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	Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, April 6, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 9018.
	This is no agenda.
	Rejecting the machine's reality control and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the unit here in the capital of the Drone Star State, downtown Austin, Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's going to rain again, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	You know, you Californians always complaining, if it's not too dry, it's too wet.
	You're like the Dutch almost.
	The Dutch are like that.
	That's why the Dutch are so comfortable when they move to California.
	The Dutch are like, oh, it's too cold.
	Oh, now it's too warm.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	There's a lot of Dutch in California.
	Hey, man.
	And French.
	Hey, man.
	Again, happy birthday.
	How was it?
	Did you do anything cool?
	Did you do anything fun?
	We had a big dinner.
	Uh-huh.
	Who was we?
	I had JC and his wife and his pregnant wife and...
	Jay and her boyfriend and Mimi and myself.
	JCD's pregnant wife has a name.
	Her name is Jessie.
	Jessie.
	Yes.
	She doesn't listen to the show, so I can call her the pregnant wife.
	I did have a question.
	Jay, on the other hand, listens assiduously.
	That's new.
	She didn't used to be such a big listener.
	She's one of her jocks.
	She got it promoted.
	She's now chief dog walker for a major dog walking company.
	It's a millennial thing.
	She's dog walking.
	She can listen to the show.
	It's perfect for dog walkers.
	That's true.
	In fact, we could start our own dog walking company.
	We could.
	Now, is Jessie about ready to pop?
	She must be so done.
	She must be so ready.
	May 8th.
	May 8th.
	May something.
	Nice springtime, baby.
	Beautiful.
	Yeah, springtime, baby.
	Beautiful.
	And maybe you'll remember this one's name and age.
	That'd be great.
	Let's see.
	Probably.
	Probably not.
	I'm very disappointed.
	Once again, I... I'm befuddled, dumbfounded, and cannot believe this is happening to me, and in fact, in a way, to us.
	What?
	Well, even after we discussed it, after we paid attention to it, our producer J.J. Meyer came in with the, of course, count from episode 9 or 1-7.
	I'm glad you did this at the beginning of the show, because now I can pay attention to it.
	I did it at the beginning of the last show as well.
	I don't remember that.
	That's what you get for paying attention.
	Now you'll recall I used the phrase of course 37 times on episode 916 and I want to heal from this.
	John, you only used a three, so I have improved, but you have actually gotten a little worse.
	I think three is acceptable.
	Okay, well you had eight on the last show.
	Well, now you're contaminating me, obviously.
	I will pay attention to this.
	Even though I didn't have my 30, I had 28 still.
	I'm really consciously trying not to say this.
	I'm not even hearing it.
	I know, that's what I mean.
	I'm not hearing it either.
	Well, maybe it's not such a bad thing.
	I'll start catching you.
	Here's what I'm going to do.
	When I hear you say it, which you'll do, and I'm paying careful attention, I'm going to first analyze whether or not, in context, it's a good or a bad thing or it's just a filler.
	Because his theory is that it's just a filler.
	You're using it instead of uh.
	No, not at all.
	I believe I'm using it usually to agree with you.
	It's kind of a yeah, no problem, possibly.
	Will you say something and go, of course, but.
	Maybe we should look at of course, but.
	That may be a bigger problem.
	I haven't heard that either.
	I do know that I think we've eliminated or close to eliminated the yeah, no, which is the most annoying thing people can say on television.
	Hey, should we, since we're at the beginning of the show, we're rested, we're fit, how about a little quick trip in the alternate universe transition machine?
	Right off the bat?
	You're going to wear us out right away.
	Come on, don't be a pussy.
	Are you ready?
	Let's do it, man.
	We can do this.
	Let's go.
	Into the machine we go.
	From this day, whoo!
	It's going to be home.
	We're going to be first.
	America.
	First.
	America.
	First.
	America.
	First.
	We choose God.
	Fuck you.
	Oh, it's not good with just black coffee.
	Where's that dog keep coming from?
	The alternate universe.
	Obviously.
	Two quickies, two clips.
	The first one is regarding a topic we've discussed many times, the so-called Goldwater Rule.
	And the Goldwater rule stems from Barry Goldwater as a presidential candidate when psychiatrists were saying, ah, he's mentally unstable.
	I'm not exactly sure what they claimed the diagnosis to be.
	But then later, after he lost, he sued them.
	And so in medical circles, certainly psychiatric circles, there's a Goldwater rule.
	Thou shall not diagnose someone on television or unless you have actually seen them.
	And, of course, you couldn't do.
	Ah, there it is.
	There's one.
	That's my first, of course.
	That's my second.
	Interesting.
	It's the alternate reality where I realize it.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Mm-hmm.
	So here is the Morning Joes.
	They have quite a panel on and they're discussing, of course, President Trump's.
	Ah, you said it again.
	Wow.
	Mental stability.
	Never thought, though, that the guy that we've known for 10, 11, 12 years would be that much of a petulant brat.
	I also think it's...
	Wow, there we go, right off the bat.
	Instead of saying petulant child, we've put one little dose on top of it saying petulant brat.
	Yeah, it's good.
	It's good.
	Very good.
	For 10, 11, 12 years, would be that much of a petulant brat.
	I also think it's time, and I know in the post-Goldwater era, there's an unwritten rule in the psychiatric community that nobody diagnoses from afar.
	I just don't think he's a well guy.
	We talked about this before, how well the guy is off right now mentally.
	Any sane, rational person would know.
	If I keep bringing attention to something, then I'm going to keep churning up attention on something, and it is not going to be in my best interest.
	There's a disorder, essentially.
	There was an article over the weekend about election night that right even after his triumph, he was fixated on a three-day-old negative article that they literally couldn't get him off of.
	And that's what this is.
	I don't know what the disorder is, and I'm not being glib, that regardless of what else is going on, if he's been pricked in a certain area, there is an inability, physiologically, for him to move off of it.
	That is not a healthy, normal, well-functioning man.
	Most people are like that.
	Tons, almost everybody.
	Has something that they just can't let go of and hold on to.
	This is not diagnosis for being a nut job.
	But I digress.
	Well-functioning.
	Man, there's no rational reason why he should be doing this.
	Hold on a second.
	Stop.
	Here's your irony you just pointed out.
	These are the guys who are obsessed on something.
	Exactly.
	That's how the alternate universe functions.
	Move off of it.
	That is not a healthy...
	They can't move off of it.
	Nailed it.
	Him to move off of it.
	That is not a healthy, normal, well-functioning man.
	There's no rational reason why he should be doing this every day.
	Even if you think he's a cynical, horrible human being.
	This hurts him.
	Right.
	But everything now points to certain disorders.
	My hair is not on fire, and I am not a clinician, and once again, we...
	I'm not a doctor.
	What do those two things have in common?
	My hair is not on fire, and I'm not a doctor.
	Clinician.
	Is it the same?
	Every day.
	Even if you think he's a cynical, horrible...
	This guy is a psycho.
	Yes, he is.
	He should be doing this every day.
	Even if you think he's a cynical, horrible human being, this hurts him.
	Right.
	But everything now points to certain disorders.
	My hair is not on fire, and I am not a clinician, and I, once again, we doctors don't diagnose.
	He's not well in many ways.
	If anybody was behaving this way, if a school teacher was behaving this way, if your friend was behaving this way, you'd be concerned.
	Right.
	If any CEO behaved this way, they would have been fired by the board.
	Oh, are you kidding me?
	Let me try a couple for you.
	By the way, I had one of those clips where they said that.
	How about Ray Lane?
	Let's try him.
	How about anybody?
	How about any guy, any executive at Oracle?
	How about Steve Ballmer who likes to scream at people?
	Insane nutjob.
	Or Bill Gates who has a number of disparaging remarks to make constantly to people.
	Or how about Steve Jobs?
	You're holding your phone wrong.
	Come on.
	Yeah, sure.
	Okay.
	That's not how it works.
	So these guys are clueless.
	Yeah, almost.
	If a CEO doesn't act that way, you go, wow.
	Yeah, how about Jack Welch?
	How about some of the roughest, toughest guys in industry?
	Captains of industry?
	Sure they're like that.
	If a school teacher was behaving this way, if your friend was behaving this way, you'd be concerned.
	Right.
	If any CEO behaved this way, they would have been fired by the board 60 days ago.
	Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving the answer to the debate?
	Are you kidding me?
	Just asking.
	Swear to God, this guy's tweeting right now.
	Our president, the leader of the free world, he's got his fingers on the button, and he's tweeting about Hillary.
	Are you kidding me?
	Hillary in the debate, nobody cares.
	Nobody on the planet cares.
	There goes that hammer again.
	Oh, there's one person.
	You can say it.
	I can?
	What do you think he's prompting her to say?
	I have no idea.
	I don't watch this show.
	Oh, it's like the best start to my day.
	Apparently it is.
	You love this show.
	Wait for it.
	Nobody on the planet cares.
	There goes that hammer again.
	Oh, there's one person.
	You can say it.
	I can?
	The amendment thing.
	Oh, it's time for Article 25.
	The 25th Amendment.
	The 25th Amendment, let's do it.
	And the psychiatrist is definitely...
	No, seriously, there are people who need to really think about that.
	How long do they want this to last?
	She's still on the 25th Amendment, or Article 25.
	Yeah, you're talking about obsessing.
	Article 25, as she calls it, which is something different.
	Where did this alternate universe story come from?
	Now, we were talking about North Korea, or at least the morning shows were.
	We're still in the alternate universe?
	Don't you feel that?
	Have we taken the ride back?
	We're definitely in the alternate universe.
	Well, I know, but I don't know that you're changing the subject outside of the universe.
	No, I'm keeping it to North Korea.
	Okay, I got North Korea.
	Let me start with my alternate universe from The View, my other favorite start to the morning.
	Why don't everybody face it?
	He needs to be taken out of office.
	He needs to be...
	He's a menace.
	You say, Kim Jong, come yung yung with your palm.
	Kim Jong, yung yung's crazy, so is he.
	Kim Jong, yung yung.
	No, it's Kim Jong, yung yung.
	Kim Jong, yung yung.
	Listen to that again.
	It's Kim Jong, yung yung.
	He's a menace.
	You say, Kim Jong, come yung yung with your palm.
	Kim Jong, yung yung's crazy, so is he.
	So is he.
	Let's He's nuts and we're in the middle of it!
	Okay.
	Without further ado, even though we're in the alternate universe, I guess you could play this backwards.
	You get Clip of the Day for that.
	Oh, thank you so much.
	That is...
	You were just too kind.
	Clip of the Day.
	Kim Jong-Yong-Yong.
	Do you have any...
	And I can't get it out of my head.
	I was clipping that yesterday, and I'm walking around going, Kim Jong-un!
	Kim Jong-un!
	Every time you hear that, it's time to donate.
	You don't want to hear it that much.
	That's the problem.
	Did you have something for the alternative universe, or can we get out of here?
	Well, I have an actual clip about North Korea and what they think is going on.
	It's kind of an alternate universe.
	Is it kind of?
	And I'll tell you what...
	You have to be careful.
	It's like crossing the streams.
	I'm not going to cross the streams, because this is also like...
	Something screwy about the whole thing.
	And I'll explain why after we play the clip.
	This is the North Korea clip that was rolled out on CBS. And as if on cue, the North Koreans test-fired a missile last night.
	David Martin has more.
	The latest test failed nine minutes into flight, making it only 40 miles before pinwheeling into the sea.
	Pinwheeling?
	Did you see any video?
	I guess it started flipping, you know, flipping head over heels.
	Hmm, interesting.
	Making it only 40 miles before pinwheeling into the sea.
	I think it's more than 40 miles to the coast, but okay.
	Say that again, because you were talking through your...
	I think it's more than 40 miles to the coast from their launch site, so I don't know what the distances are, but it doesn't sound right.
	But go on.
	Oh, it sounds like a dud is what it sounds like.
	It was a dud, obviously.
	Making it only 40 miles before pinwheeling into the sea.
	But it also exposed gaps in U.S. intelligence.
	Initially thought to be a new two-stage solid fuel missile like this, it turned out to be an old single-stage liquid fuel missile.
	What I'm concerned about most nights is North Korea.
	Just yesterday, General John Hyten, the man in charge of shooting down any incoming missile, told Congress he's never sure what's coming next from North Korea.
	Those are very concerning moments to me because we're not sure, every time they launch, we're not sure if this is a threat missile or not.
	This missile was not a threat.
	But coming just days before President Trump meets with China's President Xi, it did seem to carry a message.
	Nothing the two presidents do will stop North Korea from developing a nuclear arsenal.
	The U.S. responded with a cryptic message of its own.
	Instead of the usual condemnation of calling it a provocative act in violation of UN resolutions, Secretary of State Tillerson said simply, the United States has spoken enough about North Korea.
	We have no further comment.
	A signal the old rules of dealing with North Korea, a policy known as strategic patience, are out the window.
	Was that what it was called, strategic patience?
	I thought it was called something else.
	No, that's what it was called, but it was only called that recently.
	It's an old policy that just got named recently.
	Strategic patience.
	It's not over.
	Your clip still has 30 seconds if you want to finish it.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	...are out the window.
	The greatest threat would come from an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.
	And General Hyten testified the North Koreans are closing in on one.
	They already have the capability to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile.
	The question is, when will they be able to mate a nuclear weapon?
	North Korea's next step would be to conduct an underground nuclear test.
	U.S. intelligence is watching the site where previous tests have been conducted and is warning a test could come at any time.
	Scott?
	Now, hold on a second.
	At the very end there, he says...
	A test could come at any time?
	The next step is the nuclear test.
	If you back it up, he says as though it's already been planned, but we don't know what the hell's going on over there.
	But somehow we know that the next step is this planned test of a bomb.
	Let's do that again.
	To conduct an underground nuclear test.
	Just before that.
	North Korea's next step would be to conduct an underground nuclear test.
	Well, he says next step would be.
	He doesn't say is.
	He says would be.
	So that's more a procedural thing.
	Okay, well, it seems pretty predictive.
	It doesn't sound right.
	Your point is made, of course.
	Hey!
	I said it again.
	North Korea's next step would be to conduct an underground nuclear test.
	U.S. intelligence is watching the site where previous tests have been conducted and is warning a test could come at any time.
	So what?
	Yeah, exactly.
	So what?
	This is bull crap.
	Who cares?
	What are they going to do?
	They put their one ICBM and put their one little...
	By the way, those nukes are very small.
	They're small in Hiroshima.
	I love how that clip started off, if you listen again.
	And as if on cue...
	These things always happen on cue.
	Yeah, as if.
	As if on cue.
	And if we're done here in the alternate universe...
	Well, first I want to just say, what does everyone expect?
	Do they expect these guys, Kim Jong-un and his buddies, to take an ICBM... Kim Jong-un!
	Yeah.
	might or might not have and put a small nuke on it or the biggest one they can find, which is still small.
	Right.
	And then send it over and do what?
	They're going to what?
	Blow up Seattle.
	They're going to blow up San Francisco.
	This West Coast shot.
	Right.
	So it's going to be Portland.
	Portland would be my choice, by the way.
	Portland.
	Do Portland.
	But just the advice to the question.
	Anyway, Portland, Seattle, Redding.
	They may blow up Redding.
	Wasn't Kim Jong-un going to blow up Austin?
	Remember he had that map?
	Yeah, but that just seems like it's too far.
	When you can blow up Los Angeles, or San Bernardino, San Berdu, or Bakersfield, there's a shot for you.
	That would be something.
	Now you're talking.
	Let's shoot down Bakersfield, because that's where the high-speed rail is going through Bakersfield.
	That'll screw them.
	Let's get out of here, John.
	The oxygen's a little thin.
	Get dizzy.
	Kim Jong-un-un! Kim Jong-un! Kim Jong-un! Kim Jong-un!
	It's going to be only America first!
	Here we go!
	Back back back to the struggle!
	We choose God for you!
	Woo, baby!
	Alright, we're back.
	Well, that's nuts.
	Always a little harrowing, always.
	Well, let's go right into the Syria attack since we had that little bit at the beginning of your clip there about as if on cue.
	And as if on cue, as if on cue, we have a horrible atrocity in Syria.
	Well, I have a number of clips.
	I have the long version.
	I have a very short version.
	I have some questionable...
	I have some stuff too, so I will let you start.
	Well, I don't want to...
	Okay, I will start then.
	How about I start?
	You start.
	I'll start with a little piece from the president.
	Now, what you saw on television, the soundbite, was pretty much only him talking about babies, little babies, tiny babies.
	I thought he was talking about Zika.
	Yeah.
	The whole question leading up to that clip, which is the one that...
	I didn't see the whole question.
	And I went back to C-SPAN to look at...
	Because this was a press conference in the Rose Garden.
