Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

March 2, 2017 - No Agenda

02:51:34

908: Microbeads

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Or his Twitter feed.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, March 2nd, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 908.
	This is no agenda.
	Straddling all universes, because we can.
	And broadcasting live from the darkest quarters of the internet here in downtown Austin Tejas in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's sunny again.
	What next?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning!
	Okay, it's sunny.
	I do.
	Yes, sunny.
	I'm happy we have this info.
	And we got lots of mudflats.
	Bigger than ever.
	In the morning to you there, John.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all the boots on the ground.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Well, some stuff to get out of the way in the beginning here, I think.
	Well, we can start with the Oscars.
	Yeah, we can do that.
	The Academy Awards.
	No, we can do that.
	Or what?
	You have something in mind.
	No, I do not, actually.
	I'm completely open.
	Well, let's discuss the Oscars then, because I think I promised that we're going to do that in the newsletter.
	Yes, you did.
	Yes, you did.
	Although that doesn't have stopped us before.
	Doesn't mean we actually will do anything.
	Okay.
	Um...
	Was it rigged?
	Was that whole thing a scam?
	It's interesting.
	I saw your wife post on the Facebag.
	Oh yeah, she's my wife on the Facebag.
	She is convinced it was a scam.
	Yeah, she totally convinced.
	And she'd get into a beef with anyone who didn't agree.
	Now, this was, of course, my first thought.
	Even though Tina and I, we weren't able to watch the whole thing live because we were in Vietnam.
	When we came back, it was still going.
	And, you know...
	It certainly did the job of getting attention if it was intentional.
	But I don't see it.
	I don't see why that would be something that would be set up that way.
	Certainly not by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
	They're not crazy.
	Well, they are being re-evaluated, too.
	That's why.
	That's why.
	Exactly.
	But it's possible that they were going to get fired anyway.
	So I'm not buying that.
	Here's my one take on this, so far as why I think it was a scam or a publicity stunt.
	And I kind of agree with Mimi about the kind of blaming the old people.
	They bring two old farts out.
	You know, Statler and...
	Well, it was Bonnie and Clyde and there was a programmatic reason behind it.
	Yeah, they could have flashed their pictures on the screen.
	They could have done a lot of different things.
	True.
	But they bring them out for the last thing and then they're goofing around up there and she ends up reading the wrong thing because he got the card because there's two cards that come in.
	Supposedly.
	I do have a clip.
	Yeah.
	And this is Jimmy Kimmel on his own show trying to explain what happened.
	Of course, as far as he's concerned, this was the way it just was an accident.
	As I walked up stage, people started speculating.
	People around me said, oh, did you pull a prank of some kind?
	I was like, hey, no, I didn't.
	I did not pull a prank.
	If I pulled a prank, by the way, I wouldn't have just had the wrong winner's name on the envelope.
	When they opened it, there would have been like a Bed Bath& Beyond coupon.
	It was not a prank.
	And by the way, the producers of La La Land were very gracious, which they did not have to be on stage and off.
	They were very nice.
	They handled it well.
	It was a very amicable custody arrangement.
	They didn't ask for visitation or anything.
	So after the show, I went back in the green room to talk to Warren Beatty, because still nobody knows what happened.
	And he showed me the evidence.
	You know, when you do a show like this, you aren't just a host, you're also the lead detective.
	You're like the sheriff of the show.
	Warren Beatty could be in prison right now if I wanted him.
	But the card he had said, La La Land, Emma Stone, which is weird because Emma Stone, who won Best Actress for La La Land, at that moment was in the press room doing interviews saying this.
	I also was holding my Best Actress in a leading role card that entire time.
	So whatever story, I don't mean to start stuff, but whatever story that was, I had that card.
	So she said she had the card, but I was with Warren and he had the card.
	Well, it turns out they both had the card.
	For whatever reason, they have two of each card in each envelope.
	There's a regular envelope and a backup envelope, just to make it more confusing.
	So the accountants gave Warren the wrong card and they apologized for it today.
	So it wasn't Warren Beatty's fault.
	And Faye Dunaway made quite a getaway.
	She got the hell out of it.
	You had the wrong name, and she split.
	You wanted no part of it.
	She was smart, too.
	And then I spent the whole rest of the night answering questions about it.
	It was quite an evening.
	It really was.
	I got to say, Faye Dunaway, she looks great.
	you Well, she looks good for someone who doesn't look anything like Faye Dunaway.
	Oh, there you go.
	She was pretty rough when she did that movie with Johnny Depp, but then, I don't know, she came back a little bit.
	I do have one.
	Listening to that, there's only one thing I can imagine.
	Okay.
	If I'm not mistaken, they were like 90 minutes over?
	On time?
	They were?
	How does this work?
	Well, that's what I heard.
	I thought they were way long, way over time.
	I've watched this thing, especially throughout the shows, for, I don't know, decades.
	And when they're over, they start to bitch about it.
	They start to shorten everything at the end.
	And then they kill it very quickly.
	And then they roll, if any credits, they hardly roll credits.
	Let me give you my thinking, because they were over, I think, 30 to 45 minutes over.
	The only reason why this might have been set up and fake is to take away from the disaster that that is with the local stations and local advertising and the make goods and all this crap that goes on.
	That's the only thing I can imagine.
	Otherwise, I'm not seeing it.
	It's the only show I've ever seen that went over where it appeared not to have gone over at all.
	They had plenty of time at the end for all the shenanigans and all the people running around on the set.
	The guy, the floor manager with his headset on and all the other stuff that appeared to be going on sincerely.
	And then they wrapped it up.
	Everybody got to say their...
	Both movies got to say thank you forever.
	forever and then they took their time getting out of it and then they rolled full credits I've never seen that before at the end of an Oscars I don't think it was it didn't look over to me it looked like it was right on time and it had plenty of room at the end I don't know do you have a theory so we can move on that's it that's the theory this was not over it was staged It was just staged.
	I've never seen them do a show where they got so much time at the end.
	It's almost like, let's make a big pile of room at the end for this great stunt we're going to pull.
	I do have one little clip to play for you.
	This is not the first time this has happened on the Academy Awards.
	It happened in 1964.
	Where the wrong winner was read, and it was Sammy Davis Jr.
	who was the Warren Beatty in this case.
	The nominees for the best music score, adaptation, or treatment are John Green for Bye Bye Birdie, Andre Previn for Irma LaDouche.
	I love that.
	We used to say Irma LaDouche, but I guess it's LaDouche.
	Lee Stevens for A New Kind of Love, Maurice Girard for Sunday's Encibel, and George Bruhn for The Sword in the Stone.
	And the winner is...
	John Addison for Tom Jones.
	That wasn't even nominated in this category, and still people are clapping, idiots.
	Uh-oh!
	Oh, I am sorry.
	They gave me the wrong envelope.
	Wait till the NAACP hears about this.
	Killer joke, Sammy Davis.
	Killer.
	Killer.
	That guy's funny.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	All right, good.
	Onward from that.
	Hollywood is fake no matter what.
	Yeah, well...
	Can we talk a little bit about what...
	Since we were on Hollywood for a second, we might as well just mention something.
	The Chinese have changed some rules...
	About what can and cannot be shown in China, so far as Hollywood movies are concerned.
	Oh, and they're the new bastion of hope for Hollywood.
	Yes, because the market size is so monstrous.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, there's a lot of Chinese investment in Hollywood.
	Well, not only that, but they have...
	Yes, there's a lot of Hollywood investment in China.
	But these new studios, they've got some billion-dollar studios they put up and all the rest of it.
	You want to play a little bit of this clip?
	Yeah, China is a movie's new band.
	But it's the list values, as you have pointed out.
	Hold on a second.
	You said also the list...
	At the very beginning they give a list of socialist values which is worth writing down.
	Socialist values, as you have pointed out, officially comprise a set of moral principles summarized by central authorities as prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality,
	justice, the rule of law, patriotism, Dedication, integrity, and friendship, really a lot of concepts together, difficult to remember, but basically that's pretty much summed up, I think, in the values of many different countries, right?
	I mean, in different societies, people would value basically the same thing.
	But there's a vital difference between socialism and capitalism.
	And right now, China proclaimed loud and clear, in black and white, What the market is allowing.
	That is, any work that differs ideologically from socialism or social core will not be welcomed.
	And this is something that Hollywood really needs to take into its consideration.
	Do you think it is good for the Chinese film creators to have this guideline?
	Because some people would say, look, they're trying to put a regulation on your creativity.
	I think it's quite limiting and it's restricting.
	I do not think it's good.
	But I understand the rationale of China.
	China has been a country, has been founding this country on socialism and communism.
	Its very core is to put the collective interest beyond the individual or above the individual, which is the very essence.
	Individual freedom is the core of capitalism.
	That is actually the essence of American dream.
	If we think about why Hollywood films is so popular in China, It's actually a sign of Chinese audience wanting to share more of American dream, although China or Chinese government is promoting the China dream.
	Okay.
	Well, I think our movies are corrupting influences.
	Yes.
	Culturally.
	Only at a cultural level.
	But that's enough to really dig into a...
	And that's why the French limits our movie distribution there.
	And the Chinese have gotten a clue, and I think she nailed it at the end, where it's the American dream and individualism.
	Right.
	That's not the Chinese dream.
	No.
	Far from it, actually.
	Yes.
	And so they don't like this promotion of this idea in China, and I think they rightly decided to ban it.
	Huh.
	That's a real problem.
	If I'm thinking about almost every movie that's made in Hollywood has some kind of American dream element to it.
	Generally, at least the ones that are supposed to liven you up.
	As opposed to just the depressing ones.
	And I think this is a huge problem for Hollywood.
	Because what are they going to do?
	Because if you start going into this socialist propaganda style...
	Which is what China wants.
	Now you look like you should be in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee being called out as a communist.
	So this is very interesting development.
	It's a huge part of the budget.
	And this is law now?
	Yes.
	All the movies have to go through a committee that decides if it has anything to do with...
	Kind of downplaying socialist values, the ones they listed at the front.
	Why do the Chinese keep taking this?
	I mean, I guess they really believe it and they really love it.
	I mean, it's not like China is completely isolated.
	I mean, there's plenty of proxies and people can get through the big firewall of China.
	The young kids, they just accept all this?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Why wouldn't they?
	They could probably make the same market.
	Why are these people believing in this nonsense?
	Well, there's a good point there.
	Why is the most important thing in America the Oscars?
	Yeah, there you go.
	We'll keep an eye on this, but this is going to bode.
	What they've been doing, although nobody likes to talk about it, is the American movie makers will.
	They did the same thing for Germany during just pre-World War II when they were knuckling under to whatever Hitler told them because they said, well, they were going to lose whatever that market is, the German market.
	And so they'd re-edit.
	Oh, gosh, yes, I remember that.
	Oh, man.
	Absolutely.
	Now they're going to re-edit for China.
	You can count on it.
	The screenwriters will have to come up with an idea where they can write it in such a way that you can swap out parts of it that are going to offend the Chinese.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	I will say that there were a number of stories.
	I think the New Yorker actually had a big piece about how the Oscars represented the actual split in the universes that had taken place when Trump won the presidency.
	And so they're comparing what happened at the Oscars where the wrong movie won to the election.
	But specifically...
	Yes, in fact, I think, yeah, a lot of people have made this observation that it was just a fractal.
	Yeah.
	But specifically stating alternate universe, and that's when the split occurred.
	Yeah.
	I love that.
	Sounds right.
	It's where our theory is, so...
	Yeah, well, we're the straddlers, so...
	Yep, we try.
	Although I did get a nasty note from someone.
	What's that?
	You guys, I don't understand how two smart guys can be a big Trump apologist.
	Ah, jeez.
	I'm so tired of this.
	And I wonder where you get this.
	And it's like, of course, I looked him up.
	He's a guy who's never, you know, he's been listening to the show supposedly forever.
	He's never donated a nickel.
	And if he had, I mean, he could have had a $5 check that comes in.
	It's possible.
	But I don't think so.
	Right.
	But it was the same thing, and it's like, you know, these guys on the other side of this chasm are, they just see, in fact, I have a clip with Chris Matthews, who is, has some Republican, they're talking about the aftermath of the speech, the Trump speech, which we'll get to.
	And Matthews is going on and on with this guy, about, well, what do you think about Trump, who just, he said, because there were a lot of people who Called Trump an exploitation expert when he had that.
	Well, just to stop you there for a second, there were, on the face back especially, The alternate universes were so apparent after this speech, you know, people just saying, you know, just listening, that was the most racist, misogynistic, you know, like, wow, really?
	I didn't hear that.
	Maybe it was fluffy, but I don't know about all that.
	And a lot of people were, I'm not watching!
	This is my favorite.
	I'm not watching!
	I'm watching TBS! Fine.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's Chris Matthews.
	The clip's called The Dimension Report.
	And he's carping on something that the other guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
	I didn't know what he was talking about.
	And so then Chris backs it up with the clip.
	I don't know what he's hearing in this clip, but it's not in there.
	You know, I think Chuck Schumer is a big boy and able to take it, but also his rhetoric sometimes stings us on our side too.
	You know, last night I was taken with Karen Owens, of course, the widow of the soldier whose life was just lost.
	I thought that was, as I've said, the most honest communication I ever saw last night when she looked up to heaven to talk to her lost husband.
	How could anybody not love that humanity and love?
	It was a tough moment.
	I just have a hard time with the president here because I think at the same time he's paying tribute to this loss, he's blaming it on the generals.
	I mean, presidents, aren't they supposed to say the buck stops here?
	I'm the commander-in-chief.
	I made the call.
	There are casualties in war.
	That's what war is about.
	People shooting at each other.
	You know, it's part of the cause.
	If you get through it, wonderful.
	If you don't get through it, you are a sacrifice for your country.
	Why is he out there blaming the generals?
	Even though he's part of this wonderful...
	That's such a stretch from what Trump actually said, which was...
	Well, he's basing this, though, on an interview after or before.
	Yes, exactly.
	When Trump said, you know, they went in, but they lost Ryan.
	Exactly.
	Which everyone is now translating to, oh, you're blaming the generals.
	Well, he even plays the clip, as you'll hear, and you can hear it again.
	And it's like, I don't see that either, but this is a great example of the dimensional split.
	The event last night of remorse.
	I don't get why he's blaming the generals.
	Explain.
	Well, Chris, okay, now you've said that four times.
	I really didn't hear that.
	I think he said that the generals have said this was a successful raid in disrespect and in that respect.
	He said the generals lost them.
	He said the generals lost them.
	Okay, I don't think he's blaming the generals.
	Obviously, we lost a troop.
	That's sad.
	We lost an expensive piece of equipment.
	Stop it!
	That was cold.
	That's very cold.
	Is the soldier an expensive piece of equipment?
	I think, and I will say it, at the end of the day, that's the way they do the calculation.
	Oh, God.
	An expensive piece of equipment, and that's regrettable.
	But he also said that my advisors say we had success and that we got...
	That's a good idea.
	Important information.
	Anybody that pays the price like that should get credit for whatever's achieved.
	But look at this.
	Here's the president speaking about Chief Ryan Owens.
	In a Fox News interview this week, the president said it was the generals who wanted to conduct that raid in Yemen and said they lost Ryan.
	Watch what he said.
	Well, this was a mission that was started before I got here.
	This was something that was, you know, just they wanted to do.
	They came to see me.
	They explained what they wanted to do.
	The generals, who are very respected.
	My generals are the most respected that we've had in many decades, I believe.
	And they lost Ryan.
	What do you make of that?
	I don't read into that, that he's blaming the generals.
	Maybe not the best choice of words, but, you know, he was complimentary of the advice that he got.
	He said that they...
	Yeah, it goes on.
	Matthews is nuts.
	Well, he likes doing this.
	This is what he did with the hypothetical question towards Trump about women being penalized for abortions.
	He likes doing this.
	And the way that changed on the Sirius Progressive channel, it's...
	Yes, it's the dimensional split for sure.
	But something really odd happened and Tina and I saw it in real time as I was switching back and forth and right after the speech we went to CNN and here's what I heard.
