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	What a short.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, June 15, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 3, 8.
	This is no agenda.
	Calling for mandatory amygdala measurements!
	And broadcasting live from the darkest coins of the internet here in the capital of the drone, Star State, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody!
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I have no such measurement tools.
	And it's obvious.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's crackball and buzzkill in the morning!
	That was the first thing I thought.
	I want to measure that guy's amygdala.
	What guy are you referring to?
	The guy who shot everybody.
	Oh, that guy, yeah.
	His amygdala was obviously bloated.
	Well, think about it.
	It would be great to have an autopsy.
	They're doing an autopsy.
	Hey, just check that thing.
	It should be on the list all the time.
	This is confirmed.
	You turned me on to something really big with this stuff.
	I think you're absolutely correct.
	I think the amygdala should be exhumed from the brain and weighed.
	Yeah.
	For people who missed this, it was your topic, John.
	Give us a quick recap of the amygdala.
	Well, it turns out that people who are, they start to read too much of the mainstream media that creates a lot of cognitive dissonance and hate.
	And we were pointing the finger at CNN and Washington Post.
	Oh, no way.
	Every time, yeah, they've been on so many times lately, we have to bring the jingle back.
	Wapo is out of control.
	Wapo.
	It tends to...
	You end up shrinking your cerebral cortex, which is the front of the brain that does a lot of reasoning.
	And the amygdala, which is like the reptilian brain, gets bigger.
	And you end up like this guy, you know...
	There's like Kill All Republicans blog and all these other things he was involved with.
	Insane.
	I do have a couple of backgrounders because it was kind of interesting.
	I got some stuff too.
	Of course, we deconstruct media.
	The response from the media was predictable.
	Well, if you want to go there, I can almost start with this clip.
	Let's do your background.
	Are you the backgrounder first?
	Well, the background is on CBS. So let's play the CBS background.
	It gives us a little insight into this thing.
	We don't know about the gunman's mental health, but it appears that his theory may have been fanned by what has become the incendiary rhetoric of American politics.
	Oh, I loved this part the best.
	All the media are saying, well, it's the politicians.
	The politicians are saying, it's the media.
	Here's Major Garrett.
	We do well in times like these to remember that everyone who serves...
	In our nation's capital is here because, above all, they love our country.
	Republicans and Democrats both called for civility today.
	Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
	And we respect you and your constituents who sent you here.
	But partisan unity has been lacking for years.
	Hillary Clinton is a bigot!
	During the campaign, then-Canada Trump used incendiary language to describe his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
	Such a nasty woman.
	She, in turn, called Trump's supporters deplorable.
	The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic...
	The heated rhetoric has continued since President Trump's inauguration.
	Comedian Kathy Griffin posed for this photo, posted on social media, depicting a decapitated President Trump.
	And a New York City production of Julius Caesar casted the assassinated emperor as a Trump lookalike.
	Shortly after the shooting, New York Republican Congressman Chris Collins pointed the finger at Democrats.
	I can only hope...
	That the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric.
	The rhetoric has been outrageous.
	And the anger directed at Donald Trump.
	But later, he said, the fault lies with both sides.
	And I think all of us can be a little introspective now.
	I will be, I can promise you.
	To just say, let's just notch it down, you know, a couple of decibels.
	As law enforcement tried to learn if there was a distinct political motive behind the shooting, voices here and in Congress said no political grievance could justify violence.
	In the harrowing aftermath of all this got, Republicans and Democrats appear inclined to cool the rhetoric and ease the sense of division.
	It would be prudent, I think, at this moment to take us back in time to just listen to a similar situation.
	Hold on, let's take us back to 2011.
	Remember this?
	2011?
	No.
	Neither do I. But I do remember what was in the news because we were doing this show.
	President Obama has called for a national moment of silence at 11 a.m.
	Eastern Time.
	The Supreme Court will begin arguments 10 minutes early so it can observe that moment.
	And Congress has delayed its agenda this week.
	To think that she was shot out trying to meet with her constituents points out our vulnerability.
	So instead of the planned vote to repeal health care reform, the House will convene this week to pass a resolution honoring Gabrielle Giffords and other victims.
	A show of unity after a heated political season.
	Last spring, Sarah Palin called for defeat in Giffords District and 19 others.
	Don't retreat!
	Reload!
	And that is not a call for violence!
	The way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district.
	When people do that, they've got to realize there's consequences to that action.
	Members of Congress say this is a reminder that words carry real weight.
	I think it's a good time for all of us to reflect about the tone, the toxicity of the political climate in this country.
	And on Wednesday, there will be a bipartisan security briefing for lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they try to balance how to be accessible to constituents while remaining safe themselves.
	How quickly we forget that the media immediately jumped on the Republicans for that shooting.
	Yeah.
	Immediately.
	Immediately.
	Yeah.
	In fact, in this last little presentation that CBS did, what you heard when you played, there was a second part.
	I just want to play this little mini clip.
	This is the kind of little needling they still persist in doing.
	We have to go back to 2017 first.
	This is just the way that Trump was even mentioned.
	This is the shooter CBS little needle on Trump when introed.
	An often polarizing president delivered a message of unity.
	And often polarizing.
	What is the point of saying that?
	Yeah, he sucks.
	He sucks.
	It's like, why don't they just say he delivered a message of unity?
	But no, no.
	No, you can't do that.
	You have to put a little bit in there.
	And often polarizing.
	Why don't they go, an often polarizing guy with a big red head and a pumpkin head.
	I mean, why don't they just say that?
	Orange skin, yeah.
	You know, before...
	Orange skin freak.
	So this took place in the morning, but it was still breaking news by the time Rolf got on the air, and boy, did he protect everybody.
	James Hodgkinson, the 66-year-old shooter, describing some of his political, perhaps, motivations.
	Listen to this.
	I just want to let people know that he wasn't evil, that he was, I guess, tired of some of the politics of going on.
	Oh yeah, he wasn't evil.
	Or this one, Rolf.
	But you don't know if that individual who asked if the team players, the members, were Republicans or Democrats, you don't know if that actually turned out to be the shooter, right?
	That's right, that's right, no.
	It just could have been somebody saying, Democrats or Republicans, could have just been an innocent question about these members of Congress practicing for a big game tomorrow, right?
	That was just an innocent question.
	You don't know.
	You don't know what he did.
	No, you don't know.
	You don't know.
	It could be anything.
	I'm giving you a clip of the day for that.
	That's how stunning that is.
	Thank you very much.
	I had to catch that.
	That was hard to catch.
	That was a beauty to catch, I have to say, because I had not...
	I mean, it was pretty obvious that the congressmen that were leaving, there were a couple guys leaving, that's what happened, this guy walks up to him and says, who's on that field, the Democrats, the Republicans, the guy says, who's the Republicans there?
	He says, okay.
	And he goes and shoots them.
	But according to Brolf, there was no positive identification, he wasn't in the lineup.
	There was no police interrogation.
	We don't know!
	We don't know!
	Oh, my God.
	And I will say that the New York Times...
	Let me see.
	When did they publish this?
	The New York Times had published something about these games and about the security details that protect them.
	This was April 12th.
	Okay, not that long ago.
	In a city obsessed with the trappings of power, they are the ultimate status symbol, the wire-wearing, black SUV-driving, protective crews that come with some high-level government service.
	And they say, but when the billionaire Wilbur L. Ross Jr., the Commerce Secretary, goes to dinner at a fancy Georgetown restaurant, bodyguards sit in New York.
	When members of Congress practice in the early mornings in an Alexandria, Virginia public park for their congressional baseball game with a link, playing clothes, United States Capitol Police are sitting there in their black SUV. They might as well just told them exactly where they're sitting.
	You know, not always that good, New York Times.
	Yeah, what is the point of that article?
	Eh, just about elitists, I guess.
	I guess.
	Well, the one clip I have that I thought was an interesting clip, they had the two managers.
	Two congressmen were the managers of the team.
	The managers of the baseball team.
	So they had the Republican and the Democrat there, and the Republican guy actually starts crying during their interview with Judy on PBS. But the way this ends, this is the end of it.
	I don't have the whole thing.
	This is the two team managers lament shooting.
	This is the very end of the interview.
	And the Republican starts apologizing for crying.
	And then the other guy kind of jumps in.
	The Democrat jumps in.
	And he's the one who brings up a very interesting topic.
	And he's the one who blames the media.
	But I think it's fair to say it doesn't always come across in the news coverage.
	Well, politics in Washington is a contact sport, but it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.
	And with Mike and I, and a lot of other members, it's not.
	I do want to apologize for getting emotional a minute ago.
	Tom Hanks was the manager of a women's baseball team, and in that movie he has the famous line, there's no crying in baseball.
	Well, there certainly shouldn't be any crying in congressional baseball, and I do apologize for my emotional outburst a minute ago.
	I would say there's lots of members of Congress that get along.
	We tend to not be the ones the media is interested in interviewing.
	Oftentimes the media is interested in interviewing the two that are throwing the swords at each other.
	So maybe the news media too can reflect a little bit on that and show some of the positive things that take place down here.
	That's true.
	And that's something for us to reflect on.
	Well, we so appreciate the two of you being together right now, and no apology needed.
	There was a lot of that.
	Yes, we need to look in the mirror.
	Yes, we need to reflect on this.
	They were done reflecting.
	Five minutes later...
	The only person who really said what he thought about it was Newt Gingrich, and I do appreciate that he did that.
	What do you make of what you're...
	Very sobering.
	I think, first of all, we should be very grateful that nobody on the congressional side was killed.
	Nobody working for Congress was killed.
	I think our prayers ought to go out for Steve Scalise and his family and for the police and the other person who was wounded.
	Second, it certainly was a shock this morning.
	I don't think any of us expected today to take this turn.
	But it's part of a pattern.
	As you saw, the one sign this guy was holding.
	You've had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left.
	Look, I talk to college students regularly who say to me, if they openly are for Trump, They get threatened.
	I've had college students who are threatened with getting beaten up.
	Some of them get death threats.
	The intensity on the left is very real, whether it is somebody holding up a so-called comedian, holding up the president's head in blood, or it's right here in New York City, a play that shows the president being assassinated, or it's Democratic-leading national politicians or it's Democratic-leading national politicians who are so angry they have to use vulgarity because they can't find any common language to talk about.
	This intensity has been building, I think, since election night.
	And it didn't take very long before people started turning the conversation towards guns.
	Malcolm, I was hearing...
	This, by the way, this Malcolm Nance, he's the guy that tweeted...
	That he would not...
	I should look up his actual words, but he tweeted a picture of Trump Tower and said, ah, yeah, this is where we should have an IED. Or maybe ISIS should attack this.
	This guy.
	Malcolm, I was hearing, listening to your analysis during the tail end of the 9 a.m.
	hour before we started the 10 a.m.
	hour East Coast, we now know a lot more about this now-deceased gunman, the weapon he perhaps used.
	And what are you most curious about now?
	Well, I'm most curious about whether the type of attack that he carried out was focused on Steve Scalise.
	Was it a particular methodology that was leading up to an assassination attempt?
	Or was it just generically a political attack against people he saw as opponents?
	The picture is becoming a little clearer as information gets confirmed about the individual.
	But it doesn't matter because this was an attack on our representative democracy.
	They attacked our representatives, whether Republican or Democrat.
	So the most important thing that we need to understand from this is, this is what happens when you have an over-proliferation of guns, and it's to be expected to a certain extent.
	Here's Nance.
	NBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance has deleted a tweet that appeared to call for a terrorist attack against Trump Towers in Istanbul.
	Quote, this is my nominee for the first ISIS suicide bombing of a Trump property.
	By the way, The way he worded that, this is his nominee for the first.
	So in other words, he's advocating that you bomb Trump buildings.
	Very nice.
	And that was it.
	How endearing.
	So he's the guy you want.
	Interestingly, there was a House hearing scheduled for the same day to debate the Sportsman Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, which is a lot of words, but is actually loosening some regulations on suppressors and other things for guns.
	That's just a coincidence, I'm sure.
	But that obviously got canceled.
	What was funny was the governor of Virginia, who made a huge flub, you may have heard it, but what I thought was more interesting is how the press seriously asked, instead of saying, hey man, you probably mean this.
	No, no, no, no.
	I think we need to do more to protect all of our citizens.
	I have long advocated...
	This is not what today is about, but there are too many guns on the street.
	We lose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence.
	I mean, I've long talked about this.
	Background check, shutting down gun violence.
	He'll double down on it.
	That's not for today's discussion, but it's not just about politicians.
	We worry about this every day for all of our citizens.
	So at this point, the press hasn't really heard him say 93 million.
	They're not listening.
	They're only listening to themselves.
	What is the 93 million have to do with anything?
	I mean, what is that number referring to?
	Because it's not 93 million a year.
	It's not 93 million a decade.
	It's 40,000 a year.
	He will answer the question.
	People are going to criticize that you're bringing up gun control at this time.
	Well, I talk about this every single day.
	This is a very serious issue.
	So we've got to look at this.
	But I'm not going to get anywhere near the investigation.
	The FBI is leading this.
	But this, obviously, with 93 million people a day, it's just something...
	93 million.
	That's a big number.
	Are you sure?
	93 million.
	93.
	I love that.
	Hey, are you sure it's 93 million?
	That's a big number.
	That's a really big number.
	It's just something.
	93 million.
	That's a big number.
	Are you sure?
	93 million.
	93 individuals a day.
	Oh, 93 a day.
	Okay.
	But he's so used to exaggerating and lying.
	But there's two theories.
	It's just forever for them to notice.
	Yeah, I know.
	Because they don't care.
	No, they're not.
	There are two theories.
	Theory one brought to us by Brolf, one of his guests.
	Grievance against Steve Scalise, the Republican majority whip, but you don't believe he was deliberately targeting him?
	It would be pure speculation on my part.
	I think this man is obviously mentally deranged.
	He had no regard for humanity.
	What I was watching was a person, a robot, firing a weapon without regard for anything, any life, nothing.
	Robot.
	I'm thinking MKUltra!
	Robot.
	Was it like a robot?
	Mm-hmm.
	And, of course, the pizza gators are out.
	One of America's greatest values is our strong belief in the inherent worth of every human life.
	Human trafficking is a direct assault on this core value, and it affects millions of victims throughout the world.
	While many of us would like to believe that this issue isn't something that affects us, the sad truth is that human trafficking is a real problem plaguing each and every community here in the United States.
	Enough is enough.
	This week, the House took strong actions to stand up for the victims of human trafficking, passing tough bills to provide them protection and to target child predators.
	Let's work together to get these bills signed into law.
	So these dickwad pizza gators who have yet to show me a single victim, because I'm all in on the child abuse and political circles.
	Yep.
	Big time.
	And if you haven't seen The Keepers, I can't even watch it because I've seen so many of these documentaries.
	I know exactly what's going to happen.
	I know exactly what's going on in every single one of these cases.
	But, okay, so we can't find victims.
	But, oh, yes, they had to get rid of him because he's trying to unmask the sex ring.
	Okay.
	Even I won't fall for that one.
	And...
	This is an interesting situation where we have...
	Well, just listen to the clip and we'll explain.
	For more than 400 years, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has been a lightning rod.
	This year's adaptation by a New York City theater company is no different.
	It features a President Trump look-alike who is stabbed to death on stage.
	A modern take on Shakespeare's classic play.
	The danger here is that once you start pulling funding or giving funding...
	Now, what he's talking about when he says pulling funding or giving funding, I think is mainly related to JPMorgan Chase, who pulled out of sponsoring the event, which is totally...
	Their prerogative.
	And I'm okay with this kind of art.
	I don't mind.
	I really don't.
	It's speech.
	It's art.
	You know, is it nice?
	No.
	Is it dangerous?
	Perhaps.
	But you can't say, oh, you can't do that.
	But this guy turns it into something completely different because a commercial bank doesn't want to underwrite it and put their name on it.
	Pulling funding or giving funding based on the content of a particular piece of art, you're getting into a value judgment.
	On Twitter, the president's son, Eric Trump, thanked the companies for their decision, calling it the right thing to do.
	If a play like Julius Caesar can essentially be punished for what some have said is an offensive production, what else could happen here?
	Oh, we have to be so worried about free speech.
	No, you don't.
	And that's about all I got on this guy, other than, you know, I heard a couple dumb things.
	Like, he also had a 9mm assault pistol.
	Wow, that's a new one.
	Hadn't heard that.
	No, actually, I didn't hear that about this guy, but I heard that this is interesting you brought this up.
	Because let's talk about the UPS shooting.
	There was a UPS shooting here in San Francisco.
	Play UPS shoot-up, and here's your new term.
	Back in this country, a gunman in San Francisco shot three people to death at a UPS warehouse before turning the gun on himself.
	Police say the man was a UPS employee armed with an assault pistol.
	Heavily armed officers searched the sprawling complex after the shooting started as dozens of employees poured out of the building.
	So, what you noticed was something that's obviously been put in play.
	Yes!
	That's Judy talking about a completely different incident, and I didn't hear it used with that other guy, but as soon as I heard Judy say it, since I've never heard it before either.
	That's really interesting.
	Damn it!
	Now I'm pissed that I wasn't able to clip it.
	I'm pretty sure it was CNN. It was like a throwaway line.
	He had an AK-47, which is pretty sure we didn't have that, and a 9mm assault pistol.
	Now, you can call a Tech-9 an assault pistol if you want, I guess, but...
	The term is new and the term is out there and it's a talking point.
	And it shows that I think PBS is just as corrupt as the rest.
	No, PBS has gotten very corrupt ever since Gwen left.
	She left the planet ever since Gwen.
	I'm beginning to think more and more that she was the one holding it together in terms of its honesty.
	I think they're dishonest.
	I think PBS has really...
	I'm not going to say jump the shark, but they've definitely turned the corner for being independent and objective.
	There's no evidence.
	And if you heard assault pistol, which you must have because you're not going to just dream it up.
	And I have a clip of Judy saying it.
	That means this term has now been put in play by that side of the media that is trying to Stop gun usage.
	I would say a MAC-10, which has no sights, and you just shoot it randomly.
	It's a horrible thing.
	I've shot one once.
	You can't hit the side of a barn with it.
	But it's used, as a cop told me that was at the same shooting range, he says this is used as a party gun.
	He says you kick the door in at a party and you just spray everybody, and then you run out of there.
	Now, that I can see being called an assault pistol, but...
	What is it with the Mac-10, then?
	Let me see.
	Mac-10 is this boxy-looking piece of crap that is...
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is more like...
	It used to be in the movies all the time.
	It's almost like a mini Uzi, kind of.
	Yeah, it's got...
	You're right.
	It's a party sprayer.
