctor.
Shut up and leave.
But that doesn't really help them.
Yes, and shut up and leave.
And that kind of falls into play with your thing about her and all the children.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Love, love, love, love, love, love.
Love Trump's hate.
Love, love, love.
It's the way you talk.
If you're a globalist, it's perfect.
Bill Maher show.
I can't help myself from watching it.
I'm glad you're doing this because it gives me the opportunity to not have to watch that show.
Isn't that exactly what the No Agenda show is about?
We do it so you don't have to, and we do it amongst ourselves, too.
Yeah, you do it so I don't have to.
That's great.
Here's Bill Maher talking about...
Actually, he was shocked, shocked, he says, that Hillary opened up almost directly with the blowjob.
You'll hear him say this, and what he means by that, of course, is what she says.
Well, we've had some good times and some heartbreak.
But his analysis of this and their relationship is odd at best.
Was anybody surprised that in the first minute of the speech, she referenced the blowjob?
Not directly.
No, no, she didn't say the word.
Come on, we all know what she said.
Bill, she, you know, thanked the delegates, thanked my daughter, and Bill, we've been through good times and some heartaches, too.
I mean, we all knew.
I was shocked.
I think so.
It is good to point to the elephant in the room.
Absolutely.
Deflate that issue immediately.
I gotta say, I always thought that the Clintons had a real marriage.
Despite what everybody said, it's a marriage of convenience, it's an arranged marriage, blah, blah, blah.
You know what?
Fucking around can live side by side with real love.
Bill is a dog and he loves her.
Two thoughts in your mind.
Europeans can do that.
We should be able to do it.
Europeans can do it.
Europeans can do it.
What is that?
I know.
What is that bull crap?
That's totally insane.
It's referring to the French aristocracy in the 1700s.
Ah, it's a throwback Thursday.
And I guess they just make the assumption that, you know, and I think Americans do this and Europeans, I don't think they're that much different than any other Christian-based culture.
No.
Americans assume that, and we do it longingly, especially American men, but American men do this longingly as though this would be so much better.
You want to live in Europe so you can be married to some hottie, some hot European chick, and have a bunch of affairs and have a mistress.
You can have your wife and you can have your mistress as though you're in China or you're, you know...
I think Americans also look longingly at the Saudis.
And, oh, I could have ten wives.
That would be great.
By the way, it wouldn't be great.
No, I don't think it would be.
It's tiring is what that is.
It would be horrible.
But, so that's what I kind of go.
Oh, Europeans can do it.
Europeans don't have it.
You know, and Olander.
Was it Olander or Sarkozy?
I think Olander.
I think both.
Motor scooter?
That was so car.
Sarkozy had his girlfriend on the back of his moped.
On a moped.
Now, of course, the show was, you know, I watched the whole show, and as Alex Wagner was on from MSNBC, the girl, and Cornel West, and Cornel West really got into it, and I just appreciate Cornel West, because he's another black American telling the truth about what the real problems are with poverty, and Which, of course, is concentrated when you have ghettoization of black people, brown people, yellow people, and white people.
You know, then, you know, it looks like it's racism, but it's poverty, poverty, poverty.
And he lays into it, and Bill Maher, well, you'll hear it.
Hillary Clinton really, you think, has done nothing for poor and wealthy?
No, I didn't say nothing.
I said, she has not done what people say in terms of her being this great champion for poor people.
That's a lie!
It's a lie!
There's only two items on the menu.
No, we got three.
We got Jill Stein.
Hold up a sec.
We got four.
We got four.
We got Gary.
The third one is...
You got two and a half.
We only got two people who have any chance of becoming president.
At the moment it looks that way, but Bernie started with three percent.
This is one of my pet peeves is when people say, we have a two-party system.
And here, they're not even...
Well, luckily the other guy says Gary Johnson after Cornel West brings up Jill Stein.
But we have many more.
Vermin Supreme.
You can call him a crazy kook, but he's running and he's an official candidate.
So this...
I really don't like...
I don't care who wins.
It's on Twitter.
On Twitter, I've already said, you don't like what's going on.
You know, people that are normally Republicans, they don't like Trump.
They have to vote with Hillary.
I said, no, you don't.
I think you should get a woman president.
It's time for a woman president, Jill Stein.
Yeah, we're going to get to her in a minute.
Bernie started with 3% too!
Yeah, but it's August, Dr.
West.
So you think Jill Stein is going to be president?
Look me in the eye and tell me that.
We shall see.
But it's gonna be tough.
It's gonna be tough.
But part of it is this, though, brother.
You've got to draw a line in the sand.
When I raised a question to you about David Duke and Donald Trump, in your own mind, you had to draw a line in the sand.
I draw a line in the sand.
It's a dumb analogy.
It's not dumb at all.
Because all that just shows, under certain conditions, you wouldn't make a choice between two folks.
Nice.
Let me, as long as we're doing analogies.
Okay, so he makes a good point there.
He says, hey man, you show that you're not willing to, you know you want one of the two others, so his analogy is good, and of course Bill Maher does what Bill Maher does.
Let me give you an analogy.
Okay, let's work with this.
You're on a train station.
Yes.
Right here in L.A. You want to go to San Francisco.
There's a wedding up there.
You've got to get there.
There's one train that goes to San Francisco, but it's a little slower than the one you want.
There's one other train leaving, but it's not going to San Francisco.
It's going to hell.
Ha!
And the bots go crazy!
It's not going to hell.
It's going to San Diego, which is a lovely city.
But it's not where you want to go.
You want to go to San Francisco.
The only other train is going in the opposite direction.
You get on the train that's going in the direction you want to go, but slower.
Or do you go to San Diego?
Let me answer the question.
Can I just answer the question?
I love this analogy, though, but let's look at it this way.
The Clinton train, Wall Street, security, surveillance, militaristic, not going in the same direction.
I love this because he starts off by saying, first of all, Bill Maher is just...
He's wrong.
He says, hey, but you want to go this way.
Like, everyone wants this.
Everybody wants what Hillary's doing.
