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	Hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him!
	Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, March 30th, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 1-6.
	This is no agenda.
	Analyzing Article 50.
	So you don't have to.
	And broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet here in downtown Austin, Tejas, Capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're in the midst of a windstorm, I'm John C. DeVore.
	Oh, interesting.
	We have a lot of wind here, too, at the moment.
	Everything's a-blowing.
	Yeah, blowing.
	It's dangerous, though, in Texas when it's 80 degrees and wind is very dangerous.
	Why?
	Fire.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, same thing here.
	If you had 80 degrees and a lot of wind, it would be...
	Well, right now, it's so green, I don't think anything can burn yet.
	Right.
	Well, the only difference is, in Texas, it's only green where people live.
	You know, the stuff that burns is where people live.
	In California, you burn the hillside.
	Yeah.
	You know, the nature.
	You burn nature, and we burn people.
	We're Texas.
	You did it one step better.
	What can I tell you?
	Before we start, John, one of our producers, J.J. Meyer, has been helping me, in particular helping us.
	As you know, we always try to fix ourselves when it comes to things that we're saying and repeating, and we've gone through a number of iterations of this.
	Yes, he's one of those guys.
	But he's doing it in a very friendly manner.
	I like it.
	No, they all do it in a friendly manner, I know.
	And it's well-deserved that we...
	We do these things, yes.
	So we've done fact of the matter, end of the day, right?
	A number of things that we've healed from.
	Now, you haven't quite healed, but you're on your way.
	Healed from what?
	Well, you will say things like...
	You'll actually say, the fact of the matter, and I meant to say that, which is kind of a cop-out.
	I mean, you just need to...
	That means I've caught it.
	Or it's possible that I meant to say it.
	Well, apparently...
	Okay, I know what you're saying, because I do this a lot.
	I do this a lot.
	But I always catch it, yeah.
	But you keep saying, of course.
	Yes, this is what J.J. Meyer has discovered, that I say, of course, a lot.
	In fact...
	I wish someone would put their medley together.
	On episode 9 or 1-4, I said it 22 times.
	You said it only once.
	Episode 9 or 1-5...
	You know, the way I see it, let's just back off.
	Maybe he's missing the point.
	Because when I say something, you would naturally say, of course.
	That's over now.
	That's over.
	We're not going to do any of that anymore.
	No, no, no.
	Episode 915, I said it 33 times to your two.
	Yeah.
	So, we need people to help us.
	Help me.
	Help me.
	I need a lot of help.
	You're about to turn 65, April 5th.
	Very excited about your birthday.
	We have a number of birthday greetings.
	For the first time in 10 years, I sent you a gift.
	You did?
	I did.
	Ah, that's cute.
	Here's what's fun.
	Uh-oh.
	Ten years of knowing you, I still don't have your address written down anywhere.
	Oh, you know, same with you.
	It's in the email.
	What's your address?
	So you send it to me, and I take it from the email, write it right on the package.
	I know.
	And then there, the email is still gone.
	What is wrong with us?
	And the email should say address or something in the subject line.
	I know, I know.
	It never does.
	I went through that...
	Here you go!
	I went through that last night as well.
	I'm like, ah, screw it.
	I'm just sending it to the P.O. Box.
	I know where to find that address.
	So it's coming to the P.O. Box tomorrow.
	Or Saturday.
	Tomorrow, I think.
	But have you ever had this happen?
	This is the weirdest thing.
	So my garbage disposal broke.
	It's not ours yet.
	We're moving to a new place.
	It'll be ours.
	And it was leaking water.
	And so I'm walking around the kitchen block on my socks, and I walk through some water.
	Oh, man, what's going on?
	So I discover this.
	I find it very annoying to walk in socks into water.
	Right.
	Me too.
	And then, you know, so I figured out the problem and, you know, put a little bowl under it and, you know, don't use that side of the sink.
	Okay, fine.
	Then I couldn't find my socks.
	I'm like, what did I do with my socks?
	Oh, wait, you took the, okay, you took this, you stepped in the water with your socks and instead of just walking it off, You took the socks off.
	Yeah.
	And then you put them someplace and lost them.
	Yes.
	Congratulations!
	But where did I put them?
	Hey!
	Oh, where did my socks go?
	I found them.
	And it was...
	Actually, I didn't find them.
	In the refrigerator.
	No, close!
	It wasn't until about half an hour later, Tina says, Can I ask you a question?
	I said, Yeah.
	I said, I know your socks are wet, but why'd you throw them in the trash?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Talking about decadent, I'd ask that question too.
	I have no idea.
	Adachi, my socks got wet.
	I must throw them away.
	What am I doing?
	Does this happen with more frequency the older you get?
	No.
	My goal is to just make sure I never put the keys to the car in the refrigerator.
	And then I figure that as long as that doesn't happen, I'm still good.
	You've done that?
	You what?
	You've done that?
	You've put the keys in the refrigerator?
	No, no, I never have, but I suspected something that could happen.
	Oh, man.
	Anyway.
	Oh, and last night I discovered something.
	I have a grief.
	I've had some beef, I should say.
	I have a beef.
	Sean Spicer, Sweaty Sean, listen up.
	When they took over the White House, they also took over the White House website.
	And there's now only one RSS feed for the entire site where there used to be separate feeds for policy documents, for executive orders, for proclamations.
	So I've been missing important proclamations.
	And we know this is a very important part of any president's job.
	Well, it's also an important part of the show, and this is how you've been doing it.
	Yeah, and so now I just, oh, wait a minute, there's no RSS feed.
	No wonder it's not showing up anymore.
	You sure?
	Yeah, yeah, I'm very sure.
	So we missed March 25th, that's Greek Independence Day, a national day of celebration of Greek and American democracy.
	I'm very sad about that.
	We missed National Poison Prevention Week.
	March 15th through 2017.
	And then, of course, the executive order.
	Well, we don't want to talk about that right now.
	I went through the energy independence and economic growth executive order that everyone's freaking out about.
	Yeah.
	If you want to do it.
	It's not a very...
	Yeah, well, why don't you go with it right now and tell us what they're freaking out about.
	Well, because Trump did exactly what he promised.
	That guy, you know, you elect a guy on a bunch of promises and he actually goes and does them?
	It's really cool.
	He has no clue.
	This is political incompetence.
	It's nutty.
	Now, he's really, really done quite a lot in reversing or actually nullifying.
	Actually, the word is, it's either revoke.
	There's two words.
	There's revoke and then the other word is, I'm going to find that.
	Revoke or save.
	I wish it were revoke or save.
	Well, I'll tell you what is actually in it.
	And what this is removing is the former administration's Clean Power Plan.
	And a lot of this is about coal.
	But the Clean Power Plan was kind of problematic.
	27 states, 24 trade associations, and 37 rural electric co-ops and three labor unions have lawsuits against the Clean Power Plan.
	Of course, a lot of that is about coal.
	The executive order stops all pending litigation, just really cleans up everything, lifts the ban on federal leasing for coal production.
	What I liked in the actual language, because there's a...
	I think the news media did just get the summary and they just use that.
	It doesn't seem like they actually read the full executive order.
	The idea, and this is part policy, promoting energy independence and economic growth.
	Part of the policy is we should be using our own resources, which I think a lot of people have said, why wouldn't we do that anyway?
	Finally, we can cut off Canada as our source of foreign oil.
	Although we'll make pipelines and stuff a lot easier.
	But the thing I liked here is...
	Part of the policy, it is in the national interest to ensure the nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from the following.
	Coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic resources, including renewable sources.
	As a policy, I think that's pretty good.
	I like seeing nuclear in there, flowing water.
	I don't know why they don't say hydropower, but okay.
	Flowing water.
	And it's exactly what he promised to do.
	And yeah, it removes a lot of Obama's...
	I think the main thing, which is really a gotcha, is there was this...
	There was some committee, some blue-ribbon committee about the social cost of carbon or some bullcrap like that.
	You know, all kinds of luminaries on it.
	Boom.
	Goodbye.
	You're now disbanded.
	Go away.
	And for those of us who question the science on climate change, yeah, looks like we can do a lot more.
	I'd love to see more nuclear.
	I'd love to see clean coal, which you've always touted as a possibility.
	Is that in play now, clean coal?
	It's been in play for a while.
	Does it work?
	Yeah.
	It's not as clean as natural gas, but it's clean.
	Okay.
	I mean, the floating bed technologies, the scrubbers that you can put on the stacks, you can really get most of the stuff out of the stacks if you put a little effort into it.
	Electrostatic precipitators, there's a lot of technologies that can clean up the effluent from the burning coal.
	The problem with coal, the way I see it, and I'm not in the business and haven't been for 25 years, but I have been, is the coal ash.
	The coal ash is a huge pain in the ash.
	If they could find something to do with coal ash that was beneficial somehow, in other words, instead of being a big piece of crap that they don't know what to do with and it makes a mess, but you could turn it into something, that would be it.
	We would be right back on coal.
	Well, he did exactly what he said he would do.
	And...
	It was actually interesting because Brian Williams, the bastion of truth, was able to take...
	I guess Trump tweeted something.
	We'll figure it out.
	It's in this article.
	He tweeted something.
	Everyone lost their crap over it.
	They tweeted, oh no!
	Listen to what Brian Williams does and how he turns this right towards climate change.
	The leader of the free world was back on...
	Oh man, he's not the leader of the free world.
	Please, stop this.
	I would be really sad if any American president was truly the leader of the free world.
	The leader of the free world was back on Twitter tonight.
	I'm going to stop that again.
	I think, not you mentioned and pointed out, you're right.
	It's dumb.
	But I think this is part of the globalist agenda.
	Of course it is.
	This is why they're so angry.
	Let's make it this...
	Yeah, the leader of the free world.
	You're right.
	He's the president of the United States.
	He's not the leader of the free world.
	In fact, it is a complete...
	Now that you brought it up, I'm irked about it.
	It's a microaggression.
	It's a microaggression against every other country.
	Yes, of course it is.
	Like, hey, bitches!
	We got the leader of the free world.
	Who?
	You.
	It's a complete microaggression.
	It's not nice.
	And I remember this used to be said all the time when I was growing up in Europe, and people would roll their eyes.
	Leader of the free world.
	Okay.
	If you can point to Denmark on the map, you're in.
	That's how the Europeans would think about it.
	Yes, and I'm sure that would be a good test for most people.
	In fact, later in the show, I have such a test.
	Oh, very good.
	The leader of the free world was back on Twitter tonight.
	Another version of nothing to see here on the Russia story.
	Another attempt, actually, to diminish our institutions, promote Fox News, and deflect the attention to the Clintons.
	Quote...
	Why doesn't fake news talk about Podesta ties to Russia as covered by Fox News or money from Russia to Clinton?
	Sale of uranium?
	And Michael, you know I like to invoke the shiny object rule, which means that there's a distraction in the air to keep us away from the story.
	But today, the Russia argument kept us away from a very serious story at the EPA. And here we go!
	Signing ceremony today, and this deserves more than a mention by us tonight, but what he signed today, executive order that nullifies Obama's climate change efforts and revives the coal industry,
	another note about that in a moment, but the U.S. will not meet Obama-era CO2 guidelines, quote, turning denials of climate change What does he mean by that, hard to ramp that up?
	This is the meme that's going around.
	I started seeing this last week.
	The meme began with, oh, 70,000 jobs.
	Walmart employs 400,000 people.
	How is 70,000 more important than 400,000?
	Got it.
	Of course.
	And by the way, 70,000 is a lot.
	If they showed up for your birthday party, it would be.
	Ramp that up in a way, given the fuel source, but this was real substantive news for our children and our children's children.
	Please think of the children today at EPA. Sure, Brian.
	I mean, there's nothing more important than the fate of the climate and the planet.
	That's right.
	There's nothing more important than the fate of the planet and the climate.
	Hello, Captain Obvious.
	And it is the case, for better and worse, I guess, from the Trump administration, that this Russia story is clouding everything else out.
	I mean, I think Trump is doing some things that are not popular nationally.
	They're not getting the attention that they would.
	They might be generating more outrage.
	I'm really glad you brought it up, Brian, because it deserves more prominence than it's getting, partly because of the antics around the Russian investigation.
	Okay, so that's how we bring it all back to the EPA. Now, on the previous episode, I brought one of my famous exposés on, in this case, renewable energy with Al Gore.
	And a lot of people caught something that neither I nor you caught.
	And I know why I didn't catch it, because I was just too deep, and you were right, the entire package was probably two clips too long, I should have taken them out, got a little confusing.
	But instead of holding that until our post-show analysis, you were thinking, oh, I'm so bored, and that's why you missed it, because you usually catch this stuff.
	And it was right at the end of Al Gore, general partner at Kleiner Perkins with investments in over 20 renewable companies, when he said the following.
	And in markets, it's the difference between capital that's frozen up and liquid flows of new investments chasing new opportunities.
	That's the inflection point that we're poised on right now.
	With renewable energy that is cheaper than the old dirty polluting energy.
	And once these solar panels are installed, by the way, there's no fuel cost for the next kilowatt hour.
	It's zero marginal cost.
	There's no pollution involved.
	There are no moving parts.
	And adopting a slightly longer time frame for the decision making, you say, well, wait a minute, it's not just the cost this year or for the next year or two.
	It's the lifetime cost.
	We make a lot more money.
	We save a lot more money by shifting to the non-polluting sources.
	There it is.
	The truth always wants to come out.
	Exactly.
	You make a lot more money.
	You do, Al Gore.
	You make a lot more money.
	Now, following up on this, I received a number of emails.
	Once again, I am blown away by our producers who come from all walks of life, including a producer who shall go unnamed.
	I was treasurer for a large energy company in the European Union.
	He told me which one it is.
	He checks out.
	But he wants that to be kept confidential, obviously.
	This puts me in an excellent position to follow the money.
	Feel free to use this info.
	In Europe, we have something called the merit order, meaning that there is a specific order in which the different sources are prioritized on the grid.
	Solar and wind first, and all the way down to coal, meaning that all the sources being thought of as clean have a very high priority on the grid.
	This makes the entire system very inefficient.
	On high wind days with a decent amount of sunshine, there's more power available than we are able to handle.
	The net effect is negative prices.
	This is sometimes used to pump water into basins and drain them when prices are high.
	Think about that.
	We're actually wasting energy.
	The process is called pump storage.
	Oh, okay.
	I guess you store the energy by pumping it into a basin and then you can get the energy back with hydro as you drain it out.
	Actually, there is one of the plants, if you go up to 101, I think, toward Port Angeles in Washington State, there's one of these plants and it has I wonder what
	the efficiency is of that.
	This process makes the coal and gas plants very inefficient since it is hard and energy consuming to start them up.
	In itself, this is not an issue other than some financial and environmental aspects.
	The big downside is that the taxpayer is paying for this inefficiency.
	Wind and solar are still very far from being profitable without subsidies.
	Our current thinking, and this is he saying the industry, is that offshore wind will never, certainly not within 20 years, give any decent return on investment.
	Onshore wind might break even in 10 years depending on technological developments.
	Solar is nice, but not usable on any scale in the coming 10 years.
	However, if you throw in a large amount of subsidies, you get a money bonanza.
	Putting up more wind does not help anything other than the contractors that build them and energy companies that run them.
	Since most of the old school energy providers are having to take huge impairments on their assets, coal and gas, they are investing like crazy in new wind parks.
	New permits are sold for very high amounts.
	It is a lose-lose situation for these companies.
	Go bankrupt since you have a lot of assets that are virtually useless.
	Or do it and pay way too much.
	Some try to locate their bad assets in separate listings on the stock exchange.
	I hope this helps.
	Feel free to disregard or contact me if you want more information.
	So there you go.
	It's all obvious.
	None of it's surprising, but it's nice to hear it from someone in the industry.
	On the treasurer, the financial side.
	Yeah.
	So he knows the numbers.
	He knows the numbers.
	So then for Al Gore to say, it's cheaper.
	Yeah.
	With subsidies, it's cheaper.
	And if it's based on bankruptcy, thank you for putting that in the newsletter.
	Yeah.
	You read it.
	Of course, I always read the newsletter.
	I corrected the newsletter.
	Did you ever read the final, though?
	It had all the pictures.
	A brief look.
	I didn't have time.
	Was it good?
	I'm sure it was great.
	Oh, it's hilarious.
	It was the funniest newsletter I ever wrote.
	Oh, man.
	I can't believe it.
	Yeah.
	I did a redux on the...
	Mudflats.
	That I did see, yeah.
	How's it looking?
	Let me take a look.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on a second.
	I shouldn't have asked that if I wasn't even prepared.
	Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
	This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
	That's right, everybody.
	J.C. DeMorak.
	How are the mudflats as you look out your window?
	Still there.
	It looks like a semi-low tide.
	I'll tell you this, the mudflats are pretty barren, but the freeway's all jammed up for some reason.
	Also now just coming out, according to The Guardian, U.S. scientists launched world's biggest solar geoengineering study.
	It's going to happen.
	It's going to happen.
	I predicted this.
	I said, are they going to do it?
