As I just look through everything we've been doing and how much the producers have done, Dan, it is a collective deal for sure.
Yeah, there's a lot of work that's been done.
I see you're now using some of the extra art on your...
Yeah, I decided, why not use that when I send out the bat signal?
It's kind of nice.
It looks pretty, at least.
We get enough.
You might as well use the stuff that came in second.
Yeah.
I do have a complaint before we get started.
Oh, a complaint.
I was getting clips, and I watched the news, and then I heard the weatherman came on.
Uh-huh.
And first of all, I'm going to preface this report that he shows a...
I wanted to do a column on this some years ago where all these...
Do an actual statistical analysis of all these weather guys on the TV who make all these predictions that are always wrong.
They're right.
They always say, well, we're right 60% of the time.
It's because 60% of the time it's sunny.
And so it's like, oh, it's going to be sunny.
Yeah, okay.
So I guess there's no tornadoes today.
Right.
So, last night this guy comes on KTVU, the KTVU weather guy.
This seems like a nice enough guy, but he comes on and he shows the weather model that is presented by the, I guess, the official government model of the weather.
And it shows that it's not going to be raining.
It's going to be raining throughout today, but it's not going to be raining this morning where I am or any place around me.
Maybe not at all, all day is possible, but he looks at this thing, the same thing, he says, I think they've got this wrong, and there's going to be, and he calls it something, and then he goes on and on with this prediction that at 7 this morning, it's going to start pouring, and right now it's 9.15, 9.20.
It hasn't rained a drop.
It did last night about four in the morning.
It was like a five-minute rain shower, but that had nothing to do with this prediction.
He says right now it's going to be a wet commute, and the commute's over.
It's 9.30 almost.
Play this report for me and let me just show you what we have to deal with as a general public.
The fuel.
Yeah, some jet fuel.
And that's what that subtropical moisture essentially is to storms.
Okay, tomorrow afternoon.
I'm sorry.
Was he talking about jet fuel hitting the top of what?
Is that chemtrails?
What's he saying?
No, he says, he says, for all practical purposes, the subtropical moisture is jet fuel.
Oh, okay, okay.
Jacks it up.
Jacks it up!
I'm sorry, I was all ready.
Sorry, back to your clip.
It's the fuel.
You add some jet fuel, and that's what that subtropical moisture essentially is to storms.
Okay, there's tomorrow afternoon, so there's your day.
A little fog on the coast, not bad.
Dry day.
Here comes Thursday morning.
Morning commute starts out a little bit wet.
Look at all that moisture.
Now, the model's not picking this up well.
You're going to see a ton of orographic lifting and rainfall accumulations on this coast range up around Mount Tam, all the way up towards Go Rock and south down towards Montero Mountain.
The model's probably not picking up that aerographic stuff, so I think it's going to be raining pretty significantly, just steady throughout the morning commute.
And then you just saw that all afternoon.
It keeps going.
And this is the kind of rain.
Green's there, but this white's going to be throwing some green, too.
Was he outguessing the model?
Yes.
What a dick.
To show up how great he is.
By the way, he had me at orographic lifting.
I mean, I need more of that.
Yeah, I like the orographic lifting.
I need more of that in my life.
It's like a show title.
Yeah, I wrote it down.
Orographic lifting.
Hmm, nice.
Well, okay, so...
So it's dry right now.
It's not this massive mess that he predicted.
It's dry.
It's not raining.
Yeah.
I should do this more often because throughout the winter, this is when they make all their mistakes.
These guys are no good.
Anyway, I'm alone again.
Christina left yesterday, went back to Rotterdam, and she texted me this morning.
You know, she's a big WWE fan.
So, of course, we had to watch Monday Night Raw.
Raw.
Raw.
Which is, you know, I gotta say, from an entertainment value standpoint, it's not bad.
I would say a couple of things.
I'll throw my two cents in.
I think it's very entertaining.
There's too many commercials.
And the problem that I have with it is it's tedious.
At some point, you watch and go, get to the fight.
Get to the fight, alright?
I agree.
I agree.
Get to the fight.
But, you know, now, the women could be in the cage of hell.
So this is a big deal, you know, because this kills people.
These actors are great athletes.
I'm very impressed.
Anyway, that's not why I'm saying it.
That's not why I'm saying it.
I'm bringing this up because she texts me that she's landed, and she is mad.
What's going on?
So, of course, you know, whenever someone from Europe visits, the cage of hell, yes.
They always want to go to Walmart because Walmart has, particularly my daughter, she wants to go to Goodwill, she wants to go to Target, she wants to go to Walmart.
She loves shopping at Goodwill.
Let me interrupt you again.
When I go to my local Target, the place is crawling with Frenchmen, French families.
Really?
Yeah.
Ours is always empty.
I never see anyone in Target.
There's not enough French.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
So we're browsing through the aisles at Walmart, and she's, oh!
Look!
Roman Reigns!
She found an action figure of Roman Reigns.
Which is, you know, big WWE superstar.
And she's loving the retro thing.
And she's, oh, I'm keeping...
You know, we actually...
We come back and say, oh, you should look at my Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump pen in the packaging.
You're completely fine.
Everything's good.
Yeah, yeah, nice.
Good collector's item.
So she texts me.
She is so angry.
TSA... Ripped open her Roman Reigns package and stuck something sharp in it, I guess, to see if there was any drugs in it or explosives.
And did not leave the traditional TSA, we inspected your baggage ticket.
Do you believe that shit?
Yeah.
I do believe it.
Probably guys who are WWE fans and hate Roman Reigns.
That could be.
That's nuts.
I just thought that was crazy.
I remember a story from Roger McGuinn, who still, I guess, steamed up about this.
One time he was traveling.
Roger McGuinn of the birds.
The birds, the guitarist.
Yeah.
And he travels with guitars, obviously.
He's a personal friend of the show.
Yes, he is.
And so he says he goes to London and he picks up all his bags.
He's got this metal container for his guitar.
And I think it was an acoustic guitar.
I'm not absolutely sure.
I think it was.
It was one of his collector's items that he plays.
And so he brings it to the hotel, opens it up, and somebody's punched a hole in the guitar.
What?
Yeah.
They didn't like Eight Miles High?
I have no idea.
That's shitty song.
I don't like it.
Why is this Martin guitar?
I hate Martin guitars.
I have no idea.
Criminals.
Criminals and deviants, man.
They're just deviants.
I remember...
You remember a lot.
We were coming back through New York once, and for some reason I was, I think this, no, it was Kennedy.
I'm in Kennedy, and I came back from Europe, and there's this woman bitching to the baggage claim people.
This is New York City, and she's bitching about two cases of wine that had gone missing.
During the baggage check thing, she couldn't find them, but wines didn't come through.
And she starts describing, there are two cases of Gaia, GAJA, which is extremely expensive.
These are like These wines, they come from Italy, and they're probably, they rarely cost less than $100 a bottle, but they go up to four or five.
Oh, so this could have been easily a $2,000, two cases, like two grand or something.
Or five, I'm thinking.
All right.
Oh, let me guess.
It mysteriously disappeared.
It mysteriously disappeared in New York, and she's stunned.
She's shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
Shocked, I tell you, that people like good wine at the TSA. Bastards.
All right.
Yeah.
Yes, before we start, I need to say something.
I think I showed you the video after the last episode.
So somehow Wikipedia has decided in their list of Trump supporters that I'm a Trump supporter.
Oh, yes.
This is very funny.
Now, first of all, this shows you the value of Wikipedia because I'm not a Trump supporter.
But also, how stupid are people to think that I or we are Trump supporters?
If Donald Trump becomes like the president, he's going to ruin all the corruption.
We'll have no business left.
We can't have that.
And he's also going to tank the stock market, as far as I can tell.
He won't help us.
He'll tank the stock market.
Six-year-old handedly, you know, you know, you know.
You know, it's a protest.
Bankers are all going to dump, and they're going to say, screw you, we wanted Hillary.
We made it pretty clear.
We gave her all this money for what?
Mm-hmm.
I will say, though, that the stock market's going to tank and it's going to be horrible.
Britain is coming to the realization, finally, and reporting on it, that Brexit didn't quite blow everything up the way they expected it.
Britain is still waiting for the big downturn that was predicted after its vote to leave the European Union.
Economic growth in the UK slowed only slightly in the three months after the referendum.
Britain's statistics office said the economy grew by half a percent in the July to September period.
The services sector improved, but manufacturing, construction and agriculture all contracted.
Brexit supporters said this shows the pre-vote predictions of a slump were scaremongering, but economists warned the real challenge is yet to come as inflation shoots up and companies postpone investment.
Finance Minister Philip Hammond said this shows the resilience of Britain's economy, but he also warned of tougher times ahead, saying the government has to prepare to support the economy to make sure we get through this period of uncertainty as London readies for difficult Brexit negotiations.
There was little reaction on the London Stock Exchange, and the pound gained slightly against the dollar.
The International Monetary Fund has admitted that its warning of a post-Brexit vote financial crash was too pessimistic.
It now believes that Britain will be the fastest growing of the G7 leading industrial nations.
What?
This year, with 1.0.
How does that happen?
We'll just redo that.
We'll just redo that.
Sorry.
That's not what happened.
By the way, over that Wikipedia thing...
Lies!
Lies!
Lies, I tell you.
I can't, you know, of course I can't.
You know, I can't even change the stupid-ass picture on my own Wikipedia page.
I can't have anyone else do it because only an admin can do that.
Screw Wikipedia.
Screw Wikipedia.
Just do it.
No, you can't.
No, you can't.
It says you have to have admin privileges.
Yeah.
I've changed stuff all over the place, and I've never had this.
Well, it says, if you want to change it, it says you need to be an admin.
Of course, I'm not an admin.
It doesn't matter.
I thought the public was supposed to be able to change this.
No!
It's not possible!
It's yours because they've got an eye on you.
You're a famous cheater.
You're a famous cheater!
Famous cheater, yeah.
Famous cheater.
I'm with...
I'm with Jackson Lee on hating Wikipedia.
Let me just say that much of what went on was what I call campaign chatter.
You know that I'm going to, first of all, denounce the utilization of this intrusion by Wikipedia through the Russian intrusion.
That's right, Wikipedia's Russians!
Russians!
Hey, if you can vote that kind of person in office, we're doomed.
And keep her in forever.
We're doomed.
And she's so haughty as though she's like some part of the British upper crust from the late 1800s.
Yes, and then it's Wikipedia!
And the Russians are Wikipedia!
Moron!
Moron!
Anyway, if you were watching the United States of Gitmo Nation News, Don Lemon summed up what the talking points are this week, and he did it in a total of six seconds!
13 days to go and Donald Trump is showing signs of life in the polls.
Woo!
Woo!
Signs of life in the polls!
Now, of course, I'm a little mad at myself because we should have...
I mean, it's on the roster.
We should have predicted this would happen because we all know this is about money.
Yeah, and then they found out that Clinton's...
She's apparently collected...
Wait, wait, let me just explain the money part for those who are new.
The thesis for people who haven't listened to the show at all.
Yes.
If you were to ever look at advertising age before an election year, they will tell you how many billions of dollars they expect to flow into the advertising and media business.
And it's often up near the trillions.
It's really crazy how much money goes through media.
Not in one year, obviously.
Yeah.
You bet you can't find that old clip of Les Moonves bragging about his quarterlies because of the political events.
Oh, I think I might have that.
Gee, in fact, he called it a political advertising bonanza.
The advertising climate couldn't be better right now, and I've never seen it this hot for a number of years.
Third quarter scatter was phenomenally good, and fourth is even better than that.
So as the year ends and we move into 16...
Guess what?
In 16, we have an extra AFC champion playoff game.
We have the Super Bowl, and we have a year of political advertising that looks like it's shaping up to be pretty phenomenal.
You know, we love having all 16 Republican candidates throwing crap at each other.
It's great.
The more they spend, the better it is for us.
And go Donald.
Keep getting out there.
And, you know, this is...
This is fun.
Watching this, let them spend money on us, and we love having them in there, and we're looking forward to a very exciting political year in 2016.
Love it, love it, love it.
Rubbing the hands together.
Money, money, money.
And so the thesis is that polls are a marketing tool.
Yo.
They're not designed to really express any reality.
They're designed to draw money into these broadcasting and publishing operations.
It's a scam.
Yes.
And what you need to do is, as the deadline gets close, and of course this has already been a problematic election cycle for media, as Donald Trump and the Republicans have just not spent any money really.
They have spent money.
But certainly not anywhere near the level of the Clinton side.
So that's a shortfall.
And what you do then is you need to, you know, shore it up.
Oh, we're getting closer.
Getting closer.
Getting closer.
You've seen it if you watch the news.
Oh, Trump's taking the lead in Florida.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really fantastic.
And...
It'll be pretty much...
Because they've only got two weeks left.
Yeah.
And Clinton's still sitting on millions and millions.
They're going to push this thing up so Clinton looks like she's going to lose so she spends that money.
Oh, yeah.
That's totally the plan.
Now, we also, of course, and I could have known this...
Or could have even predicted this or could have deconstructed it.
I keep saying, hey, why are these idiots out there talking about Obamacare?
And they're stupid.
Why are they sending these guys out?
Of course, I realize now that the open enrollment period starts November 1st, runs through December 15th.
And so the Obama administration, the Clinton campaign, knew that this would be an issue because everyone's seeing their premiums go up, and the minute the exchange is open, everyone's going to be bitching about it.
So they were up, you know, they're front-running this, really.
They have been front-running it, trying to get talking points out, trying to get...
Yeah, just trying to run interference because they knew it's going to fall right in the election cycle.
Huge mistake.
Big problem.
So now they're out really just going as fast as they can to try and discredit anything that's being said negatively about Obamacare.
And I have a couple of clips because I think it's just fun to listen to them.
The main...
Offenders of this are, of course, CNN and ABC. So I'd like to start...
Now, remember we had Zeke Emanuel being touted as the architect of Obamacare.
Well, it turns out there's two architects of Obamacare, because now we have Jonathan Gruber.
Now, this is the guy who admitted that it was okay they lied to the American public.
All right, that guy.
This guy?
Yeah, I remember him.
Here he is on CNN with CarolCNN, Facebook.com slash CarolCNN.
Okay, so let's talk about how exactly you can fix Obamacare.
And I just need you to be specific because I think people really want answers.
So Hillary Clinton says she can fix Obamacare.
So what would one fix that would drive premiums down?
Look, once again, there's no sense that it just has to be fixed.
The law's working as designed.
However, it could work better.
I like it.
The law's working as designed.
Mm-hmm.
I bet it is.
Just not in your favor, slave.
However, it could work better.
And I think probably the most important thing experts would agree on is that we need a larger mandate penalty.
We have individuals who are essentially free-riding on the system.
We need to punish people more.
Woo!
They're essentially waiting until they get sick and then getting health insurance.
The whole idea of this plan, which was pioneered in Massachusetts...
Which is meant to say, I guess, it was under Republican auspices.
That was Romney, I think, who came up with that.
So, oh, here's your first little tinge of a Republican issue.
Was it the individual mandate penalty to bring those people into the system and have them participate?
The penalty right now is probably too low, and that's something I think ideally we would fix.
What about the insurers that have fled the system?
How do you convince them to come back or new companies to sign on?
Once again, I think the press here has been misleading.
Some insurers are leaving.
Other insurers are thriving.
I think what you have is a system where we've shaken up the status quo.
John, you always track insurance companies and stocks on DH Unplugged.
Are some hurting or leaving while others are thriving and joining in?
No, even the ones leaving are thriving.
They're all thriving.
They're all thriving and leaving.
Okay, that's better.
His lie is even better than we thought.
Exactly what we expect a new innovation, disruptive innovation, if you will, to do.
Disruptive innovation, John, just so you know.
Now, you're going to hear the talking points.
Disruptive innovation.
I've heard of disruptive technologies, but I've never heard of disruptive innovation.
Yeah, it's innovation that's so good, it fucks up your life.
This isn't disruptive innovation.
Just sit back, enjoy it.
We're in transition, if you will, to do.
Insurers who are thriving in the old system are finding new systems sort of hard for them.
Other insurers are doing...
Oh, it's so hard.
Let me think.
If I take money...
They put in a claim, I don't give you everything.
I make it difficult.
I think they understand the system.
Other insurers are doing really well.
And what's going to happen is the natural process as the market evolves.
These premiums are going to increase.
That's going to allow profitable opportunities for new insurers to enter.
They are and bring premiums back down.
Okay.
Here's the logic.
I'm going to give you the logic.
Because the logic is, premiums are going up right now.
We're in a transition year.
So we need more people to pay these higher prices so then the market, and please note they call this a marketplace, which it is not, because it's not.
You can't do it across state lines.
It's not a free and open market.
But they say marketplace to trick you.
So then more people buy in.
