And Sunday, April 23rd, 2017, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 2, 3.
This is no agenda.
Saving the Earth, one social justice warrior at a time.
And broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the night 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, I'm John C. Devorak.
Two shows in a row you're doing kind of a short intro.
What's up?
I had to pause as though I was going to say something.
I was going to say something.
And there goes the Zephyr, by the way, just at this very moment.
I've been here.
And then I decided not to say it.
Oh, okay.
Well, there you go.
Great.
Good work.
Well, good morning to you, John.
Good morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Good morning to all ships and sea.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, it's a little bit early.
It's a little bit early.
Well, we saved the earth once again.
Oh, brother.
You ruined the news cycle.
It was really interesting, and I'm pissed.
I was driving around yesterday, and there's a station, and I tried to record, it just sounded like crap.
The station in Austin, 88.7 KAZI, which is, I think it functions under a, you know, like an NPR-type license.
It's non-profit, and it started in 1986.
Oh, no, I looked it up.
They got a kilowatt FM, kilowatt FM. So they blanket most of the...
Blanket the neighborhood.
Well, they're in East Austin because it's a complete urban station.
It's all black.
And it was funny yesterday with Earth Day.
Why?
Oh, just language.
You know, it's just like, yeah, that's right.
That's how we roll with the Mo Earth.
You know, just, whoa.
I was holding my phone up in the car to the speaker trying to record it.
It just sounded like crap.
It was fantastic.
I got off the face bag.
I got to read this one to you.
This is great.
She's a very famous divorce lawyer in Austin, who I happen to know, not because she represented anybody in any party, anything that I was party to, but...
You dated her.
No, no.
Actually, I met her at a party, and she introduced herself.
Her name is Becky Beaver.
I'm like, wow, have you ever considered radio?
That's a great DJ name.
Hey, everybody, Becky Beaver with you here until 12 o'clock.
She's a famous divorce lawyer.
And you got all kinds of jokes you can do with Becky Beaver, you know, log rolling and...
Yeah.
Taking a bite out of the hits.
So what was interesting is we had Earth Day and then kind of combined this weekend with the March for Science.
So here's Becky's post.
As I head to the streets yet again to join others in supporting science and wondering...
Wait, wait.
How many times does she go to the streets to support science?
How often does this happen in Austin?
She should have put a comma there, I think, because she went to the streets, of course, for the million women thing.
Yeah.
The women march.
In Austin, there's a lot of women who come out for these marches.
Sure.
We're looking for dates.
These are mixers.
It's your style of mixer in Austin.
It's a mixer.
It's a mixer.
It's kind of that way.
As I head to the streets yet again to join others in supporting science.
I like that hat you've got.
Where'd you get that one?
Mine's pink.
Where'd you get the blue one?
I made it myself.
As I head to the streets yet again to join others in supporting science and wondering how my teachers in Anson High School could have ever anticipated that five decades later we live in a country where we actually have to march to defend science, it seems important to share...
What a crazy country!
It seemed important to share yet another excellent piece of reporting from the New York Times.
We will never know how things might have developed differently had James Comey not taken his egomaniacal venture into election politics.
So she goes straight from science into this article by the Times that, you know, Comey basically helped...
Hillary Luz.
Luz.
Yeah, Luz.
Go right now, right now, and anyone else who's listening live, go to the New York Times website, NYT.com or NewYorkTimes.com and check it.
Just tell me what you see.
I'm rolling up to it right now.
I have the 20 people Trump turns to outside the White House.
Uber's CEO plays with fire.
Behind the scenes, how Comey helped shake the election.
You got that animated GIF on the screen?
Of the CEO, the Uber CEO? Yeah.
Is that who it is?
It looks like a 12-year-old to me.
You know what it looks like?
It looks like the AHA video, Take On Me.
Take on me.
What is the point of that drawing?
It's a piece of crap drawing to begin with.
You know what?
It's a Tourette's drawing.
It's microaggression against people with Tourette's.
It's so horrible looking.
And it's half the page.
Yeah, well, they hate this guy.
Yes.
Yeah, he's easy to hate.
It doesn't even look like the guy.
It just looks like some random drawing done by a high school kid.
Do you have anything on the Science March?
Well, I have a bunch of stuff from CBS. There was one clip I had from the Science March that I couldn't quite use.
It was emphasizing Bill Nye.
And the only thing that was really good about the clip, besides they only took Bill Nice one-liners, was a group of little giggling girls...
Four or five of them, and they were all like 11 and 12, and they all had this weird-looking unicorn thing on their head.
It's like a little hat, only it's a horn.
Oh, yeah.
I told you, this is coming.
Watch, watch.
And they were all jumping up and down, giddy, you know, both hands are in fists, you know, slamming each other, just slamming together real close to their body, and jumping up and down and screaming over Bill Nye.
Let me tell you, overheard in the workplace of someone I know very well, the following sentence, I'm so excited Bill Nye's show is starting again tonight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like that.
Well, I have a little Bill Nye thing later on.
Bill Nye's got the bow tie.
I think he's a sweetie.
He must be God's gift to...
No, no, no.
It's far worse.
I will show this to you after you play.
Do you have these giddy children?
I want to hear the giddy children.
No, it was only a visual.
You could not really get it.
I saw it and watched it and tried to clip it and I said, yeah, there's nothing I can go with.
I do have a couple of clips if you need clips.
Not about Bill Nye.
But about the science march.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Alright, you want to play yours or do you want me to play mine?
I'll do mine.
Do yours, please.
Do me.
Okay, I got a couple of them.
First of all, CBS wasted the whole day on climate change news showing...
Did they go live?
No, they didn't go live, but they just showed every...
And they kept talking about all the rising tides.
Every time they do that, I just look out my window and I go...
And all those mudflats now.
And so they're going on and on about the rising tides and they're showing houses that somehow collapse into the ocean and they show boats overturned and then every other shot, as they're talking...
Fish in Miami on the street?
Fish?
No, they didn't show the fish in Miami.
I'm sorry they didn't do that, but they had just these huge waves pounding the shore.
Yeah.
And so they so I figure they did this.
They have somebody must have been in one of the executives or some of the editors said somebody said we've got to have at least one Kind of one counter thing, something.
Is there anything we can do?
Because this is ridiculous.
The whole show is just gloom and doom.
Climate change is going to kill us.
Right.
So they did this thing with a guy called...
Yeah, we need some happy moments.
Bring on Bill Nye!
No, no, no.
I'm talking about a guy who's going to be a climate denier.
Ah!
So they brought a climate denier on who calls himself a climate realist.
And he actually makes some good points.
But the problem is he comes from some creationist group in the Pacific Northwest.
And they're very good at dissecting him.
If you ever do news deconstruction, they're doing it well here.
First, they make sure that you know that he doesn't know shit about science.
He's not a scientist.
And then they blast him in all kinds of very subtle ways.
It's a very negative piece with this guy trying to explain things in a fairly logical way.
I don't think he's wrong.
But let's play the climate realist on CBS. They call themselves climate realists.
They reject the idea that man-made greenhouse gas emissions threatens the climate.
And they think that the U.S. should stop spending tax dollars on climate change programs.
Here's Dean Reynolds.
Scientists may worry about melting polar ice, rising seas, or strengthening storms, but to Joe Bast, all of what others call warning signs of climate change are just the natural order of things.
Is it fair to call you climate change deniers?
We are climate realists.
The efforts to stop global warming or slow it down are way disproportional to what the science suggests would be necessary.
From this office park near Chicago, Bast runs the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank waging what he insists is a nonpartisan information war.
Okay, so you can just stop for a second.
So this guy is in Chicago.
Now, you have to, as they're talking to this guy, for one thing, they have to close up on him, and I don't know what they've done to the camera, but they've tweaked it.
So his, you know, you can get that super high contrasty look, so every little pore is like, you know, double his size.
Oh, and particularly in 4K or Ultra HD, you look like you're dead.
This guy looks terrible, so they've done that to him.
And then constantly, every time this guy says it, the interviewer says anything, they're showing oceans bashing the shores and ships overturning and huge storms and lightning bolts.
Oh, man.
Do we have any storm effects or something?
No, believe me, there are enough in here.
It's already annoying.
Okay, go back.
And he insists is a nonpartisan information war.
But if you look at the opinion polls, I think the American public are on our side.
They say, okay, maybe climate is changing.
Maybe there's a human impact.
We probably can't do anything about it.
It's really expensive.
We think we've wasted too much money on this already.
Besides, he says, climate change isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Cold weather kills more people than warm weather does.
So on net, more people would benefit in a warmer climate.
Most climate scientists, the United Nations as well as NASA, dismiss these arguments as propaganda for fossil fuels.
But Bast, who is not a scientist, can count on a very powerful ally now.
So Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and a lot of it's a hoax.
It's a hoax.
Bass looks with approval on Mr.
Trump's decision to roll back regulations limiting greenhouse gases and to his appointments of fellow skeptics in the administration.
Climate change, he says, is a naturally occurring cyclical phenomenon caused mostly by the sun, not an approaching disaster accelerated by carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans.
There is still much to learn about...
The Institute is now sending that message in books and videos to 300,000 public school teachers and college professors.
And despite a tepid reaction to the mailings, Bass believes the tide has turned.
Are you winning?
We're winning big time.
Ten years from now, nobody's going to be talking about global warming.
It's going to be a bad memory.
And not a nightmare.
Dean Reynolds, CBS News, Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Yeah.
They needed to top it off with one of these.
You know, so he says it's going to be a bad marriage.
And not a nightmare!
Let me show a big wave washing some little boat over.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah, CBS has been doing...
All their stories always got to slip in some negative thing about Trump.
Oh, of course.
There's no reason for the Trump thing in there.
But, okay, we'll throw that in.
Everything is tied into that these days.
Everything.
There's a real...
There's something real going on, which we'll get to later.
But do you have any more...
Yeah, I do have one.
The one I thought was the most ominous and threatening and creepy.
There was, again, CBS, and this is, I think this would, you have to listen to this carefully, because it's a really, it's a disgusting story.
It's, again, a climate thing.
This was the, let's see if I can find it.
Kids versus the government.
Oh boy.
Kids, yeah, listen to this.
A group of students has been fighting this battle for nearly two years.
They're suing the federal government, demanding it do more to fight climate change.
John Blackstone has their story.
Are you ready?
Avery McRae has been passionate about the environment for half a lifetime.
You've been worried about climate change?
Since kindergarten.
Now, at 11, she is really getting serious.
You signed on to sue the president?
Yeah.
To sue the government of the United States?
Yeah.
Trump is not doing anything to help stop climate change.
How old is this kid?
11.
We're doomed.
We're doomed.
The messaging in here, besides the little slam at Trump, they have to put in every single story, please.
The messaging here, I think, is ominous.
To me, what it's really saying is, okay, you guys can do whatever you want.
We own the children.
Yeah.
We own the children.
We've got the message in here.
Oh, Patty, please think of the children!
Oh, yeah.
You're right.
We own the future is what that's saying, John.
Yeah, we own the future.
We own the children.
We own their minds.
Do what you like.
Listen to them.
We control them.
Ha-ha, children.
It's exactly what the subtext is.
Yeah.
They will do as we say!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
The whole story is just kids talking about how bad the government is and how, you know, we need to fix climate change.
None of them have even been out of school.
They've never had a job.
They've never done anything.
They're 11, 12, 13.
The message is clear.
It's fantastic.
I can't.
These guys are good.
They're good.
They're good.
Yeah.
Trump is not doing anything to help stop climate change.
He's a climate change denier, and we're going to prove that to the...
To the world.
McRae is one of 21 students suing the government, claiming it is violating their constitutional right to a healthy planet by not doing enough to limit the use of fossil fuels.
The case, originally filed in Oregon in 2015, bears the name of lead plaintiff Kelsey Juliana.
It's a disgrace that the government has put its citizens and its younger generations into a position where we have to go to our court.
The Justice Department tried to get it thrown out, but instead, in November, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken agreed to hear it.
My mom's like, your case won and you're going to move forward.
And I screamed so loud and I was getting ready to cry, but I was like, no, no, I have to go back to class.
The trial could start later this year.
16-year-old Aji Piper says, bring it on.
You're taking on not just the federal government.
You're taking on big oil companies, lobbyists.
It's not actually that intimidating.
You have the biggest oil and gas companies against you.
It's like, good, let them be defeated in court.
Although their lawsuit may seem like a long shot, who better to fight for the future than those who will be here to see it?
John Lexington, CBS News, Eugene, Oregon.
All your children belong to us.
That's unbelievable.
Well, amidst all of this, you would think that some of these people in Dimension A would have read The Economist.
It seems to be something...
You mean Dimension B? B. I'm sorry.
I'm straddling.
I get confused.
If you face to the north, it's A. If you face the south, it's B. It's confusing.
The Economist.
You know, The Economist, of course, is completely anti-Trump, hates everything about the Republicans, with the new editor, correct?
The new editor?
Yep, new editor.
Just a Trump hater.
I just want to bring up this article, Trouble at the Lab.
Do you know that these kids are going to prove it?
I'd like to see it.
The problem in science today is that there is no money and no motivation to actually do real reproducible studies.
To reproduce papers and experiments that are out there and It's PLOS 1.
Which I remember that news story.
But the fundamental...
I think there's a number of fundamental tests for cancer that are seen as kind of the seminal studies.
Let's see.
Florian Prince and his colleagues at Bayer Healthcare, German Pharmaceutical, reported in Nature Review's Drug Discovery they had successfully reproduced the published results in only 25% of the 67 seminal studies.
And as you read the article, it's all about the p-values and setting up.
This is going on everywhere in science.
Everywhere.
Yeah.
We've brought this up before on the show.
Yeah.
Well, I have to keep saying it and keep posting these articles.
This is something you can send to your dimension A friend.
Say, hey, look at...
God, I'm...
Okay, A is for Adam.
I can remember it now.
Yeah.
A is for Adam.
B is for...
Bots.
Yeah, there you go.
I got a little way to remember it now.
Great.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Well, I think you're absolutely right, though.
We own the children.
Hell yeah.
That was the message.
That's a good message.
Well, he does.
They do own the children.
And their leader, I'm not so sure about the 11-year-olds, but certainly, I'll just group them into millennials.
Bill Nye is their leader.
He is their leader.
We need to listen to a little bit of his speech, which he did in the pouring rain.
Always fun when they have like a global warming thing and it's raining and miserable.
Or that event they had in Copenhagen where it snowed in.
We definitely need to listen to this because he's a liar, man.
He's twisting the Constitution.
I think there's a lot of things that are egregious.
But when you twist the Constitution in front of your fan base, which is just hooting.
They love the guy.
I know why, because I think he's cute and funny.
They don't actually give a crap, I'm sure.
He's a personality.
Yeah, well, that's what we love in America.
But he is now in charge of the stupid.
And when you lie to people and say, this is what the Constitution says, to a bunch of people you know, fully well know, that will in no way, shape, or form ever go to look up what you just said.
It's egregious.
We are marching today to remind people everywhere, our lawmakers especially, of the significance of science for our health and prosperity.
The process of science has enabled humankind to discover the laws of nature.
This understanding has in turn enabled us to feed and care for the world's billions, build great cities, establish effective governments, create global transportation systems, explore outer space, and know the cosmos.
Woo! Woo! Woo!
Know the cosmos!
Woo!
For some reason, that gets a big cheer.
I'm not quite sure why.
Yeah, why does that get a big cheer?
Probably because a lot of these kids think that it's the Earth, you know, we can't save the Earth.
We'll all be living on Mars soon.
So, you know, who knows what these kids think?
Woo!
The framers of the Constitution of the United States, which has become a model for constitutional governments everywhere, included Article 1, Section 8, which refers to promoting the progress of science and useful arts.
Hold on, Bill Nye.
I love how he only gave us half of that sentence.
Yes, to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.
But that's not all that it says.
Science and useful arts.
See, he just stops there.
I'll read it to you.
Yes, read it please.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
So, in order to promote progress of science and useful arts, they put in a clause that allowed you to own your invention for a...
Yeah, it's the patent clause.
Yeah.
But no.
Bill Nye is saying, if you don't do this, if you don't promote progress of science and useful arts...
Then you are violating the Constitution.
It's very interesting because he's not misquoting it, but he's twisting it in a very...
I think it's a very slick way.
I thought that was...
It's very slick.
Well, I caught it immediately.
Well, yeah, because it doesn't make any sense.
But let's listen to his whole bit here.
The Constitution is not about promoting things.
According to Bill Nye, it is.
Which refers to promoting the progress of science and useful arts.
It does refer, correct.
Yay!
Its intent is to motivate innovators and drive the economy.
I think that's true.
That is true, but he's framing it differently.
By means of just laws.
They knew that without the progress of science and useful arts, of engineering...
He has to slip into engineering.
Hey, I'm an engineer, so I better put some engineering in there, because they only said useful arts and science.
They knew that without the progress of science and useful arts of engineering...
He's a useful arts of engineering?
That's not in the Constitution, Bill Nye.
With the useful arts of podcasting?
I mean, you can do anything you want in that case.
My douche.
Without the progress of science and useful arts, of engineering, our economy would falter.
Without scientifically literate citizens, the United States, any country, in fact, cannot compete on the world stage.
Yet today we have a great many lawmakers, not just here.
But around the world, deliberately ignoring and actively suppressing science.