	And they're going to say, we were testing it for a while anyway.
	We know it works.
	And then, of course, we understand where chemtrails come from.
	Scientists hope to complete two small-scale dispersals of first water, then calcium carbonate particles.
	Future tests could involve seeding the sky with aluminum oxide or even diamonds.
	Now you're talking.
	Diamonds in the sky forever.
	Diamonds in the sky.
	Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
	Diamonds.
	Unbelievable.
	So it's going to happen.
	Geoengineering.
	That's all we need.
	That's all we need.
	Yeah, we can't do it.
	You're right.
	What a joke.
	Yeah, that'll screw things up big time.
	Well, that's what that movie with the train going through, Snowpiercer or whatever it was, was all about.
	Snowpiercer?
	Oh, you got to watch this movie.
	It's fantastic.
	I'll write it down.
	Make sure you get the title right, chat room.
	Give them the right title.
	I think it's called Snowpiercer.
	It's a dynamite science fiction movie.
	It's about a train that has to keep moving around the globe, around and around and around.
	Forever, for infinite time, because some jokers had fooled around with the climate and the whole globe froze over.
	Snowpiercer is correct.
	Okay, I've written it down.
	I recommend it.
	Hey, I saw, of course, for people who don't know, when we do this program, I have no idea what John's bringing to every episode.
	He has no idea what I'm bringing to every episode.
	And I don't listen to his clips.
	I have no idea.
	It creates a dynamic clash we're looking for.
	It does.
	So I would humbly request that you roll out your package of Article 50.
	Ah, yes.
	Well, the big news this week, of course, was Article 50.
	Yes.
	Which has been implemented by...
	Which is surprising.
	We kind of expected that not to happen.
	Yeah.
	I'm still waiting.
	I'm holding out.
	You think that even though it's triggered, there's still no Brexit until the fat lady sings?
	Until there's a Brexit, there's no Brexit.
	Now, I have a bunch of clips, obviously, on Article 50.
	A lot of them are involving...
	Well, let's first start with this.
	This is this little Farage clip.
	He's caught on the street and he makes a little comment at the end, which I'm going to use as the theme for these clips.
	For 25 years, I've been campaigning on this and standing in elections and making these arguments.
	And I guess the honest truth is for the first 22 or 23 years, it was a real minority sport.
	You know, we were laughed at, abused.
	It was an impossible dream.
	And hey, here we are.
	It's happening.
	And at 12.30 today, we pass the point of no return.
	There'll be lots of arguments about the deal, the negotiations, but the big story is, after today, we are leaving.
	Where will you be at 12.30 when the Prime Minister makes her speech?
	Obviously, you won't be in Parliament to witness it.
	How will you be taking in this moment?
	I might be at a pub.
	Undoubtedly, yeah.
	No, it is a big moment.
	And I... What I get is this.
	There are lots of people here in Westminster this morning that are bitter, angry, upset.
	But actually out there in the country there is now quite a big acceptance that this has happened and we need to get on with it.
	And the Prime Minister is calling for the country to come together.
	I think in a way it is.
	Okay, it's coming together, supposedly.
	Well, it's definitely not coming together in Parliament.
	No.
	But I would agree that things are changing a tad bit in Britain.
	Let's start with Article 15, Invoked Part 1.
	And this is during Prime Minister question time.
	They stop the questions and they do this.
	Order.
	Statement.
	The Prime Minister.
	Thank you, Mr Speaker.
	Today, the Government acts on the democratic will of the British people.
	And it acts, too, on the clear and convincing position of this House.
	A few minutes ago in Brussels, the United Kingdom's permanent representative to the EU handed a letter to the President of the European Council on my behalf confirming the Government's decision to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union.
	The Article 50 process is now underway and in accordance with the wishes of the British people, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
	It reminds me a little bit of George Bush when he announced shock and awe over Baghdad.
	You know what I mean?
	Well, of course, he didn't have these people yelling at him.
	Now, the next...
	This, by the way, is very long.
	It's about six minutes, so I'm only playing a couple of clips.
	But I have to play these.
	There's two other little clips I want to play.
	One is the...
	She's talking away, and then she gets in.
	It's getting so raucous in there.
	This, by the way, and the raucousness is coming from the labor side.
	But mostly from the Scottish National Party people.
	Right, they wanted to stay.
	They're a bunch of...
	They wanted to stay and have Europe steal their fish.
	They liked that, apparently.
	That sounds exactly like what they're angling for.
	But let's play part two where you get the interruption.
	And this is a...
	An example of understatement as an insult, which the British do better than Americans, generally speaking, but this is a good one.
	But a country that reaches beyond the borders of Europe, too.
	Can I just...
	I apologise for having to interrupt the Prime Minister.
	Mr Boswell, calm yourself.
	You've got to try to learn to behave in a statesman-like fashion.
	That's your long-term goal.
	It may be very long-term, but it should be a goal.
	And what I say to the House is this.
	You can study the record.
	I will want all colleagues to have the chance to question the Prime Minister.
	But this is a very important statement, and I think it is reasonable to expect that the Prime Minister gets a courteous hearing, and then every...
	Every other colleague should get a courteous hearing.
	The Prime Minister.
	Mr.
	Speaker, I want us to be a truly global Britain, the best friend and neighbor to our European partners, but a country that reaches beyond the borders of Europe, too.
	You know, I've always appreciated that, and certainly these days I appreciate how the Brits...
	I lived there for five years, so I have a little standing.
	I appreciate the sarcastic way they can tear you down...
	I think the only time we had a classy teardown in the United States in politics was, I'm sorry, Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
	Here, if anyone says anything, it's right away, it's microaggression!
	You think you are?
	The classy comebacks are...
	It's nice.
	I still appreciate it.
	Nobody cares.
	Okay, I do.
	They just want to scream at people.
	But now let's hear...
	This is the last of these clips from this particular presentation.
	And it's very contrasty to what you've seen by the mainstream media.
	They don't show you any of this stuff.
	The European...
	Sorry.
	Let me finish.
	This needs a lot of setup.
	Because they...
	I don't know why we don't get to see this stuff, but this last example from the prime minister trying to finish her damn six-minute speech, which she couldn't do because they kept yelling and screaming.
	I left this clip intact so you could hear how long it went on when the Scots just went off on her.
	And they're yelling all kinds of crazy stuff, and it goes on and And the Speaker of the Parliament never stopped it, which is really weird to me, because he could have, or should have, but he let it go on, so she had to kind of interrupt her way back in.
	I just found this to be the most interesting one moment of the whole event.
	The European Union and the wider world.
	Because perhaps now more than ever, the world needs the liberal democratic values of Europe.
	values.
	Perhaps.
	Perhaps now, more than ever, the world needs the liberal democratic values of Europe, values that the United Kingdom shares.
	And that is why, while we are leaving the institutions of the European Union, we are not leaving Europe.
	We will remain a close friend and ally.
	We will be a committed partner.
	We will play our part to ensure that Europe is able to reject its values and defend itself from security threats.
	Yeah, where was the order?
	Order!
	Yeah, I was baffled by that moment.
	Yeah.
	He didn't say anything.
	He just let him go.
	Let me make her sound better here.
	They were, and the visuals on this was dynamite, because the shot over where the Scots all are, and they're slapping their knees, and they're pointing, and they're laughing, and they're slapping each other on the back, and they're making a huge racket over her comment, which was that European liberal values are important.
	You know, and the problem is she doesn't command the audience...
	She needs to project differently in order to shut them up.
	An example.
	She doesn't sound good in the bowcoder.
	I know.
	That's too bad.
	That's too bad.
	Eight ball was the best.
	Yeah, it really depends on your voice.
	Sometimes it just doesn't sound good.
	It's too bad.
	So I believe this is Juncker and he's making just kind of a sad commentary on Article 50.
	Until the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, EU law will continue to apply to and within the UK. Finally, I would like to say that we have just released an official statement by the European Council in which leaders stressed that we will act as one And start negotiations by focusing on all key arrangements for an orderly withdrawal.
	On Friday, I will share a proposal of the negotiating guidelines with the member states to be adopted by the European Council on the 29th of April.
	I will refer to this and I will comment our proposals on Friday during our press conference With Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in Malta.
	What can I add to this?
	Nothing.
	We already missed you.
	Thank you and goodbye.
	Wasn't that Tusk?
	That didn't sound like Juncker.
	It may have been Tusk, you're right.
	Yeah, it wasn't Juncker.
	I have a report from the Eurozone about the rest of the EU leaders, if I can interject for a moment.
	Yes.
	Europe will be tough on the United Kingdom if it needs to in Brexit negotiations, European Parliament President Antonio Tajani has said.
	Britain and the 27 remaining EU member states now have two years to make a deal.
	And Tajani said Europe's objective is to defend its citizens and would stand up for itself.
	He said, we don't have baddies or goodies.
	We are defending the interests of citizens, and if that means we have to take a tough stance, we will do so, but our aim is only to defend the interests of citizens.
	If we can do so without playing the part of baddies, I would prefer that.
	I hope we can do so politely, gracefully, and in as pleasant and as nice a fashion as possible.
	But we'll see.
	The European Parliament's lead negotiator Guy Verhofstadt wants the rights of EU nationals who arrive in the UK over the next two years to be protected, and said MEPs are prepared to block a deal.
	If the outcome of the negotiations is not in conformity with the points and with the conditions we have put public today, yeah, then we're going to use our veto power.
	It's clear.
	So, veto power, I mean, you can't stop them from leaving, can you?
	Or is he talking purely about the deal moving forward?
	The deal.
	The deal, right.
	What do they need in the deal?
	Here's the funny thing.
	There's a rhetorical question here that needs to be asked, which is, the Brits want to maintain the same trade relations with the EU that they had before Brexit.
	That's pretty much all they want.
	Right.
	And the European Union was established at the beginning, as I thought, and a lot of people thought, and I think Farage likes to make this point, as a trading zone.
	So we could have all one market.
	It was the single market thing.
	And then all of a sudden, or out of the blue, maybe not quite out of the blue, but they started pushing their weight around about how countries should run themselves.
	Right.
	So they set up these commissions in Brussels, mostly, to tell them what laws to obey, what things to...
	Right.
	And that's why they say, well, we still have to obey European law as opposed to British law.
	Right.
	Which is more or less...
	Wasn't that the EEC, the European Economic Community?
	Isn't that already in place?
	Can't they just use that?
	Right.
	No, no, that was incorporated.
	That's all part of the same deal.
	I think it's all one thing now, and you have to...
	And it reminds me a little bit, and I wish more people would read this book called Who's Trade Organization, WTO.
	Right.
	It reminds me a little bit of what goes on in the WTO where they have managed to take American sovereignty away with rules that are in violation of our own laws.
	Yeah.
	But if you're going to be in the WTO, which is a trading club.
	Yeah, you've got to adhere to it, right.
	Which I think is how the EU is going to end up dealing with Great Britain.
	They're going to end up with, okay, you can write your own laws on this.
	But, you know, because they were writing laws like on a feather count in pillows.
	How many feathers are you going to have?
	Yeah, and how much water a toilet tank can contain, all kinds of stuff like that.
	All that sort of thing.
	So now as a trade agreement, they can say, well, you can only trade with us if you obey these rules, which will be the same rules.
	In other words, about the toilet and about the pillows.
	Which is the way the WTO works.
	So I don't...
	I mean, so all they're getting back is kind of a faux sovereignty because they're losing sovereignty with these trade deals.
	These trade deals are horrible.
	And it's all part of one world government.
	It's the way I see it.
	It's the only thing that makes any sense.
	You will obey.
	That's the message.
	Now, I don't think that there's...
	I mean, this...
	I still...
	I'm not confident this is going to work out the way they'd like it to.
	No, I don't think so either.
	Of course not.
	This is huge strife.
	Now, the thing that's...
	The one meme going around the United States and the media is that Russia...
	Of course, they're pushing the Russia thing even harder than ever.
	Are you moving off the EU? No, I'm not.
	My next clip is about Article 50 from the perspective of RT. Ah, yes.
	The Ruskies.
	Now, I don't have the whole thing, because it was too long.
	But I put a good amount of it in here.
	Their take is, oh, it's all falling apart.
	They're terrible.
	They all hate the EU. I mean, the Russians are definitely exaggerating it from the other perspective.
	But when I hear stuff on the American media where it says, the Russians are trying to, they don't like the EU. They're trying to undermine the EU. They're trying to undermine our democracy.
	Everything.
	We have to kill them.
	It's like, yes, they are trying to undermine the EU. And why do you think that is?
	The other meme was they're trying to undermine the EU and they're trying to undermine NATO. Yes!
	Duh!
	Oh, those Russians.
	So, let's play this RT. Once Article 50 is triggered, Britain and the EU will have two years to renegotiate their relationship.
	During that time, the UK will remain an EU member, albeit with one foot already out the door.
	Then, two years down the line, Britain will officially step out of the club and go it alone.
	The UK's anti-EU vote last June shocked the political establishment and exposed public anger over uncontrolled migration and regulation from Brussels.
	Growing populist...
	Wow!
	I gotta clip that one for myself.
	That was a great stop sweeper.
	I love that.
	You're out of control.
	That was a great stop sweeper.
	I gotta get that.
	That was a good one.
	...and regulation from Brussels.
	Wow.
	Growing populist movements across the continent are enthused.
	In a pre-Brexit world, this woman was considered a fringe politician.
	Now she's tipped to make the second round of France's looming presidential election.
	The real blow to the old order, the thing that is going to set off a domino effect that will bring down all the EU, is Brexit.
	A sovereign people have decided their own destiny.
	Marine Le Pen, France's National Front leader, wants the country to decide its own destiny too.
	She's called the EU a system of oppression and has predicted that 2017 will be the year that the people of continental Europe wake up.
	Oh, there it is again.
	Over in Germany, 80% of the population say the EU needs to be reformed.
	That's while Angela Merkel's position is under threat from the Alternative for Germany party.
	The anti-immigration movement wants to withdraw from the EU and impose a ban on newcomers.
	It's expected to win its first seats in Berlin's parliament this September.
	Our leaders no longer guarantee the basic principles of European democracy.
	We don't believe the European Union is a leading power any longer.
	According to the European Commissioner, Germany will have to shell out over 4 billion euros extra into the European budget once the UK leaves, something that risks attracting even more Germans to the anti-European cause.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on one second, John.
	I want to talk about it.
	It went on with Italy and Austria.
	Hold on.
	Okay.
	I just wanted to ISO that.
	It's just too good not to do it.
	Okay, and I have ISO'd it.
	Nice!
	Okay, we'll call this RT Stop Sweeper.
	What a good one that is.
	RT Stop.
	I think it's a bit extreme.
	Well, of course it's extreme.
	It's RT. But it's still darn good.
	No, it's a good one.
	I'm not saying it's not good, but it's to the point of being almost a cliche.
	It's almost...
	It's almost too...
	I think it's annoying.
	I think, here, we'll do...
	This will work.
	This will sound really good.
	Here we go.
	Good try, scumbag.
	Perfect.
	Told you.
	Yeah.
	Nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	That is...
	Actually, I hate to do this.
	I really hate to do this.
	Why?
	But that's so good, I want you to do it again.
	Okay, I just cleaned them up.
	Alright, no problem.
	I can do it again.
	I can recreate it in seconds.
	Here we go.
	Good try, scumbag.
	Ha ha ha!
	That's the best.
	That's a ringtone right there, everybody.
	Well, I think the message is...
	I think that's the message.
	Well, one of the things we have to remember, and Trump said it only once that I recall during the campaign, he says that the EU was designed, and I believe this to be true, because that's the way I always understood it, the EU was designed to put all these countries together so they can make a trading partnership that can compete with the United States as a big giant market.
	Right, with their own money and everything.
	Yeah, with their own everything.
	And so that was the idea.
	In other words, it was a foe.
	So I've never been a fan of the EU knowing that.
	Trump brought it up once and it was yelled down.
	There's a bunch of people in the United States that seem to think the EU is the same like the people in Berkeley and other areas that think they should have bike paths everywhere.
	Because if you put bike paths up, if you put a bike path up, everyone will get a bike.
	So there's a bike path on Marin Avenue in Albany that goes up the road.
	It was a four-lane road going up and down the hill.
	And it worked very well as a four-lane road because when there was a stoplight, you'd have two lanes of cars waiting to go, and they'd only back up like maybe six deep.
	But now, because there's only one lane in a bike path, they back up 12 deep at the same stoplight, and they don't clear.
	So you can't get through the stoplight.
	And meanwhile, the bike path, I've only seen – this thing's been there for, I don't know, six years now, ruining the experience.
	Six years, I think I've seen two bicyclists on this thing.
	It's a joke.
	But, oh no, you build the bike.
	That's what, there's a bunch of people that are all in on the EU and riding bicycles everywhere and all this idealism.
	It's unbelievable.
	And so we have a bunch of people, oh, Trump doesn't like the EU. Only you can.
	No, and he shouldn't.
	Only you could take us from Brexit to bike paths.
	I do appreciate that.
	That's very interesting.