No, Bill Maher's a comic, and he uses comic style, and he uses models that he knows to shut somebody up.
Yeah.
Coronel West, who I've never liked, I think he's a blowhard, but he is a professional blowhard.
Black.
He's an agitator.
You could never...
If you had him in the room and you were going to argue with him, you would lose.
Lose.
Yeah.
But he's going to finish it up.
And what I like is the crowd who, when he says, you know, Hillary Train is doing...
And people start to clap until they realize, wait a minute...
That's not...
And then they go...
They're all butthurt.
The Clinton train, Wall Street, security, surveillance, militaristic...
That's not going in the same direction I'm going.
It's just better than a neo-fascist like Trump.
That's all.
You really think Hillary Clinton is on the same spectrum as a neo-fascist?
No, I said neo-fascist like Trump.
Right, but you think she's in...
Okay.
She's a neoliberal.
I'm not calling her a neo-fast.
I'm glad.
Let's clarify that.
But I do believe neoliberalism is a disaster.
I do believe that when it comes to poor people and when it comes to people in other parts of the world dealing with U.S. foreign policy and militarism.
Oh, absolutely.
Ask the people in Libya about that.
Ask the people in the West Bank.
So what do we do?
But, once again, Donald Trump is insane.
I got two quick Jill Stein clips since she was brought up.
This is Jill Stein.
I'm starting to like how she speaks.
Not everything.
She's a troublemaker.
I kind of like her.
She's like a Bernie-style troublemaker.
She's one of the people that would be out in the protest.
There's a bunch of these.
Some Indian woman, India-style, or she's American.
Indian, not Indian, not Native American, but who's like a Seattle...
She's like one of the councilwomen from Seattle.
She's outstanding.
There's a bunch of these troublemakers that are just...
They hate Hillary.
Well, here we go.
You're going to get Trump elected by...
Oops, sorry.
It's...
I mean, Jill Stein wants to get votes.
Yeah.
Oh, she does.
I like her tactic better than Gary Johnson.
Gary Johnson calls everybody racist and stoned.
I mean, this is not the Gary Johnson I know.
No, it's not that Gary Johnson either of us knew, really.
All right, here we go.
Jill Stein.
And the fact is, she deleted one half of her email saying they are private.
I would ask, how leisurely is the job of being Secretary of State that half of your time can be spent discussing your yoga classes or your daughter's wedding or your grandchildren?
You know, that's not what you do on company time.
And we, the taxpayers, are not paying her to conduct half of her email volume on private matters while she, in fact, is providing contracts.
Exactly.
While she was providing lucrative contracts to war profiteers, in fact, and to countries with whom we are engaged in very dubious and illegal enterprises.
It's kind of a false argument, but I thought it was funny she did that.
I liked it.
I liked it.
It was good.
Yeah.
Quick follow-up, and this of course is something you and I both agree with, as she explains in seven seconds what the United States foreign policy is really all about.
Go!
And in fact, what we have is a foreign policy, which is essentially a marketing strategy for selling weapons.
Yeah, there you go.
Nailed it.
Jill Stein for president.
I thought that was good.
That was good.
I didn't like that.
Yeah, she's got the right pitch for all this stuff.
Yeah.
So, let's play...
I got this clip.
This is one of the movies, the little movies they played.
Yeah.
Which were just dynamite.
I thought they kicked ass with those things.
I agree.
This is the one about bullies.
Oh, yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is a good one.
Let's see which one.
And by the way, if you listen to this little girl who's talking to Hillary...
Actress.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I know that.
Which clip is it?
Oh, yeah.
I got it.
You sit down.
Sit down.
You are a disgusting fun body, Private Pyle.
I'm looking right in that fat, ugly face of her.
She ate like a pig.
You're so stupid.
Stupid.
How stupid are the people of the country?
I want to see you in here.
Get him out of here.
Get out.
Get the hell out of here.
Come on, cry me.
He's like a little baby.
Come on.
He cries.
Let's see this guy.
Oh, I don't know what I said.
I don't remember.
What are you going to do about people who want to be mean and all that is bullying?
Can you tell me a little bit more about why that's on your mind?
I have asthma and occasionally I've heard people talking behind my back.
I mean people, it's not contagious.
That was really brave.
I've said this a couple of times in this election recently, and I know it's sort of odd coming from a person running for president, but I really do think we need more love and kindness in our country.
That's why it's important to stand up to bullies wherever they are, and why we shouldn't let anybody bully his way into the presidency.
Because that is not who we are as Americans.
Oh, somebody please think of the children.
Gotta use it twice.
Can't help it.
And I like the be mean...
The little girl asks, what about people who are mean?
Mean.
The mean thing.
You equate meanness with bullying when in meanness it's not necessarily the same thing.
No.
It's also...
No, it does not mean the same thing.
But it's also...
It's kind of talking down to Hillary's voters.
We have to put it in these terms so you understand it.
I don't know.
I didn't like it.
I had one more clip I wanted to get out of the way.
I need to move on from this.
Try this one.
Bill, this one I want to talk over with you.
You were alive in 1995, weren't you?
I sure was.
1995, my first company.
Yeah.
I was alive.
This is Bill Clinton talking about Hillary and how great she is.
Bill, in 1995, radical statement.
When she said women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, in 1995, that was a radical statement.
Yeah, you know, I've picked up this meme, and I'll just tell you my immediate thought about this, because when I heard this, I'm like, 1995?
This was not...
I don't recall that as being something...
I'm not a woman, so maybe I just experienced it differently.
Well, let's ask the women out there.
1995 was like two years after the web started showing up in the internet.
We all had personal computers.
1995 was in the middle of Clinton's era, I believe.
And...
Yes.
It was just like...
It was like 21 years ago.
So 21 years ago...
You're telling me 21 years ago...
I think this is to appeal to a younger audience that doesn't know what the hell is going on.
Well, you know, the younger audience also does not know, nor do they care about Monica Lewinsky.
They don't know.
It's like, whatever, something happened.
They don't know.
