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849: Short Circuit

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	I'd like to see you in your clothes.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, August 7th, 2016.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 849er.
	This is No Agenda.
	This is No Agenda.
	Going back to my roots with my Jersey boys and broadcasting live from the armpit of the nation, the Garden State, New Jersey, and FEMA Region 3 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Yes, everybody, that's right.
	I'm on location.
	And kind of the way I remember it, New Jersey is always a little backwards, certainly when it comes to Internet.
	Yes.
	Yeah, so we're having some...
	My Verizon dongle didn't work too well.
	The iPhone on T-Mobile didn't work too well.
	Now we're on the hotel Wi-Fi.
	That's always a recipe for disaster.
	Yes, and I will mention that you did cut out again exactly the same way.
	Not now, but at the opening.
	You think maybe I'm over-modulating something?
	I'm doing something bad to the Skype machine?
	Is that possible?
	I don't know.
	Let's see if it happens again.
	Okay, I'll set this up for you.
	Maybe that'll help.
	Anyway...
	I was here for a party last night at Jack Ponte's house.
	A legend in the music business who you may not know.
	That's a question.
	I don't know him.
	I was hoping you'd tell me.
	Yes, I will.
	It sounds familiar.
	Jack Ponte has a very familiar ring.
	So Jack Ponte started a band, I think in 1980 or 1981, called The Rest.
	And in the band was Southside Johnny, Billy Squire, Jack, and this cute-looking kid from New Jersey named John Bongiovi.
	Yeah.
	So, of course, he later went on to be Jon Bon Jovi with Bon Jovi.
	And Jack wrote a lot of those first songs.
	But he's one of these guys in the music business that you really don't hear that much about.
	But everybody knows him and everybody loves him because he's one of the few people in the music industry who will never, ever, ever kiss your ass or tell you something that isn't true.
	That's weird.
	He's very brash.
	Very brash he is.
	Yeah, but he wrote songs for Alice Cooper, all the New Jersey stuff, Skid Row.
	His list goes on and on.
	And then he retired from writing and producing and recording.
	And then he started a management company by some fluke.
	And it was all hip-hop artists, and he was managing 50 hip-hop artists.
	And then I think Indi Ari, and he took her from an unknown to seven Grammy winners.
	And then he wound up just getting so sick of the business for one reason and one reason only, which is no more money in it.
	And he quit again about a year ago and became a day trader.
	Oh, God.
	Well, let me tell you, complete technical analysis.
	He showed me his setup, which is...
	It's just a whole bunch of, like, Fibonacci-type number filters.
	You know, I have a friend that used to be a publisher around here, and he's moved to Napa Valley, but he turned himself into a day trader, almost the same story, turned himself into a day trader some time ago, and he's been doing okay for himself.
	Apparently, if you just want to do that all day, you can do well.
	Yeah, and he has no idea what the stocks are that he's trading, because I was grilling him, like, this is interesting.
	And he just has all these filters, and then when the price goes, you know, between this band and that band and the green stripe, he says, I buy, and then I wait, and then when I see the stripe here, I sell, and, oh, I just made, you know, $3 profit per share, and if he bought 10,000 shares, it's 30 grand.
	And then he, you know, he could stop for the day, but he doesn't.
	It's really unbelievable.
	And I said, well, what stock is that that you just traded?
	The SEAS? He said, I don't know.
	I don't care.
	Zero.
	That's a perfect technical guy.
	Yeah.
	And he has this little group, and he brings people in, and he trains them, gives them his own filters, but they're not allowed to sell it to anybody or they're not allowed to give it to anybody else.
	Like, you know, if that podcast thing doesn't work out, Jack, I think I'm going to join your merry band.
	Probably make a lot more money.
	Yes, from what I understand.
	Just replicating his trades, that would make a lot more money.
	But anyway, it was a lot of fun.
	I haven't seen Jack in 26 years, and we did some crazy stuff.
	And so now, you know, the guys who are still around, they have a lot more money than they used to when we had the crazy stuff days.
	And it's pretty much, everyone's still the same.
	Like, you know, one guy got married, and then he went on his honeymoon, and his other friend had moved his house when he came back.
	I mean, not like move stuff, he physically had moved the house.
	Had it picked up and moved.
	As a gag?
	As a gag?
	To a different location?
	Yeah.
	That's a hell of a gag.
	Stuff like that is exactly that kind of stuff they do.
	Everyone kind of agreed, no pictures, not too much talking out of school because otherwise it's just become annoying and I didn't want to be the...
	I mean, when it's my friends like the brain professor or the obots, I'm happy to make them look stupid.
	I got some stories for you.
	I got two.
	I got two.
	Okay, at least something.
	Can you give us a big tease after the last show?
	Of course, of course.
	I'll give you something.
	All these band guys, famous guys.
	I'll give you one.
	So Jack remarried.
	I hadn't met his new wife.
	She's from Russia, from Siberia.
	And actually from the town where the meteorite crashed.
	Remember that one?
	You don't find that a little suspicious?
	Kinda.
	And, you know, so I'm grilling her, and she's obviously so not used to someone talking about Putin in a positive light.
	You're like, you have a very interesting take on the world.
	I say, yeah, I do.
	But, you know, she's only been, I don't know, in America for maybe 15 years.
	So she didn't have a lot of that, you know, the cultural background.
	And, of course, growing up in Russia, she said...
	We knew American music.
	Well, not really.
	We knew Bon Jovi.
	We knew ABBA and Boney M. That was pretty much all the music they got in Siberia.
	So for her to be married to Jack...
	Jack is one of these guys.
	He has a big house and everyone comes by.
	Whatever he's working with.
	12 bedrooms.
	There's always someone staying.
	But she had no idea who these people were.
	So one day she gets a phone call.
	And it's, hey, it's Elliot.
	And she doesn't know who Elliot is.
	Is Jack there?
	Oh, Jack's not here.
	But who is it, Elliot?
	Elliot who?
	Elliot Easton?
	I'm sorry, I don't know who you are, Elliot.
	Elliot from the Cars.
	And she says, which dealership?
	I mean, you gotta love it.
	Yeah, fantastic.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, then, that story kind of fell flat, so maybe I shouldn't even tell the next one.
	No, you should tell the other one.
	I hope to double or nothing.
	It's going to be nothing.
	All right.
	Well, let's find out.
	So Jack always has people staying around the house.
	Do you remember the crazy kid who won the MTV V&M TV VJ contest?
	The kid's name was Jesse.
	No, I never watched MTV. Okay.
	Well, it was this crazy, real nut job.
	And he looked weird.
	He wore his clothes for 10 days in a row.
	And, you know, his breakfast, he'd just get a whole cup of sprinkles and eat that.
	And the guy was completely messed up.
	I liked a cup of sprinkles for breakfast.
	I mean, seriously, seriously.
	Like, really odd shit this guy would do.
	And that was his whole shtick.
	What are you doing?
	You're counting on me.
	I'm just going to make the sound of trying to eat sprinkles.
	And so this kid, he got a record deal with a million dollar advance.
	And so, of course, Ponty's like, yeah, we'll see what we can do.
	A million dollar advance?
	A million dollar advance.
	Can you believe that?
	No.
	Yeah.
	Well, of course, by the time everything was recouped, he had nothing.
	So this guy is staying in his house, and he's this crazy kid.
	And hey, Sprinkles?
	He was worse than...
	Hey, Sprinkles!
	I mean, you have to go look at him after the show, just for two seconds on YouTube, you'll understand what I'm talking about.
	Okay.
	So he was this nutjob.
	And then one day, Jack is walking past his door, and he hears him talking to his mom in fluent French.
	He's like, this is the nut job.
	He opens the door, he goes in, and he says, wait a minute.
	And the guy says, well, actually, I speak five languages.
	I'm a trust fund kid.
	Me and my sister, we made up this whole idea that I would be this character, and I kind of just stuck in it, and I just kind of went with it.
	And he fooled everybody.
	And he was highly educated.
	He spoke five languages fluently.
	But in the meantime, he kept this charade up.
	He kept on eating the sprinkles every morning and all this crazy crap.
	Unbelievable.
	For people who it's relevant for.
	That was a better story than the first one for some reason.
	Because there was educational.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Anyway, it was good seeing everybody.
	My lips are sealed.
	It'll all be in the book.
	It'll all be in the book.
	What book?
	You working on a book?
	I'm always working on a book.
	Jack has a book, and I read it, and I can't wait.
	I can't wait for this to come out.
	He'll get sued ten times, at least.
	It's so good.
	Well, let's get a copy of it before...
	Tell me you want a proof.
	He's sending it to me.
	He's sending it to me.
	It's so good that I already got...
	For you and I, I've claimed the rights to the movie, and we're going to do it like Robert Evans, the kid stays in the picture.
	Okay.
	So just so you know, there's work to be done.
	There's always work to be done.
	That's the problem.
	And, uh, yeah.
	So I'm sorry to disappoint you.
	You're going to be able to stretch that half hour.
	No.
	We get nothing.
	We get two mediocre stories because your lips are sealed.
	I'm sorry.
	That's never the case with me.
	I will tell some more.
	I stay at home.
	What difference does it make?
	At this point, nothing.
	Anyway, so it was an interesting trip over here, and I spent a lot of time yesterday prepping and doing stuff.
	And I have to say, John, our job is getting very complicated.
	Because I play this little game with myself.
	If I turn on the TV and I switch a channel, it can be the radio too.
	I play the game that I'm pretty sure within 30 seconds someone would say the word Trump.
	It's just all that it is.
	Trump.
	It's just, it's so, now it's becoming tedious.
	And I think the mainstream media, I think they're blowing it.
	I think they are doing too much, and we know that they're all, most of them are all in for Hillary.
	In fact, I have three clips here, two clips, where mainstream media, CBS to start with, of course, Charlie, ordinarily this would have been a challenging week for the Clinton campaign.
	You had several DNC officials resign.
	More fallout from the hacking controversy.
	And Clinton's honesty over her emails was called into question yet again after an interview she did with Fox.
	But the sheer number of unorthodox comments made by Trump just this week has really been a boon to the Clinton campaign.
	They'll admit it themselves, overshadowing some of their bad news.
	Clinton herself continues to go after Trump's business record.
	She visited a tie factory in Colorado today to make the case that Trump doesn't have to make his ties and other articles of clothing overseas.
	What's most heartening to Democrats I talk to, Charlie, is the fact that Trump isn't just starting damaging new feuds.
	He is revisiting old ones.
	Just today, for example, he brought up his issues with Megyn Kelly of Fox, even though his advisers have urged him time and time again to let it lie.
	So what I'm hearing here is Trump says crazy things, so yeah, of course we can't cover anything on Hillary because Trump says crazy things.
	And Chuck Todd, second example, Chuck Todd from NBC. Hold on, listen to this.
	And what irritates so many Republicans is that if it were any other candidate running against Hillary Clinton, this would be a pretty rough patch for Hillary Clinton given some of the items in the news.
	An incredibly rough patch, whether it's the current state of the economy, anemic growth, whether it is her insistence again that somehow Director Comey let her off the hook on emails and she sort of reinterpreted what Comey said in a way that was misleading.
	Throw in the discomfort for many on this Iran deal.
	The point is, never mind, we just started airstrikes in Libya because ISIS is there.
	Well, Libya was a high-profile intervention that Hillary Clinton pushed.
	The point is, in the last five days, this could easily have been Hillary Clinton's worst five days post-convention, and instead the exact opposite, and it's all due to Donald Trump's lack of self-discipline.
	Is this me that thinks this is very strange?
	Here's what it sounds like to me.
	They're criticizing Trump for not doing the following, and then they do the following.
	Yes.
	They're just blasting Hillary Trump's kind of like just standing there.
	Yeah.
	It's very funny.
	It's so incredibly odd that they just admit to that.
	Why isn't Trump bringing this up?
	And why is he bringing that up?
	And then they bring it up.
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	It really is very, very strange.
	They tried to really hit him up.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, I don't have the clip of it, but ABC went after him.
	Hold on.
	Let me look at the list.
	Okay.
	No, I don't think you have an ABC clip in there.
	No, but they went after him, kind of.
	And they're criticizing for stuff like, ah, he talked about the wrong plane.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Actually, I have some Iran clips here.
	Let me see.
	Another fabulous mainstream WTF clip.
	Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC. Now, what this is about is the incredible coincidence that the hostages returned on the very same day the pallets full of cash were sent to Iran.
	Which, you know, there is video of it now, although not the one Trump referenced.
	But listen to MSNBC trying to figure out this.
	This Iran situation was such an unforced error for this administration.
	They came out on camera, the president, January 17th.
	What did you say?
	So they're playing tennis?
	No.
	They came out on camera, the president, January 17th.
	They never explained that this other money was going, the $400 million.
	It's unrelated to the nuclear deal.
	Why do it on the same day?
	It It's a mystery.
	Why exactly?
	They didn't need to do it that day.
	There was nothing in particular forcing their hand.
	It's mystifying.
	Play this clip from ABC, and this is kind of the make-good they did after they slammed Trump in.
	This is where the guy comes on the set and starts discussing it.
	This is a very short clip, but play this.
	This is the 400...
	The $400 million clip.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Let's get right to ABC's chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl.
	You were watching this with me.
	And you've been asking the White House about these payouts for months now.
	And the president reiterating that point, saying, we've talked about it before, that this is manufactured outrage.
	David, I asked pointed questions about this back in January, but what we did not know back then is that $400 million of the money went over in cash at precisely the moment that Iran released four American prisoners.
	And if you notice, the president did not answer Mary's second question.
	Which is, can you assure the American people that that money didn't go to support terrorism?
	David, the State Department itself just two months ago put out a report saying Iran remains the foremost state sponsor of terrorism.
	All right, John Carl and Mary Bruce at the Pentagon today, thanks to you both.
	It's just baffling.
	It's baffling this coincidence.
	And here's the funny thing about Andrea Mitchell, is that...
	When you do one of these deals where you're giving money for hostages, where it's obviously a ransom, it has to be done at exactly the same time.
	Of course it does.
	I will give you the money tomorrow.
	We've all seen how it works on TV. We know how it works.
	And the movies.
	You know, there was a great special once on one of the, I think, 60 Minutes, where do you realize the rigmarole they have to go through to transfer a Boeing jet to, like, France or Germany?
	I know the paperwork is outrageous.
	I know that.
	The paperwork is outrageous, but they have this key.
	They have a key to the jet.
	It's like a key.
	Yes, I have heard of this.
	And they gotta go through this thing where it's like they're holding the key and the other guy's holding the check.
	Even Steven!
	They transferred the key and the check at almost the exact same time.
	And there's a bunch of computers on and they all push the button.
	It's like...
	It's a multi-million dollar deal right in one moment.
	And they can't just, hey, you have to pay us when you want.
	And that's what happened with this money.
	And the funny thing is that I don't know what Andrea Mitchell is thinking.
	Of course it was a ransom.
	What else could it be?
	No, it's mystifying.