	Hey, everybody!
	And that's it, and you're done.
	Mag, MT, leave.
	Yeah.
	And I can see being called that, but this is not what's going on here.
	They're just using this term to...
	I do like the idea.
	And now, you too can own...
	The Ultimate Party Gun.
	That's right.
	Surprise your friends with The Ultimate Party Gun.
	Walk in, spray and pray.
	The Ultimate Party Gun.
	I'm telling you, it's great.
	It's perfect.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	But anyway, so what we're seeing here is collusion in the media again.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Well, and yes to collusion in the media, as I was watching this unfold, they made it almost to 8 o'clock.
	It was about quarter to 8, 10 to 8 my time, so 10 to 9 East Coast.
	And, oh, we got breaking news!
	Hold on, I have a new breaking news sound.
	Hold on, where is it?
	I have a new breaking news swooper.
	Here we go.
	Breaking news, everybody.
	We have breaking news.
	Yes, we have.
	Wapo, Wapo, Wapo, Wapo.
	That's right.
	Wapo to the rescue, everybody.
	When it gets really tight.
	When you don't know what to do.
	When you're afraid that the messaging is going the wrong way.
	You gotta bring in WAPO! And WAPO had a revelation!
	Comey, the former FBI director, he appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
	He had explained during his testimony that he had personally assured President Trump that he was not personally under investigation as part of this Russia probe.
	And what we have learned since that appearance is that the FBI and the special counsel have expanded that investigation that previously, as Comey said, was not targeting Trump, but now is looking and investigating Trump for possible obstruction.
	The Special Counsel is not just looking at what Comey faced when he was in the FBI job, but what other intelligence officials faced.
	And what you had in the case of the director of national intelligence, Daniel Coats, and Admiral Mike Rogers, the head of the NSA, is they were approached by Trump in March and basically encouraged to try to go out there and deflect this investigation, is they were approached by Trump in March and basically encouraged to try to go out there and deflect this investigation,
	Both Coats, the DNI, and Rogers declined to do what the president had asked them to do.
	And the deputy national security agency director made a memo to basically document the conversation that his boss, Admiral Rogers, had with Trump.
	So these are the sorts of interviews that you do to lock in testimony, to understand where people stand on these issues.
	And then he can decide how to proceed after that.
	So the big headline, Trump under investigation.
	But if you read the article...
	Well, yes.
	You bring in a special prosecutor and he's going to look at everything and everybody.
	Is this a surprise?
	Is this like some big breaking news?
	It is to WAPO when we need to change the messaging.
	Oh, this guy's amygdala was enlarged.
	Trump is under investigation.
	Here is Lawrence O'Donnell with the writer of that story.
	Yeah.
	Did you notice?
	Sorry to interrupt.
	Whenever the WAPO, WAPO, WAPO boys are on, their lower third has the Washington Post logo.
	It's a stylized logo.
	Yeah, CNN's doing it.
	MSNBC is doing it.
	I didn't see anyone from WAPO on Fox.
	That must have been a request from the paper.
	Yeah, but they're doing it.
	We'll give you the Chiron data.
	You can just plug it in.
	It'll work fine.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they probably have a little file that they can use and it goes right into the Chiron and pops up as a logo.
	Dynamite.
	Very smart.
	Anyway, the guy comes on.
	He's a real block-headed guy.
	He's just like a very interesting looking character.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's the guy who wrote the story.
	And he has a smirking...
	He's a smirker.
	Constantly smirking.
	But this clip is interesting because it's Lawrence O'Donnell talking and talking and talking.
	He's got the guy talking and talking and talking and trying to explain what it means in every which way and then he throws the guy and the guy's got nothing to say except, yeah, you know, they don't explain one thing, which is that Well, after you play this clip, which is unfortunately, I think, dull because they don't know how to tighten things up at MSNBC. But there's a point that's in there that I think needs to be made.
	Justice.
	President Trump said that he felt, quote, total and complete vindication after James Comey's testimony revealed that when he was FBI director, he told the president repeatedly that the president was not then under investigation.
	Some Republican senators and members of Congress suggested that the only important thing about former Director Comey's testimony was that he said the president was not under investigation.
	And so tonight is a major turning point.
	For defenders of President Trump because they can no longer claim that the president is not under investigation.
	In response to the Washington Post story tonight, the president's legal defense team released a statement saying, the FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable, and illegal.
	But the Washington Post story does not indicate that the information that they used in that report was It comes from the FBI or was obtained from anyone in the special prosecutor's investigation.
	Joining us now, Devlin Barrett, reporter for The Washington Post.
	Devlin Barrett, I want to go for the moment, and I know you're not going to tell us who the sources are, but because the president's defense lawyers tonight responded with a direct attack on the FBI, I just want to point out that in your article, the only phrase you use for sources are, it just says, officials said, officials said.
	The most detailed description of sources is when you say, five people briefed on the requests.
	And that is the requests for testimony from Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, from Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, and Richard Ledgett, who agreed to be interviewed.
	That five people who knew about the requests for those people to be interviewed by the special prosecutor have spoken to the Washington Post.
	And it seems that those people could well exist outside the FBI, including as possible legal representatives or people who were legal advisors who were consulted by those people who had those requests.
	Well, right.
	And frankly, we're not going to go beyond our language in the story that just says officials, precisely because people want to turn this conversation, frankly, into a discussion of leaks and sources and those sorts of things.
	Okay, it goes on.
	And although O'Donnell's doing most of the talking, which he's got the guy right there who wrote the thing, let him talk.
	It seems to me, is that what you want to do?
	Instead of you talk, trying to analyze what the guy wrote when he's right there.
	But okay.
	But here's the thing that O'Donnell goes into this...
	No exposition about, well, these guys who were given the subpoenas or they're going to testify so they knew, they knew, they knew, and they could have talked to the Washington Post.
	Maybe they're the sources.
	No.
	His whole argument is bad because the writer uses the word officials.
	Yes.
	Officials refers to a specific thing.
	It doesn't refer to somebody that might be a witness.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	The whole thing is just, it doesn't even matter.
	Yeah, of course he's under investigation.
	Obviously, that's what the prosecutor is for.
	What, he's going to look at everything except the president?
	Oh, stop the news about the shooter.
	Stop it.
	Stop it.
	And before this all happened, we had this meme going around.
	In the White House today, President Trump ignoring the question.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan expressed support today for Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian election meddling and allegations of Trump campaign collusion.
	It was prompted by this comment from Trump confidant and Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy yesterday on PBS. I think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel.
	I think he's weighing that option.
	Right.
	So this was consistently chironed as Trump friend.
	Might want to fire Mueller.
	Trump friend.
	Trump friend.
	Except NBC was the only one who had the Trump friend on from Newsmax.
	I don't know if he's his friend.
	He's a confidant, an operative.
	The guy's very clear.
	The suggestion raised by the president's longtime friend, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy.
	The White House saying Ruddy never spoke directly to the president about Mueller.
	Ruddy acknowledging that, but doubling down.
	If you read the art of the deal, he always says keep all your options open.
	Do I think that he will actually fire him?
	No.
	But do I think it was an option or has been an option?
	Yes.
	He doubled down, but he said no.
	I don't understand.
	Maybe I just hear things.
	You know, I have SFS. I've diagnosed myself and I have SFS. Okay, let me guess what that might mean.
	Oh, let's see.
	You take one drink of alcohol, so maybe the first is shit-faced simplicity?
	No.
	Straddle fatigue syndrome.
	Ah!
	Also known as just straddle fatigue.
	I don't know, because it seems to me that you're...
	You might, but it seems to me that you're...
	It's positioned so deeply in dimension A that you're hearing dimension A stuff.
	Because if you had straddle fatigue, you might actually hear both sides a little better.
	No, I hear both sides equally.
	I got this from the last time we discussed this, where you kept hearing the word, it's true.
	Yeah.
	When it was referring to Comey's...
	That is what happens when you have straddle fatigue.
	Because I am straddling.
	What are you accusing me of, Mr.
	Dvorak?
	I'm accusing you of not straddling enough.
	I'm slipping.
	I'm slipping.
	I'm slipping into A. Dimension A and you can't get out.
	No.
	I've fallen into dimension A and I can't get up.
	Here is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who answers the question, who is the only guy who can fire Mueller?
	And I just thought it was interesting to play this.
	It was the only thing from that testimony that was remotely interesting.
	And at this point, have you seen any evidence of good cause for firing of Special Counsel Mueller?
	No, I have not.
	This is all based on the guy from Newsmax.
	What the hell are we doing?
	Have you given the special counsel full independence from the Justice Department to conduct his investigation?
	Yes, Senator.
	I appreciate that question.
	At the last hearing I attended, I explained it would require a long time to explain exactly why I'm confident that he has full independence.
	The short answer is, though, that that regulation, as you may know, was We're good to go.
	Is only directly to the Attorney General, or in this case, the Acting Attorney General, so nobody else in the Department would have authority to do that, and you have my assurance that we're going to faithfully follow that regulation, and Director Mueller is going to have a full degree of independence that he needs to conduct that investigation appropriately.
	And is there a record that gives him that full independence?
	Is that done in a letter or an order from you as the deputy attorney?
	This is well known.
	It's a law how this works.
	Why are they harping on this so much?
	For camera time!
	For camera time!
	Hucklebee, Huckerbee, whatever her name is, the press person, Sarah, she came out and said that Trump has zero interest in firing bullets.
	But the friend, the lower third, said friend, says...
	This is a waste of time.
	This is...
	It's outrageous, actually.
	And I thought the hearing, and I do have two clips, the hearing with Jeff Sessions was a huge waste of time and was back to the heels.
	Well, because he recused himself because he's Russian.
	And he explained that, and actually his explanation, this is what bothered me.
	His explanation of his recusal...
	Which is very obvious.
	It's kind of a written rule in the Department of Justice.
	And he explains it over and over again.
	I do have a clip of him explaining it.
	I've never heard this before.
	Why have I not heard this?
	The media has never discussed his real reason for his recusal.
	Because it doesn't fit the message.
	It's outrageous to me.
	Yeah.
	In fact, I'd like to play that clip.
	This is the part, this is the second clip.
	I have two.
	One of them where he just gets irked with this, you know, Ron Wyden is a dick in these hearings.
	So is Kamala Harris.
	Oh, she's just a total dick.
	I got a piece of her for a clip.
	Okay, which one do you want me to play?
	Wyden versus Sessions 2, so he explains this.
	Okay.
	General Sessions, respectfully, you're not answering the question.
	Well, what is the question?
	The question is, Mr.
	Comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic.
	That's actually not the clip I want.
	I'm sorry.
	There's a third clip.
	Sessions, here it is.
	This is the Sessions recusal rationale of a C-SPAN. General Sessions, on March 2, 2017, you formally recused yourself from any involvement in the Russian investigation being conducted by the FBI and the Department of Justice.
	What are the specific reasons that you chose to recuse yourself?
	Well, the specific reason, Mr.
	Chairman, is a CFR, a Code of Federal Regulations, put out By the Department of Justice, part of the Department of Justice rules, and it says this, I'll read from it, 28 CFR 45.2.
	Unless authorized, no employee shall participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he has a personal or political relationship with With any person involved in the conduct of an investigation,
	it goes on to say for a political campaign, and it says if you have a close identification with an elected official or candidate arising from service as a principal advisor, you should not Participate in an investigation of that campaign.
	So many have suggested that my recusal is because I felt I was a subject of the investigation myself, that I may have done something wrong, but this is the reason I recused myself.
	I felt I was required to.
	Under the rules of the Department of Justice, and as a leader of the Department of Justice, I should comply with the rules, obviously.
	So did your legal counsel basically know from day one?
	You don't need the rest of it.
	What gets me is besides the fact that we're never told this by the media.
	I'm glad you played this.
	Thank you.
	That's good.
	That's very good.
	I'm glad you brought it to the party with your MAC-10.
	And the thing is, if he had not recused himself, they would have dug this up and held it over his head and they would have tried to get him ousted.
	Yes, he's very smart that way.
	He's very smart that way.
	He's been in the business long enough to know better.
	And so he wasn't going to get caught that way, even though Trump apparently says, although I don't even believe that Trump was supposedly upset that he recused himself.
	That could be just a blatant lie, like the like the fact that he recused himself because he was under investigation for being in collusion with the Russians when that's not the case at all.
	It's very disgusting to me that this is we have to sift through this stuff.
	And the only way to actually do it is to listen to these these all of incredibly dull.
	Yeah, we have to listen to this stuff.
	Wait a minute, this is not what we're being told, and here's the guy explaining it.
	Why isn't the media explaining it?
	Well, you're asking directions to the place you know how to find very well.
	That was a Dutchism that didn't translate, sorry.
	No, it didn't.
	What was the Dutch?
	What's the Dutch?
	The Dutch is vragen aan de bekende weg, which means asking for directions to the road you already know.
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	But it sounds better when you say it in a Dutch.
	Yeah, you should just use the Dutch.
	I will from now on.
	I'll use many of those.
	I think I have a better chance to say it, but you already know the answer to that.
	A little bit of Kamala Harris until we're bored of it.
	She was grilling the Attorney General.
	Oh, she had a smirk on her face, too.
	Well, you know what?
	Look at it.
	Everywhere now you're seeing the articles, she's going to be the next president.
	This is it.
	She's beautiful.
	Luckily...
	She's a woman.
	She's smart.
	I don't call her beautiful.
	She's very pretty.
	She is a corrupt official.
	They already have the goods on her.
	She cannot turn the corner on this.
	And she's also in...
	Well, she's also from California.
	She'd get the California vote.
	But California is a lost cause.
	It's as if people that are so...
	They're so Democrat out here that you can't...
	You're not going to get any attention from anybody.
	It's like you're just assumed that the California is going to go all the way, so you don't have to give them new roads.
	Everybody's blasé.
	You don't have to do anything.
	They'll vote for us anyway.
	Yeah, so screw them.
	That's the attitude.
	And both parties.
	It's like the Republicans say, well, screw California because they're not helping us.
	So we're not going to give them any aid or help or funds for their potholes.
	And the Democrats say the same thing because they're going to vote for us anyway.
	Who cares?
	Let's use the money someplace else.
	Here's a bit of Kamala interrogating Jeff Sessions.
	Attorney General Sessions, you have several times this afternoon prefaced your responses by saying, to the best of your recollection...
	Oh man, this is like...
	Just on the first page of your three pages of written testimony, you wrote, nor do I recall, do not have recollection, do not remember it.
	So my question is, for any of your testimony today, did you refresh your memory with any written documents, be they your calendar, written correspondence, emails, notes of any sort?
	I tend to refresh my recollection, but so much of this is in a wholesale campaign of extraordinary nature that you're moving so fast that you don't keep notes.
	You meet people.
	I didn't keep notes of my conversation with the Russian ambassador at the Republican Convention.
	Sir, I'd like to just talk about what you did keep notes.
	You know, I'm just saying I didn't keep notes on most of these things.
	Will you provide this committee with the notes that you did maintain?
	Now we get into lawyer bantering, which is, if you've ever been in a lawsuit, which I have been, and you get to this point, this is where it's costing you money, and they're just jerking each other off.
	Can you please tell me what you mean when you say appropriate?
	We have to consult with lawyers in the department who know the proper procedure before disclosing documents that are held within the Department of Justice.
	And I'm not able to make that opinion today.
	Sir, I'm sure you prepared for this hearing today, and most of the questions that have been presented to you are already presented and known in advance were predictable.
	Oh, okay.
	That's one way of saying it.
	So my question to you is, did you then review with the lawyers of your department, if you as the top lawyer are unaware, what the law is regarding what you can share with us and what you cannot share with us, what is privileged and what is not privileged?
	Just tick, tick, tick.
	There goes my money.
	The lawyers are arguing with each other.
	We discussed the basic parameters of testimony.
	I frankly have not discussed documentary disclosure rules.
	Will you make a commitment to this committee that you will share any written correspondence, be they your calendars, records, notes, emails, or anything that has been reduced at any point in time in writing to this committee where legally you actually have an obligation to do so?
	I'll commit to reviewing the rules of the department and when that issue is raised to respond appropriately.
	Did you have any communications with Russian officials for any reason during the campaign that have not been disclosed in public or to this committee?
	I don't recall it.
	But I have to tell you, I cannot testify to what Was said as we were standing at the Republican convention before the podium where I spoke.
	My question is only as relates to your knowledge.
	I don't have the detailed memory of that.
	Okay, as relates to your knowledge, did you have any communication with any Russian businessmen or any Russian nationals?
	I don't believe I had any conversation with Russian businessmen or Russian nationals.
	Are you aware of the communications?
	Although a lot of people were at the convention, it's conceivable that somebody came up to me.
	Sir, I have just a few...
	Well, you let me qualify.
	Here we go.
	If I don't qualify, you'll accuse me of lying.
	So I need to be correct as best I can.
	I do want you to be honest.
	And I'm not able to be rushed this fast.
	It makes me nervous.
	Campbell Toe Harris, you're making me nervous!
	Are you aware of any communications with other Trump campaign officials and associates that they had with Russian officials or any Russian nationals?
	I don't recall that.
	And are you aware of any...
	At this moment...
	Are you aware of any communications?
	I love that little date.
	At this moment, I'm not aware of it.
	With any Trump officials?
	Or did you have any communications with any officials about Russia or Russian interests in the United States before January 20th?
	No, I may have had some conversations, and I think I did, with the general strategic concept of the possibility of whether or not Russia and the United States could get on a more harmonious relationship and move off the hostility.
	The Soviet Union did, in fact, collapse.
	It's really a tragic strategic event that we're not able to get along better.
	You may return to your harpsichord.
	Yes, return to the harpsichord.
	Man, what a waste of time.
	It's a total waste of time, but at least it gets pretty funny with Wyden, who's another douchebag.
	Yeah.
	And this is the two clips I have that I wanted to play, which is Wyden vs.
	Sessions Part 1, where they go at each other.
	The American people have had it with stonewalling.
	Americans don't want to hear that answers to relevant questions are privileged and off limits, or that they can't be provided in public, or that it would be, quote, inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know.
	We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions, and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable.
	And General Sessions has acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.
	So now to questions.
	Last Thursday, I asked former Director Comey about the FBI's interactions with you, General Sessions, prior to your stepping aside from the Russian investigation.
	Mr.
	Comey said that your continued engagement with the Russian investigation was, quote, problematic, and he, Mr.
	Comey, could not discuss it in public.
	Mr.
	Comey also said that FBI personnel had been calling for you to step aside from the investigation at least two weeks before you finally did so.
	Now, in your prepared statement, You stated you received only, quote, limited information necessary to inform your recusal decision.