Some may consider science the purview of a special or separate type of citizen.
Yeah.
One who pursues natural facts and generates numerical models for their own sakes.
He's got them captivated, John.
They're like, oh...
Bill, yes!
We shall follow you.
Rent for office, Bill.
We shall follow you.
We shall follow you.
But our numbers here today!
Woo!
Yeah!
We're numbers!
Show the world!
Show the world!
Oh, he's getting excited now.
He's getting excited, John.
He's like, I got him.
I got these kids.
Show the world!
Show the world!
That science is for all.
Science must shape policy.
Science is universal.
Science brings out the best in us with an informed, optimistic view of the future together.
You can dare I say it.
Save the world.
Fear is freedom.
Subjugation is liberation.
Contradiction is truth.
Those are the facts of this world.
And you will all surrender to them.
You pigs in human clothing.
Save the world.
There he is, Bill Nye, the Fuhrer.
It's not bad.
If you slow him down, he does have a devilish voice.
Yeah, but I love the ISO. Save the world!
Yeah, that's good.
It's kind of freaky.
Freaky, man.
Freaky, man.
I don't know what to do with that guy, man.
He's freaky.
Freaking me out.
Yeah.
Okay.
Bill Nye.
Anyway, I found the whole thing to be.
It screwed up the news site because the action is in France right now today as we speak.
Yeah, we're going to get results today, I believe.
We're supposed to get results today.
What time is it?
It's eight hours ahead.
It's about six o'clock, quarter to six, our time, or their time.
So they should be getting us some poll results or something, and we're hearing nothing.
I think it's quarter to seven.
What could be?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Hey, did you have any...
Was there any effect of the power outages in L.A., San Francisco, New York?
No.
On Friday?
No?
Nothing?
No.
In fact, kids were over there.
And JC works at a software company, and he was in the south of the market, nothing there.
Jay was running the dog walking company, and there was a story.
Which means she was walking dogs?
No, she's actually a manager now, so she only walks dogs when somebody doesn't show up.
Oh, okay.
Which is great, because now she says she gets to meet more dogs.
If you're dog walking, you have to like dogs.
So she has all these opinions about the various dogs and their owners.
So here's the funny thing.
Now, this outage really took out the financial district and the rich part of San Francisco.
So the other part of San Francisco, which is below market and just where all the up-and-coming startups and stuff are, that was unaffected.
In fact, I had gone to the city.
And went in to pick up some wine I had waiting for me at the K&L wine shop.
And I went right during the blackout.
I went in.
I went through.
I took the normal route.
The traffic signals were working.
I went and grabbed the wine and came back home.
I didn't even know anything was going on.
They must have localized this EMP. They're really good now.
Whatever it was.
If you look at the news reporting, they had these big blotches of red, like a circle, which looked like it went from San Francisco to Bakersfield.
I was like, yo, this is where it happened!
So the funny story from Jay is that, and the irony of the internet of crap, of shite, is that the dog walkers A lot of them, especially in Pacific Heights and the ritzy areas of town that were all shut off, they all have electronic doors for the dog workers.
And they wouldn't open, of course.
Bunch in a code, the door opens, they get the dog and off they go.
Well, guess what happens when the internet of crap goes down?
Yeah, goodbye.
So the dogs are stuck in the house.
So we all expected that they end up crapping in the house.
You can't get them out of there because the dog walkers never given keys.
They're just given these codes.
So that was amusing.
You know, none of this will end well, of course, citing Professor Ted.
But I think more and more it's like we have companies like People use Slack within their organization.
And then I think Facebook is coming out with some competing products.
Did we talk about Slack in the organization before on the show?
Because it may have been talked about at the dinner table.
What I was going to say is, if something goes down, and it could be anything, it could be probably Amazon, I'm sure they use S3, or there's some version that use that, the internet.
You can't even communicate within your own company with the person next door, in the office next door.
Who thinks this is a good idea?
Especially if the Internet of Things has locked the doors.
Well, you can't even go talk to the person.
You're locked in.
Now, none of this is going to end well.
None of this.
I asked the question for years, and I agree 100%.
Who thinks this is a good idea?
It's crazy.
Crazy.
But we got into a discussion about Slack and some of these other messaging systems.
And how they're a bad idea.
Because, you know, you don't have any record of anybody telling you to do something.
I mean, it's just like the old, it's like the bad movie premise where the guy has to go on deep underground and only the boss of the organization knows he's doing it.
And then all hell breaks loose and the guy gets caught for something and the boss gets killed and nobody else knows.
What movie is this?
Is this a Woody Allen movie?
Every other crappy movie I've seen.
I don't watch those.
It's bad.
So, of course, it was a show day Thursday, and that's when the Paris shooting took place.
Now, this has been deemed...
That was a lame shooting.
That's another thing that chewed up the news cycle.
That shooting.
I've never seen so much coverage of a maniac.
It was the way they covered it, and I know why.
Because everything is hate Trump.
Everything is hate Trump.
Everything.
This is now categorized as a terrorist attack, I believe?
Yes, because they found supposedly a note on the guy.
President Trump said right off the bat to a question, looks like another terrorist attack in France.
We have not been comfortable to call it that or report that.
Yeah, I mean, he's the president.
He wouldn't have any information.
You know, you're sure he saw it on the shows, right?
We'll have more reporting upcoming.
I'm with you.
Look, the only thing is on what's going on in Paris...
You know, always a dangerous time to be, you know, the coverage is getting ahead of the facts.
And I think, you know, the president was referring to, I think, what he was watching on television.
And you do wonder, are people going to take what he said as some idea that he knows something more than what anybody else does?
But if you recall, even in his answer, oh, I just saw that as I was walking out.
Well, the president was very quick to declare it probably a terrorist attack.
I think it's too soon to know whether indeed that is the case.
If it turns out it was not terrorism, I think the White House is going to have some explaining to do about why they characterized something terrorism when it wasn't.
Yeah, like, okay, I can't wait for that.
But let's wait for the facts to come in to determine whether or not the president's assessment was correct.
Oddly, neither leader included it in their opening remarks or statements.
It was the result of a question from John Roberts of Fox News.
Nor can we match the president's characterization that it looks like terrorism.
We just don't know enough yet.
How long are they in a...
Hold on a second.
Do they just linger on this topic?
It's dumb.
For hours.
For hours.
So what that he said that?
Well, he has to be wrong.
We like him to be wrong.
Then we have another thing to talk about.
You have another half hour to go.
We can get a panel together.
We can get a panel.
You think of the guy doing the stretching, that stretch movement you do on the floor manager does, you know, and this stretch, stretch, stretch?
What it looks like.
What do you think?
I think what you think.
Oh, I think what you think that I think.
I mean, just unbelievable.
Exactly.
That's exactly it.
Rachel Maddow, you might have seen this clip.
Another thing that is not...
Hold on a second.
That's a microaggression and an insult.
It was actually setting you up to just pretend you hadn't heard it and be really amused by it to get me borderline clip of the day.
That was a total microaggression.
You're right.
I apologize.
I didn't mean to invade your space.
Yes.
Your apologies accepted.
No, that's not how it works.
You've got to come around and you've got to say something again.
Your apologies accepted.
But just realize you have privilege as an old white man.
You've got to do something like that, otherwise you're not...
I've got to work on this.
I'm not as good as I should be.
I live in the Berkeley area, for God's sake.
It should be outstanding.
Yeah, it's the dimension B. Yeah, Berkeley.
Yeah, B for Berkeley.
There you go.
So Venezuela is a mess right now.
It's a mess.
I have a clip.
He has a clip.
Venezuela and gun control?
Yeah, because this is just a piece of the story, but it says to me that because, you know, as soon as people say this, these right-wingers are always saying this, and I'm thinking, you know, it's a little extreme, but I think they're right.
The first thing a left-wing government does is they take your guns away and then you can't, you're fucked.
You can't get out of the situation that they put you in later when you need to overturn the government, which is the case of Maduro.
Do you think we're turning into a 100% hate show?
Yes, did somebody put that in the war room?
In the war room, yeah.
This is a 100% hate show.
The Hate Show, starring John and Adam.
And now it's time for the Hate Show!
Firmly planted in Dimension B is John C. In Dimension A, it's Adam Curry.
And now, let's enjoy the Hate Show!
...unrest, violence, death.
Is Venezuela edging towards civil war here?
Well, for a civil war to break out, both the government and the opposition have to be armed.
And Venezuela's opposition is unarmed.
The violence that breaks out is more often than not dispersed or controlled by the government's armed forces.
And protesters usually fight back by throwing rocks or Molotov cocktail bombs.
That's why back in 2014 and what we're seeing again this year, protesters build barricades to prevent armed forces from accessing communities.
Okay.
Now, this brings something to mind, which is the United States, historically, especially the meddlers in the CIA and other agencies, used to overturn South American governments constantly.
They would go in there and they would flip a government and put a dictator in charge.
That's what we did!
Yes, but this is interesting, the part that's interesting is that, is it possible that we made the generalization, because we could also get away with it in some other parts of the world, but we made the generalization somewhere in our deep psyche of the intelligence community in particular, that it would be the same thing in the Middle East, when in fact the Middle Easterners are armed to the teeth.
Yeah.
But the South Americans, no.
No.
No.
They're not armed to the teeth and you end up with situations like this where you get this Maduro character, you can't get him out of office.
But did we get used to the fact that we could just waltz in and change a government when we tried to do it in Iraq?
Oh, they're going to throw roses at us.
No, they threw their guns at us.
It was just like, it's not going to happen.
Yeah.
Well, Rachel Maddow knows who's responsible for the unrest.
Everybody knows.
It's obvious.
Another three people got killed in anti-government protests just yesterday.
There have been weeks and weeks and weeks of rioting and violent protests.
And now today, Venezuelans are enraged anew by this brand new FEC filing from the White House, which shows that interesting thing about the guy who got the meeting with the NSC officials and with Steve Bannon.
Yeah, that's why they're protesting.
What?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
Is she nuts?
Let me think.
Yes?
Yeah.
Explain to me what we just heard.
Okay.
So, a video of rioting...
By the way, it's not...
I would...
Whether you said anything or not, it's not quite borderline clip of the day because it just lacks a certain something.
Sorry.
I agree.
No, it's okay.
I agree.
That's why I was trying to set it up because I was trying to pull it up.
Yeah, that has not worked for either one of us.
I've tried it with you, you've tried it with me.
No, you can set it up.
It only makes it worse.
I agree.
It only makes it worse.
So there was some FEC filing that showed that somewhere through Banyan, somebody had gotten some payoff in Venezuela.
Wow!
I'm stunned!
Yeah, really.
There's payoffs going on there?
No!
No!
I'm shocked.
Shocked.
Shocked, I tell you.
So she said, oh, this is why they're rioting.
And she got excoriated for that.
That was pretty funny.
Did she?
Oh, yeah.
By dimension A and B. Oh, yeah.
Totally.
And rightly so.
It's crazy.
It's dumb.
Yeah.
I think everybody's freaked out.
I think a lot of it has to do with the O'Reilly situation and the fact that this situation is continuing.
By the way, O'Reilly, you know what he's doing next?
Yeah, I know.
It's horrible.
I hate to hear it.
He's gone from the top to the bottom, ladies and gentlemen.
Do you have a clip?
Do you have a clip?
No, I don't yet.
It just showed up in my newsfeed this morning.
He's going to become a podcaster.
Now, the funny thing is he's always been a podcaster.
I laughed.
By the way, I sense, I don't want to change the subject, but I sense that he knew about this long ago, because he always had at the end of his show, and go to BillOReilly.com, not associated with Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, he would always have his own URL. Separate, that's right.
And he made a point out of it.
I did a lot of research, actually, on...
I kind of fell into it, this whole Bill O'Reilly thing.
There's a lot of interesting actors in here that I had not expected to bump into.
But I think maybe we need to start with some feedback I received.
This was actually on NoAgendaSocial.com from one of our producers who was very angry at you, even threw F-words at you.
That how dare you psychoanalyze her based on the Chinese Zodiac?
Yes, you sent me this thread, which apparently you can really pluck.
Isn't that beautiful?
Quite nicely.
I saw that.
Even Twitter doesn't have threads that nicely.
This is a nice threading system.
I like it.
It's a separate static web page.
You just throw it anywhere you want.
No, it's great.
I like that.
It's a permanent record, too.
Yes, this woman was bent out of shape.
By the way, I've expanded my thesis, which we may or may not talk about on this show.
Yeah, I think we will.
I think we will.
I've expanded my thesis about these women, and I now extend it to a group of women born from 66, where the leaders emerged.
And then it...
67, 68, and 69, and 70 where it ends.
I think it ends in 1970 with Sarah Silverman.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Wow, that's harsh.
That's harsh.
Now, you're generalizing, obviously, because, of course, not all women from these age ranges.
No, no, there's plenty of women that aren't, but I doubt that there's a woman you can find within that group that does not have at least one minor characteristic of the generalization.
I mean, a friend of mine, for example, who was moaning about being 50, she's going to get married to someone.
If she listens to the show, she'll know who I'm talking about.
And she was adamant about not changing her last name.
She's 50.
Like, okay.
Yeah, okay, fine.
I will say, it's a hassle.
Changing your name is a hassle.
Everything's a hassle.
It's only a tradition that you do it.
A lot of people just do the hyphenated thing, you know.
The difference doesn't make...
She did have a good point, though.
She said the guy should change his name to her name, and her name is actually a better name, so maybe she's right.
Yeah, there's points there.
Very common in France, by the way.
Very common in France.
If you marry a rich aristocrat, you change your name to their name.
Yeah, well, if a rich aristocrat wants to marry me, I'll change my name.
Okay.
That's not going to happen.
You may continue.
Yes.
So there was a lot of play of the black woman who was on The View, and I'm not going to play any of her clips, but this is the one who said he would clear his throat, and then he at one point said, looking good today, hot chocolate.
Okay, so...
You know, okay, is it bad?
Yeah, it's a douchebag.
Okay, got it.
It's a douchebag.
Yeah, right.
But, so this is, it's very, this goes very deep.
So I'm watching the view.
It's like the guys who sneeze and say bullshit, when they're sneezing.
You know, you're talking, I'm asking bullshit!
Well, wait for it, wait for it.
So I'm watching The View, and the story with this woman is that she did not get any payoff.
She did not sue.
She's not looking to sue.
The statute of limitations have passed.
But she has a lawyer who refers to her as her client, and how wonderful it is that they have this record of her tweets from 2010, where she was saying, Bill O'Reilly, you know, trust me, Bill O'Reilly's a piece of crap, and he loves black women.
Enough said.
You know, stuff like that.
Well, who is this Lisa Bloom?
Why is she representing someone who's not going to take any action?
Well, Lisa Bloom, of course, is Gloria Allred's only daughter.
Yes, I didn't even realize this.
So she is part of that system.
And there's another woman, and Lisa Bloom, she's a lawyer and she has her own practice, the Bloom Company or whatever, but I think she makes most of her money from appearing on TV shows and being a, what do you call it, a contributor, a contributing person.
Which she did for many years on the Bill O'Reilly show is Martha Walsh.
Wendy Walsh, I'm sorry.
Wendy Walsh.
So Wendy Walsh is, you know, she's a radio personality and she goes on television and she is also one of these women who is speaking out Speaking out right now, but whatever you think, she's not suing.
This is just about doing what's right.
And let's hear about her offense, because when you read, certainly, Lisa Bloom's Twitter feed, how brave this...
Wendy Walsh is a brave woman.
The abuse she had to stand up to...
She is a guiding light for all women.
The whole thing is surreal to me.
I expected to have a quote in the New York Times and have then Trump do a tweet about something unrelated the next day and that the news media would turn towards that and it'd be over.
I certainly don't have a dog in this race and I want to say it over and over.
This is not me being vindictive against Mr.
O'Reilly or Fox News.
It's just telling a simple truth, a simple, authentic story of something that happened to me, so that we as a nation can start to have some discourse about how to make workplaces safer for our daughters, so that we can teach young women and young men how to report sexual harassment, to not be afraid to go so that we can teach young women and young men how to report sexual harassment, to not be afraid to go to human resources, to have these things be taken seriously, because I Okay, this is very interesting.
So she didn't know that she could report as a job applicant.
Report what?
What happened to her?
The huge, horrible abuse that happened to her that took place.
And I looked everywhere for the story.
What happened to her?
I had to go to E! News to get the story.
E! News of all places.
The dinner was set up by his executive assistant.
Oops.
Okay.
So, this happened in, I believe, New York in a hotel where they had dinner, O'Reilly and Walsh, and she had contributed sporadically to his program on The Factor on the No Spin Zone on the Fox show.
No spit.
The spin stops here.
No spit zone.
And she thought, okay, this is great.
Because, you know, it was his assistant called up and said, hey, I want to meet you.
Oh, maybe, maybe I'm going to get offered a job.
So here she is on E! News telling us what happened.
The dinner was set up by his executive assistant, which tells me when you get an email from Fox News that it's a business dinner.
And I assumed it was.
I've been used on a show a few times and they created a segment around me.
So I thought this is a great opportunity for me to bring up Becoming a paid contributor.
I didn't have to, because within five minutes of the dinner, he told me that Roger Ailes is his best friend.
Roger Ailes at the time was chairman of the network, and that they'd like to offer me a contributor position.
