Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

Dec. 22, 2016 - No Agenda

03:26:58

888: Dutch Trump

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	God, I've failed the ceremony.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, December 22nd, 2016.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 888.
	This is no agenda.
	Fighting the new world order with nothing but a sack of eights and a rubber knife and a compass.
	And broadcasting live from the darkest corners on the United here in Austin Tejas in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where Plato's a woman who ride dinghy from millionaire's yacht takes it to the bank.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Crack Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Even rubber boats back in Plato's day.
	Phenomenal.
	We should just call them Nostradamus.
	It was a Dao.
	A Dao?
	Yeah, that's a type of boat.
	Oh, you've updated the classic writings of Plato.
	Yeah, that's what I did.
	I updated it from Dao to dinghy.
	Well, happy 888.
	And happy 888 to you and happy 888 to all the listeners and producers and friends of the show and everyone hangers on and everybody, knights and dames and barons and dukes and grand dukes.
	Everybody who's participated, who's contributed.
	Thank you so much.
	It's been very busy for us.
	This numerology stuff is fantastic.
	Lots of people wanted to jump in and want to support this particular episode.
	And you see that people are trying to get into the last minute.
	A lot of work we were doing.
	People coming in after the deadline was closed and everything was shuttered.
	There's going to be a few people bumped to next Thursday.
	Including one of our Aussie friends.
	We have this note here.
	Let's not get into reading notes just yet.
	We'll fix it all.
	We'll fix it all.
	Oh, I was on the Seed Man show last night.
	Again?
	Well, this was on the nightly news.
	You're a regular now.
	I'm the go-to guy in Austin.
	That's what we were hoping for.
	I swear to you.
	Like, hey, can you come out here by in two hours?
	Like, no.
	No.
	No, it's my prep day, but I can do it on Skype.
	I'm like, yeah, cool, we'll take Skype.
	Well, how far is the studio from your place?
	Well, it's down, it's, I can't tell you where it is near the airport, but traffic at, you know, four o'clock in Austin.
	Yeah, I'm going to drive.
	Oh, it's just a mess.
	Oh, yeah.
	You think?
	Well, thank you, California.
	Yeah, it's all the Californians who are bringing it here.
	Yes, because we prefer jammed freeways.
	You're very good at it.
	Anyway, the reason I was on was because of the MTV video, which I'm sure I think everybody has probably seen this by now, although they did take it down because of the negativity, as in everyone thought it was unbelievably ridiculous.
	John, are you drawing blanks?
	I don't think so.
	You've seen this, haven't you?
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, I mean, I don't know because I don't know if there's some unknown.
	Yeah, so MTV came out with a special message for 2017, but not just any special message.
	A special message.
	I can't say special.
	Special message for white guys.
	Hey, fellow white guys.
	It's about to be a new year.
	And here's a few things we think you could do a little bit better in 2017.
	First off, try to recognize that America was never great for anyone who wasn't a white guy.
	Can we all just agree that Black Lives Matter isn't the opposite of all lives matter?
	Black lives just matter.
	There's no need to overcomplicate it.
	Also, Blue Lives Matter isn't a thing.
	Cops weren't born with blue skin?
	Right?
	I mean...
	Yeah!
	They weren't born blue.
	Stop bragging about being woke.
	Stop saying woke.
	Learn what mansplaining is, and then stop doing it.
	Oh, and if you're a judge, don't prioritize the well-being of an Ivy League athlete over the woman he assaulted.
	We all love Beyonce.
	And yeah, she's black, so of course she cares about black issues.
	I'm talking to you, Fox News.
	Feel free to take Kanye West, though.
	You guys can happen.
	You know what you did, Kanye.
	Nobody who has black friends says that they have black friends.
	And just because you have black friends doesn't mean you're not racist.
	You could be racist with black friends.
	Look guys, we know nobody's perfect.
	But honestly, you could do a little better in 2017.
	Some of you guys do a great job.
	Some of you don't.
	Please, because 2016 is bad.
	2017 can't be worse than this, alright?
	Because this is bad.
	Intellectually, of course, I'm insulted, but I'm not angry.
	It's condescending and smug and it's pretentious as hell.
	This is so pretentious.
	Here's my problem.
	I'd like to talk about some of the specific messages in there as well.
	In our lifetimes, you and I both, we have seen musicians and comedians and some journalists, but very few, fight For free speech.
	Fight to be able to say things in public.
	People have gone to jail for this.
	MTV definitely...
	Think of the PMRC, Tipper Gore, fighting against this bullcrap about lyrics.
	And here we are, full circle, the same MTV brings you this.
	It's pathetic.
	I also find it offensive that These guys are so lockstep Democrat.
	And like you said, against free speech that they can't let Kanye West say anything.
	Because you know what you did, Kanye.
	Yeah, he had a meeting with Donald Trump.
	So now all of a sudden having a meeting with the United States president is you know what you did?
	Like it's some sort of a crime?
	I know what you did last summer.
	Yes!
	And it's gotten so bad with that particular instance.
	You know, that I think the Trump team has done something, well, the only thing they could do is say, eh, we don't need any celebrity singing, you know, we're just going to do a nice little American, some music, some dancing, because not a single artist has the balls to say, yeah, I'll sing at your inauguration, because they know they will have no career, of which there is almost no career anyway in the music business anymore.
	It's, you know, because of this, because of this shaming.
	Yeah, shaming.
	That's what this is.
	And it's a little bit more...
	It's also anti-male.
	It's about men.
	Yeah, it's about white men.
	What about women?
	There's no women that fall into the category of being skeptical about a lot of this stuff?
	No, John, the whole idea is the patriarchy.
	The patriarchy, and we are the patriarchy, and I have a couple examples.
	Actually, this whole thing was fueled...
	By the Electoral College.
	Now, since we last spoke, of course, the Electoral College voted.
	No one defected for Hillary.
	No, no, they defected for Hillary.
	From, from Hillary.
	Not for.
	Yes, they defected from Hillary.
	Yeah, from Hillary.
	Just, was it three or four?
	I think it was four and there was two against Trump.
	Yeah.
	So that didn't work out.
	But the Electoral College is...
	Now where this is moving...
	Well, now this is moving towards the racism of the Electoral College.
	The system.
	The whole United States is based on racism.
	You have to understand this.
	And Bill O'Reilly...
	And I was like, wow, what are all these news stories about Bill O'Reilly?
	And what did he do?
	And he was like, this is crazy!
	He went on, he's crazy!
	He went crazy with nothing!
	I'm going to have to see this!
	And I'm worried about myself now.
	Why are you worried about yourself?
	Because when I hear this, I think, yeah, there's a lot to what he's saying.
	Which, according to the response, would make me a super racist.
	Okay, here we go.
	As we reported, even though Secretary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million, the progressive state of California provided all of that margin, Clinton defeating Trump thereby about 4.3 million votes.
	So if the Electoral College were abolished, presidential candidates could simply campaign in the nation's largest states and cities, New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, and rack up in a vote to pretty much win any election.
	That's what the left wants.
	That's what they want.
	Because in the large urban areas and blue states like New York and California, minorities are substantial.
	Look at the landscape.
	Philadelphia, Dallas, Fort Worth, Miami.
	In all of these places, the minority vote usually goes heavily to the Democrats.
	And to that New York City, LA and Chicago, San Francisco, don't really have a national election anymore, do you?
	You have targeted populations.
	Newspapers like the New York Times and the LA Times have editorialized to get rid of the Electoral College.
	They well know that neutralizing the largely white rural areas in the Midwest and South will assure liberal politicians get power and keep it.
	Talking Boys believes this is all about race.
	The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with.
	Therefore, white working class voters must be marginalized.
	And what better way to do that than center the voting power in the cities?
	Very few commentators will tell you that the heart of liberalism in America today is based on race.
	It permeates almost every issue.
	That white men have set up a system of oppression.
	That system must be destroyed.
	Bernie Sanders peddled that.
	To some extent, Hillary Clinton did.
	And the liberal media tries to sell that all day long.
	So-called white privilege, bad.
	Diversity, good.
	If you look at the voting patterns, it's clear that the Democrats are heavily reliant on the minority vote.
	Also on the woman vote.
	White men have largely abandoned the Democrats.
	And the left believes this is because of racism.
	That they want to punish minorities, keep them down.
	So that's what's really going on.
	When you hear about the electoral college and how unfair it allegedly is.
	Summing up, left wants power taken away from the white establishment.
	They want a profound change in the way America is run.
	Taking voting power away from the white precincts is the quickest way to do that.
	So, a lot of heads exploded over this.
	And I think it comes pretty close to things we've talked about.
	We haven't specifically talked about the Electoral College being race-based, but what I'm seeing happen is this accusation, which is, hey, Democrats, you want to use this in a racial way to win.
	And that's what I heard, at least.
	And I think there's some truth to that.
	I think there's some truth to that, but I think that's just a primary...
	It's not the real goal here.
	And if you really look at it objectively, the Democrats are pretty racist.
	Let's listen to the rundown, the CNN rundown on Trump.
	Before we do that, can I just play a response to O'Reilly's thing?
	Okay.
	Also from CNN, because my favorite people on...
	It has Kayleigh McEnany arguing with, yes, Angela Rye.
	Did you see Angela Rye?
	There was a video of her at TSA. No, don't know her.
	Yeah, you do.
	She's the girl who used to work for the Black Caucus.
	She was a gopher.
	Oh, no.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, when you hear her, you'll wreck it.
	I play her all the time because she's fabulous.
	And she's all in on the patriarchy being, you know, completely racist.
	And America's built on racism and it's unfair.
	Yeah.
	Shoot, what was I going to say about her?
	I don't remember now, damn it.
	Okay, well you'll hear it and you'll understand what's going on.
	The mistake is for us to continue to act like this is not a country that was built on the oppression of black and brown and Native American people.
	We cannot continue to look past that.
	I have always talked about the troubles of the Electoral College.
	I don't care what the Democratic Party has done or what the Republican Party has done.
	We have to address the fact that systemic oppression and racism is real in this country.
	Bill O'Reilly had it right.
	There is.
	I almost said white.
	He had it that way, too.
	Did you hear that?
	Oh, God.
	I know.
	She's a racist.
	But there is a problem with the white establishment.
	That white establishment is called white supremacy.
	That white supremacy is called racism.
	That racism is called systemic oppression, and it is time for us to call.
	Call it what it is.
	That is rooted.
	The Electoral College is rooted in that system, and we cannot separate three-fifths human.
	The fact that my ancestors were counted as three-fifths as a part of that Electoral College structure.
	Angela, no one is condoning white supremacy.
	That's a horrific ideology.
	There's no place for it in this country.
	It's a very small portion of society that sadly exists that's there.
	Did you hear that?
	What's that?
	Did you hear that?
	Which is, there's no reason for white supremacy.
	We can't condone it except for Bill O'Reilly.
	Did you hear that?
	Yeah, of course I heard it.
	And there's something coming up about that hoaxster guy.
	You know, the guy who does this all the time on YouTube.
	He tries to get kicked off of airplanes for being an A-rab.
	Oh, yeah.
	And he did it again on a Delta flight.
	And, you know, of course, that has now been debunked as a complete hoax.
	But she hasn't gotten the memo yet, Ms.
	CNN. Great.
	Except for Bill O'Reilly.
	It's a very small portion of society that sadly exists that's there.
	But it is being given a megaphone.
	Because people on the left are trying to tie the Trump administration in every way, shape, and form to something that doesn't exist.
	And these white supremacists are being given a megaphone, not by Donald Trump, but by the left, who continually elevates them to be something more significant than they are.
	Kaylee, you can't put that at the feet of Democrats.
	You have to put that at the feet of your candidate.
	There are people who are getting booed off of airplanes, flicked off.
	Which was a hoax we found out.
	That's false.
	That was a YouTube star who makes films about being offensive on police.
	That's false.
	But here's the fact of the matter.
	That's false.
	There was a white man on a Delta flight who acted an absolute ass and did something very similar.
	You have kids chanting, build that wall.
	You have a rise in hate incidents since your candidate was elected.
	You cannot put that at the feet of the left.
	So she's very wound up.
	Very tightly wound.
	Why is she even working for that network?
	Because it's fun to watch when people get into arguments.
	There's no other reason to do it than that.
	I don't find it that much fun anymore.
	Not with somebody that's just screaming at me.
	Well, yeah, okay.
	I mean, of course, they're not programming geniuses over there at CNN. Now, Angela Rye, she's so tightly wound, there was a video of her at TSA, and she was getting a secondary screening, and she has a dress on, and she's very annoyed that this white woman...
	She didn't say that, but you could see was, you know, wanding her and patting her down.
	And she gets so frustrated that she starts crying.
	Yeah, because of course, you know, I'm sure she was being singled out for being black.
	Now, this woman, she has problems.
	And one other thing about the patriarchy and the war on men and the, you know, men, especially white men, are dumb and shut up.
	In the same vein that we were talking about kind of the switch of Republicans being the racist a-holes which came with Norman Lear's Archie Bunker.
	Which for what was it?
	Was it 30 years?
	35 years I think that was on the air?
	Yeah, some time ago.
	And that really established Republicans' Archie Bunker.
	The stupid, shut up, successful white man?
	I think we're looking at Ross from Friends.
	Oh, God.
	Now, he was a smart, white guy, and through all seasons of Friends, whenever he said something, and we go, oh, shut up, Ross!
	Stupid Ross!
	Stupid!
	I think that helped.
	Well, all the television shows helped promote this stuff.
	But I realize, I think we're looking at a distraction, at least for the moment, because I think something else is underway.
	And I've said this before, I'm going to repeat it, but first I want to play these clips.
	This is the CNN rundown, and I stop it at certain moments.
	Of course, it's kind of important to stop it.
	This is the CNN rundown on the Trump election, part one.
	A call throughout the country, but not enough to change what we all knew was going to be the outcome today.
	Donald Trump has prevailed, as you said, Brianna, in the official counting of the electoral votes in states across the country today, making him the 45th president of the United States.
	But just as we saw during the election, even this formality came with plenty of drama.
	No drama.
	Electors may be carrying out their official functions, selecting a president on behalf of the voters they represent today, but they won't be able to heal the political wounds still raw.
	You don't deserve to be in America!
	And on display at state houses across the nation.
	One of those electors in New York, former President Bill Clinton, cast his vote for Hillary Clinton, smiling but candid about the forces he saw conspiring against his wife.
	I watched her...
	That'll show you that bogus email deal.
	That bogus email deal.
	That bogus email deal.
	She fought through everything.
	And she prevailed against it all, but then at the end we had the Russians and the FBI deal.
	She couldn't prevail against that.
	And the FBI deal.
	How come the bogus email deal is separate from the Russians?
	Is it the same thing?
	Well, he's doing a chronological timeline.
	I will say that it has come to my attention that many all-in Hillary supporters have not actually seen any emails, but they totally believe that it's just personal stuff about yoga.
	What?
	Yes.
	I was surprised too, but that was positioned so strongly.
	It was just personal stuff and forget about stupid Republicans on a witch hunt, the vast right-wing conspiracy.
	So they don't even read them.
	It's just personal stuff.
	I don't need to go rooting around in that.
	At the end, we had the Russians and the FBI deal.
	She couldn't prevail against that.
	She did everything else and still won about 2.8 million votes.
	I like it.
	And still, did he say won by 2.8 million votes?
	Yeah.
	Bill Clinton, who won with 40% of the votes.
	Couldn't prevail against that.
	She did everything else.
	And still won by 2.8 million votes.
	Pushing back on those hard feelings, Donald Trump railed against the idea advocated by some Democrats that electors revolt and throw the election to the House of Representatives, tweeting, if my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing, they would be scorned and called terrible names.
	Trump now defends the Electoral College, a system he once slammed as unfair.
	I never appreciated it until now, how genius it was, what they had in mind.
	President Obama told National Public Radio Democrats have bigger problems than an election system he's described as antiquated.
	If we're not showing up, if we're not in there making an argument, then we're going to lose.
	And we can lose badly, and that's what happened in this election.
	That's right.
	Now, here's what I want you to look back on.
	What was the lead-in to Obama's pull quote?
	An election system that he found antiquated, referring to the Electoral College.
	And referring to the Constitution.
	Well, referring specifically to the Electoral College, which is in the Constitution.
	Yes.
	What in Obama's clip that they played to back up the commentary said that at all, even came close?
	I didn't hear him say that at all.
	So they start with the lead in that, oh, Obama found everything, he found the system antiquated, and then they play a clip, which you would expect...
	To be the clip of him saying, boy, this is antiquated.
	Or something to back up what the guy just said.
	But there's nothing in there like that.
	So this is a piece of propaganda.
	This is the old trick where you say, oh, and then he said it was the worst thing he's ever experienced.
	And then he went to a clip.
	The guy says, yeah, you know, and we're going to go to Denver tomorrow.
	Like nothing to do with it.
	Propaganda indeed.
	Good catch.
	So why do you make this assertion?
	And what is the assertion?
	So why do you make...
	Well, hold on.
	If you look at the events that have been taking place, we first...
	We don't honor the flag.
	That turned into we don't honor the national anthem.
	And now the push is for the Constitution.
	It's a very annoying document for the New World Order.
	I take all this and say no.
	This is all distraction.
	It looks great.
	But it's all about the Electoral College, and if you start listening carefully, you'll find papers like the LA Times calling for it being changed, and you find other operations calling for a change, get rid of it, let's go to popular vote.
	And I throw back to this thing I wrote like a long time ago.
	I bring it up all the time.
	The media doesn't like the electoral college.
	Ah, for the advertising.
	Of course.
	It does not distribute the advertising money fairly across the country.
	All right.
	I'm going to give you a point for that.
	Yes.
	Of course I should have known that.
	I'm glad we're both on this show.
	Yes.
	That is the reason we're both on the show.
	Together we have 80% brain.
	It's good.
	Yeah, it's better than most people.
	All right.
	So let's go.
	Anyway, so that is what I think is going on with this Electoral College thing and even that MTV thing.
	I don't think people are...
	Many people are just suckered into meme, you know, parroting what everyone says about it.
	But I think the goal by the major media is to get...
	Possibly get a look at maybe changing it.
	Because here you go.
	Hillary won by 2.8 million votes.
	And by the way, I got a note from someone, I won't mention him, who sends me this Snopes thing.
	Oh, about the hookers?
	No.
	What was that?
	Oh my god.
	I'll tell you in a minute.
	Go ahead.
	Okay, let me finish this.
	So he sends me a Snopes thing.
	He's saying, now, you've been saying California is the reason for the entire electoral college, you know, the reason that Hillary won the 2.8 million votes is because California gave her like 2.9 million more votes than they gave Trump.
	And so it's all California.
	You take California out of the equation and Trump wins the popular vote too.
	That's what I've been saying.
	You've heard it.
	I've said it.
	You agree with me.
	Of course.
	He says, looks like you're wrong, Dvorak.
	And then he sends me a link to Snopes.
	And so Snopes says, is California responsible for the total, you know, the popular vote that got Hillary elected?
	False!
	And it says 4.3 million votes that Hillary got over Trump is blah, blah, blah.
	Not attributed to California because it doesn't add up.
	4.3!
	What did they come up with this?
	Snopes is full of shit!
	Make the note for the bleep.
	So here's the thing.
	Oh yeah, go ahead.
	So I sent him back the actual numbers that had been calculated on one of the independent sites, and it is about 2.7, 2.8 million, and you can attribute all of it if you want to to California.
	So Snopes is actually twisting the truth to make a point that, what is wrong with these guys?
	Are they just a bunch of stooges?
	Well...
	Let me share with you, allow me to share with you a story about a lawsuit between the guy who started Snopes along with his wife, now ex-wife.
	This is from, here we go.
	This was in, I guess, legal documents came out.
	And she is, she wants, obviously she wants money.
	But she's saying, you know, he divorced her and then he hooked up with a porn star.
	Who, I don't know if he's married to her, but I guess they're living together.
	But he had, according to her, he had embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on hookers.
	That's a lot of hookers, by the way.
	98,000.
	98,000.
	Yeah, but check this out.
	Just do the addition on how many hookers.
	There must be just one or two hookers that were gouging him.
	That's all I can imagine.
	He wanted to, he felt that he was underpaid by industry standard.
	He can waste $98,000 on hookers.
	You're not underpaid by any standards.
	Wait for it.
