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	Get the little girl to cry!
	Adam Curry, John C. DeVores.
	And Sunday, August 14, 2016, this is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 851.
	This is No Agenda.
	No!
	Back from break, wearing my burkini and broadcasting live from the capital of the Drone Star State in Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm back from forced retirement, I'm John C. DeVores.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Yeah.
	Yes, back at home base in the Crackpot condo in the skyscraper.
	Good to be here.
	In downtown Austin.
	What?
	Yeah.
	So how was your trip?
	What happened?
	Oh man, I got lots to talk about.
	Mainly, getting back was a nightmare.
	Well, we love talking about airport travel.
	Now, I went up to Washington and I had TSA pre-check both ways.
	That was a godsend.
	Nice, nice, nice, nice.
	Without actually being a registered member of pre-check, right?
	Yes, if you are a frequent flyer for Southwest, you get automatic pre-check about, I'd say, 90% of the time.
	So you could be an actual terrorist, unscreened.
	Yet, you get the pre-check.
	Yeah.
	Well, they wouldn't catch me in any way, which way.
	It doesn't make any difference.
	If you check just a shorter line.
	How was your anniversary?
	What'd you do?
	It was good.
	We ate.
	We had a dinner at the house.
	Good.
	It's not like a special number, so we just had a nice...
	Every year is a special number, John.
	Yeah.
	Don't you know women...
	Don't you know women 101?
	My wife's gonna kill me if I don't get her something.
	What did you get her?
	I didn't get her anything.
	Oh, man.
	No, I got her something.
	It's just something I got her.
	Alright, so you had good travels is what you're saying.
	It was pretty nice.
	Yeah, I went up and down pretty quickly.
	The trip back was a little somehow delayed.
	I don't know why.
	And I got to do the one thing I wanted to do, which was to check out my wife's assertion about the pot shops.
	And I did just that.
	I went to a couple pot shops.
	I went to the one, the new one that just opened up.
	They're all pretty nice.
	They have usually a big counter and then they have a bunch of stuff inside the counter and there's a back wall.
	Is it all like the Amsterdam coffee shops?
	No, nothing.
	It's a little bit like, I would say it's maybe reminiscent of the old-fashioned drug stores where they sold psilocybin.
	Psilocybin?
	Yeah, you know, mushrooms.
	Sorry, no, I didn't know.
	It's kind of like that.
	But these places are elaborate.
	That number of edibles is completely off the charts.
	And the clientele was exactly what she said.
	Old ladies.
	I would say when I was there, I saw about ten old ladies, one young guy, Who was just this type of stone.
	The old ladies always go for the various sorts of edibles, mostly CBD stuff.
	And if there's a guy, one guy came in and he went right to the buds and he bought a, I don't know, something.
	A bud.
	A bud.
	Give me a bud, bud.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And that's about it.
	I would say the ratio is probably 10 to 1.
	Well, then of course we can talk briefly about the denial of reclassification by the United States government.
	I have a clip!
	Oh, good, good, good.
	Where's your clip?
	It says DEA. Yeah, oh, here we go.
	Just to make it official.
	Back in this country, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration balked at reclassifying marijuana as a lesser drug.
	Instead, it stays on the list of the most dangerous alongside heroin and ecstasy.
	There is a growing push to legalize pot, but the DEA said it still has a high potential for abuse.
	Unbelievable.
	This means nobody can research.
	Nobody can do any research on this drug where you have people like Hillary saying, well, I don't know, it needs more research.
	Where you can't do research if this stuff is so outrageously illegal.
	And also, from what I understand from the reporting, DEA is no longer going to be manufacturing synthetic marijuana.
	Because they said they couldn't get any consistent results.
	But that's the whole point with something really organic, like, I don't know, a flower, a plant.
	It's never going to be the same.
	It's like all wines are the same.
	United States not unique in this crusade.
	Thousands of people have marched through Berlin to call for the legalization of marijuana.
	Though illegal in Germany, it's allowed in rare cases for medical use.
	Earlier this year, the government backed a relaxation of rules on cannabis use by the seriously ill if there are no other treatment options.
	There you go.
	It's a worldwide move.
	Yeah, well, this is ridiculous at this point.
	Why do you think, I mean, besides the obvious that they would not want, the testing that's in shows, especially what you've told us about the old ladies, that it's very beneficial to certainly some segments of the population.
	And so I presume that's why, oh no, we can't have that.
	We want these old ladies on our drugs.
	We can't have them on a flower.
	Right.
	That's exactly it.
	That's all there is to it.
	Can't be more complicated than that.
	That and the few dorks, jerk-offs that are in law enforcement who, it's illegal because it should be illegal as a drug.
	We already got enough problems with alcohol.
	That type of asshole.
	Except for those guys, and there's plenty of them.
	It's just the drug companies.
	And they're promoting this.
	Their drug companies get $10 a pill for some of these arthritic medicines.
	And these old ladies, and by the way, this stuff's not cheap.
	My wife bought an ointment, and the company you want is Mary's.
	That's apparently one of the great companies.
	Is it M-E-R-R-Y? No, no, no.
	M-A-R-Y-S. Oh.
	Well, no, Snoop Dogg has Mary Jane, I think, or...
	It's M-E-R-Y-S. I think they're out of Colorado.
	And there's this little cream, and they get patches, which...
	My wife claims she's got arthritis, and she claims patches work great, but she never tried the cream.
	She said most creams stink, this stuff doesn't.
	Mary smells decent.
	And so she rubs it on her hands, and then within a couple hours, her hands feel great, as opposed to being in awkward pain, and she refuses to take these crazy, you know, take this and then drop dead pills.
	Yeah.
	I find this whole thing very annoying, and then the DEA report is just ridiculous.
	It's shameful.
	It's shameful.
	These people should be ashamed of themselves.
	I've already got alcohol.
	I have trouble with alcohol.
	My journey back, actually my journey, and I went to the south of France.
	My buddy Michel from London, his mom has had a house there for 15 years.
	And I think I've been there now four times, probably.
	And it's cool because it's in between Nice and Saint-Tropez.
	So you can get a flavor of both sides.
	Although, no matter where you want to go, you have to go exclusively.
	You must get on the road between 1 and 2 in the afternoon when all the French are having lunch, which is extremely consistent.
	There's no one on the road.
	There's no one on the road.
	Otherwise, it can take you an hour and a half to get to Nice or if you want to go to Saint-Tropez.
	But wow!
	My goodness!
	If France really does and says and publishes and has conversations about radical Islam slash just Islam...
	If the United States was really exposed to what they do, I mean, Trump is nothing.
	France puts Trump to shame.
	He's really unbelievable.
	Like what?
	Well, actually, I have a couple clips that I picked up.
	Let me see.
	The first one would be...
	Where is it?
	Big controversy as...
	Hold on a second.
	Here it is.
	Now, where Nice is in Cannes and actually Monaco is right along the coast and connects to Italy.
	And so there's tons of refugees in Italy, and they were trying to walk the beach and come enter France.
	And I think I sent you a picture.
	Anyone can look this up, and it's in the show notes.
	There were terrorism police on the rocks, kind of, on the beach, pepper-spraying people who were trying to swim.
	come on to French land.
	Just a crazy Yeah!
	Really?
	The big controversy right now in Nice and in Cannes is the burkini Yes, the burkini.
	There's a lot of stories on this over here about that just recently.
	Here is the Euronews report.
	Controversy in Cannes.
	Burkinis have been banned on the beach.
	It's being slammed as discriminatory.
	The mayor says it's to prevent disorder in public places.
	The ban on full-body, head-covering swimsuits will run in the French Riviera resort until the end of August.
	The decree is not the provocation, he says.
	It's those who wear this kind of outfit.
	They're like uniforms.
	I think that several people, maybe they wear it in good faith, so we have to explain to them.
	Those flouting the ban can be fined.
	While officials say it's in the interests of security, others say the move will worsen religious tensions.
	It's ridiculous, because I see naked people, and I don't understand why I can't be dressed.
	We do what we want.
	In schools, I can respect secularism, but on beaches, it's ridiculous.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So you can...
	You know, I said...
	What is the point?
	I mean, there's a logic thing here.
	Well, if you listen to the end of the report, I just want you to hear the final quote from this lady.
	Now, this is the lady in the burkini.
	No, no.
	This will be just a...
	It sounds like that one woman was defending the burkini.
	Yeah, but I want you to hear the other side.
	Just hold on one second.
	The season comes after the deadly truck attack in nearby Nice.
	France is on edge.
	I don't think wearing a bikini is illegal.
	Everyone has the right to go to the beach because it's a public area.
	But at the same time, if we think about women's rights, if we accept more and more things like this, it's like a regression.
	Under French laws, face-covering veils are already banned in public.
	Headscarves are also forbidden in public schools.
	So that's what it is about.
	And the French are pretty open about this.
	I spoke to a lot of people.
	This is my second time in France this year.
	And I have to say, I do respect their consistency.
	It's like, no, we don't want this because if we let this go, then before you know it, it'll just be normal and the beach will be women in black burkinis.
	So here's the logic that when I saw this, there's a woman laying down, this is in the BBC, or one of these outlets, I didn't remember, but it was just a picture of her laying down in a burkini, which was basically a head-to-toe covering, except for the eyes.
	No.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	It's not, it does not cover the face, the burkini.
	Well, this one covered the face.
	Okay, I didn't see that one.
	This is the picture.
	And it was like, but you know, it wasn't covering the face, it was covering everything but the eyes and nose.
	Yeah.
	And I didn't see, but you couldn't, even if it didn't, so what?
	It's the same thing.
	What are you doing on the beach?
	Which is where you go to get some sun.
	Yeah.
	If you're covered from head to toe, it's idiotic.
	Why would you bother?
	If you're going to go to the beach and lay down in the sun in a stupid burkini, it's pointless.
	It's only there.
	So this is actually, to me, it's just something that's done to make a point.
	And this is the whole thing.
	It's just make a point.
	I remember after 9-11, I went to...
	It was like a day after 9-11.
	And I went into the...
	The Nokia.
	Not Nokia.
	Ikea.
	I went to the Ikea over here in Emeryville.
	Same country.
	Oh, no, it's not.
	Same region.
	I went over there and they had some guy was dragging his wife around and she was in one of this head-to-toe I don't even know what it was.
	It's the kind they were in Dubai.
	It's just no face, no nothing.
	It's just black.
	Walking around with her, showing her off as a F-U to anybody around.
	And everyone just kind of rolled their eyes at this because it was stupid.
	But it's the same thing.
	This is what the burkini thing's all about.
	It's just to make a point.
	The point is we're here.
	Get used to it.
	Yeah, the provocation comes from two angles.
	And I actually tweeted a picture of the latest Charlie Hebdo Which, you know, it's in the supermarket, in what they call the casino.
	Bring it back as a souvenir?
	Yeah, I have a copy.
	You should actually take a look at it, the tweet that I sent out.
	It's really funny, and I can imagine extremely offensive to people who don't like this.
	You don't like sick humor.
	It's not really sick, it's just aggressive.
	Well, if you have a...
	Just go look at my Twitter feed.
	I think I posted it yesterday.
	No, it's a Muslim guy, Muslim woman, with their genitals exposed, and they're jumping around happy on...
	It's really quite funny.
	But, you know, my...
	So my observations are that the French really...
	Really, we'll just have none of it.
	They are sick of it.
	But, conversely, walking around in Nice, and also at Nice Airport, now there is tons of military, and they've all got their automatic rifles.
	You know, I'm just, like, at the Delta check-in, eight!
	Eight guys.
	It's really quite astounding.
	But you walk around, you talk to people, it's as if it never happened.
	You know, the 90 people killed with the truck incident.
	It's like, just carry on.
	It's a very odd feeling.
	There's just no discussion about it, and people say, oh yeah, yeah, that was horrible.
	But in the meantime, they really are, yeah, they're really just not having any of it.
	Marseille was, you know, on fire.
	And there was 2,000 troops protecting the entire Côte d'Azur, and every French publication was saying, a terrorist attack appears to be imminent.
	It's imminent.
	It's imminent.
	And then you get these newspaper articles where you see the migrants clamoring up onto French territory.
	Terrorist police.
	It was mind-blowing, this situation.
	This pepper spraying of them.
	So, it's just a dichotomy, really.
	It's like a whole area of cognitive dissonance.
	People's brains are scrambled, I'm not quite sure, but there's no discussion about it.
	It just happened, we just put that over to the side, you don't really read much about it anymore, and yet it was right there.
	Other things in Europe.
	Oh, before I forget, I did this quick turnaround, and of course, when I go down there, there was previously really no connectivity, which is otherwise I would just stay a little longer and do the show.
	And that has never been possible before, but...
	You know, I find it kind of ludicrous that you don't get good connectivity in France, which was kind of promoted, you know...
	Yeah, they had the...
	They went from crap...
	When I first went to France, which was in 1973...
	Minitel, that's what they had, Minitel.
	It was so old-fashioned that you had to go to the post office to make a phone call.
	Yeah.
	I remember that, yes.
	And if somebody did have a private line, the funny thing about it, you always had to remember is that when you hung it up, you had to wait about two minutes for it to actually disconnect, so you didn't want to talk about the guy.
	We used to have that in the States, where if someone hung up and then you didn't and they picked the phone up again, the connection would still be there.
	I remember those days.
	Oh my god, now we're old.
	But this was wide open.
	And so it was like it really didn't hang up.
	I guess it sent a signal somewhere and I guess somebody got kicked in the butt and said, oh, okay, unplug it.
	And so then they went from that and all of a sudden they jumped to light speed and went to Minitel in the probably late 70s, early 80s.
	70s.
	And that was, like, everything.
	That was, like, the most advanced thing in the world.
	And since then, they've just drifted and drifted back.
	They haven't done anything since.
	So the wired connections, like, and you can get ADSL, and it's just incredibly crap.
	You're getting less than a megabit down and up.
	However...
	4G and LTE networks are now really widespread and incredibly fast.
	I'm talking at minimum 30 megabits per second, up and down.
	I was getting this from Orange, and I believe T-Mobile bought Orange.
	So maybe they've done some expansion.
	Here's the thing that was really nice.
	My T-Mobile subscription is unlimited data.
	You get 4G LTE in the States.
	And anywhere in the world, you'll get 2.5G. Which is alright if you just check an email or something.
	You're not on the Wi-Fi.
	But as a special promotion, T-Mobile had opened up full LTE access worldwide for everyone between the 1st of July and the end of August.
	It was really fantastic.
	Those guys didn't play that up enough.
	What a great promotion.
	They didn't want to play it up too much.
	True.
	True.
	Well, they got me with that one.
	I really liked it.
	So the next time, you know, easily do a show from there.
	Easily.
	And you have to use your T-Mobile connection.
	Do you have a little device or just use your phone?
	Just use the phone, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Yeah, it's really outrageous.
	It was noticeable.
	But everywhere we went, it's like, oh, I got great connectivity.
	But only wireless, not wired.
	So I guess they're just skipping all of that.
	Well, might as well at this point.
	Yeah.
	Of course, I brought my KX2, my little ham rig, and threw a wire up in the tree.
	Really nice.
	Talk to Croatia, Sweden, Norway.
	Yeah.
	CQ, CQ. CQ, CQ. It's very hard to explain to them.
	No, I'm not in America.
	I'm mobile.
	I'm on location.
	I'm in France.
	Wow, I can't believe how good you sound!
	I'm surprised you didn't get you as a Nazi collaborator.
	Ha ha!
	Shaking in?
	Shave his head.
	Yeah, crazy man.
	Crazy, crazy.
	Anyway, coming back was really...
	First, I should say, so we did go to Saint-Tropez, and it's really become seedy.
	What?
	Yeah, and...
	This started happening a couple years ago.
	I know when this started happening.
	Let me just guess.
	This started happening when we decided to sanction the Russians and all those rich Russian jerk-offs who were supporting Saint-Tropez because every time we talked to them, oh God, these Russians are coming.
	They buy Dom Perignon for the whole bar.
	No, not for the bar.
	They buy the Magnum and they sit there, usually the big fat Russian guys, and then they get the sword and then...
	They chop the top off and just spray everybody with it.
	It's like a thousand dollars worth of champagne.
	So yeah, and so most of the big boats aren't there.
	Apparently they're all in Sardinia.
	That's where they're all going now, or St.
	Barts, or I don't know where they're going, but not really there.
	It's a big difference.
	I think, especially that French Riviera, the Russians love that place.
	And they spent big...
	So, you know, everyone is just, you know, they're going through the motions, but it seems like no one's really happy.
	I don't know.
	It's just, yeah, odd.
	Maybe if they lowered their prices, it would help.
	Oh, it's unbelievable, the prices.
	He's like, yeah, I'll have one drink.
	Thank you.
	That's 20 euros.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	25 bucks for a beer.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	That didn't last long with Adam.
	So, you know, again, the French, it's astounding that there's not a lot of reporting.
	I mean, if you just listen to what they're doing and what they're saying, and it's just, it's publicly agreed to, it's being published everywhere.
	Yeah.
	The United States would, if it was really known, say, oh, we can't talk to the French.
	They're racist.
	They're crazy Islamophobes.
	We can't have that.
	I don't think you saw anywhere that they were spraying migrants on the beach, did you?
	You probably didn't hear about that.
	No, I'll put it in the next newsletter for everybody.
	Go to the Get a Subscription.
	Yeah.
	I'll put that photo in the newsletter.
	It's not the greatest photo I've ever seen.
	You should have taken some pictures.
	Uh, yeah.
	Daily Mail, I think, has a lot of really good ones.
	The pepper spray one is just the funniest.
	So I don't understand.
	It's really, you know, we're talking to the French all the time.
	It's not going to help get Hillary elected.
	That's the problem.
	Yeah, we're talking to the French, you know.
	The French are, you know, please go and bomb Libya.
	But, you know, if you look at their, what you could easily see as Islamophobia...
	If people were really told about this, they would probably be an outrage.
	Everything's an outrage.
	The way back was somewhat challenging, though.
	So first, my flight was delayed, and because I didn't have a Sunday in there, there's all kinds of stupid, complicated rules.
