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	I'm YouTubing!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, April 27, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9024.
	This is no agenda.
	When two tribes go to war, we'll still be here broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the inn, the capital of the drone, Star State, downtown Austin, Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where everyone is in the thick of it, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	This is the Did I hear you had a little thick tongue there?
	No.
	Okay.
	You've been drinking again?
	Damn it.
	You never drink on the show.
	You never drink on the show.
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't know about this rule.
	It's huge.
	It's a huge rule.
	Oh, man.
	What you been up to?
	What?
	What you been up to, Brossif?
	Well, let me think.
	I gotta tell you something.
	Although I always knew it, I have such respect.
	Renewed respect.
	Respect again renewed for the dude's name Ben out there, the sysadmins who keep stuff running.
	Holy crap.
	Well, I'm running our noagendasocial.com server.
	Oh, right.
	Yes.
	Did you get it fixed so I could actually upload GIFs?
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's interesting how people go, Hey, this is broken!
	Fix it!
	Like, I'm not in charge of the software.
	I just keep the thing running.
	And then, of course, I perform a...
	Welcome to the world of...
	Oh, yeah.
	And then I perform a Git pull and upgrade, and then it broke...
	The number of people who put in two-factor authentication on...
	NoagendaSocial.com on like a Twitter site.
	Why?
	I know.
	And of course something broke and they got locked out.
	So I had to go back and manually unflip bits in the databases.
	Oh my god.
	But it's also, you know, I set up a little bot, you know, when a show prep thing goes through, then, you know, it's post that.
	People are like, the bot is spammy!
	The bot is spammy!
	Stop the bot is spammy!
	Well, you can mute or block the bot.
	But no, no.
	They gotta toot me, and they gotta email me.
	I don't know how those guys do it.
	I don't know how guys do it.
	I think they're all criminally insane by this point.
	No, I mean, the dudes named Ben aren't criminally insane.
	That's what I meant.
	Mastodon.
	Yeah, we got a jingle for it.
	I don't know why.
	Isn't that the song by the band Mastodon?
	No, that would be the band Van Halen.
	Oh, okay.
	But this is not Van Halen.
	No, it's one of our Van Halen clones.
	Well, this is Piggott.
	It's Sir Chris Wilson and Ned Jeffery.
	They put this together.
	Yeah, they got a longer one, too.
	At the end of the show, I'll play it.
	They have the chops.
	Yeah.
	I had something cool happen with this great open-source project.
	I'm being very...
	What is the...
	Cynical.
	Cynical.
	Thank you.
	This great project.
	All of a sudden, a little trademark shows up.
	Yes, we're now placing trademark next to the Mastodon name.
	Okay.
	Well, there you go.
	That's the beginning of the end.
	That's the beginning of the end.
	Beginning of the end.
	Yeah.
	VC money coming in soon.
	It's going to ruin...
	Well, it won't ruin us because, you know, if I can keep the server running.
	Anyway, if you're listening to the show, have a look.
	Noagendasocial.com.
	It's a fun experiment.
	We're learning a lot.
	A lot.
	Our people, our people, John.
	Our people, our producers.
	They're pretty fanatical.
	Yes.
	It's a good thing.
	Yeah.
	It's what you want.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well...
	Well, we can start off with the good news.
	Okay.
	There's good news.
	Yes, there's good news.
	The State Department finally hired somebody to take over.
	I know.
	I know.
	She's hot.
	From Mark Toner.
	There's a huge report on RT. Uh-huh.
	About this woman.
	And I think I have a clip that kind of outlines it.
	Within the clip, there's a very funny Mark Toner.
	So I can just play this first.
	This is Mark Toner cracking up.
	To see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy.
	LAUGHTER Yeah, we heard about that.
	I think we played a different version of that.
	It's very funny.
	She's from Fox, I believe.
	Fox News?
	Yeah, Heather Nauert.
	I don't remember ever seeing her on Fox, but I guess...
	I don't remember seeing her either, no.
	But anyway, here's a little report about Heather.
	Wow, it's not a little report.
	This is a long report.
	It's too long.
	This must be good.
	Interrupt as necessary.
	I can't wait.
	I was going to say, it's a long report because...
	I don't know what the deal is, but RT is like needling the administration as much as it can.
	Well, yeah.
	If you're working on a broadcast place and all day you hear prominent politicians saying, well, this is clearly just the propaganda arm of Putin.
	It's financed by Putin.
	It's all Putin.
	It's all lies.
	You get a little cynical probably.
	Yep.
	The Korea missile deployment and other Trump team policies will now be represented by a fresh and somewhat unconventional face.
	The president has picked his new spokesperson for the State Department.
	Caleb Mophan gives us the lowdown on the new edition.
	Now we all remember previous State Department spokespersons.
	Good to see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy.
	I don't have any specific comments.
	If there's more to share at some point, I'm happy to.
	Yes, let's go to Art.
	If you already had that, then you probably already had at least some of the answer to your question.
	Well, John Kirby left with President Obama, and now the Trump administration has appointed someone new to fill his shoes.
	This was in Wisconsin, growing up.
	My mom and my grandfather and everybody, they all went out of pheasant hunting a lot, and I loved to play in the dead birds.
	So we go like, go, Keith.
	Cougars!
	Cougars!
	Had they really been doing the restructuring that they needed to over the past 30 years, they wouldn't have their hands out begging for this $14 billion.
	Donald Trump administration and how they will handle Israel.
	What is going on?
	I'm not seeing it.
	What is happening?
	It's just like back and forth.
	They're going from wacky clip to wacky clip about her talking about rolling around with dead birds.
	All insulting, by the way.
	Her jumping up and down on the sofa talking about cougars, them posing like they were cheerleaders in some football game.
	I mean, it's just, they scoured the archives to find every instance of her being an idiot.
	They tried to pull the pin on the grenade.
	In fact, they did pull the pin on the grenade and threw it right there in the middle of Israel.
	Now, Heather isn't a politician or a diplomat.
	She's a talk show host.
	She's worked in TV and radio since the 1990s.
	Now she'll be addressing the U.S. media on behalf of the State Department.
	Her appointment seems to fit kind of a pattern for the new administration.
	We are sending an armada.
	Very powerful.
	We have submarines.
	Very powerful.
	Under President Trump, the shield stands guard.
	And the sword stands ready.
	Ever notice how the Trump people have a certain way of making a big announcement?
	It's a little on the showbiz side.
	A little style over substance.
	I think as well as anybody else, let's remember some of the disasters the State Department had under the Obama administration.
	So I think the bar is a pretty low one for the new person from the Trump administration to clear.
	And let's also keep in mind that much of the Trump approach to foreign policy so far seems to be based on being very demonstrative, to be playing for effect.
	For example, the very limited airstrike that took place in Syria, the dropping of the Moab in Afghanistan, this calling in all the senators who are briefing on North Korea today.
	Did you see that? - Yeah.
	Yeah, you stop for a second.
	Yes, this was funny.
	This was fantastic.
	That was one of the best things I've ever seen.
	Are you talking about the hearings or are you talking about the bus ride?
	The bus ride!
	It's like they're in Vegas at the convention or something.
	Explain the setup because it was a little unclear in that clip what happened.
	They had this briefing on North Korea and I guess they wanted to get I don't know if it was all the senators but a good portion of the senators.
	Hold on a second.
	A good portion of the senators, it was like they were all put in buses and then driven over to the briefing area instead of just finding their own way over there.
	I don't know what the point of it was, but it was amusing because it was like those buses you get if you've ever been to a trade show.
	Oh, yeah.
	And you go and there's all these buses lined up saying, you know, with all the names of the hotels on the top or there's something or it would say something on top.
	So maybe Senators A through F or something.
	Who knows?
	But it was the silliest thing I've ever...
	And the Senators were befuddled by it.
	And some of these buses were pretty rank.
	You know, there was complaints about it, too.
	Oh, there was scotch tape on the rear window.
	Yeah.
	I saw the buses from the outside.
	They looked like reasonably nice buses, but I suppose...
	What are they doing?
	They want to take a limo!
	Yes, of course!
	Or an Escalade, at the very least, and we're all in a bus?
	Yeah, that was, for optics, well played.
	I thought it was funny.
	I thought it was fantastic.
	Let's continue with your clip here.
	I think maybe somebody with, if you will, a bit of showmanship from Fox News might be able to do a very good job.
	And now, Trump's showbiz arsenal may have a new weapon.
	Tech twists on the old school bike.
	Oh my God!
	Are you okay?
	Reporting from Washington, D.C., Caleb Maupin for RT. Fantastic!
	Come on, I'll shoot!
	The two finalists, French presidential...
	A little too long there, John.
	I thought I was remiss.
	That's why it was long.
	Well, of course, the big question is, will Heather, will she wind up being romantically involved with Matt Lee?
	Yes, we're all interested in this.
	She's on the right league.
	He's in the right league.
	He's on the prowl ever since...
	Not Jen.
	What's the other girl's name?
	The flute girl.
	It wasn't Newland.
	It was a Newland.
	No, it wasn't Newland.
	No, it came way after.
	There was a Jen Psaki, and then who's the other one?
	Oh, come on, War Room.
	Where are you today?
	Pataki.
	No.
	Jen?
	No.
	Marie.
	Marie.
	Harf.
	There we go.
	Thank you very much.
	Harf.
	Harf.
	Of course, coming from mainstream corporate media, in particular Fox News, you can just wait for it.
	They're going to be so mean to her.
	The journalists, the United States Network, they will be so mean.
	Well, maybe not.
	Maybe they'll make her cry.
	That would do it.
	If she actually cries on the podium, they would all be kind of happy about it.
	Then they'd be excoriated by the public.
	No, they won't.
	No, they won't.
	The public is insane, John.
	There is no more public to speak of.
	They're just all nuts.
	Well, on this, though, we have two kind of Ministry of Truthiness stories.
	One is that Google has now announced they're going to, quote, retool their algos.
	They're going to retool the algos, bruh, to demote hoaxes and fake news and the No Agenda show.
	Just guessing.
	The No Agenda show wasn't mentioned.
	No, but it's...
	When does the No Agenda show ever come up in a Google search unless you type in No Agenda?
	Right.
	Right.
	Well, that's a good question.
	I don't know.
	Never.
	I'm going to tell you what's going to happen is social justice warriors will use the reporting function to get people's stuff delisted or demoted or what do they call it?
	Demoted.
	Demoted, yeah.
	Why don't we just start using dig again?
	Thumbs up, thumbs down.
	At the same time, we now have the announcement of WikiTribune.
	This is Wikipedia's news service.
	Now, it would seem to me that this is the kind of thing that the folks in your milieu would be talking about.
	In the news milieu.
	I'm not a person.
	Nobody cares.
	Really?
	The other one is also the Twitter mentions or whatever it is.
	Not mentions, but the Twitter lightning bolt, whatever it's called.
	Notification.
	No, something.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what that is.
	They have a newspaper.
	They've turned that into a newspaper, and now that...
	And Wikipedia's always had a newspaper, if you actually just go to the front of the service, there's a newspaper, and now they're just calling it the Tribune, as opposed to just doing it.
	Well, they're going to...
	It's not new, really.
	They're going to offer factual and neutral articles that will help combat the problem of fake news.
	They can't do it.
	It sounds boring, is what it says.
	It can't be done.
	No, you can't.
	I mean, you can claim everything is fake, or wrong, at least, wrong.
	You know, actually, I don't want to play this.
	This was a nightmare once they came up with this fake news concept.
	I forgot who coined it.
	It was the corporate media themselves came up with it.
	And then Trump co-opted it.
	Huge blunder.
	Now, I'm not a fan of TMZ. I don't watch.
	Sometimes I come across a video, maybe.
	But Harry Levin, is it Harry?
	Yeah, Harvey.
	Harvey Levin, who's the owner, and then he sits there with his cappuccino or his frappuccino, and he's, hey, tell me what's going on in the world of celebrities.
	I didn't know this because, gee, I live in a world of interesting stuff, but apparently he went to see President Trump and was excoriated.
	How dare you!
	You scum of the earth!
	He was?
	Yeah.
	I didn't know any of this.
	I didn't know it until I came across a little thing that he had here.
	When was he speaking now?
	I was on stage somewhere.
	It might have been like some weird conference.
	But listen to what he had to say.
	It was heartening.
	Heartening?
	It was nice to hear this guy in particular say these words about corporate media, in particular corporate news media.
	You know, there are certain networks and newspapers that are very clear on who they are and what they feel.
	And that's fine.
	I mean, if you put yourself out as, you know, somebody who supports Trump or like MSNBC is against Trump, at least you get it.
	You know what you're getting.
	But when you pretend like you're objective, but you're not.
	And you are angry.
	And you are trying to kill and bully.
	I think that is killing.
	And I don't think they know it yet.
	But I think some of the trusted names in news are not trusted anymore because of this.
	And, you know, what...
	I think it's so preposterous that Kanye West went to see Trump.
	He got trashed.
	Steve Harvey went to see Trump.
	He got trashed.
	They went after me for seeing Trump.
	So I guess the solution is nobody should see him.
	It should be a boycott.
	That is so stupid.
	You know, it's like...
	Oh, a smattering of applause!
	Let me just say, it's stupid.
	I think I heard four people clap!
	Oh, wait a minute!
	Because they're all with their mouths open like, what is he saying?
	You know, it's like...
	Please clap!
	Let me just say, it's stupid because...
	You know, look, I disagree with some of the stuff he does and believes.
	And I'm not sure if some of the stuff he does is stuff he believes.
	And I'm not saying I disagree with everything he does, but I disagree with some of the stuff he does and believes.
	And I went in there and I voiced an opinion on some things.
	And why would you not get in that game if you disagree the solution is to boycott?
	I mean, the guy has already shown that in the last three weeks, he's changed his mind on five things.
	So, if he's willing to change his mind, why would you sit in the sidelines, bully people who go in there?
	It's absurd.
	Bully people because he has a view you don't like, yet you could change the view by having people go in and talk to him.
	It is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
	Clap, clap, clap.
	Good God.
	Good on him.
	Yeah.
	Well, he is referring to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
	All right.
	That's what he's referring to.
	Yeah.
	Super papers of record.
	They're on all the time.
	You go to PBS News, there's always a WAPO guy there yakking about something.
	They're extremely biased.
	So speaking of WAPO, WAPO, WAPO, the photo of two Wall Street journals with the same front page, a picture of Trump with a pronoun named Xi, or no, a Brazilian president.
	No, who was he on the cover with?
	Who is that dude?
	So there were two different additions.
	And one had the headline, Trump softens his tone.
	The other one, Trump talks tough.
	Yeah, it's great.
	And of course, this went to Snopes.
	Oh yeah, the Snopes thing.
	Snopes, this is a good example of Snopes being wrong.
	Well, being propaganda, propagandistic.
	Yeah, it's wrong.
	They're wrong.
	I'll read it verbatim here.
	Same paper, different story.
	An image showing two editions of the Wall Street Journal with opposing headlines on the front page is real, but the wording wasn't part of an effort to sway voters.
	You see, what they're saying is...
	Okay, here it is.
	Claim.
	The Wall Street Journal ran a Donald Trump story with different headlines in different markets in order to sway voters.
	Rating, mixture, what's true?
	An image showing two editions of the same day's Wall Street Journal with opposing headlines about Donald Trump's immigration stance is real.
	What's false?
	The Wall Street Journal did not publish different headlines in different markets in order to sway voters away from Trump.
	Well, how do you know?
	How do you know?
	They didn't talk to anybody.
	They just say, well, they didn't do it to sway voters away from Trump.
	They just did it.
	Why did they do it?
	That's not in the article.
	No, that's what's wrong with Snopes.
	Yeah.
	There's a lot wrong with Snopes.
	I got a bunch of...
	When I first ran that thing, which was on Twitter...
	It's also in the newsletter, obviously.
	Got more attention, obviously, in the newsletter.
	The newsletter got more attention than Twitter, trust me.
	Yes, by a lot.
	But I did run it on Twitter, and somebody comes in, this is bullcrap, this is Yoshi Snopes, Snopes, Snopes.
	And so I go over there, I look at Snopes, and Snopes has no explanation for it.
	They just have some nonsense that you just read, which is just bogus.
	This makes it worse.
	Snopes makes it worse.
	And the guy disappears.
	The correct answer is no.
	They didn't do it to sway voters.
	They did it to sell newspapers.
	That can be the correct answer every single time.
	Yes.
	And in fact, the Wall Street Journal does have More than any other national paper, they do regional editions.
	Somebody also mentioned, oh, it's an afternoon edition.
	They just changed it.
	So what?
	No, they don't do that.
	They don't do morning after.
	It's not like the old dailies.
	You know, you have the three stars, the four stars, the bulldogs.
	Three different people on staff are doing that.
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	But the Wall Street Journal does have regional editions, and the reason for that is not so much even for the regional aspect of it, but it's mostly for advertisers.
	So you can just buy the Midwest, or you can just buy the Southeast.
	You can just buy a little segment.
	If you want to advertise, you don't have to advertise over the whole thing.
	It costs you too much.
	And so, but they tweak it for the audience.
	Of course.
	If you're writing, if you have a regional edition, let's say for Los Angeles, you're not going to, it's not going to have the same wording and headlines as Iowa.
	It's just not, you just wouldn't do that if you have the chance to change it.
	You'd change it.
	Otherwise you get a bunch of flack.
	Well, there was a lot of hate going around.
	We've been lucky.
	We've been pretty light on all kinds of Trump clips.
	Today may be a little different.
	Well, we're the hate show.