Of course, they're not going to try and find out.
It's not really being explained.
It's not worth the time.
Well, true.
So it doesn't really matter.
But, yeah, I remember hearing that and thinking, oh, that's odd.
I don't think.
I remember one thing.
I would say it was 1916, or maybe, or before the women had the right to vote, maybe.
Well, I had 60% of women in my company.
It was a majority women at the time.
You know, this was dot-com bubble, of course.
So everyone was making good money.
But I don't remember that.
It was radical to say human rights or women's rights or human rights and human rights or women's rights was radical in 1995.
People went, oh my God, how can you say such a thing?
I know.
Oh, crap.
You know, I was too consumed.
I know what I was doing.
I remember I had 20 floppy disks and I was installing Windows 95 and it took about three weeks.
You remember that?
The first Windows 95.
A big box of, or actually then it became a box of, yeah, floppies, right?
It was floppies.
You're right, it was floppies.
But then there would always be one floppy that was bad.
Yes, always.
And you had to go find someone who had, do you have floppy number 8 for Windows 95 install?
No.
Good times.
Now you wrote in the newsletter something interesting about this not necessarily being the most vitriolic election cycle of all time in history.
Because you had, was it Jefferson Adams?
Is that what you referred to in the newsletter?
Yeah, Jefferson Adams.
Do you have any backup material?
Because they were saying horrible things about each other.
Oh, they were saying a toothless jerk.
A bald toothless jerk.
A short midget.
He's bald.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's about being bald.
It was horrible.
That's fantastic.
This was par for the course probably until...
I don't know, maybe when Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected the second time.
I mean, this was the way it was.
That's the way those campaigns went.
They didn't...
I mean, what we're seeing today is just nuts.
There's nobody...
This is soft stuff.
This is crazy, mild.
That's why people are so stunned.
Oh my God, what did Trump say?
Didn't the Democrats, if I remember...
Maybe I don't remember.
You might remember better.
Did the Democrats ask back then the USSR to help elect Walter Mondale?
Wasn't there something?
I think it was...
I sure don't remember that.
Well, here we have.
Democrat Speaker of the House Jim Wright sent a letter signed by nine other Democrats to Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega.
Okay, that was a different example.
Um...
You know, I... I'll have to look this up, but there's some reporting that drawing Russia into our election is not necessarily something new.
But of course you never want to underestimate the short-term memory of the United States population, because that's about all we have.
Or the media.
That's about all we have.
We have very short-term memory for everything.
Yeah, that's true.
No one remembers President Obama, or President-elect, or no, candidate Obama, saying Hillary lies, she never has the same story.
I mean, all that stuff.
Yeah, we should put together a whole clip of that, of the nasty things Obama said about Hillary.
And what she said about him.
Yeah.
There was a lot of nasty going on.
Audible has this...
Presidents are people to channel.
Not that I subscribe to it.
One of our producers does.
And sent this to me.
And this is...
You as the resident historian may get a kick out of this.
Some of John Adams' other accomplishments.
We can also credit Jefferson for recording the first known recipe for ice cream and French fries, which he introduced to the White House, along with mac and cheese and champagne, which are basically all of my favorite things.
Wait a minute.
I'm not buying that either.
Mac and cheese and champagne?
First of all, great combo.
I would imagine that since he was a Francophile, let's just make it easy.
And he brought a whole bunch of Holbrillon and Lafitte and all these great wines over there for a long time.
I think he was the ambassador for a while.
And mac and cheese, I don't think so.
I doubt that.
I'd like to see some documentation that Jefferson introduced mac and cheese.
Yeah.
And champagne.
Come on, he didn't introduce champagne.
Champagne, I believe.
Really?
Yeah, I believe that.
I like the combo.
Champagne and mac and cheese.
I can believe the champagne.
It may or may not be true, but I can believe it.
It was a fairly new product in the 1700s.
It was first invented in the late 1600s.
There's a lot of reasons I couldn't have gotten over here that soon.
I do have one more thing to discuss just before we go to our next thing.
And this came from you.
When you started looking into this conversion therapy and other bull crap that was mentioned by...
Accusatorily thrown at the vice presidential...
Pence.
So I hear this, and at first I think, I believe I heard it from Gavin Newsom on...
I don't have the clip, but I think he said it first about, you know, praying the gay out of people.
Yes.
Then I heard...
This clip is conversion therapy, and this is Chris...
This is hardball Chris Matthews.
Right in the middle of the yelling and screaming at each other, he says this.
You know there was stuff in the Republican platform about conversion therapy?
How to turn gay kids into straight kids?
Wait, let's make sure we do that next week.
Everyone's going, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Fuck bullshit!
You can go to Google and type in 2016 Republican Platform PDF and you can get the real Republican Platform.
The word therapy itself is only mentioned once and that has to do with people should be able to choose their own doctors and medicines and therapies.
Therapy.
Conversion therapy is never mentioned anywhere in the whole thing.
If you want to bring up and just read any old random sentence and say to yourself, well, that must mean conversion therapy.
Yeah.
It's a whole thing.
It's an extrapolation because it does say, under family, it says parents should be able to choose any type of therapy or treatment they wish for their children.
Yeah.
And that has been construed or changed into, oh, there's a conversion therapy!
And these are the people who are at the conventions.
They're covering it.
They haven't even read it.
No.
They have not even read the document.
I read it.
I read the Democrat platform, too.
It's all, you know, come on.
You can download it and do a keyword.
You can search for anything.
So I said, okay, let me check this out.
I downloaded it.
I tried to type conversion.
Beep!
No, there's no, you can't get past C-O-N-V-E-R. No, it's not.
And so then you go, well, maybe therapy.
There's one use of the word therapy and you cite it.
Yeah, that's it.
And that's it.
This is bull crap.
Yeah, it is.
They don't know they're lying.
That's one thing.
Or maybe they heard Gavin Newsom say it was in there and say, oh, it must be in there.
What does it take to download the document and just look at it to make sure you're not just being a bigot?
Talking out of your a-hole, yeah.