	He wanted to up his salary from $240,000 a year to $360,000 a year.
	Now, I ask you, where is that money coming from?
	Because if you go to Snopes.com and you go to their FAQ, and you'll see here, where does your money come from?
	Here it is.
	I'm looking at it right now.
	Urban Legends.
	No.
	Usual words.
	Sanitized version for kids.
	Where is it?
	Basically...
	Are you funded by George Soros?
	Who pays to maintain the site?
	Snopes.com is and always has been a completely independent entity who is wholly owned by its operators and receives no funding in any form.
	We have no financiers, sponsors, investors, partners or donors, nor do we have any affiliation or relationship, financial or otherwise, with any political party, religious group, business organization, government agency or any outside group of persons.
	We pay all the costs of producing and operating this website ourselves and derive our income solely from the advertising revenue it provides, which is Google AdSense.
	So you're telling me that they're doing that kind of money from Google AdSense?
	That's a lot of money.
	It seems unlikely.
	It seems highly unlikely.
	And if you just look at the page, where are the ads?
	Oh wait, let me turn off my ad blocker, that'll help.
	No, I did check it.
	It's like, you know, where are the ads?
	I've never even seen an ad on Snopes.
	There's, I see one.
	I see one on, oh yeah, okay, I see MBAs.
	It's just like some banner ads, which is garbage inventory.
	Garbage!
	But, of course, they are number three on the list of the International Fact Check Network, along with ABC News and AP. So, congratulations.
	Hookers and blow for Fact Check Network.
	Fact Check False.
	Yeah, definitely Fact Check False.
	So, anyway, so I sent the guy back his note with, here's the real numbers.
	Where does Snopes get 4.3?
	Yeah.
	And it was just obviously a political, it was slanted.
	And I've noticed this years ago with the Al Gore comment where, you know, it says he invented the internet.
	And so they said, no, he never said that.
	And then they parsed it.
	You can look it up yourself.
	But they parsed it and it was, no, he still said it.
	He just didn't use a certain word anymore.
	I invented the internet.
	I think he said we invented the internet or when I invented the internet.
	I can't remember, but it's in there and it's wrong.
	The quote is available.
	You can go onto YouTube and get it anytime you want.
	Yes, I would love to.
	Trump's top advisors are still tearing into the notion that Russian hackers tipped the balance in the election.
	The entire nonsense about the electors trying to use the Russian hacking issue to change the election results is really unfortunate.
	I think that actually undermines our democracy more than any other conversation that we're having.
	There's no evidence.
	That shows that the outcome of the election was changed because of a couple dozen John Podesta emails that were out there.
	But even a fellow Republican, Senator John McCain, said Moscow's interference is a troubling sign of the times.
	This is the sign of a possible unraveling of the world order that was established after World War II, which has made one of the most peaceful periods in the history of the world.
	What?
	What happened to Cold War I? The most peaceful period.
	We've had the Korean War, which he was in.
	We had the Vietnam War.
	We had Afghanistan.
	The Russians in Afghanistan.
	You can go to the Wikipedia test.
	To be honest, McCain didn't actually fight, so he thought it was peacetime.
	I know, that was bad.
	I do think, by the way, I do think.
	I do believe.
	I do believe.
	McCain is always showing up in these types of clips.
	We have not had peace from 1945 to today.
	We're in wars all over the place still, and there's other skirmishes going on that don't involve us.
	My daughter has been at war country since birth.
	And so here we go.
	So McCain's full of crap, as usual, because he's promoting the idea.
	I just had to conclude this, and I feel bad about it.
	When McCain was a prisoner in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, he developed such a deep-rooted hatred for the Russians, because this was the North Korean and South Korean war was a Russian proxy war.
	And he knew it.
	All the officers knew it.
	Hold on.
	I don't think most people know this.
	This is worth...
	Taking a quick little side journey to explain how that was a proxy.
	I don't think many people know this, John.
	Well, it was.
	Okay, and we're good to go.
	I'm done.
	What was it about?
	You can look it up or you can study it, but it was a Russian proxy war.
	The Russians were using the North Korean...
	They were giving them the arms they needed and all the rest of it.
	Right.
	So they could get...
	It was a proxy war between us and Russia.
	And a lot of boys died.
	And a lot of people died and...
	McCain in the Prisoner of War, where I'm sure he was tortured and wasn't good for him, and still can't lift his arms, I believe that's true.
	I think he's had this grudge against the Russians that he would just as soon see an all-out nuclear war with both countries going down in flames just to get back at the Russians for what he perceives as what they did to him in that Prisoner of War campaign.
	He may have an ideological...
	Reasoning behind it, but ultimately it's about a lot of money.
	There's a lot of money, but you can make money a lot of different ways.
	Yeah.
	And he can make money a lot of different ways other than just helping feed the military-industrial complex.
	He doesn't need any more money.
	He's got seven houses.
	We could make a lot of money doing fact-checking and have hookers.
	I mean, we are in the wrong business.
	Yeah.
	All right, clip three.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Trump tried to turn the subject to China over the weekend after the Chinese Navy intercepted an underwater U.S. drone, tweeting, let them keep it.
	I don't know if you'd want that drone back.
	I mean, who knows?
	But it's not Trump's relationship with China that's got the attention of Saturday Night Live.
	Vladimir, this is such a great surprise.
	What are you doing here?
	I was just in town, you know, hiding in the walls.
	It's so great to finally get a chance to talk in person.
	I composed an email to you, but I haven't even sent it yet.
	I know.
	And sticking to his pattern of placing the super-rich in several top positions in his administration, the president-elect tapped pro-hockey team owner and military veteran Vincent Viola for secretary of the Army.
	But Viola is already picking up bipartisan support, including from the incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
	Brianna, this pick is not turning out to be very controversial at all.
	No, it is not.
	All right, Jim Acosta, thank you so much.
	Exactly.
	Why talk about it?
	All right.
	Shoot.
	All right, now...
	So I think that, so Trump got in, there wasn't any of this, I had people that were going to bet me on this one too.
	Oh, that the electoral college would not vote him in?
	Yeah, but it was going to be.
	Were these your journalist friends again?
	Yeah, I was going to give me huge odds.
	And do you ever say to them...
	I did this time.
	I said, I'm not stealing any more of your money.
	No, no, no.
	Did you ever say you might want to consider trying to be objective as a journalist, or was that just falling on deaf ears?
	Oh, no, that's not even worth mentioning.
	But everybody in the community knows what's going on.
	It's not like there's a...
	I mean, I remember I told a story before on the show where I was giving...
	I was up in Minnesota giving...
	It was in Michigan, upper part of Michigan.
	And giving a talk to a bunch of...
	A small newspaper organization had a bunch of...
	They had a bunch of papers, like 30 or 40 of these little papers.
	And I gave a speech that was just falling on deaf ears about everything.
	Everything, about the business, about the slant and all the rest.
	And I actually asked the audience, how many people here are Democrats?
	You can be honest.
	And like 99% of the people raised their hands.
	And I said, how many Republicans?
	Nobody raised their hand.
	Guy comes up afterwards, he says, I'm a Republican, but I wasn't going to raise my hand under any circumstances, and you can see why.
	Yes, you never work in this town again.
	Yeah, so...
	So that's that.
	I was going to play two clips that fold into this.
	One, I have a longer version, just because it's so funny to listen to, of Wisconsin, when the electoral college, when the electoral voters, the electors, when they unanimously decided for Trump, I mean, it was so weird.
	I've never heard adults do that.
	Shame.
	Shame.
	When did this...
	What are they saying?
	Shame for the people obeying the laws and voting for their candidate?
	Yeah, and if you listen to this person who's very, very angry, she said, you don't deserve to be an American, you don't belong in America, this is my America, and meanwhile the chorus, the crowd is chanting, shame, shame.
	Wait, is he shouting shame at the woman or shame at the people voting?
	At the people voting.
	Okay.
	You don't deserve to be in America!
	This is my America!
	This is my America!
	My America!
	Take me out if you like!
	This is my America!
	You have sold us out!
	Listen to your heart!
	Listen to the facts!
	Listen to all of it!
	Can I take my feet with me?
	Take me!
	You know what it reminds me of?
	Holy crap, it sounds like a scene from Animal House.
	No, it was more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, even better.
	I agree.
	Shame.
	Shame.
	And then all of a sudden, like, ah!
	Yeah, awesome.
	And they eat you.
	Great!
	Well, shame or not, it's over.
	Wow, I'm going to give you a Borderline Clip of the Day.
	I never heard that clip.
	Oh, thank you.
	It was in your clip, a little piece.
	Actually, MSNBC aired it, which was the funniest thing.
	They aired it live.
	Breaking news.
	Yeah.
	Now, I have...
	Live from Wisconsin.
	People yelling shame.
	Shame.
	That should be a ringtone.
	Shame.
	Shame.
	Is it from Game of Thrones?
	Oh, I'm reading in the chat room.
	Ever so helpful.
	Is that from Game of Thrones?
	They do that?
	I don't know.
	I don't watch Game of Thrones.
	I'm like one of the two people that don't watch.
	I'm the other person.
	Yeah.
	I'm the other person.
	Okay.
	Well, we'll find out.
	Max Geiser.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	So let me get this straight.
	So these people are so vapid that they're taking punchlines and I guess kind of commentary lines or whatever kind of lines we're going to say they are from a TV show that's on cable?
	Apparently.
	The Circe walk scene, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
	And they're all yelling shame, shame, shame.
	And that's what they're doing.
	So that is how shallow and banal they are.
	Unbelievable.
	Wow, I didn't know that.
	Someone has to make a mash-up, a mix of that.
	That's terrible.
	It's pathetic.
	Max Keiser had Paul Craig Roberts on his show.
	Paul Craig Roberts.
	I'm sorry, I missed a little bit of that.
	Max Keiser had Paul Craig Roberts on his show, who was former...
	Oh yeah, Paul Craig Roberts is a really interesting guy to read.
	Yes, and he considers himself alternative media.
	He was Assistant Secretary of State, I think?
	Or Commerce or something.
	Yeah, or Treasury.
	Treasury.
	Treasury, right.
	He's a Treasury guy.
	And that was during the Reagan era.
	And so he witnessed a lot of stuff during the Reagan era.
	He's been around.
	He has a lot of smart things to say.
	Of course, he is considered by the mainstream a super-duper crackpot.
	Because I think he speaks the truth.
	But he was talking about Trump, the military-industrial complex, and how they were probably not happy with him.
	And then CIA. And I've shortened this up into two minutes to give you a little taste of what he's thinking.
	Many progressives backed the coup in Egypt to oust the Muslim Brotherhood, and now they've backed the Electoral College coup to oust Trump.
	So is democracy officially nearing an end?
	I don't think it exists anywhere in the West.
	You know, what would happen, for example, if Marine Le Pen were to win the French election?
	There's a good chance she'd be assassinated.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Why are the CIA going to let somebody hostile come the president of France?
	Let me ask you this, because Trump is saying that the CIA is full of bunk.
	He's saying that the NSA intelligence is worthless.
	You know, he's saying, don't listen to these guys.
	And, well, he's going to be president of the United States.
	So what happened?
	Are they risking their entire careers to try to oust him now?
	And does that indicate that they're serious about this?
	They're very serious.
	Either they are confident they're going to pull off a coup, or else they're setting him up for an assassination.
	Now, you're a former assistant secretary under the Reagan administration.
	You don't throw around these terms lightly.
	I mean, that's a pretty serious...
	Max, you know as well as I do, the CIA is assassinating people all the damn time.
	I mean, look at all the governments we've overthrown.
	It's just common knowledge.
	Just go read the book, The Brothers, about John Foster and Alan Dulles.
	And you'll see, this is where they were operating a half a century ago.
	They're a lot worse now.
	So I think, yes, because, you know, if you create what they're doing, they have created in the minds of some Americans the notion that Russia is a dangerous enemy.
	And now they're associating Trump with a dangerous enemy.
	So this makes a certain part of the population, particularly the really patriotic, not too knowledgeable part of the population, say, oh, well, he's working for Russians.
	And so it's entirely possible that they're setting him up.
	Now, if they assassinate him, they can pull up some right-wing stooge who was upset about the Russian agent president.
	So just like they pull up Oswald for Kennedy, just like they pull up that guy from Martin Luther King, they always have somebody they can say did it.
	So I think it's a serious situation.
	The only explanation, Max, for this is either they are going to have the electors vote him down or they're going to assassinate him.
	That's pretty binary.
	Ed, this of course explains why Trump has a lot of his own security people.
	They're all special forces.
	But man, I mean, when you think about...
	He's surrounded by generals.
	But you know who we have to be careful for now?
	There's obviously one person who we have to be very, very careful of in this.
	Alex Baldwin?
	Melania.
	Oh, yeah.
	Considering Jackie shot JFK, you know.
	Yeah, if you look at those videos again with Jackie and JFK, it's the worst.
	Right.
	This makes me think about the broadcast networks and the news media that's in pretty much up to their...
	neck in CIA connections.
	Yeah.
	And that would be the Washington Post and New York Times and NBC and CBS.
	CBS, but it seems to be more of a cooperation thing, but NBC seems to be run by the place.
	And NBC keeps doing this last Saturday Night Live bit with Alex Baldwin and Putin in this Putin character in the skit as if they're good buddies or they're going to be.
	This is, I think, helping to massage the public to thinking that, well, maybe he's a little too cozy with Russia because it's When I hear this stuff, I'm thinking of the major media, which is NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, which are all considered kind of knee deep in CIA intrigue.
	And then I think about that piece of that Clip from Saturday Night Live, which is an NBC program where they show Trump, and they're doing this every week.
	Trump and, you know, pretty much, I bet you there's going to be one of these soon.
	This last one had Putin, a Putin character in it with shirtless.
	And I'll bet you there's going to be a bit coming up where they're going to be literally in bed together.
	Red Book, I think you're right.
	Yeah, Red Book.
	They're going to be in bed together, you're right.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	With Angela Merkel somehow.
	They're going to put Angela in there just as a joke.
	Or she'd be sitting in the corner of the chair.
	So I think they're massaging the public to get us used to the fact that, you know, this is not a it's not healthy to be this friendly with Russia, even though it would be financially a good thing and it would be better for world peace.
	But nobody and the Democrats in particular don't care about world.
	When I was a kid.
	Oh, here we go, everybody.
	When I was a kid and right through college, the whole thing was about world peace.
	Yeah, we had, I mean, Carter with SALT. We had, what was the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty or something?
	We had SALT II. And then, you know, yeah, everyone was trying to make peace with Russia.
	And here we are, we seem to be trying to get to war with them before January 20th.
	At least that's what it appears to be.
	It appears to be.
	No, it's not healthy at all.
	None of this is healthy.
	So there's a couple...
	Go ahead.
	Well, I was going to say, I do have a kind of a connecting clip, which is this, again, NBC. I didn't see this anyplace else.
	Do you know about the red phone incident?
	You have heard about it?
	Let's...
	This is what happened, I guess, a couple of days before the election, and it seems like a bogus story to me, and it was kind of critical of everybody, but it was as if the Russians are really...
	We have to do something about it.
	This is Red Phone Clip 1.
	Reporting on Russian cyber tampering in this country, we've learned that eight days before the election, the White House used the so-called Red Phone, a direct and rarely used crisis line to Moscow, established during the Cold War, to issue a stern warning to the Russian government.
	Tonight, NBC News senior investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden has exclusive details.
	By the afternoon of October 31st, Halloween, when ghosts and goblins were welcomed to the White House, another kind of drama had already played itself out.
	Two senior intelligence officials, both nonpartisan career officers, tell NBC News that morning began with a highly classified and unusual event at 8.30.
	What was that?
	It just ended.
	John?
	It said a highly classified event at the beginning.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it continues on clip two.
	Okay.
	With a highly classified and unusual event.
	Oh, wait, wait, wait.
	With a highly classified.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	The reason I stopped it there at that clip, because usually when I do this, because there's a question.
	In this case, there was two.
	It began with a highly classified and unusual event, is what she said, to end that first part of the clip.
	Yes, yeah.
	How did they get the information if it's highly classified?
	Hold on a second.
	Obama has been throwing everybody in jail, left and right, whistleblowers and everybody in between.
	All these guys who booted from these various agencies, they bitch and moan about it.
	They can't even look at a reporter, let alone talk to one.
	How did they get this information if it's highly classified?
	Same way they got the highly classified consensus on the 17 intelligence agencies that Russia did something.
	These are the questions we need to ask.
	Very good, John.
	Very good.
	I totally agree.
	She makes a point of saying highly classified.
	If it's highly classified, they have zero access to it, and nobody's going to talk to them.
	So this is a government leak of some sort.
	It's bullcrap, and they got to report it as highly classified, which is probably illegal by today's really weak standards.
	Isn't picking up the red phone almost an act of war by itself?
	Yeah, well, here's what's funny.
	In the second half of this clip, you'll hear that the red phone doesn't exist.
	And it's not red, I'm guessing.
	And it's not red.
	It's an old teletype.
	With punch cards?
	No, you have to type it.
	But have you ever used one of these old teletypes?
	No, you can't type that.
	It's a long throw key.
	And you have to push real hard on it individually.
	The key throw, I don't know if you've ever used it.
	No, no, I've not used it.
	It's about almost like, I would say, at least a half inch.
	It's a little round key that goes up in there.
	It's like a regular keyboard, but these are round keys.
	And they have a huge throw.
	The travel, yeah.
	Yeah, the travel.
	It's just like you've got to push down and hard to get the thing to work.
	Because it's punching the tape, the ticker tape, isn't it?
	I guess it's punching something.
	I think so.
	I can do teletype on my ham radio, but I didn't know that that is their red phone.
	Well, I can't wait to hear it.
	With a highly classified and unusual event at 830, using the so-called red phone system, a direct link to the Kremlin, a message was transmitted telling the Russians that the U.S. would consider any interference on election day a grave matter.
	Why was the administration so concerned?
	They believe the widespread attack on the Internet on October 21st, blocking millions of Americans from popular websites, was a possible dry run for a massive attack by the Russians on Election Day, maybe even pulling down the electrical grid.
	It spooked the White House.
	So a week later, they used the red phone system.
	So she's saying that because the fear was the Russians were going to bring down our grid, that's why they had to use the red phone.
	Is that part of the leak, that intel that we just received there?
	Apparently.
	And now here's the question you have to ask.
	If the Russians did anything that was onerous like this just before the election, would that throw the election to Trump or just the opposite?
	Thank you very much.
	So this makes zero sense.
	Sir Jeff Smith is back.
	Thank you.
	Is he good or what?
	He's the best.
	All right, here we go.
	They used the red phone system, as is done in moments of crisis like 9-11 and the day the U.S. entered Baghdad.
	Numerous intelligence officials say the very use of the red phone, the nuclear risk reduction center line, communicated via secure satellite how serious the situation is.
	It's extremely unusual, and it doing so sends a signal unto itself.
	So it's a dramatic step to pick that phone up and use.
	A teletype link, dubbed the red phone, was put in place 53 years ago in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. and Russia came to the brink of nuclear war.
	This hotline was used to prevent misunderstanding in a nuclear age.
	The call came a month after the president's face-to-face with Vladimir Putin at the G20 in China.
	A senior intelligence official tells NBC News he believes the message to the Russians in that final Halloween transmission ended up muddled, containing no bright line and no clear warning about the consequences.
	The Russian response, said the official, was noncommittal.
	Based on what we know now, I would say that our response was insufficient to achieve the objective of ensuring that we do not receive further attacks.
	In other words, when someone tries to bully you, you have to push back or you invite further response.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Back it up just a little bit.
	First of all, there was no further response.
	There was no response at all.
	So what is he talking about having to bully?
	We should have been harsher.
	We should have been more tough when nothing came of it.
	If something came of it, then I think you could make that argument.
	But nothing came of it.
	So why is this guy spouting off?
	What is his point?
	Now, the end of this clip, it makes the whole clip, the entire, both clips, and the entire story moot.
	It is...
	It is...
	There was no nothing, there was no there there, I'll use that.
	Okay.
	From what we know now, I would say that our response was insufficient to achieve the objective of ensuring that we do not receive further attacks.
	In other words, when someone tries to bully you, you have to push back or you invite further response.
	The intelligence community is still not certain who orchestrated that massive internet denial of service on October 21st, but intelligence sources tell us they now believe it was not the Russians.
	This match is clear.