	But given Director Comey's statement, we need to know what that was.
	Were you aware of any concerns at the FBI or elsewhere in government about your contacts with the Russians or any other matters relevant to whether you should step aside from the Russian investigation?
	Senator Wyden, I am not stonewalling.
	I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.
	You don't walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the President of the United States who's entitled to receive confidential communications in your best judgment about a host of issues and have to be accused of stonewalling for not answering them.
	So I would push back on that.
	Secondly, Mr.
	Comey, perhaps he didn't know, but I basically recused myself the first day I got into the office because I never accessed files.
	I never learned the names of investigators.
	I never met with them.
	I never asked for any documentation.
	The documentation, what little I received, was mostly already in the media and was presented by the senior ethics public responsibility, professional responsibility attorney in the department.
	And I made a honest and proper decision to recuse myself, as I told Senator Feinstein and the members of the committee I would do when they confirmed me.
	So that didn't really keep...
	That didn't work?
	Well, I mean, it did work for everyone listening, but it didn't work for this Whiten guy.
	And Whiten, by the way, he's talking about this kind of confidence.
	So Whiten, if you remember, he's the guy from Oregon who came before the, on the floor of the Senate, went on and on.
	This is during the Snowden era.
	He went on and on about all these terrible things that are going on and how that, you know, he would like to say what they were.
	Which he could have done legally.
	He could have actually exposed a lot of the stuff that Snowden was talking about legally.
	Because on the floor of Congress, you're not liable for anything.
	You can say whatever you want.
	And you can reveal the private conversations.
	You can reveal the closed-door testimonies.
	You can reveal it all.
	And he wouldn't do it.
	But it's really bad because Sessions won't do it.
	I just thought this guy was a huge hypocrite.
	But here we are, Wyden versus Sessions 2, and this will be my last one.
	General Sessions, respectfully, you're not answering the question.
	Well, what is the question?
	The question is, Mr.
	Comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic and he couldn't talk about them.
	What are they?
	Why don't you tell me?
	There are none, Senator Wyden.
	There are none.
	I can tell you that for absolute certainty.
	This is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me, and I don't appreciate it.
	And I've tried to give my best and truthful answers to any committee I've appeared before, and it's really...
	People are suggesting through innuendo that I have been not honest about matters, and I've tried to be honest.
	My time is short.
	You've made your point that you think Mr.
	Comey is engaging in innuendo.
	We're going to keep digging.
	Well, Senator Wyden, he did not say that.
	He said it was problematic, and I asked you what was problematic about it.
	Some of that leaked out of the committee that he said in closed sessions.
	Okay.
	One more question.
	I asked former FBI director whether your role in firing him violated your recusal given that President Trump said he fired Comey because of the Russian investigation.
	Director Comey said this was a reasonable question.
	So I want to ask you just point blank.
	Why did you sign the letter recommending the firing of Director Comey when it violated your recusal?
	It did not violate my recusal.
	It did not violate my recusal.
	That would be the answer to that.
	And the letter that I signed represented my views that had been formulated for some time.
	Yeah, that was pretty much the only explosive, fun bit that was in that whole thing.
	I would say.
	And the thing about this, if you want to just kind of reminisce, if it wasn't for Trump going on Lester Holt and out of the blue saying, I fired Comey because of his Russian hoax, if he'd shut up and go do his job instead of coming on and making stuff up as he goes along, I mean, they always call Trump a big liar.
	The guy's a liar, a liar.
	But he's telling the truth in this instance that we can jump on him.
	Now, if he's a liar, he's a liar.
	This is bullcrap.
	He fired him.
	The real reason for getting fired was because of his handling of the Hillary thing, which I think is a stronger point.
	But Trump gets hung up on this Russian stuff because he thinks they're after him, and they are.
	But it doesn't help his cause when he goes on Lester Holt and says this, and they're all throwing it in Sessions' face.
	If Trump had never said that, if he had never gone on Lester Holt, this hearing would not happen.
	Oh, I'm not so sure about that.
	Well, okay, but the angle would be different.
	They couldn't keep using Trump's words against him.
	Well, no one said he was smart that way.
	You think he's wise up.
	Nah.
	Nah.
	That wise guy is never wise up, you see.
	That's not how it works.
	Well, since we have a few minutes, we have breached the Comey gap.
	He's a showboat.
	He's a grandstander.
	The FBI director has no credibility.
	He's the wrong man for that position.
	I think that Comey acted in an outrageous way, and I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did stuff down.
	You said that he had no credibility.
	I assume that you support the president's decision then to fire his FBI director.
	No, I do not.
	Call me.
	Call me.
	James, call me.
	Call me. Call me. Call me. Call me. Call me. Call me. Call me.
	Oh, nice.
	That was pretty funny.
	We have the best producers in the world.
	Thank you, Matt, for that.
	Just to whet your appetite, because there are so many people appearing on this program that it has become important.
	And the politicians, everybody knows that that's where the audience is for the white women.
	Yes, I'm talking about The View.
	And what's the girl's name?
	Wait, what you're asking me?
	No, I'm asking myself in general.
	Jedediah, I think.
	Jedediah.
	Jedediah, yes.
	Well, she committed a big boo-boo.
	I don't think he was lying.
	The way I read it was that he was saying, if my dad's going to tell you, if my dad's going to boss you around, it's going to be very clear and he's going to be like, put an end to this based on his experience with his own father.
	My issue, though...
	My issue, though, is with Comey, once again.
	How many...
	I watched this testimony, and I just thought, this guy read to me as such a coward that you sat there for so long.
	You heard about how Comey felt, and Comey, oh, this made me uncomfortable.
	People say, did you do anything about it?
	Did you say anything to President Trump?
	Well, no, if I were stronger, maybe I would have.
	That's an irrelevant point, really.
	But it's not an irrelevant point.
	The truth of the matter is, who is lying?
	According to political facts, Yeah.
	Donald Trump has lied 277 times in the past two years.
	Okay?
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	Liar!
	Liar!
	Pass on file!
	And he's also Donald Trump and Comey has not.
	How do you know?
	How do you know he has a lying?
	He's been working...
	We don't know!
	Wait, you were willing to accept what he was saying about all the other stuff.
	Now, so you're stuck with it.
	He's not...
	He wasn't lying then.
	He's not lying now.
	I don't know who's lying, but I think you know who's lying.
	You know who's lying.
	Exactly.
	Comey is known for being a truthful person.
	And I will say this after watching testimony again, because I did that over the weekend.
	None of the senators on that intelligence committee questioned his veracity.
	That's right.
	Not one during that testimony questioned his veracity.
	Is it odd to you that if he were sitting there and he were witnessing obstruction of justice, if he were witnessing this guy's a liar, let me take some memos, that he wouldn't open up, say something to the Senate Intel Committee, say something to the Justice Department?
	He did.
	He said to colleagues at the Justice Department.
	He didn't say something to Jeff Sessions and said, please don't leave me alone.
	I felt that when you watched the whole thing, you had to piece together a lot of things going on.
	The fact that he had never taken memos before, but felt that the action of writing a memo, it was merited in this situation.
	I think the idea that he kept saying, let's not parcel the words.
	I'm a grown man.
	I've been head of the FBI. I felt differently this time.
	A lot of that stuff together started to create a picture for me that I was like, ugh, okay.
	It also seems weird to me, though, that he felt the need to take these memos on Trump fine, but you didn't take memos on Loretta Lynch.
	And there you have him admitting, Loretta Lynch told me that this, I should not call this an investigation into Hillary Clinton.
	I should call it a matter.
	Then you have Loretta Lynch meeting with Franklin on the top.
	You know what?
	Let's not muddy the waters as they tried to do.
	I love Roopie Jumby.
	You know what?
	Do you know what?
	And she's raising both hands.
	You know what?
	Let's not muddy the waters with any of that stuff.
	Yeah.
	You know what?
	Let's not muddy the waters as they tried to do.
	No, no.
	Let's not muddy the waters as they tried to do.
	The bottom line is simply this.
	Uh-oh.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	The guy who's in charge now, who Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she definitely can say that the president's not a liar.
	That's a lie.
	And you think it's weird that I slip into dimension A from time to time.
	This is what I have to endure.
	This is it.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John Sue, as he stands for, call me as a coward, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning, all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air.
	Subs in the water.
	All the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning, everybody.
	In the morning to specifically Melvin Gipstein today.
	Melvin Gipstein brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 3-8 of this program, also known as the best podcast in the universe.
	The title of that stumped the algo.
	This was the poop map, and we had a couple of them.
	We had a couple of poop map entries.
	A comicster blogger did a pretty good one, but we liked this because he actually drew the no agenda, you know, the title and the life from GastroNation, It was all in poop letters.
	It was all in poop.
	I mean, poop wins.
	Poop wins.
	When it comes to humor, poop just always seems to win.
	It's just a fact of life.
	You can't do much about it.
	You can't lose.
	Well, we do have a lot of associate executive producers, one, two, three, four, and three executive producers for today's show.
	And after that, it drops off drastically.
	But at least we got...
	And one of the carriers of the show over the last couple of weeks is Seronimus.
	Seronimus is back.
	Again.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	This guy, he must be a day trader or something.
	He's got unlimited amounts.
	I don't know.
	He just seems to get in the mood.
	He has...
	Of course, I put these notes in here.
	Here they are.
	So he sends a note in.
	Now, this guy is very anonymous, right?
	We don't know him.
	He's very anonymous.
	You don't know where he is.
	And he doesn't...
	You can't read his checks and...
	Nice.
	Send cash.
	He never has a return address, so he really trusts the post office.
	So I assume he's deeply embedded in the system, knowing the post office is actually pretty good about this.
	But when he writes the notes, it's usually to complain about something.
	And now he's doing it in kind of an offhanded way.
	See if you can figure out what his gripe is.
	From Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch.
	It is exhausting.
	It is exhausting to listen to opinions from...
	Oh, this is the wrong letter.
	This is the last letter.
	That's the way I should have read that letter.
	Here we go.
	Here it is.
	I'm just going to get mixed up with that.
	It's next to the keyboard.
	Well, you know, he sends every show, so what am I supposed to do?
	Okay.
	From Seronomous of Dogpatch.
	Quote, interesting.
	After a long day of meetings, a colleague from Ghana turned to me and said, I think...
	It's interesting.
	No, no.
	He says, I think...
	Let me get this straight.
	I think interesting is a white man's word for stupid.
	Since that day, when I hear interesting in a meeting, I find stupid is a useful replacement.
	Huh.
	Some people want to send blankets or water, just send your cash, is what he ends with, and that's that.
	So he apparently, I'm guessing...
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water, just send your cash.
	So I'm guessing that he's been hearing us say, interesting, as someone else pointed out, too often, and now he's calling us out on it, saying he's going to be hearing stupid.
	The word stupid is a replacement.
	I will readily admit...
	That I have used the word interesting in conversations, in meetings, when I used to do meetings, as a word to throw out there, to pause everybody so I could have, you know, it's three syllables, I had some time to think about what I was really going to say.
	I'm sure of that.
	Because I have been called out on this before.
	Ah.
	But we're talking 1996 or 95.
	And someone finally said to me, really?
	You always say interesting.
	You really think it's interesting?
	I was like, whoa.
	That would be calling you out, yes.
	What?
	This is like my call out on, that's an excellent question.
	Yeah.
	Not a great question.
	Okay, well that's noted.
	Yes, well I think we work on these things.
	I think we might have backed off.
	I thought we backed off.
	Maybe we're not hearing it.
	Well, we do want to thank him.
	I've used it as a stall word.
	I do want to thank him for his interesting note.
	Woo!
	I want to give him a come karma.
	Danger!
	You've got karma.
	You've got no prisoners.
	No prisoners.
	Alright, anyway.
	And may I point out...
	Thank you, Sir Onimus.
	Now we get a little clue as to he's meeting with Ghana representatives.
	Maybe he's in the UN or something.
	May I point out that you said to me I was slipping into Dimension A, but you pretty much meant Dimension B, didn't you?
	No, no, I meant Dimension A. Dimension B is the other side where Whoopi is.
	The face bag after that shooting?
	That's insane.
	That's an insane dimension.
	After that shooting, the face bag went dead.
	Silent.
	No one is posting anything.
	Dead.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	I would have expected something...
	No, no, no.
	This fried some brains.
	Everyone knows how angry they are.
	Everyone's heard the hate.
	Everyone's heard it.
	Now the mission is to remind everybody that the president started all that shit.
	That's what this is about.
	The president, his vitriol, his anger, his telling people he'd pay for their court fees and lawyers if they punch someone out.
	If they punch somebody out.
	By the way, one of the earlier clips I forgot to mention that it was noteworthy I was almost going to say interesting.
	I like noteworthy.
	He's very good.
	It was noteworthy that when they compared the vitriol of Trump to the vitriol of Clinton, Trump pretty much made his attacks personal on the other candidate.
	Hillary went after the Trump supporters.
	Yeah.
	I think that was a flaw.
	Talk about vitriol.
	A basket of deplorables.
	It became like a meme.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hillary is a bigot.
	Never became a meme.
	It's just funny at the moment.
	Still, that's an ISO I think we should try to get.
	Hillary Clinton is a bigot.
	I don't think we have that one, do we?
	This is like the George Clooney is a spy kind of thing.
	Yeah, but we don't have...
	No, we don't have it.
	I know we don't have it.
	Well, someone should make it, and it would sound something like this.
	George Clooney.
	George Clooney.
	It's a spine.
	Something along those lines.
	Onward.
	Keith Lawsett is one of our big donors from Pop Money.
	And so he's 34543.
	And since he's Pop Money, you know, Pop Money just shows up in the bank account and doesn't tell you anything.
	That is an interesting palindrome.
	It's for Pop.
	No, 34543.
	Oh, 34543.
	Yes, it's a palindrome.
	And Pop is also a palindrome.
	Pop, palindrome.
	Ah, maybe there's a connection.
	Pop, pop.
	He sent an email in, so I dug it up.
	And apparently he sent it about eight times, worried sick that we weren't going to get to it.
	My donation via PopMoney claims to have reached no agenda, so yes it did.
	PopMoney works very well.
	If it works at all.
	But if you're doing it from a credit union, which you apparently did, or a bank that's using it instead of Swift and all these other things, he's using it from the Redstone Federal Credit Union, which is typical.
	Credit unions all use pop money.
	And it always works that way.
	If you have the check of banking numbers and stuff.
	Which is available.
	I am hoping this can be attributed to episode 937.
	Well, close call.
	Almost.
	Since I anticipate that being a good episode with the Comey influence and all.
	It was a good episode.
	I think so.
	However, if you are sticking to your reviewing pop money once a month procedure, then you're attributing it when you can.
	Well, once or twice a month.
	For karma, my contribution of 34543 is a palindrome prime.
	A pal prime.
	I don't know what that means.
	What it means, I guess, is the first lowest executive producer pal prime is 33533, but that one is not as pretty.
	I wanted to offer a pretty pal prime.
	Episode 937 is prime as well.
	It's true.
	You guys do operate the best podcast in both universes.
	That's a good one.
	Oh, we need to adjust all of our imaging.
	Thank you so much for giving me some sanity to hold on to.
	I'll keep the request simple.
	Putin's Don't Worry, Be Happy, followed by Two to the Head.
	And some karma.
	Keep up the fabulous work.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you, Greg Davies.
	Someone finally did it.
	Hello.
	Took you long enough.
	It's very sinister, that combination of clips.
	I love the Don't Worry, Be Happy, though.
	Oh, it's dynamite.
	We didn't have it with the music, and it was so obvious.
	No, I know.
	I was stunned when you played it.
	You surprised even me.
	Ralph, the Viscount of Neutral, Mora's Net, and Germany.
	Mm-hmm.
	Morsnet.
	Morsnet.
	Ach.
	Adam, thanks again.
	Please keep on going.
	All the best from Berlin.
	Relocation due to holidays.
	Ralph DeVaikana of Neutra Morissette in Germany.
	P.S. Yoko's cry Ach.
	by charisma, by karma.
	Yeah.
	That should help everyone.
	Okay, just Yoko and karma.
	Oh, let me see.
	Is this the short one or the long one?
	Oh, it's a long one.
	Well, I won't play the whole thing.
	Let's just get into it.
	Yes, thank you for your donation, Mr.
	Viscount.
	We appreciate it.
	Some Yoke Karma.
	We appreciate it.
	You've got karma.
	Nice.
	Onward.
	Brian McVicarin.
	What a care.
	What a care.
	Wait a carry.
	Wait a carry, I'll betcha.
	26969, Auckland, New Zealand.
	He sent an email.
	Please find in your PayPal donations, Mike Zoki.
	I'm tired of being a douchebag.
	And as I've just been laid off...
	I've now got time to get stuff done like donating to the best podcast in both universes.
	Everyone's thinking the same thing.
	The $200 for an associate executive producership and a 69-69 is because, well, I could do with getting a little lucky about now.
	Here in New Zealand, Prime Minister Teflon John Key finally resigned a few months back and has received a knighthood from the Queen, not a real no-agenda one.
	It's a phony.
	It's a mock knighthood.
	It's not the real deal.
	Yeah, he got it for basically selling out, selling off, and screwing over the country.
	All hail Sir Don Key Punch.
	Maybe we can get this country back on track now and focus on some real issues rather than this failed change-the-flag vanity project.
	Thanks to the lead from the U.S., we are finally getting into the marijuana debate, and it's about time.
	However, with the $1.7 billion in tobacco taxes the government received last year, the ass-about Face nature of the tobacco legal slash pot illegal situation is unlikely ever to be reversed, with the tax revenue being worth more than the government, the number of cigarettes-related robberies and deaths increasing.
	I may use my time off to put together a business plan for when cannabis legalization happens over here, Will, as it won't be hard to find...
	I got a business plan.
	It's like, buy weed, smoke, repeat!
	As it won't be hard to find experienced cultivars here out west who just need some help with the business side of things when it happens.
	In other words, they're already growing it.
	Anyway, I could get a de-douching, a little girl yay, and some urgently needed jobs karma.
	And also, Adam, if you're serious about coming to Auckland, he's got a place for you.
	Yeah, we're just not sure of the timing yet, so we're going to work on that.
	You've been de-douched.
	Yay!
	Hold on, it was jobs.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	There we go.
	Sir Chansey in Worcester, Massachusetts.
	23450 from Sir Chance in Worcester.
	ITM gents, thanks again for the insightful coverage.
	Can I get some job karma for my fiancé who's trying to get a postdoc position?
	Thanks again, and thank you for your courage.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Caitlin Williams in Seven Springs, North Carolina, 20202.
	I need a big F cancer for my mom, Hilda.
	She starts chemo today.