	And here's one of these...
	And this woman is kind of smug.
	I'm not sure where she's from.
	And she's asking the president specifically about this attack.
	And I think his answers are interesting.
	You've condemned the chemical attacks in Syria, but you also appeared in your statement yesterday to pin some of the blame on the Obama administration.
	You're the president now.
	Do you feel like you bear responsibility for responding to the chemical attacks, and does the chemical attack cross a red line for you?
	Well, I think the Obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand.
	I'm pretty sure that this was a scripted question.
	There's something else about this.
	I might as well start from the beginning of the way I feel about this.
	First of all, that everybody, whatever outlet it is, has reintroduced the nonsense about the red line and that the Syrians had used some chemical weapons that they don't even own that have been that has been debunked by academics, researchers and everybody in between that that has reintroduced the nonsense about the red line and that the Syrians had used some chemical weapons that they don't even own that have been that has been And we know this for fact, as President Obama stopped his military.
	The reason he stopped doing anything when once the red line was crossed is because they sent samples to the north of England.
	They tested it.
	The name of the laboratory escapes me at the moment.
	They tested it, and it was no way could that have been used by the Syrians.
	It was nothing they had ever had.
	Right, and they've also found missiles that didn't go off that were not of the right origin.
	So that's all been disproved.
	But yet, they keep bringing this up, and they bring it back into the narrative as though, well, here it is again.
	And that immediately, to me, puts up red flags about this being a legitimate situation.
	There is one explanation for that.
	Let's not get to deconstruction yet.
	Okay, we'll go on.
	Because you haven't heard what I'm thinking.
	You're only in your own universe.
	Okay.
	What you thinking?
	Well, let's get some clips going, and then we'll talk about it.
	This is how we do the show.
	You've condemned the chemical attacks in Syria, but you also appeared in your statement yesterday to pin some of the blame on the Obama administration.
	You are the president now.
	Do you feel like you bear responsibility for responding to the chemical attacks, and does the chemical attack cross a red line for you?
	Well, I think the Obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand.
	And when he didn't cross that line after making the threat, I think that set us back a long ways, not only in Syria, but in many other parts of the world, because it was a blank threat.
	I think it was something that was not...
	One of our better days as a country.
	Yeah, blank threat.
	What's a blank threat?
	Well, if we go to the chaise from the phrase, or the phrase for the chaise, the term would be blank check.
	And maybe he was just thinking about money?
	I think he's combining maybe blank check with idle threat.
	Yes, and it came out dumb.
	It came out very dumb.
	It's a blank threat.
	What?
	Or empty threat, or empty words, or idle threat.
	Yeah, but not a blank threat.
	That's dumb.
	The parts of the world, because it was a blank threat, I think it was something that was not one of our better days as a country.
	So I do feel that, Julie.
	I feel it very strongly.
	And the fact that he says, Julia, tells me that this was all set up.
	He knew that she was going to have the first question.
	He knew what her question was.
	I feel that, Julia.
	I feel it very strongly.
	Do you feel like you now have the responsibility to respond to the chemical?
	So what she asked was, well, I tried to enhance it.
	Do you feel that you now have responsibility to respond?
	That was the question.
	I now have responsibility, and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly.
	I will tell you that.
	It is now my responsibility.
	It was a great opportunity missed.
	As you know, I'll be meeting with the President of China very soon in Florida, and that's another responsibility we have, and that's called the country of North Korea.
	Notice he took that question and he turned it into North Korea.
	Which, in my mind, maybe means we had two ops going.
	This is where we're going.
	Because all of this is bullcrap.
	All of these...
	Certainly the way it's translated to the cannon fodder in the West.
	Maybe the North Korea thing, maybe that was something that Trump was in on and he wanted people to focus on that.
	And then we had this annoying attack of which...
	I need to point out, we have nothing other than video of people coughing.
	Very strange that if you have chlorine gas, people go in and grab people and they're just wearing surgical masks.
	No.
	Well, there's a combination of chlorine gas and sarin.
	You can't handle these people, is what I'm saying.
	No, you can't.
	And particularly with sarin, it's a contact problem.
	Yeah, so there's a lot of issues with that.
	And then they're hosing them down.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We'll continue.
	That's another responsibility we have, and that's called the country of North Korea.
	We have a big problem.
	We have somebody that is not doing the right thing, and that's going to be my responsibility.
	But I'll tell you, that responsibility could have been made a lot easier if it was handled years ago.
	Before I move on to the King, can I just quickly ask you if the chemical attack crosses a red line for you?
	Ah, there it is.
	It crossed a lot of lines for me.
	When you kill...
	The five-day moving average, the ten-day moving average.
	By the way, I have an ISO. I want you to just play it for a second.
	It goes along with that one you've got with the Kim Jong-Yong-Yong.
	This is the ISO, whatever it is.
	Many, many lines ISO. And wait, before you play it.
	Mr.
	Trump, have you ever used cocaine?
	Many, many lines.
	good one john laughter Very good.
	Innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal.
	People were shocked to hear what gas it was.
	That crosses many, many lines beyond the red line.
	And I'll keep us here, and then I want to go to your clips.
	This is CBS, who had an interesting take on what happened, or didn't happen.
	Even by the horrors of the Syrian civil war, what happened today will stand out as a crime against humanity.
	Fifty-eight civilians, including women and children, were killed and about 300 others wounded by what appears to be nerve gas, a weapon banned by the civilized world.
	The attack came five days after the Trump administration signaled that the Syrian dictator would not be held accountable for the slaughter of his people.
	The Trump administration said Bashar al-Assad could remain in power, a reversal of Obama-era policy that said Assad had to go.
	Despite the appeasing change in his policy, Mr.
	Trump blamed today's attack on President Obama, calling it a consequence of the past administration's weakness.
	Which is what I think the intent was of this exercise, seeing as we don't have any video footage.
	We have footage of everything, but we don't have any video footage of this.
	Nothing at all.
	Zero.
	Now, if I were a betting man...
	I'd say, and I think this will be reflected in some of our forthcoming clips, that this was purely intended to say, hey, I don't actually love Russia.
	Those guys are protecting.
	Yeah, this is no good.
	So we got a real problem here.
	I'm not a Russia lover.
	I'm not, you know, siding up to Vladimir Putin all the time.
	No, no, no.
	It's crossed lines for me.
	He said nothing.
	He said he didn't say he was going to do anything.
	It's just to, in my mind, just to balance out the, you know, you're up Putin's butt.
	I think that's a valid argument.
	Here's another Scott Pelley.
	This is the intro to the huge package they ran.
	I think it was yesterday.
	This is the Assad Syria Logic One.
	This is Pelley again.
	Okay, from CBS. Today, the president raged against the murder of children in yesterday's chemical attack in Syria.
	But when pressed, he seemed unable to express a policy on the Syrian civil war.
	President Trump took several questions today at a Rose Garden news conference alongside the King of Jordan.
	Facing his first international crisis, when Mr.
	Trump was asked about Syria, he changed the subject, blamed the Obama administration, and described himself as flexible.
	Last week, the Trump administration reversed U.S. policy and said that the Syrian dictator could remain in power and not be held accountable for crimes in the six-year-old war.
	The apparent nerve gas attack happened five days later.
	I'd be looking at John McCain in this case.
	Well, but first of all, let's take a look at the logic of this.
	Yeah.
	Right there with Pelley when he's, that's why I call this the logic clip series.
	Because Pelley says the administration softened on Syria, in essence, and said Assad could stay and all the rest of it.
	And then five days later, he does a gas attack.
	I mean, he hasn't done a gas attack ever.
	Ever.
	Ever.
	It's never been him.
	But okay.
	But now all of a sudden, oh, they like me now, so I'm going to use gas.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	Unbelievable.
	So then they turned the whole package over to Major Garrett.
	So this is what happened at the United Nations.
	And interesting, I found it, That Nikki Haley, who I like, our new ambassador.
	The school marm?
	I hate her.
	No, I like her.
	No, I like her.
	I think she's just a stooge for the McCain faction, and she always seems to be very nasty from the get-go, and I don't like her in one bit.
	I don't like her in whatever this clip is.
	I have a clip of her, too.
	This is not a clip of her.
	This is a clip of the Syrian ambassador, Who insinuates very clearly where this gas attack might have come from.
	The Israeli regime introduced terrorism to our region.
	Nuclear terrorism, chemical, biological and radioactive terrorism.
	International reports have also confirmed beyond any doubt that Israel has used biological and chemical weapons many times.
	Against the people in the region, in Syria, Lebanon, and in Palestine.
	Yeah, so they're pointing the finger at Israel.
	And I hope that some of your clips will address this further.
	Well, I've got a different clip that has a different blame.
	It's a U.N. clip.
	Hold on.
	I'll just get this out of the way, then I'll let you roll.
	Because this is from the archives, and it's one of your clips, actually.
	From the PBS NewsHour, January of this year, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Powers.
	The regime, when chemical weapons were used in 2013, Russia was absolutely backing the Syrian regime at that time, and we were denouncing, of course, the gassing of more than a thousand innocent civilians.
	And we denounce Russia's support for that regime.
	When President Obama came out and said he was going to use military force, that, as you know, was what brought Russia forward to say, hey, wait, maybe not that quite.
	Why don't we try something else?
	Maybe we can work together.
	Maybe we can take advantage of the fact that we are, in effect, the benefactor, the sponsor of this regime, where if you don't use military force, we'll work with you to destroy the chemical weapons program.
	And that was exactly the deal, something that is no longer discussed.
	All the chemical weapons were destroyed.
	That was the deal.
	Russia helped.
	Right, and this was because of a John Kerry botch.
	Yep.
	You remember.
	One of the funniest moments in our State Department's history.
	And so they ended up with this screwy thing, and they did it.
	We used mostly our ships.
	Yeah, all the chemical weapons were wiped, were taken out of there.
	But apparently not.
	Well, this is why I think the only thing that makes sense is kind of brought out in this clip.
	This is Syria at the UN. Didn't expect that one.
	Here we go.
	While survivors of the attack recover in hospitals in Syria and here in Turkey, world powers are fighting over who was responsible for the atrocity.
	The political aftermath playing out at the UN Security Council in New York.
	Russia, Syria's most powerful ally, blames a chemical leak from a rebel weapons depot hit by one of the airstrikes.
	But this view is rejected by the United States and other world powers, the US even now seemingly threatening to take on President Bashar al-Assad alone.
	When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.
	For the sake of the victims, I hope the rest of the council is finally willing to do the same.
	The world needs to see the use of chemical weapons and the fact that they will not be tolerated.
	So that's Nikki and saber-rattling.
	And also, we have satellites that are looking at this area...
	If there was anything, we would have had some real intelligence on it.
	I think that the Russians are probably right.
	It was a cache that's That was held by the rebels because the government, Syrian government, doesn't have these anymore, supposedly.
	And I don't see any reason why that wouldn't be true because they're not going to make friends with Trump and then five days later do a gas attack.
	It just makes no sense.
	What I found interesting is this article from 2013, January 2013, in the Daily Mail by Louise Boyle.
	This story was, U.S. back plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime.
	Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying, quote, the idea is approved by Washington.
	Obama issued warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month that use of chemical warfare was totally unacceptable.
	Leaked emails have allegedly proven that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn spur international military action in the devastated country.
	This was an exchange between two senior officials at British-based contractor Britain Defense, where a scheme approved by Washington is outlined and explained that Qatar would fund rebel forces in Syria to use chemical weapons.
	Now, this may be untrue.
	The article has actually disappeared.
	They took it off, so I can find a copy at archive.org.
	But this is not like this is an old plan, or a new plan.
	I mean, it's a plan.
	It's been around forever.
	We've talked about it, and here it is.
	But it seems to me, I don't think the President's going to do much about it.
	Well, we'll see.
	Hopefully you won't.
	Yeah, it'd be very disappointing to me.
	Especially after all his blather about let the Russians take over this battle and end it.
	And on the same day that he made this announcement to demote Steve Bannon from the National Security Council is being seen by the ultra-fanatical Trump supporters as treason.
	Caving.
	Caving, treasonous against them.
	You know, their base is not going to stand for it.
	Very worried.
	Very, very worried.
	In fact, I have...
	What do I have?
	I think I have...
	It's not all true.
	I mean, it's not necessarily all true.
	If you listen to the extreme right-wingers, or the ones that...
	I don't even know what to call them, but the Michael Savages, and even Rush Limbaugh, I'd put in this category.
	They seem to never like Bannon.
	Well, here's Roger Stone, who, of course...
	At least I'm catching it now.
	That's the good news.
	Yeah, once you catch it, you'll be good.
	Actually, there's a couple in there I didn't stop you, but you said them a couple more times.
	Thank you.
	Here's Roger Stone.
	There are still internal turf battles and power struggles, sadly, in the Trump White House.
	One of the things I learned under Ronald Reagan and before him, President Nixon, was that a White House divided against itself, like a campaign divided itself, cannot stand that everyone has to be pulling in the same direction.
	And in this case, that has to be the President's direction.
	I do think that this is at least a loss of public status for Steve Bannon.
	And the reason this concerns me is because, as you know, Google and Facebook and the other Internet giants are moving aggressively to choke off alternative viewpoints to the mainstream media, declaring Infowars, Breitbart, Daily Caller, StoneColdTruth.com, My stuff is fake news.
	If there's anyone inside the Trump White House who should understand this issue and understand the antitrust issues that are triggered by Google's activities, It is Steve Bannon, a man who came from alternative media.
	That's not true.
	He came from mainstream media, mainstream movies.
	Goldman Sachs, he's an investor.
	Yes, and the Jerry Seinfeld show didn't come from alternative.
	Steve Bannon, a man who came from alternative media.
	And therefore, any loss of power or influence is a bad sign for the future of the net.
	Somehow he takes that.
	Actually, I have a connective tissue to that little clip that you just played.
	But I wanted to get some of these Syrian ones out of the way first.
	OK, but let's try to remember that clip.
	I'll write it down.
	Yeah.
	Let's go back to this CBS report, bring Major Garrett in and let him talk a little bit.
	This is the Assad Syria Logic 2.
	In the Oval Office with Jordan's King Abdullah, President Trump called the Syrian regime's chemical weapons attack on civilians an affront to humanity.
	You'll see.
	That's as close as the president came to telegraphing what's next, beyond a personal reassessment of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
	Can I just quickly ask you if the chemical attack crosses a red line for you?
	It crossed a lot of lines for me.
	Okay, you can skip the rest of this.
	Go to clip Syriologic 3.
	I don't have to have one specific way, and if the world changes, I go the same way.
	I don't change.
	Well, I do change, and I am flexible, and I'm proud of that flexibility.
	The president did not rule out a military strike to punish what is likely a war crime.
	One of the things I think you've noticed about me is, militarily, I don't like to say where I'm going and what I'm doing.
	Mr.
	Trump has blamed President Obama for inaction that kept Assad in power.
	I now have responsibility and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly.
	But I'll tell you, that responsibility could have been made a lot easier if it was handled years ago.
	Anyway, I'm not going to play any more of this series because what CBS does is they manage to take these clips, and if you take these Trump clips out of context, as you know if you ever listen to one of his hour-long speeches, you can make him sound like a complete idiot.
	And CBS does that very well, but CBS is pretty...
	Pretty questionable.
	Here we have, this is the very end, the report goes on for five minutes, six minutes, and they have Holly Williams come in at the end, because she's the great expert, she's never even stepped foot in Syria over the last year, as far as I can tell, but...
	She's always there reporting.
	Now she's, there's got the picture of her, Holly Williams, she's in Ankara, Turkey.
	Ankara, Turkey.
	And it says Ankara, and then you look in the back behind her is Ankara.
	And this is just the end of the report, because I want you to just listen to how Scott Pelley attributes her.
	This is Assad-Syria logic, Holly Williams.
	It is very difficult for the U.S. to find effective and reliable partners on the ground.
	Holly Williams on the border with Syria tonight.
	Holly, thanks.
	Now, do you want to bring up a map of Turkey?
	On the border of Syria?
	Yeah.
	Anyone out there should bring up a map of Turkey and look at where Ankara is.
	Let's do it right now.
	Let's do it right now.
	This is very good.
	I don't know.
	Can you give me an estimate of the distance to Syria?
	Is it 400 miles?
	Is it 500 miles?
	Does that constitute being on the border with Syria?
	Let me take a little look here, Jean-Claude, and I will tell you immediately.
	Okay, I've got Ankara up on the map.
	Let's see.
	It's actually quite funny.
	What is this distance?
	Let me see.
	I'll do a Google thing.
	Oh yeah, Google.
	I'll give you the exact distance.
	So from Ankara, I'll just take the closest, Kilis.
	Let's try that.
	So we will direct you from Kilis, Turkey.