	There is no intelligence suggesting that the Russians or anyone else meddled in any way in the voting systems or critical infrastructure on Election Day.
	All right, Cynthia.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	I missed this memo.
	Yeah, they slip it in at the end, hoping people are so falling, half falling asleep, so you don't notice that what she said was the entire exercise that we just discussed as a story was just nothing, because the Russians weren't involved in any of it, and they weren't involved in the hacking, they weren't involved in the big collapse, they weren't involved, and so you're making up stuff, oh, they're gonna go after the electric grid.
	My goodness.
	This is NBC. Hold on!
	Clip of the day.
	And half of that clip of the day is for the correct usage of teletype.
	I love that, don't you?
	Isn't teletype like 75 baud or something?
	It's one of the slowest things, slowest methods of communication.
	Hey, it's going very fast, but if you consider how long that damn button takes to push to get one key, you could do it 10 baud, it would be faster.
	So I do have a story about the power grid, because this apparently is going to be slipped into a lot of stories.
	Ah, yes.
	The Russians are going to bring down the power grid.
	Sure.
	It was slipped into that story, and the Russians were blamed.
	Yeah.
	A test run, test run, test run of bringing down the grid.
	A test run, and we're going to have to use the red phone and all the rest of it.
	And they said, well, it turns out they didn't do anything.
	So now we have another power grid story, and this one again incites, and I believe this is on CBS, but it could be another NBC story, but let's play it, I'll figure it out when we go.
	Nearly a quarter of a million people lost power in this small Ukrainian city when it was targeted by a suspected Russian attack last December.
	Oh, God.
	Vassal Pemchuk is the Electric Control Center manager and told us when hackers took over their computers, all his workers could do was film it with their cell phones.
	It was illogical and chaotic, he told us.
	It seemed like something in a Hollywood movie.
	The hackers sent emails with infected attachments to power company employees, stealing their login credentials and then taking control of the grid systems to cut the cell breakers at nearly 60 substations.
	The suspected motive for the attack is the war in eastern Ukraine.
	Where Russian-backed separatists are fighting against Ukrainian government forces.
	But hackers could launch a similar attack in the U.S. You can't just look at the Ukraine attack and go, oh, we're safe against that attack.
	Even if we just lose a portion, right?
	If we have New York City or Washington, D.C. go down for a day, two days, a week, how does life look like at that point?
	Rob Lee is a former cyber warfare operations officer in the US military and investigated the Ukraine attack.
	He told us some US electric utilities have weaker security than Ukraine.
	And the malicious software the hackers used has already been detected in the US. It's very concerning that these same actors using similar capabilities and tradecraft are preparing and are getting access to these business networks and getting access to portions of the power grid.
	I am so...
	I said to Tina the other day, I'm so tired.
	I'm so tired of turning on the television and knowing that it's all just a message.
	It's all a message.
	And, you know, it was hard to believe 10 years ago, even though evidence was there, certainly in the past.
	You don't want to believe it.
	No, you really don't.
	But then it just it seems so obvious.
	And, you know, now that and I think, you know, in hindsight, even more correct about the Electoral College being related to advertising for the mainstream media, because their biggest problem is revenue.
	They have huge problems with viewership.
	The people who still watch are dying.
	They're getting old and dying.
	They can only sell pharmaceuticals and some cars.
	Well, now I'm going to stop you there.
	Because I put this on the show before and I still maintain that that old audience that you're talking about has been...
	Bread as such, developed as such, so they can sell pharmaceuticals.
	Oh, well, of course.
	Their bodies have been conditioned.
	But you'd want an old audience that's going to buy these overpriced drugs because they're going to die anyway, so you can afford them.
	And that's a huge moneymaker.
	Drug companies are just paying.
	And they sell you the reverse mortgage to pay for it.
	Exactly.
	That's the same thing.
	Perfect system.
	Perfect system.
	All right.
	What's in clip two?
	More of the same, but this time they kind of try to scare us even more.
	And by the way, let's back up again.
	That was a phishing attack.
	Yes.
	That some idiot.
	And it tells me, are the schools teaching kids how to read email?
	Is there anything in the curriculum?
	Or are we supposed to just know this naturally that when someone says, oh, you need to change your password and it just A company that seems to spell things wrong.
	And if you check the links and none of them make any sense.
	Oh, you mean being able to detect scams and stuff like that?
	My kid can.
	Your kids can.
	Yeah, great.
	They got burned once, maybe, and then they don't forget.
	They remember.
	They know how to hover and look at the link underneath.
	Yeah, of course.
	But even that's not adequate.
	You just don't do any of that stuff.
	If somebody, out of the blue, asks you to do something like that, unless you're doing it, if you're in the process, if I'm on PayPal, and I'm doing something on PayPal, and PayPal stops me in the process and tells me, well, you're going to have to provide...
	I use VPNs a lot, so it doesn't look right, what you're doing.
	Then I get into a dialogue with them, but that's not the same as getting an email.
	Oh, you mean PayPal gets on your case about it?
	Not often, but they did recently.
	So not my main account, but one of my little private accounts that I came in from.
	What do you buy with your little private account?
	Stuff on Amazon.
	I mean, what do I buy on the private account?
	It's just, you know.
	I don't know.
	I was just curious.
	No, I don't.
	All right.
	Fine.
	Power Grid 2.
	That's what you wanted me to say.
	Yes, that's true.
	In Ukraine, they restarted the power in just hours.
	What?
	But in attacking the U.S.
	Let me hear that again.
	In Ukraine, they restarted the power in just hours.
	But in D.C. it could be down for a week because we're no good.
	We're no good.
	In Ukraine, they restarted the power in just hours.
	But an attack in the U.S. could leave people without electricity for days or even weeks, according to experts.
	Because, ironically, Scott, America's advanced automated grid would be much harder to fix.
	Advanced automated grid.
	Okay.
	Ironically, Scott.
	So, Scott Pelley, that was CBS's report, trying to scare the public.
	Unbelievable, man.
	And it's anti-Russian.
	This is a bad thing we're witnessing.
	Yes.
	No, it truly is a bad thing.
	Oh, my God.
	There's a...
	Oh, well, here we go.
	You've got something going on and you need a distraction called Clooney.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I thought you got this.
	Before you go to the Clooney clip, I just want to mention that In the world of cyber whatever, the Ukrainians are some of the worst criminals and probably just hacked themselves, one.
	Two, as I mentioned before, when I went to visit Cloudflare, most of the international hacks that are taking place, whether it's phishing or anything else, comes from Iran.
	I mentioned it before, just so you know.
	It's not a clip, but Clooney has partnered with With Grant Hesloff, who I think did a documentary about the White Helmets, and now Clooney's going to make a movie.
	Yeah.
	I think it's a fictional film about the White Helmets.
	Of course!
	Yeah.
	Well, if there's one thing Clooney knows how to do, it's how to get money to make a movie.
	Yes.
	Well, he's good at that.
	He's very good at that.
	And he's good at making decent movies.
	Yes.
	There is...
	There was something interesting that popped up that Qatar and Russia...
	Are working on a deal together.
	And I believe it is...
	They might be selling off a piece of Rosneft.
	But that would be very interesting for the Syria situation, taking into account that this really all started with the pipeline that Qatar wanted to run up to Turkey, that Assad said, nah, that's alright, I'll take the one from Iraq, Iran, and Russia.
	I'll take that one, don't worry about it.
	We'll pump our own gas up to Cyprus.
	And that, of course, is the genesis of a lot of what happened.
	It's the genesis of everything.
	It is, it really is.
	But if the Russians do a deal with Qatar, maybe they can work something out.
	Maybe.
	Very interesting.
	It's possible.
	Very interesting.
	I know they're cutting out John Kerry from any of these discussions taking place for about anything.
	He's a moron.
	It's no good.
	It's just no good.
	Kirby has to apologize.
	I don't have any clips of Kirby, but Kirby's apologizing in front of the press corps saying, well, we weren't really cut out.
	I know, we weren't invited, but, you know, and he was making all these excuses, and he was handling it pretty well.
	Instead of, you know, I don't know what else you could do.
	It's not much.
	If you're not invited to the party, you can't go to the party.
	You could go to the party, but then you'd be an interloper.
	Well, the United Nations Security Council has adopted Resolution 2328 demanding immediate unhindered access for observation of monitoring civilian evacuations from Aleppo.
	This is obviously the setup, the start.
	Because the next one will be, hey, we got to go have a no-fly zone and kill everybody and bomb and fight the Russians.
	I don't know what they're thinking.
	But none of it bodes well.
	I do have a clip before we get to the next segment, the C-block, that was kind of interesting.
	This was on RT, of course, because RT has a completely different narrative than the American public is being fed in regards to Aleppo.
	The American narrative and the British narrative, but only two narratives.
	Really, everybody else is pretty objective, except the Americans and the British who claim that Eastern Aleppo is being bombed, specifically the hospitals are being bombed and shelled by the Russians and the government troops to kill the civilians, and if anything happens in Western Aleppo where there's peace, kind of, it's because of the Russian bombers, not the...
	the rebels in eastern Aleppo firing shells.
	Right.
	And the rebels in eastern Aleppo wouldn't let anyone leave and all this stuff.
	No, no, no.
	It was the Syrian government.
	They wouldn't let anyone leave and they wanted to kill them all.
	Although they didn't want to kill anyone in western Aleppo.
	But yes, they did because they were bombing hospitals.
	The whole thing is just that it makes zero sense narrative being pushed on the UK and American audiences by the media for whatever reason.
	We don't know what is some anti-Russian thing is what we have to assume.
	So an Anglican priest from the UK who seemed pretty objective decided to go to Aleppo.
	The western, not eastern.
	He can't get in there.
	The eastern is destroyed.
	So he goes to Aleppo and he comes back with a report that I think...
	He was kind of stunned by the fact that everyone he talked to had the RT narrative and none of the UK narrative.
	And they love Pooine.
	They love Putin.
	Yeah, they love Putin.
	In Britain and Europe, certainly.
	The message is very, very one-sided.
	I mean, almost exclusively we're hearing from so-called rebel sources within East Aleppo.
	And I had the opportunity to go independently, and of course at my own expense, to go and see some people telling...
	Consistent stories of the brutality that they've experienced at the hands of the rebels.
	The West Aleppo, which has been bombarded almost daily from rockets and shells from the terrorist positions.
	Very fortunate to go and visit areas of East Aleppo liberated within the last few days, and also to visit a couple of reception centers for refugees who have just arrived.
	They're coming with Ah.
	Yeah, I saw some video.
	Big shock.
	Yeah, Western Aleppo, everything's not bombed.
	Everyone looks pretty happy.
	Yeah, there's cars on the street.
	Yeah, there's vendors on the street, people eating food on the street.
	And of course, then we have that Egyptian guy that comes into the picture.
	I do have a very short clip about him.
	This is all over the Twitters and every place.
	This guy staging phony baloney photos, which doesn't help the situation.
	Well, from the real Siri there to a fake one, because an Egyptian filmmaker has been charged with spreading false information after he was caught staging pictures to show wounded children in Aleppo to be spread on social media.
	You can stop it.
	This is my pet peeve.
	Fake news.
	Another fake news.
	Well, yes.
	I'm going to take this into the C block with a clip that I think really brings us there.
	More Russian hacking, but this time it hasn't been positioned that way, but man, we are affecting the American economy!
	If you want to consider Facebook to be a part of the economy.
	The firm that's releasing this report is called White Ops.
	They're a cybersecurity firm.
	They specialize in the digital ad industry.
	And what they're saying here is that there is significant fraud right at the heart of the digital video advertising industry.
	They're saying that they have a massive botnet operating, they believe, out of Russia that is defrauding major advertisers and ad buyers to the tune of $3 to $5 million.
	Now, I just want to stop for a second before you, because he's going to explain it incorrectly.
	This is something that's been going on for 10 years at least.
	It's called arbitrage.
	And this is usually done by Silicon Valley startups who are coming up on a board meeting.
	We've got to show our metrics, because of course you're not making any money.
	Not really.
	And so what they do is they go out and they, you know, of course you have your advertising slots where stuff's going to show on your page or in your video.
	And you go out to a company and you say, okay, I need 100,000 views a day.
	And you pay them $5 per thousand views.
	Views.
	And you turn around and you charge the advertisers, through the advertising network, $7.
	And the $2 in between is what you keep.
	And you keep that and then you make more cheap content for $0.25.
	You keep $1.75 per 1,000 views.
	It's a very simple system.
	And they may be blaming this on Russia, but this is happening in the United States mainly.
	In most...
	And most of the companies that you do business with are not in Russia.
	No, they're in America.
	Yeah.
	They're in America.
	How's Russia getting involved in this?
	It makes zero sense.
	Another story that it has no logical sense.
	I don't mind blaming Russia for something they did.
	Let's listen to the report.
	A billion dollars a day.
	Now, you can think of this as sort of the high-frequency trading fraud of the digital advertising industry.
	No, it has nothing to do...
	What does he say here?
	Hold on a second.
	Think of this as sort of the high frequency trading fraud.
	He's saying it's like the high frequency trading fraud.
	High frequency trading is not a fraud.
	No, it's not a fraud at all.
	It may not be good, but it's not a fraud.
	It's a mechanism that people use to make money.
	It's just micro cents.
	So he doesn't even know.
	That's what he's talking about.
	...of the digital advertising industry.
	The digital advertising industry works by an automated exchange that matches buyers and sellers in real time as users click on impressions.
	And what they're saying in this new white paper that was out at 9...
	As users click on impressions.
	What is that?
	What does that mean?
	What does users click on impressions?
	Bulls is bull crap.
	Who is this guy?
	Where is this from?
	Where did you get this?
	I think it's CNN. I think.
	I didn't notate it.
	Industry works by an automated exchange that matches buyers and sellers in real time as users click on impressions.
	And what they're saying in this new white paper that was out at 9 o'clock this morning is that ultimately the botnet here has been able to defraud the exchange by placing fake ads into the exchange and then collecting the money from advertisers.
	No, no, no.
	Fake ads?
	He's a dick.
	It's a fake ad, and how do you make money from that?
	Of course, he's an idiot.
	They take real ads, put them on their bullcrap sites that no one looks at, except for the botnets they unleash.
	That's what it is.
	Advertisers are paying for ads that are ultimately not being viewed by real human beings here.
	They say that as many as 300 million fake ad views a day are being made by this botnet.
	So it's a massive fraud.
	But we should note, Carl, that there's basically one firm here, White Ops, which is making this allegation.
	We'll have to see whether other cybersecurity firms can verify this allegation and what the advertising industry has to say about it later on this morning.
	Yes, and who benefits from this?
	Who benefits?
	Mainstream!
	Television benefits from this.
	Oh, you really don't want to be putting your stuff on FaceBag or on the YouTubes because, you know, it's all fake.
	Everything's fake.
	The whole world is fake.
	The news is fake.
	The ads are fake.
	The viewers are fake.
	The only thing real...
	Is this show.
	And we don't want to talk about native ads at all.
	Oh, I have a great one for you coming up later on.
	But first, I want to say in the morning to you, thank you for your courage, John C. This is E stands for Coming to Los Angeles for a Meetup.
	Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all the ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, and yes, that's what it means.
	Subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the chat room, marginally helpful today, but good to have you there at noagendastream.com.
	And in the morning to Comic Strip Blogger, who brought us the artwork for episode 887, a title that was Fact Checkmate, and he brought us the Darth Vader, the Russians did it, which I think was, we liked that a lot because it really worked.
	It was very funny.
	Yeah, it worked well for the release of the movie and, of course, for the Russians being responsible for everything.
	So unlike the fake ads, the real ads that are just not seen by people, there are real people who contribute to this program.
	They do it like our artists, noagendaartgenerator.com.
	They give, again, tons of clips.
	People are helping out.
	And, of course, financial means is also a big help.
	And it's really cool how everyone just jumped in on the 888 for good measure, good luck, I guess.
	Yeah, that's what I'm guessing.
	Thank you.
	Alright, let's start off with our big donation for today, which is 123.
	No, 1234.56.
	Wow.
	He said we can use his name, Roger Anonymous.
	Okay.
	And he...
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	But the joke is, at least it's kind of a joke, he's been doing this exact same donation for the last five years.
	Holy crap.
	Yes, once a year.
	He does a one-time donation.
	That is so fantastic.
	He says, all I request is Jobs Karma, the original No Trump.
	I've done this for the past five years and karma continues to come through for me.
	Because of this, I'm able to continue my support for The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	He sent me an email discussing that every year that he started this process of getting the Jobs Karma with his one big donation, he's gotten a 20% raise every year.
	Wow!
	Yeah, he keeps getting, you know, he's moving up the ladder.
	Love it!
	Well, thank you so much, Roger Anonymous in Horse Country.
	It is highly, highly appreciated.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Nice.
	Now we come in with another anonymous person.
	This time was 888.888.
	And we have a number of those, and we want to thank every one of them in advance.
	But we'll thank them as we go along, too.
	This will put me past knighthood.
	I want to stay anonymous going forward, so I want to be known as Sir Ha-H-A-W Anonymous, Knight of the Ha-H-A-W River.
	Oh.
	Thanks for keeping me and my wife sane.
	Through the last five years.
	Nice.
	Well, it's our pleasure, and thank you so much for supporting us, and I look forward to bringing the sword down on your shoulder later.
	Okay, now we have Anthony Jenking, 888.88 in Cambridge, UK, which is where the big school is.
	Hi, guys.
	I hope I haven't missed the cut-off day for show 888.
	I just want to express my appreciation for the incredible quality content you create each and every week.
	Twice a week, actually.
	Based on the level of entertainment and media assassination you provide, I consider your show incredible value for the money, and this donation is well overdue.
	Thanks for your patience with us slaves who are a bit slower to step up.
	I have no specific jingle request, but I like...
	I'd appreciate a thorough de-douching and karma for all.
	I'd also like to send out a shout-out to my hot new wife, Princess Bee, who I'm very much looking forward to spending our first holiday together as husband and wife.
	Wishing all slaves a merry festivus, love, and light from A.J. in Cambridge.
	Alrighty then, so we'll...
	That's one mother I'd like to...
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Here we go.
	For Princess B and Anthony Jenkins.
	Zahn Jr.
	888.88.
	We actually have one, two, three, four of those today.
	And then we have an 888.00.
	Two of those.
	Three.
	Okay, Zahn.
	I wish you used Zahn, not a real name.
	Long-time listener, first-time donator.
	Long-time douche.
	I'd like a de-douching some job karma, wishing you both a Merry Christmas and all the best during the upcoming years of real hope.
	Thank you so much.
	We got that for you.
	You've been de-douched.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	Wow, man, this is great.
	What a fantastic day.
	I'm so happy.
	It's the 888.
	This will never happen again, by the way.
	No, you're right.
	There's no other 888 coming up.
	Well, there's 8,800.
	That would be a good one.
	Hey, it's show 8,000, John.
	Right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Sir Isaac of Altadena in Altadena, California, 8888.
	I have the note.
	He sent a handwritten note.
	Please and close find a donation for episode 888.
	I've also donated on 666-777.
	And I'm looking forward to show 999.
	Wow, there you go.
	That's our next big one.
	Niner, niner, niner.
	This is our guy.
	Yeah.
	The donation, that actually says it all about using numbers.
	Numbers.
	This donation should put me above knighthood and into the next level.
	Eric DeShill and I had a mix-up when I was knighted.
	I hereby request my title change to Baronet Isaac of Altadena, or whatever the next level is.
	He's a baronet.
	Email me if you have a question.
	Before I go, I have a question.
	Is there reference to feet in the air?
	A sexual reference that no one has noticed.
	It's a sexual reference, yeah.
	And everyone's noticed it.
	Except you, apparently, Knight.
	I've heard it so many times, it doesn't even faze me anymore.
	I don't think about that.
	Feet's in the air, boots in the water.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Yeah, that's funny that you bring it up.
	That's why I said in today's read-down, if you heard me, I'd put it in there.
	Ah, gotcha.
	There's a little line I had.
	I hit my co-worker, Corey, C-O-H-R-Y, in the mouth a few times, or a few months ago, but he hasn't donated yet, therefore he's a douchebag.
	Oh, well, let me tell him that.
	Douchebag!
	Okay, he wants you to, this is our first request.
	Ah, here we go.
	Here we go.
	Please play me some L Sharpton, followed by Don't Raff.