When we left the restaurant, he simply said, let's get out of here.
And I assumed he meant to the bar.
So as we left the restaurant, I turned left towards the bar.
He turned right towards the bedrooms.
And I said, I think the bar is this way.
And he said, no, come back to my suite.
I said, I'm sorry, Bill.
I can't do that.
His response was, what, do you think I'm going to attack you or something?
And, you know, you want to be cordial.
This is the big boss here.
I'm a potential employee applying for a job.
So I just said, no, you know, we're both raising teenage girls.
Maybe we should try to model good choices for our kids.
Which is a very appropriate response.
Once we got to the bar.
I like it.
That's a good response.
Very appropriate response.
We should try to model good choices for our kids.
Once we got to the bar.
Stopping.
So, after she said that, he punched her out.
Oh, have you already heard the clip?
Maybe we should try to model good choices for our kids.
Once we got to the bar, his demeanor changed entirely.
He went from charming to hostile.
We got to the bar.
I knew what was happening.
So I just ordered a soda water and he said, how much is that water going to cost me?
And I said, oh, I'll be happy to pay for this round.
And when I pulled out my bag, he said, oh, that's the ugliest bag I've ever seen.
He was just in a grumpy, grumpy mood.
So I pretty much left 15 minutes later, got in an Uber, and I was gone.
But he did say the words, you can forget all the career advice I gave you.
You're on your own.
Why do you think he's chosen the behaviors he's chosen?
I have never psychologically examined Mr.
O'Reilly.
Whoa!
Nice way to get out of the Goldwater Rule.
Very nice.
I have never psychologically examined Mr.
O'Reilly.
Within our entertainment industry, narcissism is not only accepted, it's often a requirement.
It only happens with men, though, apparently.
And we must never forget that their underbelly of narcissistic personality disorder is a deep self-loathing.
Okay.
Stop, stop, stop.
It stopped.
The clip is over.
It stopped.
No, I've got to stop you from saying anything because you've got to give me some time context.
In other words, when did this happen?
Hold on, hold on.
I surrender the floor to the remainder of my time to the gentleman from Berkeley.
When did this happen?
This happened about four or five years ago, I think.
And she took an Uber in New York?
Sure.
Sure.
Four or five years ago?
Oh, you're right.
So it can't be that long.
Well, okay.
The reason why I said four or five years ago was honestly a guess on my part because she...
So let me just review, okay?
Review.
Had a dinner.
He said, oh, look, great.
You're going to be a contributor.
Congratulations.
He makes a pass.
She rejects.
Totally in a very nice way.
And then he's grumpy and he says her handbag is ugly and he's just grumpy.
Yeah, sure.
You know, these things do...
And by the way, she continued to work for O'Reilly for three years after that.
Wait a minute.
He was in Los Angeles.
Yes!
Continued to work.
Wait a minute.
It's not the way the story sounds to me.
Well, that's exactly what happened.
She didn't...
The deal went through.
She got her gig.
She contributed.
So what's she bitching about?
Well...
She made it sound as though I'm not going to give you any more advice.
Don't count on any good...
And then she gets hired?
What's missing from this picture?
Yeah, anything that really...
No logic here.
It's just an old douchebag who made a pass, got rejected, became grumpy, and now I think the narcissism, what you say is what you are, the narcissism is on her part.
She wants to be out there.
Again, I defend the harassment that women are subjected to from their perspective because it happens all the time.
It's life.
And it's not great.
A lot of it is way out of proportion.
Also, I think some women would miss flirting in the workplace, but okay.
Which reminds me of the Deborah woman who went after me for generalizing about the 50-year-old woman.
Of a certain ilk.
She, actually, in her thread there, I just sort of like a sore thumb.
I don't even know why she put it in there.
But she says, I kind of miss flirting in the workplace.
I know.
It's like, that was really odd.
But I have a theory.
I have a theory.
I have a theory about that.
I'm all ears on your theory.
But you've got to bookmark that for a moment, because I'm going to come into that theory.
Because these women, and I don't want that, that sounds nasty, but...
And man, because...
Nothing can change the show from the hate show to the hate women show.
Typically, you know, if they're lucky, millennial girls have a mom and a dad, but they certainly have passed on a lot of these, a lot of this thinking.
And that particular phrase, like, I miss flirting in the workplace, I think it's something else.
I think what is missed is controversy in the workplace, and we'll get to that.
Just stepping back for a second, Lisa Bloom is being heralded as the woman who brought the women to bring down O'Reilly.
Here's Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC. Wendy Walsh was guided in telling her story first to the New York Times and then on this program.
Oh, she was the guider for that story.
Boy, that's a story, that's a bar story.
Hey, you know what happened to me?
Ha ha ha!
It's like, oh, you have to guide me to tell this story.
I'm sorry.
I'm just not buying this.
And others.
By Lisa Bloom.
Lisa Bloom was the last lawyer standing against Bill O'Reilly when he got kicked out the door at Fox News today.
That boot kicking Bill O'Reilly out the door was on Lisa Bloom's phone.
What?
Get a time code.
For what?
I'll tell you later.
Just get it.
Okay.
Got it.
At Fox News today, that boot kicking Bill O'Reilly out the door was on Lisa Bloom's foot.
When the New York Times story broke, advertisers started leaving O'Reilly's show.
Protesters then instantly activated on social media and elsewhere and convinced dozens and dozens more advertisers Advertisers to leave Bill O'Reilly's show and advertisers left every day.
The voices of those protesters were heard by the advertisers and today...
Advertisers.
That voice of protest won.
They rose up against Bill O'Reilly and they won.
They won!
They beat him down.
I like all the different people that want to take credit for this downing.
The downing of Bill O'Reilly.
Oh, it gets so much better.
Like, Media Matters takes credit for it.
Now this woman takes credit for it.
And then, you know, MSNBC will be taking credit for it.
This guy was a real, real...
Wait until you find out who's really responsible.
Wait.
Okay, so then I go looking for Lisa Bloom.
What is up with this lawyer who is, you know, she's a narcissist.
She's on television.
People on television are narcissists.
I'm a narcissist.
I readily admit that.
Not a problem.
is how it works.
And she goes on Democracy Now!
And the things that were coming out of her mouth, I'm like, whoa, I gotta see what's going on here.
Who is behind this?
Wendy Walsh came to me several months ago and told me that the New York Times wanted to publish her story, and...
And all of her friends were saying to her, don't do it.
He's going to come after you.
This is going to be very scary.
She asked me what I thought.
I said, you absolutely have to do it, Wendy.
You have to do this for your daughters.
You have to do this for other women.
I know you're scared, but I will stand with you at no charge.
And not only that, Wendy, but we are going to bring him down.
I promised her that months ago.
Three weeks ago, the story broke with Wendy.
We had a media and a legal strategy in place.
We executed it for the last 18 days, and yesterday he announced, or the company announced, that he had been fired.
I think the plan went flawlessly.
What was the plan?
The plan went flawless.
She's talking like there was some strategic thing.
I'm confused now.
Is she representing these women as a lawyer?
She refers to them as her client.
But she's not suing.
There's no suit being brought.
Yet she had a plan.
And I presume that she needs to be paid.
Maybe it's all coming in.
Maybe she gets paid for these appearances.
Doubtful.
Maybe she's writing a book.
But there's a plan.
There's a plan.
And of course we've got...
What's her face from Democracy Now!
Whoa!
Tell us about the plan!
We executed it for the last 18 days, and yesterday he announced, or the company announced, that he had been fired.
I think the plan went flawlessly.
What was the plan?
The plan was, first of all, we have to keep this story in the news.
We can't just let it be a one-day story.
And that's what it would have been.
So Wendy and I did a press conference.
Again, she was very scared.
We shored her up.
She was scared of telling that story.
Are you kidding me?
We had to do a press conference and make the story be big so that other accusers would call me.
As an attorney, I can't call them, and I didn't know who they were anyway, right?
But we had to keep the story going, so we released bits of it day by day, giving the story legs, as we say in journalism.
A second accuser did call me.
Is that how you say it in journalism, giving the story legs?
Is that just checking?
Because she's now a journalist.
I don't know if she's a lawyer, or as we say in journalism.
Is she a journalist?
Not that I know of.
Is that what you say in journalism?
You can say a story has legs, but you don't...
I've never heard anyone say they want to give legs to a story.
It is a term.
Accusers would call me.
As an attorney, I can't call them, and I didn't know who they were anyway, right?
But we had to keep the story going, so we released bits of it day by day, giving the story legs, as we say in journalism.
A second accuser did call me.
I needed time to vet her story.
I needed to talk to her witnesses.
I needed to look at her evidence.
I needed to shore her up emotionally.
All of these women are very scared.
We got her sister in place.
We got her three witnesses interviewed, and I was ready to come forward with her.
She got scared.
I went to North Carolina.
I met with her.
We shored her up, and we came out with her story a couple days ago.
A third accuser, a fourth accuser came out.
I tweeted and I said on many shows that the Murdochs had only one choice, and that was to fire Bill O'Reilly.
And if they didn't, we would continue relentlessly day after day, having more and more accusers come out publicly.
We were not going to let this go.
We were going to persist.
Well, Fox News.
OK.
So how did they put this together?
Part of the plan was to get it in the news, keep it in the news.
This is a marketing strategy.
It's a very classic one.
And then as a part of that, they had the social media just lit up all of a sudden, magically.
Bah!
Social media lit up and people just went to the streets.
They went to Trump Tower just because...
Well, this is an outrage.
An outrage.
He got denied and he was grumpy.
It's an outrage, I tell you.
She alleges O'Reilly would make grunting noises like an animal.
This is the other one, obviously.
Wait, listen to this.
And call her hot chocolate.
Outside of News Corp's New York headquarters Wednesday, protesters handed out flyers reading danger, sexual predator works here in packets of hot chocolate.
Color of Change senior campaign manager...
Annika Collier-Navaroli responded to the news of O'Reilly's ouster.
At this point, we are so happy that he is gone and he's no longer going to be able to spit all of his vile comments and everything that comes out of his mouth that's disparaging not only to women, but specifically to black women and to black folks all over the world.
So we're very happy to see that he'll be off the air, but we're not done.
We're going to keep applying pressure and making sure that what's coming out of these airways and what's happening in these hallways is respectful and making sure that women everywhere are given dignity.
Everywhere!
Everywhere!
Okay.
So that is Anika Collier-Navaroli, the Senior Campaign Manager, Media and Economic Justice of Color of Change, a 501c4 company, non-profit, which means a lobby.
Oh, God, I hate to say it.
Who's funding them?
No.
Yes.
Big time.
A million bucks.
George Soros.
But not the biggest funder.
Not the biggest.
No.
The biggest is a company called Asana.
So I had to drill down because they have no...
Didn't we talk about them before?
I couldn't recall it.
Okay.
Well, go on.
I remember the name.
Okay.
So, I couldn't get this from GuideStar because they haven't filed, they've only been around for a year, but I could find it through the OpenSecrets.org website, and there you see the Soros Foundation, the Soros Fund Management LLC,
with $400,000 there, a couple hundred thousand there, totaling up to a million through, there's another organization, like Save Our Souls or something, Us for Change, all Also a complete 100% Soros organization.
But Asana is at the top.
So who the heck is Asana?
I drilled down.
Asana is two former face bag founders.
Dustin Moskovitz.
He co-founded Facebook with Zuckerberg along with him.
He has a partner now and they formed Asana.
And Asana is, I think it's some kind of group wear or something.
Could be.
So he gave $1.5 million to this Color of Change outfit.
I gotta go look at this guy.
So this guy, in 2016, gave $20 million to the Democrats to defeat Donald Trump, because this could not happen.
He was, you know, a lot of the Hillary things and the private, he is a Hillary guy all the way.
Quick little clip from CNBC. I have a whole Medium post that really explains our full thinking, but I think it's apparent to every American that this is a very special election, the stakes are extremely high, and as we were watching things play out, the Republican Party chose as their nominee, the type of rhetoric they were using, particularly at the RNC, we just felt really compelled to get off the sidelines and help ensure that the Democrats were able to win the election.
Yeah, so that didn't happen.
That's him?
That's him.
Wow, he sounds like that kid, the 16-year-old that's suing the government as part of the anti-climate change group.
So I looked at his Medium post from September 8, 2016, titled, Compelled to Act.
We're committing $20 million to help Democrats in the 2016 election.
Carrie and I have dedicated our lives to figuring out how to do the most good we can with the resources we've been given.
Now, this is a typical Silicon Valley dick.
This cycle is different.
The polarization in America today has yielded a race that is about much more than policies and ideas.
It has become a referendum on who we want to be as individuals, as a nation, and as a society.
Will we be driven by fear towards tribalism, emphasizing the things that divide us?
Will we focus on how to advantage those most similar to us while building barriers to separate us from the rest of the world?
Or alternatively, will we continue in the direction of increased tolerance, diversity, and interdependence in the name of mutual prosperity?
What's this guy's name again?
Moskovitz.
Dustin Moskovitz.
On the other hand, a huge part of Donald Trump's popularity is that he serves as a voice.
His proposals are so implausible that the nation is forced to worry about his interest in the presidency might not even extend beyond winning a contest and promoting his personal brand.
So specifically...
Oh, here it is.
Specifically, we're committing $20 million to a number of organizations.
They include the Hillary Victory Fund, the League of Conservative Voters, for our future PAC... And for our Future PAC, turned around and gave that money right to Color of Change, who are also on the list, Color of Change PAC, as I said, and MoveOn.org.
So, it is my belief that this group of people, certainly in Silicon Valley, who, by the way, excoriate Peter Thiel for meddling in affairs with his money, Yeah, this guy, by the way, is worth $10 billion.
He even says, I'm sorry that we're using money to influence the election, but it's just necessary.
He's actually admitting that his money is there to try and influence the election, which is what it is.
They're so mad.
Personally, Hillary's behind it all.
Everybody who fucked her over, timecode sorry, it's your turn now.
Comey's getting it right now today in the New York Times that he made her lose.
Bill O'Reilly is getting it.
You know who's going to get it next?
Let's go to the Morning Joe's.
So do they remake over the entire network?
Is anybody else in the family's crosshairs right now?
I think you have to look at somebody like Sean Hannity and question whether or not his almost propaganda-like attitude and programming every night is going to be acceptable in the minds of the family.
Yeah, he didn't harass anyone sexually that we know of.
There's no accusation.
I don't think he's the type.
He's just a...
I think he hasn't got time.
If you look at his schedule, this guy's a workaholic.
He's got a three...
I've said this before.
I'm not a big fan of Sean Hannity since so far as, you know, he's a tub thumper to an extreme, and I don't care for that that much.
But he works three hours a day on a radio show, which is one of the top five talk radio shows, which makes him millions.
Three hours a day.
Then he does an hour TV a day, which is very fatiguing.
This guy, I don't know how he does it.
Well, he's certainly not being accused of any wrongdoing within his organization, but that doesn't matter.
Now we're just saying, who are we going to go after next?
Yeah.
No, Hannity's a target.
There's no doubt about it.
And what's very interesting is that Media Matters, a Clinton-funded outfit, admitted it's not a big secret.
It's not like some conspiracy theory.
It is an actual conspiracy.
They're out there taking credit now for bringing down Bill O'Reilly, and now there's infighting, because now the Color of Change people are like, hey, wait a minute!
Yeah, this is these guys.
You're pushing down the black man who did all the work.
We stood out there.
You didn't do anything.
And they're all drinking from the same money tap.
So it's very interesting to see how that will develop.
Now, I want to take this into millennial social justice warriors because clearly these women are being abused to bring these, I think, you know...
The Wendy Walsh thing, I just can't resolve as sexual harassment.
It's not a nice situation.
It happens all the time.
No, this guy makes a pass at someone.
So you can't even make a pass at a woman today under any circumstances.
Now, she prefaced the thing, going back to that...
clip you played she prefaced it by saying well because his assistant made the call I knew it was had to be a business meeting and so that's what the whole thing is based on at a business meeting which in California this is true At a business meeting, you can't make a pass.
I don't know how you're going to do it under any of the circumstances, but you can't.
I think that's the premise for the whole thing.
It was a business meeting that he did this, so he was essentially at work.
And that's why she said she didn't know that she could file as a job applicant.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
So, maybe what her point is, although she said, right there, she said, hey, I wasn't going to do anything.
I wanted the job.
I'm going to go easy.
It's the big boss.
So, would she have filed as an applicant instead of taking the three-year gig?
Doesn't sound like it, but it's okay.
Look, I'm not in her shoes.
I can't feel what she feels.
I don't have her upbringing.
I don't know what kind of triggering mechanism she has inside of her.
It's all totally possible.
How much did the other Bloom woman that kept haranguing her sound like she was bullied into doing this?
Maybe.
If you listen to the way Bloom tells the story, yeah.
Yeah.
So I've been doing a lot of work and thinking and research on...
And I think this may turn out to be bigger than pipelines, quite honestly.
On this butthurtness, the social justice warrior, and the lying to...
Just the lying.
And people were sending me...
Books, like, all millennials lie.
I mean, just amazing.
We got into lots of discussion about that.
We can talk about it, but continue, please.
Well, do you want to take a break and come back to it?
Because this will take us another 15 minutes, and I think we should probably...
Well, yeah, I can deal with that.
Unless there's something...
Well, I got one clip we can play, just give us something to think about, and I think it takes us right into the break.