	Van, you were saying while you were watching that about the significance of that moment.
	He became President of the United States in that moment.
	Period.
	This is Van Jones.
	I know about this, and there's a couple other people at his level that did the same thing.
	I mean, they definitely wasn't showing up, that same thinking wasn't showing up on the floor itself.
	No.
	As you know, one side wouldn't clap for anything, including stuff they had proposed.
	Well, that's not entirely true.
	I saw a lot more standing than I expected, and of course, Tulsi Gabbard was standing and clapping most of the time.
	I have Tulsi Gabbard material, but get back to the Van Jones thing.
	Listen to the rest of it.
	There are a lot of people who have a lot of reason to be frustrated with him, to be fearful of him, to be mad at him.
	But that was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics, period.
	And he did something extraordinary.
	And for people who have been hoping That he would become unifying, hoping that he might find some way to become presidential.
	They should be happy with that moment.
	For people who have been hoping that maybe he would remain a divisive cartoon, which he often finds a way to do, they should begin to become a little bit worried tonight.
	Because that thing you just saw him do, If he finds a way to do that over and over again, he's going to be there for eight years.
	Now, there is a lot that he said in that speech that was counterfactual, that was not right, that I oppose and will oppose.
	But he did something tonight that you cannot take away from him.
	He became President of the United States.
	My takeaway is Van Jones is in it for himself.
	He wants to be a contrarian voice, and this is his way of doing it.
	I think it's all about him.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to argue against that theory.
	There's no reason for Van Jones could have just as easily done with a lot of the Democrats and gone off the deep end saying the guy's still a douchebag and so what.
	In fact, the best one I think is like a Noodle Boy character called in on C-SPAN. On the Democrat line?
	On the Democrat line, and I think that this was more typical of what the...
	I mean, the guy...
	Here's a guy who calls in.
	He sounds like Noodle Boy.
	He's stoned.
	Of course.
	He's representing the Democrats because he calls on the line.
	In fact, there weren't any good Democrat calls of any sort.
	It was kind of weird, but this was a classic.
	For the call, we'll move on to a Democrat.
	Joe is joining us from Brooklyn, New York.
	So from your side of the aisle, what did you hear tonight?
	What's your reaction?
	Hey, so, um, hard to follow that one up, but, um, I, uh, I got a little tripped up listening to her.
	Did you watch the entire speech?
	Yeah, no, I watched the entire speech.
	My biggest takeaway was that he was able to read from a teleprompter a little bit better at this time without wearing a red tie.
	Okay, let's go to Jacob joining us next.
	Stoner.
	They had to cut him off.
	Well, Don Lemon was just good old Don Lemon, the overnight legend.
	And to me, it sounds like a speech that was written for someone that he was reciting.
	And there were some big words and big phrases that I don't think that he actually connected to.
	If you just listen to the speech.
	It didn't sound like his voice.
	It didn't sound like his voice.
	Because if you look at when he speaks extemporaneously, you learn a lot about people.
	The way President Obama spoke extemporaneously was very similar to the way he spoke.
	He gave speeches.
	The way President Bush spoke extemporaneously was very similar.
	Yeah, if you call nothing but stuttering.
	I... President Obama spoke extemporaneously.
	It was very similar to...
	What does it mean, extemporaneously?
	What does that mean?
	Off the cuff.
	Off the cuff, okay.
	I don't know, Don Lemon using big words is too big for me.
	He spoke extemporaneously.
	It was very similar to the way he spoke, he gave speeches.
	The way President Bush spoke extemporaneously was very similar to the way he gave speeches.
	The way President Trump speaks extemporaneously is not the same as what he said tonight.
	It sounded to me, and this is just, I mean, I thought it was, he sounded very presidential.
	This was a speech written by a college student.
	For someone else, trying to use big words to impress that the person who was reciting it did not know the meaning of the words.
	Oh, please.
	First of all, right there he's projecting, because Obama's early speeches were written by a college student.
	Exactly.
	And so he's kind of doing a little projecting in there.
	We don't know who wrote the speech, but I've heard him read other speeches here and again, and that's what he always sounds like when he's reading from a prompter.
	He's very slow and deliberate.
	Yeah.
	I also didn't see it.
	I didn't notice it was any different than any other prompter speeches ever given.
	No, I agree.
	I don't know what Lemon's talking about.
	There was something brand new in the coverage, and I don't know if this was only on MSNBC or if it was pool video.
	I'm sure it was pool video.
	I don't know if everyone cut to it.
	For the first time, as the president is in the beast, in the limo, they zoomed in all the way to the window.
	And he had the dome light on, or I don't know, it was lit.
	And he's in the car, and he's practicing his speech.
	And he's holding the piece of paper.
	But listen to how MSNBC did the play-by-play.
	The giant bulletproof sedan, and as soon as a cameraman for the television pool can zoom in to the man lit by the dome light in the back, reading through, presumably reading through his speech, will perhaps get a better...
	Or his Twitter feed.
	Come on, we can do it.
	All the way in.
	There we go.
	There he is.
	Come on, you can do it.
	All the way in.
	There we go.
	There he is.
	Screen or paper?
	Who are these people?
	Screen or paper?
	Twitter feed.
	He's doing it.
	He's practicing.
	Yeah, but he's actually voicing it.
	We can read lips.
	We can get the whole speech previewed right now.
	This is great!
	I have never seen this before.
	A president on the way to giving his, well, almost day of the union and actually practicing it on television.
	Oh, that's just crazy.
	He's practicing it on television.
	I can't believe he'd practice it.
	I mean, we don't know.
	Are they actually stunned that he practiced the speech?
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	It's great.
	First time ever on television.
	It gets a little better.
	I mean, we don't know.
	Look at that!
	He has no idea he's on television.
	No idea he's on television.
	I mean, they just haven't been around the machinery of media, the mechanics of South Lawn, that kind of thing, long enough.
	Thanks, Brian Williams.
	What?
	See, they haven't been around long enough, so they don't understand that cameras are everywhere and that you could get caught on camera when you're doing this kind of stuff.
	They're newbies.
	They're fresh.
	South Lawn, that kind of thing, long enough to know that this kind of thing is always televised.
	No.
	Well, here.
	Never seen that televised.
	Well, somebody was stuck in traffic.
	Who knows?
	I mean, they did bring that up on CBS, too, but they didn't go on and on with a bunch of dimwits.
	But I did get...
	Now, they mentioned the media thing.
	Play this clip.
	This is the Trump speech, pre-speech, SAG. We'll fill with congressmen, senators, the cabinet, military leaders, and members of the Supreme Court.
	But you at home are the real audience tonight for a man who brings more television experience to the presidency than anyone since Ronald Reagan, the only presidents to belong to the Screen Actors Guild.
	I thought that was a great tidbit.
	That's great.
	The Screen Actors Guild.
	That's SAG-AFTRA, by the way, these days.
	Yes, exactly.
	And she should know that.
	You're required to say SAG-AFTRA. Nobody says SAG anymore.
	She should know that.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	I don't really have much more on the speech.
	I like that.
	I got a couple of things.
	I got some complaints.
	Okay.
	Let's see what I got.
	I got a series of clips.
	Okay.
	A lot of this is, these are short many times, but I do have a couple of comments to make.
	This is the time of speech comparison.
	This is kind of interesting.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, it's...
	Oh, I see it.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes.
	President's speech, which ran just over an hour.
	By way of comparison, by the way, President Reagan's speech back in 1981 ran about 32 minutes.
	George Herbert Walker Bush, his first speech to Congress ran about 42 minutes.
	Barack Obama's first speech ran 51 minutes.
	And Bill Clinton tying President Trump running just about an hour.
	Peter Slutt is keeping track of reaction to the speech.
	Peter?
	Did he say Peter Slutt?
	Is that the guy's name?
	Nice.
	Now, again, these are all called Trump speech.
	There is a...
	And I have a comment on each one.
	This is Trump, and he...
	And by the way, you said that there was some even ups and downs with the audience.
	More than I expected.
	I'll just say more than I expected.
	Okay, if you watch the RT report, there was none.
	And they had some extreme examples that they showed.
	And for the most part, the ones I'm going to clip out, these snippets, there was none.
	And the one that cracks me up, a couple of them just cracked me up because of it.
	Because this first one here is this Trump speech lobbyist applause.
	Saving billions more on contracts all across our government.
	We have placed a hiring freeze on non-military and non-essential federal workers.
	We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials and a lifetime ban.
	And a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government.
	Now, I left...
	I cut that applause way down, even though it's seamless.
	Yes, well done, sir.
	And in this case...
	The Republicans all jumped up and clapped, and all the Democrats sat stone-faced about this lobbyist thing when it was Obama.
	When he first got in, he made a big fuss about this.
	He sure did.
	About we can't have lobbyists going back and forth inside and outside the government.
	What changed?
	Well, I'll tell you what changed.
	Most of them were dressed in white and too preoccupied with it.
	That was really, of all things, lame.
	We're going to be in a little club.
	We're all going to dress in white and we're going to be the suffragettes.
	They all look like Ku Klux Klan members, if you ask me.
	In fact, the first thing I said is, how racist are these people?
	Racist.
	Notice I said racist.
	Not racist.
	Racist.
	Racist.
	How racist are these people?
	They're there and they're wearing white.
	The white people are wearing white.
	Here's another little snippet.
	This is the Trump speech on jobs, jobs, jobs.
	Racist.
	Since my election, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, SoftBank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart.
	I heard, I mean, when he said Lockheed, I was like, wow, is that how you pronounce it?
	Have I been doing it wrong all these years?
	Lockheed.
	Lockheed.
	Lockheed is like Joachim Lockheed.
	I used to say, I say Lockheed.
	Lockheed.
	That's because you're saying it right.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Since my election, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, SoftBank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart, and many others have announced that they will invest billions and billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands and many others have announced that they will invest billions and billions of dollars Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Okay, now, this is another long applause, And then again, the Democrats, all the Democrats were seated.
	Yeah, they don't want jobs.
	They don't want jobs.
	It was embarrassing.
	Oh, but stop, stop.
	I did want to mention, I really like what he's doing with the metrics.
	He said 94 million Americans are not in the workforce.
	That's a good way to do it.
	Instead of talking about unemployment, you say, hey, you can do the math.
	There's 300 million plus people.
	95 million are not in the workforce.
	Now that you mention that, I had to play the CBS clip about that, because they called him out on it.
	But the point is, on this last clip, the Democrats are all seated because they didn't want jobs, I guess.
	I mean, that's the implication, as far as I can tell.
	But they took the camera and they zoomed in on Pelosi.
	And this is where they had those ugly pictures of her, like, you know, they're hanging out and half asleep.
	And so I'm watching this, and he's talking about jobs, and this is the let's vote for jobs, woman.
	And what is she doing sitting on her hands?
	I just found that extremely serious.
	That's a good point.
	That is the woman who said jobs, jobs, jobs, let's vote for jobs when President Obama was in office.
	Yeah, but now she sits on her hands.
	No, of course not.
	Now, I do have this thing about the 95 million, I think.
	CBS fact check Trump, probably.
	This is probably...
	Yeah, let's try that.
	Thank you, Nancy.
	Some of the problems Mr.
	Trump promised to solve last night don't actually exist.
	The president said correctly that 94 million Americans are out of the labor force, but that's not an unemployment figure.
	Our research department found that in that official number, about 15 million are students, 44 million are retired, and 28 million are disabled or caring for someone at home.
	If 94 million people were looking for a job, the unemployment rate would be 40% rather than the 4.8% that it is now.
	Well, interestingly enough, and I'm no mathematician, but if you subtract all those, you know, roughly half, what he said, if you subtract those, just disregard them, then you still have 40 million over, then you're still at a nice 18 to 19% unemployment.
	Well, or something closer to what ShadowStats says.
	Yes.
	I mean, he just gave us the numbers.
	Thank you.
	Well, and even that, I want to do a little more research on his numbers and what they...
	Right.
	Because they're still missing people.
	I mean, you can't take the total number of people employed, which I don't have in front of me, and add 95 to it and get the entire population of the country.
	So...
	There's, it's just, they have this new, they have a new section of CBS Evening News where they have, they do this fact check.
	Fact check.
	I have a question, I have a question, I have a question.
	Do we count as in the labor force?
	Is there, does anyone count us?
	Are we counted?
	How would they know?
	Well, a lot of it's statistics.
	Oh, okay, so they take a sample.
	They're not coming over.
	Are you guys working?
	What, are you working twice a week?
	You call that a job?
	No, you're not.
	When you write it down, can you think it's part-time?
	Is that part-time?
	Is that what you're doing?
	This is a bunch of scumbags!
	That's right.
	Not working.
	Okay.
	Onward.
	Yeah, now we have...
	Most of the stuff I have is from pre-speech comments.
	Let's go to Trump's Speech, pre-speech comments from CBS. This is as they're rolling in.
	The president is at odds with some of the key members of his own party.
	He's going to talk tonight about an enormous increase in defense spending, for example.
	But he has to get all of that through John McCain's Armed Services Committee.
	John McCain, who the other day he called a loser, who has lost so long he doesn't know how to win anymore.
	And by the way, the press headlines today suggested this was a huge increase in defense spending, which it is.
	But John McCain wanted more than what President Trump had called for a strengthening.
	What's not clear yet from the White House is how they will offset that spending, the reduction in other non-discretionary spending, which agencies will take a cut.
	The State Department, EPA, there are indications of that.
	There's still more meat on the bone left on this budget that will really lay out Where this president wants to make hard choices.
	Because in order to do big things, you also have to cut things.
	Yeah, sure.
	Anyway, I got a kick out of them calling out McCain for when he even raised it to an extreme amount.
	And McCain was on his feet, clapping.
	Yeah, he was clapping now and again.
	And so was actually Lindsey Graham was too.
	But particularly when that came up, when the budget increased for the military.
	Yeah, but he wanted more.
	But they cut to him.
	Yeah, a lot of this is...
	I don't know who's doing the direction of the pool, but they're nailing a lot of stuff.
	Still the best Stuff was the stuff done by photographers who had caught people, you know, sitting there and stupid look on their face or whatever.
	I think the last one here I've got, which is interesting.
	The thing I do like about these speeches, it's the only time that we're kind of like the UK Parliament.
	We're clapping, we're standing, we're sitting, we're laughing, we're, you know, we're woo-woo.
	Yeah, we're kind of, but nobody's making a racket.
	I do have some PM question stuff today for people who like that.
	Let's try this last one, which is another pre-speech Is it pre-speech or after the speech?
	I'm not sure.
	But this is the Trump speech, pre-speech polling.
	Now, the president insists his administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, but his poll numbers seem to reflect otherwise.
	Only 39 percent of Americans approve of the job that he is doing.
	And there is a sharp division on that.
	82 percent of Republicans, say Mr.
	Trump, is doing a good job.
	Only 6 percent of Democrats think so.
	6%!
	There's your dimensional split.
	82 to 6, that's what the numbers are.
	Of course, I don't know how they get to the total of 39 using those figures, but I guess when one entire party It's not going to believe in anything you do or say.
	I guess that would cause a problem.
	I think this speech mattered.
	I think whether you're in one universe or the other, it had an effect.
	And America remains a show business country.
	And you put on an act and people will believe it.
	And I think Trump did a great job.
	I think he put on the act.
	And people will believe it.
	And he got some help there and assist from people like Van Jones.
	And Van Jones wasn't the only one.
	Who else?
	A lot of these other pundits, I don't remember offhand, but a lot of the pundits that hated Trump did have pulled up Van Jones.
	It seemed specifically so that CNN was very kind.
	And I wonder if that has anything to do with anything.
	Well, being called fake news left and right, maybe.
	That could be.
	We don't know.
	Could be.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Overall, I thought the speech was just a speech.
	I wasn't jacked up about it by any means.
	No, John, I don't think I was jacked up on it either.
	No one's going to get jacked up.
	We did get a song.
	I want to play this for you.
	Secret Agent Paul, who does so much for us.
	He did a song, and this is actually incredible.
	This guy is such a pro.
	And he has a YouTube video, and the song is Love Trump's Hate.