	Not a show listener yet, but both of her kids are.
	F that cancer up real good for us.
	Nurse Caitlin.
	You've got karma.
	And last on our list of producers and executive producers for show...
	9, what?
	9 or 3-8, yes.
	9-3-8.
	Brian in Irvine, California, $200.
	He says, keep me anonymous.
	This is Brian in Irvine.
	Thank you so much for the show.
	I can't live without it.
	Working my way to knighthood.
	I hope I can get there someday.
	Can I get a life sucks, but hoping things get better soon, Karma.
	Thanks.
	Sure, we can do that for you.
	Life sucks.
	Get better soon.
	You've got karma.
	Everyone goes through with it.
	Everybody goes through.
	Cycles and waves.
	Cycles and waves.
	Well, we're trying to keep you sane in the process.
	Yes.
	And it's dangerous work.
	Witness me with my straddle fatigue.
	It's bad.
	I don't know what to do about it.
	Take the bucket challenge.
	Maybe that'll help.
	Wow.
	Thanks, Dr.
	Dvorak.
	I have nothing but modern cures.
	We'd like to thank everybody who is an executive or associate executive producer for today's program.
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	LinkedIn.
	Get your gigs, for sure.
	And please remember, our next show will be on Sunday.
	We need as much help as you can get.
	And, you know, with the weekend coming up pretty soon, you might want to consider going out there and propagating the formula.
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	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Can't get enough of it.
	It's the best.
	Yes.
	Well, there's a lot of other things going on, luckily.
	We have some other things to discuss.
	Hey, uh, mayor?
	Uh, in Turkey?
	Which mayor was he?
	Mayor of which town is he?
	Of Ankara.
	Yeah, they had an earthquake there, which also affected Greece, or Lesbos, one of the Greek islands.
	It was pretty bad.
	You didn't hear much about it.
	Didn't hear anything about it.
	No, why would you want to hear about it?
	It was 6.32 magnitude, which means that's not the Richter scale, that's the momentum.
	No, they've given up on that for some reason.
	Yeah, because the numbers weren't high enough.
	And the mayor of Ankara says, I think that might be an artificial earthquake.
	I do not say it is certain, but it is a very serious possibility.
	I say that it should definitely be investigated.
	Was there any seismic research ship sailing near the epicenter?
	If so, which country does that belong to?
	And they say I'm crazy.
	Who says you're crazy?
	Everybody.
	Well, the earthquake machine, which we have proof that it exists.
	Well, we have official American...
	You might as well read it to us again.
	I don't have it here, but it was William Cohen.
	He was the Secretary of Defense, and in testimony he said other countries have seismic weaponry.
	We need them.
	We have to be able to use them.
	There's been tests off the coast of Australia, and I'm still not 100% convinced that the very shallow earthquake near Fukushima wasn't.
	Something that was perhaps more man-made than we understand.
	But no one would admit it now.
	Well, no.
	Whoops!
	No, no, no, no.
	Who turned that knob up?
	Hey, and I did want to give you some props...
	You were right.
	And boy, were you right.
	Yeah.
	The Houston rally, you know, the Sam Houston statue, oh, they're going to pull that down.
	And you said, I think it's a trick.
	It's a trick to lure the Republicans into protest.
	And it turns out you were absolutely right.
	And the Houston, the Sam Houston statue remains.
	Yeah, you were right.
	It was a total hoax.
	It was a hoax.
	Good one, John.
	See, this is why I listen to this show.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's, I want you to hear, I got a clip here I want you to explain to me where we're heading with this.
	We have, you know, we've been bombing Syria.
	There's been troops over there.
	You know, can I just say that in...
	We have troops everywhere that are not being reported on.
	I have video, I think I put it in the show notes, of U.S. I'm sorry, not troops, advisors, manning machine guns and shooting from near the embassy in Tripoli.
	We've got troops...
	Apparently nobody else can shoot a gun but us.
	Well, we're just showing how it's supposed to be done.
	That's what advising is all about.
	There's a trigger here.
	Let me show you how to do some stuff.
	Let me just show you how it's done.
	Yeah, this is always temporary deployment of consultants, advisors.
	The same in Duarte, Philippines.
	You know what's kind of overlooked in all this analysis about are people shooting these guns?
	In fact, it's fun to shoot guns.
	Yes.
	And I think these guys look for the opportunity.
	They've got an endless supply of bullets.
	They're on some huge machine gun and they get to shoot it.
	If you were over there, you'd want to shoot the gun too.
	Yeah, it's a little annoying when people shoot back.
	Oh, well, you want to be like most of these clips we see.
	There's nobody shooting back.
	You're just shooting.
	Just wasting money.
	Buck a bullet.
	Boom.
	Dollar.
	Boom.
	Two dollars.
	Hold on.
	We've got breaking news.
	I don't know if you heard about this, John.
	Breaking news!
	Live 5 News starts now with breaking news.
	And we begin with that breaking news for you right now.
	Out of Mount Pleasant, the U.S. Coast Guard says there is no threat of a bomb at the Wando terminal.
	And in the last hour, we've learned from officials that they have detained the person they believe is responsible for that threat.
	Coast Guard officials swept a vessel at that terminal overnight after getting the report of the possible dirty bomb.
	Aaron Maven on the scene now with the latest details.
	Aaron?
	Yeah, good morning.
	It appears the terminal is open right now after being closed for hours.
	We have seen trucks going in and out already this morning.
	We have just learned from the U.S. Coast Guard that overnight four containers were scanned and cleared.
	And we have been in contact with the U.S. Coast Guard all morning long.
	The Coast Guard tells us at one point a zone was set up around the Maersk, Memphis after the report We're good to go.
	We're told the original source of that report has been detained for questioning.
	We do not know his or her identity or what sparked this threat.
	That's something we will work on all day.
	We have more coming up in about 30 minutes, but for now I'm live.
	Aaron Maven, back to you in the studio.
	Now, I couldn't find the original genesis of this story, although everyone is talking about it, but the actual video I could not find.
	Apparently, George Webb, he's the guy that, we've played one or two of his YouTube clips, he's the guy that was watching the Anwar brothers, also, what's his face, the Clinton Foundation CEO who just basically disappeared.
	Remember this guy?
	Yeah, he cropped back up some more.
	Well, so apparently he was talking about, oh, they would think there's a dirty bomb on one of these ships.
	And that was the catalyst, from what I've heard, that was the catalyst for the cops and everyone to freak out about this.
	And I'm thinking, this is part of, this guy, he's really treading all over the Clintons.
	Bigly.
	I love saying that.
	He's treading all over the Clintons.
	He's exposing all kinds of stuff.
	You think there's payback?
	Yeah, it's part of the hit list.
	It's part of Hillary's hit list.
	This guy's going to be in trouble.
	And you know who else is going to be in trouble?
	Van Jones?
	Why would Van Jones do?
	Oh my goodness.
	Van Jones, without a doubt, has always been a liberal.
	Outrageous, progressive.
	Progressive, thank you.
	And a Republican hater.
	Now, was he really involved in the Clinton campaign at all?
	Or did he kind of fall out of favor?
	I don't think so.
	I think he was outside the campaign, but he was also doing their business.
	But I think he was kept outside.
	He was an Obama bot, and he got kicked out because...
	What was the reason he got kicked out?
	Oh, he got kicked out because the right wing went after him.
	They had a bunch of citations of him being too progressive, and they scared Obama, and Obama got rid of him.
	Yeah, cowardly.
	Well, Van is moving to the top of the hit list.
	The Hillary Clinton campaign.
	This is the People Summit 2017.
	Did not spend their money on white workers, and they did not spend their money on people of color.
	They spent it on themselves.
	They spent it on themselves.
	Let's be honest.
	They took a billion dollars, a billion dollars, a billion dollars and set it on fire and called it a campaign.
	That wasn't a campaign.
	That's not a campaign.
	A billion dollars for consultants.
	A billion dollars for pollsters.
	A billion dollars for a data operation that was run by data dummies who couldn't figure out that maybe folks in Michigan needed to be organized.
	That wasn't a campaign.
	It was a boondoggle.
	And now they want us to fight about whether black folks or white workers or Latinos or any other group should get the money.
	First of all, you need to give the money back to the people, period.
	That's where we gotta start.
	Start with that.
	Start with that.
	Quit getting rich off people's struggles.
	There you go.
	A billion dollars on data dust.
	The funny thing is, I think it's 1.5 and it really...
	He underplayed it.
	A billion dollars that they spent on themselves.
	And, yeah.
	I think Clinton's calling me right now.
	Oh, boy.
	You got another robocall?
	Do we need to take the noise gate off to listen to what you're doing here?
	I'll do that.
	Let me just hang up.
	Hello, Heartbreak Hotel.
	You talking to someone?
	Now, what is going on with Van here in this case?
	Does he want to be shot?
	Okay, a couple of things I have to ask.
	One is...
	Where was this?
	At the People's Summit 2017.
	And that was where?
	Where it was.
	That's a good question.
	The People's Summit.
	Sorry, I just got this this morning, so I didn't have time to look it up.
	Chicago.
	So he's in Chicago saying this.
	Does he not know that you don't do this?
	I mean, you don't turn on the Clintons like that, and they're both still alive.
	Well, unless he has some kind of something up his sleeve.
	You may have a dead man's switch, you think?
	Hmm.
	Well, you better have something.
	To say that, and then also...
	I think maybe he's...
	Now, knowing from his perspective, maybe he's one of these guys.
	You have what the Clinton hit was bullshit.
	There's no such thing.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	There's no such thing as nonsense.
	It's right-wing nonsense.
	It's crap.
	Yeah, yeah, there's a list of dead guys.
	It's right-wing crap.
	It's bullcrap.
	Just stay away from hot tubs, man.
	Small aircraft.
	Yeah, small aviation.
	Be very careful.
	Don't get any canoes in the D.C. area.
	Kayaks.
	This is not a good idea.
	Don't get in a hot tub with a lid on it.
	Don't put a gun in your left hand and shoot yourself to the head twice.
	Oh, and for the new people, we say Big League because it's funny.
	Yeah, we know that Trump said Big League.
	Jeez.
	We like Big League.
	I love Big League.
	It's like, this is Dimension A freaking out.
	He never said Big League!
	He never said Big League!
	Moron.
	Yeah.
	Go back, and this is one of the examples where maybe, okay, maybe you should go back a few shows and listen in.
	But you don't have to go back to show one.
	You go back to show, you know, there's a lot of different shows you can go back to.
	Talking about that, I want to get your analysis of this.
	This is Mike Morrell on Extra Troops in Syria.
	Mm-hmm.
	I'm sorry, you want me to play it?
	I thought you were going to lead in what I'm talking about.
	So for insight into all of this, we'll go to Michael Morrell, former number two at the CIA and our CBS News senior security contributor.
	Oh, a senior CBS News security contributor.
	Is there a business card long enough for this guy?
	Michael, how much difference does it make to have 50 U.S. Special Operations forces on the ground in Syria?
	Scott, it doesn't sound like much, but I think it's going to make a significant difference for two reasons.
	One is these special forces will be with Syrian Kurdish fighters who are right up against the heart of ISIS geographically.
	They're up against the center of mass of ISIS. And secondly, the special forces will, I think, just as they have in Iraq, make these fighters better strategically and better tactically, help them make better decisions militarily.
	Now, the Russians have troops on the ground at a military base in Syria.
	Does this increase the likelihood of a U.S.-Russia confrontation?
	Scott, I don't think so.
	I'm not concerned about that.
	These Syrian forces, these Kurdish forces that we're going to be supporting, are focused entirely on ISIS. They're not focused on fighting the Assad regime.
	So I think the chances of us butting up against the Russians here is unlikely.
	Michael Morrell, former number two at the CIA. Michael, thank you.
	Okay, question?
	Your question?
	Oh, never mind.
	I shouldn't be.
	This is a clip from 2015.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	But it is true.
	I have a map that I've put in the show notes.
	938.noagendanotes.com.
	Archive.noagendanotes.com.
	And you'll see there the Battle of Mosul.
	There is just a very, very small piece.
	I mean, the U.S. military advisors have been kicking ISIL's ass all over the place.
	Not that you're going to hear about that.
	But they have a small, small stronghold left.
	You don't need more.
	I mean, if it were today, you wouldn't need more than 50 guys.
	You know, it's done.
	It's over.
	At least in Mosul.
	I haven't seen anything about that.
	What's left of it?
	Yeah, what's left of Mosul.
	Well, hey, it doesn't matter how we do it, as long as we rebelize.
	Bring in Halliburton!
	As long as we rebelize everything, that's okay.
	It doesn't really matter.
	Yeah, but I also found it interesting that we were fighting in the Philippines.
	Yeah.
	How is that in our interest?
	Yeah.
	Uh, well, is there oil there?
	I hadn't looked.
	I'm sure they've got something.
	I'm sure they've got something around.
	So when I was digging up that old clip, I found some old ISOs that we never used, and one in particular, which is a Sharpton ISO. Oh!
	That we've never put in the rotation.
	Oh my goodness.
	I need it.
	Which one is it?
	I see you got three today.
	I got three.
	The one that's Sharpton is the one in the middle, ISO of the day, Star Wars.
	Star Wars!
	Everyone's going nuts about it.
	That's a good show-ender.
	I like that.
	That's very good.
	Do you have more?
	Yeah, not more of him, but I got a couple of ISOs here.
	There's the ISO that is Google self-driving car.
	It's a Google self-driving car!
	Algo update.
	Algo update.
	The nest is behaving now, to some degree.
	Yeah, the temperature is the right temperature when I get up in the morning, yes.
	The algo is performing.
	Keep my eye on it.
	Remember, I'm doing this for you.
	I am the canary in the coal mine to see what...
	Yeah, you are.
	I use an old thermometer on my system that has mercury in it.
	Yeah, and it tips over and hits the switch?
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	Yeah, it sloshes back and forth.
	Yeah, and that will work better.
	John, when you think about it, all of this stuff is really cool.
	I mean, it's totally cool.
	I say, you know, I call out the Echo device's name.
	I say, turn the lights on, the lights go on.
	But eventually, you know, people who fall into this trap and they got the doorbell, they got the lock and everything's with an app, you lose your phone or the internet goes out and you can't do anything.
	It'll be over.
	It's terrible.
	Yeah.
	But the thing is with mine, instead of having to screw around the algos, I just move the, you know, I say, oh, it's a little too hot in here.
	So I move it down just a little bit to see if the thing rolls back.
	And then, oh, it's too cold.
	So I fiddle with it.
	And it took me about five days of fiddling with the little mercury thing.
	And now it's perfect.
	It's always exactly the right temperatures.
	I nailed it.
	Ah, so you have to balance this.
	Yeah, you got it.
	Nice.
	Well, that's a good algo.
	That's an old school algo.
	Human.
	Human.
	It's like Hugh Mint to Hugh Algo.
	Human algo.
	And your last one?
	Hugh Malgo.
	Hugh Malgo.
	I'm going to write that down.
	Yeah, Hugh Malgo.
	That's a good show title.
	Hugh Malgo.
	Yeah, it's like Hugh Mint.
	Human intelligence.
	Yeah, Hugh Malgo.
	Hugh Malgo.
	And I think the H is silent.
	Umalgo.
	It could be.
	What's this last iso?
	And the last one is just somebody that can't seem to get started with what they want to say.
	They start with so, and they can't go anywhere with it.
	So, it's...
	I got one for you.
	And you knew who that is?
	No.
	It's that scientist guy, the black physicist that runs the...
	What is his name?
	Neil deGrasse Tyson.
	Oh, Elon.
	Yeah, I believe that is Neil deGrasse Tyson.
	Say it again.
	So, it's...
	I got one of those for you.
	And there's a gulp in there.
	This is from TNT. From someone with a very strong, you know, East Asian...
	Indian accent, basically.
	Yeah.
	That's a good one.
	I love laughing at people.
	Hello, Guardians of Reality.
	I prefer to remain anonymous if you need this information on the show.
	I don't know if this will be beneficial for you.
	It is.
	I just received this at work, my email, and I read it.
	He sent me a document.
	I thought it might be of interest to help you with any more deconstruction.
	Let me note this.
	He says the illicitly made fentanyl are being substituted.
	This is a big problem in America.
	People are dying.
	Illicit-made fentanyl are being substituted on the black market for forms of Xanax.
	Yikes!
	Yeah, so people think they're popping a Xanax, but it's fentanyl.
	Now, he is a...
	This sounds terrible.
	He has been a firefighter and paramedic for 17 years.
	He says, I personally have run calls on people who have overdosed on black market prescription drugs.
	Now, this is an interesting point, mainly due to our healthcare system.
	Well, not really the healthcare system, but the insurance part of it.
	And how you're covered, you know, people are choosing to go for black market stuff, which could just be from Canada for all I know, but they're probably getting on the street.
	I personally run calls on people who have overdosed on black market prescription drugs.
	I would imagine this is part of the problem.
	What's interesting is the amount needed to kill a person.
	I'm referencing your typical penny pincher.
	Due to the potency, you need a ton of Narcan.
	In fact, most responding units won't have enough Narcan on their units to save a person who was overdosed on fentanyl.
	And this was on the last show, or the show before, where we had the guy talking about using Narcan twice, three times, four times on some poor guy.
	And then you got...
	This is what we should be talking about.
	This is what should be going on in Congress.
	How do we stop this crazy shit?
	But no.
	I got a few more Comey things, if you want.
	Sure.
	Okay.
	CBS, shockingly, shockingly, but not really, if you take into consideration that CIA and FBI are fighting, have always been fighting, and now, I'm not sure how the new, what's his name, Dr.
	Doolittle, who's the new CIA chief?
	We have a new guy.
	I can't remember his name.
	He's a hard ass, though.
	Right, but is he running the show, or this is what I don't know?
	No, you don't even know anymore who's running the show.
	He used to be a figurehead.
	The CIA broadcasting system had this to say about Comey.
	FBI. Pompeo, that's his name, I'm sorry.
	The fact that James Comey acknowledged freely that he leaked his personal memos that he wrote to himself about his meetings with President Trump to the media, and there's been a lot of discussion about whether that was legal or not.
	Right, and I'm sure that people will bring that up and whether or not the Attorney General believes that his former FBI Director broke the law when he took notes of that meeting and then turned them over to a law professor.
	I mean, is that lawful?
	I mean, arguably, that's a government document.
	He wrote it on a government computer, in a government vehicle.
	There's an open legal question about whether or not pure information is considered property.
	But there is an argument that that memo is government property, and he had no business giving it to a law professor to leak to the press.
	Certainly, it raises questions of whether it was inappropriate.
	But there's no question about whether there was classified information in those documents.