	Okay.
	Let's see how many miles that is.
	Oh, John, it's only 747 kilometers.
	Oh!
	It's right.
	That's right.
	On the border.
	On the border.
	Right now, I'm on the border with Mexico.
	Me too.
	Well, you are, I can almost know.
	So what kind of presentation are we getting from CBS? Bullcrap.
	If we get that kind of bullcrap.
	She's nowhere near the border with Syria.
	Nowhere near.
	She's probably just outside one of the fancy...
	Ankara is one of those international capitals that has a lot of nice restaurants.
	And that's where she is.
	Give me a break.
	I found it very annoying.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Onward.
	So what have we concluded?
	We've concluded that it's more than likely a military-industrial complex false flag.
	You have some sort.
	With people dying.
	Because they don't care.
	I don't think...
	This could have been file footage for all I know.
	It could all be bullcrap.
	I mean, it could be bullcrap from the get-go.
	But there's so many...
	If you look at any films or any...
	I would like to remind everyone to go...
	That area is wrecked.
	I would like everyone to go take a look at the movie.
	Wag the dog, if you haven't seen it yet.
	Yeah, you should definitely see that.
	This is a movie you need to see.
	We need to remember these things.
	Astounding.
	Truly astounding.
	Well, again, it's the logic of it that got to my attention.
	I mean, there's absolutely zero logic to any of this if it's presented...
	The way that our government and...
	Mickey and all the rest of them present this is not logical.
	I mean, just that's it.
	You stop right there.
	But then you start seeing this other kind of embellishments and nonsense and all the rest.
	And where's our real intelligence?
	You know, they've got satellites looking at all this stuff.
	They would be able to name the plane that dropped the chemical weapons.
	Well, they're the same guys that see barrel bombs being dropped out of helicopters 50 times a day.
	You've got to question that as well.
	I have another Nikki Haley clip for you as it relates to the President and Putin and Trump.
	You might change your mind about her.
	I don't care if you don't.
	But she's in an interview with Martha Raddatz, who was being a real douche.
	Very quite good at being douchey.
	President Trump is...
	I was just going to say, Nikki is a very well-honed politician, and I think she could easily handle Martha.
	President Trump has said he respects Putin, but you say you don't trust him.
	You've said the U.S. needs to take hacking seriously.
	President Trump has been dismissive of it.
	Which one of you should our allies and adversaries believe?
	I think we're both saying the same thing.
	It's just being reported differently.
	If you look at what Russia, about Russia and us calling them out, President Trump has agreed and this administration agrees that Russia's involvement in Ukraine is wrong.
	And I think that if you listen to what he said about the elections, of course we don't want any country involved in our elections.
	And so that's going to happen.
	I think that Russia is very aware that they're on notice when it comes to certain issues.
	They're very aware that we do want to try and defeat ISIS together, if that's at all possible, along with our allies.
	But there's no love or anything going on with Russia right now.
	They get that we're getting our strength back, that we're getting our voice back, and that we're starting to lead again.
	And honestly, at the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get, is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.
	Do you really think that you and President Trump are saying the same things?
	Let me tell you one thing President Trump recently said.
	He defended Putin after Fox News' Bill O'Reilly called him a killer, saying, there are a lot of killers.
	Do you think our country is so innocent?
	So how does the U.S. maintain its role as the moral conscience of the world, to use your words this week, if the President won't condemn what's happening inside Russia?
	Well, Martha, this is what I can tell you.
	The president has not once called me and said, don't beat up on Russia.
	Has not once called me and told me what to say.
	But he isn't beating up on Russia.
	Should he be beating up on Russia?
	I am.
	I am beating up on Russia.
	So he doesn't need to?
	You see?
	He's not being mean enough.
	He's not beating up on Russia.
	He's not beating up on North Korea.
	He's not beating up on Assad.
	Now they're going to call his courage into question.
	And I believe that may be precarious.
	Well...
	Because the president definitely has, you know, some issues where if you say, you know, hey, you're a pussy, he may not rest.
	He'll obsess on that, yes.
	Play this little snippet from Syria.
	This is the ABC... I did most of my work off of CBS, but I was watching a lot of ABC because ABC has been slipping in some...
	Kind of counter-messaging to the mainstream, what we're getting from everybody else, I've been finding it interesting.
	...ones who survived being sprayed off, hosed down, after warplanes dropped what appeared to be a toxic gas.
	The White House is responding tonight, and ABC's Jonathan Karl leading us off.
	What was that?
	That was somebody screaming.
	Let me hear that.
	Was there a point?
	Maybe I missed it.
	No, you know, that's why I said snippet.
	There was a point, and I lost whatever the point was.
	The ones who survived being sprayed off, hosed down.
	Ah, the hosing down, probably.
	After warplanes dropped, what appeared to be a toxic gas.
	Appeared to be.
	Yeah, appeared to be a toxic acid.
	The whole thing is...
	Do you know, so I have a...
	Oh, this does kind of confirm the thesis that this...
	It's a hoax.
	It's not a hoax.
	I got a note from our Army intel guy.
	Hold on, let me just read it to you.
	Okay, so he sent me a quote from a European magazine where an activist, Syrian activist in Khan...
	Khan Shekun said, the smoke spread until finally there was a layer all above the village, which was white, thick smoke.
	White, thick smoke.
	That's what he said the chemical looked like.
	And my military intel guy out of the blue says, do you remember the white...
	Smoke trail that led to MH17 that blew it out of the sky.
	Insinuating that perhaps it was just white smoke.
	And not necessarily a chemical attack.
	We don't know.
	We just see people running.
	And people running and not equipped to deal with a medical emergency of this nature.
	Because they would die too.
	Yes.
	Yes, especially with Saren.
	Yeah, definitely, definitely odd.
	But we'll just see.
	It doesn't matter.
	To me, it never matters.
	It doesn't matter if it's a false flag.
	It matters what the response is.
	Yeah, it's all about the response.
	Do you want to talk about the twerp?
	Well, we could talk about the twerp.
	We could talk about...
	We had a little Bannon stuff that we started with.
	We already had Bannon introduced.
	I want to get him out of the way.
	You got some more Bannon?
	I do have a Bannon Sage CBS version.
	This is the...
	I have two...
	There's two interesting...
	Okay, here's the stories for today the way I see it for the mainstream stories.
	There's Bannon...
	The twerp and Bill O'Reilly.
	Yes, those are the big mainstream stories.
	And the gas attack, of course, which we already covered.
	Obviously, obviously.
	There's other little things.
	Well, hold on.
	Let me stop you right there.
	Let me stop you.
	That is not the big story.
	The big story, Barry Manilow is gay.
	Yes, that actually got a lot of attention.
	Because you know why it got so much attention?
	You know why?
	Do you know why?
	Do you know why?
	Yes, I do.
	It was a stunner.
	It was a shocker.
	Who knew?
	The real story is, here's a celebrity who's been married for 30 years and he's still married.
	That's the story.
	Okay.
	How can you be gay and married?
	Is he married to a man?
	Yes, he is.
	Okay, so what's the big deal?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Seems that when he got married to the man, the story then would be he's gay.
	I'm sorry.
	Why do we wait 30 years?
	I'm sorry.
	That wasn't the big story, John.
	I'm nuts.
	No.
	The big story is the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial.
	Which, can I say, I like the commercial!
	That's a true alternate universe commercial right there.
	They produce this.
	Why don't you explain to people, not everyone has seen this commercial in its entirety.
	I only saw it on the internet.
	I never saw it on TV. Why don't you explain the commercial so people are going to get a clue about what they're talking about.
	And I look at this very closely and I stopped every frame and looked at it.
	Yeah, it was worth it.
	It was worth it.
	Yeah, Pepsi has a long-form commercial, two minutes, which apparently they've pulled.
	And in it, you see there's two scenes going on.
	There's Kendall Jenner who's doing a photo shoot, a fashion photo shoot, as protesters are walking by.
	And the protester signs, and that's why I did all the stop frame.
	Most of them say love, although there was a half of a...
	Excuse me.
	Half of a love Trump's hate sign.
	But mainly it was join the conversation.
	That's what the signs read.
	And this is subliminal stuff.
	Your brain catches that.
	That's why I stopped framing it.
	Join the conversation.
	And everyone's having fun.
	They're dancing and You know, they're just really all into it, and then they come up against the blue line of cops who are standing there, and at this point, Jenner's decided that she wants to be in with everybody, and she's dancing along, and she grabs a Pepsi, and she breaks the front line of the protesters, walks up to the cop, and hands him the Pepsi, and he drinks it, and everyone's happy, and hey, we're all getting along.
	I think that this...
	There was a huge mistake that was...
	It was a timing mistake.
	Of course, this commercial was produced months ago, most likely.
	And I said, of course, again.
	It was produced months ago.
	And they didn't realize that you have to straddle both universes now with advertising.
	You can't go all in.
	Because, to me, I was like, well, that's kind of a hopeful message.
	I didn't have a huge negative reaction.
	But, oh, people lost their crap over it.
	Well, why don't you explain why?
	Because I don't...
	I still don't know why.
	Let me apologize to begin with.
	I knew about the story.
	I saw the commercial.
	I didn't think much about it.
	Not to the point where I'm going to do a stop frame analysis.
	And I, to this minute, did not know why everyone was making such a fuss about.
	I knew it was a dimension B. No doubt about that.
	Yeah.
	But I don't know why they're making...
	Was Rob Reiner bitching and moaning about it?
	I didn't notice.
	Well, let me read something here.
	This is from The Hill.
	I'm just grabbing something.
	Pepsi's Kendall Jenner ad falls flat.
	What brands must learn from it?
	Maybe that's something interesting for us.
	The biggest job for any marketer is to make their audience care.
	This can be done through humor, asking a question.
	Sometimes it can even be done through anger, just not in the way Pepsi evoked outrage this week.
	Pepsi's latest commercial, which features reality star and model Kendall Jenner surveying a friendly protest while cops stand guard, finds a way to strike all of the wrong cords.
	For starters, the advertisement shows Jenner, a 21-year-old white supermodel, join a crowd of people from all ethnic backgrounds.
	Oh, okay, so it's racist right there.
	Who are seemingly having a good time while police officers look on with stern faces.
	Upon joining the crowd, Kendall grabs a Pepsi and hands it to an officer.
	Once he pops the tab and takes a step, a picture is taken and the crowd erupts in applause.
	To say the ad is tone deaf would be kind.
	After the social media backlash, Pepsi executives quickly realized the debacle and made a statement that the company was going to pull the ad.
	Let me just read some of the tweets.
	Could you be any more blatant with the disrespect and appropriation of a movement, Pepsi?
	I'm boycotting all Pepsi products until they apologize for this blasphemy.
	Here's a list of their brands.
	This is the other new thing.
	Let's go after their advertisers.
	This shows you how smart we are.
	You can do whatever we want.
	You can't go after our advertisers.
	You have to go to thousands of homes and shoot people.
	Good luck.
	Yeah, so I guess it's because they appropriated culture, protest, movement, everything, and we can't have happy stuff anymore.
	I just find it very, very Dimension B disturbing.
	Extremely.
	And to me, it was a little bit in the line of Coke, you know?
	I'd like to teach the world to sing at perfect harmony, perfect harmony.
	Yeah.
	That's what I was thinking, but no.
	That wouldn't go over today.
	It'd be cultural appropriation.
	Yes, especially showing black people drinking Coca-Cola.
	That'd be so wrong.
	Soda.
	That's a crazy world we live in.
	But at least we're going to give you the reality check.
	And I would like to read you something, which I remembered...
	To get from one of my many books here in the library, and you tell me where this is from, you probably know.
	This may explain the situation we're in today.
	Here we go.
	Atlas Shrugged.
	No!
	And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
	Who controls the past ran the party slogan, controls the future.
	Who controls the present, controls the past.
	And yet, the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
	Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.
	It was quite simple.
	All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory.
	Reality control, they called it.
	In Newspeak, Double Think.
	Yes, you are correct sir.
	We're living it.
	Living the dream.
	We're living the dream.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. USC stands for Clips Out of Context.
	Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Kerr.
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	Yeah.
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	Nick is...
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	618?
	Is that right?
	918?
	918.
	918.
	9 and 9 is 18 should be easy to remember.
	Starting with Curtis Sorrells from Parts Unknown, it looks like.
	USA. $1,000.
	Bada bing!
	So he's a big kahuna for today.
	Send a note in by email.
	Just catching up on the show from last Thursday and something is spot on.
	Plural pronoun.
	He's being very...
	The note is hard to read because he's got a lot of jokes within the note.
	Screw these snowflakes and their pronouns.
	From here on out, I want to be known as the beast.
	And my pronoun is wow.
	I don't want to be simply microaggressive.
	I want to be full bore aggressive.
	Instant night.
	Boom.
	Take that, unicorn lovers.
	Please figure out how to identify me when, insert proper pronoun here, when you knight me.
	I'm not a sir or a dame.
	I am now wow.
	So that's what I have to say?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	He's not a sir.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	So he's wow, Kurt Sorles.
	Wow.
	Okay, so he's not...
	Hey, this is interesting.
	In the words of the late Samuel Johnson, he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
	There.
	Wow feels better now.
	Love you, man.
	So he is wow...
	Wow of what?
	He's just wow.
	That's all.
	But he has a title, The Beast.
	He doesn't give himself, yeah, okay, The Beast.
	Okay, he's wowed The Beast.
	Okay, that's it.
	Done.
	Consider it done.
	We'll do that in your nighting.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	Always fun.
	Seems a bit convoluted.
	I'm not going to complain.
	No, of course not.
	God, no.
	$1,000.
	We'll call you Corn Flakes.
	We don't care.
	Here's your karma.
	Giving you that on top of it.
	Thank you so much.
	You've got karma.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Wait, we can...
	Don't we have a...
	We have a thing for that, don't we?
	Wow.
	Don't we have a...
	There we go.
	Wow!
	Yeah, there you go.
	That's it.
	We have this one.
	Oh, wow.
	That's really good.
	No, that's too long.
	Wow.
	Oh, wow.
	He's not oh, wow.
	He's wow.
	It's just pure on wow.
	Wow!
	Wow.
	Oh, wow.
	Henry Barron of Outpost West, Rancho Palos Verde, 650 bucks.
	Related birthday contribution for John, 65 times 10 for 10 years of no agenda.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	You could have thought of that one.
	Yeah, you could have thought of that one.
	Thanks, Henry Barron of Outpost West, and we'll give him a karma for that.
	I believe we will.
	You've got karma.
	And associate executive producer would be Rodney E. in Tampa, Florida, 213.13.
	And he sent a note in with a check.
	And the note says, ITM, thank you for all your hard effort and insightful analysis on the greatest podcast in the universe.
	I've been close to donation at 213.13.
	I've been a couple of years since my last donation.
	I'm way overdue.
	I've been listening on and off for over three years since my friend Nick punched me in the mouth.
	The only question and comment I have is for the dynamic duo about climate change and environmental issues.
	At first it took me a while to understand the angle you were taking with climate change and my MSM programming was strong.
	Of course it was.
	However, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, the tools of most climate change believers is clean energy like solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, etc., including energy independence.
	What's wrong with that as a goal?
	We're all for nuclear energy.
	Or anything that works and is cheap.
	Carbon tax aside, I'm for wave energy.
	If they can make that work, they can't.
	I don't think it's, no.
	I think a polluter's tax makes sense in America because it allows people to still own some dirty vehicles, toys, but help clean up the mess.
	Thoughts, comments?
	I'm changing my tune.
	I think we've had plenty of taxes.
	I'm changing my tune.
	I'm now going to be all in for geoengineering.
	Okay, I think you'd be a good promoter.
	Yeah.
	He says, keep up the tech segments.
	Please call out my friend Nick, who we complimented a minute ago, as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	For being overdue donating and say hi to my smoking hot wife of almost 20 years, Teresa and Karma for everyone.
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	You've got Karma.
	Yeah, I'm just going to be all in.
	Geoengineering, man.
	That's the future.
	That's how we're going to save the world.
	Yeah, and then again, but watch the movie Snowpiercer before you make that.
	Grand Duke David Foley.
	I happened to speak to him a few days ago.
	I will quote the Grand Duke himself verbatim.
	Thanks, John, for that suggestion.
	What a piece of crap that movie was.
	Well, I'm not saying the movie wasn't a piece of crap.
	A lot of great movies are pieces of crap.
	It just had the message that we're trying to get across here.
	The globe has frozen over because of climate change nuts.
	I would recommend the book.
	What was the guy who's dead now, the writer?
	Dead writer?
	Let me think.
	What was the dead writer's name?
	I can't remember.
	He wrote the book about the climate change crazies.
	Oh, you're talking about Michael Crichton.