	And in the YouTube video, you see images continuously of the protesters burning cars, smashing windows.
	And this is a no-agenda cast of thousands.
	Secret Agent Paul brought in John Fletcher, Naughty Nurse Danielle, I just got to share this with you because it's...
	When you hear Fletcher in there, then it really becomes funny.
	But otherwise, this is something that could actually go on to be a hit.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	Who knows?
	We are one people with one destiny.
	We all bleed the same blood.
	From his speech.
	speech.
	Here we go.
	Oh, modulation. Oh, modulation.
	Oh, modulation.
	Me with this rose.
	Let me listen to the rose.
	Oh, modulation.
	Fantastic.
	Sometimes I will burn.
	David Bowie, Bob Dylan, they're all in the No Agenda cast of thousands.
	Yeah, it sounds exactly like one of those songs.
	We are the world, yeah.
	Yeah, any of those songs where they were written specifically for some cause.
	Yeah.
	So somebody can gouge the public for all these donations.
	Well, I certainly hope it's Secret Agent Paul.
	May it become a big success for you.
	Yeah.
	That was good.
	Oh, man.
	So funny.
	We got great producers.
	Wow.
	Did you see Rosie O'Donnell?
	No.
	You know, maybe I did.
	But I don't remember.
	So I started to break this up into multiple clips and then said, you know, screw it.
	We just have to play this There's so much to unravel in the universe.
	And she may have her own universe, actually.
	She may be in something completely all to her own.
	And she was in Washington, D.C. I guess there was a big demonstration, or a demonstration, I don't know if it was big or not, a demonstration before the speech.
	And she got up, and I just want to share this with you, and we'll stop as appropriate.
	Hello, Washington, D.C. Hello!
	Look at this crowd of 1.8 million people!
	Right off the bat, she's trying to do a joke?
	Yeah.
	And it falls flat.
	It's just no timing.
	It's hard.
	Doing a joke in front of a mob is very difficult.
	It's not good because nobody, you know, for one thing, no one can hear you.
	Right.
	Yeah, it's dumb.
	This is Donald Trump math, ladies and gentlemen.
	You say it, the media buys it.
	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
	That all men are created equal.
	She decided the way to go here was to recite a little bit of our Constitution.
	That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
	That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	And that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just power from the consent Of the governed.
	And whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter and abolish it.
	Ah, I see where she's going.
	I think this is from the Declaration of Independence.
	It's the Declaration of Independence, yes, I'm sorry.
	And to institute new government!
	That is why we are here!
	Woo-hoo!
	Yeah, we want her running the place.
	It gets much better.
	This is not Russia!
	What?
	To Donald Trump and his pathetic band of white, privileged, criminal businessmen!
	Wow, I want that on my business card.
	I am a criminal, white, privileged businessman.
	Oh, no, white, privileged, criminal businessman.
	Pleasure to meet you, sir.
	I would like to say to him, nyet, sir!
	Nyet!
	She's hysterical.
	You've got to get that ISO. That's a beauty.
	Excuse me.
	Nyet, sir!
	Nyet!
	Nyet!
	Is it nyet?
	Nyet!
	Nyet!
	But she's hysterical!
	She's hysterical!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Of course I had that ISO to look.
	...to say to him, nyet, sir!
	Nyet!
	No, we won't!
	We've seen what you have done, sir!
	We have seen your connections with Russia!
	The game is over!
	The internet rules!
	Oh, stop!
	There it is!
	The internet rules!
	We're all nyet done!
	Oh!
	All media is universal.
	The truth matters.
	Even if our major media companies will not call him a liar, we will.
	He lies!
	Wow, man.
	She's insane.
	He lies!
	Nyet!
	And it's about time they all started saying that instead of "it appears as if he hasn't been speaking the truth" Cut it down to the least common denominator like he does!
	I got a very good presidency.
	Really good idea.
	This idea is good.
	It's bigly and good, and lots of people are talking about it.
	Oh, and now she's doing impersonations.
	What?
	I think of Trump.
	Oh, that's the one that got Trump riled up years ago, and that's when he started calling her a pig.
	Oh, okay.
	Because she did an imitation of him before, and it's just the worst.
	This idea is good.
	It's bigly and good, and lots of people are talking about it.
	It's a bigly good idea.
	Well, tell that to Ryan Owens' father, sir.
	Oh, I love this.
	Who's abusing who now?
	How dare you, Donald Trump?
	This is America.
	It is not yours.
	It is not corporately owned.
	It is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
	And we, the people, will not stand for it.
	He has degraded and bullied women his entire life and career.
	The President of the United States has been accused of rape many, many times.
	Report that.
	Newspapers.
	Yeah, whatever happened to all those accusers?
	I don't know.
	They just disappeared.
	Yeah.
	That's interesting.
	That's the fact, Jack.
	Okay, baby.
	That's the fact, Jack.
	That's the fact, Jack.
	Go from now on, down and dirty like Donald Trump.
	No big words.
	Just the truth.
	And you know what the truth is?
	A very handsome conservative man stopped me on my way up with his iPhone.
	To ask me with his charming Irish 30-year-old face if George Soros had paid me to come here.
	And I said, sir, I have never met George Soros, but he seems like a lovely man.
	One day I'd like to share a souvlaki with him.
	Now this is interesting because she's now presuming that Soros is Greek, I guess?
	Oh yeah, she's making so stereotypical.
	Yeah, bigoted much?
	Yeah, very bigoted.
	Soros is Hungarian.
	Not Greek.
	But he seems like a lovely man.
	Lovely man.
	One day I'd like to share a souvlaki with him.
	Moron.
	I've only met your friend Donald two times.
	Once at his wedding to Marla Maples...
	Where he shook the hands of the guests at the wedding as he walked down the aisle to take his vows.
	Warning!
	Warning!
	Warning, Will Robinson!
	Now she's doing the robot from Los Angeles.
	It's actually danger, danger, Will Robinson, not warning.
	She's off her rocker.
	This is good.
	And one other time, at a game show, I don't know him.
	I know he's a bully, he's a mean man, he hates women, he's taken away women's rights, and we will not stand for it.
	He's taken away women's rights.
	I'm here with the ACLU, I'm here with the NAACP, I'm here with Flint, Michigan, and clean water for every American!
	I am here with you, because we the people will get him out!
	Thank you, peace, and don't fear the rain!
	Net, sir!
	Net!
	Oh, my goodness.
	Poor Rosie.
	Wow.
	You know, I helped her get started in show business.
	Did I ever tell you that story?
	Okay, here we go.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I just remembered.
	At MTV, we had VH1 at the time, and she was doing comedy stand-up at Rascals in West Orange, which is a pretty small place, and she was not really getting anywhere very much.
	And Steve Leeds, who was director of on-air talent, whatever he was, who now does the same job at SiriusXM, He said, I really want to get Rosie O'Donnell on VH1. So, Adam, would you please do the audition with her?
	And so, essentially, I sat there and she talked and just made jokes about me the whole time.
	Which was, yeah, she said, Adam Curry, you're such a Barbie doll.
	You have Mattel stamped on your butt.
	It was marginally funny.
	But that's how she got started.
	Then she got on VH1 and that's how her career was launched.
	So, I take full responsibility.
	I'm very sorry.
	Yeah, you could have just gone back to the guest and said, you know, she sucks.
	She's really bad.
	Just don't put her on.
	It's a huge mistake in your career.
	No, I actually went to see her at Rascals in West Orange.
	She was funny.
	I liked her.
	But this is awesome.
	That's what you brought on us.
	Thank you very much.
	You're welcome.
	Now, of course, she's talking about impeachment.
	We're still on this 25th Amendment thing.
	And let's bring out another comedian, Kathy Griffin.
	Might as well bring her on MSNBC and see what she has to say about it.
	Look, Chris, I feel like this whole crowd, they are truly going to go down.
	The good news is, as I say to my younger friends, don't forget, Agnew resigned before Nixon.
	So there can be a situation where more than one person goes down.
	Well, Chris, please tell me you're never going to let go of this Russian ties story.
	I really think that's the one.
	I think it's bipartisan.
	I think there's so much there.
	No, they're all on this Russia thing.
	They're going to be sadly disappointed.
	Rob Reiner, of course, another Hollywood expert.
	Rob Reiner, by the way, I recommend people on Twitter, first of all, follow me at TheRealDvorak.
	TheRealDvorak.
	But you should follow Rob Reiner because it's like listening to the rantings of a complete off-the-rails lunatic.
	It's very good stuff.
	And he was on Chris Matthews and he is convinced that Trump will be impeached or quit or something like that.
	And, of course, that would mean that Mike Pence will become the president of the United States.
	And so as they're watching some B-roll of Pence, here is, I think it was Matthews with Rob Reiner.
	But he's also sitting there saying, I'm going to be the president pretty soon.
	As soon as all of this, as soon as all of the connections to Russia and how it was coordinated with him and the money...
	Rob, is he the leaker?
	Do you think he's the leaker?
	Listen, if I were Pence, I'd be leaking like a sieve.
	I mean, he has a chance to become president.
	And let us hope that never happens.
	We'll ruin it for us.
	Yeah, well, maybe not.
	Boring.
	That is boring.
	Well, there's that.
	Yeah, it definitely won't be fun.
	No.
	I have a couple more just quick things before we go to a break.
	On the heels of all of this show business stuff, lots of conversations about people in show business and their role in politics.
	Oprah was at a Bloomberg forum and was commenting on Donald Trump's presidency in relation to herself.
	So have you ever thought that given the popularity you have, we haven't broken the glass ceiling yet for women, that you could actually run for president and actually be elected?
	I actually never thought that that was I never considered the question even a possibility.
	I just thought, oh.
	Oh.
	Right, because it's clear that you don't need government experience to be elected president of the United States.
	That's what I thought.
	I thought, oh gee, I don't have the experience.
	I don't know enough.
	I don't know.
	And now I'm thinking, oh.
	I'd vote for her Yeah, she could.
	The problem is, it's always overlooked, is that Trump actually has been kind of playing with the idea since 98, 96.
	Yeah, a long time ago.
	And on Oprah, even.
	I don't have any clips, but if you look for...
	I think we had that clip a long time ago.
	Yeah, Trump on Oprah, and he's saying the same things.
	Same things.
	Exactly the same things.
	Scratch is not easy.
	Let's see.
	Ben Stein on CNN really only pulled this clip because he uses the verbiage appropriately.
	Did you hear what he said yesterday at CPAC where he's talking about the media?
	I saw some of it actually on CNN as you were excerpting it.
	Yes, I did.
	So he said that he called the media the enemy of the people, which is what we heard him say before on Twitter.
	So he said that out loud.
	He accused the media of making things up, of making up sources.
	Is that something you would give credence to, or what is going on there with what he's saying?
	Well, I wouldn't say that all of the media is the enemy of the people, but look, every day you pick up the New York Times, every day they're slamming, slamming, slamming him.
	Butt slam!
	I'm a great fan of CNN. I watch it quite faithfully.
	Every day CNN is slamming him, slamming him, slamming him.
	Whoa!
	You got butt slam!
	Ho, ho, ho, ho!
	Oh, man.
	The slamming meme.
	I have one last thing for this little segment.
	At the end of the speech, of course, they had to have this counter speech.
	That was hilarious.
	So they got this guy, Steve Beshear, who is not even in politics anymore.
	He's retired.
	And they have him sitting in what looks like a movie set, but it's a diner of some sort where everybody is motionless.
	It's like the mannequin challenge.
	The mannequin challenge.
	Yes.
	And so he starts off right away, first with a huge flub that was off the rails as far as I was.
	What is he reading?
	And then he gives us his background.
	As soon as he gives the background, I just stopped.
	I said, he's not good.
	And I actually did take another couple of tastes.
	All he did is talk about himself.
	He never talked about the speech.
	I don't even know that he heard it.
	But this is pretty, this is what you can see where I stopped.
	I'm Steve Beshear.
	I was governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015.
	Now, I'm a private citizen.
	I'm here in Lexington, Kentucky, some 400 miles from Washington, at a diner with some neighbors, Democrats and Republicans, where we just watched the President's address.
	I'm a proud Democrat, but first and foremost, I'm a proud Republican and Democrat and mostly American.
	Republican and Democrat.
	Do you think that was written that way?
	No, I have no idea how he got to Republican.
	I had to go look him up to make sure that he wasn't at one point a Republican.
	No, he wasn't.
	He's a Democrat.
	So he was never a Republican, but how is he a proud Republican, a Democrat Republican, a Republican Democrat?
	And so, I don't know where he, why that popped into his brain or why he said it.
	Let me hear that again.
	Unless the prompter wasn't moving or jerked around.
	I mean, it could flash, maybe.
	I don't know.
	Let me hear it again.
	I'm a proud Republican and Democrat and mostly American.
	And like many of you...
	Let's roll it back a little more.
	Here we go.
	Democrats and Republicans, where we just watched the President's Address.
	I'm a proud Democrat, but first and foremost, I'm a proud Republican and Democrat and mostly American.
	It is analogous for the Democrat Party.
	To me, I was just like a jaw dropper.
	It's like, what are you saying?
	More importantly than my being a Democrat is I'm a proud Republican.
	And a Democrat, an American.
	And a Democrat.
	What?
	Oh, man.
	Anyway, he continues, and you can see, like, there's not much left because I couldn't take it after he said his last words in his little clip.
	He was like, I'm not listening to this guy.
	I'm a proud Republican and Democrat and mostly American.
	And like many of you, I am worried about the future of this nation.
	Look, I grew up in Kentucky in a small town called Dawson Springs.
	My dad and granddad were Baptist preachers.
	My family owned a funeral home.
	And we're done.
	I am done.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you very much for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for.
	Can't listen to Brashear's Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes.
	In the morning to everybody in the chat room.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Not a high count today.
	I'm not quite sure why that is.
	But those of you who are here, thank you very much.
	In the morning also to Erjot Price.
	Erjot Price, who was the artist for the artwork on episode 907, the Bias Response Team.
	It was the title of that one.
	And this is kind of a takeoff on, I think, something that appeared on Built or Economist, but Trump with a big sword and, you know, just a nice piece of art.
	Well, actually, I think it was Evergreen.
	Yeah, I think it was the Economist.
	No, it was Der Spiegel, wasn't it?
	Oh, Spiegel, right.
	But it was an Evergreen art, I think, I believe.
	Yeah, we found it ditched.
	We appreciate the work that all of our artists do.
	Oh, by the way, the stream is up.
	We have more listeners now.
	I just checked.
	We're good.
	That's where you can upload your art.
	And we appreciate the work that everybody does.
	And we use it for newsletters.
	Have a look at it.
	It's just pretty to look at, too.
	Just go there and check it out.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Jennifer Lovberg is our top donor.
	Dame Jennifer.
	3333.
	Oh, she's going to become Dame.
	Thank you so much for what you do.
	This donation should be my ticket to the round table.
	I'd like to become Dame Jennifer of Northern Mexico.
	Please give birthday wishes to my son, which I'm sure he's on the list, or birthday on 3-3, and some karma.
	Okay.
	Or something.
	Well, yeah, you got cut off there.
	Is her son on the birthday list?
	Yes, he is.
	And here's the Carmen.
	You've got Carmen.
	And I look forward to the ceremony later on, Jennifer.
	Tony Cabrera in Hawthorne, California, 32490, and he will be our second executive producer for show 708 coming up.
	909.
	909 coming up.
	A nice number.
	Greetings from the No Agenda shop.
	Dot com.
	Here's our latest cut.
	Oh, nice.
	Thanks again for the hard work you guys do.
	Dedication has inspired me and fellow No Agenda artists to create our own resistance.
	Can I donate my karma to fellow shop artists Mark Gognier and Brandon Welch?
	Of course you can.
	Absolutely.
	And I appreciate what you guys are doing.
	Well, what's interesting about what they're doing, which is different, is they seem to be coming out with just a lot of SKUs.
	I mean, there was a new one they just had.
	They have one that was just on Twitter.
	That's the beautiful test pattern one, I think.
	Or is it different?
	No, there's a new one.
	It's a big, giant thing you'd wear.