	Well, he had the hate show.
	Caitlyn Jenner appeared on The View, my favorite show.
	It's on my beat.
	You know, I cross by it every single weekday.
	Love the ladies of The View as they corrupt the women of the country into blubbering morons.
	Let's see.
	Well, and this, of course, was about President Trump, and there was some fun stuff in here.
	My loyalties are not with the Republican Party.
	My loyalties are not...
	He's really working on the voice, isn't he?
	He's really doing a good job.
	My loyalties are...
	Seriously, every trans person I know says, this is not right.
	Yeah, well, it's not right.
	My loyalties are not with the Republican Party.
	My loyalties are not with Donald Trump.
	My loyalties are with my community.
	Okay, so if you had to vote again...
	Is it still vote for him?
	You ask that question, it's a legitimate question.
	The question was, will we vote for him again?
	Yes.
	I couldn't hear it.
	Three and a half years from now is about light years away when it comes to politics.
	Let's see where we're at.
	I'm saying, do you regret doing it?
	Do you regret voting here?
	Do I regret doing it?
	I don't know yet.
	I regret on that issue.
	I regret, okay?
	I regret it.
	But I also like a conservative judge on the Supreme Court.
	I think that's a good decision.
	I think we have to be respected around the world.
	And I think You know, some of the things he's doing, we'll see how it turns out.
	We don't know yet.
	I mean, without the visual, it's Bruce.
	I mean, it's just Bruce.
	He has done nothing to the voice.
	He doesn't have to, but it's curious.
	Because, you know, everything.
	He's...
	She has...
	He likes his...
	She likes his...
	She likes his voice.
	Oh, that's possible.
	Yeah, so they're more like binary.
	Yeah.
	Binary.
	You know, some of the things he's doing, we'll see how it turns out.
	We don't know yet, but how it turns out, I like a strong America.
	I like a strong military.
	Yeah.
	Would you like that?
	And so, yeah.
	What about, you seem, you're so good at this, this politics stuff, honestly.
	I mean, I'm a center-right girl, and I want to vote for you.
	I mean, would you run for office?
	I'm serious.
	Put it this way.
	Okay, this is how this goes.
	I remember years ago, I had done a few speeches for Republican events.
	And every time I get off the stage, they all go, oh my God, you should run for office.
	And I'm thinking in my head, I've got way too many secrets.
	And so I go, they would destroy me.
	I said I couldn't do it, okay?
	Now, I don't have one secret left.
	There's nine left, okay?
	And is the country ready for a woman president?
	That would be the question.
	Oh, there it is.
	There it is.
	Yes, I'll be ready for a woman president.
	Oh, jeez.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Some women that have sensibility About these things must be beside themselves.
	Some.
	Yeah, first woman president, Jenner.
	That'd be great.
	There's some really outrageous hate going on regarding, well, in fact, just to bring you back into all of the hate, let's bring back our friend Chris Matthews from MSNBC, who is so hung up on comparing the Trump family to the Romanovs.
	He won't stop.
	Look at the seating this person has gotten.
	At the age, what is she, 27?
	I don't know how old she is.
	There's a young person who's never worked in the government sitting next to the president of China at a major event, sitting next to the president of China.
	Another time she's sitting next to, what's her name, the head of the chancellor of Germany.
	These people must look over and say, what is she doing here?
	Except she's the president's daughter.
	I've said the Romanovs because there's something about the president who presumes that this is a royal family taking its place at the table of power.
	It is un-American.
	It is untraditional.
	It's somewhat weird, although I know it must be comforting to have your kids around.
	I understand, and your son-in-law, I get the comfort factor, but is it American?
	But I'm just fascinated by the Romanovs.
	Last word, Joan, do you like the Romanovs?
	Do you like that image?
	I'm not talking about what happened to them ultimately.
	No, no, no.
	They all got killed.
	No, you're not talking about that.
	You do bring it up a lot.
	Do you like that image?
	I'm not talking about what happened to them ultimately.
	No, no, no.
	I'm talking about the power they had over their country because of their birth.
	Right.
	I think it fits, Chris.
	But I also think it means that this man does not have that many people around him outside of his family that he trusts, that he's developed a relationship of trust with.
	And that bothers me also.
	Who's this jamoke?
	This is a jamoke, this girl.
	So, you know, like Nicole, I'm in some ways glad she's there because I don't want bad things to happen.
	But it's also...
	I'm just trying to figure out what people are saying.
	I don't mind Ivanka being there because I don't want bad things to happen.
	I guess she's going to throw herself in front of the president and say, Oh, Daddy, no!
	She's there because I don't...
	No, I don't think...
	No.
	No, I think those people on the Chris Matthews in that milieu, they all know that Ivanka and their husband are globalists and Democrats.
	Ah, of course.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	In some ways glad she's there because I don't want bad things to happen, but it's also, it's wrong.
	Who wants to take on Jared Kushner in a meeting on the Middle East?
	Have that conversation.
	Scared to death.
	Everybody, oh my God, they don't want to say nothing anyway.
	They don't want to say nothing anyway?
	They don't want to say nothing anyway.
	Really, Matthew?
	And this is on television.
	Everybody, oh my God, it's like, oh my, they don't want to say nothing anyway.
	A little bit like Udank, who's saying not that bad.
	Oh, there it is.
	Nicole Wallace, thank you.
	He does that too all the time.
	It shouldn't be that tough.
	He is obsessed.
	Well, it's spreading there at MSNBC, and Mika made a comment over on the Morning Joe's, and bear in mind that Joe and Mika are in a relationship.
	They both divorced their spouses, their, I think of Each maybe 20 years.
	And they're an item.
	They're together.
	I don't know if they live together.
	I had no idea.
	I don't keep up with this.
	But this is scandalous.
	It's completely scandalous.
	But it puts this little riff or tiff in a whole new light.
	And unfortunately, you can't see Mika's face.
	But I'm thinking Joe's on the couch tonight.
	The former corporate executive joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other female leaders at a women's summit in Berlin, where she spoke about her signature issues, affordable childcare and paid family leave.
	But after calling her father a champion of families, the crowd's response?
	Audible.
	I'm sorry, that was completely the wrong clip.
	I was waiting.
	I don't know how that happened.
	Let me do that again.
	That's very odd.
	That's actually the clip I'm going to play next.
	I'm sorry, let's do this again.
	It would be unreasonable to say that there are not any goods that may follow from nepotism, but it's still nepotism.
	As it was when my hero, my political hero, was appointed attorney general for his brother.
	And Republicans didn't like that back then.
	I think if you looked at Bobby Kennedy's record, you'd say some good things came out of that.
	And no.
	So you're comparing Ivanka Trump to Bobby Kennedy?
	You don't have to be so snotty.
	I was about to say you didn't let me get it out.
	You don't have to be so rude.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	So she said, were you comparing Ivanka Trump to Bobby Kennedy now?
	And he did.
	Yeah, she gave him crap and then he threw that back at him.
	They're having a fight.
	Yeah, but he's...
	I mean, offstage.
	I mean, this is not...
	Oh, yeah.
	And she walked off the set after this.
	She did?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	It's one thing to say, you know, hey, don't be so snotty about it.
	But then he says, you wouldn't let me get it out.
	Yeah.
	Wow, this is not how you talk amongst partners.
	You don't have to be so snotty.
	I was about to say you didn't let me get it out.
	You don't have to be so rude.
	The fact of the matter is that they are not Bobby Kennedy, as I was about to say.
	But you wanted to get your cheap shot in, so you got your cheap shot in.
	No, I'm not saying Jared or Bobby Kennedy.
	Bobby Kennedy did a lot of things before he became Attorney General of the United States of America.
	But I am saying, just like when John Kennedy had a question, he called the one person he could trust in the world, Bobby Kennedy, to come into the Oval Office, and they sat there and talked.
	So, when Donald Trump needs to talk to somebody, he talks to these two people.
	You may like it.
	You may not like it.
	Okay.
	First of all, what we do on this show immediately is skip the substance and go right to the gossipy part.
	Yeah.
	He's a jerk.
	He's a total dick.
	And she walked off and he said, it was much further along in the segment, he says, hey, where's Mika?
	And he sends the camera backstage to go find her.
	That's a dick move.
	Total dick move.
	He should have apologized to her.
	No, no, no.
	Alright, now I have a couple clips.
	In fact, I think that her comment, which was a little bit harsh and not necessary, was more of an eye roller than something she should be called on the carpet for.
	No, this relationship is done.
	Something's going on there.
	Yeah, something's going on.
	No, he can't do it.
	I mean, he's not, he said it himself, he had the sexual innuendo in there.
	Won't let him pull out.
	You heard that, didn't you?
	You heard that.
	Yeah, sure.
	Okay.
	So there's a campaign, and I'm going to say it right now, this is all part of Hillary's hit list.
	I want to remind everybody, the Clintons are out to get everyone who was against them.
	Ivanka has to go because she's competition for Chelsea.
	And Chelsea, I mean, the Dimension B people are fawning over her.
	What a fabulous woman.
	She's done crap.
	She's done nothing.
	It was an article that I retweeted.
	I'm trying to think what publication it was in.
	It wasn't Huffington Post.
	It was either Vanity Fair or the New Yorker, one of the two.
	It was a complete and unbelievable takedown of Chelsea.
	Oh, okay.
	I haven't seen this one.
	I mean, it was brutal.
	It was so good.
	Ah, well then it's tit for tat.
	It's time to take down Ivanka.
	And I happened to watch this...
	Hour and a half.
	It was the G20 women's division.
	They're all on stage.
	The reason I watch is because Queen...
	Yes, the women's...
	By the way, just before you continue, for the last couple of shows I've been wanting to run some of these G20 clips...
	G20, until the women's division came out and did their thing, nobody even discussed what's going on.
	It's like, shh, shh, shh.
	Nothing to see here.
	Nothing to see here.
	So the women's division of the G20 on stage.
	And it's very interesting.
	There were a lot of agendas.
	One of the main, and none of this is clippable because it's just too long.
	There's a lot of translators.
	But the reason I watch is because Queen Moxima of the Netherlands was on the stage.
	I've never heard her speak English.
	Her English is phenomenal.
	Phenomenal.
	Very, very eloquent speaker.
	They were all talking a lot about national interest for women, but mainly micropayments on cell phones, and Queen Maxima was all about that.
	I'm sure the KPN... Oh, the micropayments.
	I'm pretty sure the Royal Dutch Telecom is probably funding that.
	Then they had...
	A woman from, I want to say, was it AT&T or a mobile provider?
	So there was a real agenda about getting micropayments, which are a scam.
	The amount of, the vig is off the hook on that stuff.
	But at one point, and Ivanka spoke extremely eloquently.
	She's a very, when she gets on her podium and she starts talking, she doesn't stop.
	She's a talkaholic, yes.
	I will mention, somebody did call her out on her style of speaking, which they described as a soft jazz DJ. She has a little bit of that, yeah.
	I think she's got quite a bit of it.
	This is Ivanka Trump on Light FM, WLTW, and now, more Kenny G. That's kind of her.
	Yeah.
	But, and I'm not a fan of how she speaks, but she is eloquent.
	She has things to say.
	But she's on the hit list, and so all the networks reported on this.
	You already heard the first one.
	I'll repeat.
	This is from ABC. The former corporate executive joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other female leaders at a women's summit in Berlin, where she spoke about her signature issues, affordable childcare and paid family leave.
	But after calling her father a champion of families, the crowd's response?
	Audible.
	Okay, now we go to NBC. Boo!
	Boo!
	Well, hold on a second.
	It's a proud response.
	Good evening, first daughter and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump felt the singe of the spotlight in her first official trip abroad today.
	Less than a month after officially joining her father's administration, Ms.
	Trump appeared in Berlin, where she shared the stage with some of the most powerful women in the world and faced some uncomfortable questions about her dad's attitudes toward women, along with some scattered jeers.
	Now, I watched this whole thing, and then I saw these news reports and went back.
	I didn't hear it.
	And I did not hear any audible noises, any jeers.
	I went back to that segment.
	It's like, what are you talking about?
	And then, of course, CBS gives it away.
	Well, first daughter Ivanka Trump went to Germany for a meeting of women in business and government, but it didn't go as well as planned.
	Ivanka Trump had come to a high-powered conference in Berlin to champion the cause of working women.
	But she came with baggage, her father's baggage.
	He's been a tremendous champion of supporting families.
	At those words, some members of the audience, away from the microphones, began to groan.
	Yeah, it was probably the press...
	This is bullshit.
	This did not happen.
	You just heard the clip and they cut it off.
	Why?
	Because you can't hear anything.
	There were room mics, John.
	I don't know who it was, what the genesis of this story, but for the hour and a half that I watched where there were some interesting issues, this is all that comes out of it.
	She was booed, but they don't have any proof.
	Zero.
	This is a bunch of scumbags.
	Yes.
	Thank you, Maxine.
	They could have sweetened it.
	Easily.
	I don't know why they didn't.
	Because that would have been so false.
	Because it didn't happen as far as I'm concerned.
	It just didn't happen.
	Here's the way it would go down, it seems to me.
	You're tempted...
	To sweeten it, but everyone's got the story, and you don't know if they're all going to sweeten it or not.
	Yeah, but the same way or not.
	Yeah, good point.
	So you decide...
	Hey, boss!
	Hey, boss!
	I got this great story.
	Should we sweeten it up a little bit so people can hear the boss?
	Boss, boss, boss!
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's not possible.
	You can't do it if nobody else does it.
	Because then everyone calls you out.
	Yeah, you can't do it.
	Can't do it.
	Can't do it.
	Well, that's a good catch.
	I just ignored the whole story.
	Well, again, I was watching it because of Queen Moxley.
	And by the way, happy King's Day to all of our Dutch listeners.
	It used to be on April 30th, and now it's on the 27th.
	Why?
	Well, I think the original April 30th was on the Queen Beatrix's birthday, April 30th.
	And so now her son has taken over and they've just said, well, we want to keep it at the end of April.
	And for some reason it's, I don't know, it's today.
	Yeah, I would recommend anyone who has to take a trip to Holland to maybe check this out.
	It's quite the party.
	Yes.
	You just heard her, Maxine.
	I got a bunch of Maxine, in different categories.
	I have Maxine.
	Oh, you're just going to use her as kind of the...
	Greek chorus is just going to jump in every once in a while.
	That's what she does very well.
	So, of course, she is definitely in the hate Trump's love segment.
	Here she is.
	I don't remember who she was on with, but a nice little segment.
	And to me, I don't want to hear a member of my party just say there's no way I'm working with him on anything.
	I don't think that's good for the party.
	I don't think that's good for the country.
	And I just don't think that's living in reality.
	Well, of course, maybe you are not as offended as some of us are.
	I'm very offended, but there's a reality.
	He's our president.
	But the reality is there are those of you who keep talking about he's going to pivot and he's going to become presidential.
	When is that going to happen?
	Just the other day with Bill O'Reilly, he stood up for him.
	When Bill O'Reilly had been shown to have made settlements of over $13 million...
	Congressman, you're right about all these things, but he's sitting in that office and you are a member of Congress that has to work, whether it's voting against or whatever it is, but just to say, to deny he's our president and I'm not doing any business with him, I don't think is in the best interests of your constituents.
	Well, I do think it's in the best interest of my constituents.
	I think he's dangerous.
	I think he's not a credible leader of this country.
	I think he's treated our allies badly.
	I think others from across the sea, across the waters, are looking at us and saying, what's wrong with us?
	With a man who treats his allies this badly.
	With a man who changes his mind from day to day.
	With a man who often does not know what he's talking about.
	He cannot be trusted.
	And even though you may think it's not in the best interest of my constituents, I think it's in the best interest of my constituents to get rid of him.
	We've got to get rid of him.
	Just get rid of him.
	You know, we don't have to...
	Get rid of him.
	It's gone from impeachment to get rid of him.
	Just fire.
	Shoot!
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	Get rid of him!
	Stay woke.
	This is pretty outrageous behavior from Mademoiselle Maxine.
	She's insane.
	She's unhinged.
	She's unhinged.
	Yeah, I don't have it nearby.
	I know what you're asking for.
	She's unhinged, I say.
	She's unhinged.
	She's not nice.
	She's unhinged.
	There you go.
	Took me a while.
	Let me see.
	When we go to North Korea, we can go to a couple of things.
	I was still on the hate.
	I was still on the hate.
	Well, before you get off the Congress, people, I do have an interesting clip that I picked off of C-SPAN's book deal.
	Always good.
	Yeah, what you got?
	This is a book called Drain the Swamp done by a congressman out of Colorado named Ken Buck.
	And I have two clips.
	Both of them are a little long, but they're dynamite.
	The second one in particular is a jaw-dropper.
	Now, what is Drain the Swamp?
	Is it about draining it or not draining it?
	It's about draining it, and the guy is a first-time one time.
	He's an older guy.
	He is a first-time congressman from Colorado, a prosecuting attorney.
	And he's a very got a lot of politics, but he's he's tried running a couple of times.
	He finally got in and then he was aghast at what he's witnessed.
	Now, the first part of this, the first clip is where he's talking about how they co-opt you immediately.
	Once you get there, you got to be part of the party.
	You got to do this.
	You got to do that.
	And they wind and dine and show you a good time, which seems to me what he's describing is what you would have experienced if you were a in the computer industry.
	covering it in any way in the early heydays.
	Was it a swamp?
	No.
	It was a lot of good food.
	And limos.
	Back in the day.
	But he didn't like that, and then he goes on.
	But then he reveals something that I've never heard.