	Crichton, yeah.
	What was the name of that book?
	I'll get it.
	This is a must-read.
	Yes, it's a very good book.
	State of Fear.
	State of Fear.
	I think that he was...
	We have a clip of him talking to Charlie Rose, as a matter of fact.
	If you could dig that up, that'd be interesting.
	Sure.
	Crichton, how do you spell that?
	C-H-R-I-C-H-T-O-N, I believe.
	Probably easier to find it under Charlie Rose.
	Mm-hmm.
	Rose and Crichton, maybe.
	If you can't find it, I'll dig it up.
	Michael...
	Michael Crichton.
	Hmm.
	Look up Rose.
	Maybe that's...
	Yeah, well, there's a lot of Rose clips.
	Oh, it's too many.
	You're thinking you may have done that.
	But I'm sure...
	This is annoying.
	Let me see.
	Charlie Rose...
	It may not, you know, it may be so old, John.
	It's pretty old.
	Yeah.
	Will you look that one up?
	It was right after he died.
	I'll bring it in on Sunday.
	Well, maybe it's under state of fear.
	No.
	Not unless you renamed it.
	I definitely would not name it that.
	Okay.
	Well, we don't have it.
	I'm sorry.
	Fail.
	That's okay.
	All right.
	Anyway, that's all we got.
	We got three people.
	Well, okay.
	Well, luckily we have an instant night.
	That does help, but please consider us for our Sunday show.
	Yes.
	And we will be thanking more people.
	That's also not a super long list.
	I can't milk the birthday any longer.
	No, no, that's done.
	We'll be thanking more people, $50 and above.
	These are our executive producer and two associate executive producers.
	Actual credits, you can use them anywhere credits are valid.
	Putting them on your LinkedIn, other profiles, seems to help people get work if you're looking for jobs.
	I got a lot of other little miscellaneous things like a free book and some other things.
	Somebody sent me a happy birthday card.
	I'd like to know who it was because they don't have their name attached to it.
	But this card is a big, giant, extremely glossy card that is printed by some high-end printer.
	I don't know what it is.
	It had a big picture of me on the back.
	And then the card itself was all printed with some high-level...
	The guy printed his picture on his own stamp, which you can legally do, which is not a bad idea.
	But it's not just a printed stamp that he's glued on there.
	It was part of the whole package and printed within the mechanism of the This guy's got some gear I want to know about.
	He knows who he is.
	Well, thank you, everyone, once again.
	And remember us for our Thursday show at...
	And you know what to do.
	Your ultimate job as a producer is to go out there and propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up, play.
	Shut up, slave!
	And I would like to add...
	Adam, hold on one second.
	Oh, hold on.
	John, the control.
	Yeah, Adam, look at the clip that you were looking for.
	Oh, okay, great.
	Why don't you roll that?
	All right, in five.
	...about myself.
	I liked it, actually.
	Yeah, thank you.
	And I'm trying to do another one.
	And I'm actually...
	I mean, it sounds perverse to many people, but I'm proud of having done the book about global warming.
	I mean, if you listen to this conversation, you have to be thinking.
	I knew everybody was going to be against me, and I thought, this is what I believe, and I'm sorry, and I said it.
	And I did it, and I've taken just flack for it.
	But you know what?
	It is what I believe.
	And you're proud that you did it because you went into rough seas.
	Very rough seas.
	And nasty, and personal, and brutal, and unfair, and mean.
	Well, what was nasty, brutal, and unfair, and mean?
	Oh, Charlie, this is...
	I mean, you ought to look at what people say.
	For example, when I started talking about genetics, people said, well, you know, you might get some criticism for this.
	Well, I haven't gotten any criticism for genetics, let me tell you.
	I know what criticism is.
	I've had the experience of having had books in print for 40 years.
	So I can go back and look at the stand that I took in favor of abortion when I was a medical student in Boston in 1967, six years before Roe v.
	Wade, and I can look at that and go, was I right or not?
	And I think, damn it, I was right.
	And I'm imagining, when I wrote this book, when I wrote The State of Fear, I was imagining, what's it going to look like in 40 years?
	I think I'm going to come out just fine.
	Tell me about the sexuality.
	It's in your DNA. Wow.
	I am really high.
	That was a little bit the camera didn't catch there at the end.
	Hey, how good is this show that our control room found a clip from 2017?
	That control room, those guys are the best.
	Thanks, John.
	All right, now we can move on to, well, I got a couple of interregnums here, little bitty things.
	Interregnum, another phrase for the chaise.
	What's an interregnum?
	I don't know what it means.
	I think you just threw that in there, didn't you?
	It's just a historical term when you use it for analyzing historical movements.
	Indonesia girl marriage, this is good, interesting stuff.
	I'm sure it is.
	Lawmakers in Malaysia today approved a law on sex crimes against children but balked at banning child marriage.
	During the debate, one legislator declared that girls as young as nine are, quote, physically and spiritually ready to marry.
	The mostly Muslim nation allows girls younger than 16 to marry if their parents and Islamic courts permit it.
	Lovely.
	There you go.
	Well, it used to be, the age limit used to be 13 in Vatican City.
	They raised that.
	It was a little...
	Well, they're raising it in one part of the world, lowering it in another.
	The balance is a balancing act.
	Just on that tip for a moment, there's a huge outrage in Sweden.
	I want to know those northern countries like Russia, everyone has a car dash cam.
	There's something cultural about it.
	Well, I know that the Russians have it because I believe it has to do with their insurance.
	Yeah, possibly.
	Because it's crazy.
	But the dash cams, if people want to have some fun some Saturday afternoon or Sunday night...
	Here it comes, everybody.
	Tip.
	You go to your YouTube and you look up Russian...
	Dash cams or car cams.
	Yeah, they're fun to watch.
	And just start watching these.
	There's a lot of compilations that go on for like a half an hour.
	I would say some of the craziest things you'll ever see in your life.
	Yeah.
	So a number of people who have these dash cams in Sweden rolled up behind a school bus that was loading kids.
	And so, of course, you have to wait until everyone's on the bus.
	And what was captured is that this school was segregating the Muslim boys from the Muslim girls.
	So the Muslim girls had to get in the bus in the back through the back door and the boys in the front of the bus to the front door.
	And gee, who knew this was happening?
	They're all going crazy.
	Yeah, yeah, that's part of the deal.
	And I want to point out that go to any temple and you'll see that the women are sitting up above upper deck and the men are down below.
	It's the same idea, in essence.
	Yeah.
	But okay.
	Whatevs.
	Big shocker.
	Whatevs.
	Whatevs.
	Let me ease us into the twerp.
	I'll ease us into the twerp with a little clip from my favorite show, Billions.
	I love this show.
	Okay, and I have the long clip.
	From ABC on the twerp.
	That is the intro clip if you think we need that after your clip.
	Oh, we'll totally need it.
	This is just showing how art is, you know, recreating life.
	Life recreates art.
	It goes both ways.
	Have you ever seen Billions, the show?
	I like the show.
	I don't watch it.
	It's not one of my watchers.
	It's not on my list.
	But when it's on or if I happen to be passing by, I will watch it.
	It's an outstanding product.
	Thank you.
	But season two, they're making a big mistake.
	I'll tell you after we play the clip.
	So in this trading firm, Axe Capital, they have for...
	I actually understand this reason.
	They have a psychologist who is one of the main characters.
	Wendy, to deal with the trader's psychology, because once you are a trader, the only thing that can really mess you up is the psychology, just dumb things you might do.
	This happens all the time.
	And by trader, you mean trade D? Someone who trades stocks and bonds and stuff.
	So he comes in, and he's having issues, he's having real troubles.
	Even though his numbers are up, he can't sleep at night.
	I didn't sleep last night.
	Your numbers have been strong, even in a tough market.
	Yeah, they have been.
	So what was it kept you up?
	Russian hackers.
	They can fuck with us so easily, in ways we can't even comprehend.
	A few keystrokes, and they can bring an entire airline to a standstill.
	Thousands of people stranded.
	So your fear is, what, these hackers targeting you, the entire market?
	My portfolio could go up in flames.
	I have a family.
	When did you start losing sleep over it?
	Just last night.
	Anything happen yesterday?
	I had to go out to Axis House in the Hamptons for a special meeting.
	There you go.
	So be very afraid.
	Keeping you awake at night.
	They can stop...
	A whole airline with a few keystrokes.
	That may be a predictive little thing that they threw in there.
	Maybe.
	I just want to say about the show, I loved season one.
	I still love season two, but they need to put some kinky sex in.
	This was part of, I think, one of the success formula of this show.
	They had elitist people with kinky sex habits.
	A lot of BDSM, Golden Shower, which was fun to watch.
	And now it's like, well, you don't even see them having sex anymore.
	Something happened and it's ruining the show.
	Probably got a new producer or somebody did some studies.
	They do this to death, the studies.
	Yeah, they do.
	They brought in a focus group and they said, you know, what is the dad into?
	The question always remains, what does it do to move the story forward?
	And I guess we could come up with an argument.
	It makes me want to watch this.
	Well, there's a guy named Adam Curry who's in Austin.
	I know for a fact that he thinks it's cool.
	Well, that's just one guy.
	It doesn't count.
	It doesn't count.
	It's one guy.
	No good.
	All right.
	What is your...
	Okay, here we go.
	This is the whole rundown.
	This is the entire rundown on Susan Rice as presented on ABC. And I think they've got it.
	And ABC, again, is one of these...
	I think it's an outlier on the spectrum of network CIA-controlled media.
	We do turn to the other major headline involving the White House tonight after President Trump's claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
	President Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice now answering questions tonight.
	Did she ask that members of Trump's team be identified, unmasked as they call it, after being swept up in surveillance for foreign threats?
	ABC senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega with what she said.
	It was exactly one month ago that President Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping him in Trump Tower.
	And tonight, the president's conservative allies say Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice revealed the identities of Trump associates swept up in surveillance.
	From Rice today, a firm denial.
	This is not anything political has been alleged.
	The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials Sources tell ABC News that as the intelligence community investigated Russia's election meddling, in some cases Trump campaign and transition officials were picked up in surveillance, Rice requesting their identities.
	Today Rice said she did indeed ask to know names, a request known as unmasking, done in cases where U.S. security is at risk.
	American identities that would otherwise be anonymous are revealed to those with security clearance like Rice.
	In order to understand the importance of the report and assess its significance, It was necessary to find out or request the information as to who that U.S. official was.
	Rice wouldn't say whether any of those names were Trump associates, and she vehemently denied that she leaked any names.
	I leaked nothing to nobody, and never have and never would.
	And says the unmasking was a key part of her job.
	We can't be passive consumers of this information and do our jobs effectively to protect the American people.
	Imagine if we saw something of grave significance that involved Russia or China or anybody else interfering in our political process and we needed to understand the significance of that.
	For us not to try to understand it would be dereliction of duty.
	Republicans not buying it.
	Senator Rand Paul tweeting, smoking gun found, saying...
	So now we know that someone in the Obama administration was eavesdropping and specifically searching a data bank.
	Did we know that?
	No.
	Where did you know that?
	It's a big deal.
	Rice maintains there was nothing illegal, no smoking gun, and no wiretapping of Trump Tower.
	There was no such collection surveillance on Trump Tower or Trump individuals.
	And it's very important to understand, by that I mean directed by the White House or targeted at Trump individuals.
	So let's get to Cecilia Vega live at the White House as well tonight.
	And Cecilia, some Republicans this evening are calling for Rice to testify now.
	Where does the White House stand on this?
	Well, the White House was asked directly about this today, David.
	They're not weighing in on this one just yet.
	In fact, they do, though, call these reports about unmasking and Rice troubling.
	But you said it, those calls growing louder by Republicans.
	They just sent a letter to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees demanding that Rice be called on to test.
	This is a great alternate universe story.
	This really is a very good example where we have some facts And the facts are she requested unmasking and these unmasked transcripts got out to people.
	And the two universes from where I straddle, one says crime and the other says doing her job.
	It is really, really a very good example.
	In fact, I... Well, if you don't mind, after that excellent intro, I have three quick clips, kind of a year three by three, From the three big morning shows, today's show, Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on how they handle the news.
	Susan Rice is in the spotlight this morning amid reports she requested the identities of US citizens in intelligence reports.
	That wound up connecting to some of Donald Trump's transition and campaign officials.
	Trump administration says Rice crossed the line by doing it.
	Now, Rice hasn't commented publicly, but former Obama officials are pushing back and argue it is common practice to seek identities in the course of trying to understand intelligence reports.
	And what you'll hear in every single one of them is this rather serious allegation is countered by anonymous people.
	What did we just hear in this particular clip?
	Let me just go back a second.
	Rice crossed the line by doing it.
	Now, Rice hasn't commented publicly, but former Obama officials are pushing back.
	Just some faceless, nameless former Obama officials, whoever that would be.
	We don't know who that is.
	Okay, let's check out Good Morning America.
	Quite a bit of a reaction to this among conservatives.
	Definitely so.
	In fact, some of the president's conservative allies are applauding this.
	They are calling this the smoking gun.
	Why don't they name names?
	That proves his wiretapping claims.
	It is not that, Amy.
	A former aide close to Rice doesn't deny that she did in fact seek out And now we have a former aide close to Rice.
	Why can't you just get anyone to say no?
	That didn't happen.
	The smoking gun that proves his wiretapping claims.
	It is not that, Amy.
	A former aide close to Rice doesn't deny that she did, in fact, seek out these names.
	But they say that she did nothing illegal or nothing out of the purview of her job, her former job, as National Security Advisor.
	Sounds like proper reporting to me.
	Former aide said that.
	Well, that's the end of story.
	Good enough.
	Let's check out CBS this morning.
	As national security advisor, it was within Rice's authority to request the unmasking of names.
	However, the source said Rice did not ask that the names be distributed through the intelligence community, as members of the Trump White House continue to allege.
	Again, all anonymous sources.
	Let's not got anybody on the record.
	Now let's hop over to cable news.
	Van Jones took it one step further on his show there on the CNNs.
	She got very disturbing information.
	And she looked into it.
	And as best we can tell, she did her job inside the proper channels.
	For doing this, Donald Trump should give Susan Rice the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	Okay?
	Somebody like Comey would have run to the cameras, created a huge...
	I mean, you don't need to hear anymore.
	We know where he's in Dimension B. Now, one of our theories is that the truth always wants to come out.
	It always wants to come out.
	So if you did not leak anything, the one thing you would definitely never say is, I leaked something to somebody.
	So you train your brain.
	I'm not going to say that.
	I'm going to deny anything to anybody.
	And it was in your clip, and I'll bring it back.
	Did you seek the names of people involved in, to unmask the names of people involved in the Trump transition, the Trump campaign, in order to spy on them, in order to expose them?
	Absolutely not, for any political purposes, to spy, expose anything.
	Did you leak the name of Mike Flynn?
	I leaked nothing to nobody.
	And never have and never would.
	I leak nothing to nobody is the truth.
	It is the opposite.
	What she is thinking, I did leak something to somebody.
	It's how it works.
	This is a very odd statement from this woman.
	Very odd.
	And you know what?
	I think I know who she leaked to.
	I'm all ears.
	Susan Rice, 52 years old.
	Her height, often disputed on the No Agenda show, 5'4".
	I thought she was smaller than 5'4".
	4'11".
	But who is she married to?
	Oh, she's married to the ABC producer, isn't she?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Ian Cameron.
	Yeah.
	Not just any producer, ABC News executive producer.
	And that's who she leaked it to, but of course I didn't leak nothing to nobody.
	It's the truth that wants to come out.
	And for the first time, and I cut it down just to a minute or two, I decided to get Bombard's Body Language on the show.
	Have you ever seen Bombard's Body Language on YouTube's?
	No, maybe once sometime.
	Yeah, you might have seen it.
	There's a woman who does analysis.
	Was she the blonde that used to get on O'Reilly's show?
	No, no, no.
	This is someone else.
	Only on YouTube, I think.
	It's voice only, and she went through the PBS NewsHour, and if you didn't see it, go back and take a look.
	And of course it's in the show notes at 918.noagendanotes.com or you can find it at search.nashownotes.com which is back up and running.
	Listen to this analysis.
	I know nothing about this.
	I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Yunus.
	Okay, now what you're seeing is a body that is going still.
	Not exactly, actually.
	She's doing a lot of lean forward movement.
	Anyways, she's actually leaning forward as she talks.
	She's doing the pendulum forward, which means she's in portrayal mode and her body is not singing.
	...on that count today.
	I mean, let's back up and recall where we have been.
	The President of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
	Nothing of the sort occurred, and we've heard that.
	And she does that double blink thing when she's doing that.
	Yeah, this is a really good one.