	It says bias reporting.
	Oh, bias response team?
	Oh, fantastic.
	Yeah, bias response.
	Yeah, that looks like a winner.
	No, I'm going to get that one.
	Yeah, I like what they're doing.
	And they give 33.3% to the artist whose art they use, 33.3% to the show, and somehow they keep the ship running with 33.3% of their cut.
	Well, I really appreciate it.
	I'd like it.
	Definitely check out NoAgendaShop.com.
	Here's the karma.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah, I think their solution to profitability, and all you comics out there will understand the punchline, buy more trucks.
	Very old joke.
	Yes.
	Robert Gusick in High Point, North Carolina, 3823456, becomes associate executive producer for show 908.
	Note to follow an email.
	I didn't get that.
	I have emails from him, but not about this donation.
	Okay, well, he says, John and Adam, maybe this is it.
	Put in already.
	With today's alignment, my 33rd birthday on his show.
	Is he on the birthday list?
	I'll check it out.
	Keep reading.
	It was assigned to donate.
	The tax number, district number I live in is 222, hence the donation amount.
	He's not.
	Hold on a second.
	So, Robert...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm not reading the right...
	I'm reading Kyle.
	This is Kyle.
	Robert Gusick, I don't...
	Okay, let me just see NC4. Let me see if I have it.
	I'm sorry.
	They were kind of run together on the spreadsheet.
	I think it's missing.
	I didn't see one from him.
	What's his email address?
	Can NC4? Yeah.
	You want to broadcast that, or...?
	I just said NC4. Yeah, okay.
	At gmail.com.
	Probably not.
	It's not just NC4. That's just the beginning of it.
	It's all I need.
	I got you.
	I got you.
	For my search engine.
	Yes.
	Here it is.
	ITM gentlemen accounting for knighthood.
	Okay, right.
	I thought I sent this over.
	Accounting for knighthood?
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, you get them on the list.
	Yeah, fantastic.
	All right.
	Okay, this is my note to go along.
	My very first associate executive producer donation, which also completes my knighthood and has started my next title.
	Shout out to my brother Andrew Gusick, NC4AG73s, who hit me in the mouth over a year ago.
	And thank you two gentlemen for helping me keep my sanity in the world of the MSM. I never realized how bad they were until my eyes were opened by your awesome analysis.
	I now anxiously await each episode and thoroughly enjoy your media deconstructions twice a week.
	I love the making the sausage effort that Adam did, and I totally agree that it's a one-time thing, and it really helped me appreciate how much work you two put into the show.
	Car karma for my brother, please, as he's having an issue with With his now and hopefully he'll get it replaced with his something.
	I don't know, some words missing.
	I would like to request that you each play a jingle of your choice.
	For my title, I'd like to be knighted.
	And you have your pen out.
	I do.
	Sir Bob of the Dude's Name Ben.
	And I'm looking forward to many more episodes and further title upgrades in the future.
	Bob Gusick, NC4RG. Oh, fantastic.
	All right.
	Do you have something you want to play?
	So I can add that to the karma?
	I just want to do the we much.
	I want to hear that again.
	Resist.
	Resist we much.
	Yes.
	All righty.
	Here we go with that.
	It's oozing.
	It's oozing Soros juice.
	But resist we much.
	You've got karma.
	Okay, good.
	All right, back to the spreadsheet.
	Another one for the ceremony.
	Nice.
	I look forward to it.
	It's going to be a great, great little ceremony today.
	Kyle Shaper in New Albany, New York.
	2-2-2.
	2-2-2-2.
	And he's the one who says, I see him, John.
	And with today's alignment of my 33rd birthday, I'll check it out to make sure that's right.
	On a show day, I knew it was a sign to donate.
	So I don't know if he's on the birthday list.
	The tax district number I live in is 222.
	Hence the donation amount.
	Can I please get a dedouching in the morning jingle and some karma?
	Thanks for the analysis and for helping us straddle both universes.
	You've been dedouche in the morning.
	You've got karma.
	And yes, he is on the list.
	Bryce Rogers in Twin Falls, Idaho, $211.11.
	He writes, Adam is a crazy crackpot mofo.
	But he's my favorite person to listen to.
	I do love John Cranky Dvorak as well, even though he thinks Adam doesn't do anything for the show except wank off when they are recording.
	Yeah.
	Nailed it.
	If you only knew.
	Just kidding.
	Love you two crazy awesome bastards.
	I plan on donating as much as I can per month to make you two keep doing this show.
	Bryce from Idaho.
	Thank you, Bryce.
	Now there is a satisfied customer.
	That's a satisfied customer.
	Give him some karma.
	He can always use it.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you so much, Bryce.
	You've got karma.
	And last but not least is Mark Hudson in Otley, West Yorkshire, UK. $200.
	Good morning, gentlemen.
	If you could give me and our fellow listeners some jobs karma, that would be great.
	And at the end of the show, play George Carlin's I'm an Alpha Male on Beta Blocker song.
	Let me see if this is it.
	Let me just see if this is it.
	Yes, that's it.
	That's a good one.
	I haven't played that in a while.
	Nice.
	I'll put that in.
	You guys keep me sane.
	ITM Mark.
	Can we give him some...
	Jobs karma is what he needed?
	Jobs karma, yeah.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And make sure you don't stand up when you say it, Nancy.
	Good old Nancy.
	That concludes our little group of executive producers and associate executive producers, top notch quality folks.
	Yes.
	No agenda show 908.
	Thank you very much.
	909, big one coming up.
	Nice palindrome number.
	I'm sure we'll figure something out to do some kind of fun.
	909.
	Some kind of funny together, for sure.
	These are real credits.
	That's why you're at the front of the show.
	Executive producers, associate executive producers.
	And unlike Hollywood, we will not put you in the dead segment if you aren't dead.
	So we're much better than that.
	And remember, we have another show coming up on Sunday.
	Maybe you got some dead people hanging around the house.
	Go over there and say, hey, you know what?
	I got to propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order.
	Force flail.
	Shut up.
	I did want to share this article with you from The Guardian.
	Again, from truly a different dimension.
	They have a thesis on how internet porn caused the rise of Donald Trump.
	Oh, wow.
	That's a thesis.
	That's one.
	That's one for the books.
	Yeah, and it's a very long thesis.
	But the idea is internet porn makes us more gullible because, of course, when you're watching porn, the woman didn't actually want to pay for the pizza with sex instead of, you know, money.
	But because porn brings us these stories, which is, by the way, probably the oldest porn storyline in the world.
	You couldn't come up with a better one than that.
	The pizza?
	The pizza guy.
	The pizza delivery guy.
	Oh, I don't have any money.
	Internet porn gives us a skewed view of the world.
	You've got to read it.
	Yeah, well, send me a link or put in the show notes.
	Do both, actually.
	Send me a link.
	It's in the show.
	It's just insane, the things that people are coming up with.
	Yeah, that sounds pretty far out there.
	Yeah.
	Well, everyone's looking for the...
	Nobody just wants to step back and say, hey...
	The same thing with Parliament.
	Hey...
	And I've said it in a couple of tweets where I say the Labor Party doesn't care about labor.
	You step back and say, hey, there's a bunch of people here that used to work for a living and now we won't even give them welfare.
	And they're not voting for us?
	I don't understand it.
	Why are they voting for this crazy Trump?
	I don't understand.
	Yeah.
	I do have some MP question time, if you want to hear it.
	I always love that, and I would love to do some Euroland news, because I do have a couple of clips.
	Oh, good.
	This will transition us right into Euroland, because I have some Euroland news, too.
	So we have a couple of interesting questions that came up.
	We haven't done this for a while, because they haven't been good.
	But first of all, let's get it straight about this was a guy from Ireland, Northern Ireland, who was from Belfest area.
	And he's in some crazy party.
	He's not a laborer.
	He's not conservative.
	The Democrat something something party.
	And he asked a very humorous question on Article 50.
	And I guess some of the there's a lot of inside jokes here about the fact that Tony Blair and some I think another PM been going around saying Brexit was a bad idea.
	and this whole thing is a soft coup.
	And so this guy kind of brings the question to Theresa May, who's actually laughing heartily during the whole thing.
	Mr. Speaker, the prime minister, I'm sure, cannot fail to have noticed the intervention by two former prime ministers recently in relation to the Brexit debate.
	And there's a result very helpful they were, I'm sure.
	I'm sure the...
	I'm sure the Prime Minister will know, of course, what they and everybody else means by hard Brexit, what is meant by soft Brexit, but we're all now wondering what is meant by a soft coup, and when indeed it might be triggered, and when we will know if it's been triggered or not.
	Perhaps the Prime Minister can elucidate on that as well, since it's been so helpful in so many other ways.
	Will she take the opportunity today, however, to make it clear that whatever former Prime Ministers may say or whatever members of the unelected Upper House may say, the reality is that her plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March is now clearly on track.
	I thank the right honourable gentleman for the question that he's asked.
	It is indeed my plan to trigger by the end of March, and when I refer to that, I refer, of course, to the triggering of Article 50, rather than attempting to trigger any coup, soft or otherwise.
	It is still our intention to do that.
	I think it is important.
	The Article 50 bill, of course, does respond to the judgment of the Supreme Court, but it also ensures that we are responding to the voice of the United Kingdom when people voted to ensure that we do leave the European Union, and that is what we will do.
	I think you have the same clip of the vote that took place regarding EU nationals who were already...
	Let me see where it is now.
	Damn it.
	Who are already in the UK? And this was a...
	I don't have a clip about that.
	Oh, I do.
	I do.
	I do.
	Here it is.
	So they voted.
	The House of Lords kind of defied the Brexit bill by saying the 3 million EU citizens who are here already will get to stay after...
	This is a big point of contention.
	Yes.
	And so they basically are forcing Theresa May's hand on this.
	British ministers are expected to try to overturn an embarrassing defeat in the House of Lords on the government's Brexit bill when the legislation returns to the House of Commons.
	Peers in the upper chamber defied Prime Minister Theresa May in favour of an opposition amendment, guaranteeing the rights of EU nationals living in the UK after Brexit.
	The government said the defeat was disappointing, but made clear they are determined to reverse it in the lower chamber.
	256, so the contents have it.
	These people need to know now, not in two years' time or even 12 months' time.
	They simply can't put their lives on hold.
	I now want to say to the government, you can't do negotiations with people's futures.
	They're too precious to be used as bargaining chips.
	Mrs May has previously argued the government will take decisions on EU immigration.
	There will still be people coming to the United Kingdom from the European Union when we leave the EU. The crucial issue is that it is this government that will be making decisions about our immigration system for people from the European Union.
	There is a growing consensus that this issue must be resolved before Article 50 is triggered and the Prime Minister is becoming increasingly isolated.
	Hmm, trickery.
	All kinds of trickery going on.
	Well, she's not becoming isolated by any means.
	And this is just the House of Lords.
	This is just, they're just talking about the 3,000 or so people that are their servants.
	Butlers and maids.
	I'm telling you.
	The unelected House of Lords.
	Oh, we can't have that.
	I need my Polish nanny.
	We've got these people here.
	They've been well-trained.
	They know the building.
	They know where the offices are.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	We can't have that.
	We can't have that.
	I totally agree with you, man.
	The Right Honorable Mr.
	Dvorak.
	So the only other one I have was something that I thought was kind of funny.
	It was a little light, but it was about an important point, which is to get microbeads out of the environment.
	And I don't know if you know what that means.
	What's a microbead?
	Well, microbeads, I remember the first time I encountered microbeads, and this is silly, but it was a washing solution made by oil of old ladies.
	And you could use it.
	When I was at Tech TV, they'd use a ton of makeup on me and make me presentable, and you had to wash this crap off.
	That's a bit of a microaggression, by the way.
	Ageist microaggression.
	Yeah.
	And so they, against myself, and so then this stuff would grate, because it would have these little microbeads in it, just rip everything off your face.
	It did a very good job of cleaning, but you didn't even realize that this stuff goes into the environment.
	So you end up with this little speech here by this Female, I think she's on the Conservative Party making sure that the government there is doing something about these.
	By the way, I was using these things 12 years ago.
	There must be tonnage of these beads in the environment.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker.
	Mr.
	Speaker, perhaps you, like many other honorable friends and members here today, took a shower this morning.
	Questionable.
	Questionable.
	They are, after all, British.
	Do you remember when that used to be the general theme?
	Certainly in Europe.
	I'm sorry for interrupting.
	No.
	When I was growing up in Amsterdam, so now we're talking early 70s, the British were always seen as thin, smelly, and bad teeth.
	Right.
	And actually, here was the same thing.
	You'd think of the Brits as this bad teeth, smelly, never took a shower.
	And the French were also accused of...
	Also being smelly.
	Smelly.
	Smelly, never took a shower, and had armpit hair.
	Armpit hair, that's right.
	Yeah, that was the stereotype.
	Yeah, and now, of course, we know that British is, you know, the stereotype is Adele.
	Right.
	Anyway, I am.
	And I am sure, Mr Speaker, you were very careful to check whether the shower gel contained microbeads.
	Products containing them can result in a...
	Yeah, the thrust of this fascinating question.
	Order!
	Mrs Powell, let's hear it.
	Shower gel products containing them can result in 100,000 microbeads or plastics being washed down the drain every time we use them, into the water system and then into the marine environment, damaging these precious habitats.
	Would the Prime Minister join with me in welcoming the steps that this government is taking to introduce a ban on microbeads' use in cosmetics and personal care products, with the consultation ending just a few days ago?
	Thank you, uh...
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker, and I think I... I think I should...
	I think I, uh...
	I think I should say for clarity to members of this House that I am not in a position to know whether or not you took a shower this morning.
	You know, she's pretty funny.
	I like her.
	She doesn't let anyone eat the cheese off of her bread.
	Can I, in, in, uh...
	But in responding, my honourable friend has raised a very important point.
	And it is completely unnecessary to add plastics to products like face washes and body scrub where harmless alternatives can be used.
	As she referred to at the end of her question, our consultation to ban microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products...
	Closed recently, we're aiming to change legislation by October 2017, and we also ask for evidence of what more can be done in future to prevent other sources of plastic from entering the marine environment, because we are committed to being the first generation ever to leave the environment in a better state than it was inherited.
	And I'm sure that together we can all work to bring an end to these harmful plastics clogging up our oceans.
	Yes.
	You know she said in future.
	Of course she did.
	In future.
	When I'm wearing headscarf and I'm in country.
	I think you have this clip, but I'll play it, or at least this report, I think this is from Euronews, about Marie Le Pen.
	And the European Union has, you know, they're so anti-free speech in the European Union, they have taken away her parliamentary immunity for a couple of tweets she has sent out.
	Marie Le Pen has lost her...
	Just as background, these tweets are not new.
	No, no, they're two years old.
	Two years old, yeah.
	This is the same thing they did with Geert Wilders.
	Oh, we're going to take you to court.
	We're suing you for riling people up against Muslims.
	Right.
	They've taken her to court before and she won the case, but yes, play.
	And I said Marine, but I meant Marie, Marie Le Pen.
	Marine Le Pen has lost her EU parliamentary immunity.
	European Union lawmakers have lifted the exemption, which shielded the French presidential candidate from prosecution.
	The leader of France's far-right Front National is under investigation in France for posting three graphic images of Islamic State executions on Twitter in December 2015.
	They included the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
	The vote passed...
	Which, by the way, is bullshit.
	because there was no actual video of the beheading.
	You saw him with a knife, and then it faded to black, and then you remember that?
	And then you saw some kind of jacked up...
	Yeah, and his head was on top of the body.
	Yeah, some jacked up thing.
	So you could not have tweeted something.
	That actual event was not on video.
	December 2015, they included the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
	The vote passed on Thursday by a large show of hands in the plenary of the EU Parliament, confirming a preliminary decision taken on Tuesday by the Legal Affairs Committee of the EU Legislature.
	Marine Le Pen now faces possible legal action against her.
	The offense being considered is publishing violent images.
	That can carry a penalty of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.
	How does that work?
	Are these EU laws or are they French laws?
	I think they're EU laws.
	Maybe they're French laws.