Okay, good.
This is a clip about...
Fox lawsuits.
This is the...
This includes the discussion of Tantero, who is one of the people that is responsible for the ouster of O'Reilly.
And Tantero, who is on his show all the time, I remember her.
And we've discussed her on this show.
I never liked her.
I always thought she was an unbelievably knee-jerk right-winger.
Which will bring me to another point later in the show when I discuss, which I've teased in Twitter...
Why Tucker Carlson can't do O'Reilly's show, which I have the clips to kind of back myself up with.
But let's play this clip here.
Which is?
Fox lawsuits.
Ah, okay.
The decision by Fox News to fire Bill O'Reilly may not end the sexual harassment scandal there.
Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation, according to a lawyer for a woman who is suing Roger Ailes, the former chairman of Fox News.
Anna Werner is following this.
The board of 21st Century Fox met inside Fox News headquarters today.
Shame on Fox!
While outside, the National Organization for Women declared the ouster of host Bill O'Reilly isn't enough.
We thought it was really important to come out and shame the 13 members of the board of directors of 21st Century Fox who've allowed this culture to flourish.
Federal prosecutors have questions, too.
A lawyer representing former Fox News co-host Andrea Tentaros, who's suing former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, says the U.S. attorney has subpoenaed one of his other clients.
I want to be clear that I don't know what the nature of the investigation is.
But attorney Jud Burstein told us the subpoena suggests the investigation by the Securities Fraud Division relates to the method in which settlements were paid.
I do know that when Fox News sought to settle with Andrea Tantaros, they wanted to pay the settlement out as salary.
The inference I draw from that is that there may have been a studied effort to hide the fact that there were all these settlements being paid out by disguising them as salary.
Tucker Carlson will replace O'Reilly, but of the 50 or so companies that yanked ads from the show, most told us today they have not decided whether to move their ads back to the time slot.
Viewership has remained steady.
Public relations specialist Howard Bragman.
Viewers are not their problems.
Advertisers?
Yes.
They have to go and look at their advertisers, the people that pay for their network, where the profits come from, and say, here's the changes we've made, and here's why we're a safe place for you to put your money.
Right, right, right, right.
It's always about the advertising.
Ultimately, yeah.
Ultimately, of course.
Now, the funny thing I want to mention, which leads us into our segment, but I should mention that others have been trying...
They thought they were going to take down David Letterman.
Yeah.
Yeah.
On advertising, it didn't work.
They made a concerted effort about two years ago, we talked about on the show, to take down Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah.
And that didn't work.
So if you hold your ground, because most of this is bull crap, in fact, it was weird because Monica Crowley even said that Letterman was done.
This is like, what, four years ago?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah.
So they could have kept O'Reilly, because O'Reilly has weathered these things before, but at this point, with the two kids coming on board who are Democrats, Fox is done.
I mean, they were looking ready to get rid of him.
And I do have a couple of anecdotes that I heard Glenn Beck discuss, which is funny.
Let's do that after we take a little break.
Okay.
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Good to have you all there.
Thank you very much.
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Yeah, as if it was actually a sign somewhere.
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Charlie Tango Foxtrot.
We want to thank Todd Brink.
Sir Macaroni au fromage in New Berlin, Wisconsin, for a $913 donation.
He says, I became a knight in 2013.
Sorry I became a douche, but I quit my job and started my own business in 2014 to be with my family.
But Adam and John, you have been there for me.
Including my brother's cancer scare, which after the cancer jingles, the cancer miraculously disappeared.
No.
That's what it says.
Yeah, we don't take credit for this.
No, no, no.
It's karma.
It's karma.
It only works with the whole group.
It's not something that we do.
The donation, it is a group thing.
This donation should take me to Barron, and now I'm donating $50 a month by check, so I'll be a douchey no more.
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Can I get a Jobs Karma and John's Mac and Cheese?
Yes.
I was knighted Sir Macaroni au Fromage.
Yes, and he will be Baronet or Baron?
Well, I guess it would be Baronet if he's upgraded one.
Yeah, perfect.
You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Cheese macaroni and cheap cheddar melted together.
Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
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Sir Lennart in $789 from Groningen.
Groningen.
Groningen.
From Groningen, Netherlands.
He has a funny note.
Comment, keep up the great work.
There's no other comments.
No need to look for an email.
Thanks.
Saved work.
I thought that was good.
People, take a tip from Sir Lennart there.
He knows what he's doing.
Yeah, the guy's on point.
Kerry Watilo, or Watilo.
Watilo.
In North Tustin, California, $350.
Watilo, yes.
I was recently fired from the San Francisco-based analytics startup I worked for, so here's a cut of my severance in exchange for some jobs karma.
Thank you.
Yeah, here's an interesting bit I learned by negotiating by severance.
All the rage in Silicon Valley, by the way, everything is always faddish in Silicon Valley, so he's got one for us.
All the rage these days is the unlimited vacation policy.
This is a great gig.
But, Capitals, as it turns out, by not having a minimum number of days, you don't actually accrue any vacation time, so you get fired or quit.
And that's it.
Dumb.
Done.
The vacation time you didn't use doesn't turn into cash.
And as far as I've heard, it's perfectly legal.
Okay, I have to think about how that works.
A strong suggestion for my fellow producers.
By the way, when I was...
No, I'm not going to...
This is an anecdote.
I don't need to tell.
A strong suggestion for my fellow producers.
If your company offers unlimited vacations, see if you can turn it down in exchange for actual vacation days that accrue so you don't get screwed like I did.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, let's give him some jobs karma with paid vacation day.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
So they give you unlimited vacations, but they're not paid and they don't accrue.
So you just...
And if you take them, you're dead in the water.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We know how that works.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Jor, is it J-O-A-R? Edenfelt.
Jor.
In Stockholm, Sweden.
$250 in the morning.
Long-time listener.
First-time donor.
So please de-douche me.
You got it?
You've been de-douched.
First, a shout-out to Atomic Rod and his Atomic Insights for turning me on to the show.
Ah, nice.
Kudos to him.
That's Sir Atomic Rod to you.
Yes.
I was hoping to attend the meeting at the Big Apple, steal a hug from Dame Tanya, and pet Nick the Rat.
But unfortunately, I can't.
The meet-up.
Yeah, the meetup.
It was the meetup.
But unfortunately, I can't afford to hop across the pond right now with a strong dollar, weak Swedish krona.
But hopefully, I'll be able to make it next time.
Keep up the good work, and please play the following clips.
Kim Jong Jam Jam, MILF, OMG, Amazing, and some Dating Karma, P.E.
Peace out.
Inhale, apple.
You've got karma.
What an idiot.
Sorry.
This is the appropriate thing to say.
Yeah, I have nothing else.
Rob Wales in Concord West, New South Wales, Australia, $240.
I just realized that three years since my last donation, when I reported on my reflections on my trip to the U.S. to see Black Sabbath at the Hollywood Bowl in 2014 and to attend my daughter's wedding at the Elvis Chapel in Lost Wages.
Now, if there was ever a trip that says Murica, that's it right there, baby.
Yeah.
That's it right there.
We also appropriated Black Sabbath as ours.
Screw you, Britton.
He's got Black Sabbath at the Hollywood Bowl, which is a dynamite venue, and then he goes to Las Wages to Elvis Chapel, which there are many.
So it's past time for me to dig in and give something to the cause.
But I will be asking for something back.
I work as a teacher for the TAFE New South Wales, a state-run vocational education provider.
Like all government operations here, TAFE is being turned into a for-profit business rather than a proud educational establishment we once were.
The word education is now a no-no.
It's all about skills and training and course completions at any cost.
At TAFE, fail is no longer a valid educational outcome regardless of how dumb the student is.
So it's cut, cut, cut with me and a number of my colleagues to get the education, to get the Eddard Stark treatment, i.e.
the chopping block.
That must be a cultural, historical reference.
Yes, it has to do with it.
I'll look it up.
I'll look it up.
Yeah, look it up.
In June.
So I've put in for a 12-month gig in Ethiopia.
Nice.
Which it comes off will be a fantastic...
Oh, Edward, it's a Game of Thrones reference.
Blow me.
Well, Black Sabbath, Game of Thrones, I can see it.
He needs a job, is the point.
I've been eyeing off...
This is an interesting little phrase.
I've been eyeing off knighthood far too long, and this donation brings me pretty close.
If Ethiopia comes off, I'll be lining up to have the sword come down on me to be Sir Rob of the Great Southern Land.
Most worthwhile title to add to my...
You're an esteemed doctorate of religious something or other from the universe.
Hey, I'm one of them.
It's a doctor of divinity.
Oh, yes.
From the Universal Life Church?
Is that the idea?
Yes, I have one of them.
I have a doctor of divinity.
I'm a minister from the Universal Life Church.
I'm also a minister.
In fact, I talked to Kirby Hensley personally.
You are also a brother of the cloth, I see.
I'm not a douchebag, so no de-douching for me, but I like a clippity-clop, don't-eat-me, Hillary, and two to the head, hopefully to finish her off.
Okay.
Cheers, Rob Wales.
Clippity-clop, don't-eat-me, and what was the last one?
Oops.
Two to the head.
And two to the head.
Hold on a second.
Where is...
Yes.
Okay.
Got it.
It's Clippity Claw.
The message is clear.
Just Clippity Claw.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.
You've got karma.
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Expected it to be problematic today.
I'm glad people stepped up.
This is very helpful.
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Not a lot from America.
No.
A lot of foreigners like that.
I like that a lot.
Well, I think it's because we've turned into a hate show.
Yeah.
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Yay.
All right.
I've been working on the Petri dish known as NoAgendaSocial.com, which is just phenomenally interesting to me from a historical perspective and from what's going on right now in our world today.
And it's a little frightening, really, what I'm coming up against.
First, I'd like to point out that...
Do you remember the 100-scalp Nazi girl?
Oh, yes.
The 100-scalp Nazi...
She's going to go get 100 Nazi scalps.
Yeah.
So people had sent me images on Mastodon, on NoAgendaSocial.com, which were, you know, nicely hidden by the little not safe for work thing.
And it was like, I thought it was a Photoshop of her head, like on a porn picture.
I'm like, eh, don't send me that douchebag.
I'm not interested in your jokes.
Okay, I apologize.
Turns out she has done porn under the name Venus Rosaloma.
I saw the picture you're talking about.
I couldn't see any evidence of Photoshop on it.
Right.
Well, I just didn't believe it.
But then I was sent the video.
Have you seen the video?
You probably haven't.
No, I didn't see the video.
And from the looks of the still shot, I'm not going to watch it.
It was pretty much like a Girls Gone Wild X-rated version.
Hey baby, why don't you take off your pants?
Hey, guy off camera, one of those.
So that really confuses me about her.
So I just wanted to plant that out there and say, that is true.
I don't want to say it's porn necessarily.
It's a solo performance, if you catch my drift.
Yeah, she's just doing her thing in front of a camera.
Yeah, with a huge vibrator, by the way.
It's a big blue thing.
Yeah, that thing was frightening.
That scared me, that thing.
Felt kind of...
Did it have one of those...
Did it have a rope on it?
You had to start it by pulling it real hard?
Actually, she couldn't get it working in the beginning.
It didn't work.
Yeah, she went...
Hold on.
Drop!
Drop!
I can get it to work.
Okay, so that's just an aside.
So we have this issue in the Fediverse, John.
The Fediverse.
This is the universe of federated servers between GNU, Social, Mastodon, and anything else that uses O-Status.
Yeah, O-Status.
Which has been going on for 10 years.
And I think we talked about on a previous show, and this was just maybe two episodes ago is how long I've been talking about it, that this was started originally by people who felt that they were not protected on Twitter and they wanted to be safe from Nazis and white nationalists.
Well, my understanding...
Is that the original, this code base, and the guy who did it, who my son JC apparently works a block away from or something, runs into.
You mean the Mastodon code or the new social code?
Yeah, the Mastodon code.
Yeah, that's Eugen or whatever.
It was originally as a Facebook, distributed version of Facebook.
Yeah.
Okay, you know all that.
Yeah, yeah.
It's been around for a long time.
It's been around.
But the point is, they didn't feel safe.
They wanted to build their own little walled garden.
Yeah.
And so they created this social network, which now has a much more familiar interface, but the underpinnings are pretty much the same.
And, uh, the problem is everyone wants to be able to connect to everybody else, but when you connect to, you know, a server with hashtag dude bros, that's what no agenda social is now seen as.
Oh, there's dude bros over there.
Oh, we're a dude bro network?
Yeah, well, we're Nazis, we're alt-right, we're white nationalists, and we're dude bros.
Um...
They have to have ways to lock that out.
And so what was decided, instead of, which would be appropriate, I believe, to enable you as a user to say, you know what?
Everything coming from that particular server, I don't want to see it.
I'm not interested.
I may want to follow a few people, so make sure that I can still follow them.
But I'm not interested in seeing that in my federated timeline because, oh, I might get triggered.
So instead of doing that, where you have that control, which would be appropriate for the platform, they gave it to the administrator.
So the administrator by himself can say, ha!
And the guy, Yu Jin, who you're talking about, he is, you know, he's right in the center of the social justice warrior movement.
And so he's making these decisions.
And because it's open source...
go make it different if you want to.
Sure.
And it's not happening.
This was proposed in January.
It's just not, you know, it's not this.
What's not happening.
What's not happening is the individual blocking capability versus the admin.
And I'm pretty sure that most of the administrators love that control.
I personally hate it.
Yeah, they love it.
So they're going from a place that was controlled, and now they want someone else to keep them safe, and they badger and they pester the admins in order to keep themselves safe.
But why haven't they shut it off altogether?
And I'm going to get into some definitions.
What do you mean?
I'm sorry.
Why haven't they not made it so that you can just shut it off yourself, shut everything off?
Why isn't it even a federated network?
Why isn't it just closed off?
Why is it not closed off?
Just done, closed off.
Well, I think it's...
What you've said so far, it seems logical to me that why is it not closed off?
Because the other federated...
No.
No.
That would be my guess.
No.
They want to be harassed.
They need it.
They want it.
The snowflakes.
They want to be able to point and shriek.
They can't live without it.
Otherwise, this would have closed off 10 years ago.
They actually love it.
It feeds their soul.
It feeds them.
No, John, it feeds them.
There is a term for this.
I'm going to get it here.
The term is...
Well, it's primary, secondary, and tertiary gain.
Primary morbid gain or secondary morbid gain is used in medicine to describe the significant subconscious psychological motivators patients may have when presenting with symptoms.
It is important to note that if these motivators are recognized by the patient, especially if symptoms are fabricated or exaggerated for personal gain, this is instead considered malingering.
So they don't really know they're doing it.
Primary morbid gain produces positive internal motivations.
For example, a patient might feel guilty about being unable to perform a task.
If a medical condition justifying an inability is present, it may lead to decreased psychological stress.
Secondary morbid gain can also be a component of any disease, but it's an external motivator.
If a patient's disease allows him or her to miss work, avoid military duty, obtain financial compensation, obtain drugs, or avoid a jail sentence, these would be examples of a secondary gain.
The tertiary morbid gain...
I'm sorry.
An example would be an individual having stomach cramps when household chores are completed by a family.
In the context of a person with a significant mental or psychiatric disability, this effect is sometimes called secondary handicap.
Then tertiary morbid gain is when a third party, such as a relative or friend, is motivated to gain sympathy or benefits from the illness of the victim.
So all of this is about gaining...
Benefits from being a victim.
And one of the main ways, the social, I'm not going to call them snowflakes, the social justice warriors.
Yeah, I don't like, by the way, I don't like the word snowflake, but it was appropriate at the time to get the conversation.
But I don't like social justice warriors either.
Well, they call themselves that, so let them be.
Let them be.
That's, you know, they call themselves SJWs.
Whatever you want to call yourself, doesn't matter.
Douchebags.
Now, what was my point?
You just got me off of, I was...
No, let's back up.
You were going through the morbidity, the desire...
Ah, I gotta get you.
Okay, and I witnessed this myself, and this U-Gen character is a part of it.
The whole life of these people is to point and shriek, to bring people down through law, getting law on books, bringing people down for triggering, being rude, just anything, anything you don't like.
And the way you fund this lifestyle of yours, unbelievably, is through Patreon.
So I'm not kidding.
And right now there's a fight going on.
And yes, because you, Jen, who is the man in charge, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to assume his gender, but he's the man in charge.
He has a Patreon and he's making about, I don't know, three and a half thousand dollars a month.
And now everyone's getting pissed off at him.
Well, how come we're contributing to the code?
How come we shouldn't be?
We should get some of that Patreon money.
So now there's a war between Patreon money and LibraPay and all these other...
You know, this is the gig.
The gig is do some social justice warrior stuff.
Have people send you a dollar a month to let you know you're doing a great job.
Well, that's the same with the girl, the porn star.
Exactly.
The porn girl who got punched out and she put up a Patreon or GoFundMe thing immediately.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Now, one of our producers sent a note after the previous show and said, and I don't know if you read the note, he or she, I forget who it was, believes that all of this started when the court system made it possible that For monetary damages of emotional distress.
Well, that was a long time ago.
Sure, yes, it was probably 30 years ago.
I don't know, maybe longer.
Probably not too much longer, but...
But let's look at some of the definitions.
I think it was in the 60s, maybe 70s.