	But let's play the first part, which is just the...
	This is not do's.
	This is the first one.
	This is just a swamp book.
	Well, I mean, going back...
	Oh, hold on.
	Make sure I got the right one.
	Yes, I have the right one.
	Okay.
	Well, I mean, going back to those parties before you even get elected, in what way was it conveyed to you that there was a game that needed to be played?
	Sure.
	When you show up and the army choir is singing and there is beef tenderloin and salmon and all sorts of waiters and as much alcohol, I don't drink,
	but as much alcohol as you want to consume, And you're in the Cannon Caucus Room, which is just a really beautiful room, or in the old house chambers, there is a clear message that this is how you now live.
	You're given gifts from the time you arrived by leadership or others that are thanking you for the sacrifice for coming to D.C. I've never consumed as many calories as I did when I was in this orientation session.
	Anybody want to eat this meatloaf?
	I don't know.
	So the other thing is you're told pretty quickly that you never vote against the rule and there are some things you don't do as a party or party.
	Both sides are wined and dined.
	Both sides get the same rules, the same instructions.
	And the idea is that the most important thing you can do is get re-elected.
	And the most important thing to get re-elected is to make sure you play the game.
	And in that case, so you're defining play the game as sort of being in line with your party, not necessarily in those early sessions are you meeting with lobbyists and the like.
	It's sort of an understanding that you're developing about who the leaders are and what they expect of you.
	I think that's right.
	And the fact that you have, as a member of Congress, special access to various areas.
	One of the parties was in the National Archives after hours.
	It was opened up for this party.
	George Will came and spoke to the group.
	There's definitely a feeling of being special as a member of Congress when you're constantly given special privileges.
	Do you think this is a book that I'd like to read, John?
	Does he go inside and show you all the douchebaggery that's going on?
	He bitches and moans a lot, it seems, but this part that you're going to play next, I think is the core of the book and you don't need to read the book.
	That's the way I see it.
	One of the things about book TV on C-SPAN I've found is that the people are on long enough They're usually an hour, sometimes an hour and a half talking about their book.
	They tell you the book.
	I mean, you don't have to read the book after you listen to them give this lecture.
	I mean, there may be some tidbits in the book that would be worthwhile.
	They're doing a dumb job then.
	You should make it interesting that people want to buy the book.
	Not everybody would think this way.
	Real harsh book readers, the guys who are into it, they would go buy the book anyway.
	Because of the show and what we do, It just seems like a good excuse not to buy the book.
	It seems to me.
	There may be some tidbits in there, but this little gem here, which I've never heard and I never knew about, and needs a little discussion, is absolutely an eye-opening jaw-dropper.
	You also write that influence in Washington comes with a price tag.
	And you spell out early in the book the steep dues that members must pay to the House Republican campaign committees to secure and retain their seats on influential committees.
	And so I wonder if you can talk us through the dues that are required, how they climb depending on the importance of the committee, and how you deal with it, and what your dues are.
	Sure.
	So both the Republican Party and the Democrat Party have dues based on committee assignments.
	And so if you are on an A committee, like Appropriations, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the dues for a Republican, this Congress, the 115th Congress, are $450,000 per person.
	What?
	On a B or C committee, the dues are $200,000 per person.
	If you want to be a chair of an A committee, you have to pay $1.2 million in dues for that privilege.
	So the way you earn those dues, the way you raise that money, is you have events in Washington, D.C. You have receptions.
	And the lobbyists, represented special interests, come to those receptions and donate money to you.
	Now, if you don't vote with the lobbyists, lobbyists don't show up to those receptions.
	So it's a way to coerce members by having outrageous twos of $850,000 or $1.2 million.
	It's a way to coerce members to vote as lobbyists and special interests want you to vote.
	So you are on an A committee.
	I am on an A committee.
	Rules committee.
	Yes.
	And you pay your dues.
	I pay my dues.
	So how do you pay those dues when you describe a system in which you feel as though lobbyists are asking you to vote in a certain way?
	I mean, what do you do?
	I am fortunate in Colorado.
	We have two events in the fall of each year during the election cycle.
	We have private individuals come together for those events and support the four Republican members of the House of Representatives at those events.
	And so I don't hold receptions for the purpose of paying my dues.
	To the NRCC. And I am, along with the other three members from Colorado, we have our dues paid by holding those two events.
	Alright, first of all, bend over.
	Clip of the show!
	Clip of the show, man!
	I did not know this at all.
	And where does this money go?
	It goes right to the party.
	So you have to take money from your constituents, which you don't really get from them.
	You get them from lobbyists because you throw parties, which is a thousand bucks a plate, I'm sure.
	And then you take that money and then you become a ranking member on the committee and then you do what the lobbyists paid you to do.
	Oh my goodness.
	I have not heard of this.
	I never heard of this either.
	This is a scandal as far as I'm concerned.
	So you have the head of the committees, the guys who are at the top, the chair, and then you have the ranking guy has to obviously pay a bunch of money, and then the chair has to pay a bunch of money.
	That's probably pretty close to the same amount, I'm guessing, because if the parties switch...
	You know, over because of the majority.
	Then the ranking guy becomes the chair.
	But that's the $1.2 million job.
	And you can kind of figure out the committees where it's that high.
	The rest of them are like $800,000.
	So you have to...
	And here's what gets me.
	This guy talks about, well, I'm lucky because we have this special thing in Colorado where people come out and then they...
	I doubt many people that donate, donate to their congressmen.
	Have any idea that this is going on?
	Have any idea that the congressman is not even using that money.
	It's pass-through.
	You give him $1,000, and he says thank you for your support, and then he gives it to the Republican Party as part of his dues payment, which may be anywhere from $200,000 to $1.2 million, that he has to pay the party so he can actually do his job.
	Are you kidding me?
	That's amazing.
	Well, it shows you what plan B is.
	Run for office.
	Well, this sounds to me as though most of the time is spent just moving money around.
	But why should I be collecting $1.2 million as a senior member?
	To be on a committee.
	Well, you have to be on committees.
	But hold on a second.
	But committees are the only per party?
	I thought you also had committees that were bipartisan.
	No, all committees are, no.
	He's talking about everyone on the committee.
	They're all bipartisan.
	They're committees.
	They got, you know, X number of Republicans and X number of Democrats, usually reflective of the majority.
	Okay, so Republican, his dues go to where?
	To the Republican National Committee.
	So they say, yes, you can be on the committee.
	That's how it works.
	You can be the boss of that committee.
	Well, they put him on the committee and say, here's what you owe us.
	No wonder nothing gets done there.
	No, and then if you have to go – because the price – I'd like to know some history of this.
	Does it go back 100 years?
	Does it go back 50 years?
	When did this begin?
	When did the payoffs begin where you have to pay off your own party, and what do they do with the money?
	I mean, what does the party do?
	I mean, you're supposed to get re-elected, and that means you've got to collect money for them.
	It's like being in the mob, where you've got your little piece of the action goes to the boss, and then he has to pass some up to the capo.
	I mean, this is a mob setup.
	It's ridiculous.
	Hey, you're not doing well.
	Where's the cash?
	I mean, it's unbelievable to me that this goes on.
	Hey, where's my vig, man?
	Where's the vig?
	Especially at these rates.
	This is not cheap.
	These guys, you know, a congressman comes in from some little town in Iowa, and now he's got to be paying his way to be on a committee to help his own constituency?
	This is ridiculous.
	I didn't...
	This is a great...
	It's always interesting how someone in the war room will go, this is not new!
	This is not new!
	This is not new!
	Okay.
	Shut up.
	Shut up.
	Leave him in there.
	Ask him when it began.
	Yeah, there you go.
	When did it begin?
	Okay, give us a date.
	When did it begin and who started it?
	Yeah, let's see.
	Because he knows everything, so I'm sure he'll have an answer for us eventually.
	We're waiting.
	Yeah, we're waiting.
	We've got time.
	Well, while we're waiting, while we're waiting, John, I think it's time for Drunk or Not Drunk.
	Yes, in today's Drunk or Not Drunk segment, we have Nancy Pelosi.
	The question for you, sir, drunk or not drunk?
	And Hassan Shireh, for your well-deserved recognitions tonight.
	Today, the strong moral voice of Refugees International.
	We degrade our values and our security when we slam the door in the face of children fleeing atrocities.
	With the specter of famine looming over northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen, almost slashing the State Department budget and foreign aid budget by 30% would only deepen the crisis facing the children.
	Children need America to be their champion.
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	Thank you so much.
	I've heard that clip, of course.
	Somebody found it.
	That I think she either had the wrong contacts in or she just can't read.
	Maybe she can't read because she sounded erudite except she would mispronounce words horribly.
	But it wasn't slurring.
	Okay.
	She was not slurring.
	I think it's just she can't read or she's lost her ability or she's got cataracts.
	I mean, there's a lot of possibilities there.
	Could be.
	Could be.
	I don't know.
	I mean, when Biden is drunk, he's a little more obvious.
	But with all this partying to raise money to be on committees, and she's on a few, she's got to be hammered.
	I'm sure she, I bet you she can hold her own.
	She uses tricks.
	I mean, some people don't, that guy who wrote the book, Drained the swamp.
	He said in there that he's not a drinker, which means he's not going to have a lot of fun at these parties.
	Because you know that everyone's probably half in the tank, because you hear it on a lot of these late night committees.
	And they get to talk to each other, and they're kind of old buddies, and they become friends.
	This guy's a stick in the mud.
	That's pretty good.
	By the way, did we get our answer to when this began?
	No, of course not.
	Oh, well, there you have it.
	Back to Hillary's hit list for a second.
	Yes.
	So the woman who came out, the radio talk show host who came out against Sean Hannity is now saying, well, he never sexually harassed me, so she's backpedaling a little bit.
	But what I found interesting is there was another lawsuit, there is another lawsuit, against, what are you doing?
	I'm sorry.
	I've discovered this new sound effect and I was trying to doubt it a little bit.
	It sounds like a trash can.
	It doesn't sound like a sound effect.
	Fox News has a racial discrimination suit against them, alleging black female employees were forced to arm wrestle.
	Yeah, I actually have a clip on this to give you the background you need.
	This is, if I can figure out what clip it is, CBS. This is on CBS. And this is, I think, a risky thing.
	I said it in the newsletter.
	This is very risky for these networks to do this.
	But here's CBS Goes After Fox Part 1.
	Veteran news anchor Kelly Wright of the Fox News Channel had an emotional news conference today.
	Wright explained why he joined about a dozen other current and former minority employees in a racial discrimination suit against the cable network.
	Here's Anna Werner.
	21st Century Fox ought appropriately rename itself 18th Century Fox.
	In the latest lawsuit, minority employees accuse Fox News of racial discrimination.
	Among the allegations against former Comptroller Judith Slater, fired by Fox two months ago, that she mocked the way they spoke and demanded that minority employees engage in arm wrestling contests, including against some of their white female supervisors.
	Anchor and reporter Kelly Wright.
	This hurts.
	He came forward after his colleague sued.
	I thought, this is so pervasive.
	I've seen this before, and I was silent.
	I cannot be silent anymore.
	The development comes after former star host Bill O'Reilly was fired over sexual harassment allegations.
	The New York Times reported that he settled several lawsuits.
	But in comments to podcast listeners earlier this week, O'Reilly said...
	I'm very confident the truth will come out.
	Nice little microaggression there.
	In comments to podcast listeners...
	And by the way, what's interesting, when they cut to his podcast, his mic and clarity outshines CBS like by a factor of seven.
	Podcast listeners.
	The New York Times reported that he settled several lawsuits.
	But in comments to podcast listeners earlier this week, O'Reilly said...
	I'm very confident the truth will come out.
	And when it does, I don't know if you're going to be surprised, but I think you're going to be shaken.
	There's a lot of artifacts in his sound, though.
	I hear, like, compression artifacts.
	Do you hear that?
	Oh, it's been, yes.
	And also, it's got...
	Also, the EQ is very unusual because it's got a lot of mid-range.
	But it's very clear.
	Yeah, it's clear.
	But there's a lot of artifacts in there.
	And when it does, I don't know if you're going to be surprised, but I think you're going to be shaken, as I am.
	But former Fox temporary employee Perkita Burgess, who says O'Reilly sexually harassed her, calling her hot chocolate, says...
	I want him to apologize to everyone that he is harmed with his words, his actions.
	But there's no humility.
	There's no I'm sorry.
	Maybe if he had said something, maybe he would not have gotten fired.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's what's interesting.
	And I'm just giving the information.
	I don't know if we can do anything with it.
	But the lawyer pursuing this suit is Jean Christensen.
	She works for Wigdor LLP. Wigdor is the exact same company that represented the maid against Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York.
	But even more curious, Mr.
	Wigdor himself openly, with a lot of money, supported Donald Trump.
	So there may be something fishy going on here.
	Hmm.
	Well, the whole thing is fishy.
	Well, no, it's Hillary's hit list.
	I'm just trying to figure this one out.
	This particular lawsuit is, I don't know, I just found it interesting that, you know, they're buddy-buddy, and they're hanging out, and he was, you know, of course, he split from his partner, the two partners in the firm, the partner said, no, no, no, I cannot vote for, I can't, you know, support Trump, and now this, through the same law firm.
	So just something to keep an eye on.
	Well, maybe this clip will help.
	This is the Donald Trump time traveler clip.
	Hey, what's up, everybody?
	This is the Unique Thinker thinking uniquely once again.
	So I'm going to get into this real quick.
	Have you been watching YouTube again, John?
	Is that what's going on?
	You didn't send me this one.
	So Donald Trump is a time traveler.
	Let me explain what's going on here, everybody.
	Um, basically, uh, what happened is this to sum it up in a nutshell, this guy, John Tudor said that he had to go John Tudor.
	If you don't know who he is, look it up yourself.
	Okay.
	Something Tudor.
	He's a time traveler.
	T I T O R. Now this guy, Tudor, he said that he had to go back in time to get something that was very important.
	And it was a machine or a computer, an IBM computer that would be able to talk to other computers, and it was the only thing that would probably help them do time travel or something stupid like that, right?
	Now, fast forwarding to the time that these things occurred and the people that were in each other's lives.
	Basically, there was a significant time.
	The time was like 1960.
	I think it was like 1975 or 19 something, but that was a significant time.
	I'm just going to keep it real with you.
	This is all theory.
	I'm thinking that Donald Trump had to go back in time, go to his uncle, ask him what these blueprints meant.
	This is all science fiction.
	But I'm just saying, he had to go back in time, go to his uncle, ask him how do these blueprints work, how do they fit, tell me how to build this time machine.
	Right, right.
	Right.
	He goes back in that time, he goes back into the time, but then there's something about 9-11, everybody knows about it, all the people that I actually...
	Okay, you can kill it.
	Sounds legit.
	So he doesn't have a time machine, but somehow he goes back in time to get the plans for a time machine.
	Right.
	And then he builds a time machine and he becomes a time traveler.
	This is second half of show material.
	You're in violation of the rules.
	Yes, well, now we're even because you violated the rules a few months ago.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. C stands for a clip of the show.
	Dvorak!
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, the ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, everybody, in our war room.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Now with HTTPS. Yes.
	Now with improved HTTPS. We're so happy.
	Particularly Void Zero.
	Very happy.
	And I want to thank, in particular today, Sooner Slave.
	That was our artist for episode 9023.
	And 923, of course, Terror Put was the title of that.
	And this is the artwork of The Hate Show, which just tickled us both pink with little Bill Nye there, The Hate Show.
	Bill Nye, who will be making an appearance on this program later, once again.
	Oh, I'm glad you got the clip.
	Oh, I got several clips from Bill.
	He's on a tear.
	He's on a tear.
	There is a...
	Yeah, he is on a tear.
	Alright, well, it was a very bad showing today for everyone.
	We have one executive producer, one associate executive producer, and that's about it.
	And it doesn't get any better after that.
	Let's start with our executive producer.
	You mean we ain't got no money shot?
	No money shot.
	No money shot!
	Executive producer is, even so, the executive producer doesn't even want to be known.
	It's anonymous.
	Like, hey, please, just don't attach my name to this show.
	Whatever you do.
	$333.33 anonymous donation from parts unknown rather than unknown.
	Oh, no, from parts forgotten.
	Forgotten.
	Thank you guys for the Venezuela info on the last Sunday's No Agenda.
	It helps a lot in spreading the word about what's going on here.
	He's in Venezuela.
	It kind of gives away where he's from.
	He needs to tell us how angry they are at Trump.
	I want to know.
	It's been quite a long 18 plus years of this decay and it's worried me how the U.S. is also turning bit by bit into the same commie nightmare.
	Yeah, we're good that way.
	The similarities abound.
	Just now I saw how they're dismantling Confederate landmarks in Louisiana just like they toppled Christopher Columbus statues in Venezuela in 2004.
	Huh.
	And no need for jingles or other requests.
	Okay.
	Anonymous parts forgotten.
	Not Venezuela.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Our only executive producer today.
	Yes.
	With the bad news.
	Chris Rose comes in as associate executive producer from Norwich, Norfolk.
	Great Britain, $270.40.
	Associate Executive Producer is a parting gift from Sir Kevin Strange for his co-worker Chris Rose, whose last day is today.
	I would like the credit to appear in Chris's name.
	Okay, got it.
	Thanks for the insight into the millennial mindset.
	I wish you all the best for the future and hope you find your safe space.
	Consider this donation in your name, a three-month subscription to listen to the best podcast in the universe without feeling like a freeloading douchebag.
	One last attempt to hit you in the mouth on your way out, coupled with associate executive producer credit, seemed like the most inappropriate.