Well, that's what we attempt to do.
I have a little funny thing here.
I think I kind of deconstructed a little bit of what was going on over at Fox News Channel with Roger Ailes and my assertion is he got kicked off because the Democrats who really run Fox News, I'll just say it again, who really are in charge of it, They felt that he went too far by allowing Donald Trump to bring up rape accusations against Bill Clinton, and we have some kind of backstory to back some of that up, that that could be going on.
Now, what happens then is Roger Ailes is outed with all these complaints, he's just horrible, what an a-hole.
All the women hated him.
Right.
Now, You and I know that when you're in the television business and I would like to remind you that I have not heard anyone complain in a long time about the women on the Fox News channel and why do people not complain?
Because they're beautiful.
And it's television.
It's entertainment.
And beautiful people are usually hired on TV. You and I do our bit from time to time.
We'll talk about women on television who have been hired for...
I think all the women on Fox are lawyers.
That's almost minimum requirement.
You have to be a lawyer.
And you've got to be hot-looking.
Yeah, you're going to be hot looking.
And this is not us being misogynistic a-holes.
It's how television has worked forever.
And if you remember the Sony hacks, where the president of Sony is joking around about, hey, maybe just send Obama to see 12 Years a Slave.
You know, they're making racial jokes.
It's what happens.
But in the entertainment business, particularly with how people look, men and women, and I would assert that young men are horribly abused in Hollywood, So, on Fresh Air, NPR's Fresh Air, there's this guy, Gabriel Sherman, I think his name is, and he's talking about some of these allegations.
Now, when you hear about the allegations, what do you think the allegations are against Roger Ailes from all of these women who have come out of the woodwork about his sexual harassment?
Is he pinching their butt?
Is he grabbing their boob?
Is he rubbing up against them?
Is he trying to kiss them?
No!
Here it is!
It's shocking!
The actual process by which Roger Ailes selects the female talent that go on screen, I reported...
Last week that he asked a job applicant to stand and show off her legs.
He literally makes women stand up during their job interviews with him and do a twirl so he can examine their physique.
There's nothing subtle about it.
He wants to look.
That's his job!
That's his job!
This is totally his job because he's going to put them on one of the ends of the table and they're going to have to cross her legs and show off her legs.
It should be somebody like Kimberly Guilfoyle who enjoys that.
In fact, one time Guilfoyle was talking on an O'Reilly thing as one of the two guests and she was talking about the, this was during the era of the scanners that they had at the airport and there was a big scandal.
Right.
About, oh, you could actually see the person's body underneath.
Well, no, no, we destroy those pictures.
And then it turns out they didn't destroy them.
And then there was a guy in the back bringing guys around.
Look at this one!
And Guilfoyle, instead of condemning the practice, she says, well, I think it'd be fine because I don't mind showing off.
She thought it was great!
Yeah, but I just love how these people...
And by the way, that's Gavin Newsom's ex-wife.
Just to remind people out there.
Ooh!
I'm going to show myself a little 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.
We do have a few people to thank, starting with Anonymous in Bettendorf, Iowa.
An anonymous gave $160.16.
And he says, keep me anonymous.
And we managed to do that.
It doesn't always work.
Kyle Shelton in Seattle, Washington, $144.20.
Eric Cowley in Arlington, Massachusetts, $144.00.
Jason Wall in Regina, Saskatchewan.
We got a lot of Saskatchewan action.
One, two, three, four, five.
Jeffrey Yerke, my buddy over there in Concord, California.
Got to get back on the stick with our...
Our project of digitizing all the Red Fox.
Ah, the Red Fox collection, yes.
The Red Fox collection.
We got a lot of stuff done.
It's going to be lost to history.
I like that you do things like this because you're going to put it out in the physical form.
I'm sure it'll be a CD. I like your old car thing, although you should print those out and make a book.
We need tangible stuff.
We do.
We need tangible stuff.
I know we do.
None of this will be around in a couple of decades.
None of it.
I'm going to be gone.
In fact, now that you bring it up, I'm very concerned about a lot of the stuff on the internet that is valuable.
Yeah.
And not to mention the old Red Fox albums, which are all gone.
I mean, there's only a few.
They're just disappearing as time goes by.
And eventually, there'll be none left.
And we're talking about the party albums that were done in the 50s and 60s.
I believe those are the years.
And they usually went sold to a black audience.
They were semi-dirty albums.
Very old kinds of jokes.
And you just can't find them anymore.
And they're hard to come by.
I bought a number of them just from collectors and I don't see that many floating around.
A lot of women comics.
A lot of this stuff can't be found at all.
A lot of psychedelic music.
A lot of these albums.
I can think of a couple.
Tongue and Groove is a good one.
I cannot find that album anywhere.
That's Hillary's favorite.
And so there's a lot of stuff.
I happen to be an archivist.
Yes.
Not to be misconstrued with hoarder.
Right.
Definitely not to be misconstrued with hoarder.
Patrick Began in Arlington, Massachusetts.
We just did him.
One, two, three, four, five.
And he has a long note about something.
Oh, they're doing it on a summer road trip through Europe.
Oh, good.
Oh, to report back.
Yes.
Yes, he is.
He will.
For sure.
Ian Bussman in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
$101.01 is a birthday involved with that donation.
Anonymous again.
Came back again.
$100.00.
But this time he lives in Irvine, California.
It's fantastic, that guy.
Yeah.
Thomas Risgaard.
And Van Lose, Denmark.
He has a birthday today.
Tea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $100.
Lon Baker, $100 from Parts Unknown.
Sir John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
And he becomes a baronet today.
Yep, yep, Baronet, 96-83.
Julie Smith, Coldwater, Michigan, 93-16.
Jason Turning in Rancho Cordova, California, 81-16.
He also says 73 is from N5N6WBL. Yes, 73 is Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
Or as I'd have it, Nova 6 Women's Bowling League.
Paul Chivati in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Boobs.
That's not boobs, it's boob.
It's only boob.
Boob, it's boob.
One boob.
Go podcasting.
