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	Yes, yes.
	I'm telling you.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, April 16, 2017, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media assassination episode 9 or 2, 1.
	This is no agenda.
	Dropping the mother of all podcasts and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet 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 we're jumping for joy because it's egg-zackly Easter day, I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's crack, blood, and buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Hey.
	Happy Easter, Jean-Claude.
	Yes, we work on Easter on our show.
	We do.
	Did you back off on the mic a bit?
	Our test, you sounded better.
	No, I'm right where I was.
	Okay.
	Odd.
	Odd how that works.
	It's okay.
	That's good.
	That's good.
	I'll adjust on the fly.
	Easter.
	Good.
	Yes.
	So I was looking up the...
	I thought it was interesting we dropped the mother of all bombs during the Easter week.
	Oh, that's when you want to do it.
	And I'm the heathens.
	That's when you want...
	Yeah, question about Easter.
	Can I ask you one question?
	Yes, ask me a number of questions.
	I actually did some work.
	Okay.
	What is with the grammar?
	What do you mean the grammar?
	He is risen...
	He is risen?
	Yeah, it's what I see everywhere today on the face bag.
	Everyone's posting their Easter statuses.
	He is risen.
	I don't know what...
	I think that's a phrase directly from the Bible or something.
	I have no idea why it's he is risen.
	Oh, it's new to me.
	I mean, I haven't seen this.
	Oh, it's not new.
	No, but I haven't seen it.
	Of course, the bag is just populating.
	I don't know.
	Oh, yeah, the face bags.
	Yeah, he is risen is the status everywhere.
	That's the status.
	Single, married, he is risen.
	Really?
	That's Jesus' branding, man.
	He is risen.
	No, he's got good branding.
	But let's talk about the Easter Bunny.
	Oh, okay.
	Where does that come into play?
	I decided to look it up.
	About time.
	And by the way, any trivia quiz that says the Easter Bunny is from the 1700s is wrong.
	It's from the 1600s.
	And it never was a bunny.
	It was a hare.
	And there's a difference between hares and bunnies.
	It's a different species of animal, actually.
	But it's easily confused because, for example, the jackrabbit, which is very common in some parts of the country, is actually a hare.
	Yes.
	Bunnies don't go like a bat out of hell.
	They usually go back into their little hole.
	What is the difference between a bunny and a hare?
	It's a different species.
	A hare's got big legs.
	To escape predators, they run like crazy.
	When they run, they run in a straight line.
	Bunnies are the ones with the holes.
	They live in a hole.
	And when a predator comes, they hustle down to the hole.
	They don't run at high speeds like a hare does.
	They just hustle to the hole.
	Yeah.
	And hares don't live underground like the bunnies do.
	There's other issues.
	Also, hares have those huge ears that usually stick straight up.
	Yeah, that's an issue.
	Well, not for them.
	You said it was an issue.
	I'm agreeing.
	That's a big issue.
	Big issue.
	Alright, so how did it come about?
	Yes?
	How did it come about?
	How did this come about?
	The Easter Bunny, also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare, is a folkloric figure and a symbol of Easter depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs.
	And the reason for the eggs was apparently during Lent in some areas, eggs were forbidden.
	Ah, so that's what it was.
	So you tossed the eggs into the yard.
	They were forbidden, so they would hard-boil them.
	Hunting for Easter eggs falls into some subtext.
	That's got to be a pagan thing.
	Come on.
	Most of this stuff stems from that, of course.
	Right, exactly.
	But the idea was that since you can't eat eggs, you would hard-boil them and then eat them to break the fast.
	Ah, okay, okay.
	Breakfast is named after that, too, by the way.
	This is typical.
	Originating among German Lutherans, the Easter hare originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior at the start of the season of Eastertide.
	The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes.
	In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy, and sometimes toys to the homes of the children, such as shows similar to Santa Claus, as they both bring gifts to children on the night of their respective holidays.
	The custom was first mentioned in Georg von Frankenau's.
	That's always those Scandinavians who are coming up with the kiddie stories.
	German.
	The Ovis of Pock...
	Pasha Boos, I think.
	About Easter eggs is the name of it.
	In 1682, referring to the German tradition of an Easter hare bringing Easter eggs for children.
	Hmm.
	So, this is interesting, too.
	The hair was a popular motif in medieval church.
	In the medieval church in ancient times, it was widely believed as Pliny, Plutarch, and others that the hair was a hermaphrodite.
	You're not assuming my gender, are you?
	The idea that the hair could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary.
	Oh, okay.
	That makes sense.
	The plot thing, but there is a rationale.
	I think it's It's relatively new in history, and I guess it caught on by the candy makers.
	Yeah.
	Well, there was a lot of consternation.
	Apparently the White House wasn't ready for the Easter egg roll this year.
	The planning went all wrong.
	I've been following this for a few...
	Oh, I have not followed this.
	I didn't know that.
	Oh yeah, maybe for the whole week.
	Yeah, it was like, oh, they didn't plan that.
	I thought this was like a bogus thing anyway, so I wouldn't follow it.
	Yeah, but then it comes from the New York Times, and then, you know, it may still be bogus, but at least it's going to be believed.
	Let's see.
	No, and that story being bogus, that the whole idea of an Easter egg roll on the White House along with a select few people.
	Select few?
	Select few?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Not open to me.
	I can't go to it.
	It's typically, let me see, 30,000 people.
	That's not a select few.
	30,000 people?
	Yeah, apparently.
	On the White House lawn?
	Apparently.
	I'm just reading history.
	That's more people than could fit on that lawn.
	Here we go.
	This is from the New York Times, so shoot me.
	Well, so what happened is, there was a tweet.
	FYI, manufacturing deadlines for Easter eggs are near.
	Please reach out.
	That was from Wells Wood and Turning.
	That's the company that supplies commemorative wooden eggs for the annual White House Easter egg roll.
	According to the New York Times, the 138-year-old celebration that has drawn 35,000 people to the South Lawn in recent years.
	Select few my butt.
	So you go in there and they get these wooden eggs?
	Yeah.
	And the kids don't start throwing them at each other, hitting each other in the head?
	Yes.
	That's how they learn to throw eggs and bagels in Berkeley.
	Oh, okay.
	Ouch.
	And I'll play the CBS report about your backyard, your beat.
	I want to take you now to Berkeley, California, where we're seeing violent demonstrations underway at this hour.
	These are clashes.
	They're competing between political rallies, two of them in the city.
	Some are pro-Trump.
	The others are anti-Trump.
	Joined on the phone by KCBS radio reporter Jenna Lane.
	I like how they've changed anti-fa into anti-Trump.
	That's kind of cool from CBS. It used to be they were anti-fa for anti-fascists.
	Now it's just anti-Trump.
	Anti-fa never was a good term.
	That's the term.
	That's what they call themselves.
	I know the term.
	You see it all the time.
	I don't know why, but it just seems lame.
	These are clashes.
	They're competing between political rallies, two of them in the city.
	Some are pro-Trump.
	The others are anti-Trump.
	Joined on the phone by KCBS. I like how you have protesters on both sides.
	It's kind of interesting.
	I protest.
	No, I protest.
	I protest louder.
	You'd think that the two of them would cancel each other out.
	There wouldn't be a protest at all.
	Not quite.
	Now, let's listen to these LARPers.
	The others are anti-Trump.
	Joined on the phone by KCBS radio reporter Jenna Lane in Berkeley.
	Jenna, we're seeing these violent images.
	It appears to be a dumpster that's being pushed around.
	What can you tell us?
	Rena, there's been a number of things that have unfolded over this changing situation throughout the morning.
	It all started when some supporters of President Trump announced plans to have several speakers address a crowd.
	Well, a group calling itself mostly anti-fascist showed up around 10 o'clock to make sure that people would know that not everyone in Berkeley supported these speakers.
	Police set up some plastic barracks No man's land between those two crowds.
	They shouted at each other for the better part of a couple of hours.
	Some eggs and bagels were tossed from one side to the other.
	But it was mostly peaceful except for the shouting.
	You know, I watch this.
	What does she mean by mostly peaceful?
	These guys are swinging.
	Well, first of all, just like CNN did with the, or CNN, all of corporate media did with the missile launch, I think we have to have M-80s.
	You know, anytime we're talking, we've got to have an M-80 blowing off somehow.
	When I saw this, I think it was a drone shot or a helicopter shot, and they're all fighting.
	The battle of the garbage bin.
	We used to do this when I was 14.
	We'd throw rocks at each other, and then the cops would show up, and we'd all go home, and maybe one guy would get a bloody nose or something.
	And it was like, eh, whatever.
	We do this all the time.
	That's what kids do.
	But now it's broadcast on YouTube and it's picked up by...
	Well, it's also not kids.
	These are more adults, closer to being adults.
	These are...
	They're not like 12-year-olds.
	No, they're not 12-year-olds.
	But, you know, once again, the black bloc.
	With their hoodies and LARPing around.
	And, you know, it's just pathetic.
	I use the word LARPing twice now.
	What does LARPing mean to you?
	We've discussed this before.
	Live action role playing.
	Okay.
	We've discussed this.
	This is what these kids are doing.
	They go to the hospital.
	Yeah, but you just casually say it as though everyone knows what it means.
	Okay.
	Well, I think a lot of people need to know.
	Well, I'm just telling you.
	But anyway, they go to Hot Topic in the mall on the weekend and get their perfect black scarf and their black hoodies, their backpack.
	Buy too many bagels.
	Yeah, and then they post, like this one girl who posted on the bag, Yeah, I'm getting ready to protest these damn a-hole Trump evil fascists.
	I'm going to come back with a hundred Nazi scalps.
	And that was the girl who got punched in the face.
	I hope you saw that.
	It sounds like from her attitude, she's bound to get punched in the face throughout her life.
	Well, she punched the guy in the throat, and he punched her in the face.
	It's like, okay, if you're going to go there, and now, of course, she's in the hospital with a concussion.
	They have a GoFundMe for $80,000.
	Oh, please.
	Oh, yeah.
	I thought it was kind of interesting.
	You're Berkeley police, man.
	Those guys are laid back.
	Now, as we look at these images, it looks like there's some trash in the street.
	Maybe somebody's starting a fire with that.
	Earlier, we were showing video of two groups that look like fighting each other.
	And there are a bunch of people with...
	I'm just livening this report up a little bit for us.
	...bearing black.
	We saw the San Francisco Chronicle describing those folks as anarchists.
	Are those people who typically show up at some of these protests and cause trouble?
	It's something that we've seen in the past.
	However, I'll leave it to those groups to explain who they are and what they're about.
	And now we're looking at some of the video from earlier where one of those fights happened.
	Can you tell us any more about injuries?
	So the two injuries that were reported to us, one involved an officer who was exposed to what we believe is tear gas when a member of the crowd put it out into the park.
	Another person was sprayed with what we believe is Bear spray or pepper spray type bear spray.
	Both of those people have been since treated and released.
	Officer, when we look at these images, you don't see police getting involved, trying to break up the fight.
	Why is that?
	Because this cop's life is a bunch of moron kids.
	Go ahead, do whatever you want.
	Who cares?
	I imagine that some of what you may be talking about is when some of the people went out into the adjacent street.
	Yes.
	As I mentioned before, we had a number of controlled points trying to limit the Weapons that people had when they're having their peaceful demonstration.
	When those...
	What?
	I don't know what the...
	Was this guy even there?
	This guy's smoking crack, man.
	He's peaceful, bro.
	He's all good.
	Weapons that people had when they're having their peaceful demonstration.
	Yeah.
	When that controlled area broke free...
	That presented a particular challenge for us.
	Will you go back and watch some of the video, do you think?
	Yeah, he said us.
	They were doing nothing.
	They were just hanging out.
	Is he a cop?
	Yes!
	Okay.
	Yes, this is the spokeshole for Byron White.
	He's full of crap, this guy.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh.
	I'll say.
	Let me finish him up here.
	Hey, where'd he go?
	That's odd.
	Uh-oh.
	What happened here?
	Oh, are you still there, John?
	Yeah, I'm here.
	Yeah, something happened here.
	Hold on a second.
	My controller broke loose!
	That's odd.
	Hold on, let me reboot it.
	Oh, man.
	Oh, this is not good.
	Oh, crap.
	What happened?
	I don't know.
	It's like all of a sudden my controller doesn't work.
	Okay, now it's back.
	We'll continue.
	Will you go back and watch some of the video, do you think, and try to follow up and make additional arrests?
	Certainly.
	Just as in past demonstrations, the police department continues its investigation after the event.
	The Berkley police aren't just responsible for what happens in the park, but for the entire city, and we're going to review any video surveillance recordings from the area, as well as videos of people the public send in to us, and perhaps send out some arrest warrants for those people as well.
	No matter what the mainstream media told you, not a big deal.
	The cops don't think it's a big deal.
	It was a bunch of kids in garbage bins.
	My goodness.
	And that's what they seem to like doing.
	Kicking over trash cans, John.
	They dropped this huge bomb in Afghanistan and killed a bunch of people.
	And there's a bunch of death and destruction all over the place.
	But these guys are going back and forth about Whether they like Trump or not.
	Yeah.
	It's pathetic.
	And they're setting garbage bins on fire.
	No, not even.
	They're kicking them over.
	Woo!
	Anarchy!
	I remember anarchy in Amsterdam in the 70s.
	This was the time of the sex pistols.
	And we all, all of us, we had our black leather jackets with an A and a circle around it.
	Anarchy.
	And then the M.E. would come.
	That's basically the riot cops.
	And everyone would be like, people like me would be like, okay, not so anarchy anymore.
	But people were really into it.
	And, you know, there was some real fighting going on back in the day.
	This is nothing.
	This is sad.
	And it was about establishment and new world order.
	And, you know, not this bullcrap.
	And of course, this was on tax day.
	What all these protests were about was the president has to show his tax returns.
	That's what this...
	You know, Matt, this is what gets me the most.
	And there's all these chants, you know...
	And it's about showing his taxes.
	People are dying left and right.
	There's war about to break out here and there.
	The North Koreans are saber-rattling.
	We have a flotilla of ships heading their way.
	An armada.
	An armada.
	An armada costing millions of dollars.
	And these people are protesting the guy not showing his taxes.
	This is pathetic.
	Yeah, and that is also the only thing that was really on the news was that.
	Because, hey.
	Although, since you brought it up, I found a great report from CNN about the bomb, the mother of all bombs.
	And they had some local color, some local flair they added to this report with Barbara Starr, who was, of course, the CNN Pentagon reporter.
	The largest conventional bomb ever dropped in combat exploded above a complex of caves and tunnels in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan.
	By the way, I'm sure you saw the video.
	That was some badass video, wasn't it?
	Well, a couple of things.
	One, it was so, I guess, so bright that it toasted the CCD. It inverted, yeah.
	It's completely inverted.
	So it was ruined.
	So you never really got to see what the hell was going on with that.
	That was a bad...
	It was adjusted poorly.
	They should have...
	I don't know what they could have done better, but...
	I didn't learn anything by watching that bomb.
	No, you saw the concussion spread.
	Oh yeah, you did see a little of that.
	The top US commander adamant the mission was only about killing ISIS. The timing of the use of this weapon was simply the appropriate tactical moment against the proper target to use this particular munition.
	So it is not related to any outside events.
	It does deliver a psychological message to ISIS. One military official tells CNN the massive bomb is powerful enough to destroy nine city blocks.
	It will level that area and provide an unbelievable amount of concussion to that area.
	So it will collapse caves, it will blow up things, and if you're alive afterwards, you're going to have perforated eardrums and a lot of trauma.
	I like how the guy laughs.
	That's kind of cool.
	It's kind of a...
	You got your patience from your ears.
	You'll be deaf.
	Perforated.
	And that's just the least of your problems.
	Oh, no.
	That guy, that guy's evil, man.
	Get him out of there.
	Collapse caves, it will blow up things, and it will, if you're alive afterwards, you're going to have perforated eardrums and a lot of drums.
	General Nicholson says it all went according to plan.
	Caves and tunnels destroyed.
	Afghan officials say dozens of ISIS fighters killed.
	We had persistent surveillance over the area before, during, and after the operation.
	And now we have Afghan and US forces on the site and see no evidence of civilian casualties, nor have there been any reports of civilian casualties.
	The bomb had been in Afghanistan since early January.
	Oh!
	Whoa!
	Hold on a second.
	That's interesting.
	That was during President Obama's term.
	Early January.
	Okay.
	Just so we know who brought the bomb in, in case anyone was wondering.
	I don't know if that was necessarily a Trump decision to bring it in.
	...on the site and see no evidence of civilian casualties, nor have there been any reports of civilian casualties.
	The bomb had been in Afghanistan since early January.
	Nicholson signed the final order authorizing the mission just 24 hours before the bomb dropped.
	Afterwards, local Afghans described the enormity of the blast.
	Now, this is what's cool.
	It turns out that local Afghanis are just like locals here in Austin or in, well, maybe not Berkeley, but...
	Actually, yeah, they're kind of like Californians in...
	The locals there.
	Afterwards, local Afghans described the enormity of the blast.
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	Hey, man!
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	Hey, man, it was really huge, man.
	When it dropped, it was shaking everywhere.
	Dude, it was fucking crazy, man.
	Wow, I am really high.
	A lot of firepower was used, but the estimate is there's still upwards of 800 ISIS fighters inside Afghanistan.
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	I can't get enough of that translation.
	Really translate the whole emotion, will you?
	Will you do me a favor?
	Make sure that we really feel what he's saying.
	Okay.
	Well, I had a question, because I put it in the newsletter, actually.
	Why were these caves there?
	Didn't the CIA build them?
	Yeah, I heard the CIA build them.
	What was the CIA doing?
	A couple of questions come to mind.
	One, why are they still there?
	We've been in Afghanistan for 10 years.
	Well, this is the troubling part.
	10 years?
	Yeah.
	And why did they build the caves?