	It's just mystifying.
	They didn't have to do it at the same moment.
	Yes, they did.
	That's why they did it at the same moment, you idiot.
	Do you think they really believe that it was just a coincidence?
	Yes.
	Here's another clip.
	That's right, Jake.
	A senior State Department official tells me that it was not a U.S. plane that delivered that cash.
	But these officials, the president himself, acknowledged that cash was sent.
	And we are now seeing what Iranian state television says, what all that money in cash looked like.
	A pallet loaded with what Iranian state television claims is cash sent by the U.S., the narrator says, to pay back Iran's money after 35 years.
	This video, which CNN cannot authenticate, aired in Iran just days after the release of four American prisoners.
	At the Pentagon Thursday, President Obama dismissed any connection between the cash payment, which he acknowledged, and the prisoners' release.
	Saying that negotiations were entirely separate.
	We announced these payments in January.
	This wasn't some nefarious deal.
	No?
	And at the time we explained that Iran had pressed a claim before an international tribunal about them recovering money of theirs that we had frozen.
	I'd like to see some of these reporters go after that part of the story.
	Find the tribunal.
	What tribunal is this?
	What tribunal is out there doing this big bank?
	Oh, you've got to pay them.
	Okay, whatever you say, we'll do it.
	We never do anything that anyone else tells us to do.
	And we really didn't hear anything.
	No, if you replay that clip, I just had the $400 million clip.
	The guy says specifically that they weren't told about the money.
	Yeah.
	It's really, really, really very disappointing.
	And it just makes everyone look so dumb.
	Well, of course, now Obama just rocketed out of town.
	Well, hell yeah.
	He went on vacation, someplace to play a bunch of golf.
	The Cape or wherever it is.
	You heard the State Department there.
	You probably saw this clip.
	A lot of people saw it.
	Just while we're talking about the craziness of the mainstream media and reporting.
	But also...
	How the sourcing works, and luckily our man Matt Lee is in this clip to set things straight.
	This is Mark Toner at the beginning of the State Department briefing on Friday.
	Welcome to the State Department.
	I think we have some interns in the back.
	Welcome.
	Good to see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy.
	Is that what it is?
	I thought it was an exercise in spin and obfuscation.
	Oh, that's the word I was hoping for.
	I don't know why he started laughing.
	I think something else must have helped.
	Maybe it was, you couldn't see, maybe Matt Lee was making a face.
	Yeah, somebody was.
	Yeah.
	But it's like, okay, great.
	Exercise in obfuscation.
	In front of all of the children.
	In front of the interns.
	Good job!
	Good job, people.
	Please clap.
	Idiots.
	Please clap.
	Yeah.
	What else we got?
	Well, there's a number of things.
	First, the clip that we played from Hillary Clinton saying we are going to tax the middle class.
	This is very interesting.
	Actually, I'll play the clip just so we can hear it again soon.
	I want to mention something before you play the clip.
	Everyone has to go out and look at this clip.
	Because you get to see, as soon as she says, we've got to tax the middle class, you see Warren Buffett's head, you see his whole body, and he's clapping like a son of a bitch.
	Is he not listening, or is he listening?
	Don't know.
	Well, that, of course, is open for interpretation.
	Taxes for the super rich.
	Well, we're not going there, my friends.
	I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class.
	So I didn't have time or really means to clip all the different, mainly MSNBC. They were slowing it down, like...
	Which is a good sound on Hillary, I have to say.
	What were they slowing it down for?
	Does somebody think that she didn't say that?
	Oh, yeah.
	They're saying that she said, we aren't going to tax the middle class.
	And, you know, this is one of these things where, if you've seen the tests on YouTube, where...
	Play it again.
	Okay, hold on.
	You've seen the tests on YouTube where they say, oh, this is what he's saying, and it looks exactly like what that person is saying.
	Trump wants to cut taxes for the super rich.
	Well, we're not going there, my friends.
	I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class.
	Now, so what she supposedly said, and of course when you put it in your head, we aren't going to raise taxes on the middle class.
	Yeah, I put it in my head, I couldn't quite get that.
	But here's the problem.
	I don't know who's advising her, and she's saying a lot of wacky shit.
	I don't know who's advising her, but this is a mistake.
	You never want to say, use the word not, because the brain can't process that, and this is proof of it.
	I heard R. Now, surely I have bias, but I really heard R, and if you want to hear aren't, you can, but she should never talk that way.
	If you say, do not forget, you're going to forget!
	I rented a car to drive to Jersey.
	And it's one of those key, you know, you put the key in the ashtray, whatever it is.
	And then when you open the door, it says, do not forget your key.
	I'm like, this is dumb.
	That's the first thing I'm going to do is forget the key because your brain doesn't process the negative in the sentence.
	So for her to say, we are not going to tax the middle class, that is just wrong.
	I don't, is no one paying attention to her?
	I guess not.
	Hmm.
	I never heard, just even a second, listen, I've heard it's not four or five times, I've never heard ARN'T. We ARN'T. We ARN'T. They were slowing it down on MSNBC. Rawr, rawr, rawr.
	Those horny assholes, they just, I can't, it's pathetic listening to MSNBC. Yeah, but it's pathetic, but it's incredibly fun.
	And nobody listens to it.
	It's incredibly fun, I have to say.
	The biggest mistake MSNBC made most recently is they should have brought back...
	What's his name?
	The...
	Oh, what's his name?
	The big-headed guy who was on this show for so long that they fired him.
	Keith Olbermann.
	Oh, Olbermann, yeah.
	Yeah, they should have brought...
	You know, as much as a pain in the ass, apparently, as Olbermann is, and he's not cheap...
	They should have brought him back to MSNBC for the convention coverage until they have to fire him again and left him go there.
	Because he will bring an audience in because as nasty as he is, and he's very mean-spirited and hateful, he is good.
	He's really good.
	He will really get under somebody's skin.
	And they should have brought him back.
	I don't understand what they're thinking over there.
	It doesn't matter that much.
	It's just entertaining to us.
	It's entertaining to everybody.
	Did you see the bit where someone did something, and I guess they were protesters, and then the Secret Service jumped up on stage behind Hillary?
	Hillary, yeah.
	Freaked her out.
	Yeah, what was interesting is, first of all, the Secret Service continued whispering to her, keep talking, keep talking.
	Yeah, they kept saying, keep talking, keep talking, keep talking.
	I mean, it really showed incredible weakness, and particularly how she wrapped it up.
	You okay?
	You okay?
	Keep talking.
	Keep talking.
	We're not going anywhere.
	Okay, here we are.
	Oh, and the crazy laugh.
	Keep talking, man.
	Keep talking.
	Keep talking.
	We'll keep talking.
	And apparently these people are here to protest Trump because Trump and his kids have killed a lot of animals.
	So thank you for making that point.
	What?
	What?
	My goodness.
	Yeah, that was good.
	That is insane.
	I mean, she really didn't know what to do in a complicated situation.
	I feel this really was an important thing to see.
	Yeah, you might be right.
	I didn't think about it that way.
	And particularly how the Secret Service keep talking.
	I mean, she can't figure out, she can't handle some protesters?
	Yeah.
	I found that to be very, very strange.
	It's Hillary gaff week for some reason.
	And here is another good one.
	These are just some of the highlights of our plan.
	I hope you will go to my website, HillaryClinton.com, to read the details, including how we are going to pay for everything I've proposed.
	And, of course, I hope you will compare what I'm proposing to what my opponent is talking about.
	What?
	That was the best one.
	What?
	My husband.
	My husband.
	Now, why does that happen?
	Why do you think...
	Didn't she say her brain got cross-wired?
	Short-circuited.
	Short-circuited, right.
	Do you have that clip?
	I think I have it somewhere.
	But this is...
	I mean, for anyone to...
	I mean, why would you use that term?
	I think she's got brain damage.
	Well, it must be.
	Otherwise, why would you?
	Which we never really talked about in great detail, even though it's come out pretty much in the WikiLeaks.
	The memos in the Democrat Party are discussing this incident that happened on her flight to Iran.
	Hold on, let me play.
	She was at the Association of Black Journalists or something like that, I believe.
	And here it's 14 seconds, but this is really the crux of what she said.
	Is this not undercutting your efforts to rebuild trust with the American people?
	I may have short-circuited it, and for that I will try to clarify.
	I never sent or received anything that was marked classified.
	There she is.
	Short-circuited again.
	How many times has she...
	That is a lie.
	And that has been...
	Even the mainstream says that's a lie.
	And she just keeps doing it.
	I don't get it.
	I don't understand why she sticks.
	Because they just write her about it.
	In fact, they had on the PBS NewsHour, I didn't record because it was too lengthy.
	It was actually too long.
	They had that funny looking girl with the big nose that's one of the correspondents.
	Yeah, the Jardin.
	Lisa Desjardins.
	Lisa Desjardins.
	And she went into a whole deal.
	I think they did this to punish her because she was so pro-Hillary, it was obvious.
	They made her go over Hillary's lies.
	And it was a long segment.
	She said this, but here's the truth.
	She said this, and here's the truth.
	She said that, and here's the truth.
	She said this, and here's the truth.
	And it was like, wow, of all the people on that show that I expected to see do as a hit piece on Hillary like that, Lisa Desjardins was the last one on my list.
	Right.
	No, no.
	I think the PBS was, I think somebody in the bureaucracy over there, you know, they know that anything can happen and they don't want to, you know, they're supposed to be unbiased as possible, but they weren't.
	When you watched them cover the two conventions, the RNC and the DNC, they were gushing at the DNC convention.
	Yes, of course, of course.
	But, you know, he basically gave a present to the Trump campaign with this short-circuited thing.
	He's just going to keep using that.
	Your brain is short-circuited if you say this in public while you're running for office.
	You are dumb.
	You're dumb or something else is wrong.
	We're getting incredibly bad advice.
	The questions that were asked, and I'd listened to this whole thing in the car as I was driving down to Red Bank, and the questions she got, almost our favorite, which is, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
	Kevin Merida, editor-in-chief of The Undefeated at ESPN. What is the most meaningful conversation you've had with an African-American friend?
	And what is that question?
	Wow!
	That's a racist question, if anything.
	It is a racist question, yep.
	It's incredible, and her answer...
	It is the what kind of a tree would you be question, yes.
	So, what is the journalist trying to say?
	And actually, she answers it by saying, well, she is going to say black people are different.
	Listen.
	Oh my gosh.
	Oh my gosh.
	Shoot, my brain's crossed.
	Can I tell you that I am blessed to have a...
	A crew of great friends.
	So, somehow that's a gang reference, the way I see it.
	I got a crew of black people.
	That's a gang reference.
	She has a posse.
	Well, she said crew.
	Yeah, same thing.
	Yeah, it's a gang.
	My black friends are a gang.
	I think that was subconscious.
	I think she was short-circuit and she's trying to figure out what to say.
	I've had two chiefs of staff who were my African-American women friends, Maggie Williams and Cheryl Mills.
	Not just my friends, my African-American women friends with a limp.
	I have been blessed to have people by my side in politics like Mignon Moore who's one of the leaders of my campaign.
	I've had a great group of young people who I have been really motivated by and frankly learned from.
	So I really have had A lifetime of friendship.
	I'm good for black people.
	Going back to my college years when one of my best friends...
	Oh, one of my best friends is black.
	Okay.
	...was an African-American student.
	So I can't compress...
	What's her name?
	...into one conversation.
	They've supported me.
	They've chastised me.
	They've raised issues with me.
	And?
	They've tried to expand my musical tastes.
	LAUGHTER Now, this is, if you want to just call people racist the way the mainstream, the way everyone does it today.
	If Trump would have said that, he would have been a racist.
	Oh, yeah, because they have different music, different culture, they're different, they're not the same.
	Really disgusting.
	Really, really disgusting.
	Yeah, but everyone's just laughing.
	It's fantastic.
	Very, very funny.
	I want to play a clip that's a callback.
	This is one I promised I'd bring in on Sunday.
	This is the Jed Johnson.
	This was done on Tuesday or Wednesday.
	This is done way after everybody, including Obama, blamed the Russians for the DNC hack and now Mike Morrell...
	He blamed the Russians and blamed Trump for being a Russian stooge.
	An unwilling agent of the Russians.
	An unwitting, I think.
	Whatever it was.
	Morrell is a CIA guy.
	He was in the CIA. He was high up.
	Of course he's going to endorse Hillary because of the whole Benghazi gun thing.
	She holds the keys.
	He's protecting his own ass.
	Right, good point.
	And he also, no coincidence, was working for CBS for a while as the intelligence guy.
	He was such a dud.
	He was a terrible television guy, so they had to get rid of him.
	He said, get us somebody else, you guys.
	CIA has to put their people in CBS, and they've got to find somebody better than this guy.
	He's just boring.
	Yeah.
	But here's Jed Johnson telling it like it is.
	So when the DNC was hacked, initially they decided not to go directly to the FBI and DHS. They hired a private security firm to look at the attack and mitigate it.
	Then those emails appeared online and the FBI got involved.
	There's also a question of there are a number of voting machines in counties that are electronic and digital and some of them are connected to the internet.
	So I wanted to get a sense for you of what the vulnerabilities are, what your assessment of the DNC hack is, and should the government be looking at elections as a piece of critical infrastructure or should the government just try to stay out of it as much as possible?
	Sounds like Brian's been in our internal deliberations lately.
	Hopefully not hacking into them, but anyway.
	A couple of things.
	First, as everybody knows, the FBI is investigating the DNC hack.
	We are not at this point prepared to attribute it to a particular actor or actors.
	That investigation continues.
	Separate and apart from that, and this is not a comment on the DNC hack in particular, but a general observation.
	This is something that I preach generally.
	First, basic employee education and awareness about the hazards of spearfishing.
	Yeah, he went on.
	Spear phishing.
	And apparently they do spear phishing is like phishing only as targeted.
	Yeah, through your email.
	But it's targeted at a person.
	Yeah.
	And he says that the department, his department, the top guys in D.C., they do, I think once a month, they do a spear phishing attack on themselves.
	Yeah.
	And what they do is somehow you win a couple tickets to the Nationals game or something, and they plan a piece of code.
	Or dinner with Hamilton tickets with Hillary.
	And so they do this once a month, and then they tell everyone to go pick up the tickets at a certain place, and as they come in, they sit them all down and lecture.
	Really?
	I hadn't heard about this.
	How did you hear about this?
	It was on this, I could have heard this further on the clip, same clip.
	He said that's what he was starting on.
	It was just a little lengthy.
	I like that.
	So he goes on about spearfishing, and so they have this big thing about it.
	And it sounded to me, as he discussed this, because apparently they reel in quite a few people every month.
	And it sounded to me as though they suspected it was a spearfishing attack on any one of the members of the...
	DNC, that then they can get access to the network, and once they did that, then a hacker can go in there.
	Actually, whatever the malicious code is that they planted, probably just delivering all the mail to everybody as a CC to the hacker community, whoever did it.