	Inappropriate and amusing parting gift I could give you.
	Okay, well this is a little battle going on between these two.
	Yeah, apparently, apparently.
	Jingles, we went to Hague and New World Order Freedoms, that's our classic.
	Shut up, slave, for my millennial stay woke, which is the Maxine Waters clip.
	Also, please give Chris some jobs karma for the future.
	Okie dokie.
	Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
	We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
	In some countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
	In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms.
	Protect their freedoms.
	Shut up, slave!
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	All right.
	Nice bringing that one back.
	Superb.
	That's it.
	That's our group.
	We need support and help for the Sunday.
	So Sunday we would be useful if people would come in a little stronger than this.
	Dvorak.org slash NA is the website to visit.
	And we'll be thanking everyone who came in at $50 or above in the second thank you segment.
	This is our Value for Value model.
	I've been talking to a lot of people about it because it seems particularly the YouTubers are in big trouble now.
	Every day there's someone sending me a link to a YouTube video where the YouTuber goes, Well, you know, YouTube has now demonetized me.
	It demonetized me because I'm not brand safe.
	I would go short, you know, you and Horowitz, short Google a bit or Alphabet.
	It must be affecting their numbers.
	Yeah, they're making more money because they're not giving it out to these guys.
	Probably has a positive effect on cash flow for Alphabet itself.
	Well, they have to still have the same amount of inventory, so they're giving it to somebody, but they're not playing the ads.
	Well, anyway, my point is...
	Well, you know, what I also noticed is they're playing...
	I don't know if you've noticed this, but I was obviously YouTubing recently, and they have...
	Honey, shut up!
	I'm YouTubing!
	Leave me alone.
	I'm YouTubing!
	They're playing the whole 30 second ad.
	There's no skip ad.
	Yes, I've noticed this too.
	I've noticed this.
	Yes.
	Tricky, tricky dicky.
	Where'd my pen go?
	Damn it.
	Alright.
	That's really important that I have my pen.
	Why?
	I gotta write stuff down all the time.
	Where's my pen?
	I just had it.
	Uh-oh.
	You seem to be catching my problem.
	Is the keyboard on the floor?
	I bet you the pen fell on the floor.
	Oh, yeah, you're right here.
	All right, thank you.
	Now I don't remember what I was going to write down.
	It was something important.
	Well, it wasn't that important.
	Yeah, it was.
	Wasn't as important as finding the pen.
	Yeah, well, it's important to get my pen right.
	Anyway, so my point being that it's a very weak strategy to use other people's infrastructure, particularly their monetization infrastructure, and you should not be so butthurt or so sad or so surprised.
	It's over.
	It's over.
	It was free money.
	Well, you had a chance.
	You could have, you know, you did well.
	Yeah.
	At least some of you did.
	And some of you are still doing well.
	I think Jenna Marbles is still kicking butt.
	So the way we like to do it is, you know, just ask you if you have gotten any other news or entertainment recently and what did you pay for it?
	Maybe you went to the movies and you saw a great movie and it was $50 for sitting in a dark room with somebody for an hour and a half and, you know, maybe you can see some value in what we're doing.
	Certainly other people do and we really appreciate that.
	We'd appreciate a little bit more to keep the servers running.
	We will have that show coming up on Sunday.
	Please remember us at And while you're doing all that remembering, look at people and propagate.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Hey, citizen.
	Shut up, slave. .
	Shut up.
	Shut up, shut up, shut up.
	Hey, quick little alternate universe segment.
	Just one clip, unless you have one.
	I got just one.
	Well, I wanted to read the note before we do that that kind of applies to this...
	To one of our knights that we didn't read his note and I feel bad about it.
	Ah, Justin, I believe.
	Justin, good old Justin.
	Yeah, Justin.
	So I'm going to read this and he does have a jingle request.
	I'll throw that in and then we can get to it.
	I've been a listener from the early days since August 2015 being a $50 a night layaway program.
	I claimed his title a couple shows ago.
	In addition, he'd like to get some box office karma.
	Okay.
	Phoenix Forgotten is a movie I've co-written and directed being released in theaters nationwide in Canada on Friday the 21st, which is last Friday, or this Friday.
	What's the title of the movie?
	It's called Phoenix Forgotten.
	Oh, okay.
	So everyone go out and see that.
	It's produced by Ridley Scott.
	It tells the story of three kids who went missing in 1997 after investigating a mysterious Phoenix Lights UFO sighting.
	Do I need even to show up anymore if you're going to do all this stuff?
	What?
	You're doing all my material.
	Well, this is about the movie.
	It's not about it.
	But that does remind me of your...
	You went to see those crazy lights.
	What was the name of those things?
	The Marfa.
	The Marfa lights.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we saw them.
	And they were clear as day.
	And it's very odd.
	Did you drive toward them to see what they were?
	Well, you can't.
	You can't drive toward them.
	You see them at this...
	There's this one spot.
	You look and then there you see them dancing around just out in the open.
	And there's no logical explanation.
	I don't think you can walk towards them.
	It's discouraged.
	There's no path there.
	Well, maybe you end up like these kids.
	You disappear.
	I began my knighthood layaway about the same time I started working on the movie or podcast.
	It's kept me company through the long hours on the road, traveling to different filming locations, and continues to be a unique source of insight on modern media and culture.
	Oh, thank you.
	Well, the only thing we ask, wait, when you win the Oscar, thank us and throw it in the morning.
	Yeah.
	When you win the Oscar, say in the morning.
	Now, all these months later, the movie's done, ready to go out into the world, ready to take my seat at the round table.
	Don't forget, you don't have to read the note on the air.
	However, a small plug for the movie would, of course, mean a lot to me and other fans of your podcasting among my crew.
	Yes.
	We've got a bunch of crew members that are also...
	Listening to this.
	And I, like, failed to read this on time.
	I mean, it's still valid.
	Yeah.
	But I'm thinking to myself, this shows that I really don't want to get a bit part.
	My subconscious.
	You're always angling for it.
	It's just my opportunity.
	What were you thinking?
	I got a director in the family.
	This is nuts.
	Well, I do know from my Hollywood days that everyone is much more...
	Please go see my movie the second and third weekend, not the first weekend.
	It's the second and third, so you can still help this producer out immensely.
	I'm going to give him some motion picture karma.
	I think that's well-deserved for the crew, too.
	You've got karma.
	I pay for my movies, people.
	I don't steal them, I pay for them.
	No torrenting, I pay for them.
	I pay for my entertainment.
	And well you should.
	Well, not everybody does.
	Excellent.
	So Bill Nye is all over the place.
	He has a new show on Netflix, which he'll play a few clips from.
	He keeps appearing.
	Now, we have to determine what's going to happen to this guy, because he is going over the edge to such an extreme.
	What he's talking about has nothing to do with science.
	He's completely misquoting the Constitution, and that's the first clip I want to play.
	Him doing it again.
	Except this time, he's on the CNNs in the sexto box.
	Yes?
	I think he's unhinged.
	I'm not going to keep playing the ISO. He was on with a Princeton physicist, William Happer.
	And hilarity ensued.
	How would you advise the president, if you had his ear, on how to move forward on the Paris Climate Agreement?
	Well, you have to consider many things, I think, on the face of it.
	It should be cancelled.
	I could imagine that you might want to consider, you know, ties with allies and things like that, that perhaps would make that Not advisable, but I think it doesn't make any scientific sense.
	It's just a silly thing.
	I think, to me, it's very similar to the Munich agreements that Mr.
	Chamberlain signed.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	Everybody, bear in mind, this may backfire.
	If you pull out of an international agreement, other countries may establish what are effectively tariffs on U.S. produced goods and especially services.
	So, hold on for a second, Mr.
	Harper, I just want to make sure that you are comparing the Paris Climate Agreement to the appeasement policy?
	It's definitely appeasement.
	Let me add also, you know, that as a group, scientists have often been wrong in the past.
	I don't want to jump beyond that.
	How is this comparable to Neville Dunn's appeasement of Hitler?
	How is that appropriate?
	Now, first of all, it's Chamberlain.
	And he called the Neville brothers or something.
	Let's listen to that again.
	That's a good catch.
	Hold on.
	I mean, you didn't set the scene for me properly.
	I thought they were just...
	I'm sorry.
	I should have said this was about the Paris Agreement that Trump wants to cancel.
	I'm so sorry.
	And they brought in a climate skeptic?
	Or did they not know he was a climate skeptic?
	He's a Princeton physicist.
	But did they know he was a climate skeptic?
	I don't know this.
	I don't know.
	Because it seemed like they were stunned by this guy.
	Of course!
	He's from Princeton.
	You never expect that.
	So, yeah, you're probably right.
	They probably did not expect it.
	Mr.
	Harper, I just want to make sure that you are comparing the Paris Climate Agreement to the appeasement policy.
	It's definitely appeasement.
	Let me add also, you know, that as a group, scientists have often been wrong in the past.
	I don't want to jump beyond that.
	How is this comparable to Neville's appeasement?
	Neville's?
	Neville's or Neville-Oakland?
	What did he say?
	Maybe that could be a dropout, too.
	Let me hear it.
	How is this comparable to Neville's appeasement?
	Neville's.
	It went from Chamberlain to Neville.
	It happens.
	Oh, that's what it was, Neverland.
	Yeah, Chamberlain, Neverland.
	Beyond that.
	How is this comparable to Neverland's appeasement of Hitler?
	How is that an appropriate comparison?
	It is an appropriate comparison because it was a treaty that was not going to do any good.
	This treaty also will not do any good.
	Anyone who looks at the results of doing what the treaty says can see that the effect on the Earth's climate is Even if you take the alarmist computer models trivial, it will not make any difference, and yet it will cause enormous harm.
	You know, I have a feeling that something got cut out there that was wrong, because Bill Nye was quoting the Constitution again, and it was not in that clip.
	I have to apologize.
	Damn it.
	Well, then let's go.
	If you hadn't have said anything, we wouldn't have noticed.
	Yeah, well, but I'm like that.
	Now let's talk about his show.
	As we know, the millennials love Bill Nye.
	They think he's cute.
	They think it's the whole, I don't know, grandfather, bow tie, grandfather vibe.
	He's cute.
	And he is pandering to them to an extreme.
	Have you watched his Netflix show?
	I have only watched the clips that are floating around.
	To be honest, I'm having nothing but difficulty forcing myself to watch this show because I know it's going to just annoy me to no end.
	It might be good for a diet because it will make me lose my appetite.
	Yeah, the Keeper and I, we forced ourselves to watch one and we just sat there with our mouths open.
	Like, what is going on here?
	It's basically an old dude in a lab coat with a bow tie talking about science in regards to climate change, sexuality, population.
	I mean, very little about science.
	Well, so once in a while he grabs a little beaker and fills it up with some red liquid and then puts a Bunsen burner under it and says, See?
	This is what happens to the ocean.
	There's a Bunsen burner under our ocean.
	But then the second episode, and I'm sure you saw it, I just want to play it because it was so bizarre.
	Oh, this crazy rap song?
	Yes, Rachel Bloom.
	Yeah, it's borderline.
	It's really disturbing.
	Well, first of all, it's really bad.
	It's bad.
	It's very bad.
	It's just bad.
	I mean, our mixologists who do stuff at the end of the show are a hundred times better than this.
	Yeah, it's unbelievably poorly done, and if you listen to the words, and I just want to play it, if you can't handle it, I'll stop it.
	It's about two minutes.
	No, I've heard it.
	I'll hear it again.
	So, you guys, seriously, this next thing I feel is very special.
	This is a cool little segment.
	Cool little segment.
	That's right.
	We're going to talk about butt sex.
	Woo!
	You know this woman from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
	Please give it up for...
	Do you know this woman from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?
	No, I don't know what that is.
	From Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, please give it up for Rachel Bloom.
	Hit it!
	This one will get some of my five pets to identify as ladies!
	This world of ours is full of choice.
	But must I choose between only John or Joyce?
	All my options only.
	Hard or moist.
	My vagina has its own voice.
	My vagina has its own voice.
	And it says...
	Save the world!
	Save the world!
	Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina.
	Please don't tell me I'm not the one who does that.
	Yeah, now you're the only one who gives a voice to your vagina.
	It's for, oh, oh, oh, much more than either, oh, oh, oh.
	Power bottom or a top off.
	Versatile love may have some butt stuff.
	Butt stuff?
	It's evolution ain't nothing new.
	There's nothing taboo about a sex.
	The science is in.
	Just add salt or Gerard Depardieu.
	One, two, three!
	Butt stuff!
	It's crazy.
	And it just goes on and on about how you should just give a handjob, you can get it up the ass, it's all good, but everything's okay.
	Yeah, and he's over on the side rocking out.
	It reminded me of something when I heard this.
	Give someone new a handy, then give yourself props.
	Oh, you think you're so smart.
	Did you learn gay in college?
	Do it all of that while I drop some knowledge.
	Let's get social! Let's get social! Let's get social! Let's get social!
	Let's get social media.
	Now the Let's Get Social song is better produced.
	And it was just at a trade show.
	Oh my goodness.
	I like the line, did you learn gay in college?
	This is the other part.
	You've got to track this down on YouTube.
	A guy pretending to be gay or a gay guy comes out.
	A gay Indian.
	I've seen this.
	I've seen this.
	So he comes out and then he takes his pants off.
	I almost clipped this, but it was just so racist.
	It's incredibly racist.
	The guy tears his pants off and he's got some sort of a patterned bikini brief on or something.
	Yeah.
	And it always reminded me, there used to be this guy on the Leno show who was a stage manager, one of the stage managers.
	He's not nice.
	Unhinged, yeah.
	And this guy used to, at the drop of a hat, because he just liked doing it, he's a big fat guy, you have to imagine this, and this went on for a number of years on Leno's show.
	The guy would tear off...
	He'd have a tearaway outfit.
	He'd grab his shirt and boom!
	His whole outfit would come off and he'd be there in a pair of very small Speedos.
	And then he'd start to dance.
	I thought it was one of the funniest bits in the history of late night TV. This show...
	Now, the thing with Bill Nye is he's appearing on serious programs and he's talking horse crap.
	So, I don't know what's going on.
	Sadly, I have a feeling this show is going to be very successful.
	No.
	It'd have to be hate-watched to an extreme.
	Millennials love the guy, John.
	They love him.
	They won't like this.
	If this is successful, I'll be stunned.
	Save the world!
	All right.
	It's tasteless.
	It's dumb.
	It's...
	I just can't see anybody.
	It's a humiliation that song he did because it's all over the YouTubes.
	I mean, it must have been ten people sent it to me.
	And they're just saying, look, this guy's unhinged.
	Apparently it's getting ravaged on the Netflix reviews.
	Which I guess is not good.
	No.
	Netflix will pull it.
	I don't know, man, but I have a feeling millennials...
	Look.
	You have this feeling.
	You keep saying that, but what millennials do you know that would...
	I'll tell you why.
	Watch this.
	This is garbage, this show.
	The millennials love him, and this is, to me, this is just like Pee Wee's Playhouse.
	You watch that stoned, and it's great.
	It's cultish.
	If you watch this stoned, you'll throw up.
	Yeah.
	In the morning.
	Moving on.
	It's true.
	Oh, did you?
	The Armageddon is nigh, John.
	The Armageddon is nigh.
	Did you hear about this?
	Yes.
	You just got Bill Nye on the brain.
	Nye on the brain.
	Well, we have about eight songs at the end of the show.
	He's very popular today.
	Did you hear about the Hamilton scam?
	Okay, here we go.
	But Hamilton as in the play?
	Yes, Hamilton as in the play.
	So it's so bad now in New York with the bankers.
	And I know this from my former New York banker friend.
	These guys have nothing to do.
	They don't know what to do.
	And I don't think that they're broke.
	A lot of them are.
	They're still guys jumping out of windows.
	Dating back to the Madoff scandal.
	Yes, billionaires ensnared by the Hamilton scam.
	And when I say billionaires, I'm talking Paul Tudor Jones.
	Are you talking scam as in like the producers?
	Not quite.
	It's a Ponzi scheme.
	Well, the producers was, too.
	Yes, but this is a different Ponzi scheme.
	Yeah, okay, let's stop, though, and let's explain it with the producers.
	The producers is a movie originally...
	It was done twice as a movie and once as a Broadway play.
	Nathan Lamb.
	And it was a Mel Brooks story about these two...
	And the first movie's the best, by the way.
	It was Zero Mostel.
	And you should all watch it.
	The idea was that these two has-been, washed-up Hollywood producers decide to...
	To scam a bunch of old ladies into producing a play called Springtime for Hitler.
	Yes, it's springtime for Hitler!
	And the idea is that the play will be so bad that it will fold in one day and then they'll take all the money that was invested because they oversold the play.
	Everybody got 100% of it.
	And that was the way they were going to make money.
	But it became a huge success as a cold play.
	Now, this sounds like Hamilton.
	Amongst others, Hamilton.
	Well, think about it.
	Put Hamilton in the context of the producers.
	Let's do a play and turn all American forefathers into blacks.
	Okay, stop.
	Stop.
	Listen to the story.
	You're unhinged.
	You're right.
	You're just making up stuff.
	I'm unhinged.
	It's not as good as that, so that's why I'm pissed that you're doing this.
	Don't do that.
	Alright.
	No, my point is Armageddon is nigh, Bill Nye.
	So, a group of bankers Approached multiple billionaires, and of course some hundred millionaires, about 125 people in total.
	And here's how the scam worked.