Then the insurance companies go, oh, we've got a lot of people paying extra money.
Let's lower the premiums.
Yeah.
When has that ever happened?
Let me think.
Never.
They are and bring premiums back down.
So we're just seeing the ups and downs of a new market.
The ups and downs of a new market.
What if Donald Trump becomes president, he has a Republican Congress, and he does repeal it.
What happens then?
Well, first of all, he won't repeal it.
Remember, the whole argument Republicans have made against this law is that people didn't get to keep insurance they liked.
Well, you have 20 million Americans or more who are now getting insurance that they like.
You're not going to take that away from them.
And let's be clear, there is no replace.
There's only repeal.
There is no Republican alternative to this law.
And the reason is because this is fundamentally a bipartisan legislation that was originally drafted on Republican principles, to be honest.
And so there is no Republican alternative.
So his repeal and replace is just repeal and leave people uninsured.
That's not going to happen.
That's right.
Just be very worried Donald Trump is not going to fix it like Hillary Clinton.
And the CBS Morning people, Charlie Rose, what's the other girl's name?
Nora.
Nora.
Yeah.
So they're hearing about the official White House number.
The White House said, oh, on average, people's claims will rise, premiums will rise 22%, which the media, for some reason, just rounded up to 25.
It's odd that they're doing that, but okay.
Maybe they can't remember 22%.
And they're saying it's an average.
So yeah, some go up more, some go up less.
But to be sure, we're in a transition year.
And these premiums are rising slower than previous years.
So they're confused by all of it.
Millions of Americans will face big price hikes and fewer choices when Obamacare open enrollment begins.
The government says the cost of mid-level health plans next year will increase by an average of 25%.
That will hit consumers in 39 states.
Major carriers are dropping out in some markets.
About one in five consumers will be able to choose from only one provider.
Government numbers show about two and a half million Americans not currently enrolled could be eligible for subsidies to offset cost increases.
We need a bigger understanding of why this is happening, you know, because the idea is not only to spread coverage around, but that by spreading the coverage around, not only would it help people get more preventative care, but then it would ultimately bring the costs down, and instead, the premiums are skyrocketing.
And so the question is, what happened?
And who's profiting on this?
Is the way the law was set up failed?
It's a really interesting story.
Yeah, very interesting.
Are you people idiots?
That's really...
You just don't see the obvious scam, which is the drug companies.
And by the way, this makes something clear.
The American public in general isn't looking for preventative care.
No.
I think I'm going to go into the doctor and get some preventative care.
What does that even mean?
I'll tell you what it means.
It means you go into the doctor and it says, you're fat.
You need to lose some weight.
Have some repertoire.
There's that.
And by the way, can you not see your penis?
Here, have some Viagra.
What?
You can't remember what I said?
Have some B12. Hey, you need a vaccine.
You got kids?
Daughters?
HPV. I know how it works.
Yeah, preventative care.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of course, was asked about this.
It was with Brawl, so I thought it was funny enough to play.
How worried are you about those numbers?
Because it's pretty significant that the increase in cost...
It's hard for him to even say it.
Americans is going to go up.
You know, I think that voters, when they go to the polls and make a decision about who they want to vote for for president, are going to vote for Hillary Clinton because they know that she has been focused on making sure that we can continue to add more people who have health care insurance.
We have 20 million people who now have health insurance that didn't before.
You know, this 20 million, 20 million, 20 million, that was always the plan, but I've never really seen any numbers that show it more than 12 million.
Have you seen a total of 20 million anywhere in like a real report?
No, I don't think it's even close to being true.
It's probably not even 12.
I don't think so either.
Because they must have thought if we can get 10, that's half, it should be kind of break even.
If we get 20, then the system's humming, because that was the idea, as long as we have it on the other side.
But no, I agree.
I don't think it's there at all.
And these subsidies, I've looked into these subsidies.
If you spend more than 5% of your total income...
On health care, medical care, or health care insurance, I should say, then you are going to be able to get some subsidies, but you have to be making under, I think it's under $45,000, less maybe even.
It's not going to wash out, that's for sure.
I can't make the numbers work for me, so let's continue.
So you put this report together because you're looking for health insurance because you've got the November deadline coming up.
I'm not going to get any.
I'm paying the penalty.
What's the penalty?
Very low.
It increases per year.
Okay, let's go over this because this is more interesting.
I think you're done with the clips because I think you've beaten this.
I'm going to ask you some questions because you've become an expert in this.
I mean, that's what this whole little presentation is.
It's an expertise presentation.
Okay.
I hear some questions.
I have a funny payoff.
Just remember, keep that in.
Okay, good.
Save it to the end.
You can give me the payoff after I ask you my questions.
Yes.
First of all, If you have no health insurance, which you're going to be in that position, you said, and you get something happens to you and you end up in the hospital and they send you a bill, what do you do?
Okay.
So first of all, they cannot deny me.
Right.
Well, they can't deny anybody.
Yeah, they cannot deny.
Then I will say to every doctor and the hospital...
Please, I will pay you cash.
I'm going to pay you 30 cents on the dollar.
They'll probably argue with me up to 40 because I have no insurance, but I'm willing to pay you if you can bring it down to 30 cents on the dollar.
Every indication I've received, because I have studied this, is doctors, hospitals take it because they argue with these insurance companies down to 30 cents on the dollar consistently.
They don't get paid what their bill is.
Okay, now that, let's stop there because my doctor told me that most of his time is now being spent arguing with the insurance companies over every single diagnosis and every single prescription.
To the point where that's what they do as doctors now more than anything else.
And he says they always give in at some point for whatever the negotiation is, I don't know.
But he says it is so time consuming.
For every hour they spend on a patient, they spend hours and hours with the insurance companies.
Yeah, and it's a big time waste.
And I've heard this 30 cents on the dollar number is what I've heard.
Okay.
You haven't tested this yet, though.
No, I haven't been ill.
But if you think about it, the plans I can get...
Now, I can't really afford a gold plan.
I looked at silver.
And you're looking at $700, $800 a month from me with a deductible of $10,000.
Yes, too high.
Now, the penalty this year for 2016, for tax of 2016, maximum, it'll be $695 per adult penalty.
Total?
Total.
And there's a family penalty, maximum $2,085.
So the total penalty that you pay to the IRS is $695.
Yes, $695.
Okay.
As opposed to $700 a month?
Yes.
Well, who wouldn't take that deal?
Well, and you have to add the $10,000 deductible, so now you're talking $26,000.
No, I'm sorry, now you're talking $16,000.
That's a lot of money.
Right, and how often do you actually have to...
Even when my daughter Jay had an appendectomy, I thought she was ripped off because although we had insurance, the insurance paid for it, so it wasn't a problem.
I think there was like a little bit of, they had to pay on top of it.
It was a $30,000 bill.
And they didn't even open her up.
Oh man, you should have taken her back for them to open her up.
That's lame.
Hey, open my kid up!
They poke a little hole in the person, and they go in with, I guess, a little flashlight, like a little miner.
It was in there, finds it, then clip it, and they pull it out of the hole.
And then they, I guess, I don't know what they do after that, but then they just seal it.
Eat it.
Yes!
There we go!
And 30 grand.
It was almost like an outpatient procedure, $30,000.
And how much did you wind up paying of that 30 grand?
I think it was about $500 or $600.
Oh, that's pretty good.
So, in my system, I would have wound up paying, what, $9,000?
No.
$0.30 on a dollar?
$900?
No.
There wouldn't be that little.
No way.
$9,000.
I think $9,000.
Yeah.
So let's say I knock it off at $10,000, $12,000 for $9,000 and make money.
Come on.
It's not a $30,000 thing.
No, I'm just saying in negotiations.
Let's say, you know what?
I got $12,000.
It's still a better deal than the $16,000 I'm paying.
You know?
Yeah.
And you can actually, yeah, you can do these deals.
Yeah.
I know you can do these deals because if you get a big bill like that, you say, I can't pay it, but I can pay this.
Right.
They'll take it.
So ABC, of course, is all in a tizzy.
Get ready for some sticker shock if you're looking into the price of Obamacare plans.
The average premiums are expected to rise by 25% next year.
Many consumers will also be limited to choosing plans from just one provider.
Yeah, that's a market, everybody.
One provider.
There's your marketplace.
So the last clip I have, just to show you that they are really struggling, you know, the Clinton campaign has all of these surrogates and all the same ones on the news shows, and this Angela Rye, who is a former staffer for the Congressional Black Caucus, I was a staffer.
I was there when they signed Obamacare.
I know how it works.
She's a staffer running papers around, getting coffee.
Okay.
But just listen to how she is.
Whatever it is, it's the Republicans' fault that Obamacare sucks.
Angela, this is not what the Democrats had hoped to be dealing with.
13 days before the election, the broken promises of Obamacare.
President Obama said your premiums will go down.
Now we know that next year premiums on average are going up across the country 22%.
This is something that certainly Donald Trump has been bringing up and that Hillary Clinton will have to tackle.
Yeah, I think it's not just Hillary Clinton who has to tackle this, it's also Congress.
The reason we are in the position that we're in right now, frankly, Allison, is because Republicans fell short of their promise to repeal, which is what they said they wanted to do, and replace.
But hold on a second.
President Obama promised that if it were passed, premiums would go down.
So that has nothing to do with Congress.
They passed it, and premiums are going up.
I hear what you're saying, and I would say as someone who was a former Congressional Hill staffer, Capitol Hill staffer actually know what happened in this process and the fact of the matter is Obamacare was never a perfect solution.
It was put in place and I think President Obama in good faith said this thinking that Republicans would act in goodwill on behalf of the American people to ensure this would in fact be the case.
Instead they tried to repeal Obamacare 60 times.
But is that why premiums are going up?
I think it has everything to do with it.
The reality of it is Because if you don't work to ensure that something is the best possible solution for the American people, they're going to be holes.
So they made it not the best.
When you have insurance companies that are a part of a marketplace and they don't feel like there's any real place to go, you struggle.
I think, thankfully, with Hillary Clinton's proposals, she now has a solution which would give a tax credit to people who are paying more than 5% of their income on medical expenses.
But we don't need to repeal it.
I don't understand what she's talking about.
That is already a tax credit.
She's full of crap.
She's a douchebag.
These people are stupid.
And Trump is right.
He's out there saying, screw this.
This is no good.
You got lied to.
Bigly.
Bigly.
And they also, the other lie was you can keep your doctor.
Oh yeah.
I just want another personal story.
So in my investigation, you know, Tina the Keeper works for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
She's part of the medical system.
She has unbelievable health care.
She pays like 60 bucks a month.
She pays nothing.
It's fabulous.
Unbelievable.
So if you married her, would you get the benefits of that healthcare system?
Well, what was investigated, if there was a domestic partnership.
Do you know how much additional it would be per month to add me to her plan?
$30.
$1,100.
A month?
Yes.
What?
Yes.
Well, that's worse than what you're going to get now.
Yes.
How does, oh, well, they hate marriage, the Ronald McDonald people.
No, hey, don't talk like that.
No, don't ixnay on Ronald McDonald Day.
No, no, that's not, that's the plan, that's the health care that they, you know, it was just great for the employees.
The minute you had dependents to it or, you know, other partners, it becomes a problem.
It's just, I mean, it's just what it is.
That's just the scenario that we're in.
Hate to say it, but single-payer is the only way to go, even though that's not going to be the best way in the world with this country, because these systems are so corrupt.
Single-payer is the way to go.
That'll give them a carte blanche.
Well, it's not supposed to, but it's also like the utilities.
The way single-payer works is that everything, like, for example, with the Veterans Administration, this is brought up in a number of clips that we've had.
They do their own deals for drugs.
Kaiser is a big operation.
They do their own deals for drugs, and they get better prices.
Instead of paying $100 a pill, they get $20 a pill.
But here's the other side of that.
Because of that, and for that type of system, and I've lived in two, in the Netherlands and in the UK, that you get waiting lists for this stuff because you have to ration and just supplies are limited while stocks last.
We've got to spread it out.
Actually, this came up in question time at the parliament Wednesday night.
Okay.
And they were talking about the real problem is that anyone with necessary – and it started with somebody, some constituent of one of the MPs having somebody commit suicide because they had these issues and they wanted to get some mental health care from the system, from the health system there.
And the guy said, okay, we'll put you in and it's a six-month wait to get your first appointment.
Yes.
The guy committed suicide.
Yeah, when Christina dislocated her knee in the UK, she needed an MRI. And to this day, she's still dealing with this bullcrap on her knee because of the great national health care in the UK. I'm sorry, it just failed her.
But it does work much better.
Let me just finish the story.
Want an MRI? Okay, here's your ticket.
Go get an MRI, which will be free under the system.
Fabulous.
Six-month wait.
I can't have this kid hobbling around.
So I said, you know what?
I call him up.
I say, I'll pay privately.
Okay, 5,000 pounds.
Doesn't matter.
I'm in.
I didn't negotiate.
I'm in.
The place was empty.
It's the same place where she would go to if she had an appointment.
There was no one there.
It's nice and calm today.
Yeah, there's not a lot of business.
Well then what's the reason for the six month wait?
You tell me.
I have not seen it work.
Is it great that you pay five pounds for your medication?
Well, that's the point.
These systems can work.
I don't know, is that a moment of corruption or is it incompetence?
The French system works very well.
Most people from England, in fact, move to France if they have health issues so they can fall into line with the French healthcare system.
Now, I've talked to people about this in the healthcare business.
I was an investor in some little company.
And I started talking about this.
They had all these crazy reasons for everything I had to say.
When I brought up France, they said, well, the French system is totally alien to anything we do here because they have a different way of manufacturing doctors and people aren't expecting to make the big money and you can't do HMOs and you can't do this, you can't do that.
And so the French system wouldn't work here because it doesn't have the elements that we need.
Right.
And I guess those elements are you have to be able to scam the public.
If you can't scam the public, it's no good.
Well, hello.
Shocked?
I'm shocked!
Shocked, I thought so.
I want you to wrap this up so I can go back and do a callback on something you said.
I'm wrapping this up by saying this is going to be the main focus of these last two weeks, and I think it gives Trump an incredible edge if he plays it well.
He won't.
Well, there's that.
So I noticed something.
I hope to have a clip of it, but...
I've noticed a bunch of this going on.
This very subtle propagandistic use of wordage.
And I do have one clip.
Let's do this.
There was a big report, a huge report, and I think it was designed to slam Trump.
It was on PBS NewsHour.
And it was a look at the white nationalists and these crazy people headed up by some young guy who's the new, I don't know, hater.
And they all moved to a little town in Indiana, this group, and then a bunch of other ones are moving.
They look like a great little town.
Paiute or some crazy name.
The town's going broke and everything like that.
I just want to play the end of this presentation.
There's a white nationalism in Indiana.
I want to play the end and then point something out, and then point something out you said, and then point yet one more thing out to show that people really have to have their no-agenda ears Turned up a little bit so you can hear this stuff.
...appeared frequently in the bios of users publishing the tweets.
White power website Stormfront sees a 30 to 40 percent increase in traffic when Trump makes news on immigration or Muslims, according to an interview with the site's owner.
Critics charge that Trump has been slow to reject the embrace of alt-right groups and racists, including David Duke's endorsement.
They also say Trump has echoed the language used by groups like Heimbach's.
This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
They will thank you.
Heimbach and his followers say Trump's rhetoric stops short of their ethnic ideology.
Even if the candidate loses, they think this campaign has opened the door for what they hope will be a wider following.
It's about these ideas of nationalism, not globalism.
That's what we're building towards, and Donald Trump is just introducing his ideas to a lot of new people.
But we were here before, and we're going to be here after.
BJ Tobia, PBS NewsHour, in southern Indiana.
Okay.
Okay, now, this is a long report, I might add, and they really went into it.
I don't know if there was any conclusion that you could really draw from it, except they did do something at the end that just perked my ears up.
They're in Indiana.
There is no place called Southern Indiana.
Oh, good catch.
This is to inform you that Southern is a bunch of hicks, racist assholes.
Yeah, yeah.
Texas.
So let's do this long report and then use the word Southern...
So it just gets into your psyche.
You know, Southern.
Oh, Southern.
Southern.
Oh, those Southerners.
Those Southerners are a bunch of pigs.
Yeah.
And they slipped that baby in there, and I just heard it.
You know, I went, oh my God.
He's in Indiana.
He's not in Southern Indiana.
Now, you said an interesting word, which is another one I started catching.
I started hearing this.
Now, this will be applied to Trump once in a while, but generally speaking, the word surrogate, It applies to Hillary, and you used it.
Yes, I did.
And when you say, oh, it's a surrogate of the Clintons, it's a surrogate, a surrogate.
When they talk about Trump, it's an operative.
Donald Trump has operatives.
Yes.
Now, if you look at the two words, surrogate is a motherly term.