	But there was no Russians involved, and it sounds to me more like anybody.
	Now, the thing that was not actually noticed, and I only noticed it after I listened to this clip a few times, The DNC did not go to the FBI. Oh?
	In that clip, he says they went to a private security company.
	Oh, you're right.
	Yes, you're right.
	They went to FireEye and the other Cosmic Weenie guys, whoever they are.
	So they went to these other guys, and then when they got leaked to the WikiLeaks, then the FBI came in, I think, on their own recognizance.
	I don't think the FBI was ever invited.
	Interesting.
	And that helps basis our theory that the FBI is on the Trump side of the equation, and the Hillary side knows this.
	Yes, exactly.
	And that's why they didn't call the FBI. They're not going to call the FBI. They're just like calling the enemy.
	The enemy.
	You don't want the enemy in here.
	Interesting.
	Go ahead.
	That also leads to the Napolitano comment, which I don't have a clip of, but I should, but it's out there.
	Napolitano calls in one of the shows on Fox, and he says that it's pretty clear that the NSA did the hack for And they shared it with, I guess the FBI knew something about it.
	They did the hack and gave it over to the WikiLeaks because the NSA, according to Napolitano, he says that Hillary, her own personal email server, was so hacked over by everybody in the world that it resulted, and I've never seen any confirmation of this, but it's what he said, it resulted in the death, the actual death of two people in one of the agencies.
	And so they were irked about this at the NSA. CIA doesn't care.
	They're in Hillary's camp.
	So this is bringing this whole war between the agencies thing to the fore, which is what we've been banking on to be a fact, because it makes things make a lot more sense.
	So the FBI, I'm pretty sure, at least Trump has been friendly to them.
	He's given a real pass, like, oh, they just had a bad day.
	And I've asserted before that the Comey testimony before Congress, even though they didn't indict her, I don't think they wanted to indict her.
	I think they want to keep her in the race because anyone could beat her, or Trump can beat her, not anyone.
	Trump can beat her.
	Jeb Bush couldn't beat her.
	So Comey went out of his way to make all these accusations without filing an indictment, and those are all clippable and can be used in future advertising.
	Because it's almost like a script between watching What's-His-Name, the bald guy, going back and forth.
	Like, well, no, that wasn't true.
	That wasn't true.
	That wasn't true.
	No, that was a lie.
	That wasn't true.
	And, I mean, that wasn't pro-Trump.
	I don't know what it is.
	So where do you think NSA stands in all of this?
	We know CIA is more with Hillary.
	We know FBI is more with Trump.
	Where's NSA? I think he's all in for Trump.
	I'm sorry, who's all in for Trump?
	Comey.
	No, but I was asking NSA. Where do you think they stand?
	They're a Trump side.
	You sure?
	I'm pretty sure, yeah.
	Interesting.
	They don't like the CIA. Let's face it.
	Let's just face it.
	Right.
	These two sides are battling.
	They don't like the CIA. And they know that the CIA is so obvious about being in the bag for Hillary.
	And when Morrell came out, they said, well, that was a confirmation.
	What was the point of that?
	Yeah.
	So, you recall the FBI agent, the so-called FBI agent who's showing up on 4chan and posting stuff?
	Yeah, right.
	Well, I'm just reporting it.
	No, I know.
	I'm just thinking it's hard to believe, but I guess it could be.
	So, this FBI agent apparently now has said that there is a video...
	Let me just see here.
	A video of Hillary...
	Doing some kind of nefarious deal with the Saudis, and according to the FBI informant, Huma Abedin videotaped this meeting, which apparently is damning.
	And that this has been leaked, and there's even accusations that Uma herself leaked it, which would be mind-boggling if that was true, that she was an undercover agent the whole time.
	That'd be great.
	So I love the theory.
	I really do.
	I'm not so sure if it holds water, but there is apparently more to come, and according to the agent, this video has or will be leaked to RT. And so it should show up on television.
	Of course, it being with RT will make it that much more fun.
	Yeah, RT would just take it to the max.
	So, yeah, the intelligence agency is very heavily involved, this go-around, at least obviously involved, this go-around.
	Clint Eastwood made a statement, which you may have heard or read somewhere.
	I think it was an op-ed, so there's no actual clip of it, although I do have a clip where it's referenced.
	And Don Lemon, the superstar of CNN, the overnight legend, Don Lemon, he had an interview.
	Let's see, he had a panel.
	He had, what do you have on here?
	Graham Beckle.
	Graham Beckel is an actor.
	I don't think many people know him.
	Do you know Graham Beckel?
	Yep.
	He played Jack Fisk in Battlestar Galactica.
	Hal Sanders on Heroes.
	Okay.
	Ellis Wyatt.
	Well, that was a shit movie.
	Don't care.
	Yeah, okay.
	So he's been around.
	But he's kind of an old, grouchy guy.
	And also on the panel is New York Times columnist.
	I don't know if he's a reporter.
	Charles Blow.
	Which is a great name.
	Yeah, he's a columnist.
	Great name.
	Charles Blow.
	Great name.
	Great name.
	And they're doing something that when I'm back and when I'm able to record off TV easily...
	And MSNBC is doing this continuously, particularly Joy Reid, which is going to be very fun to watch her do this all the time.
	They have a number of people on.
	They have someone who is pro-Trump.
	They will say something, and then immediately it will get, okay, you, anti-Trump guy, in this case Charles Blow, what do you think?
	And they always discredit that guest by, you're nuts, he's crazy, I don't know what you've been smoking.
	And this is the new format for bringing people on.
	I brought this up before with Kelly Ann Conway when she was the pro-Trump person on one of these things.
	And again, it was Don Lemon.
	I think it began a while ago when Don Lemon had Kelly Ann Conway on.
	And she was just, they just berated her.
	They just berated her left and right.
	And it was always, you don't really believe that, you don't really believe that.
	And they said, you don't really believe that.
	Right.
	Whatever you said.
	Whatever she said.
	You don't really believe that.
	You must be insane.
	As though you're an idiot.
	Yeah, you're insane.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, very annoying.
	So they play this, explain a little role in here about what Clint Eastwood said, which is great.
	And I really wanted to bring this up for two reasons.
	One, to hear what this Beckel guy says, because he has a funny quote.
	Again, CNN letting all kinds of no-no words on the air.
	And then he throws it back to this Charles Blow, who does the same thing that you identified.
	It may not be a full endorsement, but we certainly know who Clint Eastwood wants in the White House.
	In an interview with Esquire magazine, Hollywood's tough guy takes a political hard line, scolding, well, society.
	Eastwood says Trump is onto something because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up.
	That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now.
	Everybody's walking on eggshells.
	Graham, you take what Clint Eastwood said, you said, into context.
	His age, the times in Hollywood, Hollywood and the times.
	Explain what you mean by that.
	Yeah, Clint's 86 years old, lives in Hollywood, and kissing ass is, you know, it's the currency of the realm.
	Everybody in Hollywood kisses ass except people with a tremendous amount of integrity.
	He being Juan Warren Beatty, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, people from the left and the right.
	Some people have integrity.
	Clint Eastwood is one of them.
	And I love the popping you guys are doing with this corn.
	I never heard that expression.
	I love the poppin' you're doing with this corn.
	You guys are doing with this corn over reading some kind of racist thing about it.
	I think that's...
	it's dim-witted and slangless.
	He's the guy who tells it like it is.
	Okay, so Graham, but what does that have to do with...
	I don't get what the racist thing is.
	Okay, well maybe...
	The post-colonial victim shit.
	I don't get it, sorry.
	Charles?
	No, you don't ask me to answer that.
	I don't even know what this man is talking about.
	I mean, these are Clint's...
	Really?
	He doesn't know what he's talking about?
	This is why...
	I do like the post-colonial victim shit.
	I think that's an interesting...
	Post-colonial victim shit.
	...words, right?
	We have...
	These are his words.
	I don't even know what that is.
	I don't even know what that is.
	This is now normal.
	I don't even know what you're talking about.
	I don't even know what you're talking about.
	I'm just over here.
	He said these words.
	I let you talk and rambled on whatever you were saying.
	Now it's my turn.
	Thank you very much.
	You're welcome.
	I do that all the time.
	Oh, asshole.
	Clint said in his own words that the things that Trump are saying now, some people call racist, and that Clint says in his own words that when he said similar things when he was young, it wasn't called racist.
	That's what he says.
	And he says later in the piece that people should just get over it.
	Those are his words.
	Those are not mine.
	Those are not the people that ask us.
	Clint Eastwood said those words.
	What's that?
	He's nervous.
	So let's talk about this for a second.
	The gist of this whole conversation is things that weren't called racist in Clint Eastwood's back in the day now are called racist.
	So the question is, that I pose to you, you being closer to Clint's age than me, is...
	Huh?
	I don't mean it in an ageist way.
	It's a complimentary way.
	Okay, go on.
	Yeah.
	Are these things now...
	Has the classification of racism changed?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Okay.
	Racism used to refer only to race, specific race, like Negro, Caucasian, Asian...
	Maybe American Indians, but they were Native Americans.
	They were Asians, really.
	Toil it down.
	And unless it was actual race, not ethnic group, what's changed is that ethnic groups have become racist somehow.
	And the funny thing is, when I was a kid and going to Cal Berkeley...
	The idea that an ethnic group was a race was really frowned upon by the same class that calls everybody a racist at the drop of a hat.
	It was completely frowned upon.
	And there was a book which I had a copy of called The Races of Man.
	And it included the Irish and the Scots and the Swedes and all these different Caucasians that were considered different races.
	That was...
	Verboten.
	The litany at the time of the era was, no, that is not a race.
	It's not a race.
	Racism is black and white.
	Whites being racist against blacks.
	Period.
	That's about it.
	And then they started making everything racism.
	And I don't know when that happened.
	It happened within the last 20 years.
	Where a Mexican, if you don't like a Mexican, you're a racist.
	Well, that's not right.
	If you don't like...
	No, but isn't racism, isn't that something that is...
	The definition, of course, is you believe a class is lesser than another class.
	Not necessarily.
	Different.
	If you believe they're different.
	The definition, I think, is...
	Well, the definition is out.
	What we're talking about 90% of the time here is ethnocentricism.
	And you can't use that.
	It has no punch.
	Oh, you're an ethnocentric asshole.
	And that's a good term to use because it condemns you.
	It's like using demagogue, which still cracks me up when I hear it.
	Yeah, demagogue, yeah.
	Because a demagogue is just a guy who appeals to popular taste.
	Here is the basic, the definition is still the belief that all members of each race possesses characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially as so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
	I think that, yeah, I think that's probably right.
	But it could be also superior.
	In fact, if anybody remembers back far enough, Jimmy the Weasel, the guy who used to be a famous Jimmy the Greek.
	Jimmy the Greek.
	Jimmy the Greek.
	Hello.
	Jimmy the Greek used to be this television personality who also did all the odds.
	Oh, I think it's three to one that they're going to do this and that.
	Somebody took a hidden camera and caught him talking about how black athletes, because of slavery, were trained to have longer endurance.
	They would naturally be better football players.
	And he went on and on with what I consider to be outrageous, complimentary racism.
	And he got fired.
	He wasn't saying that blacks were stupid or they were anything, but he said they were superior.
	He was saying they were genetically superior in sports.
	Well, that is racism.
	That's total racism, but is it the kind of racism that you'd fire somebody over?
	Yes, because all racism is bad.
	You can't think that way.
	You can't think that blacks are superior.
	You can't do that.
	It's not right.
	And so you now have a screwball situation that is completely out of control and it's befuddling and it's just used as an epithet.
	Just anything you do, you can just call somebody a racist.
	Just call them a racist randomly.
	On the old late night show with that Scottish guy whose name is looting me at the moment, he used to do, he had a robot on and he had his producer who wouldn't let him do a lot of skits and he started yelling at him, telling him he's a racist.
	He wouldn't let him do stuff.
	He says, you're a racist.
	You're a racist.
	There's no race involved at all.
	So you can just call somebody a racist, whether they are or not, and it's supposed to have an impact on the feeble-minded.
	It does, and there's feeble-minded.
	You have to be an idiot to fall for this.
	Exactly.
	Feeble-minded.
	Well...
	That's your O-Bot buddies.
	Yeah.
	Well, it is definitely...
	The word is losing all its power.
	That's for sure.
	No, I don't think so.
	I don't think it has yet.
	It's got...
	I mean, eventually it has to.
	It just can't continue, I think.
	It's played so well.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	It's beautiful.
	Let's see.
	I don't think I have much.
	Again, it's just, it's all Trump's a dick, Trump's horrible.
	Trump's a dick.
	We got no time.
	Yeah, I said they said Trump's a dick on one of the shows and they ran with it.
	Yeah, the loud mouth dick.
	We played it on the last show.
	Yeah.
	They keep repeating it.
	Play that clip again.
	Yeah, sure I do.
	Let me see.
	I'm pretty sure I have it here.
	It shouldn't be asked when you're on the road.
	No, that's okay.
	I can find it.
	It was...
	Well, that's odd.
	Was it loudmouth?
	Hold on.
	Yeah, yeah, I got it.
	I have this.
	I have this.
	Liz Mare, that's her name.
	Here we go.
	I have the ISO. This message is being a loudmouthed dick, basically.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Loudmouthed dick.
	Exactly.
	Now, I want to play this.
	This is another old kind of a clip I lost and found.
	This is the clip from the Bernie...
	This is on Democracy Now!
	I believe it was Bernie's.
	And the reason I want to play this is because it's got a moment in here that's kind of interesting to discuss.
	But this is the Bernie protesters at the convention outside.
	And it's got a lot of good information in it.
	But the story of this poor girl, this girl who was a...
	She's a political now, but I guess she was poor, and she had her welfare taken away during the welfare reform of Bill Clinton.
	And the result of this, there's some irony here, the result of the welfare being taken away by Bill Clinton was her mom had to become a hooker.
	And it's actually a sad story.
	Which is this?
	This is the last old Bernie convention clip.
	I'm 35 years old, I'm from Queens, New York, and I've been in Philadelphia since Sunday.
	I'm here as a Bernie supporter and protesting.
	And can you describe this sign that you're carrying?
	It is a big poster board that is carved out with Bernie's name on one side and never Hillary on the other side.
	When I was younger, my family was on welfare, and Bill Clinton was in office, and they passed welfare reform.
	We weren't qualified for food stamps any longer.
	The monthly money that we got was cut, and then the subsidized housing was also cut.
	My mother was required to go out and apply for a certain number of jobs, but she's a single mother of six children and wasn't able to meet their requirements.
	We struggled tremendously, and my mother actually became a sex worker.
	The message from inside that the DSE has locked down the arena to prevent the delegates from walking out.
	The delegates are locked inside right now!
	We will wait for them!
	Hold on, mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check.
	Unbelievable.
	Mic check, mic check.
	I think this was on C-SPAN. I take it back.
	But yes, they locked everybody in, by the way, which is a fire hazard.