Maybe one of our lawyers can chime in.
I think it was early 80s, if I recall.
I don't know.
Okay, beside the point.
Well, when you bring money into it, all of a sudden, your pain becomes real.
So, you know, you can sue for emotional distress if you witness the death or injury of a family member, if you're a bystander to an event that causes fear of death or injury and you're actually in the zone of danger, if the deceased body of a family member is mishandled.
I mean, you can pretty much sue for emotional distress over anything.
And several ways in which emotional distress may be brought up in the court of law.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, parasitic emotional distress, using emotional distress to get damages for pain and suffering, in quotes, or using emotional distress to recover damages for, quote, loss of consortium.
And I think this is one of the only countries in the world where we have this so ingrained in our legal system.
In fact, when growing up in Europe, people would always laugh about America.
Ah, the Americans are always suing everybody.
And there's a phrase, let's not get American situation here.
We don't want an American-like situation.
Always referring to people suing people over apparently frivolous stuff.
So this has become an actual business.
And these people are perfect for it.
Because when you start to codify hate speech, And when you start to create laws that disallow people from speaking certain things, then it's just people will be lying in wait.
It's worse than the lawyers used to be.
This is how it kind of all comes together.
When I took my company public in 96, I remember there were lawyers downstairs waiting to ask women, did anyone say anything to you?
Did they comment on your hair, your dress?
Did you feel uncomfortable?
And we got sued, not for me, nothing I did, but we got sued, and of course it was for exactly the amount that our directors and officers insurance would cover.
It's a scam.
It's a total scam.
And this has become a lifestyle, John.
It's become a lifestyle.
They thrive on it, and they love it, and when lying only gets them what they want, they don't even know they're lying.
They don't even realize it.
And what I love about this social network is you can see all of these agendas and all these things playing out right now in real time.
You can see how, I mean seriously, insane behavior about the smallest things.
That example of our producer who yelled at you, and this is why I wanted to come back to it.
You know, Bob, how dare you?
And women, Bob, you're insulting.
But I really miss flirting in the workplace.
You know why?
Because you want to call someone out on it.
I guarantee you, this is an illness of epic proportion.
And we are rife.
This is going to end very badly.
Well, it ends when the depression ends.
I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure.
Because all they'll do is get more Patreon money.
When the Depression ends, which will be 2020, things change.
Yeah, you're right.
At this moment in time, 2017, you're right at it.
I have the absolute bottom for you.
I got the absolute bottom of the pit.
Okay.
And I want to remind everyone, we've called this the War on Men, is what we've called it traditionally.
This really came to the foreground, you know, Gamergate, which we didn't understand because people were trying to explain to us all these characters and who was lying and who was a bitch and who was...
Well, I didn't understand...
So we just pulled away from it.
We had nothing to do with it.
No, because it was like, what are you trying to tell me?
But people are trying to point out to us that there's this incredible movement of young people who are this way, who are this crazy, and who believe that they can go and get scalps and then, oh, I got punched, oh, I'm a victim, pay me, send me money.
It's a whole ecosystem.
And it's all about...
White men are just, they need to die.
They need to die, die, die.
You are the problem.
Especially if you're straight.
But if you're gay, fuck it, you're the problem too.
And now we have NPR with this report.
This, to me, is the bottom of the barrel.
A new study sheds light on how women are treated at one very high-profile workplace, the Supreme Court.
Researchers at Northwestern University found that male Supreme Court justices interrupt female justices three times as often as they interrupt each other.
The study authors have written about their research in Harvard Business Review, and the Review Senior Editor, Kurt Nickis, joins us now.
Hi, Kurt.
Hey, Jeremy.
And first we have an example of what this study is talking about.
This is from a very high-profile affirmative action case in 2015 where the plaintiff's attorney, Burt Ryan, was facing questions from Justice Sotomayor.
Have we heard this clip before?
Yep.
I'm sorry.
I couldn't remember it.
Well, I think you can continue to play it because my thesis, after the whole thing was said and done, I think your thesis is better, but my thesis was Sotomayor is so damn boring that they have to interrupt her.
Yeah, you're right.
But I guess maybe...
You had this clip from NPR, too?
This actual clip?
Yeah, no, that's the actual clip, yeah.
Crap, I'm sorry.
Well, I'll finish it because it's a good reminder.
If you don't consider race...
The holistic percentage, whatever it is, is going to be virtually all white.
And that is incorrect.
And that is an assumption that has no basis.
I feel that's a very valid point to jump in.
I mean, that's fucking racism right there.
I don't care who she is.
That was racist.
It's going to be virtually all white.
If you remember the other clip, which also had Scalia interrupting her...
It's not considered appropriate to do what he did, period, under any circumstances at the Supreme Court level.
I didn't realize that.
And the fact that she didn't call him out on it and then condemn him, which is what my response was, she's the one who should have taken some initiative here.
She didn't.
She put up with it.
She should have set up a Patreon page right away.
Well, she's not in the right age.
Virtually all white.
And that is incorrect.
And that is an assumption that has no basis in this record.
It's a stereotypical, racist assumption.
That's what it is.
It's not, because for reality...
He's probably sick and tired of this bullcrap.
...that Justice DiRio wants to rely on.
Let me finish my point.
Let me finish my point.
We heard Chief Justice Roberts step in there.
Kurt, how much more are female justices interrupted than male justices?
Yeah, besides going back and looking at all those transcripts, the researchers looked carefully at three years.
So back in 1990, when there was just one woman justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, she was interrupted, or of all the interruptions, Times anybody was interrupted, 35.7% of the time it was directed at her.
In 2002, when there were two justices, nearly half the interruptions were directed at those two women justices.
And in 2015, when there were three women justices, so one-third of the court, two-thirds of the interruptions were directed at them.
And how does this translate into other professions, people who don't find themselves on the Supreme Court?
Do women get interrupted more than men?
There are women across the country listening right now nodding their heads.
They know this instinctually, but the research bears this out.
Women get talked over much more than men in all sorts of settings.
So that's partly due to unconscious bias, cultural reasons.
And research also shows that a lot of this has to do with just the sense of control.
So if you feel like you're in power, then you kind of dominate the conversation or you feel empowered to interrupt other people.
What's troubling here is that these are very powerful women.
They're on the highest court in the land and they're still getting stepped on.
I'm sorry.
I can't recall that clip at all, but that can happen.
So yeah, the white man is horrible.
But the white man typically doesn't cut your clitoris.
Just keep that in mind.
But it's spreading, John.
It is spreading.
It is very bad.
It is not just America.
I'm not sure about the laws in Scandinavia for suing for distress and damages.
My guess is it's probably ensconced and shrined somewhere.
We have a big brouhaha at the university up there in Scandinavia where the president of the university is saying, I'm not going to use your stupid-ass pronouns.
For a minute, I thought you had become provost or something.
And so on this show, this is CBC, they have the president of the university and a transgendered, non-binary professor from the same university.
I pulled a little snippet because it's just interesting.
Professor Peterson, let's begin with you.
Why are you against the use of alternate pronouns?
I'm against the use of legislation to determine what words that myself and other people are required to utter.
But would you use alternate pronouns if a student asked you to?
I think I've made my position on that clear already.
Well, perhaps not to our audience at home who are just being introduced to this.
Would you use alternate pronouns?
And why not?
Because I don't believe that other people have the right to determine what language I use, especially when it's backed by punitive legislation.
And when the words that are being required are the constructions, they're artificial constructions of people I regard as radical ideologues whose viewpoint I do not share.
Well, we have a graphic to show our audience at home, just some of the pronouns.
Bring up the pronouns.
The graphic!
...being used or asked to be used as alternates.
Among them you see here, Z or Zim, Z or Here, Z or Zier.
Also, Hey.
Who can keep up with this?
I like Hey.
Hey!
Well, I think he misread it, but he said, listen.
Here, zeer, zeer.
Also, hey, or a rather.
Oh, a.
I thought hey.
I like that.
Hey!
Per.
So just some of the alternate pronouns there.
Professor Pete, when you hear...
Notice, notice alternate pronouns.
It's already, it's already...
Zeer, zeer.
Also, hey, or a rather, and per.
So just some of the alternate pronouns there.
Professor Pete, when you hear Professor Peterson saying that this is oppressive, how do you respond to that?
Well, the Peterson drama has done real harm to real people on campus.
He's made it harder to be transgender or non-binary.
I know this from personal experience.
I'm non-binary and transgender, and I know how it's felt to be on the U of T campus for the last month.
How does it make it harder?
Because apparently it's quite a burden.
Hold on a second.
That one guy won't say G or Z or A or whatever these other words are.
And so now it makes it more difficult for that person to become what he or she is?
Support my Patreon.
Yes.
How?
How?
How does it make it more difficult for them?
Because it's triggering.
It is emotional distress.
I don't want to hear an answer.
From personal experience, I'm non-binary and transgender, and I know how it's felt to be on the U of T campus for the last month.
And I also know from private communications with other affected people.
You know, in New Zealand where I grew up, academics have a statutory role enshrined in the Education Act to be a critic in conscience of society.
So I think that's an idea worth exporting to Canada.
So I'd like to give Peterson about a B-plus for his critic role recently and an F for the conscience part.
A student once said to me when I finally obtained tenure, now, Professor, now that you have obtained superpowers, you must agree to use them for good.
For peace and justice.
So I invite Peterson to start doing more of that.
Well, Professor Peterson, those...
Superpowers?
I mean, is this guy high?
You only get superpowers if you have Tourette's, my friend, not if you're transgendered non-binary.
To obtain superpowers, you must agree to use them for good, for peace and justice.
So I invite Peterson to start doing more of that.
Well, Professor Peterson, those who are asking for this alternate use of pronouns, they are saying it boils down to respecting their human rights.
How do you respond to that?
I don't think it boils down to respecting their human rights.
I think that it's an imposition on freedom of speech that's being implemented at a legislative level.
I also think that if there was a naturally evolving A solution to the linguistic problem that's being posed by a small fraction of the transgender community that people would have already adopted it.
We've never had a situation in the usage of English before that required legislation to produce a transformation in the manner in which people spoke.
It's a very dangerous precedent, so it's one thing to tell people what they can't say.
So, for example, we have legislation making it illegal to do such things as deny the Holocaust.
It's a completely different thing to demand that people use certain words when they're formulating their own ideas.
Wait, are you telling me Canada's going to put some legislation through that requires you to say G, or you have to ask somebody what their pronoun is by law?
That is the idea.
So you say the right pronoun instead of, you know, making the mistake of seeing some guy with a long beard and hair and calling him a he when it should be called something else?
Is that what you're saying to me?
That is the idea, yes.
Great.
Yeah, that's the idea.
And an observation.
The social justice warrior only comes in female form.
Then yes, I'm assuming a lot of stuff.
I have yet to see a transgendered woman, female to male, who is a social justice warrior.
The other way around, everybody is feminine who is a social justice warrior.
So now we're down to a war on men.
If you're not sensitive...
The feminization of the Western males.
Well, that makes it easier for the...
And I understand.
For the takeover.
Yes, I understand that women feel they've gotten a raw deal.
I would like to point out though that if you say this started maybe with the suffragette movement in America, I only learned recently that the suffragette movement worked this way.
The only people who could vote at the time were land owners.
So there were a lot of men who could not vote either at the time.
That's not the way the story is told anymore.
And the suffragettes came in and they said, "We don't care if we own land or not.
Women should be allowed to vote." And they got their wish.
But it was not because women weren't allowed.
It was people who had no land ownership were allowed to vote.
Did you know that part of the story?
You know, if I did, I forgot it.
I'd have to go back and revisit.
So those are the original social justice warriors.
And it's a very, very powerful movement.
Women hold power.
In general, women, I think, hold power.
Power, power, power.
But it will continue until...
I think we're all going to wake up one day, and I hope you get your wish, because you're going to see it's not going to turn out exactly the way you thought it would.
No flirting in the workplace.
We'll have no flirting in the workplace.
There'll be no flirting at all.
But it's come to the point where, not on this program, but in real life, I feel caged.
Is this real life?
I don't feel caged here.
This is a safe space.
The only reason this is a safe space and you don't feel caged, there's only one reason and one reason only is because our support is direct.
Yes, support our Patreon.
If we were working for a bigger organization, I said this before I say it too often, I've probably beaten it up to death, which is that we had been fired probably from this show today, at least twice, especially becoming a hate show.
We lost our advertisers.
It'd be gone.
And they'd be forced out.
You know, so a couple of things about just drifting back.
This is kind of a broad, sweeping topic.
Yeah, but it's all connected, though.
You agree?
It's all connected.
It's all connected.
I agree.
And I think O'Reilly ousters part of it.
And him becoming a podcaster is great.
It shows us the way of the future, doesn't it?
Yeah.
And...
I think he's going to do his first podcast.
He's been doing podcasts on his website all along, but he hasn't done anything about this being ousted.
This will be done, I think, on Wednesday.
I think it's going to get a huge...
Everyone's going to listen.
Yeah, of course.
But Glenn Beck was on some...
It'll break the internet!
It'll be some minor thing.
And all the right-wingers are different guys from Dallas Jones, who never liked O'Reilly, to Limbaugh, who blames the whole thing on media matters and bots.
But Beck had an interesting comment to say, and this kind of played out with some other stuff that you start to hear, is that Ailes was really the problem here all along.
Right, he was the problem guy.
He became a monster as just an old pederast.
Yeah, icky a-hole.
Well, he's just a kind of a douchebag.
And I do want to say again, and we do this very...
Certainly, we do this program with this mindset.
We've been in entertainment most of our lives.
So when you hear Roger Ailes, he said, hey, spin around.
Let me take a look.
Let me see.
Okay, yeah, great.
All these women...
All of them, who have all brought forth these horrible pressures and the weight of this horrible harassment, I would like to point out they all wear slut clothes under glass tables on Fox News.
You know, you got to take some responsibility sometime, somewhere.
Hey, that's why I think I give credit to Paula Zahn.
Paula Zahn was brought on to Fox.
Yes, she wouldn't do it.
And the first thing they said to her was show more legs.
Yeah, she wouldn't do it.
She just quit.
Screw you.
I'm not going to take this.
And she left.
Yeah.
She had great legs.
But she left.
She wasn't going to put up with it.
That's what you do.
You don't like it?
Get out.
Why didn't you quit right away?
What is this other woman?
Oh, they did this and then I worked there three years.
I mean, almost every one of the stories is the same.
Oh, the guy made a pass at me and I worked there three years.
Why didn't you quit if it was so offensive?
Or become a podcaster.
There you go.
Big money.
So Beck said when he first went to Fox...
When Beck first went to Fox, he noticed that people were squabbling a lot, and he was trying to – somehow he sidled up to O'Reilly, and they kind of became – they began to know each other.
And he says a week later, Roger Ailes got him in his office and said, you've got to be careful with that O'Reilly.
He's a bad guy.
He's going to stab you in the back.
That's what Ailes would tell Beck, he said.
Oh.
And then Beck and O'Reilly started to discuss this stuff that goes on behind the scenes, and they made it a gentleman's agreement, which I think is why they went on the road as kind of a comedy act after that.
That if they ever hear anything that the other guy supposedly said about them, they would confront each other to straighten it out.
And I think that helped.
Because apparently Ailes was doing this all the time.
And if you remember the clip I had from Kirsten Powers going on about some minor thing that she was upset by being called a blondie.
She goes into Ailes and Ailes says, oh, he's a jackass.
You can't trust that.
She said he's got a bunch of dirty pictures and he keeps all this, you know...
All her recollections of O'Reilly having dirty photos, being a lech, being a creep, came from Isles telling her that.
Oh, she hadn't even seen it herself.
Right!
Wait, wait, wait, John!
I've got information, man!
New shit has come to life!
Uh-oh, here it's starting, and yet again we have another media maven.
Columnist, attorney, and former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlüssel...
She's a right-wing radio talk show host.
Appeared on today's Pat Campbell show and accused Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity of the same type of behavior that led to Bill O'Reilly leaving the beleaguered network earlier this week.
Among the allegations, Schlüssel claims that while at an appearance in Detroit, which they both attended, Hannity invited her back to his hotel room.
Schlüssel says that after she turned down his advances, she was not invited back on his program.
Quote, this kind of stuff is all over the place at Fox News and anything that has to do with Sean Hannity.
Oh, boy.
Wow, that's a great one.
That would have been clip of the day.
Well, just as you said earlier in the program, he's the next target and they will get him.
The only guys that they can't get, well, besides Dave Letterman, who retired, they can't get Limbaugh because they've already tried and they're not going to try again.
There's no point.
They just marginalize him by not talking about him.
Michael Savage apparently is pretty...
Pretty hard to get because he'll go after you in some very ugly way.
And he's also going to retire.
And remember, you can stay up to date on everything that's going on with this at SeanHannity.com.
Yes, absolutely.
Give it a try.
Yeah, this is good.
Meanwhile, I do have my little Tucker Carlson thing.
So Tucker, who I always suspected as part of the Part of the problem who got these guys out.
I mean, there's no coincidence that he comes in, he gets a show.
Next thing you know, Megan quits, who's been manipulated.
She quits, and then Carlson moves up, and then next thing you know, he moves up again.
He's now in the prime time spot.
Now, I have two, three, actually three short clips from one of his shows.
This is his...
This is him with Tammy Bruce.
