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	This is not the bottled water I want.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, June 18th, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmonation Media Assassination, episode niner three, niner.
	This is no agenda.
	Putting the ultra in your daily MK and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet here in the capital of the drone star state in the Claudio in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where it's supposed to be 100 degrees.
	Too hot.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Oh, the global warming finally starts to affect the mudflats, I see.
	Woo!
	Well, actually, the mud flat.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The mud flat still.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	100 degrees.
	That's too hot for you guys because you don't have air conditioning in Northern California.
	No.
	It's dumb.
	How dumb is it now?
	Well, it's not as dumb now as it would have been two or three days ago.
	What is the cause of this?
	Has it already been pinned on global warming and your automobile?
	No, and the funny thing is they have not pinned it on global warming, which kind of surprises me.
	Oh, that is very surprising.
	Yeah.
	I want to start off today with pretty much a developing scandal.
	Huge scandal in the UK's Gitmo Nation GMT.
	This Grenfell Tower thing, man.
	This is not good.
	The new slogan is not 17.
	Not 17.
	This is not 17 people dead.
	It's more than 17.
	Well, they've already counted to 58.
	Yeah.
	This chant's kind of out of date.
	Yeah.
	Let's just listen to two quick clips.
	This is Lily Allen, who I guess lives in the neighborhood.
	You remember her?
	She is a social justice warrior.
	Yes, she is.
	I didn't know if she was, but she had a cute song.
	Remember that?
	I know.
	F you, F you very, very much.
	That one.
	I thought that was Eric Idle.
	People's hope turns to anger.
	They've got a real problem on their hands.
	And that is what I feel like the government is trying to micromanage people's grieving here.
	That's what's happening.
	I've never in my entire life seen an event like this where the death count has been downplayed by the mainstream media.
	17, I'm sorry, but I'm hearing from people that the figure is much closer to 150 and that many of those people are children.
	In thanking you, I'm bound to say that the difficulty is that Those are all the restful numbers that I've been given from policemen and from firemen.
	That's a social justice warrior.
	I'll take two of her for doing that on Channel 4.
	But this is the clip that really is very telling.
	There's a volunteer down at the site and she's being interviewed and she's having none of it.
	My name's Nadia and I was born and raised in this area yesterday.
	And she's not a Spice Girl, although she sounds just like one.
	I heard what happened and I came down and I brought all my friends, people from all over, all over the United Kingdom came and we bought barrels and barrels of clothes and we bought untold food and so much of everything and I didn't want to watch the news because I didn't want to watch that my friends had died so I didn't watch the news until I got back after 15 hours of being on my feet.
	I came back for them to say that there were 17 people dead.
	Have you seen the building?
	There's more than 17 people dead.
	And then I thought, where are the missing people?
	Where's the list of the 500 people that live in that building?
	600 people that live in their building.
	Where's the list on the news?
	The list on the news shows about 10 people.
	Or 15 people.
	Okay, let's just say they show 30 people.
	Where's the rest?
	Where's the rest of the 500 people?
	Why is everyone walking around with missing on their...
	Where is everyone?
	Where are the victims?
	Why are we doing this?
	Why are we doing it?
	We're packing boxes.
	We're sending food.
	To who?
	They've died.
	So what they need to do is they need to pack these boxes and they need to sell them, not send it to Oxfam or Red Cross because Red Cross and Oxfam are not here helping us.
	This is the community that are helping us.
	So you're going to send all this stuff to Oxfam and Red Cross and they don't deserve it.
	The people that deserve it are the people that died in that building because they wanted to make it look pretty and it's an inferno.
	They burnt them.
	It was gone in five minutes.
	15 minutes it took to burn.
	Who's alive?
	Where are they?
	Where are the victims?
	I haven't met one.
	I've been here for two days.
	I live here.
	I haven't met one victim.
	I've met volunteers.
	And I've met people that want to help.
	But I haven't met anybody.
	No victims.
	None of the people that I grew up with.
	I can't find anyone.
	Where are they?
	Where are they?
	Go and sell it.
	Sell all the boxes and pay for the funerals because there's going to be 500 funerals that you need to pay for.
	This is ****.
	I'm not doing it.
	I'm not volunteering anymore.
	I'm not volunteering until I see some victims.
	I'm helping.
	I came here to help people.
	Where are they?
	Show me one.
	Show me one person.
	Are you a victim?
	No, no one's a victim.
	Everyone's here to help.
	My friends.
	All my friends are coming down to help.
	Pack them boxes and sell them.
	Don't let them send it to Hoxton.
	How long does this clip go on?
	It's over.
	Can you play the rundown that I have, which is the London Fire Roundup?
	Yeah, I just wanted to say something here.
	What is indeed missing, what I have not seen in any of the footage, any of the coverage, is victims.
	Have you?
	No.
	London police now say at least 58 people are presumed dead.
	Following a horrific fire Wednesday that destroyed a high-rise apartment building, Jonathan Vigliotti says people who lived there are now demanding answers.
	Anger boiled over on Friday as people stormed Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall.
	Soon afterwards, Prime Minister Theresa May was chased away from a local church.
	On Saturday, she met with a group of residents in the more controlled setting of 10 Downing Street.
	Officials have yet to answer several key questions.
	What caused the fire?
	Could it have been prevented?
	And why aren't people getting the aid they desperately need now?
	Many survivors are sleeping on the floor in community centers, and there's still no coordinated distribution of donated food and clothing.
	Residents who survived said they warned the building's manager about fire hazards for years, but were ignored.
	How many times have you complained about the safety of the building?
	Many times.
	Miguel Alves complained about construction tools blocking the exits.
	The neighborhood's residents' association said the management company was negligent.
	People raised these concerns.
	People were expressing issues regarding the safety and dangerous living conditions.
	Unfortunately, they were not listened.
	Residents are now dealing with the tragic consequences.
	I love that they have the report about all these people who are sleeping in all these places, but they don't interview any of them?
	Well, yeah, they interviewed a number of them in this report.
	Eh, okay.
	They did.
	I mean, the guy at the beginning who says we complain all the time, that was one of the guys that lived there.
	But let's go back a second.
	There is a spreadsheet floating around that you can get a hold of that shows all the, it's done by the people that live there, that has supposedly all the room numbers and who is supposed to be in there.
	But what you're suggesting, I believe, as this progresses, since you brought it up right away, is that The place was half vacant, half empty.
	That's what I'm suggesting?
	That's what I'm suggesting?
	Aren't you?
	No.
	You said there's no...
	I'm suggesting a lot more people died.
	How about this for an idea?
	The thing was half empty and torched.
	That could be.
	Well, what I did find out is that...
	This is in King's Cross...
	By the way, the spreadsheet, which I do have a copy of, shows 158 dead.
	This is an area of London that's undergoing massive, what do they call it, regeneration.
	Which is, I think, a different word for gentrification.
	We're going to regenerate it.
	Get all these ugly, homeless, poor people out.
	And I have not seen plans, but I do believe there are plans to regenerate this area.
	So it might have been just handy.
	It could be.
	Now, that's a good point.
	I have no idea if it was half empty.
	That's very possible.
	Everything tells me that, you know, for whatever reason, they really don't want to talk about how many people actually died.
	They certainly have been very slow in coming out with any kind of numbers.
	Well, they've been pretty good at, for example, showing that one example that was zoomed in on with some Chinese guy, or he looked Chinese, but he was oriental of some sort, screaming out the window throughout the whole fire.
	And then going to get some air, and then coming back, and he went back and forth, and they finally got him out.
	And he should have been dead, but there was no evidence.
	I didn't remember anybody zooming in on the upper floors with...
	people screaming out the windows.
	I mean, maybe they did.
	Maybe there's some witnesses that had it.