	And, of course, KLM, I flew Southwest to JFK, and from JFK I took KLM to Amsterdam, Amsterdam, KLM to Nice on the way back.
	Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop.
	Back up.
	You took Southwest to New York?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	How was that?
	Oh, I love Southwest.
	It's great.
	You know, I took Southwest to Detroit, and I thought it was a great way to go.
	It's like half the price of everything else.
	Oh, yeah.
	I love their boarding process, too.
	It works for me.
	I'm totally okay.
	Yeah, I like it too.
	Yeah, so I took that, but on the way back, now you have KLM is affiliated with Air France and with Delta.
	So I was very lucky, because when I arrived at JFK, my...
	Even though I was flying with KLM, the Delta app was like...
	I didn't know what was happening at that point, but of course we had this huge meltdown of their data center or whatever.
	Actually, this was...
	I got some inside info.
	I think I have the CEO here somewhere.
	Let me see...
	Yes, here we go.
	The CEO of Delta explaining what happened.
	I'm Ed Bastian.
	I'm speaking to you today from our operations and customer center, where we've got Delta teams working around the clock to restore our system capabilities.
	As I'm sure you can appreciate, it's an all-hands-on-deck effort.
	We lost power this morning, which caused us to implement...
	Yeah, we lost power.
	We lost power.
	Now, I know from people on the inside, they have duplicate operation centers, but apparently that, you know, they had some single point of failure with losing power and they couldn't bring anything back up online.
	It really messed up a lot.
	I mean, this was their entire operations.
	That's right.
	I forgot.
	I didn't realize that you were running off of that system when you were taking this trip.
	Yeah, and so all information was incorrect.
	Now, that plane was fine.
	Left on time.
	But then, you know, coming back...
	Was it a Delta plane or a Kalen?
	No, going over with Kalen, but coming back, I had to check in with Delta.
	Which is then staffed by French ground personnel.
	And I had seen what I thought maybe possibly, because they said, well, our systems are back up.
	I could get an upgrade because I have enough miles and I wanted to get a business seat upgrade.
	So I said, hey, how are you doing?
	Yeah, I'd love to see if there's an upgrade.
	She doesn't even look.
	No, it's not available.
	Well, could you take a look?
	No, it's not available.
	Would you mind just taking a look?
	No.
	Could you put me on the list?
	Yeah, could you put me on the list?
	Yeah, okay.
	Didn't do anything.
	Right, but yeah, I put you on the list right in the air.
	Unbelievable.
	Now, the good, I have to say, regarding Delta, even though that plane left two hours late at the end, is, first of all, they had dynamite snacks.
	I've never witnessed.
	Dynamite snacks.
	Yes!
	This is pathetic.
	It's pathetic when this is the best you can say about an airline.
	Yeah, well, there's one other thing.
	They did have Wi-Fi the entire way across the Atlantic.
	Oh, yes.
	I know I contacted you while you were in the air.
	Yeah.
	Now, not that I could record clips or anything, but I could definitely work.
	So then I went to JFK, and I knew that I would have a couple-hour layover to get JetBlue back, which is really the only direct flight available.
	And that was delayed by two hours.
	So I get in.
	I was at home last night, 3 a.m.
	And from 3 to 4, I did some clips.
	So you got nothing.
	No, I got tons of stuff.
	What are you talking about?
	That's typical.
	Then you tell me you get extra clips.
	I want to make a comment about my flight again.
	I want to just say this, because maybe I've said it before, but I hate...
	What is with people that insist on running?
	They've got a roller bag which barely sits down the aisle.
	So they decide to drag it down.
	They're bumping, bumping, bumping, stopping, bumping, stopping, bumping, stopping.
	It's unbelievable.
	And then the second thing is these guys are these huge, and women, with these huge backpacks.
	Where do they go?
	Are they Sherpas?
	Are they going up Everest?
	And they're coming in and they get the thing is stuck and then they turn and bang it with the backpack.
	I'm always aware of this because I was in the aisle.
	And they got this huge backpack.
	It's going back and forth.
	Bang, bang, bang.
	And then they're dragging this stupid roller cart down that doesn't fit down the aisle and they don't know what to keep doing this for.
	Yeah.
	It's just annoying, these people.
	And the backpack thing.
	I've seen them in a grocery store.
	I'm in the grocery store.
	I'm over at Monterey Foods buying vegetables, and there's some idiot with his huge backpack on, like he's going to be climbing Kilimanjaro right after he goes shopping.
	And bang, bang, he's banging into things left and right.
	It's unbelievable.
	John C. DeVore action.
	And I agree with you.
	I'm also pushing back when this happens.
	It is highly annoying, I'll be the first to admit.
	Here's something funny that happened.
	So I'm really tired now.
	And also, JFK was warm at the JetBlue terminal.
	It was just warm.
	The air conditioning wasn't...
	I've been to that terminal when it's warm.
	Oh my gosh.
	It just gets boiling hot in there.
	Sticky and nasty.
	And it's a pretty terminal otherwise.
	It kind of surrounds the old TWA terminal.
	There's some nostalgia there.
	So I'm really tired.
	I mean, get on the plane and I had the, you know, like up in the front JetBlue.
	So you pay like 15 bucks extra and you get even more space.
	And in comes a family, and it's a mom with four kids.
	And this is how tired it was.
	A mom with four kids, and she's wearing a niqab.
	So you can see her face, but everything else is draped.
	And she's got her kids.
	And the elder son, I guess he's in between me and the woman who's on the window seat in my aisle, in my row.
	And I'm looking at him like, he really looks like the clock boy.
	He really looks like the clock boy.
	I said, hey, you live in Austin?
	You know, trying to figure out if maybe he lived in Garland, Texas or something.
	And he got kind of like, the kid's a 10th grader, I guess.
	He was very annoyed by my question.
	Sorry, man.
	Maybe he thought I was like, oh, how could you live in Austin?
	That's the only thing I could imagine.
	That's maybe what he thought.
	But here's the dumb thing.
	So I'm tired, and we're sitting on the tarmac waiting.
	And, I don't know, again, I was just tired.
	So I start kind of humming, and you know how you just sing songs?
	Kind of, you know, subconsciously?
	No.
	You never do that?
	You never sing in tunes or anything?
	Not in public.
	Well, I was tired, and I'm in my seat, and I'm going, My Sharia law.
	Oh, God.
	I don't know if I was sitting next to you.
	Hey, buddy.
	I hope he didn't hear it, but I caught myself.
	What am I doing?
	It's the ear bug of My Sharia law.
	You can't get it out of your head once you've got it.
	You were singing My Sharia a lot?
	Yes, but you know, because you sing this stuff all the time.
	Just kind of, you know, just...
	Because of our jingles, play it.
	Oh, wait, that's the wrong one.
	I'm sorry.
	Let's see, this one?
	Here we go.
	So here I am on the plane going, Akbar, under my sheree.
	Oh man.
	I'm breaking out of sweat all over again just thinking about it.
	Just thinking about it.
	I'm just going to knife you.
	So, anyway.
	My show.
	Man.
	Now, because of the...
	By the way, that could have been the Clock Boy.
	That guy's back in the news.
	Yeah, I know.
	And now I was listening.
	I did a lot of clips from RT. Yeah.
	I didn't clip this one, but they did a long report on this guy and they played it According to Hoyle, they didn't talk about the reality of it.
	Oh, the Americans are a bunch of bigots because they don't like this kid.
	Yeah.
	I couldn't believe it.
	I said, well, there goes RT's credibility.
	Yeah, meanwhile, they're suing the state and the school district with $15 million, and he's under duress because he can't create any more.
	Oh yeah, he's a mess.
	He has post-traumatic stress syndrome.
	Sure wasn't that kid?
	Sure wasn't him?
	Well, it kind of looked like it.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's why I said it.
	You sure wasn't him?
	No, I'm not sure.
	He wasn't going to talk to me.
	And after I was singing My Sharia Law, there was not a lot of communication between me and my seatmate.
	My Sharia Law!
	It's so stupid.
	I did not mean to do that.
	You're self-conscious.
	You've been brainwashed.
	Now, because I had connectivity, I was able to keep up to speed with some things.
	And just this controversy over what Trump said about the Second Amendment people, This is a classic case.
	Do you remember the dress?
	It's silver and white.
	No, it's blue and black.
	It is exactly the same thing.
	Gold and white, by the way.
	Well, there you go.
	What color was it?
	So you hear something and you view that or hear that through the filters that, you know, I guess we're all hypnotized.
	Right.
	We've seen this.
	We've discussed it before.
	We discussed it with the various robots and how they look at the same exact thing completely differently.
	And it's just, eh, what are you going to do?
	Whatever Trump says is racist crazy.
	So Don Lemon had this panel, and one guy, I guess, who was supporting Cruz, and I think now he's a Trump surrogate, and so really there's only two sides of it.
	One is, which I think is a stretch as well, but oh, he was trying to unify, and you've got Second Amendment people, you've got to go out there and vote and unify and try and fight the gun grabber Hillary Clinton.
	What most people in the media heard was, go kill her if I lose.
	And the face bag is just...
	You remember Scott Mednick?
	I think it makes more sense before he loses, but that's another story.
	No, but the way he said it, and I'm just...
	Scott Mednick, no, I don't know.
	No, I'm sorry, you probably wouldn't know.
	Anyway, people who I know who are friends, and there was even this story going around from the Dallas Observer, which said, well, you know, yeah, sure, we're going to get our Lee Harvey Oswald with this talk, and they are going in to explain how somehow the political climate created Lee Harvey Oswald, and everyone's, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
	If you want to take a little look at something...
	I didn't get a clip I was going to put on the next show, maybe.
	I'm going to play this clip of Don Lemon with his guests.
	Okay, but...
	To see what?
	Keith Olbermann.
	Yeah, I got that, too.
	You have that clip.
	Yeah, man!
	I'm setting up a package, baby!
	Okay, hit it.
	Okay, first, Don Lemon.
	Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment.
	By the way, and if she gets to pick...
	If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
	Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.
	Okay, now when I hear it again, he does mention the judges, and of course that is really what any election is about in the United States, is Supreme Court nominations.
	So Lemon has, I guess the guy's running for Senate somewhere.
	And so the two bins on and everybody's on to beat this guy up.
	But just listen to their two sides.
	Everyone interprets things differently.
	So I'm not going to condemn anyone for their true belief of how they receive information.
	But Lemon, man, it was just a great exchange.
	Okay, explain to us people who don't understand and that you want to laugh at what he meant by that.
	Don, the man I think we all know is running for President of the United States.
	He probably has some data that one-issue voters, a lot of one-issue voters vote on the Second Amendment issue.
	It's clear he's trying to motivate people to go out and vote based on the potential for an open Supreme Court seat.
	How that's clear to you, that was some kind of call To an open revolution and to start firing your weapons at public officials is utter absurdity.
	No one said that, Dan.
	No one said that.
	No one said that.
	If he wanted people to go out and vote, why not just say, go out and vote.
	The Supreme Court depends on it.
	The Second Amendment depends on it.
	Why say something like that if that's not what he meant?
	As someone who's running for leader of the free world, shouldn't he be as...
	I love that, by the way.
	That's always my favorite.
	He's running for leader of the free world!
	No, no.
	He's running for president.
	Not quite the leader of the free world.
	Shouldn't he be as clear in his words as possible?
	Go ahead.
	Don, do you want me to answer that question?
	Listen, we can disagree about how imprudent he worded that.
	But to suggest that he was calling to violence means to me that you came into this with the idea that Donald Trump was calling to violence.
	Let me make the case afterwards.
	I think he's correct in this, because that's how some people come into it that way.
	When I heard it, I don't know what your feeling was, I kind of like, whatever, I didn't register one way or the other.
	When I first heard it, it was just like, you know, he's different than all these other politicians, especially Hillary.
	In so far as that he's just conversational.
	So he's up there just blah, blah, blah, blah, yakking and yakking.
	That's why he can go an hour because he's just chatting.
	Blabbing.
	I mean, that's what we do.
	We're chatting.
	We're not rehearsing.
	Except we actually finish sentences.
	He's very poor at finishing sentences.
	He's getting actually worse at it.
	Or maybe on purpose.
	I don't know.
	No, I think he's getting to the point where you see this with not so much Rand Paul, but Ron Paul.
	Ron Paul used to, if you listen to him talk, he never finished a sentence and he just assumed that you'd finish it.
	Because it's all code.
	It's like you know what Ron Paul's about.
	You listen to him.
	You go, okay, I get it.
	I know what he's saying.
	If you don't know what Ron Paul's about, you never heard of him, you never heard of him before, and you listen to him talk, you'd think he was nuts.
	Well, there you have it.
	That's exactly it.
	Trump's talking in code.
	Yeah, and of course that is then translated by some into dog whistle, call to arms, go kill somebody.
	I certainly did not think, oh, this is to unify.
	I didn't think that.
	When I heard it, to me it was just a Trump toss away.
	Yeah, I didn't hear anything either.
	So he can move on.
	Yeah, I certainly didn't hear one side or the other.
	Now, continue because this just gets hilarious.
	Don Lemon is about to bust a gut.
	The case afterwards.
	You didn't come into this with a clear and open mind.
	Listen, I endorsed Cruz in the primary campaign.
	I'm not a Trump surrogate.
	I'm supporting him.
	What you're saying right now makes no sense.
	I'm sitting at home.
	I'm watching Donald Trump.
	I have...
	I have two ears, and I have two eyes, and I can see the reaction of the people behind me.
	And we're not stupid.
	Every single person you have on this panel, who are very smart people, David Jurgen, who is respected, hang on, can you let me finish, Dan?
	David Gergen, who's respected by people on both sides, by Republicans and by Democrats, who've worked for Republicans and Democrats, who has worked for a president who's had an assassination attempt, who's lived in a president who's been assassinated, knew exactly what Donald Trump is saying, and we're supposed to be stupid enough not to understand that and to believe the spin coming from the surrogates and for people like you?
	You should be ashamed of yourself.
	Don, frankly, I'm ashamed that you're talking to me as if I'm a child when 12 years of my life I was a secret service agent.
	No, you're treating me as a child because you're telling me what I'm supposed to hear.
	And you're sitting here on television lying to the American people.
	You're lying to the American people.
	You know crap about this, Don.
	You're a TV guy.
	I was a secret service agent.
	Now, cut off my mic.
	Do what you want to do.
	I'm not going to cut off your mic.
	I'm going to tell you that you're sitting here and you're lying to the American people.
	You're lying to the American people.
	You're lying to the American people, and we know that you're lying to the American people.
	It's one of those things where everybody else is crazy, but the person.
	Yeah, he's unhinged.
	Yeah, this is one of those things where everybody else is crazy, but the person.
	No, Lemon, every time I've watched him recently, he's totally unhinged.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think he's got something going on in his personal life.
	Oh, no doubt, no doubt.
	He can't be.
	He's not normal.
	No.
	We're almost done, but it gets so much better.
	Who is wrong?
	But Dan, you're running for office in Florida.
	You're running for Congress.
	Yes.
	So do you support this kind of language, this kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump as someone who's running for elected office?
	And here's another one of those CNN tricks, you know.
	Do you support that?
	Don, what kind of language trying to motivate Second Amendment to go out to the polls?
	That was an answer to the question.
	Yes or no?
	Do you support what he said today?
	Don, people who believe Second Amendment should absolutely vote against the gun grabber, Hillary Clinton, 100%.
	Uh-oh, dog whistle.
	And whatever you need to say within the realm of reason to motivate people to get out and vote, yes, you should do that.
	First of all, that's a talking point to call someone a gun grabber.
	No one is trying to take your guns.
	That is a talking point.
	Don, you're Captain Talking Point!
	You're like Captain Talking Point, and then you throw it back at me.
	An overnight legend!
	Captain Talking Point!
	What's my talking point?
	Tell me what my talking point is, Dan.
	You came into this and you said, listen, this is pretty clear.
	Donald Trump was implying some kind of a violent act against Mrs.
	Clinton.
	How is that a talking point?
	How is that a talking point?
	Do you know what a talking point is?
	A talking point is when you are a political operative and you go on television every single day and you say the same thing.
	Yeah, that's the definition of you, Don Lemon.
	You go on television and say the same thing every single day.
	The same thing.
	So this just went on, and it was just hilarious.
	And you sent...
	I'm surprised they didn't cut the mic on the guy.
	Well, that's because he said, you go ahead, cut my mic.
	And that's what, of course, Don couldn't do it then, which they do that a lot, certainly Don Lemon.
	And then you sent me a video.
	Oh, we lost him.
	We lost the connection.
	Oh, too bad.
	And never underestimate the long-term memory of the United States public.
	In 2008, Keith Olbermann, then on MSNBC, and of course, this was the Clinton-Obama race.
	And this is a 10-minute rant, which is in the show notes.
	It's great to watch.
	You've got to listen to the whole thing.
	It's quite good.
	He goes off.
	Yeah, here's the opening, and he explains exactly what she said.
	And it is exactly the same anger and outrage as we're hearing now about Donald Trump.
	Cliently tonight has promised a special comment on Senator Clinton's assassination remark to the editorial board of the Argus Leader newspaper of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
	Once again, it was this.
	Asked if her continuing fight for the nomination against Senator Obama hurts the Democratic Party, she replied, quote, I don't because, again, I've been around long enough.
	You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?
	We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.
	You know, I just don't understand it.
	You know, there's lots of speculation about why it is.
	The comments were recorded and we showed them to you earlier and they are online as we speak.
	She actually said those words.
	Those words, Senator, you actually invoke the nightmare of political assassination.
	You actually invoke the specter of an inspirational leader at the seeming moment of triumph for himself and a battered nation yearning to breathe free silence forever.
	You actually use the word assassination in the middle of a campaign with a loud undertone of racial hatred and gender hatred and political hatred.
	You actually use the word assassination in a time when there is a fear, unspoken but vivid and terrible, that our again troubled land and fractured political landscape might target a black man running for president.
	Or a white man.
	Or a white woman.
	You actually used those words in this America, Senator, while running against an African-American man whom against the death threats started the moment he declared his campaign.