Tammy Bruce is a lesbian right-wing talk show host on the radio in Southern California.
She's very outspoken.
And she's very erudite.
What is her pronoun?
I think she's a she.
But let's listen to this.
And this was about...
This all came about because apparently at UC Davis...
The student body decided they didn't want to have the American flag hanging in the little hall where they have their meetings.
And It seems like who cares whether they want the flag or not.
It's a student body of UC Davis.
No offense.
But it was a big deal with the right-wingers.
Oh my god, you know, they hate the flag.
They want to burn it.
So they bring Tammy...
So Tucker brings Tammy Bruce on it.
Here's why Tucker is not going to succeed in this time slot.
It's going to flame out.
For one thing, if you watch his show, he does one bit of...
He has a two-box set.
It's a format.
It's the same format he rolls it over and over again.
Yes, he's got the box on the right with the person he's talking to, and the box on the left with his face.
His face has the exact same look every time, no matter who it is.
He's got his mouth really small, a shrunken mouth.
Like a little anus.
Yeah, a little butthole mouth with open, very slightly open.
Invitingly open.
It's a little open.
And the look is, oh my god, I can't believe I'm hearing what this person is saying.
That's the look.
I'm flabbergasted.
That is the look on his face permanently.
Yeah.
Right?
Right?
And then he'll, of course, he badgers the person.
But the format, just to complete that, the format is you get something that somebody said that was outrageous, which is maybe a headline that says, I want to kill the president, and whatever it is.
And then he'll start talking.
Hey, first of all, hey, nice to have you on.
Great, thank you for coming on.
So you wrote this about kill the president.
And so what was your thinking behind that?
And then the next question is always, do you really want to kill the president?
Or whatever that one line is.
Which, of course, they can never end.
Because it's always been done as framing of their argument.
And it's always that little thing, and he just keeps asking, and then after three, four times, depending on how funny their answer is, then he'll say, okay, well, I've had enough.
Thank you.
You didn't answer my question.
Goodbye.
Thanks for coming on.
He's going to run out of guests eventually.
Well, here's what his secondary problem is, besides this look into this very simple formula that runs out of steam.
With the right-wingers like Tammy Bruce, unlike O'Reilly, the funny thing about O'Reilly is that he would not let right-wingers, because he was a Democrat.
We have to always remember that he's not a conservative or one of these, he's not like Hannity at all.
And according to Beck, when he was working with him, he says Hannity's also an outrageous perfectionist and a guy who really knows how to make entertaining TV. Him and Ailes were at the same level.
They were very good at making a show that people start to watch and like.
And by the way, I have no reason to believe he didn't make a pass at Schlesinger.
I'm sure he did.
Who?
Beck?
Hannity.
Oh, well, maybe.
It wouldn't surprise me.
What are you going to do?
Anyway.
So, but he's not...
Hannity is a workaholic, but O'Reilly is kind of a perfectionist, which is why he blows up a lot, but he's good at making shows.
Tucker Carlson is just kind of a stand-up comic.
He's got one good gag, and it's what he does.
When O'Reilly had a right-winger on, like Tammy Bruce, and she'd say anything like she says here with Tucker Carlson, let's play clip one, and then we'll go from there.
Everyone's view of what the United States is, is different.
And here's, I think, what the problem is, is that we've got a dynamic now where you've got young people who are going to college who are effectively not having to pay for it, who view America as an oppressor state.
This is a statement that they view, obviously, America as the problem.
They don't want to be associated with it.
And yet I can guarantee you that these are individuals also who probably have federal loans, federal student loans, who are there probably on state grants and perhaps even on alumni grants as well.
And if the nation is so offensive to them, which they argue effectively it is, then perhaps they shouldn't enjoy federal loans paid for with American tax dollars.
So...
Yeah, it's an argument I've heard, and it doesn't go on.
Okay, hold on a second.
Paid for...
The loans are not paid for by American tax dollars.
They're loans.
Well, but of course they'll never be paid off.
But she also said young people are not having to pay for college.
And then she says they're all taking out these loans at the tax.
This is bullcrap.
O'Reilly would not let her get away with saying that in the middle of her saying young people are not having to pay for college, which is bullcrap.
Bullcrap.
He goes, uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, exactly.
He just agrees with the people on the other side of this whatever kind of thing.
That's because he listens very closely for the things he's looking for.
He's not listening to what someone's saying.
He listens for the little slip-up that he can get his hook into.
And that's not really a great interview.
With a right-winger, unlike O'Reilly, who was not a right-winger, He doesn't even do that.
He just lets them say whatever they want to say, like the uh-huh, whatever.
He's not listening for anything because he's letting them go and yak away.
Let's listen to part two.
We're looking, I think, at a group, at a generation, if you will, at this stage now, certainly the millennials, that have either not had American history, have had teachers who have indoctrinated them into this dynamic, liberal leftist teachers, or they're individuals who, in this instance, the person at Davis, UC Davis, a public school, Is also a naturalized citizen.
And so they've come here not to necessarily become a part of America, but to punish it.
And I think we're in trouble if this is the next generation as it is in charge of business and the social culture.
We are.
If the people who wind up running your country hate that country, that's called suicide.
My question, though, is why are we surprised?
If you allow generations of kids to grow up in an education system that teaches them the country they live in is immoral, fatally flawed from the start, that it's disgusting and not worth defending, and that the ideals it was founded upon are repulsive, like, this is what you get, isn't it?
Well, it is, and yet Americans tend to not raise children like that.
This is what's fascinating, is that it's either a choice of individuals going to public schools where this kind of mob mentality prevails versus private schools, and another instance, Clemson has paid $38,000 taxpayer dollars for a diversity course that explains that if you expect people to show up on time, Tucker, it's racist.
So that you've got...
It's a remarkable...
Now look, I just think that means there's going to be fewer...
Wait a minute.
Okay.
You've got to explain that one to me.
If you show up on time, it's racist?
Yes, this is...
I need help here.
This is interesting.
No, no, no.
Just stop.
Just stop.
Clip of the day.
Well, that's interesting.
I didn't even get to part three.
Boom.
Well, you can get two.
Now, let's go over what she just said and what he said.
Oh, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, he has this.
This is, again, the perfect reason he's not going to cut it on this spot because he lets this stuff just go.
He's not like O'Reilly was, which is he had a team of people that would check this stuff out, and he would kind of know how much pre-interview they did, but it seemed pretty tight to me.
Yeah.
Okay, Clemson, this thing, as soon as that came, I said, what?
I've got to put this in the show notes.
If you roll it back and say they've got some program at Clemson, no.
Hold on, let me just listen.
For instance, Clemson has paid $38,000 taxpayer dollars for a diversity course that explains that if you expect people to show up on time, Tucker, it's racist.
Okay.
It's mandatory diversity course, apparently.
Mandatory.
Well, here's the...
Yeah.
Well, when you say a course at Clemson, what comes to mind?
A course at Clemson?
Yeah.
What do you think?
You think students going to a classroom?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what you think.
Yeah.
This was one of those S training operations for the staff.
Oh!
You know, they have all these...
Every company we work for, they always have somebody coming in.
Some expert, you know, they're from Spring...
Oh, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you.
I had this, I'm sorry, I'm lowering the desk for a moment, down Periscope.
At MTV, at MTV they did this.
The VJs had, we have an acting coach to come in and help you with your performance.
Just imagine Adam Curry and downtown Julie Brown sitting with some loser, no name, couldn't get a gig actor, teaching us how to act as VJs.
Yes, corporations do stupid stuff like this.
They have a lot of these courses.
I've taken probably three of them.
I took one at the Air Pollution District.
I've taken one someplace else.
I know I've taken maybe at InfoWorld or something.
Whatever.
These guys have come in.
They're very expensive.
$30,000 of taxpayers' money is what she said.
To do the entire university staff, it's pretty borderline voluntary courses.
$30,000 is cheap.
But what the courses are, they're like the Earhart seminars.
It's these trainings where the guys, it's a training course where they train you to think and how to act, and they would come up with something that's about the timeliness thing, being racist.
It may be a positive thing they were doing, saying, look, probably if you're working with Africans, for example, I took a, when I was at the University of California, I had to do one of my anthropology courses, I had to find an African on campus, and African or African American?
African.
And I had a Luo guy.
I think he was probably famous by now.
Well, he had a brush with greatness.
Of course he's famous now.
He made the comment that in Africa time is in generalities.
Oh, it's kind of afternoon.
You could never make a one o'clock appointment.
Or anything that Westerners do, it says in this, at least in his tribe, it was just, you know, you'd make an afternoon appointment and it would be like, that was a big, like a two-hour range.
And so I can see where this could develop in this concept that is racist to be on time by the virtue of this training.
But it's nonsense anyway, because this whole thing is some training for the...
Confusion Awareness course suggests it's racist.
That's the way they lead.
He says state-funded purchase.
And it's on a lot of his online training curriculum.
And it's for the people that work on the campus.
It's one of those where it says, you're clicking too fast.
It's impossible you read that page.
Please slow down.
Yes.
Click, click, click, click, click.
So this is what she is saying.
And what he's saying, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which O'Reilly would have never done.
It's nonsense.
It's bullcrap.
It's just inciting.
It's just, oh, blah, blah, blah, let's incite everybody and make everyone look like the world's going to hell in a handbasket.
One of those phrases we're working on.
So let's play the last part of this and be done.
For a diversity course that explains that if you expect people to show up on time, Tucker, it's racist.
So that you've got...
It's a remarkable...
Now, look, I just think that means there's going to be fewer liberals on television and radio because that's a time-certain environment.
So you've got people who then expect to go get jobs.
Are you going to hire the person from a university who has not been involved in this nonsense, knows how to show up on time?
Or what are these young people going to do when they show up in a world that actually has expectations of them?
So they're being abandoned.
We're losing an entire generation who understands business and economics, which requires love of the country and the future.
And we certainly have lost that.
And, of course, this situation here is a very good example of even trying to eliminate the imagery of a nation that is based on an idea, which is why the flag in and of itself is so important.
Oh man, oh man, oh man.
So this is, to me, exhibit A as to why Tucker Carlson cannot cut it at that 8 o'clock.
It's just going to fade because that stupid look on his face in every shot.
In the new time slot, it's his same show?
Yes, as far as I know, it's the same show.
Why would they change it?
No, they shouldn't change it at all.
No, he's kicking ass.
He moved up.
But the problem is, it's going to wear thin.
And he doesn't have all the crazy, you know, O'Reilly had his, you know, little speech at the beginning.
And then he had a bunch of segments.
It was very well structured.
It had, like, it was, you couldn't get really bored with his show.
Because by the time he's just about to get bored, boom, he's on to something else.
Carlson's got to, he's a one-trick pony.
And I just think the ratings are going to start to fade and fade and fade.
And they're going to get rid of him, too.
Yeah.
And you know what?
Is he on the target list?
No, no.
I don't know.
He might become...
He will be.
He's pissed off enough people.
Right.
What he does will put him on the target list.
Yes.
I concur.
But what he does is not...
It's like the parlor trick of talk shows.
Yeah, but you get a clip from it.
I get a clip from it.
It's fun.
He's a funny guy to watch when he gets the right guess that he can eviscerate.
But, you know, some of them don't play along with the program.
What's Dennis Miller going to do?
I don't know what Dennis Miller is going to do.
He's going to be persona non grata.
He won't get on any Fox show.
No, he does a podcast, though.
Yeah, but his podcast is...
He's way ahead of the curve.
His podcast is only, it's not that good.
No.
Alright, we have part three.
That was part three.
No, no, I have a part three.
That was not part three.
That was part two.
Oh, you have part three.
Part three.
If you allow generations of kids to grow up in an education system that teaches them the country they live in is immoral.
Oh, well, you had three clips, and I played one, two, and maybe that was on two.
No, you played two before.
Okay, fine.
This is three.
You gave me the clip of the day on part two.
Right, but this is part three.
Yeah, you just played it two seconds ago.
No, that was the end of part two.
Okay, we'll play it again.
Yeah, well let me play the end of part two and you can hear it.
No, the end of part two is clipped onto the beginning of part three.
Yes, thank you.
If you allow generations of kids to grow up in an education system that teaches them the country they live in is immoral, fatally flawed from the start, that it's disgusting and not worth defending, and that the ideals it was founded upon are repulsive, like, this is what you get, isn't it?
Well, it is, and yet Americans tend to not raise children like that.
This is what's fascinating, is that it's either a choice of individuals going to public schools where this kind of mob mentality prevails versus private schools, and another instance, Clemson, has paid $38,000.
I don't understand why you had this twice then.
I'm sorry, I'm just not understanding it.
You played this clip before.
You've played the whole thing.
The series is over.
Okay.
I didn't.
I didn't play this.
I did not play it.
That is all on clip two.
Clip three is just a repeat.
It doesn't matter.
It's confusing.
It doesn't matter.
It's okay.
The point was made.
I don't want...
It's okay.
I was trying to keep you from playing it, but okay.
Hey guys, can you stop the bickering and get out with the show?
Yeah, okay, we're doing it, control room.
Douchebag.
All right, let's go to a positive story.
That doesn't fit with the hate show.
CBS, whoever's running it, they're pro-pot.
Their stories, the way they slant their stories, even though they...
This is the 420 day, if you're on 420 day, the day we did the show on 420.
This is the way they played the story, the way they played the pot day.
Today is 420, and for some, it's National Marijuana Day.
A new CBS News poll shows support for legalizing pot has never been higher, 61%, up five points from just a year ago.
Twenty-nine states allow medical marijuana, while pot is legal for recreational use in eight states plus D.C. Barry Peterson reports they may be headed for a clash with the federal government.
They lit up in D.C. and San Francisco and rocked in Denver.
But at this year's 420 celebrations, anxiety is also in the air after statements from the Trump administration.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly recently warned of a possible crackdown in states that have legalized pot.
Its use and possession is against federal law and until the law is changed by the United States Congress, we in DHS, along with the rest of the federal government, are sworn to uphold all the laws that are on the books.
John Hickenlooper is governor of Colorado, the first state where legal recreational marijuana went on sale in 2014.
Do you think you or other states will go to court and fight this?
Well, we'll certainly explore every option.
We should communicate and collaborate and not make a snap decision.
In Colorado, medical and recreational marijuana are now a $1.3 billion industry.
Shutting it down, says the governor, will drive people to the dangerous black market.
There's just going to be a vacuum to fill, and it's all going to be cash and guns.
Drug dealers don't care who they sell it to.
There are also concerns that not enough studies have been conducted.
Asshole crap!
Especially on unborn babies or teenagers whose brains are still developing.
Teenagers can't buy it legally.
What's that?
Teenagers can't buy it legally.
You can't go into a pot shop if you're a teenager.
Pot's effect, especially on unborn babies or teenagers whose brains are still developing.
And pot shop owner Sally Vanderveer of Medicine Man worries a crackdown would put thousands in this industry out of work.
These are good jobs.
These are full-time jobs.
These are full-time jobs.
Our average salary is probably about $35,000 a year.
These are people paying taxes.
As you can see, and you will occasionally hear, Scott, the party is still going on in Denver.
Now, our poll shows 71% of Americans oppose any federal action in states that have already legalized marijuana.
That said, here in Colorado, people in the pot business are hastily drawing up contingency plans just in case.
Barry Peterson, and we'll be right back.
Okay.
Now, Hickenlooper is an anti-pot guy, so that was the wrong state to do this story.
They've done this story before.
They do these pro-pot.
They're kind of pro-pot stories.
And when they did the one in Washington State...
I think it was the Attorney General said, you think the feds are going to come in here?
Bring it on.
He wanted to go.
Of course, of course, of course.
Which is what you're supposed to say, because then they won't.
We'll fire at you.
Yes.
So this is going to come to a head, and it's going to happen pretty soon.
What's not being reported...
I think this is just a slam at Trump, by the way.
Oh, hello.
That's what it all is.
And we're the hate show.
Um...
But not being reported, Danny, the drug dealer, he moved to California.
I've told you this.
Yes.
And he says it is like it's the Wild West.
He says there's gunfights.
There's entire gangs who come in.
This is all happening in the woods.
This is all up in the woods.
Yeah, where there are huge pot farms.
And they got gangs coming in, rousting the crop, poisoning other people's crops.
It's the Wild West, and everyone's armed and firing.
That's kind of the drawback.
But that was going on before the legalization.
It's just getting worse.
In Washington State, they don't have the same problems.
What they've done is they have...
They've licensed certain people to grow.
And it's not that difficult to get a license.
And then most of the pot farms that grow in Washington State are in giant, well-protected greenhouses.
And there's a couple of them you can drive by.
Where I live, you can drive by and be saying, what the hell is all that?
They're like It's like in a compound.
And it's in the open.
It's not in the woods.
It's hidden in the woods like they do in California because they were doing it for so long.
They were growing this stuff secretly and that's where you get the problem.
These are all right off the highway.
And there's nothing like that going on up there that I know of.
A report just came out from researchers of the University of Sydney.
Found out that THC, the magic genie I'm reading verbatim, that gives cannabis its oomph.
It's quickly transferred from the bloodstream to fat cells, where it can chill for months, supposed as you work your way through every season of Game of Thrones.
But, what turns out, THC in your blood substantially rises, which is, it helps people with exercise.
Oh, that's interesting.
A study finds that the runner's high is a real thing.