	Of course it is.
	You couldn't get out.
	I mean, if there was a fire in there and everyone died, that would be something.
	That convention was a fiasco, and I just can't get over it.
	Samantha Bee could find no humor in it.
	You really like watching her show, don't you?
	I haven't watched it, I'm telling you.
	I like her as a comic, like I said before, but I can't get through her show.
	Anyway.
	Oh, they're doing some work with Mike Pence.
	This was interesting.
	So, you know, Mike Pence now has to be positioned, and they have to brand him.
	So they bring in...
	What's the best way to brand someone?
	You just bring in a kid.
	Whoever this kid is, he's the next co-host of the No Agenda Show podcast.
	This kid can talk.
	11 years old, and a script which he has memorized, and...
	Pence even asked a follow-up question.
	The kid just throws it.
	I mean, for an 11-year-old kid, this was great.
	And it is obviously meant to position Pence.
	Good morning, Governor Pence.
	My name is Matthew, and I'm 11 years old.
	And I've been watching the news lately, and I've been noticing that you've been kind of softening up on Mr.
	Trump's policies and words.
	Is this going to be your role in the administration?
	So how about that question?
	Yeah, it's a goodie.
	But this kid is great.
	What's your name, son?
	Matthew.
	Matthew.
	What did you say that I've been doing?
	You've been kind of softening up on his birth.
	This kid is dynamite.
	Where is this kid from?
	I'd like to know.
	This is one of these...
	Probably look it up.
	Yeah, we have to.
	Let me tell you, Matthew.
	Number one, this boy's got a future.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Nicely done.
	Let me tell you what.
	There it is.
	Did you hear it?
	No.
	Nicely done.
	He compliments the fucking kid.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's a setup.
	What a moron.
	Here, listen to this.
	Let me tell you what.
	I couldn't be more proud to stand with Donald Trump.
	I have to go back a little bit more.
	I want to hear that.
	That's okay.
	I just want to hear him say that one word.
	This boy's got a future.
	Nicely done.
	Scam.
	Nicely done.
	Nicely done.
	Why don't you just hand him a couple of hundreds?
	Yeah, just hand him a hundy.
	Here, kid, here's a hundy, I promise you.
	Perfect.
	The controversy continues about the Gold Star family, the cons, and of course more Gold Star families are coming out.
	Can I ask you something?
	Sure.
	Have you ever heard of Gold Star Families before this incident?
	I think once.
	I don't remember ever hearing of it.
	It was not unfamiliar, but it's certainly not something.
	Instead of saying the parents of someone who died, who was killed, killed in action, it's kind of like, instead of cops don't get murdered, they fall.
	There's a lot of parents who had lost their children to these unnecessary wars, just to put it bluntly.
	And I don't remember ever them.
	They're just called the parents of the victims or something.
	I've never remembered this.
	Well, it's newspeak.
	They made such a big deal out of this, and now they've got, of course, veterans coming out of the woodwork, which are Hillary supporters.
	But it's...
	Distressing.
	It's newspeak.
	You know, the more you dumb stuff...
	George Carlin has this great bit where he talks about war veterans coming back from the First World War, and they were shell-shocked.
	You played that clip.
	Did I play that?
	Yeah.
	And, of course, that winds up ultimately where now it's now PTSD. We don't even say post-traumatic stress disorder anymore, just PTSD. So, yeah.
	And, in fact, I saw the train go by.
	It was a huge rap on the train.
	It has a huge sticker.
	New Jersey Transit salutes our troops.
	What does that mean?
	Hey, I'm saluting you.
	It's another one of those, it's completely meaningless, it's meant to make you feel good, saluting our troops.
	Hey, how's that leg blown off doing?
	I'm sorry, I missed you.
	What did you say?
	I wanted to talk about this just for a second.
	Ronald, when did the president start saluting everybody in uniform?
	Ah!
	Let me play this clip.
	Let me play this clip.
	This fits in perfectly, and then you can pick it up.
	There's just a lot more important things going on.
	I mean, this story has been going on for a week now, and I'm not saying that Mrs.
	Khan probably had a right to be offended by it, you know, but the thing is, let me just tell you my perspective.
	Words don't mean as much to me as actions.
	That's just me.
	You know, when my son was killed, he was killed in the largest loss of life in the history of Naval Special Warfare.
	And we had 30 families at Dover Air Base waiting for our sons to be...
	To be returned from Afghanistan.
	And, you know, what we experienced there was, and I'm not just trying to, I'm just trying to draw a contrast.
	I'm not trying to bring up old news, but, you know, what we experienced there is the families unanimously asked Barack Obama to not bring any media, to not make this a media event, that he was welcome to be with us, but no media.
	And, you know, he showed up with cameras, and the next day, our pictures, or his picture, saluting the caskets of our boys, was plastered over every outlet in America.
	There you go.
	Well, this has been tracked down.
	Yeah, well, photo ops are photo ops.
	This has been tracked back to Ronald Reagan.
	And I did a little research on this.
	I went back and looked at every photo I could find.
	And there was no...
	And this includes Eisenhower when he was president.
	Although he did salute once in a while, but it was under some circumstance.
	Generally speaking, when there's a guy standing at a helicopter and you're running out of the White House to jump in the chopper, ever since Ronald Reagan, you as the president salute the guard that's standing there by the steps to the chopper.
	You see it.
	You see it all the time.
	You've been seeing it.
	And Obama did it once with a Starbucks coffee cup.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, that's funny.
	So he went on his vacation.
	There he is saluting whoever greeted him, you know, some guy.
	And he does a snappy salute as if he's in the military.
	It looks like somebody had said, well, no, you've got to keep your arm at this 45 degree angle.
	You've got to do it this way.
	And so it's actually not a...
	Reagan was like kind of sloppy.
	And I think...
	I can't remember the other ones.
	I looked them all up.
	And I found everybody did it ever since Reagan because Reagan set the standard.
	Now they're all saluting.
	When they're not...
	He's not required to salute at all.
	There's no protocol for the president, even he's commander in chief to salute anybody.
	In fact, he's above it all.
	He doesn't need to salute anybody.
	He's above it all.
	He's not he's not a soldier.
	Right.
	But he keeps doing it.
	And it's just getting on my nerves because it's because Harry Truman didn't do it.
	Eisenhower didn't do it.
	Kennedy didn't do it.
	I tried to find Kennedy because I can kind of remember him saluting.
	I couldn't find a picture of it.
	Lyndon Johnson didn't do it.
	Coolidge didn't do it.
	Franklin Roosevelt didn't do it.
	Nobody did it except Reagan.
	Did they acknowledge them like a hat tip or like a nod?
	Well, in many cases, no.
	Hmm.
	There'd be a guy, a guard there.
	You walk right by him.
	You know, he's protecting you.
	He's not saluting him.
	He's not working.
	You know, he's not like an underling.
	You could, I guess, boss him around, but why doesn't he salute the Secret Service when he sees you?
	Right, right.
	Well, it's just as meaningless as what the New Jersey Transit has on their trains.
	We salute you.
	I don't know.
	These guys are saluting all the time.
	I know we have some veterans and some...
	If you haven't been in the military, if you haven't served, I think it's odd.
	I think it's an odd thing to do.
	When did we switch over from the rule that the American flag can't be used as clothing?
	You didn't have American flag ties and American flag jackets.
	It was all considered disrespectful until just recently.
	Yeah, I remember Abbie Hoffman from Steal This Book.
	He had a shirt out of an American flag, and that was really radical.
	It wasn't radical, it was rude.
	Yeah, rude.
	It was considered an insult to the flag in the country.
	Now they're wearing flags, they're wearing flag underwear.
	I mean, give me a break, make up your minds.
	That's funny.
	It's kind of a pet peeve, I guess.
	Yeah.
	But not of the day.
	A couple things on our Obama Nation before we take our first break here.
	First of all, this just came out.
	Let me see.
	Where is this?
	This is about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
	Let's see.
	We have Aetna.
	Is it Aetna?
	That's what it is?
	Aetna?
	I'm sorry, what was it again?
	Aetna is the...
	Aetna.
	Aetna.
	It's spelled A-etna.
	Aetna.
	The CEO came out and said, well, we were supposed to break even this year with our Obamacare business, but we've already lost $200 million.
	We expect that to be $320 million before the year is out.
	So they are planning on leaving...
	20 states.
	Yeah, they're all going to leave eventually.
	And this, of course, comes on the heels of UnitedHealth Group saying they have to leave.
	Humanas has also decided to drop out.
	And, of course, we have Blue Cross Blue Shield who are saying, yeah, we're going to put in a request to raise our rates up to 60%.
	This is a massive, massive failure.
	And to this day, having read the Affordable Care Act, In its entirety.
	I don't understand how it was possible, and maybe it's just there was so much detail that you couldn't see the big picture, that we're not allowed to pull out.
	As an individual, you can't.
	You get penalized.
	You have to pay a tax if you don't have health insurance, and the tax is very aggressive the more years you're not covered.
	But I didn't realize that the insurance companies can pull out, it's not working for us, and they can pull out.
	That makes no sense.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	It's disturbing.
	The whole thing is a mess.
	I mean, you can't...
	And the thing about the doctors, you can't even pay cash and go to a doctor if you're signed up for Obamacare.
	It's illegal.
	Really?
	And the doctor will get fined.
	Why?
	Why?
	If I have cash because they think it'll hurt the overall system needs to work with everybody in it.
	And you can't do this stuff on the side.
	So even in Great Britain, as far as I know, you can be part of the medical system, the healthcare system.
	And if you want to go to a private doctor for some specialty thing and you have cash, you can do that.
	Am I not right about that or am I wrong?
	I would think.
	I think it's true.
	People can correct me if I'm wrong.
	Here, no.
	No, if you're signed up for Obamacare and you want to go to some specialist, somebody who might be like a dermatologist, and I know this for a fact because I tried to get my daughter into this.
	Oh, no, no, we can't take her.
	She signed up.
	We can't take her.
	We'll get fined.
	Oh, man.
	We will be fined if we take her business.
	Well, you're even paying cash.
	No, we can't take her.
	And they look it up and they make sure that she's in the system.
	No, you cannot go to a doctor with cash money with this stupid system in place.
	And the thing is that none – and the problem is, of course, is the drug companies.
	They've just tripled the prices of everything.
	And they keep raising the prices and raising the prices so things that used to cost a dollar a pill now cost 10 or 20 or $30 a pill because the insurance companies pick it up.
	And so the insurance companies got to raise their rates.
	It's a huge scam.
	There's nothing they can do about it.
	It's ridiculous.
	And people say, well, you just hate Obama.
	Well, you do.
	Come on.
	Face it.
	I don't hate Obama.
	I think he's a sweet guy, but this is bullcrap, this thing.
	And he keeps bragging about it.
	That's what's weird.
	Obama spoke in front of a group of young Africans.
	And it was a question and answer session.
	I'm not quite sure what the whole setting was.
	But he took a minute to explain why he couldn't take a selfie.
	And the second one, favor, I need a really special picture with you.
	Thanks, Bellback President.
	Now, at this point, what he used to do and what I would have done is, oh, okay, here's the one guy.
	Everyone's cheering.
	Oh, special picture.
	Sure, I'll come over and do a selfie right now.
	Everyone would go wild.
	It'd be fantastic.
	That's what you would do, correct?
	Not if you think everyone else is going to want one.
	Yeah, but you can say, well, I'm just going to do this one, okay?
	Because I got to run.
	You know what?
	Here's what you do.
	I've seen this situation.
	I was at an event with Shatner.
	And they get everybody that's at the event to line up.
	Shatner comes in and stands in the middle.
	One photo, you all get a copy.
	Right.
	They could have done that.
	Yeah, you've seen that.
	You've done it.
	Yeah.
	But I think what the president did is not a very good way to do it.
	All right.
	So, this is as good a time as any to let you know.
	That, uh, after I'm done, I'm gonna shake everybody's hands.
	whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa wait wait when i say everybody i don't mean literally everybody i'm gonna what a dick because there are a thousand of you i can't shake everybody he said i'm gonna shake everybody's hand and then i don't mean everybody wow that's that's almost that's almost like i'm sorry you were going to say something very important yeah you're Borderline Clip of the Day.
	Oh, I do like the borderliners.
	Borderline Clip of the Day.
	So, you know, he said, oh, well, I'm going to, you know, it's like everyone can keep their doctor.
	Everyone can keep their doctor.
	There are a thousand of you.
	I can't shake them.
	I can't shake them.
	But...
	Yes, you can.
	Yes, you can.
	Is that what they're yelling?
	They're yelling, yes, you can.
	Yes, you can.
	Yes, you can.
	I've got, you know, I've got another job I've got to do.
	Oh.
	Go on vacation.
	But here's what I do.
	You have to go on vacation.
	What I do is take selfies.
	So, because then I'll be here for the next four hours.
	It won't work.
	So, no, you can't get your picture.
	I'm sorry.
	No, you can't get your picture.
	Shut up, slave!
	How long has it taken to play a round of golf?
	Exactly.
	Shut up, slave!
	That was unbelievable.
	Really?
	Really?
	It's like, okay.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Anyway, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for consciousness, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, the ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to the chat room, who are very diligent today.
	We have a lot of disconnects of the stream, so they're hearing a beep, and they're very annoyed by it.
	But I'm sorry, nothing we can do.
	Void Zero Mountain Vortex is doing the best they can.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Thank you, Jay Young, artist for the artwork of episode 848.
	That was the pallet of cash.
	And this was...
	Which one was it, John?
	I'm afraid to open up my browser, actually.
	I don't want to crunch the connection.
	Oh, it was the picture?
	Yeah, do you remember what it was?
	Yeah, it was the can.
	It was the spray can.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, the NA Zika spray can.
	Exactly.
	Beautiful piece.
	And Jay has done stuff before.
	Jay Young, I think.
	He's had artwork.
	Yeah, we looked him up.
	He's done about five or six covers.
	Yeah.
	And we appreciate the work that all of our artists do.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where we'd love to see you submit your work if you feel like it.
	And anyone can go check it out.
	There's tons of good stuff there.
	Now, I'm going to have to look this guy up, or John Johnson.
	See if he sent something in, because he's got no...
	I think he may have.
	He's the top donor today?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	John Johnson II. Here it is.
	Yes.
	John Johnson II. Oh, that's right.
	Now I remember.
	Yeah, I see it.
	Yeah.
	I don't need any jingles or karma.
	Just giving value for value.
	Keep up the great work, Sir John.
	Order of the 111111.
	Nice.
	And that was a donation from him.
	He's in Sedalia, Colorado for $34567.
	I want to thank him profusely.
	Big Ass Blonde is back.
	$333.33.
	She's in San Antonio, Texas.
	Where from my understanding is that the Big Ass part is pretty common.
	I have met the Big Ass Blonde, if you'll recall.
	Yes, but have you been to San Antonio?
	Yes, I've been to San Antone.
	I have been.