Oh, it's a surrogate, like a surrogate mom.
It's a sweet, nice thing.
It's all-encompassing, enveloping, a womb of goodness.
Yes, surrogate.
Oh, it's a surrogate.
It sounds kind of bad.
Oh, she's a surrogate.
Hey, come on, man.
Back off.
She's a surrogate.
But the Trump people are operatives.
Now, this sounds a lot like it's a spy.
Military.
Yeah, military.
Operatives.
Some sort of spy.
The Russians.
Wait, white nationalists.
White nationalists.
And so you have this little usage.
And this is going on in the mainstream media constantly.
Constantly.
And it's very difficult for people to hear.
What do you mean difficult for people to hear?
They don't hear it.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
In other words, they don't know they're being subconsciously affected by it.
Because if you hear it, now people will hear it, because you will.
So when you hear surrogate, oh, it's a Clinton surrogate.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, the Trump operative.
Oh, they're using the word operative.
This is a propagandistic term.
Why are they using operative with him?
Now, once in a while you will hear a Trump surrogate In a situation where it's the right word to use.
You rarely hear Clinton operatives.
Even though, you know, John Podesta's one.
Right.
I'll say.
Yes, he is.
But, you know, Roger Stone, they bring that guy up every once in a while.
He's always an operative.
Good catch.
And that's exactly the kind of thinking that you get on the No Agenda show.
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Dvorak.
Well, thank you.
And I want to say in the morning to you, Adam Curry, in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
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Today we highlight cesium-137.
Who brought us the artwork for episode 871, New World Hackers, which is the Obama logo for Obamacare.
Sorry, we're closed.
Sign on it.
It was nice, beautiful piece of art.
Always, always.
And we were timely with it once again.
We put that up, boom, everyone's talking about Obamacare.
Yeah, actually, that was a little timely is, I guess, the right word because we're like ahead of the game.
In fact, it seems to me.
And, of course, I didn't have the spreadsheet open because you came in early with this thing.
No, I came in right on time.
Right on time.
That's who I am now.
It's open now, so I just have to make one switch and then we're good.
Okay, I want to thank a few people and let's start with...
I guess I got to...
Hold on a second.
I'm going to shrink this just a shade more.
Shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink.
Okay, here we go.
You good?
I think so, yeah.
Let's start with a couple of people who came in.
We have two of our 999.99 donations, which helped quite a bit.
And one of them is Jeremy Falk in Muna, I think it's Muna, in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Yay!
He's right at the top.
Nice!
It doesn't say anything about getting an instant night or anything, but we'll work on that.
We can always do it later.
Well, if it's 999, I mean, we always throw in the extra penny.
I mean, are these...
Are they not on the...
Let me just...
No, we don't have them on the night list.
That's interesting.
No.
Well, they didn't call for it.
I mean, they were the ones who called the shots.
Okay.
So, Jeremy, we're going to put his name down as Sir Jeremy.
But anyway, he says, happy anniversary.
Sorry for the pesos.
But the exchange rate is absurd.
Maybe this is 999.99 pesos.
It's possible.
Although PayPal doesn't do it that way.
I'm going to assume it's dollars.
ITM, keep grabbing them by the puss.
You've got karma.
Little, uh, pussy cart.
I think you played it once before.
Yeah, I played it.
End of show.
Patrick Seymour in Clayton, Ohio.
999.99.
Another one.
Why does this saying...
Why does this say dad's name for call-out?
You're weird, John.
Happy anniversary, you magnificent bastards.
What does this dad thing mean?
Why does this say dad's...
Oh!
Oh!
Aha!
That's funny.
What did...
Oh, I know what...
Well...
Oh, jeez.
All right.
I didn't...
Somebody else should have pointed this.
I think what I did was I did a...
When I created this button for an open-ended donation, I used a previously designed button, and on page two of the button specs, there is a thing for the call-out.
And I think this was the old Father's Day...
Open donation, which I did put dad's name for call-out on the question that you get when you make the donation.
Which is an empty box.
That's funny.
Okay.
Yes.
That's why it says that.
It was my error in the button creation process.
No worries.
The button creation process was flawed.
Buggy.
It's buggy, I tell you.
It's buggy.
James Rogers in Wilmington, Delaware, $499.95.
And I will have to look and see if he said anything in the email.
It's R-O-G-E-R-S, I think.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, why is the keyboard on the floor?
I don't know, John, why?
Okay, here we go.
Jim Rogers, happy to support no agenda.
Not the Jim Rogers, another Jim Rogers.
To make sure my message to you got through, my receipt is pasted below, okay?
After years of listening to your wonderful show, I finally contributed five times, $99.99 is the least I can do for your sanity check twice a week.
It has been that long without donating.
Please de-douche.
All right, de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
It says, this is the best money I ever spent.
This donation is 99.99 times 5.
I teach A-level economics in China.
Oh.
And some of your analysis adds a secret spice sometimes to the class.
Oh, and then he says, don't mention.
Yeah.
I'm sure the class is listening.
You know, you usually put that kind of thing at the beginning because Adam and I are both kind of adept and we do cold reads.
Yes.
Which means we don't read and then practice and read.
We just do it.
We just read.
We just read.
So you put something at the end like that.
Well, it gets read in order.
Happy to support your show and your flippant attitude and mocking of the system.
Woo!
It has meant so much and helped me sleep.
Thank you.
God bless you, Jim Rogers.
He's a correspondent before and he says he's not the famous Jim Rogers.
Let's give him some karma since he's here anyway.
You've got karma.
That's it, I think, huh?
Yeah, that's actually, we've got three executive producers all high order.
Well, that's great.
I'm very happy about that.
Yeah, and so we'll go on with a bigger list of other well-wishers, the regular producers, somewhere along the line on this show today.
I want to thank these folks a lot.
Yes, and you should probably put in there executive producer or associate.
No, there's all execs.
Executive producer.
9th anniversary show.
Yeah, absolutely.
That always looks good in credits.
It just looks good.
And put it on your LinkedIn, put it in your CV, put it in your profile.
Yeah, like you produced the Emmys.
And let's face it, it's very close.
Yeah.
We have more content than the Emmys.
Please remember us for Sunday's show.
And of course, everybody can be out there on this happy occasion propagating the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up!
Shut up!
Slay!
Yeah.
Well, a lot going on.
A lot going on with the WikiLeaks, which of course makes you...
I have an intermezzo.
It's something that we can use as light.
It's kind of funny.
It got some attention on all the shows, but nobody played the whole thing.
I'm not going to play the whole thing either, but I'm going to play the end of the whole thing, which is the funniest part, which is where Newt Gingrich and Megyn Kelly go at each other and just start sniping.
This is a very, I think it's a two-minute clip, It is a...
Megyn Kelly, we've concluded in the leaner report, is a Hillary supporter.
Yes.
And it starts to come out...
And I think that she is that mainly because of the women issue.
I think she's a Democrat.
Okay.
You know, that would do it too.
It wouldn't surprise me.
At all.
Yeah.
And we're pretty sure that O'Reilly's a Democrat, only he's kind of a conservative Democrat.
But...
She bleeds through every once in a while.
So Gingers, I guess, got sick of it.
And so he decided to give her grief.
Yes.
What I said is, if Trump is a sexual predator, then it's a big story.
And what we saw on that tape was Trump himself saying that he likes to grab women by the genitals and kiss them against their will.
That's what we saw.
Then we saw ten women come forward after he denied actually doing it at a debate to say, that was untrue, he did it to me, he did it to me, we saw reporters, we saw people who had worked with him, people from Apprentice and so on and so forth.
He denies it all, which is his right.
We don't know what the truth is.
My point to you is, as a media story, we don't get to say the 10 women are lying.
We have to cover that story, sir.
Sure.
Okay, so it's worth 23 minutes of the three networks to cover that story.
And Hillary Clinton in a secret speech in Brazil to a bank that pays her $225,000, saying her dream is an open border where 600 million people could come to America.
That's not worth covering.
That is worth covering.
And you want to go back to the tapes of your show recently?
You are fascinated with sex and you don't care about public policy.
That's what I get out of watching you tonight.
You know what, Mr.
Speaker?
I'm not fascinated by sex, but I am fascinated by the protection of women.
And understanding what we're getting in the Oval Office.
And I think the American voters would like to know.
And therefore we're going to send Bill Clinton back to the East Wing because after all you are worried about sexual predators.
Yeah, listen, it's not about me.
It's about the women and men of America.
And the poll numbers show us that the women of America in particular are very concerned about these allegations and in large part believe that they are a real issue.
And don't dismiss the women summarily.
Do you want to comment on whether the Clinton ticket has a relationship to a sexual predator?
We, on the Kelly File, have covered that story as well, sir.
I just want to hear you use the words.
I want to hear your words, Bill Clinton, sexual predator.
I dare you.
Say, Bill Clinton, sexual predator.
Mr.
Speaker, this is barred by the Arkansas bar.
This is so douchey.
It's like that guy on CNN. Say it!
Say it!
Say this!
You must say this!
It's totally lame that he did that, but okay.
Sexual predator.
Mr.
Speaker, we've covered...
Disbarred by the Arkansas bar?
Disbarred by the Arkansas bar?
$850,000 penalty?
Excuse me, sir.
We on the Kelly File have covered the Clinton matter as well.
I think we should do this as well.
We on the No Agenda show have done this as well.
We on the No Agenda Show accept your gracious donations.
We've hosted Kathleen Willey.
We've covered the examples of him being accused as well, but he's not on the ticket.
And the polls also show that the American public is less interested in the deeds of Hillary Clinton's husband than they are in the deeds of the man who asks us to make him president, Donald Trump.
We're going to have to leave it at that, and you can take your anger issues and spend some time working on them, Mr.
Speaker.
Now, before you say anything, there's a visual...
Angle to this, which I didn't even clip it because I'm glad you did.
If you look at the last few words here that she says, you have to watch the video.
You can take your anger issues and spend some time working on them.
Okay, her hand, she does two hand gestures.
You have to watch this.
One is you can take your anger issues and with a palm face towards the camera, she swipes.
And then she says, and you can work on them.
And I swear to you, John, she makes a jerking motion.
She makes it like a masturbation jerking motion.
Like a jerk-off motion?
Yes!
Yes!
You have to see it.
Okay, I have to go back and look at that.
And therefore that is the clip of the day.
Just because of that.
Clip of the day.
Well, you have to at least play the rest of it because he does a comeback.
He gets the last word.
Play it right from when she does the jerking motion.
President Donald Trump.
We're going to have to leave it at that, and you can take your anger issues and spend some time working on them, Mr.
Speaker.
Thanks for being here.
And you, too.
You, too.
And they fade him out.
Well, okay.
I think you got me.
Because I should have seen that.
The chat room had seen it because the minute I said it, they all started to say, oh, she made a wanking gesture.
And she really did.
And by the way...
And by the way, women rarely get the gesture right.
They always open palm facing up.
No.
You grab that shaft and you...
Just a little.
Should be a fist.
Yeah, should be a fist.
Like you were punching somebody, only you're moving up and down.
No, no, no, like you're stabbing yourself in your abdomen.
Hooray!
But you always have to end with an outward motion.
You don't have to end with anything.
I'll have to cut a YouTube video to show women how to do this.
Why don't you do a tutorial?
Well, we have to.
I'd like to see the notes you get on that one.
Oh, the expert.
Well, listen.
She does this because she is part of the war on men.
That, for sure.
And that is extremely irritating.
And, oops.
Uh-oh.
Something bad happened.
I know what just happened.
It's not going to be bad.
No, it's okay.
It's not bad.
I think you are the one...
This may have been a private conversation.
I know we've brought it up on the show before.
But every Thursday night, the women of the world have a meeting.
And they all get together and they talk about how they're going to bring men down.
Or should I just say man?
This is no secret.
They're all in on the conference call.
And I think tonight...
Just look for where all the brooms are parked.
I'm trying to be as misogynistic as possible.
Because Hillary is going to organize.
Clinton is now calling on other women to help finish off her opponent.
She rallied yesterday with Senator Elizabeth Warren.
The senator picked up Trump's nasty woman comment from last week's debate and used it against the Republican nominee.
Nancy Cordes is in White Plains, New York, where Clinton will soon take off for Florida.
Nancy, good morning.
Good morning.
You know, when this race first began, Clinton was reluctant to draw too much attention to her gender to imply that people should vote for her because she is a woman.
But with just two weeks to go, she is flipping this script, and her top women supporters are now calling on the sisterhood to see her through.
Calling on the sisterhood.
Wow.
That is not okay.
That is...
Sexist.
Very sexist.
Calling on the sisterhood.
And I have a minute of that Elizabeth Warren speech.
All the news for you, Donald Trump!
Women have had it with guys like you.
Good technique there.
I think she's also had it with robocalls from Rachel.
Yet I'm still getting them.
What has she done?
Nothing.
Thank you.
And nasty women have really had it with guys like you.
Thank you.
Get this, Donald.
Nasty women are tough.
Nasty women are smart.
and nasty women vote.
And on November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast Nasty.
Nasty.
Nasty girl.
Nah, I like it.
It's good.
It's funny.
I love it.
It is funny.
I need a nasty woman mug.
I need some of this memorabilia.
It's going to be great.
Have a picture.
Make sure it's a picture of Warren on the nasty woman mug.
Hey, I finally figured out what Evan McMullin is doing.
Not that it was a big secret, but it's nice that he admitted it himself.
The guy from Utah.
Yeah, CIA Goldman Sachs alum.
And he is running for president.
In one state?
No, he thinks he's going to get on the ballot in 43.
He's running in more than one state.
And this is the power of the internet.
The internet, of course, being the single device that is ruining everything.
Yeah.
Eventually, it could be good.
We'll get to that later.
Seems unlikely.
So, you know, he goes on a podcast.
On a YouTube podcast, and he just shoots his mouth off like an idiot.
Right now, we're on the ballot or registered as a write-in in 34 states.
By the time we get to November 8th, it'll be 40 to 45.
And that's plenty for our strategy, which is not a conventional strategy.
We're not trying to win 270 votes.
Of course, that would be great, but it's just not going to happen.
This is a three-month presidential campaign.
So what we're trying to do is earn enough electoral votes to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump if the race between both of them is so close that we are able to do that by winning one or two states.
So that's the idea.
But if not that, then we will be, you know, happy to have prevented someone who I believe is a true authoritarian from taking power in the United States, and that's Donald Trump.
There you go.
Thank you for admitting it.
Move on, asshole.
About time.
Yeah.
He's like, no one knew the story.
Now he just says it.
The system that we have in place doesn't really allow for a true authoritarian to really have much of an impact.
It's not like Mussolini in Italy.
Well, hello, but he's Hitler.
No, he's Hitler.
He's Hitler.
Well, now it's getting very...
There's a lot of things that are getting very, very interesting.
People are coming out saying Trump is going to win.
Maybe not so directly.
There is apparently a professor in...
I think he's in...
I don't want to say New York, but I'm probably wrong.
And he has accurately predicted presidential results based upon data.
Very simplistic data, actually.
It has nothing to do with polling.
Although, I'd like to play his analysis of why Donald Trump is going to win the election, according to him.
This man is sticking by his prediction of a Trump victory.
Here to explain is Stony Brook University professor Helmut Norpoff.
Professor, it's great to see you.
Thank you very much for having me.
So you are almost alone.
Yes.
Among academics, predicting a Trump win.
Not because you're coming out for Trump, but because you have a model that you believe leads the conclusion he's going to win.
Tell us about this model.
How have you arrived to this conclusion?
Well, there are two things.
The model is called the primary model, so I take into account primary elections, real elections.
How the candidates are performing and I can track primaries for about a hundred years since 1912.
So it's quite a set of elections.
And it usually turns out that the candidate does better in his party's primaries or her party's primaries beats the other guy who does less well.
And so in this election The primaries that I'm relying on, it's only New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Donald Trump came out on top better than Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race.
That seems like a fair measure.
And what's the other one?
The other one is what I call the swing of the pendulum, the tendency after, let's say, two terms of the White House Party being in office, that is a change.
And I can track that actually for a longer period of time, for almost 200 years.
And that also gives a prediction that Republicans are favored this year.
So a lot of us in the TV business make predictions, and we say it, and we say we believe it.
But do we really believe it?
Do we believe it enough to bet on it?
Do you believe your prediction enough to put your money in a legal way, in a betting market, behind your prediction?
Yes, I have.
I've gone all in in the Iowa market, which is sort of the oldest prediction market.
Hey, you can bet on that in America?
Of course you can.
You've got to be in Vegas or someplace where there's legal betting.
There may be some off-site betting places.
Yeah, he's talking about the Iowa prediction market or something?
I hadn't heard of this.
I don't know what that is.
Yeah, it's just a side note.
I thought it was interesting.