	And then he says, keep up the solid work and don't let the bastards bring you down.
	Sir Isaac of Altadena, soon to be Baronet Isaac of Altadena on the next show, on this show.
	So Don't Raff, and what was after Don't Raff?
	Any Al Sharpton.
	No, that was before Don't Raff.
	No, it was, yeah, Al Sharpton, Don't Raff, and that's it.
	Oh, and the karma?
	Karma, yeah.
	But resist, we much.
	We must, and we will much about that be committed.
	Don't Raff.
	Why are you laughing?
	You've got karma.
	Shut up.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	Shut up.
	So Robert Boots is...
	Yeah, okay.
	Robert Boots...
	Roger.
	Roger Boots.
	Roger.
	Roger.
	Roger over.
	888.00 from Mechanicsville, Iowa.
	I didn't notice this earlier.
	I suppose I should have.
	Let's see if you sent a note.
	So I'm going to go to the email.
	Consult the email.
	We need that.
	I may have it too.
	Boots?
	Boots.
	I wonder if he's on the ground.
	Here he is.
	No?
	This is the Snow Boots store.
	Oh, here it is.
	I don't have boots.
	No?
	I don't see anything from Roger Boots.
	I got nothing from Roger Boots.
	Maybe it's some screwy.
	He's not under boots, that's for sure.
	Maybe he's using a different name.
	Well, if you have some, we'll run it on the next show next Thursday, so just send us a note with...
	I'll give him a karma just in case.
	People always seem to want that.
	You've got karma.
	And thank you very much for your 888.
	And he will be knighted later.
	Yes, he will.
	Sir Francis of Roberts Bay, 888.00.
	ITM gents, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Sir Francis of Roberts Bay and family.
	We can't get enough of the excellent analysis and the many laughs that come with your stellar podcast.
	Go podcasting!
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Please give us a please don't eat me, Hillary, and get out of my vagina from Vavajayjay from Whoopi.
	Cookies and vodka for all and to all a good night peace out karma for all.
	Don't eat me Hillary Clinton!
	Get out of my vagina!
	You've got karma.
	There we go.
	Okay, and...
	That's another thing.
	I never think about that clip and I just play it, you know?
	I think that a lot of people...
	Well, the whoopee clip.
	A lot of people may be, this is an odd show.
	Yes.
	For the first time.
	I would say that if somebody just listened to the show the first time and you had that clip, you would think, what the hell is that?
	Why is that being played at all?
	What is this?
	Are they insane?
	They must be Republicans.
	Yeah, right.
	That must be it.
	Or Russians.
	Russians.
	Russian Republicans.
	Karen Samuel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who will be dame today, I believe.
	888.
	Dear John and Adam, I waited until show 888 to donate this month.
	Even though I saw some skinny donations were in earlier weeks, I wanted to give you guys a holiday bonus.
	Give myself a birthday present, my knighthood, and score some New Year's luck with the eights.
	Nice.
	I'd like to be called Dame Karen of Cimarron Hills.
	Now, is she on the list?
	Well, she should be.
	We have quite a list today.
	Yeah, for some reason, everyone's got nine.
	Yes, Dame Karen of Cimarron Hills?
	Yes, Cimarron.
	Cimarron Hills.
	Got it.
	Yeah, she's in.
	Good.
	Hopefully, today's donor list will be long, so I'll keep my jingle request short.
	Thank you!
	Yes.
	Please give a holiday karma to all of the listeners and yourselves.
	Thanks for watching all the garbage so we don't have to sincerely care.
	Oh, okay.
	A holiday karma.
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	Okay, next we have Rob...
	Rob...
	Oh, Rob, this is our Rob.
	Tyson.
	We know him.
	Yes.
	Don't we?
	From the Netherlands.
	From Leiden.
	Yes.
	Yeah, he's a Leiden guy.
	Yeah.
	He gave 888.
	He says, went on holiday in Crete with my lovely girlfriend.
	Our bus stop had number 33.
	Oh, yes.
	It's what happens.
	There's one of those in New Orleans.
	I think I took a picture of it.
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	33 reminded me that I should donate to the show once more.
	I missed out on the nine-year celebration, so consider this a happy 10th anniversary in advance, hence the 10x sack of 8s.
	I stopped consuming the mainstream media after spending six months in your Gitmo nation back in 2005, canceling my cable and so on.
	Looking for an alternative for nearly a decade, it was only some time ago that my friend Manfred M., Pointed me to the No Agenda show.
	Oh, nice.
	Can you read it from there?
	I just screwed up something.
	We have a lot of people that listen twice.
	Tina listens twice.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	Not sure why.
	She says she misses stuff sometimes.
	Particularly your stuff.
	You throw in zingers that people, they really do need to listen multiple times to catch everything you say.
	Well.
	Little Easter eggs, little nuggets of beauty.
	Nuggets.
	Sometimes I even listen twice to some of the episodes with a big smile on my face.
	This also applies to the artwork.
	You have the good work.
	You truly are the guardians of reality.
	A brief boots on the ground from Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	Also hear the mainstream media pave the way for Empress Hillary and her gang.
	Many people are still in total disbelief, and a lot of people absolutely believe all the fake news about Russian hackers and so on.
	The last...
	The last couple of years, it's become really difficult to discuss politics, EU, refugees, climate change, economics, or wars, as a lot of people seem to have stopped thinking for themselves and sadly only repeat what they are told via mainstream media, this way blocking out reality.
	I'm glad that in your show notes I can find ammunition to keep hitting them in the mouth.
	Yes, thank you for mentioning that.
	Archive.noagendanotes.com is where you want to go for the archive of all the show notes.
	It's for them, I'd like to request the clips.
	Ah, can you read these clips while I look for them?
	Yes, I will do that if I... Hold on a second.
	I'm having a few difficulties with this spreadsheet.
	Okay.
	I have...
	What do I see?
	Two to the head, fear is freedom.
	This is, again, I want to remind people, if you don't do these extremely long notes, it's very useful because it's just...
	Well, it's my fault, I guess, for using Libra Office.
	Libra stands for freedom.
	Oh, yeah, Libra Office.
	Okay, you will obey, and of course, a lot of karma.
	For all the fellow producers, an additional portion of Jobs Karma will be nice in the first couple of months.
	2017 will be very busy.
	I've requested it before, and it really does help.
	Your show also takes care of my mental hygiene.
	Yes.
	As this donation promotes me to knighthood, I'd like to be known as Sir Rob, Knight of the Philanthropic Shareholders' Federation.
	And I have to check and make sure he's on the list.
	I think he is.
	Rob, yes, he's on the list.
	Okay.
	You can also put a flag on the map in Leiden, the Netherlands.
	I'll proudly include the credits in my LinkedIn.
	As a final request, I'd like to be on the birthday list for next week as my birthday is on Wednesday, December 28th.
	Please email us again so you can get it on there because the word Christmas seems to have been banned in Gitmo Lowlands this year.
	Happy holidays, he says.
	Okay.
	Outstanding.
	Thank you very much for your substantial donation, Rob.
	And we got...
	Let me see.
	We can give you that jobs card.
	got everything ready fear is freedom subjugation is liberation contradiction is truth those are the facts of this world and you will all surrender to them you pigs in human mind jobs jobs jobs and jobs Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Onward with Sir Chris of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
	Hey guys, just posted a donation.
	Merry Christmas and congratulations on show 888.
	Thank you much for your continued dedication, continued dedication to excellence in media deconstruction, even on holidays and vacation.
	Sometimes I think Adam needs combat pay for wrestling with the internet connection and the stream while away from the studio.
	Or at home.
	Or here.
	Lesser shows would just post a best of recording, but not no agenda.
	Uh-uh.
	Please add my wife, Kristen, to the birthday list.
	Says she turns 29 on the 24th and is the love of my life.
	Can I get a mac and cheese jobs karma?
	Yep.
	A mac and cheese life jobs karma, which is the bigger one.
	Yep.
	Here's to happiness, health, and prosperity in 2017.
	Also, the best to you and the No Agenda family.
	Cheers.
	Sir Chris Carmel by the sea.
	Living.
	The Mac and Cheese Life.
	Mac and Cheese by Ayn Rand.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You thought.
	Come on.
	Next up, Michael Johnson, $333.33.
	And he sent a note to your email.
	Okay, Michael Johnson did indeed send an email.
	Dear John Adam, I've been listening to the show for a couple of years here and there.
	I would like to thank you for all the amazing media deconstruction you've been providing.
	It's great to sit back and let family, friends, and co-workers argue over the politics, government, and social issues that plague the news daily, all the while smiling because I know it is all BS. Yes, this is the healthy attitude.
	Do not engage.
	Do not engage, yeah.
	And by the way, I do this myself.
	I get into a group of people that just are, to be honest about it, I don't care how educated they are, they're no nothings.
	And they go off with some, just a bunch of memes that are delivered to them by the media, and they just yak, yak, yak about it, and they're all in on it, and they're all doing whatever.
	You can't even, I just sit back and, you know, unless there are no agenda people that are also actually free thinkers, Which, you know, not everybody is.
	I just kind of roll my eyes.
	No, just sit back, enjoy, smile, and just watch.
	I mean, it's fantastic.
	You can actually watch people who are living in a parallel universe.
	Yes, and in fact, your parallel universe mentioned a couple of shows back when you brought it up, promoted it, is absolutely what's going on.
	It's so obvious.
	Yeah.
	It's parallel universes, two different dimensions, but we can see the other one.
	I think the reason why it's so hard to talk to someone who is completely on the other side of all the issues, let's just call them hillbots for right now, the reason why it's so hard to speak with them is because you have to communicate through the gooey wall between the parallel universes.
	That's why it's like molasses talking to people.
	And you have to shower afterwards because the stuff gets all over you.
	Very nasty.
	I hate that when it happens.
	As this is my first donation to the show, Michael Johnson continues, I would like to request a dedouching and a big karma to all the producers who were donating while I was not.
	Love the show.
	Keep up the great work.
	Michael Johnson in Waterloo, Wisconsin, of course.
	Thank you very much.
	You've been dedouched.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	And another Wisconsinonian.
	Jacob Sonnenberg comes in with the exact same amount, 333.33, which I find very peculiar in the random sense of the thing.
	In the morning, happy holidays to you and John and Adam.
	As a millennial saddled with plenty of student loan debt, the appropriate amount of 888 is a bit out of my means, so instead I decided to split the eights in half and send in a donation of 333.33.
	So by splitting it in half, 888 becomes 333.
	This is your millennial education.
	My new...
	No, just kidding.
	My New Year's resolution is to be knighted by...
	Be the knight of lambda calculus.
	If that's...
	Wait a minute.
	Here's another one.
	If that's still available.
	I don't...
	I have to check in the database.
	I don't...
	That's a popular one.
	Luckily, my comp sci degree has actually gotten me a job, unlike some friends, like most friends.
	I started watching after show 850, and since your twice-weekly dose of sanity and skepticism has become an important part of my routine, your analysis has been invaluable for discussing the state of the country and the world at large with my cohorts, though most of the conversation tends to be reassuring them that Trump isn't the monster they've been led to believe.
	Please play the show numbers station, ISO, followed by Time to Rubble Eyes for Thursday's show.
	India, Tango, Mike, stand by.
	33, 33, 33.
	Rubbleizer, out.
	Rubble on the double!
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to Rubbleize!
	There you go.
	It is.
	I'm sorry, I was just trying to...
	I was looking for a punchline and I screwed it up.
	Baronet Donald of the Fire Bottles in Spokane Valley, Washington, 222.22.
	He is normally sending us notes on the official letterhead of the Federation, but this note is sent on a Hewlett-Packard letterhead.
	He says, so this is not an official note, just a note.
	Gentlemen, in celebration of two years of listening to The No Agenda Show, I enclose a sack of twos.
	In order to join in with the lucky eights, I prefer to think of this donation as 888.88 quarters.
	No.
	Cheers, Baronet Donald of the Firebottle Spokane Valley.
	He has got something.
	He's got a little wireless test instrumentation.
	Oh, he's just a little note for me.
	It's kind of a gag.
	Okay.
	Onward.
	Thank you.
	We'll give him a karma.
	He never gets one.
	Nope.
	You've got karma.
	Alrighty, thank you.
	222.16, it was very similar, but not the same.
	Oh, this is...
	Yeah, this is DJ... Yeah, I know this guy.
	He gives me songs for the pre-string.
	Yeah, this is John Darius Soltis.
	He's in Denver.
	And he...
	Oops, that's not his note.
	That's the next one.
	DJ Powerboy is his official name.
	John Darius Soltis.
	There it is.
	Dear Johan C. Ferrer de Moralia and Azurd C. Curry.
	So we know we're in trouble already.
	Right.
	As the clippity-clop has rode, he's obviously a songwriter.
	As the clippity-clop has rode off into the sunset in this profound moment, I am donating the atomic weight of my favorite element, radon 22 micro, i.e.
	config xenon 4F to the 14th power 5D, and he goes on.
	As the heaviest noble gas, I can think of no better way to honor the best podcast in the universe with that summation of its atomic particulates.
	My bi-weekly dose of sanity, although I question as to whether it is working or not, against the onslaught of bogativity, has without a doubt been overwhelming positive.
	I honestly cannot remember how far back I started listening to the No Agenda show, but I was hit in the mouth by a long-time douchebag.
	Furthermore, as a second-time executive producer, I'm humbling requests.
	I'm humbling.
	It says humbling.
	Requesting.
	I should be humbly.
	Requesting a double douchebag.
	Call out to Ed Lehman.
	Douchebag!
	Of FEMA Region 9 in Pasadena, California.
	Douchebag!
	Well, to who to the best of my recollection has never donated himself.
	Oh, no.
	Now, to my value for value, even though I had ventured into the foliated mountains of Colorado brazenly, I've benevolently been in receipt of jobs karma.
	Getting laid karma, or on the other hand, not so much.
	I blame Plato!
	He wants the jingles.
	He wants cam trails, two to the head, climate gate, two to the head, cam trails, and a dose of getting laid karma.
	Okay.
	I'll see what I can do.
	Chemtrails.
	And he wanted another Chemtrails.
	Chemtrails.
	Getting laid karma.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you, DJ Powerpoint.
	All hail to the electromagnetic pulse.
	Yes.
	I think he's trying out the local produce there in Colorado.
	Yes, he's in Colorado, so that letter makes nothing but sense.
	Alright, we got we have Sorotaku, I believe.
	If I can get this thing to go back where it belongs, I can confirm that.
	Yes, Sorotaku K5VS. Seven threes.
	Yes, seven threes.
	Baron of Northeast Texas.
	Kilo 5, Victor Sierra.
	2222.
	Congrats, John and Adam, on 888 shows.
	Here's a quarter for each show.
	You guys deserve it.
	Thanks for helping me to weed out the fake news from the real news.
	It seems as though so little real news these days.
	No wonder everybody is confused.
	Can I get some mac and cheese karma with a little girl?
	Yay!
	Yeah, I think we can do that.
	And he says, when does one become a duke?
	Okay, dvorak.org slash peerage.
	Ah, peerage.
	Yes, that'll do it.
	Did you hear Miles?
	Wrong one.
	I hate it when that happens.
	Sorry.
	Man, for some reason, I want to do the mac and cheese, and then it brings up these clips with mac and cheese.
	I'm not sure why.
	Is it this one, then, maybe?
	We'll fight for the macro.
	No.
	No.
	Well, that's weird.
	Yeah.
	What happened?
	I'm not sure.
	I only have the Mac and Rand.
	That's the one I can find.
	I'll do that one again.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't know what's going on with it.
	Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Alrighty.
	There we go.
	We're lucky we're getting this far.
	Kurt Ferber.
	Where's he from, does it say?
	No.
	No.
	Doesn't say.
	But he sends a note in by email.
	Please give a Merry Christmas shout out plus a dedouching to Chad Nelson in Boise from Kurt in Manhattan, New York.
	This donation is his Christmas gift.
	Aww.
	Aww.
	You've been dedouched.
	You've got karma.
	Oh, that's really nice.
	Well, it goes further.
	He says we'll also give him the associate producer credit for this donation.
	He shall be known as Sir Chad Nelson.
	Is he a sir?
	I don't think so.
	No, I don't think so.
	Just Chad Nelson.
	Galahad, that's when he gets to night.
	We'll give him that.
	Galahad of the Benny Gesserit.
	G-E-S-S-E-R-I-T. He may change his title if he also wishes.
	Also some karma to his family and jobs, jobs, jobs for all the good people in Boise.
	God knows the invading California wild things need jobs.
	Yeah.
	Are we invading Boise too?
	I guess so.
	Yes.
	All right, here we go.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Okay.
	Onward to John Tompkins and also Parts Unknown 201.
	Same thing.
	Thank you, John and Adam.
	You guys make my Friday and Monday mornings a blast.
	Some of us out there still know who Carl LaFong was.
	There you go.
	That's why people have to listen to the show twice.
	Carl LaFong.
	Capital L small A. Capital F small O small N small G. And if I knew him, I wouldn't admit it.
	John Helmer, $200.
	ITM from somewhere between Shawnee, Kansas and Belfort, South Dakota.
	We make our annual trek back home to visit the family for Christmas.
	I had to donate because your coverage of the 2016 election cycle and subsequent madness has been outstanding.
	source, Andrew, who turns 15 today.
	Also give a shout out to Sir Grant Siner, who recently retired and will have even more time to research the nuances and risks of douching, episode 873.
	I wonder if he'll ever add his night status to LinkedIn.
	Better.
	That's what it's there for.
	Should.
	Can I get a mac and cheese, Trump, bing, bing, bong, bong, and another hit of sales goal karma?
	Yes, you can, and I found it.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese.
	Cheese macaroni and cheese cheddar melting together. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and bing bing bing bong bong bing bong bong bong.
	Bing bong bong bong bong bong bong bong bong.
	Onward to Caitlin Williams, also known as Nurse Caitlin, in Silver Springs, North Carolina.
	Seven Springs, North Carolina.
	Oh, seven.
	You know, it's a funny thing is because when I wrote it the first time, I said, oh wait, It's seven, not silver, and then I end up saying silver.
	That's funny.
	To me, it's funny.
	Yeah, hilarious.
	I'm cracking myself up.
	In the morning, by the way, she wrote in longhand.
	Somebody's still teaching longhand somewhere.
	Nice, nice.
	In the morning, as a small, and it's very readable, as a small token of my, in other words, penmanship was involved here.
	Yes, penmanship, which you used to get a grade for.
	Yeah, you used to get an A or B or C for penmanship.
	I was in the D range.
	I noticed.
	As a small token of my appreciation for this incredible work you do, I wanted to send you a little something.
	I'm sorry.
	That was a microaggression.
	I just want to point that out.
	Yeah, it was.
	It was a microaggression.
	I guess, you know, you can't do any of these things like that anymore.
	I want to send a little something for you for the holidays.
	The check will put me one step closer to Dame Hood.
	Ah.
	But the something...
	Ah, it's the penmanship.
	But the ants.
	Oh, the ants are purely for you.
	The ants.
	Oh, right.
	Okay, now I get it.
	The ants are...
	She sent me some ant candy.
	Oh, nice.
	Did you try it?
	What?
	I guess not.
	The ants are purely for your enjoyment.
	You've got a smiley face.
	I also mentioned that I bought in an extra package of ants to send to Adam, but he has yet to respond to my request for his address.
	Basically, I'm calling him out.
	So Adam, if you'd like your ants, tell me where to send them and they're yours.
	On a serious note, as a 24-year-old woman, I often find myself not I see what it is.
	A's look like C's in longhand.
	Not getting any of the social norms for millennials.
	I'm not getting them.
	Thanks to no agenda, I am more prepared to defend my thoughts and theories as the community of like-minded thinkers is priceless.
	Thanks so much for all you do.
	Merry Christmas.
	She says, I'm writing you a note with a pen that we recommend.
	Give her a big...
	I just sent her my address.
	And I will definitely try the ants.
	Oh my god, ants!
	Sorry?
	I was just going to suggest you give her a little ant angle there.
	That's what I did.
	That's what I was doing.
	You got it.
	You've got karma.
	Ants!
	There's your ant angle.
	You want to hear something bad?
	Yes!
	Of course I do.
	So I guess our lemon rotted.
	It's about a week ago.
	Wait, oh no, not the lemon.
	No, a lemon.
	Oh, okay.
	Lemon rotted and was sitting there, I guess, for a while.