	Well, the caves were probably built back in the day for the Mujahideen when we were funding them to knock out the Ruskies.
	That's, I think, how...
	I'm assuming that, too, but why are they still there?
	Well, we clearly did not really want to smoke them out when George W. Bush said we're going to smoke them out.
	Otherwise, we would have done this.
	We've had this massive air ordinance bomb for a while.
	Blast, that's what it's called.
	We've had this for a while.
	I don't know.
	It's troubling, and I would like to know.
	I agree.
	Why didn't we use this before?
	Why didn't we blow up those caves earlier?
	When we were actually at war there.
	Now we're just doing it to get the mineral rights, which I think is what part of the deal is, and the opium.
	Let's not forget the poppies.
	So there's no poppies in this area, but it might be some lithium.
	Yeah.
	I don't know where the lithium is, but the lithium is there somewhere.
	Maybe they just dropped a bomb to soften up the place for mining.
	That was my next thought, is that maybe the lithium is right there.
	It's not just lithium.
	We've talked about this many, many years ago.
	It's up to a trillion dollars worth of, let's see, lithium, cerium, neodymium, samarium, gadolinium.
	Maybe the caves are actually mines.
	Imodium AD. That have been sucked dry, and now they need to blow up the whole place so they can do that scraping type of mining.
	Well, let me tell you, when it comes to excavating, this is the way to go.
	That's for sure.
	It was really, really interesting.
	Oh, man.
	Well, those bombs, the other thing that's kind of unique is the argument about the price of the bomb that's been going on on the internets.
	Yeah, it's like, oh, $16 million.
	And then, I've seen much higher amounts, but I think $16 sounds right.
	No, it can't be higher than $16 million, because I think those numbers are solid, but...
	That's based on some similar bomb that they built 20 of at the cost of $315 million, and they figured it was about the same.
	But then somebody else comes on and says, no, it's $170,000 a pop.
	Why would a bomb, I don't care how big it is, just a bomb that has a...
	Yeah, if you take R&D into account, I'm sure you can come up with crazy numbers.
	I mean, you're sitting on a $3 million toilet seat in the Pentagon.
	We know this.
	And that's not just the order, that's the R&D. Well, that's why it makes me think the bomb is probably more expensive than $117,000 or $170,000 that other people have estimated.
	Yes, if you amortize it.
	But I don't think the Pentagon does much.
	If you amortize it, it doubles.
	I don't think the Pentagon does much when it comes to accounting.
	They're not really well known for it.
	Yeah.
	On the other hand, this action could have easily been, hey, man, okay, let's move on from the serious story.
	What can we do?
	Oh, I know.
	We got that thing we moved there in January.
	Yeah, I tell you what, let's blow it up over those caves.
	No one cares.
	That's also possible.
	Yes, that is also possible.
	And at this point, I would think the military would be creating these distractions on their own accord.
	They don't need any help from anybody.
	And meanwhile, of course, the Russians said, well, we've got the FOAB, the father of all bombs, four times bigger.
	No, they said that?
	Yeah.
	I think it went four times bigger.
	Well, play the report I have here.
	I have a similar report.
	This is an overseas report, of course, on Deutsche Welle, and it is on this bomb.
	Aerial footage released by the U.S. military shows massive explosive force.
	The largest non-nuclear weapon in the American arsenal targeted a series of underground tunnels and an IS ammunition cache in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border.
	This is where Washington believes the vast majority of IS fighters in the country are hiding.
	And the head of US forces in Afghanistan says the move to drop this weapon was tactical, not political.
	This weapon was the appropriate weapon to use against this target.
	And prior to this, we didn't have such a target.
	First tested in 2003, the GBU-43, dubbed the mother of all bombs, produces a blast as powerful as 11 tons of TNT. Those on the ground attested to the bomb's power.
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	When it dropped, everything was really shaking.
	Wait a minute.
	They got the same guy, except they didn't translate it right.
	They translated with less drama.
	Yeah, that's really sad.
	Attest it to the bomb's power.
	But it's also exactly the same report.
	It's the exact same soundbite.
	So this is pool reporting at best.
	Well, that means that CNN used it, too.
	Yes, yes.
	So where did it come from?
	Maybe our spooks on the ground are like, hey, you know what?
	We'll give it to you.
	Maybe there was no bomb.
	Also possible.
	CNN, of course, being, you know, cheap Jack Mickey Mouse operation.
	They're like...
	Yeah, we don't have anybody to translate.
	Can you guys just translate?
	And then Pentagon goes, eh, cool.
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	No, Deutsche Welle, they got money.
	See, they got money, so they translated normally.
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	When it dropped, everything was really shaking.
	I'm telling you, I'm right about this.
	That's how we are.
	It killed around 70 or 80 of them.
	This is a positive move that IS fighters have been eliminated.
	No civilians were there at all.
	The use of the weapon comes just a week after the US conducted airstrikes in Syria, another show of force from an American administration that suddenly seems more willing to intervene.
	I can't find the article.
	I thought I had saved it somewhere, but there was word that simultaneously we, we, US, United States nation, Gitmo nation people, that we were testing yet another bomb.
	We were testing some, like, anti-gravity thing or something.
	What the hell was that?
	Oh, no, no, it was a gravity bomb.
	That doesn't mean anti-gravity.
	It means it gets pulled to the ground.
	In other words, it's not like a cruise missile.
	They call it a gravity bomb because most bombs are that.
	Well, the MOAB is also a gravity bomb.
	I got the little report.
	Oh, good.
	What is it?
	It's a very short report.
	Apparently we tested this little mini-nuke.
	Yeah.
	A nuclet.
	A nuclet.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I got it.
	New weapon RT. That's it.
	Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force has published a report on its successful test of an inert nuclear gravity bomb.
	A what?
	Inner?
	Inert.
	Oh, inert.
	Inert.
	Thank you.
	In other words, it didn't blow up.
	Thank you.
	So it's just a dumb bomb.
	It just drops some metal out of a plane.
	Watch this!
	...report on its successful test of an inert nuclear gravity bomb...
	The test happened a month ago, but only now has been made public.
	Oh, a month ago.
	I thought they'd done it just the same time.
	Okay, I'm wrong.
	No, they announced it at the same time.
	That was the coincidence.
	Oh, okay.
	Inert.
	There's a second part of that.
	There's more to it.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Hey, baby, don't worry.
	It's inert.
	Just the tip.
	Nothing can happen.
	I'm going to use that word a lot.
	Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force has published a report on its successful test of an inert nuclear gravity bomb.
	The test happened a month ago, but only now has been made public.
	Also, in fact, the U.S. Army is also planning to add a new kinetic energy weapon to its arsenal.
	It's being presented as a tool to counter Russian nuclear technology.
	Okay, first.
	So I've decided that an inert nuclear gravity bomb is pretty much the same as throwing a pizza stone out of a helicopter.
	Yeah, but in your case, yes.
	You get it home finally?
	You dragged it home?
	I needed a forklift to get it in the house.
	And I like this energy weapon.
	Ooh, it's my favorite kind.
	It's a rail gun.
	Yeah, probably.
	No, it is.
	They showed it.
	How does a railgun work?
	A railgun is...
	Please, how does it work?
	Okay, you have these rails, and then you have an unbelievable magnetic field.
	Right, it was a magnetic field.
	The energy it takes to create the magnetic field is about the size of a ship, which means it's a very difficult weapon to move around.
	And then it charges this thing up, but it's just a piece, it's just like a rock.
	Right.
	Pizza stone.
	Right.
	And it goes flying down this thing and it comes out at 9,000 miles an hour.
	That's the ball theory right there.
	It may be.
	Anyway, it comes at 9,000 miles an hour and it just, and it has a big shock wave.
	And I guess even if it passes by something, the shock wave is enough to disturb it and destroy things.
	9,000?
	Did you say 9,000 miles per hour?
	Yes, 9,000 miles an hour.
	Some things break in the sound barrier out of the chute.
	Oh, well, a bullet does that.
	Maybe.
	How about 9,000 feet per second?
	How about that?
	That sounds a little more reasonable than 9,000 miles per hour.
	No, I'm just telling you what it said on the screen.
	This is an example of RT's horrible, I don't like their reporting style.
	Because they talk about, you heard the intro, and now they do a bunch of graphics.
	Now they give us a slideshow.
	And they got the rail gun and the guy's loading it.
	It's like a guy wearing a suit loading it.
	It's not like a field gear.
	It's on a ship.
	That's a badass weapon right there.
	You think?
	My goodness.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Well, stay away from that.
	The...
	But I was looking at this thing was 11 tons of TNT, this big MOAB. I think we have a bigger thing than that, the kind of thing you have to drag along behind you in a This is some other kind of a bomb.
	I can't remember the name.
	You mean like one of those signs, like Drink Budweiser?
	It's the bomb that was discussed within one of those movies where they're going to blow up the entire town.
	It's some sort of a gas bomb of some sort.
	But I was looking at the 11,000 pounds or 11 tons of TNT. The Hiroshima bomb...
	Was 13,000 tons of TNT, and that's considered as bomb that's too small.
	Nobody wants those anymore.
	Yeah, and that was a discrepancy that I kept reading.
	People were like, it's almost as big as Fat Boy.
	I'm like, no, you're forgetting three zeros.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Kilotons, a little different than tons.
	Right.
	Tons is 11 tons.
	The Fat Boy was 22 kilotons.
	Yeah.
	So it was a factor of the three zeros.
	There's also a little bitty bomb.
	I'm looking at this list of some bombs.
	The Davy Crockett is out there.
	It's a variable yield tactical nuke.
	It's 51 pounds, lightest ever deployed by the United States.
	0.01 kilotons.
	And that is the size of the bombs that North Korea is developing.
	Let's just stop there for a second.
	Because I'm getting very tired of just reports that cite unnamed people and have no evidence, even in the form of the crappy video we saw of Moab, which I agree.
	For the amount of money we spent, whether it was $16 million or $160 million, we need better video.
	I paid for that.
	I feel we deserve better video.
	Come on, we've got Fleur.
	We can do much better than this.
	Much better.
	We've got videos of the bombing of Hiroshima that are better than this.
	But no, we don't get that.
	So here is the report, and there was a pool guy, although it might have been CNN who was doing a pool, during the big celebration there in Pyongyang, and we're seeing all of these, what I deem to be mainly just empty metal tubes.
	I don't know what's in there.
	I don't know if this is a new sophisticated rocket.
	I have no idea.
	It looks like a bunch of sheet metal with rivets.
	Here's the report.
	To begin with breaking news from North Korea, a U.S. military official confirms North Korea attempted to launch a missile off its east coast Sunday morning, local time, but the missile blew up almost immediately.
	The type of missile is still being assessed.
	The defiant misfire follows another show of force Saturday.
	Now, here they've just said something, and not even with a source.
	Hold on, I say stop, stop.
	Did you hear what she said?
	She said a defiant misfire.
	No, I didn't hear that.
	Damn.
	What is a defiant misfire?
	It means that the rocket did not want to do it.
	I'm not firing!
	To begin with breaking news from North Korea, a U.S. military official confirms North Korea attempted to launch a missile off its east coast Sunday morning, local time, but the missile blew up almost immediately.
	The type of missile is still being assessed.
	The defiant misfire follows another...
	That is a very weird sentence.
	I agree with you.
	You could say the defiant missile, because literally, the missile does not want to be fired, but the defiant misfire?
	Well, obviously, she's remixing things up.
	The defiant part is that they were told not to do anything, and they did something.
	And so that was the defiant part, but then it was a misfire.
	And so she puts the two together, and you get this stupid phrase, defiant misfire, that means nothing.
	Yeah, you know what it is?
	This is the Easter crew.
	The Easter crew.
	We're the only ones that work on Easter.
	Yes, it's very hard to get anything from corporate media during Easter or any other vacation because they're gone.
	...to a force Saturday in which the isolated communist nation put ballistic missiles on parade, including some we haven't seen before.
	More now from Ben Tracy inside the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
	When it comes to military parades, North Korea certainly knows how to put on a show.
	I want to go.
	Stepping soldiers, rolling tanks, and rocket launchers.
	It's an elaborate scene involving hundreds of thousands of people that would be the envy of any Super Bowl halftime show.
	Anytime North Korea has one of these military parades, U.S. military experts closely examine what they're parading down the street.
	They're looking for signs that North Korea is closer to developing a long-range nuclear missile that can reach the United States.
	And the signs were troubling.
	For the first time, North Korea displayed new long-range ballistic missiles that can be launched from both land and sea.
	They are believed to be the same missiles successfully tested in February that use solid fuel.
	Hold on a second.
	I just want to hear if that's the same sound effect of the missile that they were using for the Tomahawks.
	It sounds a lot like it.
	Let's just do a comparison here.
	That's annoying.
	Let's see.
	Tested in February and used solid fuel and are hard to detect.
	It's exactly the same, John.
	They're sweetening the audio.
	Listen.
	These guys, they never end here.
	They are believed to be the same missile success.
	Goddammit.
	I want to get the fire.
	Here we go.
	Time, North Korea displayed new long-range ballistic missiles that can be launched from both land and sea.
	No, it's a little different.
	They are believed to be the same missiles successfully tested in February that use solid fuel and are hard to detect before launch.
	And South Korea's military believes these large missiles at the end of the parade are a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile the North did not previously possess.
	In a speech at the parade, a high-ranking North Korean official accused the Trump administration of threatening North Korea and said if attacked, they will respond with all-out war, including nuclear weapons.
	That confidence is shared by many here in Pyongyang.
	When you see all of the military troops and all of the weapons go by, what does that mean to you?
	He said, it made me feel North Korea is strong enough to defeat any enemy, even the United States.
	North Korea still says it wants peace and not war, but if it comes to war, they're ready to fight.
	Yeah.
	Unnamed sources.
	Unnamed sources.
	We have no video of this thing.
	I've seen these big tubes before.
	Yeah, those tubes could be made out of wood.
	It could be logs.
	It's Lincoln logs.
	They could be.
	Who knows?
	And the guy says, oh, this is new.
	We've never seen this log before.
	And we're going to use it on you.
	You know, this whole thing is just a show.
	I agree.
	But there's some good reporting.
	I got a couple of clips here.
	I got the North Korea.
	Which one do I got here?
	Deutsche Welle?
	Or you got...
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	Okay.
	The situation on the Korean Peninsula is being described as a tinderbox.
	Gunter Knobbo was a longtime DW correspondent in the region.
	He's been analyzing this conflict for decades.
	Thank you for being with us this evening.
	Pyongyang has threatened to strike back before.
	In your assessment, is it different this time?
	No, not really different.
	It's a normal kind of normal procedure that any action provokes or has a reaction from North Korea.
	And this time maybe the vocabulary is a little bit straighter or stronger.
	That's simply because also President Trump is using stronger words.
	He's a fan of strong language.
	But if the U.S. really resorted to a preemptive strike, what would that mean for the region?
	Well, any war means catastrophe.
	And in case President Trump would take some military action, first of all, all the, let's say, possibilities he has are limited in scope.
	Because if it's real war, it would be catastrophe because the whole peninsula and the region would be in flames.
	So hopefully he does not take any military action.
	Or if he thinks he can have some, let's say, warning action, just like in Syria, that is also of big danger because he would draw in then China.
	That was the whole point.
	To draw in China.
	Yeah, but the problem is that Seoul, Korea is like 10 feet from the border of North Korea.
	They couldn't get in there fast enough before the North Koreans just blow it to smithereens with an A-bomb.
	Now, here's the report that it was kind of interesting.
	This was CBS. I think yours was CBS, too, but I think it was a different report.
	This is the North Korea 2017 won, and...
	North Korea 2017, too.
	And the two is the one that's the most interesting of these two clips, because this is David Martin, who works out of the Pentagon.
	He's that older guy who looks like, he just looks like a, he looks like a, if you're going to describe me, he looks like not only a CIA guy, but a CIA supervisor.
	Who's looking for TPS reports.
	He's looking for TPS reports.
	But he always has...
	To me, when he comes on, I listen to him with it in mind that I'm listening to a...
	The official story.
	Let's play the first part.
	Let's play one first and then we go to two.
	Korea, a major holiday in the reclusive communist nation.
	The anniversary of the birth of founder Kim Il-sung.
	And there is concern around the world that his grandson, dictator Kim Jong-un, will use the occasion to flex his military muscle and conduct another nuclear test in defiance of the U.S. Ben Tracy's in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
	And there's your defiance word again.
	North Korea has already staged four ballistic missile tests this year, and despite warnings from the U.S. and China, North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Han Song Riol says his country will conduct another nuclear test, its sixth overall.
	Do you plan to conduct that test in the coming days?
	The nuclear test will take place at a time at a place that the supreme leadership deems necessary.
	He accuses the Trump administration of provoking a military conflict by sending a Navy strike force to the Korean Peninsula and continuing U.S. military exercises in South Korea.
	Do you believe the United States wants to attack North Korea?
	If the U.S. comes up with a dangerous military option, then the first card is in our hands.
	We'll deal with it with our preemptive strike.
	This means war.
	So you're saying if you feel that North Korea is going to be attacked...
	You will use nuclear weapons.
	Of course.
	China, which is North Korea's main ally and trading partner, said today that there would be no winners in a war, and both sides should stop threatening each other.
	North Korea says they are ready for both war and peace, and their vice minister suddenly spoke English to make his point clear.
	Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
	The vice minister did stress that North Korea would not launch a preemptive strike unless it felt a real threat of attack from the United States.
	Tomorrow is a major holiday here in North Korea, and there is some concern that the country might use the opportunity to launch new missiles or conduct a nuclear test.
	Ben Tracy and Pyongyang, thanks.
	So what do you think the, just presuming for a moment that this is tactically smart, what do you think the game plan is?
	With North Korea.
	The game plan from whose perspective?
	Trump.
	El Presidente.