	You actually used those words in this America, Senator, while running to break your greatest glass ceiling and claiming there are people who would do anything to stop you.
	You!
	Senator, never mind the implications of using the word assassination in any context relative to Senator Obama.
	What about you?
	You cannot say this!
	Before you go on, I want to point out something, because I unfortunately let it go too long.
	I'd like to have stopped it earlier, because there was a phraseology and a way he put things and a cadence that is exactly Rachel Maddow.
	And he was her mentor.
	Yes.
	But I heard it, and I go, oh, jeez, it's exactly the same.
	And I think it had to do with those words.
	And she does this when she calls people.
	She uses it.
	These are the perfect...
	In this America!
	That's what it is.
	In this, yeah.
	Very...
	But anyway, he goes on for another 10 minutes.
	Yeah.
	On and on and on, because it's time filler.
	And as I watched this, I thought to myself, you know, why hasn't...
	If MSNBC wanted to save the network...
	Which is just playing the Olympic stuff currently.
	They would bring this guy back for at least through the election.
	He was great.
	He's going on like Chelsea Handler and doing his Trump is an idiot rant.
	He's doing that kind of stuff.
	I agree.
	It's too bad for us because I like it when he does crazy stuff.
	It's fun.
	He's a fun guy to listen to.
	Yeah.
	I think he does get paid a lot, so he won't work cheap.
	I have learned just recently, of course, with the professor and everything, I can no longer comment or post stuff, but I can no longer participate in facebag conversations.
	However, I sent this video to a buddy of mine, Chris Marriott, who used to be a creative director at my company, Think New Ideas.
	And he is an all-in Trump guy.
	So it's really funny because he's one of these guys who just smiles and laughs.
	And there's people like, yo, you shithead, you're horrible.
	And he just keeps laughing and posting funny.
	He has absolutely no filter at all.
	He just posts stuff out there.
	I have no idea how he keeps his job.
	He's in email marketing or something.
	And if people see his face bag, they would freak out.
	So he posts this.
	And the response was very interesting.
	Every single time someone commented, it was like, Hillary's words were poorly chosen.
	But Donald Trump, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So it is impossible for people on either side to actually...
	This is why civil war is imminent.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Now, there was something else that popped up with Don Lemon, and it's another package, and it's something that falls under what is known as the Goldwater Rule.
	Have you heard of the Goldwater Rule?
	No.
	I've only read about it because I wasn't actively involved and probably a bit too young.
	Barry Goldwater, very similarly, people were saying, he's crazy, he's insane, he's a psychopath.
	And there was one or two psychologists...
	Who said, yep, yep, looks like it, looks like he's insane, and he sued the crap out of them after the election and won.
	And this is known in psychiatrist circles as the Goldwater Rule, and you never, ever do that.
	You never say, hey, oh yeah, that guy running for office, he's insane, if you're a psychologist.
	That's interesting.
	I think if you look it up, the Goldwater Rule is a pretty well-known thing, according to the Googles.
	So Don Lemon, in all his wisdom, and I just love Don.
	I really do.
	Because he's so insane that it's just fabulous.
	Just fabulous to have all the stuff that he does.
	He brings on his buddy, of course, Dr.
	Drew.
	Dr.
	Drew Pinsky.
	And Dr.
	Drew is...
	I guess aware of the Goldwater Rule...
	And Don is going to try not once, not twice, but three times to analyze Donald Trump and get Dr.
	Drew to admit to it, much to Don's chagrin.
	Here are the answers.
	Let's start first with Insane.
	Insane will be the first go, the first run around.
	It has a lot of people asking what is going on with him.
	You know, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at the DNC last week in support of Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, even before the events of the last few days.
	Listen to this.
	The bottom line is Trump is a risky, reckless, and radical choice, and we can't afford to make that choice.
	So he's implying that Trump is not sane.
	Do you agree with that?
	Listen, we have to look at what is insanity.
	He can be reckless and risky and not be insane, right?
	There's two definitions of insanity.
	One is legal definition, and the legal definition of insanity is somebody who is so out of it, they don't know the difference between right and wrong.
	I always thought the definition of, not the legal, but maybe the medical definition was trying the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
	That's that definition people throw out there.
	Exactly.
	I wanted to make that point, because that does not jive with what the doctor says.
	That is a very high standard for insanity, and very few people meet that standard.
	You're really not functioning when you're legally insane.
	Then there's clinically insane.
	Medically, what does that mean?
	Usually when we talk about insanity, we mean psychotic, hearing voices, having hallucinations.
	Again, Have a thought disorder that connects you from reality.
	So I'm sorry, Don.
	Not insane.
	Okay.
	No apologies necessary.
	And, you know, it was Bloomberg who made the assertion...
	Oh, pussy!
	Oh, well, it was Bloomberg who said it.
	I didn't say it.
	So, okay, well, that's all right.
	Let me try...
	How about narcissism?
	Maybe he's a narcissist!
	If he is...
	We've spoken about this before.
	I believe that you think he has narcissist tendencies.
	Is that always a bad thing in a leader?
	No, it isn't always a bad thing.
	People want to label him as a narcissistic personality disorder, and that is a pretty tough thing to do at a distance.
	But let me just talk to you.
	Narcissism generally can be a good thing, and if you're a fighter pilot, we want you to be narcissistic.
	We want you not to have fear in extreme circumstances.
	And so most political leaders have some degree of narcissism.
	That's what motivates them to go into these areas.
	We've done research on this and it bears that out.
	The question though is narcissism has a liability and that's malignant narcissism where you lose empathy, feelings don't matter, only your Sort of point of view as well that matters at all times.
	And in that situation, usually you see people who really can't function interpersonally.
	So you look at their children, their marriages, and you just don't see the evidence of malignant narcissism in his kids, certainly.
	Now, I'd love to hear from his ex-wives.
	Maybe they know something that we haven't heard yet.
	But you just can't conclude because his relationships are actually maintained and seem to be quite healthy.
	Oh no, Dr.
	Drew, this is not the message I want.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	How about, uh, he's psychotic!
	Yeah, yeah, psychotic!
	And Oliver, John Oliver agrees!
	I want you to listen to what John Oliver said.
	Honestly, the main takeaway from these two weeks is that, incredibly, we may be on the brink of electing such a damaged sociopathic narcissist that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities.
	And I genuinely did not think that that was a part of the job that someone could be bad at.
	People throw around a lot of terms about Donald Trump.
	Is that unfair to call someone who is a nominee for the Republican Party a sociopath?
	Yes, it is unfair.
	Sociopaths are usually tied up with illegal, really seriously problems with crunk behavior.
	But, you know, you can be manipulative, you can be narcissistic, and you can still do Okay in life, but again, your relationships usually have extreme pathology.
	It's very difficult to raise healthy kids, very difficult to have sustained marriages if you're deep into narcissism.
	Though, you can have narcissistic features, and there's no doubt that the majority of politicians have exactly that.
	The question, though, is are some of the reckless qualities that everyone is getting so disturbed about on the campaign going to be translated into office should he get elected?
	And that's a pretty hard thing to predict.
	I don't know if this is just somebody playing politics, or is this somebody who really can't contain their impulses?
	What do you think?
	And by the way, although people want to call it narcissism, people who are like hypomanic and bipolar are the ones who really have much more typical teeth.
	Whoa!
	Whoa, hold on a second.
	Oh, maybe he's...
	What?
	Hypo?
	What?
	Hypo?
	That sounds good!
	...with running at the mouth, and you've got to wonder more about that than narcissism.
	You said bipolarism and what else?
	Hypomania?
	Hypomania.
	I'm not saying he is hypomanic, but I'm going to label him with all these personality qualities, but when I hear people that are impulsive with their speech, I was worried about hypomania and bipolar types of conditions, and he has, as he says, boundless energy.
	Again, a little hypomania can be great.
	There are a lot of hypomanic businessmen that get a ton done.
	But in terms of containing your speech and being able to be thoughtful and take a beat before you say something, for those people, it can be very, very difficult.
	So it's just not working out for Don.
	And everything that he's been calling Trump is just apparently not true, according to the medical expert.
	And then we wrap it up here with Dr.
	Drew saying, well, it's actually it's it's us.
	But he means, of course, the Trump supporters.
	But if you listen carefully to what he says, you could also just say it's Don Lemon.
	What's more fascinating to me, Don, is not him, but his supporters that seem to not be concerned about any of this.
	That, to me, is fascinating.
	As always, what is up with us?
	Right.
	We're not concerned who say it doesn't matter if he's telling the truth or not.
	But again, I'm trying to figure out what is it with us.
	So we need to examine ourselves more than Donald Trump needs to.
	Listen, why we watch reality television.
	That's all about us.
	Why do we do this?
	Let's examine that.
	You know, I was watching these networks, and CNN seemed to be...
	Everybody was talking about all kinds of things, but CNN seemed to have wall-to-wall coverage of Trump.
	Oh, yeah.
	Michelle would say, hey, let's watch some TV, like 9 o'clock at night, whatever.
	I said, okay, let's play the game.
	I said, what game?
	I said, you know, you turn it on, and if within 30 seconds they haven't said Trump, then you switch to the next channel.
	I mean, you just turn it on.
	Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	So I found the one kind of interesting thing worth deconstructing was a couple of memes that cropped up about, because the main thing I was watching, I don't like watching.
	I love watching Don Lemon.
	It's my beat.
	It's, yeah.
	It's this tax thing, because Hillary came out.
	So there's a couple of reports.
	I want to play these two clips.
	And one of them is the Clinton on donate.
	Clinton released her taxes, 10 million bucks.
	And now there's a lot of speculation about what happens next.
	But I got a kick out of this.
	Is Clinton on donating to herself?
	Because they had a charitable donation to the Clinton Foundation.
	I thought that was rather funny.
	Tonight, Hillary Clinton hoping the release of her 2015 tax returns will pressure Donald Trump to do the same.
	Because he refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done and release his tax returns.
	The filings show the Clintons made a combined $10.7 million last year, far less than the $28 million they made the year before.
	They donated just over $1 million to charity, virtually all of it to the Clinton Foundation.
	I'd like to say that it is not atypical at all for wealthy individuals to have a foundation.
	They put money into the foundation.
	It's a way to avoid paying taxes and do something with it.
	Now, of course, the Clinton Foundation has its issues, but I'd see no problem in her giving her money to the Clinton Foundation.
	I just don't see a problem with that.
	That's very normal.
	Yes, if it's a corrupt organization.
	Yes, of course.
	Of course.
	That's the difference.
	So Mike Pence came out and gave his tax thing, and now all these, especially CNN, they were all, oh my god, now what?
	He's breaking ranks.
	He's doing this.
	I was listening to this nonsense because Trump is claiming not to release his taxes because he's under audit.
	Pence isn't under audit.
	He has to release his taxes under not breaking ranks.
	So that never made sense to me.
	But the one that gets me and the meme that really bothers me the most, and I'm just sick of it, is the one that's in this clip, which is Trump tax meme.
	...kind of campaigns these candidates want to run.
	Well, it's a bizarre world.
	I think that may be the phrase of the interview.
	And it's impossible to know.
	Look, Donald Trump isn't stupid.
	If he's not releasing his tax returns, it's because the heat he's going to take for not releasing them is going to be easier to absorb than the heat he'd take from releasing them and showing he's paying 0% effective tax rate.
	It's a rational calculation.
	It just doesn't seem that way in conventional terms.
	I have a slightly different view.
	I don't know.
	I don't believe that there's going to be anything in there that surprises many people other than the fact that he may not be worth what he thinks.
	And I think that would be more damaging to his brand.
	No, I know what's going on.
	We talked about this.
	What is the meme I'm looking at here?
	That he's lying about how much money he has.
	Okay.
	Now I'm going to ask the question.
	On what planet could you look at someone's tax return and tell how much money they have?
	Not on this one.
	You can't.
	It's not possible.
	His FEC filing says more about that, which he has done.
	Yes, he has.
	He's already filed that.
	Do you remember when this started, like, oh, I'm under audit, and I said, oh, no.
	He's playing the long game, and I'm going to tell you exactly how this is going to play out.
	He's going to release his taxes.
	He's going to.
	And it doesn't matter what's in there, because the deal is going to be, all right, Hillary, I'll release my taxes.
	You release, A, the transcripts, which we're pretty sure don't exist because there were no speeches.
	And two, you have to release your medical report.
	And this is where the real problems are going to occur.
	I brought this up before, and I'm in total agreement that he's going to slip it in at the end as a point at one of the debates, if the debates ever happen.
	But...
	And tax returns, none of it is compulsory.
	But knowing the candidate's health, that is what's going to happen.
	And that is going to be a very, very big issue.
	Now, while we were on break, everyone saw the diazepam pan and Hillary not being able to climb the stairs.
	I love the pan, yes.
	So Hannity, of all people, had two doctors on, and I just want to play this clip of them, because he brings up everything.
	The only thing I took out is the, you know, that so-called seizure clip, because they had a long analysis, which was really like, eh, who the hell knows?
	Which I agree, I don't think that was a seizure.
	I didn't think so, either.
	I don't think it was a seizure.
	But listen to, because he brings up the pan in all of this, and these doctors are quite clear.
	What about Hillary?
	2009, a severe fall.
	She breaks an elbow.
	2011, she boards a plane, falls.
	2012, she has a severe concussion, which Bill Clinton says it took her six months to recover from.
	Then, she ends up with a blood clot on the brain.
	She's on lifetime blood thinners.
	Just the point alone, if she's prone to falling, and you see from our presentation, I'm also concerned about this concussion she had in 2012.
	It could be a post-concussion syndrome.
	You know, your balance is off.
	You're dizzy all the time.
	Your memory is off.
	You're not thinking clearly.
	Maybe that's what she meant this week when she talked about that glitch she had with Chris Wallace.
	Maybe she just can't think.
	When she says she's short-circuited.
	Right.
	Also, it's not just that.
	She doesn't give a lot of press conferences.
	She doesn't want to seem to put herself in high-pressure situations.
	I want to know what her neurologist says.
	I've reached out to her neurologist at Columbia after she had that fall.
	No comment.
	I want to know what her neurological records show.
	What about this photo that the Gateway Pundit had up today, Jim Hoft, in an article?
	And, you know, Hillary's handler, I guess, was a diazepam pen.
	What would that be for?
	So one of the things that happens after having concussion, usually within a year or so, all the symptoms should resolve.
	Occasionally you have a latent or delayed kind of post-concussion syndromes, and seizure is one of those.
	So like traumatic head issues for a football player.
	Exactly what it is.
	And that can come years down the road.
	She may have some of the symptoms.
	You think that's what you're seeing?
	Well, I certainly think that a traumatic brain injury with symptoms down the road is very, very likely here, especially since she had a blood clot on her brain.
	And as David was mentioning, that can actually lead to a seizure problem.
	Someone's carrying a pen that you would use in the case of a seizure, a Valium pen?
	That makes me wonder about that.
	We need to see her records to see.
	Whoops!
	Okay, here's what concerns me about this and a number of these things.
	It's very clear in the WikiLeaks that she was in this plane crash.
	I know!
	In December of 2012 when she supposedly fell into office or whatever it was.
	And the plane crash indicated in all these memos, which were written back and forth amongst a bunch of Democrats, about, you know, warning the president that she may die and he has to get ready to announce her death because she was bleeding to death and she was hauled out unconscious from this wreck.
	Why isn't this brought up anywhere?
	Except the Israelis that brought it up in their publications.
	It shows up in a couple of sketchy Russian publications.
	But it's in the WikiLeaks.
	The entire discussion about this is in there.
	And nobody wants to touch it.
	And nobody wants to lose their job or their life.
	It's in WikiLeaks.
	The press in general doesn't even want to go into WikiLeaks and look up anything.
	The Chelsea Manning stuff is off-limits.
	It's especially off-limits if you work for the government, and it makes me wonder how many people in the media are in the CIA and actually are not allowed to look at that stuff.
	Oh, well, if we remember the Church Commission, lots of people are in the CIA. This is known.
	Now, on a Dutch news program, speaking of WikiLeaks...
	And by the way, I'll mention this.
	Our economic hitman, when he was dating the...
	State shill in the department.
	In the department of the little agency out of the state department.
	In the state, yeah.
	She could not look at half the stuff that...
	She's not allowed to.
	I cannot look at that.
	Yeah, not allowed to.
	Not allowed to look at...
	The public can look at it, but apparently...
	This tells you something about what's wrong with the government.
	The public can look at...
	The public, you, me, anyone else can go look at this stuff and read it, and yet someone in an intelligence-gathering agency that's supposed to know everything, they can't look at it.
	How does this make any sense to you?
	It doesn't.
	Julian Assange, who has been out and predicting, oh, we got more.
	We got stuff that's going to put Hillary in jail.
	It's an October surprise.
	And he's playing a game.
	There's no doubt about it.
	He's playing a game.
	He is like, well, you don't know our informants.
	We don't talk about our informants.
	We don't say if they're Russian or if they weren't Russian.
	But he goes on.
	No, he clearly said that this was not a Russian source from the DNC break that he printed.
	He made that clear.
	It was not Russians.
	Yes.
	But he was cagey about his source.
	He kept saying, we don't talk about our source.
	Except on the Dutch news program, Newsport...
	Yes, that was played over here, by the way.
	I'm sure it was, but let's make sure everyone hears it.
	Donald Trump has had a disastrous...
	And it's beautiful to listen to the presumption and the impression that the European media has about Donald Trump, which is, you know, the meme that...
	I read articles all the time, and they just rewrite it from the New York Times, just different words.
	They wait for the New York Times to come out.
	Okay, I'll just copy this, translate it into Dutch.
	And, of course, the memes are Donald Trump is insane, he's losing, he's in trouble, the campaign, he's trying to reboot it, all these words.
	And Assange just drops a gem.
	Donald Trump has had a disastrous few weeks.
	If you look at the polls, he needs a miracle.
	Miracle!
	In the American political lexicon, there's such a thing as the October surprise.
	The stuff that you're sitting on, is an October surprise in there?
	Do you even know what you're sitting on?
	Wikileaks never sits on material.
	Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material, and often very significant risks.
	There's a 27-year-old who works for the DNC, who was shot in the back, murdered just two weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington.
	That was just a robbery, I believe, wasn't it?
	No, there's no finding.
	What are you suggesting?
	I'm suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.
	But was he one of your sources then?
	I mean...
	We don't comment on who our sources are.
	Why make the suggestion about a young guy being shot in the streets of Washington?
	Because we have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States and that our sources are...
	You know, our sources face serious risks.
	That's why they come to us, so we can protect their anonymity.
	Well, it's quite something to suggest a murder.
	That's basically what you're doing.
	Murder.
	Well, others have suggested that.
	We are investigating to understand what happened in that situation with Seth Rich.
	I think it is a concerning situation.
	There's not a conclusion yet.
	We wouldn't be willing to state a conclusion, but we are concerned about it.
	And more importantly, a variety of Wikileaks sources are concerned when that kind of thing happens.
	I mean, whatever game Assange is playing, he was being very clear about his implication there.
	Yes, and he also offered a reward for the discovery who killed this guy.
	And meanwhile, I want to play just a counter thing.
	This is the Pelosi.
	It says, Pelosi blames.
	And play this clip just so we know what once, you know, the reality of WikiLeaks is one thing, but the meme that has to continue is this one.
	House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi addressed the issue in Washington today.
	Russians broke in.
	Who did they give the information to?
	I don't know.
	Who dumped it?
	I don't know.
	But I do know that this is a Watergate-like electronic break-in.
	Russians, Russians, Russians.
	I mean, they won't get off this.
	No, no, they can't turn it around.
	And the government, and I can get clip after clip of the law enforcement agencies saying they don't know who did this.
	And there's no evidence of this thing.
	Well, of course we have, most of the intelligence officials who are anti-Trump are all former intelligence officials.
	There's 50 of them who wrote this open letter.
	It's pretty crazy.
	And of course we have new documents from Guccifer.
	Before we go off, we still have some more Assange.
	Assange was on Bill Maher.
	Good, I didn't see it.
	Now, the funny thing is about this is Mar, it's very apparent when you listen to him, and that makes you wonder after what I said about agencies, people that work in various agencies can't look at stuff.
	And I bet you that, I'm betting that, I have to, I'll contact somebody that knows whether it might not be legal for...
	An intelligence officer to actually look at WikiLeaks.
	But it's pretty apparent whether it's for whatever reason.
	Marr has never looked at the WikiLeaks stuff about the DNC. You can tell by his questions.
	This is Assange on Marr.
	Released thousands and thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee right before the Democratic Convention.
	And you, of course, in the past have released lots of documents from governments.
	But people question whether this...
	And we should point out that in the past, the big WikiLeaks documents were done in complete collusion with mainstream media and the United States government.
	When we were looking through all this...
	A long time ago, that's true.
	Yeah.
	But the releases of stuff was never exclusively, the way Mari indicates, exclusively of government leaks.
	There's corporate leaks.
	Yeah.
	They're supposed to have a bunch of banking stuff.
	They go after certain individuals.
	It's bullcrap.
	But people question whether this was fair game because the Democratic National Committee is not a government.
	It's private.
	And some of the donors had their social security numbers and credit card numbers released.
	That's not true either.
	Unlike the government who actually put, you know, hundreds of thousands of people's information at risk when they let it all get hacked.
	Yeah, it's not true.
	I think this is fair game.
	Well, it was definitely good fun.
	Fair game, well, we did the same thing to Senator Norm Coleman's campaign.
	I was a Republican senator back in 2009.
	The Turkish political party, AKP, just the other week.
	A neo-Nazi party here in the UK a few years ago.
	I can't remember the name of it.
	Irritating party.
	British national party.
	So, no, I think I'm super happy with how that's gone.
	We've had four people in the DNC resign.
	Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head, the chief financial officer, the communications director, Lewis Miranda, etc.
	And that shows a kind of instant accountability, perhaps not proper political accountability for people.
	A really quite concerted effort through the chain of command at the DNC to make sure that Bernie Sanders didn't win, including by pumping out black PR. Well, I don't know if that's really true.
	I mean, I read those emails.
	There was no smoking gun.
	I do.
	I know that it's true.
	I know that it's true.
	Communications Director Lewis Miranda, who has resigned just three days ago, instructed his staff, an instruction, not a discussion, an instruction, to pump out, quote, in an unattributable manner, statements and an article in an unattributable manner, statements and an article saying that Bernie Sanders supporters were engaged in acts of violence.
	So this is the DNC demonizing in a covert manner through its chain of command to the press and its favorite press contacts a Democrat.
	Now, Morris says there's tons of smoking guns.
	He didn't look at this at all.
	No, why do that when you can read the New York Times and be informed?
	So the other thing is, and this is the second clip, which only kind of just clarifies the thing about Morris' accusation that he let credit card numbers out, and I've never seen that on WikiLeaks.
	It's very hard to extract even email addresses from their leaks.
	Well, maybe he's confused with Guccifer, because Guccifer does have all these spreadsheets.
	Well, he might be confused, but that's not what he said.
	No.
	And it just seemed, and this second part clarifies that, and Mars really flat-footed about this whole thing.
	I don't believe he's ever looked at any of this stuff.
	But okay, let's tackle these criticisms.
	We did not publish full credit card numbers about donors.
	It's the last four digits, just like your 7-Eleven receipt.
	It's very important for tracking money laundering, and there are serious allegations of money laundering and FEC violations that are released.
	Our materials, the materials that we release, We're really good at this.
	We have a 10-year perfect record of having never got it wrong in relation to the integrity of what we've released.
	There's no allegation, even from Debbie Wasserman Shorts or any of these people, that any of the material is not completely valid and true.
	What there is is a conflation between our publications, DNC Leaks, and an extensive variety of hacks of the DNC and, frankly, other organizations over the last two years, possibly by state actors.
	That wouldn't be at all surprising, but also a number of others.
	DNI Clapper, the head of all U.S. intelligence agencies, James Clapper, said...
	Last Friday, that the media was hyperventilating.
	They couldn't make an attribution, let alone as the motivation.
	And even that was just about the hacks.
	It's not about the material we released.
	But we know the source of the material, right?
	Everyone knows the source of what we published.
	The source is the Democratic Party.
	The source is Louis Miranda, Wasserman Schultz, etc., etc.
	All right.
	I know...
	All right, all right.
	Stop.
	There'll be none of that.
	It went on for quite a while.
	Breaking news.
	Flat-footed mar.
	Breaking news.
	Breaking news.
	Michelle just sent me messages from south of France.
	riot on the beach of Corsica after tourists takes photo of woman in Burkini and some young men of North African origin harpooned him.
	Oh, God.
	Police are still trying to establish how the incident turned into a riot, but local media said a group of older North American men soon arrived.
	Some armed with hatchets and harpoons.
	North African.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You said North American.
	I'm sorry.
	North African.
	I didn't mean to say that.
	The unrest lasted for several hours.
	Then which three cars were burned.
	Four people had to be taken to the hospital.
	Holy moly.
	Harpooning.
	That's a new one.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Make them outlaw harpoons, I tell you.
	Outlaw them.
	The guy takes a picture?
	Yeah.
	And he gets harpooned?
	Yeah.
	There's got to be more to it than that.
	Well, you know, why?
	Why does it have to be more to it?
	I just think there has to be more to it.
	It just sounds too simplistic.
	I want to get to a break, but one last story with an associated clip.
	So I got in really late, and of course, you know, we don't have Uber anymore, and Ride Austin, which is kind of our app, there's no way, you know, on a Saturday night, there's no one at the airport at two in the morning, so I grabbed a cab.
	Uh, and unfortunately, the cab was too noisy and the guy was too, uh, Ahob was his name, uh, was just too soft-spoken.
	I had to really lean forward.
	Uh, you know, I'm in the car and say, how you doing?
	And he got an accent and said, hey man, where are you from originally?
	Damascus.
	Oh, good.
	How are you doing, Damascus?
	And we had a nice long chat on the way home.
	And takeaway is two things.
	First of all, he says, I really hope Trump becomes president.
	Mind you, a Muslim who has family there.
	And then he does try to go back from time to time.
	So how do you go back?
	He says, oh, you got to go to Beirut.
	And then it's an hour cab ride.
	And you got some checkpoints.
	But then you can get into Damascus.
	And he's all over CIA, Mossad doing this.
	And, you know, so I laid my pipeline theory on it.
	So, yeah, that's definitely a part of it.
	He said, really, what's going on is they just want to make it a horrible, horrible mess.
	And he says, yes, exactly.
	He says, Lebanon is next, which is like, oh, well, hello.
	And then I told him about the, you know, the West Clark seven.
	He says, oh, yeah, this this makes total sense.
	Actually, probably to play the West Clark seven clip again, just so we all remember what was said.
	So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
	I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
	And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
	He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, and he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense Office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
	Thank you.
	So I said, so I lay the rebel eyes thing on him.
	He says, yeah, that's it.
	He says, I believe milk will cost the equivalent of $20 in a year from now in Syria.
	And he says, if they take out Assad, he says, which is somehow that is the mission.
	He says, but of course the U.S. can't do it because that, you know, or not directly because that would get Russia in a tizzy.
	And he understood all of these, all of these nuances.
	But he said, no, the idea is you get Lebanon and just make the, rebel eyes the whole place.
	And that goes perfectly, which I'm sure you saw, with the clip of Mike Morrell, who was on Charlie Rose.
	And even Charlie Rose was chuckling at the audacity of Mr.
	Right-Right.
	Yeah, this is Mike Morrell, former Deputy Director of CIA, who claims he ran the CIA, but he was kind of the second guy.
	The holding pattern guy.
	Yes, and he has endorsed...
	Hold on to the steering wheel while I get something out of my pocket.
	He has endorsed Hillary Clinton, and that is not illogical, since he does not want any implication in the Benghazi scandal with the guns, which, of course, Clinton has helped the CIA cover up.
	And this is said by any American official out in the open, and, of course, I guess he's going to be an advisor to Hillary, and I believe he has some ties to the Clinton Foundation, I'd give them the things that they need to both go after the Assad government, but also to have the Iranians and the Russians pay a little price.
	The Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia who were killing American soldiers.
	The Iranians were making us pay a price.
	We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria.
	We need to make the Russians pay a price.
	The other thing I would do...
	We make them pay the price by killing...
	Killing Russians?
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	And killing Iranians?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	What?
	Yes.
	Just go kill people.
	Kill Russians.
	Kill Iranians.
	You don't tell the world about it, right?
	Right.
	You don't stand up at the Pentagon and say, we did this.
	Right?
	But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.
	Here's the other thing I want to do.
	Here's the other thing I want to do.
	What do you want to do?
	I want to go after.
	I want to go after.
	Those things that Assad sees as his personal power base, right?
	I want to scare Assad.
	I want to go after his presidential guard.
	I want to bomb his offices in the middle of the night.
	That happened about two years ago, as you remember, when his brother-in-law was I want to destroy his presidential aircraft on the ground.
	I want to destroy his presidential helicopters.
	I want to make him think we're coming after him.
	I'm not advocating assassinating him.
	I'm not advocating that.
	I'm advocating going after what he thinks is his power base and what he needs to survive.
	I want him to think about, this is not going to end well for me, right?
	Right, right.
	I want to put pressure on him.
	I want to put pressure on the Iranians.
	I want to put pressure on the Russians to come to that diplomatic settlement.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to rebelize!
	I love the last little bit there.
	I'll give you a clip of the day for that clip.
	No, thank you.
	That's appreciated.
	Wait, the funny thing is at the very end, it's kind of hard to hear.
	So he talks about killing everybody, killing Russians, killing Iranians, scaring Assad, blowing up his palace, blowing up his offices, blowing up his presidential plane, blowing up the helicopters, and then...
	...on the Iranians, I want to put pressure on the Russians.
	To come to that diplomatic settlement.
	And this is all to come to a diplomatic settlement.
	You see, that's how diplomacy works in the United States.
	We will bomb the crap out of you.
	I heard that was very funny.
	That's why I got clip of the day, because of the stupid ending.
	Just wanted to make sure everyone heard it.
	Unbelievable!
	So yeah, our original thesis is just rubblize the whole place.
	And we just have to get Assad...
	I'm not talking about assassinating him.
	Yes, you are.
	That's exactly what you want.
	It could be an accidental death.
	And so then, as my friend Ahab said, you want trouble?
	He says, when that becomes an Islamic state...
	And I said, Daesh?
	He said, no, no, no, no.
	No, an Islamic state.
	He says, not the Islamic state.
	When it is an Islamic state, no longer secular.
	He said, that's going to be the end of it all.
	And he's very...
	He's not about Syria?
	No, yeah, Syria.
	He said, that's going to be the end of it all.
	He said, then it'll spread to Lebanon, and then that's when I said, oh, this has been the plan.
	He says, uh-huh.
	Well, it makes some sense because before the new Assad, the old Assad, and they weren't a big oil producer.
	They still really aren't.
	They were known as the number one instigators.
	In fact, a lot of people believe that they were behind the Lockerbie event.
	Well, wasn't that the Libyans?
	I thought the...
	What do you mean?
	Oh, the Syrians.
	The Syrians.
	The Libyans were blamed for it.
	Right.
	Because they had reasons to blame them.
	Remember that was one of the reasons why we had to go kill Gaddafi because of that?
	I think that's an element, but they also let the one guy go.
	The whole thing is sketchy.
	I'm just saying, remember how that came up and the guy who was blamed was released and went back.
	You remember all that?
	Yeah, I do remember all that because the whole thing was bogus.
	The fact was it was always Syria.
	Syria was behind most of the terrorism and they were orchestrating almost all of it and they were always just given hush money just to stop it.
	And that's how the Syrian regime continued.
	They were just paid off not to do this stuff.
	And it was fairly well known in the Middle East.
	Talked to old Middle Easterners.
	They'll talk to Assyrians.
	That's what the Assyrians did.
	And everyone knew it, and it wasn't a big deal.
	And it was just, give them some money, because they were the poor...
	They were the lesser brother, the brother with one leg.
	They didn't have the oil.
	They didn't have the money.
	And so they were just long-term paid off.
	And they kind of drifted away from that model with the new guy, the new Assad.
	And they...
	Could go back to that model, and that's what I think he was referring to, which is that the Syrians become an Islamic state, the terrorism's just going to get completely out of control.
	Yeah.
	Which is uplifting.
	Yay us!
	We had the Olympics this week, which I have my two-clip report on later after a break.
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	Well, first of all, I want to thank Sir Kevin McLaughlin for donating $69.69 on show 488.
	Ah, yes.
	Or $8.44 or whatever it was.
	We had a problem on the show.
	What was it?
	$8.49.
	$8.48 actually was the real problematic one.
	848, we had a bunch of donations that got passed up, including $848.
	Oh, hello.
	It was 848.
	And we do have a few make goods on the list here that Eric has on his little...
	It was some follow-up.
	Computer glitch.
	Oh, wait, wait.
	I get to play my jingle.
	Hold on.
	Where is it?
	I got my new jingle.
	Oh, it seems to be gone.
	Oh, my jingle is gone.
	Never mind.
	Good timing.
	Yeah.
	And so McLaughlin, who never wrote, I can't find an email from him, but he was just tweeting.
	Hey, where's my donation?
	He's tweeting documents.
	He's tweeting all this stuff.
	Calm down, for God's sake.
	And so, I wanted to put him at the very top of the list, even though it's not for an executive producer amount, but it is for...
	Here it is.
	Just to call me.
	Our glitch.
	Our glitch.
	A glitch!
	Shut up about the glitch!
	There we go.
	Hans Christian.
	We have two Instanites, Hans Christensen and Tab Roars, I think.
	Roars, yeah.
	Rare, rare.
	Yeah, rare.
	Let's start with Hans.
	He's in Westport, Connecticut, $1,000, and he says, Tonight, all Gold Star families, whether they want it or not, a term dating to World War I, for Americans that don't know, the Gold Star was you, yeah, instead of paying them, by the way, World War I vets actually did a sit-down on the lawn of the White House.
	This was during the Roosevelt administration, and so they sent out armed guys and shot them.
	They shot them up.
	And then they said, you know what, since that didn't work, here's a gold star for your family.
	The gold star was used in World War II memorial in D.C. to symbolize the sacrifice of the men and women and the families during that conflict.
	Is that the end of his note?
	That's all I got.
	Why don't you see if there's any email with his name in there?
	Because I thought we'd expect some more than just that.
	Tab, a rare in Charlotte, North Carolina, $1,000.
	And he actually sent me a note.
	And I have it in a pile.
	Is this it?
	I think so.
	I'm trying to get...
	That's Chris.
	Yeah, this is...
	Oh, okay, no.
	This must be it.
	I don't see anything from Hans Christensen, unfortunately.
	Okay, Tabarera's rights.
	Programming note.
	Oh, this is a heads up for you.
	I was going to send it in, but of course I didn't.
	Please cue up the following of his favorite combo.
	Ready?
	All right.
	You can write these down, then I'll read the note and you'll have time.
	Alright.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The JCD, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Get out of my vagina.
	Uh-huh.
	Mac and cheese life.
	Living the mac and cheese.
	And jobs karma.
	Okay.
	So it's not that hard.
	Ah, no.
	But you have another pen thing to write down.
	I'm hitting the big 5-0 today, so he has to be on the birthday list.
	I think he is.
	I don't think so.
	Uh...
	If he is, it's a miracle.
	I've taken it because I didn't send it to Eric.
	I don't think.
	No, I didn't.
	Yeah, Tab.
	No, you're right.
	Okay, Tab.
	All right.
	Rares.
	Rares.
	Yeah, and what's his deets?
	He's 50 today.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	I have time to reflect back on my life, he writes.
	I have seen plenty of strange and wonderful things throughout my journey.
	Thanks to your efforts, I've managed to hold on to my sanity as we enter this crazy time in our world.
	Keep up the good work!
	I thought it a nice gift to myself and to help you continue what you do so well.
	I became an instantite and joined the ranks of the round table.