	And I guess there was, I assume, somehow, you know, flies get in the house sometimes, but I guess a fruit fly got in the house.
	Oh, no.
	And laid eggs in the rotten lemon?
	Now, the fruit fly's lifespan is about, I think it's maybe a day, maybe like 20 hours.
	And they can lay eggs and they hatch within like 15 minutes.
	Wow.
	So you get these little guys in the house.
	They're very small.
	They're incredibly dinky.
	And, I mean, they're just like gnats.
	We call them gnats.
	So I had a gnat invasion on top of the ants.
	Wait, the ants are still there?
	No, the ants came back because it was something.
	They were up to something because the temperature got really cold.
	And when they do that, they go inside people's houses to kind of hang out for a while.
	Well, there's lots of places to hide in your house, I think.
	No, not that many.
	I know where they come in and how they get out.
	I use some blockers when I can't get rid of them right away.
	Some ant block.
	Some toxic chemical.
	Mmm, yummy.
	But I can't do it.
	These Firefly, so I have one of these devices.
	This is a pretty good piece.
	This is a little tip.
	This is one of my tips.
	Ah, John C. Dvorak Nat's tip.
	Well, no, there's a tip about bugs in the house.
	Oh, bugs.
	There's a device, you can find it online.
	I mean, besides the bug zappers, I have one of those, the electrocutors.
	It's like an ultraviolet light and bugs are attracted to the light and then they get zapped and they die.
	No, I like the one that has the ultraviolet light.
	They come in and then a fan blows them down to the bottom through a trap door.
	That's the one I'm talking about.
	We've discussed this on the show.
	Yes, we have.
	It's soapy water, and it gets blown into it, and you catch a lot of moths and all kinds of weird things.
	Ants, or these gnats, gnats, they don't care.
	They don't go, they don't, what's this?
	I don't know.
	Where's some fruit we can lay eggs in?
	They're like the honey badger.
	It's unbelievable.
	So I couldn't use that device to get rid of these things.
	So I have to kind of pull back everything, lock everything up, and then they're all dead because they only last a day.
	And then, so yesterday, I think I got it made.
	There's no none.
	I saw one.
	And so I said, oh, I got to kill him before he gets it.
	Before he can lay eggs.
	Before he can lay eggs.
	Or whatever.
	Or if he can find a female and she'd lay the eggs.
	I don't know.
	I'm just telling you this is a problem.
	Well, you know what?
	Here's Adam's tip.
	I like it because it gives you exercise and it's fun to do.
	You get one of those electric tennis rackets.
	You see one of those?
	They're not good for nets.
	Oh, they slip through?
	Oh yeah, there's no way, and they don't have enough mass to trigger the rocket.
	Oh man.
	Flies, yeah, you can hear the fly hit it, and the fly has enough mass to make this thing work.
	These gnats, no.
	They say, what the hell is this guy doing?
	I think you're crazy.
	I'm sorry about that.
	These things are horrible.
	Damn you!
	Nats.
	Whatever.
	Hey, everybody.
	That concludes our extensive list of 888 donors, executive producers, associates, executive producers.
	Of course, we have lots of credits to do the show.
	I mean, we might as well warn the affiliates.
	We're going long.
	The show will be late posting.
	It's just how it works.
	It's nuts, but man, really, thank you for your courage and your passion, all of you.
	And of course, we do have another show coming up on Sunday.
	That will be our best of show.
	It is 889.
	It's the Christmas special put together for you by Sir Ramsey Cain.
	And of course, we did the intros and outros, and we come in in the middle.
	And then in the new year, we'll be back on New Year's Day.
	Bringing you the...
	Actually, the Thursday after Christmas.
	Oh, that's right.
	You're right.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, Thursday after Christmas and then on New Year's Day.
	Yeah.
	So it's going to be fantastic.
	Yeah, I hope so.
	And remember us at...
	So you need to lay back, you need to chill and smile until you see an opening, then propagate!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Well, John, I was right.
	I had the right actor.
	I had the wrong outcome.
	And I could have offered this as an alternative outcome.
	And I'm sad that I didn't do it because now my Red Book entry is no good.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I thought they were going to kill her.
	But of course, how stupid am I? Erdogan.
	Genius as he is, he goes and rescues the seven-year-old kid who's verified on Twitter tweeting from Aleppo.
	It's the latest footage of seven-year-old Bana al-Abid, not in war-torn Syria, but in Turkey's presidential palace, in a carefully managed photo-op with President Erdogan.
	With a camera lens snapping away, Bana, wearing new clothes, smiles.
	Bana.
	Not Bano.
	He could come on deck, too.
	Bano, wearing new clothes, smiles, kissing Erdogan on the cheek.
	He, in turn, kisses her hand.
	Later, as she and her brother sit on Erdogan's lap, she looks to Erdogan and says, I would like to thank you for supporting the children of Aleppo and help us to get out from war.
	I love you.
	Stop.
	Stop.
	The opulence of the...
	Stop.
	Yeah, stop.
	She's a Syrian girl, somehow rescued.
	She's now in Turkey, and while in Turkey, as a Syrian, she's speaking English.
	Oh, wait until you hear how her mom, what her mom writes as tweets.
	No, these people are fantastic.
	They speak English fluently, fluently.
	And she said, you know, she's, of course, looking at her mom.
	That's all they speak.
	I've never heard anything else.
	But it's rehearsed.
	It's totally rehearsed.
	You think?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This is great propaganda.
	And it's all in this report.
	All carefully orchestrated press, you know, press conference.
	It's all in there.
	The opulence of the presidential palace is a stark contrast to the doomsday scenario she and her mother had been warning about on Twitter for weeks.
	Living in an area controlled by the armed opposition, an area bombarded almost daily by airstrikes and artillery, her family, somehow, managed to get an internet connection.
	Oh yeah, this is always my problem with all of these YouTube videos and tweets from Eastern Aleppo.
	Yeah, they got a connection, no problem.
	And here, CNN themselves say, somehow, hey, dude, just a thought.
	Maybe ask, maybe do some, uh, what's the word?
	Journalism, that's what it is.
	Her mother tweeting several times that each tweet would be their last.
	Now, listen to this.
	But the tweets weren't their last.
	As the evacuations were underway, photos of young Bana surfaced smiling at a refugee camp run by a Turkish religious charity in northern Syria.
	At one point, her mother tweeted directly to Turkey's president and foreign minister, saying, please, please, please make this ceasefire work and get us out now.
	Turkey's foreign ministry told reporters they were making special...
	Now, is that someone who, uh...
	Is that someone who...
	A seven-year-old?
	She's a seven-year-old?
	No, that's her mom, apparently.
	Please, please, please get us out now.
	That is an American who wrote that.
	Nowhere will you see an English as a second language saying that.
	No, you're right.
	You're absolutely correct.
	That is an American who wrote that.
	Yeah, that's just no way.
	Nobody would write that unless they were an American.
	No way.
	I've been around...
	Even a Brit wouldn't say that.
	Well, they don't speak English.
	It's a whole different language.
	So exactly right.
	This ceasefire work and get us out now.
	Turkey's foreign.
	Wait a minute.
	The ceasefire work?
	I mean, this is propaganda.
	Listen to this.
	At one point, her mother tweeted directly to Turkey's president and foreign minister, saying, please, please, please, make the ceasefire work and get us out now.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Turkey's foreign ministry told reporters they were making special arrangements specifically for Bana and her family to be whisked out of Syria and straight to Turkey's capital, Ankara.
	Many praise Bana and her family for offering a daring glimpse into the harsh realities of living through a devastating war.
	Now, there's a couple of interesting things here.
	First of all, Erdogan is now, he is now the hero.
	Oh, look, I saved the Syrians.
	Whereas what he's really doing is in there killing Kurds.
	The YRG. This, of course, this is what Obama should...
	Obama should have the kid.
	Yeah, we saved the kid.
	America.
	We got in.
	We got her.
	We took care of him.
	Bam!
	Bam!
	We rule!
	No.
	Erdogan does it.
	Erdogan.
	Well, they tweeted to him.
	Yeah, but they've been tweeting to a whole bunch of people.
	Well, they tweeted to him and he took action.
	Did they ever tweet to Obama?
	Hmm, this I don't know.
	I'm just saying, from a global optics perspective...
	If it was done by an American propagandist, let's assume so.
	I mean, just assuming so.
	We are going to...
	And the reason that Obama didn't pick up on this is we're going to find out this whole thing's a fraud.
	We would have to now, yeah.
	And then Obama would get off the hook because he had nothing to do with it.
	Right.
	But if they'd gone and visited Obama and it turns out it was a fraud, which it obviously is...
	From the get-go.
	Then Obama had been humiliated.
	So that's why Obama...
	So there's something...
	This is about Erdogan somehow.
	It's a setup.
	Yeah, well, there's a couple things we should talk about.
	Because, of course, we had this insane assassination in Ankara of the Russian ambassador...
	I gotta tell you, man, I found that a very hard one to look at and understand.
	There's so many things wrong with what I'm seeing.
	The thing that was the most wrong, which I didn't put in the last newsletter, and I'm not going to put it in the Christmas newsletter, but I'll probably put it in one after that, was this one photo from behind the podium with the guy...
	I don't know what he's doing, the gunman.
	But the ambassador was laid out like a cartoon guy shot.
	With no blood.
	I'm not sure of that.
	He was shot from behind.
	There wasn't a pool of blood, that's for sure.
	But there were also no exit wounds, because I saw the video where they're taking him out of the ambulance, his shirt is off, and they wheel him by the camera, and there's no exit wounds.
	All I know is that he's flat on his back.
	I don't know any of the other stuff that you're saying because I didn't get any further than this, but he's flat on his back with his arms straight out as though it's almost like a cartoon or a Hollywood death.
	But he's shot from behind and he falls backwards.
	Yeah, he's got shot in the back.
	He falls perfectly backwards, lands perfectly on his back with his arms extended perfectly.
	Let me tell you, you get a slug in the back, you're going forward, baby.
	You're not falling back.
	Yeah, they said he's just slumped.
	I don't know.
	This whole thing is screwy.
	It's very, very troubling.
	Anyway, you'll see this photo in the newsletter.
	I did save it.
	I don't know how long it's going to be online.
	You don't know.
	And then sadly, of course, although it wasn't like some big secret, but I think we certainly revealed that this was coming several, at least a week before there were warnings in the media about Christmas markets in Germany.
	We specifically mentioned that.
	Specifically.
	So what do the Germans do?
	They put protections around everything, but not the Christmas market.
	One of our guys is on the ground right there.
	He's sending me hourly updates.
	He says, it is insane what is happening right now.
	Insane.
	They are so...
	I'm sorry?
	They say we have a Berlin report.
	We can play it from CBS, which is a...
	I'd like to play my Berlin report, if you don't mind.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	Because there's something that is very annoying.
	Tonight, a frantic manhunt and an urgent message across Europe warning people to stay away from this man and to help find him.
	German police say 24-year-old Anis Amri from Tunisia is now, quote, under urgent suspicion in the Christmas market attack in Berlin that killed a dozen people and wounded almost 50 others.
	Police say Omri's identification was found inside the truck, along with the truck's original driver, who had been shot at close range.
	As the search for the alleged terrorist expands, including raids by police in northern Germany where he lived, there is growing concern about his links to ISIS. He had contact with radical Islamist organizations.
	Various security services assessed him as a person who poses a risk.
	ISIS has claimed responsibility for inspiring the attack, and CNN has learned Omri has connections to an ISIS recruiting operation, funneling would-be terrorists to the group's strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
	Even more concerning, German officials once had Omri in custody.
	I need to make an assertion here, which is so obvious that you kind of gloss over it throughout the years.
	But this very annoying trend of passports being left behind by perpetrators of atrocities, such as the 9-11 hijackers.
	Passport, perfectly fine, found on the ground.
	We have, in Paris, the Paris Bataclan attack.
	Oh!
	I can't believe I left my passport in my getaway car.
	How stupid am I? This goes back to Lee Harvey Oswald, who lost his wallet with his ID near the crime, in the scene of the crime.
	And the guy who killed him, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, he left, like, a whole bundle of proof with his passport, a gun.
	I mean, it's just...
	This is, I just have to say, maybe it's like the best lie is the one that's right out there, bold-faced, right in the open.
	When there is an operation and they want to make sure that we blame it on somebody, we drop a passport.
	It's what we do.
	I can't see it any other way.
	It makes no sense.
	Well, first of all, it wasn't a passport.
	It was his identification.
	Fine.
	Fine.
	Because here's a kicker that you didn't get.
	I had a clip.
	I don't know where it is.
	When he was arrested to be deported, they didn't deport him because he didn't have a passport.
	Yes, I did.
	I did know that.
	Yeah.
	So that's the dumbest thing ever.
	Now, if you listen to the NBC report, which I think is the worst of the reports.
	I have a CBS one that's pretty good.
	But the NBC report kind of talks about this because apparently his passport just showed up because they wanted a replacement.
	So let me get this straight.
	You got the guy in custody.
	You're going to deport him.
	This is a little while ago.
	But he's got no identification.
	He lost his passport.
	So you order another passport from Tunisia.
	That means you must know who he is.
	And you order the passport so you can deport him.
	This is crazy.
	These Germans are either nuts or this is all bullcrap.
	I'm thinking bullcrap, John, for sure.
	This is the face plastered across Germany tonight.
	Did they have the little bar over his face?
	Over his eyes?
	Because in the German newspapers, they're publishing pictures of him.
	Did they go find him?
	No, I never saw that.
	And they put a bar over his eyes.
	How are you supposed to find him?
	Because it's bullshit!
	Timecode.
	This is the face plastered across Germany.
	Tonight, Anas Amri, a 23-year-old Tunisian national called Armed and Violent, associated with Islamic terror networks.
	Police say his ID papers were in the cab of the truck that barreled through a crowded Christmas market at 40 miles an hour.
	Now we're learning his trail across Germany was a possible tale of missed opportunities.
	Emory arrived in Germany in July 2015, at one point living in this home for refugees in the Southwest.
	His asylum application?
	Rejected back in June.
	He was suspected of plotting an attack, even put under surveillance for months.
	Scheduled to be deported in July, but it never happened because he didn't have a valid passport.
	And in August, he was reportedly arrested, but then released by a judge after presenting fake documents and then disappeared.
	The ability for law enforcement and the intelligence agencies.
	Wait a minute!
	So this could be a fake document too?
	Well, I first disagree with your basic premise, which you don't...
	What was he leaving his ID in the truck?
	Why is it in his pocket?
	You know, or not even have it on him.
	So that's the whole thing.
	This is really very suspicious.
	Let's continue.
	And it doesn't even look like a good job.
	I mean, it's like a...
	Pack job.
	I mean, how do you get out of the truck in the first place?
	Somebody pointed this out on one of the Talking Heads shows.
	Play the rest of this clip and then I'll bitch about this.
	And then disappeared.
	The ability for law enforcement and the intelligence agencies to identify every single person who poses a threat, it's impossible to do.
	Still, at Berlin's police headquarters, officials tell us they have matters under control.
	I ask him if Berlin is safe.
	Yes, he answers, it is secure.
	But some security here is still a work in progress, like the famous Christmas market at Alexanderplatz, which just reopened today.
	A busy street is right here, and as you can see, the market's entrance has no barrier.
	As darkness fell, authorities lowered concrete blocks almost 45 hours after the attack.
	Now the manhunt sparking fresh criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under fire for her decision to open German borders to nearly a million migrants, many fleeing the civil war in Syria.
	The crime scene tonight, not protected by concrete, but guarded by candles.
	Officials tonight say Tunisia initially declined issuing that passport, questioning if he was a citizen.
	They ended up approving it, but that passport arrived today.
	Wester?
	Hans Nichols in Berlin tonight.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, here's the one thing that came up in one of the talking head shows, which I could have clipped.
	I think that clip's good enough.
	Where's all the iPhone videos?
	Yeah, none of that.
	It's interesting to say that, because I went looking for, you know, like in Nice, there was a lot of photos and videos.
	I haven't seen much at all.
	No, there's none.
	If somebody comes crashing in through a thing like this, everyone's pulling their phones out, they all have smartphones in Germany.
	Not all of them, but most people do.
	And they'd be filming it.
	They'd see the guy getting out of the cab, you'd have movies of that, you'd have all this stuff.
	You got nothing.
	Yeah, that did cross my mind.
	Every event that takes place, there's a bunch of gawkers around.
	They claimed at least one report said the police, to get all the evidence they could, confiscated all the phones they could.
	Right.
	And they said, don't release any of these videos.
	Well, why?
	But, you know, John, ultimately, the way this works is, it's just like, you know, we have, you know, the 17 intelligence agencies all are in consensus.
	There's no official word, but, you know, they leaked it.
	And they're actually saying it's not true, but, you know, that's just going to be it.
	Everyone's convinced.
	It works.
	Done.
	Next.
	So then you drop a passport, an ID, whatever it is, and then that's where the person's from.
	That's who he is.
	Done.
	It's just brazen.
	Brazen!
	It's because nobody in the media questions any of this.
	No one questions it.
	It's kind of suspicious that he just left his ID behind.
	Oh, if you don't know who I am, here's my ID. I'll leave it behind so you'll know.
	Really?
	Yeah, I just...
	No.
	And then the rest of the cock and bull story about why we couldn't deport him because we didn't know who he really was...
	That's the kind of thing.
	They knew who he is, so they released him, and then they released him again.
	And now he could be in France.
	I've noticed another report came out.
	Oh, there's no protection between France and Germany.
	He could have driven.
	He could be in Paris, for all you know, right now.
	He could be in Lyon, you know, anywhere.
	He's having a big burger.
	Anyway, yeah.
	Yeah, no, I said it.
	Sorry.
	That's okay.
	You didn't catch me.
	I caught myself.
	The wallet of Lee Harvey Oswald and killer of Officer J.D. Tippett dropped his wallet which was found at the scene of Tippett's murder.
	I got it wrong.
	Okay.
	What else did we have?
	Visa of Satam Al-Sukwami.
	That's one of the 9-11 hijackers.
	Of course, we also had the other dude.
	Ziad Jarrah and Saeed Al-Gamdi.
	Hijackers of Flight 93.
	They found their passports.
	Crazy, huh?
	There was nothing but a black hole in the ground in Pennsylvania.
	A black hole.
	No nothing.
	But we found the passport.
	Entirely intact.
	Beautiful.
	Yeah, these, you know, it happens.
	All right, you want to go a little lighter?
	I got one lighter thing to do.
	Yeah, please.
	Kind of an entremant.
	Yes, I have one.
	Why don't we do two in a row?
	Two entremants?
	Two entremants in a row.
	That doesn't even make any sense, but let me do mine.
	This is in Ask Adam.
	Ah, all righty.
	Well, this is nice.
	Okay.
	I'm hoping that you don't know the answers to these questions.
	Okay.
	You want a theme?
	You got a little theme?
	Yeah, I got a little theme.
	I actually typed in Axe Adam.
	This is getting bad.
	Yeah.
	Welcome to Texas.
	Here we go.
	Ask Adam.
	Do I have any?
	Yeah, here's an Ask Adam jingle somewhere.
	Yeah, everybody.
	It's time to play that game once again where John tries to stump me.
	It's known as Ask Adam.
	Okay, fine.
	All right.
	Okay, what do we got?
	This is a list of words.
	This is the premise.
	Clip number one is the premise.
	The premise?
	So I just played this?
	Just ask Adam NBC, that's the word.
	Number one, clip number one is the premise.
	The question you'll be asked will reveal itself.
	Come out best of, worst of, even the most annoying words.
	Thanks to a Marist College poll of about 1,000 adults.
	The number one most annoying word in their view is the same one as last year.
	Ah, okay, I get the game.
	The number one most annoying word, which is the same as last year.
	Annoying.
	Yeah, so you should know it.
	Millennial.
	Uh, meh.
	Wait.
	I'll buzz myself.
	Okay.
	I'll give you one more chance.
	All right.
	You're going to be a hint or I just have to go again?
	I'm not giving you no hint.
	How about, okay, okay.
	Literally.
	Okay, no.
	No.
	Alright, so let's play clip two.
	This is two, not three.
	Play clip two, which will give you the word and the lead into the second question.
	It's the same one as last year.
	Whatever.
	Okay.
	Whatever.
	That's the most annoying thing?
	That's what they said.
	Whatever.