	It said, we are going to buy up as many Hamilton tickets and other top Broadway shows, and we're going to buy those early, and then we'll all make out like bandits.
	Yes, this was a gouging scheme.
	Well, Bloomberg calls it a Ponzi scheme.
	Well, I don't know where the Ponzi part comes in, but okay.
	The ringleaders would approach people and encourage them to put money into a pool to buy blocks of tickets for the hottest concerts and plays.
	The most prominent was Hamilton, whose popularity pushed prices to the highest.
	It actually raised the prices.
	This is part of what happened.
	You know that's what happened now.
	Victims were promised their money back in at least a 10% profit.
	And here it says, it's rare that any Ponzi scheme ensnares business luminaries so highly skilled in the art of scrutinizing investment pitches.
	But to veteran security lawyers, the case has some of the hallmarks of an affinity fraud like Bernie Madoff's in which a con man's familiarity can help instill trust.
	I think you're right.
	I don't think it's really a Ponzi scheme unless they were paying out 10%.
	Well, it would be a Ponzi scheme in the following way.
	If they take the money from someone else.
	Well, there you go.
	I think they probably did buy the tickets.
	They may not have.
	That's great.
	They keep calling it a Ponzi scheme.
	That means they took a bunch of money in and then a bunch more money in and never bought any tickets and gave the first group back some profit.
	And then this looked like a good idea to others.
	This is lame.
	Interestingly, at the end of the story, Bloomberg says it's a shell game.
	Whatever it is.
	The fact that bankers are resorting to this is pretty pathetic.
	That's pathetic.
	Douchebaggery.
	I'm going to give them a big douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Probably, if they did buy tickets, they're responsible for jacking the price up.
	Oh, they're going to see Hamilton's like pulling teeth.
	You can't do it.
	A-holes.
	Total jagos.
	A lot of social justice warrior stuff.
	A lot of social justice warrior stuff going on.
	Jag off.
	Jag off.
	Well, you know what that means.
	It's time for...
	Jagoff.
	Where does Jagoff come from?
	That's a nice, finally, a lounge act.
	Isn't that beautiful?
	I thought it was nice.
	Yes, it's a loungy sound.
	Yeah, that's Dave Corbanu.
	It's nice.
	Now we need some phrases.
	I have the jingles.
	I've done my work.
	Now you need to get the segment going.
	You don't have to do it today.
	I can do...
	I mean, there's so much material now that it's like...
	True, true.
	I can start it at any time.
	I'd like a little, like a, like a, is there another jingle or anything else that came in?
	Oh yeah, I have tons of stuff, yeah.
	Well, give me one more so I can find what I'm looking for.
	Okay, so we have the one I just played for you, this one.
	from the chain.
	Then we have this one.
	It's a phrase from the chain.
	I know what this is.
	You're on LSD, apparently, during this segment.
	We should all get back to a better time When the words had a different meaning, reason and rhyme Though I'm not quite sure what they're trying to say Look it up, phrase from the shade Well, let me give you a little bit that I wanted to do.
	This came from our Grand Duke, Dwayne Melanson.
	All right.
	And he wrote a couple of things in, but first of all, he said, add to the list portly, and I sent him a note back saying, no, that's not an old phrase.
	But he used to say this.
	He says, first, actually, a trifecta of phrases, all of them used when you're sitting in traffic, the person in front of you does not go the way you think they should, and they all had these variants, and this is from, he didn't say where this is from, in Louisiana.
	These are Louisiana things.
	My grandmother would say, don't just sit there like a ruptured duck.
	Right.
	Ruptured duck.
	Yes, and I've heard that phrase.
	His dad says, don't just sit there like a bottle of pee, which I've never heard.
	I don't know that one, no.
	Grandfather said, don't just sit there like an old bag.
	Now, my mother used to say, don't just sit there like a lump on the log.
	A lump on the log, that's a good one.
	And so there's these phrases, and so I thought it would be a good challenge to add to the words, and don't forget the subject line should be words, so they can all be collected.
	We can talk about it in further.
	How's that going?
	Have you?
	Tons.
	Way too much stuff.
	Okay.
	But it's going very well.
	So the question of today is...
	I'm glad it's going so well, and you just finally decided to share some of it.
	Well, sorry.
	So...
	It's a filler.
	And so the point, dude, what we're looking for, and if you have any of these, it's like, don't just sit there like A, blank, blank, blank.
	Have you heard anything other than bottle of pee, ruptured duck, old bag, lump on the log, or whatever?
	Nice.
	Now we have a segment.
	Beautiful.
	All right.
	We'll be looking.
	And remember, subject words.
	A couple of social justice warrior things to just go through for a moment here.
	Let's see.
	There was an app.
	This is great.
	You can't go in business anymore.
	You just can't.
	Makers of a face-morphing app have apologized.
	You see what happened is the Face app, as it's called, changes portraits to make people look the way you want.
	So you can say, I want to look older, change gender, or become more attractive.
	They have a hot filter.
	Anything you see on the Instagrams is all filtered.
	It'll even say, hashtag no filter.
	It's filtered.
	We know what's going on.
	So the hot filter gives you a little tan.
	You can only imagine what happened.
	Oh, yes.
	Racist!
	Yeah, that's racist.
	So that has to leave, and they apologize.
	Oh, the CEO is so sorry.
	No, we are deeply sorry for this unquestionably serious issue.
	It is an unfortunate side effect of the underlying neural network.
	Ha ha!
	Caused by the training set bias.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on.
	Let's just try this, John.
	I'll be the CEO. Okay.
	All right.
	No, you have to ask me a question.
	Outrageous.
	I'm the reporter asking the CEO a question?
	Yeah, I'll just answer in his CEO statement because it's really good.
	And then you ask me about it.
	So this turned out to be a bad idea, it seems.
	Who came up with this?
	Did you even test it beforehand?
	We are...
	Deeply sorry, right, for this unquestionably serious issue, right?
	He said in a statement, oh, I can't read that.
	It is an unfortunate side effect, right, of the underlying neural network caused by the training said bias.
	I'm sorry, it wasn't intended behavior, right?
	I guess that's right.
	Now, here's the way you could have handled it if you wanted to be aggressive.
	Okay.
	Well, that was the beauty filter that's supposed to make you look better.
	And I guess, you know, what am I going to say?
	Black people are just better looking.
	That would have been a great one.
	Snapchat went through this, too, when they had some kind of filter that turned people a little yellow.
	Of course, yellow face, said angry users.
	Good.
	It contorted facial features and gave users the appearance of slanted eyes.
	This app needs to be strung up!
	What are you worried about?
	Well, this is it, I guess.
	There's a new plugin for Chrome.
	Not a new idea.
	We've had it for many times in a long time.
	It's called Soothe.
	Soothe.
	Soothe is a Chrome extension made to help people browse the web without seeing malicious content.
	Our main goal is to prevent online harassment and help users avoid seeing triggers while they browse the web.
	We strongly believe that no one online should have to worry about this.
	That's right.
	Just make it safe.
	The process is simple and subtle.
	Check off the type of content you want to avoid and let us handle the rest.
	Questionable content is blurred out.
	If you wish to see it nonetheless, you can click to reveal the text.
	So it's one of these...
	I wonder what it blurs out.
	Oh, no, it changes words.
	Oh, that's always doable.
	Yeah.
	It changes words, blurs stuff out.
	You've got to question who is behind this.
	I mean, they're going to make money off of this, I'm sure.
	I hope not.
	Well, it looks too professional.
	I wonder who is in charge of this.
	They've got to have some VC or some douchebag.
	Some places.
	They're in Virginia.
	Some douchebag is paying for this.
	But the kicker, and this really shows you.
	Now, this is learning.
	We're going to learn something right here.
	This is very important.
	This was posted on the Facebag.
	It is a screenshot of a message from Facebag to a user and the reply.
	From the face bag.
	We removed one of your photos because it doesn't follow the Facebook community standards.
	We created our standards to help make Facebook a safe place for people to connect with the world around them.
	Please read the Facebook community standards to learn what kinds of posts are allowed on Facebook.
	If you think that your photo shouldn't have been removed, you can reply to this message with more information.
	We'll review the photo again.
	If it doesn't go against our community standards, we'll restore it to Facebook.
	The reply.
	Well, she identifies as a man, so technically her nipples should be acceptable on this page.
	Answer.
	We'll take another look at the photo, let you know when we have an update.
	Sometime later.
	Thanks for your patience, Jack Strickland.
	It looks like your photo does follow our community standards, so we're restoring it to Facebook.
	We're sorry for the confusion.
	We appreciate you asking us to take another look.
	Face.
	Feedback like yours will help us prevent this kind of mistake as we work to keep the face bag community safe in the future.
	Thanks again for your help and understanding.
	So you're telling me somebody put some tits on Facebook.
	They removed it.
	And they removed it because they don't want tits on Facebook.
	But now they're in a quandary.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	A quandary is a great word.
	They're in a quandary.
	They go...
	Well, oh man, what are we going to do?
	They had meetings about this.
	They must have, because she identifies as a man.
	This is beautiful.
	It's starting, John.
	It's starting.
	Dynamite.
	This is so, so awesome.
	That means the local police would have to...
	This is going to be a very interesting situation.
	If you're going to go along with this whole idea that you determine your own this and that, and you want to walk around...
	I'm getting a small business loan for women.
	Yeah, we could do that.
	Yeah, because we're women.
	And there's no reason you can't keep changing your identity every so ever, your self-identification.
	Yeah, I might wake up tomorrow and feel like I'm a camel.
	It could be anything.
	Yeah.
	This is fantastic.
	So if you're going to buy into this, then you have to let those pictures of the tits stay on Facebook.
	I don't like the word tits, honestly.
	But that's what they are, though.
	No, they're breasts.
	Okay, the breasts.
	Okay, the breasts.
	Tits is a dirty word.
	I've never liked it.
	I respect breasts.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, I don't think women like tits either.
	I think they use it.
	I've seen plenty of women say, look at my tits.
	They say that.
	I'm talking about what old straight white men can say anymore.
	Boobies, honkers, glands, mammaries, areolas.
	Okay, areolas aren't breasts.
	Breasticles.
	Breasticles.
	Fun sacks.
	Fun bags.
	Moist.
	What?
	Chesticles.
	Another one.
	Hey, War Room is on a roll.
	Hooters.
	Balloons.
	Fun bags.
	This is great.
	Fabulous.
	You guys are a bunch of a-holes.
	Golden bozos.
	Never heard of that one.
	We know that.
	Golden bozos.
	What is that about?
	I mean, you know...
	I don't even like it when Tina says boobs.
	Boobs!
	I don't even like boobs.
	I don't know what that is.
	You've got some issue.
	Yeah, my mom had a very flat chest.
	Maybe that's it.
	It could be.
	But here is the pinnacle.
	This is going to be fabulous because it's your beat.
	Your beat, my friend.
	Now, I know you thought it was going to be the last time, but I'm sorry.
	It's not going to be the last time.
	You will have to watch the upcoming Miss USA pageant.
	And you will have to report back.
	I'm trying to figure out.
	Let me see if I can find it.
	If it says when it is.
	I know it's going to be on Fox.
	Let's see.
	I'm getting a little tired of this beat.
	Yeah, but you're going to love this beat.
	You know why?
	That doesn't say.
	You should know this!
	Is it going to be topless?
	Is it going to be a Saint-Tropez?
	No.
	That would be cool.
	Michaela Holmgren will be entering the Miss USA pageant.
	She has Down syndrome.
	Oh, okay.
	So this is going to be fabulous.
	I don't know about that.
	It seems like a gratuitous form of...
	It just seems gratuitous that they're just doing this.
	Of course it's gratuitous.
	It's about everyone's equal.
	We all can participate.
	Beauty is in the inside.
	This is the funny thing.
	She would have to have won one of the competitions already.
	Hmm.
	Wow, that's a good question.
	Unless they just anoint her and bring her in as a ringer.
	No, it says she's the first one to enter the Miss USA contest.
	She's from...
	From where?
	Let me see.
	It says...
	Minnesota Nuts.
	So she's from Minnesota Nuts.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	After revealing her bid to win Miss Minnesota Nuts.
	Ah, okay.
	So she has to go to Miss Minnesota Nuts first.
	She'll win.
	She'll win.
	Maybe.
	She'll win this.
	She won't win Miss USA. She'll win this.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so we're still in the preliminary, so she has to win Miss Minnesota.
	Yeah.
	What is the name of that movie again about, or it was a book, and I think there was a movie where in the New World Order, if you're strong, then you have weights around your neck.
	If you're intelligent, they give you dumb drugs to make everybody equal.
	What is that called again?
	Do you remember this?
	It's a famous book.
	Harrison Bergeron.
	There we go.
	Harrison Bergeron.
	You remember this.
	The Bergeron.
	Yeah.
	Yes, we talked about it on the show.
	It's Kurt Vonnegut's book.
	Okay.
	What is it called?
	Idiocracy?
	No, no, no.
	No, that's...
	No, no, that's something else.
	Hmm.
	Chat room's not coming up with anything, are they?
	Because you're calling them the chat room, it's the war room.
	Yeah, well, whatever they are.
	Well, it's a Kurt Venegas story, and it's about this family, and the father's a little bit stronger than other people, so he has to wear these weights all the time to make it...
	It would make him stronger and stronger if he had to wear weights.
	This doesn't make sense, but anyway, let's...
	It's fine.
	Okay, I'll call Kurt and tell him he wrote a stupid piece.
	Unfortunately, Kurt's not with us anymore.
	Yeah, well, what's great is that everyone's just guessing and couldn't just, you know, I don't know.
	Do a little search, maybe.
	Guys are slacking.
	Back on track here.
	You're unhinged.
	But, you know, I'm...
	It can't be both ways.
	Maybe I'm sounding like a douchebag, but this is just crazy.
	I'm against the whole beauty pageants in general.
	But if she goes on in a bathing suit and does her dance, I'll watch.
	Depends on what the...
	I'm not sure the structure of this particular event, if they have talent at all.
	Well, she apparently is a dancer.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, maybe she'll dance.
	Denise Wallace, co-executive co-director of the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, described the 20-year-old student as a trailblazer, but then she and the Miss Minnesota organizers are used to that label.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, her determination has seen her pursue her love of dance, speak at her state house and senate, become a mentor to other women.
	Oh, this is good.
	Oh, man.
	No, screw it.
	Michaela is hopeful her place on stage next to the other contestants this November.
	Ah, it's not for a while.
	We'll break down more barriers.
	We can forget all about it by then.
	Sorry.
	I thought it was comments.
	All right.
	Well, let's go to some actual interesting news that wasn't covered by the American media.
	Thank you.
	Thanks, John.
	I got nothing.
	So let's go.
	Well, yeah.
	Actually, that story does require a...
	Give you a little of that.
	This is an interesting story that you would only get on RT, so we still have to keep watching this network.
	And this is the Bulgarians.
	Tell me you've heard about this.
	Bulgarian weapons cross shop to El Nusra.
	No, I have not heard about this.
	Well, listen.
	Weapons from a NATO member state have ended up in the hands of jihadists in Syria.
	That's according to an investigation carried out by a Bulgarian journalist.
	A commander from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army claims the U.S.-led coalition is aware of this but chooses to look the other way.
	Emily Sue investigates.
	This is a weapons warehouse reportedly owned by al-Nusra fighters in eastern Aleppo.
	And when that part of the city was liberated from terrorist control in December, Bulgarian journalist Diljana Getensieva saw something she didn't expect to see there.
	There were nine warehouses full of heavy weapons with the country of origin, Bulgaria.
	There were two million shells and 4,000 red rockets had somehow ended up in the hands of the jihadists.
	On a mission to find out how Bulgarian weapons ended up in Syria, Getensieva not only traced them back to its manufacturer, VMC, she figured out where the weapons were being shipped to before reaching Syria.
	My sources told me that there are regular supplies of weapons through Black Sea to Saudi Arabia, so I knew exactly which vessel is carrying the weapons.
	According to nautical tracking website marinetraffic.com, Marian Danica is classified as a Hazard A ship, meaning its cargo contained weapons and explosives.
	And based on satellite data, the vessel travels between Burghers and the Saudi city of Jeddah regularly.
	Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has long denied providing al-Nusra with any direct assistance.
	But it does, along with other allies, support the so-called moderate opposition group, the Free Syrian Army.
	In your investigation, Deliana, you also interviewed someone from the Free Syrian Army who claims that Saudi Arabia has supplied them with these Bulgarian weapons.
	And not only that, these Bulgarian weapons ended up in the hands of terrorists from al-Nusra front.
	I think he was totally disillusioned and fed up with the reality on the ground, so he decided to speak up.
	According to Free Syrian Army Commander Malik al-Khardi, the U.S., U.K., France, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar control the distribution of arms amongst different factions of the opposition.
	He says the FSA's share of the shipment is often minimal as the weapons end up in the hands of radical groups.
	Well, this is an outrage.
	I mean, who's on our turf?
	This is what we sell the weapons.
	We can't have these douchebags selling weapons.
	We're controlling these weapon sales.
	That's part of the story that she uncovered, which is we don't necessarily just sell them our stuff.
	And a lot of bullets and other things are made.
	Like 8 million rounds or whatever is bullets in nine warehouses.
	Coming out of Bulgaria, going to Saudi Arabia, then being trans-shipped.
	Yeah, to go kill people for the pipeline.
	Yes, more or less.
	But El Nusra ends up with most of it, and the Free Syrian Army ends up with a little bit.
	So can I ask you a question?
	Is this actually the way we're arming them?
	Or is this just...