	I think she is slim compared to the median derriere in San Antone.
	We need more donations from San Antonio or we continue to insult the city.
	Hi, this is Big Ass Blonde.
	I woke up last night at 3.33am with the song Donate to No Agenda playing in my head.
	Your brainwashing NLP programming is...
	Hold on.
	Freaking me out!
	Here's your money.
	Get out of my dreams.
	Your show has been awesome the last few weeks.
	I think this donation makes me a dame.
	Yes.
	Since I live on a radiated island in the middle of the Pacific where nothing can grow.
	Please add mango and filet.
	I thought she was always a dame.
	No, no, no, wait.
	I think she's a...
	Let me see.
	What do I have in the notes here?
	Yeah, maybe she wasn't.
	Maybe she wasn't.
	Okay, well, you put her on the list.
	I don't think she's on the list.
	She's on the knight and dame list, yeah.
	What did she want at the round table?
	She's got a birthday today, so is she on that list too?
	I guess so.
	Let me check.
	Yeah, she's on the birthday.
	Since I live on a radio...
	I'm getting there.
	Please add mangoes and filet mignon to the round table.
	Okay, mangoes and filet mignon added.
	Done.
	Okay, give her a karma.
	She didn't ask for anything.
	I would love to give her a karma.
	She deserves that.
	You've got karma.
	Let me see.
	Does she have a cool dame name?
	What's her dame name going to be?
	No, she didn't say...
	Big ass dame?
	Yeah, dame big ass blonde.
	Okay.
	Dame big ass blonde.
	Okay.
	Terry Gallagher in Aragon, Oregon.
	I never knew there was an Aragon.
	23456, one of my favorite donations.
	Mr.
	and Mrs.
	Funny Farm wants to let you know that your deconstruction of this historic election cycle is spot on.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And a note to all you boners out there, you're douchebags.
	Douchebag!
	You should donate to help these fine gentlemen on their quest for PR. I got cut off again.
	Yeah, cut off.
	Heather Erickson, also 3, 4, 5, 6.
	And she's in Austin.
	She's right down there.
	She's got the cute name of Heather.
	She's there in town.
	Can I get a Pelosi-Trump's job karma for my new job and all those listeners out there job searching?
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy to oblige.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	Marvin Britton comes in from Bellevue, Nebraska.
	$200.
	He's going to be an associate executive producer along with Terry and Heather.
	This is the husband of Dame Yano in Bellevue, Nebraska.
	I don't know what's going to happen when people dig this up a thousand years from now.
	I would like to thank you both for some of the great shows in the past few weeks.
	It's always entertaining, but the recent rough material must be making Adam weary.
	I know it's hard to ignore them, but I don't let the chatroom terrorist assholes get to you.
	If you don't want someone to get your goat, don't let them know where you hide it.
	I feel the need to remind producers to keep clip requests to a maximum of three, plus karma.
	Hey, the clip police!
	Adam, please hit me in the mouth with the Reverend Manning triple combo of whoop-em with the Constitution.
	We gotta talk about that and the Boom Shakalaka Remix.
	And a health karma for Dame Yano.
	Thank you, Marvin Lee Britton.
	All right.
	Happy to oblige once again.
	Get out there whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping, whooping with the Constitution.
	You got to talk about that!
	Dingo, boom, shagalaka.
	You've got karma.
	Yo, yo.
	Wow, that was, I'll give you a 10 for that one because I don't even remember we got to talk about that.
	Yeah, I do.
	Finally, last but not least...
	Kidneys, man.
	You're eating kidneys?
	It's a generational joke.
	Last but not least in the Associate Executive Producer and Executive Producer Rundown, Trevor Mudge.
	Ah, Sir Trev.
	I think it's Sir Trevor, is it not?
	I think it is too.
	Sir Trevor Mudge.
	Yes.
	Just a great name.
	He should just be a sir whether he, you know, 200 bucks.
	And he says, I continue to enjoy your work.
	Thanks.
	And thank you.
	That will be our group.
	We're happy.
	Well, we should give them a karma.
	I will give everyone a big fat karma here.
	You've got karma.
	I do want to thank Sir Ramsey Cain.
	Last night at the party, he FaceTimed me from Las Vegas, Nevada.
	There was a meet-up.
	It was at the Black Hat Conference, I guess, in Nevada.
	It was a nice group there.
	It was very hard.
	They couldn't hear me because of a lot of noise.
	Of course, a lot of noise at my end, but we all waved.
	It was nice.
	Nice they had a little meet-up there.
	Yes, it was great.
	Yeah, and whenever you have a meetup, please let us know about it.
	If it's all set and good to go, happy to promote it.
	And we appreciate everybody's courage who showed up in Vegas for that.
	Another show coming up on Thursday.
	We'll talk about that in a minute.
	We also have another thank you segment coming up.
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	Shut up, snake!
	Shut up, snake.
	Okay.
	Good group.
	Very good group.
	What do we got?
	Well, a number of things going on.
	On the way to the airport when I was in Austin, I took another ride, Austin.
	That's our non-profit Uber system, since Uber no longer exists there.
	And it was the same Libyan driver I've had before, Tafik.
	He's the only guy working there.
	He is the only guy at Ride Austin.
	Yeah.
	There's one guy who works there.
	And so, of course, the last time we spoke, we hadn't started bombing.
	So I'm like, Taufik, how are you feeling?
	And he says, well, Adam, Mr.
	Adam, he always says, Mr.
	Adam, let me tell you.
	He says, I'm very happy this is happening.
	He basically said, these a-hole ISIS guys, they're ruining everything.
	He said, but the biggest problem is Libya...
	The Libyans don't want to stand on their own.
	They don't want to stand up.
	He says it's never going to work out unless Libyans do something themselves.
	And we have this general, what is it, the government of national accord.
	He said, yeah, that's all a bunch of American shills.
	And, you know, so nothing's working.
	But he's very happy with the bombing.
	But the thing that he told me that, because I said, well, which is better, before Gaddafi or after Gaddafi?
	He said, well, let me tell you a story.
	You know about the boy who's a shepherd for the sheep?
	I said, are you telling me the story about the boy cries wolf?
	He said, yeah, that's the one.
	Because Gaddafi kept saying, oh, you got to be careful.
	They're going to come in.
	They're going to ruin everything.
	And people got all afraid and worried.
	And he kept repeating this throughout decades.
	And then, you know, after three or four times of him saying this, then it really happened.
	And everyone is really sad.
	They feel it was so much better under Gaddafi, you know, the horrible dictator who we had, who was killing his own people.
	Of course it was.
	It was better under Saddam, too.
	Yeah.
	But I just thought it was good to hear that from from someone who has had boots on the ground.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's a shame that this is going on.
	You know, blame the U.S. government, or some, I don't know who's responsible for this rebelized policy, but it's obviously the Kegans have something to do with it.
	And I get to watch, I'm watching one of these shows, and there's Bill Kristol, who's another one of these guys, same group of neocons, and he's moaning about Trump being the guy, and they should go, they should all bail out on, all the Republicans should quit on Trump and do a third party.
	Yeah, it's like, that's gonna do it.
	Yeah.
	It's crazy.
	Sure, that sounds good.
	And then he's also one of the promoters of Trump's Gonna Quit.
	That's my favorite one.
	And now there's Vegas odds.
	So I'm at the dinner table with everybody on Friday, and as they bring this up, well, you think Trump's gonna quit?
	I said, what?
	Where did you get this?
	Actually, there was a fake article in the Philadelphia Observer, I believe.
	Let me see if I have it here.
	And it was exactly one of these types of theories, but it was written as if it had already happened.
	Here, the Charlotte Observer.
	You People Really Believe Me is the title.
	In a turn of events that shocked the political world and threw the presidential race into unprecedented turmoil, Donald J. Trump announced yesterday that he is quitting the race and endorsing Hillary Clinton.
	Trump said the only point of his campaign was to show how stupid and gullible many Republican voters are.
	Quote, But he said he had no idea he would be able to win the Republican nomination and poll 40% or better in a national race against Clinton.
	Quote, did people really believe I could build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and get Mexicans to pay for it?
	And that we could deport 11 million illegal aliens?
	That's ridiculous!
	How could we possibly do that?
	And it goes on and on and on.
	Yeah, so...
	So these jokes...
	Yeah, satire.
	Satire, that's what it is.
	Exactly.
	Um...
	Let me see.
	Actually, the president was at the Department of Defense, the Pentagon.
	He participated in a bit of a news conference.
	And then we had Ash Carter there because now it seems like we are sending more information.
	Well, they're not boots on the ground, of course.
	We're sending more advisers to Iraq, and this has to be justified, and that's what they're doing.
	And it's quite stunning to listen to Ashton Carter saying how this is all justified and legal, and we can move ahead as planned.
	How many more troops can Americans at home expect to be going to Iraq?
	Well, right now, there are about 3,500 U.S. forces there, and there are about 3,500 coalition forces.
	And their role is to enable tens of thousands of Iraqi army units, because that's the number we train.
	And equipped to take back their country.
	So I can't predict that.
	The only thing I can say is we are prepared to do more wherever we see an opportunity to accelerate this defeat.
	So if more is required, and I'm sure there will be additional authorities and additional capabilities that will be required, I'll let our commanders see opportunities to do that.
	I will go to the president with the chairman of the Joint Justice of Staff as I have, and if he's done like he's done so far, he'll say, go for it, because we need to get this done quickly.
	Oh, yeah.
	So he anticipates additional authorities and additional capabilities will be required, but the president will just say, go for it.
	Since when does the president determine that?
	Never.
	No.
	Congress has to determine that.
	So there would need to be, when he says additional authorities, I presume he means authorization for use of military force.
	And after, you know, what is it now, 15 years of using the one from 2001, which is only meant for bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and affiliated groups, it's time for a new one.
	And he has, you know, no problem.
	Go for it.
	Where is the analysis of this stuff?
	Go for it.
	This is basic constitutional stuff that is not being covered.
	No.
	No.
	Too much good stuff on the other side.
	Have you been watching the Olympics?
	I missed the whole opening ceremony.
	Okay, well, let's talk about the Olympics.
	Yes, I have.
	I was on a plane, so I missed all of it.
	Well, it's pretty nice.
	It's a nice stadium.
	They've done all this stuff, but I do have a report.
	Ah, thank you.
	I have, what do we got?
	I got two reports, actually.
	Let's go.
	Here's one.
	Here's cost of the Olympics.
	This is kind of interesting.
	Daniel Winter.
	That's right, Christopher.
	Did you know that no games has come in under budget since 1960?
	Cost is always a matter of controversy with the Olympics, wherever they're held.
	Although the Rio games have come in around 50% over budget, it's been less costly so far than other recent Olympics.
	But the question still remains, when it comes to economic gains, does Brazil stand to win or lose?
	Rio de Janeiro, seven years ago.
	Jubilation at the decision to give the 2016 Olympic Games to Brazil.
	Many cheering here were hoping for more work and a better future.
	120,000 temporary jobs were created.
	After all, Rio needed stadiums, roads, and a new metro line.
	Its dilapidated harbor was in desperate need of an upgrade.
	And the city would need dozens of new hotels.
	Rio de Janeiro would not be where it is today without the Olympic Games as a catalyst.
	History We'll talk about the Rio de Janeiro before the Olympic Games and a much better Rio de Janeiro after the Olympic Games.
	The country has modestly poured both money and concrete into new construction projects, trying to avoid the spiraling costs of previous games.
	Until now, the gold medal for cost went to the Winter Olympics and such two years ago at $22 billion.
	Silver went to the 2012 Summer Games in London at $15 billion.
	Rio doesn't even make it to the podium at $4.6 billion outlay.
	But the Olympics have still pushed the city to its limits.
	Rio de Janeiro had to declare a state of financial emergency.
	It was only able to continue hosting the games after the federal government issued a special loan.
	Ha.
	Okie doke.
	Yeah.
	So they spent nothing.
	They didn't do much.
	They didn't clean up the harbor.
	They added a couple new hotels to the area.
	We have boots on the ground in Rio.
	And I have a note.
	From...
	All years ago.
	Yes, this is from our Subs in the Water guy.
	Was he still in the water?
	No.
	Remember I met him in Fayetteville.
	Fayette Nam.
	As the guy who taught us the phrase, it's not gay if you're underway.
	Now you remember who I'm talking about?
	It's my favorite.
	It's not gay if you're underway.
	It's a bumper sticker.
	So he writes in...
	Anchor to the side of the sailor's cap.
	Yeah.
	Hey, sailor.
	I'm working in Rio until the 24th.
	I've been here two days.
	He's retired from the sub business.
	Of course, a lot of guys who retire, they're young enough to continue working, so he's now a dude named Ben.
	But that's not his name.
	He's the subs in the water guy from Fayetteville.
	Been here two days in Rio.
	I have very little interaction outside of the bus ride to work and back.
	As a dude named Ben, I'm stuck in the media center making sure the bits turn into bytes and make it to their destination.
	We could use some of that help ourselves.
	The IOC oversold housing.
	We were supposed to have two-bedroom apartments for two people.
	We have been placed in three-bedroom apartments with three beds for four people.
	After much complaining, we all have our own bedroom now.
	Construction of the buildings is poor, unfinished, and rushed.
	The seats are loose and slide to the side on 80% of all toilets I've used.
	A third of the toilets have leaking water fixtures.
	The most depressing thing here is the unspoken caste system.
	The service caste, and that's C-A-S-T-E, is very friendly, apologetic, and surprised when you speak to them.
	I'm from a small town in Missouri, and I'm used to smiling and greeting everyone.
	These people are shocked to be acknowledged.
	One of the photographers was robbed.
	I'm attempting to get more information.
	Real robbed.
	Same thing.
	And then he says, just some other notes, the body of the motorcyclist that attempted to rob the Russian laid in the street for five hours before it was removed.
	And when a body washed up on Copacabana Beach, they put a tarp over it and left it there until the end of the day.
	That's some service, huh?
	You know, I've been to Brazil a lot.
	And so I do remember this one time I was in...
	I've always had a good time.
	I don't know.
	I'm just lucky.
	But I also have a lot of Brazilian friends.
	But one time I'm at the airport leaving.
	The Rio airport is sketchy.
	And so you go there.
	You always have to...
	You know where to go.
	You don't go to the corner and go on your phone.
	So I run into this, I'm American.
	He says, oh God, this Brazil's the worst place I've ever been.
	He says, I was robbed four times.
	Oh man.
	And he was robbed on the street twice, the Copacabana beach once, and then he was robbed in the airport.
	Oh no!
	Yeah.
	My goodness.
	Yeah, I'm thinking, whoa, you're not lucky.
	Yeah, it's a very, and then the funny thing is the joke in Rio, amongst people, locals, is that as dangerous as it is to go there and get robbed all the time, is that the police are more dangerous.
	The police are notorious for just beating the crap out of you for no good reason, I guess.
	I'm going to never talk to one.
	But yeah, rough town.
	So they've not done anything from what I can tell.