	Whatever.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	Now, there's four more words they're going to reveal.
	Guess one of them.
	Do I have to guess before they reveal them?
	Hello?
	Four more.
	Right?
	That would be one.
	No.
	And who answered these questions again?
	Some pollster in Marist.
	Marist University.
	University.
	University.
	You don't have to guess anymore.
	I'm going to give up.
	I'm going to give up.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	It's the same one as last year.
	Whatever.
	The second most annoying is actually a phrase.
	No offense, but that never ends well.
	Tied for third.
	You know, right?
	And I can't even.
	And rounding out the top five, the word huge.
	Okay.
	I can't even.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	I can see that.
	But I think, yeah, right.
	Yeah, right.
	I think I get half a point.
	Well, you got closer now.
	I said, right.
	It depends.
	If you were in jeopardy, they probably wouldn't have given it to you.
	Well, things I find annoying.
	Fact of the matter.
	End of the day.
	Yeah, no.
	Right.
	Those are the ones.
	Okay is another one.
	Okay.
	You know.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Well, that was a nice entrement.
	There you go.
	Hard to beat.
	All right.
	I will give a little entremant myself then.
	And this would be...
	Oh, yes.
	This is very good.
	This is from the Seed Man.
	I have a new clip.
	Was this when you were on?
	The same day.
	Same day.
	Because, you know, of course, now I appear on his channel, so I have to honor him in our show.
	Okay.
	You are weak, Americans.
	You are weak Europeans.
	You're well in our eyes.
	We will take them before we kill you first, you pigs.
	What do you think?
	Well, at first I thought this was him talking in tongues.
	It's Klingon, actually.
	Oh, Klingon.
	That guy, man.
	No slouch, let's put it that way.
	Hey, I did get a note from a number of people about the ovumphobia.
	Okay.
	The fear of eggs that some people have.
	Oh, right, right.
	Yeah, fear of eggs.
	And so I did a little bit of research as well.
	First of all, he says, yeah, I work at one of the largest egg exporters.
	We're about a dollar cheaper per dozen than normal right now.
	Yeah, I heard this.
	We're talking about those bland...
	Bland, light yellow-yoked, tasteless eggs is what we're talking about when we're talking about that dollar cheaper than normal.
	Possibly.
	No.
	Definitely.
	So I said, is the Egg Council, which isn't called the Egg Council, it's called something else.
	I don't have it here.
	Are they pushing this?
	He says, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me.
	They do a lot of work.
	But the phrase seems to be, eggs on everything.
	Yeah.
	That's the phrase.
	Yeah, you had that clip.
	Why don't you play it again?
	You mean the toy?
	From the toy, yeah.
	It's a toy given to kids.
	That was pretty bad.
	Let me see, where is it?
	It's the...
	It was an oven.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	You want the song?
	I'll do both.
	Here's the song.
	Pizza, pizza.
	One, two, three, four.
	Is that just not enough?
	You want a little more?
	Put an egg on it.
	Woo!
	Yeah, yeah.
	Put an egg on it.
	Hey, pizza.
	Eggs!
	Eggs taste amazing on top of anything!
	So this is great because now producers of the No Agenda show can keep an eye out.
	You will see this moving and let's track it.
	This is just like when you get the bogus stories about coffee, you're going to live longer, you're going to die.
	You're going to live longer, yeah.
	All this stuff.
	You need four cups a day is my favorite when they came up with that meme.
	Four cups a day, I'd be wired.
	I can drink coffee and go to bed, but four cups a day, at least maybe I'm drinking strong coffee, but jeez, I'd be shaking.
	One of our producers also caught something which I didn't hear the first time around.
	We were laughing about Chris Cuomo on CNN saying 99% of all scientists are in on the man-made climate change.
	Right.
	And then his colleague corrects him and says CNN says 90.
	But there was something else in here.
	I'm going to play an excerpt of that clip and listen if you can hear it.
	Or you don't?
	No, that's not what he's saying.
	He's saying that he sees nuance where you...
	By the way, you want to listen to what Cuomo is saying.
	That's what I want you to listen to.
	That's not what he's saying.
	He's saying that he sees nuance where you see black and white that it's either federal or not.
	99% of the scientific community says global warming is impacted by males.
	CNN says the number is 90%, but here's the deal.
	So you probably couldn't hear it.
	It's impacted something.
	By males.
	He says by males.
	I'm sorry, what?
	Yeah, he says climate change impacted, 99% impacted by males.
	Listen.
	Or you don't.
	No, that's not what he's saying.
	He's saying that he sees nuance where you see black and white that it's either federal or not.
	99% of the scientific community says global warming is impacted by males.
	CNN says the number's 90%, but here's the deal.
	By males.
	That guy's off his rocker.
	Yeah.
	He's an idiot.
	Holy crap, that's terrible.
	Yeah, well, there is a war on men, you know.
	In case you hadn't noticed.
	That got you in on it.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	Back to Turkey.
	No, actually, I'll save this.
	Let me save that.
	There's a couple other things we need to talk about here.
	Well, since we're talking about the global warming thing, I got my climate clip of the day.
	Oh, well, hold on.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	This is my global cooling report.
	Free Christmas global cooling report.
	This is the end of the world, ladies and gentlemen.
	Global cooling, a new ice age is coming.
	All right, Kristen Welker, thanks.
	And from Palm Beach, where you are, we move to the frigid north, an Arctic chill that has a good part of the country caught in its grip.
	Temperatures well below normal for this time of year as we get set for the start of winter.
	Here's NBC's Blake McCoy.
	The Windy City covered in ice today, a seven-day polar plunge bringing its coldest air yet, 13 below.
	You say the key to working outside in this, keep moving.
	Keep moving and helping everybody.
	In an hour, it's all day long.
	Commuters braving the elements also, as transit officials used fire to warm up the tracks and keep trains running.
	Much of the nation's midsection seeing temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal.
	Little Rock, Arkansas hit a new record low.
	Outside St.
	Louis today, school buses wouldn't start.
	Class canceled.
	In Denver, hometown airline Frontier still struggling after snow crippled operations this weekend.
	Since the Arctic blast began, 22 weather-related deaths have been reported across 10 states.
	The majority of those killed on icy roads.
	We're all going to die!
	No!
	Just thought we'd keep up.
	We'd catch up a little bit.
	Hello, 1974.
	We're back to global cooling.
	I just received a video of the attack in Berlin.
	Oh, it's a car cam.
	So there's one, apparently.
	Yes, I did see a car cam thing.
	So you saw the same one?
	Oh, jeez.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, I see everyone running.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I'll put it in the show notes.
	People take a look at it.
	It's not what we're talking about, but...
	I don't have any climate gate stuff.
	I do.
	Let me see.
	We had...
	That's all Russian news.
	Oh, man.
	Well, I got a little local story that irks me.
	I wrote about this in PC Magazine.
	This is the Uber issues going on here, where Uber's told the state of California to shove it when it comes to getting a permit to test their little driverless cars.
	Ah, yes.
	In California, officials have ordered Uber to take its self-driving cars off the road, and Carter Evans is following this.
	In just seven years, Uber has become a nearly $70 billion ride-hailing behemoth despite or perhaps because of its reputation for ignoring local regulations.
	But when Uber put self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco last week, and a motorist caught one of those cars running a red light, California's DMV drew the line, ordering Uber to get an autonomous vehicle testing permit.
	Uber said no.
	Our main reason for not applying is that we don't think that the regulations apply to how we're driving the cars.
	Uber claims all of its self-driving cars in this testing phase have a safety driver behind the wheel, just in case.
	Uber is remaining defiant here.
	They operate on a theory of break first and ask permission later.
	Jonathan Handel is a law professor at the University of Southern California.
	When you're deploying 3,000-pound pieces of hardware that roll through the jurisdiction and have the potential to cause injury or death, that's a different issue.
	As to why that car ran the red light last week, Uber says it was human error.
	And if the company obtains a permit, it will be required to report those incidents.
	Why wouldn't Uber want to report all that?
	These are bits and pieces of black marks on what has otherwise been a lot of enthusiasm over driverless cars.
	Uber says it's being unfairly singled out here and compares its self-driving technology to the autopilot feature on Tesla cars.
	And, Scott, those do not require permits.
	You wonder how many humans are running red lights.
	Carter Evans for us in California tonight, Carter.
	Thank you.
	Coming up next on the...
	There's a couple of things here.
	One, besides the fact that the Uber guys are dicks, they've changed the phraseology from ride-sharing to ride-hailing.
	Oh yeah, it's a great one.
	It's subtle.
	It's more than subtle as far as I'm concerned, but it's there.
	Well, it's legally something very different, which I like.
	Yes, ride-sharing is not ride-hailing.
	And they got their foot in the door by pushing this ride-sharing nonsense.
	Oh, it's just ride-sharing.
	The guys go in there anyway.
	You can get on board and they'll charge you some money and you'll get it on your credit card bill.
	That would be the original intent.
	And then this other thing that kind of bothers me, they didn't, again, did no research looking into it.
	The thing runs a red light.
	How is that human error?
	The guy's not driving the car.
	He's sitting there letting the car do its own thing.
	Right.
	Human error, what they mean is he didn't notice that the car was going to run a red light and stomp on the pedal.
	How is that human error?
	That's not human error.
	No.
	Human error, they're claiming this is human error.
	I started thinking about this in the red light thing.
	That light that the guy caught was over to the left.
	It was a funny placement.
	And I realized that when I drive, I drive all over the country.
	When I travel, I always rent a car.
	I never use anything.
	I just rent a car.
	I don't even take a limo if somebody offers it to me.
	A limo?
	Oh, come on.
	I see you in one of those extended Hummer limos arriving at your speaking engagement.
	Yeah, that would be the day.
	Hey, girls.
	Hi, girls.
	I don't like driving around in these limos, especially when I'm someplace where...
	Well, limos is 1980, man.
	You don't want to drive in a limo.
	Yeah, a Suburban or an Escalade.
	Okay, well, I don't want a car service.
	I got you.
	I'm just saying.
	Yeah, I just used the word limo, sorry.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Nowadays, you get a big, giant Escalade.
	Yeah.
	Which is cool because, you know, I've gotten into bulletproof ones.
	They're neat.
	But I try to avoid that.
	I try to rent a car because I like to stop once I'm driving along.
	I see a barbecue place.
	I'll stop.
	It's a barbecue.
	Yeah.
	Stuff like that.
	But I notice that when I'm driving outside of California, where things are placed where I expect them to be, occasionally in some towns and cities, I can't see where the red light, green light is.
	I look and look and look.
	And I, you know, it's up on some, some of them that have strung, you know, there's like a bunch of wires from the four corners and the things hanging in the middle, like wiggling around, just hanging there.
	I've seen that.
	I've seen them where they're positioned where I don't really ever look there.
	I struggle in some parts of the country finding where they're putting these red lights.
	And I think these cars probably must have the same problem.
	And I think that's why that guy ran the red light, because I saw this intersection where they showed the video, and the red light was over on the far left.
	I don't know if there's anything on the right.
	What happens if one light's burned out?
	John, congratulations.
	You've discovered the secret of how they do it.
	Yeah, when we get the self-driving cars, every single road will have to be specifically painted with the stripes, because that's how it knows to keep in the lane.
	This is a pipe dream.
	It's a pipe dream, and we're never really going to see this on scale.
	No way.
	Not in our lifetime.
	But I think it's going to be more problematic than they imagined.
	It's not going to happen in 2017 or 2018 or the main year 2021.
	I've seen that again crop up.
	No, it's not going to happen.
	I know.
	I'm telling you, we have a long-standing bet, don't we?
	I can't remember what it was, but we have one.
	My bet is it's going to happen and your bet is it's not going to happen.
	There you go.
	But I'm very concerned about this placement of these stoplights.
	Yeah, that'll have to be changed.
	In fact, right around the corner from me, there is a stop sign that I know is there, but I can see it painted on the ground.
	But the stop sign itself is grayed out by a large tree that has a branch right in front of the sign.
	I just had an idea.
	You never see the sign.
	I just had an idea for a product for San Francisco specifically.
	All you need to do is get an old clunker of a car, and you saw a hole in the bottom, and you get on the trolley tracks, and you drop your thing down, catch the rope, and you're good to go.
	This has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
	No!
	In other words, I'm boring you so much that you've dreamed of some invention in the process of trying to listen to my tales.
	Well...
	By the way, I think that's a great idea.
	Yeah.
	Why not?
	Has anyone ever done that?
	It seems like a perfect thing to do.
	I would do it.
	It's a great idea.
	You need a big lever that goes out.
	I know.
	You've got to squeeze it so you can pick up the line, the cable.
	Yeah, you have to squeeze it.
	It has to grip the line.
	And I'm not so sure you can just pull it out of that thing.
	That's what she said.
	Now, I have to play for you two clips.
	One is an oldie but a goodie, one that we have not played in a while on the No Agenda show.
	It's from Vivian Schiller, previously the CEO of NPR. And she was asked a question about their business model, about their finances, to which she answered the following.
	Okay, moving on to money.
	How are NPR's corporate underwriting revenues holding up in the recession?
	And what about foundation grants?
	Okay.
	Two different stories.
	Underwriting is down.
	It's down for everybody.
	I mean, this is the area that is most down for us is in sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want.
	Exactly.
	Because it is just advertising.
	And I'd like to remind people from time to time that the same people who sell ads on your local Top 40 radio station also sell ads on NPR. Now, there are some restrictions, but I gotta tell you, I think they're pretty loose with the restrictions.
	Oh, you know, I've been wanting to do like a special little...
	Bunch of clips on this because I hear them constantly, especially on NPR, where they do call to action as far as I'm concerned.
	Yeah, they tell you to go to a website.
	And they tell you that they're the best in the business.
	So I think it's borderline for sure.
	And it's okay.
	But in our Prestitute podcast series...
	This is a podcast from the Wall Street Journal.
	I think it's called Media Mix, where they talk about media.
	So it's really fun to listen to.
	They had the new CEO of NPR on, my old boss, Jarl Mohn.
	Jarl, who, of course, used to be known on WMMR as Lee Masters.
	Everybody's Lee Masters.
	And then he worked at MTV as Lee Masters.
	I will say he turned the movie channel into E. That was entirely his idea.
	TalkSoup also entirely his idea.
	he's the CEO of NPR.
	And, uh, oh yeah, I was going to tell you something.
	The, uh, you remember the, uh, the radio someone I was at in, uh, in New York where he also spoke.
	Yeah.
	So I got a tweet and I think, I don't know if you retweeted it.
	Someone said, Hey, where's the podcast?
	They were going to release it in November.
	Oh, Yeah, and I look and I say, it's not November, it's December.
	So I go looking, I can't find it.
	I shoot off an email to my buddy Steve.
	Much work.
	Steve Leeds.
	And he, because I couldn't remember the guy's name, it was Edward.
	He loops him back in.
	No, he says, well, yeah, we were busy.
	We were busy and there's also a new rule.
	That everything we publish in a podcast has to be transcribed, so they have to have a transcription.
	That is now apparently done, and it may be up by next week.
	I doubt it, because it's Christmas and New Year's, but as soon as that's done, then I'll make sure I tweet it out.
	But it's like, wow, I mean, do these people not get it?
	That's the new house school.
	You know, this is supposed to be the top, oh yes, this is where you learn all about broadcasting.
	Well, part of the thing about broadcasting is you need to actually broadcast it.
	I can't believe that they messed that up.
	Anyway, so Jarl is on the media mix, and the topic comes up about their business model, about their funding.
	Now, Lee Masters, very, very smart guy, very slick.
	You're not going to catch him easily.
	But he does slip in something here.
	That I think is interesting for the future of their model.
	Now, this was actually about podcasts and how they're going to use podcasts.
	And they're going all in 2017, big podcasting year.
	And I'm thinking, where's my phone call?
	You know?
	Seriously.
	I mean, wouldn't you at least want to pick my brain?
	Okay, I guess not.
	Fine.
	We talked about this before.
	We talked about this at the dinner table recently, citing some other example.
	And I'll tell the story again.
	I don't want to overdo these stories today, but I'm at Tech TV, a cable station that became, actually it was originally ZDTV. I think this happened during that era.
	They got Leo Laporte.
	They've got And then they bring in Chris Perillo.
	Now, at the time they did this, which was in the late 90s, Both of those guys, especially Chris, but both those guys were early on bloggers who knew the ropes completely.
	Absolutely.
	Leo was blogging way before anybody else, and Chris was blogging for money way before anybody else.
	They were extremely adept.
	They knew everything.
	They knew what software to use, how to use it, and they knew everything about blogging.
	So ZDTV said, oh, we're going to start a blog now.
	Because it's a good thing to do as a corporate thing.
	So they start this blogging.
	It's going and going.
	A couple of years into it, I go and I ask both Chris and Leo, I say, these guys have a blog going here, which I looked at as a piece of crap.
	I said, did these guys ever talk to either one of you who are the two blogging experts About how to do a blog right, what you should expect, how it should be done correctly, how to set it up so it works, all that.
	No, never talk down.
	So you hire these two guys who are known experts and you don't even talk to them ever.
	Yeah.
	Very common.
	I know.
	And like, I wouldn't even charge him.
	I'd do it because I like him.
	No, no, they wouldn't either.
	The way it always works, I always felt this way.
	When we had a publisher at PC Magazine once, Bill Losey, he would always exploit many of the writers about certain ideas and marketing and other things to see what we thought of it and maybe help make it better.
	And then that slowly disappears, so we never get asked anything.
	We're just, like, guys writing there.
	And I've always wondered why they've never asked me to, like, give a seminar on column writing or how to do stuff that's compelling that people want to read, because I've only been doing it for 30 years.
	Right.
	No, never.
	No.
	Well, I do funny...
	I see no.
	It's funny, though, that we're grousing about it, the guys who have a one-page Squarespace site, and nothing integrates with anything else, so...
	Well, that doesn't mean we don't know what we're doing.
	We're just not doing it.
	No, I totally disagree with you.
	That's why I've never bitched about that Squarespace site.
	It does the job.
	I know.
	It does a beautiful job.
	It still links to the No Agenda stickers Chinese porn site.
	I mean, it does a great job.
	Besides that, it needs to be changed.
	We're a little lax.
	Yeah, just a tad.
	All right.
	That's beside the point.
	All right.
	Here is, now listen carefully.
	Listen carefully as he talks about his business model.
	We actually think we've got a fabulous business model.
	Historically, NPR perhaps has not, well not perhaps, hasn't optimized it as well as they should have.
	And that's one of the things I hope, you know, this current manager...
	By the way, do you hear the crappy sound on that show?
	There's a hum in the background.
	I hear a machine running.
	I hear all kinds...
	I mean, seriously, people...
	Is this a podcast?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Get it together.
	I hope this current management team we have is going to be able to do.
	But we have three sources of revenue.
	We have our corporate sponsorship for underwriting.
	That's one.
	A lot of journalistic organizations have that.
	So, and that is, those are the big powerhouses and the pillars of public broadcasting.
	So, theoretically, yes, they don't have to buy that.
	They say, yeah, we just want to buy.
	Wait, wait, don't tell me.
	I can't imagine anybody doing that, but they could.
	So, it is a la carte to that extent.
	What typically happens, though, is that...
	That is kind of interesting.
	That is their number one pillar.
	Is the big corporate stuff brought to you by Archer, Daniel Midlands.
	Well, people don't always realize.
	It's not a toss-away.
	The government is very small.
	No, I agree, and I'm glad that we're talking about it.
	So people out there listen to our show and contribute, they have a sense of reality about what's really going on out there.
	That's why they can't get the kind of stories we talk about.
	To that extent, what typically happens is they'll buy the news magazines, and then pretty much everything else is a la carte.
	So talk about how your business has changed.
	You mentioned underwriting.
	It seems like that, you can call it a lot of different things sort of in the modern media space, like things like, you know.
	The modern media space.
	Excuse me.
	John, are you in the modern media space?
	I try to be there.
	I'm not fully there all the time.
	Sometimes I'm sleeping.
	Let's meet there tonight in the modern media space.
	In the media space, things like brought to you by or sponsored content.
	Is that an area of your business that you are trying to grow, the sort of branded content, sponsored content, like a lot of media companies are these days?
	We don't do that.
	We don't do that.
	We are very careful.
	We think a lot of our colleagues do it.
	We all do it.
	Back to the question you asked, Jack, about credibility.