	They're dumb.
	No, it's not just dumb.
	It goes against basic human rights, I would say.
	It's very strange.
	I mean, my report's not much different.
	Mine came from RT, so they have a little more of the needle in there because of their...
	We want to listen to it?
	Yeah, might as well.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	Hello again.
	Now, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen could face up to three years in prison.
	That after the EU Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of removing her immunity over images she tweeted of Islamic State executions.
	If you have immunity...
	Isn't the whole point that you have immunity is you can do things like this, which would be edgy?
	Again, you can't change the immunity ex post facto.
	I mean, that's our constitution.
	Oh, what did the guy do?
	He kicked the can down the road.
	Oh, let's make a law against that, and then...
	Charge him with kicking the can down the road last week.
	You can't do that.
	That's illegal.
	Well, you can in the EU's.
	By the way, that means in the EU they can do all kinds of things.
	That's just not fair.
	It's not fair, man.
	It's not fair, man.
	I make state executions back in 2015.
	Well, back then, a French journalist compared Le Pen's ideas to that of Islamic states, and in response, Le Pen posted three graphic images of ISIL killings with the caption, This is ISIL. But only now has her tweet caused uproar with EU officials.
	Well, RT got comment from the Secretary General for an EU organization for which Le Pen is the co-president.
	It's the poor way of EU globalists and an easy hypocritical excuse to target Marine Le Pen.
	It's the same manoeuvre used against Brexit and Trump.
	The people are not blind anymore.
	We are confident she'd win any potential trial in this case, if that ever happens.
	Well, a second round of voting on Le Pen's immunity could take place this week.
	For her privilege to be revoked, the VAT vote requires the unanimous decision by EU lawmakers.
	This isn't the first time the French National Front leader's been caught up in an immunity scandal, either.
	Back in 2013, she compared Muslims praying outside a building to a Nazi occupation, but in December of 2015, those charges were dropped under the Free Speech Act.
	My colleague, Younan O'Neill.
	Hmm.
	It goes on with more moaning.
	I just want to stay in France for one moment.
	We have another contender, François Fillon.
	But before you go to that, I just want to say, I think the French public, which keeps very well informed, has got to see this, and this is like a promotion for her.
	Totally.
	Totally.
	They're just asking for trouble.
	They're turning, they're going to make her win.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Then I think the same might happen in the Netherlands with Geert Wilders.
	I've got to find out when they're voting.
	That must be coming up pretty soon.
	Here's one of the contenders, Francois Fillon.
	He's had a lot of problems, and this is not good because the elites certainly don't want Le Pen to win, so I guess they had some hope on this guy, but it's not looking good for him.
	François Fillon has suffered yet more blows in his bid to become the president of France.
	With an ever-deepening financial scandal looming over him, he's lost the support of a centrist party and a key member of his campaign team, Bruno Le Maire, who's resigned.
	Fillon delayed a visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair, which fueled speculation he was on the brink of quitting.
	But, speaking earlier, he was defiant.
	It is indeed a political assassination, he says, but through this disproportionate attack, without a known precedent, through the choice of this state, it's not only me they're assassinating, it's the presidential election.
	Fillon has lost the backing of the UDI party, who suspended support for him after it was announced the Republican was to be put under formal investigation over the scandal now known as Penelope Gate.
	Rivals Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have both visited the agricultural fair in recent days on the campaign trail.
	Opinion polls currently have Fillon behind the far-right candidate Le Pen and centrist Macron, who's consolidating his status as favorite to win a second round head-to-head against the National Front leader.
	Despite slipping down the polls, Fionn's still the only candidate who's secured the 500 signatures needed from local mayors to run for president.
	Socialist candidate Benoit Armand lies fourth in the polls.
	I think Le Pen has a real shot at this.
	April 23rd is the French election.
	March 15th will be the Dutch election.
	We'll be following that, obviously.
	That's coming up.
	And while we're on the topic of this no nations, no borders, globalist new world order, I had this clip for a couple weeks now.
	Finally time to play it.
	Farage explains what motivates globalists.
	So the nation-state is such an obvious arrangement.
	It was organic.
	People created them because they wanted them.
	I guess the obvious question is, why did so many people in power spend so much time trying to obliterate them?
	What was their motive?
	Well, one of the motives was that France and Germany, every 25 years, kept fighting each other.
	Exactly.
	So they kind of wondered, they kind of wondered, how do we stop the Germans from crossing the Rhine and trying to smash the French?
	And they thought if they merge the two countries, that might be a way to do it.
	But, just as with communism, the big idea that came before this, the road to hell can be paved with good intentions.
	The mistake they made was this.
	Provided nation states are democratic, they will not fight and they will not go to war with each other.
	And if you try and give people a false identity, a false flag, a false god if you like, then they will rebel and turn against it.
	And I think that what the European Union was, was kind of a prototype for a bigger form of global government.
	And had Hillary Clinton won, you would have become part of it.
	So thank goodness that Trump has stopped the rot.
	And oh, how they laughed at me when I said this was the plan years ago.
	Who's they?
	You.
	What?
	I would bring up the Trilateral Commission and, you know, the New World Order.
	You would chuckle.
	I've always been against the EU's formation and its development.
	Right, but, you know.
	And I've always been against one world government.
	Okay, good.
	I want to say...
	I don't know why, and I wasn't laughing at you over that.
	Okay.
	And who's they?
	I'm only a single person, so there had to be other people.
	They?
	Everyone who called me a conspiracy theorist.
	They're against me!
	They hate me.
	I'm not paranoid.
	In the morning to James Thompson, for Lent, he is going to completely eliminate all news sources and only rely on the best podcast in the universe.
	A lot of people are giving up Facebook for Lent.
	That's an interesting trend.
	Yeah, that's a smart move.
	Yeah, it's a very interesting trend.
	Because I think what happens, if you go away for 40 days, Lent, if you go away for 40 days, when you come back, I think the algorithm just will eliminate you.
	I'll never see you again.
	You'll never exist.
	Seriously.
	If someone doesn't post for 40 days, I think it's going to affect the algos.
	Yeah, good.
	So I'm going through...
	Good.
	Yes, good.
	I think...
	So I'm going through...
	You know, one of the things, just a little off-topic, I use Yelp occasionally for certain kinds of things, but you have to kind of read between the lines with Yelp.
	Yeah, I'm not a big fan myself.
	Yeah, I use it.
	I've used it since it started, and I use it, but I have to be careful because there are people, like my favorite example is that French Laundry, one of the greatest restaurants in the world.
	It's up in Wine Country, right?
	Yeah, it's up there in the Yomville area.
	I've been once.
	I've been once.
	The one woman gave one star.
	It's getting five stars, five stars, five stars.
	She gave it, yeah.
	But they have Michelin stars, don't they?
	Yeah, they got three.
	Yeah, it's very rare.
	She gave it one star on Yelp, which is the lowest ranking you can get, because it didn't have enough vegan dishes.
	God.
	So I'm reading along, and I'm always kind of fascinated by the other dimension and the way they think and the way they operate and all this kind of the new sociology of the millennials.
	And I ran into this one-star review for the Berkeley Bowl West, which is what this Berkeley Bowl, it's turned into one of the greatest grocery stores I think I've ever been into anywhere in the universe.
	Hmm.
	And the Berkeley Bowl, and there's two of them, and they're both in Berkeley.
	It stemmed from a bowling alley that they turned into a food stall, and then it grew and it became a full-blown store with the meat department and everything.
	It would kill Whole Foods head-to-head under any circumstances.
	So here's a woman that gave it one star.
	And I'm like, what the hell?
	So I'm looking at this.
	I work nearby, she writes.
	I went to the Berkeley Bowl on the afternoon break.
	And this, to me, is an example of the millennials that we're going to have to deal with for the rest of our lives.
	I went to Berkeley Bowl.
	When I needed a long walk, I had been having a very bad day at work, and I thought maybe I would treat...
	Bad day at work doesn't help.
	I thought maybe I would treat myself to something sweet.
	My go-to food, vice for de-stressing, is ice cream.
	So I went to the frozen foods aisle.
	At the time, Berkeley Bowl had these really expensive ice cream treats by a brand called Cool House, which resembles a gourmet it's it.
	They were an elaborate cookie with exotic ice cream flavors at $5.
	They were way, way too expensive.
	I admired the cookie sandwich in the freezer.
	She goes on about these things.
	She says, I'm going to treat myself.
	I confess I was quite embarrassed about buying a $5 dessert.
	I felt silly and excessive.
	I didn't really make that much at my job.
	I work retail.
	But this was some special occasion.
	I was stressed and I thought I would do something frivolous and nice for myself.
	When I was in the checkout line, I started feeling more guilty about buying the $5 ice cream sandwich.
	But I figured the cashiers were professionals and probably saw people buying excessive and silly food all the time.
	And you know what happened?
	I got to the front of the line, and the two workers, as they rang me up, started mocking my purchase to each other, but such that I could hear them.
	Quote, why the hell is this worth five dollars?
	The guy asked.
	I don't know.
	What is it?
	What even is that?
	The cashier asked.
	They snickered at it.
	I was mortified.
	The one time I, the one fear I had came true.
	I actually cried about it later.
	All I wanted was to treat myself after a stressful day without fear of reproach or being judged, and the employees made fun of me.
	I felt so bad it triggered a bout of sobbing on the way home.
	When I pass by Berkeley Bowl, I always think of this moment.
	I do not shop there anymore.
	Maxine.
	Oh, man.
	Where did this alternate universe story come from?
	And someone sent me an article.
	You'll recall that we had the report on Sunday that CERN said, there's no way.
	You're not in an alternate universe.
	Our machine didn't do anything.
	It's crazy to think that way.
	We're a little defensive, are we?
	Especially when you look at the article in a UK newspaper.
	This is August 15th, 2015.
	Scientists conducting a mind-bending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider hope to connect with a parallel universe outside of our own.
	There's a whole story about how they thought it was possible that gravity may leak between the parallel universes.
	So they're all in on parallel universes, which they have to be.
	That's what they're doing.
	But yet, nah, don't worry about it.
	There's nothing to see here.
	Just move along.
	I'd like someone to really show me, if it's possible, what's going on.
	No, but something's going on.
	There's no doubt about that.
	Yeah, people are listening to the exact same information and have complete different takeaways from it.
	Yeah, it's just totally fascinating.
	Yeah, it really is.
	So Ivanka's making headways, talking about overseas news, headways in China.
	This is not being reported by anyone.
	What is she doing?
	Well, this is a report from, if you watch Chinese news, you'll get to hear about it.
	She's just being nice, I guess.
	This is Ivanka in China.
	This was on RT. Dozens of Chinese businesses have been naming their products after Ivanka.
	That's amid turbulence in the relationship with Washington.
	RT's Emily Su looks at what role Ivanka Trump could play in China.
	While fashion giants in the U.S. are busy pulling Ivanka Trump's products off their shelves to avoid losing their anti-Trump customers, dozens of companies in China are rushing to cash on the first daughter's name.
	From wallpaper to alcohol retailers, 65 companies want to use Ivanka as a trademark for their products.
	Hashtag Ivanka Trump.
	Happy shopping.
	Chinese Twitter Weibo has an Ivanka the Goddess fan club with 11,000 followers.
	They think American companies are simply missing the point.
	And one of the reasons why Chinese people love Ivanka is this.
	She made a surprise visit to the Chinese embassy for Lunar New Year.
	Experts say Ivanka has the potential to become Trump's unofficial ambassador to Beijing.
	Ivanka Trump did play a role of softening, smoothing out the controversies created by Donald Trump in terms of the relationship between the U.S. and China.
	I think she can play that role to narrow the gap, let's say, of understanding or bring the two countries together.
	And let's just say Ivanka already found her diplomatic successor.
	It's Trump's daughter singing some song with a marionette there.
	Granddaughter, I presume.
	Granddaughter.
	No, it's no...
	Is it the granddaughter?
	Oh, Ivanka's daughter.
	I'm sorry, you said Trump.
	No, Ivanka's granddaughter with a, singing something, I don't know if it's Chinese, I couldn't tell, but she had a marionette of a Chinese dragon bouncing around, and she was playing with it.
	It was very funny.
	So, yeah, she's making, this woman is a fantastic asset to the administration.
	I have an ISO of her daughter.
	Okay, maybe not.
	Always good for a cheap laugh.
	You know, this photograph of the historically black college, were they provosts or principals or directors?
	Administrators, yes.
	With Kellyanne Conway sitting on the couch.
	Now, this warrants some discussion.
	First of all, If you never said that, by the way, it wouldn't have gotten discussed, but I can discuss it.
	So there's two sides to this.
	One is why did they release this as an official photo?
	And two, the extremes that people are going to making up memes about this.
	You know, like it's a big bukkake porn movie and they photoshop her in between all those guys sitting on her knees.
	Just because a woman sits that way and all of a sudden that's a real problem and it's completely sexualized.
	Very.
	In a room full of black men, of course.
	You found it disturbing?
	No, it's found disturbing that anyone got upset about it.
	Really?
	When I saw the picture, I saw, well, there she is making herself comfortable.
	Yeah, working.
	I didn't think much about it.
	It looks like she's sitting there, and she's working and doing her thing, and it didn't bother me at all, but then the alternate universe kicked in.
	It's like, whoa.
	Oh, yeah.
	Whoa.
	And he's disrespectful.
	What's she doing?
	And D.L. Hughley, is he still on SNL? Was he ever on SNL? I don't think he's ever been on SNL. I think he maybe is a guest or a guest host.
	What is he...
	What was his main idea?
	He's stand-up, and he does some movies.
	Well, he does a morning radio show.
	He's even back announcing a song, which is interesting.
	I don't know what radio station it is.
	Just listen to his takeaway from this photo.
	That was Tupac.
	I ain't mad at you, so I, uh...
	I was, you know, getting up early, going over social media like I always do, preparing for the show and writing material for the gig.
	And I see a picture of all of these bright, shining faces that the presidents of HBC use with Donald Trump.
	I also see Kellyanne Conway with her shoes off, folded up on the couch.
	I'll just say, optically, when somebody important walks into a room or if you got your shoes off and you fold up on the couch, you have little regard for them at all.
	You have little regard for them at all.
	You don't get up when the help comes in.
	So you have little regard for them at all.
	And all these HBCU presidents that have gone to talk to Donald Trump, I'll say this.
	Donald Trump didn't care about the students that went to his university.
	What the hell makes you think he's going to care about the ones that go to yours?
	Let me tell you something.
	I read an amazing article that was in The Root.
	That, you know, Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in history, but where he does overwhelmingly well is white people.
	White people love what he's doing.
	Those pictures that he takes with black people aren't for black people.
	They're for white people.
	They're to normalize them.
	They go, oh, well, see, look, it's not so bad.
	What Donald Trump has been successful in doing, he only talks to the news outlets that are favorable to them, and he only talks to the black people he thinks that he can get something out of them.
	You are a brochure.
	That's what you were doing.
	You were a brochure.
	Much like those brochures you used to recruit students, that's the brochure.
	Your brochure.
	Okay.
	That makes nothing but sense.
	These black colleges need a lot of help, and it was recognized.
	I don't see why that guy would try to submarine the whole thing.
	Guys, but this is the alternate universe and an ultimate example of fake news.
	Nothing like a new jingle.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, anyway, so I thought there's a couple of possibilities.
	One, that couch, I don't know how old that thing is, but it's a possibility.
	I mean, besides, maybe it's very comfortable and you just want to sit on it like that.
	But I've been on a couch...
	Similar to that.
	And if you don't sit on your legs, and you can't do it with your shoes on, so you have to put them on.
	Yeah, you can't lean back far enough.
	You have to, if you sit in, there's some couches that will give you a backache if you don't sit like that.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I've run into those couches.
	I've owned one.
	And...
	It's a possibility.
	I mean, I just couldn't get that worked up about it, but everyone got all bent out of shape.
	There's rule followers, and there's rules that I don't know about.
	It's not our protocol.
	It's not our tradition to sit that way.
	No.
	Can't have that.
	So tiring.
	I see no letting up either.
	I don't see it letting up.
	It just continues to go.