	And there's riots.
	It's being covered only.
	RT covered a huge segment.
	It's like a half an hour of Brazilian riots.
	And they're taking place in Rio and Sao Paulo.
	So that's kind of interesting.
	But I think the story that kind of is a background story to all this is the scandal going on in the American gymnastics community with...
	Apparently 52 or 53 coaches out of I don't know how many that are being called out for being pedophiles.
	For the record, we invited USA Gymnastics to appear, but no one was available.
	And we want to thank both of you for joining us.
	Marissa Kwiatkowski, to you first.
	Help our audience.
	Who are these people she has on?
	Who are these people?
	She has the writer who broke the story from the Indianapolis star, and then they have the other woman, I didn't really clip much of her, or anything, who is a lawyer for little girls that get caught up in this stuff.
	Kowski, to you first, help our audience understand the role that USA Gymnastics plays.
	What is it to the sport of gymnastics?
	USA Gymnastics is the sport's national governing body, so they set the rules and policies that govern the sport of gymnastics in the United States.
	They also are the ones who select the Olympic team, the team that will represent the United States in the Olympics.
	Now the report today suggested something like 50 coaches may have been involved over a period of how many years?
	We know that USA Gymnastics compiled sexual misconduct complaint files on at least 54 coaches between 1996 and 2006.
	And so we're talking about something that allegedly went on for a long time.
	Well, the issue of sexual misconduct has been a problem in all different kinds of sports, all different sort of disciplines over a long time.
	So, Marissa Kwiatkowski, USA, as we just heard, USA Gymnastics is saying, we feel the star left out significant facts that would have painted a more accurate picture.
	What do you think they're referring to?
	I'm not sure what they're referring to.
	I can tell you that we feel that we were extremely fair to the information that they provided.
	In fact, on our website, IndyStar.com, we do have all of the questions that we asked them along with all of their responses so the public can see for themselves specifically what we asked and what they responded.
	We've also posted their statement that you're referring to in its entirety on our website.
	So what is their best explanation for why these files sat there and why parents weren't notified, why this wasn't more public, why something wasn't done sooner?
	Because it's a giant, evil, aggressive, money-grubbing, a-hole organization.
	Yep.
	Now, I don't know if that specifically has anything to do with the trainers, because are they paid by IOC, these trainers?
	Are they individual trainers?
	It's clubs.
	They're called clubs.
	It's not like a university or anything.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what the structure is.
	It's probably in the article.
	But what I got a kick out of was when the reporter says, oh, you guys are unfair.
	I think it's absolutely fantastic that the Indianapolis Star...
	Printed, even though it was online.
	Source material.
	They had everything.
	They have the questions and the answers all OCR'd and on the site.
	You can just read whatever they asked and what they answered.
	How can you be unfair under those circumstances?
	Well, I would say, do you know if they interviewed them in person or is it through email?
	Because I feel if you have audio or video recording, audio would be more than sufficient, probably better even.
	That's what you should make available because everything is within context.
	If I heard, if I got a dollar every time I heard MSNBC say, well, if you look at the transcript of Hillary, she said we aren't going to raise taxes.
	They probably did not print the, or not print, you don't print it.
	They probably did not post the audio file, which I agree with you 100%, but at least the thought was right.
	Yeah, it's better than nothing, I agree.
	The IOC, I was reading a report here, they have forbidden...
	All television licensees...
	From broadcasting anything on, quote, interactive...
	Actually, I have the quote here.
	These guys are dicks.
	Quote, they're total dicks.
	Olympic material must not be broadcast on interactive services.
	Meaning, and they say specifically, additionally, the use of Olympic material transformed into graphic animated formats such as GIFs, GIFV, GFY, or WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others is expressly prohibited.
	Why?
	Because they want to clamp everything down.
	They want to clamp everything down.
	It's all about licensing.
	On the back end and how it works with these cities paying money and going bankrupt and whatever agendas are being played out there, we can only speculate, but it doesn't work out well typically for the cities.
	It may work out well for a lot of elites, and it works out great for For brands, one of the people who was at the party last night, his daughter, he plays with Def Leppard now, and his daughter, she's a pole vaulter.
	And so she's not in the Olympics, but she has a lot of contact.
	And so we hear that in the Olympic Village, there is no coffee available.
	Only Coca-Cola.
	So you get up in the morning, you're an athlete, you know, a lot of athletes, I think they like the stimulus.
	By the time you go to bed, your teeth are rotten.
	Yeah.
	There's no coffee.
	They cannot have coffee for sale or available in the Olympic Village for the athletes because Coca-Cola has the entire beverage license.
	That's scandalous.
	I'll say.
	How come that's not covered on the nightly news?
	Dude, we're no agenda.
	Dude!
	Dude, we're no agenda.
	Dude, what are you talking about?
	I'd like to see you in your clothes.
	Where is that from?
	That's Herbert the Pervert.
	I can't say once in a while.
	That voice just hits me and I just can't.
	You know what?
	It'll be funny if Herbert the Pervert Yeah, you can do that.
	Okay, thanks for participating.
	I'm sorry.
	I could get it again if you want.
	Did you see the opening at all of the...
	Yeah, I saw the whole thing.
	People were tweeting like, oh, it's all about bugs and it's, you know, climate change.
	No.
	I saw tons of tweets.
	Well, there's a bunch of stuff.
	Oh, yeah, I was talking about the athletes walking in.
	What I watched was the athletes walking in, and then I watched the fireworks, and then I watched the samba dancing, and the party thing, and then I turned it off.
	So I didn't see some of the stuff.
	Oh, then you don't have a report.
	It's my report.
	It wasn't that interesting.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	I have to say, from the air, it was very pretty.
	It was nicely lit.
	It looked like a pretty good presentation.
	I guess they were freaked out because there were two or three drones flying around.
	Oh, I thought that was a no-drone zone.
	Yeah, it was a no-drone zone.
	But these are quadcopters.
	Everyone's always freaked out about everything.
	Right, right, right.
	Oh, no, they're taking illegal movies.
	Right.
	No, anyways, it's not a...
	It doesn't look like...
	I don't know that it's going to be a great event.
	That's all I can say.
	Also, NBC... I don't have a clip or anything, but I read that they're editing...
	Because, of course, the time difference is problematic for live broadcast.
	And the NBC is...
	I believe they edited the opening ceremony, too, to take out relevant...
	Things that were irrelevant to the U.S. audience.
	I have the article somewhere here.
	And specifically, it was said...
	I've always done that.
	Yeah, these were victims of...
	I forget what it was.
	It was like an in-memoriam segment of victims of something.
	No, I didn't see that.
	So they took that out, but NBC said, well, you know, housewives...
	I mean, seriously, they said this.
	Like, oh, well, you know, women in the morning, you know, they have to watch, you know, what is relevant.
	We don't want to put that on for the kids.
	But they targeted housewives.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	That's interesting.
	Don't know quite what to make of that, but they probably know what they're doing, you think.
	Yeah, well...
	They're supposed to make money on these Olympics every time they run them.
	NBC spends a lot of money on this.
	Oh, I'm sure NBC makes money.
	There's a couple of stories that weren't covered by the mainstream media in the United States.
	The corporate media.
	Stooge media.
	The Hillary media.
	But there was...
	Well, here's one that was covered.
	This is the way the news opened.
	Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Ah, wait.
	Should we do our own little Zika, Zika, Zika jingle first?
	Actually, let me ask you.
	I pulled the clip.
	At your request of the explanation of the Zika funding and where it's going.
	And I have that clip.
	It's about five minutes.
	Yeah.
	And, hold on.
	First, before we do anything, before we do anything, we need to play our Zika jingle.
	Hold on.
	I wasn't ready for you to do this, just that.
	Okay, here we go.
	I wasn't either.
	May I have your fist in fleece?
	Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Yeah.
	Where's the money?
	Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Yeah.
	Where's the money?
	All right.
	Tell me about your clip.
	You're going to do it.
	No, I want you to play that clip first, your clip.
	Uh-huh.
	And then you can follow up with the latest on the Zika.
	Mine's going to be the latest up-to-date.
	Little Zika clip.
	Okay, then what I will do is, while you're listening, and people on the stream can participate in this as well, I put to, actually, one of our producers, I think it's Ryan, put together a little, a beautiful chart.
	You can find it at, let me see here.
	It is zikafunding.grumpyradio.com.
	You got that?
	Yeah.
	Zikafunding.grumpyradio.com And he put together a really cool chart.
	Where you can see the money flowing in and where it's flowing out, which is visually very nice and is a nice companion for our breakdown of the Zika funding, which, and I'll preface this by saying, this was all Ebola money.
	This was already this income, the inflows and the outflows were set for Ebola.
	For Ebola.
	And then Ebola got solved somehow, magically.
	Then we got Zika, which apparently is really horrible.
	We're not quite sure of that either, really.
	And so now that money has to be shuttled over because of where it's going to.
	Because these people were promised money, these organizations, these countries.
	And we have welchers on the other side who are saying, well, hold on a second.
	And the problem is we're the middlemen on this deal.
	And we may, stupidly, I blame the Obama administration.
	We stupidly made these promises.
	We're the one that's responsible.
	Yes.
	If we would have collected the money and said, we'll figure this out later, we'll figure this out later, we'll figure this out later, and then the Ebola thing blows over, and now you're not in a bind.
	They are in a bind.
	You might as well just play my clip, because this is what's going on in the media.
	President Obama warned Congress today.
	Money is rapidly running out for the battle against Zika.
	Even as more Americans become infected, the situation, he said, is critical.
	A lot of folks talk about protecting Americans from threats.
	Well, Zika is a serious threat to Americans, especially babies, right now.
	So, once again, I want to urge the American people to call their members of Congress and tell them to do their job.
	Deal with this threat.
	Help protect the American people from Zika.
	Okay.
	I feel...
	Unbelievable.
	I feel in context, I should give you a clip of the day for that.
	Clip of the day.
	That is a president in trouble right there.
	Panicked.
	Completely panicked.
	Completely.
	I don't know how many times I've ever heard Obama say, call your congressman.
	I don't think I've ever heard him.
	Certainly not like that.
	Ever.
	And...
	So, what we need to figure out is somewhere something went wrong with Ebola.
	And it's a little fuzzy for me because it was so long and broad and crazy.
	Ten thousand a week are going to die.
	Yeah, and it didn't happen.
	But did the media fail or did the plan fail that the media usually fall?
	Because, you know, the media...
	I don't believe they're actually complicit.
	No one calls up and says, okay, we're going to do this, man.
	Here's what you've got to do.
	It doesn't happen that way.
	It's just milieu, and it does come from...
	A lot of milieu.
	Yeah, they get a press release from the White House, and it's golden.
	It's proof.
	It's the truth, and so they don't question it.
	But somewhere, something went wrong with the plan or how it was being rolled out, and they just didn't have enough time to get the money in.
	So here it is.
	We are going to go back to episode 817.
	Hello, Adam and John from the history.
	And it turns out that this $1.9 billion that the president is asking for is exactly the amount of money that has not been received from pledges to the Ebola Rescue Fund.
	So how it works is everybody sends out a press release.
	Oh, we're going to help with Ebola.
	Put us up for $25 million.
	Okay, good.
	So they have all this money, and then it's supposed to be $5.2 billion, but they're $1.9 billion shy because people have not paid yet.
	And the president is now saying, I want that money.
	I need it because people are dying.
	Zika virus, baby small heads.
	Now, I have the entire rundown here from the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy on Ebola, and I can tell you who has donated what and who is still outstanding on their money, who are essentially being called out by the President.
	To pony up because this money needs to go to fight Zika.
	But I also found where the money goes, so that will kind of help us.
	And the numbers are weird if you look at who's put in what kind of money.
	So Australia, they have pledged $30 million.
	Austria?
	$3 million.
	I want to play a game with you, John.
	How much money do you think Belgium?
	Considering Austria put in $3 million, Australia put in $30 million, how much has Belgium, the little tiny country of Belgium, put in for Ebola and now for Zika?
	40 million.
	56, 56.
	And they're pretty much current.
	Canada had pledged 96.
	They are still 13 million short.
	They're short.
	They're in arrears.
	China, 125 million.
	They're paid up.
	Good to go.
	France, hmm.
	They pledged 189 million, have only delivered 96.
	Hello, Frenchies.
	Step it up.
	Now, here's a tough one.
	Germany.
	Had pledged $391 million, has only delivered 134.
	I think that's problematic.
	We look at Ireland, put in 73.
	All these amounts, you've got to question why so much money and why are some people not paying?
	The United Kingdom is a big problem.
	They promised $1 billion, have only delivered on $516 million.
	Oh, bastards.
	Now, the USA, we pledged $2,364,000,000.
	We have paid $2,364,000,000.
	The European Union itself pledged $939 million, have only delivered $715 million.
	Who set up this scam?
	The United Nations.
	Now, here's some individual corporations who have pledged yet not donated.
	Again, they were brought in to pledge for Ebola.
	They said, yep, we're going to get this money.
	And that is now being transferred to Zika, which I'm pretty sure most of the people who pledged the money are saying, wow, what kind of bullshit is this?
	Here's a couple other organizations which have not yet ponied up.
	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised $58 million.
	They're $6 million short.
	And check this out.
	The Google Larry Page Family Foundation pledged $25 million.
	They have so far delivered $0.0 million.
	No.
	What?
	It's an outrage.
	It's a total outrage.
	And how about the Silicon...
	Just don't pledge anything if you're not going to give anything and keep your name out of it.
	Well, the president should call these fuckers out.
	You know who else pledged $25 million and delivered zero?
	The Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
	I didn't even know that it existed.
	Oh, and it's a bunch of VCs and a bunch of a-holes.
	Now, where does this money go?
	This is why I think it's easy to see why we have to get this $1.9 billion, because it's going to everything except Ebola or Zika.
	And the companies that are receiving the most are Liberia.
	They will get $668 million.
	Guinea gets $835 million.
	But the countries don't get this money.
	No, NGOs within the country get the money, John.
	This is all NGO money.
	I don't know why we don't start an NGO and just...
	Go for it.
	UN women get a million dollars of this.
	How does that have anything to do with Ebola or Zika?
	How does that have anything to do with it?
	This is just pots of money to give away.
	Yeah?
	Well, this is like the Haiti thing with Bush and Clinton.
	Yeah, let me give you all that money.
	I'm sure some of it got distributed to the UN women.
	Well, let's run down these NGOs.
	ACDI VOCA, I have no idea what that is.
	The American Refugee Committee, 7 mil.
	Catholic Relief Services, 14 million.
	I'm sure these people are doing real work.
	Samaritan's Purse, Save the Children, World Vision.
	Other is pretty big.
	Other is bigger than everything all put together.
	Other is half a billion dollars.
	But check this out.
	The Netherlands is...
	Let me go to the other chart.
	The Netherlands has pledged $82 million.
	Yeah, $82 million.
	They're about $2 million shorts.
	They've got another payment to go, probably, whatever.