Chuck Walters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Boob.
Jim Burlingame, Bergen, New York.
Boob.
Jay Helsel in Lenexa, Kansas, boob.
Jennifer Weta in Wichita Falls, Texas, boob.
There's not that many boobs.
Nick Valak in Belton, Texas, 7365.
Bruce Johnson in Idina, Minnesota, 7310.
Richard Spasto in Burbank, California, 6666.
And curiously, Sir Davey of the Sooner State, Rome, Texas, actually.
But I guess he came from...
Oklahoma, 6666.
Christopher Utley in Gilbert, Arizona, 6660.
Howard Laharu in Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester, 6502.
Sir Kevin Dill in Charlotte, North Carolina, 6432.
Shh!
Stephen Schwartz in Schertz, Texas, 5678.
Sir Christopher Barron of the Brown County in De Pere, Wisconsin, 5678.
John Boyd, San Diego, 5510.
Amanda Rossette in Vernon, Rockville, Connecticut.
Oh, and she sent a note in.
She sent a note in with a bunch of stickers on it.
Little fluffy things.
I've never seen anything quite like this.
Fluffy things?
Yeah, there's a little sticker that's like you can squeeze it.
It's like a sponge.
It's very strange.
I'm back to sending donations via the long lost art of check writing after PayPal messed up my last donation and thanks to Eric for the help.
I'm so close to damehood I can smell the hookers and ham something.
I don't know.
It's all here.
It does smell like hookers and ham.
In fact, that's my new credo.
Hookers and ham for everyone!
No, it says hookers and warm orange juice from here.
Okay.
But it looks like ham.
Thank you for keeping me sane.
But let's use it.
Hookers and ham.
Hookers and ham.
I like hookers and ham.
Thank you for keeping me sane.
Thanks for keeping me sane during this election cycle.
Then she's got the heart.
Amanda.
Thank you, Amanda.
Eric Hochul.
Hochul in Berlin, Deutschland.
$52.
Mark We've got Dennis Brown.
Dean Kostanko in Jacksonville, Arkansas, 50.
Joe Reynoso in Chippewa Falls, Michigan.
Our buddy, Sir Mark Tanner, Whittier, California, 50.
He gives us twice a month.
Yes.
Sir Alan Bowes in...
Sir Alan Bowes.
Sir Alan Bean in Oakland, California.
I got the Bowes.
Sanford Saab Staab in Kuskia, Texas.
And last but not least, Sir Bogdan Alejandro in Roanoke, Texas.
This concludes our group of well-wishers and producers for a show.
847.
I have one that I picked out of the lower regions from Patrick Howard.
He sent me a note, and it was just a nice note, so I figured I'd read it.
Adam and John, it's time for a dose of Boner Be Gone, in other words, my first donation.
I don't want to de-douche him for that.
You've been de-douched.
I would have donated more, as the information you guys provide on your show is priceless.
But, as a fresh out-of-high-school grad about ready to enter college, money is a little tight.
This is beautiful.
I only ask for a de-douching as I've been douched at some point, I'm certain.
And a job's karma for my mom and myself.
Thank you for being the guardians of reality and just being awesome!
He's not even in college yet.
He just graduated high school.
And he's supporting the show.
And I believe this child, I'll just call him a child for now, will go on to do great things because he has not been completely programmed and manipulated.
We are saving the children.
Yeah, more than anyone.
Yes.
I had one.
I have a note from someone.
We're going to have to do it on the next show, which is his first donation, and he needs...
Oh, no, he was douchebagged, even though he's been giving money by his buddy.
I'll get this note so we can use it next.
But he was douchebagged, and we have to de-douche him.
Twice.
Okay, we'll do that on Thursday.
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Oh, I don't have an age for him, but he celebrated on July 28th.
And Thomas Riesgaard, who celebrates today, July 31st.
Happy birthday from all your friends here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
It's your birthday, yeah!
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Thank you very much.
It's appreciated.
Okay.
Where are we now?
Well, I would like to at least get one thing out of the way.
I have my list of notes, which I ran through last time.
I want to run through a note.
I'm not going to make this ever the same all the time.
And this is your list?
We're still on the convention?
This is the convention notes, and when we have a big event, it's easier to take notes and get that many clips.
But this will wrap it up.
Okay, red, red, red, red, all the women, a lot of the women were wearing red, and that was, of course, the mark of the devil.
Yes.
And that included Granholm with her dry mouth, and she was wearing a red thing.
There was a moment where they had two podiums up.
I don't know how they got them there.
I think they moved in by hand.
Why?
What was wrong with the main podium?
They were bringing somebody on one side, then the other, then the other.
Oh, I didn't notice that.
I didn't notice that.
Yes, it was weird.
Hmm.
The guy that came out, this Muslim character, I guess Afghani, I'm not sure.
It came out to berate Trump and everybody else and he had a...
His son died.
He was a lieutenant in the army or the marines.
And he's out there...
Plead the vote for Hillary.
And he brought out, and I thought this was bad optics, he brought out his subservient wife who came out as a little woman, not a hijab, because someone on Twitter says, it's not a hijab, you don't know what you're talking about, you have culture, you're culturally ignorant, he says to me.
I asked him, what was it?
Can you tell me?
I never heard back.
But she was wearing it as far as I can tell.
Everyone said it was hijab, it looked like a hijab, and there she was.
I think it was a niqab.
A knee cop.
Okay, well, she was out there silently.
A little behind him.
A little behind him.
And when they walked off, he was guiding her, telling her how to leave and all the rest, because he pushed her out off the stage and then he waved.
And I just thought it was bad optics.
She had this quiet woman.
She wasn't allowed to say a word.
And she was standing right there.
It was kind of creepy, I thought.
I don't know.
I think he also misquoted the Constitution.
Oh, that could be.
I think he misquoted it.
I didn't notice that.
Yeah, because look at the Constitution, the pursuit of liberty, and then he had some long sentence which ended in happiness.
It sounded like, of course, I have a Constitution with me at all times, an app for it.