	I had a lot of fun last night posting a particular video to a lot of my friends.
	Back in the day, when I was growing up, we were like 13, maybe 12, maybe even 10, sex pistols.
	We all were the sex pistols.
	Anarchy.
	Yeah, anarchy in the UK. We loved the sex pistols.
	And now, of course, my friends who grew up with me, they still live in the European Union, and they're now grown up, they have grown up jobs, and they hate Trump, of course.
	He's ruining everything.
	Hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him!
	So I thought it was fun to post this video of John Lydon, a.k.a.
	Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, appearing on Good Morning Britain with Pierce.
	Pierce Morgan is now on that program.
	And I just love, just to make heads explode, I posted this.
	It's great to see you this morning.
	Was it an experience meeting Nigel Farage, your Brexit speaker?
	Fantastic.
	After that up the river Thames argument he had with Bob Geldof, I wanted to shake his hand.
	Did you?
	Because it was silly beyond belief.
	And where do I stand on Brexit?
	Well, here it goes.
	The working class have spoke.
	And I'm one of them and I'm with them.
	And there it is.
	And when you hear someone like Alistair Campbell spelling out what he thinks could be the real downside...
	Oh, I gave up listening to him a long time ago.
	The But you're a US citizen now, aren't you?
	So you've had Trump as your leader.
	The Donald.
	There's a complicated fella.
	And as one journalist once said to me, is he the political sex pistol?
	In a way.
	In a way.
	What I dislike is the left-wing media in America are trying to smear the bloke as a racist, and that's completely not true.
	There's many, many problems with him as a human being, but he's not that.
	And there just might be a chance that something good will come out of that situation, because he terrifies politicians.
	And this is joy to behold.
	Right.
	I mean, that very much is the Sex Pistols thing, anti-establishment.
	He is the absolutely archetypal anti-establishment character.
	So dare I say, a possible friend.
	Heads all over the face bag exploding in real time.
	Love that.
	Oh, but my hero, how can Johnny...
	What?
	I'm getting more and more tweets.
	I think there's some group is on to us now.
	I've noticed that we've been getting some...
	Trump lovers. Yeah, Trump lovers. Trump lovers. Trump lovers. Trump lovers. Trump lovers.
	I got a couple of tweets from that and it immediately got blocked, so I blocked most of them.
	But it's almost the same meme.
	When did you become a Trump lover?
	You go over there and you look at this guy with 12 followers, maybe 4.
	Hey, are you assuming his gender?
	Yes, I am.
	And they don't follow you, like follows you.
	Even if they do, it's no big deal.
	I generally report them.
	You report them?
	To the commissar.
	The authorities.
	I got two hate Trump's love clips.
	It works well if you just turn it around.
	They have love Trump's hate, which is a thing, and we have hate Trump's love.
	Chris Matthews, who is, you know, any minute now I expect this guy to start drooling on camera.
	Does he even have any teeth in his face anymore?
	It doesn't look like it.
	Yeah, he does.
	He just has a funny bite.
	He gets all worked up and in a minute he's going to start drooling.
	His teeth may be gone from grinding.
	Oh, that's grinding.
	So he was talking about Jared Kushner and Ivanka who now are becoming both official members of the administration with everything that comes along with it.
	So no more business on the side and all that kind of stuff.
	So that's good.
	Make it official and then you can really hold their feet to the fire.
	But Chris Matthews sees it differently.
	This is what I worry about for other people in the White House.
	Ivanka Trump is described as her father's eyes and ears on the ground.
	That's a little scary.
	Oh, crap.
	Perfect.
	I deleted the good part and left only the time.
	Oh, yeah, this happened.
	This happened to me a couple months ago, if you remember.
	We played the clip, it was, and goodbye, is all it was.
	Oh, no, I can't believe I did that.
	Just tell us what it was.
	He compared Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to Saddam Hussein's kids.
	Oh my god, are you kidding me?
	That was a clip of the day you threw away.
	Now you're just taunting me.
	Now I'm going to find it in the show notes.
	And yes, I tell you what, while I'm looking for it, I will play you the second...
	Uh, hate Trump's love clip.
	This comes from Sarah Silverman.
	I just took all of my money out of my bank and brought it to a credit union.
	I did it because, well, I was watching all this stuff about the Dakota Access Pipeline and why they would be making an oil pipeline on these people's sacred land.
	Well, they originally planned on putting it in like this rich neighborhood, and then the rich neighborhood said, fuck no, and then they were like, oh, okay.
	It was just so black and white wrong to me, and I realized I was a part of it, in that the investors in this pipeline are banks who give their money to big oil, and I realized as long as my money is in a big bank, I am a part of the problem.
	Very interesting history she has.
	Yeah, she's part of the problem, all right.
	Yeah, but does she not realize that, I don't know, Obamacare is just nothing, is banks?
	It's just banks.
	Insurance companies are banks.
	Everything's banks.
	But I don't know about this.
	The rich white neighborhood said, no way.
	F that, please.
	What rich white neighborhood?
	I have no idea what she's talking about.
	The rich white neighborhood is around that area.
	I have no idea what she's talking about.
	But listen to Chris Matthews.
	I took your challenge and I found the clip.
	You know, I kid about everything, but Uday and Kuse working for Saddam Hussein, you couldn't go to a restaurant and have eye contact with one of those guys that are getting killed.
	These people are really powerful.
	Imagine getting into a fight in the office with Jared or Ivanka.
	They have enormous power, and they're always going to be there.
	This is what I worry about for other people in the White House.
	Ivanka Trump has been described as her father's eyes and ears on the ground.
	That's a little scary if you're just a regular...
	It's a little scary.
	Is there any evidence that she's like a butcher or a psychopath?
	She's eyes and ears.
	Eyes and ears, yes.
	But just like Uday and Hudakwai, they could kill you if you look at them funny.
	That is the worst clip ever.
	The guy's horrible.
	Worst clip ever.
	Okay.
	That clip sucked.
	I didn't think that clip sucked.
	I don't have a worst clip.
	That clip was worst ever.
	I don't have that jingle.
	Not worse because it's a poorly chosen clip.
	It's a great clip.
	It's just that it's like really like, what is wrong with these people?
	Trump lover?
	I have a little sequence here.
	It's completely unimportant in the world of anything.
	But it got so blown out of proportion that I just had to bring it to the show.
	This is an exchange that took place between...
	Sweaty Sean Spicer, spokeshole for President Trump and the White House administration.
	And April Ryan.
	And April Ryan is quite a staple in the White House press corps.
	At least she has been during this election cycle.
	I haven't really seen her much before.
	I think she's the news director and certainly a host on the Urban Radio Networks.
	I don't know much about the Urban Radio Networks.
	I don't know how big it is or what the reach is.
	I just don't know much about it.
	But she sits about, I'd say, five rows back.
	So she has reasonable importance there.
	And she was...
	The whole exchange was seven or eight minutes.
	And she asked Sean Spicer about, hey, what about Russia?
	And Sean Spicer said, look, we can't talk about Russia anymore.
	We've got nothing to talk about Russia.
	Because we've got nothing right now.
	It's all an investigation.
	And she didn't like that.
	And they got into this exchange.
	And I was starting to edit it down when I found...
	An edit already done for me and editorialized by Brian Williams, the bastion of truth.
	So I thought we'd play the Brian Williams edit of the April Ryan Sweaty Sean Spicer rift, and then we can go and laugh a bit about some more appearances from Ms.
	Ryan.
	How does this administration...
	Try to revamp its image.
	Two and a half months in, you've got this Yates story today.
	You've got other things going on.
	You've got Russia.
	He's actually asking, how can this administration revamp its image, which really has nothing to do with Russia, just how can you revamp the image?
	It's kind of a dumb question, really.
	You've got other things going on.
	You've got Russia.
	You've got wiretapping.
	No, we don't have that.
	You have allegations on Capitol Hill.
	No, no, I get it, but you keep that.
	I've said it from...
	The day that I got here until whatever, there is no connection.
	You've got Russia.
	If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russian connection.
	Welcome back to the 11th Hour.
	Sean Spicer got increasingly hostile with reporters in the briefing room today.
	Hear a bit more of the back and forth with April Ryan there of American Urban Radio Networks.
	At some point, report the facts.
	The facts are that every single person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion.
	Republican, Democrat, so I'm sorry that that disgusts you.
	You're shaking your head.
	I appreciate it, but understand this.
	That at some point, the facts are what they are.
	And every single person who has been briefed on the situation with respect to the situation with Russia, Republican, Democrat, Obama appointee, career, have all come to the same conclusion.
	At some point, April, you're going to have to take no for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion.
	It seems like you're hellbent on trying to make sure that whatever image you want to tell about this White House stays, because at the end of the day, let me answer.
	Okay, but you know what, you're asking me a question, and I'm going to answer it, which is the president, I'm sorry, please stop shaking your head again.
	There was plenty of reaction to that.
	Maggie Haberman of the New York Times said on Twitter, quote, stop shaking your head again, Spicer lectures April Ryan, who is a grown woman.
	For her part, April Ryan herself simply replied, laud.
	Laud, L-A-W-D. Laudy, laudy.
	Okay, that was a good show.
	Now that was a clip, a borderline clip of the day.
	Oh, thank you.
	It gets even better, I believe.
	Borderline clip of the day.
	Yeah, they put some...
	These guys on MSNBC are psychos, and they're going to put a little more effort into this sort of thing to find it, you know, to demean the administration.
	It's very funny.
	Well, now let's take April Ryan on the CNNs, who have some form of agenda, and This was really good.
	You heard the exchange.
	Now, at no point did he say she's an idiot.
	That was not in the exchange.
	He said, stop shaking your head.
	A microaggression for sure to a grown woman.
	Well, the microaggression is her shaking her head.
	Thank you.
	And I've been in business meetings with men and women and then people who identify as whatever they identify with and in business.
	And this is business.
	Politics is business.
	Sometimes it says, hey, just shut up.
	And, you know, you need to get into it.
	But you can't be all butthurt about it.
	I mean, listen to this.
	Listen to this.
	Do you feel as though there's more of a personal attack from Sean Spicer when he calls somebody an idiot, when he says...
	No one called her an idiot.
	So that's editorializing, which is unfair.
	I didn't like that.
	When he calls somebody an idiot, when he says to you, stop shaking your head, is that...
	I mean, look, there's always been an adversarial relationship between the press secretary and the press, but is there something on a deeper, more personal level happening now?
	It's a tough one.
	Did you hear this big sigh?
	That's a microaggression.
	Totally.
	And the question is a microaggression because she's implying maybe he doesn't like you because you're a woman, maybe he doesn't like you because you're black, maybe he doesn't like you because you're both.
	It's a tough one.
	And I want to believe that what Mike McCurry said, the former press secretary for Bill Clinton, he said there's a friendly adversarial relationship.
	I believe the friendly piece is gone now, as you said, Allison.
	What is she, 14?
	Oh, it's so...
	I'm a little shocked.
	Now, as you said, Allison, it is getting personal, but it should never get personal in that room.
	It should be about the issues.
	I have no agenda.
	You know...
	Calling people out of their name.
	I mean, if you get personal, it could go back and forth for days, and it's not about the issues.
	And it's about the issues.
	This is the White House.
	This is the home, the workspace of the President of the United States, the leader of the free world.
	People want to know what he's thinking.
	Leader of the free world.
	There it is again, leader of the free world.
	I have no agenda.
	The workspace of the President of the United States, the leader of the free world.
	People want to know what he's thinking, what he's doing.
	I cover all things presidential.
	It's not about me.
	Well, as she says, it's not about me.
	Very important to remember this.
	It's not about me.
	I cover all things presidential.
	It's not about me.
	Some of the spin that's offered from this White House and maybe other White Houses, but I will tell you this, too, as well.
	You know, in that room that I've been sitting in for 20 years, and to see it recently, you just wonder about some of the people that are coming in the room now.
	Are they really journalists or are they spectators posing as journalists?
	She has all kinds of issues.
	Now, again, we heard two things in there.
	One is she said, this is not about me.
	And remember, what she was asking about is the image, revamping the image.
	Like, I don't know, it's a very important question.
	I have no agenda.
	I like that.
	I like that she has no agenda.
	We'll keep that in there.
	Now, CNN went back to the well.
	Remember, it's not about April Ryan.
	It's not about her.
	Not about her.
	But until Hillary Clinton gets involved in it, then, whoa, it's about me!
	April Ryan, a respected journalist with unrivaled integrity, was doing her job just this afternoon in the White House press room when she was patronized and cut off trying to ask a question.
	Oh, imagine that happening!
	Imagine that!
	Patronized and cut off trying to ask a question.
	One of your own California congresswomen, Maxine Waters, was taunted with a racist joke about her hair.
	Now, too many women, especially women...
	She wasn't taunted.
	Well, hold on.
	I have the clip.
	No, no!
	I'm in charge of the block.
	I have the clip.
	Just go with the flow, okay?
	Well?
	One of your own California congresswomen, Maxine Waters, was taunted with a racist joke about- If you can wait for a second, I have the clip after we're done with this.
	Okay.
	Geez!
	I have the clip of her not being taunted.
	Do you want to say it again?
	Yeah.
	Was taunted with a racist joke about her hair.
	Now too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignities in stride.
	Remember, it's not about her.
	But why should we have to?
	And any woman who thinks this couldn't be directed at her is living in a dream world.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Wait for it.
	And we're back to the campaign, it seems like.
	No, it wasn't the campaign.
	I know, but seriously, those are very strong words.
	What did you think of the Secretary's comments?
	I was surprised.
	I arrived home and was with my daughters and someone said, did you see Hillary Clinton?
	And I was like, no.
	And I saw it and I couldn't believe it.
	I was shocked.
	But I did go on Twitter and I said, preach.
	Preach!
	It's all about me!
	It's all about her!
	She's just sitting there, just bleh!
	It's all about me!
	Bleh!
	And now, let us listen to the racist comment about her hair that black women have had to deal with for decades.
	Racist!
	From Bill O'Reilly.
	Maxine Waters.
	I love her.
	She says...
	Why do you love her?
	Maxine Waters should have her own sitcom.
	Absolutely.
	Okay?
	All right?
	It's just...
	I just...
	You know, people get angry with Maxine Waters.
	I want more of it.
	Okay, I'm so glad you asked.
	Listen.
	We have suffered discrimination.
	We have suffered isolation and undermining.
	But we stand up for America oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not.
	When we fight against this president, And we point out how dangerous he is for this society and for this country.
	We're fighting for the democracy.
	We're fighting for America.
	We're saying to those who say they're patriotic, but they turn a blind eye to the destruction that he's about to cause.
	I like this so much, because we would have taken this clip otherwise, and we would have made fun of it, but now it's Bill O'Reilly, but he's doing it in a way that is anything but what he's being accused of.
	This country, you're not nearly as patriotic as we are.
	So what does that mean, Bill?
	We've been listening all morning.
	I didn't hear a word she said.
	I was looking at the James Brown wig.
	If we have a picture of James, it's the same one.
	It's the same one.
	No, okay.
	I've got a defender on that.
	You guys are all wrong about it.
	You have to defend her on that.
	You can't go after a woman's looks.
	I think she's very attractive.
	I didn't say she wasn't attractive.
	I love James Brown.
	But it's the same hair James Brown or the godfather of soul had.
	So he had girl hair.
	Whatever it is, I just couldn't get by.
	You're all wrong about Maxine Waters.
	Number one, she's a sincere individual.
	Whatever she says, she believes.
	She's not a phony.
	And that's old school.
	And there it is.
	Yeah, that's taunting her.
	Yeah, no, that's racist.
	It's racist.
	Racist is what it is.
	You heard it.
	It's completely racist.
	I want you to be queen My love for you is almost obscene I hope you know what I mean.
	Maxine, Maxine, Maxine.
	Now, the interesting thing is what really happened is he made a joke about her hair saying it looks like James Brown.
	Have you heard any other hair jokes in the past two years?
	Orange hair jokes?
	Yeah, but that wasn't racist.
	No, this wasn't racist either.
	See, I don't say...
	I've given up on the racist thing.
	I'll tell you why.
	Why?
	And I think you have to.
	Oh, damn.
	Because we have a couple of sites out there that quote the show.
	Yeah.
	And they always use racist, and it makes...
	It makes it look like a racist.
	Well, no, it's just worse than that.
	It's like it's...
	It either looks like they're misspelling it or you're actually saying it.
	You don't know what the word is.
	It's not the same as using a nickname on somebody.
	And these sites get a lot of traffic.
	I don't know how much traffic they get.
	You're more interested in their success than ours?
	Yes, that's exactly it.
	But you can use it all you want.
	I think the joke doesn't work.
	Alright, we'll just say racist then.
	Well, but I'm just saying, the double standard, and you're going to hear a lot of that today...
	It began with the lie that they said right at the beginning of that segment that you brought in, where CNN says they called you an idiot, and there's no evidence of that.
	And then this whole thing, all you did was prove that he actually kind of likes Maxine Waters.
	There's no racism involved.