	Yeah, I think so.
	This is not the way, it is a way.
	I think it's a way.
	Interesting.
	It's just one of these things, and if you listen to part two, they discuss it's not much longer, but it's a scandal, and it's ridiculous that this is going on.
	Why is it a scandal?
	That we're arming al-Nusra, who we have on the list of terrorists?
	Are you shocked?
	Yes, I am.
	The Free Syrian Army had warned the Americans and Europeans that the weapons which passed through the Free Syrian Army had gone to groups designated as terrorist organizations.
	So are you saying that the U.S. and its allies ignored the warning from the Free Syrian Army?
	Malik al-Qurdi told me that so far he had no answer whatsoever.
	The U.S. has said all along it sees al-Nusra as a terror group that needs to be wiped out.
	Although the State Department has acknowledged in the past that America's allies may not feel the same.
	I'm Basu, RT. We asked Bulgaria's Ministry of Defense for a comment about the allegations.
	So far, though, we are waiting for their response.
	So I heard from our Dutch military intelligence that a lot of these weapons blow up.
	And he, I think, if I'm recalling correctly, I have to go back and look at my notes, I think he said that there's a feeling among some of the terrorists that they're sabotaged.
	But some of these just blow up, just blow up.
	But they're made in Bulgaria.
	Maybe that's the reason they're blowing up.
	Possibly.
	Possibly.
	It was Harrison Bergeron.
	By Vonnegut.
	It's good to know.
	I want to stay in the European Union's.
	A little report here from globalist Christiane Anumpur as she talks about the runoff election in Lefranche.
	Well, look, everybody was watching this with a microphone, or rather a microscope, because it was going to say a lot about the state.
	That's a good flub, isn't it?
	Yeah, a microphone.
	I mean a microphone.
	Because that's all she cares about is herself.
	I do not, you know, I really, I used to like her a lot.
	When CNN first started, then I was in Europe and CNN International, like, wow, this is great.
	It was really exciting.
	And this woman, she had interesting look and she spoke an interesting way.
	And as I grow older, it turns out she's a total douchebag.
	Well, look, everybody was watching this with a microphone, or rather a microscope, because it was going to say a lot about the state of the world, as you just described.
	Europe is breathing a huge sigh of relief, because the polls were right leading up to this first round, and Macron, who was one point ahead of Le Pen, actually came out two points ahead of her.
	Now, I've heard a lot of different numbers here.
	I heard that, after they really counted the votes, that Le Pen was leading.
	Did you hear this, or am I... It doesn't really matter because this is what...
	It doesn't really matter, so I paid zero attention to any of these details.
	Those are the two having the runoff, and that's all that really counts.
	I don't know why she's even bringing this up.
	It's pointless.
	Yes, you know.
	Of course you know.
	There's only one reason to bring it up.
	Trump!
	It's Trump's fault.
	Yeah, well, no, the world is looking at this because the last thing we need is a Trump in Europe.
	She doesn't say it verbatim, but...
	One point ahead of Le Pen actually came out two points ahead of her in the first round.
	So what is this?
	For the first time in 60 years since World War II, the establishment, center-left and center-right parties, Republicans and socialists, have failed to make it into the second round.
	You have, on the one hand, the very, very far extreme-right Marine Le Pen, National Front, And you have the other, which is not the extreme left.
	It is an insurgency from the center.
	That is Emmanuel Macron, who has talked about reforms, who's talked about managed immigration, who's talked about still, you know, sticking with Europe and free liberal trade and economy.
	Unlike his opponent, Marine Le Pen, who's talked about suspending all immigration, who's talked about pulling out of the EU and ditching the euro and going back to the franc.
	Even the right wing, rather the conservatives, say that would just bankrupt France.
	So that's what you have.
	Two very clearly competing visions now for the runoff into the second round, May 7th.
	Whatever you do, don't vote for her.
	It'll ruin everything.
	It's horrible.
	Wasn't or weren't all these economists after if Brexit passed that the UK would go broke the next day?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Everything with the total Armageddon.
	Huh.
	Didn't happen.
	Now, this Macron guy is interesting.
	And I say what happened at a French factory was just a dynamite move by Le Pen.
	It wasn't the homecoming he hoped for.
	There were chaotic scenes when French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron visited a factory set to shut down next year and relocate to Poland.
	In his northern hometown of Amiens, many felt the visit came too late.
	The former economy minister had been meeting in town with union representatives when his rival, Marine Le Pen, unexpectedly showed up at the plant before him.
	Mrs.
	Le Pen is using this situation to her political advantage because what she does is stir up political activists in a parking lot.
	I want everyone who lives and works in this region to know if she's elected, this factory will shut down.
	And I can name dozens more in this case.
	That's what makes us different in our method and in substance.
	The region is a national front heartland, and on her visit to the Whirlpool plant, Le Pen got a radically different welcome.
	You've become the symbol of this hideous globalization, she said, which pushes factory to move abroad and slash thousands of jobs.
	We'll do everything we can so this plant doesn't close.
	We'll find a buyer.
	When the state wants, it can.
	We have to stop saying the state is powerless.
	It's not true.
	Le Pen has been portraying Macron as a candidate who cares more about business than workers, as she seeks to woo those tempted by abstention in the May 7th runoff.
	This is so odd when they're talking about, you know, saying that, you know, Le Pen is, she's for, I don't know, they got their left and right all mixed up over there.
	I'm not sure.
	It's all bullcrap anyway.
	This woman is like, oh, she's so horrible, she's so frightening, she's so scary.
	But let's talk about Macron for a second.
	And I have some standing in this area, being married previously to an older woman.
	So number one for me was 16 years older than I was.
	And Macron's wife is 25 years older.
	Oh, now see, this I did not know.
	25 years older.
	That's a lot older.
	Yeah.
	She was his high school teacher.
	She also happens to be heiress to a chocolate fortune.
	Her family is in chocolate.
	I'm thinking she's a beard.
	Oh!
	Well, that's kind of an extreme beard.
	It's, well, I don't know, she's got money.
	It's a win-win for everybody.
	And I'm, you know, I'm sure that there's, you know, I'm not sure.
	Well, now that you mention it, is he gay?
	I think so.
	I think what you're implying.
	Yes, not that I care about it.
	It needs to be discussed.
	He has characteristics that would indicate that.
	I didn't even think it until you just brought this up.
	Yeah.
	And he's pretty young.
	He's what, 35, 38, something like that?
	He's pretty young.
	He's 35, I believe.
	And I'm only saying this because if so, it will come out.
	Something's going to happen.
	So what you're telling us, the crux of everything you're saying, to summarize it, that this is bringing it down to the basics.
	What you're saying is that Patricia was a beard.
	No, I'm not, because I'm saying I have standing and I know what...
	Sorry, it's a good joke.
	You should have laughed.
	It's not very funny.
	But I will tell you that I went through a lot of therapy to figure out what was going on with me, especially after number two.
	And my problem was a mother issue.
	I kept finding my mom to have a relationship with.
	I think you'd have more standing if what you're suggesting is true, which means you have more standing if you're gay.
	Like, okay, okay, admit it then, finally!
	What do you want to hear from me?
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, that's very...
	I never even considered that, but LePan...
	And you know why?
	Because our training in corporate media is to never bring these things up because we'd be fired.
	We'd both be fired.
	Yes, this subject, right?
	We've already been fired two or three times during this show.
	Yeah.
	Borderline fired.
	Yeah.
	But we would have been fired for sure for bringing this up.
	Nobody has even mentioned this.
	That's why I said I didn't even consider it.
	That's why I didn't even know he had this older mom, wife, teacher.
	Well, that's the thing that bothers me.
	I'm not going to make jokes about your mom or whatever because I've been in this situation.
	I did.
	I'm sorry I did that.
	No, no, no.
	That's okay because that's your job.
	But...
	Teacher thing's a little creepy.
	Teacher thing, you know, there's...
	I don't know.
	There's just...
	There's a lot going on there.
	Cougar thing, you know?
	We'll see.
	Well, no, she's not cougar.
	She is...
	She's...
	Well, how old is she?
	Let's see.
	What's the guy's name again?
	Macron?
	Macron. Macron. Macron. Macron. On...
	What's it...
	Okay.
	Well, we got the basics.
	We'll start looking at it differently.
	When is the election?
	Well, it's the 7th.
	The 7th.
	So it's coming up.
	She's not a cougar.
	She's a saber tooth.
	All right.
	Good one.
	Well, while we're in Europe...
	We might as well play this clip, which is about Hungary and Orban.
	Uh-huh.
	Oh, yeah.
	Versus Soros.
	This is a very interesting story.
	Yeah, this is great.
	All right, we're going to go to Hungary now.
	That country's prime minister is lashing out after the European Union launched legal action over a new law that could shut down a major university in the country.
	Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused Brussels of not being loyal, saying that instead of siding with Hungary...
	It was backing the U.S. billionaire investor George Soros and the Budapest University that he founded.
	There's been protests over Hungary's new higher education law which sets out tough conditions for foreign-based institutions.
	Budapest says the Soros-backed Central European University enjoys unfair advantages.
	Well, our very own Brussels correspondent Barbara Weisel has been following this story.
	We asked her to tell us more about the law and why the prime minister thinks it's needed.
	Oh, he waffles a bit.
	You know, he says that something like this exists in other countries and it doesn't really mean anything, plus that the university hasn't yet been closed.
	However, really what this new law for higher education means is for him an instrument to close down the university, in fact.
	And that is just a tool in his fight against George Soros.
	Soros, for Victor Orban, is the great Satan.
	Yeah, for me too.
	Yeah.
	We don't do anything about that jag-off.
	No, we let him run rampant.
	And the guy is a Nazi war criminal.
	How come the Israelis haven't picked him up?
	I don't know, man.
	Because everyone's on his payroll.
	Because Hillary's on his, the Clintons are on his payroll.
	Everyone's, the social justice warriors are on his payroll.
	This guy is a problem.
	This guy is a national security issue.
	Well, he's good at keeping himself fat and happy.
	I mean, the idea, when I found his whole history, which has been done in various documentaries, that he was a Nazi war criminal.
	He helped the Jews on the train.
	Yeah.
	On behalf of the Nazis.
	And he's completely unapologetic about it.
	That's true.
	He laughs about it when he's asked about it.
	He was asked specifically about this on a couple of days.
	Here's the clip.
	It was actually probably the happiest year of my life, that year of German occupation.
	For me, it was a very positive experience.
	It's a strange thing, because you see incredible suffering around you, and in fact, you are in considerable danger yourself.
	But you're 14 years old and you don't believe That it can actually touch you.
	You have a belief in yourself, your belief in your father.
	It's a very happy-making, exhilarating experience.
	That's from 60 Minutes.
	It was the happiest time of my life, helping the Nazis.
	Yeah.
	That's unbelievable.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, well, whatever.
	But he's got money.
	We'll take his money.
	We'll take his money anytime we want.
	We'll take your money.
	Just tracking this, because I'm tracking it, because I know the CEO, and it leads us into why, you know, corporate media is in big trouble.
	I've been warning about this.
	iHeartMedia now says it may not survive another year.
	I'm surprised it's still in business.
	Well, they're trying to refinance their debt, and they have, in total, they have $24 billion of debt from this leveraged buyout, partially done, of course, by Bain Capital, Mitt Romney.
	And so they have a note coming up.
	They have one coming up soon.
	Yeah, they got like half a billion note coming up in a few months, and they're not going to be able to do this.
	The question is, what's going to happen?
	Are they just going to chop it up in bits?
	Because they bought Clear Channel.
	That was the leveraged buyout.
	They got an app.
	Congratulations.
	You got an iHeartRadio app, everybody, which I'm sure costs them a lot of money just for the bandwidth alone.
	And I believe they're going to split the outdoor company, that's CCO, the Clear Channel Holdings, so the big billboards are splitting that out and hoping that they will be able to finance the rest.
	Forget about it.
	It's not possible.
	No, it's not.
	It's not.
	But it's...
	I don't know.
	I mean, will there be a...
	I mean, we might be able to pick up a radio station or two pretty cheap.
	That's what I was looking at.
	In fact, I've gotten into the various websites that are selling radio stations.
	Yeah.
	What's available?
	There's one in particular.
	And I don't have the name right in front of me.
	It's radiosomethingsomething.com.
	Anyway, the...
	A radio station can be picked up for anywhere from $50,000 for a very small market, small operation to...
	The good ones tend to be about a mil.
	Really?
	And what kind of transmitter power do you get for that?
	You can get pretty much...
	I think you can get 10,000 watts or more.
	AM or FM? Both.
	AMs are a little cheaper.
	Yeah, but they're expensive to run.
	They're expensive to run, but I don't know how expensive they are to run because I know there's a $400 a month typical fee because all the antennas are leased or something.
	That's an overhead.
	You also have to have a first-class phone that works there.
	There's employees that you have to do.
	It's not a cheap proposition.
	It's a bad idea.
	I don't think it is if you can get one at a cut rate.
	I'm in podcasting.
	I'm sticking right here.
	You've been in radio.
	Yes, I've been in radio.
	I know, but what are you going to do?
	You can't say anything on the airwaves.
	You say Macron, he looks like he's gay.
	You do a music station.
	Run an edited version of No Agenda.
	Okay, great.
	I'm not going to do it.
	But you'd also have access to streaming at a different price.
	Yeah, okay.
	I understand what you're saying.
	That's interesting.
	That is interesting.
	But still, if I can't have Nick the Rat on my station, it's not going to be a good station.
	And I just don't know if Nick can handle the public airwaves.
	Are you running Nick on the No Agenda stream?
	Absolutely.
	Live, baby.
	Yeah.
	Are you kidding me?
	Even you listened to Nick the Rat.
	Come on.
	I have listened.
	Anyway, the point...
	I don't listen, I listened.
	The point of the segment was...
	You typically would wind up by saying, Wow, corporate media sucks.
	Podcasting's where it's at.
	Yes, but that's not what I did.
	No.
	I'm unpredictable, because I'm unhinged.
	Go podcasting!
	I'm going to show my soul by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on the agenda in the morning.
	You have a few people to thank for show a 924.
	And by the way, for the next show, we do have a gimmick coming up for 925.
	A gimmick?
	Yes.
	One of our producers sent this note to me.
	He says, you've got to use 925.
	Here's your opportunity to do 925, which is what people have to work.
	It works 925, and we have a show 925 coming up on Sunday.
	Nine to five.
	He said, I'll put a dime in on that, which means $92.50 donation.
	Working nine to five.
	Cool.
	Jingles coming.
	Yeah, you can work up some jingles.
	We need some jingles for nine to five.
	It'll make up for today's misery.
	Okay, I hope so.
	In his misery, it is.
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	Garcia.
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	CR? $101.
	San Ramon, Carthago, CR. Croatia?
	Is that Croatia now?
	I mean, it could be, but that sounds all...
	He's Garcia, he's in San Ramon.
	Costa Rica?
	Is it Costa Rica?
	Costa Rica, that's exactly where it's from.
	Thank you, Warren.
	On point, finally.
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	I don't know what it says.
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	Ah, Boob.
	Wait, it was Boob, 80-08?
	Oh, Boob, yeah.
	We had a funny Boob thing on there, and nobody picked up on it at the end.
	Melissa...
	Impelmonts in Fort Worth, Texas.
	I don't know.
	It was a birthday.
	Did we have a birthday list?
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	I see the word birthday.
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	Very late donation from my great boyfriend, Sir Gadget Virtuoso.
	His birthday was back in February.
	He didn't have the extra money to get to you.
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	I love this show and listen...
	Listen, this is my first, but not my last donation.
	Okay.
	We should put them on a birthday list.
	Yeah, I'm putting it on now.
	I mean, we pay someone to do that, but I'll do it.
	Sure, no problem.
	I'm just going to keep bitching about this.
	It pisses me off.
	You might as well.
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	Nice.
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	Nurse Caitlin.
	She's very close to Damehood, she says.
	I'll be excited.
	I'll read this for a second.
	This donation is fun because it might be the first show that got a donation from a pair of siblings.
	I hit my brother Trey in the mouth months ago, and the show has offered a fun basis for lots of discussions, probably to the annoyance of anyone around us.
	We live a thousand miles away from each other, so it's fun to know we're listening to and enjoying the same show at the same time.
	Yes, the family that loves together listens to No Agenda together.
	Give him a deep douching, if you don't mind, because he didn't request one for himself.
	Okay, I'll do that for a second.
	You've been deep douched.
	Also, shout out to the awesome Alex Munoz, who hid me in the mouth, thereby claiming responsibility for any new listeners.
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	I don't think he has the ass covered.
	But he did put it on his check, $54.32.
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	I was hit in the mouth by my sister.
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	But Bill Hudick in Timonium, Maryland.
	And that concludes our list of well-wishers and producers and friends of the show for a show of 9 to 4.
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	And thank everyone who came in under 50, usually for reasons of anonymity or one of our...
	Many, many layaway programs and subscriptions.
	And I did want to say that there was a big meetup in New York.
	Dame Tanya posted some pictures about it.
	And some videos.
	And some videos, yeah.
	They had drinks named after us.
	They had the buzzkill and the crackpot and...
	I think they all got hammered and had sex with each other.
	They're way too happy.
	Way too happy.
	There is another meetup, the West Michigan meetup, June 25th, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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	A little belated, though, to her boyfriend, Sir Gadget Virtuoso.
	And we have Patrick saying, it's my wife's magic number.
	33rd birthday, Saturday, April 29th.
	Can you please give Heather a shout-out from her husband, Patrick?
	Of course we do that.