	Well, he definitely is not going to do anything because Mattis, of all people, they showed him backing off as much as possible because they know that North Korea has the upper hand because 20 million people in Seoul, Korea, and our military base would just be It would be a mess.
	and they could do it and they would do it and they keep preparing for it but it seems to me as we go back and we've talked about this for years it seems as if the North Koreans are just kind of playing different kinds of games because the guy said the CBS reporter that's actually in Pyongyang which to me was a breakthrough I never saw this guy roaming around before but he's over there and he speaks Korean and so he's the go-to guy he says they're prepared for peace
	Well, that's what Donna's told us.
	I mean, we've heard that that's all they want.
	They just want armistice.
	They just want to be a peaceful person.
	But they have this face thing, I guess, going on where they would like to have a meetup.
	Well, they should get on meetup.org and organize it properly.
	I think they should.
	Put it in meetup.org and maybe something will happen.
	They can do it at the Zephyr Museum.
	I mean, it would be beautiful.
	Yes, which we're talking about later, which I promised last time we never did.
	Yes, we didn't.
	So now we're listening to David Martin, who will give us the current status of things as far as I'm concerned.
	How might the U.S. respond to another North Korean test?
	David Martin is at the Pentagon.
	The Air Force calls it an elephant walk.
	22 F-15s armed and ready to scramble from Kadena Air Base in Japan, 900 miles from North Korea's capital.
	It was conducted earlier this week and recorded by Air Force cameras for North Korea to see.
	We reconfigured every one of those F-15s with live ordnance inside of 24 hours and put them back on status and ready to fight.
	But notice, Brigadier General Barry Cornish is wearing a flak jacket.
	The airbase at Kadena is in range of North Korean missiles, as are 25 million people in the South Korean capital of Seoul.
	The U.S. could launch a devastating attack, but could not stop the North Korean military from firing off enough salvos to wreak horrendous destruction.
	Which is why Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sounds so diplomatic.
	In regards to North Korea, we are working with international partners in order to defuse the situation.
	If North Korea conducts another underground nuclear test or launches more missiles into the sea, the U.S. would likely limit its reaction to a show of force, sending B-1 bombers from Guam to fly along the coast.
	And bringing in an aircraft carrier battle group.
	However, if North Korea were to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile toward the U.S., that might trigger a military response in the form of a cyber attack.
	For now, the Trump administration is counting on China to pressure North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons program.
	But if that doesn't work, they will turn to military options.
	One officer told me, when this crowd says all options are on the table, they mean it.
	They really mean it.
	Anthony?
	David Martin at the Pentagon.
	Thanks, David.
	Yeah, and the many mainstream newspapers reported that North Korea and Iran now threatening to take out parts of the United States' electric grid through a cyber attack or atmospheric nuclear blasts.
	The Pentagon is taking steps to both protect the nation's communications and power lifelines.
	Can you give us some more money while we're at that?
	Well, the money is going to James Woolsey.
	Woolsey, former CIA director, I guess he's got a consulting group there.
	And now he's working with DARPA. Actually, DARPA has charged BAE Systems to, quote, map a system that can detect a cyber attack and gin up an alternative communications network for military and civilian use if the grid is fried.
	That's the literal text.
	But these guys, they're reading too much science fiction.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	Yes.
	Yeah, the grid got fried, man!
	It got fried.
	There's an electrical line and it's just smoking.
	I mean, I got news for you.
	It's melted.
	The internet was built to gin up an alternative communications route, I should say, instead of your word, network.
	The whole reason it exists is it could take that kind of hit and still work it out around it.
	No, we got to have a new one.
	But it won't be ready until 2020.
	The original internet is not as robust as it was originally since they put these huge backbones in and rely on them for most of the activity.
	No, just take out Verizon.
	We're done.
	Actually, if you blew up May West, May East, and took out Verizon and Comcast, you have maybe five targets.
	And blow up Am6 while you're at it.
	Just for the hell of it.
	Just for the fun.
	Just for fun.
	Blow up Amsterdam.
	As long as Sonic is still working, I'm good.
	So blow those guys up with five, you know, somehow.
	And you can pretty much take the thing down.
	But it's not going to take down the grid.
	It's going to do a lot of damage, but it's not...
	That bad.
	I mean, it's not good.
	But here it is.
	Let's go back to the square one, which we've been talking about, especially since you had contact with Don.
	Why doesn't one president step up Is he going to lose face?
	Step up and have a meeting with these guys and say, okay, what do we have to do to work together?
	This is the great negotiator, Trump.
	What do we have to do to work together?
	And then close ranks on that.
	Make peace.
	Tell them they can do research or whatever on their nuke thing, whatever they want to do.
	But let's start making plans to...
	Hook up North Korea and South Korea as one nation the way they did with East Germany.
	Oh, please, North Korea, just swipe right.
	I don't see any reason that can't be done.
	Instead of the saber rattling, both sides.
	You'll recall what Don said, my uncle Don, Don Greg.
	He said, it's for the military industrial complex.
	It's to sell crap to South Korea.
	Now, the problem with that now is they sell a lot of crap to South Korea.
	That's the problem.
	Which they don't even want.
	South Korea doesn't even want it.
	No, South Korea would just as soon find a way to join up with North Korea and end this bull crap.
	Right, but now that Park is out, what's going to happen?
	This is why it's different and interesting.
	Who makes the call to buy something?
	Who are we selling to?
	Hey, I love the sales tactic, but who are we selling to?
	Who's the buyer now?
	I'd like to know.
	If I was the president, great, great tactic, fantastic.
	Who's the buyer?
	What do you mean the buyer's been kicked out of office?
	Well, who's the buyer now?
	There's no other reason.
	I don't know.
	This is the dumbest thing ever.
	And if all hell breaks, there's a lot of people who are going to get killed.
	Oh, there's that.
	We're kind of used to that.
	I mean, there were a whole bunch of people killed in Syria.
	No one even talked about it.
	Well, here's my favorite story.
	This was on CBS. I don't have a clip.
	I thought I did, but I don't.
	So they play the bomb.
	This is on CBS. They do this back-to-back stories.
	They start with the Moab.
	And they say, oh, and the numbers of dead are tripled.
	We thought it was 34, and now it turns out to be like 92.
	And then they said, then they go to the next story.
	A car bomb in Aleppo killed 100.
	Yeah, done.
	And so I'm thinking, wait a minute.
	We spent, what, how many millions of dollars to kill 92 people?
	We could have, and I put it in the newsletter, could have sent them on a trip to Disneyland.
	Saved a lot of money.
	And meanwhile, some crappy car bomb, some guy with a car bomb, you know, throws it together for 50 cents and whatever he can find laying around, IEDs, puts it in a car and kills 100?
	This doesn't sound like a good use of our money.
	Why don't we get some car bombers to build these, some bombs for us?
	The death toll continues to climb after a bomb blast hit a convoy of evacuees waiting to enter Aleppo in Syria. - Yeah.
	The Syrian civil defense, also known as the White Helmets, said they removed 100 bodies from the scene of the explosion.
	State media put the toll at 39, with dozens more wounded.
	The victims are believed to be from buses carrying residents evacuated from pro-regime villages.
	Thousands of people have been stuck in evacuation convoys from Al-Fua, Kafraya, Madaya and Zabadani after a deal to transfer them from besieged areas stalled in a disagreement over the number of fighters to be moved.
	The incident highlights the plight of those caught up in the six year long conflict.
	Now, even though they did mention the White Helmets briefly there, this was a real...
	The footage I saw looked pretty damn real.
	And so that's why we're not going to talk much about it.
	Because, you know, we didn't set it up.
	It wasn't our guys, the White Helmets, making some false, crappy-ass videos.
	So that's why I was like, ah, 100 people, whatever.
	They're just refugees.
	They weren't even refugees.
	They were evacuees.
	A whole new name.
	Nice.
	Evacuees.
	Ah, well, who cares?
	Who cares?
	Who cares is the...
	The director of the Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, who is very, very disappointed in the belief that the white helmets were helping with the chemical attack, and he calls it fate.
	Could you tell us just a little bit more about these videos that were shod by the Syrian white helmets?
	Well, we have two observations mainly.
	One was referred to the life-saving procedures as shown in the videos.
	And the opinion of our doctors were that these procedures were non-medical, non-life-saving, and even counterproductive in terms of life-saving purposes.
	That's a very interesting point that neither you or I could ever pick up on.
	He said what they were doing, what they were showing was non-productive, non-life-saving.
	These guys don't even know the basic procedures, apparently, according to this doctor.
	Poor children.
	The other reservation is that the videos on the alleged gas attack of March 2015 was published at the same time, simultaneously, by Coordinated Sarmin, which...
	This organization having a logo similar to the former Jabez al-Nusra front formation.
	So, in concrete, they use the same particular shahada flag.
	So, that raises the question as to whether relationships were to exist between these militant rebels combating formations and the White Helmets.
	No, you can't tell me that the same videos were uploaded to the White Helmets YouTube channel and Twitter at the same time the same video was uploaded to the Al-Nusra YouTube channel and Twitter page.
	No, that can't be.
	How could that ever work?
	My goodness.
	Oh, I gotta find this other thing for you.
	This was very funny.
	Let's see where I put it here.
	You remember Bana, of course.
	Bana.
	Who?
	Bana.
	Bana.
	Oh, Bana, your buddy.
	Yeah, Bana the babe.
	Banna the child.
	Banna the one who said, do you like Istanbul?
	Fish.
	Her answer to everything is, yes, save the children of Syria and fish.
	She only has two answers.
	But she now tweeted again.
	She's tweeted in perfect English.
	This is really good.
	I guess this is true.
	Wow, she says.
	Bill Kristol is a really smart guy.
	Very handsome, too.
	Americans should listen to him and do what he says.
	What?
	Yeah.
	What, is Bill Kristol writing for her?
	Probably.
	That's embarrassing.
	Let me just check this.
	Alabet Albana.
	That's got to be a hoax.
	Alabet Albana.
	Yeah, I'm going to check.
	I'm going to check.
	And you could be right.
	I mean, honestly, I didn't check that one.
	Did you see?
	What is her handle again?
	It's...
	Al-Abed-Bana.
	Okay, let me see.
	Let's try it out.
	Al-Abed-Bana.
	Okay.
	Does it show her?
	Yes.
	Here's Al-Abed-Bana.
	And let me see if that Bill Kristol...
	Well, she has a lot of interesting things to say.
	Boy, her English is great.
	I just want war to stop.
	Fish.
	I just want war to stop.
	F-35 is best multi-role fighter to make sure peace secured.
	I pray Mr.
	Donald Trump buys...
	Oh, she's a jet expert now.
	Wait, no, wait.
	No, she's a weapons dealer.
	I pray Mr.
	Donald Trump buys more.
	That girl, she's selling weapons.
	Who's she working for?
	Boeing?
	Boeing?
	Let me see if Crystal is on it.
	Maybe that must have been a hoax.
	That had to be a hoax.
	It's funny though.
	It's very funny.
	But even funnier is this buy more F-35s.
	I kind of like that.
	Buy more F-35s.
	That's better than...
	Here.
	I am a Syrian child who suffered under Bashar al-Assad and Putin.
	I welcome Donald Trump action against the killers of my people.
	Wow.
	Fish.
	Hashtag fish.
	Fish.
	Fish.
	Yeah, that's not fake at all.
	Go ahead, people.
	You can keep on believing.
	Very, very nice.
	Good for you.
	Belief system is nice.
	Belief system is always good.
	So we have, since we're on this kind of topic of the hoaxes and all the rest, so it wasn't played at all in the United States, but it was a big deal in Germany because it involves soccer.
	Wait, wait.
	Have you moved off of Syria?
	Because I had one more clip.
	Oh, no.
	I got more serious stuff, too.
	Yeah, I just want to play the little bit from the man himself.
	Who?
	Bashar.
	What's Mrs.
	Saad going to say?
	Speaking of hair, his speech is very interesting.
	If you remember, we had that British ambassador on the show once who sounded exactly the same and I was of the impression that he's the one who taught him how to speak English.
	If he could get the English a little better...
	Speaking up would help?
	Then he could certainly replace either one of us if either one of us keels over.
	He's crackpot enough for sure.
	There was no order to make any attack.
	We don't have any chemical weapons.
	We gave up our arsenal three years ago.
	Even if we have them, we wouldn't use them.
	And we had never used our chemical arsenal in our history.
	So what happened this day?
	As I said, the only source is al-Qaeda.
	We cannot take it seriously.
	But our impression that the West, mainly the United States, is hand in glove with the terrorists.
	They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack.
	We don't know whether those dead children, were they killed in Khan Sheikhoun?
	Were they dead at all?
	Who committed the attack if there was attack?
	What the matter is?
	You have no information at all.
	Nothing at all.
	No one investigated.
	So you think it's fabrication?
	Definitely.
	100% for us it's fabrication.
	Ha ha.
	Were those children even dead?
	I saw the same thing.
	I saw them opening up their eyes on the pile.
	Yeah, you saw the eye opening.
	Just a little bit.
	A pile of dead kids, yeah.
	Just to take a look.
	What do you got on Syria?
	Well, the Russians are also saying the same kind of thing.
	Well, there's a couple of things.
	A fight has broken out between ex-Obama people and the Wall Street Journal.
	And I couldn't...
	To be honest about it, I'm clipping this.
	I saved it.
	I was on Charlie Rose.
	And I'm saving this, and I got the clip here, and I got part two.
	This is the stockpile, CR, Assad.
	And you hear the Wall Street Journal's...
	The Wall Street Journal's thesis and others, apparently everybody, is, well, you know, Assad cheated when he took a stockpile out of service and kept a bunch of stuff just for this reason, as if that's a good idea.
	But let's play this.
	One?
	Yeah, please.
	Number one?
	Yeah, it just says there's no number.
	I got you.
	I know how you work.
	I am pleased to have both of them on this program.
	I want to begin with a column that's gotten a lot of attention, certainly in terms of people that I know who care about these kinds of issues, called The Price of Obama's Mendacity.
	And you go on to talk about where there's always this debate about the wisdom of Barack Obama's decision to forego a similar strike under similar circumstances in 2013.
	That's the beginning.
	The end says Mr.
	Obama and his advisors will never run out of self-justification for their policy in Syria.
	They can't outrun responsibility for the consequences of their lies.
	Right.
	Well, after...
	President Obama, President Putin of Russia.
	Now, who is this speaking, John?
	Oh, I can't remember his name, but he's a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
	Okay, but it's from, the side is okay, so it's the Wall Street Journal.
	Yeah, he's the Wall Street Journal guy, and the other guy's defending.
	It's actually, to be honest about it, this went on for a very long time, and it's slightly tedious, and it's one guy defending, and the funny thing is, this Wall Street Journal guy managed to get the Obama guy, who is the Assistant Secretary of State under one of those bozos.
	Very well-spoken, though.
	He gets him to kind of agree with a few of the points, which I thought was just a bad form.
	Let's get back to the question again.
	Tell me about the sexuality.
	It's in your DNA. Well, after...
	President Obama, President Putin of Russia and John Kerry engineered the agreement by which Syria was supposed to relinquish its entire stockpile of banned chemical weapons.
	Information began to emerge pretty quickly thereafter that the Syrians were cheating on the agreement.
	It started filtering out in 2014.
	The Wall Street Journal had a front-page story on the fact in 2015.
	And in 2016, Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, even acknowledged it to a congressional committee.
	Throughout the entire period, however, leading figures of the Obama administration, including the president and the secretary of state, and just this January national security advisor, Susan Rice, kept insisting that the Obama administration,
	that the deal had gotten 100 percent of the chemical weapons that the deal had gotten 100 percent of the chemical weapons out, creating an illusion, which, by the way, the Trump administration seemed to share, at least in its first few months, that Assad had been defanged of his most dangerous What we've just seen in northern Syria with the Sarin attack on this village is that that was untrue and that he maintains the stockpile.
	And I have to ask Mr.
	Blinken...
	How is it that the Obama administration kept going out and saying 100% of the weapons without qualification when they knew from their own intelligence reporting and, in fact, publicly available sources that that was not the case, that Assad was cheating on the deal, that he maintained this stockpile and, of course, the ability to use it?
	Hmm.
	They knew it.
	Huh.
	Well, see, this is the sketchy part.
	That's the part that everyone's arguing about, no doubt.
	Yeah.
	And I think it might actually be a distraction of this thing being a fraud anyway, because again, there's no logic.
	I mean, Assad, I don't care what anybody thinks.
	He's stupid.
	He's an idiot.
	He's evil.
	He's not.
	He doesn't decide to violate logic.
	And when things are starting to go well for him because Trump is citing up to him, To use a chemical weapon to turn it around in the other direction.
	It makes no sense.
	It makes no sense whatsoever.
	I have just figured out how this is going to end.
	I just figured it out.
	Okay, play part two of this and then take that and tell me how it's going to end.
	And the second part of this is the Russians should have known about this and what's their complicity.
	Well, of course the Russians were complicit.
	And one of the things that's most disturbing, of course, about this attack is that you have Russians on the same airbase, it seems, where these weapons were being stored.
	But the question about Russian mendacity is not even interesting.
	The Russians lie.
	I don't think any of us would raise an eyebrow about that.
	What disturbs me is why the Obama administration offered a story about this deal, which simply wasn't, wasn't simply true, but which they seem to, they should have known or did know was not true.
	Well, first, let me just say this.
	I very much admire a lot of what Brett's written recently in defense of the truth, but here I think he's barking up the wrong tree.
	Let's rewind the tape for just a second.
	We faced this horrific situation in 2013 with this chemical weapons attack in Syria.
	We prepared to use force.
	We then went to Congress to see if we could get authority to do it.
	That got bogged down in a debate.
	Then the Russians came in and decided to broker a deal by which the Syrians declared all the chemical weapons that they had, which they'd never done before, agreed to give them up and destroy them in a verifiable way.
	They declared 1,300 tons of chemicals and various infrastructure that went along with it.