	Dubbed me Sir Tab, Defender of the Fanciful Whim.
	I think that's listed on there because I did send that to Eric.
	Sir Tab, Defender of the Fanciful Whim.
	And don't skimp, skimp on the mutton and mead if you please.
	I don't require a dedouching as I will carry with me my shame as a reminder to donate.
	I would like to call out Mike Hull for hitting me in the mouth multiple times.
	As a?
	It doesn't say, but I'm assuming he's supposed to be called out as a douchebag.
	Why else would he say it?
	Why is it not working?
	Douchebag!
	Douchebag!
	The first time I found you guys to be quite irritating.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	We irritate each other.
	But I think it was because of my own natural rebelliousness.
	I kept listening and found you to be both strange, wonderful, and quite refreshing.
	Again, thank you for all you do.
	I would like to request some jobs, Carmen, my smoking hot girlfriend, Patty, start our own beach-based food truck.
	Beach-based food truck is probably a good idea.
	Keep up this depression thing, by the way, so don't count on it forever.
	Don't get too happy.
	Keep up the good work.
	Go podcasting.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Get out of my vagina.
	In the mac and cheese life.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You got it for me.
	Yay.
	Now, by the way, I want to remind people that this is a little longer than usual, because this is for two shows.
	Two shows, yeah.
	Two shows.
	So we have Anonymous coming in with 666.66.
	He says, your periodic dissection of your own show...
	Oh, that's the one we just did.
	No.
	Dissection of your own show reminds me when news outlets used to have Ombudsman.
	Ombudsman.
	Yeah, Ombudsman.
	Which was kind of like the public editor like the New York Times has, I guess.
	Yeah, you can talk to him when you have a problem.
	The voice of the people.
	call them on their own BS because they know they were not self-introspective.
	You guys are self-reflective and care about what you're doing so that you get my respect and more importantly, my donation.
	The only jingles I ask for is karma, little girl, yay.
	And this will take some homework.
	Adam, John labeled this donation level the mark of the beast.
	you When all of us old headbangers know what Bruce Dickinson called it.
	A number of the beast.
	A number of the beast.
	Yeah.
	Excuse me.
	So clip that portion of the Iron Maiden song and correct John.
	Sorry, I did not have this in time for the pre-production meeting.
	Yeah, we'll deal with that later then.
	Okay.
	Keep on truckin', he says.
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Alrighty, thank you so much.
	Chris Eve in Tokyo 533.
	He actually wrote a lengthy note and then he wrote another note and emailed and said read this instead.
	So if I can get my keyboard here.
	I don't know why.
	You know, this thing opens up awkwardly.
	This takes me to long-coveted status of Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	I tasked a written note with my donation, but it's still possible not too much trouble.
	I'd like to be raised and mend my message by saying I've been organizing trade shows and exhibitions in Tokyo for the last 25 years, and I've built my business up...
	to be one of the largest exhibition organizers in Japan.
	Now some douchebag in the Tokyo metropolitan...
	Oh, this is not in the other notes.
	He's got a grouse.
	Some douchebag in the Tokyo metropolitan government has announced that they will requisition the Tokyo Big Site Exhibition Center, the main venue in Tokyo, where I organize all my shows for seven months to be the media center for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
	This is going to devastate my business.
	So I want to direct a douchebag to whoever it is that made that decision and hereby declare that from here henceforth I wish to be known as the good knight of the Tokyo big sight.
	As per my letter, for jingles I'd like to request, and...
	I don't know why this is doing this.
	I see.
	Two to the head, Hillary cackle.
	Two to the head, Hillary cackle, and don't raff.
	Shut up.
	And a karma, I presume.
	Keep up the good work.
	Wait, that's not the right one.
	That's a good one.
	That's Hillary, isn't it?
	No, that's from The Wizard of Oz.
	Oh, I thought it was.
	Sorry.
	What is the cackle?
	I wonder what...
	There's a series of laughs that you have put together.
	Well, yeah, but when you say cackle specifically...
	Well, yeah, now you've lost your train of thought.
	You know what it is?
	Hillary laughs.
	That's what I would look at.
	Yeah.
	I don't have it right now.
	Let me do the...
	Yeah, now I'm confused.
	All right.
	Don't laugh.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	I think the other laughs have gone.
	Shut up, Karma.
	Suffices, I say.
	Suffices.
	Jeff in Toronto, Ontario, $425.
	My friend Joe, the healthy surprise guy, called me out on a recent show for being a douchebag.
	And he's right.
	This donation should make up for things and puts me halfway to night.
	I enjoy the show regularly, even though punching friends in the mouth doesn't help with the dinner invites.
	It's hit in the mouth, not punch.
	Yeah, it's hidden in the mouth.
	I'll take some E1 trade visa karma, and I'm looking to expand my business further to the U.S. since the Canadian peso blows chunks.
	It's the dollarette, my friend.
	It's the dollarette.
	I'll give him a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	Well deserved.
	Thank you for your courage and your support.
	You've got karma.
	Duke Nussbaum there in Virginia Beach.
	Ah, drunk donation.
	I don't know.
	He didn't know he was even a drinker.
	34567.
	We got that right.
	Duke Nussbaum here.
	I will get that here of anyone disparaging Christina in the chat room again.
	Everyone in JCD and Adam's family is off limits, period.
	No questions.
	Say as you will to John or Adam, but the family stuff is done.
	That's so kind.
	P.S. Real drunk, but I mean it.
	He would be a fun guy to hang out with drunk, I think.
	Nussbaum?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, probably.
	Pretty cool.
	He's in Virginia.
	Karma for you, my friend.
	Thank you so much.
	Henry Cunningham in Cincinnati, Ohio, 33333.
	Again, that's two shows.
	The Redux of the 2005 show reminded me to donate again.
	We should do it again next week.
	I remember when I first listened to that show when I was removing a lawn.
	Mowing the lawn.
	Mowing a lawn for the elderly couple to help pay for rent and also pay a portion of my tuition.
	Mind you, he's donating 3-3-3-3-3 and he's working part-time jobs to pay the rent and tuition.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	In cash, by the way, instead of taking out another horrible student loan.
	Very good.
	No agenda has helped me view the media through a critical eye since my early days of college.
	I feel terribly guilty for not donating at least a dollar per episode since I first started listening in late 2008.
	So here's another one-third of a knighthood donation because I'm still an incredibly cheap piece of garbage.
	Not the way I see it.
	No, not really.
	By the way, when John is going to present his breakdown of the scam scholastic...
	The scam Scholastic is executing upon the public schools.
	Well, this is your Scholastic report you've promised for about six years?
	Coming, coming, coming soon.
	Coming, coming, coming.
	I remember working at a distribution center for a major 3PL right across the street from one of the Scholastic's big warehouses in Ohio.
	During my nightly commute back then, I remember listening to when John mentioned he was working on a big expose of Scholastic.
	It's not actually true.
	I was going to spot charter schools more than anything.
	And I made mention note as he mentioned this just as I drove past the building, although I'm pretty sure the response will be the general discussion about Common Core's overlaps completely with the BS Scholastic has been pulling.
	I've always been, now I've got to have to go look at this.
	I've always had a beef with them since elementary school when I noticed the vast majority of textbooks in my parents' property taxes went to paying for these shitty picture books.
	Yeah, and it goes on.
	Let's see what the point is here if it gets to it.
	Also, I'd love to see Adam make an appearance on Night Attack.
	Ah, Shwood.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah, of course.
	Yeah, we'll do that.
	And then try to keep it fairly low-key.
	But in that before-after show, Brian Brushwood and Justin Roberts Young tend to express views that are predominantly in line with the skeptical views of No Agenda.
	I really think Adam making a guest appearance would be good.
	Yeah, they have one element on that show that I really like, and I look forward to doing it.
	They all get drunk on the show.
	It's kind of cool.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You're looking forward to it so you can get drunk?
	Yeah, on the show.
	It would be funny.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Karma.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you so much, Henry.
	Chuck Kendrick in Surrey, British Columbia, 333.
	I'm a long-time listener, producer.
	On my way to knighthood, I can tell you how happy I am that my best friend...
	And by the way, yeah, I would like to hear you drunk on that show, too.
	It would be quite funny.
	It doesn't take much.
	It's a cheap drunk.
	I'm a cheap drunk.
	I'm a cheap date.
	Cheap drunk.
	I can't tell you how happy I've been.
	It's my last blah, blah, blah.
	Jared Meisner now listens and donates regularly.
	I have been trying to hit him in the mouth for many years, and this election cycle has exposed the media corruption enough for him to be interested in your deconstruction.
	The quality of analysis specifically since the Brexit vote episode has been outstanding.
	I moved to Vancouver, B.C. from the States a few years back and like to set up a meetup for producers in the area.
	Any advice on how to be best way to set this up would be appreciated.
	I'm welcoming any producers to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebag by using my name Chuck Kindrick, K-I-N-D-R-I-C-K. Thank you both and enjoy your time off.
	Yeah, good.
	When you have it set up and you've got something to promote, send me an email and we'll talk about it on the show.
	And that was $250, so he becomes an associate executive producer with...
	No, that was 333.
	Oh, that was 333.
	That's Kendrick.
	Now we drop to associate executive producers with Mikhail Garber in Issaquah, Washington.
	And he says, this should make me a knight.
	He's listed.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Michael Knight of the Huge Data.
	Isn't that big data?
	But he wants to be huge.
	Huge data.
	Everyone talks about big data, we talk about huge data.
	He could use some travel karma.
	Alright, here it is for you, sir.
	You've got karma.
	Looking forward to the ceremony.
	Dame Patricia Worthington of the Biscayne Bay, Florida.
	She came up with $250, and she will be Associate Executive Producer.
	And she has a note.
	That's interesting.
	Uh...
	You know, this is another thing that's annoying.
	Where's my...
	Oh, there they are.
	I take the reading glasses off to read off the screen.
	And then I put them down somewhere.
	And there's always someplace different.
	I like to send myself on adventures.
	ITM to John and Adam.
	Something to help in the doldrums of summer.
	In exchange, I'd like some job karma for both my daughters.
	You and a couple of online blogs are my source of news.
	It is so much less stressful that way.
	I appreciate you doing your work.
	And I believe basically nothing on the mainstream media.
	I don't listen, but people seem to need to tell me about it.
	Oh, yeah.
	She believes nothing on the mainstream media.
	Thank you so much.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	Utah.
	Karma.
	Kenneth Sagana in Washington, Utah.
	Two, three, four, five, six.
	In the morning, greetings from the Mormon mess and a sincere thanks for your award-winning deconstruction and analysis of current events.
	I particularly enjoy your SLAMS, in caps, on the cry-bully culture that is now pervasive at the college level.
	The links in your show notes are...
	Also very appreciated and have enhanced my ability to have intelligent discourse with SJW leaning friends and family.
	A shout out to my good friend Zach in Seattle who hit me in the mouth around show 650 and I've been an avid listener ever since.
	I'd like to call him out as a douchebag for never donating.
	Douchebag!
	Hey Spicoli, don't be a boner.
	Become a no agenda donor.
	Yeah.
	Please take me out with some Obama.
	No, no, no.
	Mariachi, two to the head, followed by Diane Feinstein, and her head is gone.
	Sincerely, Kenny in St.
	George, Utah.
	St.
	George.
	It's different than Washington.
	I don't remember.
	It's not titled Mariachi.
	Yes, I got it here, I think.
	Let me see.
	What's the title so people will know in the future?
	No, that's not it.
	Uh...
	Yeah.
	No, I'm laughing at the next one coming out.
	That's not it.
	That's it?
	That was it?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Oh, maybe no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	I got a lot of no, no, no, no.
	If only it were called mariachi, that would help, wouldn't it?
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	That's out.
	I wish I knew it.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, the rest of it then.
	Okay, what was the rest?
	He wants two to the head and Dianne Feinstein and her head is gone.
	Okay.
	I will look that one up.
	Let me write it down right now.
	And I will rename it Mariachi because we've had this problem so many times.
	I'm so sorry about that.
	We're trying.
	And her head is gone.
	You've got karma.
	I've written it down for post-production notes.
	Kurt, $227.50 in Illinois.
	Please accept this long overdue half-assed donation.
	Thank you.
	$455 divided by two.
	I started listening after John left a certain tech podcast and I haven't looked back.
	I'm a millennial just starting to figure out the world of politics and listening to you guys has put me on the right track.
	John, I especially enjoyed episode 809 where you called the Indian IRS scammer.
	The Indian IRS scammer.
	I don't remember that.
	Of course you do.
	The whole phone conversation.
	Oh, I made a phone call and then played the recording.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	You like more stuff like that.
	Well, I've got another one maybe lined up.
	All right.
	Can you please play Obama, You Might Die, Hillary Barking, Two to the Head, and the Over the Top Scream.
	Yeah, I can try that.
	You might die.
	Ow, ow, ow, ow!
	Calm down.
	Ah!
	We got him.
	See, that's why I was laughing.
	I got you.
	It's a good combination.
	We don't do the scream enough.
	I agree.
	Down to $212 from Dalton, Georgia is Abe.
	Abe's been a long-time listener and he says, $4 a week subscriber for the show since 2013.
	After an appearance by John on Twit hit me in the mouth since I started my subscription.
	My reads aren't too good today.
	I'm sorry.
	I started my subscription.
	It's been canceled twice.
	Once by PayPal without my knowing in May 2013 and again this past December by myself during a period of joblessness.
	However, once again I was back on my feet and forgot to renew the subscription so this donation is to make up for the 53 weeks I have listened to your podcast but did not donate.
	Your shows have been fantastic.
	It's $212.
	All right.
	Give him a little bit of karma for that.
	Thank you so much.
	You've got karma.
	Angelo Castaneda.
	Angela.
	That's Dame Angela.
	Dame Angela from Vegas.
	She sent us a note.
	She came up with $200.
	This is our last donation.
	We should look her up.
	Let's just make sure if she sent us anything or not.
	Let's go to search.
	Angela.
	I think she did.
	Cass...
	Castaneda.
	Let me see.
	Um...
	No.
	Yes.
	Well, she sent her...
	No.
	No, she's always sending me stuff, but nothing about this donation.
	She was talking about...
	She's always sending me cool inside stuff, but no.
	No.
	It's possible she just sent no note.
	Okay, well...
	I know, for one thing, for sure...
	You know that I'm going to just ask people to do this.
	Have you ever gone through a textbook that says, this page left intentionally blank?
	Yeah.
	We need someone that says, no note.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well...
	That would work.
	I know that Dame Angela feels that we have positively influenced her teenage son.
	That's good.
	That always makes me feel good.
	It usually helps if the parents are...
	Clued in.
	Clued in.
	I'm going to give her a big-ass call.
	There you go.
	Thank you for everything you do.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	That's concluding our group of well-wishers and executive associate executive producers for show 851.
	We want to thank everyone profusely.
	That's for two shows, actually.
	50 and 851.
	That's two shows.
	And you want to go to Dvorak.org slash NA because we do have another show coming up shortly.
	And remember that these are real titles, executive producer, associate executive producer.
	You can use them anywhere that credits are recognized.
	And apparently putting them on your LinkedIn does get you a lot of views, and some people have received employment through it.
	So we appreciate that.
	And yes, we'll be thanking more people in our second segment.
	And remember, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	Just to make sure you know, it's not punch, it's not slam, it's hit.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Whoa.
	Lord of the shit is a...
	Shut up, slay.
	Shut up, slay.
	Now, before we go on, I do want to...
	We do have some make-good thank-yous, including a whopper.
	Thank you.
	Which is listed in that email from Eric.
	Yeah.
	Which is $848 for show, $848.
	Okay, I'm going to go back and put him as the club member for 848 on the credits as well.
	Yes, he needs that for sure.
	And then we also have Shannon Rumble.
	$200.33, and Shannon will be on the associate executive producer list for this show, which will include Sir Skits of Dixie, Baron Sir Skits of Dixie, for $848.
	And Jim might as well mention this one so we don't have to go back, which is Chris Topp, $103.01.
	And also Carla Kruger.
	I didn't hear her list it.
	Carla Krueger came in with 880.08, which we could put in the second half and might get on there, but I just want to get it out of the way.
	So she worked in for boob.
	And I have Shannon Rumble, 233.
	Also a make good.
	That's what I just said.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I was...
	It's what happens.
	You're doing something, you're doing something.
	Three hours of sleep is what I'm doing.
	You're not getting enough sleep, my friend.
	Well, no.
	You've got to go to bed earlier.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hey, thanks for that.
	That's real helpful.
	I did want to just, not quite second half a show, but there is something I need to bring up because it is a date from the future, August 24th, 2016.
	Now, this is a conspiracy theory, so hello, the theremin tells you it's a conspiracy theory, but it's a crazy one.
	Stay on this?
	Sorry?
	August 24th.
	That's coming up.
	Yes.
	August 24th.
	Now, don't laugh.
	Don't raff.
	Don't raff.
	Hillary Clinton will be in New York.
	I believe there's a fundraiser being held by Tim Cook.
	You know, Tom Collins there from Apple.
	Yeah.
	You can't do it out here?
	Can't spend money in California?
	I'm just saying.
	Trump will likely be in New York.
	And here was the theory.
	And this comes from some remote viewing people.
	So this is why you've got to take it with a grain of salt.
	But it's out there.
	That there will be an event in New York City.
	It could be a catastrophic explosion.
	It could be a dirty bomb.
	And this would result in the death of both candidates, at which point Joe Biden would become the logical choice and our next president.
	There's quite a lot of serious chatter about this.
	I don't know how you can...
	Okay.
	Serious chatter.
	You know how I can do this?
	Stay out of New York is my advice.
	How can we do this?
	Because we don't have advertisers.
	We don't have people with other agendas and corporate interests.
	I'm giving it to you because I would say that I've never heard this because I've listened to all this commercial crap and they won't talk about stuff like this.
	Of course not.
	Where'd you get this?
	You got this from the interwebs.
	From circles I travel in.
	You got it from some circles.
	Yes.
	Circles I travel in.
	Yes.
	Circles of jerks.
	Okay.
	Speaking of...