	We think that that might put our brand at risk.
	I am not a fan of that.
	There are some people that have done it and done it remarkably well.
	We may someday.
	I think it's going to be a while.
	You think that sort of blurs the lines a little bit for listeners and readers?
	I think it does, and particularly ours.
	We have a really unique brand of listener and consumer, and they're very careful.
	Boy, did you hear that?
	We have a very unique brand of listener and consumer.
	They listen very carefully, and they don't want us to have even the slightest tinge of being affected by who our corporate sponsors are or who our institutional foundations are that support us.
	Our audience questions everything, and so we don't want to give them any reason to be more concerned than they might already be.
	Interesting, he never mentioned the donors who give money for a tote bag or a coffee mug.
	I noticed that.
	He doesn't mention donors.
	He also never uses the words native advertising, which is what they were talking about.
	And he said, we may in the future.
	Yes, he did.
	He said, we may in the future.
	We may in the future.
	He's going to have to.
	That's where it has to go.
	And the podcasts that they do, they all have ads.
	Every single one of them.
	Now, if I were to consult Lee Masters, Jarl Mohn, I would say, you know, you need to start not with the money, but with the programming.
	That's where people want to get involved.
	People want, and actually, in an odd way, money is a way to speak and be a part of the programming.
	Witness our donation segments.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	People make their own jingles.
	They get stuff played.
	But outside of that, people contribute in so many different ways.
	And to them, they're just listeners and consumers.
	And really, that's bullcrack.
	They're really branded tokens of units.
	Yeah, we know our audience.
	Very smart.
	Very highly educated.
	Very smart.
	You want to advertise.
	I mean, you want to underwrite to them.
	Yeah, it's kind of a pathetic, old-fashioned way of looking at everything.
	I don't see any modern thinking there at all, except the idea of doing a podcast, which is an extension of a radio show.
	In fact, there was somebody pointing this out.
	There was a tweet going around.
	I think it was The Guardian had its annual 50 Best Podcasts.
	Yeah, we're never on it.
	Of course, we weren't in there.
	No, of course not.
	We're the best podcast in the universe, and we're not in it.
	No, we're not in it.
	And I think a lot of this has to do with somebody they listen to and go, oh, these guys are nuts.
	And, you know, this listener supported thing.
	We only support, you know, they're actually condemning.
	Our podcast condemns the Guardian.
	So why would they put us on anybody's list?
	But this is a typical corrupt system.
	It's kind of an echo chamber of corruption in every which way.
	But the PBS thing is not going anywhere.
	That's for sure.
	And thus they get on board with the native advertising, which is now taking over the place.
	Exactly.
	And nobody seems to care.
	And that's what everyone wants to buy.
	And listen, I'm telling you, we heard earlier about video advertising.
	Advertisers are going to stop doing it.
	That stories have effect, man, big time.
	Right away.
	Calls, phones are ringing.
	Hey, how can we prove this?
	Do we have dirty traffic is what it's called.
	Yeah, dirty traffic.
	A lot of dirty traffic.
	Which is, again, nothing that we even concern ourselves about.
	So anyway, please keep your eyes open, everyone.
	You are seeing the demise of a great institution.
	The demise.
	Because as much as I like Jarl, this is not the vision.
	I think he's marred by politics internally.
	It's probably a huge political place, and the board must be just gnarly.
	A bunch of...
	Just a-holes.
	Gnarlers.
	Yeah, just, ugh.
	You know, elitist cocks.
	We don't need a time code.
	No, we don't need a time code for that.
	They're like roosters.
	Okay.
	And so while you're watching that, be very proud that you are a part of the real new media space.
	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 And we do want to thank a bunch of people who gave between $50 and $200 for today's show at 888.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Eight.
	Starting with Charles Brocchetti in Incheon.
	He's in Korea.
	That's regular Korea.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Followed by Don Ripple.
	It came in from Dresden, Ohio at 1, 2, 3.
	It came in with a check.
	There's a small note here where it just says, you do a great show and keep it up.
	Brian Mura, I guess it's Mura Cod, I think, in Tacoma, 122-21.
	He's got a birthday coming up.
	And he's going to be knighted, amongst many others.
	Anthony True, I don't know, what do you think?
	Trusnick.
	Trusnick.
	Yeah, it could be.
	I think the G is silent.
	Trusnick.
	T-R-U-S-G. It could be also something that came in funny.
	How old is that?
	We got jobish karma for him at the end of this thing.
	Well, oh, Trusnick.
	There we go.
	I was close.
	It's in the look over the right.
	He's going to be a knight.
	He'll be known as Sir Trusnick.
	I was close.
	No, I was on the mind.
	Nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	Al in Richmond, Virginia, 118.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	He wants karma for himself, all the people of the world do that at the end, and a shout out for Sovereign Tech.
	Okay, there you go.
	Now Al.
	Al, Richmond, Virginia, 118.16.
	He wants a Fletcher call.
	You've been de-douched.
	He wanted de-douching.
	Someone named Sick $111.33, and he needs a dedouching.
	You might as well give him one.
	Okay.
	You've been dedouched.
	There you go.
	Trying to move along in the time here.
	Yeah, Josh Anderson, Fort Branch, Indiana, $111.11, and I will say what he said.
	Insightful commentary.
	He says he waits anxiously for each show.
	Thank you.
	Dame Amanda of the Northeast.
	Hmm.
	$101.01.
	We have a note from her that I will read on another show.
	It's one of those lists she likes to make.
	John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	$100.
	Joseph Harrell in Moyak, North Carolina.
	$100.
	$100.
	Lance Forrest in Newport, North Carolina, 9999.
	Also Christopher Utley in Gilbert, Arizona, 9999.
	And then Ty Robinson came in from Queen Creek, Arizona with 88.89 because we have a lot of 88.88.
	Yeah, so he's on top of the heap that way.
	That's pretty interesting.
	Yeah, so Jason of Cascadia felt the same way from Seattle.
	With 88, 89.
	And so did, oh, I see, Houston Matthew in Houston.
	Okay, here we go.
	I'm going to read the name and location for the 88, 88 donors.
	Holy crap.
	Yes.
	Holy crap.
	All right, I'm going to go to the bathroom.
	Ready, here we go.
	Simon of Jefferson, California, which means he's up north of the area.
	88, 88.
	Anthony Renna in Port Lucie, Florida.
	Alexander Bartok, parts unknown.
	Benty Helt Edlish in Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic, one of the two.
	Sir Hey Idiot, parts unknown.
	Lucas Lundy, parts unknown.
	Sir Lead, parts unknown.
	I'm irked by these missing city names.
	Bruce Schwam, Schwam or Schwam, Schwam.
	Schwam, Schwam.
	Schwamm?
	Yeah.
	Daniel Baxter.
	What are you, peeing in a cup?
	Cape Coral, Florida.
	Jeffrey Anderson, parts unknown.
	Mark Magpio.
	Magpio.
	There's no explanation for that.
	Annie Lennon in Washington, D.C. Hooray for Washington.
	Michael Towan in Hayden, Iowa.
	Trevor Mudge, Sir Trevor, I believe, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	Randall Brown in Providence Village, Texas.
	Patrick Coble, Sir Patrick Coble to you, Fairview, Tennessee.
	He works in Murfreesboro, I believe.
	Sam Ford, parts unknown.
	Sir Jim of Beverly Hills.
	In Beverly Hills.
	Alexandra Chapa in Houston, Texas.
	Kevin Thomas in Smyrna, Georgia.
	Michael Lopresti in Middletown, New York.
	Jason Werner.
	Benjamin Garcia in La Habra, California.
	Adam Nikola Ivakovich in Ontario, Canada.
	Daniel Smith.
	Another part's unknown.
	Matt Avery, Montara, California.
	Gerald Lenski.
	Ryan Young in Buckeye, Arizona.
	Sir Rick LeBanca in Hope, Rhode Island.
	I believe he's a sir.
	We're missing some sirs in here, sorry.
	Carl Lindner, parts unknown.
	John Jolly in Yukon, Oklahoma.
	Sir William the Red Knight, Sir James of Norway.
	In Norway.
	Brian Massey.
	Ronald Tharp Jr.
	in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
	Philip Veenstra.
	Veenstra.
	From the Netherlands.
	Got a U.S. note here.
	Scott Wallace.
	Marshall Ratushniak.
	Ratushniak in Regina.
	Rhymes with...
	Sir Hank Scorpio of the Electric Grid in Gatineau, Quebec.
	Stefan Klopp in Geneva.
	Hey, that is an actual Stefan for once.
	That's cool.
	Oh, you know, the other guy who was in the Czech Republic was also in Switzerland.
	Oh, C-H-E-O, I should have known.
	Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.
	Stephen Klopp.
	Christopher Malmy, parts unknown.
	Brian Christian in Temple of Pennsylvania.
	Sir Quijibu in Luxembourg.
	Ray for Luxembourg.
	Anonymous.
	Sir Charles Walters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
	Jay Cuthrell in Austin, Texas.
	Joseph Wink, parts unknown.
	Elliot Serens.
	Christine Zachman.
	Russell Rem.
	Stan Salisbury in Gainesville, Florida.
	Dennis Steffens.
	Gregory Sisla.
	I'm hoping.
	Matthew Helly in Gatineau, Quebec.
	Who's on the Twitters.
	Roger Esty in Parts Unknown.
	Aaron Murphy.
	Dan Horner.
	Stephen Feswick in Alberta, Canada.
	Paul Smith with a birthday in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
	Barry Coggins.
	I think so, sir.
	Jason Aubrey in Foreman, Arkansas.
	Ben Hink in Orland Park, Illinois.
	Anonymous.
	Another one.
	Gabriel Olinger.
	Sir Patrick of the Pugner Order in Carnation, Washington.
	David Villu in Concord, California.
	Sir Simon Reed.
	Somewhere.
	Jason Denny with a very long note with his douchebag call-outs.
	Do we want to do those?
	Yeah, sure.
	Okay, what are they?
	We've got to see where they are.
	By the way, I apologize to everyone who's in the car listening right now and really needs to pee.
	You didn't hear it.
	I played some peeing noise.
	You did?
	Yeah, you told me to go pee in a cup and I did.
	And then, of course, people are listening to this in the car and think about that.
	They're like, oh crap, now I gotta go.
	Oh, I don't know.
	Do you think that...
	I don't think it's as bad as a hand in a bucket of water.
	Just thinking about it.
	I don't see the call-outs in here.
	There's just a long note.
	I don't see call-outs either.
	Where are they?
	There must be something.
	We'll look at it later.
	If you want to do call-outs, give us a quick note.
	We don't read these long notes.
	Yeah, it's a beautiful story, but we're going to do this another time.
	This is a karma...
	We'll save it.
	We can do the call-outs later.
	Ben Durall, if we can find him.
	Stephen Hightower.
	David Fugazotto.
	I think he's a knight in Glasgow, Missouri.
	I'm pretty sure, yeah.
	Stephen Ritchie, parts unknown.
	Austin Voss in Calgary.
	Roland Boulder in the Netherlands.
	Sertogansbosch.
	In Sertogansbosch.
	That's right.
	Wayne Larcombe in Sunnybank Hills, Queensland, Australia.
	Helko Santima in the Netherlands.
	Santima, Helko Santima.
	Oh, Santima, right.
	I've said his name a million times.
	Houghton.
	Sean McDonough.
	Ryan Couture.
	Sir Christophe the Cantankerous.
	Sir Xenonymous.
	We should do a British meetup.
	Matthew Januszewski, sir, I believe, by now.
	Brian Watts in Adelaide, South Australia.
	Thomas Novak in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee.
	Whee!
	is what he writes.
	James Sutton in Arlington, Washington.
	This is a good list.
	And that concludes the group.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah, it was a good group.
	That's 888888.
	Lucky numbers.
	These people are going to have a lucky year.
	Good luck.
	2017.
	Onward with the list of the other people, including Sebastian de Stieter.
	Very good.
	Boobs.
	We got boobs.
	Sir Joel, the Battleborn Knight in Reno, Nevada.
	I don't think it was a boob link.
	It's funny.
	Dave Albrecht in Lincoln, Nebraska.
	These guys just have boob on their mind.
	These are all boob guys.
	Mark Hudson in Otley West in the UK. Mark Hudson came in twice.
	A couple of boobs.
	Sir Silver in Silver Spring, Maryland, 7777.
	Anastasia Petroff in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, 76.
	Jeffrey Kelly in Arnold, Maryland, 7175.
	Sir Rick, our buddy in Arlington, Washington, 6933.
	Brian Moss in Rancho Santa Maria, California, 5888.
	And curiously, Dame Tanya Wyman came in with the same amount, which is interesting.
	Name Tanya.
	Unless they're living together.
	I don't think so.
	She's in New York, I believe.
	Brian Lawson in Houston, Texas, 5825.
	Sir, or Chris Biancati, 5333.
	Good old James Moore over here in San Pablo, California, 53-33, 55-33.
	Howard Abraham, 50 double nickels on the dime, parts unknown.
	Daniel Hutner, double nickels on the dime.
	Brian Chandler, St.
	Louis, Missouri, $51.50.
	And the following people are all $50 donors to wrap this thing up in a bow and send it on its way.
	Andrew Beard in Powhat in Virginia, $50.
	Shane Hawk, parts unknown, $50.
	Nicholas Johnson in Floyd's Knobs, Indiana.
	Yeah, Floyd's Knobs.
	Floyd's Knobs.
	I like that.
	That's a cool name.
	Floyd's Knobs.
	Floyd's Knobs.
	Always been Gnawbone, Indiana.
	Yeah.
	Sir Howard Guttnacht in Seattle.
	Guttnacht.
	Guttnacht.
	Wes Morton in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia.
	We love the Australians.
	Andrew Gusek in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Kevin Porter in Beaver Creek, Ohio.
	Jason Clegg in San Diego, California.
	Robert Drykosin in parts unknown.
	Brendan Mink in Tempe, Arizona.
	Eric Von Marder, maybe a sir.
	I don't remember.
	I think so.
	And Van Nuys over there.
	He'll be at the meetup, I bet.
	Jason Daniels, parts unknown.
	Brian Gilbo, Sir Brian of the Miserable IT Guy.
	Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	Patrick Macomb in New York City.
	I think he's Sir Patrick.
	Sir Jerry Ringenroth in Saugus, California.
	And the last two, Benjamin Wilson in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
	And last but not least, and we'll see him in Los Angeles for sure because he's coming to the meetup, Sir Mark Tanner in Whittier, California.
	Oh, well, as I said, as I said...
	Everyone, you are a part of a community that is doing something incredibly...
	I mean, this is the modern media space.
	Excuse me.
	And you're a part of it, and you can be proud of that.
	I'm proud of it.
	That's fantastic.
	What a great Christmas gift.
	And I love how people just love numbers.
	Severely underrated.
	Severely underrated numbers.
	Okay.
	Well, believe it or not, we have quite a list of nights and birthdays as well, just to top it all off.
	So I will thank you profusely.
	Also, of course, everyone who always comes in under $50.
	And they do that typically for reasons of anonymity, but a lot of you are on our layaway plans or on our monthly subscriptions.
	Everything, everything helps.
	Really appreciate it.
	Thank you so much.
	And, of course, remember we have a show on Christmas.
	Slash and aim with a karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And first we have a belated birthday, Melissa Laster says happy birthday to Paul Laster.
	He turned 48 on the 18th.
	Sorry about that.
	Karen Samuel celebrates today.
	Paul Smith says happy birthday to his friend Brooke.
	Brian Mouracay, 33, on December 21st.
	John Helmert says happy birthday to his son Andrew, 15, on the 22nd.
	That would be today.
	John Knowles also celebrating today, turning 44.
	Sir Chris Carmel by the seats.
	Happy birthday to his wife, Kristen.
	29 on the night before Christmas.
	Brian Lawson will be celebrating on Christmas Day.
	Rob Tyson, December 28th.
	And Jacob Phillips has his happy birthday to Sir Christopher Walker, who celebrates his birthday today.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Yes, it's best.
	Okay, now, first we have to talk about Jason Brockman for a moment.
	He was a $50 a month contributor.
	He made Nighthood on December 13th for show 886.
	And somehow we overlooked him.
	And then, amazingly, we overlooked him again.
	Yeah, he fell into the vortex.
	The polar vortex.
	I'll tell you how bad it is.
	So, I don't even, I could be wrong, it may be somebody else, but he wrote, and I said, you've fallen into the vortex, and so I was trying to figure out what his name was again, because unless you, if you missed knighthood, put in the subject line of an email, put missed knighthood, or something like that.
	Yeah, here's what's not helpful.
	So I suppose this, and then dot, dot, dot.
	Yeah, it doesn't mean anything.
	People do that shit.
	So we can't look you up.
	Exactly.
	And in fact, I tried to look him up today to make sure that he got on the list, and I could find him.
	And I thought I sent him a note about the Vortex, and he couldn't find that.
	I don't know what the deal is.
	I think you tweeted that to him, John.
	That's what I recall.
	Oh, you recall me saying something about the Vortex?
	I think you tweeted him.
	That's why you couldn't find it in your outbox.
	Hello!
	We can make a show just about making the show.
	Anyway, so he becomes a black knight today.
	And, of course, we apologize.
	So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine knights, and I think two dames.
	Anastasia, that would be a dame, yes?
	No, that's a guy.
	Anastasia.
	It could be a gal, but in this case, a guy.
	And we have Karen Samuel.
	Okay, so I better get the extra strength blade, John.
	I got the big one here.
	There we go.
	All right.
	Anonymous, come on up.
	Roger Boots, Karen Samuel, Rob Tyson, Brian Morakayad, Anthony Trusnick, Robert Clayson.
	David Villiers, Anastasia Peroff, and Trent Wabbis.
	Get ready because you have all contributed to the best podcast, the university amount of $1,000 or more, and therefore, you are welcome here at the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and the Dames.
	And I pronounce the KV... Here we go.
	Sir Kalashnikov of the Queen City, Black Knight, Sir Hawnonymous, Sir Boots, Dame Karen of Simran Hills, Sir Rob...
	Oh, my voice.
	I have no more voice.
	John, I failed.
	John, I failed the ceremony.
	I failed the ceremony.
	Take a lozenge.
	I can't.
	I need something.
	Hold on.
	Man, what is that?
	What?
	I don't know.
	I don't have it.
	I don't have anything left.
	Okay.
	We continue.
	Dame Karen of Cimarron Hills, Sir Rob Knight of the Philanthropic Shareholders Federation, Sir Brian Knight of the Puget Sound, Sir Trusnick, Sir Real, Sir Dirtbag Dave, and Sir Media Filter.
	And, of course, we have...
	Sir Wavis.
	For you, we have here at the table, hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay for the dames.
	We have half eggs and leaf sauce, saffo and spice, tacos and tequila, meth slots and moonshine, espresso and half milk, DMT and astral travel, ass creams and bear fillings, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and turbos, and mutton and mead!
	I've been hanging out with Alex Jones.
	I don't know what's going on, man.
	I got no more power.
	That's what it sounded like.
	Well, I'm still congested.
	I had no idea.
	I was on the bike.
	I did my spin class on Wednesday.
	I don't know.
	I don't have it.
	That was the most peculiar thing I've ever heard.
	I heard it.
	It already started to happen during the birthdays.
	I already heard it.
	I don't know what it is.
	I think my voice is just, I'm done.
	It can't do anymore.
	888 episodes.
	Mark it in your calendar.
	That's when...
	Can you imagine?
	That's the only thing I have left is my voice.
	That's all I have.
	No voice.
	I might as well just shrivel up.
	Yeah, yeah, you could.
	Oh, and we have some title changes.
	I want to do these.
	I can't forget those.
	We have...
	Let me see here.
	Come gather round, douchebag, producer and slave As we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave us That's right, the titles, they are a change in story Sir Simon Reid, Baron Reid, claims the territory of the Midlands and England in absentia.
	And Sir Scott, Baron of the Bikes, let me see what he says.
	He had a note here.
	Um...
	Yes, Sir Scott, Baron of the Bikes, and he'd like to defer on a protectorate, to defer on a protectorate, because Northern Virginia is full of spooks and hillbots, and he doesn't want to do anything with them.
	So I guess he doesn't have a protectorate yet.
	He can always get one later, but he doesn't want to do it in Spookville.
	So, understood.
	Hello?
	Spooks and Hillbots.