	A year later, the group charged with monitoring the destruction of those chemicals, the OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said that they had in fact destroyed their declared weapons.
	And here's where the discrepancy is.
	We knew all along, and we said publicly, repeatedly, that we were concerned that there were gaps between what they had declared and what they actually had.
	And we went repeatedly to the OPCW, to the United Nations, to the Russians, to try to press the Syrians on those gaps to make sure that we had in fact gotten everything we could.
	But if you go back and look at virtually all the statements, we were referring to the declared capability that they had, and we repeatedly raised concerns about the gaps.
	Huh.
	Now, it goes on.
	I'm not going to have any more clips.
	I have one ISO, which you can play.
	At virtually all the statements?
	He says virtually all the statements.
	But you have to listen to it carefully again.
	Wait.
	I want to tell you what to listen for.
	He says virtually all the statements.
	At virtually all the statements?
	Yeah, that's exactly like that other douchebag.
	It's a tell.
	Not all of them, but virtually all of them.
	He goes on and talks about, I think, with legitimacy, that getting rid of all these weapons, even if there was something held back, that's different.
	But he says, and he reminded us, and I'm telling you, I couldn't clip any more of this.
	He reminded us that Israel, and we remember playing these clips, Israel had a gas mask program in place.
	That's right, giving everybody free gas masks.
	They were giving the whole country free gas masks because they were fearful of this situation with Syria and the gas.
	And then the program was discontinued once this effort with the Russians, the United States, and Syria began to get rid of all the weapons.
	Brian, there was a lot.
	He says it's a positive thing overall.
	Okay, maybe there was some kept back.
	I personally don't think there was any kept back.
	I don't think so.
	Maybe there was, but I don't think there's any reason to do a gas attack.
	Who says there were any chemical weapons at all?
	Look, here's how...
	Now you're going on this part, yes.
	I think you're...
	Yes, you could say that.
	Let's put on our producer hats for a moment.
	It could be the weapons of mass destruction issue all over again.
	A bunch of empty bottles.
	This happens in Silicon Valley.
	There was a big, major, major, major disc drive company.
	I can't remember the name of them.
	Some people might remember.
	A major what?
	Disc drive companies, hard discs.
	Uh-huh.
	And the entire inventory were boxes for the disk drives filled with bricks.
	No.
	Yeah.
	That's a great story.
	Yeah, it was scandalous, and the company went out of business because it turned out they weren't making disk drives at all.
	They were making nothing.
	iOmega?
	No, not iOmega.
	No, no, no.
	This was a company.
	I think they had made some disk drives, and when they went to their upgrade, which I guess they couldn't do with something...
	MiniScribe.
	Mini Scribe?
	Mac Store?
	No, it's not Mac Store.
	No, no, no.
	Mac Store is legit right up to the last minute.
	A Mini Scribe, maybe.
	It might have been them.
	Whoever it was, a whole bunch of these...
	Maybe they were making drives, but they couldn't keep up with the number they were supposed to be making, so they had these bricks in the boxes.
	Yes, it's Mini Scribe.
	Thank you, War Room.
	So then you go there and you have a box and there's a brick in it.
	I'll read from the Book of Knowledge.
	In July 1987, Parker, director for Far East Operations, told Wiles that something was amiss.
	In August, Wiles traveled to Hong Kong.
	These are executives in Singapore where he found a complete loss of control.
	The inventory count that fall showed the numbers had grown to $15 million, mostly in Colorado.
	A report was prepared to consider various solutions.
	Wiles suggested they continue hiding the problem and ordered all copies of the report to be destroyed.
	This led to the company's most infamous cover-up.
	The managers rented a second warehouse in Colorado where they personally packed 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipped them to Singapore in order to shore up the inventory count.
	Beautiful.
	What a great scam that is.
	Bricks.
	Hey, this hard disk doesn't work.
	Where's the connector on this brick?
	It doesn't have USB 3.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I have an idea.
	Let's put our producer hats on for a moment.
	Let's just take into consideration this is all show.
	And a number of actors are in on it.
	We're going to take into account that Putin's in on it.
	That the guy with the pronoun Z. The China guy is in on it.
	The Israelis are in on it.
	And that's enough.
	Bashar Assad is in on it too.
	So how do you solve this to make everybody look great?
	And with an extra bonus...
	We get to deploy our brand new Moab.
	Mother of all boobs.
	And here's how it works.
	Melania Trump has a high-level summit with Bashar's wife.
	Now, she, of course, she was in Vogue magazine.
	She was heralded.
	She's a fashion icon.
	She's beautiful.
	Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie hanging out with her.
	Yeah, no, she's a babe.
	So high-level meeting, the mothers of all boobs, and they solve it!
	And they solve it, and then a child says, well, you know what?
	The women have discussed it, they worked it out, and it's good, we're going to bring in American troops, Russian troops, and we're going to clear out all of these horrible terrorists, and the world will be great.
	We need to write a script.
	I'm writing it right now.
	I'm writing it.
	Watch for Melania.
	Watch for Melania.
	What's her name?
	What's her name?
	Riza?
	No, what is the wife of...
	We need to look at her again to make sure she still looks good.
	Make sure she's still up for the role.
	We might have to cast somebody else as her.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	She's still good.
	Asthma.
	Asthma.
	Asthma al-Assad.
	Yeah, she needs a haircut.
	But if we can just redo her hair.
	Well, most of the good stylists have long since left Damascus.
	You think?
	She's got to go to, take a quick trip to Paris.
	Paris, and maybe that is the neutral territory.
	Oh, thank you, John.
	That's where they have the meeting in Paris.
	That they bump into each other at Pierre's.
	So I was in Pierre's, and I see, oh, I think I recognize you.
	Hello, can we just talk and make it better between us and the men that can just stop fighting?
	This was probably the plan.
	Let's go even more crazy land.
	This was actually, what you described, was actually the plan and the Paris meeting with Hillary.
	But it never worked out.
	Because Hillary didn't get elected.
	Yes, and that was the plan.
	Yes, yes.
	I'm telling you.
	And it was going to be in Paris because Hillary can get her due again.
	And that sets up Melania Trump to be the first female president.
	I mean, it's going to be fine.
	It's going to be dynamite.
	She can't be the president.
	She was not born in the United States.
	I'm telling you, we just got another season picked up from this script meeting alone.
	This is great.
	So they meet each other at Paris.
	They have a meeting.
	It leaks out.
	But then they have to do a statement together.
	They're arm in arm.
	And then the men come out.
	People are yelling, kiss, kiss, kiss.
	Tongue, tongue, tongue, I yell.
	Oh, my God.
	Wouldn't the world be so much more fun if we were running it?
	My goodness.
	It would be a blast.
	The world would just be one nonstop show.
	Well, it is actually now.
	We're the only ones deconstructing it as such.
	I think my plan is good.
	It's solid.
	I think it should be taken seriously.
	And it may already be in the works.
	It might be.
	And with that...
	Yeah, and I like your idea that that was supposed to happen with her, but she didn't get elected, so now they have to re-strike.
	It's either that or something, but they have to bring out, certainly have to bring out asthma.
	They've got to bring her out.
	Yeah, they do.
	They've got to bring her out.
	Where is she?
	She should do an interview or something, but even better, well, we already discussed the plan, so...
	That will be my Easter wish.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for, can't lift the pizza stone.
	Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships at sea, the rain that's coming down right now, all the boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, everybody, in the war room, noagendastream.com, being helpful there.
	They know all about your hard drives and bricks.
	Is that where the term comes from?
	You bricked my drive?
	No.
	And in the morning to...
	In the morning to Jossatorium.
	Jossatorium brought us some fabulous artwork, which led to a binary gag, which a lot of people really liked.
	And that, of course, was the meatloaf art.
	Yes, right.
	Which was a call forward.
	It was a well-engineered joke.
	And it was a call forward, which is hard to do.
	Very hard to do.
	A lot of people said, I was wondering what the art was about.
	And then when I heard it, now we didn't have any coffee on windscreens.
	No reports of that.
	But beer has been spewed.
	Beer was spewed.
	Someone almost drove off the road.
	So when these things happen, I feel like we're making a difference in people's lives.
	I believe so.
	Proud of the work we're doing.
	Even on a holiday.
	I want to thank a few people for helping us by producing and executive producing and co-executive producing and associate executive producing the show, 921.
	Beginning with the Grand Duke, which we still need a jingle for.
	Yeah, someone needs to send him something.
	Do we have any kind of...
	We must have some Melanson thing, don't we?
	Well, we don't, that I know of.
	Nothing fancy.
	No, we don't.
	We have nothing.
	We need something.
	We need something fancy out there.
	You people know this.
	The Grand Duke is one of our greatest patrons.
	Yes.
	Anyway, $921 from Tigard, Oregon.
	ITM Gents, another shrubbery as I get out of Grand Duke in abeyance.
	I just changed company, so please give me a JCD Obey and a simultaneous missile launch.
	New job karma in celebration.
	Okay, and jobs karma.
	We can do all that.
	You will obey.
	Hold on a second.
	That went wrong.
	Also, drop an M80 in there.
	An M80 for good measure?
	Okay.
	That's new, so yeah.
	The M80s are good, man.
	They really do it.
	You will obey.
	You will obey.
	Last night's bar.
	Oh, fuck.
	Excuse me, time code.
	Ah!
	One more time.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Obama.
	One more time.
	I'm going to get this right.
	It was not done.
	This is the M-80.
	Here we go.
	Okay, here we go.
	You will obey.
	You will obey.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's go for jobs.
	You stop.
	Oh, no.
	The M-80 after the missile launches dynamite.
	Yeah, let's hear that again.
	I agree.
	I think that's...
	Oh, wait.
	Oops.
	Because it has a little fuse.
	I was too late.
	That one...
	Yeah.
	Beauty.
	James York, $401.04.
	Thanks to the great idea from the shill, I topped off my knighthood.
	I had to send him a note and say, wow, you scored.
	Top off my knighthood with a donation this week so I could sign up for the great ring...
	At the same time, I made another donation to get another producer credit, and I would like to...
	By the way, these are two separate donations clumped into one, so he gets an executive producer.
	Because we don't give two associates.
	It looks kind of funny.
	I'd like to have that credit in memory of my grandfather, George Musler.
	Of course, of course.
	Keep up the great work and keep fighting to make sure the truth makes it to the interwebs.
	Thank you, Sir James York.
	So he will become...
	Did he become Sir James York today?
	Is that the idea?
	I believe so.
	Is it on the...
	We have a...
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	We had what, none last time?
	None.
	None.
	Zero.
	We had none.
	Now we have six.
	I'm going to give him the karma.
	Thank you very much.
	Looking forward to the ceremony.
	You've got karma.
	Hoist and Burge in Rotterdam.
	33567 in the morning.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	With this donation, I am sure I am now eligible for knighthood.
	Please knight me as the knight of steel.
	Okay, I don't understand why he's not on the list.
	He has a different color.
	What is this?
	Why is that?
	Well, he's just...
	I have no idea.
	Eric's always conservative, so I would just put him on the list.
	Okay, so Oistein...
	Oistein?
	It's Dutch.
	Oistein Berge.
	Berge.
	Berge.
	And what has he become?
	The Knight of Steel.
	The Knight of Steel.
	Okay, got it.
	Then you can go for some karma.
	Oh, of course you can go for it.
	There's always room for more karma.
	You've got karma.
	Huh?
	You're getting your notes, aren't you?
	I dropped the mic.
	It's next to the keyboard.
	By the way, when I dropped that, Mike, I want to mention something here for people out there who are hooking up gear to do stuff.
	This was on the previous show when we thought you had had a heart attack.
	Well, you did.
	I was not the only person who thought that.
	Well, I'm just going to mention this because this wouldn't have happened on the previous show if the AT2020, the microphone I was using, didn't have a It was a built-in USB, and it had a little dipshit connector.
	When you're a pro, you use XLR. You use those big, heavy-duty mic connectors, the three-prongers.
	You always use those for that reason.
	Never use the dipshit connector.
	That's a bad thing.
	These big old connectors that are on these microphones are there for a reason.
	Yeah, what's the reason?
	The reason is, one, the mic hits the floor.
	No, that's not the reason.
	No, the real reason is you trip over them.
	No, the reason...
	No, okay.
	All right.
	No, okay.
	You can say, what's the real reason?
	I mean, the reason is that you need something that's firmly in there that can't be, you know, accidentally fall out.
	These connectors are typically built for this type of impedance because you can easily get looping if the connectors are too close to each other.
	Oh, I agree.
	So it's a balanced input, it's shielded, and I believe the dimensions are specific.
	But okay, yes, Roger Daltrey could not have done anything without it.
	I agree.
	That too.
	Yes, the connector is built for the purposes of balancing.
	Balanced low impedance is what it's for.
	But when you trip, if you don't have a gaffer that glues everything down.
	You need a roadie is what you need.
	You need a roadie to trip over one of these cables that's laying all over the place.
	You need a roadie to tape down your wires in the morning and also like on stage so you know where to walk so you don't fall off the stage.
	You need white tape around your chaise lounge so that you know what area you can perform in.
	I need some white tape around the floor where I put the keyboard.
	Don't worry, eventually the cops will put white tape around you.
	It'll be fine.
	I think that's yellow tape generally.
	No, that's in front of the house.
	It's the white tape of your outline that's on the floor.
	It's always a crooked little man.
	His arms were so weird.
	We gave him karma, right?
	Yeah, we gave him karma.
	All right, now we have Sir Daniel Miller.
	He's set.
	So we have Sir Daniel Miller of Knoxville, Tennessee, who came with 333.33, and I have a note.
	Now, this is a very interesting note, and I want people out there to check this out, because I am skeptical.
	And by the way, if you wanted to, you could put him on a list to become baronet.
	But he didn't ask for it.
	But he is because he sent his county.
	We'll have one title and we'll make it baronet.
	I'm cool with that.
	Absolutely.
	Maybe.
	Unless he doesn't.
	Well, whatever.
	Okay.
	This value for value is long overdue.
	His last donation was in show 840.
	Your coverage of the early Trump administration and the military-industrial-intelligence axis is unmatched.
	Thank you.
	I particularly enjoyed the recent analysis of yields, yieldcos.
	Is this our former GS guy?
	No, he's not from Texas.
	No, no, no, he's a different guy.
	What's GS mean to you?
	Goldman Sachs?
	No.
	Okay, that's a different guy.
	You guys consistently deliver an outstanding product, and I think we agree with you.
	I work for, now this is the part, I work for a federal contractor and we are no longer allowed to have brown bag lunches because they are racist.
	Only if they contain peter butter or jelly, otherwise they're okay.
	Now, there is a, I remember there was a TV show, I forget which the name of it was, it was a really good show, and it was about some black radio station or something, and they talked about the brown bag test, which is a racist thing.
	Okay.
	And the brown bag test is that if you're a black person, and they will put a brown, you compare your skin tones to a brown bag.
	That's the limit of how dark you should be before you have people thinking poorly of you.
	Before you become an N-word for the black people.
	And so you have, for example, let's take a look at the Warriors who are playing today in their first playoff game of the season.
	My brother from another Mother's Day.
	Steph Curry.
	You got Steph Curry, who's lighter than a brown paper bag.
	Beautiful, beautiful brown.
	Like me, beautifully brown.
	Adam and Steph Curry.
	Just like you.
	Just like me.
	You're actually taller.
	And then you have Draymond Green, who's really very dark black.
	Who do you think taught Steph how to dunk, man?
	He doesn't dunk.
	So then you have Draymond Green, who's a very dark-skinned black, and that's all determined on this brown bag scale, which is a racist thing.
	Okay, so I know that.
	Look at it from this perspective.
	They're banning brown bag lunches in the government.
	And he goes on.
	I know there was some hoopla over this term several years ago.
	I think that's what he's referring to.
	I don't know if this is renewed outrage or just takes this long for the madness to trickle down through the bureaucracy to my level.
	Ironically, one of our more common caterers is named brown bag.
	Fired!
	You're fired!
	He says they are not banned yet.
	It's over.
	Okay, so I don't believe this story.
	Why don't you believe the story?
	Why would he lie to us?
	There are not many people who give you money and say, let me tell you a lie.
	It's possible that this is some phony baloney rumor that he picked up on or something.
	I don't know.
	I don't do that usually, especially with knights.
	But I would like somebody to verify this story or give me some proof that it's true.
	Because if it is true, it's outrageous.
	If it's true, that's why I'm skeptical.
	It's way over the top.
	Well, I am seeing, just from the book of knowledge, I'm seeing brown paper bag tests.
	I mean, this is a real thing.
	This is not made up.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's not made up.
	But banning brown bags in the workplace because it's racist, that is odd.
	Okay, so anyway, he continues.
	May I have a Bill Nye come on, champ, and karma for yourselves and all producers.
	Amen, fist bumps, or Daniel Miller.
	Yeah, of course you can, man.
	And he used a seal, by the way.
	Oh, very nice.
	It's a night seal.
	Yeah, perfect.
	Night seal.
	All right.
	So come on, champ.
	Show us how tough you are.
	You've got karma.
	Amen.
	Fist bump.
	All right.
	There you go.
	All right, onward.
	Where were we?
	Oh, it's my friend.
	Your buddy, Sir Reddy Kilowatt, who's donated $250 to become an associate executive producer, and here he is, and you've kicked him out of the chat room.
	No, I didn't kick him out.
	I didn't kick him out.
	For just being mildly amusing.
	Reddy Kilowatt of the chat room, although Sir is probably no longer valid, as I now identify as Voli.
	Vol.
	I'm going to do that too.
	I identify as Vol.
	He identifies as Vol, as in Vulcan, because I mate every seven years.
	That's his chat room for you.
	War room, John.
	War room.
	I love you too.
	Every seven years, and there's usually a lot of collateral damage.
	Rim shot.
	I don't have my rim shot.
	I don't have a rim shot either.