	Well, it's good to know.
	We got the heads up on the 24th.
	We'll have a show.
	When's the next show?
	Thursday.
	And that's what day?
	I don't know.
	Well, let's take a look.
	It'll be for the 18th.
	The 18th.
	So we got a week to go on this thing.
	And so we'll have a show on the 25th, the day after the event.
	Okay.
	Good enough.
	Time flies.
	When you're having fun, you should add that to the end.
	I do have an Olympic report.
	I want to get it out of the way.
	Oh, good.
	Good, good, good.
	First of all, I want to condemn NBC. All right.
	And I want you to listen to this clip carefully.
	This is a clip that says it's coxswain.
	Coxswain without the K. That's the name of the clip.
	Coxswain, yeah.
	They bring a woman on, and the guy who's in the back of the rowing crew is the coxswain.
	And it's spelled C-O... C-K-S-W-A-I-N. Yeah, he's the guy that steers and yells through the megaphone.
	He steers and yells.
	Steers and yells.
	Watch out for the couch!
	And it's pronounced coxson.
	It is not pronounced coxswain.
	No.
	Nor is it pronounced cox.
	No.
	So they bring their expert on NBC. This is NBC doing their rap.
	I can't wait.
	So there's this girl.
	She doesn't know how to pronounce this.
	She's not reading it.
	She's off the top of her head.
	And so she refers to this particular position of coxswain as coxswain, cox, and the jaw.
	So big sway and cock?
	Is that her?
	Is that her?
	She has something else on the mind.
	Yeah.
	She's also a horrid fast talker.
	Oh, no.
	So she kind of covers it up a little bit.
	But take a listen and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	All right, let's talk about another team that's dominating in the women's eight rowing team.
	This is the ultimate dream team.
	They really are.
	They're going for their 11th consecutive gold.
	Is that right?
	They have won every single title at the World Championships and the Olympics dating back to 2006.
	Wow.
	And the really impressive thing about this team is that it has not been the same team.
	They keep changing members.
	The Cox queen on this team is Caitlin Snyder.
	And she's got a great backstory.
	Actually, Mary Whipple, who was the Cox for Beijing and London, took some time away after London.
	And Caitlin stepped in, led the team to the world title in 2009, and then Mary came back.
	And so they had to make a decision of who's going to Who's going to take that job?
	And it ended up, they went with Mary.
	And then a couple months later, Caitlin's younger brother died of cancer.
	And she really had to make some decisions.
	Do I want to keep doing this?
	What do I do?
	And so she decided to stick it out.
	And she is now the cocks on the team.
	Led them to the world championship.
	The last two, I believe.
	And so they were going.
	They had the fastest time in the heat the other day.
	All right, open up.
	Open wide.
	Open wide.
	The cock swain.
	The cock swain and the cock.
	That is unbelievable.
	And no one corrects her.
	Nobody says anything.
	Nobody says anything.
	She's paid real money to do this on a major network.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Now, the other thing I got, the only good thing that happened that I thought was funny besides the guy hitting the couch that was floating around.
	There was one other good thing.
	I don't have a clip, but...
	Well, I have this clip, which is...
	This is the...
	What is this clip?
	This is the...
	This just says Olympics.
	Olympics.
	You can't miss it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, thanks.
	Well, away from the streets and onto the track where the real games can't seem to shake doping sandals.
	Team Kenya has now had a coach sent home from Brazil for posing as an athlete during drug testing.
	What?
	Now this guy's posing as an athlete.
	He's 61.
	Oh, that's fantastic.
	So he goes in there to take the urine test.
	Hey, how you doing?
	I'm an athlete.
	So they kicked him out of the country.
	There were a couple of things.
	Did you hear about the diving pool?
	This was big news when I was in France.
	Oh, that turned green.
	Well, the headline was, it turned green and smells of farts.
	Yeah, you know, I was trying to figure out what the chemical reaction was.
	It's algae, isn't it?
	I don't think there was, they used chlorine, I don't know if it was algae, because algae makes a thick kind of a, it doesn't just make a green color.
	It could have been algae, but yes, it apparently stunk.
	So I was just trying to figure out what, I had not heard anything since.
	But yeah, this thing's a joke.
	I have a couple of reports.
	They play a lot of the girls, you know, they really played up to women's swimming and women's gymnastics because we totally kick ass in swimming, just winning left and right.
	Well, we have our winning swimmer, what's her name, Simone, I think, the black swimmer?
	Yeah, she's the short term, but the real one we have is Ledecky or whatever her name is.
	She swims for like a mile and she just broke the world record.
	She's the one who's a real Ledecky, I think.
	The thing about our black swimmer, Simone, is growing up in America, and this has been interesting to read this, and even the New York Times had a big article about it.
	Black people, the black people I've hung out with and I went to school with, they don't swim.
	They do not swim.
	They don't like swimming.
	They don't like the idea.
	The New York Times, interestingly, did a huge article about the racism in swimming in America.
	Racism?
	Oh no, this goes back, this is historically, swimming is racist in America.
	I guess one time there was a famous story, a black lady put her toe in the water and they drained the pool, and just the guilt and the shame.
	What are we talking about here?
	The guilt and the shaming is that no matter what, forget about the achievement, which I love.
	It's fantastic.
	She wasn't favored to win.
	She was expected to come in third, and she won.
	Great athlete.
	So she's one of those women that gets all hyped up and does better.
	But then we have to have the whole, oh, well, you know, it's great because the Americans are racist when it comes to swimming pools.
	Racist.
	So two things I want to discuss.
	One is, I was kind of amazed.
	Maybe it was just the British Sky News and stuff that I was watching.
	But I guess no one's ever seen cupping marks before.
	Oh, what are these crazy rings?
	What are these purple rings?
	Yes!
	It's cupping!
	Our superstar swimmer that's won 29 awards or something.
	He's got those things all over him.
	He looks terrible.
	Yeah, Mickey used to have that done.
	And it never helped.
	Why would it?
	No, it's ridiculous.
	But the story that was big in the Dutch press was Juri van Gelder.
	He is the gymnast, the ring guy.
	And he got kicked out for drinking alcohol.
	At least that was the story.
	And it was great to see the Netherlands.
	They were so outraged.
	So first it was...
	Well, here's the series of events, because I followed it quite closely in the Dutch press.
	Okay, good.
	So first, he was sent home by the Dutch NSONSF, which is the Olympic Committee, the Dutch chapter, I guess.
	He was sent home because he broke whatever rules, and it was because he had a drink after school and before training.
	Then, slowly, people were outraged.
	Oh, what is this?
	This is our guy!
	This is our hero!
	And then it turned out, there were pictures, he went to the Holland House, which is, you know, the Dutch always have the Holland House at all these big events, certainly the Olympics, and we had our king there, King Beer, King Pils, Prince Pils, and the lovely Maxima, our queen, and, you know, he was drinking with the king, so I was like, this is crazy!
	Of course he has a drink with the king!
	But the backstory is very different.
	Backstory, here we go.
	Exclusive.
	He's a cocaine addict.
	And I say an addict because he did the whole 12-step program.
	He had to go through some of the clinic in Scotland.
	And, you know, when you go through the 12-step program, there's a pretty good article written by a friend of mine, Mick Buskamp, and he said, who was also, he went to the same clinic, he said, you know, the problem is, and kind of the agreement you make when you go through the 12-step program is you can't have anything.
	You can't smoke cigarettes, you can't, you know, be drinking beer.
	All of that is substitution for your addiction.
	Addiction is a disease.
	And, you know, You know, apparently, he was not just at the Holland house.
	He came back, you know, hammered at five in the morning, and God knows what else, and he missed his training.
	And, you know, it's sad, but it was so hard for the Dutch to, you know, pointing the fingers, oh, this is crazy.
	But the real backstory was, yeah, he really messed up.
	And, you know, the guy has an addiction, and it's sad.
	But he did mess up.
	I blame the king.
	Well, me too, kind of.
	King should have known better.
	Said, hey, man, you can't have any beer.
	Get back to work.
	Yeah, really.
	Come by after the show.
	I don't know.
	I'm just not watching a lot of the Olympics.
	It just doesn't seem...
	I watched quite a bit of it because it's like...
	The way they've done it here is they just have these women...
	And the black girl is a good example.
	But all of them, except for that one super swimmer that just...
	Apparently she had some new way of cupping the water or something and she just totally kicks everyone's ass.
	And everyone says, I don't know why everyone's not doing it this way.
	We're talking about winning this one race by 11 seconds.
	Yeah.
	It's just, especially the little black girl and the women that were the gymnasts, they win, they look up, they win, and then they go into weeping, into sobbing, like little kids that just had their candy taken away.
	and then they put the camera right on him and then they bring him out of the pool and say, you were very emotional there.
	They start crying again and they're crying and crying and crying.
	It's hilarious.
	And it's just like, it's just, it's like this heart, just like, let's break some hearts here.
	Let's get this little girl to cry.
	Of course.
	Let's get the little girl to cry.
	It's television!
	It's television.
	So that's correct.
	Zoom in on the tears!
	And they have, they don't do all the final ceremonies, but they have the one that you talked about, the black girl, up on the podium and they're playing the national anthem.
	Tears!
	Coming down the eye, down the cheeks.
	Oh, yes, but she didn't put her...
	Zoom in on the tears!
	But she didn't put her hand over her heart.
	What a faux pas.
	Well, you know, I talked about this before.
	What is the...
	Well, I think you put your hand over your heart because the flag is up there, maybe.
	But I still...
	Don't know what the process is supposed to be.
	This is like the saluting thing I'm always bitching about.
	The president saluting everybody left and right like they have to salute back.
	I don't know what the protocol is.
	I know you put your hand over your heart when you give the Pledge of Allegiance, but do you put your hand over your heart when they sing God Bless America?
	I've seen that at the stadium.
	You don't have to.
	You don't have to.
	Well, I don't think she...
	Do you mean the Star Spangled Banner, not God Bless America?
	No, I said God Bless America, they do it.
	Yeah, but that's not...
	The Star Spangled Banner, I think, is another option.
	I don't know.
	You're supposed to put your hand over your heart during the Star Spangled Banner?
	I never do it.
	I do.
	Okay, well, I don't.
	No, it's fine.
	Do you know all the words?
	No, say, can you see?
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	I wanted to point something about hypocrisy in the media.
	Gee, go figure.
	Hypocrisy?
	Hypocrisy.
	Hypocrisy.
	There you go.
	Hypopracy.
	Let's write that one down.
	Hey!
	Mended another word.
	Hypopracy.
	Malcolm Gladwell, I think he writes for the New York Times Magazine.
	Elite of the douchiest order.
	I just wasn't for the New Yorker, I think.
	New Yorker, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, douchey.
	And I normally wouldn't have played this clip, but there's two reasons why.
	One, because he brings up our favorite moral...
	He doesn't say moral self-licensing, but he brings up moral licensing, which is great because...
	Well, in the clip you'll hear that actually, yes, it is moral licensing, but not the way that he deconstructs it.
	And then I have the hypocrisy of another news article, which is just completely undiscussed, which I think we can bring up.
	Now, this is about Hillary and about how unfairly she is treated because she's a woman.
	So let's listen to this.
	Maybe Donald Trump is what you get when you've had two terms of Obama.
	In other words, that people having said, okay, we have been this country that's open to opening the White House to, you know, a very, very different kind of president.
	Maybe we can go back to our kind of baser...
	I'm telegraphing my feelings about the presidency.
	Well, at least he's honest about his bias.
	Maybe you could return to your kind of baser instincts once you've been so generous and open for eight years.
	What do you think it says for Hillary?
	Julia Gillard, who was the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
	And it's all about what happens after she takes office.
	She's subjected to the most extraordinary, devastating, unbelievable level of misogynistic vitriol.
	That is a classic example of moral licensing.
	Having opened the door to the first female prime minister in the history of Australia, Australians feel free to say the most unspeakable things about her.
	I mean, I'm not going to go into it here, but the stuff that was said about her, I mean, it's astonishing to think that people in a modern democracy would say those kinds of things.
	If Hillary Clinton wins...
	What's her name?
	The redhead down in Australia when she was...
	Yeah, Gillard.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Gillard.
	Gillard, yeah.
	Gillard was a...
	Okay.
	I don't think she's a good example because she could take it and dish it out.
	Yes.
	More than the men.
	Yeah.
	And notice, by the way, he said, well, I'm not going to go into all the examples.
	I do not like that.
	Give me some examples of this horrible misogyny.
	If Hillary Clinton wins...
	What happens?
	Does the fact of her victory and the achievement of our first ever female president open the door to people venting a level of misogynistic vitriol that would have been unthinkable before her?
	I think I would say this even if I was not a Hillary Clinton supporter.
	The level of scrutiny she is given for real or imagined misdeeds is far greater than an equivalent male would be given.
	I don't think that's an outrage.
	Not true.
	No, of course it's not true.
	Statement.
	People pick over things she does in quite an extraordinary way.
	I would imagine if she were to get elected, that undue scrutiny would ramp up.
	Why?
	Because that's what happens to every woman who enters a previous male world.
	Okay.
	So, oh, the misogyny.
	Okay, Malcolm Gladwell, journalist, writer.
	If you're so concerned about women, because he's really saying women here, it's really not just about Hillary, it's just all women, they always get a raw deal, and I'm here to expose that!
	Explain to me why I'm not seeing, well I know why, but explain to me why I'm not seeing every single day a report about Lindsay Lohan.
	Now first of all, Lindsay Lohan has not a great reputation, but she still is a human being and a woman.
	And the Daily Mail caught pictures of her boyfriend.
	This is some Russian a-hole, Igor Tarabasov, some trust fund kid from Russia.
	They were vacationing in the Greek island of Mykonos.
	And he is he is abusing her.
	He's I guess she grabbed his phone and jumped out.
	There's a video of it even jumped out of the car on the beach and he ran after her.
	And then, you know, he's ripping her clothes off and he's he's putting her in a full Nelson and throwing her to the ground.
	I mean, pure and evil abuse.
	And in pictures, in video, it's really shocking to see her boobs hanging out and, you know, her dress is all, her beach, her sundress is all hiked up and he's, you know, twisting her arm behind her back just to get the cell phone.
	And sadly, she, you know, I hear the very typical...
	You know, abuse victim stuff while he was really drunk and he went crazy about something.
	But this is insane if you look at it.
	I mean, really, really violent.
	And there's not a peep about it.
	Not a peep.
	So if you're so concerned about women, oh, I'm sorry, it's only elitist women?
	Other women don't count?
	Really makes my stomach turn.
	Well, this is a piece of self-promotion for an upcoming book.
	He's got this theory that once you allow something to happen, then you can go back to your old ways in some peculiar way.
	So you...
	But even the chat room, John, is going, well, Lohan is so 2012.
	It's not beside the point.
	You are assholes.
	Assholes who say that.
	It is beside the point, but I'm just saying that Malcolm Gladwell is promoting something, and this is part of his agenda.
	Understood, but you will hear no one talking about this.
	This girl, someone needs to help her.
	Otherwise, you know what we're going to get?
	Just like Amy Winehouse.
	Oh, you're dead.
	And she'll be dead!
	And they'll be like, oh, so sad!
	Love and light!
	Thoughts and prayers!
	So sad!
	Disgusting!
	Well, yes.
	I think it's a different topic.
	No.
	My point is made.
	I would think so.
	You should go in the face bags and do it.
	Yeah, right.
	The Dallas police...
	Do not want to give in to several FOIA requests and other requests from the media about their report of their use of the bomb robot.
	They blow the guy to smithereens?
	Yes.
	And the reason why is to say, well, this evidence that we have on videotape could be very embarrassing, so we're not going to give that up.
	Ah!
	Can you believe that?
	That's a good one.
	Well, now I really want to know, why is it so embarrassing?
	So they don't want to give it up.
	And I'd really like to know.
	You know, there is no protocol to do this.
	This was something completely new.
	And for some reason...
	Murder.
	Yeah.
	They say, oh, no.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	We can't have any of that.
	Here's my favorite story of the week.
	This is the old lady...
	Did you hear this one about the old lady shot in Florida?
	No.
	No.
	I was in France, no.
	In France and Europe, they play a lot of Florida stories because a lot of people are tourists and they go to Florida.
	And Florida stories are funny.
	This is not funny, but it is kind of.
	In Florida, police fatally shot a 73-year-old white woman during a police training exercise at the Punta Gorda Public Safety Complex Wednesday.
	The officer who fired the gun thought it was loaded with blanks.
	Mary Knowlton was a retired librarian and mother of two.
	She volunteered to participate in a shoot-don't-shoot exercise as part of the Citizen Police Academy.
	During the exercise, police officer Lee Cole shot the librarian in front of nearly three dozen other volunteers.
	Pantagorda Police Chief Tom Lewis says live ammunition was not supposed to be in any of the guns used during the exercise.
	Hmm.
	That's sad.
	I think I'm going to go with the police academy and I get to be a dummy and do live shoot-don't-shoot.
	And so she jumps out and the cop guns her down.
	Oh, man.
	It's like, whoa!
	That's sad.
	Yeah, it's pathetic, actually.
	It's more of a pathetic thing.
	Classic Florida news.
	Here's another one.
	This is a mass hysteria in the North Carolina Mall.
	Hmm, okay.
	...charified shoppers run for safety after the apparent sound of gunshots inside a North Carolina mall.
	That is hectic places.
	Police say loud pops were heard inside Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, North Carolina, startling shoppers and workers and sending them scrambling.
	Hundreds of people evacuated.
	The mall was put on lockdown and a nearby highway was blocked off.
	One witness insists she heard about a dozen shots, but now police reportedly say they haven't determined if there was an actual shooter.
	They haven't found any shell casings or anyone with gunshot wounds and so far, no suspects.
	Come to this.
	You know, in maybe six or seven years ago, we started talking about Shantix, the stop-smoking drug, the smoking cessation drug, and how people who are taking the drug sometimes go wacky and wind up not knowing what they did, wake up naked in someone's backyard, and just crazy things happening.
	And we've had many of our producers say, oh my god, I have this, and of course we recommend if, you know, You have to stop taking Shantix.