	But the camera crews were there pretty quickly because it was so spectacular.
	And they zoomed in on a few people that they did rescue.
	But they never zoomed in on the higher floors.
	It seemed to me that – and there was some rumor – One of our producers sent me this spreadsheet that's going around.
	Yeah, that's cool.
	And he says that a lot of these people may have been illegal.
	Oh, well, who cares then?
	Oh, well.
	The more I thought about it, especially in these upper floors, I wonder if there's anybody in those, I mean, in parts of it.
	Because they can only count 58 dead so far.
	There's 158 unaccounted for.
	As per this spreadsheet.
	This whole thing is very suspicious and it went up just like a wrong candle.
	I think everyone's kind of figured out why that was.
	Because they wrapped it in this stuff to make it look pretty.
	I think we have a building in Austin that just went up that was wrapped like that with stuff for the student housing.
	I've seen this building.
	I thought it was just wrapped.
	But then it turns out it's actually wrapped.
	That's the way it's supposed to be.
	Student housing.
	Well, that's one way of solving a student loan problem.
	Oh!
	Speaking of which...
	I have this somewhere, I believe.
	The president came out with an executive order.
	Where did I leave this?
	Oh, man.
	Did I not clip that?
	I can read it to you, though.
	Um...
	Damn.
	I can't believe this.
	He came out with an executive order promoting apprenticeships, which I think we're a pretty big fan of here on the show.
	The whole concept of apprenticeships have kind of gone away.
	I wish I had that audio.
	I don't know what I did with it.
	Yeah, this was actually about a week ago, wasn't it, I think?
	And I remember when it came out, there was no details.
	It was like, I'm looking at them saying, wow, you know, apprenticeships.
	Are they going to subsidize the apprenticeships?
	I never got any details.
	I think we should have more apprenticeships.
	Okay, great.
	Well, I read the executive order, of course.
	It's what I like to do.
	When did it come out?
	It came out on the 15th.
	So it's just before the weekend.
	And it's a stimulus-type thing where all government agencies, so we'll have federal initiatives to promote apprenticeships.
	Administrative and legislative reforms that would facilitate the formation of success.
	Somewhere in the line there's got to be some tax benefit, which I'm sure the Department of Labor will provide administrative support and funding.
	Oh, that's for the task force.
	They will have a task force, which we generally hate.
	But just the idea of, you know what?
	Maybe, because the previous president, all we heard was you got to go to college.
	You got to get some debt.
	You got to go to college.
	And the concept of an apprenticeship is even if you may be in school, in high school or university or college, that you work and get paid for it.
	How is this different from an internship?
	Interns are unpaid.
	That was exactly what's going to be my next one.
	That ended years ago.
	No, no.
	No, no, no.
	Most interns are still unpaid.
	I don't care what you think.
	It's just not true.
	Interns are unpaid.
	In California, you can be an unpaid intern, then you can sue the company for back pay, and it happens all the time.
	But that's not the same country that I'm living in.
	Well, you're living in California.
	Yeah.
	No, the people from California are at Steiner Ranch, which has a big fence around it.
	And this is for a reason.
	We put them all there.
	I bet you there's Californians living in that...
	That ghost department that you're in.
	Here it is.
	Here, I found it.
	In just a few moments, I'll be signing an executive order to expand apprenticeships and vocational training to help all Americans find a rewarding career, earn a great living, and support themselves and their families, and love going to work in the morning.
	We will be removing federal restrictions that have prevented many different industries from From creating apprenticeship programs.
	Now, I didn't find any of that in this executive order.
	Maybe the task force will do that, but the idea is nice.
	We have regulations on top of regulations, and in history, nobody has gotten rid of So many regulations as the Trump administration.
	Woo!
	Number one, baby!
	You see the jobs and the companies all kicking in so strongly.
	I think some very good numbers are going to be announced, by the way, in the very near future as to GDP. Oh, signaling the market.
	So we're empowering.
	Huh?
	The market likes him.
	These companies, these unions, industry groups, federal agencies to go out and create new apprenticeships for millions of our citizens.
	Apprenticeships place students into great jobs without the crippling debt of traditional four-year college degrees.
	Instead, apprentices earn While they learn.
	Which is an expression we're using.
	Earn while you learn.
	Jobs!
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	There you go.
	Well, first of all, paid internships are the same thing as far as I can tell.
	I would agree.
	And so I don't see that, you know...
	I do not see a lot of...
	He's using an old term, which is probably a...
	It's interesting.
	We should discuss this for a second.
	Let me say, the reason why I picked this clip, why I even picked this, is that you in the past on this program have made a big deal about the disappearance of apprenticeships.
	I thought you would respond a little better.
	Let me think about that.
	I have bitched about this because it's a problem.
	I don't think a government mandate is the answer to a problem, which has become, I think, a societal problem.
	I don't think people want to be apprentices anymore.
	Yeah, true, true.
	I think, and I'll tell you this, I have bitched about this, you're right, and you think I would respond better, you're probably right there too, but the more I think about it, I start thinking about Noodle Boy.
	Oh man, oh boy, well now you got me going.
	Last night, we were at a birthday party.
	There was a guy who's a management consultant.
	He works for the company.
	His job is to give interpersonal training to managers of McDonald's restaurants.
	And so immediately, Noodle Boy came to mind.
	And so I start talking to the guy.
	And I said, well, tell me a little bit about this.
	He said, well, I'm dealing with the millennials' children.
	He said, these are children who grew up with their iPhone.
	And so they're now 17 and 18-year-olds are typically managers in McDonald's restaurants, which I didn't know.
	Hold on a second.
	Millennials can't have kids that age.
	The oldest millennial would be like 32.
	Yeah.
	So the kids are going to be 12.
	Well, I'm just telling you what he said.
	Okay, it's his definition of millennials.
	He's wrong.
	These are millennials.
	Then these are millennials.
	It's fine.
	Either way.
	It's a new jet.
	It's not us.
	It's not you and I. No.
	Or the group that came after him.
	And he was a very funny guy.
	And he fit right in with no agenda talk, which he had no idea.
	He had never heard of the show.
	And I'm kind of relating Noodle Boy-like stories, even though I'm walking around with a Noodle Boy clip.
	But he said, you have no idea.
	This is my phone.
	They cannot...
	Communicate to each other in real life.
	The actual effort of opening the window, handing the tray, and saying have a nice day requires a week of focus.
	This is how bad it's become.
	Well, I'm not blaming the millennials for that.
	I'm blaming the social media.
	I'm blaming social media.
	Well, it's not helping.
	That's for sure.
	But it was sad.
	It was just sad to hear him talk about how it's virtually impossible.
	And that they're 17, 18 years old who manage...
	These are multi-million dollar restaurants on an annual basis.
	And they're disillusioned because they're pretty much making $12 an hour.
	In that effect, I can understand.
	They can't open the window.
	Wait a minute.
	This is Noodle Boy.
	This is a guy making $12 an hour, thinks it's beneath him, but he can't even do the $12 job.
	No, it's not even that they think it's beneath them.
	They can't do it.
	They can't do it.
	They cannot communicate with people anymore.
	This was his main message.
	They can't communicate in an effective way, certainly not as a manager.
	I'm trying to think of examples of that around here.
	Should we play the Noodle Boy clip for a second?
	We talked about it.
	Yeah, you might as well, because people need to be reminded.
	A lot of people have not heard that clip.
	Yeah.
	And it's a little fuzzy, so you've got to focus in on what he's saying.
	But this was Noodle Boy in Seattle, if I recall.
	And he was very angry and he felt that...
	He should have been the boss.
	Yes.
	Well, like I described earlier, there are two fundamental classes that are just a plain fact in society.