Katy Perry came out, she was holding the mic instead of going to the podium and lecturing us.
Yeah, Katy Perry had some real problems.
She, of course, has been on the road with Hillary, and she wanted to make this her big, you know, love, love, what do we call it?
I don't know.
A big love.
A statement.
A statement, okay, a statement of love towards Hillary.
Yeah.
And she was very nervous, but then even worse, and Christina and I were watching this, the sound, it's difficult.
These are very difficult venues when you have a lot of people and changes of sets and stuff.
The crappy sound.
The crappy sound, yeah.
And she had her ears, and the minute she started singing, you saw her left arm went back to the back of her neck, and that's where her...
When the IFB's hooked up.
Yeah, well, it's not quite an IFB, but it's a high Fidel Attai.
Stereo receiver.
And she could not get it right and her eyes went awed.
Kind of like Adele.
Remember when Adele, when she didn't work out at what performance was that?
And she was fiddling with this thing because she was going from ear to ear trying to hear herself.
She apparently this thing was dead.
Couldn't hear herself.
Yeah, it was no good.
And so that was a disaster.
She disparaged her parents along the way.
I didn't.
Oh, that's right.
I did.
Yeah.
Yeah, I thought that was not cool.
Chelsea came out.
She was doing a...
She had a red dress on again.
And when she gave her robotic-like speech, she was smacking her lips like crazy.
In fact, I got tweets from people.
You hear the smacking?
You hear the smacking?
It was...
Yeah, it was nasty.
And she says, never, ever, all the time.
Nasty.
She was also positioned off-center, for some reason, on the stage.
I don't know what the meaning of that was.
I know.
Morgan Freeman, this guy, exploit...
Oh, yeah, then the Democrat Party, at the end, they were exploiting 9-11, which I thought was...
Gee, come on, how long ago was this?
Most people that are at the convention aren't even old enough to remember...
When Hillary was, when Obama was on one of the videos talking about how great Hillary was, he was constantly looking down as if he was lying.
He would not, he would not, he's looking down, looking down, he's saying good things about Hillary, then he'd look up once in a while.
Oh, this was his exit interview, you know, so you want to do a good job.
Yeah, right.
The beginning of Hillary's speech, if you really listen to most of it, it was really a review of the other speeches.
She didn't get into her speech until it was halfway through.
Stronger together, powerful forces, crying actors all through the audience.
I think they hired certain people that could cry, and they were crying.
I totally believe that.
Someone mentioned to me, I hadn't really picked up on, who was the Hunger Games girl?
Yeah, what's her name?
She's blonde normally.
It was odd to have her there, and I agree.
Because everyone is thinking about what does an actor or what does a person represent?
And she kind of represents Armageddon.
If you think of the Hunger Games.
Yes, it's very funny.
I thought that was kind of odd that they put her in there.
What's her name?
What is her?
Jennifer Lawrence.
Yeah, Jennifer Lawrence.
Thank you, chatroom.
PewDiePie.
Yeah, like, okay.
I mean, it's all about optics, really.
Hillary used the word, talked about or said Donald Trump 22 times.
Yeah.
Elizabeth Banks, I'm sorry.
Elizabeth Banks, not Jennifer Lawrence.
Elizabeth Banks.
No, Elizabeth Banks came on right, but Jennifer Lawrence was the actress in The Congregate.
Okay, I don't know.
Did you see what I know?
Yeah, blonde actress.
I mean, come on.
Stand up and twirl.
Okay.
And I got the D... Oh, the Aufwalken team.
That's what I got to know.
From now, you don't have to look for them.
The guys from the Aufwalken podcast who came under attack by one of the producers, they sent me a note.
And they're a German podcast.
Very good.
And...
The guy, one of the producers, one of the guys who does the show, he says, we're no agenda producers.
We've donated.
And this guy has called us out twice.
So we have to, I said, okay, we'll take care of you.
We have to give him two de-douchings.
Set him back on track.
I think two de-douchings and a karma.
I mean, this is...
Okay, let's go.
Because I saw the tweet, too, and I think they did some interview.
I'm like...
Holy crap, these guys are all, they love us.
And they're donators.
They're donators.
Yes, yes, dedouching for you.
You've been dedouched.
Ah, I will dedouching you one more time.
You've been dedouched.
And I give you some kraut karma.
You've got karma.
Actually, we need to give these guys some karma.
There's a big demonstration taking place today.
Under the Merkel-Mussweg campaign.
Yeah?
Yeah.
It's all over Germany.
And there's this huge protest.
Yeah.
Merkel-Mussweg.
Yeah.
It's...
Okay, well, we expect some reports from these guys eventually.
Yeah, no, they will definitely help.
Just on the Merkel Musweg, while this is happening, while Germany is saying, hey, hold on a second, what is going on here?
Merkel, your policy is no good.
There are thousands of people in different cities around the country.
Here is CNN's version of what is going on in Europe.
It's called Europe on the Edge, the new normal.
Now, this is a produced piece where this millennial chick...
And it's just mind-boggling.
Imagine being in a crowded public place like this and a man pulls out a gun.
He starts shooting.
There are mass casualties, but is it a terrorist attack or is it a mask?
What's the difference between the two?
And ultimately, does it matter?
Well, terrorism, according to Webster's dictionary, is the use of a violent act to instill fear in order to achieve a political goal.
One of the seminal acts of terrorism actually happened here in Munich, the 1972 Olympics.
That's when 11 Israeli athletes were held hostage and tortured by the Palestinian Black September movement.
They made demands to release prisoners.
And in the rescue attempt, both hostages and terrorists were killed.
Increasingly, though, we're seeing terrorist organizations are not making any demands.
They're just trying to inflict mass casualties and instill fear.
Think of many suicide bombings or the Paris terror attacks in 2015.
Multiple shootings, multiple explosives.
What we're also seeing is that terror groups like ISIS have been attracting and exploiting vulnerable individuals.