	You need to stop smoking.
	You have to do it a different way.
	And the only way to...
	Because even if you stop taking it, you still remain a little wacky.
	You just got to start smoking again and then figure it out later.
	This now is a defense.
	It's called involuntary intoxication.
	A couple of new cases.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, Army soldier who brutally stabbed another soldier to death in 2008 won a new hearing because the judge in his original trial refused to let him put on an involuntary intoxication defense.
	Now is back and he has a new round.
	He says he was neurologically disturbed by Shantix and was not aware of what he was doing.
	And I think that's right.
	I agree.
	And there's, let me see, last year in St.
	Paul.
	There could be a wrongful death suit after this, and it should sue the drug company.
	It should be, yes.
	A woman charged with trying to kill and assault her two small children was released when prosecutors decided that charges could not stand in light of the defendant's involuntary intoxication.
	Again, Chantix.
	Columbia, Missouri woman convicted of causing a fatal wreck while driving the wrong way in Interstate 70.
	New trial.
	I'll bet you there's one of those things that doesn't allow you to sue the drug company.
	Oh, of course, of course.
	Because they always put this crap in there.
	It's in terms of service.
	If you take this, then you can't sue us.
	They wouldn't be the one doing the suing, though.
	It has to be a legislative level, because the people who are going to sue are the people that got killed, or their family are going to get killed for wrongful death, or somebody's going to sue other than you.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure there's some legislation that prevents us.
	They've done it with the vaccines.
	Vaccines, yeah.
	For Thursday's show, I will pull a couple of quotes.
	Our friend there, Charles Ortel, who has been pulling apart the various Clinton foundations.
	It's not just the Clinton Foundation.
	It's Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Family Foundation.
	But in particular of interest, and I don't have a clip now.
	I'm going to make a little package for you because it's a long interview on Stephen Molliot's show, which I don't watch very often.
	It was more Ortel talking, but it was great that he had him on.
	And he had this going back to...
	Calling Trump insane while Hillary is sick.
	Or reportedly not in well health.
	Trump University.
	He does this whole piece on...
	What was it called?
	Laureate?
	Have you heard about the Laureate schools?
	Laureate universities?
	No.
	I'll just paraphrase because it's really great.
	You can look into it, but I'm going to have the clips for our Thursday show.
	So Laureate is kind of like a holding company of universities, and they started in 2000, 2002, they started buying up commercial universities, and they were highly leveraged.
	They were borrowing, you know, a billion dollars to buy up all these universities, and then we had the big financial crisis just as they were doing a leveraged buyout.
	So they were public, and then there was a leveraged buyout.
	Oops.
	Yeah, oops is right.
	But somehow, maybe it's because they put Bill Clinton on as they call the Chancellor of Laureate, and he makes $3.3 million a year for basically a part-time gig to show up once in a while.
	So somehow they got saved, and now they're trying to go public again.
	But when you see the shenanigans, this is $4 billion in debt, all kinds of help from the State Department, and Ortel pulls it apart beautifully.
	He also pulls it apart.
	Do you remember when they were asking for don't send us cash or blankets or water?
	This is it.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	And of course, we were looking at where that money was going, and there was no Bush-Clinton-Haiti Foundation for months while they were collecting the money until it finally went into some...
	Actually, $32 million, just as wire fraud, which he points out, was sent to a P.O. box somewhere in Florida where the Clinton Foundation had set up another foundation which was never granted non-profit status by the IRS. That's where all that money went.
	It went into the...
	We never did figure out where it went.
	Ortel is fantastic, and he should avoid small aviation and hot tubs and stuff like that.
	Yeah.
	But really, really, really fantastic.
	And I sent it to Tina because, you know, she's in the nonprofit sector.
	And she said, it's unbelievable that they've never had, they've never, since inception, had a proper audit, which you have to have by law.
	It has to be published.
	And she said, how do they get away with all this stuff?
	You know, there's merging of two nonprofits together, which is, according to Ortel, is legally not possible if they have different mission statements and all this.
	It's just, the guy is an oracle of information.
	It's really fantastic.
	Um, And, you know, you kind of think, well, what better way to focus everybody on horrible scams in education by bringing up Trump University, but completely obfuscate a laureate, which really, I'm going to look into the background, but just that clip from, or that bit from Ortel is great, so I'll have a little package for everybody on Thursday.
	Well, a lot of stuff came up on the pay-for-play scams, which is new leaks, and we're going to probably look into those in a little more depth.
	Meanwhile, the Atlantic Foundation, or one of them, came up with this report.
	Is that a right-wing conservative?
	No, no, it's one of those global guys that promote wars.
	Oh, one of those guys.
	They came up with a report that apparently annoyed the Russians.
	They came up with some report that Russia's going to be all geared up for war.
	We've got an arm.
	Oh yeah, Poland, get ready.
	And so they...
	The Russians on RT, they did a kind of an expose on all these foundations saying that they're all years ago.
	Yeah, they had endowments and then Brookings was funded by, you know, genuine people who gave a crap.
	But now it's all just military industrial complex guys.
	And this I thought this was a really good is a little longer.
	So I broke it up into two pieces and took some out.
	This is the Think Tank Eclipse, Part 1.
	Vladimir Putin is readying for a new war ahead of the 2018 general election in Russia.
	That's according to a U.S.-based think tank called the Atlantic Council.
	Think tanks are research institutions that often help shape government policies, and due to the academic nature of them, they're trusted more usually than other organizations.
	But should that be the case, RTE's Caleb Maupin investigates.
	Think tanks.
	They present themselves as universities without students, organizations conducting independent research to inform government policy.
	Of course, they love their sponsors and depend on them.
	And it turns out, they work very hard to please them.
	U.S. federal law forbids working with foreign governments to lobby officials and influence policy.
	People have even gone to prison for it.
	Yet, the Center for Global Development and the Brookings Institute have been getting money from and doing favors for foreign entities as they advise federal officials.
	Brookings for many decades relied exclusively on endowment money to finance these activities.
	Analysis very often also contained recommendations.
	Those recommendations would have a political resonance.
	It sounds like Soros.
	I don't know who that is, but...
	He's a professor at one of the universities.
	According to the latest New York Times investigation, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, two top Pentagon contractors, have contracted over $77 million to various think tanks, and it wasn't an altruistic contribution.
	In return, major U.S. think tanks have come out strongly in favor of exporting weapons around the world, i.e.
	selling their products.
	It can skew...
	The analysis, it can skew the recommendations.
	In other words, you are buying the imprimatur, and since it wasn't known that it was being paid for, then the people in Congress or even in executives Okay, this is stuff we kind of know.
	Yeah, we do know this, but it needs to be kind of...
	I don't think we know about the trend.
	It did transition.
	We kind of were in the know about it from at the beginning of the...
	Not at the beginning of the corruption, but during the corruption.
	And we kind of like, hey, it's corrupt, it's corrupt.
	And nobody else seems to think so.
	Because these are foreign entities, a lot of them.
	In fact, this goes on in Part 2.
	They name one or two.
	All the Middle Eastern guys are pouring money into this.
	We need to do one of these things.
	A think tank.
	Yeah, well, let's play Part 2.
	I'm going to talk to my buddy Dan, the crisis management guy from D.C. I'll talk to him about setting up a think tank.
	Alright.
	Yeah, let's do it.
	A document from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry states that since it's so hard to access Washington heavyweights directly, sponsoring think tanks is often the only way for a foreign government to get its message across.
	Norway is not alone.
	The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and many other countries are purchasing favors from DC's powerful think tanks.
	The Brookings Institute alone got $14.8 million in cash injected from Doha in 2013.
	I think the best example is the Brookings Institution's Middle East policy work, which is, of course, now under the rubric of the Haim Saban Middle East Policy Center.
	There's a good reason for that.
	He gives the money to them.
	That has shaped every product on the Middle East for the past several years.
	The history of this, of course, is that once the Cold War was over, those people in the Defense Department who had depended on the Soviet Union as the main threat to justify huge Cold War military budgets were in trouble.
	And, of course, they had to come up with Iraq and Iran to try to fill the gap, but that didn't really do it.
	And that has been the basis for getting the think tanks, through obviously the money coming from military contractors, to push this idea of Russia as a threat.
	And it's all one system, and it has worked very well for them.
	Ta-da!
	Ta-da is right!
	Gee!
	Yeah, that is a big ta-da.
	That's beautiful.
	If you do that, you've really got to play the game because you've got to have the right people coming in.
	No, they're playing the game at such a high level.
	That's what I'm saying.
	$13 million from Doha.
	Yeah, but you also need to get some high-ranking military guys in.
	I think they're playing at such a high level.
	They're bringing in tens of hundreds of millions of dollars.
	I think $2 to $5 million, $3, $4, $5 million.
	I don't think you need to make that much.
	These guys are greedy.
	I think we can do a think tank, bring in maybe 5 mil, write a couple bogus reports.
	You know, buy Boeing.
	Great company.
	They make great bombers.
	Look very independent.
	Unless Airbus wants to buy some research.
	Airbus makes great bombers.
	They make a good bomber.
	A lot of people don't know about it, but it's the best.
	Now, we have a donation segment coming up right now.
	And, you know, of course, again, it's for two shows, so it's a little longer than normal.
	But we did have a lot of ongoing conversations in the background.
	As you know, Void Zero, ever since the chat room and no agenda infrastructure has morphed over the years, Mr.
	Oil came in and really set us up and helped us out in a tremendous manner.
	And at a certain point, he said, okay, we're going to, you know, we're going to stand on our own two legs here.
	We're going to pay for our own infrastructure, Void Zero has set up and maintained for many years.
	No payment.
	He does this because he loves the show, and it's his value for value, and he's good at it.
	And he has Kevin in there at Mountain Vortex, and they run everything.
	And, you know, so he's always trying to save us money, and so he had an idea, and he said, well, I can get these three cheaper servers and do this.
	So he was always shuffling things around trying to help us.
	So this all played out in the background in the past week, and he wrote up a report.
	You saw the report.
	It's like, what are those guys?
	IT guy.
	Yeah, like a big, nice IT report.
	Yeah, for big data.
	TLDR. TLDR. Well, I read it.
	I read the whole thing.
	Yes, for everyone else's benefit.
	We are at the capacity of our bandwidth.
	So people have probably noticed when we publish the show, and this is kind of the downside of RSS, particularly at scale.
	When I publish the RSS feed, everybody who's using a podcast app, it says, oh, wait a minute, got to download.
	It's like a Terabyte per second, terabit.
	It's crazy the amount of traffic that goes, and it's slowing down for people.
	These are large files.
	We're doing two and three hours of podcasting per show, and it creates a huge file.
	It's hundreds of megabytes.
	Yeah, typically we're about 120 to 150 megabytes.
	And we're encoding at 96k, so we're not going to go any lower because it'll just start to sound soapy and crappy.
	So his analysis is, and we're looking at the numbers, we have record numbers in the chat room, we have record numbers of people downloading.
	Not that we actually know the number, because even he will say, there's no real way to count it, so all these numbers things is bullcrap, but...
	We can see the amount of bandwidth being consumed, and the conclusion is we have more people who are enjoying the show, but they're not supporting the show.
	Because we're seeing the numbers, the numbers actually are flat or down a little bit, and we can attribute that to a lot of things.
	So there are people coming in more and more who are enjoying the value we provide but are not providing it back, and we have some choices to make.
	So right now we said, okay, we're going to upgrade.
	It's going to cost us more money on an ongoing monthly basis.
	But we'll run into this problem again, and I want you to know that the experience you get is on par, was on par, with any media organization.
	We really try to deliver a great experience, expedient downloads, make everything work.
	These guys do a lot of work just keeping it all up and running.
	And this is a plea to our producing audience that, yeah, we need help.
	You come in, you know, you can bitch and moan and say, I never donate, or I was about to donate.
	God, I got a couple of those again.
	Oh, I was about to donate, but then you said this.
	I was about to donate until you said this.
	I'm not donating, or I used to donate.
	They never donated.
	So we know that there's only a small percentage that supports the show.
	We think it's under 3%.
	Do you think that's still the number?
	That's kind of your number, so...
	Yeah, it's kind of a number you'd get in any direct sales kind of thing where it's like an honor bar.
	We have a lot of people that donate.
	We thank them all profusely, but it's not representative of the total listenership that is downloading, unless one guy is downloading 100 times a day or something, which I don't think is happening.
	But even the stream is starting to saturate.
	Yeah.
	They're really trying.
	I just want to know it's costing us more.
	And that is not the way it should be working.
	Now, we don't make you pay for a download.
	We don't make you pay for listening to the stream.
	We don't make you pay for anything.
	You don't have to.
	But please take into consideration that it is an operation that has to keep moving.
	And eventually, then you'll just get a poor performance.
	It'll just have to be slower on the downloads or anything like that.
	And people are already seeing the problem.
	So we're upgrading it now, but...
	Moving forward, we really do need your support.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank, and let's thank them.
	This is, again, for two shows, 850 and 851, starting with John Johnson, don't call me Johnson, Jr.
	Troy, New York, $160.16.
	Yeah, you have to read this one.
	Okay, when I was listening to Sunday's show, I heard...
	John Johnson was executive producer.
	Since there's no another night with the same name as me, it hit a fire under my ass to donate.
	So here's $160.16 a pair of boobs.
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	1616.
	This should also put me over the top for a baronet title change in order to avoid confusion with the other John Johnson.
	I like to be known as the Overland King, Overland Knight, since I'm active in the overlanding and off-road community.
	Oh.
	I'd like to request a shot at karma for my new human resource.
	My wife and I have on the way.
	I'm sorry.
	We'll do a Jobs Karma and everything for him.
	We also have a Jobs Karma coming for...
	I want to mention this.
	My little sheet here somewhere.
	Jobs Karma for...
	Where is it?
	It's missing.
	I'll get it later.
	It's in the piles here.
	Where is it going?
	There's a Jobs Karma for...
	Chris Baylor.
	Oh, he has a birthday.
	I got that, I think.
	Chris Baylor's birthday.
	Do you have Chris Baylor's birthday listed?
	Yes, I do.
	And it's Jim Cantellini, who has a good jobs car.
	He'll be at the end of this.
	Okay.
	So that will be just noted, because I think that's the way the Job Karma things work.
	I'm not absolutely sure.
	Ms.
	Al, Ms.
	M-I-Z, Al, is it Al?
	H, Olin, in Burnsville, Minnesota?
	Yeah, I guess.
	108-89.
	I had to step up for the both of you, since some of us are seemingly not up for the challenge anymore.
	Please keep up the excellent work.
	It's truly appreciated by the intelligence, the intelligent among us.
	Okay, thank you.
	Steve Matthews in Pomona, New York, $101.01.
	Scott Serena in Cobb, California.
	That's interesting.
	You get a dose of karma at the end for you.
	Gregory Lorenz in Cortlandt, Illinois.
	Joseph Harrell in Moyoc, California.
	North Carolina, $100.
	Anonymous, $100 out of New York City.
	Jason Verner in Schertz, Texas, $85.
	Sir Jojo in Wooddale, Illinois, $84.83.
	And now we have a bunch of boob donations.
	Matt Bremer, Hamilton, Ontario, that's $80.08.
	Vladimir Landman, Sioux City, Iowa.
	Dan Reeder in Mod Land, Queensland, Australia.
	He says screw the exchange rate.
	Melissa Hodges in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	Gregory, which I think is a make good.
	Gregory Worley in Lynchburg, Virginia.
	Joshua Brickner in Loveland, Colorado.
	And that's all 8808 donations.
	Nice boobs!
	Nice boobs.
	Lots of nice boobs.
	Lorraine, the Norman Lorraine in Edmonton, Alberta, $73.
	Darren Turbville, Healdsburg, California, right up the road for me, $71.75.
	Christian Baylor in Grafton, Wisconsin, $67.89.
	Matthew Eskridge in Seattle, Washington, $66.66.
	He says Hail Satan for some reason.
	Yeah.
	Oh, 6666.
	Hello!
	Mark DeWitt in Suddy Daisy.
	I gotta go there.
	Tennessee, 6663.
	Axel Powell.
	Powell is a P-A-H-L in Lindwedel, Denmark.
	Lindwedel.
	Oh, Deutschland.
	He's in Deutschland.
	Lindwedel.
	Axel and Lynn Vadel, 60.
	Paula Peters in Middletown, Connecticut, 56.
	Derek Boley in North Sydney, New South Wales, 55, 10.
	Sir Herb Lamb, haven't heard from him for a couple weeks.
	Sugar Hill, Georgia, 50, 33.
	The following people are all $50 donors, a name and location.
	David Ritchie in Mentor, Ohio.
	Sir Mike Westerfield in Parts Unknown.
	A Dame Patricia Worthington again in Miami.
	Actually, the name of Biscayne Bay.
	Brandon Savoy, who's, I think, a sir.
	Andrew Parlett in Elkridge, Maryland.
	Randy Filkins in Wellsburg, West Virginia.
	Jason Brockman in Hamilton, Ohio.
	Michael Vickland in Sweden.
	Richard Gardner, Sir Richard Gardner, parts unknown.
	Jesse Nolet in Arlington, Texas.
	Vicki Brighton in Monmouth, Maine.
	That's 50.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana.
	David Peet in Aubrey, Texas.
	Drew Mochak in El Cerrito, California.
	Rob the street from me.
	And last but not least, Michael Supko in Belmar, New Jersey.
	50.
	And that concludes our little list of well-wishers and producers for show 851 and show 850 combined.
	Yes, I have a special request.
	This is from SirFahrenheit, your loyal Knight of the Wheels 18.
	Love the re-redux episode.
	I recently got my knighthood and I snicker each time you announce meth sluts and moonshine for the roundtable.
	Hey, you're not alone.
	I don't have any money for a special dish at this time.
	My subscription is still active.
	But I have to ask for some fuck cancer karma from my brother's wife in Florida.
	She's undergoing chemo and she's not doing well.
	Had to reduce the poison dosage and skipped a dose due to low palate count.
	All sorts of fun shit.
	Anyway, I'm sending her a card.