	You either work for someone else or you work for yourself.
	And most people work for someone else in a way that they aren't free.
	You don't really get to decide your work.
	For example, I work at Noodles, a restaurant.
	And basically, it's a dictatorship there.
	We're told exactly what we're going to cook, how we're going to cook it, what time we're going to get there.
	And basically, if they don't like what they're doing, they try to tell us what to do.
	If we don't listen, they get rid of us.
	And so we're not able to actually cooperate in a way that we make decisions together.
	I try to convince my fellow employees that we should have a union at Google as a source of power to start with.
	And then I think in terms of the bigger picture, when you look at revolutions, the way that you actually get rid of any sort of dictatorship is by having workers take control We could have caught the whole dictatorship thing much earlier now that I'm hearing this.
	You know, the dictator.
	Dictator is just a dictator.
	I'd kind of forgotten this.
	I'm glad we're playing it.
	Dictatorship is by having workers take control.
	Sure.
	Would it include the owner?
	What capacity would he be granted?
	If the owner wanted to cooperate with us as an equal and provide his skills that he had, we would definitely cooperate with him.
	We'd have to abdicate his position as being an owner and controller of us, and he would have to recognize that we run noodles together, and basically, if he doesn't want to cooperate with us, he's against us.
	Yeah, we wouldn't run noodles together, man.
	Well, obviously, the kid has no concept of ownership.
	No.
	Or the fact that Noodles, if I'm not mistaken, is a franchised operation since they're here and there all over the place, and the company requires the ownership to cook things a certain way, so everything has to be very rigid because it's a standard product.
	McDonald's is the same way, obviously.
	In fact, when you go overseas, the burger tastes like the one you bought in El Cerrito.
	It might even come from El Cerrito.
	You don't know.
	But...
	Anyway.
	Yeah, this is a serious situation.
	I don't know what's going to come of it.
	Maybe the whole group.
	I know my son is always, you know, he's one of the millennials and he's...
	Yeah, but he's one of the good ones.
	Well, I don't know if it's good or bad, but he got work You know, easily got work.
	A lot of other guys are still not working.
	They can't get a job or if they're doing anything, it's very low pay.
	He got married right away and he had a kid.
	So he's like, you know, their leader.
	He's in the system now.
	He's kind of in the system.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	But it's just a baffling...
	And then my daughter, of course, who works a couple of jobs if she can.
	She's a very hard worker in general.
	But they're still in the millennial group, so I can still grill them about...
	And they often mock their...
	Really?
	Which ones?
	The ones that have work or the ones that don't have work?
	The ones that don't have work.
	Okay.
	Or the ones that are unemployable.
	I think that's what's going to happen with a lot of these kids.
	They're going to be unemployable.
	Luckily, the millennials, or unluckily for them, it's a huge group.
	It's bigger than the baby boomers.
	And I know what they're doing.
	It came to me.
	They're all...
	Building, creating, and aggregating in tiny house villages.
	Yeah.
	So we've been watching some tiny house shows.
	I think mainly from HGTV. HGTV, yeah.
	One of the most successful cable networks in history.
	It's fabulous to watch this.
	And almost all of them.
	My wife is an artist and she makes things with yarn and beads.
	And I do web work.
	And they live in tiny houses.
	There's something to be said for it.
	They are almost buying these outright.
	They're relatively inexpensive compared to a house.
	But they're moving into little communities.
	But when you get, they're very expensive.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And there's a scam with this.
	People are like, oh yes, I can now roll it anywhere I want and I can have my house wherever I want.
	Well, let me tell you, as someone who's been on the road, you don't want to be hauling one of those things behind you.
	It's completely inappropriate for being hauled around.
	Maybe from point A to point B with one of those wide load cars.
	Yeah, with a professional mover.
	Yeah, not just a ball.
	A house moving company.
	I mean, these homes, many of them will crack if you go over too many bumps.
	Yeah, they will.
	They're not designed to be moved around.
	No, no.
	They're designed to look like they could be moved around.
	But a lot of these millennials, you know, and yes, and we live by the shore, so we can sell our yarn, our yarn art.
	Well, honestly, this little discussion aside here, this little sidetrack, is why I may have changed my mind about apprenticeships.
	Okay.
	Although I don't know if I'd change my mind, I'd just maybe change my attitude.
	I don't know that anybody wants them.
	Well, the way I see it, apprenticeships turned into internships, and internships became unpaid.
	In general, I'm not saying everywhere.
	No, I think that what you just said...
	I think it's the untold story.
	I believe that's exactly what happened.
	It started with apprenticeships, which were, you know, and you learn something and you learn to trade.
	I did apprenticeships.
	I'm sure you did apprenticeships.
	No, I've always worked big time in the factories.
	I was always in a union.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm just saying, I never did apprenticeships.
	The only apprenticeship I might have done, if you want to call it that, was when I was a paper boy.
	I had two paper routes.
	One of them was the Oakland Tribune, which was a...
	An afternoon paper at the time.
	And I did, in a certain way, I had an apprentice position when the sales guy expediter came around once a year to show me how I couldn't, I always sucked at selling door to door.
	And he'd take me out.
	This was a unique experience.
	And this guy would go from door to door to door in the neighborhood that I had.
	They blocked off from me.
	I'm the guy who has to fill these newspapers with these people.
	And he would sell a subscription to every individual with the hardest sell I've ever seen him.
	I was like...
	What was that?
	What was the sell?
	Are you going to let this kid starve to death?
	This little boy here is going to be delivering the paper by hand to you.
	You know, there's no reason.
	Don't you read the newspaper?
	Most people read the newspaper.
	Most people that are educated read the newspaper.
	Most people in the know read the newspaper.
	You're not getting this newspaper.
	Why not?
	And it was just an outrageous, hard sell.
	And he, like, subscribed to everybody.
	Okay, okay, okay, okay.
	Oh, damn, all right, all right, all right already.
	I'm doing it.
	You were a prop.
	You were just a prop for this guy.
	I was a prop.
	A sales prop.
	I was a sales prop.
	I know how it feels, believe me.
	And so you go, well, I learned this as a young kid.
	And the rest of the time, it was really, you know, it wasn't apprenticing.
	I learned carpentry.
	I had an apprenticeship as a kid and I learned something.
	I had an apprenticeship with a blacksmith, an old school blacksmith.
	So I learned how to shoe a horse.
	You're a blacksmithy.
	Yeah, I know how to shoe a horse.
	Which, man, you shoe a horse, that'll clear up your sinuses.
	Man, you put that hot iron onto the hoof.
	I learned how to weld.
	Yeah, you shoot a horse?
	Oh, that was a different apprenticeship.
	That didn't happen until I moved to Texas.
	I learned how to weld both spot welding and CO2. These are, granted, not necessarily skills I use every day in life, but I'm very happy I have them.
	Well, I learned how to weld, and spot welding is brain dead.
	I wouldn't count that as anything, but But, you know, you just step on a pedal.
	But welding itself does take a little work, but I never...
	You learn with the electrode.
	Well, you learn when the thing sticks on it.
	That's what you learn when it goes...
	Anyway, so I learned that, but it wasn't like as an apprentice that just showed me how to do it.
	Well, I was getting paid while learning how to do it.
	Yes, so was I. Yeah, well, that was an apprenticeship.
	I consider it on-the-job training.
	Apprenticeship to me, what you're saying is an apprenticeship, seems to me to be just on-the-job training.
	Apprenticeship to me is where you go and you work with somebody for years and you learn every aspect of what they're doing and then you take over the company.
	Yeah, I don't think it's going to be like that.
	It's a long-term thing.
	It's not like coming in and someone shows you how to weld.
	Well, let me tell you.
	I'm just telling you what my experience was, and you're saying it's not like that.