	Now, this is part of, I think, a bigger scheme.
	They're trying to completely marginalize...
	Maxine?
	Fox.
	Fox.
	Oh, Fox.
	Yeah, of course.
	We heard that earlier.
	They brought out the old, wizened old man.
	Yeah, the white guy.
	Yeah, the old white guy.
	Koppel.
	Koppel.
	Yes!
	Yes, Koppel.
	So now Koppel, and I've got two clips from Koppel accusing Fox News of ruining the world of journalism completely.
	First he does it to Hannity, and then I found an older version, another version of doing it to O'Reilly.
	The Hannity one got a lot of play on Twitter.
	I think A couple of things you're going to see here.
	One, Koppel's looking for work.
	He retired almost 10 years ago.
	I think he ran out of money.
	It's either that or reverse mortgage.
	He's got to choose.
	One of the two.
	But I think he ran out of money.
	So he's making his rounds.
	If you've noticed him, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere.
	He's got a very deep and very serious voice.
	Well, Dan Rather used to be our guy, but Dan Rather is tainted.
	He's no good.
	And Koppel has a clean record.
	Koppel is without fault.
	And he's got the very pensive, slow talk.
	He's doing the thing, of course.
	So let's listen to him on Hannity.
	I'm playing, but I'm not hearing anything.
	Oh, there's something there.
	We have to give some credit to the American people.
	You had...
	Oh, I'm sorry if I had a white space.
	Five seconds of white space.
	We have to give some credit to the American people that they're somewhat intelligent and that they know the difference between an opinion show and a news show.
	Yeah.
	You're cynical.
	Look at that.
	I am cynical because...
	You think we're bad for America?
	You think I'm bad for America?
	Yeah.
	You do.
	In the long haul, I think you and all these opinions...
	That's sad, Ted.
	No, you know why?
	That's sad.
	Because you're very good at what you do and because you have attracted a significantly more influential...
	You are selling the American people short.
	Let me finish the sentence before you do that.
	With all due respect.
	Yes.
	You have attracted People who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.
	I mean, come on.
	Wow.
	You think I'm bad for America?
	Yeah.
	In the long run, yeah.
	You're bad.
	You're just bad, yo.
	Ted Koppel going gangster.
	So this went all over the place.
	Of course.
	Oh, and everyone's all hand-winked.
	Ted Koppel, who is without flaw.
	Yeah, of course has said this and again, I think he's just looking for work and he's being kind of interesting by by making these accusations So but but before that it was like a it was like a one or a two Here he is with O'Reilly telling O'Reilly that he's ruined journalism George is not from Washington.
	So let's assess Donald Trump I've interviewed him a number of times.
	Not an easy interview.
	How would you do it?
	You know something, Bill, you and I have talked about this general subject many times over the years.
	It's irrelevant how I would do it.
	And you know who made it irrelevant?
	You did.
	You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years.
	You took it from being objective and dull to being subjective and entertaining.
	And in this current climate, it doesn't matter what the interviewer asks him.
	Mr.
	Trump is going to say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.
	Okay, but, you know, your old network ABC does interview Mr.
	Trump on a regular basis.
	And our job, whether I'm a commentator or a reporter, is to get as much information, number one, and two, show the viewer...
	Who the person really is.
	So again, I'll go back to, he's sitting on Nightline, you're opposed, right opposite him.
	How do you do it?
	Well, the first way you do it is not in the interview, you do it by some reporting.
	It's an old-fashioned concept, but I think Demonstrating who and what Mr.
	Trump is and what his various policies really amount to is something you don't do in an interview.
	He doesn't answer the question.
	As you pointed out, it's a whole different ballgame on cable TV. Commentators like me have just ruined the country.
	I cop to that.
	It's true.
	You have.
	Right.
	I've ruined everything.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	This clearly is...
	Fox News is too powerful.
	They don't like it.
	The system, the machine does not like it.
	Although, there's still a head fake here because that place is run by Democrats.
	I don't care what anyone says.
	It's run by Democrats.
	I know.
	And I think head fake's the right word.
	Yeah.
	It's as if that you guys are really on our team, but you're getting carried away.
	You're full of yourself.
	You're ruining the whole...
	You're ruining what we're trying to do here.
	We're going to take you down a peg.
	That's right.
	And that's what they're doing.
	We're going to see more of that.
	This was a classic.
	We say, I'm ruining the country.
	Yes, you are, he says.
	You are.
	You're ruining the country.
	Hannity's ruining the country.
	O'Reilly's ruining the country.
	Limbaugh is kind of hard to get to, so I don't know how they're going to go over there.
	But this is just all part of a giant scheme.
	It's astonishing to me that it's being executed so well.
	And then on 60 Minutes, you probably saw this.
	And we have our little guys coming in and calling us Trump lovers.
	This is a Twitter thing.
	It's obvious that people are coming in.
	Because the podcast, you know, podcasts are stupid people.
	They're idiots.
	CBS took fake news to a whole new level.
	Mike Cernovich, who...
	This guy...
	Mike Cernovich, he's some important guy.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah...
	I know just what you're going to say, but let me just, before you say it, say, I'm totally with you.
	Who is that?
	I've never heard of this guy until two weeks ago, and now he's all over the place.
	He's got a Twitter feed.
	Oh, service, service, service.
	I mean, it's like, what?
	Yeah, and the guy really is nothing.
	You know, he's a step above a blogger, really.
	I don't understand.
	But anyway, somehow he's hero of Dimension A all of a sudden.
	He really butt slammed 60 Minutes, didn't he?
	What I thought was more important is the story itself.
	There's a couple of stories here.
	And the response was good.
	Well, I'll just play it for you because it does tie into all of this.
	Of course, fake news was not...
	Invented by Trump.
	It was invented by the news media.
	They invented the term.
	They're the ones who...
	Right.
	And Obama.
	And Obama, exactly.
	They invented it, and now it's being used against them, so I guess what you need to do is keep showing people examples of what fake news is, and this guy is an obvious stooge for my money, because all of a sudden he's Mike Chernovich.
	You know, it's like, no, no, no, no.
	This guy didn't propel to fame just out of the blue.
	Something's going on, I don't like it, and he's being used, or abused, but more than likely he's a willing participant in Showing how crazy fake news really is.
	You believe it's true today?
	Oh, absolutely.
	That story was sourced to an anesthesiologist who never met Clinton.
	It got so much traction it had to be denied by Clinton's doctor and the National Parkinson Foundation.
	She had a seizure and froze up walking into her motorcade.
	Well, she had pneumonia.
	How do you know?
	Who told you that?
	Well, the campaign told us that.
	Why would you trust the campaign?
	The point is, you didn't talk to anybody who ever examined Hillary Clinton.
	I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is going to say at all.
	It's true.
	I'm not going to take her on her word.
	The media says we're not going to take Donald Trump on his word, and that's why we are in these different universes.
	Cernovich's website is just one of hundreds publishing nonsense on the right and on the left.
	Nonsense, I tell you.
	This deserves two jingles.
	Where did this alternate universe story come from?
	Came from the alternate universe.
	That's right.
	He's there once again.
	I'm looking at his wiki page, which is very, very...
	It's very, I'd say, shallow as thin.
	Thin.
	He's got one thing.
	He's got a blog, Danger in Play.
	Apparently it had something to do with Gamergate.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's why people...
	Yeah, he was exposing Gamergate.
	Okay.
	That's why he's hero of the morons.
	I get it.
	Okay.
	Hero of the comic book heroes.
	Got it.
	It's like he married.
	Let me read this.
	He married his first wife as a lawsuit in 2003.
	Cernovich stated that his first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.
	His wife became an attorney in Silicon Valley and earned millions of dollars in stock from an IPO.
	She filed for she filed for divorce in 2011.
	And Cernovich received over nine hundred ninety nine thousand dollars in the divorce settlement.
	Well, I don't know why he bothers working.
	Cernovich says he was falsely accused of raping a woman in 2003, according to the New Yorker magazine.
	The charges later dropped, but a judge ordered him to do community services, misdemeanor battery, and his record has since been expunged.
	He lives outside of LA. He's got an agent.
	He has a publicist.
	That's how he got this gig on 60 Minutes.
	I don't know who she is, and I'm thinking it's a she.
	It could be a guy, because just as many in Hollywood, men and women are pretty well, kind of even on both sides there.
	But that's what it is.
	And I'm just stunned by this guy's rise to public notoriety.
	Just overnight.
	Boom!
	Well, I think it's not the last we've heard of him.
	He'll have more to say, I'm sure.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for, not the end of the word racist, Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the dames and knights out there, and everyone in between.
	In the morning, everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Good to have you all there, feeding us good info as usual.
	You are truly our fact base, and we appreciate that.
	And in the morning to comicster, blogger, who brought us the artwork for episode 9015, One Belt, One Road.
	It was a good one.
	The classic nurse photo, Obamacare forever.
	It's nice.
	Yeah, it's a repurposed picture from a poster.
	Yeah, but that's the kind of stuff that works well.
	That is true parody.
	Falls under fair use.
	Very good.
	Yeah.
	Very happy.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com where you can upload all of your artwork.
	We choose it right after the show, and we appreciate all the work that everybody does for the program.
	And we'd like to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers today.
	We got a huge donation from Ox.
	Anonymous of Dogpatch of $1,091.11.
	Hello!
	Hello!
	He will be knighted today.
	And he sent a note in.
	And he's really anonymous.
	He sends his check.
	It has no name or address on it.
	It clears.
	His mail comes in from kind of, you can't figure out what the country is or anything.
	He sends a letter in that's typed with no name or nothing.
	So he doesn't want to be...
	Whoever he is or wherever he's from will thank him for $1,091.11.
	Dynamite.
	In a recent episode, he writes, you missed an opportunity to build your value for value.
	He's very critical to remember this guy's notes.
	You discuss important contribution by the many individuals that provide technical support for the show, but then you forgot their names!
	So I'm guessing...
	Wait a minute.
	He's a dude named Ben.
	He's a techie.
	He's a techie.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Whose names did we forget?
	We're always thanking our technological people.
	Yes, we are, actually.
	Well, I don't understand.
	Void zero at the top of the list.
	I don't know what we did wrong.
	Ugh.
	He said...
	You sound like April Ryan.
	My Aunt Gigi used to do that.
	We call it the Aunt Gigi side.
	Here it comes.
	Ready?
	Oh, well, I'll just have an apple in my room.
	That's what my Aunt Gigi used to say.
	Yeah, Aunt Gigi.
	He says there are great titles available in the technical world.
	This year's Academy Award technical certificates include names like Image Shaker, Air Cover Inflatables, Air Wall, Magic Geometry Tracker.
	We already see this guy's in the business of some sort.
	Tweak software and use the rhythm and use value for value.
	If not titles, awards.
	Give him awards.
	Okay.
	We actually are thinking.
	We have discussed awards, haven't we?
	We have discussed the No Agenda Awards for art and other things.
	And jingles.
	And jingles.
	And jingles, arts.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we're going to do it.
	We're doing it, man!
	Okay!
	Similarly, if donations are short of your target, aren't you also producers and deserve identifying you or doing this at your expense?
	We should mention that we're doing this at our expense.
	When we listeners hear associate producer or worse, executive producer, pool boy productions, or sir pool boys, it would make a point that donations are short.
	I don't know.
	This is just rambling.
	I like to believe we listeners are smart and understand this without deconstruction.
	Okay.
	Finally, catch words like fake news.
	A good catch word can obscure analysis for 50 years, quote, unquote.
	It's a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes.
	By the way, I think he's right.
	A good catchword can obscure analysis for 50 years, which is what the media does.
	During an Americanstown meeting, he said this.
	Yes, such as comprehensive immigration reform.
	That's a catchphrase that means absolutely nothing.
	Right.
	No agenda addresses catchwords.
	That's why I listen.
	Yeah.
	Well, thank you.
	Well, good.
	We do do that.
	He actually said something good, finally.
	At the end.
	Good.
	Does he want any kind of...
	You know, he never asked for any karma or anything, so we're going to give him karma.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	One on the house.
	Sir James in Wiley, Texas.
	3-3-3-3-3.
	It's been a while since I had on my end of the value deal.
	My apologies.
	This is truly the best show in the multiverse, so keep it coming.
	My mother goes under the knife on Thursday for a lumpectomy.
	Some F cancer karma for her recovery would be greatly appreciated.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Absolutely.
	and thank your mom for her courage.
	You've got karma. .
	Sir Mark, our buddy, the Duke of Japan.
	Hey!
	Yowza!
	Good to hear from you.
	3333.
	Dear John and Adam, I was waiting for a lull in donations so I could prop up your coffers when you needed it most.
	What can I say?
	This show keeps getting better and better, just like a fine wine.
	Oh, wow.
	That's a compliment.
	And talking about fine wines, it was Dame Astrid's birthday on the 22nd of March.
	So this is a make good birthday greeting to you.
	Was she ever on a list?
	I don't think so.
	Is she on this list?
	Yeah, she's definitely on this list, of course.
	I mean, we don't keep a master calendar.
	No, we don't.
	Although, you think Eric could do that for our nuts?
	Eric was doing it for a while, but it became kind of, I think it's cumbersome.
	And then you run into, and I understand this, you run into the problem of, you missed my birthday!
	Well, we get that anyway.
	Yeah, but it's not the same as, it's your fault.
	It's sometimes our fault, but it's not.
	I think it's more, you know what, it reminds me of when I used to have an answering machine.
	With a cassette tape or a microcassette tape?
	I'm talking about back in the day when there were real, you know, answering machines with a tape.
	A little mini cassette tape.
	And you put this silly message on the, hey, you know, or you have a friend do a voice.
	I'm Don Pardo.
	John Dvorak is not available.
	So I took the machine out completely, and for, I think, decades I was known for a guy with no answering machine.
	Because what I discovered is that if you travel a lot, and you get like a thousand messages when you get back, and you just don't go through them, or you try to go through them, you can't manage it.
	It's easier to say I have no machine than having to deal with, I called and left a message that blah, blah, blah, and you never responded.
	And so I said, okay, I won't deal with it, I just got rid of the machine.
	Anyway, so back to this.
	Wow.
	Time warp.
	What?
	Time warp.
	Hey, time warp.
	We had a surprise party for Dame Astrid, and I made a no-agenda card for the no-agenda sterling ring, and I gave her it as a present.
	Keep up the great work and keep making our days big, bright, beautiful, and fake-free.
	Fake-free.
	You know, those two people.
	They are so wonderful.
	And first of all, they're super talented.
	I mean, look at Ditham Klein Architects.
	I mean, they have time to even listen to us and support us when they're making important buildings.
	But also, their relationship, their partnership goes deeper than love.
	And they'll understand what I'm saying.
	And I didn't say it the wrong way around.
	It's really, they're great people.
	And I'm very proud for them to be associating with us.
	I ditto.
	Exactly.
	I ditto that.
	Yeah.
	No, I'm going to give it some karma.
	Oh, sorry.
	Not that it was requested.
	You've got karma.
	Come on, Duke of Japan.
	The Japan Sea and all the disputed islands.
	Come on.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Brian Wifels in Geneseo, Illinois.
	23333.
	For the past few years, I've been disgusted by the mainstream media and lost all faith in news organizations.
	I was introduced to your podcast a few months ago, and enjoy your perspective, thoughts, and media assassination.
	Keep up the good work.
	Thank you.
	We shall do that, and your support helps enormously.
	It does.
	That's $233.33.
	These will be your first associate executive producer.
	Joshua Mickey.
	In Perm, Minnesota.
	Now, just for the audience out there, we should know that his last name is spelled M-Y-C-K-E, and he says pronounced Mickey, so I did not know that.
	I would have pronounced it Mike or something like that.
	Mike is what I would have said.
	And then the town is P-E-R-H-A-M, and I'm pretty good at Midwestern names of towns, but I would have never, I would have called it Perham.
	Yeah.
	But it's Perm.
	He sent me a note.
	Uh-oh.
	Let me go look.
	Why do people send those kinds of notes to you?
	You've said it a million times.
	They should send them to both of us.
	Yeah, that's for sure.
	W-Y-C-K-E. Let's do a quick search here.
	I'll probably do the same.
	Yeah, you never know.
	But you should always send those to both of us.
	Yeah, it's much easier.
	I mean, one of us could be looking it up while the other one's talking.
	I hadn't even started my email yet.
	You got it?
	Yeah, my donation of 2105 is for my son, Aaron Boy, A-A-R-O-N, whose birthday is 210-2005.
	That's his birthday.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	That's probably not on the list.
	January, February 10th?
	Yo.
	Well, it's an email.
	What's his name, Brian?
	No, see?
	Okay, his birthday, or whose birthday is it?
	His son.
	Okay, hold on.
	But it says 210-2005.
	As a listener since June 2015, and this being my first donation, I needed dedouching.
	Okay, let's do that right away.
	You've been dedouched.
	year for Aaron Boy, along with my other kids, as his mom and I went through a divorce.
	No agenda has been a sanity savior in his life, along with mine.
	Yeah.
	Gives us both.