	There was none.
	Well, certainly the former FBI director says it was not classified.
	I mean, that's another question.
	Did he ask for it to be reviewed, a classification review, before he turned it over to the law professor?
	The CIA is trying to push a little harder on Comey, and I saw more of this.
	Dianne Feinstein.
	Comey said that Lynch, the request gave him a queasy feeling.
	He felt clearly that Loretta Lynch was giving cover to the Clinton campaign.
	Was she?
	I can't answer that.
	I would have a queasy feeling too, though, to be candid with you.
	I think we need to...
	Since when do we...
	This is a very good point.
	And I think we discussed it.
	And we called him a pussy for it.
	Since when is the FBI? That is true.
	When is the FBI? Oh, I felt queasy about that.
	It just didn't feel good.
	It was very uncomfortable.
	Queasy feeling, too, though, to be candid with you.
	I think we need to know more about that.
	And there's only one way to know about it, and that's to have the Judiciary Committee take a look at that.
	So you think it's worth investigating if, in a way, this was semantic cover given to the Clinton campaign?
	It was clearly an investigation being described.
	Yeah, but this is a separate investigation we're talking about.
	And I don't think we should mix the two.
	No, let's not mix the two.
	But she also felt kind of queasy.
	And then another CIA guy, once again, former director James Wolsey, who keeps coming on CNN. I mean, he's always there.
	They're paying him.
	Well, yeah, they're paying him.
	Fareed Zakaria, the anti-constitutionalist douchebag, tries to defend Comey, and Wolsey's having none of it.
	He insists that the word, I think by implication, the word leak is not appropriate.
	He was a private citizen.
	Let me present his argument.
	He was a private citizen.
	These were notes recollecting his conversation with the president.
	They were not classified.
	A private citizen is allowed to share his notes in a conversation with any government official, with a friend, with the press.
	Leaking involves disclosing classified government information in an unauthorized way, as you well know, having been the director of the CIA.
	Books have to be classified.
	There are a number of things that are extremely sensitive without meeting the technical requirements for classification.
	And I just found it stunning that he would, I think, give up the secrecy of a conversation with the President of the United States.
	More CIA anti-FBI. A little bit.
	Do you think they will ever...
	I mean, it is rather interesting that one of them...
	I don't know if it was really a campaign promise, but lock her up, we're going to go after the Clintons, we should totally go after Comey just for being inappropriate.
	Well, I think the Van Jones thing is the kicker here that really needs to be thought about more, because if this guy goes off the rails in that way he did...
	Then something's going down.
	Something's going to happen.
	In fact, it may be possible, now that I think about it, that the only reason he'd have the guts to do what he did, and I think it took some nerve, is because he knows something's going down, and he doesn't worry.
	He's not going to get killed.
	He's fine.
	He's good.
	Well, then what could it be?
	I don't know.
	He's one of those guys that floats around D.C. circles, and somebody might have said, you know, they're going to go after it.
	Maybe the Clintons are really under investigation.
	The whole thing could be, you know, they have to do it very carefully because of all the Hillbots out there and the whole face bag.
	It would go nuts if all of a sudden Hillary was indicted for anything.
	Can you imagine?
	That would be fun.
	That would be great fun for us.
	Yeah.
	Well, what else matters?
	Who cares about anything else?
	Great fun for us, and you'll be reading from Facebook forever.
	Monday!
	You better hide your steps, because there's a war on cash.
	That's right, everybody.
	There's a new war on cash.
	It's taking place right now in the form of Senate Bill 1241.
	The title of the bill, Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Counterfeiting Act of 2017.
	This is a good one.
	John, you and I are both staunch defenders of the right to just have cash.
	Yeah.
	But they're stepping it up in many different ways.
	It's a long game they're playing, by the way.
	It's a very long game, and they probably won't get everything passed in this.
	But we already have this law where you cannot transport more than $10,000 in cash or other monetary instruments.
	It has now been added to this in this new bill.
	The $10,000 limit was installed initially to combat terrorist financing, so you have to make a report.
	This has always been a $10,000 limit on carrying cash outside the country.
	Right.
	But now, if you have any monetary instruments, including cryptocurrency, prepaid credit cards, prepaid cell phones, prepaid retail gift cards, or prepaid coupons, If you have any type of instrument for bearer, which means whoever presents it can cash it, and there's no amount filled in, you can now go to jail.
	It used to be five years.
	Now it will be ten years, just to add that to it.
	But there's a lot of really dumb stuff in this.
	So if you issue, they actually say in the bill, if you issue cryptocurrency over $10,000, that shows a real lack of understanding of how the system works.
	And no one issues cryptocurrency.
	But they're coming for your Bitcoin.
	They're coming for it one way or the other.
	Yeah, they'll fix the language.
	But anyway, if you're suspected, this is the part that is really dangerous, if you're suspected of being involved in too much Bitcoin, if you're suspected of being involved in too much prepaid cell phones, whatever the suspicion is, immediately Pfizer warrants are issued, surveillance wiretapping is engaged, phone, email, etc.
	It's all in there.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, hmm.
	So, you shouldn't have money, slave.
	And the amount of people who are calling me, including my sister, hey, should I invest in Bitcoin?
	Yeah, why don't you invest in Snapchat while you're at it?
	And I'm pretty sure that this pop that we got was mainly because of the ransomware.
	Yeah, that's what a lot of people, you're not the only guy who thinks that.
	I don't know whether it is or not, but...
	Ransomware could have easily run the Bitcoin price up.
	Just the idea of it could run the price up.
	Yeah, it ran way up, and then it's kind of starting to dawdle back down to normal.
	But it's also, you know, it's a very poorly regulated market.
	You know, don't trade in Bitcoin.
	Man, you don't get it.
	You don't get it, man.
	It's the future money, man.
	You don't get it.
	We had the big fire in London.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that thing was unbelievable.
	I've never seen a building.
	It's just like the entire building is like a alcohol-soaked torch.
	Poof!
	I'm sure you've seen by now there was a group, a local activist group, who for years was saying, look, they did this, they refurbished, but it's very dangerous, they didn't do it right.
	And they've documented all of this, and lo and behold, this goes...
	The British government, or even the local government, Londoners and all the rest, where they have people monitoring, they have cameras on people's garbage bins, so they don't put a bottle in the wrong bin, and they have all these really...
	But here's the thing.
	These are council flats.
	You know what the council flats are?
	I think they're for low income.
	Yeah, for the poor.
	And the Brits don't care about the poor.
	Let them fry, I say.
	I have said this a million times.
	Lionel from RT... Yeah, let them fry.
	Hey, great.
	Lionel from RT had a quick comment at the beginning of his podcast.
	To anybody with two neurons and a working synapse, the Greenfeld Tower story...
	Has to absolutely grab you by the collar and make you say, hmm...
	That's it.
	Nothing more.
	Nothing less.
	I'm not suggesting anything.
	I'm not bringing up any date in American history, any, dare I say, 11th day of September reference.
	No, no, no, no.
	I'm just doing this.
	Hmm.
	Maybe there's an emoji for that.
	Hmm.
	Interesting.
	In that case, the word interesting meant you stupid people.
	The reference, of course, is that why didn't this thing collapse?
	Yeah, why didn't it pancake?
	Was it made of steel?
	Like you're like perfectly go down perfectly.
	Was it made of steel?
	I don't know what it was made of.
	I think it was made of brick, but whatever it was made out of, it still didn't pancake.
	It just sat there and became a burning Hulk and a skeleton of itself, unlike WTC7, which, of course, you didn't have some fire guy standing there by saying, pull it!
	Pull it!
	Oh, so strange.
	Well, that'll never end.
	That is a meme forever.
	It is, yes.
	Okay, we have...
	I do have a global warming report.
	You don't have to open the gate, but I do have a report.
	Oh, come on.
	Let's open it.
	Let's open it.
	Let's open it up.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the climate gate has been opened.
	And we are ready.
	That's our global warming report.
	Yes, this should be it.
	The snow had many in Tahoe today saying, so much for summer.
	The National Weather Service said up to five inches is expected in the higher elevations of the northern Sierra.
	Here's a view from our KPIX 5 Sierra cam.
	These conditions force the Weather Service to issue an advisory through tomorrow, warning drivers to be ready for winter driving conditions in June.
	Well, while the gate is open, the major research survey study in Scandinavia has been cancelled.
	This involved 40 scientists from Scandinavian universities.
	They were going out into the bay.
	That would be Manitoba.
	The Hudson Bay system, I guess.
	Yes.
	The study was to study contributions of climate change and regulation on the Hudson Bay system.
	However, sadly, it had to be canceled because the scientist Icebreaker could not get through the ice.
	Unprecedented ice conditions for the global warming study, I tell you.
	It's so annoying for these people.
	I feel bad for them.
	Yeah, because you know you're a mockery when that happens.
	Well, they get mocked a lot.
	Yeah, I don't know what to say.
	And now we're NASA shooting rockets up.
	We're going to test some stuff.
	We're going to make some clouds.
	Glowing artificial clouds we're going to make for you.
	I like the glowing.
	Glowing, glowing.
	We're all going to be glowing in the dark.
	Well, that's what's going to happen.
	They keep doing those kinds of studies.
	I do have a clip, a little mini clip of your pal Brooke Baldwin.
	Ah, from the CNNs, Brooke, yeah.
	You know, I think she has just kind of lost interest in the job.
	She mumbles.
	She's not clear anymore.
	She doesn't enunciate by any means.
	And I caught this example of a mixed metaphor.
	Just throws it out.
	This is an example of her mumbling and then the mixed metaphor.
	See if you can spot it.
	We're talking about this new additional loss for the Trump administration when it comes to the revised version of the travel ban.
	This coming from the Ninth Circuit today.
	Talked about that.
	Again, questions continue about are there tapes as the White House recording conversations punted that ball down the road.
	Again, reiterating what the president said Friday.
	Essentially, that answer will come in time.
	Okay, you either punted the ball or kicked the can down the road.
	You don't punt the ball down the road.
	Sorry.
	I'm getting congested thinking of that stupid mixed metaphor.
	Yeah, that's a pretty good one.
	Yeah, it's a catch.
	I like that one.
	There's not much else she has to say.
	No, Brooke doesn't have much to say.
	I had watched the Tonys.
	Oh, you know, Ben, we missed it.
	I'm pissed about that.
	The Tonys.
	Who was hosting?
	Was it Neil Patrick Harris?
	No, he stopped hosting.
	It was actually, if I could get my throat to stop congesting.
	The Tonys.
	The Tonys were hosted by the actor who everybody loves and adores who does the House of Cards.
	Bing.
	What's his name?
	Bing.
	Kevin Spacey.
	Yes, Spacey did.
	And he did a couple of things.
	He did a couple of bits.
	He did a Johnny Carson bit.
	He came out as Johnny Carson for one bit.
	Wow, did that really go well?
	Well, the worst part is Carson's been gone for so long that I don't think he can maintain it.
	And he didn't.
	He kind of fell out of it.
	He couldn't keep it.
	It was like he couldn't hold the imitation together.
	So that should have been good.
	But then he did come out later as Bill Clinton and nailed it.
	Oh, cool.
	He does a great Bill Clinton.
	But anyway, generally speaking, I would say the Tonys were better.
	Who won?
	Hamilton again?
	Yeah, they just keep giving Hamilton the award.
	That's what they'd like to do.
	No, I think the show was better, but the Broadway shows that they were highlighting and the ones nominated, it seemed like just a bad season.
	Did anyone make any jokes about the Julius Caesar play?
	No.
	Were there any political?
	That's the only reason to watch.
	Was there any political banter?
	That's the reason I keep doing this bit, is that there was one person, Cynthia Nixon, said something.
	Cynthia Nixon?
	Yeah, she's from Sex and the City?
	And she did a one-liner.
	But then one of the presenters comes out, Colbert.
	Well, this is his gig now.
	He's so happy that he was probably on the way to getting fired before this happened.
	But now he is the official Trump hater.
	Which I think is wearing on him because he's like, you know, he's kind of a moralistic character.
	But he just does it.
	He's got this smirk on his face and he does material.
	So he comes out And he does a bit.
	I just have the clip of him and his Trump bit.
	Nobody else was given this much time, but they gave him the time to do it because he's going to slam Trump, and that's what we need.
	And the audience goes nuts, and they've got their hands over their heads, and they're clapping and whooping.
	They're making a big fuss as every joke goes through.
	And I'm thinking to myself, one of the segments of the Tonys was...
	Oh, you know, we need more government money because of this and that.
	We need, you know, performing arts and performing arts and needs some more support.
	Now, if you want support from the government, you don't let something like this take place.
	That's all I have on your clip.
	What?
	You did an Adam Curry.
	Yeah, you gave me the throwaway.
	I gave you the...
	Okay, I will have this clip ready for the next show.
	Oh my God!
	I should have said, you should have said there's only 44k here, John.
	That can't be much of an act.
	I saw two seconds.
	I don't know.
	Sometimes it's really funny and he says one thing.
	Oh, you thought it was one of my gags.
	Yeah, I'm ready for a gag, you know.
	Good fade, though.
	And I did a good job of setting it up.
	You set it up beautifully.
	You did a full on...
	Hey, straddle fatigue.
	It's happening.
	I have made this mistake before.
	I know exactly how it happens.
	I know how it happens.
	Yeah, it's because you don't...
	Smoking too much weed.
	No, I'll tell you how it happened because I actually produced this clip.
	What I did was I did a fade out and by highlighting the fade out...
	That's all that I saved.
	Yeah.
	That's all I got saved.
	Hey, do you want to just stop the show and then go get it?
	And then we'll just pick it up and play it?
	I mean, I... I can do that.
	Nah.
	Nah, I want you to suffer a little longer.
	Nah, we can play some other time.
	I want you to suffer.
	Then let me play a little just an entremant to get us back on track.
	But my point is well taken.
	If these guys want money from the government, don't start doing Trump gags.
	And that is a wrap-up of our Tony coverage here on The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Now on to aviation news, everybody!
	We had a...
	What airline was this?
	I think this was...
	Was it Malaysian Airlines?
	What is MU? MU-736.
	What is the MU? No, MH is Malaysia.
	MU? I don't recognize this indicator.
	Monkey Union.
	I'll look it up.
	MU-736.
	Let me just see.
	Oh, Chinese.
	China Eastern.
	That's what it is.
	China Eastern.
	Oh, China Eastern.
	I flew on them once.
	Well, you're happy you didn't fly on this one.
	Yeah, I am.
	The guys took off from Sydney, had an engine failure.
	Now, I'm just going to make fun of the Chiners.
	That's the point of this whole segment.
	Because I think he's trying to say the engine failed.
	It's fucked.
	I think it's fooked.
	Engine number one, fooked.
	I don't know what he was trying to say.
	That's what it sounds like.
	I think he was trying to say, fuck, brother!
	Let me land again!
	We're fuked!
	I think that's the extent of this bit?
	Yeah, your Colbert joke would have been better.
	I'm just piling bat on top.
	Yeah, I think it's time to actually play to play it.
	That clip sucked!
	Alright, good.
	We're back on track.
	Don't do it that often because it's actually bad form.
	I know it's bad form, but I'm just trying to get inside.
	I would say about once every few months, yeah, it's reasonable.
	I have this little bit of updates on somebody like that stupid congressman, the Republican guy who beat the crap out of the reporter.
	Yeah.
	Got him down and punched him out.
	Yeah.
	Body slammed, body slammed, body slammed.
	There was witnesses on Fox that came on who were there, and they said, yes, he did body some, got on top of him and started punching him in the face.
	That's when he broke his glasses.
	We have that, remember?
	We had a clip from the Fox people.
	Yeah, but here's the follow-up.
	This is Congressman Gets' misdemeanor.
	Listen to this.
	Newly elected Congressman Greg Gianforte will plead guilty to assaulting a reporter.
	A Montana prosecutor says that the Republican will make the plea deal Monday to a misdemeanor charge.
	Gianforte allegedly knocked down a reporter for the Guardian newspaper the day before last month's special election.
	Misdemeanor?
	This isn't battery.
	I have no idea what constitutes a misdemeanor.
	Well, that misdemeanor means they dropped it down to some, you know, it's just minor.
	It's like getting a parking ticket.
	In other words, it's bullcrap.
	Yeah, bullcrap.
	Huh.
	I think you should, yeah, I think it's bullcrap.
	Let me just check that out.
	But, you know, local, what am I going to say?
	I find it annoying.
	Let me just see.
	I got another off-the-wall clip.
	Oh, I was going to say misdemeanor.
	Minor wrongdoing.
	A non-indictable offense.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	So...
	He's beating the crap out of some guy.
	He's a psycho.
	But it didn't happen that way, then.
	I was prepared to believe that he did that.
	That's what the Fox reporter said, and they wouldn't be lying.
	It sounds to me like he got the guy down, threw him to the ground, and started punching him.
	If he did that, that's not a misdemeanor.
	What is it?
	It's a felony.
	It's a hobby.
	It's a hobby.
	With that guy, it's a hobby.
	Gotta see his wife.
	I got some more crazy if you want to do that, but it sounded like you were ramping up for something.
	I've got another one here.
	This one here I want to do, the Gitmo lawsuit in Poland.
	All right.
	Next, the story about an inmate incarcerated in America's infamous Guantanamo Bay military prison.
	His lawyers are suing the creators of the CIA's torture program over all this as part of an inquiry into U.S.-led torture in Poland.
	It's a complicated story.
	The lawsuit was announced by human rights group Reprieve on Wednesday.
	It seeks to gain information from two military psychologists about the torture of Abu Zebeder, a so-called CIA black site in Poland, is where it's alleged to have happened, and the Polish government's complicity in those activities.
	He was initially detained in Pakistan in 2002 on suspicion of being an al-Qaeda operative and then sent to Poland.
	Since then, he's been held at several other sites and has never been charged.
	He's been at Guantanamo now for the past 11 years.
	Damn.
	Here's the thing.
	Poland has cooperated with the CIA. Poland was mentioned by George Bush as being one of the few countries that helped us in Iraq.
	Poland, Poland, Poland.
	Why does the government of the United States not allow Polish citizens, unlike all the rest of Europe, to come into the United States without a visa?
	Well, as you know, this has been one of my main points.
	This was a campaign promise that the president made.
	I think he even said within two weeks of becoming president, because they're not in the visa waiver program.
	And we've discussed this at great length.
	We thought maybe it had something to do with Polanski.
	There's a number of different reasons why perhaps the wrong Jews.
	I mean, there's all this crazy stuff.
	But I personally feel that we look really shitty towards Poland.
	The president promised.
	He said, I will get you on the visa waiver program.
	To my knowledge, that hasn't happened.