	It was.
	The blacksmith in the village where I lived outside of Amsterdam would choose one or two kids a year, and they would be his apprentices, and he would pay them to work to help him and learn the trade.
	Okay, I'll give you that one.
	Yeah, thanks.
	I'm not giving you the welding one.
	It was the same guy.
	Well, it was a different thing.
	Well, it's teaching you all these different skills?
	Yeah.
	Let's weld the shoes onto the horse.
	Blacksmiths do more than just...
	Okay.
	Alright, we're getting into minutia.
	Please.
	Okay, so you learned in blacksmith.
	But okay, it didn't do you any good.
	So this is not the program I think Trump's looking for.
	No.
	I don't know what he's looking for.
	I don't see the difference personally because I think you nailed it.
	Apprenticeship turned into internship, turned into free, work for free, and then that deteriorated, the guy never shows up.
	I had a famous New York agent's kid, who I know, working for me as an intern at...
	Swiftie Lazar called, hey, Johnny!
	A lot of these kids do the internship for college credits, and so I guess that's considered paid, because a lot of they get some credits.
	He never showed up.
	Ever.
	Oh, I've heard this.
	He never came back.
	I never saw him again.
	And then, you know, we signed off on the thing.
	It's a scam.
	Yeah, and I've heard a lot of this.
	A lot of, yeah, I don't really want to do any work.
	Could you just sign off on my paper, please?
	Could you just sign off and then I'll get out of your hair?
	Yeah, there's a lot of that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's not doing the economy any good.
	No.
	I don't know what's going to happen here, but this is, putting it all together, everything we just discussed, from the blacksmithing to the noodle boy to the guy who can't open the damn window at the McDonald's to guys who come in and they just, you know, they fax it in and then they take the credit you know, they fax it in and then they take the credit to their advisor This is not a pretty picture.
	It really isn't.
	And this guy, go back to the guy from Hamburger U, he's like, yeah, I really don't know.
	I just do the best I can every day and I just keep smiling.
	I know why he's smiling.
	Those guys get eight weeks of vacation and an eight-week sabbatical.
	I'd be smiling.
	That's good.
	Somebody's getting that.
	We're not.
	No.
	Hey, happy Father's Day.
	Happy Father's Day to you, and happy Father's Day to all ships at sea.
	Oh, it's a different bit.
	Sorry.
	My daughter hasn't communicated with me yet.
	It's always this game that I hate with social media.
	Oh.
	Yeah, but she hasn't said happy Father's Day on Facebook.
	Are you worried?
	Are you worried?
	Yeah, I'm worried she's forgotten about me.
	She hates me now.
	It must be.
	She must hate me.
	Looking at the donations, a lot of people hate their dads, too.
	I went back last year looking at the donations for Father's Day.
	Same.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	Father's Day has been a dud on this show every time we've done it.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	Now I remember.
	No, I know why.
	Kids who have parents who listen to the No Agenda show hate their dads.
	That's a fact.
	I've got a douchebag listening to those crazy conspiracy theorists, alt-writers.
	It's got to be something like that.
	Well, I do have a kind of a related, just as you brought that up, there's one clip here I want to play.
	There's a couple of them here, actually.
	He's talking about the millennials and all these issues.
	I want to play just the bad girlfriend of the year clip.
	A Massachusetts woman was convicted today of involuntary manslaughter for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide.
	Michelle Carter sent hundreds of text messages to Conrad Roy.
	In July of 2014, Roy filled his truck with deadly carbon monoxide, then got out, contacted Carter and told her he was scared.
	She responded, get back in.
	She could get as much as 20 years in prison.
	Yeah, it was an interesting case.
	I thought it was a very interesting case for a number of reasons.
	Most of the reasons I think relate to what we're talking about, which was they're texting back and forth.
	He didn't call her and say, hey, I don't want to do it, babe.
	And then she didn't say, get in!
	Which is one of my biggest gripes is there being no context in text.
	There is no context, but there's a little side note that one of the lawyers did when they were discussing this on CNN. This was a guy who was a depressive and he kept bitching and moaning about he wants to kill himself.
	And I guess this went on for a year or more where she is trying to stop him.
	And the guy specifically referred to the so-called June texts.
	And by the way, people that are texting back and forth and this is their life is ridiculous.
	But anyway, so...
	And may I say, just as a test, after this program is over, or just stop the recording right now, go to your WhatsApp or your text messaging or go to your Facebook Messenger and look how much you texted just today.
	People could be writing books with the amount of texting they do.
	It's really a lot.
	A lot, yeah.
	Now...
	So she said, well, maybe you can get help.
	She actually tried to get him into counseling.
	I didn't hear any of that.
	You didn't hear that?
	No, no.
	Yes, the whole month of June, apparently.
	And then he came up with, let's do a Romeo and Juliet.
	She says, I'm not doing that in a million years.
	You should get help.
	And she tried to get him into counseling.
	Here's the way I see it going down.
	She got sick of it.
	Yeah, I said, go kill yourself already.
	She said, okay, you know, you're nuts.
	Go do it.
	Do it, do it, do it, do it.
	And then, you know, she wanted him to kill himself because she was sick of listening to him moaning and groaning, I believe.
	But if you see her, she's not a sympathetic-looking girl.
	She looks like a snooty, sorority-girl type girl.
	That, you know, she looks like a mean girl.
	She looks like one of those girls that's mocked in Hollywood movies.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	So they threw the book at her and they left out a lot of stuff, I think.
	And she was remorseful.
	Well, but she's also...
	Involuntary manslaughter is not a big deal, is it?
	30 years.
	What?
	Yeah, she's getting 20 to 30 years.
	Oh, she'll be popular.
	I don't know about that.
	But the point is, is that...
	There's a certain amount of idiocy involved with some of these millennials and their texting.
	She's at what?
	She was 18.
	So she's like right in the strike zone.
	Right in the pocket, yeah.
	And so she's like doing this stuff, oblivious to the fact that this is just all documented to an extreme.
	Didn't think about that, no.
	You can take some stuff out of context and leave out the June texts.
	According to this lawyer.
	But the case is like, get back in?
	That was it.
	No matter what she said before that.
	But again, we have a group of people, a whole group, that seems to have been left out of understanding the mechanism of society.
	And these texts.
	It's just like, why don't you just, you're just bearing witness against yourself voluntarily.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm saying the same thing.
	Of course, I'll say the same thing to you and everybody else who's bought an Echo or any of these devices.
	It's a listening device that you put in your own.
	You voluntarily put a listening device in your own house.
	It's just, to me, remarkable.
	Yeah, well, you know why I did it, and I was the first one to identify it as a category, and I was correct.
	I'm doing it for the show.
	Do you recall before I started dating, I didn't even have a smartphone?
	I didn't want one?
	Before you started dating, you're talking about after your last divorce.
	No, that's when I... You always had a smartphone.
	No, sir.
	No, that fell on the toilet after six months.
	There was several years, certainly while living in Austin, that I did not...
	I had a Nokia E71. That's what I had, and that's what I loved.
	And I used that, and I didn't have a smartphone.
	But you can't date anymore if you don't have a...
	You can't even get an Uber.
	Oh, the atrocity of it.
	Yeah, I remember.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	Yeah, I think I'm right.
	You like that Nokia with the keyboard is your favorite.
	Yes, and I also like not being tracked at all.
	And I also remember saying I had to give up.
	I had to give in.
	I had to get a smartphone.
	You can't date.
	But you're absolutely right.
	I think if you remember, we're going to do reminiscing about what we said on the show and what we've done.
	If you recall, I remember one of the conversations with the Millennials.
	At the house, and I related this on the show, is that they said, you can't even get a date if you don't have a specific smartphone, an iPhone.