	Continues.
	Well, your buddy's in the news.
	Uh-oh.
	It's just a gratuitous couple of clips because of you.
	I'm doing this as a favor to you.
	Okay.
	Because Tulsi Gabbard.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, the future president of the United States.
	Could be.
	She's associating herself a little bit too much with RT because they're the only ones that will pick up on what she has to say.
	Our mainstream media doesn't care.
	And before, well, after this, there's one real interesting story that the mainstream media is completely ignoring.
	But let's listen to Tulsi give her bitching and moaning about Syria.
	Meanwhile, U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard has called on the White House to curb its support for Syrian rebel groups.
	She was joined by colleagues and anti-war activists on Capitol Hill.
	For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant groups who are working directly with and oftentimes under the command of terrorist groups like al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government.
	The fact that our resources are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups that we should be focused on defeating should alarm every member of Congress and every American.
	This madness must end.
	And where was this speech given?
	This was after some legislation I think she's promoting.
	It looked to me outside Washington, outside the Capitol building.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, nobody wants to talk to her except RT because she's not playing ball.
	No, she's not.
	You're going to get kicked out of something pretty soon.
	Well, she's on the armed services, I think, which is a good committee.
	With McCain?
	Yeah, I think he's the head of it.
	So she's moaning and groaning.
	Here's part two.
	Why is it such a difficult position to take to say that we should stop arming extremist groups overseas?
	Well, it's really not a difficult position, nor should it be.
	I think every American would be surprised to know that for years our government has been providing both direct and indirect support to these armed militant groups who are working directly with or even under the command of terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, all in their effort and fight to overthrow the Syrian government.
	Our bill does a simple thing, and it says that our taxpayer dollars should not be used to provide arms, money, intelligence, or other types of support to militant groups who are working allied with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, nor should we be funneling taxpayer dollars through countries nor should we be funneling taxpayer dollars through countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and others who are providing this direct and indirect support to terrorist groups.
	What do you make of Trump's proposal to defeat ISIS? Is it possible to do this without further U.S. troop commitment or further U.S. military involvement in a country like Syria?
	Again, I call on the Trump administration to end this counterproductive regime change war in Syria, end this crazy policy that we have been conducting and providing this support to militant groups that actually are working with al-Qaeda, end this crazy policy that we have been conducting and providing this support to militant groups that actually are working Speaking truth to power.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I'll get her nowhere.
	No, I don't think so.
	Sadly, no.
	I was going to say, what has been handled in chambers in the House was blockage of a resolution entered by Pascrell from New Jersey I think the laws from 1924, the Ways and Means Committee is empowered to examine tax returns.
	This is, again, oh, we have to see Donald Trump's tax return because that will, of course, hold the key to his secret connection to Russia, which is ludicrous.
	It's ludicrous, anyone who thinks that's in the tax return.
	So 229 Republicans voted against that, and so that's not going to continue to not be necessary.
	It's not a requirement anyway.
	But I think they're also doing it on their own behalf.
	They don't want anyone getting their tax returns either.
	Well, the one story, just to jump ahead of the media not covering Tulsi, the story that's going around, you can find it on the net, But you won't find it at CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, or anyplace else.
	But I think it will have to be told before, and they're working on how to downplay it, I'm sure.
	But Pablo Escobar's son has come out and said that Pablo Escobar, the great drug dealer, was working for the CIA from the get-go.
	Really?
	Really?
	Yeah, and he's got a book coming out, and he's going to have to hit the book circuits, and they're not going to be able to ignore him.
	Fantastic.
	Do you have a clip on this or not?
	There's no clip.
	Oh, this is great.
	It's not covered by anyone.
	You have to type in, you have to go to your Google, and this story just broke a couple days ago, like the 23rd.
	You have to go type in...
	Let's see, what do I type in on this one?
	Are you using Bing or Google?
	Escobar's son, CIA, and you'll get all these stories.
	Here's one on the Falling Darkness website.
	Pablo Escobar's son reveals his dad worked for the CIA selling cocaine.
	Media silent.
	That's their headline.
	And it goes on about in a new book, Pablo Escobar in Fragrante.
	It should be Fragrante, I think.
	He lives under the pseudonym Juan Sebastian Marican, explains his father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against communism in Central America.
	Right, which is the Iran-Contra.
	We already knew this.
	But now it turns out that there is just more confirmation about the CIA's involvement to such an extreme that it is embarrassing.
	And no, no no.
	No, no, no, no.
	Nice to not cover this.
	Well, would you really expect CBS to report on that the CBS would be the last one, but they're going to have to as this story keeps going on and people keep pointing.
	I'll put a link to this in the show notes.
	A couple of people in the chat room already finding stuff.
	This is very interesting.
	Yeah.
	Very interesting.
	Totally ignored.
	But according to Rosie O'Donnell, you know, the internet rules and the media is everywhere, so they can't stop it.
	I think in this regard, at some level, they can't.
	Well, no, of course they can.
	But it won't matter.
	It won't matter.
	No, it doesn't really matter.
	There'll just be a bunch of crackpots saying this stuff.
	Speaking of books, I do have a couple questions about this one.
	I want to know what you think about the book deal for Michelle and Barack Obama.
	$65 million, one book from each.
	I'm not sure who this guy is, but he had a funny commentary on the book deal.
	And you say...
	Well, I liked Obama's previous book because it was one of the great works of fiction, you know, with his composite girlfriend and his imaginary racist white friend.
	I remember he wrote about his grandfather in Indonesia who supposedly died in the colonial struggle against the Dutch, but actually died falling off a chair while changing the drapes.
	So if he manages to come up with as spectacular a work of fiction as that last one, this will be up there in Harry Potter country.
	I'm hoping he will have, like, a composite jihadist he releases from Gitmo to go off and kill people around the world, or maybe an imaginary ISIS commander that he drones in his sleep.
	I think this could be, as I said, right up there with J.K. Rowling as one of the great works of fiction.
	Now, stepping from the straddle into the other universe, if the shoe were on the other foot, I believe it would be easy to say, whoa, maybe this is a payoff.
	Who is paying for these books?
	And is this a normal amount of money?
	John C. Dvorak, the honorable publishing...
	Well, from my experience, it's very abnormal, but it's not...
	It's always presupposed that...
	Because this book deal came out of an auction...
	And the auction market isn't what it once was, but the auction used to be you'd have a book proposal and you'd have an agent.
	Agents always do these auctions.
	The agent would call a number of publishers that might be interested.
	And because it's going to be an auction, they would inform the publishing companies that we're going to do an auction for the book.
	And they'd have a date and time and there'd be a huge conference call.
	And with all these different people from the area, penguin here, penguin, yeah, penguin.
	Random ass, I'm over here.
	I'm on, I'm on, I'm good.
	So everyone checks in.
	And then they say, we'd like to start the opening bid for the book at $10 million.
	And maybe some silence, and maybe one guy jumps in.
	Wow.
	And says, okay, I'm in for 10.
	Okay, we got 10 over here.
	Well, you know, I don't know how long this auction took place, how long it was.
	Maybe it was an hour.
	Maybe it was 10 minutes.
	I'm not sure.
	But it was, the idea on the agent's part is that if you can get a bidding war, you can get these things jacked way up out of control.
	They're never going to get $65 million from sales.
	That I can assure you.
	No, I wouldn't think so.
	Do you know who did the deal?
	Who the publisher is?
	I think it was Penguin, I think, is the one with the book.
	Who owns Penguin?
	Oh, that's probably Birdland.
	Well, you keep talking and I'll look it up.
	Yeah, anyway, so they got the book and I think they got stuck in, you know, there's a lot of people at auctions who make the mistake of getting into a bidding war for something they really want and apparently they really wanted it.
	It's rare nowadays, and I'm not saying it's not within the realm of possibility that there's a buyout or a payoff or something, because that makes sense at these numbers, but it could have just been a reality of the odd situation.
	Well, it looks to me, this is owned by Pearson, who of course also do all the educational stuff, don't they?
	Pearson is a conglomerate.
	They buy publishers.
	Yes, they do the educational stuff that we bitch about, the Common Core stuff.
	Which Obama was a big proponent of.
	I'm just looking for a payoff.
	If there's anything there, then maybe it's there.
	Yeah, but Obama being a big proponent didn't really pay the bills, it seems to me.
	It didn't do much.
	It's a possibility.
	It's a big possibility.
	And Pearson would be, it seems like a son, seems...
	Here's, I'll give you a corruption study.
	Wait, let me just give you one other piece of data.
	Half of it, or part of it is owned by, so there's Penguin Random House, owned by Pearson, and Bertelsmann, which is the German media conglomerate.
	They own, actually, they own 53%, so they own the majority.
	Yeah, big operation.
	So here's Pearson.
	This is, I'll just give this, this is one of these stories, the Warwick story.
	I love that.
	Pearson bought all the computer book publishing companies.
	All of them.
	It bought the Simon& Schuster stuff.
	It bought...
	I can't even think of half of the names.
	Did they buy the ones O'Reilly?
	Did they buy O'Reilly?
	No, O'Reilly's the only independent left.
	Right.
	He's the only one.
	They bought Peach Pit.
	They bought everybody.
	They bought one after another.
	They bought Q. And Q came out of...
	Q was an interesting operation because that was the only hire for writing operation.
	They didn't pay royalties.
	They would hire you to do a manuscript and then you'd get a flat fee and you're done.
	It wasn't usually that much, like 10 grand or something for a whole book.
	It's ridiculous.
	So here's what they do.
	I had a book, I forgot what it was, and it was from one of the publishing companies.
	I don't know if I did this deal.
	I'm sure it was MS-DOS Telecommunications.
	Yeah, that wasn't it.
	An instant bestseller.
	Anyway, so I did this book, and then I started to learn the process.
	I didn't have a bestseller at this time, but here's what Pearson likes to do.
	They bring you in with one of the publishing houses, any number, let's say Peach Pit or anybody that could have been.
	It could have been a...
	Any house.
	Your book is a hit.
	And so now all of a sudden it is selling and they're having to pay you royalties.
	Immediately, Q clones your book.
	They hire somebody to write the same book, which is easy enough to do.
	You know, DOS tips or whatever.
	And you already have a hit.
	You have a hit that is approaching.
	It's going to be a hit.
	If it keeps going and they give you some marketing money, you're going to make a lot of money.
	But instead of doing that, they put all their efforts to the Q book on the same topic.
	Now, imagine they own about 30 small computer book publishers where there used to be competition between all these different publishers.
	They're all in the same group and everything ends up getting funneled to queue because there's no royalty.
	So if the book becomes hugely successful, they make all the money and there's the writers.
	They paid his fee and he's done.
	And so that's what they're doing.
	And so you don't see the whole computer book business and the model for it was completely decimated by these guys.
	Sounds very much like the music business, actually, with projects and who's important for the label, etc.
	Very analogous to that.
	Well, it's a lot of money.
	That's for sure.
	It seems like, as you said, they can't make it back ever.
	No.
	So, I'm still looking.
	I think your thesis might be correct.
	It might be just a payoff.
	Isn't that how you do those things?
	Isn't that what Hillary Clinton did with all of her speeches?
	I mean, that to me is all payoff.
	It's all payoff.
	Totally.
	Little bribes.
	Right.
	Just little teeny-witty bribes.
	Imagine that.
	$65 million.
	You always do it after the fact.
	I mean, this is the way modern politics would do this.
	Of course.
	You always reward when you're done.
	When you're done.
	It's like the mob.
	It's handshake deals based on trust.
	Otherwise, you might wake up with a hot tub closed on you or something.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	I said one more thing.
	Oh, yes.
	About the Obamas.
	I just learned today Valerie Jarrett is going to be moving into their new home in D.C. How about that for creepy?
	That's kind of creepy.
	I guess the mother-in-law will be living there, too.
	Oh, no doubt.
	Jarrett was living at the White House.
	I didn't even know that.
	Huh.
	See, we'd have meals with the Obamas, and the word is that they're setting up a whole war room, and they're going to be command central for bringing down the man.
	Yeah, this is for OFA. Yes, exactly.
	We'll have to see about that.
	I was so disappointed.
	I have not watched this show.
	Maybe you watch some weird TV shows sometimes.
	What is this called?
	The Detour on TBS? Oh yeah, The Detour.
	You ever watch that?
	Tell me about the show.
	Yes, I do watch it.
	I have it on the recorder, but I'm going to stop watching it because it's funny.
	It reminds me a little bit about the original Jack Lemmon, Neil Simon play where he's in...
	What is it called?
	It's not the Outsiders, it's the...
	I don't know.
	He's in New York City.
	You should look this up.
	Go to Jack Lemmon's thing and find it.
	It's like one word.
	Anyway, he goes to New York and all these bad things happen to him.
	So these guys move out of Podunkville and they move to New York because one of them's got a job.
	And all these bad things start happening to him because the kids are jerks and nobody knows how to act like a New Yorker and they're always making these flubs.
	The problem with this thing is it's annoying.
	At some point, it's not like the Jack Lemmon movie, which was later done with Steve Martin, which wasn't as funny.
	The player?
	No, no.
	It's like the outsiders or the travelers.
	Man, he's got quite a list of stuff he's done.
	This is probably in the 60s, 70s.
	I'll go back to the 60s.
	Okay.
	I gotta get the name of that movie anyway, because people should see this movie, especially the original Jack Lemmon version, because it's hilarious.
	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
	No.
	It's like The Something.
	The Notorious Landlady?
	No, it's like one word.
	Well, you can keep it up.
	Anyway, you can look it up.
	I'll look it up in the meantime.
	So I got, it's like, it's just one of these things that I, one thing I don't like about any sort of drama or even comedy is when you're, when it makes you kind of like cringe a little too much.
	It's like, I don't know if this would really happen or if it did happen, this wouldn't be good.
	But it's cringe without the, oh, this is hilarious.
	I just can't watch it.
	It turns out to be unwatchable.
	Hmm.
	I think the premise is good.
	The gags are funny.
	Well, no, the gags are not funny.
	Some of the gags are funny.
	No, they pooped all over us, man.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm ready.
	They pooped all over us.
	What do you do for me?
	Oh, I'm a freelance audio documentarian.
	Awesome.
	Like podcasts and stuff?
	Oh, please.
	Podcasts are verbal narcissism for ugly journalists.
	No, I tell stories through sound.
	His wife makes the money.
	I figured.
	There you go.
	Yeah, there was.
	I don't have clips for it.
	I think I still have it.
	The family guy did a little slam on the podcast.
	Yeah, they had that too.
	Yes.
	I don't feel good about that.
	I can't watch this show now.
	It makes me very sad.
	Well, I'm telling you, it's not a watchable show.
	Okay.
	Another tip from your No Agenda show.
	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.
	And the Jack Lemmon movie was The Out of Towners.
	Ah, Out-of-Towners.
	The Out-of-Towners, a very funny film.
	And then when it was redone, it was not funny.
	Because they changed the script.
	It wasn't Neil Simon's involvement, who was one of the great writers ever.
	Anyway, we do have some people to thank for show 908.
	Starting with Sandra Ferreira, $150.
	She's directly from the capital of Millennials La La Land, Bushwack, Brooklyn, where student debt is as high as our minds.
	I just want to reiterate my appreciation and love for your show.
	Please send me some much-needed work, Karma.
	We'll put that at the end right for you.
	Duncan Geldenhuys.
	I would say Duncan Geldenhuys.
	Geldenhuys, yes.
	Definitely, right.
	Definitely, definitely.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	He's in Australia.
	Lon Baker, parts unknown, $100.
	And Geldenhuys was one, two, three, four, five.
	And Sandro was $150.
	Ly, ly, ly, ly, ly!
	Lon Baker's 100.
	Nicola Page is 100 in Wellington, New Zealand.
	You'll probably see her on the tour.
	Richard Spasto in Burbank, California. 9-9-9-9. 9-9-9-9-9-9-9.
	Boob.
	Yeah.
	Boob. Boobs. Boob.
	We have a couple boobs.
	Sir Charles Walters in Schaumburg, Illinois, and Todd Rathkamp, parts unknown.