	I don't have anything close.
	I do have a rim shot machine around here, but I don't have it at the ready.
	Not to mention it's now a war room, not a chat room, and I'm a committed pacifist anyway.
	Show 920 was just fantastic and really hit all of the primary touchstones of the show.
	A little history, a lot of BS detection, some real tech news, and a great LOL humor.
	Don't bother reading the rest of this out loud unless you think it's worthy of a discussion.
	I'll read a little bit.
	One thing I've noticed is that the institutions pushing all the strange and self-identity stuff is that they also track minority involvement most, if not all, government forms, including a section where you identify yourself as a minority, for example.
	I think there's a high probability that at some level they want to see as many people self-identify as minorities so they can gin up their numbers when they have to produce reports.
	Interesting.
	I like the theory.
	The millennials...
	By the way, Brown Bag Catering is a real company.
	That has been verified.
	Okay.
	The millennials...
	I don't doubt that.
	I'm just interjecting.
	I'm just finding it so outrageous.
	I know.
	The millennials' need for feeling special and unique fits into this.
	Minorities are perceived as being special for being a minority.
	So eventually, otherwise, uninteresting people.
	But this is something we've already discussed, is that the bigger the victim credentials you have, the more loved you are within the millennial group.
	I'm generalizing to a huge degree, of course.
	But that is possibly where a lot of this stuff comes from.
	Yeah.
	So eventually...
	So eventually, otherwise uninteresting people seek out some label to become special.
	I think, which is what you just said.
	I think at some point in the chain, the goal is to make everyone a minority of one.
	My goal is to get a handicap sticker.
	That's all I want.
	Granted, I haven't...
	I don't think it's that hard if you really try.
	Granted, I haven't fleshed out the idea much because I got work to do.
	But it might be an interesting thesis.
	We'll pick it up.
	Yeah, no, I think we've come up with that similar conclusion in the past.
	That makes sense.
	Yeah.
	Let me give the man some karma.
	You've got karma.
	He is, but he is a minority because I yelled at him today as the only person.
	He's special.
	He's got to feel special.
	He's got to feel special now.
	Okay, now we got, let's see, what is this?
	Chad Watson.
	He's got nothing here.
	Let me see if there's a note.
	In Uless, Texas.
	In Uless, Texas.
	Chad Watson.
	I don't know if I recall that.
	Let me see.
	Chad Watson.
	I don't think I saw anything come in from him.
	No.
	And Watson, Star Trek.
	Nah, I got nothing.
	Brian Watson.
	Nah.
	No.
	Nothing.
	Sorry, Chad.
	Nothing.
	Maybe Chad just wanted to send us some money.
	I'm going to give him a karma.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	All right.
	Sir Nacho is in with $200 from Gardena, California.
	He sent a note in.
	It was a check.
	And he is, what is he?
	He is Lord of the Citadel, Ignacio Salome.
	In the morning, John and Adam, please accept this donation of $200 to thank you for your courage.
	Please shower me with some publishing karma.
	I'm following John's advice of self-publishing.
	Ha ha!
	Because he wants to equal your success of your vinegar book.
	That's a good way to go.
	Self-publishing, a science fiction novel I wrote over the last four years, it's really easy to do nowadays.
	Let me just say one thing about self-publishing if you want to do it.
	It's easier to do if you know something about publishing, but if you don't, you can still do it through the various systems that are out there, mostly run through Amazon.
	And if you package a really good product, in other words, you have it edited and you have a good cover, you've packaged a book that can later be picked up by a publisher.
	And it's called packaging.
	It's a different thing than publishing.
	Packaging is pre-producing the whole thing, completely done, and all the publisher has to do is grab it and distribute it, and they make a lot of money.
	And they love it, by the way.
	And at what point, what metric does a publisher look for when they say, crap, I don't even want to read the thing, I'll take it?
	What is the number?
	Is any bogus number you can gin up?
	What, it's like the music business?
	Yeah, it's exactly like the music business.
	At this level, at the packaging level, sure.
	Alright.
	I gotta tell my boy Ponte that.
	He's still sitting on his book.
	That book, that thing is huge.
	Anyway, I just wrote over the last four years, if all goes right, it should be available at least on Amazon for within the next month.
	However, it's not all no agenda themed.
	I stay away from politics and wrote it as a young adult audience in mind.
	Although it's invaluable deconstruction, because of the invaluable deconstruction skills I learned whilst listening, he used the word whilst.
	So that's a strike against you.
	Did he use it correctly?
	Yeah, he used it correctly.
	I'm not saying he didn't use it correctly, it's just not a word you want to use.
	I use it too, but I know I'm using it.
	If you know what I mean.
	Yeah.
	Listening to the show definitely helped.
	As I promised, John, a percentage of future sales will be donated to the show.
	This could be good or bad, but if I sell two copies, I send 50 cents your way.
	Other than that, please play the I Got Ants song at the end of the show.
	Sorry, Adam.
	I know you don't like it.
	I do like it.
	I do like it a lot.
	That's what I thought.
	I was actually taken aback by this comment.
	I like it a lot, actually.
	Because I didn't know that you didn't like it, and he says this.
	No, I like it.
	It's just not every single show.
	Of course not.
	But okay, it's done.
	This show, it's in.
	You got it.
	Give him some publishing karma.
	Some publishing karma.
	You got that, too.
	No problem.
	Good luck with that.
	You've got karma.
	I mean it.
	Good luck with that.
	You never know.
	He might be good.
	Could be a natural.
	Hey, I want to thank our...
	And we can count the money whilst he publishes.
	Thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	It really makes me feel good to see people coming in and supporting us while we're working on the Easter holiday.
	And I'll tell you the main reason why is Tina the Keeper and I were...
	I'm reading National Enquirer the other day.
	Well, we were doing show prep, obviously.
	And they had this page.
	Two pages, actually.
	The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
	That's especially true in Hollywood.
	Where some soar to superstardom only to lose everything and hit rock bottom.
	While several of these celebrities have managed to crawl back to the top, the National Enquirer digs into their tragic stories to show how easy it is for A-listers to end up flat broke!
	And there's a guy on the list who I worked with a lot in MTV days.
	Funny guy.
	He has issues.
	But I just read to you, you know, so they're describing his fall to rock bottom.
	Danny Bonaduce.
	And he's a very nice guy.
	I've worked with him several times.
	He's just a nice guy.
	He just has substance abuse issues, which sucks.
	Here's the blurb.
	When the Parchers Family TV series ended in 1974, the 15-year-old redhead was one of the richest kids in America, but addictions to booze and drugs soon left him homeless and camping out near a Hollywood dumpster.
	After several stints in rehab, the 57-year-old morphed into a radio DJ. I'm thinking, what is worse than Bonaduce sinking to radio DJ? I don't have to tell you, do I? That's right.
	It's Craig.
	Yes, podcaster.
	That's right, everybody.
	Go out, tell everybody the MTV guy is now a podcaster.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water! Water!
	Shut up, play!
	Shut up, play!
	Ah, disappointing, that kind of stuff.
	But oh well.
	It's what it is.
	A couple of, since we were talking about people being crazy these days, particularly when it comes to race, about the brown paper bag, I want to say disappointed for sure, but also I'm done with Jeffrey Lord.
	I thought Jeffrey Lord was kind of like a real guy.
	He's the guy that from the get-go was a Trump supporter saying, no, this guy's going to win.
	He's going to win.
	And of course, he turned out to be right.
	And I've always thought, you know, the guy's kind of a straight shooter.
	He really believes in it.
	But when I saw the sequence of events that took place over the past two days, where not only did he say something, but then what ensued was funny, but then he went back on CNN to the CNN TMZ show with Don Lemon, the overnight legend, to reenact the whole thing.
	It's just really annoying.
	I don't know anything about this or what you're talking about.
	Okay, I'm going to tell you.
	So Jeffrey Lord is on in the afternoon with Simone Sanders.
	Simone, you remember her.
	She was Bernie Sanders' campaign manager.
	No relation.
	Very, very powerful woman.
	Black woman.
	And Jeffrey is trying to...
	Just the fact that he's doing this with her, you know it's a setup.
	Like, really, is this the level that you sunk to, Lord?
	Well, CNN already has no respect.
	So he is now going to find...
	Although he's actually technically correct, he finds a way to compare Donald Trump to Martin Luther King Jr.
	You think that's going to piss off the black lady, Lord?
	Really?
	No.
	And what he's saying is the tactic of, and this is in regards to the American Health Care Act that failed, that is still forthcoming, he's saying the act of doing nothing so something blows up and becomes bad and then the other side has to come and negotiate is a tactic that was used by many people very successfully, including Martin Luther King.
	Would you agree with that assessment?
	No.
	Okay.
	He does.
	Obviously he does.
	But just the fact, even if, just him lobbing it out there in front of Simone Sanders, you could expect the result.
	Allison, I want to say something here that I know will probably drive Simone crazy, but think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of healthcare.
	Oh, Jeffrey.
	Jeffrey.
	And I like her response.
	It's like, oh, Jeffrey.
	When I was a kid, President Kennedy did not want to introduce the civil rights bill because he said it wasn't popular, he didn't have the votes for it, etc.
	Dr.
	King kept putting people in the streets in harm's way.
	To put the pressure on so that the show would be introduced.
	That's his comparison.
	Do you agree with that?
	Not necessarily.
	I mean, it's okay, but I mean...
	You're right.
	I can tell already that this is bullcrap.
	This is a staged bit because you've got nothing better to do and she's probably a pretty good actress.
	Well, you wait until the second segment, you'll see how good they all are.
	You do understand that Dr.
	King was marching for civil rights because people that look like me were being beaten.
	I'm also tired of the people that look like me.
	I don't like this.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, that's funny.
	It is a meme.
	I haven't noticed it.
	I mean, I have noticed it, but I didn't notice it as such as a meme.
	But you're right.
	It's a meme, and it's annoying.
	You know, there's lots of people that look like me.
	But she at least pronounces the middle T. She says, beaten, instead of beaten.
	She's one of those exaggerators.
	People that look like me were being beaten.
	Dogs were being sicked on them.
	Basic human rights were being withheld from these people merely because of the color of their skin.
	So let's not equate Dr.
	Martin Luther King Jr., a humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, to the vagina-grabbing President Donald Trump.
	Simone.
	Simone.
	Jeffrey, you did introduce this.
	You went there.
	The vagina-grabbing Trump.
	Great!
	Lovely.
	So that was like, okay, well, you really wanted that response and you got it.
	And I kind of didn't think of it anymore.
	In fact, I didn't even clip it.
	But I clipped it after I saw it.
	And this is way chopped down.
	So now we have a quad box.
	In the quad box.
	In the quad box, we have Simone Sanders.
	We have Bakari.
	And we have Don Lemon, who of course is hosting the show.
	Then we have Jeffrey Lord.
	And this became very interesting.
	Because it became more, not so much about what he said, but about him not wanting to apologize for offending these three POCs, which I've learned now from the new Mastodon thing.
	You don't say black people anymore, John.
	You say POCs.
	POCs.
	POCs.
	Yeah, POCs.
	People of color.
	I think this is somehow an offensive term.
	I think it's a horrible term.
	It's a horrible term.
	Yeah, so anyone who says that, I think you're just being set up.
	Well, we'll talk about that later.
	Just listen to this.
	Okay, Jeffrey.
	Jeffrey, let me ask you something.
	You have three people you work with, right?
	You work with Picard, you work with me, you work with Simone.
	Three people of color.
	And Selena.
	No, no, no.
	Let me get the point out.
	Let me get the point out.
	We are telling you that that comparison was insulting, and you're ignoring it.
	This is the part that really gets me.
	So we're telling you that your comparison was insulting to us, people who look like me.
	And he has to apologize.
	It's incessant.
	I don't understand this.
	I think you should take that into consideration, whether or not you're trying to make a point or not, even if it's to the point that if I offended you, I'm sorry.
	Don, Don, when I lived as a teenager in the South and my dad lost his job standing up for a black waitress...
	You're not answering my question now.
	You're not answering my question in the moment.
	Don't take me back to some before the war crap.
	I want to hear...
	Don Lemon thinks apparently that was before the war, the Civil Rights Movement.
	Before the war crap.
	Yeah, was it 1800s, Don?
	Don't take me back to some before...
	That's actually an interesting story.
	I want to hear what happened to Jeffrey Lord's dad.
	But no, no, no, no, no.
	Don't take me back to some before the war crap.
	I want to hear what you're saying to the co-workers you work with now, Jeffrey.
	Answer the question now.
	I don't want to hear about stuff from 50 damn years ago.
	50 damn years ago.
	Wow.
	Now, I don't want to hear about stuff from 50 damn years ago.
	I want to hear now.
	And the context of this is that both Simone and Bakari have been talking about how their family had been, you know, of course, had a horrible time under, you know, forever.
	I don't know.
	It was horrible.
	We're all racist.
	We suck in America, especially white people.
	There you go.
	That's what you want to hear, Don Lemon.
	From 50 damn years ago.
	I want to hear now to the co-workers, to the people of color you work with on this network every single day who are offended by your remarks.
	You're not listening to us.
	Don, come on.
	Come on.
	This isn't right.
	This is not moral.
	We don't judge people by color in this country.
	That is racist.
	It's wrong.
	You're crazy.
	Let me tell you something.
	Every single day I walk out of my house, I'm a black woman, Jeffrey.
	I don't have the luxury of saying I don't see color.
	Every single day I walk out of my house, someone sees me as a black woman, regardless of how I see myself.
	I'm a black woman.
	Don is a black man.
	Makari is a black man.
	You had the luxury of walking out of the house and just being an American school.
	You don't have to think about it.
	You do not have to think about it.
	And that, my friend, is a position of privilege.
	And when you have the opportunity to hear from the other side, to listen...
	Stop, stop.
	Did you notice that he fed her her line?
	Literally.
	That she flubbed?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Because she's supposed to say that.
	She messed it up.
	You're absolutely right.
	In the script, yeah, you don't have to think about it.
	That's funny.
	And you'll hear that Bakari comes in on cue.
	Black man.
	Bakari is a black man.
	You had the luxury of walking out of the house and just being in America.
	You don't have to think about it.
	You do not have to think about it.
	He is the souffleur.
	Don Lemon, known as the souffleur supreme.
	And that, my friend, is a position of privilege.
	And when you have the opportunity to hear from the other side, to listen, to have a real dialogue, you should take it.
	So Simone and Jeffrey, I think this is the conversation, this is the gap in America that we have today.
	Because there's so many people who have these racial blind spots.
	Jeffrey genuinely does not believe that anything he said this morning was incorrect, disingenuous, wrong, or harmful.
	That is a problem, and if you can't have that empathy for someone who just literally told you that their father died, or I told you my father was shot, or Don is...
	We have two black personalities on late-night TV, and one of them is telling you he's offended by it.
	Jeffrey, you haven't listened to anything we said.
	Don, you're talking liberal to me.
	That's what you're doing.
	No, I'm talking real.
	I've got to remember that.
	Hey man, stop talking liberal to me.
	It's really hurting me.
	Don, you're talking liberal to me.
	That's what you're doing.
	No, I'm talking real.
	This is real.
	You're going to see me on television.
	You don't notice the color.
	I notice the color of your hair.
	I notice when someone has red hair.
	I know you have white hair.
	I know Simone is wearing white.
	I know I'm wearing blue.
	It's insulting when you are stating something that is not in reality.
	And we're sitting here as people...
	Will you let me finish?
	Jeffrey, I'm talking to you.
	Will you let me finish?
	Here we go.
	Dr.
	King means something different to the people who are sitting here than he meant to you.
	He wasn't just a tactic for us.
	He's a real person who helped me to be able to get here, and Simona to be able to sit here, and for Bakari to be able to sit here, and Selena, and for you to come on and give some reckless comparison to his work and his legacy.
	It's not reckless, it is Dr.
	King's do.
	You should not be judged by the color of your skin.
	Good night, we're done.
	Whoa.
	And I'd like to say, as a person who has an issue with colorblindness in certain situations, I feel very insulted and I want an apology.
	Well, that was weird.
	Wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	But it was acted.
	It was acted.
	It was purely acted.
	I think it was a scene.
	Yeah.
	A scene from a scripted scene.
	What would be the point of it?
	To get the race thing going again, I guess.
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure.
	Hmm.
	I demand an apology.
	It's like when there's a thing called a 10-minute play, and I demand an apology.
	This is obviously somebody kind of woodshedding a script for maybe production, eventual production.
	We have a little bit of...
	Because that's what it looks like to me!
	We have a little bit of audio from the set.
	When they finish there, at the very end, you have to be very, you have to listen really carefully.
	It's not reckless, it is Dr.
	King's use.
	You should not be judged by the color of your skin.
	Good night, we're done.
	Good night, we're done.
	And scene, everybody.
	Good work.
	That's a wrap.
	That's a wrap.
	Good work.
	Good work.
	I witnessed something over the weekend, which was in a way actually very disturbing, more disturbing than this.
	And this is the, if you don't mind me just getting into it for a second, the federation of Mastodon has become a problem.
	And we're getting a bad rap.
	It's the no agenda people is who we are now in Mastodon federation space.
	Do No Agenda people become a thing?
	Yeah, a thing.
	Does it incorporate Dvorak's troll army?
	Unfortunately, no.
	We need Dvorak's troll army because what is happening, you know, now that stuff that people are posting on NoAgendaSocial.com is starting to spread out to these other servers, Now you get these pure, 100% social justice warriors going, hey, you know, if you're an admin, you should consider putting No Agenda Social on the block list.
	Really weird people over there.
	And so I get it.
	I'm the admin.
	So I'm like, hey, you.
	What's up?
	Well, this guy over here, you should look at his timeline.
	This is racist and homophobic and xenophobic.
	I'll go take a look.
	I don't see anything.
	So could you please show me an example?
	No.
	If you're an admin and you seem pretty iffy, you should go look for yourself.