	But what's returning to the Netherlands from this fund, because countries also get money back.
	Hold on.
	I lost my place in the PDF. Here it is.
	The Netherlands Ministry of Defense received $7 million from the fund that their own country just put out there.
	The U.S. Department of Defense receives $631 million of the Zika fund.
	Or Ebola.
	Who?
	The Department of Defense.
	What are they getting the money for?
	Because this is...
	They haven't got enough money?
	This is laundering money.
	Here.
	U.S. Centers for Disease Control, CDC, $800 million.
	And they've already received a lot of this money.
	Then we have, oh, who else?
	The African Union receives money.
	The World Bank receives 50 million dollars.
	For what?
	Because they were promised the money.
	This is the way I see it.
	This has got to be...
	We've always questioned the Ebola crisis.
	So this is payoffs.
	This is payoffs to countries.
	This is payoffs to NGOs that are controlled by other operations.
	I don't see huge medical...
	I see a lot of research.
	There's a billion and a half of research they're looking at, which part of this money will go to.
	But this is bullshit!
	I mean, what does the Dutch Ministry of Defense have to get 10% of the money their country paid in the first place?
	Yeah.
	Outrageous.
	It really is.
	And I'm also putting the PDF in again so people can look at that.
	And again, you have the ZikaFunding.GrumpyRadio.com.
	Yeah, I see it there.
	It's good.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	I was going to say, I do have an anecdote.
	Okay.
	Because you mentioned the Silicon Valley Community Fund or whatever the heck it is.
	And Paige didn't cough up a nickel, that kind of thing.
	Yeah.
	Some years ago, I had a contract to write an article for Focus Magazine, which was KQED's, our local public radio, public broadcasting, public TV. And I forget, it was a good amount of money.
	I don't know what they paid.
	But the thing was, they wanted me to do a Silicon Valley top five list of everything, like top five restaurants, top five places to go to have a beer, top five bars.
	Filler.
	Yeah.
	So I went and got all the top five, put this thing together.
	They did pay me for this article, but they never ran it.
	And I've always wondered why I immediately saw what happened.
	And they wouldn't say anything.
	Oh, because it wasn't their friends' restaurants.
	No.
	It was like They wouldn't even have the nerve to tell me why they couldn't run it or why they just tell me to change it.
	I'm very amenable when, you know, I'm not like an asshole.
	I mean, it may seem so, but I'm not.
	And so it was because I had the top five charities of Silicon Valley.
	One blank, two blank, three blank, four blank, and five blank.
	What year was this?
	What year was this?
	This was, I think it was like in the 90s.
	That's funny.
	Yeah, I saw it.
	Yeah, okay, yeah.
	Yeah, that Dvorak.
	Let me just see.
	Put a little X next to his name.
	He's a troublemaker.
	Yeah, I never heard back.
	I didn't get paid, though, which is fine.
	And I wonder, what do you think of the idea of some of these topics of playing the clip of the older show?
	Does that work for you?
	I liked it.
	I liked it.
	It's a good thing to do.
	It saves us from having to talk.
	And I liked the little intro-outro thing he did.
	I loved it.
	It saves us from having to talk.
	Yeah, that's got to be my favorite.
	It's a stretch.
	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.
	As long as it's used with judicial, judiciously is the word.
	As long as it's used judiciously.
	But that was a good one.
	That's an outstanding clip.
	We want to thank a few people for helping us on this show.
	849?
	849, yeah, 849.
	Starting with Jesse, which means 850 is around in the corner.
	Jesse Lawrence in Oakland, California, $133.33.
	Thank you for the show.
	A blind date of the SF Bay.
	Jeffrey...
	That was Jesse.
	This is Jeffrey Jackson in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
	That's one, two, three, four, five.
	Quickly dropped down to $100.
	We have a bunch of $100 guys.
	Devon Glitchka in Salem, Oregon, $100.
	Tim Dow, San Jose, California, $100.
	Raleigh Hawk, by the way, he wants to thank, Tim wants to thank Kenny for punching him in the mouth.
	Raleigh Hawk in Anna, Illinois, $100.
	Now we go to $88.88.
	Sir Wayne Larkham, $88.88 in Sunnybank, Queensland, $100.
	Sir Richard Moffitt just came in with $88.88 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	That was a check.
	Roger Etsy in Tampa Bay, Florida, $88.52.
	Sir Matt Friscura in Wintergarden, Florida, $87.82.
	We got three Floridas in a row, man.
	Yeah, there you go.
	That's a tough one.
	A baronet ding-a-ling in Clermont, Florida, 84-90.
	Spooky R in Spooksville, Virginia.
	Spooky.
	Spooky says this is a babe donation.
	84-83.
	Okay.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, B... Of course.
	It's B-A-B-E. It's a babe donation.
	A new one.
	Oh, wait.
	Then I understand...
	No.
	Yes, then David...
	Arellins.
	Arellins.
	How would you pronounce it?
	David Arellins.
	Arellins.
	San Marcos, California.
	That's the boss donation.
	He's got the boss donation.
	You can put these in a list and make them real.
	This is good.
	I like it.
	Yeah, I like it.
	But no boob.
	Oh yeah, one boob.
	There's one boob.
	He says no agenda is so boss.
	And then he's linked to the Urban Dictionary.
	Jeffrey Anderson is boob from Stewart, Florida.
	Single boob.
	Did I have a boob?
	I think I did have one boob link.
	I'm not sure.
	I didn't click on the boobs.
	Frank Pugh in Tallahassee, Florida, $75.
	Andrew Schuring in Chesterfield, Missouri.
	We need a boob jingle is what we need.
	The short one.
	Shoot.
	Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs.
	Okay.
	The time on that was...
	$75.
	Anonymous in Westlake, Ohio, $73.73.
	Sir John the Brewer.
	Oh, it's Sir John the Brewer.
	In Waterville, I'm sorry, Water Valley, Mississippi, $69.93.
	Sent a note in which has said, go great shows.
	And he's got, I guess there's a beer coming.
	Richard Hedenberg in Solman, Sweden, $69.69.
	John Hamill in Carlsbad, California, 69-61.
	Steve Johnson in Carmel, Indiana, 6666.
	And Sir Insight Jobs is also back with 6666 in Seattle.
	Eric Von Marder in Van Nuys, California, 55-56.
	Owen Media Group, LLC. Round Rock, Texas.
	What?
	No, nothing.
	I said, yeah.
	55-55.
	Stephen Whalen.
	Or Stephen Whalen, Stephen probably.
	Milford, Michigan, 5510.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	He has a douchebag call out or not?
	Oh, it does.
	I think it's a douchebag.
	What does he say?
	Douchebag.
	Let me click on it so I can get it to pop.
	Unbelievably great product the last 20 shows.
	That's about right.
	It's been good, more than 20 shows, but it's been really good.
	Keep up the excellent work.
	Oh, and call out Jeff as a douchebag for playing Pokemon Go and not No Attenda.
	Wow.
	I don't know about that.
	Sir Brian Navarro, Double Nickels on the Dime, Los Angeles, California.
	Adrian Drenkon.
	Adrian Drenkon.
	D-R-E-N-K. Drenkon.
	Drenkon, yeah.
	Drenkon.
	Drenkon.
	In Lyndhurst, New York.
	I'll send you a copy of the note.
	It's a very long note.
	Okay.
	And it's just praising us profusely.
	Oh, it's not.
	She's the best.
	Michael Gates in 5280, Parts Unknown.
	Jack Bennett, $51 from San Jose, California.
	Casval Louis Tinoco in Irvine, California, $50.01.
	He's got a douchebag call-out of some sort.
	Let me click on it and see what it says.
	I've been sorry for being a douchebag so long and not donating recently.
	I'm buried in debt and have been trying to dig myself out.
	30 minutes into the show, 848 was my wake-up call to donate.
	Okay, so people should note that.
	I'm digging myself deeper in debt for this.
	If you see something, say something, double your douchebag call-out for all the chatroom listeners who asked you.
	Where's the douchebag call-out?
	Oh, you kind of read through it.
	Here it is.
	Douchebag!
	Alright, well, at least that's out of the way.
	Vicki Brighton in Monmouth, Michigan.
	I'm sorry, not Michigan, Maine.
	$50.
	And she says that she's sending the money in to celebrate John and Mimi's anniversary, which is on the 8th tomorrow.
	So if anybody wants to donate 888.88, I'm all in.
	Oh, that's right.
	It's the super number.
	Yeah, 88, 88.
	Maybe the 88 earlier ones.
	I didn't see it on there, but it's possible.
	So I'm looking forward to it.
	Yes, Sir Wayne Larcombe says happy wedding anniversary.
	And Sir Richard Moffat has a note, but I don't have it on the spreadsheet.
	So yeah, people remember, man.
	How nice is that?
	Yeah, that's very nice.
	I appreciate that.
	So I'll look forward to any other 88.88s.
	I'm not going to...
	The last one was 25 years, so it was like something worth writing about in the newsletter.
	But I appreciate that.
	And these are all $50 donors from name and location, starting with Adam Weisner in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	Ben Dover.
	Oh, please.
	Ben Dover is in Glendale, some place.
	Glendale Heights, Illinois.
	Glendale Heights, Illinois.
	Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Tim Abel in Bergfield, Berkshire, UK. Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Edward Mazurek in Memphis.
	They can call him anything they want down in Memphis.
	Corey McDonald, Richmond, Richfield, Minnesota.
	Dean Olson, Lakeside, California.
	Sir Brett Farrell, our buddy in Oklahoma City or somewhere around there.
	There's banks in Oklahoma City.
	It doesn't really say where he's from.
	Amy Hebert in South Windsor, Connecticut, $50.
	Jared Seuss in Chicago, Illinois.
	Bill Hughes in Timonium, Maryland.
	Jason DeLuzio in Chadsford, Pennsylvania.
	James Chu in Andover, Massachusetts.
	And that's going to conclude our group of well-wishers and producers for show 849.
	I want to remind people we do another show coming up on Thursday.
	And go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Yes, yes.
	And thank you, everyone, who came in under $50, typically for reasons of anonymity, but also lots of people on the subscriptions.
	Please pick one of those up if you feel like an ongoing value-for-value support for the show.
	It really helps in the lower months, like in the summer.
	Yeah.
	And again, on Thursday, another program for you.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. If I request a little bit of Jobs Karma?
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for Jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got Karma.
	And then all of a sudden, my screen went blank for some reason.
	Terrific, terrific.
	Thank you.
	Okay, let me take a look at the list here.
	Hold on one second.
	I'm working everything with one hand tied behind my back.
	Okay, first of all...
	One hand free.
	Yes.
	Make good birthday, Sir Bernie Adama.
	Happy birthday to his son, Black Knight, Sir John Adama.
	He turned 34 on August 5th, and we missed that, so we apologize.
	Happy birthday to you, Richard Hedenberg, 34 tomorrow.
	Sir Matt Frescura...
	Celebrates his birthday today, as does Roger Etsy and our soon-to-be-damed Big Ass Blonde.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe!
	Okay, a lot of switching, a lot of alt-tabbing there.
	Okay, so we have one title change, I believe.
	Sir Haggis becomes Baronet today, and we congratulate him, and that shall be updated on the peerage map at itm.im slash peerage.
	And we have not a knighting, but we have a daming today, so it would be nice if I brought that thing works, no matter where I am.
	Yeah, I get my regular one.
	Here you go.
	Okay, that'll do it.
	Perfect.
	All right!
	Even though she typically is on an island in the South Pacific, she still is able to contribute some value for value to the best podcast in the universe.
	We'd like to invite the big-ass blonde up here onto the podium next to the lectern.
	Yes, please kneel for the entire roundtable of Knights and Dames, and I am very proud to pronounce the KD. Dame, big-ass blonde, dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	For you, we have, ah, such a bevy of lovely things.
	By your special request, we bring you mangoes and filet mignon, cookies and vodka, kilts and kilt lifter ale, legos and leg warmers, hookers and blow, red boys and chardonnay, mutton and mead, ginger ale and gerbils, Sparkling cider and escorts and maybe some bong hits and bourbon.
	And we will gladly send your ring to the South Pacific.
	So go to noagenternation.com slash rings and we'll get into your information.
	And Eric the Shill will get right on the stick for you.
	Doesn't mean she's going to get it.
	He'll get on the stick.
	Yeah, sometimes we do have problems with him not coming back.
	That's true.
	Yes, he said these alien post offices.
	So what do you think's in here, Bill?
	Oh, let's open it and find out.
	Hey, that's a cool rain.
	So we know there's a bunch of them out there like that.
	WikiLeaks released a couple of emails, an email chain.
	Let me see, what was this a part of?
	It might have been part of the DNC emails, because it also revealed that big alcohol, or big booze, maybe we should call it, is really trying to get Congress to apply pressure On the marijuana industry, which makes total sense.
	Of course.
	Obviously makes total sense.
	And so, you know, they would like people to get, you know, inebriated instead of stoned.
	Stay, live your life as an alcoholic.
	Yes, it's so much better than weed.
	It really is.
	And they're taking it one step further with some new outdoor advertising.
	Although, of course, it is not directly attributed to big booze, but you know where it's coming from.
	Colorado's Department of Transportation got a little artsy, helping to deliver a message about the dangers of driving high.
	It created a giant marijuana joint out of a crashed car and then hung it onto a building downtown.
	The message, hits lead to hits.
	Don't drive high.
	We used to say that in the music business.
	Hits lead to hits, man.
	It's true.
	I have a story that's not covered much, but RT loves covering these sorts of stories.
	Anything that has to do with Saudi Arabia is kind of blacked out in the United States.
	Yeah, because God forbid...
	Because stories like this one about the Saudi girl, which I don't have the whole thing clip, but I have a good part of it clip, leads me to a story that I picked up when I was in Dubai from one of the British expats that was living there about Saudi Arabia.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Go.
	Okay.
	It is RT International.
	The most inhumane conditions imaginable.
	That's how some human rights activists describe the life of a British girl who claims she's been locked up in a cage in Saudi Arabia by her own dad.
	They're calling on the UK Foreign Office to put every possible pressure on Riyadh to return her to the UK. 21-year-old Amina al-Jafari was born and raised in Wales.
	She left the UK to live in Saudi Arabia when she was 16.
	She has dual British and Saudi nationalities and was allegedly caged by her father in Saudi Arabia after she was seen kissing a boy in public.
	She claims her father beats and starves her and keeps her locked up in their flat.
	Amina does have lawyers who took legal action to protect her in the UK. It's a British national adult who is in trouble overseas, in peril as the judge put it.
	The arm of the English law should stretch that far.
	So this brings me to the story about Saudi Arabia.
	And I should mention to people that if you want to visit Saudi Arabia, I have not had the opportunity to have been around Saudi Arabia but not in.
	Make sure you don't have an Israeli stamp in your passport because they just won't let you in.
	Oh my goodness, I didn't know that.
	Yeah.