	And if you could hit Melissa with some F cancer karma, I'd like to clip it out of the show.
	Email that to them for a little extra boost there.
	I appreciate all you guys do, and your show is always bumped to the top of the playlist.
	Of course, we're happy to do that, and we'll also drop in at jobs for those who requested it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And remember, we've got another show coming up on Thursday.
	And first, our belated birthdays.
	Paula Peters celebrated on August 9th.
	Christopher Baylor on the 11th.
	And we have Christopher Baylor saying happy birthday to his son, Christian, who will be three years old on August 28th.
	Derek Boley celebrates on the 17th.
	And Tab Rares turns 50 today.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Bam!
	Okay, we have John Johnson Jr.
	becoming Baronet today.
	Congratulations.
	And we have one, two, three, four, knighting.
	So, hello?
	Yeah, I got it.
	Requested to join me here on the podium, Hans Christensen, Tab Rears, Chris Eve, and John Johnson.
	Please, gentlemen, thanks to your support of the best podcast in university, amount of $1,000 or more.
	You are very welcome to join us here at the round table of the Knights and the Dames.
	It's where we have all the goodies for you.
	And I am going to pronounce the KB with the following title.
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	Head on over to noagendanation.com slash rings and give Eric to show your details, and he will hook you up post-haste.
	Make that all happen.
	And thank you all so much for supporting us.
	That is fabulous.
	I think our night got gypped if they're going to close this exhibition center that he's been relying on.
	Shouldn't he get some compensation from the government?
	Yeah.
	There's a lot of weird stuff with the Tokyo Games.
	They have a perfectly good stadium.
	They're just building a new one.
	They just built one.
	I remember Dame Astrid and Sir Mark telling us about that.
	Now we're just going to close that up.
	Yeah, it's all about construction goodies.
	I heard a story that in the entire Olympic Village, you can't get coffee.
	That's what I told you.
	Oh.
	Now it turns out...
	I'm telling stories that you're telling me.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's bad.
	B12. It turns out that you can get coffee, but it's Coca-Cola coffee.
	Coca-Cola made coffee.
	I don't know what coffee it is, but you can't get just a regular cup of joe.
	Everything is sanctioned and provided by the Coca-Cola company.
	When they had the Vancouver Olympics, they had sent threatening letters to all the small businesses in the Puget Sound area, including a bunch of them in...
	Port Angeles threatening anyone to be like the Olympics cleaners.
	The Olympic National Park, they were trying to get him to stop using that name.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	You can't violate it.
	It's one big licensing organization.
	It's one big...
	It's so fun that we still believe...
	And a good newsletter, I'll say, because you really said, how does this have anything to do with the ancient games?
	Particularly when we talk about a world record that hasn't been broken for 2,000 years.
	They were doing that.
	I was listening.
	There's a number of those.
	Yeah, it's nuts.
	So let's go back in time and play this clip.
	Oh, wait.
	Then we need a back in time.
	What's the clip?
	This is Carter on Old Energy Crisis.
	Do you know what year it is?
	Jimmy Carter.
	This should be around 1977, 78.
	All right, hop in, everybody.
	Going back to 1970, 1978 with Jimmy Carter.
	And he used the full weight of the federal government to jumpstart a new industry of renewable energy.
	The energy crisis is real.
	It is worldwide.
	It is a clear and present danger to our nation.
	These are facts, and we simply must face them.
	Wait, are we coming back now, or are we staying in the 70s?
	Yeah, we're coming back.
	Hello, welcome back.
	Now, I remember this era, and I do have an ISO, but I think it could be cut down even further, because I just like the fact.
	It's a fact.
	We'll play the ISO so we can just familiarize ourselves with the quote.
	The energy crisis is real.
	It is worldwide.
	It is a clear and present danger to our nation.
	These are facts.
	FACT. So I'm listening to this, and this was about when OPEC decided to flex its muscle, and they said, you know, you guys don't need all this oil.
	And so then there were lines.
	There used to be lines, sometimes block long lines to go to a gas station.
	There were rules about you can only go every other day.
	It depends on what your license plate was.
	There was even some parts of the country where you couldn't drive if you had an odd number or an even number.
	You couldn't drive for that day and this sort of thing because we couldn't get any fuel from the Arabs.
	Arabs!
	They were fairly dependent on them and this was the crisis.
	It wasn't a crisis of CO2 because the crisis was over.
	This was when they promoted the idea of the end.
	You were running out of oil.
	Peak oil.
	Yes, what happened to that?
	Yeah, peak oil was peak oil.
	There was an energy crisis.
	It was real.
	It was worldwide.
	It was a fact.
	So I'm thinking, of course, now that's changed.
	Now it's about we got too much oil.
	We don't know what to do with it.
	And this is CO2. But it's always this is antagonism toward the energy companies.
	The oil companies in particular.
	Why?
	I don't have an answer to this question.
	I'm just making it open-ended.
	Why are the oil companies, the big boys, Chevron, Standard Oil, Union, all the rest of them, why are they so hated that they have to dream up this stuff constantly just to screw them?
	Do you have any idea?
	The only thing I could think of is...
	That's so that they create legislation based upon campaign donations to make the politicians wealthy enough to get re-elected, and so it's kind of a blackmail pressure tactic.
	I'm getting the impression that that's exactly what it is.
	Yeah, that's what it feels like.
	This is just a form of blackmail.
	That's what it feels like.
	Where's our money?
	Where's our money?
	You guys are making way too much money.
	We looked at the books.
	Where's our campaign donation?
	We could use a little of this.
	I mean, Clinton's the closest one to come out with it openly.
	You know, with the Clinton Foundation, whoever put the Clinton Foundation and the Global Initiative and all the rest of it together, let's give them kudos for being something of geniuses.
	Yeah, when you see how broad that is...
	No wonder no one wants to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
	I think hundreds of people are implicated in this.
	They're all involved and on the take.
	It's so broad.
	It's unbelievably corrupt.
	It's like the spider, the black widow of political finance shenanigans.
	And there was a guy who came up with a story.
	He's an app developer, and he says that he's been doing polls and some mechanism that uses this app.
	I think they're just casual.
	And he's predicting that Trump's going to win by a landslide.
	And of course, this is kind of what Scott Adams said when he started analyzing Trump.
	And Scott's backed off on this a little bit because I think he's now listening to the mainstream media because he's thinking of himself as, you know, maybe I should listen to the news more often.
	He's actually being backed off by the media itself.
	This guy who does the app, he says that when, and I think this may be an element, when people are polling you nowadays, nobody wants to ever admit supporting Trump.
	No.
	They figure you're going to be called a racist, an a-hole.
	This is what's going on on face bags.
	That's why you, who don't really support anybody, but you try to comment on these things, you won't even do it anymore.
	No, no.
	It's not worth the time.
	People want to...
	I'm engaging you!
	You don't want to engage?
	No.
	No.
	I don't want to engage with you.
	And sometimes, you know, actually, I'm not going to forget it now, but I forget, like, I'll just post something.
	Yeah, it's a bunch of carping sinnies.
	And you know what?
	I'm no longer engaging.
	People aren't going to engage anymore, and then you'll just be in a big echo chamber of bits yelling about how...
	Actually, I had a couple of...
	If you're interested, I did make a couple of screenshots of some crazy facebag posts, should you be inclined.
	I wanted to make this a regular feature.
	Okay.
	Well, we need a jingle for it is what we really need.
	Somebody's going to have to come up with something.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	This is...
	Oh, yeah.
	That was the Dallas Observer where the headline was, you know, Today's Rage Will Find It's Oswald was the title.
	Actually, the Brain Professor posted, the climate at Trump's rallies today feels like a mirror image of Dallas in the early 1960s.
	I'm not sure.
	A mirror image of what?
	Of Dallas in the early 1960s, which is total horse crap.
	I don't see any comparisons.
	I don't see any either.
	Okay, I like it.
	Okay, Scott Mednick, who was an executive in my company.
	We bought his company when we took it public.
	Be aware of what Trump is doing.
	Properly stoked with hate, violence, and dehumanizing vilification, the climate will find its shooter.
	A Lee Harvey Oswald will step forward to kill JFK, or a Yigal Amir will volunteer to murder Yitzhak Rabin, as Thomas L. Friedman argued forcefully two days ago.
	They're going to shoot Trump?
	No, no.
	That's what it sounds like.
	Yeah, but you know what he means.
	No.
	He means Hillary.
	This is a very long one.
	You've got to edit these.
	Yeah, again, you're right.
	I'm sorry I shouldn't have even started it because I just wasn't prepared due to lack of time.
	Well, that's something you could have done on the plane, I think.
	Yeah, okay.
	I'm really sorry.
	Now, here's another odd clip.
	I want you to tell me what's going on here.
	All right.
	Play the Carly Fiorina clip.
	Carly Fiorina clippage.
	Perhaps you've been wondering what the next act will be for Carly Fiorina.
	Could it be chairman of the Republican National Committee?
	What?
	That's what I said.
	I thought she was now supporting Hillary.
	Yeah, or something.
	This is odd.
	There's something, this is nuts, this whole election, I have to say.
	So let's listen to, let's switch gears, and actually do some foreign, look at some foreign news, some real news, some stuff from Turkey, which we have to keep up with, because all hell's breaking loose of this deal.
	Let's play the Turkey Update 1.
	Now, after the failed military coup in Turkey took place in mid-July, President Erdogan accused the U.S. of siding with and sheltering the plotters responsible for the attempted overthrow.
	Washington denies any involvement, but a Turkish military official, wanted by his government for questioning, has been spotted in the U.S. Our Washington correspondent, Guy Ney Chichikhan, reports.
	Ankara has persistently accused Washington of siding with the alleged plotters of the failed coup, something Washington denies.
	A Turkish prosecutor now wants Turkish Navy Rear Admiral Mustafa Ogurlu on allegations of espionage.
	Ankara says it asked Washington for information on the admiral's whereabouts and is still waiting for a response.
	Turkish officials say they haven't heard from him since July 22nd.
	But NATO has.
	An article on NATO's website showed that on July 26th and 27th, Ogorla participated in a meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, to discuss the future of NATO's communications, strategy, logistics and industrial capabilities, according to the article.
	And here he is on the picture.
	And a strange thing happened on Friday.
	Hours after the Turkish admiral appeared in headlines, the NATO website deleted his photo from the article about the meeting.
	Michael Malou, former Pentagon official, with me now.
	A Turkish admiral is wanted in Turkey.
	He fails to report to Turkish officials, then goes to a NATO meeting in Virginia.
	What does this tell you?
	He's probably going to request asylum because of what's happened in Turkey.
	And given his expertise, his knowledge, and what he knows about NATO secrets, I think they're going to probably try to shelter him as much as possible.
	When the commander of U.S. CENTCOM, General Joseph Votel, expressed concern over Erdogan's purge of the military, Erdogan accused him of siding with the coup plotters.
	Turkey constantly accuses the U.S. of something and Washington tries to make it seem like it's business as usual, like nothing changed.
	Well, things have changed, but yet the United States wants to put a nice gloss on it and make it look like there's nothing really wrong, even though the United States and Turkey have been at odds for quite some time now, not only on the dynamics of fighting the war in Syria, but also the support that Turkey has given to ISIS and to other jihadi salafist groups.
	But the United States wants to minimize that as much as possible.
	Now, what's interesting is this report goes on, and none of this is reported here.
	I don't remember anything about the disappearing act of this admiral, especially off the website.
	No.
	And, yeah, so this is like, they're trying to, this again, RT needling us in some funny way.
	But there was a good, part two, they do mention something I think that's also not being reported much, which is that, according to their theories, Erdogan's just given up on becoming a member of the EU. So that's over.
	And I kind of agree with that.
	I think at some point he's going to join the caliphate, but they don't mention that.
	Turkey invites Russia to engage in joint operations against ISIL two weeks after the U.S. says it doesn't want Russia to be part of the anti-ISIL coalition because of its support for the Assad government.
	Did Turkey break ranks?
	In one sense, yes.
	But it was also a recognition of certain realities on the part of Erdogan.
	I think he's basically given up on the EU and the fact that he has now created this climate of wanting to be more autocratic, wants to change the Constitution.
	He's cracking down internally.
	That basically throws him out of any consideration for the EU. So now he's looking more eastward.
	The problem for the United States is that they are now feeling left out Turkey remains a NATO ally, but its role in the alliance is becoming stranger by the day.
	In Washington, I'm going to check on RT. Yeah, I'll say it's stranger by the day.
	And what's so interesting to me is here we have, you know, finally we're seeing articles.
	I mean, it's nothing.
	The American public is completely oblivious because we're carpet bombed with Trump.
	That's all people here.
	People are going wacky.
	They're all freaking out.
	They're angry with each other.
	But the Fethullah Gulen charter schools is now really coming to the forefront.
	There's questions being asked.
	But it's such a small scale that no one cares.
	And amazing to me is that the Killing Ed documentary, our buddy Mark Hall, he cannot get this thing really in any mass scale.
	There's just no one wants to hear about it.
	Ah, you're crazy.
	But he is screening it all over the country, and people who are coming and seeing it, they love it.
	It's just, you know, there is a lot of corruption...
	With this movement, and with corruption I mean, politicians are, you know, every year there's a junket.
	Oh, we're going to go to the, all the children go to Turkey and have a big, you know, they select children from the charter schools, even the ones from the U.S. And I wonder if that's going to continue with the climate currently.
	Those junkets to Turkey.
	I think they're going to end those.
	It would have to, you'd think.
	But, you know, nothing surprises me.
	Nothing surprises me.
	I'm going to move us along since we're kind of nearing our time here.
	I forgot to clip this.
	I'm going to play it from the web.
	It's just such a beautiful piece.
	You mentioned the pay-to-play.
	It's the backstory on this pay-to-play, why it's such an issue.
	But this is, again, from the Wikileaks emails, I believe.
	Well, these are the latest ones, the ones that just came out.
	Yeah.
	I actually have one clip on it somewhere.
	I have a clip that is State Department, and actually, they set it up in this, and of course, our hero, Matt Lee, is in this as well.
	So whether or not this person wound up getting a job or not.
	Yeah, this was about a big donor of the Clinton Foundation being given a job and was on the short list.
	A job with the State Department.
	Yeah, true collusion.
	And Hillary Clinton signed a pledge and documents that she could not do that while she was Secretary of State.
	And just to make it worse...
	It's Uma Abedin who is on Hillary's email saying, hey, it's Uma here.
	We're working on it.
	We've already told HR or whatever department definitely to make this a priority.
	So yeah, it's pay for play.
	Here's the question.
	Okay, well I can't speak to specific case.
	Oh, it's fucking edited.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm also not going to speak to specific redactions.
	Oh, fuck it.
	I hate that.
	Raw audio is great and RT has it all funked up.
	Douchebags.
	I saw it on RT. Well, try this one.
	Try the Clinton Foundation on the DN. Just something funny to get us out.
	The Clinton campaign is continuing to face questions following the release of 44 State Department emails showing close ties between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during Clinton's time as Secretary of State.
	The emails include communications between top members of the Clinton Foundation and Clinton's top State Department advisors, including Huma Abedin and lawyer Cheryl Mills.
	One of the communications was about billionaire Nigerian-based developer Gilbert Shiguri.
	Who had contributed between one and five million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
	The emails show a top Clinton Foundation executive writing to Abedin and Mills asking for help putting Shiguri in touch with the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.
	Abedin responded, I'll talk to Jeff, referring to then U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman.
	On Wednesday, Shiguri's spokesman said Shiguri, quote, was simply passing along his observations and insights about the dire political situation in Lebanon at the time.
	Okay, I have the clip and this is a question about this very incident.
	...response to criticism by some that suggests there was a relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department at the time.
	There was an email that came out in this recent set that is between an executive at the Clinton Foundation and Huma Abedin.
	I love how our clips flow over each other in this case.
	That's great.
	Where he is requesting to set up a meeting between a billionaire donor and the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.
	Do you have any response to that?
	So, very similar to what I said before, I'm not going to speak to specific emails.
	However, I think you guys know State Department officials are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations, including businesses, nonprofits, NGOs, think tanks.
	The nearly 55,000 pages Let's try it again!
	So you don't feel like there was impropriety?
	In the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.
	We talk to a wide range of people, at my level, at various levels.
	This is Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, and it just gets better.
	She's the worst.
	And her eyes are bugging out really wide.
	And all she can do is, as we've said it out before.
	In the department.
	NGOs, think tanks, business leaders, experts on a variety of subjects.
	And importantly, in this case, Secretary Clinton made a pledge that she would not personally or substantially in any way involve herself with the Clinton Foundation.
	So it's not just any outside organization, it's a specific organization that she said ahead of time she wouldn't have contact with.
	So doesn't this then seem to violate that pledge?
	So, again, to reiterate, you know, department officials are in touch with a wide range of individuals.
	I'd note that former Secretary Clinton's ethics agreement did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with Clinton Foundation staff.
	Can you at least try to answer Abigail's question, which was, has the department looked into this and determined that there was no impropriety?
	The department is regularly in touch with people across the whole spectrum.
	That's not the question.
	The question is whether or not you looked into this, the building has looked into it and determined that everything was okay, that there was nothing wrong.
	We feel confident in our ability and our past practice of reaching out to a variety of sources and being responsive to our bus.
	I'm sorry, am I not speaking English?
	I'm not asking you.
	No one is saying it.
	Am I not speaking English?
	Yeah, that's a classic.
	And she just keeps on doing it.
	She's the worst.
	That's the stuff that should be on the news, man.
	That's fun to watch.
	I'd be watching news and that would be great.
	Nah, they don't want to do that.
	No.
	At all, at all, at all.
	It's not serving the purpose of the advertisers.
	No, at all.
	Well, we don't serve the purpose of any advertisers either.
	What we serve is you.
	I'm not looking at you, John.
	I'm looking at them.
	I don't think the sentence, we don't serve the advertisers either.
	I think we're the only ones who, period.
	Yeah.
	Well, there are more people who have a value for value model, but this has been, this is the entire foundation of the show.
	Having a value for value model and then having an ad violates it.
	I'll say.
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