	I mean, now they're circulating these lists, block lists, block all these domains.
	We don't want them in our space.
	And this is what hit me.
	Mastodon, in its origin, was set up really by no borders, no nations people.
	It's the No Nations, No Borders people who hated the fact that Twitter wasn't controlling Nazis enough.
	They really started to populate this new social network space, I'll call it that.
	So you have the No Nations, No Borders people want firewalls and blocks.
	Does it get any nuttier than that?
	They don't want borders.
	It doesn't get any crazier than that.
	It's super ironic.
	But it's really...
	It's insane.
	You need to get back on this thing, John.
	You'll see it.
	It's insane.
	And where this stemmed from is one of these instances, server, pawoo.net, was all of a sudden everyone's freaking out.
	The whole Mastodon sphere is freaking out.
	Oh my God!
	We're hosting porn!
	We're hosting chickity porn on our servers!
	Here's what the problem was.
	Are you familiar with lolly art, I'm sure?
	Not really.
	Now, lolly art is like the drawn, it's mainly Japanese characters.
	It's kind of the anime character.
	Oh, the Japanese are in all kinds of stuff.
	Yeah, they got like, you know, it all looks like children and they're sometimes...
	A lot of violence and crazy stuff.
	Well, the stuff I saw did not include any violence or crazy stuff.
	Just, you know, like kids.
	But, of course, that is a part of that culture that does show up.
	But what everyone was arguing about is what if you follow someone who has some kind of this lolly art kiddie porn?
	The way the system works, it caches it in memory.
	And then you could go to jail for hosting kiddie porn.
	Ugh.
	My goodness.
	It was...
	Hey!
	Really?
	Really?
	I mean...
	This is not the criticism that I... Or the real flaw that I anticipated, but...
	It is the flaw.
	But I had no idea that this was begun by this group of wackos, these globalist, no borders, no nations people, because they're all insane.
	Yeah.
	And so, but that's what really hit me.
	It's like, you know, the whole idea of federating.
	Tina Marie came up with a great analogy for Mastodon.
	She said, when I hear you talk about it, it sounds like Tinker Toys.
	I'm like, that's exactly right.
	You know, you have the hub and you have all those spokes and you stick it into another hub and it's all connected.
	Tinker Toys.
	That's exactly the system.
	What people are trying to do now is say the no agenda guys, and I don't know why other than our people are very outspoken, but no one is, I haven't seen any behavior of someone not wanting to engage with someone who wants to talk about some dumbass issue, but it's fine.
	You know?
	No.
	Oh, these guys are weird.
	And we're on a list now.
	We're on a list.
	We're on a list.
	On the block, the domain list.
	No borders, no nations, but lists.
	We want firewalls, lists, and domain blocks.
	No borders, no nations.
	A blacklist will work fine.
	And that was truly the eye-opener for me, was that these people want blocks and lists.
	And I learned another term.
	Sea-lioning.
	Yeah, what does that mean?
	Had you heard of this term?
	No.
	Well, apparently it comes from an old comic strip.
	I don't know if it's old or not.
	I have a copy in the show notes.
	Wonder Mark.
	And there's these two people and there's this sea lion that...
	Pops up behind him and says, pardon me, I couldn't help but overhear.
	And the sea lion keeps just interjecting with sentences like, I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement.
	And would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done to you?
	So yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.
	They're sea lioning.
	There's no need to raise your voice.
	I'm right here, says the sea lion.
	Wow.
	I know.
	This is great.
	It's a great find, isn't it?
	It is.
	It's fantastic.
	Sea lioning.
	I've learned a lot.
	I've learned quite a bit with this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you scum.
	I'm one of the no agenda people.
	Scum.
	Scummy a-holes, the no agenda people.
	And that's...
	By the way, that's why I'm in this.
	I love seeing how this is not working.
	It's not working.
	It's truly not working.
	It's not because people...
	There are just groups of people who...
	Don't want to deal with other people.
	You see, terms of service.
	We refuse xenophobia.
	Well, you can't refuse how I feel.
	You can't refuse homophobia.
	You can't even know what xenophobia really means.
	Right.
	But you can't say no xenophobia.
	You can say...
	No xenophobic statements, if you want, or no homophobic slurs.
	But you can't say, we do not tolerate homophobia.
	Well, hold on a second.
	I thought this whole Macedon thing would be wide open so you don't have some boneheaded Twitter saying, oh, these are bad, I'm going to block you for a month.
	Well, it's interesting that...
	Shouldn't the thing be loaded with xenophobia?
	Yeah, we would hope so, but no, it's not.
	Again, no xenophobia.
	It seems to me that you have an open system to be genuinely open.
	So you have the place crawling with xenophobes.
	So a lot of people were saying about illegal content, and this is what a lot of this is about.
	And I actually looked up the law, and the law is extremely flawed when it comes to obscene visual representations of these sexual abuse of children.
	And by the way, let's stop right there.
	Yahoo and his executives should be in jail, if that's all true, what they told you, for hosting Tumblr.
	Yeah, correct.
	I would say 90% of the world's porn is on Yahoo servers, and I'm sure there's plenty of illegal porn on there.
	Yeah, if you want your lolly art, that's the place to go.
	So what are they talking about?
	And let me read the law to you, because this warrants some conversation.
	So this is 18 U.S. Code 1466 Alpha.
	Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.
	A. In general, any person who, in circumstances described in subsection D, which I'll give to you right away.
	That's a lot.
	We'll do that in a minute.
	Knowingly.
	Knowingly produces, distributes, receives, or possesses with intent to distribute a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting that 1.
	A. Depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, which I think is very clear.
	But then B. Is obscene.
	Or 2.
	A. Depicts an image that is or appears to be of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital, genital, oral, genital, anal, genital, oral, anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, or conspires to do so.
	Shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 225 to alpha, including the penalties provided for cases involving a prior conviction.
	So, I'm okay with that description, but obscene?
	No, no.
	You cannot determine obscene on a general basis.
	This is the I know porn when I see it bit.
	So if you have, and this is the question I struggle with, if you have a lolly art of seemingly a young girl in a negligee, is that obscene?
	It certainly does not fit the other description.
	It's not engaging in any sex.
	I wouldn't say it lacks artistic value.
	It's nicely drawn.
	But is it obscene?
	What are we talking about here, Andy?
	What does this have to do with the no-agenda server?
	Because if I'm going to allow art to flow through to our server that stays cached in memory, that's the whole discussion that's going on on the sideline, are we liable because that may be deemed obscene?
	That's my question.
	I just want to give you the definition of obscene of the portrayal or description of sexual matters is offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency.
	So my question is, Mr.
	DeVore, as a lawyer, Would that perhaps be okay seeming as within our community it may not be deemed offensive or disgusting by our morality and decency standards?
	I'm just trying to understand the law.
	You're never going to get there.
	No.
	Jail it is then.
	Hey, we'll have Void Zero host this thing.
	Screw it.
	I'm not going to jail.
	Let him host it.
	What are they going to do?
	They're not going to go overseas to arrest him.
	You never know.
	That is true.
	And he can always put Sir Bemrose in front.
	Hey, he did it.
	He did it.
	Bemrose's fault.
	He had nothing to do with it.
	What?
	I've never seen these images.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Post everything on WordPress.com.
	Anyway, NoAgendaSocial.com.
	I recommend you guys go check it out.
	We're having a lot of fun, as you can tell.
	And we're discovering things that we never knew existed, like real crazy nutjobs.
	It's beautiful.
	Within the no agenda community?
	No, no, no.
	That are connecting to us.
	That are federating.
	Federating.
	Well, how are you avoiding the blacklist?
	You're going to get blacklisted.
	I'm sure we're already on the blacklist.
	But it doesn't mean that...
	It doesn't mean that what will wind up happening will be lumped in on a blacklist and will be federated with alt-right.
	All the nut jobs.
	How about this for an idea?
	Is there any way you can take the domain and now is it like a DNS so when you have your Noagenda something, whatever it is.
	Can you change the IPs?
	Is the blacklist based on naming?
	Can you keep changing the names to an agenda?
	No, I'm pretty sure.
	Just to keep, every time you get blacklisted, you change the name?
	Yeah, changing the domain name, which is noagendasocial.com, would break everything.
	Why?
	Why?
	Can you do some pointing?
	Point over here?
	No, you can't change that name.
	You can't change noagendasocial.com.
	But if you want to start a new.com?
	You can start a new.com, sure, but then you have to start federating all over again.
	I mean, we know...
	Is there anything to get off the blacklist?
	Yeah.
	Here's how it goes.
	Oh, those noagenda people have changed domain names.
	Black!
	Oh, happy Easter.
	Happy Easter, social justice warriors.
	Yeah, happy Easter, douchebags.
	Let's play some more douchebags.
	Naomi Klein.
	Now, this is really douchebaggy, what she's doing.
	Don't forget that we have two of these women.
	There's Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein.
	Yeah, this is the douchebag.
	Naomi Wolf is the one that is at least...
	She's at least sane.
	Yeah, she's woke.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	She's woke.
	But Naomi Klein, unless I'm mixing the two of them up, is the one who's just a hard-ass left-winger that is just insufferable.
	I just had another great idea.
	We need to have federations with names.
	That's how it's going to work.
	Just like Star Trek.
	So we'll have the FEMA Region 6 Federation.
	We'll be stuck in a FEMA camp.
	This is what we need to do.
	Split it up into FEMA regions.
	I like the way you're talking to me as though I give a shit.
	It's like, we need to do this.
	You're the nerd in this thing.
	You're doing all this stuff because you're knee deep into the Mastodon subculture.
	And when you're talking to me about it, you're pretty much talking to yourself.
	Just to let you know.
	Not being offensive here, I'm just telling you that you're knee deep.
	I don't know if I can help you.
	I understand.
	I don't know if I can save you.
	John, it's okay.
	As a tech writer, I wouldn't want to investigate it at all either.
	Thank you, War Room.
	Thank you.
	Good one.
	All right, this is Naomi Klein.
	She's the activist.
	She wants you to destroy Trump.
	Step four, be a nuisance.
	Boycotts and sidewalk protests aren't the only way to wreak havoc with Trump's businesses.
	What if a whole lot of people made reservations at Trump hotels and resorts, and then all those people changed their minds right before the cancellation deadline?
	Yeah.
	No, what would happen is they'd all get charged on their credit card, you doofus.
	Now, I'm not suggesting anyone do this.
	No!
	Of course.
	Of course.
	I'm just wondering what would happen.
	And what if customers who really did want to book reservations had a hard time getting through because so many other people were calling to express their views on Trump's attacks on the EPA or mass detentions of immigrants?
	Mass detentions of immigrants, John.
	When did that happen?
	Well, that's what the FEMA camps have always been for.
	You know, the funny thing is about, I'm going to let you continue to play this, but I should mention, Does she really think...
	That these guys who are lighting dumpsters on fire and throwing bagels.
	Kick the can.
	Really?
	They're going to sit down and sit down.
	Bagels and dumpsters.
	Bagels and bins.
	Bagels and bins.
	Are they going to...
	Do they think these same people are going to start getting on the phone and making random reservations?
	They're not...
	Hello, I'm Adam Antifa.
	I want to make a reservation at the expense.
	I want a suite.
	Yeah, give me the presidential suite.
	Like that.
	It's nonsense.
	She's nuts.
	Yes.
	Anyone do this, of course.
	I'm just wondering what would happen.
	And what if customers who really did want to book reservations had a hard time getting through because so many other people were calling to express their views on Trump's attacks on the EPA or mass detentions of immigrants or losing their health insurance.
	I never said, repeal it and replace it within 64 days.
	Have a long time.
	Now, if you go this route, please, be polite.
	The person answering the phone almost certainly gets paid less than they deserve and could be secretly trying to form a union.
	You know what?
	That is more effective than they're doing now.
	I think her ideas are good, but who's listening to her?
	It's not going to...
	Yes, and who's listening to her and who's going to do anything other than sit down, smoke a weed, smoke some weed, and watch television, watch the Warriors playoff game.
	No, no, no.
	We're playing World of Warcraft or some...
	Oh, okay.
	Wow.
	Yes.
	We're not doing anything else.
	Yeah.
	Now, this was a good one.
	You probably saw this or a version of it.
	This is a call, well, it's a call back to sweaty Sean saying, you know, that Hitler never used chemical weapons.
	If you haven't seen Chris Matthews from 2013, now is your chance.
	And I don't like it.
	First of all, I'm rather dubbish, but I don't like what I'm going to say, but it's true.
	If you basically put down a red line and say, don't use chemical weapons, and it's been enforced in the Western community and around the world, the international community, for decades, don't use chemical weapons.
	We didn't use them in World War II. Hitler didn't use them.
	We don't use chemical weapons.
	That's no deal, although we do know that Assad's father did.
	Hmm.
	That's strange.
	No one excoriated him for that.
	No.
	That's because nobody listens to his show.
	This is also true.
	Everybody listens to Sweaty Sean.
	Here's another question I have.
	So last night I watched the opening of Saturday Night Live and obviously I watched because Jimmy Fallon was hosting and I think he's a very talented guy.
	I don't like his show that much but I think he's very talented.
	You don't like the Jimmy Kimmel show?
	I thought you did.
	No, not Kimmel.
	Fallon.
	Fallon, Fallon, Fallon.
	Oh, Fallon.
	Yeah, Fallon was hosting it.
	Now, when I lost my train of thought, what the hell was I going to talk about?
	You were talking about Saturday Night Live, and Fallon was on.
	Oh, okay, right.
	So, McCarthy came on, did Sweaty Sean.
	And she did a whole Easter thing and Sweaty Sean was dressed up in an Easter bunny suit and did at least five funny but five Jew jokes.
	Why is it okay from the Anti-Defamation League Why is that okay?
	Why is it okay to do funny, to say the same things evil people are saying and say them as a joke?
	Is that okay?
	Well, everything's okay if it's a joke.
	Well, you know, I... I'm just saying what the thinking would be to rationalize what you just asked.
	That would be what I'd say.
	Everything is a joke.
	It's supposed to be funny.
	I have a sense of humor.
	The reason why I'm sensitive about this is because I once said something in the Netherlands almost 30 years ago.
	You were joking.
	And obviously I didn't make a joke, because they sat me down.
	I had to apologize.
	It was a big deal.
	Well, let's hear this story.
	And by the way, I want to mention to everybody out there who helps this show, they contribute to the show, and they donate to the show, and they produce the show and all the rest of it.
	On any given show, I tell this to people, Adam or myself would be fired two or three times.
	Oh, yeah.
	In the normal circumstance.
	But since we work for ourselves and we produce this show and we have our own infrastructure and nobody can stop us, we do a lot of stuff that would get us fired.
	But now we have an example that Adam's going to give us of him actually almost getting fired over something he said.
	So this must have been in 85 or 86.
	In the Netherlands, I was on the official radio in the Netherlands.
	And it was...
	I'm trying to think what it was in relation to.
	But anyway, there was a news item, and in the news item was something about, some guy said, well, you know, you see how, it had to do with Israel and Palestine or something like that.
	I don't really, I'd have to look it up to remember the specifics.
	Then he said, well, you know, the reason why this gets attention is, you know, look at who's running the media in America.
	And I commented and I said, well, you know, he's got a point there.
	You know, the names you see on the credit rolls in Hollywood often end with Steen.
	And man, especially the Netherlands, people lost their crap over there.
	There was one very famous singer, and she said, when he said that, I just remembered the Nazis' jackboots walking down the hallway while I was hiding.
	I mean, that's the kind of stuff that happened to me.
	And it was really just an off-the-cuff comment.
	I learned, obviously.
	And then the...
	I think it's the...
	What's it called?
	The CO... I forget the name.
	Like an ADL of the Netherlands.
	Robbie something or other.
	I mean, he started making statements in the newspaper and they're calling from...
	I was like, oh, hold on.
	I'll come over.
	Let's sit down.
	Let's talk about it.
	I really...
	Please.
	And the point was, jokes or offhanded remarks propagate the lies, the lies that the Jews run the banks, the Jews run the media, etc., So jokes like that propagate the lies even though they're a joke.
	I just don't understand why a pass is given.
	Okay, so you gave us your story, which turned out to be a little bit...
	And now you're wondering...
	Why, what essentially is the same material on Saturday Night Live, they're getting away with what you couldn't get away with, and you were just, you were actually probably more nonchalant than they are.
	They're actually planning this.
	This is written down.
	It's on a teleprompter.
	Yes, yes.
	So there's many people involved.
	It's more of a conspiracy.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	An actual conspiracy.
	Yeah.
	By the way, I've been saving the cricket sound.
	You know, the war room just went nuts over the crickets.
	They want that to come back as soon as possible.
	Well, that's the one I told you I had saved.
	I was looking for an opportunity.
	I couldn't find one.
	I'm so happy that you can...
	I mean, so I feel like a Jew now.
	You have now gotten a cheap laugh off of insulting me.
	Thank you for making my point.
	I'm sorry.
	Thank you for making my point.
	See how easy I apologize.
	I'm sorry I did that because I know exactly.
	I'm surprised you're even speaking to me.
	But let's get back to the point, which is, I think you're right.
	They shouldn't be saying any of this stuff.
	Thank you.
	Do you have any examples?
	No, sadly, I didn't.
	You didn't get any clippage.
	I pulled a different clip that is much more important.
	Okay.
	I was sitting at the table.
	This is the weekly news update.
	And this is a prediction from the one and only John C. Dvorak.
	I was sitting at the table.
	We had finished dinner.
	We're now having dessert.
	And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen.
	First of all, you don't know what cakes I've seen.
	And second, maybe you should take it easy on the cake.
	You already got a butt like an Atlanta stripper.
	There it is.
	And it was the exact shot you used in the newsletter of his big fat ass with his coattail waving up, which we think was probably enhanced in Photoshop.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	They're fat shaming.