	And I don't understand.
	What does Poland do?
	We got our gear in there.
	Everybody in Poland thinks it's the Israeli lobbyists.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	They got the wrong Jews in Poland?
	Or the Jews were...
	What is the...
	A couple of Polish, yay, we're getting rid of the Jews, I guess.
	They said that in 1940.
	And as the Nazis took over.
	This is not well documented.
	This is nonsense.
	This is ridiculous.
	And it's an embarrassment.
	Give Poland, get them in the visa waiver program.
	Yeah, I really don't understand that.
	They also, they cracked the code before the Enigma machine.
	Yes, there's the other thing.
	Yeah, not that we shouldn't be thankful for that.
	Maybe the Jews should be thankful for that, just saying.
	Well, there's a lot of stuff from...
	Anyway, I just found this clip when I heard it.
	I hear you.
	There's a lot of stuff that happened years ago that we still feel repercussions today.
	It's been kind of a theme.
	40 years ago is when...
	This is still referenced today.
	And 40 years ago sounds like a long time, but it was a short letter published on January 10, 1980 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
	That is often referred to in medical literature.
	And it's titled Addiction, Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics by Dr.
	Herschel Jick.
	Yes.
	That's a good one.
	And this has not been...
	No one has disputed this or done anything about it since.
	He wrote...
	A 1980 letter was cited...
	It's been cited over 600 times.
	It's called allied prescribers is the main term here.
	But the medical profession, apparently, I'm just learning this, continuously refers back to this research, study, etc., which I think we probably still thought cigarettes were okay in 1980.
	And this is leading to, or it has led to, just this incredible epidemic that we have.
	And I got a note from one of our listeners, Average Random Joe.
	He says, listen to last Thursday's show where you were discussing drug addiction.
	Just had another human resource, and my wife had a C-section.
	My wife had several vaginal births before this, but this was our first C-section.
	The nurses started asking my wife every time they saw her if she needed the opioid that was prescribed to her.
	My wife started freaking out thinking that maybe something must be coming, like some kind of late pain or something wearing off and the pain setting in.
	She asked her OB when he came by if she should use the opioid and asked why the nurses kept pushing the drugs.
	He is actually part of a group that goes to D.C. to talk about drug use.
	He points out that in the early 2000s, there was a federal law that created the fifth vital, pain.
	I didn't know this.
	If the hospital doesn't manage your pain well enough, they can have their federal funding restricted.
	So they're incentivized to drug you up.
	And he points out that opioid addiction blew up shortly after this happened, and this doctor goes to Congress to testify it.
	How about that?
	Well, that's interesting.
	It's the same thing happened, you know, Jessie got a bunch of opioids pushed on her when she had the baby adorable.
	What kind?
	Anything good?
	Did she say so?
	I can't remember.
	It was a good one.
	I can't remember the exact one, but I said, don't take it.
	I told her, don't take it.
	Whatever you do, don't take it.
	Those things are worth a lot of money on the street.
	Do not take them.
	Give me that baggie!
	Did she?
	It's like, no, she didn't.
	I don't know if she's selling them on the street or not.
	We all know the answer to that.
	The question is if she took them or not.
	This is like the wine deal.
	I got wines in my cellar that I can't afford to drink.
	Right.
	You can't take that opioid stuff.
	But on the street, this is not worth very much.
	This is contradictory.
	It's all cheap, at least the fake stuff.
	No, no, this is the real deal.
	This is not the fake stuff.
	Well, on the drug tip, and I'm very worried about this, uh, The Justice Department really is ratcheting up their idea of cannabis enforcement.
	Yeah, this is, to me, is the real flaw with Jeff Sessions, who seems like a...
	And Trump!
	What are you talking about?
	And Trump, both of them, yeah.
	Screw this.
	This is really pissing me off.
	They're completely out of touch with reality.
	Luckily, I think the kids, if you look at, especially...
	Eric.
	Yeah, Eric.
	Hey, daddy-o!
	There are a couple of...
	I mean, these guys aren't smoking dope.
	I don't know who is.
	Yeah.
	And probably Kimberly, I'm guessing.
	Party girl.
	No, Tiffany.
	Or Tiffany, what am I thinking?
	Kimberly, Tiffany, geez.
	But Trump himself doesn't seem to have a clue, and he doesn't even drink anything.
	But he should know better.
	I, you know...
	If that continues, that is going to be a real tipping point, just to use an M5M term.
	I mean, Scott Adams, who's a notorious weed smoker, he's like, if they start to go after marijuana, he says, I will turn around and be so anti-Trump it'll happen.
	And I believe it, and I would be very anti-Trump for that very reason.
	That specific reason.
	Well, here's the thing.
	Somebody bitched and moaned at me in some email about this.
	And they had some complaint about it.
	I said, what people need to do, if you're a Republican or a Democrat, either one, and you want the trend to continue, which is the legalization, because it was stupid in the first place to make it illegal, is throw the Tenth Amendment at them.
	Where's the great Republican, Sessions in particular?
	He's like a real classic Republican.
	Where's the 10th Amendment?
	The 10th Amendment doesn't allow that law to exist.
	If it goes to the Supreme Court, it should get thrown out.
	This is a state's rights issue.
	If you want to make marijuana illegal, you have to do it the way you did alcohol.
	When they made that illegal, they had to pass a constitutional amendment.
	Where's the constitutional amendment that makes pot illegal?
	So why are they doing this?
	I'm trying to understand.
	It makes no sense to me.
	I think it's either the religious right, who are, oh, you know, you shouldn't do anything, you shouldn't take any intoxicant, or the argument you hear all the time, which, oh, there's already enough intoxicants out there, you don't need another one, and all the rest of it.
	But again, I'm going to say it again.
	if you're a Republican and you're a constitutionalist and you really need, you think all this is so important, then why aren't you obeying the 10th amendment?
	Why are you pushing this federal law down the throats of states that are passing these legalization acts?
	This is nonsense.
	This is crazy.
	That's what you go after them for.
	That's what you talked about sessions.
	I thought you were a Republican.
	You don't believe in the 10th amendment.
	It's actually in the constitution that, The Tenth Amendment.
	This is the thing I heard from the guy who wrote the book on the Tenth Amendment.
	He says the Constitution makes it very clear that states have these rights to make these laws like that.
	The Tenth Amendment came up.
	They put the Tenth Amendment in just to double down on the exact same thing here.
	Here we go.
	You don't believe it?
	Here it is again.
	It's very important, the 10th Amendment.
	Dateline, December 8th, 2016.
	President-elect Donald Trump's daughter, Tiffany Trump, 23, was found in a sticky situation when she was caught in a nightclub smoking marijuana with her friends.
	Hashtag twisted tiff.
	Twisted tiff.
	Outstanding.
	And when you use hashtag, it's another meaning.
	But you know, if we could just get everybody who's on opioids onto weed...
	That's a reverse gateway drug or gateway to sanity.
	And some of this weed today, you know, it's good.
	It's a little too good.
	I wouldn't even smoke it if I had to.
	I'll take an edible.
	An edible?
	Yeah.
	The edibles are fine.
	You know, the edibles are, they can be pretty heavy.
	You don't?
	Yeah, anything can be pretty heavy.
	You use too much.
	But can you just take an edible once before the show?
	That would be kind of cool.
	Just once.
	I think I could bluff my way through.
	Yeah, well.
	I'll do it.
	I'll do it one of these days.
	I'll take an edible before the show, and then after, of course, then every show from now on, you're just stoned.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Let's just do an experiment.
	You take the edible.
	I'll smoke my edible.
	What was your last edible experience?
	Did you eat a brownie before a football game or something?
	No, and I've had edibles since then, because in Washington State, they're legal.
	But the worst experience, it wasn't a bad experience, but I was at the Super Bowl some years ago, and my brother-in-law had brought brownies, and he had tickets too.
	And I just thought they were brownies.
	And you thought it was normal people, someone brought brownies to the game, John, really?
	Yeah.
	I don't know what I was thinking.
	Hey, cool!
	Brownies!
	So, oh, brownies.
	Oh, that's nice.
	And I ate one.
	And then I ate, instead of just eating one, I ate like five.
	And so in the second half, when this thing finally takes hold, it takes about an hour and a half, I guess.
	Yeah.
	I knew immediately what was going on.
	Oh, shit.
	What's in those brownies?
	And everyone, everybody looks at me like, what do you think is in him, you idiot?
	Oh, man.
	So to this day, so to this day there was, I forgot the running back at the time.
	I was watching intently.
	And the running back was coming down.
	They had this really outstanding two-way running back.
	He was a good receiver and he was a good running back.
	He's coming down.
	And these are end zone seats, obviously.
	And so you can get a good view.
	It's a good stadium to watch this.
	And he did a little thing, a little bitty move, very subtle to get the...
	Cornerback or safety to just step in one direction.
	And just enough for the guy to go around him.
	So I said, wow, that was outrageous.
	I went back to watch the thing on television later, which I'd recorded it.
	It wasn't there.
	I would love to get high with you.
	That's one thing we've never done.
	Yeah, probably never will.
	Wow, I am really high.
	Yeah.
	Another newsflash.
	We've been tracking this.
	We've been tracking the broadcast industry.
	We've been tracking broadcast, radio, cable.
	Just watching the slow demise of the M5M. And we already know that iHeart is in deep, deep trouble.
	Now, Cumulus Media, which used to be a fantastic company.
	Cumulus Media was...
	I mean, that was a great radio company.
	And I think they...
	Did they merge with Westwood One?
	It was a big bonanza.
	Everyone's getting rich.
	Everyone's getting out and left the radio with what you hear today.
	You get rich, you get out, and you let the thing languish.
	So here...
	Go long, suckers!
	Just to give you an idea of how they're doing, in 2015, September, the stock price...
	Well, let's go back to 2014.
	2014, Cumulus stock was trading at $64.04.
	In 2015, it was $5.45.
	And close of market yesterday, a whopping $0.52.
	What a short!
	Exactly!
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank and whether they short the market or not is beyond.
	Our control.
	Yes.
	Ignacio Salome came in with $100, but he's one of our regulars, and I want to read a note from him, because he just finished a book that he self-published.
	I got it right here.
	Hold on.
	Ah, okay.
	Now he publishes on Amazon?
	Yeah, he's an Amazon guy.
	You can find it on Amazon.
	The book is called, and he needs reviews, so people go look at the book and help him.
	Okay.
	What's it called?
	Gestalt Prime.
	Okay.
	And I'm looking at this thing, and it's like, let's see.
	It's well-typed set.
	This is done through CreateSpace or some mechanism?
	Yeah, I think so.
	349-page novel.
	Well-written.
	He has...
	It's got a beautiful cover.
	Because I talked to him on the phone about this because he wanted to do this and that.
	And I said, well, here's the way you self-publish.
	You go to CreateSpace.
	There's all kinds of mechanisms out there.
	And he's discovered.
	He's taken it to the next level.
	And it makes me want to read this note.
	But at first, I'll say it's been since his last donations, outstanding quality last few episodes.
	He couldn't help but send us some money.
	He wants some screaming women at the end of the show.
	Hope you enjoy this paperback copy of my novel, Gestalt Prime.
	Isn't it great?
	The quality of the publishing job by Amazon?
	Since that phone call we had, I discovered the entire industry built around self-publishing.
	I used this company called Demanza for the amazing cover design, and I have to say...
	Top-notch professional looking cover.
	Which is a real problem with a lot of self-published books.
	Yeah, that's really what falls apart.
	I'm one of them, by the way.
	You know, I know how to use Photoshop.
	Kind of ends there.
	And I do.
	I know how to use Photoshop.
	He says, amazing cover design and e-book formatting.
	They did the e-book format.
	I didn't know He says, unfortunately, since it's so easy to self-publish with these platforms, it just means the market is saturated with books.
	With crap.
	Yes.
	I have spent the last few weeks researching marketing and other strategies to get it out there while I work on the follow-up book.
	He says you don't have to mention the book on the show.
	Yeah, we do.
	And he says he wants to send you a copy, but he hasn't got any addresses.
	I don't have an existing address.
	My address is not real.
	Actually, what his actual words were, I would like to send Adam a copy, but I couldn't find his mailing address.
	Plus, who knows if he'd receive it, given the headaches he's having with the address of his new place.
	Which is right.
	Anyway, he also contributed to Indiegogo.
	Oh, thank you.
	If you could play a couple of sound effects, he'd like the pew-pew sound.
	It cracks him up, plus some writing karma, if there's some of it for the end of the show.
	I thought he wanted screams.
	Didn't he want screams?
	He wants a crazy feminist screaming woman and those other screaming clips and the threat map pew pew with the karma.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	I forget how funny that woman is.
	Which one?
	Well, you've got a lot of them, but there's a couple in there that are just gems in terms of screaming.
	Well, my favorite is not a woman.
	Ah!
	That's the goat.
	Yes, the goat.
	And by the way, every time I hear that...
	No, wait.
	Is this the goat?
	No, that's pew pew.
	Yeah, that was the goat.
	Every time you hear it?
	Every time I hear it, I don't think...
	I don't remember it's the goat.
	It's your slot.
	Sir, it's an amazing sound from a goat.
	Sir Slotkar in Loomis, California, 99-99-99.
	He says, John's New Age analysis was terrific.
	Yes, your newsletter included an essay.
	Now, this is an essay.
	You could have easily sent this to any publication.
	Well, no, that's not true.
	A lot wouldn't take it.
	But...
	It was really good.
	I mean, people were posting about this, and they're like, it's so good, they didn't even want to post the whole thing, doing little excerpts from your...
	I mean, that was a very valuable newsletter, and I appreciate it.
	I don't know if you want to give a synopsis for people who don't subscribe, and we always have it on the homepage of the show notes.
	Well, I'm going to get that.
	I'm going to put the newsletter out there and some other mechanism.
	But I do want to mention, somebody went on, and I like long-form news, because I've done essays before.
	I do them about once every few months.
	And I said to the guy who sent the complimentary note, and I said, well, the great thing about the essays is they're very interesting, but they always send the donations off a cliff.
	We never get good donations when I do those essays, ever.
	It truly is remarkable that if you just say, hey, we need money.
	And that would just be the subject line.
	It works better than giving real value often.
	I'm not quite sure why that is.
	I've always wondered, but I do have the, you know, this essay was in, I was thinking about it, And I realized, because I made a kind of a premature version of it in Twitter, I said something about this new age thing.
	I said, I better write this up, because, you know, somebody's going to, it's going to dawn on somebody else, too.
	And what it really amounts to is that Trump is a, somebody came back and said, which is not in the essay, what I claim in the essay is that Donald Trump is a kind of a, Poster child for the New Age movement, because he's a positive thinker.
	He's like, you know, I'm okay, you're okay.
	Was it also What Color Is Your Parachute?
	Was that another one?
	That was mostly about getting work.
	That was a little different.
	But I think it might be, you know, it was in the same vein of these cornball books that came out during the 60s and 70s, and it led to the self-esteem movement.
	And if anybody likes to self-esteem, you got Donald Trump, who's got so much self-esteem, it's ludicrous.
	So much self-esteem.
	We're tired of self-esteem.
	And so the essay discusses how Trump got this way.
	And somebody's pointed out, it's not in the essay, but somebody pointed out, did you also know, which just adds to my theory, that he was a huge maven and his minister was Norman Vincent Peale.
	And Norman Vincent Peale was the Think Positive guy who wrote lots of material.
	And he was the real up-tempo, you're okay, I'm okay, we're all great.
	And he was an influence on Trump too.
	So I'm concluded at the end of this essay, I conclude that when people get all bent out of shape and hate Trump so much, they're actually hating themselves.
	Ooh, yes.
	Hating themselves for being who they have become.
	Onward with the donations.
	And thanks for the compliment, Sir Slotcar, $99.99.
	Mark Hudson in Otley, West Yorkshire, Great Britain, $808.
	Boob.
	And we need to get some health karma for his dad at the end of this list.
	Yes.
	The list is short, believe me.
	Sir Hank, because of the essay.
	Sir Hank Scorpio in Gatineau.
	Thanks, bro.
	Thanks for your essay.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Broseph.
	Sir Hank Scorpio in Gatineau, North Carolina, 7770.
	April Bierig in Amboy, Minnesota.
	Nuts.
	6222.
	She sends a card.
	She says, thanks for the show.
	She's the one.
	I always try to remember her.
	Her The check has a lot of little hearts on it, but she has a...
	You know, when you get your checks made, you can get different little icons and stuff put on the check.
	Yes.
	She's a Tweety bird.
	You know, this is something that is not well known outside of America, is the concept of checks.
	You don't have this in Europe.
	You don't give someone a check.
	What is that?
	Yeah.
	There is no instrument, really.
	Well, they do, yeah.
	But, yeah.
	There's a mechanism, but it's not...
	It's not like it is here.
	Sir Herb Lamb, 6006.
	It's flipped hacks or poop.
	Yeah, he says it's poop.
	Flipped hacks or poop.
	He says, thank God I don't live in San Francisco.
	No need to consult a map.
	Tim Heasel.
	You gotta move out of there, man.
	You gotta move out.
	I have to be in the milieu.
	Tim Heasel in Hanford, California, 5510.
	That's his quarterly donation.
	Thank you very much.
	Chris Kincaid, 5510.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but he says keep captioning the picture of those two guys in the newsletter.
	I don't know if people notice this in the newsletter, but you keep captioning Neil deGrasse Tyson doing something to Bill Nye.
	Yeah, I've actually removed that picture and I've substituted it with a picture of a Theresa May walking down the street making this weirdest face, and I think I can get a bunch of captions out of that.
	It's a great product, this newsletter.
	I enjoy it.
	A lot of people help you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Chris Kincaid, 5510, in the morning, Happy Father's Day.
	Father's Day is to his dad, who is Happy Father's Day to my dad.
	And all the NA fathers out there in the Gitmo Nation Collective.
	John Davis in Brentwood, 55.
	Brent Dombrowski, 5292.
	This came through pop money.
	What is the reason for this amount?
	I don't know.
	He doesn't say...
	Hey, you know what I'm missing?
	I'm missing the Scandinavian dollaretts.
	You're still thinking about it.
	Following donations are $50.
	Name and location.
	Mark Little in La Jolla, California.
	Brendan Savoy.
	Patricia Worthington.
	Dame Patricia in Miami, Florida.
	Thank you.
	Sir Mike Westerfield.
	Parts Unknown.
	Edgar Almaguer in Wachahachie, Texas.
	John Holler in Missoula, Montana.
	Chris Lewinsky.
	Sir Chris in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Sheila Damodorin.
	Damodorin.
	Damodorin, I think.
	That'd be kind of an Armenian pronunciation.