The key, apparently, to mixing training and cannabis is to find the right ratio of CBD compound to THC. Somewhere around 5 to 2 is supposed to be perfect.
It lowers the stress level so you can focus better on your distance and speed goals.
Sativa strains are best for energy shots, I agree, while indica varieties are motivation killers.
Absolutely true.
So if you know how to mix them, Which is what all of this is.
This is all GMO work, really.
Although organic, but it's still genetically modifying stuff.
So it can actually help your physical performance.
This would explain why certain athletes are always, you know, they get drug tests because they use...
I've always thought, that's an interesting thing you read.
I've always thought that, why would a professional athlete get stoned on any of this stuff because it's going to make them groggy and dumb?
And how would it possibly improve their performance?
But I guess it might.
And it gets better.
Science is effectively saying that cannabis can help your weight loss as long as you follow it up with exercise and good food choices.
That sounds like a gratuitous thing to just drop in at the end.
No, it's in the middle.
I skipped over it.
The THC in your blood substantially rises.
A bad thing if you're interviewing for a job where a drug test requires a sample, but a good thing if you're trying to lose a few kilos, as it means this fat is being used as fuel.
So you create fat by smoking, and check this out.
This is, oh my god!
They suggest smoking a joint and then taking a moderate 35-minute session on a stationary bike.
That's exactly what you've been doing.
Spin class!
No wonder I'm so healthy!
Alright, that's it.
That is your drug tip moment on the No Agenda Show.
I'm going to show my food by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Hey, man, I'm here for the spin.
Hey man, the candles.
I will report back.
I'm stunned if you haven't been doing that already.
Move on.
Okay, Kevin...
What is it?
Coburner.
Gaberna, yeah.
He needs a 150 bucks.
You've been de-douched.
Longtime boner, he says.
150 bucks from him.
Christy Blumeier in Windermere, Florida.
$125.
And that's from Carter.
And this is a donation for Carter Blumeier.
Donald Borosky in Spokane Valley.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Uh-oh.
Federation.
Federation.
He's back.
Let me get the note.
It's right behind.
Put it back here.
It's on Federation paper, which means it has to be read, because it's a note from the United Federation of Planets.
Starfleet Command.
And exactly why Starfleet Command is trademarked is beyond me.
Dear Crackpot and Potkill, outstanding shows of late.
I especially appreciate your joint efforts to clear away the piles of bullshit from both sides of the political universe, exposing the bilateral douchebaggery.
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles, Baron of Spokane County.
A WA-6-OMI. Seven threes, kilo five alpha, Charlie, Charlie.
I actually set up my ham gear yesterday, and I did like a couple PSK-31s, and then my power supply blew up.
What?
Yeah.
I've never seen that happen.
I got a huge power supply, 35 amp.
Yeah, and it blew up.
Well, it didn't actually explode.
Was it a...
Well, sometimes the capital blow up.
Capital blow up.
No, I think the rectifier or something blew.
Was this a Chinese product?
They're all Chinese.
It's hard to buy a non-Chinese power supply anymore.
But they're also cheap.
Yeah, I got a fault protection.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Yeah, the thing's freaking out.
And that's our story for today.
Non sequitur of the day.
Colton Robinson, $100.33.
Hi, John and Adam.
I've been hesitating because money's been tight.
But after going to eat and being seated at table 33.
Ah, that always happens.
And then getting a membership card that same day with the first two numbers 33.
33.
That's a magic number.
So he gave us $100.33.
Thank you very much, Cole.
Ronald Haney.
$100.
Thank you both.
He's from Parts Unknown.
Daniel Lind, $90.23.
He has a birthday for himself.
Jennifer McCullough, $66.99.
John Fitzpatrick in Heber Springs, Arkansas, $64.23.
Stephen Hutto, 6422, I think it's Sir Stephen by now, if it should have been anyway.
John May, 5555, Donald Napier, double nickels on the dime, Anonymous.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
John May wanted an F cancer for Calvin, the French bulldog.
You can put that at the end?
Yes, of course.
Anonymous came with a double nickels on the dime from Geneva, Illinois.
Okay.
Jean-Claude Schmid?
Jean-Claude.
54-42.
He needs to get out of jail karma for his brother.
Okay.
Okay, we'll put that there.
Sir Skitz.
54-22.
Brian Moss.
I believe it's Sir Brian, isn't it?
Maybe not.
Rancho Santa Margarita, California.
And the following people are $50 donors.
Name and location.
Patrick Maycomb.
Sir Patrick in New York City.
Brendan Menk in Tempe, Arizona.
Andrew Beard in Belmont, North Carolina.
Sandy Geisler in Watkinsville, Georgia.
Anonymous.
Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
Jason Daniels in Parts Unknown.
And Kirsten.
Kirsten.
Gleb.
She comes through once a month on pop money.
A lot of people come in through pop money and we should revisit that mechanism because credit unions and a lot of banks use it instead of wire transfers.
It's cheaper.
It's free.
Isn't it free?
Yeah, it's free.
That's a lot cheaper.
Yeah.
That's a lot cheaper because a wire transfer is 10 to 20 bucks, but a pop money, if your bank or credit, all credit unions use it, from what I can tell.
And just to this confusion, it's a Papa Oscar Papa, not Papa Oscar Tango.
People think it's pot money.
Well, it could be pot money.
Send your pot money with pot money.
It's pop, like popping the microphone money.
And it seems to work.
I was skeptical at first, but...
Because these companies, you know, it looks like some way of moving money around, like PayPal, trying to compete with PayPal, which is what it looked like.
But I realized that they did these deals with the banks that PayPal could have done.
Yeah.
Deals with the banks and the credit unions was genius, and so I think it's a viable startup.
I like it.
Anyway, that's our group of well-wishers and producers for show 923.
And we thank everybody, especially those who came in under $50.
That's typically for reasons of anonymity.
But also a lot of people on the subscriptions.
I know a lot of you came in with...
When did we have a special number, John?
Yeah, $4.22.
Yeah, there you go.
And some people came in with that.
That's highly appreciated.
All of it helps.
This is your podcast.
It's your show.
You're the producers.
So you help out in many ways.
And we appreciate what you've done for us once again today.
And of course, we'll be back Thursday with another program.
Dvorak.org slash N.A. For those who need it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Jobs!
You've got karma.
Very short list today.
Daniel Lynn celebrated on the...
Well, he celebrates today.
Happy birthday, Daniel.
Keith Carlisle's happy birthday to Diana Crothers of Tumwater, Washington.
She celebrated on April 17th, so that's a belated birthday.
Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
It's your birthday, yeah!
Oh, here we go.
That's right, we've got a couple of title changes today on the show.
Sir Baz von Bateau becomes Sir Baz Baron of Svalbard, and that, of course, will be updated on the peerage map.
Todd Brink, Sir Macaronis au Fromage, will be the Baron, I think, of Wisconsin, and Anonymous becomes Knight of the Wiki.
Congratulations to all of you, and, of course, those reflections should be updated...
At itm.im slash period.
That's where we track everything.
In case of Armageddon, then at least we'll know who is running what portion of the world when we reboot.
Yes.
I do have a note from Baron von Batteau, who did send a thing into the email.
It was someplace last November.
Quietly claimed this fallboard archipelago in the name of No Agenda, which is cool.
Mm-hmm.
He was in Longyearbyen, someplace I guess, in the Scandinavian Nordic area.
And he claimed some land for us.
Therefore, I'd like to assume this protectorate.
And so that's why he's the Baron of Svalborg.
He says, you guys do a great job.
I really enjoy the show.
Please, please, please keep your current affairs deconstruction going.
Truly yours is the best podcast in the universe.
And he wanted a Manning money shot This is what he didn't get credit for in his last show, $333.33.
I actually would put him on today as an executive producer.
But he does have a request for stuff.
Okay, let's do it.
Money Shot, a 4X Boom Shakalaka, if you still have that one, Adam, I don't know what he's talking about.
And any random seed guy clip karma.
Yeah, hold on a second.
He sent me that.
Yes, now I remember.
Hold on a second.
I have it here somewhere.
Yeah, he sent it to me, so you just kind of threw this at me, so now I have to find it.
No, it's okay.
It's okay.
I know it's in here somewhere.
It's under jingles.
Hmm.
That's odd.
Well, I do have...
I have...
You lost the money shot?
Oh no!
I would never lose the money shot.
Okay, I think I have that.
What was after the bingo boom shakalaka?
It was the money shot, boom shakalaka, and then the seed guy karma.
Seed guy karma?
Yeah, anything from...
The seed guy.
Oh, okay.
I gotcha.
Alright.
And we'll have to do this one then.
Here we go.
That's a Shona money shot!
Woo, Jesus!
Woo, Lord!
Look at that!
That's a money shot!
Kelly and Conway is a money shot.
I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the frigging frogs gay.
You've got karma.
Oh, man.
That Manning, he's the money shot.
That's the funny part about it.
He is the money shot.
He is the money shot.
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Unless my crappy accountant deceives me, I believe my last donation brings me to knighthood.
Please, could I be known from this day forward as Sir Tom Dangereux, Knight of the Men with Hill, in recognition of our local GCHQ NSA listening station.
John, please be careful with the blade.
That's mine.
Hold on.
Okay.
Here it comes.
All right.
That means, Mark Hudson, you need to step up here to the podium.
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Yeah.
Tonight is the...
The White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The President will not be attending.
In fact, he's doing some counter-programming.
He'll be doing a big speech in, I think, Pennsylvania.
Right.
So I will definitely be watching C-SPAN. This is going to be great.
Well, here's the deal.
So what do you do?
Let's say you're at this thing, and you're invited to be one of the speakers.
Or the speaker, the comedian.
Well, the comedian can do whatever.
I mean, they've done a lot.
And who is the comedian this year?
I don't know.
I don't have a clue.
I'll check it out.
Keep going.
But what if you want to, you know, a correspondent and you go up there and you say something and you're actually a member of the media that gets into the White House to ask questions and you go up there and you start, without the president being there, you start slamming the guy.
You're going to get kicked off the rolls.
This is a risky situation for people.
Hmm.
I mean, what's the comedian going to do?
The guy's not in the audience.
The comedian likes to address somebody directly if they're going to insult them.
I think it's going to be a huge dud.
Yeah, that's what I want to watch.
Hasan Minhaj is going to be the comedian.
And he is senior correspondent at The Daily Show.
Let me guess, he's an Arab?
Oh, no, Indian.
Indian-American and Muslim.
Oh, that's going to be great.
That's going to be great.
I can't wait.
Hassan, I think I know who that is.
He's moderately funny.
Yeah.
Well, let's see how he does.
Why don't they just have the Daily Show guy do it, Noah?
I think, didn't he already do it one year?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't keep track.
I think he might.
Hey, the French election, from what I understand...
Yeah, how are we doing?
Okay, the results are coming in now, John.
I'm here.
We're waiting for official results.
Macron, 23.7%.
Marine Le Pen, 21.7%.
So they both continue.
So those two will be the ones that go off at the end.
Yeah.
Macron's going to win.
Yeah, but he's also a complete...
He at least comes across as a complete outsider.
Yeah, right.
That's a good one.
I have a boots on the ground report.
One moment.
Richard Ewing.
Boots on the ground.
Voting closed.
15 minutes.
Macron set to be into the second round, but too close to call for second candidate.
No, I think this is an older message.
Well, let's listen to a report on Macron, a backgrounder from Deutsche Welle on Macron, so people know who we're talking about.
Okay, here we go.
According to opinion polls, the current frontrunner is Emmanuel Macron, who abandoned the socialists and set up his own independent party called On The Move to attract those who yearn for a moderate middle ground candidate.
The main contestants of this election are either the far-right or the far-left.
I think it's not what we want in France.
We don't want a racist nor communist president for France.
And I think there are other solutions that are extreme solutions for the country.
I'm pro-European and I'm for progressive solutions for my country.
Macron is a 39-year-old former investment banker and reputedly a millionaire.
As a former economy minister from the socialist government, he's promising to simultaneously reduce unemployment while removing 120,000 civil servants.
Okay, this will be great.
Yeah.
Sounds like a winning plan.
He's a good-looking guy.
Yeah.
And he looks like, you know, he seems personable and people like him and he's not a racist.
I mean, when you heard that girl come up, she said, I don't want a racist or a communist.
I mean, the gand it harkens back to the little clip we played with an 11 year old who's suing the government.
She's got all these preconceived notions about everything, including a little Trump hate.
It's just more, you know, hey, they've taken the kids are now under our control.
They're going to think the way we want them to think, and we'll use that for our advantage, to our advantage, and that's what's going on.
Yes, we even have the French kids come here for your macaroni of homage, children.
So that's the guy.
If you're living in New Jersey, there is an exercise underway right now.
With Department of Homeland Security.
And FEMA Region 2 response.
You know, we're cut up into FEMA regions in the United States of Gitmo Nation.
I'm here in 6.
New Jersey is in Region 2.
This is Gotham Shield 17, GS-17.
It is ongoing as we speak today.
And I mention these things because so often it happens that some kind of exercise took place and then the real thing takes place the next day.
Right.
The purpose of Gotham Shield 17 is to evaluate the whole community effort to prevent, protect from, respond to, and plan initial recovery after the effects of an improvised nuclear device, using established exercises to achieve objectives in the relevant mission areas using established exercises to achieve objectives in the relevant mission areas and Gotham Shield 17 will assess regional and national incident management and incident support capabilities to include pre- and post-nuclear device detonation and recovery.
Sounds great.
Oh, brother.
So as a part of this, we have some cool code names.
I'll just give those to you.
Vital Archer, which is the Department of Defense exercise aligned to counterterrorism response, including weapons of mass destruction outside the contiguous United States.
Vibrant Response is the U.S. Northern Command's, U.S. NORTHCOM, the field training exercise for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, high-yield explosive consequence management forces.
Wow!
That's a title.
Fuerzas Amigas.
That's if something happens in Mexico.
Prominent Hunt.
That's a good one.
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.
National Technical Nuclear Forensics Ground Collection Task Force.
We pay for all this?
Yeah.
And staunch maple.
Hey, Scandinavia.
Staunch maple.
Yeah, it's true.
That guy's a staunch maple, man.
Hey, I watched just a little bit of the overtime with Bill Maher.
Yeah, he went on a rant, which showed up all over the place.
I thought it was pretty decent.
Yeah, I didn't want to play that rant.
I wanted to play something from Arwa Damon.
Just to show you, she's a journalist, and I will remind you what we know about her after I play this clip from Bill Maher's show.
She's a journalist.
I think she's CNN. You'll remember her in a moment.
She's always overseas.
Now, what is the job of a journalist?
To report on events.
So it's not to fight for justice.
No, never to fight for justice.
You're supposed to be neutral.
That's not a journalist, that's an advocate.
You don't know what you're talking about.
She is a very big cheese there.
She's a huge journalist.
Big cheese.
That's another one for the list.
Yeah, for the phrase.
I'm still loading up the list, people.
The subject line is word.
How do you combat conflict fatigue and apathy among Americans for humanitarian disasters abroad?
That's something that we struggle with every single day.
And I think that's one of our main responsibilities as journalists.
We have to keep going out there and trying to figure out new and different ways to present a story.
We cannot allow a sense of utility to silence us or to stop us.
And frankly, for us, combat fatigue is not a luxury that we have.
We cannot stop.
We cannot stop fighting for these basic humanitarian principles for children that are dying, for people that are starving.
Because if we stop fighting for that, then what kind of a world do we live in?
I don't know.
I mean, I'm so happy you're in the world, Awa.
Oh, my God, what would I do without you?
Oh, yes, I remember you.
Now, she was on assignment, and apparently she hadn't eaten much, but she had a few drinks, and so she became unruly.
While she became unruly, she allegedly bit two individuals who have filed the lawsuit against her.
Now, according to the lawsuit that has been filed in the New York State Supreme Court...
Damon has a, quote, history of becoming intoxicated and abusive.
And just to give you a better sense of what the plaintiffs are claiming, Charles Simons and Tracy Lamar, EMTs who were working for a private contractor, alleged in a suit that they were providing assistance to an intoxicated Damon when she bit and threatened them while saying that she was, quote, a major reporter for CNN. And then also the attorney says that she was biting them both pretty furiously.
She has good teeth.
Eventually they subdued her.
Remember that?
Remember that?
Even though after the fact it's in a different kind of a realm, you get a clip of the day for that.
Oh, thank you.
Clip of the day.
And it was a combination of the two clips that make it work.
Make it work, yes.
Isn't that amazing?
Yeah.
I love our archive.
It's gotten pretty good.
The archive is part of it.
It's the money shot.
It's the money shot right there.
I want to remind everybody that the Australia-New Zealand tour is on.
We have MagaTour.com.
Of course, we're also going to New Zealand, but that's what Dame Angela Castaneda set up.
M-A-U-G-A-Tour.com, MagaTour.
This is where you can sign up.
She's putting it together now.
The trip is being put together.
And this morning, the keeper said, oh, man.
Now, look at this.
North Korea is threatened to hit Australia with a nuclear strike.
I said, this is exactly the time to go.
This is exactly the time to go.
We need to.
This is perfect.
I want to go to France.
I want to go to Paris.
We were right there.
I already proved that point, and I think it's a point any smart traveler would know.
Yeah.
Can I make a prediction?
I'll make a prediction, even though the Red Book is kind of full of predictions.