	And so you have to go to your consulate and ask to get another passport or a temporary passport or something if you want to go there, if you visit Israel.
	Okay.
	And the guy says you want to definitely go past the American embassy in Saudi Arabia, I think it's in Riyadh, because you'll see lined up a bunch of American women, pretty much like a line for the Star Wars movie.
	They won't let him in, but they're trying to get out of the country because he says that the classic naive American woman falls in love with some Saudi guy who lives in the United States.
	He's rich.
	He's got expensive watches.
	He's got a Ferrari.
	They get married and they move to Saudi Arabia where it turns out she's like one of many and she's pretty much beaten.
	is there's no protection for a woman there.
	And then they immediately try to get out of the country.
	And the American embassy, because of a relationship with Saudi Arabia, we refused to even listen to them.
	We just fuck you.
	You made this decision, you dummy.
	Wow.
	You can live with it.
	Which is why I thought that story about the British was interesting because they're not going to do anything for her either.
	This whole thing in Saudi Arabia is just a nightmare.
	Well, that brings a story up that Christina told me when she flew in, but I don't think I shared it with you.
	Now, she has an American passport and a Dutch passport because her mom is Dutch, so she has dual citizenship, which is allowed in that case.
	But her American passport, you recall, she had all those issues, and they keep issuing her a one-year passport as some kind of punishment because one passport was lost, one was stolen.
	Ah, two strikes, you're going to get one.
	So every year she's renewing, three years now.
	So she decides to come over, and she says, I'm going to renew my American passport.
	And it's so messed up, and we know the passport system and the visa system is messed up.
	That she can't get a, you know, it's like eight weeks, so she can't get a date before she has to leave.
	She said, okay, I'll just get an ESTA, which is the visa waiver program, and fly in as a Dutch citizen.
	So she arrives, and the agent, the customs border patrol agent, says, well, what is this?
	You have dual citizenship.
	She said, yeah.
	She had her American passport with her.
	She said, it expired.
	Well, you can't do that.
	Up to secondary, into the little room.
	This is a kid.
	So, what is this?
	She's explaining.
	She said, well, this is what's happening and I'm going to see my dad.
	He goes, oh, really?
	How old are you?
	You're 26.
	You don't need to bring your dad into this.
	I could fine you $600.
	Traumatizing the child.
	And they said, but I have bigger fish to fry right now, so go ahead.
	I mean, what a dick!
	So, this dual citizenship has problems everywhere, certainly in the United States.
	Yeah.
	Certainly.
	That's funny.
	Well, the database has caught up to us.
	There's a lot of stuff you could do and get away with.
	Used to be able to.
	Yeah, used to be able to.
	Yeah, now the database has caught up to us.
	This is Big Brother.
	This is the real deal.
	For sure.
	You can't pull this stuff off.
	For sure.
	I have another clip here from the President.
	Remember I was talking about him speaking at the Department of Defense.
	It's really brazen what he's doing.
	It's so clear he wants to be hero of the gays as his legacy.
	Hero of the gays and something with guns.
	But that's not really working out very well.
	So he's using every opportunity to bring it up.
	And this one...
	Again, we just sit there and think, how come no journalist raises their hand and says, what?
	Some of you may have read the article in the New York Times today.
	I guess it came out last night online.
	Yeah, which means he didn't see it.
	Someone handed it to him.
	I guess it came out online.
	He didn't read the article.
	Okay.
	Today.
	I guess it came out last night online about this individual in Germany who had confessed and given himself up and then explained his knowledge of how ISIL's networks worked.
	There was a paragraph in there that some may have caught, which...
	We don't know for a fact that this is true.
	Oh, okay.
	We don't know if it's actually true, but I'm going to use it anyway.
	This is true, but according to this reporting, the individual indicated that ISIL recognizes it's harder to get its operatives into the United States But the fact that we have what he referred to as open gun laws meant that anybody, as long as they didn't have a criminal record that barred them from purchase, could go in and buy weapons.
	That made sort of a homegrown extremist strategy more attractive to them.
	And those are the hardest to stop because, by definition, if somebody doesn't have a record, if it's not triggering something, it means that anticipating their actions becomes that much more difficult.
	And this is why the military strategy that we have in Syria and Iraq is necessary, but it is not sufficient.
	Okay, so we have to kill people in the sand so those people don't come in and get our easy-to-get guns.
	Really, Mr.
	President, I have a question, sir.
	Yes, Mr.
	Curry.
	That is definitely the stupidest thing he's ever said.
	Yeah, they don't use trucks, they don't use bombs, we haven't had airplanes, we haven't had car bombs, we haven't had axes, machetes.
	Wow.
	Just wow.
	Wow, I tell you.
	Wow.
	And he mentioned Germany.
	Last night, one of the guests at the party was a former hockey player from Germany.
	And he did really well.
	And then, of course, he had an injury and he was playing for, I guess, the German, like a minor league team or something.
	So his career didn't work out.
	But he moved to America and he'd probably do some stuff here.
	He's in real estate now, I guess.
	And he says, what's going on in the home country?
	And his family's from Nuremberg.
	I don't think we've heard Nuremberg in any terrorism-related news, have we?
	Nah, not that I can remember.
	I don't think so.
	And so he goes on to explain how Nuremberg was built.
	Of course, you know, Hitler had it with, you know, like eight spokes of a road coming in.
	So it's a place where you can come in and go out through these multiple, like this spoke system.
	It's very accessible.
	And he says, so...
	The migrants, he says, unbelievable what's going on in Nuremberg.
	He said, on the street, you have people saying, and they come into clubs too, you can't dress like that, that's slutty.
	You know, like the, we call it the Muslim Patrol in London, that we've seen video of, but of course we're told it doesn't exist.
	And then there's people on the street saying, you must convert to Islam, but out in the open.
	And he says everyone's really worried.
	You know, we have all these attacks going on, and they see no way that this is ever going to stop, and people are frozen with fear, according to him, in Nuremberg, which you've heard nothing about.
	I've not heard any of these stories.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	That's good stuff.
	Well, I have his number and he's got my email and he's going to give me updates.
	Yeah, it gets a lowdown on this because apparently nobody wants to report stuff like this.
	Why bother?
	It's racist.
	It's completely racist, I tell you.
	It's racist.
	You're a racist for saying this.
	The Syrians.
	What race are the Syrians?
	Oh, the race is Syrians.
	He's just racing.
	I don't care.
	Let's play an ad.
	I used the DNA in your stool to find colon cancer.
	Okay, good.
	I'll make sure we had that ad.
	Little iso for you.
	That's an iso, alright.
	Now...
	Thursday, we're both on a brief break, and I'll be back on Saturday, so we have a regular Sunday show.
	We did something, we didn't expect to do it this way.
	We promised not to do what we did.
	Okay, you break it to them.
	Okay, what we're going to do on Thursday.
	Now this show is now...
	I just produced it the other night.
	It was like, oh my god.
	I'm always bitching about the length of these shows.
	And this is three hours and 33 minutes.
	Oh, man.
	No, that can't be a coincidence.
	Check it out.
	No, no, no, no.
	Nailed it.
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	Nice.
	So, this is an Onion show where we go back to, we have this show called 200.5, which was done, that show 200, a long time ago, years ago, and it was the explanation of the origins of the No Agenda show.
	And then we reprised the show with 200.6, and then we reprised it a third time with 200.7, and that was a little over a year ago.
	Yeah, it was July 2015.
	July of last year.
	Yeah.
	And so we've decided to update the 200.5 by just doing another overlay of 200.7, overlaid on 200.5.
	So this show, yes.
	It's an onion, and the core sounds really crap.
	Yeah, to get to the bottom, yeah, because we didn't sound that good at show 200, and the mics and everything were different.
	And so we have a show coming up on Thursday, which is going to be, and it's actually a lot of extra material.
	I mean, I think we talked 25, 26, 27 minutes.
	On both ends.
	On both ends of the...
	The second end wasn't as bad.
	The first part was really long.
	Yak, yak, yak, yak.
	So we talk about the show 200.7.
	You're really selling it to him, John.
	Keep going.
	Yak, yak, yak.
	If you want to get big laughs and have the time of your life, you're going to love this show.
	You want this show.
	So it's going to show 200.7, and it'll be an overlay of 200.8, and it'll be an overlay of 200.7 and 200.5, and then we come out of it with another ending.
	We talk about the show.
	The reason for the show is, and I don't know how...
	Rational it is to have an hour, that show is three hours and 33 minutes, but...
	The explanation of the show is longer than the show itself.
	This, yes, a lot longer.
	Now, if you have somebody that you've introduced to the show, and they say to you, if they come back with, and by the way, this isn't happening as much as it used to, but in the early days, you go, I don't know, I don't get it.
	It's all these jingles.
	And so they always...
	You put that one down.
	So, and that's when you say, oh, okay, well then you're apparently, you know, you're slow-witted, so let's give you this show, play this show, this 200.7, and then listen to that, and it'll explain all the details of the show, and then you'll understand it.
	And it works best if you lock that person in one of those Saudi cages.
	Yes, lock them in a cage and tie them into a chair.
	And they will listen to the show.
	That's what we're running.
	We're running a show.
	We just did it yesterday, and we produced it overnight.
	And bingo, you got it.
	Now, on the break, I'm not going to be sitting still entirely.
	I'm going to work on, and we'll hopefully have this when I come back on Sunday, when we do our show again.
	I'm going to continue with our porn segment.
	I'm just collecting emails, people talking about how pornography has or has not changed sexual behavior in the new generation that is just coming into their sexual prime.
	And it's really been eye-opening.
	It's very interesting.
	There is, in my mind, no doubt, there's definitely a correlation, but I think we can also show causation of pornography, and there's certainly a lot of self-admittance of this.
	Interestingly enough, this clip came up.
	Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, signed a pledge from the anti-porn organization Enough is Enough, according to Relevant Magazine.
	If elected, Trump said he will back efforts against the widespread problem of pornography.
	Christian conservatives are still concerned that Trump appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine, a copy of which he keeps framed in his office.
	Which is ridiculous, because that was not online.
	Porn is a big word.
	Playboy is not porn.
	There's no penetration.
	But they're throwing that in there, because that means, oh!
	Religious people!
	Republicans!
	Morons!
	Yeah.
	Oh, only missionary style.
	Don't do it any other way.
	Nothing like that.
	Don't do it at all if you can, you know, if you're not married.
	Yeah.
	Abstinence!
	So enough.org is the outfit that is, and I'm not going to open the page because it can mess up the connection.
	But have a look, everybody, at enough.org.
	Not a great organization in my mind.
	Um, yeah, they're against online porn, but they're immediately tying that to, um, you know, cybersecurity and, you know, their statement is very clear.
	Like, you know, the first amendment is the first amendment, nothing we can do about it.
	You know, we certainly should rid as much as possible of illegal, uh, acts that are depicted such as child pornography.
	Um, But I don't have a good feeling about this group.
	What I think is awareness and education is what needs to take place here.
	And parents have a role.
	Parents, not the government.
	Parents.
	Parents.
	So, send in your stories, people.
	I'm very interested.
	It's going to be a fun report.
	Sounds good.
	All right.
	You got one to throw us out with?
	Well, let's see.
	I don't think we need to be thrown out.
	Well, you've got a plane to catch, and I've got a plane to catch.
	Yeah, we both have planes to catch, which means we've got to get our act together.
	Ah, there's the bomb report, a Gitmo update.
	The Gitmo update's kind of interesting.
	Let me see.
	Here's one.
	Let's just play this.
	This is a little lighter story.
	I didn't know this was going on, but play AC Milan.
	You didn't know this.
	If it's sports, probably right.
	Chinese investors could be about to score a major acquisition in the world of football.
	Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has approved a preliminary contract to sell his AC Milan football team to a group of Chinese investors.
	The club is currently owned by Fininvest, the holding company of the Berlusconi family.
	The deal is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.
	People familiar with the negotiations say the Chinese consortium's offer values the club at up to 750 million euros.
	Holy crap!
	The Chiners?
	Yeah, the Chiners are buying AC Milan, which is a very famous club.
	Yeah, who's playing at AC Milan right now?
	I don't know.
	Does Ronaldo play for them?
	I doubt it.
	Why would I know?
	Why would you know?
	Why would I know?
	Wow, China's getting into the game.
	That's interesting.
	It's going to be big changes.
	Alright, I think that's good enough.
	The only thing that's for certain is change.
	So hopefully I have a report from Europe, if anything crops up.
	So you can travel freely on Thursday.
	It is a show day, but not a show day where we're live live.
	So there will be no terrorist attacks.
	That only happens on show days, as you know.
	So everything will be fine.
	Yeah, it'll be a safe day.
	It'll be a safe day to go.
	Very safe.
	Hey!
	Okay.
	Thank you, chatroom, for hanging in there.
	Thank you to Void Zero, Vortex, for keeping it all running as best as possible.
	And thank you, Mr.
	Dvorak.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you.
	And thank you.
	Happy anniversary to you.
	Thank you.
	Yes.
	For sure.
	Tell her I said hey.
	Okay, I will.
	I will make sure to do that.
	Coming to you from the armpit of the nation known as the Garden State here in New Jersey, FEMA Region 3 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will be back on Thursday with a special show.
	That will be 850-200-8.
	Make sure you get it to everybody you know.
	Until then, remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA, and we'll talk to you on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Adios, mofo!
	So I may have short-circuited, and for that, I, uh...
	You never sweat.
	Like, physically.
	I don't mean, like, sweat because you're nervous.
	Like, physically.
	Hillary's a robot short-circuited.
	The weirdest thing about me is that I don't sweat.
	Hillary's a robot zero.
	I'm really not even a human.
	I was constructed in a garage in Palo Alto.
	I mean, a man whose name was created me in his garage.
	You know, I thought he threw away the plans.
	At least that's what he told me when he programmed me, that there would be no more.
	I've seen more people that kind of don't sweat and other things that make me think maybe they are part of the new race that he has created.
	You know, you've got to cut it.
	You can't tell anybody.
	I don't want anybody to know this.
	I'm killing my, you know, electronic guts to you.
	This is the mode of a bullshit artist.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is the mode of a bullshit artist.
	May not fully recall everything that was or wasn't that.
	May not fully recall everything that was or wasn't that.
	When you hear Holy Curtin saying what she just said, what goes through your mind?
	Basically.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	This is the mode of a bullshit artist.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Basically.
	This is the mode of a bullshit artist.
	I think we know.
	We are going to raise taxes on the middle class.
	The peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
	Production of the new weapon is set to begin in 2020.
	The upgrade will turn the old B61 bomb into a modern, high-precision weapon.
	Yeah, imagine that.
	Something in Washington.
	Not actually doing that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
	You're a phony.
	Call a procedure.
	Yeah, imagine that.
	Something in Washington.
	Not actually doing anything.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Call a procedure.
	I'm telling you right now, we are going to raise taxes on the middle class.
	Call a procedure.
	Adios.
	MoFo.
	Thank you.
	Amen.

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