	Both 8-0-0-8.
	Jeffrey Anderson in Stewart, Florida, 66-85-KMH.
	Kevin Dills in Charlotte, North Carolina, 64.32.
	John Mazurik as we drop fast.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Sir Joe Brandywine, 100.
	In Wilmington, Delaware, 5397.
	And now we're at $50.
	And these are just names and locations for $50 donors.
	Starting with Dean Kostanko in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
	Dennis Brown in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
	Lisa Bernier, parts unknown.
	Matthew Comstock, parts unknown.
	Sir Peter Totes.
	Justin Barber in Los Angeles.
	Benjamin Garlock in Savoy, Illinois.
	David Middlebrook in parts unknown, and that's it.
	Oh.
	Very short list of $50 today.
	And reminding people we do have another show coming up on Sunday.
	We can use your support for show 909.
	Yeah, we'll have some kind of special donation amount for 909.
	It's a palindrome.
	It's a nice number.
	Something.
	Yeah, you'll figure something out.
	I also want to thank everybody who supported the program.
	As your producer job requires, under the amount of $50, that's typically for reasons of anonymity, but also we have a lot of great subscription plans you can get on to even night layaways.
	And it does work.
	We have people becoming knights every day who've been on the layaway plan for a while.
	And of course, this is your best podcast in the universe.
	You support however you can.
	Really appreciate this.
	And as John said, another show coming up on Sunday.
	Dvorak.org.
	The required karma?
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And nice list today.
	Kyle Schaefer celebrates today.
	Jennifer Lovebird says happy birthday to her son, who celebrates tomorrow.
	Scott Lavender celebrating tomorrow as well.
	Jeffrey Anderson says happy birthday to his son, Dane Anderson, turning 32 on the 4th.
	James Shea and Dame Lizzie both came in with emails congratulating Aaron Yoho, Yoho, who turned 40 yesterday.
	And we have David Loveberg, who also congratulates his son James, as said, 20 years old tomorrow.
	Congratulations to all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	And today we have a knighting and a daming.
	Nice to have both genders represented.
	Balance.
	I'm sorry.
	Microaggression.
	I'm just...
	Who am I to say that that's their gender?
	In fact, that should be a requirement.
	You're supposed to ask.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	What pronoun would you like for your knight or dame name?
	All right, John.
	Bring it out.
	Whip it out.
	Whip it out.
	Here we go.
	I'm whipping it out.
	Oh, boy.
	It's a nice one.
	Ladies first, Jennifer Lovebird, please step on up here to the podium next to the lectern.
	And Robert Gusek, both of you have contributed to the No Agenda show, known as the best podcast in the universe, the amount of $1,000 or more, and therefore you have earned your right at the round table of the No Agenda Knights and Dames, and I hereby pronounce the KD, Dame Jennifer of Northern Mexico, and Sir Bob of the Dude's Name Ben.
	For you, we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	We've got Bad Science and Perky Breast, Johnny Walker Green Label, And of course, mutton and mead.
	Everybody's favorite.
	So both of you, sir and dame, head on over to noagendanation.com slash rings and fill out all the appropriate paperwork and make sure you tweet it out when we get it back from you.
	I'm going to look at our list, John, so you can't complain about the list.
	I'm going to give you the topics on the list, and you can pick one.
	Oh, okay.
	Good idea, right?
	This is the infamous No Agenda list.
	This is a list of stuff we didn't talk about on a show, and then we got irked about it and put it on a list, so maybe we can talk about it someday.
	Okay, you can choose from Snowden's glasses, Catholic Church candles, the Nikkor Sigma lens dispute, and Trump's re-election fundraising.
	Or the hit list of Trump people.
	That is our list.
	Okay, well I'm going to start with the one at the top, which is the glasses.
	Snowden's glasses.
	Now Snowden's glasses.
	I have a pair of reading glasses that I swear are the same exact glasses that Snowden has.
	I think these are just props, I'm not sure.
	But we've always bitched about the fact that he's missing...
	I think it's the left nose pad.
	On these glasses, the left nose pad fell off.
	So now I have a pair of glasses, I believe the same brand of glasses, without the left nose pad.
	They're extremely comfortable without the pad.
	I was waiting for it.
	Now, and I've been trying to analyze this.
	So the right one is still on?
	Yes.
	And it's more comfortable or just extremely comfortable?
	It might be more comfortable.
	I'm not sure.
	But I know it's comfortable.
	It doesn't bother me that the pad is missing.
	Because I remember when I lost pads before, there'd be some like a piece of metal that would gouge you.
	Yeah.
	It turns out that these pads, the missing pad, leaves behind a plastic thingy that is very comfortable.
	Wow.
	What is the brand of this?
	That's not cheap.
	I don't know what brand it is offhand, but I'm pretty sure they're the same glasses.
	Seems like a good endorsement.
	Well, yeah.
	Lose a pad?
	Still comfortable.
	But I was stunned by how comfortable they were with the missing pad.
	So I thought I'd report on it.
	I think that still, if you're on television and you only wear the glasses when you're on television, because we know he wears contacts.
	We're the only ones who've ever noticed this.
	He wears contacts all the time.
	But then he's on television, he puts on the old glasses.
	I think, you know, it's just an odd look.
	We're the only ones that...
	Have you ever seen it written up that he's missing a pad?
	No, I don't believe so.
	The media has not covered the missing pad.
	We're the only show or media outlet of any sort that discusses his missing pad.
	And thus the report I just gave.
	We go into great detail, great depth of reporting that you will get no place else.
	I would like to play two reports, and the reason why I play them is because these are actual occurrences with victims, with witnesses, with arrests.
	If you are so interested in Pizzagate, which I guess has just gone away, dried up and blown away with the wind, we have had a significant...
	Pizzagate got stale.
	By the boom.
	We have had a significant amount of pedophilia, pedosexual rings rolled up recently.
	I want to play two quick reports of two of the most recent ones.
	So look at these 12 men all under arrest following a child sex sting called Operation Cupid's Arrow.
	Ben, Abby, investigators use chat rooms, dating sites, social media, and even online classified ads.
	Officials say they want this to serve as a warning to predators that they will find you and arrest you.
	This type of crime cuts to the very core of why it's so important that we keep our children off the internet and at least aware of what they're doing on the internet and away from these sexual predators.
	Suspects ranging in age from 21 to 70 years old coming from a variety of backgrounds, including a college student to a well-respected attorney, proving child predators come in many different forms.
	That was in Florida, but what happened just this week in the United Kingdom is really egregious.
	A member of a group advising Pope Francis on how to root out sex abuse in the Catholic Church has quit citing resistance within the Vatican.
	Marie Collins, an Irish woman who is herself a survivor of clerical abuse, said the Special Commission had suffered constant setbacks despite the Pope approving all its recommendations.
	There are still men in the heart of the Church, in the Curia, in Rome, in the administration of the Church, who put other considerations before working with and cooperating with the Commission on the Protection of Minors.
	The panel, known officially as the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, was set up in 2014.
	Collins' decision to leave could undermine its credibility.
	At the moment, the commission that is charged with speaking to clergy sexual abuse has no survivors of clergy sexual abuse on it.
	Several people have said that it's hard to imagine the commission having credibility to speak about clergy sexual abuse if there are no survivors present on the commission.
	The initiative by Pope Francis is an attempt to address the bitter and long-standing scourge of child abuse which has dogged the Catholic Church.
	The Vatican said Pope Francis had accepted Collins' resignation with deep appreciation for her work.
	I mean, that's the kind of stuff people should be looking at and investigating.
	I thought that church stuff was all done and we were rid of it.
	No, no, no.
	You ever see the movie Spotlight, by the way?
	No, I haven't.
	Oh, you should.
	It's a great movie.
	Tell me.
	It's about the spotlight investigative team at the Boston Globe and when they went after the Catholic priests.
	Oh, so that's reasonably new then, that movie.
	The movie was, I think, when the Academy Award for Best Movie two years ago.
	Huh.
	Or last year, I'm not sure.
	No, I'll make sure to watch that.
	Oh, no, it's a killer movie.
	It's very well done.
	It paced nicely.
	Very modern settings.
	Michael Keaton's the editor.
	It's an outstanding film.
	Always good.
	Anyway, I just want to make sure that people hear that.
	All right, well, let's do...
	Oh, one creepy note while we're talking about that.
	Beau Biden's widow, Beau Biden died of cancer, Joe Biden's son.
	His widow now has an ongoing affair with Beau Biden's brother.
	Who was married.
	Who was married, yeah.
	Yeah, house wrecker.
	Well, apparently the Bidens are okay with it.
	Here's a quote.
	Who knows what else is going on?
	We are all lucky that Hunter and Hallie found each other as they were putting their lives together again after such sadness.
	They have mine and Jill's full and complete support and we're happy for them.
	So is he no longer married?
	What about the husband?
	Is he happy too?
	There's no quote from him about how happy he is.
	Or unhappy?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hmm.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	A little talk about Estonia, the bullcrap going on, a CBS report to, again, you know, make...
	Trump look bad.
	Make the Russians look bad because the Russians are going to attack Estonia.
	So when they do this report, talking about fake news, listen to all the little interesting CBS reportage commentary as it goes along about, I mean, it's just mediocre reporting, if not just Misleading.
	I say misleading.
	...exactly what a U.S.-NATO ally is praying for, but sharing a border with Russia, Estonia fears that Vladimir Putin has been emboldened by his conquest in Ukraine.
	What?
	His conquest in Ukraine?
	What conquest in Ukraine?
	Did the Russians take over Ukraine?
	That's the story we're never going to hear differently.
	We're always going to hear he invaded Ukraine, even though, no...
	Well, this is like the Georgia story, which we debunked years ago.
	Same thing.
	The media is just not going to let up with the meme that they create, and they're going to use this meme.
	So let's continue this little report and see how much more bullcrap they deliver.
	This conquest in Ukraine.
	Elizabeth Palmer is in Estonia.
	These may look like soldiers.
	Actually, they're ordinary men and women with day jobs who volunteer in the Estonian Defence League, a kind of citizens' militia.
	Here, they're competing in an annual exercise.
	More than 13,000 of them prepared to rise up if Estonia were attacked.
	Right now, they believe their aggressive neighbor to the east, Russia, is enemy number one, especially after its invasion of Ukraine.
	Estonia has a professional military, too.
	It was on display in this weekend's Independence Day parade.
	This small country spends big on defense.
	It's a fully paid-up member of NATO, and that buys it powerful friends.
	This year, U.S. soldiers deployed to Estonia were part of the parade.
	And for the very first time, they brought tanks.
	Nice tanks, yeah.
	That's right.
	They have a bunch of tanks.
	It looks like something in Red Square in the 50s.
	These tanks going down the road.
	Of course it'll look.
	Yeah, okay, we got the invasion of Estonia.
	There's a bit of truth in this at the end because somebody, one of the women who takes part in this volunteer stuff, admits that the likelihood of the Russians attacking is zero, but she plays the game anyway.
	American tanks on the streets of Estonia's capital send a powerful signal to the people here that the U.S. will stand by its NATO allies.
	They also send a very clear signal to the Kremlin.
	That signal?
	A Russian attack on an Estonia backed by NATO would be dangerous.
	Estonia is not alone.
	Margus Tsakna is Estonia's defense minister.
	We're sending the message to Russia very clearly that we are able to speak the same language as Mr.
	Putin does, and it's a language that we are ready to fight.
	And staying ready means constant training.
	On Saturday, near the town of Voru, local women in the Defense League were learning to use GPS equipment.
	For Ruth Madla, it's about learning new skills.
	She doesn't really expect the Russians to invade, but...
	You're part of this force that sends a message.
	Yeah, and I think maybe it's good to have the message.
	That message to Russia is loud and clear.
	Estonia is spending record amounts on its military, and the defense leagues have never had more volunteers.
	Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News, Tallinn, Estonia.
	What is the geopolitical significance of Estonia?
	Well, if you look, it's just part of the former Soviet Union, so I suppose, because we're promoting the idea that Putin wants to re-establish it, so they're just going to attack Estonia for no apparent reason, which is not happening.
	This is just another bogus report.
	Sells arms, stirs up the public.
	It's pathetic.
	You know what President Trump should do?
	Can you imagine what it costs to ship an American tank And then position it in Estonia?
	What the cost of that is?
	It's got to be per tank?
	It's got to be outrageous.
	Well, they've shipped them to the Netherlands, too.
	They've been shipping them everywhere.
	Yeah.
	What do we do with all these tanks?
	I don't know.
	Let's ship them to Europe.
	It's going to cost a fortune.
	Get them out of here.
	We can get more tanks later.
	What I think President Trump should do is he should disclose our multiple alien contacts and make people worried about that.
	That would really work.
	And maybe make them a little kind of evil, you know, so we still have an enemy.
	Well, they're getting a lot better, some of these alien documents.
	Actually, one of them was so good, I was going to clip it, about the incident in 1953, I think, where the round balls were surrounding this bomber.
	And it was all reported, and it was made public.
	And then one day, of course, if you listen to these UFO shows, and they're all...
	They're on the History Channel and the AllHitler Channel.
	There's a lot of them on there.
	The AllHitler Channel.
	The AHC, AllHitler Channel.
	They're on there and they have these and they're good.
	The Lost UFO File series, which is running right now, is quite entertaining.
	A lot of documentation, a lot of stuff they're pulling out of the woodwork.
	And they debunk stuff on the spot, which I like.
	It's interesting that we don't have a whole slew of conspiratorial voices calling for Trump to disclose this stuff.
	Yeah.
	It's kind of the same people who would be big Trump supporters and would probably believe in stuff like that.
	I'm generalizing, obviously, but I certainly am interested.
	Well, the British did it.
	They released all their stuff and not much came of it.
	Hmm.
	People look at it and go, well, it ends up on these TV shows.
	I don't know.
	It's like this Pablo Escobar thing.
	It's repressed.
	We do have an event coming, which is a special eclipse, only viewable from the United States, apparently.
	I have a report.
	This is from your neck of the woods, KQED. That would be your local public television broadcaster.
	Are we going to learn anything more this summer with the solar eclipse?
	Solar eclipse solely for the United States.
	Well, this is very exciting.
	So this August, August 21, there will be a total eclipse of the sun visible from one country and one country only, which is the United States.
	I'm sure our president...
	I'm sure he's going to take full credit for this.
	They're already calling it the All-American Eclipse.
	And here's the interesting part.
	The total eclipse is visible only over a path about 60 miles across.
	So you have to be in that 60-mile path to see the total eclipse.
	And it goes from a beach in Oregon to a beach in South Carolina, crossing the United States diagonally, and not one large city is in that path.
	I love how they bring Trump into it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, he's going to claim it.
	Now, this is the clip I've been waiting.
	It's very short, but I've been waiting to play this for a while.
	I think we talked a while back about this fantastic website that tracks all of the retractions from peer-reviewed papers.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes, you have brought this up before.
	Because there is a crisis in the scientific community, particularly with MFRIs and that kind of brain scanning stuff, which might explain my ex-friend their professor's nutty behavior.
	And the big problem is reproducibility.
	And this is kind of the big secret in the scientific community.
	No one really wants to talk about it, but people are looking into it.
	So the idea here is to take the exact same experiments and to try to do the exact same thing.
	Dr.
	Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science at the University of Virginia and a leading author in the Reproducibility Project, an attempt to repeat the experiments in five landmark studies in cancer biology.
	To see if we can get the exact same result.
	And the idea behind that is because replication is a hallmark of science.
	Despite their best efforts involving a painstaking attention to detail, the team were only able to partially confirm two of the original study's findings.
	Two more proved inconclusive, and in the last, the researchers failed completely to replicate the result.
	It's not just an important issue, it's at the heart of the scientific process.
	A reproducibility rate the Edinburgh neuroscientist Professor Malcolm MacLeod says calls the whole scientific endeavour into question.
	Because without efforts to reproduce the findings of others, then we don't know whether these facts that are out there in our journals, in our literature, actually represent what's happening in biology or not.
	I don't know what's going to happen with this, but of course it's not really a news story.
	But it's quite outrageous.
	This is going on throughout the scientific community.