	Spooks and Hillbots.
	All right, let me roll out a couple things.
	Let's go to...
	Now, this was interesting.
	We are going way over, but we're going to keep the second half a little short here.
	Geert Wilders, of course, we know him, politician in the Netherlands.
	He's been in Parliament for, what, five years now?
	Yeah, not quite yet.
	Quite a while, quite a while.
	His popularity of his party has grown immensely.
	He has been very clear.
	He's kind of following in the footsteps of Pim Fortan, saying the problem is Islam.
	We just don't want...
	You can live here if you want, but we've got to...
	Chill out on Islam, and now they're saying, stop immigration from Islamic countries.
	I do want to point out, the Netherlands is one of the, after Japan, I think one of the most densely populated countries on earth.
	You know, there's like a square meter for every person.
	When I grew up there, it was 14 million people.
	It stayed around 14 million people.
	When the multicultural society integration started, the Netherlands is not an immigration country.
	Traditionally not an immigration country.
	But now they just pretend like they are.
	Now it's 17 million.
	That's quite a jump.
	And you can understand the three extra million.
	But the size of Rhode Island.
	Yeah.
	Oh, the Netherlands is exactly.
	It's the size of Rhode Island.
	You're right.
	That's the example we always give, actually, to Americans.
	So some guy goes and he's traveling around, and he's like, oh, and we discovered the quaint little country of the Netherlands.
	And there they have this crazy guy, Gert Wilders.
	Now, Dutch people are listening to this show.
	This is always fun because it's going to come across to anyone who doesn't know the background of the country or of the politician as, oh, sounds perfectly reasonable, sounds like a true story.
	It is completely wrong from beginning to end.
	Just so you know, it's all fake news.
	Turning now to our pop lead, he might have the coolest gig on TV, my friend and colleague Bill Weir.
	He travels the world to disappearing places and taking a deeper dive into the untold stories.
	In a new episode of The Wunderlist right here on CNN, Bill goes to Holland, generally known for its liberal, progressive, tolerant views, but now comes along a man who's being called the Dutch Donald Trump.
	Maybe that's not fair.
	Maybe it is.
	He's trying to catch a wave that many other populations in the U.S. and Europe have ridden to victory.
	Let's bring in Bill Weir, the host of The Wunderlist, removing Donald Trump from this at all.
	Tell us about Geert Wilders, this politician in the Netherlands.
	Why is he getting this reputation?
	Well, he is completely anti-Islam.
	Not the people, not Muslims in particular, he says, but he thinks Islam is a religion of death, it is corrosive, and he is trying to limit immigration in this famously open-minded society.
	You know, the Dutch created that country out of mud and water, and they are famously...
	That's a little...
	Yeah, that's how land reclamation works.
	Yeah, mud and mud.
	A little mud there, a little water.
	We can make a country.
	Let's do it.
	Hey, right on.
	Let's do that.
	You know, they were the center of trade, invented the stock market.
	You know, at one point it was the center of the universe.
	But okay, you can put it that way if you want.
	And then inferring, well, these people, they're open.
	Everything's good.
	Inferring that they're open to have people come in.
	But no, it's not an immigration country tradition.
	Collegial, they work together, but it's neighbor against neighbor, as this gentleman rises in the polls.
	He is now a favorite to become the Prime Minister.
	And it's so...
	I really can't take Trump out of it, Jake, because I happened to be there while his rise was happening here, and it was such an interesting parallel.
	You had journalists and academics in Amsterdam shaking their heads.
	I can't believe his popularity, but the guys we hired to drive us around, blue-collar good guys, They're voting for Geert Wilders, and this is a part of a trend that's happening.
	You mean like non-elitist people like you?
	Is that what you're saying?
	Like normal guys?
	Blue-collar guys?
	...happening across Europe, where these populist sort of anti-immigration candidates are on the rise, and more and more young people actually in polls are saying living in a democracy is not as essential.
	As many thought in the past.
	It's fascinating to say nothing of Geert's hair, of course.
	Yeah, so now...
	What do you say about young people living in a democracy?
	Yeah, no, they don't care.
	Oh, they don't care?
	Yeah, they think that these are nationalist authoritarians and young people would rather have them than living in a democracy.
	That's the conclusion of the brilliant CNN. Since they carry everything over to Trump by association, so Trump represents that and also Trump represents the anti-Muslim.
	Of course, of course.
	Because that's a direct association they drew.
	This is Jake Tapper on CNN that we're listening to.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's just unbelievable.
	I have, oh, yes.
	The unofficial response from Turkey that came in.
	What was this?
	I got this.
	I think it might have been RT.
	I'm not sure.
	No.
	No, let me see.
	Let me see what this was.
	It was after the assassination.
	From the Turkish government's perspective, The officials are already trying to present this as, there have been some, in fact, one of the advisors of the president saying that this might be a false flag operation trying to implicate the United States, perhaps.
	But it certainly, however this plays out, there's no doubt that this is going to have huge effects.
	I think it was BBC. Someone recorded it off the TV for me.
	So they said false flag by the U.S. How about that?
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I like that.
	Could be.
	Yeah, totally could be.
	Totally.
	All right, here's a good one.
	This is the top priorities.
	This was during one of the Talking Heads shows, and it was a big discussion.
	I think it was on Ed Schultz.
	And he had some guy on who's an ex-State Department guy, and they're talking about the top priorities of the Pentagon.
	And with all this talk about Russia, they were expecting it to be on there somewhere, but I guess not.
	I have no idea what clip it is.
	Oh, that's too bad.
	Okay, the clip is called Pentagon Top Four Priorities.
	Oh, I'm sorry, yes.
	Gotcha.
	Here we go.
	...makers on Capitol Hill have expressed big concerns about Rex Tillerson as a Secretary of State over his business ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	Now, a leaked document from the Pentagon is adding to their concern on Capitol Hill.
	The four top defense priorities of the President-Elect do not include Russia.
	This is a shift from military officials who see Russia as the country's number one threat.
	This is a clear sign the Trump administration is ready for a restart with the Kremlin.
	For more on that, let's turn to J.D. Gordon.
	He's a former Pentagon spokesperson.
	J.D., good to have you with us tonight.
	tonight.
	Thanks so much.
	Let me just point out that no country is named as a priority in this defense priority, the top four.
	Number one, of course, is ISIS, developing a strategy and defeating ISIS.
	Number two is eliminate budget caps because they want to spend more money on military projects.
	Cyber strategy is number three.
	And number four is the wasteful spending and making greater efficiencies come out of the Pentagon.
	Well, that's never going to happen.
	Yeah.
	The list seems reasonable.
	Yeah.
	Where's Russia?
	Yeah.
	Why are they playing that up so much?
	McCain and Graham, come on.
	It's always the same two.
	I don't understand why Graham gets any attention at all.
	He still lives at home with his mother.
	I don't want to hate on him for that, but...
	Well, I mean, at his age, I don't know.
	I don't want to hate on him at all, but he's the one causing trouble.
	Okay, I gotta balance you out, man.
	No, I gotta balance you out.
	That was way too serious.
	Here we go.
	Second half of the show.
	Whoopi Goldberg.
	Don't you want a little view action?
	You just can't resist, can you?
	I can't.
	I can't resist.
	There are people, when you speak, that clamor for you to run for president, and there's a reason for that.
	Yes.
	Because you told me for president.
	But here's the difference.
	When I speak, at least you know that I've actually looked stuff up.
	So people think I might be more aware.
	They also know that I've had a wide variety of lives.
	And so they think maybe I know some stuff.
	But when you have someone who doesn't seem to do the homework, who doesn't seem to have any idea how things actually run...
	You're talking about Trump, not Christian, right?
	Well, I'm talking about both of them.
	Because I don't know.
	I can only tell you what I've seen.
	And, you know, when you bring up Hillary, I think to myself, you know what?
	She may not have been the best candidate for people, but I know she knew what she was doing.
	Yeah, sure.
	I don't.
	Raping us.
	You haven't done your homework.
	Oh, I've done my homework.
	No, no, you haven't done your homework.
	If she knew what she was doing, though, she would have known that those documents that were labeled confidential, she was briefed on that.
	Let me explain something to you.
	You can bring those emails up as much as you want.
	She wasn't hacked.
	Everybody else was.
	That's all.
	Can you see that juice?
	Get out of my vagina!
	Oh, man.
	Leave that show in the air some It's embarrassing.
	You're right.
	It is completely embarrassing.
	You want to hear something else embarrassing?
	Loretta Lynch, our Attorney General.
	Oh, okay.
	I haven't heard this.
	I think she also had to testify.
	I haven't seen it yet.
	But she did an interview about her meeting on the plane with Bill Clinton and how that mayor...
	I don't think she actually says how it affected...
	That's what caused the election right there.
	Thank you very much.
	My view is, and always has been, that when you are in public life, or even in private life, and you make a mistake, you own it.
	And you talk about it right away.
	Own it.
	You let people know what you're going to do to deal with the impact of that mistake.
	And my concern was, what impact was that going to have on people's views of the Department of Justice and the work that we were doing?
	So in retrospect, I'm sorry, Mr.
	President, it'd be inappropriate for us to talk.
	You wish you'd said that?
	No.
	Well, I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him because it did give people concern.
	And as I said, my greatest concern has always been making sure that people understand that the Department of Justice works in a way that's independent and looks at everybody equally.
	Yeah, well, you didn't do a good job there, did you?
	And when you do something that gives people a reason to think differently, that's a problem.
	It was a problem for me.
	It was painful for me.
	Oh, John, it was painful!
	I'm sure she was taking a lot of aspirin.
	Think differently.
	That's a problem.
	It was a problem for me.
	It was painful for me.
	And so I felt it was important to clarify it as quickly and as clearly and as cleanly as possible.
	That is very interesting what she says at the end there.
	As quickly, as clearly, as quickly and as cleanly as possible?
	And so I felt it was important to clarify it as quickly and as clearly and as cleanly as possible.
	Why?
	Is the real story dirty?
	I guess.
	That's like a lawyer talk.
	We gotta explain this clean, man.
	It's gotta be clean.
	Gotta have a clean explanation.
	Meanwhile, she didn't really explain anything.
	No.
	Never said anything.
	But it pains her.
	She's in pain.
	She's the reason that Hillary lost.
	I think she's definitely a part of it, yeah.
	So stupid.
	So stupid.
	So Democracy Now is really never warmed up to Hillary.
	You know, never likes Trump.
	And they're now kind of very slowly getting more mean.
	And this is, I thought it was a good clip.
	This I had for the last show.
	I didn't use it.
	This is Democracy Now slamming.
	And I mean slamming.
	Slamming.
	Butt slam!
	Flynn.
	Oh.
	Oh boy.
	Let's hear Flynn.
	Oh, let me guess.
	Racist.
	Islamophobic.
	Homophobic!
	Just a General Crumb bum.
	Newly released documents have revealed retired Army General Michael Flynn, whom Trump has chosen as National Security Advisor, shared classified military information without authorization while he was the U.S. military intelligence chief in Afghanistan.
	A secret 2010 military investigation concluded...
	Appropriately shared classified information with British and Australian officials, including secret information about the CIA. General Flynn was not disciplined for the intelligence breach, and it is not known the extent of the information shared because the investigation itself remains classified.
	Well, that's all true.
	It's just like a kind of a, it was a smear, that piece, just a smear.
	Well, you know, there was...
	If he had done anything bad, look what happened to Petraeus, four-star general, for just like letting, you know, his girlfriend take one look at his email, then boom, he's Rouse didn't do anything.
	I mean, they got rid of Flynn eventually.
	I always thought there's a lot more to that story because you have the biographer.
	She's a little odd.
	She really is.
	She seems like a spook.
	Well, there you go.
	None of this is really good.
	Then you have the socialites in Florida saying that the biographer was stalking them and stalking other generals.
	I think even Mad Dog Mattis, I think she stalked him too.
	There was a story at least about it.
	I don't know if it's true.
	Also, there's a couple other guys.
	Well, there's that.
	I agree.
	The whole thing was slightly fishy.
	Hey, something is happening in Ukraine that we haven't talked about, and it's kind of an obscure report here.
	This is from, I think it is from, one of our producers sent this to me.
	It's a local report, but it's probably propaganda.
	But let's listen.
	Ukraine's biggest bank, Private Bank, was taken under state control in order to avoid potential financial meltdown.
	Private Bank, the country's largest commercial bank, controls more than a third of private deposits, reportedly amounting to US $6 billion.
	The government pledged to fully protect depositors and said the takeover proposed by the Central Bank and approved by the nation's National Security Council was needed to preserve stability of the country's financial system.
	And Fifi Lagarde, fresh from her conviction where she gets no punishment, because, you know, financial crimes, you don't get convicted.
	You screw over the entire world with the interest rate.
	As a banker, your bank pays a fine.
	You carry on.
	You don't get convicted.
	Fifi?
	IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde also welcomed the nationalization of private bank, calling it an important step in the government's efforts to safeguard financial stability and ensure the bank's smooth operations.
	Attention, attention, Ukraine.
	You are about to get butt slammed.
	This is not good.
	No, well, I think the overall idea was always to put them into the economic hitman sphere.
	Well, here it is.
	It's going now.
	It's lit.
	They're on.
	They're on.
	I really appreciate our producers doing stuff like that.
	I don't know what Russia can do about this.
	Nothing.
	They would probably...
	Well, the last thing they want is IMF running the whole show more than they already are.
	Yeah, you don't want that.
	Yeah, no.
	There's other stuff we can play on Sunday.
	Maybe I kept saying Thursday.
	Thursday.
	It'll be next Thursday when we actually play new stuff.
	But I do have a...
	It's from the Washington Free Beacon.
	It's pretty funny.
	It's a compilation of all the people who said Trump would never become president.
	Yeah, we've played it before.
	We played it on this show?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Yeah, I had a copy of it.
	It wasn't as long as I'd like.
	It didn't include everybody.
	There was a bunch of people that said stuff and it wasn't on there.
	I was very disappointed by this clip.
	I think this is a different one, John.
	This is three minutes.
	Okay, are you going to finish the show with it?
	Well, why don't I play it now, and then if it blows, then we'll play that clip sucked, and then you can play a better one.
	How's that?
	We don't use that clip sucked, do we?
	I know I don't have the better one.
	I'm saying we played this before, like after the election.
	I could be wrong.
	I think it's a new version.
	Let's listen.
	There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.
	That's not going to happen.
	Donald Trump will not become president!
	He's not going to be president.
	He is not.
	Donald Trump is not going to be president of the United States.
	Take it to the bank.
	I guarantee it.
	All right.
	All right.
	I think if he becomes the president here, make it great because the state is already.
	I think that man will be president of the United States right about the time that spaceships come down filled with dinosaurs and red cakes.
	Take it from me.
	How about that?
	And then, of course, there's Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
	Remember that at the correspondence dinner?
	Yeah, I remember all these clips from the time we played it before.
	So far, there's nothing new.
	You want me to stop?
	It's worthless.
	No, I want you to keep going because I know the other one was not three minutes.
	That State of the Union address in no part of your mind or brain can you imagine Donald Trump standing up one day and delivering a State of the Union address?
	Well, I can imagine it.
	In a Saturday night skit.
	I continue to believe Mr.
	Trump will not be president.
	He will never be president of the United States.
	And we better be ready for the fact that he might be leaving the Republican ticket next.
	I know you don't believe that, but I want to go on.
	Okay, here we are.
	And which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?
	Of the declared ones right now, Donald Trump.
	And so, right now, Mr. Trump.
	Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say, you're not going to be president, all right?
	It's been fun.
	It's been great.
	I love you.
	But, what?
	But come on, come on, buddy.
	All, let's say, cow poo poo aside, there is zero chance we'll be seeing you being sworn in on the Capitol steps with your hand on a giant golden Bible.
	Donald Trump is a here-today, gone-tomorrow candidate for president of the United States.
	Donald Trump is not going to be president of the United States.
	Ever respectful of the fact that the people have not voted, he's not going to be president of the United States.
	We talk about him every day and we continuously gashing him.
	He's not going to be the president, don't worry about it.
	Exactly!
	President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!
	Exclamation point.
	At real Donald Trump.
	Well, at real Donald Trump.
	At least I will go down as a president.
	I think that was different.
	No, it was exactly the same.
	And I don't believe that was three minutes.
	Yeah, 2.56.
	Hmm.
	No, it's exactly the same with the exact same ending.
	There was a bunch of them.
	I know there's a bunch of people that made these assertions that weren't in that clip thing, and I'd still like to see one better than that.
	It could go on for five minutes, I'm sure of it.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, no, we played that clip.
	We played it.
	All right.
	I'm sorry.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, thanks, Obama.
	It's his fault.
	I might as well put something in since you made us listen to that again.
	Are you going to hold this over me now?
	Yes, and I'm going to make up for it by blasting Texas.
	Okay, but then no after show blasting, okay?
	No blasting.
	This is a blasting Texas clip.
	Now, I think this, to me, this is on CBS. I'm starting to listen to CBS more.
	And I'm going to switch completely away from NBC. And then I'm going to do CBS. I think I'll do China, maybe, one of the China news outlets.
	Oh, good.
	So I can only listen to this.
	You know, I can't do the three by three because it's just too much redundancy.
	Yeah.
	So...
	This is a, I believe this is a gratuitous story, like we played earlier in the show, where it comes around and it turns out to be a bullcrap story, obviously just played for some reason of brainwashing, because they say, the end kind of indicates that this is a bullshit story you'll see.
	Charlie Daggett in the German capital for us tonight.
	Charlie, thanks.
	The state of Texas has informed Planned Parenthood that it will cut off all Medicaid funds, about $4 million, that serve about 11,000 low-income women each year.
	No Medicaid money is used for abortions in Texas.
	This funding cut would eliminate things like birth control and screening for sexually transmitted diseases.
	Six other states have eliminated Medicaid for Planned Parenthood, but in every case, they've been overruled by the courts.
	So they're going to overrule this by the courts, too, is what he implies.
	So it's a non-story.
	But I just found the ridiculous part of it, and you're right, Texas has got these issues.
	So what you want, if you listen to that story carefully, so what you want, because one of the things you're going to eliminate, no more Medicaid, Medicare, whatever, testing for STDs.
	So let's just let a bunch of kind of itchy and scratchy, you know, drooling people with venereal disease roaming around Texas.
	So Texas will be the state of venereal disease.
	We could put it on our license plate.
	Yeah.
	Clap.
	Come to Texas.
	Clap for the state of Texas.
	I shook that one out, didn't I? Well structured, too.
	Hey, John, congratulations, 888.
	And let me say Merry Christmas, because that will be the next time you hear our voices.
	Well, Merry Christmas to you and a jolly good night.
	Or whatever.
	Ho, ho, ho.
	And all that stuff.
	Exactly.
	Okay, I'll just do a short end-of-show medley here.
	Oh, make it a long one.
	I don't have that much.
	Everyone's on vacation.
	But make sure you check out our special Christmas special.
	It will air on the stream and of course it will be up on all podcast receiving systems on Christmas Day for the next No Agenda show.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Coming to you from the Crackpot Condo in the skyscraper here in downtown Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where Plato's a man who shares sex with Senator's assistant gets on same page.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Good one.
	We will be back on Christmas Day.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	Get a answer.
	We had ant eviction.
	Uh, you don't say it.
	I go like, I don't know how it's gonna be.
	And I ate it, I ate it, I ate it.
	And screw it and chomped it down.
	I don't know how in the meal.
	I don't know how in the meal.
	I don't know how in the meal.
	You are weak, Europeans.
	You're well in our eyes.
	We will take them.
	before we kill you first, you pigs.
	And drinking the booze.
	Get out of my, you know.
	Come on.
	All right, no, I'm not going to violate the Constitution.
	Okey-doke, okey-doke.
	I'm scared.
	What's this?
	Come on.
	Go to noagendershow.com.
	You know?
	I know.
	Violate the Constitution.
	Excuse me.
	Yeah.
	I'm scared.
	Come on.
	I just want to see.
	Go to noagendershow.com.
	Come on.
	I know.
	I know.
	Violate the Constitution.
	Okie doke.
	Okie doke.
	Chisel.
	Yeah.
	And drinking the food.
	Come on.
	Go to noagendershow.com.
	Thank you.
	Always a pleasure.
	Fact check, false.
	Wow.
	I am really high.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	Adios, mofo.
	The best podcast in the universe.

▲