	Her tail is blink, blink, because her eyes are completely open, and when she goes into a lie, the tail is this blink, blink.
	She does it right on the word, in rhythm with the words, blink, blink.
	And she does that double blink thing when she's doing that.
	Fire tapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
	Nothing of the sort occurred, and we've heard that.
	So we're portraying, we're having an anomaly in her blinking, and she's being very still in her neck movements.
	It's extreme stress that we're seeing from her.
	Confirmed by the director of the FBI, who also pointed out that no president, no White House, can order the surveillance of another American citizen.
	Now we can see she's saying for just like a split second, the director of the FBI said...
	And that can only come from the Justice Department with the approval of a FISA court.
	So today, I really don't know to what Chairman Nunes was referring, but he said that whatever he...
	And we were in betrayal in that one.
	Basically a whole lot of portrayal.
	And she actually says nothing that would give us a peek into anything other than the fact that she is being extremely deceptive the entire time of this interview.
	The president did request back in December that the intelligence community compile all of the information about the presidential request.
	Can't hide from that, sweetheart.
	Yeah, that's a big one.
	That was a flub she made there.
	She said the presidential request.
	That is in fact saying the president requested this.
	About the presidential request.
	Can't hide from that sweetheart.
	Can't hide.
	And another long blink.
	Remains the thrust of our strategy, as it should be.
	The last thing I want to...
	She's using your keyboard, by the way.
	I love that old IBM with the long travel keys.
	That move right there.
	I do this a lot.
	That's how I know it so well.
	She took in that deep breath.
	Now, she's been really still the whole time.
	She's in portrayal mode.
	She's a deceptive person.
	And at the very end of this little spiel that she goes through, she takes in a deep breath.
	And she holds it in.
	Now, she can't hide bringing in the deep breath because you need it.
	But for it to not come out and give away what's really going on in her mind, like I said, you try and cover up one tail, you create another one.
	She holds it in and does a controlled release.
	Now, I don't know if this woman is a professional or not, but I liked it and I thought there was a lot to it.
	Because you can tell a lot from people's.
	Well, she is the one.
	She is the great deceiver.
	She's the one who went on Meet the Press when the Benghazi thing went.
	All five morning shows.
	She had the full...
	Yeah, she did all five morning shows all at the same time giving the same bull crap about the movie.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I never liked this woman.
	I didn't like it when she was at the UN. I didn't like her in the officer with all the other females.
	It was loaded with them.
	Jarrett and all the rest.
	Well, Dimension B, certainly the corporate media in Dimension B, like her a lot.
	And this was...
	It was very interesting when this story broke by that Cernovich guy.
	Right.
	Cernovich is an interesting character.
	We didn't know who he was, but we just saw him pop on the radar all of a sudden.
	Who the hell is this guy?
	I think he's a...
	A huge promoter.
	He's got a book to sell, and he sells it.
	And he's a promoter of himself in the book.
	And I think he's one of the best I've ever seen, even though it's not my style the way he does it.
	No, I had a different take on him.
	MKUltra.
	You think?
	Maybe?
	He sure is beefed up.
	The guy's muscle-bound.
	Yeah, I thought it could be MKUltra.
	So, this broke...
	Let's see, Wall Street Journal had the story.
	The Business Insider had the story.
	And it took CNN a long time, a long time, to do anything.
	And I think that...
	Because they had...
	It comes a little bit too close to the original allegation.
	I think they were shell-shocked or caught in the headlights or any variation of that phrase from the Shays.
	And they just decided to do nothing until they figured it out.
	And of course, to find out what CNN is really thinking, we go to the overnight legend, Don Lemon.
	And last week, it was a debunked talking point that former Obama administration official Evelyn Farkas admitted spying on the Trump team.
	She did no such thing.
	The week before that, it was Representative Devin Nunes' clumsy effort to give the president cover for wiretapping claims.
	The president said he was vindicated by Nunes.
	He was not.
	The Washington Post today calls the latest claims about Susan Rice anatomy of a fake scandal ginned up by right-wing media and Trump.
	So let us be very clear about this.
	There is no evidence whatsoever That the Trump team surveilled or spied on illegally.
	There is no evidence that backs up the president's original claim.
	And on this program tonight, we will not insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise.
	Nor will we aid and abet the people who are trying to misinform you, the American people, by creating a diversion.
	Don Lemon, man.
	He's like the honey badger.
	Don Lemon just really doesn't care.
	He does not care.
	He'll say whatever he has to.
	But the best response to this was on MSNBC. Hardball.
	Douchebag Matthews.
	And he had our favorite Mother Jones, D.C. Bureau Chief, on.
	The man who claims he got the dossier of the golden shower in Russia.
	Yeah, Korn.
	That's right, everybody.
	David Korn.
	And boy, does he have a different take on this.
	We need some element of decency.
	When Rand Paul gets out there and says she's abused this right, there is not an iota of evidence that she's abused anything.
	Calling her die, fuck Mary.
	All we know now is that she did her job.
	Did she do something wrong?
	There is no information indicating that.
	So they are making her, you know, basically they're defaming her without any reason to do so.
	Because she's a woman.
	Maybe because she's a black woman.
	Maybe because they didn't like her during Benghazi.
	Yeah, because she's not just a woman, she's a black woman.
	It's racist.
	That's what's going on.
	That's the obvious answer.
	That's David Korn.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	From now on, we'll just call it that.
	He's cornholing.
	Racist.
	Sexist.
	Unreal.
	Unreal.
	Well, it's fun.
	Oh, it's totally fun.
	Now let's go to, do we have anything more on her?
	I don't think so.
	Well...
	We've got to follow this out, but I think it's somewhat related to Bill O'Reilly, and I think we can roll the Bill O'Reilly stuff out.
	Yeah, okay.
	O'Reilly...
	Are you a backgrounder or are you just going to...
	Well, I'm going to...
	Yeah, let's talk about it.
	O'Reilly is a...
	This has been going on for years.
	O'Reilly seems to be a masher of some sort or maybe a bipolar slur.
	A masher.
	He might be a masher.
	Oh, that's disgusting.
	You know what a masher is?
	Yes, you might want to tell our producers.
	Yes, well, you actually knew, you had the best story.
	Yes.
	We maybe could bring your story.
	I will tell the best story.
	My wife, there's a guy that was very famous within the tech community who is a masher, and I didn't really, I knew her, a masher, the guy who throws himself at women, but a masher.
	Is the guy who is in a bus sometimes, or is the guy who sees you at a party and he pushes himself up against you and starts rubbing himself against you?
	He's still wearing clothes and pants, but he's kind of like...
	Pushing against you and rubbing to get some, you know, get aroused.
	And he's a masher.
	He's at least mashes you.
	And you have the absolute best story about this because of one of the, I guess one of the royalty in...
	Let me tell the story.
	My first wife was famous in the Netherlands.
	Still is.
	Yeah.
	She's still famous.
	Yeah, I think she's gone to infamous at this point.
	She was taking a picture with members of the...
	I don't think it was a member.
	There was one member of the Dutch royal family, Pieter van Fullerhoeven, who is a married...
	He's a prince by marriage.
	And he was behind her during this photo, and he was mashing her during the photo shoot.
	Yeah.
	And?
	Is there a punchline I forgot?
	Yeah, I thought there was.
	No, I don't think so.
	There's like a spot of moisture on her.
	No!
	Now you're just making it up.
	No, now you're just out of control.
	Stop that.
	Alright, so let's go to O'Reilly, who's not necessarily this type of person, but he's apparently a very aggressive...
	Very aggressive.
	That's all we can get from this report.
	He's very aggressive.
	There was some stuff about him being on the phone.
	This was a couple years back, and he's yelling at somebody.
	He does a lot of sexual advances, supposedly, allegedly, whatever.
	So there's two reports.
	There's one on CBS, which is the official spokes thing for the government.
	And CBS, I think, plays it very carefully.
	It's pretty straight.
	This is a very big risk, by the way, from all these networks going after somebody on another network.
	They've got to be careful.
	Because you're now allowing them to go after you.
	CBS, they're the most coy with their report.
	Let's listen to it.
	Now it's at least 44 sponsors that have dropped Bill O'Reilly's show on the Fox News Channel.
	Advertisers have been leaving since the New York Times reported O'Reilly and Fox paid $13 million to settle various sexual harassment claims, all denied by O'Reilly.
	Today, President Trump said those claims were all wrong.
	He told the New York Times O'Reilly is a good person and should not have settled with his accusers because He hasn't done anything wrong.
	So all CBS manages to do is to put in a douchebag quote from the president to get kind of embarrassed.
	But now back up for a second.
	Why did this even enter the fray?
	Why is this a part of the conversation?
	What, the president's thing or the O'Reilly thing?
	I think it's just a make good.
	Fox has been hounding the, you know, fake news on CBS, fake news on ABC. New York Times in particular, they're always bitching and moaning about the New York Times.
	I think it's just like, okay, we're sick of listening to you guys grouse about us.
	Hey, check this out.
	We got a story.
	And that's all I think it is, because I don't think the general public really cares that much.
	To the point where it would be on mainstream media.
	Now, what I understood is there is an investigation...
	An SEC investigation about Fox News' handling or accounting for the payments.
	They might have booked that in the wrong place or something.
	That's a possibility.
	That would be more newsy than this.
	Well, what's interesting is you pay attention to it.
	You'll hear, oh, well, Fox News is being investigated over this.
	It's a little different.
	It's not like the Department of Justice is investigating to see if you're Trump promoters.
	God knows what you're thinking.
	But it's an actual accounting possible fraud.
	Not a big deal.
	$13 million.
	They got bookkeepers.
	They can do this stuff.
	But that's how it came up, as far as I know.
	Well...
	All I know is that this is one of the best examples that we've seen on this show of using, of going after advertisers to get your message quashed.
	At 44, I mean, they're going to end up, it wouldn't surprise me if they fired him.
	Could be.
	This could be the end.
	It's about time.
	Tucker can move into that slot.
	That's what I was thinking.
	Tucker's taking over the place.
	And Tucker may be behind this whole thing.
	He looks like the kind of guy that could orchestrate something like this.
	Don't you think?
	Yeah, totally.
	That's an interesting idea.
	Well, we know for sure Media Matters.
	Because he's managed to orchestrate getting Megan out of the way.
	Media Matters is doing it, for sure.
	Media Matters is telling people, here are the advertisers, go call them, bypass the agencies, go call them directly, tell them that you hate it.
	And it kind of dovetails With what's happening with Wall Street, I don't know if you followed that, we don't have to get too deep into it.
	The Wall Street Journal reported to Pepsi, oh, your commercials are running on hate videos on YouTube.
	And if you just, there's a lot of deconstruction of that report in the Wall Street Journal.
	In particular, it appears that maybe some images, screenshots they took may have been photoshopped.
	But again, going after a competitor, in this case, Wall Street Journal, Google is a competitor.
	Competitor, big competitor.
	In every sense of the word.
	Going after their advertisers.
	And this is how the game is going to be played.
	You're going to see this everywhere.
	It's very effective.
	It's something that people, a lot of people, if you can organize, you can get things done.
	Go after the advertisers.
	I'm all for it.
	I'm all in.
	Go for it.
	It's hilarious.
	Our model, of course, has recognized this And it's a serious problem if you're trying to do the kind of work we do, which is deconstruct news, do analysis, and talk about anything we feel like, even though sometimes it can be off-color, it can be a little weird, it could be conspiratorial.
	We don't have the issue with the advertisers bailing out.
	What we have the issue with is if all the listeners bail out, or if some of them bail out like they have during the last election, because there were Hillary bots that couldn't take any sort of, you know, they didn't want to hear it.
	They didn't want to hear any of what we have to say.
	But that's different.
	That's fine.
	I mean, if you lose a listener, that's because you lost a listener.
	It's not the same as losing an advertisement, which means you lost your support and you have to appeal to them instead of appeal to the listeners.
	We're doing the show for listeners and that's why we ask them to pay for it.
	It's a crazy concept.
	Who would have thunk?
	Yeah, who would have thunk?
	So let's go now to ABC, who has more of the Disney.
	They decided they're more in on this.
	The CBS guys, this was just a cheap way to take a pot shot at Trump.
	I'm sorry.
	That was the cue.
	Sorry.
	Next tonight, new trouble for Fox News.
	A new lawsuit, this time claiming racial discrimination.
	And it comes after allegations of sexual harassment.
	Tonight, there's new fallout on that front as well.
	A growing number of advertisers now fleeing Bill O'Reilly's show.
	Here's ABC's Lindsey Davis.
	These guys got to be careful, man.
	This is very dangerous, what they're doing with this reporting.
	Well, not only that, but if you listen to this report, and it is very dangerous...
	They made an accusation of racism right at the beginning, on top of the sexual harassment.
	Yeah, what was that about?
	That's the point.
	They never talk about it.
	They just say it.
	What was the racism?
	I've never heard of it.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I'm listening to this, waiting for them to tell me.
	They never say shit about it.
	Next tonight, new trouble for Fox News.
	A new lawsuit, this time claiming racial discrimination.
	And it comes after allegations of sexual harassment.
	Tonight, there's new fallout on that front as well.
	A growing number of advertisers now fleeing Bill O'Reilly's show.
	Here's ABC's Lindsay Davis.
	A burgeoning boycott of Fox News tonight as more than 15 companies plan to pull ads from the network's top-rated show...
	Oh, I know what it's about.
	Bill O'Reilly being racist.
	Racist towards Maxine Waters.
	That's what it's referring to.
	Who sued him then?
	About her...
	Well, I mean, you might be right, but this is never discussed in this report.
	I'm going to listen again.
	Next tonight, new trouble for Fox News, a new lawsuit, this time claiming racial discrimination, and it comes after allegations of sexual harassment.
	Tonight, there's new fallout on that front as well.
	A growing number of advertisers.
	Wow, that's very strange.
	So there's new allegations of racism, a lawsuit.
	But there's racial discrimination, so that can't have anything to do with that.
	No, you're right.
	No, you're right.
	Okay, we'll find out.
	Now fleeing Bill O'Reilly's show.
	Chat room.
	Here's ABC's Lindsay Davis.
	A burgeoning boycott of Fox News tonight as more than 15 companies plan to pull ads from the network's top-rated show, The O'Reilly Factor.
	In the wake of reports, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News paid five women a total of almost 13 million dollars in settlements dating back 15 years.
	Just yesterday, radio host Dr.
	Wendy Walsh said she too was sexually harassed by O'Reilly.
	He told me I was a beautiful woman.
	He asked me to go to his hotel room.
	And then he became hostile to me when I said no, and I was soon after discontinued from his show.
	Walsh says she's not asking for money, but money is what O'Reilly says is what makes him a target.
	In a statement posted on his website over the weekend, O'Reilly says he has to put to rest any controversies to spare his children.
	Tonight, Fox News' executive vice president of sales is responding, saying we value our partners and are working with them to address their current concerns about the O'Reilly factor.
	David?
	Ha, ha, ha.
	That's very...
	Think of the children!
	Yeah, would you please think of...
	I asked for the chat room to go figure that out.
	They didn't.
	I think we need a different name for the chat room.
	It shouldn't be chat room.
	It should be like research room or something.
	Don't we have...
	Snap your name.
	War room.
	War room.
	Now you're talking.
	Thank you.
	It is no longer the chat room.
	It is now the war room.
	Okay.
	No agenda war room.
	Do you have any more?
	Because I got a Maxine Waters.
	No, no.
	I just found this whole thing to be phenomenal, and I think they're going to get this guy off the air.
	And Tucker will take his place.
	It's very possible.
	And Tucker Carlson, the guy behind the whole thing, will take his place.
	Here's Maxine Waters.
	The president saying this of Mr.
	Riley, I think he's a person I know well.
	He's a good person.
	I think he shouldn't have settled.
	Personally, I think he shouldn't have settled because you should have taken it all the way.
	I don't think Bill did anything wrong.
	What do you make of that?
	Well, it's coming out of the mouth of a man who has said some horrible things about him.
	Don't forget, he talked about grabbing women in their private parts, and because he was important, he could get away with it.
	And so they are two of a kind.
	And so I'm not surprised that he stood up and tried to defend Bill O'Reilly.
	But it's all catching up with Bill O'Reilly and that sexual harassment enterprise that they created over there.
	Sexual harassment enterprise.
	Defend Bill O'Reilly.
	Starship sexual harassment enterprise.
	But it's all catching up with Bill O'Reilly and that sexual harassment enterprise that they created over there at Fox.
	And it's catching up with them, and you have over 30 advertisers who have taken away their advertising.
	They're not wanting to do this with them anymore because of the way that they have created this record of sexual harassment.
	They have treated women very badly.
	And so I understand the Justice Department has opened a case.
	They're taking a look at them because this really is a sexual harassment enterprise.