	He's always 11.
	Gives us both a look and a deconstruction of another kind of crazy surrounding us.
	Indeed.
	Please play his favorite jingles.
	Just send your cash.
	For some reason, everybody under 15 loves a douchebag.
	And everyone hug and share a secret.
	He's a human resource in training.
	Finally, jobs karma for my buddies Mark and Kevin.
	Thank you for your hard work in the show.
	It's the best two days of the week.
	Peace out.
	Peace out.
	Well, just remember, what's his kid's name?
	Aaron, boy.
	Aaron.
	It's Aaron.
	Just remember, Aaron, Mommy and Daddy love you.
	And Aunt Maxine Waters loves you.
	So everything's good.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Oh, there's no winning.
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
	Now everyone hug and share a secret.
	You've got karma.
	Boom.
	Perfect.
	Okay, we got...
	Christopher Foster at 200.02 in Houston, Texas.
	While listening to the clip of the last show about Georgetown, Texas.
	Georgetown, Texas.
	We talked about that.
	Buying into the renewable energy grid scam.
	The reporter talked with the manager of the city's energy, who was the same name as mine.
	I took it as a sign that I need to donate to restore my good name.
	Yes.
	Yes, very smart of you.
	Incidentally, this also completes my night.
	John, notice nobody cares about the work we do.
	Just clear my name!
	Yeah, that's where you get all the douchebag donations, which is crazy.
	True that.
	This also marks my knighthood.
	I have since been working at the Johnson Space Center for 12 years.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Chris of the Low Earth Orbit.
	Nice.
	You got it.
	That's a great name.
	You'd also like to request brisket and brown ale at the round table.
	Okay, I shall add that.
	Brisket and brown ale.
	That list is getting long.
	Yes, it's...
	You know what we should do?
	We should actually...
	Publish it.
	Publish it.
	In a giblet.
	But...
	Yes.
	And then have people put together packages with all of the roundtable rewards.
	Think about it.
	Anyway, please play a Shut Up Already at Science.
	Oh, that's Kiki.
	We haven't played Kiki in a long time.
	No.
	Yeah.
	And does he want anything else?
	Just a karma?
	Any karma, I guess.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	You've got karma and science.
	Thank you very much.
	I look forward to your ceremony, Sir Chris, of Elio.
	Elio, Elio, Elio, Elio.
	Sheila Damodorin.
	Damodorin.
	Damodorin, I'm thinking.
	Sounds like an Armenian name, but 200 bucks is the amount of money.
	I've been a subscriber since my first time listening to the show a few months ago.
	I signed up for the Dame Layaway Plan.
	I agree with much of what you guys are thinking.
	I wanted to comment on your last show regarding the issues with China and the Chinese people.
	As a Hong Kong resident for the last 20 years, born and raised in London, of Indian descent.
	So this is what you call multiculturalism.
	Very multiculturalism.
	I bet she's beautiful.
	Oh, probably.
	I know a little about this area.
	Adam, you said that you think the Chinese want to take over the world.
	I have to disagree.
	I don't think they want to in the same way Western globalists do.
	The Chinese government keeps a pretty tight lid on things in our own country.
	That's certainly true.
	It is quite a lot of people there, and they have managed to keep a reasonable handle on social order while at the same time lifting millions of people out of poverty and also building an unbelievable amount of infrastructure.
	Not all of it cheap Chinese crap.
	They're getting better and better every day.
	I agree with that.
	The government is enabling people to work and earn money enough to have a decent and quite enjoyable life.
	It's not a bad existence.
	And believe it or not, a lot of people are quite happy with their lot.
	If they're taking over, it's through trading.
	And since it seems to be the best and most profitable way for humans to interact, there's no big bad thing.
	Chinese people love doing business.
	This is cultural.
	They much prefer to bombing people and taking their stuff.
	That's what we do.
	It's our way.
	It's our culture.
	It's so much easier.
	Anyway, doing business around the world.
	They don't try to make you watch over-the-top Chinese propaganda movies, eat unhealthy Chinese food, listen to crass Chinese music.
	Now, everyone should pay careful attention to this.
	While doing business around the world...
	I'm sorry.
	It's a long...
	Doing business around the world, they do not try to make you watch over-the-top Chinese propaganda movies.
	Hello, Hollywood.
	Eat unhealthy Chinese food.
	Hello, McDonald's.
	Listen to crash Chinese music.
	Hello, anything.
	Or emulate mindless Chinese culture.
	Hello, Hollywood.
	They just want to do business, buy and sell.
	No one is forcing the ITALs or Aussies to trade with them.
	Well, this is the thing.
	This is the thing.
	In Australia, they're buying up all the houses.
	And people are saying, oh, they're buying up all the houses.
	No, what's happening is you're selling your houses.
	There's no pride.
	I have a clip about China, Chinese, and real estate later in the show, which will explain this.
	Looking forward to it.
	Nice.
	I don't know if she's on the list.
	Can you get a shout out for my 45th birthday, which is March 29th?
	Yes, she's on the list.
	I got her.
	And can I get two shots to the head and something happy so I can die with a smile on my face like I've always wanted?
	Something happy?
	We don't have anything happy on this show.
	What are you talking about?
	By the way, I say resist we much is quite happy.
	By the way, if you ever do want some dulcet and very informed tones on the show, as I heard you recently say, I would be more than happy to oblige and often been complimented on my dulcetness.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	Let's see what I got here.
	Let's come up with something.
	Happy birthday!
	You've got karma.
	I was happy.
	I played something happy, didn't I? Oh, yeah.
	Nailed it.
	That concludes our list of executive producers and associate executive producers for show 916.
	All right.
	And thank you.
	Big thanks to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	And also thank you to everyone else coming up later on above $50 or more.
	This is the way the value for value proposition works.
	We do not take any money from any corporate anything.
	Just from you.
	And it is highly appreciated.
	And these, of course, are real credits just like Hollywood, which is why we put them at the beginning of the show.
	And another program coming up this Sunday.
	Please remember us at...
	Yeah, I know we're still in the middle of March Madness, but you can go out there and propagate the formula a bit.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	I mentioned earlier that, you know, podcasts, of course. podcasts, of course.
	There's been a lot of podcast articles recently.
	The year of the podcast.
	Yeah, that's my pronoun.
	2017.
	Huh?
	The year of the podcast.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, the year of the podcast.
	Yeah, yeah.
	What did you think I said?
	Yeah, I thought you said you're the podcast.
	You are, as in you're the podcast.
	Oh, no, the year of the podcast.
	The year of the podcast, yeah.
	And, of course, Dave Weiner and I get left out most of the time, of course.
	Oh, you get, no, no, that's not true.
	You get left out all the time.
	No, there's one or two articles.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, that surprises me.
	Yeah, that was really, you know, blog posts, really, not articles.
	I went into a newsletter, podcaster's newsletter.
	And these guys, it's not even about podcasting, it's about repurposing shows from NPR. NPR content, I know.
	Yeah.
	So, of course, we really get no respect.
	One of your favorite shows, do you watch NCIS Los Angeles?
	Do you watch the Los Angeles version of the program?
	I watch both those shows.
	Did you hear them?
	With NCIS, which I think NCIS is the best structured show in terms of writing.
	I know, I know you love it.
	On television.
	It's just like, it's masterful.
	NCIS LA, as my wife comments on, she said, it seems to me that all that's going on in Los Angeles is shootouts and explosions, which is funny because that's the way they make it.
	And they're the only show, they also do some time travel thing because somehow they can get from Malibu to Van Nuys in two seconds.
	Two minutes.
	We'll be there in two minutes.
	I... Remind me to tell you the news about Malibu.
	Okay, here's NCIS Los Angeles, I don't know if you saw the show yet, talking about podcasters.
	I heard it in a podcast Anna was listening to.
	You know, learning something new from experts, never bad.
	Okay, see?
	You said experts.
	There are no experts on these podcasts.
	No degrees or qualifications are needed.
	All you have to have is a computer, a microphone.
	It's a very strong opinion.
	I'm sure they do the research for each podcast.
	No research.
	How do you know?
	How do I know?
	Because every sentence begins with, you know, I read somewhere that...
	I had this clip.
	This is a definitely recent show.
	I had this clip.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	I had this clip and lost it.
	And it actually goes on longer.
	And unfortunately, that version of the clip was taken off the speakers.
	Yeah, it sounded like crap.
	I agree.
	So it sounds like crap.
	But yes, it was extremely funny.
	I'm guessing one of the writers is a podcaster or one of his friends is.
	And so it's obviously out of place.
	It's put in there as a gag.
	And it's funny.
	Yes.
	I want to play a couple of Social Justice Warrior, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQQIAAP clips, and then we have a thing I'd like to discuss with you.
	Is that okay?
	Or do you want to hit something hard?
	No, let's go.
	Okay.
	It'll start with Blossom.
	You remember Blossom, Mayim Bialik, Blossom?
	Yeah, you know the funny thing?
	She is the girlfriend in that show.
	Yeah, in Big Bang Theory.
	The Big Bang Theory.
	And she looks nothing like the other woman.
	It's funny.
	Eh, a little bit.
	I watched that Big Bang.
	I don't watch it regularly, but when I see it, I saw her on it.
	I never knew that she was the same girl until somebody mentioned it.
	Oh, well she is.
	So she just had to do a video.
	I'm sorry guys, I had to do this video.
	And I'm not going to play the whole thing.
	It's really about the beginning, but I'll just let it roll for a little bit.
	He has a problem with...
	And this goes back to sweaty Sean Spicer.
	This goes back to microaggressions.
	This goes back to pronouns.
	This goes back to gender assumption.
	Here we go.
	I'm going to be annoying right now.
	Okay, there you go.
	That was the whole clip.
	Woo!
	I love people who set it up like that.
	I'm going to be annoying right now because I want to talk about something that a lot of people don't want to talk about.
	I was recently at a bar with two guy friends who are about 40 and one of them said to the other, Oh my God, dude, look at that girl sitting at the bar.
	She's beautiful.
	And I start looking around, wondering why they would let a child into the bar.
	Then I realize that when he said girl, he meant woman.
	But since she's in that super narrow age range between 5 years old and 55 years old, we just don't know what to call her.
	So, we call her a girl.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	A girl.
	Sorry folks, I have to do this.
	We have to stop calling women girls.
	Okay, now you understand what she's going on there, but when I heard her open this thing she had to be annoying about and do, she says guy friends, guy, according to Miriam Webster, synonymous with dude, two guy friends, and then she ageist, About 40.
	Older than her, I presume.
	And then she mocks their voice.
	Look at that high girl.
	I didn't really put that girl over there.
	Well, fuck you, my umbiolic blossom.
	Come on.
	That's a double standard.
	And it's microaggression.
	It's huge microaggression.
	It really...
	Does she ever have a boyfriend?
	Really, really...
	Dumb.
	Just dumb.
	Yeah, boyfriend.
	Yeah, hey, that's right.
	I'm going to tell Tina the Keeper.
	Calling me, you need to call me your man friend.
	Yes, you're a man.
	You're not a boy.
	I'm a boy, and I'm going to call her my woman friend.
	There you go.
	And yes, I assume her gender.
	I'm sorry, person friend.
	We should just do person friend.
	Person friend.
	What are we thinking?
	Yeah, person friend.
	Person friend.
	Okay.
	Well, let's talk about this for a moment.
	Actually, I'm going to interrupt these.
	Go like this.
	Yeah, Mimi, I was just having lunch with my person friend.
	What?
	What's her name?
	Red alert!
	Red alert!
	Danger, Will Robinson!
	So, in my ongoing conversations with multiple millennials who are in my life, the topic of gender and gender assumption comes up a lot.
	And I feel that as two old guys, let's face it, we're old guys, we're over a hill, I do not want to be my parents anymore.
	Oh, what's that Sex Pistols crap?
	I really don't want to be that.
	I listen to the newest music.
	Yeah, Green Day.
	I know.
	Green Day, yeah.
	Brand new.
	Those boys are good.
	I'm sorry, men.
	Let's get that straight.
	And by the way, stop a second.
	Just since you mentioned that you're leading the witness...
	So Green Day is on some show.
	I forgot what it was.
	Yeah, they went F Donald Trump and I saw that.
	No, no, no.
	They weren't allowed to do any of that.
	But what seems to me, the band is like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 guys.
	6, 7 guys.
	The Green Day used to be a power trio.
	Oh, good point.
	I'm very disappointed in this band getting that many members.
	Maybe you're thinking Boyz II Men?
	Boys to men?
	I never liked boys to men.
	I just don't like acapella singing.
	Backstreet boys?
	Was that what you're thinking of?
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	Go back to your point.
	Okay.
	I don't want to discount this gender thing.
	And I learned something really interesting.
	To me, at least, was very interesting.
	Let me see.
	Here we go.
	So doing the rounds as a general talking point is this one Tumblr post, and I'll just read it to you.
	And the first time I read it, I was like, what the hell is this?
	And then I thought about it for hours, really, yesterday.
	We live in dystopia, where all are assigned one of two chosen genders at birth.
	Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth.
	The people are so excited to conform, they throw gender reveal parties to make sure their offspring exists in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.
	Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.
	One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.
	This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way.
	Because it is.
	And if you deviate from the assigned gender, you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.
	And of course, this large group is a very big post.
	All agrees with this general hypothesis.
	Now, what I'm feeling, what I think is happening, and I want to talk about the word gender specifically.
	I'm thinking that kids want their own identity.
	They can't have identity in music anymore because the idea of creating a band and talking political crap and then going on and actually making money and doing it full-time is no longer possible.
	But that's a minor, minor segment of the population.
	I'm saying that...
	Well, the other...
	Then kids would listen to certain groups and bands.
	You know, that was your cultural experience and how you would rebel against your parents.
	You know, there is no way...
	There's no rebelling.
	Everything is...
	It's face bag.
	It's Instagram.
	You know, you can do a little bit with your pictures and your icon.
	So their ultimate rebellion is to create this agnostic place where they can determine...
	How they want to be addressed.
	Be what they want.
	It's really be who you want to be.
	And instead of going out there and being who they want to be, this has, in my mind, I could be entirely wrong, has transformed into I want to look a certain way.
	I don't want to be assumed.
	It's just rebellion.
	It's really illogical.
	It's really illogical.
	And that's where, you know, hey, don't call me man, boy, woman, girl.
	Call me Z or KZ with XE. That's what this is about, this rebellion.
	And the word gender...
	We've never looked this up, and I was blown away by...
	Let me just get the...
	Merriam-Webster, that's what we like, right?
	Merriam-Webster?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Definition of gender.
	This is very interesting, John.
	A subclass within a grammatical class of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics such as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex, and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms.
	So gender, according to the definition the way I read it, can indeed be used outside of male-female, man-woman.
	You could really make it anything, if at least there are some distinguishable characteristics.
	Well, words have genders.
	Yes, of course words have genders.
	But so it is, I think it's legal, it's linguistically legal to say this gender, although Z means nothing.
	It doesn't conform, it doesn't identify with any other characteristics.
	And who dreamed it up?
	Well, yeah, but it would be, if they said, I want to be known as agno, you know, as in agnostic, That would be okay if you look agnostic or if you look...
	What's the word I'm looking for?
	Atheist.
	No, no, no.
	We don't look like a man or a woman.
	You are...
	Weird looking.
	No.
	No.
	Agnostic is not the word.
	Pat.
	Yes, you're a pat.
	Exactly.
	Now, if you...
	Like Robert Palmer's...
	The chat room was not very helpful.
	Neutered.
	Androgynous.
	That's what it is.
	Androgynous.
	Androgynous.
	Ah, yes.
	That's the word.
	So, the problem is...
	Well, there's two problems.
	One, I don't care what you want to be, and I may forget what your pronoun is.
	Unless you make it easier for me to remember.
	A big badge!
	Like Andro.
	You know, if we're androgynous, I'm Andro.
	You know, make it easy for me to remember.
	And if I forget...
	Don't kill me like the student from Berkeley just did in your neck of the woods.
	Killed a teacher for using the wrong pronoun.
	Do you hear this story?
	Big button.
	No, I don't know this story, and it's local.
	That's funny.
	You'd think it would be all over the news.
	You'd think it would be leading the news.
	It wasn't leading the local news when this happened.
	Pablo Gomez Jr.
	was a University of California Berkeley senior, majoring in Latino studies.
	Prominent campus activist.
	A lot of these types of organizations, of the, you know, right pronoun organization.
	He stabbed to death a popular school teacher.
	The crime that the police described as very brutal and unusual in a city that reported just two homicides last year was sucked up into the debate over gender identity when it was reported that Gomez preferred to be called they rather than he.
	And he was also on a psych watch list.
	So, you know, he got triggered and flipped out.
	So discussing this is not a crazy thing.
	I'm okay with language changing.
	The word gay used to mean something very different.
	I'm totally okay.
	Yes, I'm totally okay with that, but we have to come up, according to the rules, the way I read the rules, pronouns are okay, but they have to be somewhat descriptive of what we're talking about.
	So let's come up with some descriptive ones.