	Sheila.
	Damodorin.
	We've gone through this before.
	Thomas Wilkinson in Ottawa, Ontario.
	And last but not least, Kirsten Gleb.
	Who comes in once a month on Pop Money.
	And let's go down the list if there's any dads listed.
	Yes, here's one.
	Andrea Otto says, Happy Father's Day to Andy Otto.
	And the rest of the Father's Day, one more maybe?
	No?
	No.
	There's nothing.
	Nope.
	That's it.
	We got two.
	But Father's Day.
	You hate your fathers.
	Yes, you do.
	The Father's Day, is that truly a Hallmark card moment?
	Because Mother's Day is real.
	Well, Mother's Day, I think, triggered, I think it was, I have to look it up.
	We shouldn't have a special day for women anymore.
	Come on, this is crazy.
	I'll put in the newsletter, I believe that Father's Day was a, I'll find out who created it, but I think it was a reaction to Mother's Day.
	No kidding.
	Came after Mother's Day.
	Right, because we wanted presents.
	We wanted socks.
	Yeah, we don't get anything.
	We wanted socks.
	Socks is what we wanted.
	We need more socks and ties.
	Well, I do want to thank everyone who contributed to today's program, also those who came in under $50.
	That is typically for reasons of anonymity, so we do not mention that.
	But thank you.
	It's a value-for-value model.
	No one can go and talk to our advertisers and make them go away.
	None of that.
	The only people who can make us go away is you.
	Yes, by reading another essay and never donating.
	That could be me.
	It's my fault.
	Please remember us for Sunday's show.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Karma where needed.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And we have a very peculiar situation.
	We have zero birthdays.
	I don't think that's happened in a long time.
	And I was looking through here.
	You know, I find it hard to believe.
	Can I do one little check?
	Yeah.
	On the emails?
	And maybe somebody sent me an email.
	Why don't you look on the emails?
	We do have one nighting.
	I just need you to help me with that.
	I know exactly how to do this.
	You type in the word birthday into the search engine and search the subject line.
	Get your blade while you're at it.
	I can't do two things at once.
	Just hang on a second.
	I got mine.
	I'm ready.
	I'm ready.
	Let's hit the button here, and then we'll see what happens.
	The button.
	Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
	It is the illustrious.
	I have a button to hit.
	Well, somebody wants to send my...
	Oh, Democrats.org.
	Happy 16th to stand with us.
	The last one, no.
	I got a birthday wish for May 12th from Laura Wilson, which I don't know if we ever...
	Yeah, we did.
	We pushed that through.
	Yeah, we did.
	So, no.
	Nothing.
	Well, there you go.
	Now, could I please have your blade?
	Yeah, here.
	Let me get it.
	Finally.
	Finally.
	All right, Ryan Clare, you've done it!
	You are the sole recipient of a knighthood today, and the only person in the entire segment, which usually also contains birthdays and anniversaries.
	And if you'd step up here, sir, kneel down.
	I'm very proud to pronunciate the Sir Ryan Knight of the Gettys' Rebel Faction for you, of course.
	We've got plenty of hookers and blow.
	rent boys and chardonnay, aero gay and ambient.
	We got lead slingers, whiskey and gunpowder.
	We got white widow and brownies, the special kind, sake and skanks, mangoes and filet mignon, cookies and vodka, kilts and kilter lifter ale.
	We got drams and DMT.
	We got root beer and Legos.
	We got fresh milk and pavlum, vodka, vanilla, ginger ale and gerbils, rubin as woman and rosé, and always mutton and mead.
	Congratulations, Ryan.
	Head on over to noagenternation.com slash rings and Eric the Show will help you out with your ring.
	That's very odd.
	We don't think that's ever happened.
	We didn't have a birthday segment at all.
	It's happened.
	Hey, should we take a little trip?
	Where do you want to go?
	The alternate universe.
	Okay.
	Are you sitting down?
	You didn't have any edibles today, did you?
	No, no.
	I very rarely partake in anything.
	It could make you pretty nauseous.
	Cognac.
	But I don't do cognac for the show, so I'm good to go.
	Just water.
	Yeah, dimensional travel can be kind of complicated.
	If everyone's ready, let's do it.
	Let's go.
	Are you ready?
	We're ready.
	Let's go.
	It's going to be only America first.
	America first.
	We are going into the nation's hands.
	We choose love.
	Fuck you!
	Yeah!
	Woo!
	Sparky got you.
	Well, Sparky's always there.
	He just sees us flicker, and he's like, what's going on?
	Because we're in the same spot, it's just a different universe.
	All right, back to the view.
	They should do a version of Romeo and Juliet with Trump and Putin.
	I would like that.
	But they do contextualize.
	Now, that I would go to say.
	I'd like to know how much, first of all, Rens Priebus.
	Rens Priebus, it says it's a blessing.
	It's a blessing.
	How much self-tanner does he have on his lips?
	But I mean, to say it's a blessing and to kiss his butt like that, it's nauseating!
	I don't know, man.
	That kind of humor in Dimension A is a little...
	It's Dimension B. B is what I meant.
	See, I'm confused.
	You always get these confused.
	It's very interesting to me you do that consistently.
	Did you just call me stupid?
	Oh, I did.
	Okay.
	Senator Gillibrand was speaking at a forum at New York University.
	She's the worst.
	Yes, she is.
	She's one of the women in Congress who made the claim that one in five females in all the colleges are rape victims.
	Ah, well this is, yeah.
	She made that claim?
	She's one of them.
	Well, she has sex on the mind.
	Has he kept any of these promises?
	No.
	Fuck no.
	Instead...
	She said...
	That's what she said?
	Oh yeah, but it gets better.
	She said, fuck no.
	She's a congressperson.
	She's a senator.
	She's a senator.
	She's a senator or congressperson?
	Senator.
	I'm pretty sure she's a senator.
	Fuck no.
	Instead...
	Didn't somebody else bring this up that they can't do anything but be profane?
	Yes.
	That was Newt Gingrich.
	Newt Gingrich nailed it.
	And he's referring to this.
	And she does another one.
	Instead...
	Sorry.
	By the way, why does that get a round of applause?
	Thank you.
	This is Dimension B. Where you can just go on stage with...
	This was not like millennials, young people.
	This was kind of a classy forum.
	There was a sit-down interview, which you'll have.
	I think there's a little piece of this in the clip.
	And I think she even explained, well, this is the young, hip thing.
	Everyone says, fuck now.
	Madonna says it.
	Didn't you hear when we moved into the dimension?
	We choose love.
	Fuck you.
	That's exactly what this is.
	If anyone is off the rails, it's these people.
	I mean, it is also, it is weak.
	You and I talk about this all the time outside of the show.
	My cursing, which of course a lot of it comes because of my Tourette's.
	I should have a handicap parking pass, really.
	But it's not okay.
	You can use these words, if you're in that kind of setting, you can use them for great effect sometimes.
	But this I don't think was a good one, and she doubled down on it.
	No.
	Fuck no.
	Instead...
	Why are they applauding?
	Oh!
	She said the F word!
	Woo!
	That's insane.
	Sorry.
	I understand this is a younger audience.
	It's okay.
	And even though we as Democrats are on the right side of almost all issues, many hardworking families just haven't felt that we've been fighting for them.
	Fundamentally, if we are not helping people we should go the fuck home.
	We should go the fuck home.
	Fuck this.
	Fuck that.
	And here's this guy, the moderator, asking her about it.
	Did he tell you that's how it's pronounced?
	I think it was coverage.
	And he just mistyped it.
	And he was bitching about the media and he just forgot to finish.
	You know, I wish I could bleep some words too, but my 90-year-old mom is sitting in the front row here.
	Oh, God bless you.
	I'm sorry.
	I asked, anyway.
	What is that about?
	That is the only correct question.
	What are they thinking?
	And why is the audience clapping for it?
	This dimension B is odd, man.
	Crazy stuff.
	You know what really would have gotten a huge rise out of the audience?
	It's his 90-year-old grandmother standing up and yelling some expletive.
	Yeah.
	It would have brought the house down.
	It's the old Betty White moment.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Hey, Trump can blow me!
	That would have been fantastic.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's a lot of hate out there in Dimension B. Here's Mika B., you know, the daughter of the elitist Brzezinski.
	Well, and if the president seems delusional about his accomplishments, you can point to no further than that room that is helping confirm this sort of The sense of totally exaggerated self that he has.
	Which is exactly to your point, John, about his upbringing, about being a child of the I'm okay, you're okay era.
	She's nailing it, but she's going to go off the rails.
	Totally exaggerated self that he has.
	And Mika, I think it's very telling, the first week we went in there, we went in nine, ten days into it, and it was very obvious when he asked how I thought the first week went, and I said, not well.
	And he was stunned.
	And he kept repeating that for an hour and a half to anybody who would listen, how shocked he was.
	It was very obvious at that time, we've said it on the air, that nobody in the White House had told him that the first executive order had been a calamity.
	That no one had told him about the missteps about crowd size, that nobody had told him, that lying about 3 million votes.
	What did he, did he lie about 3 million votes?
	What was the lie?
	I must have missed that one.
	There was no lie about 3 million votes.
	I don't think there was any lie either.
	I know what it was, I know what it was.
	That's when he said he believed that 3 million people voted illegally.
	Oh, okay.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, I do.
	I remember.
	There's no way of documenting that.
	In fact, it probably was high.
	But then again, you never know.
	I mean, it's possible, especially in California, where it's There's got to be some explanation for the fact that everyone in California, 85% of everybody votes Democrat.
	But I believe the Morning Joe's is confusing that statement with the 3 million votes in the general, the surplus to Hillary Clinton in the general election.
	It's just weird.
	Nobody inside that White House tells him the truth.
	Therein lies the biggest problem.
	In the White House, let me just say, there are no real men in the inner circle of the White House.
	None at all.
	No real men.
	What does that mean?
	What is a real man, according to her?
	Isn't a real man these days a guy who wears a pink hat?
	What is a real man?
	Does she want real men?
	I thought that real men was passe.
	You have to be a renaissance man.
	Alright.
	I don't know how you can manage to watch this stuff without just pulling your hair out.
	Oh, well, here it comes.
	The heads will explode on this one.
	What we do specifically is we track media.
	We track it for a whole bunch of reasons.
	We deconstruct it.
	I'm pretty sure that the coverage that candidate Trump got during this election cycle was pretty much negative.
	And we've heard this meme in Dimension B about it being overwhelmingly positive.
	And this confuses me.
	I... Maybe we weren't straddling properly, but to me, there was a lot of coverage, but it was all...
	There's no objective person in the world that thought the media was all in for Trump.
	Oh, well, okay.
	Well, that's too bad, because there's a whole show of them.
	I think it's amazing that if you look...
	This is Newt Gingrich.
	On the view, no less.
	On the view.
	I think it's amazing that if you look at the, for example, CNN's 93% negative coverage, according to Harvard, 93% negative, I think it's a miracle that Trump has any approval.
	Oh, my God.
	You have this constant unending barrage.
	Whoopi is now waving her hands.
	She's waving them.
	I can hear her go...
	93% negative coverage according to Harvard.
	93% negative.
	I think it's a miracle that Trump has any approval.
	You have this constant unending barrage.
	So do you mean, because I recall, and maybe I'm crazy, but I recall from the time the gentleman came down the escalator until the time he won, he was 24-7 on every television, on every network, forcing...
	Making one of the head of the network saying, yeah, it wasn't good for America, but it was great for us.
	I like that.
	Making one of the heads of the network say, wasn't great for America, but it was great for us.
	That was a shareholder meeting that was recorded where, what's the douchebag's name?
	CBS douchebag?
	Moonves.
	Moonves.
	Said, this is great!
	He's actually one of yours, Whoopi.
	Making one of the head of the network saying, yeah, it wasn't good for America, but it was great for us.
	It was all positive until people started asking questions.
	Now, it wasn't all positive.
	I'm sorry.
	It was all noisy, but it wasn't all positive.
	98% of it was positive.
	98% positive.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	Talk about deluded.
	Now, we witnessed the whole thing, of course, and what I think they're annoyed by, and the media really is partly responsible for the rise of Trump, Because they used him as a foil for their entertainment purposes by ridiculing him and having him on all the time.
	By reporting on him in the Huffington Post under the entertainment section.
	Remember that?
	Yes, the Huffington Post moved into the entertainment section.
	And we saw that there's a clip we play every once in a while where Ann Coulter's on the GMA show with Stephanopoulos.
	And she says, oh yeah, Trump's going to be the nominee.
	And they all laughed at her.
	Absolutely, yep.
	Oh, you're nuts.
	And they kept putting him on the air.
	So it really was negative coverage because it was done as, look at this clown.
	And look at the New York Daily News.
	In fact, they did a newsletter, I think, with about 40 of their, well, not that many, maybe 20 of their cover pages.
	It's all with him dressed in a clown outfit with a big red nose.
	How is that positive coverage?
	They're starting to equate coverage with positive coverage.
	Wow.
	So they're diluted.
	Yes, they're diluted.
	98% was positive.
	Really?
	Let's get out of here, John.
	I can't handle it anymore.
	Are you ready?
	From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.
	America first.
	America's first, America's first We choose God Fuck you!
	Sparky!
	Newsflash just came in.
	President Vladimir Putin, according to Russia Today, says Russia is ready to grant James Comey asylum.
	And that the former FBI director, quote, should be aware of that.
	Oh, and then he went on to say, to question the difference between Comey and Edward Snowden.
	Ah, that's great.
	During his annual Q&A, which I guess just aired...
	Is this Putin?
	Putin said, Comey suddenly said he recorded a conversation with Trump and then he handed the tape over to the media, which is strange.
	I don't know what Putin's smoking.
	Lay off the edibles, Vladimir.
	What's the difference between him and Mr.
	Snowden?
	He's a human rights activist, not an intelligence chief.
	Man, we used to be the funny people on the world stage.
	We used to make the jokes.
	Our comics are so bent out of shape about Hillary not winning that they're not funny.
	I mean, I follow a bunch of them on Twitter, and it's just like they're just...
	And then, like, Joss Whedon, the guy who just...
	Oh, who used to listen to the show?
	I'm sure it doesn't listen anymore.
	Oh, no.
	We lost a lot of listeners when we started deconstructing kind of the media bias.
	And a lot of people accused me, oh, you guys are just Trump?
	No, we're not.
	We deconstruct media bias, and it happens to be right now very biased against Trump.
	Mm-hmm.
	And all we're doing is pointing out the bias.
	We're not...
	Stop defending yourself.
	It doesn't make any difference.
	The guys on Reddit won't care.
	They're not listening anyway.
	They're already left.
	They left the building.
	So did you get the...
	Somebody sent a snarky note on Twitter saying...
	And they sent me the photocopies of this talking points on the Washington Post story.
	Yeah.
	And...
	The guy's snarky thing was, here's the talking points that were going around.
	I guess I don't know where he got them from, but they look like the real deal.
	Unfortunately, there's so many of them.
	And it's all the talking points that you'd use if you were a Republican.
	And the guy says, let's count how many Adam uses.
	Which is, again, in that same vein, you know, somehow.
	But...
	There's these talking points.
	I don't want to read through them because there's like too many of them.
	It's two full pages.
	But I do want to put them in the next newsletter.
	These actual talking points.
	And did I repeat them properly?
	Do I deserve a check or what's going on?
	You didn't.
	I don't see.
	Well, there's a couple of things.
	You might have said it.
	What baffles me is that somehow people think that we're getting paid.
	Is that what they're thinking?
	Or just like we're all in and we get the...
	I wish.
	What about the oil companies?
	They're the ones with the big checkbooks.
	Let's get some money out of them.
	Well, they're not so big anymore.
	Here's the conclusion of all the talking points.
	I'll just read these.
	There's only five of them, four of them.
	Conclusion.
	The illegal leaks are the only crime here.
	The investigative committees have clearly struck out on a collusion charge and are now shifting to baseless obstruction of justice charges.
	Three, there is absolutely no case for obstruction of justice.
	And four, when is this fishing expedition going to end so we can get back to the real issues that matter to Americans?
	Yeah, I don't think I said any of that.
	I don't think you said any of those.
	And I would like to put this in the next newsletter as an attachment.
	Or actually, maybe I'll just...
	They came in as JPEG images, so I'll just put them in the bottom.
	But seriously, John, I've had some personal stress recently.
	Nothing super, just stuff.
	Just stuff.
	But I'm very, very tired.
	I really am.
	I'm very tired.
	But the other night, I caught myself.
	I went on a Twitter hate rampage.
	Oh, I see.
	I always...
	Here's what I've done.
	I've taken...
	Completely taken, with rare exceptions, only if there's a funny cartoon or something, maybe I'll retweet it.
	But generally speaking, if it's a biased tweet, whether I like it or not, I will not retweet it.
	I will not get involved.
	I refuse to get involved because I look at my numbers and you can see it.
	You know, people don't like...
	Certain people, myself included, to be political on Twitter.
	Oh, but this wasn't being political.
	It's just people who are rude.
	An example.
	Oh, block.
	An example.
	Block.
	What?
	Block.
	Block.
	Yeah, yeah, but I want to give you an example.
	Okay.
	Oh, Comey, it's so boring.
	Give it up already.
	No one wants to listen to it.
	And I'm just like...
	If you have some feedback, send me an email, and we can maybe all engage.
	But why do you want to go on my Twitter feed and say, I suck at my job?
	And then when I say, hey, fuck you.
	You're so rude!
	This is not the same guy on the show!
	I say, yeah, it kind of is.
	No, but I'm telling you, I'm cracking.
	I'm cracking.
	I don't think I... Oh, I see.
	Well, you've got to find some other things to talk about besides this Idiotic politics.
	Like you said at the beginning of the show, you found two or three items.
	Nobody's even covering this other stuff.
	I'm surprised they covered that burning down building.
	And when they covered it, by the way, I think it was a piss-poor coverage from everybody.
	They had lots of nice pictures.
	If you like a burning building.
	Well, that's all we care about.
	They didn't talk about the ethnics that lived there.
	They didn't talk about anything like that.
	Nope.
	And what did someone tell me that...
	That these buildings, they are covered in poly-U3? No?
	Poly-something or other?
	For insulation, it's highly flammable.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They just want to kill these people, it seems to me.
	I mean, if we look at it from the British perspective of the upper classes, then they won't...
	But it's a societal thing that happens, and it started with the chat room, which I think we valiantly tried to elevate them to the war room to be something very specific, to be very helpful during the show.
	And I'm giving them props for that.
	And I've stopped doing that because...
	I don't know.
	It's something, just people have no awareness of anything.
	No, this is the new world we live in.