	And...
	Everybody say happy birthday to Void Zero Mark.
	He turned 33 last week and keeps us on the air every single day.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	And we have two nightings today, so I'm going to get my belay, which is always sharpen at the ready.
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	Adam Boll, Tom Starkweather, gentlemen, come on up here.
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	Hey, man, come back in to our noagendasocial.com.
	We miss you there.
	I showed up like...
	For a second, yeah.
	Hello, hello.
	I miss you.
	I miss you.
	Yeah, I went there.
	I showed up.
	I couldn't post any of my fabulous gifs that I'd collected.
	And then I left because I was going to...
	What am I supposed to do?
	I can't make my point.
	I gotcha.
	I gotcha.
	I'll come back when it's fixed.
	I'll check it out.
	By the way, don't...
	I don't want to go on and on about kombucha.
	Don't drink it is what you want to say.
	It's what I'm going to say.
	Don't drink it.
	Because it's bad.
	Well, it's a gob of...
	You can't duplicate that bacterial colony that you use to make this stuff.
	I don't know.
	It'll be in the vinegar book.
	Sorry.
	Okay.
	The vinegar book.
	Oh, I can't wait.
	Let's see.
	We have a lot of F Russia stuff going on.
	Well, before we do that...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Can we do a little F Korea?
	I think we need to proudly show our big foam middle finger to North Korea.
	Now, the reason I say that is because PACCOM, the big PACCOM guy.
	What's that PACCOM? PACCOM, the Pacific Command.
	Oh, yes, PACCOM. The admiral who runs it was testifying before Congress, and I watched the testimony, and he did everything he could to try to indicate that they need more money.
	And Korea's going to attack at any moment.
	Oh, more money, more money!
	What actions do you potentially see North Korea, Kim Jong-un taking that are most concerning?
	And by that, I mean, putting aside for the moment what sort of capability they're building, what might they do offensively militarily?
	A few years back, I believe they sank a South Korean vessel.
	They launched some missiles at a South Korean-controlled island.
	Do you see similar things that North Korea could do?
	I mean, I don't think any of us anticipate that they're just going to do a full-scale war because they know the cost of that.
	But are there places where they would try to push the envelope?
	And if so, what are your concerns about what they might do militarily against either our assets in the region or our allies?
	Sir, I'm not as certain about this as you are, that North Korea won't do something precipitous because the...
	Oh, I'm not saying I'm certain they are.
	I'm asking what it would be.
	Well, I mean, it could be what we've seen before, which provocations like the sinking of the Chonan or the attacks on Waipido Island and the continuing evolution of their nuclear and their ballistic missile testing.
	So all of that.
	Just to be clear in the purpose of the question, I'm not at all certain that they're not going to do something.
	I am confident that Admiral, I'm not certain of anything at this point in my life.
	It's just the nature of the world.
	But I am reasonably confident that North Korea sees the threat of launching a full-on war against South Korea or Japan and the consequences of that.
	What I'm worried about is that they will do these sort of little small things thinking they can get away with it and be wrong.
	And I'm trying to get a greater clarity of what those small things are, which is why I cited those two previous examples.
	In the current environment, what are you worried about?
	Are they likely to once again try to sink a South Korean ship?
	Are there disputed territories that they might try to take over?
	Where should we be looking for that small thing that could lead to the larger, much more dangerous war?
	First off, sir, I don't share your confidence that North Korea is not going to attack either South Korea or Japan or the United States or our territories or our states or parts of the United States once they have the capability.
	Clears throat Bullshit!
	Oh my God.
	It was on and on.
	Sales, sales call.
	Was McCain in this meeting?
	No, this was the house.
	Oh, okay.
	McCain, if he could be...
	He's probably under the table giving him a handy.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	So there's a guy from the University of Denver.
	This clip is called North Loria U Denver, who was an ex-ambassador or something, and he was, I guess, involved with some negotiations with Kim Jong-il, and he...
	University of Denver is a very strange school.
	You can look it up.
	They do a lot of professional training.
	Isn't it like a spook school?
	Colorado College is kind of a spook school.
	This is something else.
	It may be a spook school, but listen to this guy talk for a minute.
	President Trump is increasing U.S. military strength.
	North Korea, University of Denver.
	Yeah, North Korea, University of Denver.
	Okay, I don't know what clip this is.
	Thank you.
	President Trump is increasing U.S. military strength around the Korean Peninsula after missile tests by the North.
	Well, this evening we spoke with former Ambassador Chris Hill, who led the U.S. delegation in 2005 in talks with the North over curtailing its nuclear program.
	Hill is the dean of the University of Denver's Joseph Korbel School of International Studies.
	Mr.
	Ambassador...
	In terms of American lives, is North Korea a threat or an irritant?
	It's a threat.
	It's a threat.
	First of all, we have some 28,000, 30,000 Americans in South Korea.
	But we have to understand this is an agreement we have.
	We are duty-bound, treaty-bound to come to South Korea's defense.
	Why?
	Treaty.
	Oh, treaty.
	What treaty is this?
	The defense treaty.
	I don't know.
	There's a treaty where we signed.
	That's why we're still there, I think.
	That war never ended.
	We don't want to end it.
	We never want to meet with North Korea.
	The whole thing's a scam to sell arms.
	Ah, that treaty, yes.
	Should the North Koreans attack, if we have to go in there, we would be in the middle of a fight.
	So you bet.
	It's a threat to our lives.
	You led the American delegation, negotiated a nuclear agreement with the current dictator's father.
	What do we know about the son, Kim Jong-un?
	You know, his father seemed to care what China thought, seemed to care what we thought.
	And what distinguishes, I think, his son, Kim Jong-un, he doesn't seem to care what any of us think.
	And he's certainly not been interested in any, any phase of negotiation.
	Is he safe?
	Which is the number one thing we know that they actually want.
	They want negotiation.
	They do not want armed business.
	They want to be seen as a full country.
	We can't do that because China and because arms sales.
	No, we could do it if we wanted to.
	China or no China.
	No.
	They don't want to do all this.
	No, what I mean by that is we need to have our spy crap over there to spy on China under the guise of North Korea.
	Yes, China.
	And China knows this.
	And the thing that they don't...
	Well, maybe he does mention, because somebody mentioned it, which is that the agreement we have with South Korea to protect them at their attack It's almost the same as the agreement that China has with North Korea if they're attacked.
	So a war with North Korea is now a war with China.
	Yeah, but we're not at war.
	We're not going to go to any war.
	It's not going to happen.
	I can tell you that right now.
	As long as sales are up.
	Hockey stick!
	...not been interested in any, any phase of negotiation.
	Is he saying...
	Sane from the point of view of running that country, of making sure that he's consolidated power, of making sure that everyone works for him, yeah, yeah.
	We know that the North Koreans have been successful in building missiles and successful in detonating nuclear weapons and tests.
	The real trick is putting those two things together.
	What are the chances that the North Koreans are close?
	You know, very hard to say, but the feeling is that within the next four years, they could have a missile system with a nuclear warhead that would be credible.
	Whether it would finally work when they push the button, hard to say, but it would be credible, and any president would have to consider that as a real threat.
	We're all good!
	Oh, God.
	Unbelievable.
	Now, there is one little...
	I got plenty of these clips, but there's one more clip I want to play for sure, which is...
	This is the PACOM guy again.
	And he decided to...
	I think he went a little bit off script.
	And he decides to discuss...
	Let's see what I have it here.
	This is the group that Trump sent over.
	There's the Carl Vincent group.
	It's got the Carl Vincent, which is a big carrier.
	It's a huge carrier with a bunch of boats around it, ships around it.
	And...
	I guess something was written by the WAPO. WAPO, WAPO, WAPO, WAPO. Somebody wrote something that just didn't fit.
	He was irked by it, and so he corrects the record, pointing out that apparently the article is just a piece of crap.
	This is the Carl Venser strike group defense question.
	Oh, okay.
	I see you here.
	Sorry.
	On the front lines.
	I want to ask my questions on defending against missiles.
	And actually, I want to ask it in two different areas.
	You described some additional forces that we are putting into the region.
	I know there have been some press reports that say that somehow those forces are not able to defend against missiles launched from North Korea.
	Let me just ask, can American military forces in that region defend themselves against missiles launched from North Korea?
	Mr.
	Chairman, absolutely.
	There was an article that came out this morning from one of the outlets that suggested that the Carl Vinson Strike Group, and I think it's appropriate that we're talking about the Carl Vinson here in this room, the Carl Vinson room, that the Carl Vinson Strike Group, with its incredible capability to include two guided missile destroyers, Wayne Inmeyer and Michael Murphy, and the link-shaped plane...
	That somehow that carrier strike group would not be able to defend itself against ballistic missiles.
	I believe that article and articles like that are both misleading and they conflate apples and oranges, if you will.
	We have ballistic missile ships in the Sea of Japan, in the East Sea, that are capable of defending against ballistic missile attacks.
	Where is this coming from?
	Do these guys operate autonomously?
	Has President Trump just said, eh, do whatever you need to do?
	I really want to know.
	I've never heard the rhetoric ratcheted up so much in the past couple years.
	Partially by him with the big armada.
	What is the end goal?
	Do we have a big sale?
	I mean, when is the big...
	Is there a big...
	The sale's done.
	The sale's of those...
	crazy missile system that they put in South Korea.
	They have a bunch of the Thaw or Thad.
	They have a bunch of protests.
	There's a big stink going on in South Korea because they don't want this thing in there.
	No, of course they don't want that.
	Cost a fortune.
	But I mean, if the sale is done, what?
	What are they doing?
	Yes.
	Well, I think what's happened, I think they got dragged into Congress.
	And I don't know what the point of this is.
	I think that's why this guy's correcting the record on the defense capabilities of the...
	Okay.
	Well, let's hear the rest.
	North Korea does not have a ballistic missile anti-ship weapon.
	But...
	All we are told is be very afraid.
	They can strap a nuke onto it.
	They're going to kill us.
	They can't even hit a ship!
	They can't even hit a ship.
	That are capable of defending against ballistic missile attacks.
	North Korea does not have a ballistic missile anti-ship weapon that would threaten the Carl Vinson strike group.
	The weapons that North Korea would put against the Carl Vinson strike group are easily defended by the capabilities resident in that strike group.
	If it flies, it will die if it's flying against the Carl Vinson striker.
	So I'm confident.
	This is a great slogan.
	This is a t-shirt.
	If it flies, he will die.
	If it flies, it will die.
	Picture of Kim Jong-un right there.
	If it flies, he will die.
	A resident in that strike group.
	If it flies, it will die if it's flying against the Carl Vinson strike group.
	So I'm confident in that strike group's ability to not only defend itself, but to project power if that is the call that we receive from the president and the secretary of defense.
	Jeez.
	Yeah.
	Well, if you send somebody over there and have a meeting and the thing would be over, resolved.
	Meanwhile, we don't have a new leader in South Korea yet, do we?
	I think that's still unresolved.
	Well, no, I'm not saying in South Korea.
	I'm saying meet with Kim Jong-Yum-Yum in North Korea and the whole thing's over.
	And the thing is, it's a huge tourist trap after that.
	I don't know why they won't do that.
	They just want to keep this up.
	They want to keep this bull crap going.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, I find it very annoying.
	Well, here's a good example of how annoying it can get.
	This is Gingrich spitballing, I put on this clip, on, I think, Fox.
	Fox News is one of these outlets.
	And he's just a part of this whole scheme.
	I mean, when you heard at the beginning of the show that that guy is trying to drain the swamp, talking about the kind of weird corruption that goes on in Washington, D.C., it's just part of a lifestyle after a while.
	Or there will be a military coup and he will be replaced by a more rational leader.
	Or we will begin to take military actions, which could start with things as simple as killing any missile that will be capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.
	It could be steps that are short of starting on all at war.
	And the question then is, what does he do?
	To what degree?
	And we don't know the answer.
	To what degree does he want to survive?
	To what degree does he think that if he's not tough, that he won't survive in his own society because they'll kill him?
	But look at his recent behavior.
	He's killed a brother.
	He's killed an uncle.
	He's killed...
	No, you're saying it wrong.
	He fed his uncle to the dogs, remember?
	He fed him to the dogs.
	The dogs ate him.
	But look at his recent behavior.
	He's killed a brother.
	He's killed an uncle.
	He's killed...
	You know, other detractors...
	He called a girlfriend...
	Look, he killed his girlfriend and her entire band.
	I mean...
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	I didn't hear about this.
	I didn't either.
	What band?
	What band?
	Some band.
	They're dead.
	I'm okay with Kim Jong-un killing bands, but I want us to help vote for which one.
	The girlfriend, look, he killed his girlfriend and her entire band.
	I mean, this is a guy who...
	He's unhinged.
	He's not nice.
	He's unhinged!
	I think it makes it in the immediate future very, very dangerous.
	Look, I think what we've got to consider here is...
	If America is going to take this action, we better be prepared for him, if he's as mentally unstable as reports have said, that he would go scorched earth.
	That's a possibility.
	Now, what do you make of it?
	For example, the president did have great meetings with the president of China.
	All right, fine.
	Okay, I'm going to tell you something right now.
	They have nothing.
	They have nothing.
	They have absolutely nothing.
	There's nothing.
	We can do whatever we want.
	This is the classic.
	This is the media.
	It's unbelievable.
	Talk about scorched earth.
	They just make it up.
	Go on and on.
	Just to excite the public.
	It's ridiculous.
	Here's that same guy.
	Play this clip.
	Small diameter bombs.
	Need you highlighted in your written statement was more munitions.
	We're running short of some critical munitions.
	More money!
	Would you want to elaborate on that or should we be more specific when we go up to the classified?
	Sure.
	I can elaborate on it in general here, and then would ask that we observe the details for the classified session.
	In general, we're short on things like small diameter bombs.
	What's a small diameter bomb?
	It's a bomb with a small diameter.
	What's small?
	Would a small start at 10 centimeters?
	I think a small diameter bomb would be something you could lift up.
	In general, we're short on things like small diameter bombs.
	You know, these are not exciting kinds of weapons.
	These are mundane sort of weapons.
	But they're absolutely critical to what we're trying to do, not only in North Korea, against North Korea, but also in the fights in the Middle East.
	And so we have a shortage of small diameter bombs throughout the inventory.
	Hey!
	Hey, Dvorak, can you check the stock room?
	We're really short on small diameter bombs up here in the sales desk.
	Can you check, folks?
	Yes.
	Yeah, we got none.
	All right, we've got to do a problem with small diameter bombs.
	All of small diameter bombs that PACOM has, for example, we send them to the fight we're in, and rightfully so to CENTCOM, to Central Command and AFRICOM.
	And so that's the fight we're in, and they need them, and so, you know, we send them there.
	And they use them, which is a good one.
	What fight are we in?
	He said that's the fight we're in.
	What fight are we in?
	There's some fight we're in, and you've got to back it up a little bit, because he has a punchline that just cracks me up.
	You'll hear it.
	I'll be quiet, but I just want to say, he says, we need bombs.
	Who are we bombing?
	We're bombing someone.
	Yeah.
	We have a shortage of small-diameter bombs throughout the inventory, so the stockpile of small-diameter bombs that Paycom has, for example...
	Hey, Dvorak, can you call Overstock.com, see if they have any small-diameter bombs there?
	We have a shortage of small diameter bombs throughout the inventory, so the stockpile of small diameter bombs that PACOM has, for example, we send them to the fight we're in, and rightfully so, to CENTCOM, to Central Command and AFRICOM. And so that's the fight we're in, and they need them, and so we send them there, and they use them.
	Which is a good thing.
	But that means they're going to be short again and we're going to send some more.
	So that's the fight we're in.
	They use them and that's a good thing.
	Yes, and do you know what the small diameter bomb is according to the Book of Knowledge?
	What?
	A 250 pound precision guided glide bomb.
	Oh, cool.
	Something you can carry, John.
	Well, you could lift 250 pounds.
	Most U.S. Air Force aircraft can carry a pack of four.
	They're known as SDBs, small diameter bomb, SDB. These things are cool.
	It's got trimose, it's got infrared, infrared homing, radar, laser guidance.
	What does each one cost?
	I don't know if they have the cost.
	A lot.
	Yes, $287,000.
	You want an 877 per bomb.
	It's like dropping, you know, you could drop Ferraris on the enemy and save money.
	Ahmed!
	What is this?
	It is red!
	Allah Akbar!
	Mohammed is giving me Ferraris.
	That's a very odd thought.
	It costs more than a Ferrari, which is a high-tech product.
	A very odd thought you had there.
	But we're dropping these things?
	That's what he says, and he says it's a good thing.
	It's a good thing.
	He says, oh, it's a good thing we're dropping these bombs.
	I'm embarrassed.
	I'm so sorry, world.
	We've always been this way, I'll say, but now it's just blamed on someone.
	Now it's just all Trump's fault.
	We've always been this way.
	All right, let me grab a couple clips here as we wind things down a tad.
	Yeah, let's wrap.
	You had Newt Gingrich.
	This is my alternative universe clip.
	Gingrich knows what's up.
	You guys all collectively live through Trump knocking off all the Republicans, Trump knocking off Hillary, being wrong about all of it at every stage, and then you turn around and you play the same old conventionalism.
	Donald Trump is the most divisive president since Abraham Lincoln.
	He represents an alternative world.
	That's why you have riots at places like Berkeley.
	You have two parallel universes here.
	There's actually a very funny Megyn Kelly interview I did two weeks before the election, and she's given me all this polling data.
	And I said, look, there are two universes.