	It shouldn't be in America that you can sexually harass women and then buy your way out of it because you're rich.
	If they continue to do this in the way that they have done, they need to go to jail.
	You know, the president's over there talking today about Susie Rice going to jail.
	They need to go to jail.
	Bill O'Reilly needs to go to jail.
	I just want you to know that the president didn't do himself any good standing up for Bill O'Reilly.
	And where was Ivanka?
	She's supposed to be his advisor.
	She's supposed to be the one that's standing up for women.
	I think she either advised him wrong or she's absent.
	And she's not in it.
	Oh man, I love me some Maxine Waters.
	She's the best.
	You gotta give yourself a borderline clip of the digs for that.
	And I'll do a new Maxine song in conjunction just to make us feel good.
	Born alive.
	Flip of the day.
	Maxine.
	Step away from the crack pie.
	Those days are over.
	They called you out on Fox tonight.
	Maxine.
	Step away from the crack pie.
	thank you I love that.
	That is really, really good.
	That is Chris Wilson who did that for us.
	And thanks to the war room, Mary in the war room, she got it immediately.
	Sexual Harassment Enterprise, an acronym for SHE. She.
	Nice.
	Well done.
	That's very cute.
	Let's see if that pops up as a sticker or a t-shirt or something like that.
	Well, this is the mainstream media ganging up.
	Fox is a thorn in their side.
	And I think, yes, good point.
	This is not about Bill O'Reilly.
	They're going after the whole Fox News network.
	The whole sexual harassment enterprise.
	Yeah, they're going after it.
	Because they're the ones that are, you know...
	They're getting actually bigger because there's this schism we have between the two dimensions and all the dimension A people are starting to take it anymore.
	Many of them are listening to Fox and alternative media and the talkers on the radio.
	And it's not good.
	It's making things worse.
	Let's just get rid of these guys and put Carl Reiner in charge.
	Or Rob Reiner.
	Well, whatever we do, let's not put Chris Matthews in charge.
	because it's spreading this guy is a virus he's a virus he's an evil virus He's doing it again.
	And it's also a sign of how powerful Jared Kushner is.
	The portfolio he has is extraordinary.
	I can't think of a non-chief of staff, a non-national security advisor, with the breadth of a portfolio that anyone has had.
	I know a couple.
	Uday and Kuse.
	In the old days of Saddam Hussein.
	In an American administration.
	Okay, good.
	I don't see anybody who survives.
	There it is.
	Once again, Uday and Kuse calling Ivanka and Jared and Eric and anyone who's a family member calling them murdered.
	Dead murderers.
	Dead murderers of Saddam Hussein.
	And this crap is spreading.
	In the past, we've had, like, you know, a first lady who worked on health policy.
	Once we had a president who hired his brother as attorney general.
	But we have come to think of even those things as exceptions to the rule.
	We have never thought of ourselves as a country where, like, Uday and Kusey get to be ministers of whatever they want.
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	You know, it's so funny.
	That Uday and Kuse gag is so...
	It's a callback that nobody knows.
	It's, you know, for us, we get it and we see what they're up to.
	But, you know, a lot of this material these guys are developing is just...
	It's pathetic.
	It doesn't worry.
	It works for them.
	It's pathetic.
	They're giggling.
	But here, listen to this little clip here.
	Listen to just another guy.
	I don't even know who this guy is.
	I've seen him interviewed.
	I don't care.
	But for some reason, they keep bringing him in.
	Here's a teaser from, I believe, CBS. I played this clip.
	Carter Page.
	Carter Page.
	Oh, yeah, we've been waiting for this guy to pop up.
	Thank you, Cecilia.
	We turn now to an ABC News investigation, and it involves former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
	And this question, did Russian spies try to recruit him to work for them?
	That's the tease.
	I'll give you the rundown of the report.
	The guy's a goofball, this Carter Page character.
	I don't even know what he ever did for Trump, ever.
	But his name keeps cropping up, but he's always cropped up as a target.
	They've got to target this guy because he apparently goes, as one Russian said, he goes to Moscow more than anybody in Russia ever does.
	He's back and forth.
	He's a businessman.
	And apparently, I've said it three times in a row, he's It appears as if some Russian, you know, they do this when they got a guy like this.
	They tried to recruit him into the whatever it is, not the KGB, but the new thing.
	And he was too, you know, I don't think so.
	FSB. FSB. And he was not interested.
	But he was interested in the free dinners, I guess.
	It's just bull crap.
	It's just like, and who cares if they recruited him?
	I mean, apparently there was one, and I said, geez, I've got to stop that.
	There was one moment where he had been asked for some financial information about something, and he went to the Internet, downloaded some stuff from off Google and gave it to him, and this was handing over information to the Russians.
	That's all they have.
	I think we do have a new guy to look out for.
	Carter Page doesn't do anything.
	The guy to look out for is Gary Cohn, C-O-H-N. This is the guy.
	And I think this is the new, the guy who has the president's ear, also former Goldman Sachs.
	In fact, he was chief operating officer at Goldman.
	He's a Democrat.
	So, investment banker, and currently he's the director of the National Economic Council.
	And it would make sense because I'm sure there's a split universe within Goldman Sachs as well.
	And if Banyan was a Goldman Sachs guy, this is the guy we need to...
	I'm just putting it out there.
	We need to keep our eye on Gary Cohn.
	See if that comes up.
	Sorry, just making sure I'm ready for him.
	Okay.
	All right, what else we got?
	Well, I got to get that out of the way.
	We got stuff to get out of the way.
	We're getting out of here.
	This is the screwiest story I've seen.
	This is thrown on PBS NewsHour.
	Nobody else discussed it.
	I don't know why this happened, how it happened, what's going on, but it happened.
	This is the Iran-Boeing deal.
	Have you heard about this?
	I think this is...
	I think this is not new news.
	Well, it was yesterday's news hour.
	Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced a $3 billion deal with Iran.
	It is the first major sale to Iran by an American company since President Trump took office.
	Boeing says the agreement covers 30 of its 737 MAX passenger jets.
	Sounds like the following happened.
	Hey!
	That Air Force One is too expensive.
	Make me look good.
	Knock off half a billion of the four, and I'll let you sell some crap to the Iranians.
	How about that?
	Maybe.
	That's what I would say.
	I find the whole thing as a quick item, a quick hit like that, not any of the other networks, to be something somewhat suspicious.
	Of note, yes.
	Of note.
	There's no analysis.
	They didn't bring two or three people in to talk about it.
	It just made a statement and went to the next news story, which is always, oh, that's unusual.
	Interesting.
	Well, I'll just give you a quick little headline here that just continues on something that I've been following for about five years now.
	The European Union has decided to cut its dependency on natural gas with Russia.
	And what have they decided?
	We told you this was going to happen five, six years ago.
	They're now going to get their gas from Israel, from the Leviathan field.
	Remember that?
	Leviathan, which has been operated by Nobel Energy, which includes Bill Clinton as one of his special advisors, and they are going to build the longest undersea pipeline from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
	They're off the coast of Israel, Cyprus, and it'll go up to Cyprus and Greece, and then maybe into Italy.
	And so, again, hey, Russia, we don't need you.
	We told you this was going to happen.
	We saw it.
	We saw it happening.
	You just wait long enough on this show.
	We're right.
	Yeah, Russia's kind of focusing eastward with some of its stuff.
	You mean like China eastward?
	China.
	China can suck up all the petroleum and oil and gas that Russia can provide.
	It's It's just, it's not, it's the problem with, you know, the Russians are like anybody else who's in business selling something.
	You don't want to have a single market and sell only to one customer because the customer can then tell you what to do and how to price things.
	Right.
	So that's what, you know, they're reluctant.
	They're doing, I mean, there's that pipeline can always be sabotaged.
	Well, they all can be sabotaged.
	That's for sure.
	As an aside, not the former New York banker, but another Wall Street guy I was talking to.
	He was trying to explain to me how messed up China is.
	He says it is just an empty shell.
	So the economy is below flatline.
	Do you and Horowitz talk about this?
	Yes.
	Well, Horowitz has this thesis that we've never gotten good numbers from China.
	They're always ginned up.
	As the term was used earlier.
	Right, right.
	I heard it in this context that I thought was interesting.
	That the Chinese stock market or how they handle companies with stock is...
	Everything's in the toilet.
	The whole economy is completely broken, but...
	For some reason unknown to me, you can go into a stock trading house, I guess you sign up online, and as a Chinese citizen, you can get a trading account with margin for no money.
	So you don't have to have any money in your account, you get margin.
	Which sounds like a really good idea if you're trading.
	And then they take their...
	They trade their own stock.
	And, you know, we have high-frequency trading and all that kind of stuff.
	And these are run by algorithms.
	In China, they have rooms full of people, just like the WebClick farms.
	And these rooms full of people function as an algorithm to manipulate their own stock.
	But, of course, it's very inefficient, and they don't understand what they're doing, just going, oh, let's just click buy.
	So they help prop this, oh, it's going to $1, it's going to $1.05.
	And then the American algorithms kick in, and then these stocks are, if you look at any Chinese company, and there's a number of them listed on NASDAQ, mainly NASDAQ or the bulletin board, they have the wildest volatility swings from $0.60 to $4 and back down again in two days.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah, that seems like a very risky market to invest in unless you're an insider.
	Well, my point being is that everything is manipulated.
	Everything.
	China is a mess.
	And so for Russia to be siding up to them, we want to be very careful about that.
	Well, that's why the Russians don't prefer selling to Europe.
	Yeah.
	They still got those pipelines going over the top, over by Poland and into Germany?
	Yeah, of course.
	And not through Poland, mind you.
	No, no.
	Don't give Poland anything.
	That's why we had to kill half the Polish government, the Russians.
	They didn't want that pipeline to run in front of Poland.
	Why don't we kill them all?
	Just one more before we take a break here.
	Oh, this was very good.
	The New Yorker, New York Observer, did a piece on Jared Kushner.
	We don't know much about this guy.
	Other than he's young and he has the presidency here.
	And his dad was partially...
	Yeah, was thrown in jail, wasn't he?
	Thrown in jail by Giuliani.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	So this is Elizabeth Spears.
	I believe she wrote the article, cover page.
	And she's talking about how weird Jared Kushner is.
	This guy is weird.
	Is he the publisher of The Observer?
	Which makes it somewhat ironic.
	Elizabeth Spears?
	No, Kushner.
	I have no idea.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's even better.
	So this article points out that he is very, very strange.
	He has strange habits.
	Now of all the strange things, what would be something really weird that would creep you out?
	Eats his boogers.
	Okay, that's a good one.
	Eats his boogers.
	No, that's not it.
	Eats his earwax.
	Ooh, boy.
	No, that's not it.
	No.
	Drinks his own pee.
	No, no, no.
	Not even close.
	Let's have a listen.
	Inside the New York Observer, in this piece, you tell a story about a Macintosh computer that was running Windows software.
	What did that represent to you?
	Well, it was a bit of a metaphor.
	He wasn't literally using the computer as a monitor, but he looked at it as an aesthetic object.
	He liked the way that the casing looked, and that was the only point in having the Macintosh.
	And so it was a metaphor about how Jared views optics, really.
	And I think it speaks to the way that he goes about deciding what he's going to tackle and what he isn't.
	What a weirdo.
	He uses a Macintosh because it's good looking.
	But he runs Windows inside of it because he's all about aesthetics.
	I've never heard such a thing.
	How is that even possible that you can run Windows on a Macintosh?
	I mean, that you would go through the trouble of doing it.
	You must be a weirdo.
	You have to be a weirdo.
	Just completely odd and weird.
	I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda.
	In the morning.
	Quick programming.
	You know, stepped on me.
	I said that the woman is the weirdo, not him.
	That's a weirdo report.
	Yeah, I don't need to hear from the control room.
	We have an interruption.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Don Rickles died.
	Don Rickles died?
	Oh, you don't want to hear from the control room.
	I'm sorry.
	Dead at 90.
	Oh.
	You know, he still was booked for the whole year.
	He was!
	Really?
	That sucks.
	He decided he was going to work.
	He didn't have to come out with a wheelchair.
	He's working.
	No, that's too bad.
	We do have some people to thank.
	Alan Cavito III in the USA, $123.45.
	He's one of the guys who does the annual donation.
	Oh, yes.
	Miss AJ Bolin, I think, in Burnsville, Minnesota Nuts, $100.33.
	She's She has gratitude for the straddling we do so well.
	It's hard.
	I'm in a balancing act myself.
	My roommate, however, is lost to the snowflake universe.
	Listening to the podcast makes me feel less isolated.
	Aww.
	She could use a de-douching.
	She sure could.
	You've been de-douched.
	It's A.J. Boles.
	Sir Joel, Battle Born Baronet, which should be with, not with an E at the end there, Reno, Nevada, 8008.
	We had the two boobs.
	I had the boob thing attached to one of the pictures in the newsletter.
	I believe it was Suzanne Rice, and this is, we've got two boobs.
	Chris Beggio in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	7373.
	John Hamilton.
	Kilo 9, Charlie Alpha Bravo.
	7373.
	Kilo 5, Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	Oh yeah, 7373.
	John Hamilton.
	69, 61 in Carlsbad, California.
	Sir Gregory Worley in Evington, Virginia.
	65, 52.
	Happy birthday.
	These are all the happy birthday donors.
	One after another.
	Hey, did you get my gift?
	Ah!
	Okay.
	So I go to the post office knowing there's a gift there for me.
	And there's something in your box.
	This post office is Depending on who you talk to.
	I've gone there and they find stuff a year later.
	Oh yeah, we didn't notice.
	So I said, no, there's got to be something big or something.
	Somebody sent me a book.
	And I said, I don't think so.
	And so she goes back there finally and she...
	Drags out this huge box, and the thing weighs like 35, 50 pounds.
	I don't know, it was like a sack of cement.
	So I had to drag, I parked my car over in the parking lot away from the post office.
	Was the Lexus able to handle the additional weight?
	Oh, I put it in the back, in the trunk, the whole car went down.
	You're popping wheelies, popping wheelies.
	I said, what is the deal?
	This must be the gift from Adam.
	Is it a gold bar?
	And so I get it home and I cut everything open and it is something I needed.
	I mentioned on the show, nobody in the family seems to get me these.
	I had one before and broke it a long time ago.
	It's a pizza stone.
	There you go.
	And so you had a little note saying, I don't know anything about Pizza Stone, so I just got you this one.
	Yeah, the best one.
	I think it's a good one.
	Now, did you...
	I don't know how...
	The Pizza Stone probably could...
	These things are expensive.
	Probably cost 50 bucks.
	No more.
	And for this...
	What?
	It costs more.
	Okay, what did it cost?
	Well, that's not nice.
	It's a gift.
	Anyway, so the point is that whatever it cost, it had to cost $1,000 to ship it.
	That was part of the gag.
	Yes, well, it was very funny.
	Was this Amazon Prime?
	I did research.
	I looked for best pizza stone.
	Okay.
	And I looked and looked and looked and looked, and then I looked at all the reviews.
	I mean, I've never sent you a gift for your birthday, so I think I can spend eight minutes on your pizza stone.
	Was it Amazon Prime?
	And then I ordered it through Amazon Prime, yes.
	Yeah, so that has to ship it for free.
	Good deal.
	This is breaking Amazon, so everyone should do this.
	Buy a pizza stone and ship it to yourself.
	There's a safe that you can get on Amazon Prime that must weigh 1,000 pounds.
	So I'm the only one who sent you a pizza stone.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	I was very pleased.
	I consider it to be a very thoughtful gift.
	It's 50 millimeters thick, I believe.
	It's the thickness.
	It's very thick, so it really would take some heating to get it going.
	Yeah.
	Well, happy birthday, John.
	Thank you very much.
	And it's appreciated.
	I know.
	David Wilson in Spring...
	Springsure, Queensland, Australia.
	65.
	These are names and locations for the $65.
	I like to just thank you a rock for your birthday.
	Big folder.
	Through Amazon Prime.
	Robert...
	What is it?
	Vendeber?
	Vendeber?
	Something like that.
	Verteber.
	Verteber is 65.
	Roger Esty in Tampa, Florida.
	Rob Thiessen.
	In Leiden.
	Mark Hackett.
	It's Tyson.
	You've got to get this right one of these days.
	I said Tyson.
	Oh, Tyson.
	It's Tyson.
	Rob Tyson.
	Mark Hackett in Downington, Pennsylvania.
	Arthur Gobitz.
	And he says Sir.
	And he's in Zandom.
	Dame Monica Lansing in Drayton Valley, Alberta.
	Craig Porter in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
	John Adams, parts unknown.
	Alejandra Chapa in Houston, Texas.
	Thomas Key in Kansas City.
	Sir Jim Zuckel.
	Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta.
	Tyler Arp in Des Moines, Iowa.
	Kaylin Nistor.
	In parts unknown, Julian Barstow in Farnsworth, Great Britain, UK. Olaf Wolf in Munich, Deutschland, München, which is, I think he may be a knight too.
	Ralph Mazzaro at Chris Bolton in Newcastle in UK. A lot of overseas well-wishers.
	I like that.
	And then we move back to the normals.
	April Beerg in Amboy, Mississippi.
	She's the one who has the Tweety Bird on her checks as a mail-in.
	I just find it very funny.
	And the name April with Tweety Birds is perfect.
	Sir Luke the Baron of London, 5777.
	James Williams, 55, double nickels on the dimes.
	Gregory Straub, double nickels on the dime.
	Joshua Seth Seaton, OKC, 53.33.
	Michael Gates, 52.80.
	Anthony Ponomarenko, 52.65.
	He's in Hollywood, Florida.
	Yeah.
	Harry Klan in Long Beach, California, are 50.
	These are $50 donors.
	There's not a lot of them.
	Harry Klans, the first.
	Ken Price, the second.
	Ken Price says, I've finally been dedouched by Sir...
	I guess he means hit in the mouth.
	By Sir Kevin of Carrollton.
	Would love some jobs, Carmen, for my daughter.
	MTGA, make the truth great again.
	We'll do a Jobs Carmen in a moment for everybody.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	Adam Beck in Lost Wages.
	Matthew Januszewski in Chicago.
	Robert Bruckner in Gilbert, Arizona.
	Sir Brett Farrell in OKC, we think.
	That's where his bank is.
	Susan Evans in Iron Station, North Carolina.
	And last but not least...
	Jason Deluzio in Chatsford, Pennsylvania.
	$50.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us on show 918.
	Yes.
	We've got another show coming up.
	919.
	919 is a palindrome, but coming up on Sunday.
	Yes, and thank you to everyone who came in under $50.
	That, of course, is our people who subscribe, our night layaway plans, Damon Night Layaway Plans.
	People who just want to give us what they can.
	And we appreciate all of that for brevity, of course, in the program.
	We only mention $50 and above.
	And another show coming up on Sunday.
	We'd appreciate it if you remember us.
	And for everybody who needs it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You can't.
	Calm down.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I don't know what you're saying.
	Uh-oh, stand back.
	Here comes the list.
	Sir Hank Scorpio says happy birthday to his younger brother, Dwight.
	He turns 29 on March 28th.
	Happy birthday from your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	The jingle's longer than the birthday greeting.
	All right, let's see.
	We have two nightings today.
	This is very good.
	Was there any note that went along with Lucas Lundy?
	I have a feeling there was.
	He did not show up in the donation, did he?
	No, I think it was just a cumulative thing.
	Let's take a look.
	Yeah, this is the stuff we've got to look out for.
	Here we go.
	I've been listening to No Agenda since college.
	Through minimum wage jobs, unemployment, and jobs that paid just enough to get by, I finally got a software engineering position about a year ago and can finally provide some value back to you.
	Thank you for the years of media deconstruction.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Lucas of Lost Bits.
	And he has been doing this since November 2012.
	Good.
	Very good.
	And thank you so much.
	That is really, really highly appreciated.
	So we need our blades out here.
	I got my blade here.
	Hello.
	I'm getting it, Dave.
	Okay, let's go, guys!
	So, Curtis Sorles and Lucas Lundy, step on up to the podium here next to the lectern.
	Gentlemen, thank you for contributing and supporting the work here at the Best Podcasting Universe.
	As super producers that you are, you have deserved your spot at the round table at the Noah's and the Knights and Dames.
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	Love seeing the knights and dames with their rings.
	And thank you for supporting the show.
	Just a little...
	Wait.
	Since we were talking about...
	Mark that one.
	Alright, hold on.
	Hold on.
	We were talking about...
	We were just talking about it in the donation segment.
	It was something I was going to mention.
	Oh, jobs.
	Right, the jobs report.
	And let me see if I can find this here.
	Hold on one second.
	Well, that's odd.
	I thought I'd clip this.
	Oh, I see.
	Actually, I'm sorry.
	It wasn't a clip.
	It was an article.
	That's what it was.
	The article reads...
	It's from the Washington Post.
	Of course, if you want anything anti-president.
	Anti-anything.
	Please!
	Can someone...
	I'm at the point where I'm not even reading the Post anymore.
	I find their stuff to be just so off.
	Please, can someone brief the President on the unemployment rate?
	And this is very interesting.
	They call it a false claim that the President made.
	And I will read you this article.
	The President said, April 4th, When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up.
	You are now considered statistically employed.
	But I don't consider those people employed.
	The president made these comments as he described the method of calculating the unemployment rate as, quote, ridiculous.
	Since no one at the White House, apparently, has explained to the president how the unemployment rate is calculated, here's a quick and easy briefing.
	Spoiler alert is exactly the opposite of what Trump said.
	I think you've got the guy's voice down to a T. Yeah.
	So here are the basic concepts.
	Used by BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
	People with jobs are employed.
	People who are jobless looking for a job and available for work are unemployed.
	The labor force is made up of the employed and the unemployed.
	People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.
	So the thing is, the Washington Post doesn't understand how bogus the jobs number is.
	Not the jobs number, the unemployment rate.
	They have it completely wrong.
	And President Trump could have said, you're considered statistically dead, because that's what it is.
	If you have given up looking for work, you're a bum.
	You don't count.
	You're not counted anywhere.
	Which is the same as saying you're employed.
	If they were considered unemployed, then the unemployment number would be incredibly large.
	Right, except the mistake that he's trying to point out poorly is that if you're not part of the labor force, you're not in either of those numbers.
	Correct.
	So it's not that you're employed, but you might as well be.
	Yeah.
	Of course, he's very bad at speaking in general.
	He does not do a good job at communicating.
	No.
	Well, he gives a good hour-long speech.
	I'll give him that.
	Especially when he ad-libs the whole thing.
	Well, let's see.
	I got a couple of things here.
	Let's go to the little series.
	I have a series on expertise.
	We can play that.
	Or I can play a couple of these screwy stories.
	Play this one.
	IRS to use collection agencies.
	This is bad.
	The Internal Revenue Service is hiring private debt collectors to go after people who haven't paid their taxes.
	Jerika Duncan has that.
	Two years ago, 79-year-old Mary Van Essendelft was scammed out of her retirement savings, nearly $100,000.
	They said, I shouldn't call anybody or do anything because the house was bugged and the phone was bugged.
	Essendelft thought she was talking to the IRS. He said he was a representative and sounded like the real McCoy.
	Since 2013, nearly 2 million Americans have been called by people posing as government agents.
	To date, more than 10,000 of them were duped into paying $55 million to criminals.
	Just hang up.
	Over the years, the IRS has created several public service announcements warning taxpayers that they do not call to collect money.
	But now, that's changed.
	Federal law mandates the IRS allow private debt collectors to call people who owe back taxes.
	Here's how the new program works.
	The IRS will notify taxpayers by letter first when their account is being turned over.
	The agency assigned to your case will then also send you a letter.
	After that, they could call you to discuss payment options.
	The agency gets a 25% commission on the money it collects.
	I think, unfortunately, the IRS is creating a system where more people who are vulnerable will be taken advantage of.
	Ira Reingold is executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
	It makes absolutely no sense on policy grounds, on budgetary grounds.
	It really is a rule that's only going to cause havoc for consumers.
	The IRS says payments should never be sent to a private agency or person.
	Scott, payments should only be made directly to the IRS or the U.S. Treasury.
	Huh.
	That's not how collection agencies work, typically.
	Nope.
	They call and call and call and call and call.
	And then you pay them.
	Generally you do.
	And how are they going to get their piece of the action if you send the money over to the IRS thing?
	I was paying my old bill.
	I wasn't paying the one through the collection agency.
	Right.
	Do they get just a piece of the action all around?
	I don't know.
	I don't see how you can do this program.
	It sounds like it's very sketchy and stupid.
	And especially after they had this public service announcement, just hang up.
	Well, they probably thought to themselves, crap, people are paying money to morons.
	We should try that idea.
	In fact, I'm thinking maybe this is something for the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group.
	That's a funny idea if the IRS would decide just to become a bunch of scammers.
	Yeah, totally.
	We got your houses bugged.
	We have everything.
	We're watching you now.
	I'm calling you.
	Hello?
	Yeah, hi.
	This is John Holden.
	Hello.
	I have a little trouble with my headset.
	This is John Holden.
	I'm calling on behalf of the IRS. We're calling about your back taxes, sir.
	I don't have any back taxes that I know of.
	Let me see if I can convince you.
	Are you sure you don't have any back taxes, sir?
	What was that?
	You may want to reconsider, sir.
	Are you using a stapler?
	It's my shitty shotgun.
	I don't have a bigger one.
	It's only a.410.
	I can't do much about it.
	Maybe.
	This is dumb.
	This is very dumb.
	Hey, you had a bit in the newsletter.
	Which I, of course, read.
	Yes, yes.
	The newsletter where I believe, and I might as well roll it out.
	I believe that at some point, we haven't seen it yet, but they, and I, because I know that they're bringing their hands over the possibility of doing this.
	But, and we brought this up a long time ago because our economic hit man was met with Trump and he says he's the fattest guy he's ever seen.
	He's just big, he's just tall, so you don't notice it so much.
	And we've talked about the way he sits.
	He kind of bends over so he doesn't look as fat as he is.
	But he's a big guy.
	He's a big, giant guy.
	He probably weighs over 300 pounds.
	Yeah.
	And because he's five or five.
	He's six, like six or five.
	Oh, no.
	When you're that tall, you can easily hit 300.
	No problem.
	Yeah.
	Easily.
	And so the question is, do you want to start running stories, the big mainstream media?
	And this would be in the New York Times or the Washington Post, the two douchebag companies that are just bragging on the president and making everybody's life miserable.
	Is President Trump the fattest president ever to occupy the White House?
	And then they would do a whole series comparing Trump to William Howard Taft, who was a little shorter, but very round.
	Apparently Trump is only 6'2", according to the War Room.
	I thought he was taller than 6'2".
	I thought he was a little taller.
	I think he's taller than 6'2".
	I think that they may be trying to make him sound thinner.
	But...
	But I'm noticing this, the New Yorker magazine, when they portray Trump, they always portray him as a big, fat guy, and they cover the latest issue where he's golfing on the lawn.
	He's got a big, giant butt and a huge waistline, very much like William Howard Taft.
	But the problem that this group has is that You can't fat shame because that is against all rules of the social justice warriors.
	But it has already started, John.
	I commend you.
	A trial balloon went up.
	Let's see if we can get away with the fat shaming first, and then we can fat shame the president.
	The person letting the trial balloon loose, Chelsea Handler.
	She was on...
	What's his name?
	Seth Meyers Show.
	The White House briefings are obviously really, really fun every day.
	Sean Spicer's show.
	It's like having a play date.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he's late every single day for that press briefing.
	They're like, we don't know what's keeping it because he has diarrhea every single day.
	You know, every single day he's like, okay, wait, I got to get this straight.
	What am I saying?
	How am I? It's pretty incredible.
	Do you think he's good at his job?
	Because I am to some degree.
	I'm impressed.
	I'm impressed with, because there does require some stamina to go out there every day and know that you're not holding a single truthful card in your hand.
	Well, yeah, I think you have to be pretty soulless, you know, and spineless.
	And luckily he's shaped like a baked potato and doesn't need a spine.
	Fat shaming.
	Yeah, it's fat shaming.
	But it's funny and it's okay, I guess.
	Well, if you get a laugh.
	Yeah.
	But see, let's just stick with the social justice warriors for a moment.
	A couple of things, a couple of stories that we should touch on.
	The resistance school at Harvard.
	I'm sure you saw this.
	You might as well brief people.
	Okay.
	This is from what's called the Resistance School, resistanceschool.com.
	It is not sanctioned by Harvard, but this class, this course, is being held at Harvard.
	I will read from their website about us.
	On November 8th, we lost more than just the presidency.
	Oh man, I'm so depressed already.
	We lost yet more ground in the decades-long campaign against progressive values.
	Republicans now control the Senate, House, and more state legislators than they have in almost 200 years.
	What does that tell you?
	Those losses have emboldened the right to launch an all-out attack against our nation's creed that all are created equal.
	Ah, racists.
	Like so many Americans, the election moved us, a group of progressive graduate students at Harvard, to ask ourselves, how can we most effectively fight Trump's agenda?
	What we came up with?
	Resistance school.
	Well, we should probably do some processing on that, man.
	Well, yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	Do you want some echo with it?
	I think we should do some echo with it too.
	I think a big echo and a big voice.
	A booming voice.
	Resistant school.
	Join now.
	You nailed it.
	Join the resistance school.
	Class is starting this fall.
	Okay.
	Got it.
	Excellent.
	They go on to say though, the resistance school is a four-week practical training program that will sharpen the tools we need to fight back at the federal, state, and local levels.
	Our goal is to keep the embers of the resistance alive through concrete learning, community engagement, and forward-looking action.
	We believe that both long-time activists and new additions to the movement need to forge effective offensive strategies to secure progressive victories.
	And there was something else.
	Does it talk anything about them running for office, maybe, and getting involved, actually doing some real work?
	Well, our team includes former staffers from the Obama, Bernie, and Hillary presidential election campaign.
	They want you to be a slave staffer.
	They want you to be a staffer.
	It includes community organizers, advocates for human rights, campaign finance reform, and veterans affairs, and journalists for publications in the U.S. and abroad.
	Of note, Resistance School is an independently organized project developed by students at Harvard University.
	It is not an official course or offering of Harvard University or any of its schools.
	Lindsay Lohan, full-on burkini, once again in the Daily Mail.
	Yeah, well she's been studying, we've had this before on the show, she's been studying to become a Muslim.
	Yeah, she's looking good in the bikini.
	Well, probably.
	United Kingdom now considering gender neutral option for UK passports.
	Tina had this.
	She sent me a...
	Let me read this to you.
	She sent me a thing.
	She had an application for some doctor's office.
	And she sent me a screenshot of it.
	Oh, come on.
	Phone unlock.
	Damn you, NSA. Okay, let me see.
	Here it is.
	So she has to put in, you know, have you had a heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, cholesterol?
	Are you single, divorced, widow, partner?
	Hey!
	What is this?
	She circled single instead of partner.
	Hmm.
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	What is their Facebook status?
	Did you check that too?
	Maybe something's up.
	And then the question, affirmed gender if different than legal gender.
	How about that for a question on a form?
	Affirmed gender if different than legal gender.
	Wow.
	That should be like the trap door.
	As soon as you check that box, down you go.
	I think Tina probably clarified and it meant if you had a legal partner status.
	I would hope, otherwise it's quite the microaggression.
	Yes.
	And then finally, from your neck of the woods, John, California State University San Marcos, is that near you?
	No.
	No, Southern California.
	Okay.
	Well, remember, April is gay-pril.
	What?
	April is gay-pril.
	It's gay-pril.
	It's not just April.
	It's gay-pril?
	It's gay-pril, yes.
	You didn't know that?
	No.
	April is gay-pril, yes.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	And the school...
	Is this official government?
	No, no, no, no.
	It's official gay.
	It's official from the gay government.
	Yeah, from the gay government.
	There will be a, on April 25th, there will be a big to-do there on the campus.
	And this is, the event is called Furries vs.
	Pet Play.
	Furries versus pet play.
	I don't know what pet play is.
	I know what furries are.
	Right.
	Well, apparently this was necessary because there is a confusion about the definition of furries and pet play and if they are the same thing or not.
	Oh, there's been a schism.
	Yes, a rift.
	So, furries vary, but basically that's a group of people who enjoy dressing up in, I'm paraphrasing, in human-sized animal costumes.
	They call themselves a community.
	They get together at conventions.
	Not all furries turn their fascination to a sex thing, and they don't always have sex in their costumes.
	By the way, I got called out on this a number of times.
	Yeah, I know.
	The furries do not have sex with their costumes on.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	Although they have sex in the form of the animal that they like to be.
	Well, hold on.
	Now you're in trouble.
	Pet play is a subculture of BDSM, the bondage domination sadomas.
	I have never seen a beaver bondage scene.
	That would be interesting.
	With pet play, a person pretends to be an animal and engages in submissive and other animal-like behaviors in part to enjoy and achieve...
	Have you ever seen an animal have sex?
	Yes.
	Where's the B&D come in?
	I've never seen a beaver with a whip.
	Wow, that was such a multi-dimensional statement.
	Beaver with a whip.
	Likewise, the other person becomes aroused when their partner role plays as a pet.
	Sometimes people use animal tail butt plugs in this capacity to heighten their sexual enjoyment.