	These people are abhorrent.
	But wait, listen to what he says again.
	And second, maybe you should take it easy on the cake.
	You already got a butt like an Atlanta stripper.
	A butt like an Atlanta stripper?
	Wow.
	Racist much?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It's a black guy.
	It's okay to say it.
	Well, you know, also, I've been to many a strip club in Atlanta.
	Hey, what's the name?
	What's the panther leopards?
	What's it called?
	Well, the gold club was the one.
	No, no, the tiger.
	It's something an animal.
	It's a cheetah, cheetah, cheetah, cheetah, cheetah.
	Yeah, but no, actually the cheetah was really a serp.
	I haven't been there for 10 years, but it was a serp by the giant gold club, which was the place that was, I don't know, it must have been 100 girls there.
	And you go, you take people there.
	This is a ridiculous place because it was a cultural thing going on in Atlanta between the Methodists and the Baptists.
	And to make the point that, you know, the Methodists made the point of allowing all these strip clubs to kind of take over the city just to kind of needle the Baptists, who they know would never go to these places, even though I'm sure they all did.
	And I'm telling you, I think that generality is an insult to the city.
	That's bullcrap.
	It's total bullcrap.
	It's an insult in so many ways.
	Like an Atlanta stripper.
	I don't know, man.
	I know one thing.
	We know strippers.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven.
	Give it up!
	Good times.
	Good times.
	I missed Club 33.
	Good times in the club, man.
	Good times in the club.
	Then we have...
	These people are...
	You're right.
	And it's common.
	But again, you know, we're just being funny.
	It's a joke.
	We're just kidding around.
	You know, it's supposed to be funny.
	We're not trying to insult anybody.
	Yeah.
	You should have had some clippage.
	I think that was a disappointment.
	Well, you know...
	It is a disappointment, and I suck.
	So let's go back to the terrorist stuff, because I did want to get the Dortmund stuff.
	Yeah, let's do something uplifting for a change.
	Now, in Dortmund, the soccer team, the bus of the Dortmund soccer team...
	Yeah, this is actually a very interesting story.
	It was not covered in the United States at all.
	Very little.
	But they covered it in Europe, obviously, because it's so important, because if anything...
	Soccer!
	Soccer!
	Which is what they want us to...
	The globalists want the United States to be a soccer-loving country, so we can be part of the globalist scheme.
	Yeah, they should be hyping this, yeah.
	The no nations, no borders, and everyone has a football team.
	That's the whole thing.
	Yeah, and that's a proxy for you.
	You want to get out of your system, go to the game, and beat up the opponents.
	Just like football and basketball in our federation.
	We don't have that kind of violence that they have with soccer.
	Have you ever seen an L-18 win?
	Please.
	Let's play the Dortmunder attack, the part one, so we get...
	German prosecutors investigating Tuesday's bombing of the Borussia Dortmund soccer team bus say they have, quote, considerable doubt about the authenticity of three letters found at the scene of the attack.
	These documents claim to be written in the name of a law.
	Investigators, though, are now saying they believe these are forgeries that were intended to deliberately suggest an Islamist motive.
	Experts in Islamic studies analyzed these texts and concluded they were likely not written by Islamists.
	Well, joining me now in the studio is our political correspondent, Simon Young.
	Simon, welcome.
	Why do investigators believe that these are fakes?
	What's the evidence?
	Yeah, I mean, there are several things.
	The investigators said straight away after this attack that they thought these letters were a little bit unusual, not typical for Islamist attacks in Germany to claim responsibility in this way.
	Usually done by other means, if at all.
	Also, there were no symbols of any Islamist group on these letters.
	And now some Islam experts have had a look at them and they've concluded that despite the references to being in the name of Allah and so on, that they don't think that these letters are authentically originating from an Islamist group.
	Okay, so if an Islamist group didn't leave these notes, who did?
	False flag!
	That's what they're going to say, isn't it?
	No, actually, it's even funnier because this is another, to me, as this story unfolds, It just proves that we should never really adopt soccer as a national game, so let's play part two.
	Yeah, well that is still an open question, but sources in the German media say that police are investigating or focusing their investigation in particular on extremist groups, left-wing extremists, Right-wing extremists.
	And there are even some suggestions that there may be links to right-wing football-related groups, particularly in Saxony.
	That is an area of Germany that has had a problem with this, particularly around the club in Leipzig, but also elsewhere.
	And of course, Leipzig and Saxony have also been centres of right-wing street protests in recent times.
	So the idea is obviously that People from that, with those kind of views, might be trying to suggest that this attack had been carried out by Islamists.
	The Leipzig soccer team tried to blow up the Dortmunders.
	That's exactly what happened.
	And, can I just add to that, I have reports that the explosives used were explosives that are used exclusively by German military.
	This is the problem with soccer.
	Now, the thing is, meanwhile, they caught some guy from Iraq, which is clip three, and they just stick him with it anyway.
	They don't care.
	Okay, so that's one working theory, but authorities at the same time did arrest a 26-year-old Iraqi in the city of Wuppertal, did they not?
	They did, and they've arrested him, but not in relation to the Dortmund bus attack.
	He's being investigated in relation to suggestions that he's a member of his so-called...
	Islamic State, that he led a unit in Iraq which carried out kidnappings and killings.
	So it would appear that that man was on the radar already as an Islamist.
	He was picked up because he was in the general vicinity of this attack, and now police and authorities have decided to prosecute him anyway.
	All right, Simon Young, our political correspondent.
	Prosecute him anyway!
	I'm going to give you Borderline for that.
	Borderline!
	Flip of the day!
	So the German law authorities are very much like ours.
	Let's just frame this guy.
	Unreal.
	And we're done.
	Jeez.
	Jeez.
	You know why?
	It's because the cops are all fans of the home team.
	Yeah, Dortmund.
	Yeah, you don't want to mess with that.
	That is...
	Not reported.
	That is really good, John.
	I like that.
	I like that.
	Let's stay in Euroland for a moment.
	There's a holdover clip that happened last week.
	I really played this because it's happening in Poland, but the report is about Hungary.
	And pretty much an ultimatum has now been laid down from Brussels because you've got to accept more migrants or leave the bloc.
	Hungary says it's building a new fence at its southern border to keep out refugees and migrants.
	A barbed wire barrier was erected in 2015 along its frontier with several Balkan neighbours as the country looked to stop people crossing into its territory.
	A government spokesman said this measure is needed as Europe might face a huge wave of refugees later this year.
	It's related to everything that is happening at the European borders.
	In that respect, obviously, it is related to the Turkey agreement.
	But it's related rather to the fact that the estimated number of those who are still at the so-called Western Balkan route is around 80,000.
	Spring is coming.
	We see that around Europe, according to a German estimate, there are at least 6.5 million people waiting to enter the European Union.
	The measures form part of a move to shut down the so-called Western Balkans route.
	Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the European Commission should not stand by while Hungary makes a mockery of the right to seek asylum.
	Oh, man.
	So a couple things jumped out at me in that report.
	So six million is what the European Union still needs.
	They want.
	Please.
	And spring is coming.
	I like that too.
	Spring is coming.
	Of course, that's when it's all going to start moving.
	Spring.
	Spring is coming.
	The Arab Spring all across Europe.
	God.
	Yeah.
	It's a disaster.
	And today...
	No, let's not.
	Today, as we speak, polls are closing in Turkey for the...
	That's which is exactly where I was going, and I have a great clip.
	I have a transition clip.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has ramped up his anti-EU rhetoric on the eve of a referendum which would hand him sweeping powers.
	Erdogan told supporters in Istanbul he would review Ankara's relationship with Brussels as he seeks to shore up support for the constitutional changes needed to transfer more power away from the parliament to the president.
	The EU has lost all credibility.
	We don't defend democracy, human rights and freedoms because they want us to.
	We do that because our citizens deserve it.
	As we move closer to democracy, they are moving away from it.
	Also in Istanbul, the No campaign formed a symbolic human chain on the European side of the Bosphorus Strait, which divides Asia and Europe.
	They fear the constitutional changes would see Turkey lurch towards authoritarianism.
	I'm here for my children and for a Turkey where the values I was born with remain and where my children can continue to think freely and where journalists and teachers are not put behind bars.
	The vote comes at a time of turmoil, with the country reeling from a series of bombings by ISIL and Kurdish militants, a failed coup, and a deep economic slowdown, something which the president says requires a stronger leadership to bring under control.
	Now, before we get to your clip, I had two thoughts about this the third time I heard it.
	By the way, that woman sounds exactly like Trisha Nakamura, whoever it is on The Family Guy, who does that mock reporting.
	It's her.
	I'm sure it's her.
	It's a side gig.
	So two things.
	One, because you're talking about, you know, Erdogan saying, we're fighting the authoritarians.
	And of course, when I think authoritarians in no agenda thinking, you know, this is the black block.
	This is these crazy people who are bashing bins and throwing bagels.
	And the thought I had right on top of that, so the first thought is, well, maybe this guy is right.
	Maybe he's doing the right thing.
	I don't know.
	He seems like a turd.
	He seems evil.
	But maybe he's doing the right thing for himself and the crazy-ass European starship.
	And the second thought I had is, you know how people always say, how is it possible that the Germans, intelligent people, that they became these Jew-killing haters?
	Look around at what's happening right now in the world and you'll understand.
	Because it's not the crazy alt-right people.
	No.
	It's the other side.
	And you're going to wake up one day and go, how did we let it come so far?
	That's the thesis in a number of books.
	I think John Dos Passos wrote one.
	He was banned from intellectual circles after the book came out, which implied that it's the left that is the danger.
	Yeah, and I just got fired on a real radio station.
	Again.
	But yeah, that's what I was thinking.
	It's like, hey, look at these guys.
	They're thugs.
	They're LARPing thugs, but they're thugs.
	And look at what they're doing.
	I'm going to get some scalps.
	Okay, well...
	Yeah, I'm going to get some scalps.
	I think you're letting it happen.
	That's the woman that deserved, in this case, after she punched a guy to get punched back.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And then she had a concussion.
	Oh, please.
	Okay.
	Well, this is the Turkey everyone run down from.
	I believe this is Deutsche Welle.
	It might be RT, but I think it's Deutsche Welle.
	And it has a slightly, it kind of pushes back on just that little moment you just had there with the possibility that he's a good guy.
	And I think it's, and I have to explain some of the stuff that was shown that I will talk about after the clip, after you play the clip.
	Exactly.
	Turkey is a country sharply divided ahead of a referendum...
	CBS. I'm sorry?
	CBS. CBS with their definitive report.
	Of course.
	...Sunday that could greatly increase the Turkish president's power.
	Turkey's a NATO ally and a key player in the fight against terror across its borders in Syria and Iraq.
	Here's Holly Williams.
	This is no ordinary vote, it's a turning point.
	President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells his adoring base, many of them poor religious conservatives from the country's hinterland.
	He's campaigning to weaken Turkey's courts and lawmakers, giving himself sweeping new powers.
	We trust him, Ayla Shuk told us, and we'll support him with our yes votes, God willing.
	But President Erdogan's critics say this referendum could smooth the path for him to become a dictator.
	There's a new climate of fear here in Turkey which began nine months ago when an attempted military coup came close to ousting President Erdogan from power.
	In response, a mass purge of anyone Erdogan's government views as an enemy.
	Around 50,000 have been arrested, including more than 2,000 judges and prosecutors, as well as journalists, university professors, doctors, a concert pianist and an American pastor who's lived here for more than 20 years.
	Barbaros Shansal is a fashion designer who just spent two months in prison for posting comments online that offended the government.
	One iron bed, one blanket, three steps to three steps, caged air, alone, totally alone.
	He was beaten by a pro-government mob in January and is so worried it'll happen again, he rarely leaves his house.
	That's a pretty frightening thought in what is supposed to be a democracy.
	Are you saying Turkish democracy is finished?
	Almost.
	In Erdogan's new 1,000-room presidential palace, he's surrounded by the trappings of Turkey's imperial past.
	Some here fear his real ambition is to become a modern-day sultan for life.
	Holly Williams, CBS News, Istanbul.
	Sounds about right to me.
	That's how I'd do it.
	Now, Holly, of course, is the one that was on the border of Syria constantly, but she's actually floating around Turkey.
	Obviously, he speaks Turkish.
	Yeah.
	This time stated she wasn't on the border.
	She was actually doing a report from where she's supposed to be doing a report.
	Now, she talks about...
	Now, the thing that got me was the 1,000-room presidential palace that he had built for himself.
	Yeah, that's the new one.
	Which tops the guy in Ukraine, for sure.
	Yeah.
	Who had a big mansion built.
	Saddam Hussein, even.
	It's even better than his palace.
	Yeah, well, Saddam had a lot of places, though.
	So this guy's got...
	So they show the place.
	It's like this...
	It looks like the Lincoln Center in New York.
	The architecture's kind of funny.
	But...
	The thing that got me was a picture of Erdogan.
	There's a big stairway, a big giant stairway that comes up from, I guess, the first floor is like three stories high, so the second floor is a big, long stairway.
	And on either side of the stairway were guys dressed in these, like, traditional garb from the 1800s, all different ones.
	And there was, like, maybe 20 of them on each side.
	And they were just very...
	Imposing, looking crazy characters in Chain Mall and Night Stuff and all this.
	Excellent.
	And everyone's walking proudly down the middle with these guys on either side.
	And I'm looking at that going, yeah, that's exactly what he wants to be.
	He wants to be a sultan.
	The guy's insane.
	He was elected to a position that wasn't even a powerful position.
	No, it's not at all.
	It was ceremonial.
	Yeah, and he's taking the ceremony part a little far.
	Yeah, I get it.
	He's not a good guy.
	This guy's trouble.
	Hey, I got to apologize.
	I don't know what happened, but we are late now.
	We were just having too much fun.
	Ten minutes.
	I'm sorry.
	We got to do a second donation segment.
	Well, let's do the second donation segment to finish it up and we'll be done.
	I want to take it.
	Okay, I'll take us in this way.
	This happened to me yesterday.
	I'm on CNN.com because I wanted to find a piece that I'd seen aired that I didn't get the clip.
	And right in the middle, there's this big, right in the middle of their homepage, this big thing, and it says, the big one is coming, and it's going to be a flu pandemic.
	I'm like, oh crap, I haven't heard about this, so click on it.
	This is a native ad, this page.
	And it's sponsored by Johnson& Johnson.
	The article is written by Sanjay Gupta, the resident doctor over there at CNN. And I'm like, oh, let me see this video.
	That should be fun.
	And the video was preceded by an ad, which in this case I kept in there.
	It's a rotating ad, so I saw four different versions.
	In this case, it's one of the Ebola doctors.
	Who went and saved everybody from the Ebola crisis and it's a Johnson& Johnson ad that rolls into the story and here it is.
	I think when you're faced with the disaster that strikes a country, you do see that people care.
	There's a huge sense of accomplishment when you see that what you do can potentially make a difference.
	So that was the ad, and it's one of those positioning ads like they put on PBS or NPR. It's like, oh yes, Johnson& Johnson works with doctors who save the world.
	And then the story.
	In the next 20 years, 30 years, there will be a pandemic, and it will have the potential to bring humanity to its knees.
	Your strains of influenza are already infecting birds in over 75 countries.
	And the way we are interacting with the animal world is putting us at risk.
	We encroach on wetlands, so wild birds mix more frequently with domestic poultry.
	Our food trade is completely globalized, and factory farms are growing in scope and size.
	With all influenza, there is some critical moment when a virus circulating in one species of, say, birds, manages to mutate in a form that allows it to get into, say, pigs, and then from there to spread easily between people.
	We've seen this over and over.
	It's going on all the time, right at this moment.
	And that is the story.
	I'm not sure exactly what they are selling, but to me it feels more like a setup.
	And they bring in the pigs again.
	The swine.
	Yeah.
	This thing to me was really, really sketchy.
	I think you're watching too much CNN, personally.
	Well, someone's got to do it.
	Someone's got to do it.
	It's important.
	It's important that someone does that.
	It's important.
	It's important that someone does that.
	And so I'm saying...
	You should just sound for your own health.
	No, my mental hygiene is okay.
	I'm just saying that beware...
	MSNBC mixed in would be good.
	Pandemic is on the way, people.
	It's the moment.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	As you recall, there was a bunch of articles that I read that there is an H1N1 thing going on now that is not being reported at all.
	Maybe this is a prelude to it.
	I have no idea.
	Get people ready.
	But let's thank a few people who are all healthy and helped us produce this show, starting with Demetrius Nephleotus.
	Nephleotus.
	Yep.
	$150.
	And then we have Andre.
	He has something about his pronunciation.
	But I think it's Andre.
	Andre.
	You just write it strange.
	O-N-D-R-E-J. Andre.
	136.74.
	He's in Czechoslovakia.
	And he becomes a knight today.
	So we have to read this.
	Yes, he does.
	We have a bunch of them.
	Bruce Wilkie.
	You have to read his note.
	I do?
	I am believing in working for since 2009 made it you are my heroes or maybe more like John is my stepdad I recall I was reading his columns back in the 1996 in the Czech version of PC Magazine there was one yes and I was very popular there I was 13 back then.
	John had big hair and a smug face on the photo.
	Typical of John.
	I did not have MTV back in the day, so I missed Adam totally.
	But Adam, you are like my older and crazier brother, meaning I am being a little crazy too.
	I dig your attitude of getting to the bottom of things.
	Keep going, guys.
	I am proud to be a part of the roundtable.
	It's hard to explain how much.
	Nice, nice, nice.
	Excellent.
	Yes, thank you, Andre.
	Bruce Wilkie, 12606, parts unknown.
	He has also got something going on here.
	Completed his knighthood.
	He's a knighthood.
	He's on the list because he's in gray.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Bruce Cigar.
	Yeah, I think he is.
	I'll check.
	Bruce Cigar and techno expert.
	I'd like to request some Nicaraguan cigars for the round table.