	That's right.
	Let me see your phone.
	I don't think so.
	I don't believe this is true as much as it was four years ago when I was told this.
	But if you have anything but an iPhone, the girls, this is from guys telling you this, the girls think you're a loser.
	Yes.
	Which is again...
	I don't know.
	Eye rolling, as far as I'm concerned.
	Yeah.
	But at the party last night, actually, the girl whose birthday it was, every week she buys a different phone from eBay.
	And so she had, you know, the $10 Nokias.
	It's really fun.
	Like, Bo, let me see your phone.
	Yeah, I don't have to plug it in for a week.
	It just stays charged.
	I can still text.
	Yes, that's a long-forgotten aspect to those older phones.
	They...
	Charge them?
	Forever.
	It stays charged for a week.
	I found my old iPod Touch.
	Let's see.
	It stays charged.
	And it does everything but a phone call, really.
	It stays charged for days.
	For days.
	I have my Kindle.
	Yeah, that's another one.
	It stays charged for weeks.
	Yeah.
	Well, but it's not doing it.
	I mean, it's the screen.
	It's really the screen.
	It's the web browser.
	The screen is mechanical.
	It sucks out your juice, man.
	It sucks out the juice.
	There are mechanical screens, which the Kindle has.
	Mem.
	But it's mechanical.
	So when I switch the bit, it turns, it moves the thing mechanically.
	It moves.
	I remember going to one of the trade shows for displays.
	They still have the original MAMS display that was first invented, I think, in the 70s.
	It has a message on it, and they take it around these trade shows, and they show it, because the message is still there.
	What is it?
	It says, hi, something.
	It says something.
	Hello, world.
	But it's sitting on this thing.
	It's an old display that has...
	It's like...
	I guess the original electronic ink was kind of a brownish color against a yellow background.
	Very horrible looking thing.
	Yeah, they were really bad.
	Okay, anyway.
	So they're doomed, these kids.
	I don't know what we're going to do.
	What happens if there's another depression?
	Luckily, they're ready for that.
	They're geared up for a bad economy.
	Yeah, they have their Patreon accounts ready.
	They're good to go.
	But they can't open a window or converse.
	Have a nice day.
	It's very hard.
	It's very hard to say.
	Can I just emoji that to them?
	Can I just do a smiley emoji?
	I have to say, have a nice day?
	Oh, please.
	Meanwhile, finally, we have confirmation of what we already suspected, that there would be new gear appearing at the airports.
	And this is really pissing me off if you hear this report about the new slave scanners that will stop the evil laptops and anything bigger than a phone from blowing up inside your aircraft.
	Well, it's designed to make us safer and speed up the screening process, Melissa.
	It's a high-tech, high-definition scanner using commuter tomography, CT. Let's talk about computer tomography, CT. Are you familiar with this?
	I've never heard of this, no.
	Oh.
	Let's look it up.
	Okay, you look it up.
	...scanner using commuter tomography, CT. Commuter or computer?
	It sounds like you said commuter.
	I have it here.
	It means computer.
	New CT scanner, I'll tell you what it is.
	It's, yeah, computerized tomography.
	Tomography.
	Being tested at one security checkpoint lane at Phoenix International Airport.
	It will be tested in Boston as well later this month.
	Other CT scanners made by different companies are also likely to be tested later in the year.
	The technology is similar to what's currently used to inspect checked luggage.
	CT screener, they tend to shoot hundreds of images with an X-ray camera that spins around the conveyor belt, giving screeners a 3D picture of a It's like a CT scanner used on a person.
	That's right.
	We're just weeks away from human beings going through the CT scanner.
	But wait for it.
	to detect explosives, firearms, and other prohibited items.
	It could speed up the screening by reducing or even eliminating the need for repeat trips through the X-ray machine, and those secondary screenings we're all familiar with.
	Now, before we continue with that, so this is the same technology they already use for check luggage, It's those long tubes that you have to put your bag in front of.
	That's what they now propose, which is, you know, it's not like this is...
	This is new technology that's just probably miniaturizing it a little bit so that it makes the TSA checkpoints that much more easier.
	But hidden in this report is a little gem, something that I think we predicted as it came to all these, the express lane, the clear, and what's the other one?
	It's a pre-check.
	Pre-check.
	Flyers, of course, have to remove laptops from bags for screening.
	Now, this comes in the wake of the U.S. banning laptops in carry-on luggage on flights originating from 10 international airports, mainly in the Middle East, and weighing extending that ban to a further 71 airports.
	That sounds like some sales, huh?
	71 foreign airports.
	Yeah, I'd like to sell my slave scanner to them.
	What do those things go for?
	Oh, but you look it up and now listen to this bit.
	There's no prices.
	Here's the best bit.
	And to a further 71 airports.
	The second technology is fingerprint technology.
	TSA officials have long been interested in this sort of thing, and they're currently testing it in the pre-check lanes in Atlanta and Denver.
	Getting mixed reaction from flyers who like the security aspect, but also worry about privacy issues.
	Oh, there's the obligatory privacy.
	Everyone's going to be putting their finger on the scanner.
	Good work, slaves!
	Dynamite.
	Well, this is just an outrage to me.
	You do not, it is unconstitutional to not allow someone to fly without their papers, first of all.
	It's called freedom of movement, and I do not believe there is any change to this.
	But people just go along with the program and, man, what's next?
	They'll be putting their fingerprints down.
	Pretty soon there'll be a whole handprint.
	Oh, no.
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	No.
	It's very obvious what's next.
	Now, join our new program.
	You too can skip all the lines.
	It's real easy.
	Join the new program.
	Get your chip.
	Yeah, you just have a chip.
	All you have to do is wave the chip in front of the TSA agent and it's all perfect.
	You walk right out through.
	It's a breeze.
	Get the chip.
	Yeah.
	Get the chip.
	That's going to be harder to sell.
	No, I don't think so.
	They can sell the fingerprints.
	You shouldn't be giving your fingerprint at those things.
	What's the point?
	If you get a pre, that means you're already pre.
	Pre means pre.
	It means you've been done already.
	Yeah, but we have to verify.
	We don't want anyone who's not authorized to use pre.
	Yeah, that's right, damn it.
	I'm elitist.
	I don't want anyone using my pre line.
	Yes, but when you go to the pre line, you show your driver's license and ticket to the guy.
	The driver's license, which is Which does have your thumbprint in California.
	It's already accounted for most of this.
	Once you get past that, if you can get past that with a phony ID of somebody else who got a pre-ticket, which is not easy, then why do you need an additional thing of showing your fingerprint unless they're collecting fingerprints?
	This is obviously for a fingerprint database.
	It's got nothing to do with security.
	Well, it's better.
	It's matching fingerprint database with facial recognition because that happens too.
	And by the way, I will tell this story again, once again, and this was five years ago, six, I was in Portugal, and I was at some trade show, which is a computer trade show, but next to that trade show was a law enforcement trade show, which I, of course, went to.
	It's more interesting.
	And they had the facial recognition.
	That's like going to Comdex and going to the Adult Video Awards next door.
	Exactly.
	So you go next door, and they had this facial recognition system, some American company, I think is the one that really has the goods on this.
	And it was, you know, the place of just cops and stuff in there, so you can go and you can play with it.
	In other words, you can go through it and try, you know, I could go through it, which I couldn't do it at an airport, they wouldn't let me do it, and try to fool it.
	Ah.
	So I go through it first, and I get identified, and beep, you know, I get to go through.
	Then I go through it with my cheeks puffed out.
	And I go through it, I pull in my face down with my hand.
	I'm doing all kinds of crazy stuff to fool it.
	Never fooled it once.
	There was nothing I could do.