Yes, I have.
I've gone all in in the Iowa market, which is sort of the oldest prediction market where it's legal to do that.
And I bought shares of the Republican candidate way, way a long time ago, and I'm sticking with it.
How much chaos will there be among other professional predictors if Trump wins?
You'll be almost the only person who called that.
Well, I think the only ones are really sort of a big deal at stake are the pollsters.
I mean, because they have...
I mean, for them, it's big business.
I mean, for academics, it's different.
There are actually quite a few colleagues of mine who also have a prediction that Trump is going to make it.
I'm not the only one among academics who are doing that.
Interesting.
But I won't mention that because some of them are a little leery of that.
I bet they are.
You're going to be a hero.
PrimaryModel.com.
PrimaryModel.com.
That's it.
You're right.
I hope you'll come back.
Huh.
You might as well, he says only the pollsters are going to be in trouble.
But play this one.
This was the, this clip.
This is Path to Victory for Trump.
A short clip.
Okay.
So, Peter, back to this question about where the race is overall.
Is there a path to victory for Donald Trump at this point?
No.
No.
Just no.
No.
No.
Well...
You probably saw it.
I think we would do a disservice not to play it in its entirety, three minutes and some change.
Michael Moore, who I'm no big fan of, and I believe this is for, or it is either from or for his latest documentary.
It's really from it.
Where he explains exactly why Trump is going to win, according to him.
Have you seen this video from him?
Actually, no.
Oh, you'll enjoy it.
This is really good.
I cut out most of the pauses to tighten up, but not all of them for, you know, I don't want to mess up the drama of his read here.
Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club.
I just want to say, he's on a stage and it looks like a set, like a theater set with a desk and, you know, kind of a messy desk.
And there's a lot of people in the audience.
And stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said, if you close these factories as you're planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody's going to buy them.
It was an amazing thing to see.
No politician, Republican or Democrat, Had ever said anything like that to these executives.
And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Brexit states.
You live here in Ohio, you know what I'm talking about.
Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who are hurting.
And it's why every beaten down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump.
He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for.
The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them.
And on November 8th, Election Day, although they've lost their jobs, Although they've been foreclosed on by the bank.
Next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone.
The car's been repoed.
They haven't had a real vacation in years.
They're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you can't even get a fucking Percocet.
They've essentially lost everything they had.
Except one thing.
The one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution, the right to vote.
They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be fucked over and fucked up, it doesn't matter.
Because it's equalized on that day.
A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job.
One.
And there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.
So on November 8th, The dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touch screen and put a big fucking X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives.
Donald J. Trump.
They see that the elites who ruined their lives hate Trump.
Corporate America hates Trump.
Wall Street hates Trump.
The career politicians hate Trump.
The media hates Trump.
After they loved him, and created him, and now hate him.
Thank you media.
The enemy of my enemy is who I'm voting for on November 8th.
Yes, on November 8th, you, Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy Bob Blow, all the blows, Get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right.
Trump's election is going to be the biggest fuck you ever recorded in human history.
And it will feel good.
Please clap.
Thanks, Obama.
There you go.
He didn't say that at the end.
I put that in there.
You think?
Yeah.
Thanks, Obama.
Yeah.
Hey, but damn.
What's his point?
Well, I don't know.
You know, the other thing is, it's interesting to listen to democracy now.
Democracy now will play a bunch of Trump stuff that is Trump is going to end this and he won't let this go on.
Trump is going to do this, all these bad, you know, these things that Trump's going to fix, which is all the stuff that progressives want fixed, all the stuff that Bernie would be going for.
And then they go and within two stories, they're slamming him again as though they're like robots that have been rebooted to go after Trump for one reason or another.
And this is a good example.
This is right after a bunch of praise of Trump's.
This is another woman, prawn star, comes forward.
And this story, I clipped it because this is another woman, the 11th, 12th, I don't know what she is, that the story has, it's questionable to me.
In election news, Donald Trump arrived in Florida Sunday for a three-day trip.
Trump likely needs to win Florida's 29 electoral college votes in order to have any hope of winning the White House.
At a rally in Naples, Trump blasted polls showing he's doing poorly among women voters.
I really think those polls are very inaccurate when it comes to women.
I think we're doing better with women than with men, frankly.
So we're setting records with men.
But I want to set records with women, to me.
And I hate to tell the men this, but if I could swap, I'd swap you out so fast.
Trump's comments came after another woman came forward Saturday accusing Trump of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Adult film star Jessica Drake says Trump grabbed her in a hug and kissed her without permission and later offered her $10,000 in use of his private jet if she would join Trump for dinner in his suite.
Drake is the 11th woman to accuse Trump of unwanted sexual advances since an Access Hollywood tape surfaced showing Trump boasting of sexually assaulting women.
I'm surprised they didn't pick up the Finnish story.
Where is this the Finnish story?
I don't know.
Is it the Finnish story?
Yeah, there's a Finnish...
I don't know if she was a porn star, but no.
Yeah, some Finnish girl is now saying he was aggressive towards her.
Huh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you said the story was fishy.
Yeah.
Porn star.
I do see.
Yeah.
You had me at porn star.
Porn star would do anything for money, so they would do this.
You had me at porn star.
Let's face reality.
And so she could have been paid off to do this.
I don't know who she is.
And then, like, the famous porn star.
I don't know who Drake is.
And then it just seems unlikely.
You know, I've been...
I didn't go to a lot, but I went enough times to film some stuff and do some things at the porn convention.
Yeah, because it always fell at the same time as NAD. It used to be on the same time as Comdex.
Comdex, yeah.
It moved them apart further, and then they first started by moving it the day after Comdex, and you had to spend an extra day there.
It was the Adult Video Awards, I believe.
It was the adult video conference.
There was awards attributed with it, but it wasn't the video awards.
It was a conference.
The AVN, I think, is different.
Because that's run by one guy.
Whatever the case was, everybody was there.
So I got to meet a bunch of these girls.
I'll bet you did.
Hey, girls!
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Most of them are very nice people.
But they're not so uptight as this girl sounded here that they would even give a shit, to use the word, about him coming up to him and slapping him in the butt or doing whatever he did.
It seems to me.
Unless they're doing lesbian porn or something.
I mean, those girls seem a little bit off-kilter.
But the rest of them, it just doesn't sound right.
It seems like you're clutching for straws.
Would you like to be able to use my jet and here's 10 grand?
No.
It just doesn't.
I mean, I'd be like, yeah.
What do you want me to do, Donald?
I'll take your 10 grand.
A lot of women.
A lot of women in these conversations.
A lot of women everywhere, really.
And I loved watching this little exchange about voter fraud.
And this was again with Carol CNN, the morning girl.
And with Sally Cohn.
I like her.
We all know who Sally Cohn is.
If you don't, you need to look her up.
K-O-H-N. A huge Hillary bot.
And this woman, I think this is the one, she's a wacky lady.
I don't remember her name, but I guess they let her on because she's completely wacky.
The way she talks, she's a Trump supporter.
She has no other title.
Trump supporter.
They should say Trump operative, but they didn't quite go that far.
And she's talking about all of the potential voter fraud, about the Pew studies, about the Project Veritas, and she's just a steamroller.
And Carol and Sally Cohn has a freakout on this.
It's just so beautiful to listen to.
This nation has been victimized by rampant election fraud.
And there's so much evidence of it this year.
Don't say it's not true.
I'd like to cite the evidence.
We have cited the evidence so many times on CNN. This is irresponsible and dangerous and reckless.
There are facts and there are untruths.
The Pew Foundation says one out of every eight voter registrations is either a dead person, a duplicate, or an illegal voter.
The Secretary of State Who manages the elections in the state of Ohio.
A Republican.
A Republican.
Who's going to vote for Mr.
Trump, by the way.
Strongly saying that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud in the state of Ohio or the nation.
So let's just dispense with that.
Wait a second.
The New York City Election Commissioner, Al Shulkin, said the other day, there is rampant fraud in New York.
And then Mayor de Blasio said, shut up, kid.
Shut up.
The incumbents always protect the system, no matter how corrupt it is.
The cooperative congressional research report cited by the Washington Post points out that somewhere between 2% and 5% of illegal voters vote.
Stop, stop, stop, or I'm going to have to cut this interview short.
You don't want people to hear the evidence?
I have presented the evidence to my viewers, and my viewers trust me to tell them the truth.
We've cited studies.
I've talked to secretaries of state who are Republicans.
I've talked to many Republican officials who say there's not white people.
Wait for Sally!
I'm part of the system.
Okay, you know what?
I'm sorry.
But listen, this isn't okay anymore.
I'm with the nasty woman in the pantsuit.
This is horrible.
I just love this.
This isn't okay.
This is horrible.
Horrible.
Horrible.
I'm with the nasty woman in the pantsuit.
This is horrible.
Who's the nasty woman in the pantsuit?
That's Hillary.
Oh, jeez.
Wait, wait, wait.
It's not done yet.
Oh, I thought you were true.
Oh, no.
I'm with the nasty woman in the pantsuit.
This is horrible.
You are threatening the integrity of our democratic process.
No, I wanted to be honest.
No, excuse me.
You are.
You are threatening, by the way, what makes this country great?
We are not a country that transitions power through violence and threats.
That's right.
I understand the value of a Peaceful transition of power from one party to the next.
But I don't understand why the Democratic Party repeatedly insists on defending fraudulent voter rolls.
Because it's not happening!
Ah, there it is!
She cried.
You gotta ISO that.
I should, you're right.
Let's do it.
ISO it.
Okay, hold on a second.
That was such a beauty.
I'm gonna play it again.
You're a credit party.
You repeatedly insist on defending fraudulent voter rules.
Because it's not happening!
You're right.
I should have already done that as an ISO. Hold on a second.
Let's do it now.
Defending fraudulent voter rules.
Because it's not happening!
What a maniac.
Let me just save this whole...
The clip was not as good as it should have been because the differentiation between the voices had some issues.
I don't like men and women and women.
I couldn't tell who was...
That's why I was confused about the nasty woman in the pants.
That's just because of the women.
Just too many women.
Too many women.
Okay, then I understand.
Oh, hold on!
My phone, my phone.
That's right, everybody.
A little bit of tech news just in.
We have our producers sitting in the Apple campus watching the reveal of the new Apple MacBook.
Here it is, direct from the Apple campus where they were all watching.
Here we go.
It's super thin.
It's space gray.
It has a giant trackpad.
And here's the kicker.
When it was announced that they have the newfangled touch bar, the Apple employees did not clap.
They snapped their fingers.
Can you believe that?
What?
Yes.
What are they?
1953 beatniks?
That's exactly what I... Hey, man.
Cool.
That's exactly what my source told me.
Hey, man.
Like a bunch...
Yeah, you got some reefer.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'll read the message to you.
OMG, the people I'm around just snapped instead of clapping when they released the touch bar.
It's like they're at a poetry slam.
Oh, God.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is your tech news.
My phone, my phone.
Space Gray.
Yeah.
Back to the rigged election.
There is one Democracy Now!
clip on this.
It's the contentious results.
I thought this was kind of interesting.
I didn't know this.
Meanwhile, a new Reuters poll shows that half of Republican voters would reject the results of the presidential election if Hillary Clinton wins.
The poll came after the final presidential debate where Donald Trump refused to say if he'll accept the election results.
Wow!
So Trump was thinking like the majority, I guess.
I was kind of surprised by that.
What was that poll?
Who came up with that poll?
Reuters.
Really?
Yeah.
Holy moly.
Huh.
Two things kind of ancillary to it.
The first is Kellyanne Conway was on Brolf's show.
And Brolf is...
I mean, he is either setting...
I'm sorry?
I saw this, yeah.
He's a dick.
Well, correct.
And I have to say this, Kellyanne Conway, which I follow in the late 90s when she was young and she was, I think, the model for Ann Coulter and everybody in between.
She was the fast-talking, pretty blonde that would promote the conservative line better than anybody else.
And so I watched her, and she turned, over time, because she has a business to run, she's turned into probably the most pleasant person imaginable, who's very hard to get mad at.
Oh, I agree.
She's done a good job.
And Brolf is, to me, it felt like he was setting something up.
If we're talking about the same thing at the end of this long interview, which I don't care about at all, but I cared a lot about what he was trying to set up.
I don't know why he was so overly protective of his young journalists.
We have to protect our young journalists.
They are the future.
The future of CNN. Are you comfortable with the attacks he's launched against the news media?
You've worked with the news media for a long time.
Low lifes and uses all sorts of other ugly words.
Are you comfortable with that?
So I usually avoid personal insults myself.
I don't call people out by name.
I think we're all very disappointed and very concerned.
I'm kind of shocked to read some of the things we read from working journalists either giving untold amounts of money to Hillary Clinton's campaign or, I think worse, specific journalists, Wolf.
Who are inviting John Podesta, the campaign chairman, to change words or passages or paragraphs or quotes in a written piece.
I mean, that's not journalism.
That's advocacy.
And frankly, that's collusion.
So if there's any spectrum between coziness to collaboration to collusion, any of that would bother us.
I think if you're Donald Trump, you realize that whether it's Jim Rutenberg's article in the New York Times a couple months ago or other articles since, many journalists have admitted that Donald Trump's Compels them to suspend objective standards of journalism.
I think America deserves...
You know what worries me, and I'm not objective on this, because I'm on the steering committee, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and I really believe in a free press, and I'm sure you do as well.
The working journal, the embeds, who are traveling with them all the time, they go to all these rallies, they're in this pen, he points to them, he sort of eggs the crowd on to go after them.
These...
And there are a lot of young journalists.
They're scared sometimes.
I know them all.
I respect them all.
He shouldn't be doing that.
I mean, could you talk to him and say to him, Mr.
Trump, we only have a few days left.
These are hardworking young journalists.
They deserve to have some security, if you will, because some of those Trump supporters out there, they get pretty nasty in what they're screaming at these young people.
Look, your first point, yes, I will tell him that.
Second, big mistake from Brolf to give her this opening, by the way, because here's where she gets to slip in the...
Here's where she gets to slip in the Project Veritas.
And he's probably watching right now.
But secondly, the only violence I saw at rallies so far was what we saw on videotape by somebody whose cohorts were in the White House 346 times, actively paying people $1,500 a pop to be protesters to incite violence at Trump rallies.
That's being done by Democratic operatives.
She used the operatives word, John.
Good.
Yeah, she used the opera's word.
And here is Brolf with the big setup.
I think it goes all the way up the chain through the DNC and related groups and through Hillary Clinton's campaign.
That's all I saw.
But I would tell you, I'll make a deal with those embeds because I know a lot of them.
They're young.
They're 20s and they're 30s.
They're young journalists.
I'll excuse some of their tweets, but their Twitter feed.
For some of them, the Twitter feed is almost, we've done an analysis, 85-90% negative towards Donald Trump.
You didn't hear anything good to say.
There's nothing good to report that day that you would actually put on your Twitter feed.
So I think the responsibility has to go both ways.
But you're right.
I am open press.
I believe in a free press.
I believe in an honest press.
He can criticize the press, but he doesn't have to say.
I'm hoping he's watching us right now, and I hope, at least in these final days, he doesn't continue to point out, as he often does at these rallies, look at them, they're disgusting, because, you know, God forbid, there could be an ugly incident, and it worries me every time I hear that, and I hear these stories from these journalists who are often very scared.
I appreciate you saying that, and it will be conveyed.
They're very scared.
They need to be fair.
Very scared.
It sounds like a setup to me.
Sounds like bullcrap.
Eh, it was set up.
We already had that one munchkin woman.
What's her name?
From Breitbart.
Oh, he pulled me in the arm.
Oh, my arm!
He broke my arm!
Look, there's a smudge!
Yeah, whatever happened to them?
Hey, I was thinking about...
I just want to say a couple things.
One of the things is that talking about the violent left, like they had recently a bunch of Hillary operatives in Hollywood had...
Gone after, supposedly looking like workers.
They went all the way to get dressed up with the right uniform, and then they dug up the Donald Trump star and ruined it.
It was on Hollywood Boulevard.
Oh, really?
Yeah, so that's been destroyed.
They're bullies.
Nobody's reported this.
And then local reporting in Hollister talks about this one guy who has a Donald Trump sign in his front yard, and it's been stolen.
They busted up his car.
As windows broken, it was a major story locally there.
But this goes on everywhere.
That's why you don't see too many Trump signs anywhere.
And I think this is one of the things you're going to see if Trump does win, like the professor thinks, or Michael Moore.
This is going to be the excuse of the pollsters.
Well, you know, nobody would tell us the truth.
And I think there's some element of truth to that.
Are you going to vote for Trump?
No.
I agree.
You're afraid of retributions.
The retribution level, I would challenge anybody to put up for Trump, even if you're for Trump.
Well, let me give you a real world example.