Mm-hmm.
They're not going to bomb Australia with a nuke.
Oh, man.
Bill, you better put that in the Red Book for sure.
Yeah.
You might be right.
I have a couple of clips left here.
More than a few, actually.
But we can start with Jeff Sessions is a racist.
Hey, we weren't saying that.
I know we weren't, but this woman...
Okay, here's the deal.
At the end she says it, and I said, holy crap, she said racist.
This is a CBS reporter.
And she's an adult?
She's an adult grown-up woman?
She's an adult grown-up woman.
But when I took that, after I'd clipped it and I'd taken the end, and when I had to...
Fiddle with it.
I could just barely...
She did have the T in there, so...
But it sounds like she said it.
And, Margaret, also today, the president's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, raised some eyebrows with what appeared to be criticism of the judicial branch.
Yes, well, the second version of the president's travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries is being held up by a federal court judge in Hawaii.
And in a radio interview recorded on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions seemed to raise some questions about the judge and the state of Hawaii.
I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops seeing the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional powers.
Now, Hawaii senators who are both Democrats pounced on those remarks in a series of tweets.
I'll read you some of them pointing out, Senator Brian Schatz, that Sessions actually voted in the Senate to confirm the judge in question here.
And the other senator from Hawaii, Maisie Hirono, accused Jeff Sessions of what she said was dog whistle politics.
Scott, that's another way of suggesting he's being racist.
Still 50 stars in the flag.
Right, sis.
She has the whole demeanor, so why not?
Unbelievable.
Congratulations to you, John.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
You came up with a new category.
The terror put.
The terror put?
Yeah, the terror put.
You asserted, both on Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged, and I brought it up here, That it would be nuts for someone not to be in cahoots with North Korea to put a put call.
And just to explain briefly, it's like shorting a stock, only it's much cheaper to do.
Yeah, it's leveraged.
Yeah, you put in a put call, so your exposure maybe, I'll just say, it could be $1,000, you could make $10,000.
But your exposure is $1,000.
So the put call is you expect stock to go down.
Well, wouldn't you know?
The terrorist, who allegedly bombed right near Germany's bus, the Dortmunder team's bus, had placed a put call, which should have netted him a cool million dollars for the team's actual stock price dropping.
I didn't know they were a public team.
And so he said, yeah, that was his motivation.
This is fantastic!
I mean, they learned it from 9-11, of course, because there were all these put calls on the airlines.
Oh, tons of put calls on the airlines.
Very odd.
Hadn't happened before, you know, just the day before.
Nobody busted.
This guy.
Well, you know why?
Because in World Trade 7, all the records were there.
Yeah.
Now, this guy, his mistake was he did it the day of his bombing.
Oh, that's so stupid.
Yeah.
And he didn't buy one.
He bought a whole bunch out of the blue.
Yeah, tens of thousands of dollars.
And he was in the same hotel as the team.
So he was an idiot.
But the put, yeah, the terror put.
I'll use that.
This is a good term.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Now let's go, let's try this little clip.
Oh, by the way, Ann Coulter's their new update.
There's a new update.
She's actually going to speak at Berkeley now.
Today, the University of California at Berkeley reversed its decision to cancel a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
Because they need the controversy.
They're going to love it.
There's going to be a huge event.
Beautiful.
Over security concerns, they're now offering a make-up date at a more secure venue.
John Blackstone is following this.
On the Berkeley campus, opposition to Ann Coulter's appearance adds to a growing impression that conservative opinions are not welcome at many of the nation's public universities.
I was the one that personally invited Ann Coulter.
Nauid Tomas is spokesman for the Berkeley College Republicans.
These students are trying to create a liberal echo chamber on campus where one viewpoint is allowed and any other viewpoint is attacked and harassed.
Violence erupted on the Berkeley campus in February when outspoken conservative Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear.
He was rushed from the building for what campus police said was his own safety.
Berkeley officials worried the same thing could happen to Ann Coulter.
Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks.
Our police department has made it clear that they have very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker.
Attendees and those who may wish to lawfully protest this event.
Demonstrations against conservative speakers have turned violent on campuses from NYU to the University of Washington in Seattle, where one man was shot in a clash between protesters.
Berkeley officials blame recent violence there on what they call the black block.
Not students, but outsiders who come to campus bent on destruction.
Clad in black, wearing masks, highly organized, rather disciplined, armed, not with firearms, but armed with a number of weapons.
Berkeley, of course, has a long history of protest.
The free speech movement of the 1960s was born at this campus gate.
Today, Scott, school officials had to answer to conservatives whether the only free speech welcome here is from the left.
John Blackstone, our man on campus.
John, thank you.
The free speech movement was not done at that gate.
He's talking about Seder Gate, which is right there, leading to most of the buildings.
He's wrong.
He's wrong.
I understood.
Culture was on Tucker's show.
I understood she was going on her...
This is like five days later at a different venue.
It is my understanding she's going on the day agreed to at the original venue.
This is going to be a shitstorm.
I think you're going to kill her.
Wow.
Red Book.
This is one of those things where we're...
It's time for someone to die.
I think you're right.
We're in that curve.
Or shoot at her, at least.
Yeah, at least.
Your prediction earlier, when you brought the Hannity thing up as another target, I think you might be right.
This is all part of Hillary's get-back-at-everybody-she-can.
Yep.
And Coulter wrote this in Trump We Trust or some crazy book before the election.
Well, let's make a list then.
Let's make a list.
Let's make a quick list.
This is the last thing we can do today.
Let's make a list.
A hit list.
A hit list.
Hillary's hit list, we'll call it.
Hillary's hit list, okay.
Okay.
All right.
I think Tucker would be on there, but low on the list.
High on the list would be Hannity would be number one.
So we got him.
Yeah.
They still will go after Limbaugh.
No, I don't think so.
No?
Okay.
I think Limbaugh's impervious.
All right.
He's off the list.
He's off the list.
I would keep him off.
But it's not just media people.
There's other people who need to die.
Well, or get eliminated from their jobs.
O'Reilly didn't die.
Nobody's died yet.
You know what I mean.
So they already got Milo.
They got Alex Jones.
They got...
Did they really get Alex Jones?
I don't know.
Maybe.
You know, Jones is an outlier.
How about Gowdy?
Maybe Trey Gowdy?
Trey Gowdy, definitely.
Definitely.
He's the one who led up the Benghazi investigation.
He's got to go.
Yeah, and of course...
Supposedly, there's all these rumors about these two assistants that have disappeared, but there's no evidence of it.
Gowdy, I think, is retiring, is he not?
Suddenly.
Is he?
Yeah, suddenly.
They must have something on him.
Or he knows.
Maybe.
Comey, of course.
He's up the back.
Oh, Comey's done.
Schaffetz.
Jeff Sessions, for sure.
Schaffetz.
Sessions, yep, Sessions.
Yeah, Schaffetz has already announced his retirement.
Yeah.
So they got him.
Media people is what I'm thinking of.
Well, the three, obviously, but I think that you can't hurt him.
Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin.
No, Ted Nugent is seen as a lunatic.
Yeah, and Kid Rock.
Nah, lunatic.
The rock guys don't care.
Okay.
The war room is not very helpful.
Assange.
Ah, yes.
Assange.
Assange and Snowden both.
Okay, this is my last.
I do have a clip.
And this plays into our licensing.
By the way, I'm sending Bill O'Reilly a podcast license.
You can't just go on the air without an official podcast license.
Podcastlicense.com.
So the rumor, or I don't know if it's a rumor, but the word is, Sessions is going after Assange, going after WikiLeaks.
We're going to go get him.
He's a traitor.
We've got to get this guy, even though he's not American.
But you've got to go get this guy.
Hold on a second.
So I'm listening to Michael Savage show the other day, he's driving around, and there's all these different, and he brings up this topic, he says, is Assange a hero or a traitor?
And I immediately think to myself, how can he, the guy is not an American.
How can he possibly be a traitor?
A traitor to what?
And it's covered by the First Amendment.
To justice.
He's not covered by the First Amendment.
How is he covered by the First Amendment?
He's not an American.
He's an Australian living in an Ecuadorian embassy.
How can you even arrest him?
No, you can't.
But Greg Greenwell, Don Raff, whose palsy is gone!
So happy for him.
He got over rather quickly.
I'm happy for him.
Because man, that was not a happy look.
That was not a good look.
No, it was not a good look.
If some people, I don't know, it's either the person or the treatment, I don't know what it was, but he got rid of that really fast.
Most people usually have a hangover and they kind of talk funny.
No, he's completely symmetrical again.
Yeah.
Great.
He understands what's going on.
I think he's right.
Glenn, if Julian Assange did more than just publish classified information, if he aided and abetted sources who stole classified information, which is apparently what the Justice Department wants to charge him with, does that change things, in your opinion?
First of all, it's a huge if.
The Obama Justice Department said that they had searched for evidence that indicated that he did that and found none.
The most important stories of the last few decades have involved the release of huge amounts of classified information going from the Pentagon Papers through the Manning and WikiLeaks documents, through the Snowden reporting, through a lot of I think we see from this discussion how easy it is.
Especially with a president who has said the U.S. media is the enemy of the people.
If you accept this theory that a media outlet can be prosecuted because they collaborate with their sources, how easy that can then spill over into traditional media outlets and to investigative journalism of the type that we recognize as important and noble and that is done by journalists and sources every single day.
And that's the real danger here.
Licensing in your future.
Yep.
Yeah.
He's absolutely right.
No, he's totally right.
He's not a real journalist.
He's not a journalist.
He's a traitor.
He's the only hero in all of this, I would say.
Yes, I would not argue the point.
He's an interesting fellow, but he definitely put his ass on the line for what he believes in.
I have super respect for that.
And I'm happy, quite honestly, we know all this nut job stuff.
Unlike Gayle King, who's a sneak...
Sneak.
What did Gayle's King do?
Well, let's go to Access Hollywood.
Gayle's Obama vacation under fire.
Welcome to Access Hollywood.
Did vacationing on a yacht with the Obamas get Gayle King in hot water with her CBS colleagues?
As a co-anchor of CBS this morning, Gayle covers the White House.
But did she step over the line given that President Obama is no longer in power?
Well, Scott Evans spoke to Gayle this morning in New York.
My vacations are not political and so I went on vacation with a great group of people and to me that's not a political statement.
Gail shooting down this morning's Page Six item that claims some serious journalists, including her CBS This Morning co-anchor, Charlie Rose, have taken issue with Gail vacationing on a yacht with the Obamas in Tahiti.
And last time I checked, he wasn't in the White House anymore.
So I went on vacations with friends.
That's how I see it.
Enough said.
CBS News adds there is no truth to any of it.
We love Gail King.
Sounds like sour grapes.
Sounds like sour grapes.
What, that we couldn't hang out with the Obamas?
Is that what Charlie Rose is?
Hey, man, I wanted to hang out with the Obamas.
I don't think Rose ever gets invited to anything.
No, probably not.
I mean, unless it's a cocktail party or something, but I don't think it's anything like that.
I mean, Hannity does.
Hannity hangs out with George Bush at the ranch.
Yeah, yeah.
We gotta go, John.
Nobody bitches about that.
That seems like a pretty exclusive company.
Well, I have...
Ten minutes has passed if you want to do one last one.
Yeah, I was going to do one last one.
I have a bunch of stuff left over.
Well, I have a longer thing, but I just want to...
I might as well just play the ISO. I'll play the ISO. You tell me who they're talking about.
It's unhinged.
It's not nice.
Trump.
No, listen to who's saying it.
It's unhinged.
It's not nice.
Is that...
Is unhinged.
Is not nice.
Is that Chris Matthews, the second one?
No, no, it's Hannity and Gingrich.
Hannity and Gingrich.
This is a good question.
This is a good one.
Who are they talking about?
Is unhinged.
Is not nice.
Unhinged, he's not nice.
Political figure?
Yes.
Is there a new show?
Hmm...
Wow.
You can ask more questions.
Ask more questions.
Okay, so it's male.
It's him, so it's male.
Political figure.
He's not nice.
Republican or Democrat?
He's unhinged.
He's not nice.
He's unhinged.
He's not nice.
You're just going to have to tell me.
I don't know.
Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un?
Kim Jong-un?
Yeah.
That's a combo.
Hold on.
Oh, man.
Okay, here we go.
Kim Jong-un-yum!
Kim Jong Guess that celebrity or whatever.
You get five questions.
Yeah, maybe not.
I like it.
Yeah.
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Some different stuff.
Excited about sharing that with you.
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Go Warriors.
My brother from another mother.
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It was innocuous tweet.
I didn't really think much of it at the time.
But then a couple of days later, I was fired from my job.
And the reason left me well beyond surprise.
Someone had taken what I said on a ridiculous op-ed and spread it all over the goddamn internet.
I came in contact with the author and I asked her, hey, what kids?
She messaged me in this.
She said, oh, there ain't no rest for the trigger.
Where is the religious, please?
We've got hair to dye, we've got tears to cry.
Please give me your sin, babe.
No, I won't let loose.
I get my news from places like Salon.
I know there ain't no rest for the trigger.
Donate to my Patreon.
Not even 15 minutes later, I have come across a crowd who wants to protest over something someone said.
They call for the resignation of a man who seemed to be patient in explaining what it was he really meant.
Apparently the crowd was mad that he didn't want to ban on who he got to.
I know there ain't no rest for the trigger.
Donate to my Patreon.
Disgust.
And I'm not even a man.
I'm run by gendered girl with many tendencies.
I said, okay, so whatever.
And he calls up the police.
Now I'm 7, 6 to 10 because I've been to this every longer.
I know there ain't no rest for the trigger.
The way was the weakest please.
We've got hair to tie.
We've got tears to cry.
Please give me a tear to pain.
No, I won't let loose.
I get my hands from places like Salon.
No, there ain't no rest for the trigger.
Donate to my picture on.
Millennials on Mastodon, the new social network that we're federated and a part of.
.
They lie like crazy.
So, in order to say, I was victimized, they lie.
They lie.
Her story does not check out at all.
I mean, outright lie.
Contacting admins.
Lock NoagendaSocial.com.
These guys are good.
They lie.
The admin of NoagendaSocial came over and said that he was going to bring everybody over here to harass me.
And nothing.
And it's a complete fabrication.
Complete and utter lie.
The lie.
It's a lie.
Big, big news.
Alex Jones is in the news every day.
This is all about Trump.
Man, why is this in the news?
Anna Warner is following this.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, what's funny?
Blame Alex Jones.
Big, big news.
Big, big news.
Trump is all about Trump.
Why are they doing this to Jones?
Trump.
Well, Joe's going to back off the line.
He's made it all up.
Alex Jones.
Just in half.
Alex Jones.
I made this up.
I made this up.
In the central Texas command center.
The other means that I was lying.
Jones.
His business is pleasure.
Keep doing it.
My big issue is, I'm in a man's world, dude.
On your entire budget.
The other media is about wine.
Black hole of lies.
Why are they doing this to Joe?
He just said he didn't do anything.
He just said he didn't do anything.
Oh, he was killing it.
The radio rants.
You're doing it.
DE radio is doing people.
The NSA is trying to be the IRS for executing Christians.
We've got others.
That's the media that's coming out tonight and exist.
All attention to power to be classified secret testing radiating children.
In the Central Texas Command Center.
Swiss cheese.
Supposedly, I didn't check.
I was buying my suits.
The virus have drawn millions of fans.
On the Dacron.
He is supposedly, I didn't check.
He bought suits.
In the Florida Macy's.
Oh, that's what he is supposed to say.
I didn't check.
I was buying my suits.
The videos have drawn millions of fans.
Including Swiss cheese.
That's right.
So I learned to buy my suits.
In the Florida Macy's.
Of the press, I hold Swiss cheese.
That's right.
I was surprised if I traveled more.
I would always buy my suits.
I didn't check it myself.
I don't know.
Swiss cheese.
That's right.
In the Florida Macy's.
Of the Dacron.
Yeah, the Dacron.
Press.
I hold Swiss cheese.
That's right.
He's supposedly one of the first.
Oh, stop, stop.
I think that's wonderful for a vibe.
I would always buy my suits.
Echoed some of Jones' claims.
I would always buy my suits.
I would always buy my suits at the Florida Macy's.
Always buy my suit.
Some of Jones' queens.
That's what she is.
From the Florida Macy's.
And if you weren't also with them.
The whole business here because they're with them.
That's what she is.
It says New York Times.
Florida Macy's.
Yeah, the Decker.
Always buy my suits.
Check it.
I didn't check it.
Myself.
Classroom.
Yeah, just to travel more.
I would always buy my suits.
Jones and that's your reason.
Kiwis and Aussies have asked Adam to please.
Come visit us here in the Antipodes.
So he's agreed to sojourn to the ends of the earth.
New Zealand, Australia, on a trip with no purpose.
From the top of NT to Tassie below, Queensland, South Australia, he'll livestream our show.
And while Sydney and Melbourne still argue who's best, the folks who miss out, they all live in the West.
Now Adam's our mate, and I'm sure there's a reason, because on a podcaster's wage, you have to travel off-season.
And the logistics to traverse Australia's white girth is probably why he's not visiting Perth.
Like a life without bacon or a pub with no beer and all the sad things I could be listing off here.
But I wrote this jingle for some laughter and mirth and call Adam Douchebag for not visiting Perth.