	I thought it was frightening it was so good.
	No, the technology works, that's for sure.
	I think it works from long distances.
	I'm not sure it works as well.
	But from the short, you know, the cameras within, I don't know, six feet of you.
	And it has a certain, I don't know, all I know is that once I register it, no matter what I did, I would be identified.
	Then the rule is wherever you go, if there is a sign that says no hats allowed, then you're subject to facial recognition.
	That would probably be true, yeah.
	I don't know what you could do about the facial.
	Now, somebody, JC, Buzzkill Jr., said that there has been some work done.
	If you can get, like, if you can slap on a third eye or just eyeball-shaped tattoo.
	In the middle of your head?
	It is for my religion!
	What are you talking about?
	I like my daughter here.
	Don't talk about my daughter.
	Look like an eye.
	Apparently, eyeball-shaped tattoos all over the face.
	Ah, an all-seeing eye tattooed in my forehead.
	Yeah, that apparently confuses these devices.
	So the eyeball...
	So I don't know, you know, I'm thinking you wear a pair of those glasses with the eyeballs on the springs, so the eyeball falls out and bounces all over the place.
	That might probably confuse it.
	I don't know.
	Hey, what's the health risk to a CT scanner?
	Oh, they're terrible.
	I mean, if you go through a CT scan rather than the other one, which is the magnetic resonance scan, it's very, very harmful to you to have a CT scan made of yourself in one of those devices, even though they're expensive.
	But they, you know, it's to identify certain kinds of cancers and things.
	If it doesn't give you cancer.
	I was just going to say, hey, we found a cancer after your 15th CAT scan.
	I'm thinking because these guys are so careless before with rapid scan that when you go through these, if you're going through the other deal, not the puffer, but the backscatter.
	The backscatter.
	The backscatter.
	This thing, the device that's That's right there and spinning around shooting x-rays out at the baggage as opposed to just shooting down on the baggage, which it was doing before.
	I think it's probably irradiating the passengers.
	I can't believe they won't make these things.
	I mean, it's going to be expensive anyway.
	But I'll bet you there's all kinds of random x-radiation floating around on those things.
	Always noteworthy how they'll talk about everything but that part.
	They never talk about that part.
	Well, for a little while with the backscatter.
	Because these things are usually cheap junk.
	Well, to make, not to sell, when you sell to the government, then it's not cheap.
	Anyway.
	More bad news for Father's Day.
	See?
	Okay, so the kids are screwed.
	We're all going to get x-ray and probably die of cancer.
	It's a horrible situation.
	I'm sure there's more I can find.
	I have a couple of interesting little clips, but before we get to them, I do want to play the clip that I promised I'd find and play, which is the Colbert.
	Oh, this is the one that wound up on the cutting floor, inadvertently.
	This is the one where I cut off the whole clip and I only played the end.
	This is Colbert at the Tonys.
	Tonys.
	At the Tonys.
	Tonys.
	Tonys.
	Doing his thing.
	Good evening.
	I'm Stephen Colbert.
	I just want to take a moment to say, isn't Kevin Spacey doing a tremendous job this evening?
	Incredible.
	And it's my honor to be here tonight presenting the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.
	And it's been a great year for revivals in general, especially that one they revived down in Washington, D.C. It started off-Broadway in the 80s, way off-Broadway, over on Fifth Avenue.
	Huge production values.
	Couple problems.
	Main character is totally unbelievable.
	And the hair and makeup.
	Yeesh.
	No.
	No.
	This DC production is supposed to have a four-year run, but reviews have not been kind.
	Could close early.
	We don't know.
	We don't know.
	Best of luck to everyone involved.
	Thank you.
	The crowd goes crazy.
	They go crazy.
	These are the same people I'm going to say, like I did on the last show, I'm going to say the same thing.
	These are the same people that want more funding from the government for the National Endowment for the Arts and all the rest of these operations.
	So they can buy more BBC programming.
	Well, that's the PBS we're talking there.
	I'm talking about Broadway, which doesn't buy any BBC programming.
	Well, they get Helen Mirren to do it.
	They want all this support from the government, and this is the way they treat the government.
	What do they expect when they get cut off?
	Well, they expect Trump not to finish out his term, that Elizabeth Warren or someone will be there to save the day.
	Yeah, somehow if Trump gets booted out, Elizabeth Warren or Hillary take over.
	And, you know, this is the kind of idiots that we're dealing with here.
	Oh, I have an Elizabeth Warren cliff I gotta share.
	Man, this woman is unhinged!
	She's unhinged.
	She's going to be asked about her favorite curse word to use.
	You know, this is one of those clips I saw and I said...
	Did you see it at all or did you just pass it by?
	I saw it.
	No, I saw it.
	I'm not going to ask you for your favorite curse word.
	Actually, I am.
	Do you have a favorite curse word?
	Poop.
	Poop?
	That's a goody two-shoes favorite curse word if I ever heard one.
	Are you kidding?
	Have you ever seen a woman like me look you straight in the face after you've finished some long explanation of something and then just said, poop.
	Try it.
	Have you said that on the Senate floor?
	No.
	No.
	But that day could be coming?
	It could be.
	Who knows?
	Wow.
	If that happened to me, I'd be like, okay.
	And I'd just turn around and walk away.
	But I would...
	I just think you're nuts.
	Poop.
	Oh, poop.
	Only women can say it.
	Fiddlesticks.
	Good one.
	Good one.
	Where does that come from?
	Well, I would assume it has something to do with the fiddle.
	I have no idea.
	We're going to have to look into it.
	Let's look into it.
	That's right.
	Fiddlesticks.
	Yes, something I heard a lot when I was growing up.
	I heard it on...
	Yeah, I rarely hear it, but I've heard it.
	It's like Poppycock, I guess.
	Fiddlesticks.
	Poppycock's another one.
	Apparently it was a game.
	Fiddlesticks was a game?
	Oh, it looks like it, yeah.
	How did you play that?
	I guess what you did is if you lost, you...
	Ah, Fiddlesticks!
	Fiddlesticks.
	What does the Wikipedia say?
	Well, the Wikipedia says, book of knowledge, fiddlesticks are traditional instruments used to add percussion to old-time and Cajun fiddle music.
	Like this, perhaps?
	Ow!
	Let's see.
	Fiddlesticks game?
	Interesting.
	Oh, okay.
	We called that Mikado.
	Isn't that what it's called?
	Mikado?
	Mikado?
	I've never heard of Mikado.
	Mikado, the Japanese thing?
	Yeah, where you have little sticks, like long skewer sticks.
	If you don't move the other ones.
	I like just as a fiddle sticks.
	I guess that got nowhere.
	It's not exciting, sad to say.
	But she's, you know, she's full of crap.
	Yeah, clearly she is, because she says poop.
	But I bet you she could cuss up a storm.
	Probably mostly an Indian, though.
	In Cherokee, she knows how to swear in Cherokee.
	She does not.
	She does not.
	Today is also Waterloo Day.
	Yeah.
	I didn't realize that.
	This was the...
	The time Napoleon was taken down by a...
	Kicked his ass.
	New formations that he got tricked into attacking.
	What was it?
	Really?
	I didn't know.
	He got tricked into attacking?
	Yeah, they developed, what's his name?
	What's his name?
	The guy, Waterloo guy, the British guy.
	I can't remember his name, but he had developed, they had developed some new formations, and they set them up down on the other side of a hill, and Napoleon was just going to wipe these guys out, and they go down, and they got wiped out because they couldn't deal with these.
	With a new formation.
	It was a technological breakthrough.
	Huh.
	It's never been taught to me that way as a technological breakthrough.
	How did he win?
	He was overwhelmed.
	He had more people.
	Oh, no.
	It's just when we kicked his ass.