On the face bag, there is a private group called, I used to work at MTV when it was cool.
Are you a member?
I'm a member.
I remember.
And it's usually, you know, people are like, hey, look at this t-shirt I got from 1985.
Hey, look at this, I got an MTV Video Music Awards lunchbox.
That's a lot of it.
That and, eh, too bad he died.
A lot of dying obituaries in that group.
He died.
Some time ago.
Yeah.
Well, no, lots of people have died in the group.
It's not a good group to be in.
And so then someone posts, hey, anyone here gonna vote for Trump?
And there's like a hundred, no, no, no, never, not a single one, of course.
And I'm sitting there, and I'm thinking like, ooh, what am I going to post?
And then I decided, why don't I just post that MTV blooper reel that I've had for 30 years, which I did.
Have you seen it?
No.
I'm not on the face bags.
I put it on the tweeters, too.
I'll put it in the show notes.
It's great.
But yeah, it just goes to show.
No one's going to say, no one's going to admit anything in a situation like that.
No, it's been considered as a social faux pas to support Trump.
And I also think that was really passive-aggressive for anyone to even post that in a group about MTV. A-hole.
Yeah, I agree.
There's been a lot of these, you know, you have a sign, you don't see any bumper stickers, it's just not going to happen.
No, it gets defaced.
They're going to get defaced, a car's going to get scratched up, who knows?
I mean, this Clinton side is a violent group of people.
Now, for the people who are advanced, I would include the no agenda producing audience among those.
The WikiLeaks have showed some very interesting connections.
And a question came up in the State Department with Kirby.
I'm really only going to play the question because he spent seven minutes not being able to answer it.
But this is the connections between Podesta, the Saudis slash Qataris, And lobbying groups and family connections, and it is quite interesting.
In 2012, Secretary Clinton's final year as Secretary of State, federal lobbying records show that a leading defense contractor hired a trio of lobbyists to lobby the Department of State for a larger share of foreign military sales contracts by which, as you know, advanced weapons systems are shared with other countries.
The federal lobbying records show that all three of those lobbyists were large donors or bundlers for Hillary Clinton in both her 2008 and 2016 campaigns.
Among those lobbyists was Heather Podesta, whose brother-in-law that year was John Podesta, who that year was serving as a counselor at the Department of State for approximately $130,000 a year, and also a member of of a policy advisory board that Secretary Clinton created.
As it happened, the gambit appeared to have worked because that defense contractor's share of foreign military sales contracts surged in 2012, with three contracts alone for provision of advanced systems to Qatar totaling for that firm some $19 billion in contracts.
Even if no laws were broken, it would seem a fairly cozy situation, would it not?
Well, thanks, James.
What I would tell you is that...
You don't have to hear his answer.
No, there's no answer.
How about that?
This is Jim.
$19 billion to his sister-in-law!
Woohoo!
I mean, not all that money, of course, but that was the lobby.
No, but there's a piece of the action.
There's all kinds of backroom deals, too.
I'm sure there was stuff besides the salary.
There's probably money under the table.
I mean, who knows?
These guys are pros at this.
And this will go unreported.
Why bother?
It might hurt Hillary's campaign, so let's don't talk about it.
I mean, there's a lot of this stuff going on.
A lot of good questions being asked, but really no answers.
Just zero.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
None of it.
I was thinking about Al Gore.
Why?
Well, because Hillary was in Florida again.
This is the big battleground state.
And Gore wasn't with her this time.
He was with her last time.
Which I already thought was strange.
Here's a thought that occurred to me.
They hate each other.
This is pretty well documented, I think.
They do not like each other.
And I believe Gore did not endorse Hillary this year.
I don't think he endorsed her in 2008 either.
And this is coming from some of the WikiLeaks.
You can see that there's animosity.
I think it's Cheryl Mills who says, yeah, we already knew.
He gave us a heads up he wasn't going to endorse her.
There's no big surprise.
So why was he on stage with her?
Well, I know why.
If she becomes president, I guarantee you, Al Gore, ambassador to the UN. Oh, it could be.
Exactly where he wants to be.
Climate change.
Scam!
Just keep scamming!
Scamming!
Yeah.
You can just keep scamming from the inside out.
That's fantastic.
Fantastic.
Do you have a climate change clip for today?
I don't, actually.
I don't have any.
I know there was one.
I don't know if I got it or not.
No, irony of the day.
I don't see anything.
I don't see anything either.
Oh yeah, this is it.
CO2. Now this is another example.
Let's take it to the gate.
Let's take it to the gate.
Gotta take it to the gate, boss.
I should have put this in with my little propaganda breakdown earlier in the show because this is another example.
This is an example.
We've pointed this out.
I think it's written about in the newsletters where you state something that has nothing to do with the topic.
And it's misleading.
There's a bunch of problems.
And you have to visualize this particular report.
This is Judy Woodruff.
And as she makes her point at the end of this, this is like a two-sentence thing.
She lunges forward, eyes kind of like bug-eyed, as though this is incredibly important to know.
There is word that greenhouse gases passed a grim milestone in 2015.
The UN's weather organization says carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million last year for the first time on record.
The agency says that is 44 percent more CO2 than before the industrial revolution.
Its lifetime is very long and And there have been some scientific studies estimating that the return back to pre-industrial levels may take tens of thousands of years.
Oh, boy.
We're all going to die.
Tens of thousands of years, yeah.
We are going to die, man.
So she...
Here's the claim.
It's now higher than the pre-industrial revolution era.
Duh!
Duh, all we had then was cow and human farts.
Besides the population being so drastically different, I mean, it's tripled since then, but what is this point of comparison?
It's just beyond me.
Why would you emphasize we're at 400 parts per million?
Did you know this is worse?
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey, hey, John!
The science is in!
Science!
It just baffled me how they could make this emphasis on something that's irrelevant and probably wrong.
It doesn't baffle me.
Well, it does.
It baffles me because you'd think somebody in the studio would say, hey, this comparison is stupid.
Why are we doing it?
Because it says right here on this piece of paper that I'm going to read from.
Science!
Science!
Shut up already.
That is a weak example.
I don't know why you're pushing back on all this.
Hey, clapper.
Clippity cloppity clapper.
Was at CFR, Council on Foreign Relations, the drinking club.
He went to, you know, went to do some clapping at the drinking hole with his buddy Charlie Rose, also member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
And I thought this was very interesting.
I think this is, I don't understand.
Again, there's so many things.
I do not understand who is working the Trump campaign if they want to be competitive.
I would be, I would make a commercial out of this, actually.
What is one of Hillary's solutions for ISIS? No fly zone.
No fly zone.
Oh, I have a clip from this too.
We probably have the same clip.
I was just like, what?
When I heard this.
Did you go self?
What?
I did.
Did you exclaim it out loud?
I did.
So that is her solution, is a no-fly zone.
We have the white helmets being paid by the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID, who are promoting the same concept.
And of course, they're heroes.
They almost got the Nobel Prize, which will be a first for paid shills.
And so they are the propaganda arm, boots on the ground, also want a no-fly zone.
Here's what the director of national intelligence said.
Now, mind you, he's lied in Congress, so he could be lying now.
We don't know anymore.
But this was his opinion about a no-fly zone.
What's your assessment of how Russia will react if the U.S. imposes a no-fly zone or a safe zone in parts of Syria?
This was a question from the audience.
Well, uh...
I don't know.
Again, I'm not a mind reader, but I do take seriously the very sophisticated air defense system and the air defense coverage that the Russians have.
And I think I wouldn't put it past them to...
Shoot down an American aircraft.
They felt that was threatening to their forces on the ground.
So I take stock in the nature of the weaponry that they deploy and why they did that.
Yo!
Yeah, they'll shoot us out of the sky.
Why they did that?
What is he talking about?
Something in the present tense?
Or in the past tense that it was done already?
Oh, I missed it.
Let me roll it back.
At the very end, why did they do that?
Let me listen.
Let me listen.
Threatening to their forces on the ground.
So I take stock in the nature of the weaponry that they deploy and why they...
Oh, listen to the whole ending.
I know what you're talking about.
Here, he'll explain in the full ending.
And why they did that.
The system they have there is a very advanced air defense system.
It's very capable.
And I don't think they do it, deploy it, unless they have some intent to use it.
There you go.
They have intent to use it.
Uh-huh.
Sure they do.
So I would say, hey, if this is really her policy, that's a non-starter, because we're going to get into a war with Russia.
Which is the intent?
Which is, my clip's a little different because I think this involves an analysis, not just Clapper, I'm not sure, but played NATO troop buildup in odd speculation.
Ah, yes.
NATO is seeking to station more troops in Eastern Europe, and what Reuters reports could be the biggest military buildup on Russia's borders since the Cold War.
As part of a U.S.-backed plan, NATO is planning to send battle groups to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, with forces ranging from armored infantry to drones.
This comes as tension mounts between Russia and the United States over the crisis in Syria.
On Tuesday, U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper said he fears Russia could shoot down a U.S. aircraft if a no-fly zone were imposed over Syria.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump warned in an interview Tuesday Hillary Clinton's policy on Syria could lead to World War III. Yeah, it could.
But who cares?
So we have troops now in Norway?
We're putting them everywhere.
It's ridiculous.
Hello, Norway!
And by the way, I think what's overlooked in this is the great way that they...
Switch the narrative from defense to offense.
I've been pointing the finger at Russia for this.
The narrative, if you remember when they first started talking about the no-fly zone, was, well, what's going to happen is that the Russians aren't going to pay any attention to this, and we're going to shoot down a Russian jet.
And now it's changed.
The Russians will shoot us down.
It's changed to Russia, those bastards.
Russia's going to shoot us down.
I mean, right now...
It's unbelievable.
I thought that was one of the smoothest moves.
Nobody's noticed it.
I agree.
The Russians are going to kill us.
In fact, I had to go back and listen to the clip three times because I'm like, wait a minute, it's talking about a Russian no-fly zone?
No.
The question was clearly a U.S. no-fly zone.
It was smooth, although it didn't sound like Clapper ever thought about it.
I've never heard him say, we're going to shoot a Russian down.
I've never heard him say that, so maybe this has been his thinking all along.
But it's definitely a change, as we hear from Judy there.
Totally.
One more thing.
Because it leads to some interesting things going on in the world.
We have the big air show China 2016 coming up.
Okay, before you go there, I've got to clip this part of what we were talking about.
And I want to just play and get it out of the way.
This clip is called Update Syria.
This was on PBS. It was about the same topic where we're trying to get everybody all jacked up against the Russians so we can put up the no-fly zone and do the rest of it.
Now, I have to kind of describe what this clip shows, and I shortened it on purpose because it was a long clip.
It had some screwy logo in the upper left-hand corner, one of those glass logos, That was in Arabic, and it wasn't Al Jazeera.
It wasn't that other operation that's a news source.
It looked like—I don't know who it looked like.
These clips that they pieced together were bullcrap.
They were all war crimes.
They were all attributed to the Russians— And they were done on the news hour with a...
I can't remember that woman's name.
It used to be one of the sit-downs, and now she's out in the field.
I was actually jaw-dropped by this particular assertion that they made.
He then traveled to the regional headquarters of the Free Syrian Army, made up of self-declared moderate rebels.
Its commander, Colonel Abdul-Jabbar Akhidi, told us bluntly how desperately they needed weapons from the United States.
The Syrian people will not forget any country that provides them with support and will not forgive any country that helps the Assad regime.
But in the four years since then, none of Hawa's hopes but all of his fears have been realized.
Haritan has been repeatedly pounded by bombing from Russian and Syrian jets, dropping not only explosive-packed barrel bombs, but cluster bombs and the fearsome incendiary white phosphorus.
Ah, okay.
So they show just a bunch of explosions.
Now, I don't know any jets that can be outfitted with barrel bombs.
And why would you do that when you can have real bombs?
She actually said jets are dropping barrel bombs?
Yes!
Idiot.
No.
No.
So she says, yes, no.
Yes.
So she says that.
Play the little part again where she says Russian and Syrian jets are dropping a barrel bomb.
The Syrian people will not forget any country that provides them with support and will not forgive any country that helps the Assad regime.
But in the four years since then, none of Hawa's hopes but all of his fears have been realized.
Haritan has been repeatedly pounded by bombing from Russian and Syrian jets, dropping not only explosive-packed barrel bombs, but cluster bombs and the fearsome incendiary white phosphorus.
Now, there's no way you can't do that.
It's not possible.
That's not possible.
The second two items, though, are possible, but they're not being done, and we've never heard this.
Cluster bombs are illegal by any stretch of the imagination.
We are the country that uses cluster bombs, the USA, and they showed a cluster bomb going off somewhere.
God knows where it was.
It looked like B-roll to me.
And then they blamed on the Russians, so they're now using cluster bombs instead of – they're targeted.
The Russians claim that they're accurate.
They're not dropping cluster bombs.
They're doing accurate, these little guided bombs.
And then they show a sky full of – it's just a huge sky full of – it looks like fireworks dropping down.
Phosphorus.
Claiming it's white phosphorus and then catching a big city on fire.
This is like against the Geneva Convention.
You can't use white phosphorus.
And we've heard zero reports when there's plenty of opportunities to give us reports.
And you think the State Department would say something.
We've heard nothing about white phosphorus, but yet PBS is reporting this as though it's fact.
Let me listen to the beginning of that report again for a second.
He then traveled to the regional headquarters of the Free Syrian Army, made up of self-declared moderate rebels.
Its commander, Colonel Abdul-Jabbar Akhidi, told us bluntly how desperately they needed weapons from the United States.
See, this is all about desperately needing weapons.
It's probably just another sales call, if you think about it.
Hey, they're dropping phosphorus and barrel bombs out of jets, and we need weapons.
And this leads me to my story, November 1st through November 6th in Zuhai?
Z-H-U-H-A-I? Zuhai?
China?
Zuhai?
Do you know?
Z? Z-H-U-H-A-I. Zuhai!
It's probably pronounced some way other than that.
Anyway, we have the big Airshow China 2016.
Number one exhibitor.
Russia.
200 different pieces of military hardware featuring military and civil aircraft, spacecraft, space equipment, aviation equipment, armament, aircraft with rocket engines, armament, military hardware for airborne troops, fire control systems, air defense complexes, radar stations, navigation equipment.
This is an arms race more than anything.
Who's going to make the most money off of rebelizing the Middle East the way I see it?
Well, the Middle Easterners are not appreciating this.
No.
It's like, hey, let's do this.
Let's show how good our weaponry is by blowing up these people we don't care about.
And, you know, and obviously we're not blowing up Qatar.
They, you know, they're helping, you know, they're going to probably get a piece of the action as a middleman or Bahrain is okay and Dubai is okay.
But all these sand monkeys in the middle of nowhere.
Did you really say sand monkeys?
Yeah, sand monkeys.
That's what I'm telling you.
I'm like a salesman for the arms industry, and this is the way I think.
So let's just blow these guys up.
Yemen's a good opportunity.
Nobody's paying attention to that.
We can do some exhibits there, because these stupid Houthis took over, and who cares about them?
Or the people, or the poor kids, and all the families of Yemen.
Let's just bomb them.
And show how good this equipment works, and then we can use it as a sales pitch.
And I think there's more coming on the horizon.
There's a whole new category of armament, which is probably already on the assembly line ready to roll out, because ISIS and ISIL, now John, making use of drones.
Okay.
This is the U.S. commander in Iraq.
I think I heard your question fairly clearly.
It was about ISIL's use of drones or remotely piloted vehicles or unmanned aerial systems.
We'll call them drones for short.
Yeah, just little toy drones, really.
So the ISIL makes extensive use of drones.
It's not...
Hey, did you notice that he says the ISIL? Instead of ISIL, he says the ISIL. The back of it, I didn't hear that.
So the ISIL makes extensive use of drugs.
That's new.
That's new.
That's good.
We're going to use it.
The ISIL. Just like the Googles.
The ISILs.
It's not episodic or sporadic.
It's relatively constant and creative.
And so we've seen them use them mostly for reconnaissance and surveillance.
The same way we use them.
For little dipshit drones.
Oh, you think, huh?
We have detected them using them for fire direction in the past.
By that I mean to control and adjust the indirect fires that they're shooting at the...
The guys in the back of the Toyota?
Yes.
Yeah, no, I can see that working.
You send the little drone up with the camera, you can get some coordinates, and you can send in your rockets, you set the coordinates.
You take a pot shot, you see where it lands, and then you adjust.
Yeah, it's called painting the target.
Exactly.
Control and adjust the indirect fires that they're shooting at our partner forces.
It gets better.
More recently, they've gotten a bit more creative, and they have dropped small explosive devices into our partner force positions.
It gets better.
Those fortunately haven't had great effect.
Recently we saw an example of a Trojan horse, we think, UAV or drone, where it was landed in our partner forces' lines.