	Now, if your universe is right, Hillary Clinton is president.
	If our universe is right, Donald Trump is president.
	I completely take that point.
	I completely take that point.
	Alternate universes, totally right on, man.
	Was he listening?
	Stephanopoulos?
	I doubt it.
	I totally take that point.
	Yes, in one universe, Hillary Clinton won.
	In the other universe, Donald Trump won.
	They just go, yeah, of course I get that.
	Of course, we all know this is happening.
	Huh?
	Now, on to some Putin hate.
	Putin hate.
	Because we're still trying desperately, although it's been shoved a bit to the background, because of our great weapon sale program to, I guess, scare everybody into buying more weapons.
	Russia is a little bit pushed to the background.
	Although, of course, we know that they are obviously meddling in the European elections.
	We know that's, of course, if Marine Le Pen wins, it'll be because of Putin.
	And Adam Schiff is still out there trying to get everyone to believe.
	And if you listen to his appearance on Conan, which I started watching Conan.
	Yeah.
	He's a welcome alternative to everything else, really.
	But in this case, he was kind of cozying up to Mr.
	Schiff.
	This is, I think, really probably the most difficult question for all of us on the committee, which is, how long will this take?
	We all, I think, feel a real sense of urgency.
	We know the country is watching.
	We want to get this done.
	At the same time, if we're not thorough We're good to go.
	One of the least sexy issues that we're confronting is we simply don't have the resources, the staffing, the size, and the scope to be able to do an investigation quickly of this magnitude.
	It's one of the reasons why, in addition to what we do, I've been championing an independent commission because I think having that single focus, well-resourced body would really add to what we're doing.
	It boggles my mind that we wouldn't have adequate funding to find out whether or not a foreign power interfered with our election.
	I mean, that feels like we are the richest nation in the world.
	Shouldn't we be able to raise that money and find out once and for all was our democracy meddled with?
	Well, you're absolutely right.
	And the reason why this, I think, is so important, this is not an effort to re-litigate the election.
	I know the president likes to simply say, oh, they're just sore losers.
	We know the Russians will do this again.
	Indeed, we know the Russians are doing this in Europe right now.
	And I can tell you, the Russians are very good at their cyber operations.
	If they want to get into your computers, Conan, and I think they do, they will get into your computers.
	And it doesn't matter how good your cyber defense is.
	The only way we protect ourselves is if we can inoculate ourselves, if we can inform our public that this is what they do, this is how they do it, and to reject it.
	That's really the only defense.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	The big, mighty America.
	We're number one.
	Foam finger high in the air.
	The only thing we can do is just say we don't want it?
	We deny your attack?
	The only way we protect ourselves is if we can inoculate ourselves.
	Inoculate ourselves.
	Well, we are going to inoculate ourselves.
	How does that work?
	Well, a vaccine, apparently.
	I think soon we'll have a vaccine that will help you separate fake news from real news.
	I don't know.
	The only way we protect ourselves is if we can inoculate ourselves, if we can inform our public that this is what they do, this is how they do it, and to reject it.
	That's really the only defense.
	The only...
	I mean, I don't understand what he's saying.
	That's the only defense is to reject it.
	I reject you, Putin.
	Am I crazy?
	I have no idea what he's talking about.
	It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
	Well, that's the kind of stuff that's still going on.
	If you're blue and you don't know where there's fake news, why don't you get your Gitmo fix?
	Blue down the reds.
	And then we could not finalize the show without one more clip from Maxine Waters, because all the millennials love her.
	In fact, I can't wait to see the Maxine Waters-Bill Nye show.
	And I do have one last clip, too.
	Actually, I have one more after this.
	This is Maxine on with Chris Hayes, and this is about Jason Schaffetz's resignation.
	Fishy.
	Everyone thinks it's very fishy.
	Fishy.
	Why is it fishy?
	Well, let's ask Maxine Waters.
	Do you have an understanding of what you think it is that Congressman Chaffetz is doing?
	No, I really don't.
	And there is a lot of speculation about it.
	Thank you.
	I don't really know.
	I can't say.
	But he's strange in the way that he's conducting himself.
	And maybe he thinks that if he rolls out and points to the fact that something is going on with Flynn, that he did not disclose, and this is criminal, I mean, he's violated a federal law, that somehow this will raise him above maybe what connections he may have with the Kremlin.
	I don't know.
	But we need to keep an eye on him.
	Well, I should say, Congressman, I've not seen any evidence produced of that.
	No, we don't.
	I encountered that speculation as well, so we'll look for the evidence.
	Representative Maxine Waters, thanks as always for being with me.
	My millennials, stay woke!
	All right.
	Yes, you don't want to hear me.
	I was just going to say, I have a clip that follows that clip.
	Okay.
	Which is the Flynn newest, because I make my bitch again after this.
	It's a very short clip.
	Ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
	The fact that Mike Flynn did not fill out his disclosure forms, those are red flags.
	Those indicate he was trying to conceal something about these Russian payments.
	Just last month, Flynn requested immunity through his lawyer to testify before Congress.
	The president supporting the move, calling the investigations a witch hunt.
	This is not only a nagging story, it's a potentially explosive one that could really distract the White House.
	Okay, let's stop.
	He got a check.
	I've worked for these people.
	He got a check in the mail.
	Which people?
	Leading authorities.
	The people that put this event together in Russia.
	Can you tell me about leading authorities?
	Yes, we talked about this already.
	Leading authorities is a speaker's bureau.
	One of the top three.
	There's three of them, good ones.
	One of them seems to have fallen by the wayside.
	But Washington speaker's bureau, Harry Walker, and these guys.
	I think out of Boston they put the event together when you work for one of these operations they send you the check you do not get a check from Russia that you have to disclose and you are working for leading authorities you're doing this at the end of the show this is big I talked about this before on the show but not in this context plus because this clip just came I would have pushed this off but I just found it annoying that they would do this or They're trying to set this guy up.
	He did not get a check from Russia.
	He got a check from the Speakers Bureau.
	So he didn't have to fill out all this paperwork.
	He was working for them.
	He wasn't working for the Russians.
	Oh, this is great.
	Now I'd like to play my Maddow clip about this.
	I was going to skip it, but now we can laugh at her idiocy.
	This is great.
	So just to repeat this, in no way, shape, or form did he, did Michael Flynn, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, take any money from Russians.
	He took it from leading authority, an American-based...
	Leading authorities, plural.
	Yes, an American-based speakers bureau that put this event together.
	Geez, and this is how that's translated on MSNBC. Thus, the idea that the White House says they have zero documentation related to Mike Flynn and his vetting seems a little...
	Well, so related to the security clearance, it's possible that they just took...
	Because what we know from public documents from reporting is that Mike Flynn got a new security clearance.
	He re-opted, renewed his security clearance, that SF-86 form, in January of 2016.
	And then...
	Publicly, he became associated with Trump in February of 2016.
	But I think he probably just was up on that five-year deadline.
	If he had renewed it in January 2016, then it is likely that the NSC, the White House, the Defense Department would not have made him do a new full SF-86.
	It's a real pain in the ass.
	You have to write every country.
	Okay, phrase from the chaise, please write that down.
	Pardon my French.
	You speak in English, lady.
	I'd like to know where that comes from.
	Pardon my French.
	It's a real pain in the ass.
	You have to write every country you went to and, as I mentioned already, all your foreign contacts.
	And actually, American contacts, too.
	People have to give references and make sure, again, that you can be trusted.
	Okay, so once you do that, if you're taking a new job, though, he's been out of the government, in the U.S. government, you may be required.
	The White House may have or should have made him update his SF-86, give all the new contacts he had had since he filled out the form in January, unless he was reporting those regularly to the Department of Defense.
	So there are a lot of open questions with regard to what he was reporting.
	The open question is, what are you smoking?
	There are a lot of open questions with regard to what he was reporting.
	And then, of course, the financial disclosure forms, those he definitely would have had to give to the White House Office of Personnel.
	So management, OPM for short.
	And that's the office that the congressman should be getting their information from.
	They may not have very much.
	It may be coming from DOD, and it may be that the White House didn't give a full scrub of the security clearance information.
	And we don't know what they did with regard to the FBI.
	It's all super important in terms of figuring out what the trail is that these members of Congress are trying to follow and where there is likely to be documentation, particularly given that they've just been blanked.
	Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, thank you for helping us put this together.
	I feel like it's a puzzle and we're filling in the frame before we get to the middle of it.
	Thank you very much.
	We're all you have to do.
	Yeah, filling in the frame.
	All you have to do.
	It's just listen to John.
	I think this is such an...
	Because this is ongoing, this bull crap about he received money from Russia.
	The typical defense is, well, he wasn't working in the White House then.
	He wasn't a part of this.
	But he received money from an American company.
	Just like President Obama.
	If you're working for a Speakers Bureau, and I think he may even be exclusive to them, they're the ones who cut the check.
	But also, this comes at the same time...
	By the way, because they have to take a chunk out of it.
	Of course.
	They take a piece of it.
	This comes at the same time President Obama is taking $400,000 for an hour-long speech at a Wall Street company.
	So maybe it's more fun to talk about this jamoke than it is about...
	About Obama.
	Well, yeah, of course it is because the media hates Trump.
	I only have one last one you can play right after you play yours or whatever if you want to play another clip.
	The only reason I wanted to play this is because it's happening as we speak, which is the Writers Guild is about to strike and it could actually happen.
	I really wanted...
	What was that other one you had?
	I don't know.
	I don't really...
	The News Poll, Rocky Mountain, Tumblr.
	We'll play this.
	So Writers Guild, and the way it works...
	So this is a Hollywood story.
	Yes.
	When Hollywood...
	When the writers go on strike, it becomes very interesting.
	Some of the most popular shows on television...
	Could be forced to shut down production.
	Members of the Writers Guild of America voting to authorize a strike that could come as early as next week.
	We could see an immediate dramatic impact on television.
	You'll see lots of shows go into reruns right away, and in the long term you can see delays and shorter episode orders.
	With billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs at stake, a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and television producers, the industry's trade group, hit an impasse over pay and health benefits.
	NBCUniversal is a member of that group.
	Contract!
	A decade ago, writers walked off the job for 100 days, losing nearly $300 million in compensation as Los Angeles County took a $2.5 billion hit.
	With most summer movies shot, the strike would largely cripple new television productions.
	The industry already confronting the rise of streaming services, while writers say shorter seasons have led to less pay.
	This writer's strike is so much bigger than just the writers.
	From catering to all sorts of camera equipment, all of them would be impacted.
	With both sides working to reach a last-minute deal, tonight, real-life drama behind the scenes in an industry still hoping for a Hollywood ending.
	Miguel Almaguer, NBC News, Los Angeles.
	Yeah, I always find this fascinating.
	Writers, whether you're writing songs or whether you're writing television shows or movies, they pretty much always get boned.
	They really do.
	They always get screwed over.
	The Last Strike was a good one.
	That took forever, yeah.
	So are we presuming that writers of Netflix and Amazon shows are under the same guild?
	Are they in the union?
	It's not clear.
	I mean, I think in some situations they are and some they're not.
	Whatever the case, they're all pissed off about the fact that all these shows have changed their season offerings.
	They do 13, 14, 15 episodes instead of 24.
	And if you go back into the 50s and 60s, they were doing 30 episodes.
	Yeah.
	36, 38 shows, or I don't know what the actual number is.
	There's also just less money to go around.
	There's just less money.
	There's too many channels, too much content, too much crap content.
	And one of the real problems is the real gotcha, and this is the healthcare problem, because it's all jacked up, and these guys want some coverage, and they're getting none because it's too expensive.
	Uh-huh.
	I think this could happen.
	Oh, I hope so.
	I do too.
	Oh, God, I love that.
	I mean, I feel bad for the right.
	I feel bad for anyone who's out of work because of it, but screw that.
	This is good.
	Well, airport police in Chicago, the very same airport police who, by the way, are not police.
	They don't carry weapons.
	They don't carry guns, at least.
	They may have, I don't think they have tasers, but they don't have guns.
	The airport police, of course, dragged the doctor off the plane, off United.
	They put such a mark on the Chicago Police Department, who were not involved in it, that this happened.
	Until this infamous passenger-dragging episode at O'Hare, Chicago's airport police were angling to become part of the Chicago Police Department.
	Now they are fighting just to keep the word police on their sleeves.
	After we reported yesterday that aviation police vehicles were already being rebranded as merely security.
	The busting down from police to essential security guards today resulted in this unfair labor practices complaint being filed by the union representing Chicago Aviation Police Officers.
	SEIU Local 73 accusing the city of jeopardizing the traveling public safety by rebranding DOA police as something else.
	Mayor Rahm Emanuel today saying the name change had been in the works, but what is critical, he says, is what officers do.
	What everybody saw is totally unacceptable.
	There's an...
	Review slash investigation going on.
	And I'm not going to prejudge that.
	My main goal now is to, as I said, get to the bottom of what happened.
	Find out who's responsible.
	Make whatever changes are there.
	That's what the report's going to be.
	All these are fair questions.
	When the report's back, we're going to do that.
	The downgrade from police to security undermine the actual authority held by aviation officers and place everyone using Chicago airports at unnecessary risk, according to the complaint.
	DOA officers are trained and certified as police, although they have never been armed.
	I love this.
	Taking off the word police off their cars and putting security.
	Yes, the downgrade.
	Because of this one bonehead.
	That's one of the best stories ever.
	Yeah, we're just going to call you guys security guards.
	Mall cop would have even been better.
	It's kind of what they are, mall cops.
	No offense, but...
	And we're going to make you drive those Segways around.
	How's that?
	Yeah, with a helmet.
	With that goofy helmet on.
	TSA should do that too.
	Yeah, I think it'd be perfect.
	All right, everybody.
	Looking forward to the weekend show.
	This is going to be another good one.
	Of course, the big move for Tina the Keeper and myself is tomorrow and Monday.
	And so I think I'll be doing the show Sunday from the Airstream of Consciousness.
	Oh, well, it's fine.
	You do a good job there.
	Thank you.
	I do my best.
	And for all of you, thank you for your support of the program.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA for our Sunday program.
	We do need some help after today's showing.
	And until then, coming to you from the Crackpot Condo, last time here in the skyscraper in downtown Austin, Texas, FEMA Region 6, and all of the governmental maps.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll return here on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos!
	We cannot believe a single word. We cannot believe a single word.
	It's club material.
	He's playing a character.
	He's a performance artist.
	You know, I am...
	The house is rather...
	The house is rather ever excited...
	We're straddling, bro.
	Yeah, we're straddling, bro.
	Stay woke!
	Like those poor children.
	Stay woke!
	Do you know who this guy is?
	It's a psychopathic ideology that is very absolutist, that either you will answer against us.
	And the long-term view is that in billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the earth, right?
	Yeah, it's been like a live colonoscopy on television.
	Stay woke!
	Seriously, this next thing I feel is very special.
	You know this crazy woman.
	Give it up for Rachel.
	Whoa!
	Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina.
	Vagina, please don't tell me.
	Bye, vagina.
	Whoa, whoa, nice.
	Beautiful, beautiful, nice.
	Carry on.
	My vagina.
	Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina.
	My vagina.
	French treasure.
	Give it up.
	My vagina.
	Hey, have some butt stuff.
	Don't tell me I'm hurt.
	Give it up.
	Beautiful, beautiful.
	My vagina.
	Butt stuff.
	Carry on!
	We do it in an informed way.
	This is fabulous.
	Your eyebrows go up, dare I say.
	Change the work.
	Your eyebrows go up.
	It's not just the facts.
	The facts are great.
	They often change.
	This is fabulous.
	Exactly the right message, Rachel.
	Nice job.
	Dare I say.
	It's not just the facts.
	The facts are great.
	They often change.
	This is fabulous.
	The facts are great.
	Fabulous.
	They often change.
	Your eyebrows go up.
	My goodness, what caused that?
	Bust off.
	Enjoy the flashlight in the cold moonlight.
	They're not a science guy.
	The goddamn giant!
	Is that been the right message, Rachel?
	Nice job.
	Nice, got the bow tie.
	Nice, got the bow tie.
	I'm so excited, Bill Nye.
	Show starting again tonight.
	Nye's got the bow tie.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's like that.
	Nye's got the bow tie.
	And they were all jumping up and down.
	Nye's got the bow tie.
	Jumping up and down and screaming over Bill Nye.
	Nye's got the bow tie.
	Nye's got the bow tie.
	Guys, you got their bow ties.
	My millennials, stay woke!
	Trump is not doing anything to help us.
	Guys, you're distracted, guys.
	This is not a trigger.
	It's not a trigger.
	Fediverse, John.
	The Fediverse.
	This is the universe of winning.
	Fediverse, John.
	The Fediverse.
	This is the universe of federated huge storms and lightning bolts.
	Kids versus huge storms and lightning bolts.
	Trump, Trump is not.
	Kids versus the government.
	Trump is not doing anything to stop climate change.
	How old is his kid?
	Eleven.
	I get triggered.
	I get drunk.
	So Obama's talking about Fediverse, John.
	The Fediverse.
	Yeah, we're doing quite a lot tonight. we're doing quite a lot tonight. - Yeah, we can barely see Dimension B from the server blocks.
	Ah, do we log in?
	Time for now.
	We used to see you back here.
	They're rocking, we're rocking Gonna rise and meet me too They're whining, we're shining No chance, soldiers can't stop me
	Master Dawn Master Dawn Master Dawn Master Dawn Master Dawn Master Dawn Master Dawn The best podcast in the universe Bye.
	Bye.
	Adios, mofo.

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