	That's how it was taught to me.
	Hey, that guy's ass got kicked over there.
	Trying to see if there's a guy.
	Where's the Waterloo?
	What is the guy?
	Someone in the chat room knows.
	Who's the English guy?
	The better of Waterloo.
	Man, it's so famous.
	Now you've got to get it.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Waterloo.
	Lord Nelson?
	Yeah, no.
	There's a Navy guy.
	Wellington.
	Wellington.
	Duke of Wellington.
	Yes, we should have known.
	Yeah, we should have known.
	So that was Wellington.
	It doesn't say anything.
	The Wikipedia doesn't say anything about the new formation.
	Yeah.
	It's discussed in some books.
	Ah, the flank march?
	Was that it?
	No, it was like a quadrangle or some sort of weird thing.
	They had set themselves up and it was impossible to penetrate.
	There's groups of them.
	It was very strange.
	Anyway.
	Okay, here's our chat room.
	He used the flying wedgie formation.
	Okay.
	He did.
	Yeah.
	So I think the big news story that's underplayed this week, and I think it's like the biggest embarrassment, I can't imagine how this happened.
	And the way they report it everywhere is just lame, and they never ask any questions.
	How did a U.S. destroyer get T-boned?
	Yeah!
	We were watching that news, and all I know is it takes about a half an hour to stop these ships, unless you've got a turbine version.
	They don't just stop on a dime.
	But the question is, can't you just look on your Google Maps and say, hey!
	Well, if you look at the USS Fitzgerald's website, Or actually the wiki page.
	This thing has got some of the most modern radar.
	It's got not just one or two.
	It's got 3D radar.
	It's got a million things going on.
	And they couldn't see this giant container ship Headed right at them.
	They couldn't have gunned it or something.
	You can move those boats.
	And a destroyer is not a slow-moving vessel.
	They could have got out of its way, I'm sure.
	But they apparently didn't even see the thing.
	And it gets T-boned, killing a bunch of guys and wrecking the ship.
	And this is okay?
	This is outrageous.
	The head of the 7th Fleet should be fired.
	Who owned the ship that collided into it?
	I think it was just a container ship from the Philippines.
	Just any number.
	They all looked the same, and that was just another.
	And they hardly got damaged.
	But play the clips.
	This is the USS Fitzgerald I. Seven American sailors are still missing tonight after their U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a cargo ship off the coast of Japan.
	Collided!
	It happened Saturday morning local time in a busy waterway about 60 miles off Yokosuka, Japan.
	Ben Tracy is following the search in Beijing.
	The USS Fitzgerald had to be towed back to its home port off the coast of Japan.
	The extensive damage to the guided missile destroyer was easy to see.
	It is still unclear how the Fitzgerald collided with a container ship that was nearly four times its size.
	That merchant vessel, based in the Philippines, suffered far less damage.
	Three members of the U.S. Navy were injured and had to be medically evacuated, including the commanding officer, Bryce Benson.
	All three are said to be conscious and in stable condition.
	Vice Admiral Joseph Alcoyne heads the U.S. 7th Fleet.
	It's hard to imagine what this crew has had to endure, the challenges they've had to overcome, but I'm extremely proud of their courage and dedication.
	The captain was texting again?
	Was that it?
	Proud.
	He's proud of their courage and dedication, this guy Alcorn.
	By the way, this guy, O'Coin or whatever his name is, the head of the 7th Fleet, he is...
	Like, he doesn't even have a wiki page, this guy.
	Oh, what good is he then?
	Well, if you're running the 7th Fleet, you'd think you'd have a wiki page.
	But he's, like, you look him up, he's a jet jockey who graduated from college in an electrical engineering pilot and somehow moved up the ladder.
	I mean, he's...
	As far as I'm concerned, the way the Navy operates, this guy should be court-martialed.
	And I think Benson should be, too.
	I mean, how do you get T-boned?
	Oh, collision, collision, collision.
	It's not a collision.
	You were sitting there and you got T-boned by a monstrous ship that you couldn't identify on the radar.
	And if you've ever been up on one of those, in one of the areas where they're operating these ships, there's about 20 guys up there, and they're all talking to each other, and they're all doing special duties.
	I mean, it's not like some guy holding on to a steering wheel.
	Hey!
	Hey!
	What should I do, man?
	A little right.
	It's bullcrap.
	I mean, these things are set up so they're operating extremely safely.
	But what happened here, and there's nobody asking questions.
	You can play a clip, too.
	...in Afghanistan, fighting America's longest war.
	The Navy has begun to search the damaged sections of the ship to see if any of the missing crew members were trapped inside, or if they were thrown overboard during the collision.
	This particular area near Tokyo Bay is an extremely busy shipping lane, but accidents like this involving a military vessel are still rare.
	Japanese authorities will now analyze both ships' navigation records for clues as to what caused the collision.
	The commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet was at the pier in Japan with family members of the crew when the Fitzgerald arrived.
	He said it was a difficult day, but that he was humbled by their bravery in getting the ship back to port.
	Rena?
	Ben, thank you.
	Apparently, the ship almost foundered.
	Yeah, it was a pretty serious collision.
	It was a T-bone.
	It got hit and almost knocked the ship into the drink.
	It could have sunk.
	Yeah.
	It's ridiculous.
	Nobody is covering the story except it's kind of an incident.
	This is a major story.
	We're like a big military threat to everybody.
	We're the number one spending $600 billion a year.
	We have one of our boats, which costs a lot of money.
	But don't T-bone me.
	T-bone by a cargo ship?
	Are you kidding me?
	And this isn't like the top headline?
	Yes.
	Well, then A, you'd think something is up.
	But we have a lot of producers who have been in the Navy and Marines and have been on ships.
	Hmm...
	Maybe they can shed some light on it.
	But I do know for sure that the tanker couldn't do much about it.
	Those guys, you just can't...
	It takes a long time to stop or even to really significantly alter their course.
	No, they can't do anything.
	I don't know the specs of the destroyer.
	I've been on a frigate.
	Man, a frigate with turbine engines?
	50 knots!
	You know, those things can...
	It's half the size of...
	A quarter the size of a destroyer.
	But still...
	I agree.
	This is a major story, and no one seems to be interested, because Trump.
	Oh yeah, Trump.
	Let's talk about Trump.
	He's unhinged.
	Yeah.
	Well, no, let's not talk about that.
	Let's thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for colliding and T-boning Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry, where the C stands for nothing.
	Oh, thanks.
	In the morning to all the ships at sea, the ships at sea that are still floating.
	What was that microaggression, man?
	All the boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water that are still running.
	Yeah.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes.
	In the morning to everybody who likes to bring us artwork for the program.
	That would be our artists.
	And I do want to say specifically.
	Yeah.
	Specifically in the morning to Gaston Garcia.
	Gaston Garcia brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 3.8.
	Hugh Malgo, the title of that one.
	And it was the M5M Retard B Clinton Nazem 33 milligram meds.
	Which was just cute.
	We've had many med boxes done before in the past, but somehow this just hit it right.
	It hit it right on.
	It was great artwork.
	It was very funny to us.
	Yeah.
	Which is all that counts.
	We had a lot of submissions, too, and there was a couple, two or three of them that would qualify normally, but the art box, the med box, it just had the right things going on.
	It had the right memes.
	Yeah.
	It did.
	It was going to rely on memes.
	Perfect.
	All right, let's start with our associate executive producers and executive producers who showed 939, right?
	Yes.
	939.
	939.
	We have one executive producer, and it is Sir Francis the Baron of Roberts Bay with $500.
	And we can talk about this now or we can talk about it later.
	But this guy has been working with me trying to get pop money.
	Ah.
	Now, he wants us to talk about it a little bit.