They thought they had good fortune.
They had captured and Enemy drone.
And when they went to collect it and bring it into their lines for examination, it exploded.
Our government is working really hard to come up with solutions.
So we have solutions ranging from electronic attack, like you suggested, to kinetic kills with small arms fire.
Okay, so they're now using the drones...
Wait.
The word is they use for a guy with a rifle and a scope or maybe a pistol.
They call it a kinetic kill.
I call it sport.
Kinetic kill with small arms fire.
Kinetic kill means a bullet.
It's kinetic energy.
Accumulated kinetic energy from a bullet hits a thing and it blows it out of the sky.
Why are they using these idiotic terms?
To make it sound important.
Unbelievable.
Kinetic kill.
So, a couple of things can happen.
First of all, we're going to have to outlaw drones in America.
You can't have your drone if we have the Trojan horse drone.
You could land and all the kids go over.
Oh, look at the cute little drone.
Fantastic.
Yeah, you watch.
There's going to be a whole...
We'll wait until Airshow China.
I'll bet you there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff.
The problem with this drone story, which brings me to another clip...
I think they're setting us up, even though...
This is a clip from NCIS New Orleans.
This clip is called CIA NCIS. This was about a...
There's some guy they're trying to capture in the United States, and there's this swarm, swarm of drones that nobody knows where they came from or who's flying them, trying to track some guy down so they can...
Kill him.
Swarm of drones.
A swarm of drones.
And so they finally, the NCIS guys, who are much smarter than everybody else, because they know the bayou, And so they're driving around the byway, and they're in one of those boats with a big propeller in the back, and there's some beautiful shots, I have to say, of the sink flying.
And they finally got the guy.
The bad guys caught the guy, and they're dragging him out, but they surrounded him, and they shot it out, and all the bad guys were killed.
The guy they wanted was there.
Next thing you know, they find where the drones are coming from, and this is kind of what proceeds.
Getting signals when nobody's home?
Still hot.
Someone was.
C.I.A. C.I.A. What the hell?
Is it their drones?
Any idea what they're looking for?
Yeah!
Emily don't scream not if you understand NCIS, don't move.
Wait, the Everglades air guy?
Last I heard, it's illegal for CIA to operate on domestic soil, Mr.
Jenkins.
You need to let her go and then put your hands in the air now.
Come on.
Okay.
So there's some CIA guy operating on domestic soil.
Yes.
And it's like the mixed messages of this show because this show always exalts this CIS crowd and Navy in particular.
And...
They're always butting heads with the CIA, which seems to always be in all these shows.
The CIA is always roaming around doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
And the second thing is, I thought it was a kind of a setup, which is these drones.
These drones are around, and what are we going to do?
I think what your clip led into was the thinking that, yes, let's get used to drones flying around by law enforcement.
I'm not absolutely sure.
Like I said, it's mixed messaging, and I'm not...
I'm cognizant of what the overall, what the end game is, but it's got something to do with drones.
Yeah, sounds right to me.
Let me play a little TV clip, although much, much older in nature.
I was looking based on something I thought which turned out to be incorrect.
You know, with the United Nations apparently licensing Wonder Woman to be the future of all things groovy.
I thought it was her who was...
Who had to worship the goddess.
And it turns out it wasn't her.
It is from a different 70s TV show called The Secrets of Isis.
And I just thought it would be funny to play the opening from that TV show.
And maybe someone can use that in some mix somewhere.
Oh, my queen, said the royal sorcerer to Hatshepsut, with this amulet, you and your descendants are endowed by the goddess Isis.
With the powers of the animals and the elements, you will soar as the falcon soars, run with the speed of gazelles, and command the elements of sky and earth.
3,000 years later, a young science teacher dug up this lost treasure and found she was heir to The Secrets of ISIS. And so, unknown to even her closest friends, Rick Mason and Cindy Lee, she became a dual person.
Andrea Thomas, teacher.
Oh, mighty ISIS.
And ISIS, dedicated foe of evil, defender of the weak, champion of truth and justice.
Now, that's how the news should start off with their ISIS report.
Well, they should change it to Hillary.
No, just keep it ISIS. I like ISIS. Well, ISIS is a mix of messages now.
You can't use ISIS anymore.
Now, I was just hoping, I thought for a moment, was it Wonder Woman who said that by the power of ISIS? Because that would have been genius, but it wasn't, sadly.
I just liked it so much.
I'm like, holy crap.
Do you remember that show?
I remember that show.
The ISIS show?
Yeah.
No.
I don't remember it at all.
I remember the original Wonder Woman with Linda, whatever her name is.
Yeah, Linda Carter.
Linda Carter.
Yeah, this is a gem.
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.
In the morning.
Well, we do have some people to thank, obviously, for our anniversary show 872.
And let's start with Keith Warford in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who seems to have kept himself out of the, I don't know, maybe we should throw in the penny.
Oh, I think so.
I think so.
I think so.
Let's bump him up to $200.
And there's another one, Thomas Hitler.
Hitler.
He must give him grief.
And we'll push him.
We'll take the $199.99 because it has the symbolism, but we'll give you the associate executive producers.
We don't have any.
Yeah, I agree.
That's a good gesture, both of them $199.99.
Right.
So starting with Keith, thanks to a dude named Ben in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
No, a dude named Ben in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
I hit him in the mouth over a year ago.
Yeah, that's our dude named Ben.
He's also a producer.
He floats around.
Yeah.
Especially insightful during the campaign and helping keeping some sanity.
Here's to another 900 shows.
He would like a no, no, no, no Obama, bing, bong, boom, bing, bong Trump and a Jeb please clap.
Okay, so I wasn't quite ready for that because obviously I didn't know we're going to do this, but I can do it.
Hold on.
I just need the please clap and he needs karma as well, I presume.
Unfortunately, my payroll history doesn't go back that far, so I cannot be certain.
I think you're probably over.
Keep up the good work, and thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your courage, sir.
And I look forward to your knighting in a bit.
Onward.
We have Douglas Garcia in Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
He needs a de-douching.
We can do that.
Yeah, he started listening in August.
He says, welcome, citizen.
You've been de-douched.
Nice.
Good to have you on board.
Thank you.
And Baronet Donald Borowski in the Federation, Spokane Valley, Washington, came in with a note.
Hold on.
Holding on.
Okay, everybody, the note has to be retrieved.
Hold on, everybody.
Stand by.
John's going to get the note.
Camera three.
Okay, let's get a top shot here.
It's looking to see him rummaging through the pile.
Yeah, top of my head.
Okay.
Back to one and go.
Do two, John.
All right, so he always sends a note in, an official note in for the United Federation of Planets in the correct letterhead.
Monsieur Zakarian Dvorak, I am overwhelmed with political fatigue caused by the mainstream media.
I get welcome relief from No Agenda.
The discussions of the presidential campaign are refreshing.
Signed, Baronet Donald of the Fire Bottles.
Yo, yo.
W-A-6-O-M-I. Dash M3's Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
Alexander Bortok, $111.11.
Bradley Selsor, $109.99.
That was a creative way to go.
We have a birthday for her.
It looks like that's not on the list.
Let's see.
Bradley Selsor.
No, we don't.
Let me see.
Bradley Selsor.
Okay, her birthday's today, and her name's Karen.
And how old is she?
Hi, Karen.
Doesn't want to say.
Okay, good man.
She's 21.
Yeah.
Chris Hanton in Cortland, Ohio, $102.80 a birthday involved there.
Andrew Blowers in Parts Unknown, $102.70.
Laura, wow.
Ziazio.
It sounds more like some sort of an Eastern name.
Well, yeah.
Spelled D-Z-I-A-D-Z-I-O. It's a dynamite name.
I know how to pronounce that name.
That's for her husband, Amit Hajra's birthday.
Tough one.
Actually, do I see this one here?
It's not on.
This is not on either?
No, that's weird.
It's got it in yellow.
It usually doesn't make that mistake.
Oh, I got it.
I'm sorry.
Yes, it's here.
We're good. - Ian Trimble, or as I like to say, Ion, $100.
Jeffrey Preston in Bennington, Nebraska, $100.
Alex Hunsacker.
Now, these are all the 99.99 donations.
We're going to read them in order, name, and location.
Well, I think we first should do the official opening of the Niner Niners.
Nine, nine, nine, nine, nine!
There we go.
Alex Hunsicker, Parts Unknown.
David Rose in Clarkston, Michigan.
Henry Clays in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Lucas Zua in Munich.
You missed David Rosa in Clarkston.
No, I said David Rose in Clarkston, Michigan.
Rosa, yeah.
Rosa.
Henry Clays, I did that too.
Lucas Zua in Munich.
Deutschland, 99.99.
Sir Jim Mann, KF5YAE73s in Ringgold, Louisiana.
Sir Hank Scorpio of the Electric Grid in Gatineau, Quebec.
David Romagosa in Metairie, Louisiana.
Dwayne Biblo in Calgary, Alberta.
Ashik El...
Al Musani in Oman.
Nice.
Nice.
Got a visit.
Yeah, I'd love to go to Oman.
Me too.
Alan Lennon in Washington, D.C. Or Annie.
I don't know why I said Alan.
Annie.
Annie Lennon.
Hey, Annie.
Hey.
You know, there's a huge ratio of women to men there.
Hey, Annie.
I'm not your daddy.
James Smith in Ottawa, Ontario.
Donald Wooten in Lancaster, Ohio.
Melissa Hodges, parts unknown.
Christopher Herring, also in Munchen.
You're on a roll today.
Steve Munchen.
It was all a mess on the screen.
I know, I know, I know.
Stephen Hightower, parts unknown.
Robin Morley in Nottingham.
Great Britain.
I've been to Nottingham.
Gabriel Olinger in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Michael Salvagna, I guess, in Stoofville, Ontario, Canada.
We've got a good worldwide listenership here.
Yes, for sure.
Joost Schipperheim.
How about Joost Schipperheim?
I got that second part, Joost.
Oh, you nailed it.
In Eindhoven.
Yeah, very good.
Sir Brian Barrow in Royal Wooten Basset.
Always there for us.
We're getting a lot of Brits today because Brexit means Brexit.
And that's a joke that people get there.
Brexit means Brexit.
Craig Porter, parts unknown.
Ecuador Eric in Richmond, Virginia.
Matthew Januszewski in parts unknown.
Alexander Mercuriev.
Mercuriev, I would say.
Mercuriev.
Mercuriev.
Also known as Father of the Yale Girl.
Sir Kirk of the Happy Valley in Genosio, New York.
Jason Dawson in Richmond, BC, Canada.
Sir Arthur Gobitz in Zandam.
He has a Confucius say for you.
Night who bugs kitties sometimes can grab pussy.
Hugs kitties, not bugs.
Oh, hugs.
In the case of Trump, it's bugs.
Matthew McDunn in Front Royal, Virginia.
A lot of Virginians today.
That's a good sign.
Jason Doolin in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Bashir Osman in Haro, Middlesex, UK. Wayne Larcom in Sunnybanks, Queensland, Australia.
Sir...
Sir...
Queegebu.
Otherwise known as Jan Leclerc in Luxembourg.
Pat Deary in Sarnia, Ontario.
Sam Godwin in San Jose.
Daniel Ehrlich in Bowlesburg, Pennsylvania.
John Campagna, parts unknown.
Sir John, parts unknown.
A.K.A. Red.
Mary Santala in Tucson, Arizona.
Sir Woody, Sioux Falls, North Dakota.
South Dakota.
Sorry.
Herbert Garrett in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Bruce Begnocchi, I'm hoping.
Also Virginia.
All the spooks are out, man.
Yeah, it's great.
Midlothian, Virginia to be exact.
Josh McDonald in Mount Waverly, Victoria, Australia.
Nick Meilinger in Wiesbaden, Deutschland.
99-29, so So, okay, we ran out of steam, sorry, with Bruce.
And Josh McDonald's actually 99.97.
And Nick Meilinger in Wiesbaden, Deutschland, is 99.29.
He's got a birthday, so we got that on there.
Just looking at the list, we may have more influence in Washington than we think.
These are probably people who work at letter agencies.
Oh, the Virginians?
Yeah, or military.
Yeah, it could be.
And they're not located, it seems like to me, knowing where some of these towns are, they're not in the Richmond area, which is definitely outside of D.C.'s influence.
You never know.
It's a long commute from there.
Traffic commute is crazy anyway for anybody.
They chop her in.
Yeah, sure they do.
They take the tunnels, you know, the ones that go all across the country.
Oh, right.
The secret trains.
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I'm glad we're getting...
Pass it on.
We need to get a German audience to be great.
More Deutschers.
Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Pepper Ann Kincaid.
It's not really called...
It's Pepper Ann.
It's Pepper Ann.
It's got some weird pronunciation.
Now, she has a title change coming up today, right?
She has a boob thing going on.
Well, she's in...
As though she's going to be knighted.
Hmm...
And she's under the titles for some reason.
Well, it's been a year since she listened regularly.
Now she's listening again.
She was overboard.
All I had to do was work my ass off.
I didn't know if she failed.
Jingles and donation I've missed and I'm glad I'm back in the mix.
I remember when I became a dame.
Man overboard!
She is a dame already.
That's what I thought.
She's worth every cent.
She says I need to request a new title.
Now she's going to be Dame Molly of the Deep South.
Ah, okay.
There you go.
You have a trans producers.
Please give everyone some jobs karma.
We're going to do that at the end for you.
Wait a minute.
So she's trans?
That's what she said?
Yeah, nice.
Well, she says she's trans.
That's what she says here.
Dame, I request a new title.
Please dub me Dame.
You have trans producers.
Please give her...
It says, and yes, Adam, you do have trans producers.
Smiley face.
Tongue sticking out, smiley face.
Okay.
You know, so I did the tongue sticking out, smiley face, and somebody said that meant the raspberries.
I never heard that before.
I always thought it was just a tongue sticking out.
Well, he also did the, he didn't capitalize the P, so it was just a little tongue, just peeping out to like a tip of the tongue.
You know, what used to be a character, there's a control alt character you can find on some keyboards, where if you push it, it actually produces a line with a tongue coming out the middle.
Really?
Yeah.
For all you nerds out there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What do I have to give her?
I have to give her Don't Eat Me Hillary Clinton, Jobs, Karma.
Okay, and she also has a call-out, I think.
I saw it here somewhere.
Oh, I may need a de-douching.
Okay.
Come on, John, help me find it.
Oh, please call out Michael G. as a douchebag.
You've been de-douched.
Okay, there you go.
We break for dames.
Gilbert Fraga in Los Angeles, California, 80.
Jeffrey Cadman in Wheaton, Maryland, 79, 79.
That was odd.
Caitlin Williams.
What?
I'm sorry.
In that note from Molly, Dame Molly, she sent pictures of herself.
She's great.
I'll send it to you later.
There's a link there I saw.
Caitlin Williams, 7777.
Brandon St.
Armand in Woodstock, Ontario, 7272.
Craig Nosley in Cumberland, BC, 6725.
Sir Dean Beltram in Waikiki, Western Australia.
Wait a minute.
Waikiki?
That's way Western Australia.
I don't think so.
Exactly.
Very Western Australia.
Actually, it's Eastern Australia, unless you go all the way around.
Well, this is Sir Dean Barron of the Gold Coast of Ghana, so...
I don't know.
Maybe he's traveling.
Adam Bosley in Oakland, California.
Yay!
6336.
Jeffrey Sewell in San Jose, California.
I think it sent a note in.
Maybe not.
Stephan or Stephen Schnabel in Aknasheen, UK, which I guess is Ireland or Scotland, Scotland, or maybe it's Wales.
I'm not sure.
Robert Wood, 5510, double nickels on the dime.
Thanks for the nine years of great work, he says.
Andy Benz and Sir Andorbal, double nickels on the dime.
And he's going to be a baronet.
I guess it's up there.
Yep.
Josh McDonald, double nickels on the dime.
Radu Pertuk in Gross Isle, Michigan, 5115.
Mohamed Aissa.
In East Rifa, BHBH, is that Belrain?
I think Rifa is in Belrain.
Could be, yeah.
I think, Mohamed, I think you're the only Bahrainian that listens to the show that I know of.
51, they're not donating.
El, thanks.
Dude named Mohamed.
Dude named Mohamed.
El Duderachi in Tilburg, Netherlands.
50.
Now these are all $50 donors, name and location, starting with El Duderachi.
Mitchell Kaufman in Hillsborough, Oregon.
Joe Schwarzbauer in Florissant, Missouri.
Christine Williams in Dallas, Texas.
Ross Turpin in Troy, Kansas.
Sir Peter Totes, Parts Unknown.
I know where he's from.
I think this is Sir Adam Des Moines in Milton, Florida.
Zachary Saldivar in San Angelo, Texas.
Shad Rich in You Know What?