	That's also known as a pony girl.
	Oh, pony girl.
	I hadn't heard of a pony girl.
	Oh, look it up.
	It's disgusting.
	That's a pony girl.
	I'm thinking show title is what I'm thinking.
	Great SEO. I don't know.
	That might actually get banned.
	I'll put it on the list.
	Anyway, I just want everybody to remember, April is...
	Gay rule!
	I don't know what gay's got to do with any of those anecdotes, but okay.
	Now...
	Nothing.
	I do have a Euro story I want to get out of the way, and we'll get this out of the way, because this would go into tech news.
	Oh, do we need to roll?
	We're not going to do tech news.
	We're just going to do the story.
	I don't know why this isn't getting more play in the mainstream media, but it's not.
	This is DW. This is the DW censoring the web.
	Listen to this.
	Here in Germany, the cabinet has approved a draft law that would impose big fines on social media companies if they failed to delete hate speech from their websites.
	Fines could go as high as 50 million euros.
	And with a big majority in the German parliament, the government looks likely to get the proposed law passed.
	Insults, hate speech, fake news.
	The internet is full of these things, but the sources are hard to uncover.
	Social media groups such as Facebook or Twitter may have agreed to remove this kind of content, but Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants to force them to take more responsibility.
	At the moment, our problem is with unlawful contents not being removed.
	Twitter removes only 1% of illegal posts, and with Facebook, it's far less than 50%.
	YouTube, however, shows that it does work.
	They delete 90% of illegal content.
	The freedom of expression finds its limits at criminal law.
	Companies failing to delete repeatedly reported posts that are illegal under German law could soon face fines of up to 50 million euros.
	The German justice minister knows the legal fight against online hate speech and fake news is complicated, but he still wants to go ahead with his controversial plan.
	Right now we have the problem that too much illegal content is spread via the Internet, and there's a mentality that the Internet is a realm where laws don't apply.
	We can't accept this in a country under the rule of law.
	The courts will have the final say on companies' offenses, such as...
	What the heck is this sound effect they're using?
	I have no idea, and the rationale for it is beyond me.
	We should just do that all the time.
	We should just do that, too, just with the theremin, man.
	It's crazy.
	Legal content is spread via the Internet, and there's a mentality that the Internet is a realm where laws don't apply.
	We can't accept this in a country under the rule of law.
	The courts will have the final say on companies' offenses, such as in the case of a Syrian refugee whose selfie with the German chancellor led to his being falsely accused of terrorism.
	Facebook may have deleted the defamatory posts, but a German court ruled that the company itself would not have to seek out such content.
	Critics of the ruling fear that in the face of such draconian punishments, too much content may be deleted, effectively leading to unnecessary censorship on the World Wide Web.
	On the World Wide Web!
	I like that.
	Yes, it was a complete piece of crap report, but it's very interesting.
	People should be up in arms about this.
	Well, remember, this all stems from the European Union's directive on tolerance.
	I agree.
	This is all a part of it.
	I have a Euroland clip.
	This took place yesterday in the European Parliament, Starfleet Command there.
	Of course, Farage.
	And here's what happened.
	The word came out that in order to even start the Brexit process, the United Kingdoms of Gitmo Nation, GMT, would have to pay the European Union 52 billion euros.
	Yeah, I heard it was 60.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It's 52 billion pounds, 60 billion euros, correct?
	Okay.
	60 billion euros.
	Nigel Farage reacted to this yesterday in the European Parliament.
	Gibraltar is clearly a deal-breaker on current terms.
	You've shown yourselves with these demands to be vindictive, to be nasty.
	All I can say is, thank goodness we're leaving.
	You're behaving like the mafia.
	You think we're a hostage.
	We're not.
	We're free to go.
	We're free to go.
	And 85.
	And this, no, this, now I know, I know, I do understand.
	Now, I don't know how this is going to come across on the Skype, because the way the European Union recorded this, they have, this is the Italian minister, European minister, parliamentary member, They have his voice right and the translator left.
	I don't know if that's going to work for you on Skype, so it may be a little tough, but you'll get the idea.
	I do understand, sir, Mr Farage.
	President.
	I do understand national sensitivities.
	I'll change it to gangsters.
	All right?
	And that is how we're being treated.
	We've been given a ransom, though.
	Fabulous.
	I had another different clip of Farage.
	I didn't put it in the show.
	Mafia.
	I didn't know that the Italians are so culturally sensitive to the word.
	Apparently.
	News to me.
	You know what else people are sensitive about is about these sanctuary cities and the current administration's promise to cut back on federal funding.
	Good conversation about this with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey on the Al Sharpton show.
	And this is of great interest to me because Austin and Travis County specifically is pretty much ground zero of this controversy.
	And this is why we all need to get concealed carry licenses.
	Because we have who knows what's roaming around Austin.
	Wearing man buns.
	You never know.
	The president, let me start with sanctuary cities and I want to get into his budget and how it affects in the cities.
	But the president has gone out of his way.
	Attorney General Jeff Sessions are saying they actually threaten mayors like you of sanctuary cities.
	They're going to cut off certain funding.
	I mean, why are they targeting and how do you respond?
	Well, I think that them targeting sanctuary cities is a way for them to tell mayors and other folks around the country, one, that they're sticking to what I think is a very unconstitutional and un-American policy, and trying to intimidate us into being what I've called fugitive slave catchers, to run around and do their bidding in our cities.
	Wow, I love that.
	Fugitive slave catchers.
	Woo!
	Ratcheting up the rhetoric a little bit there, I'd say.
	Intimidate us into being what I've called fugitive slave catchers, the run around and do their bidding in our cities.
	Catch the slaves!
	I'm white!
	Catch the slaves, black man!
	Then it makes it difficult for them to continue their policy because they don't have the resources to kind of run down all the undocumented residents locally.
	What happens if they start cutting your federal funds because you won't break rank and do what you said, a fugitive slave kind of...
	Well, there's some entitlement funds that most cities get, CDBG dollars, home funds, dollars for federally qualified health care centers, opportunities for us to fix neighborhoods that have been run down for a very long time.
	This is going to probably hurt the most vulnerable in our community.
	And we'll listen to this ending.
	Which I think is terrible, but we have to find creative ways to adjust.
	The irony of it is his budget says he's going to cut the money anyway.
	I didn't know that, and I have not been able to find confirmation.
	That's interesting.
	That was planned to be cut anyway?
	Well, that doesn't make sense.
	What's the point?
	Nobody might as well become sanctuary cities.
	They're not going to cut any money because they're all going to be cut anyway.
	I don't think so.
	You have to find it.
	Someone's got to do some workup for that.
	Yeah, war room.
	Get on it.
	War room.
	War room.
	I got a couple of last minute stories.
	Wait, let me do one.
	I got one.
	This was the Egyptian president visited the White House?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	CC. CC. A couple of things.
	And this is...
	You're going to hear the translator.
	And again, my God!
	White House staff, stop the camera clicking.
	It is...
	It's 2017.
	I do not understand why this goes...
	It's impossible.
	It almost seems as if it was miked.
	Yes.
	Well, for sure, the translator wasn't miked properly.
	Another beef of mine.
	Gripe, I should say.
	So I learned two things.
	The first thing is that how long it's been since the president of Egypt came to the United States to the White House.
	And then the secondary thing, which I thought was pretty cool.
	Your Excellency, allow me to extend my thanks and appreciation for your kind invitation for me to visit the United States.
	Actually, this is my first state visit to the United States since my integration in office.
	And as a matter of fact, this is the first visit in eight years from Egyptian President to the United States.
	Interesting.
	The first time in eight years an Egyptian president has been to the White House.
	The exact eight years of the Obama presidency.
	Yeah.
	And now, I don't know if you can hear this next bit, but I thought it was fun.
	Your Excellency, since we met last September, I've had a deep appreciation and admiration of your unique personality.
	A deep appreciation for your unique personality.
	Well said, Cece.
	Your excellency.
	Well said, Cece.
	Excellent.
	Excellent.
	Let's play this clip, which is from the last show.
	This says, China news about Russia with war game stories got a kicker.
	Speaking at the NATO's foreign minister's meeting in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson denounced Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
	He reiterated U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow will remain in place until it returns the peninsula to Kyiv, something Russia has long insisted will never happen.
	NATO's European members have previously voiced concerns over Russia's military build-up along the alliance's eastern borders and its regular military drills held on NATO's doorstep in the Black Sea region and in the Baltics.
	Moscow, for its part, opposes what it calls NATO's eastward expansion and says it is alarmed by drills held near its western borders.
	One Russian senator, Alexei Pushkov, on Friday accused NATO of preparing for a possible full-scale war with a Russia-Africa.
	We did this clip.
	What?
	We did this clip.
	Listen to the whole thing.
	You'll recognize the kicker.
	...that NATO posted a job ad for Russian-speaking extras needed to participate in...
	Yeah, we did do that.
	Less than 10 minutes to go, okay?
	All right.
	Wrap it up, John.
	Well, let's get this one out of the way.
	This is Musk and the implant.
	As in, oh, Elon!
	Entrepreneur Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla cars and SpaceX, is now pursuing an idea to merge the human brain with machines.
	When Musk announced his Neuralinkz project on Twitter, it got plenty of attention, both for and against it.
	The new technology could combat eating disorders, depression and the effects of Parkinson's disease, according to the billionaire.
	Musk believes that in the future humans will lose jobs to artificial intelligence, but that we all could have brain implants to help combat the robot revolution.
	Well, we discussed the issue with renowned Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who's known for being anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist.
	He's expressed ideas that people can easily be controlled by machines without being aware of it.
	Musk is just a publicity hound.
	Fuck this guy.
	This is nonsense.
	I'm so annoyed by this guy.
	It's mainly because I'm paying for it.
	Yeah, you're paying for his bank account.
	Yeah, I'm not a big fan of him doing that.
	It's true.
	Was that it?
	I got tons of stuff.
	You got a 10 minute warning!
	I know, this is not ten minutes long than a shorty.
	This is the principal canned.
	By the way, I think there's more of this going on than people want to admit.
	But this is the principal canned because of the kids.
	The new principal of Pittsburgh High School in Kansas has resigned after student reporters on the school paper exposed her false credentials.
	The principal's advanced degrees were from an unaccredited university.
	The school's journalism advisor says the students were just uncovering the truth.
	Nice work.
	You know, the more I hear stories like this, anything with South Korea, I got to talk to Uncle Don.
	I really have a feeling that the park thing was a setup to get her out.
	Get her out.
	Get someone in there who wants to buy some stuff.
	Wait, you're making a connection between this principal getting fired and South Korea?
	How?
	Wasn't this a Korean story?
	No, it was from Missouri.
	I misunderstood.
	I thought it was Korea.
	No, it wasn't Korea.
	It was America.
	America?
	Well, Korea, America.
	Same difference.
	It's all part of China.
	So, well, there's that.
	Sorry.
	But back to your Uncle Don, you're right.
	I think that you maybe should talk to him and find out about the park.
	The park thing is sketchy to me, too.
	Yeah.
	She wasn't going to buy enough weapons or something like that.
	But Don isn't liking me right now.
	I think I told you this.
	Because I invited him.
	It was an invite via via to this thing in D.C. and a whole bunch of spooks were going to be there.
	And I would have said, I'll come and pick you up.
	We'll go together.
	And Flynn will be there.
	And I think I told you this.
	He sent a note back.
	I do not want to have anything to do with Flynn at any point or anyone who's around him.
	End of message.
	Hmm.
	Interesting, huh?
	Well, yeah, it's interesting, but I wish somebody could give us some details on why is Flynn considered such an a-hole by a number of people.
	Well, I'm going to have to go to the East Coast to find out, and I will.
	I guess so.
	I will.
	I mean, what has he done?
	I mean, he was such an a-hole, they rousted him.
	Yeah.
	You know, they got him kicked off the position he had there in the White House, and I don't know.
	All right, we have time for one more.
	One more?
	Yep.
	Well, I got a couple.
	I got tons of stuff.
	Okay, I get this.
	This is a gripe of mine.
	We had a...
	Listen to this.
	This is Sleep Train.
	We had a company out here that's been out here forever called Sleep Train.
	And they used to have a...
	A little jingle with a whistle and all the rest of it.
	It's been here forever, this company, Sleep Train.
	Somebody gets into the corporate offices and decides to change the name of this well-branded company...
	And listen to the name of the new name they come up with.
	Sleep Train is now Mattress Firm and making history by celebrating with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
	You got me.
	Mattress Firm.
	All right, everybody.
	That's how we roll here.
	All right, I'll be diving into the Don Rickles conspiracy.
	Things always happen on a show day.
	You know how that works.
	Was he just 90 or was he murdered?
	Mm-hmm.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you.
	Oh, and John, I wanted to say, how about them Tar Heels, huh?
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you very much for your support of the show.
	Thank you, War Room.
	Appreciate that.
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	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it was threatening to rain.
	Threatening, I tell you.
	It hasn't rained yet.
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	And we will be back on Thursday right here.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Another episode then of No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos.
	On and on and on.
	I have no agenda.
	I have no agenda.
	I know that there's demonic forces.
	I have no agenda.
	And.
	Yeah.
	.
	Marito, Marito.
	Hold yourself to accountability.
	Oh my God, you've been bad.
	I have no agenda.
	Ken Jeong-Yong-Yong!
	Ken Jeong-Yong-Yong!
	Maxine, step away from the crowd.
	Those days are over.
	They called you out on Fox tonight.
	Maxine.
	You won't give up the fight.
	Call for Trump's impeachment.
	You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right.
	Maxine, step away from the crackpot.
	Maxine, no agenda's always right.
	Maxine, step away from the crackpot.
	Maxine, step away from the crackpot.
	Maxine, step away from the step away from the crackpot.
	You, Mr. Watson.
	Watts, the discount, the impact of those bots.
	Mr.
	Watts, the best manufactured.
	Mr.
	Watts, the impact of those bots.
	And really good job of laying out digital digital tools.
	Use you, Mr. Watts, for the public.
	Because it really is true.
	You, Mr. Watts, for the public but only private sector.
	So it's just all of it.
	You, Mr. Watts, you, a new sector.
	So it's from the U.S. Mr. Watts, for digital tools.
	Systemic.
	Oh, I asked you for two minutes.
	Private sector.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm doing that.
	You're Jewish goat.
	I don't know.
	Mr. Watts.
	I bet you can get it from there.
	I'm really going to blame.
	I have a damn exposed to something I say.
	I think this is a lot of people.
	I see all the talk to you.
	I'm very open.
	I have a damn exposed to me.
	Can get it from there.
	Hold on a second.
	He's not Indian.
	Sweden is unstable.
	Terrorist groups can speak.
	There are more than just Russian fake news out there.
	Mr. Watts.
	I'm paying the tier media company.
	I'm not from.
	Mr. Watts.
	I'm breaking a Russian fake news.
	Mr. Watts.
	I'm more than others from the evidence that's available not all of you.
	Beans for us.
	These myths were like this.
	Of laying out for us.
	You.
	Mr. Watts.
	You.
	Mr. Watts.
	Mr. Watts.
	What?
	What?
	This is fake.
	Mr. Watts.
	Mr. Watts.
	Okay.
	I'm trying to keep track.
	I'll get you.
	That's going to fail.
	Did that make sense?
	That's going to fail.
	The European Union.
	It's going to fail.
	Dean thinks.
	For not.
	For not.
	To make news.
	That's going to fail.
	Really high.
	Can we get a break from Trump, please?
	Can we get a break from Trump, please?
	Let's talk about someone who has no power in Washington, Mike Pence.
	Yeah.
	Someone who has no power in Washington, Trump.
	Can we get a break from Trump?
	Can we get a break from Trump?
	Mike Pence.
	Someone who has no power in Washington.
	Because Pence never eats alone with a woman other than his wife.
	Other than his wife.
	Because Pence never eats his wife.
	Never eats his wife.
	That can only mean one thing.
	Mike Pence is such an out-of-control Force 5 Bonacame.
	But it has to be monitored by Karen Pence at all times.
	Force 5 Bonacame.
	Force 5...
	Be monitored by Karen Pence at all times.
	Out-of-control Force 5 Bonacame.
	Be monitored by Karen Pence at all times.
	By...
	By...
	Force...
	Karen Pence at all times.
	He is so naughty.
	If you left him alone with a bottle of whiskey, he might try to have sex with it.
	Might try to have sex with it.
	Have sex with it.
	All right?
	He has to pray away the Mount Gay.
	Gay, gay.
	Pray away the Mount Gay.
	Gay, gay.
	Naughty, gay.
	Sex with the drummer.
	Mike Pence might try to have naughty, gay.
	Sex with the drummer.
	Fake, fake, fake news The
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