	And secondly, If I can, and this is maybe more important to me, if I can identify as a woman, I identify as a girl or a woman, am I then eligible for small business administration loans that are meant for women businesses?
	Now you're talking.
	And there are a lot of examples that way.
	Or is it so nutty that...
	You would have to say, well, yes, that's only for women by sex, meaning that women are inferior to men because of their sex, because that's the only identifier, and need extra help, which by itself is misogynist.
	Because, of course, women don't need extra help.
	We're exactly the same.
	I thought men and women, same, equal.
	One can lift heavier weights.
	Well, not all.
	No, not all.
	That's for sure.
	There's plenty of women that could outlive both of us combined.
	Yes, exactly.
	So, I want to be on board with the pronouns, but we need to have better pronouns.
	Is that the point of this whole little discussion starting with the Blossom clip?
	No, I diverted.
	I diverted away from the clips.
	Because we were talking about pronouns.
	That's why I got into the pronouns.
	It's not the...
	I think this is all...
	You want to know what I think?
	Because you said there's going to be a discussion?
	Because you said that earlier.
	I think it's bullshit.
	I don't give a shit if somebody likes to be called Z. That's the end for me.
	I don't know if the guy wants to be called Z or girl or guy or girl or woman or man.
	Boy or whatever.
	Z. No.
	Forget it.
	I'm not calling anybody Z. Okay.
	It's an imposition.
	It's a microaggression against me.
	Yes, I said that.
	It puts me out of my way.
	I am now required to do stuff that I would never have to do in a normal world.
	I'm not going for it.
	I don't want to be pushed around by Z. I agree.
	I'll tell you what, you Z guys out there, women, whatever Z is, go pass some laws and then I'll go along with it because I'm a rule follower.
	Good luck.
	That's my opinion.
	Well, that was my...
	This is what happens when you get older.
	You just stop putting up with bull crap.
	This is bull crap.
	Yeah.
	Well, yes, but I think if they come up with descriptive pronouns, then it would be okay.
	You can think whatever you want.
	I don't care.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, then let us for a moment go into the United Airlines legging scandal.
	This morning, United...
	Please, I love this story.
	I love this story.
	I'll tell you why I love this story.
	I love this story because it proved to me how few people actually read beyond the headline.
	The face bag was blowing up, yo!
	I can't believe misogynist hate against women.
	They're just girls.
	This morning, United Airlines is dealing with a different kind of turbulence after two girls had to change clothes before boarding a flight from Denver to Minneapolis Sunday.
	We heard the gate agents say, you know, these aren't my rules.
	I just enforce them.
	And that was when they looked very panicked.
	Outraged fellow passenger and activist Shannon Watts took to...
	You know who she is, don't you?
	Shannon Watts.
	This is why this story blew up.
	She's the mom, the million moms against guns woman.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Total shill.
	Yeah, she got Soros money and all this.
	Oh, there's Shannon Watts all of a sudden.
	Haven't heard from her in a bit.
	Haven't had any shootings.
	Watts took to Twitter, writing, a United Gate agent isn't letting girls in leggings get on flight.
	Girls?
	I thought it was about women.
	No, they were girls.
	No, they were girls.
	Those were girls.
	How old were they?
	They were, I think, 12 or 13.
	Young women.
	When does United police women's clothing?
	To me it seems like a pretty sexist policy.
	United says the family was flying under its pass rider program, where employee relatives and friends can fly for free or at heavily discounted prices.
	The airline tells ABC News when taking advantage of this benefit, all employees and pass riders are considered representatives of United.
	I want to just interject for one moment.
	When I was 20, maybe 19 or 20, a friend of mine worked for KLM, and he got me one of these passes.
	I think KLM is 5% of the ticket price or something.
	Fantastic.
	Later, it turned out he was gay and wanted to have gay sex with me, which is not so cool.
	But little did I know.
	I'm like, oh, I'll take the free pass.
	Boy, that just came out.
	That was quite a trauma now if I think about it.
	But I had to wear a tie.
	I had to wear a tie.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	In the olden days?
	Well, you said, no, that's the same today.
	That has not changed across the board.
	If you're a United Airlines employee, male, of course, it's extremely, you know, F-men.
	You've got to wear a tie.
	So it's just the rule.
	They're very strict with that.
	And quite honestly, if you're getting a ticket for 5% of the costs are free, shut up and just do it already.
	Shut up and do it already.
	Now, what's really interesting is...
	I agree with that, by the way.
	Yeah, as this clip progresses, we're going to listen to the end, and again, we're going to see this incredible double standard.
	The passengers this morning were United Pass riders and not in compliance with our dress code for company benefit travel.
	With these buddy passes, there was very specific language about what is appropriate and what is inappropriate.
	The airline is saying, if you're going to fly for free for us, you are going to meet certain standards of dress.
	But many turned to social media disappointed in how United handled the situation.
	Some even pointed to the airline's post from last June showing a woman wearing leggings at the airport for International Yoga Day.
	Celebs are weighing in, too.
	Chrissy Teigen writes, I have flown United before with literally no pants on, just a top as a dress.
	And Patricia Arquette had a back-and-forth with the carrier, at one point replying, leggings are business attire for 10-year-olds.
	Their business is being children.
	In the end, United says the family was still able to travel on the next flight using their passes and reassures its regular customers that leggings are welcome.
	Okay.
	So I'm going to stop it here for a second.
	So a couple things in this.
	First of all, I don't...
	Again, people only go by the headline and the outrage and the triggering of, oh, it's misogynist, it's sexist, it's horrible.
	They might as well just say United Trump Airlines.
	That would have been the perfect tweet because it makes nothing but sense.
	And they flew after all.
	They just had to change their leggings.
	Now, listen to the double standard coming up in the little...
	The conversation the studio is going to have about this.
	I think it's Good Morning America.
	It blew me away.
	And many women are now responding with the hashtag Stop Shaming Girls.
	But one man tweeting with the company took a different approach, saying it's not going to be pretty, but he plans to wear leggings on his next United flight.
	Let's just hope they didn't just start a new trend.
	Okay.
	Um, so you just laughed, basically said, men look stupid in leggings.
	And you laughed at the guy who's gonna do that.
	Even though he's in on your joke.
	Let's hope that's not a trend, because egads, men in leggings.
	Uh, let me tell you.
	90% of the women I see in leggings, I usually say to myself, self?
	Why is this person wearing leggings?
	This person looks grotesque in leggings.
	You know what I'm saying, John?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So the double standard of to say all men look like crap in leggings, but women look great in leggings, is beyond me.
	And it was just laughing it up.
	They don't even see the double standard.
	They don't even see it.
	Or the microaggression.
	It's almost a macro.
	Yeah, the macroaggression.
	Just raw aggression.
	Yeah.
	And man-hate.
	Yes!
	Speaking of man-hate, a new picture book is coming out from Harper Design.
	The book is titled, Santa's Husband.
	And it goes on sale October 10th and tells the story of a black Santa Claus and his white husband who both live in the North Pole.
	Santa's spouse frequently fills in for his husband at malls according to a description of the book provided to Time Magazine.
	This is great!
	The cover is like a black dude and a white dude.
	Santa.
	In a loving embrace.
	Fantastic.
	Two Santas.
	It's fantastic.
	And then finally, Rachel Dolezal is back.
	Remember Rachel Dolezal?
	Oh, yeah.
	Now, yeah, I saw a picture of her.
	She's like, I don't know what she's doing, but if she's, you know, I mean, she's the white woman who pretended to be a black woman so she could get in.
	Well, while she was working at it.
	She headed up the NAACP. NAACP. And double ACP. And double ACP. Yes.
	Well, she's the Vice News founder, luckily, because, of course, she has a book coming out, so I think her publicist found Vice News, but Vice News founder.
	She's broke, but she's starting her book tour, so she does have some kind of advance, I guess.
	Interesting, they sent a black reporter...
	In this case, I would actually have to say an African-American reporter to be correct.
	And I wanted to share an edit of this interview so we can get a little feeling on, just a little update on her and how she's feeling about whiteness and white people, etc.
	Since the controversy, Rachel Dolezal has been spending her time at home in Spokane, Washington, trying to rebuild her life.
	Now she's hoping to tell her side of the story through a new book.
	What's the point of the book, would you say?
	I really wanted to kind of set the record straight, you know, subtle things about that have been misconstrued about my life and document my personal journey and how things fit together for my sons.
	And I know you're aware of this, but there's a lot of black people who feel like what you're doing is selfish.
	I mean, it's almost like if you got voted off the island, shouldn't you just go?
	Did I get voted off an island?
	You tell me.
	It's kind of a manufactured frenzy and controversy that got stirred up in 2015, right, by the white media, the white parents, the white police, you know, like those are the people that instigated that controversy.
	Oh, no.
	I think you instigated just by being a liar.
	Basically, you're saying this is basically...
	Black people being mad at you is a white conspiracy.
	Based off of a white narrative about me.
	Rachel Dolezal is also hoping that her memoir, In Full Color, will start a conversation about how we think about race in America.
	Conversation.
	You know, what is...
	Whiteness or blackness or, you know, what does it mean to fall in between or in what ways are we who we are?
	I'm not part of that owning, praising, living whiteness.
	Like, that's just not, that's not me.
	Well, I mean, being able to distance yourself from that is kind of a privilege, right?
	Being able to say, you know what, I don't want anything to do with the whiteness.
	Distancing yourself from privilege is privilege?
	When the police show up, I can't say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Just so you know, I'm not black.
	I'm actually white.
	I like this guy's point.
	That was pretty cool.
	It doesn't work that way.
	Part of me wonders, I'm like, are people actually saying you have privilege and you've been privileged?
	Or are people more interested in just calling me white?
	Wow, she's now saying black people are racist.
	People just are, you know, not ready to progress and evolve and move forward on the issue of race.
	I think this woman's ahead of her times.
	Yes.
	All she's doing, from today's perspective, is self-identifying as black.
	That's right.
	That's all she's doing.
	That's right.
	So what's wrong with that in today's environment?
	Nothing.
	It's perfectly okay.
	To progress and evolve and move forward on the issue of race.
	And I think part of what's holding that up is there's still a sense of like a score needs to be settled.
	You know, we still haven't had reparations.
	We still haven't had like this.
	Uh-oh.
	We still haven't had reparations.
	I'm glad the vice guy jumped in on this one.
	I'm sorry, man.
	To be settled, you know, we still haven't had reparations.
	We still haven't had, like, this healing truth and reconciliation kind of stuff.
	If we had reparations, would you be getting a check?
	Uh-oh.
	No, I'm not.
	I don't actually identify as African-American.
	I identify as black.
	Like, would somebody who moved here from Nigeria get a check?
	Yeah, she says she doesn't identify as African-American.
	What she should say is, I cannot identify as African-American.
	But, at the end, it's almost over.
	She does.
	She identifies as African-American, identifies as black.
	Like, would somebody who moved here from Nigeria get a check?
	No.
	There's a Pan-African diaspora, so I'm part of the Pan.
	We all go back to Africa.
	We all have a black mother eventually.
	Okay, got it.
	I'm part of the Pan.
	The pan.
	I like it.
	Part of the pan.
	At the end of the day, we all have a black mother.
	Oh, God.
	I know.
	It's great.
	I know.
	I know.
	This is great.
	This is great times we're living in.
	What do you want to identify as?
	Oh, let's see.
	I think I want to identify, self-identify as a member of the British upper class.
	Oh, as an aristocrat.
	Yes, I think so.
	I think that would just be fitting me.
	I can be broke and still be above you.
	Did you hear me there?
	I'm sorry, maybe you're hard of hearing, but...
	Yeah, I didn't have a punchline.
	I just lost it.
	Yeah, you dropped the ball.
	Totally.
	I was going to end up with the...
	If you were good Brit, you would have had a boom.
	You would have been right on me.
	I would have been annihilated.
	Nah.
	Kind of like the San Antonio Spurs.
	Uh-oh.
	Is this a sports thing?
	I just threw it in.
	Sorry.
	Sorry, San Antonians.
	All right, let's talk about North Korea for one moment.
	Two clips.
	Red Dash Alpha message in three parts.
	John McCain.
	He did it.
	Microaggression.
	Body shaming.
	This guy is unbelievable.
	China is the only one that can control Kim Jong-un.
	This crazy fat kid that's running North Korea.
	Crazy fat kid.
	The crazy fat kid who's running North Korea.
	I love that.
	Very funny, John McCain.
	But now on Democracy Now!, I don't know if you had this clip at all.
	I don't watch it anymore.
	No.
	It's off the rotation.
	Well, there was an interesting report about this missile defense.
	You know, you and I have asserted that the only reason to ratchet up North Korea, and maybe John McCain calls the crazy fat kid and says, hey, light off a rocket.
	Light off a rocket.
	We got some sales to do.
	We got to sell some stuff.
	We got some sales to do.
	Sales.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	It's so interesting.
	David Singer had a piece in the New York Times last week about the Obama administration's secret cyber warfare program against North Korea because basically they concluded that the missile defense system...
	It's truly ineffective, and that even in the most pristine environmental or climactic conditions, that 50% of the tests failed.
	And so I think it's truly a testament.
	You know, there is no demand coming from South Korea.
	They're not saying, please give us this THAAD missile defense system.
	In fact, there's massive protests in Songju and Gimcheon where the two potential sites are.
	And it's creating havoc for South Korea-China relations because China is obviously angered because they view the THAAD missile defense system there as a surveillance tool.
	It's not really there to block North Korean missiles to Plenty of experts have shown that it would be ineffective as a deterrence from North Korean missiles.
	So it is creating a very dangerous situation for the Korean Peninsula, and I hope that there will be some possibility of creating...
	This woman ever stopped talking!
	Yeah, she's done now.
	Is she asking a question, or is she a commentator?
	This is how we miss things.
	When you get frustrated, the length of the boringness of someone, and then you talk over it, and then neither of us hear the good stuff.
	No, no, we don't miss.
	We miss very little.
	Very little.
	The point of this clip is they're demonstrating.
	They don't want that.
	They don't want to have problems with their neighbor.
	We are forcing it on them.
	Yeah, of course.
	Sales.
	Just sales.
	I think she made a good point.
	I'm sorry.
	She made a good point.
	This doesn't even work.
	We're selling him junk.
	Yeah, it's junk.
	50% of the time it doesn't work.
	And I have a feeling that Park might have gotten rousted.
	Because maybe Park wasn't on board with these systems.
	We don't feel like buying anything this week.
	Oh, really?
	We got some shit on you.
	We'll expose you.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	Sounds right.
	Sounds right.
	Oh, man.
	We've got some junk.
	We've got a bunch of crap we made.
	A bunch of surplus garbage with weird-looking trucks.
	You've seen those trucks?
	It's like, you'd feel like a dork driving one of these things.
	And so we've got to dump it.
	We've got to dump it on some sucker.
	Let's dump it on these guys.
	And it doesn't even work.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on your agenda in the morning.
	And we do have a few people to thank for show 916, beginning with, let's see what we got here.
	And by the way, read the little notes as we're going along, because there's a couple of things we got to do.
	We have to do call outs for some or other.
	Donald Walter in North Ridgeville, Ohio, 150, 111.
	He's at the top of the list.
	William Durkin in Greenville, South Carolina, 133.33.
	3.
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	He's in South Carolina.
	I'm sorry.
	Kevin Dills is in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	1-2-8-6-4.
	Which is kind of interesting because it's shaping up the basketball tournament.
	It's shaping up where you could have a South Carolina playing North Carolina.
	Wow!
	I'm so riveted!
	You should be.
	And of course, I hate to say this to the South Carolinians, including Mr.
	Durkin, you'd lose.
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	He's 100, I think it's going to be twice a month.
	He's back in business.
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	And he needs a de-douching.
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	I reached $1,000 and now just a note that's here.
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	He needs an F cancer.
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	We break for nights, obviously.
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	Onward with...
	Yes, get well.
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	Another birthday call, but it's $65.56, so he made it into a palindrome.
	Wait, do we have that on the list?
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	No, I'm on the next show.
	It's my birthday.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yeah.
	Pay no attention to the Tourette's.
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	These are all happy birthday gifts to me.
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	Wow, what a great name, $65.
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	Another great name.
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	And finally, John Johnson II. 65 plus Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina, another North Carolinian 65.
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	I actually see him from here.
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	She also sent in a note.
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	She's the best.
	There you go, exactly.
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	Well, I did Prime Minister Question Time.
	They had a pretty good round of these things.
	Yeah.
	And I got one here that I could kind of turn into an Ask Adam, and maybe you can answer me a question about this woman who stands up.
	They didn't write her name down, but she's one of the PMs.
	I think she's a Tory.
	And she asked a question about Romania, and I didn't know that this was going on, that the Brits have sent troops to Romania.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Speaker.
	The Royal Air Force is preparing to fly typhoons from RAF Coningsby in my constituency to Romania to support our NATO allies on the border with Russia.
	This is as President Putin is locking up his political opponents and crushing calls for democracy.