Parts Unknown.
Donald Napier in Oviedo.
Oviedo.
Sure it's Oviedo?
It's not Oviedo?
I'm pretty sure it's Oviedo.
Bryn Evans, Parts Unknown.
Brian Kaufman in Phoenix, Arizona.
And last but not least, and I would do want to make a comment here, Sir Chad Biderman, or Biderman, Biderman.
Spiderman.
Biderman, I think.
Or Biderman.
Well, one of the two.
It doesn't make any difference because of what I've got to say.
He's the Baron of Guam.
He's actually in Round Lake, Illinois.
He has made letterhead.
A nice job of it, too.
And it's professionally done.
It's got top and bottom stuff.
And it says, crossed up in big letters, it says, Sir Chad Biderman, Baron of Guam.
It's a real piece of letterhead.
Nice.
Which I think is the way to go.
Especially if you're sending your CV. Yeah, I want to send you a quick note and donation, not just for the great news analysis.
Consider this a finder's fee.
For a source of material no agenda has introduced to me over the years.
Firstly, there was Adam's mention of Congressional Dish.
Jennifer's podcast highlights the legislative analysis of the mainstream media used to consider a public service long ago.
Thankfully, we have no agenda and Congressional Dish to fill the chasm.
And there's also the No Agenda Book Club to fill the silence between No Agenda episodes.
I've listened to audiobooks It Can't Happen Here and Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which is a good audiobook.
I'm midway through amusing ourselves to death.
If it wasn't for No Agenda, I wouldn't have thought to read any of these.
A great book.
Okay.
And another good podcast.
I think I'm going to put the Lance Armstrong podcast on the stream.
He's getting good.
Yeah, I definitely listen.
you Wow.
Douche.
I'm not like that.
I want something good on the stream.
It's good.
I wouldn't say it if it wasn't good.
No, it is good, and you should put it on the stream.
We need more.
The stream, how is the stream doing?
People should just tune into the stream and hear what we've got.
The stream's doing okay, but, you know, I'll just scratch that up to just ninth anniversary joy that you did that to me.
Alright.
Thank you so much.
Actually, I wanted to...
See, I had...
This is everyone above $50.
I did get a $9.99 donor note that I wanted to share.
A lot of people did that as well.
In the morning, Guardians of Reality, happy ninth.
I have a handful of nines for you.
$9.99.
It all helps.
Just got off the chat room in a private chat with a new Aussie listener.
Three shows new.
Was put onto the IRC channel, then the show, unusual.
The going back for new listeners was useful.
Ah, FYI, they're starting a course to be a dude named Ben in cybersecurity.
Blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, so what he's saying is new listeners appreciate it when we sometimes grab back.
Thank you for your courage and passion.
Love and light.
Love you, mean it.
Chris from the Penal Colony.
Thank you very much, Chris.
Thank you, everybody, who supported us, not just today, but throughout the past nine years.
This is the value model that we started, and we hope to continue at least to make it a total of 10.
I think that would be a good goal.
Yeah, that's achievable.
Yeah.
And then we could retire with dignity.
I don't know about that.
That's optimistic.
As requested, a couple of clips here at the end.
Don't eat me!
We came, we saw, he died.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And remember us for this Sunday show.
Dvorak.org slash N-A.
It's your birthday, birthday.
I'm no one champion.
And we have quite a nice list today.
Chris Hanton says happy birthday to his girlfriend, Terry, turns 50 on the 28th.
Andrew Blowers celebrates today.
Bradley Seltzer says happy birthday to Karen, apparently she turns 21 years old today.
Laura Diazio, happy birthday to her husband, Amit Hajra, who celebrated on the 25th.
Sam Godwin, happy birthday to Violet, celebrating tomorrow.
Nick Mellinger turns 29 today.
And Andy Benzer and Durbal also celebrates tomorrow.
We say happy birthday to them.
And we say happy birthday to all the producers of the best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah!
Because we deserve that.
And let's see, we have the make good.
Joel Gordon donated $74 for show 860.
Somehow it didn't make the spreadsheet.
So birthday call out and vigorous dedouching for his brother Jeremy Gordon who celebrated on the 22nd.
You've been dedouched.
There we go.
And we have our two title changes today.
Upgrades are always nice.
Let's see, we have Sir Anderball becomes a baronet.
Congratulations to you.
And Molly Peppercan Kincaid upgrades her status and upgrades her title.
She is now henceforth to be known as Dame Molly of the Deep South.
I must feel good when you get that jingle.
I like it.
Yeah.
Okay, time for the blades.
We got just one today, John.
Just one.
Okay, well, let me get this thing out.
No, you can leave that thing in there.
I just needed your blade.
That's all.
Ladies and gentlemen, we would like Thomas Hittaler to join us here on the stage.
Thomas, thank you very much for your contribution to the best podcast in the universe.
I'm getting all choked up.
You okay?
This is how the show ends.
I went down the wrong tube.
Let's try it again. .
Ah, surrender ball!
No, Thomas Hittahler, please step up to the podium next to the lecture.
That's right, don't worry.
No, it's okay.
I'm steady.
It's all going to be fine.
I'm just a little lightheaded after that.
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Being Viennese, isn't it Tomas?
Possibly.
He should have sent us a style guide.
That's okay.
He's now a knight.
He can do what he wants.
Wow, that kind of hurt.
Hey, what was that?
I just went down the wrong tube.
I have here in my notes...
What went down the wrong tube?
My saliva.
Oh, okay.
I have here in my notes to talk about the Government Accounting Standards Board.
Oh, didn't we talk about that a couple times?
Okay, no.
You talked about it once on the Dvorak Horror.
It's unplugged.
We talked about it after the show twice.
No.
Now you know.
That's the actual rundown of why we shouldn't talk to each other ever.
Okay, the government is...
By the way, I'm sorry.
It's a veto.
A veto.
A veto, Florida.
It's not a veto.
It's a veto.
Okay, a veto.
Somebody sent you...
How did you get this information?
Chatroom.
Okay.
So, we were talking about this.
Go back and listen to two shows ago, the Horowitz show.
And they've come out with what they call statements.
And the government...
The only reason I'm going to even discuss this for a minute is just to mention to you that everybody in the stock market, all the pros, have discussed amongst themselves and in public, if you listen to the right shows, about the upcoming collapse of the bond market.
Which should take the economy down.
And by my cycles theory, it should happen in 2017, which I've been talking about forever.
So 2017, does anything happen in 2017 that would trigger a market collapse?
Well, it turns out that the Government Accounting Standards Board It has come up with a bunch of these statements, and I think the numbers, I can't remember, it's definitely 68, 71, 72, 73, or 72, 73, 74, something like that.
Those are the numbers.
You can look them up on Google.
They usually bunch them up and write about it.
And there's a bunch of PDFs you can read about, and a lot of it doesn't make any sense, and you wouldn't know what the hell was going on.
And the only reason I know is because my tax preparer happens to be an auditor in a local small city.
And he says that the city's not, it's just broke.
The city's broke like Vallejo was broke and Stockton was broke in California.
It turns out that most of the cities in California, if you really look into it, are probably broke, which means their bonds will never get paid off.
And that means they're going to go bankrupt and probably stiff a lot of investors.
It's all because of pensions.
So the GASB has decided that they have to now put the unresolved pensions and all the money they have, like the way they did with the post office, all the money that they currently owe people They forever, so far as their pensions are concerned, have to be on the front page of the books and balanced into the bookkeeping.
And this has to be done by June or July of 2017, which is perfect.
And if they're stalling for whatever reason, it has to absolutely be done.
By 2018.
This means that all of a sudden, all these little cities that have all kinds of bonds and other things are going to go forward with their...
Here's our balance sheet for the city.
We're broke.
That's pretty much every...
With rare exception.
There are some cities, little small towns on the up and up.
But generally speaking, in California, there's none.
And there's probably a few around the country.
This is going to be...
This is a national thing that has to happen.
And...
Would they actually do it?
According to Mimi, who had talked to the state treasurer, she's into politics, so she gets to do stuff like that.
She asked about this.
And the state treasurer says, oh yeah, yeah, we're very aware of what's going to happen.
But this is the feds coming down, and we were told by the feds that if any little city doesn't follow these rules...
This is in Washington state.
Doesn't follow these rules.
They're going to go after us and start finding us at the state level.
So we're making sure that everybody knows about this and knows how to deal with it.
Which means that in the entire country, this is all going to happen pretty much all at once.
And it's going to trigger the bond collapse that all these stock market guys have been talking about for years.
Although none of them have said how it's going to happen or when it's going to happen.
I can tell you when it's going to happen.
It's happening next year.
And the one guy who's the super expert, I remember watching him on some of the talk shows.
This was about three or four years ago.
And he said, well, how are we going to know?
When are we going to know?
When's it going to happen?
He said, you know, I don't know when it's going to happen.
And his conclusion was, but when it happens, you'll know it.
Yeah, no kidding.
So how can we play into this and how can we make a million dollars?
Well, you should be able to, according to this guy, this Bond guy, he says some of the world's greatest fortunes will be made during this moment.
Yeah, hello George Soros, yeah.
And, well, you can short some bonds.
I mean, I don't know.
I've talked to Horowitz about this.
I've tried to.
I've been reading a lot more because I'm very weak.
Most people that invest don't know crap about how bonds actually work and how you trade them and where you can get any puts.
Can you get any calls?
Some of them, yes, some of them can.
They don't know what a puttable bond is.
They don't know what a callable bond is.
They don't know anything because nobody cares.
How about maybe just buy some Bitcoin?
That may go up.
That may be an easy one.
No, seriously.
Yeah, okay.
You can go through that.
I'll buy gold.
Oh, wait a minute.
How the tables have turned.
Pot?
Kettle?
Hello.
So, I don't know.
All I know is that you've got plenty of warning here.
You've got over six months of work on it.
And...
I'm sure some people have some ideas.
There will be good ideas that come out of this.
Here's what you can do.
Because it was like the credit default swaps that you could have invested in at the end of the housing bubble.
But you wouldn't be able to figure out how to get there from here in advance unless you're in the business already.
I mean, no casual schmuck is saying, I got an idea.
It just didn't happen.
And the public wasn't warned in advance like I'm warning you now.
So you're warned in advance so you've got plenty of time to figure it out.
Very good.
Another bonus from the No Agenda show.
This is something you will...
Well, actually, you will hear it on Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged, but you're a little more concise now because you've had some time to think about it.
I like it.
I think it's very important.
I think it's really important to do that.
The pitch.
Yeah, the pitch is really...
Yeah, it's really tightened up.
Tightened up the pitch.
I like your pitch, man.
Yeah, that's really rocking.
Okay.
What else is on the list we're supposed to talk about?
Oh, I have...
Let me see.
I have the list here.
It's a list that just grows.
We never get to everything.
We never get to anything.
Bitch about Twitter?
Did you bitch about Twitter?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's a minor bitch.
It's not a big bitch.
It's a minor bitch.
When I have to go retweet...
When I have to go retweet...
Because you say, oh, go retweet because we're starting the show.
I used to go over there and type in...
Into the search for you, because you never put me like at Dvorak.
You already scrolled off.
I will make that a point of doing that from now on.
I never even thought I'd like to do it.
That would probably help.
Sure.
But what happens is I type in Curry so I can go to your thing real quick on the search.
And you'd always be at the top because it was smart.
It knew that we were connected.
I follow you.
You follow me.
So the Twitter knows that.
About two months ago, I type in Curry and Stephen Curry would come up, the warrior, and you weren't even on the list.
I'm not verified.
I'm lame.
I'm an a-hole.
I'm a loser.
Besides being verified, there's plenty of people down there that aren't verified, but you didn't come up.
So I had to start typing Adam.
I actually now have to type Adam Curry to get you listed.
I'm being shadow banned.
If I type Adam...
If I type Adam, there's a whole bunch of people I can't get anywhere.
If I type Adam C, I still don't get to you.
Adam C, you?
Adam C, you are?
Adam C, you are?
Why?
Yes.
Boom.
There you finally show up.
And I'm irked about this because it used to be like they were smart.
They used to figure out, oh, I'm looking for somebody that I know.
Maybe you should just try gay porn, see if I pop up then.
I don't think so.
There's lots of trouble with Twitter.
Lots of problems.
They changed some sort of search algorithm.
We have not too long.
Or certainly I have parsed the LGBT acronym into something much longer, which we've now shortened.
To be all-inclusive, it should be LGBTQIAAP. We kind of, by consensus, agreed it's better to say LGBTQ+. And you capitalize the P and connect it, so LGBT +, and L-U-S is lowercase.
Time Magazine reporting that media advocacy organization GLAAD, the GLAAD, the GLAAD, the GLAAD and Lesbian...
What is GLAAD? I forget what that stands for.
Gay and Lesbians Alliance Against Discrimination.
Ah, thank you.
They're releasing their style guide.
10th edition of the style guide.
Who knew they had to get a style guide to report on this?
It's, of course, as the report from Time says, a language bible for journalists covering these issues.
Which asks that all major media outlets now use LGBTQ media.
From now on.
And not just LGBT shows you how progressive Donald Trump was.
He was the first to add the Q. The Q, of course, they say stands for queer.
Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAD's president and CEO, says on one level, it's just adding another letter.
But really, it's bringing a whole new definition to the way we describe ourselves.
It's the start of a bigger shift.
Oh yeah.
Let's dive in.
Queer.
Now, queer existed...
I'm reading from the article.
Queer existed as a slur for a long time.
An arrow slung at people to make them feel like freaks or deviants.
The oldest meaning, going back to the 1500s, is strange, peculiar, or questionable, and the word will still ring pejorative in many older people's ears.
Does it ring pejorative in your ears, John?
Queer?
I think sometimes.
Not always, because I still see things that are queer, you know, something that's weird that's happening.
It's queer, but I don't use the word.
I refuse to use it in my writing.
That was queer?
Yeah, we would say weird, maybe.
That was weird.
Yeah, that's what I'd say.
Okay, continuing.
Okay, so...
There's really no explanation of what queer is.
It's just you belong to the group if you feel that way, I guess.
Okay, but can we stop here and do a preliminary analysis on something that comes to mind immediately?
Before I get to the clip?
Sure.
Go to the old phrase that you use, which is L, B, G, E, T, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And questioning, if you're questioning, you're queer.
I think this is terrible.
Not only that, but again, the GLADs, the GLAD, is saying that this is all one community, all one group.
Well, we know that's bullcrap.
I witnessed a new television show on Showtime.
Let me bring up, I have a note that goes along with my producer who sent this to me.
Hold on a second.
Yes.
This was on today's episode of Shameless on Showtime.
The plot revolves around a gay character who's a regular on the show who is meeting friends of a friend of his who is a trans male.
I think that means female to male, but I'm not sure.
Trans male, doesn't matter.
And this is serious.
This is not a comedy show that I know of.
This is serious.
It's a high comedy show.
Okay, high comedy, but I believe this to be real.
You've seen it?
Oh yeah, I've watched the show.
You like the show?
Not this episode.
You like the show?
I find it tedious.
Okay, well then you're going to love the clip.
So here he is being introduced to these trans friends, and well, you can't just say hi, I guess.
This is Ian.
Ian, this is my crew from the LGBTQIA Center.
Hey!
Are you going to introduce yourselves, or do I have to do it for you?
I'm Bethany.
I'm a triracial cisgendered girl fag.
I identify as pansexual and my pronoun is she.
Okay.
Hi, Emerson.
Genderfluid, heteroromantic, demisexual.
My, and a redhead.
My pronoun is Z. Hey, I'm Rabbit.
Genderqueer, tax attorney.
I identify as Jennifer Aniston.
Just kidding.
V-N-V-R. DX. Chinese-Mexican agender intersects AFAB. My pronoun is they.
Okay.
All right, is it okay if I ask a few questions?
Better than to assume you know the answers.
What is intersex?
When a person is born with what is typically perceived as both male and female sex organs.
AFAB? Assigned female at birth.
When your parents decide your gender without considering how you may identify in the future.
Okay, and what's the whole pronoun thing?
When we talk about DX, we say ask them if they would like a coffee.
But there's only one of him.
Her.
Them.
Fuck, I have no idea what I'm doing.
You'll get it.
It's okay.
You'll get it.
Now, I think the I identify as Jennifer Aniston is a joke.
I think the rest is pretty serious.
I think it's all high humor.
They're mocking this.
And I think you're wrong.
Okay.
They think it's serious.
It's just the way this show is.
Okay.
Well, I have not watched the show, so I could be very wrong.
It's a mockery.
It's a mockery.
So they're not serious, believe me.
Well, good, because that's what I needed to hear.
But I think they do a better job of that sort of thing, because I think they're, in a pure comedic sense, the show Portlandia is a straight-up comedy, but in some odd sense, I find if they did that same bit in Portlandia, they would be half-serious about it.