	Let me just see.
	Really?
	Hey, you know, but is it only something?
	It can't just be Nicaraguan.
	It has to be two things.
	That gets us out of it.
	I have Cuban cigars and single malt scotch already there, so I'll just change it.
	Yes, and Cuban cigars are...
	Well, for this, Nicaraguan cigars it is.
	Yeah, you can switch it for once.
	Randall Brown.
	He's a knight, man.
	He's a knight.
	You've got to do what the knights say.
	Yeah, that's your problem.
	Providence Village, Texas.
	One, two, three, four, five.
	Another knight coming up.
	He wants to be Sir Gates of the North Texas Swamps.
	Donation forthcoming will be under my wife, Gina the Awesome.
	She's going to be a dame?
	Gina the Awesome?
	Not today.
	She's coming up.
	She'll be next on the list.
	Gina the Awesome.
	Fab.
	Very good.
	What is this?
	Pasha?
	Pasha?
	Elmendinger.
	$100.
	Maria Patricia Lim in Fairfax, Virginia.
	Hold on.
	I know you're in a hurry, but Pysha says this contribution is made on behalf of Daniel Rodriguez.
	Happy 30th birthday, my sweet love.
	Is he on the list?
	Yes.
	While I call this podcast, quote, the grumpy old men show...
	Daniel can't get enough of it, so here's to keeping the grumpy party going for love.
	Aww.
	I don't know if that requires an awe.
	It's a microaggression.
	It's a microaggression.
	What she's doing, she's giving us hell.
	And $100, so I'm good.
	Well, the $100 makes up for a little bit.
	Say whatever you...
	You know, like punch me, you know, dunk me.
	Kick me in the nuts.
	Dunk me.
	Maria Patricia Lim in Fairfax, Virginia, and you know what that means.
	$100.
	Wesley Walker in $100 in Parts Unknown.
	Dame Karen of the Cimarron Hills, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
	$99.
	Niner, Niner, Niner.
	Niner, Niner, Niner.
	Yeah, I can't do everything at the same time.
	Yeah, I can't do everything.
	Kurt Cobal, or Cobal, $99.99.
	He's got a birthday.
	Is he on there?
	I believe so.
	Yep, he's on here.
	Clay Boccevici.
	Huh?
	How about that?
	Is that possible?
	Looks good to me.
	Boccevici.
	Boccevici.
	In Lyndhurst, Ohio.
	9210.
	John and Adam, I'd like to call out Jay...
	I'd like to call out Jay Salahouser as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	For not donating.
	SirEydrone8487 in Watford, Hertfordshire, UK. And he needs human resource karma.
	Yeah, that's coming your way.
	This is just for you.
	Thomas Handel.
	H-A-N-D-T-E. He says, of course, fantastic show, 920.
	Please accept my meatloaf donation of 841 dimes added up ASCII code numbers for meatloaf.
	Nice.
	It's the meatloaf donation.
	8410.
	8410, meatloaf.
	Chris Durkin, 80-08.
	And you called me a nerd.
	What?
	You called me a nerd.
	I did.
	I know what I'm going to do in my spare time.
	I'm going to count up what ASCII, what that is, and make a donation out of it.
	Yeah, that's the way to go.
	Love it.
	Chris Durkin, 80-08.
	Boob.
	Courtney Vanderberg, boob.
	She's in Deutschland.
	Pete Tangney in Randolph, Massachusetts.
	That's 78-78.
	William Bryan in Spartanburg, South Carolina. 78-39.
	Now, he's also becoming a knight.
	Now, since 2011, congratulations.
	PayPal threw me over the edge when they sent me an email saying you guys had the gall to cancel my payment.
	Unbelievable.
	I hate it when they do that.
	The fact of the matter is, if you donate monthly to no agenda, you too can become a knight.
	It is truly an honor to have you two in my headphones to cut through the lamestream media as I travel around the country hitting people in the mouth.
	It's apparently his job.
	If I didn't have you guys...
	That's applause for him.
	That's great.
	Black Knights are inside jobs in Seattle.
	I wasn't done.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Continue, please.
	Are you reading the same spreadsheet I am?
	I've actually scrolled down.
	Okay, that's why.
	If I didn't have you guys, I would be a different person in a sense.
	It's like I get to talk to my buddies for six hours a week, only you don't really know who I am, and the wife thinks it's weird.
	Anyway, thank you guys for all you do.
	Please title me Sir William Wallace, Knight of the Palmetto States, if you have a chance.
	Manning or Sharpton, yeah, you got some stuff.
	And I'll follow you on the tutor.
	You got it.
	Thank you.
	And look forward to the ceremony momentarily.
	Now we go.
	Okay, good.
	Sir Black Knight Inside Jobs.
	Sir Inside Jobs Black Knight, that is, in Seattle, Washington, 66-66.
	Anonymous, 61-20.
	Uh, donations, uh, related to the ASCII 39 hexadecimal computation.
	By the way, somebody pointed out that the, uh, he says this is bullcrap.
	He says there's no way that E has a different, is the number, is in sequence.
	It should be a higher number than a lower number for ASCII. It's capital E. It's different.
	Barrett, Mark Tanner in Whittier, California.
	55-33, which is a little unusual.
	Interesting number.
	Stephen Cosmani in Victoria, B.C. and the group of people up there were going to have a meet-up.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Joe Mazurik, double nickels on the dime.
	He needs some job karma.
	Put it at the end for him.
	Barron Mladequin, I think, in Houston, Texas, 5508.
	Ryan McConnell, 5105 in the morning.
	Thank you for your great work.
	It's a $50 donation plus the cost of freedom.
	A buck of 05.
	Three douchebag callouts.
	Ready?
	Yep.
	Cyrus.
	Douchebag.
	Mike.
	Douchebag.
	And Garrett.
	Douchebag.
	Following people are all $50 donations.
	Name and location.
	Mark Neiman, parts unknown.
	Brian Matthews in Balbrigan, Dublin, Ireland.
	Daryl Arnett.
	Trent Wabes.
	Wabes.
	Wabes.
	In Victoria, Australia, $50.
	John Haller in Missoula, Montana.
	Brian Noni in Smyrna, Georgia.
	Sheila...
	Demorderen.
	50 parts unknown.
	Sir Chris Lewinsky, I believe, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
	Amitav Hajra in Daleville, Virginia, who may be a knight by now.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma, favorite town name.
	And last but not least, Gerald Wingenroth in Sagas, California.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us produce this show, 921.
	Yes, and I wanted to point out that Mark Neiman's $50 puts him into knight category as well.
	John and Adam, thank you for your stellar work.
	This donation makes me a knight with great honor.
	Please title me Sir Mark Neiman.
	That will do just fine.
	And a question is, a buck o' five, the cost of freedom.
	Do you understand what that means?
	A buck o' five?
	No.
	Maybe it's the cost of...
	You actually can't even get coffee for that, so I don't know how to get freedom from it.
	Because I've been waiting to play the jingle for the phrase from the Shays, and I just wanted to explain how I think it should work.
	You should just, once a show, or whenever you want to do it, should explain a phrase.
	Yeah, we're going to start doing that.
	We've got tons to do.
	Tons.
	Let me give you the jingle that'll motivate everybody.
	We should all get back to a better time When the words had a different meaning, reason, and rhyme Though I'm not quite sure what they're trying to say Look it up, phrase from the shade How about that?
	That's Fletcher, by the way.
	That's good.
	He's a very talented person.
	Extremely talented.
	All right.
	Phrase from the Shays.
	Send it to john at dvorak.org.
	And thank you, everybody.
	Using the subject line words.
	Words.
	Thank you, everybody, for supporting us on this Easter when we're working.
	That makes me feel really good.
	Although I have a good time.
	I've laughed a lot today.
	We laughed a lot!
	Now let's all hug and share a secret.
	That's right.
	And anybody who needs it, well first, reminder, we have another show coming on Thursday and you can help us by going to...
	And now some karma for anyone who needs it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And we say happy birthday for everybody here at the BDS Podcast in the universe!
	All righty, then.
	Let's see what we have.
	Actually, we could do a title change here, since we've got to do that one.
	And that is Sir Daniel Miller, who today becomes a baronet.
	The baronet of the No Agenda Roundtable and the peerage map at itm.im slash peerage.
	For the title.
	That's right.
	The titles, they are a-changing.
	And we've got a pretty good list here today, John, of knights.
	One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
	Eight of them.
	Bring out the big blade.
	The big blade.
	It is great.
	Whoa, that's big.
	Two-hander.
	All right, on stage, please, I need Oystein Berger, James York, Pete Morris, Andre Kalka, Bruce Wilkie, Randall Brown, William Bryant, and Mark Neiman.
	Gentlemen, thank you very much for your support of the best podcast and university amount of $1,000 or more.
	And therefore, I am very proud to pronounce the KV. Oystein Berger, the Knight of Steel, Sir James York, Sir Pete Morris, Sir Andre Kalka, Sir Bruce Cigar and Techno Expert, Sir Gator of the North Texas.
	Oops.
	Sir William Wallace, Knight of the Palmetto State.
	And Sir Mark Neiman, for you gentlemen, we have hookers and below, red boys and chardonnay.
	We've got brisket and brown ale.
	Nicaraguan cigars rolled in Panama Papers.
	We've got breast milk, a paddle and mutton and mead, ginger ale and gerbils and sparkling cider and escorts.
	Whoa!
	Out of music, the list was so long.
	Wow.
	Head over to noagendanation.com slash rings and give Eric the Shill all of your details and we'll get out to you as soon as possible.
	I look forward to you tweeting and tooting it.
	Tweet and toot, people.
	Tweet and toot.
	Yeah, it's waiting to go wired.
	Hey, you know, we don't want to talk about it, but we have a new Supreme Court justice in America.
	That would be the Gorsuch guy, the guy you don't like.
	Congratulations, you don't like him.
	But you know that he actually is just nothing but a little, just like an intern?
	Yeah, you didn't know that, did you?
	In what way?
	Well, Katie Turr over there, she's at ABC, Katie Turr.
	I believe so, yes.
	She tells us exactly what he's going to do.
	Gorsuch becomes the youngest member of the court by more than a decade.
	And as the most junior justice, he will take over clerical functions like holding the door in the conference room from Justice Elena Kagan.
	Did you know that?
	Hey, it's the new guy.
	They haze him, too.
	They make him drink upside down and take shots.
	You've got to take a lot of shots.
	That's crazy.
	Jell-O shots.
	Drink, drink, drink.
	Jell-O shots.
	Chug, chug, chug.
	Chug, chug, chug.
	That's it, yes.
	Chug.
	Hey, what's that in your hoodie?
	Oh, sorry.
	That joke failed.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Hmm.
	Well, I got a couple last minute ones we want to do.
	Yeah, I mean, it's an odd show.
	Way over.
	Way over.
	Yeah, we are over.
	We're way over.
	Let's start with us getting back to good old America and the way we like to see things.
	And I might have a prediction with this.
	This is the New York...
	I want everyone to think car guys.
	Well, the older guys like cars.
	Younger millennials, they don't care.
	But anyone who likes cars will like this story from the New York Auto Show because of this car that Chrysler Corporation has decided to drop on the public.
	And the New York Auto Show is once again showcasing the latest car models for the US market.
	And boy, you can tell we've had low oil prices in the last couple of months.
	Saving fuel doesn't really seem to be a priority anymore.
	It's all about getting drivers excited.
	Can car makers keep U.S. consumers fired up about their latest offerings?
	At the New York International Auto Show, they're hoping the simple recipe of bigger, stronger, faster will keep consumer demand motoring along.
	Enter the Dodge Challenger Demon.
	Packing 840 horsepower and a 6.2 liter Hemi V8, Dodge claims it's the fastest thing on American highways.
	This isn't just a Dodge.
	This isn't just a Challenger.
	No.
	This is the most technologically advanced street legal production drag car ever.
	That sounded like an Apple keynote.
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	800 horsepower cars should not be on the highway.
	I don't even know what they would do around here.
	Is this one of those where they have an electric motor alongside...
	No, no, no.
	This is just a straight up, as far as I know, just a straight up monster supercharged...
	Six-liter, 800-horsepower car, which is the kind of thing you'd find in some exotic, and it's in a Dodge Dodge.
	This reminds me, I have to do a call back here, because I was around in the 70s when the Hemi Cuda, I remember that, the Cuda, yeah.
	The Hemi-Cuda, which was this hot rod that was 450 horsepower or something like that, and it was Chrysler Corporation once again doing this, and the insurance companies threw up their arms and said, we're not insuring these cars anymore.
	You guys are nuts to be driving them.
	And so you want to drive around a Hemikudi, you're going to have to pay like six times as much for insurance.
	And so everybody backed off.
	And all of a sudden, now you're getting Corvettes with 150 horsepower thereafter.
	And everything was like down.
	Oh, God, okay, whatever.
	And so everything got real slow.
	And then I noticed over the last 10 years, it's been stepping up.
	There's a Cadillac out there, a 650 horsepower you can buy.
	And there's all these high horsepower cars coming out.
	And now this.
	This is going to happen again.
	It's a cycle.
	And it's in the same time frame.
	The cycle is going to say, uh-oh, too much.
	We don't want these things on the street.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Pull the plug on it once again and we're going to see really low horsepower crap.
	This thing is great.
	It has the supercharged 6.2 liter Hemi SRT Demon V8 engine armed with a functional air grabber hood scoop and a torque reserve launch system.
	I just got hard.
	You know what I just learned the other day?
	Did you know that Formula One cars, do you know that they're only 1.8 liters?
	Yes, and they deliver a crap load of horsepower.
	They're very high performance.
	And I was like, so it's under two liters.
	That's a third of, less than a third of this thing.
	Oh yeah.
	But how they do it is they do 19,000 RPMs.
	Oh yeah, no, they've got roller bearings.
	Insane, insane.
	I didn't realize that.
	But I'll tell you this about 1.8 liters.
	So my daughter has a Volkswagen that's got a 1.8 liter turbo in it.
	Oh, the turbo.
	And I'll tell you, that thing is like a bat out of hell.
	Yeah.
	Bat out of hell.
	Phrase from the Shays for the next show.
	Yeah, phrase from the Shays.
	Bat out of hell.
	For the next show.
	Yeah.
	Perfect.
	Writing it down.
	Well, I like this thing.
	It looks great.
	I like it.
	You'll get one.
	I can't afford this.
	What does it cost?
	Yeah, I bet it's just way, way overpriced.
	I can afford the car, just not the insurance.
	That's the problem.
	Let me see.
	They don't say how much it's going to cost.
	Maybe they haven't announced the price yet.
	Hmm.
	But I admire the fact that they did this.
	I mean, and they brought it out on the TV. Well, you know, this is always a sign.
	Very pretty car.
	It's always a sign that the cost of gas is going to go down.
	Well, either that or it's going to go up.
	I don't know.
	We don't know anymore.
	We don't know anything.
	Let me see price.
	Let me just see if...
	Let me ask the consultant book of knowledge here for price.
	What is this thing going to cost?
	It doesn't say.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, it's probably not been triggered.
	That was great.
	That's all you got.
	We should probably end the show on that high note.
	Yeah, we can end on that.
	I got a couple of good clips here for the end, including everyone's favorite.
	Everybody's favorite.
	I definitely want to thank people for tuning in on Easter.
	And then there's a Warriors game today right after the show.
	Go check it out.
	And let me just see how many people.
	We still had 918, despite it being Easter.
	That's not bad.
	And that's the tail end of the show.
	Not bad at all.
	Well, thank you, everybody.
	Happy Easter.
	And thanks for supporting us on this day of labor.
	And of course we'll be back on Thursday.
	Same time, same channel.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Join us in the war room.
	And don't forget 420's coming up.
	420 any day now.
	Said John C. Dvorak.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas in the skyscraper.
	I'm still in the crackpot condo here, FEMA Region 6 on the government maps.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA for the coming episode.
	Until then, good morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Ah, yes, that's right.
	We'll be returning on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	And you know what we say.
	Adios, mofos.
	You walk away, then bad things happen after time.
	You walk away.
	It sent drones over, identifying, and then attack.
	Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.
	This crazy fat kid.
	This is really the quintessence of evil.
	It is the beginning of much-needed change.
	Change that will require sacrifice people.
	Okay.
	Sacrifice people. Sacrifice people. Sacrifice people. Sacrifice people. Sacrifice people. Sacrifice people.
	We must love one another or die.
	Or die.
	Suck it up, buttercup.
	We cannot fall into despair.
	Suck it up, buttercup.
	We must love one another or die.
	Or die.
	Suck it up, buttercup.
	Are you ready?
	Say yes, we are ready.
	Say yes, we are ready.
	I am outraged.
	Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
	Watercup.
	Yes, I'm angry.
	Yes, I am outraged.
	I am outraged.
	Watercup.
	Cool.
	Straight from Reseda.
	here she is, raving!
	Give it up.
	You've shown yourself with these demands to be vindictive, to be nasty, or...
	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.
	When you talk about mafia, you say that the parliament is like mafia.
	This, for what I'm talking about, is not acceptable.
	I do understand, sir.
	Mr.
	President, I do understand national sensitivities.
	I'll change it to gangsters.
	All right.
	When you talk about mafia, you say that the parliament is like a mafia.
	This, for me, is unacceptable.
	I do understand, sir, Mr. President.
	I do understand national sensitivities.
	I'll change it to gangsters.
	All right.
	Last night's bomb was really huge.
	Amen.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	I don't know if he had ants.
	We had ant invasion.
	I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine grind of black pepper, we were having dinner and I got an ant somehow in the meal and I ate it.
	These things are peppery.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	These ants, they don't need a lot.
	And then you see, you find all the ones that are roaming around you.
	Although I backed them off by doing the burning trick.
	Just torch them.
	And you leave them there.
	The only ant, there are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back.
	I got ants.
	I got ants. - Ants.

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