	Will my right honourable friend confirm, as we leave the EU, that the United Kingdom will continue to lead NATO in defending this vital border?
	and will she pay tribute to the armed forces who safeguard our democracy at home and abroad?
	I'm very happy, Mr Speaker, to join my honourable friend in paying tribute to the men and women of our armed forces.
	They are the best in the world and they work tirelessly to keep us safe and we owe them every gratitude for doing so.
	I can also assure her that our commitment to collective defence and security through NATO is as strong as ever.
	We will meet our NATO pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defence every year of this decade and we plan to spend £178 billion on our equipment planned 2025 And she has referred to the work that is being done by the Royal Air Force in relation to Romania.
	Of course, with NATO, we're deploying a battalion to Estonia and a reconnaissance squadron to Poland.
	And I think that shows our very clear commitment to our collective security and defense.
	All right.
	Can you pull up a map of Romania and tell me exactly what part of the country has a border border?
	Even a small one with Russia?
	This sounds like a trick question.
	But I will pull up the map just to make sure.
	Romania, well, they have a connection to Moldova, of course, and Ukraine.
	And then they do, of course, have...
	Don't they have a port?
	They must have a port.
	It's on the Black Sea.
	Yeah.
	So what?
	What's that got to do with the border...
	With Russia.
	Well, hold on.
	Where's the border with Russia?
	Oh, big deal.
	We got to protect the border from the Russian aggressors.
	There's no border with Russia.
	And she's a PM? You are so right, sir.
	That's insane.
	And it kind of glossed past me, I'll admit.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's dumb.
	It's dumb.
	That's totally stupid.
	Well, the bottom line is, NATO is building up forces all across this border.
	We've got people everywhere.
	We've got material, all kinds of things being shipped in.
	We're building up.
	We're building up.
	It's the Russia hate, and I have some Russia hate clips.
	Well, I have a Russia hate clip.
	Let's start with mine, and you can wrap it up, because I'll start with Russian interference.
	Part one is CBS backgrounder.
	Okay, sorry.
	I wasn't quite fast enough.
	Okay, CBS backgrounder.
	We've known for some time that the Russians meddled in the U.S. presidential election, but today we've got a killing.
	I'm stopping!
	They've meddled.
	So now we've known for a long time.
	We've known for some time.
	They've meddled.
	They've meddled.
	And we have, again, have seen no proof of this.
	No evidence.
	No.
	And in fact, the guys from that crappy, you know, the thing with the things flying across the screen, that Whatever that company is, the analyst who did the...
	Oh, CrowdStrike?
	CrowdStrike, and those guys now are backing off.
	Yeah, they've changed their story a little bit, haven't they?
	They've changed their story.
	The FBI has never looked at the servers.
	They've never received any servers to look at.
	So this whole story is pretty...
	It's bogus.
	Sketchy.
	Sketchy.
	But let's make it a meme.
	It may be true, but we just don't have any information.
	Yeah, but let's make it a meme anyway, because it serves our news purposes.
	Oops, hold on.
	Something just happened here.
	This is not my day.
	Yeah.
	What the hell just happened?
	My whole board went out.
	Okay, we're good.
	We've known for some time that the Russians meddled in the U.S. presidential election.
	No, we haven't.
	No, we haven't.
	No, we've known that you've told us that.
	Today we got a chilling account of one of the tactics used.
	The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Russia paid more than a thousand hackers to create fake anti-Clinton news.
	The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate panel...
	Russia...
	Wait, to create fake news, you have to be a hacker?
	Yes, you can't just do it without skills.
	I can't just go to a WordPress site and do it?
	Not if you have to be leet.
	I have to be a hacker?
	You're not leet.
	Anyway, go on.
	Sorry.
	Your point is well made.
	...to create fake anti...
	Actually, I'll roll it back a little.
	I want to hear that again.
	Need hackers.
	Yes.
	...paid more than a thousand hackers to create fake anti-Clinton news.
	The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate panel spoke at a news conference today, and their unity was a sharp contrast to the feuding in the parallel investigation in the House.
	Here's Jeff Pegues.
	I always say to you, this investigation scope will go wherever the intelligence leads it.
	Republican Chairman Richard Burr said the Senate committee is reviewing thousands of documents.
	Both Senator Burr and the top Democrat on the committee, Mark Warner, made a public show of unity.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Hey, you know, when you say stop, I'm there.
	You don't have to keep saying it.
	I got it.
	No, I said it a little earlier and you didn't.
	Um...
	Richard Burr is the guy, if you recall.
	I just want to point this out.
	Isn't he an actor?
	He's an actor.
	Oh, that's Raymond Burr.
	I'm sorry.
	That's Raymond Burr.
	You're the wrong guy.
	This is the guy who took over from Feinstein and refused to look at the report.
	Oh, yeah.
	I am not looking at that report.
	Now, this is the head.
	And he won't even look at their own documents that they developed from that particular committee.
	This guy is a bad guy.
	Yeah.
	And they're all just covering up.
	You're right.
	If you want to know the definition, if you'd like a good example of a narrative, this is one.
	That is exactly what this is.
	Russia hacked.
	We know it.
	You know it.
	And then you just expand from there.
	Whether it has been proven or not, you just expand from there.
	He is reviewing thousands of documents.
	Both Senator Burr and the top Democrat on the committee, Mark Warner, made a public show of unity.
	An outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack our most critical democratic process, the election of a president.
	And in that process, decided to favor one candidate over another.
	The senators stood in stark contrast to their counterparts in the House.
	The investigation there has been stalled by partisan bickering.
	The ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff, has called on Republican Chairman Devin Nunes to step aside, accusing him of trying to shield the White House and distract from the investigation.
	We will not take questions on the House Intelligence Committee.
	The Senate committee will examine whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russians who carried out a wave of cyber attacks during the election.
	It will also investigate whether thousands of internet trolls hired by the Russians manipulated the news cycle in swing states, spreading what Senator Warner called fake news about Hillary Clinton.
	Wait a minute, now it's gone from hacking to creating fake news.
	That's very interesting.
	That's where that hacker thing comes from.
	So hackers hack, but they also create fake news sites.
	This is great.
	Every hacker I've ever met is nothing more than a news junkie that can write stories.
	That's right.
	Well, we are in a whole new realm around cyber.
	Senator Burr said the investigation will be fair and impartial.
	Senator Burr, have you personally coordinated with the White House at all?
	No, sir, I have not.
	And it's the relationship and the trust we have.
	Scott, both senators say that part of the urgency in getting to the bottom of what happened here are concerns that U.S. allies in Europe could be facing similar Russian meddling in their elections.
	I'm going to give you a borderline for this one, John.
	You deserve this one.
	Borderline!
	Well, the point of this story is to say that the Russians are now meddling in France.
	So if Le Pen wins, it's because of the Russians.
	And whatever other elections are coming up further down the road, it's the Russians, Russians, Russians.
	Because they're trying to destroy our way of life.
	That's right.
	And this clip, if you want to talk about taking something that happened and turning it into a true story, And really pile it on.
	And this is a bit of a callback to...
	This is warfare.
	This is all-out war.
	These attacks are war.
	Act of war.
	Now, let's review.
	We had the DNCC hacking.
	We had the DNC hacking.
	But what we saw most of was emails from John Podesta's email, which was not...
	He uses password as a password.
	Yeah.
	And that somehow got to WikiLeaks, but that was a pure fishing cock-up on his part.
	But okay, let's just presume.
	And who got burned by that?
	Remember who got burned?
	Oh, yes, I remember.
	Donna Brazile.
	Donna Brazile appeared on Sirius XM Channel 127, the progressive network!
	My favorite!
	Usually it's white gay guys who love Hillary and hate Trump.
	In this case, it was a panel of women, and Donna Brazile spoke and told us of the harrowing adventure she's had with Russia.
	We love to fight.
	We live for a fight, if truth be told.
	Although we would rather not fight you, but if we have to fight you, we will fight you.
	But in all of my life, in the things I've fought, I've never fought a Russian military intelligence unit.
	Do you see her with her cyber gear on fighting the Russian military intelligence unit?
	John, do you see her fighting it?
	She's on the beachhead.
	And anyone who has ever been involved in politics, you go up against opponents.
	Sometimes they're Democratic because you're a Democrat and it's a primary.
	Sometimes it's Republican because it's a general election.
	But how many of you have ever experienced cyber warfare, cyber espionage?
	How many of you understand what a disinformation campaign is?
	How many of you understand that...
	What did she just say?
	How many of you understand what a disinformation campaign...
	That's a disinformation campaign right there because it's not a full sentence.
	That's what she's doing.
	Yeah, it's not a full sentence.
	She was caught red-handed.
	There's no disinformation involved.
	There's none.
	What a disinformation campaign.
	How many of you understand that when emails are sent and they're out of context and you just have content, how they can be weaponized...
	They were shown in context.
	Who is she kidding?
	The emails are weaponized, John.
	And you just have content how they can be weaponized to so discard.
	To so discard.
	Well, I can tell you so much about cyber warfare.
	The intended victim was...
	What?
	Apparently she can.
	...about cyber warfare.
	The intended victim was not the men and women who work at the Democratic National Committee.
	The intended victim was Hillary Clinton, who was running for president of the United States.
	And the rest of us, me included, we're collateral damage.
	And how do you come to understand what that means in the context of what we call modern cyber warfare?
	Well, I have that experience now.
	And it's an experience that I hope to help others understand.
	She's going to open up a cyber warfare defense consulting group.
	She's in our wheelhouse here.
	This is the modern warfare that we all have to participate in.
	We all better get ready for it.
	And I'm grateful for those who stood by us and understood that it was warfare.
	I mean, for months.
	You would have thought I was crazy.
	Yeah.
	I mean, when I would call Mignon, God bless her, and she didn't hang up on me, I had people who really thought I was going crazy.
	In fact, Zerlina, I stopped going on TV because everybody started saying, well, how do you know they're Russian?
	You got fired.
	Yeah, because you got fired off of TV because you took questions from CNN and gave it to the Clinton campaign.
	But no, WAFA. Well, how do you know they're Russian?
	Well, God damn it, I know the difference.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	Well, there goes...
	Is she religious?
	Is she a Christian?
	I don't even...
	I don't even do that.
	I don't even...
	And she tries to talk herself out of it.
	That's true.
	You do not use that epithet.
	I don't.
	No.
	Not for any religion.
	Believe whatever you want to believe in.
	I don't care.
	That's fine.
	I'm not going to do...
	That's just...
	I have lots of issues with profanity.
	I'm pretty good at that.
	Yes, I'd say.
	It's Tourette's.
	All right, well, she's going to try and get out of this, too.
	People really thought I was going crazy.
	In fact, Zerlina, I stopped going on TV because everybody starts saying, well, how do you know they're Russian?
	Well, God damn it, I know the difference between America and something that's foreign.
	And ain't nobody ever cussed me out of those kind of words because I don't even understand those words because I can cuss you back.
	Now, what did she just say?
	I have no idea.
	She's talking about cussing.
	She just cussed.
	But I know the goddamn difference between Russia and America.
	Well, goddammit, I know the difference between America and something that's foreign.
	Yeah, they're all agreeing with her.
	What is she talking about?
	I don't know.
	I guess she knows if something's foreign.
	And something that's foreign.
	And ain't nobody ever cussed me out of those kind of words because I don't even understand those words because I can cuss you back.
	This was a...
	I don't know what she said.
	She's just rambling.
	Yeah.
	This was a massive campaign.
	Massive.
	No, it wasn't.
	It's massive.
	President Dick Cheney.
	Lame.
	She's going to agree with Dick Cheney now.
	This is the winner to me.
	Yes, now we have the left-wing Democrats agreeing with Dick Cheney.
	Think about that for a minute, people.
	The man has no soul.
	His heart is in a bag.
	He carries it in a fanny pack.
	In a suitcase, yes.
	See, People like former Vice President Dick Cheney.
	I've never agreed with Dick Cheney in my entire life.
	But when he said this was an act of war, I have to agree with the former Vice President.
	It was an act of war.
	And we better understand the ramifications.
	Because if they can take down a woman of stature like Hillary Clinton with bogus stuff And then you have to disprove the negative to make it somehow or another.
	It's bogus stuff.
	How is it bogus?
	She took the questions.
	She finally admitted to it.
	She took the questions from CNN and gave them right to the Hillary campaign.
	That's why she got fired.
	That's why she got busted.
	How is it bogus?
	Preach.
	In what universe is it bogus?
	Preach, girlfriend.
	And then you have to disprove the negative to make it somehow or another truthful.
	You cannot.
	Yeah, because you did it.
	And when the national media, and listen to me, my friends, when the national media is complicit also, and carrying on the fake narrative, the fake emails, the spoofing, then you have to go out there and try to make it factual.
	What fake emails?
	The Because she started...
	What fake emails and what spoofing?
	She at one point said...
	That these emails had been modified and it wasn't her emails.
	There's never been any proof or mention of that.
	In fact, quite the opposite has been proven because Podesta was using a Gmail and they have a, how is it, GMIK, I forget the name of the code.
	There's basically a challenge string.
	Yeah, a hash.
	So you can see that it's been unaltered and it's been unaltered.
	Try to make it factual.
	So Palafax, so the Washington Post fact checker, somebody else can fact check it.
	Someone else can fact check it.
	Oh, those Russians.
	That's right.
	Damn Russians.
	Donna Brazile, man.
	She's out of control.
	She's crazy.
	She's crazy.
	Now, this is building everywhere.
	This is really building everywhere.
	In the UK, BBC Radio 5.
	This is a defense analyst.
	His name is Tim Ripley, and he is...
	Very concerned about Russia's armaments.
	They're building all kinds of great new weapons.
	We're going to be in trouble.
	We probably should get ready because it's horrible!
	Does this merit the hype?
	Well, I mean, certainly the Russians are developing this missile.
	When it will be ready, how many they'll have, and where they'll be able to fire them at.
	That's a few years down the road.
	But certainly they are...
	Do we know then it can definitely travel at five to six times the speed of sound?
	We don't know that yet, because they haven't built it yet, they haven't tested it, but they're certainly going that way.
	They have the technology, and they are developing a load of other weapons in super-silent submarines, stealth planes, air defense missiles that are really getting our military people worried.
	I mean, we're in an arms race.
	We're back to the situation we were in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, where Oh, they're bringing that one, but we're going to make it even crazier.
	We're going to bring back the oldest story we have in recent memory.
	Think Charlie Wilson's war.
	The Trump administration firmly keeping the door open to cooperating with Vladimir Putin to fight ISIS in Syria.
	The president has been very clear in the past that if a country shares our commitment to defeating ISIS and we can work to them in an area of shared mutual concern, then we will do so.
	But Russia is already...
	Their editing is great.
	They cut that in?
	Yeah, they cut that in.
	Once again, the video is of a bunch of dudes with turbans shooting from the hip with, you know, like.50 caliber machine guns.
	And the camera is right next to them, you know, standing in a parallel line.
	Because, yeah, they're shooting at the enemy, or maybe they're just putting on a little show.
	I don't know.
	But the edit is perfect.
	Then we will do so.
	But Russia is already moving beyond Syria, launching a new effort in Libya to exert its influence and change the security landscape in a country where there is still no central government more than five years after Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.
	Top U.S. commanders now increasingly concerned.
	What is Russia trying to do in Libya, General Waldheiser?
	Senator, Russia is trying to exert influence on the ultimate decision of who becomes and what entity becomes in charge of the government inside Libya.
	They're trying to do in Libya what they've been doing in Syria?
	Yes, that's a good way to characterize it.
	U.S. officials tell CNN in recent weeks, reconnaissance revealed at an airbase in western Egypt, just 60 miles from the Libyan border, Russian drones, aircraft, and personnel have arrived.
	Across the border, Libyan oil installations are not far away.
	Fighting has erupted between rival groups for control.
	The Russians deny they are in Egypt.
	The U.S. is trying to figure out how deeply involved Moscow will get inside Libya.
	This doesn't only give them greater power in Africa, but it gives them a foothold in the Mediterranean on the southern edge of Europe where they can potentially threaten U.S. interests and those of U.S. allies.
	So this is a big deal.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And they're moving into Afghanistan.
	And they're moving into Libya.
	And you know what?
	You know what?
	I bet you they are.
	I bet you they are.
	We went in.
	We rebelized Libya.
	We messed it up.
	We left it.
	We messed it up.
	It's the warlords who are running the warlords.
	We abandoned it.
	Yeah, we left.
	And then, hello, you create a vacuum.
	And yeah, of course they're going to move in.
	I'm glad it's them, not the Chinese.
	Although they're probably fighting as we speak.
	And there's fighting going on in Libya.
	We don't hear any of this.
	No, we don't hear a lot of stuff.
	Anything we can do, anything, please.
	We just have to continue to Russia, Russia, Russia.
	Now, in this block I have another clip from Brian Williams, and he's going to debunk Trump's tweet, and this is what happened.
	Trump tweeted, hey, why is everyone all over me?
	How about the Clinton's connection to Russia?
	Uranium sold, she got paid for it.