Ah, okay.
People who watch that show and Seamus would kind of understand what I'm saying, because they're kind of serious on Portlandia in a funny way that's kind of politically correct, even though they mock it openly, but it's at the same time, you wonder.
This did give me a business idea.
Yeah, how to decode yourself?
I think it's a small giblet.
Well, no, no, no, no.
You have a little app, and that's how you decode yourself.
Okay, wait for it.
And you have a badge, which is kind of like the ones they use at DEF CON. And you program your badge.
It says, Hi, my name's Adam.
Cisgendered a-hole.
I identify as Brad Pitt.
I used an a-hole joke earlier.
I identify as an asshole.
I identify as an a-hole.
And it would flash, you know, whenever someone comes up.
No, maybe not.
Yeah.
Okay, maybe not.
You're right.
I'm just trying.
It's something.
It's just out of control the way I see it.
I'm going to lead into your...
I have a clip too, but you seem to have a couple of them.
So I'm going to lead into your Calais clips by starting off in the Eurolands with Sweden.
Unlike previous years, there will be no Christmas lights in many Swedish towns this Christmas.
By the way, I think I may...
I don't know if I put it in the newsletter, but there's a bunch of towns that are canceling Christmas.
Of course!
It's for security reasons.
The Swedish Transport Administration, the Trafikverket, will stop allowing municipalities to put up their Christmas lights on light poles that the authority manages.
And in many small towns, it means the central streets actually do not get any Christmas lights at all.
Woo!
How's that migrant stuff working for you?
Yeah.
And we had the cleanup of the...
The Swedes seem to put up with a lot of this stuff.
No, it's going to end.
It's definitely going to end.
People, it will not stand.
I'm telling you, we'll not stand.
You know, we really live in, like, multiple universes.
Firstly, in the United States, we have two universes.
And I'm convinced that these are actually...
I have not seen the OBOTs.
You know, I don't see the OBOT posts barely show up on my face bag feed anymore.
I truly believe that something is split and ripped.
It'll come back together.
They see completely different stuff.
And other people see different stuff.
Right, left, Democrat, Republican, whatever it is.
But in general, ever since the Internet...
It's the globalists versus the nationalists.
Well, the globalists have been winning in general.
Yeah, but look at the pushback.
Look at the pushback.
There's a little pushback.
Brexit?
Brexit was a pushback?
Yes, Brexit was.
And really, you know, for Trump to be...
Brexit means Brexit, by the way.
And for Trump to become president, that would be the ultimate Brexit.
So we'll see how the universe has come back together.
Well, I was doing a back and forth on Twitter with Joe Trippi, and he kind of indicated the same thing to me, that we don't see things even in the same dimension.
No, we don't.
We totally don't.
And I'm convinced that somehow this has actually been created to some degree.
I'm not sure exactly, but I can feel it.
So...
Let us now talk about stuff that is never discussed anymore in the United States.
The migrants, and this of course was the jungle in Calais, which you got two clips here, I think.
Yeah.
You're going to start it off.
No, go ahead.
It's all yours.
Oh, okay.
Well, the migrants have burnt down the camps.
But the American media won't even talk about it because it's such a pain in the ass, these camps.
And the French came in to kind of take them down and get these guys moved around to some other places around the country where they could lock them up a little bit or keep track of them.
They're interfering with It's commerce.
They're in the wrong spot.
They got to get rid of them.
So they started moving out.
So they decided to burn the place to the ground.
Now, this is the Fire in Cali RT version of the report.
RT was the only outlet that really loved to cover this.
Massive fires broke out in Calais' so-called jungle refugee camp on Tuesday night as residents torched tents in protest against the dismantling of the makeshift slum.
The operation to evict the notorious camp in the French port town of Calais now entering its third day.
Officials say more than 4,000 people have already been relocated to various migrant centres all across the country.
RT's Harry Fear still reports from Calais.
Well, you may be able to see behind me some of the fire trucks and rescue crews that attended to the scene eventually to deal with the massive fire.
It's now been put out and the police also attended to the scene in order to secure it for the fire crews to move in.
Well, you can see perhaps just over here to my right that there are a couple of migrants here.
That had to evacuate the camp and the police forced them out.
Others have been going back in.
But suddenly the lack of speed and apparent lack of willingness to tackle some of the crises in the camp, in a sense epitomized by the slow response tonight to the fire engulfing the structures, of course.
Yeah, what a fire it was.
So there was a slow response and there was this.
Of course, let it burn!
Well, I think they should let it burn out.
But I'm wondering, you know, nobody...
I didn't see this reported on ABC. ABC had some interesting reporting going on, but NBC, CBS, nobody wanted to take it on.
Democracy Now!
Definitely didn't cover it.
PBS covered it, but they decided to cover it up with a bogus, what I thought was a bogus report.
And I'm going to say that because I did a little research to find there's probably not more than...
A couple hundred, it sounds like, if you start looking into it, of these migrants, which come from Etria, Sudan, Somalia, a lot of Syrians.
These are very, very, very black migrants.
And there's a, maybe, according to at least one source, a couple of hundred Afghans.
Ooh.
Now, so...
I would listen to this report somewhat baffled by it because, as you just heard the RT reporters, a bunch of tents on fire, but they kind of played this completely.
They rationalized it on PBS with a very strange analysis, which I'm going back.
What is this?
This sounds like bullcrap.
But it's so rational and interesting and culturally interesting, even though I don't even know if the assertion is correct.
But it was fantastic.
Look over here.
There's nothing over there.
This is Fire in Calais.
French officials have finished clearing the Calais migrant camp, given the name The Jungle, ahead of schedule.
More than 6,000 people were relocated to other sites.
Their departure left firefighters to fight fires set by some of the camp dwellers.
The regional prefect said it is a custom among Afghan migrants.
They have told us that it's a tradition which is very established.
When you go, you burn.
So we organized ourselves in advance.
Firefighters are actually here 24 hours a day, so there's no big risk of the fire spreading.
Really?
Really now?
That's a tradition?
It's a tradition.
When you go, you burn.
And by the way, according to her, the firefighters are there all along, so there's no delayed response like that was reported on RT. This sounds fishy.
It sounds very fishy.
But it was good.
That was a French spokes, one of the French government people, that was saying that when you go, you burn.
Which makes it sound like, jeez, these Afghans are, what, your lease is up so you burnt down the place?
Hey, yeah, what about that office building?
I had to burn it down because I left.
You know, if I didn't, I mean, you'd almost think that they said, hey, let's just torch these freaking people out of existence, then we'll say that they did it themselves.
I'm guessing there's something more along those lines.
Yeah.
Well, I had a Euronews report, which, although not as spectacular as that, also was just very laid back, like, oh, there were 10,000 people.
10,000 people!
French authorities have finished clearing the shantytown known as the jungle outside Calais, saying they were confident of dispersing the last of its inhabitants around France.
So they just, like, shooed him away.
Hey!
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
Shh!
Go away!
Some tents and shelters were set on fire in a last gesture of defiance, but the operation was mostly peaceful.
Oh, now it's defiance.
That's so weird.
Completely different information.
The authorities said about 5,000 migrants had gone through a processing center before being transferred away by bus.
The regional prefect said it's really today the end of the jungle, an important, powerful moment.
A lot's happened and incredible human experience has taken place within this camp, all with its different communities.
But we're turning the page now and it's a positive page because these people are going to be welcomed in France and are going to be able to start a new life.
About 1,000 migrants were said to be still awaiting transfer to other centres.
The jungle has been home to thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
They saw their future as being in Britain, which refused to accept the vast majority.
A group of African women staged a protest saying they wanted to go to England to reach their families.
The UK is allowing in a number of unaccompanied child migrants who are being processed separately.
So the way I see it is they...
Torched it, tore it down, whatever, shooed everyone out.
Go ahead, just go away.
And everyone just said, okay.
And they're going through, they're walking through the rest of France now, and the French police know it, and they're not happy about it, and they're protesting it.
Based with the growing anger of French police, the government has met with unions in Paris in an effort to defuse tensions.
Spontaneous protests by officers have sprung up in the last week over a lack of resources, an ever-increasing workload and a lack of up-to-date equipment to protect them from attack.
One policewoman at the protest said she was there to tell the government we're unhappy with the current situation, saying the police are suffering from a lack of consideration, means and workforce.
She added, we can't go on like this.
That's the cops.
Following the meeting with the unions, the Interior Minister pledged €250 million would be set aside for new equipment, as well as a raft of measures to help protect officers, all of which would be presented to Parliament by the end of November.
Now the cops...
Okay, this is a...
Where did you get that report?
Euronews.
Very soft.
The reports I've seen, I've looked into this, this is not spontaneous.
Of course not.
This is bullshit.
Organized by the police unions, and the cops are all bitching horribly, and their main complaint is the no-go zones.
Uh-huh.
Of course.
For some reason, the Western media, generally speaking, will not talk about the no-go zones.
They deny it.
In fact, they go, oh, no, you can go there.
They had a video on one of the RT reports, which talks about the no-go zones because they like to give us the needle.
They had a show of copies with another backup guy and they get attacked.
The car's attacked.
The firebomb's thrown in the car.
The guy has to get out.
They try to beat him up.
He jumps in the other car and they take off.
I mean, they have most of this on video.
And this one woman who was driving around in a car with black windows so she could film because they said if they see a journalist, they'll do the same thing.
Beat them up.
Beat them up.
Steal the cameras.
They're worth good money.
And beat everybody up.
And these no-go zones are in England.
They're in northern Paris.
And there's other parts.
And they talk about having a separate government because there's a bunch of tribes that set up shop there.
Gang leaders for all practical purposes.
And this kind of thing is really a problem with the Western civilization.
Just on a lark, I searched for Muslim no-go zones in our archive, and I came up with a report.
January 18th, 2015.
I don't remember it.
It's titled Muslim No-Go Zones in USA.
Do you remember this?
Vaguely.
What goes on in these campuses?
A lot of people say, hey, there are Jewish camps in this country, Christian camps in this country.
Why can't we have a Muslim camp?
Because these are truly no-go zones.
Unlike the ones in Europe, which I visited, you can actually walk into those no-go zones.
You can walk in with your cameras, you can talk to people.
But in these particular no-go zones, you cannot get into.
They have gates, they have armed guards, they have security forces.
And when you go up into them, you're...
Specifically told to leave these particular areas.
And they're particularly dangerous.
So name some towns, name some cities, name some states.
Well, we have them in Texas, Sweeney, Texas.
We have them in York, South Carolina.
We have them in Commerce, Georgia.
We have them in Red House, Virginia.
We have them in upstate New York.
We have them in California.
We have them in Michigan.
They're scattered all around the United States.
So right now, when you call an officer and say, hey, wait a second, you've got an enclave here.
This is Islamic extremists being trained on our ground.
What is the law enforcement's reaction?
FBI's reaction is that, look, you know, they have the First Amendment and other American rights to operate these enclaves in the United States, regardless of the type of weapon training, guerrilla warfare training that's going on inside of them.
I don't remember that.
The guy's wrong about the no-go zones in Europe.
That you can wander around with a camera and take pictures.
They're not putting up with that.
I don't think he's been to one.
Maybe I vaguely remember we have a bunch of people who say it's just like setting up a club where they don't let the cops in.
Odd.
Yeah, this is going, this is, I don't know how long this is going to continue before somebody doesn't say, hey, what is this?
Exactly.
Hey!
Stop that.
I don't know.
Oh, I do know this.
There in the world is Victoria Kagan Noodleman.
Yes, yes, yes.
She had a trip scheduled yesterday to Cyprus, and all of a sudden everything's gone very, very quiet.
No more updates from state or anywhere.
She's hiding out in Cyprus.
Huh.
I'm not sure what it means, but she may be pushing the president there to prepare for something or do something.
Oh, that's okay.
But it's odd that all of a sudden everything went quiet.
I track her.
Yeah, I know.
It's great.
You got it.
And all of a sudden, hmm, she's just not there.
I don't know.
Very strange.
Yeah, we should end pretty soon.
I got a couple of just loose ends.
Before you do that, do we need to talk at all?
First of all, we were right.
We said this DDoS was cheap Chinese crap.
Turned out to be exactly that.
Do we need to talk about any of this?
I don't think so, unless it finally gets shaken out to the point where I feel comfortable.
Okay, where you feel comfortable.
Yeah, I feel comfortable if I'm talking about that.
Oh, have you been watching the new Black Mirror series?
Yeah.
No, but Mimi has and she says it's fantastic.
Oh my, it's beyond, especially the first episode.
Yeah, I'm going to watch it probably in the next one.
It's great.
And it's all about oversized socialization, you know, future technologies that'll fuck us.
It's really great.
It's really good.
At least I got the right idea.
Yeah.
Okay, there's a couple.
One was, this I thought was, and the visuals probably helps.
But, you know, this is kind of a subtext movement that's going on in the United States where you protest the national anthem.
I don't think it's gotten much legs.
But it started by Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers.
And so the most extreme version of this was you have to listen to this clip.
This is black protest national anthem.
And just imagine what you're looking at.
Protests against racial oppression and police brutality continue during the playing of the national anthem at sports events around the country over the weekend.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick appeared at a post-game press conference Sunday wearing a Black Panthers party t-shirt building on the movement he sparked.
At an NBA preseason game in Miami Friday, social worker Danesia Lawrence took a knee and unbuttoned her jacket to reveal a Black Lives Matter t-shirt as she performed the Star-Spangled Banner.
In a statement on Facebook, Lawrence wrote, quote, Right now, we're seeing a war on black and brown bodies.
We're being unjustly killed and overly criminalized, unquote.
So she's, wait a minute, she's singing the national anthem because she was invited to do so.
So she takes a knee and sings it from her knees.
This is better than ever.
In protest.
Well, of course.
Hey, hold on a second.
If you want to protest this lady, don't sing it!
I'm going to give you a clip of the day for that.
That's too good.
Clip of the day.
That's just crazy.
It's crazy.
What an idiot.
But of course, if you remember, they were protesting the...
Well, no.
No, I guess it's confusing.
Now my brain is gone.
Like, seriously?
Unbelievable.
Sadly, very believable, but yeah.
It's crazy.
My last clip was a shorty, and it's just another one.
It's gloom and doom, but nobody's noticing.
Oh, yes, everything's fancy.
It's great.
This is the ABC short report at the end of the show where they don't give anything any time.
This is the beer truck, self-driving beer truck, and I have a question.
This caught our eye.
A first-of-its-kind beer run.
Anheuser-Busch says it's completed the world's first commercial delivery by a self-driving truck.
A tractor-trailer hauling Budweiser beer more than 120 miles across Colorado.
The company teamed up with self-driving truck maker Otto to make it happen.
They say a professional driver was on board the entire time, but there you see it.
Never had to get into the driver's seat.
Okay, your question, sir.
Have you ever seen a beer truck pull up to some, like a bar or something?
Have you ever seen a beer truck on the street?
Yes, I have.
Doesn't a guy have to come out with his little cart and grab the beer and then haul it into the bar?
Yeah, and they slide the side of it up.
Usually the beer trucks have the panels on the side.
Yeah.
So what are they accomplishing?
Well, the guy can do, he can be a day trader while he's being driven.
He can be a day trader while the truck drives him to the destination.
He jumps out and delivers.
You still have to have a guy delivering the beer.
So there's a guy there already.
So you're telling me it's, you got to pay that guy.
So you have to pay that guy plus the cost of a self-driving truck.
It seems like a gyp.
I don't see him saving money on this deal.
John C. DeVore acts pet peeve of the day.
That's right.
Only on the No Agenda show, ladies and gentlemen.
It's the logic of it.
It's Occam's Razor right there for you.
Maybe it's all just automatic.
Here, slave, here is your beer.
Who knows?
Robot banging into the side of the building.
All right.
I'm good.
Well, John, nine years, I'm proud to be your partner in this.
Yeah, it worked out.
Who knew?
Yeah, go figure.
Off to ten.
To retire with grace.
Right, we start year number ten on Sunday, so let's celebrate that.
Good idea.
Ten.
Thank you all very much.
Remember us for the Sunday show, our first show in year number ten.
You can find us at Dvorak.org slash N-A. And until then, my friends, my amigos, mon ami, mes ami, Coming to you from the Crackpot Condo here in the skyscraper downtown Austin in case you're looking forward on the map.
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And from northern Silicon Valley, where if you want to reference the beginning of the show, it's still not raining.
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The anniversary show.
Thursday show will be the anniversary show.
Thursday show will be the anniversary show.
How are we going to be celebrating here?
By doing a long donation segment.
I hope.
Yeah, I do.
The end of a shoe shop.
The end of a shoe shop. The end of a shoe shop.
What?
Crazy.
Crazy.
The first day's show will be the end of a shoe shop.