	Yeah, and because of Twitter, because everyone can post their one-line joke, which I would say, let me just use a number, 98% are just not funny.
	But it ruins everything.
	You know, you can't, it becomes unusable.
	And people come up with, well, we can have more moderators, or we can have a separate room.
	You don't understand.
	All of you do it.
	Everybody does this, I'm a comedian bit.
	And they do it, and just, you know, it's not funny.
	Most of it's not.
	Some of it's funny.
	And I appreciate that.
	That's the problem.
	What you just said is absolutely the problem.
	Some of it is funny.
	If none of it was funny, then we'd be good to go.
	The problem is some of it's funny and it gets a lot of attention, so people all want to be funny.
	This is the nature of people that are out there that, oh, that guy was funny and I can be funny too.
	I'm funny.
	I know something that's funny.
	Well, if I may say, you just said it yourself, I'm not like this at all.
	But you said, oh, I can see it in my numbers.
	You are actually concerned how many followers you have.
	Yes.
	I don't give a shit.
	I don't care one iota.
	I never have.
	I don't care about ratings.
	No, but you're not using Twitter the way I'm using it.
	How are you using it?
	How different are you using it?
	I'm using it mostly for crowdsourcing information.
	That's what it's supposed to be for.
	I'm using it for feedback.
	But what you get is comedians.
	And people are rude.
	They're just rude.
	That's why I do more blocking than you do, I'm sure.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I do a lot of blocking.
	And this is my favorite email.
	Why did you block me?
	But don't give me their Twitter handle.
	Okay, okay.
	Anyway, I'm just identifying that I'm cracking a little bit.
	And I don't know what's happening.
	I'm not hearing it.
	You get mad.
	I think you blow off steam once in a while at the chat room.
	Actually, for people out there who don't listen live, we have cut stuff out of the show.
	Yeah.
	Where Adam has exploded about something in the chat room.
	So these chat room guys, there's a couple of them.
	Now, I hate to be saying this because, oh, that's interesting.
	Maybe I can get...
	Interesting.
	It's stupid?
	It's stupid.
	This is stupid.
	But you have a guy who says...
	Every time I say interesting, I do expect to hear that.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I'm helping you.
	You are.
	And it is stupid.
	Some guy, oh, that's interesting.
	It's stupid.
	And maybe I can get him to blow up at me.
	Oh, I made my day.
	That's what he says.
	Yeah, it's true.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	I win.
	But here's the most interesting thing.
	Stupid.
	I know.
	I did it on purpose.
	It's the most stupid thing.
	The most stupid thing.
	I'm reading the chat room as we're discussing.
	Do you know what the universally, what the advice is?
	Get off the air, suckers!
	No.
	Good, man.
	I used to smoke some weed.
	Pack a bowl.
	Pack a bowl.
	I like Adam better on weed.
	See, there you go.
	Like, how am I supposed to take that comment?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	You hate me.
	Well, watch this.
	Let's see.
	Techexams.net.
	Kick tech exams.
	So you're actually going out of your way to kick somebody out of the chat room.
	Tech exams, whoever that is.
	Tech exams.
	I scrolled up.
	Do you use a little glove when you do these exams?
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	I'm going to kick him.
	Watch this.
	Boom!
	Cool.
	Do you feel better?
	No!
	No.
	I'm trying to tell you that I have psychological issues and you're just making light of it.
	I am.
	You're right.
	I'm callous.
	Nobody knows that.
	Luckily, there are people with more psychological issues than I have.
	Because then we can mock them.
	Mark Ruffalo.
	Mark Ruffalo.
	The fine Hollywood actor.
	A fine Hollywood actor.
	Potato-faced actor.
	You know, as I was recording, clipping this bit, this is the guy from Fox who always thinks he's a great joke writer.
	What's his name?
	Greg Gutfeld?
	Gutfeld?
	Whatever his name is.
	Greg Gutfeld.
	Yeah, he thinks he's a great writer.
	Yeah, he has all his notes written down on the five.
	Dude, no one's looking at you.
	We're all looking at Guilfoyle.
	We're looking at her legs.
	No, I think I'm not big on her at all.
	She's just fascinating to watch.
	She reminds me a lot of my first wife.
	Completely stuck together like Mr.
	Potato Head.
	So, I think that we're getting to a point that may be analogous to the pirate ships in the North Sea back in the 70s.
	The news organizations are now yelling at each other, but really yelling.
	And you hear this Gutfeld calling people names about their appearance.
	We may run into...
	Do you remember what happened with Radio Caroline and Radio North Sea?
	I don't remember the history.
	You were involved in that.
	Yeah, they bombed them.
	They bombed them?
	Yeah, they blew up the ship.
	I don't remember this.
	Yeah!
	Oh, my God.
	There's so many documents.
	I'll send you a link to watch some of this stuff.
	It was very funny.
	Anyway, here's Mark Ruffalo.
	Mark Ruffalo is demanding MSNBC stop hiring white people.
	He actually tweeted a petition saying, tell MSNBC, NBC News, to stop the white conservative hiring spree.
	The petition implores, quote, don't promote right-wing hate.
	How cowardly to cast divergent opinion as hateful.
	I guess they know their lefty drivel can't compete, so they smear other voices as evil to eliminate actual diversity of ideas.
	So who are these hateful people that this network is hiring?
	George Will, Nicole Wallace, Greta.
	Yeah, real outright goons.
	If only Mark had the guts to focus on the violent fascists on his side, the scum who throw urine at young women at protests, who stab police forces, who demand days to celebrate racism.
	That's your people, Marco.
	It could have easily been in the alternate universe, this clip.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I want to continue to call out racism.
	Real racism.
	Which this is.
	This is racism.
	Yeah, totally.
	And if we just accept it, if we just don't say anything about it...
	Things have been redefined by the dimension B. That's true.
	First of all, it's racist, not racist.
	And it's anything...
	What?
	You didn't vote for Hillary?
	Racist.
	If you're a black person who is a Republican...
	Racist.
	You're a racist.
	Oh, how about if you're gay?
	Oh...
	If you're a gay Republican...
	Oh, I got two gay Republicans here.
	In the House?
	In the House, everybody.
	This is about Pride Month.
	Are we in Gay Pride Month?
	I believe we are, actually.
	Yes, Gay Pride Month.
	And they are being shunned from the Pride March because they're bad gays.
	They're the wrong kind of gays.
	Oh yeah, bad gays.
	Bad gays.
	You know, if you can't include the gay Republicans, then we're going to withdraw our money from your institutions because you do not stand for inclusion.
	Brian Talbert and Derek Van Cleave say they're calling for Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PNC, among others, to withdraw their sponsorship of the Charlotte Pride Parade.
	This after they say their group representing gay Republicans for Trump was denied afloat for the August events.
	We're members of the gay community, but we have the elite gays who want to stand up and say that they speak for us all, and we're here living proof that we are part of this gay community, and we're not going anywhere.
	A Charlotte Pride spokesperson says the group's application was initially denied because of the Gays for Trump history of public comments against groups, including transgender individuals, people of color, and immigrants.
	There you go.
	Bad gays.
	I like the elite gays.
	That's kind of cool.
	That sounds like a real thing that they're talking about there.
	The elite gays.
	Well, of course, this is a publicity stunt.
	But it's accurate, I'm sure, that if you're going to be gay, you have to be a Democrat.
	You have to follow these certain rules.
	You have to have a checklist.
	It's like the conservatives are the same way years ago.
	Oh, he's not a conservative, or he's a rhino.
	They had all these things.
	You have a checklist.
	You didn't check this box and that box.
	Or you have to be totally against abortion.
	Check that box.
	Or you're no good.
	Yeah.
	You're not a good gay.
	It used to be, certainly with men, you like penis?
	Okay, you're gay.
	But now you're not a good gay.
	And then, you know, bad gay.
	I like bad gay.
	Katy Perry.
	Oh, man.
	This poor girl is lost.
	I don't know what happened to her.
	A lot of people claim she's total MKUltra and she does weird stuff at Cannes.
	We've seen weird behavior from her.
	Yes.
	And now she's very, very sorry.
	She's very sorry.
	And she did an interview with...
	This may have been a YouTube or a podcast.
	I'm not quite sure.
	She had to apologize for cultural appropriation of her hair.
	And more.
	I've made several mistakes, even in the This Is How We Do video about how I wore my hair and having a hard conversation with one of my empowered angels, Cleo, about what does it mean?
	Why can't I wear my hair that way?
	What is the history behind wearing the hair that way?
	And she told me about the power in black women's hair and how beautiful it is and the struggle.
	And I listened.
	And I heard and I didn't know.
	And I will never understand some of those things because of who I am.
	I will never understand.
	But I can educate myself and that's what I'm trying to do along the way.
	And even in my intention to appreciate Japanese culture, I did it wrong with a performance.
	I didn't know that I did it wrong until I heard people saying I did it wrong.
	And sometimes that's what it takes, is it takes someone to say, out of compassion, out of love, hey, this is where the origin is, you know, and do you understand?
	And not just like a...
	Clap back, you know?
	Because it's hard to hear those clap backs sometimes and your ego just wants to turn from them.
	And I've been so grateful to have great teachers and great friends that will really hold me accountable.
	Man, you poor girl.
	Boy, she's pathetic.
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	I love my empowered angels alerted me to this.
	I wonder what that means.
	Does she speak to angels?
	Does she have, like, my little monsters?
	I think she's referring to her.
	It's like monsters, yeah.
	My empowered angels.
	Okay.
	Man, but that's sad.
	That's sad.
	It is sad because she's under defensive about everything.
	Which is like...
	Oh, you can't do this.
	You can't say, oh, you're culture appropriate.
	But you've got to see this video.
	She has a doodle in front of her.
	It's a completely white room with a black guy who's interviewing her.
	Of course.
	And she has a doodle of the all-seeing eye that she just did in front of her.
	This girl is in trouble.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	Like the CBS eye.
	The all-seeing eye.
	I don't know if it's possible.
	It may be too late.
	It's never too late.
	For MKUltra?
	I don't think there's any way back from that.
	It's usually pretty permanent.
	Yeah, but you can get back.
	Well, there's been a few that have escaped.
	But the idea is to get her back into the program so she's doing what she's supposed to be doing.
	Yeah, which is entertaining.
	If I'm not mistaken, it's having sex with high-end politicians.
	Yeah.
	And then my final bit for today, as predicted, a federal judge in Florida ruled Tuesday that the grocery chain Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
	must make its website accessible to the blind, following an unprecedented trial over a gray area of accessibility law.
	That's right.
	The decision adds momentum to push by plaintiffs, lawyers, and disability rights groups to make all consumer websites accessible to the blind and hearing impaired.
	That should be done at the meta level with the tools.
	I don't think it's a responsibility of the individual people putting up the websites personally.
	Well, here's what I know.
	You will get sued if you have any...
	But now it's grocery stores, but I know firsthand knowledge of some nonprofits, and they have videos.
	And now they all have to do two things.
	They have to create closed captions for the videos, And they have to create words, a term for it.
	So when the video starts, you see five people sitting in the room in a circle.
	They are all talking.
	And then the dialogue.
	You have to add that in.
	Do you know what that costs?
	Do you know what the extra cost is?
	Oh, and of course, there's all kinds of consultants out there who will help you.
	Well, there's a cheap solution.
	What's that?
	Keep videos off your website.
	Well, that's what's going to happen.
	That's exactly it.
	Everyone's going to start paring it down.
	And I'm not against...
	In fact, I've been very pro-accessibility in everything I've done online.
	Our show notes are all structured data.
	They work great with screen readers.
	I do think about that.
	Yeah.
	And I think that we have a, you know, a very, you know, a great product for a group of people.
	But, you know, this is going a little, I mean, I'm on the fence about it because I understand that we do have the American with Disabilities Act, but, you know, maybe we should make it a little more clear what has to be done.
	Maybe we should rein it in a little?
	Just a little bit, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but it would dissolve one thing, man.
	And they should do it for everything, then.
	Anything that any consumer can read.
	How interesting.
	Just pointing it out.
	I lost my train of thought, thanks.
	Well, you were telling me that what they should do, because what they could do and what they might do and what might change the situation might help things, man.
	Hey, man, what it would help is it would get rid of that damn JavaScript everywhere.
	That's the problem.
	If you want something that's really bad for screen readers and for people with disabilities, it's JavaScript on webpages.
	Get it off.
	It's taken over the place.
	Get it off.
	Get it off.
	It's not going to happen, man.
	It's not going to happen.
	JavaScript has taken over the programming universe.
	In fact, all these schools and all these other things are all JavaScript.
	Wait, it's not Node?
	It's not Node, man?
	Node.
	Man.
	All right, wrap us up, bro.
	Let's see.
	I've got, you know, what I'd like to play is not on this playlist.
	It's on a playlist that I've been sending over and over and I never play it.
	All right.
	Which is the CBD clip.
	CBD. Oh, okay.
	Oh, you've sent it to me four times.
	Yes, and I never get around to playing it, so now that I didn't send it to you, boom, we can play it.
	One after another, anti-seizure medications failed.
	In 2014, doctors at NYU Langone Medical Center put Desmond on cannabidiol, or CBD, one of the compounds in the marijuana plant.
	CBD does not induce a high.
	This week's study of 120 children with a rare form of epilepsy found those who were given CBD along with their standard medications had a nearly 40% reduction in the frequency of seizures.
	We just didn't know what the placebo response was.
	Dr.
	Oren Davinsky directs the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Langone and led the trial.
	After so much time, literally 4,000 years of anecdote and belief, we now have scientific rigor.
	We have evidence.
	We've always had evidence.
	The guys in Israel have provided evidence.
	There's nothing but evidence.
	But now, suddenly, we have evidence.
	We've always had evidence.
	This is nonsense.
	I'm sick of listening to these reports and hearing people like Hillary Clinton.
	Well, we need more research.
	The research has been done on this.
	Well, you know what I'm thinking now?
	A twofer.
	So finally we have some research.
	The pharmaceutical industry can come in with their patented CBD, and we'll get rid of all the illegal stuff for you.
	My name's Jeff Sessions.
	I'll take care of that.
	Yeah, well, we'll see.
	Well...
	We'll see.
	It's not going to happen.
	I'm just saying maybe that's what they're thinking.
	The healing properties of CBD, marijuana, chews, are well proven.
	And these guys know that.
	I know they do.
	They all know it.
	Everybody knows it.
	They just want to get the illegal stuff off the street.
	I can't see it any other way.
	It's easier to grow and extract.
	I think the pharmaceutical companies know that.
	And I think everybody knows it, and that's what's going to have to happen.
	Sure, maybe you can grow it and extract it, and then...
	You know, sell it as some sort of a brand name.
	That's a possibility.
	But whatever the case is, we should stop lying about this.
	Stop saying we need more research.
	We don't need more research.
	Stop saying that it has no benefit.
	The guys are still saying it.
	These medical guys.
	There's no known benefit.
	This is nonsense.
	And it keeps going on and on and nobody ever calls these people out.
	There's plenty of known benefits.
	It's been studied to death in Israel by that one guy who's leading all these studies.
	And it's been studied elsewhere.
	So why they can continue with this nonsense, this bullcrap, it really is irksome.
	Not quite a pet peeve of the day, but getting there.
	I could have gone flunked.
	Yeah, getting there, getting there.
	All right, is there any chance of me missing any important game that's rigged?
	Games are over.
	The Warriors won their thing, and now they turn out to be a bunch of douchebags that refuse to go see the...
	Oh, the president?
	They're not going to go see the president?
	Yeah, the president's a dick, according to them.
	And then they...
	Just dropped like $200,000 on champagne over this local club.
	And who knew?
	But you know.
	Yeah.
	Who cares?
	It's over.
	It's over.
	So you've got to wait another season.
	Then we'll go through this again.
	Baseball.
	It's time for the baseball.
	All right, everybody.
	That is our program for today.
	Remember that we do have another show coming up on Sunday.
	And we need your support.
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	Straddle disease.
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	Capital of the Drone Star State in the Common Law Condo in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's nothing exciting around here, that's for sure.
	Except traffic.
	Plenty of traffic.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	We'll be back on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos!
	Hi, it's Adam Curry.
	Hey, how you doing?
	Let me tell you what I think about Comey.
	My goodness, Comey is a pussy.
	Covering his own ass because he's a whiny little bitch.
	Intimately involved with the Clinton Foundation.
	Douchebag.
	Little bitch.
	My goodness, Comey is a pussy.
	Lying douchebag.
	I hope I'll never have another opportunity.
	Maybe if I did it again, I would do it better.
	I ain't a douchebag.
	And what man says lordy?
	Lordy, lordy.
	Whiny little bitch.
	Lordy, lordy.
	It's cultural appropriation.
	No backbone, no spine.
	Douchebag.
	And what man says lordy?
	Lordy, lordy.
	I have to get the word out into public square.
	Pussy boy.
	Lordy, lordy.
	So as an American citizen, I'm very happy this man is no longer a director of FBI.
	Comey is a pussy!
	Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage, I would say.
	In the morning to you, John C! Where the C stands for Comey is a Pussy Dvorak!
	He's a pussy, he's a weak little bitch.
	My goodness, Comey is a pussy!
	He's a showboat.
	He's a grandstander.
	The FBI director has no credibility.
	He's the wrong man for that position.
	Call me.
	Call me.
	James, call me.
	Call me.
	I always say to my colleagues in the Congress and my constituents and people across the country, what I said before, anything you do has to be based on data, evidence, Facts.
	So you can speculate, but it's got to be the law and the facts.
	But Trump already admitted on television that he said this to call me to please stop the investigation.
	It's a microflip.
	He said it.
	What more proof do we need?
	Well, I think the American people need solid evidence.
	That's solid.
	Well, it's...
	Data, evidence, facts.
	Facts.
	Evidence.
	Data.
	Facts.
	Evidence.
	Data.
	We always say to my colleagues in the Congress and my constituents and people across the country, what I said before, anything you do has to be based on data, evidence, facts.
	Stay back, stay back.
	Whoa, whoa, stay back.
	That is truly delusional.
	Data, evidence, facts.
	Stay back.
	Stay back.
	Don't worry.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	He's driving his car.
	I drive you around in my lotto.
	Who is driving?
	It's a very good car.
	He's driving his car.
	Coach's ready, though.
	Who is driving?
	He's driving his car.
	Wow, all the way he's done.
	He sits in the passenger seat.
	He doesn't know.
	Who is driving?
	He's driving his car.
	Wow, all the way he's done.
	He sits in the passenger seat.
	He doesn't know.
	Who is driving?
	Hey, look.
	He's driving his car.
	I drive you around in my lot.
	It's a very good car.
	Coastal.
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	Moho.
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