Omar Mateen may have opened fire on that crowded Orlando, Florida club out of personal anger, but he also swore allegiance to ISIS. And the San Bernardino killers, well, they went on that shooting spree inspired by ISIS. And ISIS has been quick to claim ownership even when there is little direct evidence that ISIS was involved.
Now here in Munich, there were very real fears of multiple shooters engaged in a terrorist attack.
It turned out to be the violent act of a single bullied teenager.
No political motivation, no terrorist attack.
But for the families of victims, that hardly matters.
Whatever the motivation, it does nothing to reduce the pain of their loss.
Alright, now this mix, first of all.
And the music, my God.
It's meant to mind control you.
There's no doubt.
This music with her really low in the mix?
What the hell?
It's like almost subliminal that's how low she was.
And to say, Munich?
No political agenda.
Oh no, just a teenager who was severely bullied.
Are you fucking kidding me?
He said, I'm sick and tired of the Turks.
This is not terrorism because it doesn't have political motivation.
Are you kidding me again?
And this is clear.
I've never seen this girl before.
Clearly meant to somehow indoctrinate or send the message to the young children who are not watching CNN as far as I know.
I know this is the irony of this.
Even the irony of our explaining.
I heard on the radio yesterday that Christina, I love having my kid around.
It sucks that she lives so far.
You learn so much from these kids.
Like, you know, Facebook, you know, it's dead.
No one's on Facebook anymore.
And they said, yeah.
But, you know, you look at the demographic.
The fastest growing demographic on Facebook is 50-year-old married women.
Yeah.
That's it?
Yeah, they just talk amongst themselves.
All just sitting there.
I'd say the same thing.
Grousing.
Grousing.
I get the same information from Jay.
Jay doesn't go on Facebook.
She says everyone's crazy.
Instagram and Snapchat and the rest, they really don't care.
Snapchat's a big deal, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
So, an interesting piece of propaganda there.
Yeah, directed at who, for what purpose?
There's all these questions.
I really don't know.
And while you're talking about Germany and all that sort of thing, and oh, nobody's really scared because there's no real agenda.
Play this clip.
This is a little, I think this is slightly suppressed.
I didn't hear about it except on RT. This is the missing weapons in Germany.
Yes, I did hear about this.
Yes.
Firearms and military equipment reportedly stolen from a U.S. military base in the German city of Stuttgart.
That's despite tightened security in the country after a recent string of terror attacks.
The base is situated just outside Stuttgart.
The facility houses some elite units of the U.S. military, including Green Berets, Navy SEALs and other special forces.
RT's Peter Oliver reports.
Well, this all came from a report from Stars and Stripes.
It's a US Defense Department publication.
It pretty much just tells us a lot of unknowns.
It says that we don't know exactly what weapons were stolen, how many weapons were stolen, Who took them or how they were taken?
The theft, as we're looking at it right now, took place over a month ago.
But we're only finding out about it now.
And, of course, this news just adds fuel to a fire that we have here in Germany.
Over the last 11 days, we've seen four attacks in the country.
Two of those have been directly linked to asylum seekers who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
So the whole country...
Nothing to see here.
Ooh, look at that!
Yeah, nothing going on.
Don't worry about it.
Right.
Right.
So yesterday afternoon, as we're parking the rig and getting everything set up, the news is one thing and one thing only.
Zika.
Zika.
Bitch, I want to mention this.
I'm getting these clips and all of a sudden, all the networks, CNN, but mainly ABC, NBC, CBS, they all started the news.
All.
Top of the news.
I thought it was very strange.
It screwed me up because I didn't get a lot of clips.
Oh, no.
I only got this one.
Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
Yeah.
Where's the money?
1.9 billion dollars.
Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
Yeah.
Where's the money?
And here is...
Small heads are coming.
You're going to do it.
You watch.
Well, we were right.
Small heads are coming.
This is the first transference by mosquito.
Here's the mayor.
This morning we learned that four people in our state likely have the Zika virus as a result of a mosquito bite.
This means Florida has become the first state in our nation to have local transmission of the Zika virus.
One!
Ground Zero!
All four of these people live in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
All four of the people live in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
And the Florida Department of Health believes that active transmissions of this virus could be occurring in one small area, in one small area in Miami-Dade County, and it's just north of downtown.
This area is about one square mile, and Dr.
Phillip will give the exact location a little bit later.
One of these four cases involves a woman, and the other three cases involve men.
They're all active Zika cases and have not exhibited symptoms to be admitted to the hospital.
Testing of mosquitoes in this area has been happening in this area where the small area for about two weeks.
While no mosquito traps have tested positive for the Zika virus, the Department of Health is aggressively testing people in the affected area to ensure there are no other cases of this virus.
The only thing I think is, is Congress not back from recess, and is this not the number one thing on their agenda again, this $1.9 billion they're still trying to get to give to the friends?
I don't know.
Why else?
I have yet to figure out whether, and they really took it, all the networks took a big run at this.
It was a push.
A push.
A push, I would say.
A push.
Not a push, but a push.
A push, yeah.
A push.
Major, major push.
Yeah.
Yeah, I noticed the same thing.
Well, again, for those of you who are new to the program, we've deconstructed the whole thing.
This money is supposed to come from the Ebola money.
It's supposed to come from other countries mainly.
Just half a billion alone is owed to the fund by the United Kingdom.
Yeah, all the people that promised to give money, including the Gates Foundation, they choked.
Gates Foundation?
No, no, no, we're not giving any more money.
Yeah, and the Silicon Valley, friends of Silicon Valley, the housewives of Silicon Valley Foundation, $25 million.
No, they're just welching on it.
Yeah, they're welchers.
Yeah, but it's going to Dutch military.
A lot of it's going to national.
Right, you read right from the document, and most of this money is not going to any sort of what it's supposed to go for.
No, no.
Okay.
Well, I've got a couple of, I think, upcoming memes we can expect.
Okay, and then we'll wrap it up.
Okay, I've got two of them.
I've got two things to look out for.
I want you to play this style stolen gun meme clip first, and then I'll explain what I think we're going to start to see.