	And Brian Williams gives us half of the story.
	Well, today President Trump sowed confusion on the Russia investigation.
	That's Scott Pelley.
	I'm sorry, Scott Pelley, what am I thinking?
	And CBS, which is worse.
	Yes, it even says CBS here.
	I'm sorry.
	...are not covering, quote, money from Russia to Clinton for the sale of uranium.
	Well, here's why.
	No credible source alleges that Hillary Clinton was paid by Russia for American uranium.
	I love this.
	He didn't say it wasn't true.
	He says no credible source has said it's true or false.
	This is very, very smart, what he's doing.
	Listen to it.
	Very slick.
	Well, when you're done with that, I got a clip to show you that the other side can be kind of slick, too, but not this slick.
	Paid by Russia for American uranium.
	But like most conspiracy theories, there is an atom of...
	Conspiracy theories of fact!
	Yes, there's a fact.
	There's a little fact.
	And it's an old fact.
	It's not new.
	But like most conspiracy theories, there is an atom of truth in this.
	By 2013, a Russian company purchased 20% of American uranium deposits.
	That was approved by a committee including Clinton's State Department.
	But also including the Departments of Treasury, Justice, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce, and Energy, plus the U.S. Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology.
	Separately, the deal was okayed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
	Secretary Clinton could not have stopped the deal.
	And he neglects to mention that the Clinton...
	That's not true!
	Tell me, talk to me.
	Geez, the Department of State can stop any of those deals.
	Any one of those agencies could have stopped it, I think.
	I don't know if any one of them could, but I know the State Department definitely could.
	So that's a lie.
	But the second half of the story is that the Clinton Foundation then received a sizable gift from said Russians.
	I thought they got the gift before the deal.
	No, I'm pretty sure it was after the deal.
	That would be very stupid to give it before the deal and then do the deal.
	I think it was done before the deal still.
	That's even dumber.
	It's not that dumb.
	They got the deal done.
	I know.
	But again, this is what you say by yourself.
	Because they're accusing Trump of taking money from the Russians and then implementing policy post-fact where this is exactly what Hillary Clinton did.
	Exactly what she did.
	I think I have a gem of a clip here.
	This is Roger Stone.
	We don't hear from him very often.
	And he was on Coast to Coast.
	Yeah.
	And the question of John McCain, and of course John McCain is up front.
	Hey, we should separately both be on Coast to Coast at least once.
	Well, they gotta invite us.
	I mean, how do you get on?
	Well, everyone keeps saying, oh, I know a guy.
	We have to find out who the booker is and then pester him.
	Or her.
	Don't assume gender.
	Or Z. Here we go.
	Who would not want me to show up at the hearings and deflate their whole phony Russian myth?
	Who benefits?
	In other words, I want to confront Adam Schiff.
	I want to confront Eric Swalwell.
	I want to confront John McCain and Mark Warner.
	I will bitch slap them like children.
	I will take their actual words and show how they lie.
	I will point out the millions John McCain has taken from the Saudis.
	John McCain is not allowed to burp without checking with the Saudis.
	They have fundled millions of dollars to his John McCain Institute, which he assures us he has nothing whatsoever to do with.
	Except for everyone on the border who works there has been on his U.S. Senate staff.
	Why does this cranky old man insult our intelligence?
	He's a senator from the Beltway.
	He is despised by rank-and-file Republicans.
	That's why when Donald Trump criticized him, And the mainstream media folks says, well, that's it.
	He's criticized a war hero.
	Talk to the POW families.
	They hate his guts.
	Whoa, you got butt slammed!
	Ho, ho, ho, ho!
	John McCain better watch out.
	He's got an adversary.
	They're not going to bring Stone in because Stone's going to wear a crazy hat and then humiliate all of them.
	So he is definitely not coming in.
	You know that's what he's going to do, right?
	Of course.
	I thought he was uninvited.
	I thought he wasn't coming at all.
	Yeah, he was.
	He's been uninvited.
	But you know he would wear a crazy hat.
	He'll probably sit in the audience with a crazy hat.
	Let me play this clip of Ryan on CBS that...
	He discusses the...
	He tries to counter...
	This has to be deconstructed.
	Because he tries to counter the narrative that's going on.
	I think he kind of does a decent job, but it's so subtle that I don't think he does...
	He has the kind of the oomph that Roger Stone just displayed in that clip of yours.
	We've known for some time...
	Do you want me to play Interference 1 or Interference Ryan?
	I want your interference, Ryan.
	In a CBS News poll out today, half of Americans told us they believe the Russians interfered with the election, and most of them said it was to help Mr.
	Trump.
	Okay, stop.
	Right away, this CBS, really, we have to stop these clips a lot.
	Because they're just terrible.
	So they show a poll that says 45% of Americans think that the Russians may have interfered somewhere.
	That's not like 60%, 70%.
	It's lower.
	It's less than half.
	And then it says 40% of those people.
	Hmm.
	I thought it was to benefit Trump.
	That's a total of around, I don't know, 16% total, so it's not really a high number, but he dramatizes it as if it's an outrageously high number.
	The public is pissed off about all this.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable indeed.
	...said it was to help Mr.
	Trump.
	CBS This Morning co-host Nora O'Donnell talked to the House Speaker, Paul Ryan, today.
	I was just listening to the senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I know you know the leading Republican, Senator Burr, who you served with.
	And he said, look, this is so important, what's going on.
	They're investigating.
	Russia was involved in a covert operation to influence our election in 2016.
	They're doing it to other countries right now.
	Yes.
	An overt and covert in Europe, Germany, France.
	Yes.
	Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi and I sent a letter to the secretaries of state before the election saying, heads up, be on the watch out.
	Something's happening.
	He is agreeing with everything she says.
	She's out to get him.
	She's out to prove something because she's like Nora.
	And she gets irked.
	She hates the Republicans.
	She's a bigot.
	He now slips in this little factoid that may or may not be true and Without doing what Trump would do, but he is, for all practical purposes, blaming Obama.
	Yes, yes.
	And she just, she doesn't, she's so, I don't, you know, I don't know what her IQ is.
	Careful for the microaggressions, careful.
	She goes right over her head.
	Zoom.
	Anyway, go back.
	Sorry.
	No problem.
	Heads up.
	Be on the watch out.
	Something's happening.
	Guard your data.
	So we all knew this before the election.
	We all knew Russia was trying to meddle with our election.
	And we already know right now they're trying to do with other countries.
	So, the world's superpower, the American government, needs to do everything we possibly can, not only to undercut what they're trying to do, but to uncover what they're trying to do and help our allies prevent this from happening.
	I think we have a special responsibility, given our capabilities, to make sure that we help our allies guard against this meddling by Russia in their elections, just like they tried to with our election.
	What capabilities?
	Don't miss the rest of Nora's interview with Speaker Ryan first thing tomorrow.
	What capabilities?
	So far, we just get hacked all the time.
	We got no skills.
	We're not leads.
	We get hacked all the time.
	This actually fits perfectly into my next clip.
	The assertion from the president is that the Obama administration was eavesdropping, wiretapping, whatever you want to call it, advertising.
	And that that information was then disseminated widely with the names unmasked.
	Am I summarizing that correctly?
	Yeah, as best anyone could.
	Okay.
	This is former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Evelyn Farkas.
	So she was in the Defense Department, which to me just means military intelligence.
	And she tells this story on Morning Joe that they had the, well you'll hear it, that she had the information and everyone was out there spreading it.
	Well listen.
	Well I was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear.
	With the senior people who left.
	So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence.
	So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more.
	We have very good intelligence on Russia.
	So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill.
	A lot going on today.
	Yeah.
	That's why you have the leaking.
	This to me is mind-boggling.
	She just admitted it.
	I'm glad you got this clip.
	Because I've not heard this clip before.
	But there's a number of talk radio guys that are talking about this clip.
	Yeah.
	Saying that this woman should be investigated immediately.
	Well, it sounds to me like she said we didn't want to tip him off because otherwise our methods and sources would stop.
	Meaning she was directly connected to that.
	Yeah.
	She's one of the leakers.
	And she even said this is why you had all this leaking going on because she was doing it.
	She admitted felony.
	Yes.
	Hello.
	I find this unbelievable.
	Well, I find it unbelievable the two of them sitting there.
	I don't know where they...
	What were they doing?
	Why weren't they paying attention?
	Were they not listening to her?
	No, they think this is okay.
	It's dimension B. There's no way.
	There's just no way.
	They're never going to see that it's wrong.
	To me, it was mind-boggling.
	And then my best clip is the last one I got for you, Jeremy.
	I should have done the 10-minute warning.
	Do I still have this?
	I wonder if we still have that old Hollywood Whackers clip or the jingle.
	Hmm.
	I must have removed it.
	Randy Quaid.
	Randy Quaid posted a new video.
	Randy Quaid, remember, he was on the run, on the lam.
	Well, it's not so much, but yeah.
	But from time to time, he does a little something funny.
	So he is now promoting the idea that our government has rooms full of trolls.
	He's not talking about the Chinese or the Russian, though, about the American government.
	Hundreds of employees creating hundreds of thousands of fake users, each with personal history and multiple cyber presence.
	What'd you call them?
	Sock puppets.
	I've heard rumors of social media boiler rooms in China and Russia, but not here.
	And definitely not on this scale.
	Interesting.
	It is interesting.
	And you better pay attention.
	Someone is paying a shitload of money to build a massive domestic propaganda machine.
	And if it's the DOD, the NSA, or anyone else that's breaking 10 federal laws plus...
	This isn't just about fake news manipulating public opinion.
	This is about Time Warner, CNN, NBC, trying to control the election, the candidate and public opinion, and pawning it off on China and Russia with more fake news.
	Go, Randy.
	And this ties into something.
	I'm moving to Sunday.
	We just don't have the time anymore.
	Whereas U.S. Code 2222 has been removed from the Telecommunications Act for Internet providers, which effectively allows...
	Internet providers to inspect everything you have, collect everything you have, give that to anybody they want to for any reason whatsoever.
	And I'm very baffled by this decision, and I wonder if anyone knows what the hell they've done.
	So we will...
	Well, I do have a backgrounder clip for that, too.
	Let's do it on Sunday, though, because we really...
	Okay, that's fine.
	I don't...
	That'll give me a little time to think about it some more, because it's baffling.
	I've said this a couple times today.
	Instead of, of course, I've said baffling.
	First of all, let's make sure to note that this is the way it was before October.
	This is a rollback.
	Yes, it is.
	It's an Obama rollback, correct?
	No, it's a Trump rollback of Obama.
	Yeah, a Trump rollback of an Obama.
	But that was only in since October?
	Yeah.
	That I didn't know.
	Yeah, it's very recent, so make sure you get the timeline correct.
	That's good.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	Now, I've done all the legal work.
	I've looked at all the respective articles, etc., that's referred to in this very small bill, which has passed the House and the Senate as going to the President.
	Right.
	He'll sign it.
	Yeah, we've got to talk about that on Sunday.
	I have a big problem with that.
	But the timeline is important.
	It's going to be great because I don't.
	Good.
	Okay.
	Can't wait.
	Can't wait.
	All right, want to roll us out with something funny?
	You got anything good?
	Oh, let's see.
	Good question.
	Let's look at the last of the list.
	Well, there's one that I keep putting it off.
	Oh, yeah, this is a piece of news.
	Why don't we do the Chinese real estate?
	You promised.
	Oh, yeah, right.
	Let's do the Chinese real estate, and then we get the one follow-up, which is kind of interesting.
	I want to get it out of the way, which is...
	No, just do the Chinese real estate.
	The other one, I can wait.
	GTN, Shanghai.
	And more talks on housing prices.
	That was a Chinese lip smack right there.
	And more talks on housing prices in China.
	We're joined by our current affairs commentator, Einar Tongan.
	Einar, houses sell like hotcakes in China.
	But the government definitely don't want property prices to skyrocket like this.
	And they have put in place many restriction policies, but it seems they have not worked so well.
	What do you make of the government's efforts?
	Well, the government's on a tightrope because, quite frankly, the real estate industry is a large part of GDP. So when you start shutting it down, you start turning off jobs.
	And when you're trying to create jobs and maintain your economy, that's a big issue.
	So that's why you've seen this kind of seesaw effect, where the government has loosened and then tightened restrictions in order to try to, as I say, walk this tightrope between economic development and maintaining property prices.
	But the government's going to have to go a little bit further.
	I mean, there are issues.
	One of them is this idea of property tax.
	Right now, you have two different things going on.
	And one, you have people who want a house to live in.
	And quite frankly, within China, it's pretty good.
	Families in China, 90% of families in China, actually own their house.
	And 80% of the people actually own it outright.
	No debt.
	So, the real issue here is the speculative, what we call the non-real economy.
	That's what the government wants to strike down.
	Well, they do, but one of the underlying causes of that is that people don't feel they have a lot of different alternatives for investment.
	For instance, putting money abroad is much, much more difficult.
	The stock market has had its ups and downs.
	So right now, people feel that property is safe.
	They might not make money, but they say, well, I won't lose too much.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know about the 80% own their homes outright in China.
	That's pretty amazing.
	And this is why they're buying up these houses in Australia, because it's just an investment, because they don't have any other way to invest their money.
	They can't start throwing it at the American stock market necessarily.
	Well, these guys should learn how to day trade.
	And they should with that Chinese market.
	This, by the way, is my stock answer.
	We were at Nordstrom the other night.
	Actually, after Thursday night show.
	Because we have Bandana Ball coming up on Saturday.
	It's the big Ronald McDonald House benefit.
	And, of course, I'm supporting the keeper.
	And I needed to get some duds.
	Because it's the bandana ball.
	And I'm talking to the checkout guy, man, person.
	And I say, so, you know, how's it going?
	He says, it's unbelievable.
	It's so quiet.
	He says, you know, we had South By.
	No one even, didn't even notice a blip in the traffic.
	You know, normally this time of year with sales, it's busy.
	It's just completely empty.
	Where was this again?
	The big mall here in Austin.
	The Barton Springs Square Street Creek Mall.
	Something like that.
	It's a mall, big mall.
	They got dicks.
	And so he's just saying, it's dead, it's dead, it's dead.
	And I said, well, what do they do?
	They come in, they look at stuff, but they buy it online or buy something like it.
	And my stock answer is, there's a solution for you.
	Day trading.
	It always cracks people up.
	Yeah, it is funny.
	It's funny.
	For some reason, it's funny in that context.
	Yeah.
	You learn how to day trade, dude.
	You'll be fine.
	Yeah.
	Someone should respond to that correctly by just giving you one swift kick to the nuts.
	We'd have at least 10 minutes of show material.
	I'm in.
	I didn't know that there was...
	Well, the retail numbers are coming in.
	They're not good.
	I think your premise, I think it's a bigger problem than just buying it online.
	Oh, of course.
	Of course.
	There's also an economic, just a pure economic issue.
	Absolutely.
	And these malls, I think these malls are, I mean, we have our malls are, I think we got a mall up here, Hilltop Mall, which is, I think, killing their JCPennies and probably the Sears is going to go.
	Yeah, both of those.
	Those are the two anchor stores.
	Those are anchor stores.
	They can't go.
	When they go, the whole mall goes to hell.
	And I heard Guitar Center is also going on.
	They're going the way of Radio Shack.
	Oh, that was terrible.
	Guitar Center is one of the, have you ever been to one?
	Of course.
	They're one of the greatest stores you can go to.
	Yeah, it's over.
	They've got so many gimmicks.
	They've got gizmos.
	They're going to just sell Mexican guitars, Mexican strats, and cables and batteries.
	I know.
	I never heard this.
	I heard it from someone who's in the supply chain.
	Jeez, that's terrible.
	That's a great store.
	It's over.
	There you go.
	Nice and uplifting, everybody.
	Perfect.
	Hey, there you go.
	Hey, live it up this weekend.
	Should I be watching the game today, tomorrow, Saturday?
	I think you might be able to catch the Warriors versus the Houston team up on Friday night.
	That would be a good game.
	Also, there's a Saturday.
	We're at the Final Four, and there's the two games on Saturday, which will be probably on CBS. Are absolute dynamite games and it's going to lead to the finals.
	You know, those should be fun, but you don't like college.
	Well, you know, when we were at the mall, we went, I bought a shirt at Express Men.
	That's why I buy my shirts.
	And the clerk looked at, said, Curry, Curry?
	I said, yes, I'm related to Steph Curry, really?
	He said, look at me, you moron!
	I'm white!
	I'm white!
	People are just, I don't know.
	We're doomed.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin Tejas, Crackpot Condo here in the skyscraper.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the wind seems to have died down just a little, but not enough to make me happy, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash na for our show coming up on Sunday.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	I have no agenda.
	50,000 British Muslims last year.
	50,000 British Muslims downloaded a terrorist manual in our country.
	50,000.
	Not 10, not 20.
	50,000.
	Dramatically melting all the eyes, raising CeeLo.
	50,000.
	She got that money.
	Not 10, not 20.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Good try, scumbag. .
	Adios, mofo!

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