	Of course, no one wants to bring up the climate change thing in this same breath.
	I didn't get any clips of, although I may get for the next show, of you probably have some.
	Tucker Carlson taking, what's his name, down and not doing this for science.
	I watched it, of course, and everybody tweeted it.
	There was really nothing there that was new to me.
	And I don't think Tucker did such a great job.
	I think Bill Nye got to him a little bit.
	Maybe.
	Bill Nye was definitely a snot.
	Yeah, when he's like, Mr.
	Carlson, Mr.
	Carlson.
	I also don't think Carlson took the right approach.
	I probably didn't.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	He didn't kick his butt, that's for sure.
	But I do know, according to our new study here, we love talking about moral self-licensing.
	This is something we've discussed, and it's real.
	There's been a lot of studies done about moral self-licensing, and the most modern version of that is changing your avatar on Facebook or on Twitter.
	And a new study shows that moral outrage, which we see a lot of today in certain universes, is actually completely self-serving.
	Oh, the Rosie O'Donnell.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don't affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism, a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
	But new research suggests that professing such third-party concern, so especially for Black Lives Matter, etc., what social scientists refer to as moral outrage is often a function of self-interest One's own status as a very good person.
	Yes.
	And I think it's completely true.
	Well, it's a reasonable thing to say.
	Yeah, I think it probably is true.
	True, too.
	It just sounds right.
	And we've been seeing nothing but these self-righteous, which I think is part of this explanation.
	I mean, there's a lot of them.
	I mean, you're all over Twitter.
	I have taken to the point now where I'm doing preemptive blocking.
	How does preemptive blocking work?
	I get, somebody retweets something from someone I don't follow and I don't, they don't follow me.
	It's just, but they're obnoxious.
	And I know if it gets retweeted again, it's something else from these same people.
	And I go look at their feed.
	Say, oh my God, this person's insane.
	And I'll just block them out of the blue.
	Yeah, I do.
	What I've been doing is, you know, someone will just start with, you know, with crap I don't want to hear, puking in my feed.
	I'll block them.
	No, I'll say, you're blocked.
	I'll wait 10 minutes.
	Then I'll block them.
	And then I'll go and look at what they're tweeting.
	How mad they are.
	And then unblock them.
	Well, that's something psycho about what you're up to.
	Yeah, I'm totally psycho.
	I've got a couple of clips I wanted to get out of the way over time.
	This one here.
	This is the South...
	I just thought this is more than underreported.
	But this is like a bad thing.
	And it's not...
	In South Africa, they're appropriating, which is what they used to do in a number of other countries, Mugabe's country, If you're white, we're going to take your property.
	We're taking it back from the farmers.
	And to South Africa now, the country will amend its laws to take over land without compensating landowners as it seeks to speed the process of distributing land to the black majority.
	Now, expropriation without compensation would make a radical policy departure for Zuma's ruling African National Congress.
	It suddenly signals a shift from a willing buyer, willing seller approach to more radical alternatives.
	Most of South Africa's land remains in white hands over two decades after the end of Appetite.
	And President Zuma referred a bill allowing state expropriation of land back to Parliament because lawmakers failed to facilitate adequate public participation.
	There you go.
	I don't see why people don't see this as racist, but they don't.
	No, of course not.
	We have to redefine the word racism.
	Language changes all the time.
	Racism can only be committed by white people.
	Yeah, privilege.
	It appears.
	It appears.
	They're really not that privileged and they're having their land taken away.
	Here's a clip that I've been sitting on and it's about Human Rights Watch and I only kept it going live because I know this is one of the organizations that you detest.
	Yeah, is it Human Rights Now or Human Rights Watch?
	Watch.
	Watch, okay.
	Play it.
	Israel has refused a work permit for the new regional director of Human Rights Watch.
	In a letter published by the organization, Israel's foreign ministry claimed the NGO was not a real human rights group and was biased towards Palestinians.
	The organization's public activities and reports have engaged in politics in the service of Palestinian propaganda while falsely raising the banner of human rights.
	Over the years, the organization has frequently accused Israel of rights violations, highlighting issues including illegal settlement expansion and exploitation of Palestinian children.
	It's also blasted Tel Aviv for using banned weapons.
	As a propaganda outfit, that's all that that is.
	USAID funded, just like the White Helmets.
	And the White Helmets didn't get, a couple of those guys didn't get a visa to come to the Oscars.
	Yeah, I know.
	That was pretty funny.
	Rightfully so.
	I'm surprised you didn't bitch about it more.
	Oh, and the show, you mean?
	No, I mean, yes.
	The show didn't have, except for the other thing discussing the Oscars again, Jimmy Kimmel was really the only one doing Trump material.
	And I thought he was pretty funny.
	Yeah, because it was light.
	It was light Trump.
	It was the kind of stuff he'd do on his show.
	It wasn't really annoyingly offensive.
	But I got the biggest kick out of Casey Affleck, who we played on the last show when he won the award.
	I think it was the Screenwriters Guild or the Directors Guild.
	No, the Spirit Awards.
	The Spirit Awards, right.
	He won that.
	And he gave this...
	He blasted Trump.
	You could see him up there because he won the Oscar.
	Thinking about it.
	You could just see his gears going.
	And then he thought better and left the stage with a thank you.
	Yeah, smart man.
	That was smart.
	I have another kind of a hanging clip.
	This is part of a slam piece that was done on Banyan.
	But Banyan says something.
	Banyan.
	Banyan.
	We need a nickname for the guy.
	Sweaty Steve, wasn't it?
	No, no.
	Sweaty Sean.
	Sweaty Sean.
	Why don't we say we can call him Queen Bee or King Bee?
	Well, whatever the case, he says something in this clip that ends with it that we need to discuss because I don't think anybody except a few of us understand what that actually means.
	I got it.
	I found it.
	Here we go.
	This is our Western edition.
	Have a look at the great American divide.
	Our CBS News poll out today found only 39% of Americans approve of the job that President Trump is doing.
	But look at this.
	It's 82% of Republicans who say he's doing a good job, and the Democrats, 6%.
	Today we heard from the driving philosophical force behind the president, Steve Bannon.
	And here's our White House correspondent, Margaret Brennan.
	If you want to see the Trump agenda, it's very simple.
	It was all in the speeches.
	In a rare appearance, President Trump's chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, cast himself as a revolutionary.
	There's a new political order that's being formed out of this, and it's still being formed, but if you look at the wide degree of opinions in this room, whether you're a populist, whether you're a limited government conservative, whether you're a libertarian, whether you're an economic nationalist, We have wide and sometimes divergent opinions.
	We are a nation with a culture and a reason for being.
	And I think that's what unites us.
	He said the goal of the Trump presidency is threefold.
	The first is kind of national security and sovereignty.
	The second line of work is what I refer to as economic nationalism.
	The third, broadly, line of work is what is deconstruction of the administrative state.
	So deconstruction of the administrative state, which seems like some sort of an intellectual term, I don't think is even remotely understood.
	Like the efficient government story?
	What it refers to is a problem that's been taking place in what we would term the technological society as described by Jacques Aluel in the Technological Society, a book which everyone should read.
	Oh, I'm writing that one down.
	Hold on a second.
	He's an outstanding, Jacques Ellul, he did a lot, he's a theologian and a sociologist, and he did some great material.
	The books you want to read are one called Propaganda, and the other one is The Technological Society.
	And in this, The Technological Society describes a world that is going to be, for all practical purposes, run and managed by the technocrats.
	technocrats yeah as a as witnessed by the eu the eu has these lawmakers that are technocrats and they're in brussels and they make rules for great britain and everybody in between just sitting around the room as a bunch of technocrats there's nobody voting they just you know they're just cranking out laws and that's the administrative state that banyan's talking about and we've Bannon.
	Banjo.
	We'll just call him Banjo from now on.
	That Banjo's talking about.
	And what...
	And in specific, we're talking about people, the groups like the EPA. The EPA makes laws.
	Technically speaking, only Congress can make laws, but they can kind of weasel out of it by giving kind of powers, the administrative state, to some of these agencies.
	And the agencies then are given free reign to make laws just by having a meeting.
	Let's make a law and a ruling and a law and a law and a law.
	And that's what, you know, air pollution district I worked for was the same thing.
	I always, by the way, when I was working at the air pollution district, I've always considered the process a kangaroo court.
	And I think that a lot of these things are kangaroo courts, and there's no, you know, you can't, it doesn't go through the normal system of justice.
	Well, this is the same with the FDA, and there's tons of other things, and we'll see what it gets replaced by, or what happens.
	I don't think he has a prayer to replace it.
	I think it's wishful thinking, but I like the fact that he's at least talking about it.
	No, I mean, not replacing the EPA, but just getting rid of regulations, just removing...
	No, that's what I'm talking about.
	I'm not talking about replacing the EPA. I'm talking about This regulatory administrative state that we're in that are creating laws left and right that are not done by the legislature who is the group that's supposed to do laws and it's just done by bureaucrats that are sitting around and saying, you know, we need a law against that and let's write it up.
	Which is, I don't know, seems like a problem to me.
	Right, but that can all be undone.
	You don't need any congressional votes or anything for that.
	You can just undo it.
	Well, I'd like to see, again, I think this is wishful thinking.
	I don't think anything is going to get undone.
	These things tend to be, they take on a life of their own.
	Yeah, but undoing it, I don't know.
	Technically, I don't believe there's any necessity for any congressional involvement.
	It's the agency themselves.
	Well, the agency, though, was given the permission by the Congress to do this.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can't just be some little potent agency and start breaking out laws.
	So look at who's running EPA. Look at who's running education.
	These people are clearly meant to go change something drastic.
	Yes, they're meant to be disruptors, which I get a kick out of people moaning about it.
	Oh, look at that.
	Bessie DeVos is an idiot.
	Yeah, well, she's not in there to make things better.
	And the pushback on specifically that from charter schools and school vouchers, why are people so against that?
	Well, the voucher thing first cropped up.
	I remember when I was a student at Cal Berkeley, and at the time I was a Democrat, of course.
	And I remember the voucher thing came up.
	Nixon, I believe, was one of the early proponents of it.
	And Nixon was very progressive in a lot of ways.
	I mean, he was, you know, he's the one who created the EPA. And because it came from Nixon, they rejected it immediately out of hand.
	I believe this was just one of these things like the reason that Nancy Pelosi won't stand up for jobs in the speech.
	Right.
	This division between the Republicans and Democrats, if it's a Republican who does something that is always going to be bad and perceived as such forever.
	And I think that's where it got, I think the vouchers got off to the wrong foot.
	And there was propaganda against the idea.
	I like the idea of vouchers.
	I like it too, and I like the idea, well, we already have the right, you know, to have your own, you know, to organize your own school.
	You can do your own school.
	You can do homeschooling.
	Yeah.
	You can take the voucher and run.
	I mean, it seems to me that you're paying into this system that's not working.
	If it was working great and we had all these smart kids coming out of these schools, but no, we get a bunch of brainwashed kids that don't know anything.
	It's terrible.
	And then when they go into a college, they have to get all kinds of...
	Their first year is all retraining so they can...
	Just participate.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we can bitch about this forever.
	But anyway, Bannon is...
	Banjo.
	Banjo is trying to get this to...
	He mentions it, but nobody seems to even be thoughtful about what he said.
	Because he's a racist.
	White national racist KKK. I'm so tired of this bull crap.
	Okay, give me something to play that makes me happy so we can get out of here.
	Okay, let's see what we have.
	You can play a little bit.
	Yeah, I like it.
	You're laughing.
	Whatever it is, I'll take it.
	Well, you won't like it, so I'm not going to even mention it.
	Jeff Sessions is attacked.
	We'll bring that up in a later show.
	China's smoking ban is kind of interesting.
	Private prisons are back.
	I don't really have anything.
	Oh, how about corn worm in the Congo?
	Ah, that must be good, yes.
	And an outbreak of the crop-destroying armyworm has spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo, laying waste to 63,000 hectares of corn and causing prices to almost triple.
	Now, the outbreak has destroyed about 80% of the corn in four regions.
	Along the country's southeastern border with Zambia, that's resulted in the price of a 25-kilogram bag of corn rising to $30 from about $10.
	The situation in Congo is particularly concerning because the country's other two main staples, which is bananas and cassava, are also currently affected by other diseases.
	Someone's getting corn-holed today.
	Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	Perfect.
	Cornworm.
	Be on the lookout for it.
	It's like ants, only worse.
	Oh, definitely worse than ants.
	All right, everybody, that concludes our broadcast for this day.
	Episode 908-909 coming up on Sunday.
	Big one for us.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash na.
	And, well, we'll see whatever happens in the next few days.
	Always alert, working for you.
	You do the same.
	You are the producers.
	Definitely something happening.
	Always, always.
	Coming to you from the Crackpot Condo here in the skyscraper downtown Austin, Texas.
	We are the capital of the Drone Star State and located in FEMA Region 6, if you're looking forward on the map.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where, I don't know, It's nice and nothing's going on.
	At least today.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will return on Sunday with another edition of the Bed Podcast Podcast in the Universe.
	Until then, adios mofos.
	No agenda in the morning.
	We are one people with one destiny.
	it
	We all bleed the same blood We all salute the same flag And we all made by the same God We're
	We're getting really bad dudes out of this country at a rate that nobody's ever seen before.
	And there's a bad one.
	And it's a military operation.
	Dudes out of this country.
	We're getting really bad dudes out of this country.
	And we're getting really bad dudes out of this country at a rate that nobody's ever seen before.
	Dudes out of this country.
	And there's a bad one.
	It's a military operation.
	And there's a bad one.
	And it's a military operation.
	And they're the bad ones.
	Bad on race.
	We're getting really bad dudes out of this country.
	Bad home race.
	Military operations.
	Dunes. Dunes out of the country. Dunes. Dunes.
	You know it's true.
	This is fake news.
	Girl, you know it's fake news. .
	And they take the word fake out.
	To all to know that we are fighting the fake news.
	I've got to be fair party.
	The alternate universe materializes.
	And of course, sushi is not up to scratch.
	You all to know that we are fighting the fake news.
	I know I shouldn't do what they said.
	I should just whisper to myself in the bathroom.
	You all to know that we are fighting the fake news.
	Seriously.
	There you go!
	I want blowfish!
	And, well, you can hear me.
	Here it is.
	The alternate universe materializes.
	And I have this for myself in the bathroom.
	They connect the Mandela effect.
	It's gotta be fair, buddy.
	It's gotta be fair, buddy.
	But it's gonna be fair, buddy.
	Now, they do something interesting.
	To know that we are fighting the fake news.
	We've explored the Mandela Effect.
	We are fighting the fake news.
	It's fake.
	I'm not against the press.
	I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them.
	Only against the fake news.
	Right now.
	And one thing that exists.
	Well, listen to it.
	We believe that they're the deterrent unit.
	I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them.
	We believe that the deterrent unit.
	The fake news media.
	Only against the news.
	The deterrent unit.
	Right now.
	And then.
	This is a bunch of scumbags.
	Thank you.
	Cock-locked and ready to rock.
	Ready to rock.
	Ready to rock.
	You can't shut me up.
	Rough, tough, and hard to bluff.
	Hard to bluff.
	You can't dumb me down.
	I got no need for coke and speed.
	Coke and speed.
	You can't shut me up.
	You got no urge to binge and purge.
	Binge and purge.
	Binge and purge.
	You can't dumb me down.
	I interface with my database.
	My database is in cyberspace.
	I wear power ties.
	I tell power lies.
	I take power naps.
	I run victory laps.
	I read junk mail.
	I eat junk food.
	I buy junk bonds.
	I watch trash boards.
	I'm tireless.
	I'm an alpha male on data blockers.
	Interactive.
	I'm hyperactive.
	From time to time, I'm radioactive.
	I take it slow.
	I go with the flow.
	I ride with the tide.
	I get blind in my shoes.
	I don't snooze, so I don't lose.
	I keep the pedal I'm hanging in.
	There ain't no doubt.
	And I'm hanging tough.
	Over and out.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Adios, mofo.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A. N-A-T, sir!

▲