Authorities say a gun stolen from the home of Stockton's mayor last year was used to kill a 13-year-old boy.
Someone shot and killed Rashawn Harris outside his home in February 2015 while he was waiting to go to school.
Stockton police say Mayor Anthony Silva did not report the gun stolen until March, a month after Harris was killed.
The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office says the gun was also used when someone fired multiple shots into a home just one month before Harris' death.
No one was hurt in that shooting.
Now, for his part, Mayor Silva says he didn't report the gun stolen right away because he didn't live in the house where it was stolen at the time, so he did not know it had been taken.
Huh?
Your gun's missing.
Your husband got broken into it.
You didn't report it, you know what I mean?
So it's like, you know, that's not a good example.
I'm still in shock and I'm heartbroken and...
I'm hard broke.
They bring this guy on.
Oh, he didn't report the missing gun.
This is unbelievable.
Now, if he reported or didn't report it, how is that going to stop the murder?
I'm asking you this question.
No, it's not, but you're not a responsible gun owner, so you should be banned from owning guns, I guess.
You're going to start to see these stories about the guys who had stolen guns, people stealing guns from people.
Yeah.
You're not a responsible owner.
You should be banned from getting guns.
And this will be the long game for confiscation of weapons throughout the United States.
Put it in the book.
Put it in the book.
Okay, it's in the book.
Good.
Now the other one...
Which I think is an upcoming meme.
But this may or may not play out.
But you have to play this commercial.
This is a commercial for Panera.
And you have to have seen the commercial in some ways.
They have all these stats on the front over the ad.
But play this Panera Clean Food.
Can you just tell me what Panera is before?
Panera is a joy you should know.
Panera is a chain.
I'm sure there's some in Texas.
It's a huge chain that's a bakery chain that you also go in there and eat sandwiches.
It's actually one of Andrew Horowitz's pet peeve companies.
But Panera is all over the country.
They're like a little thing you draw.
But it's basically a bread baker that's turned into a restaurant.
Oh, like a toast place?
We think clean food tastes better, feels better, does better.
100% of our food will be clean by year's end.
Every bite will be food as it should be.
What?
Wow.
Apparently up to 95% of their food's clean.
Clean?
It's clean.
It's called clean food.
Here's what I'm thinking.
Oh, jeez.
And I think they're going to try to push this idea of clean food to replace the natural, organic food.
Oh, this will be a new branding.
We're rebranding.
Rebrand, everybody.
Hello.
It's time to rebrand.
So it's a rebranding of, I don't know, natural, organic, I'm not sure.
But they're using a clean food.
We're going to get 100% clean food.
And they never say this, but it implies that the food is like maybe, you know, it's either a kind of food that has gotten...
I'm sure it's more like GMO-free.
I think you're right.
The organic label is problematic for a whole bunch of legal reasons.
In Europe, they use biological, which cracks me up.
People say, well, it's biological.
My poop is biological.
Right?
Yes, it is.
So that's the branding there.
But clean food, I think you're on to something.
I think you're on to something there.
I don't know if it's going to catch on, but saying the food is 100% clean...
Clean, clean.
I think that what they're going to do is they're going to say that there's...
You know, we're 100% clean.
We hope to be 100% clean.
And they just hope the public buys into whatever that even means.
It doesn't mean anything.
This is...
Just a trick.
It's a trick.
It's a bull crap is what it is.
Clean food.
I wash my food.
I'm not buying from a Chinese guy who leaves a bunch of dirt in the bok choy.
Well, along these lines, I was thinking of another no agenda business opportunity.
And you kind of set me up for it.
It's been a bug in my mind.
We're always looking to retire.
Yeah, that's going to happen.
So we went from...
We knew about the grilled cheese and the macaroni and cheese.
We were very early on that.
Yeah, I went to toast.
And your follow-up is the logical next trend would be bread and water.
Right, or gruel.
But I'm thinking, if we class it up, like if we make it French, like...
Yeah, that'd be the name of the place.
Yeah, and we'll give you water, but we'll just have a whole bunch of SodaStreams in the back, just pumping it up with stuff.
No, but you have to offer all these high-end waters.
Yeah, but it'll be our own water.
It'll be all SodaStream, but we'll have our own flavors.
For instance, I think, if we were doing a Dupin et l'eau restaurant, I think Wonder Bread.
I think we could toast Wonder Bread and people would flock to it.
Remember Wonder Bread?
Oh yeah.
They still sell it, I believe.
Yeah, good stuff, man.
Anyway, it was just a thought.
Just a thought.
Yeah, I think we should think about it.
Think about it further.
I think this is another moneymaker for us.
And someone else will do it, for sure.
Yeah.
Moneymaker for us.
No.
However...
It'll be 100% clean.
Clean.
That's right.
Clean food.
Clean bread and water.
Don't you want clean food?
Here.
Du pain et l'eau.
Bonjour.
All right.
We certainly need your support.
Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA for our show coming up on Thursday.
And...
Who knows what'll be going on?
I haven't got my eyes mainly on turkey.
That's where the action seems to be.
There's a lot of stuff that's teed up.
Yeah, for sure it's teed up.
For sure.
I want to thank Daniel Torash, Danny Luce, UKPMX, all fabulous producers who have some nice mixes for the end of show for today for you.
And with that, coming to you from Texas Hill Country in the Airstream of Consciousness in FEMA Region 6, outside of Lockhart, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I don't have a trailer, I'm John C. Dvorak.
And who's the lucky one, you gotta ask.
Until Thursday, everybody, we'll be right here on No Agenda.
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Stand up.
Lack of empathy and compassion.
We came.
We saw.
He died.
He died.
The choice isn't even close.
More crimes.
The choice isn't even close.
Always divide and conquer.
People have the right to choose whatever they He's not a racist!
I'm sick of that!
It's a scam.
It's a scam.
You know, a bunch of...
It's a scam.
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Sing, ding.
Are you talking about this?
Sing, ding.
She's got this spooky friend.
She's a basket.
Stop, boy.
Stop, boy.
Goofus.
Don't be talking.
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