	So let me read.
	I have a note from him.
	He wrote.
	This is a check.
	Came in.
	He says he doesn't like PayPal, apparently, at all.
	Please find my latest donations with the best podcast in the universe.
	No title changes for me today, but I'm slowly headed toward Viscount.
	John, last month we had an email exchange when I tried to send this donation to you via pop mail.
	As you know, it didn't go so well, so I'm now delivering it to you the old-fashioned way.
	Can you please put some info on the donation page in regard to pop money transfers or maybe, I said pop meals, pop money, or maybe discuss the process on the show one day for those of us who would like to avoid PayPal.
	I have talked about it a little bit.
	I'm going to talk about it some more.
	I would like a double D douchebag call-out A double douchebag call-out, sorry.
	I would like a double douchebag call-out to Mr.
	Tim Gross.
	Douchebag!
	A double?
	Yeah.
	Douchebag!
	Of St.
	Petersburg, Florida.
	I hit him in the mouth a while back, and he sent me a congratulatory text when I reached baron status, but I have not heard his name mentioned on the show, which means he's a free-writing douchebag.
	Do your part, Gross!
	Moving on to some pleasantries.
	A special call out to Captain Do-Do.
	Maybe it's Do.
	Maybe it's Captain Do-Do.
	But he says pronounce Do-Do.
	It's a D-O-O-D-O-O. How would you pronounce that?
	Do-Do.
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	From Vero Beach, Florida, Captain Dudu or Dodo hit me in the mouth a few months back and I've been a faithful listener and supporter ever since.
	My family and I recently spent a week with the captain in the Bahamas where we went fishing in 33.3 feet of water while streaming the No Agenda show.
	We didn't catch any fish at that particular spot, but we had a few laps.
	Finally, I'm headed out to Jackson, Wyoming for the solar eclipse in August.
	I've been thinking about the best music to play during the eclipse.
	It will be a Monday morning bender.
	The obvious choice is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
	With that in mind, can you please play the Yoko Ono Pink Floyd scream clip?
	I think anyone from Dimension B who will be watching the solar eclipse will be forced to listen to that clip, and the rest of us can listen to the real song.
	I hope everybody has a great summer, Carm.
	Karma to all.
	All right.
	You've got karma.
	I'm really not happy with this next donation.
	I am going to comment on this.
	This abuse, it's abuse.
	I've already got my speech ready.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Sir Meisner in Bellevue, Washington, $215, associate executive producer.
	Maybe if he was an executive producer, this is a possibility, but it's not going to happen.
	Just putting my value for value donation, he writes.
	Thanks for the staying on top of everything to help keep so many of us sane week after week.
	Want to keep it short?
	And challenge Adam to put together a cool clip session.
	I'd like him to throw up the following.
	And then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 clips he lists.
	We're not playing 11 clips ever.
	No, it's abuse.
	What?
	It's abuse.
	It's abuse.
	Yeah, it's not even a clip.
	I can't even find what he's talking about.
	One of them's not even a clip.
	Maxine Waters, the FBI director, has no credibility.
	Now, we've said this before on the show.
	And the problem is, of course, Sir Meisner, sales engineer to the nerds by day, Wolf Knight, He says this idea would be a horrible precedent.
	Horrible precedent.
	We don't need to sit here and listen to somebody play or Adam.
	Two things about this.
	One, I don't want to listen to 11 clips.
	And I'm looking at these clips and there's not like a combination of them that's funny.
	There's not like a hilarious combination here.
	And the second thing is, I, personally, me, I'd have to listen to Adam complain about this, which he was about to do before I started in.
	And believe me, I don't need it.
	I don't need the aggravation.
	Wait a minute.
	Now it's about you.
	Nice.
	It is about me.
	I'm trying to save my ass.
	Okay.
	So we'll give you three clips, which is what we keep telling people to give us.
	No, I'm going to do his sequence.
	I got his sequence.
	I'll do his sequence, except for the Maxine Waters thing.
	I don't know what the hell he's talking about with that.
	I'll do it, but this is the first and last time.
	It's just rude.
	No, no.
	I don't want you doing it.
	No, you can't stop me.
	I know I can't.
	This is a problem.
	Jobs.
	I mean, this is a definite problem.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Well, I can't stop you, but I can do this.
	Thanks, Obama.
	We're all gonna die!
	Get out of my vagina!
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, Slay.
	You've got karma.
	Karma.
	What a clusterfuck.
	Never to be done again.
	Oh, jeez.
	But it was good with the slide whistle.
	That did add something to it that really helped a lot.
	Yeah.
	Okay, onward.
	I think we made our point.
	Gordon Freeman, $206.17.
	He wants a birthday call out for himself.
	Whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops.
	Hold on.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Hmm.
	He wants a birthday call for himself on the 20th.
	Donation is my birthday, which is 206...
	Yeah, okay.
	Date, month, year.
	I would like to be de-douched and request a jingle.
	Hold on.
	You've been de-douched.
	Okay, he wants, following jingles, he wants a...
	Any seed man...
	Uh, don't eat me Hillary and a boom shakalaka.
	Okay.
	I got mobbed on the street today at a gas station and at a dental office.
	High fives everywhere.
	Just, it was incredible.
	Black people, Hispanics, male, female.
	High five, high five, high five.
	Don't eat me Hillary Clinton!
	And boom shakalaka, brother!
	You've got karma.
	Huh.
	That was good.
	I hadn't heard the first one.
	And I hadn't heard the last version of that boom shakalaki.
	Yeah, it's good, right?
	I'm just shaking it up.
	I'm shaking it up.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, shaking it up, baby.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Rich Ballard, $202.02.
	Robert Ballard was my father who passed away 28 years ago, but we still miss him.
	Also, my 33rd wedding anniversary with my wife, Robin, was on June 16th, so please play 33 is the magic number.
	And the karma for our new restaurant in Dallas, Wing Bucket, it's working.
	It's doing better than the first two already.
	He's a Wing Bucket guy.
	He's a winger.
	Wing Bucket.
	He's a Wing Bucket.
	Go to the Wing Bucket in Dallas.
	So play War on Chicken in honor of that, as well as some karma for all us dads.
	Thanks for all the great info.
	33, that's a magic number.
	Oh, we got it!
	It's the magic number.
	Breaking news this afternoon.
	A massive fire destroying several barns at a Weld County poultry farm.
	Sky Fox, live over the scene.
	The war on chicken.
	You've got karma.
	Sorry.
	Somehow a war on chicken clip crept in there.
	I didn't mean that.
	Yeah, it sounds like.
	Damn chickens.
	Onward to Ramon Cozera.
	I'm thinking.
	$200 in one.
	Dr.
	Ray.
	Dr.
	Ray is his name.
	Dr.
	Ray.
	Dr.
	Ray.
	My apologies for being an utter douchebag for several years.
	I told myself to donate after I was in business class with Christine Lagarde flying to Peru.
	What?
	And then with Jesse Jackson flying to Paris.
	And then with Jon Voight flying back from the UK. Funny anecdotes.
	Telling people that I was with Fifi.
	And then saying, how the fuck do you know who she is?
	And telling them that no agenda show, the best podcast in the universe.
	Shaking the reverend's hand, who I despise, and getting a big bang, a big hug from him.
	And talking to John Voight for about 15 minutes.
	He's at Dimension A in politics, by the way.
	I think we knew that.
	You guys keep me sane and teach me about the world.
	When I talked about Ash for Cash with my UK colleagues, they were stunned at my worldliness.
	I love the old jingles.
	So he would like to get a Chemtrails, Trains Good, Planes Bad, and the Dr.
	Kiki It Was Worth It.
	And he concludes with, It Would Be Ninja.
	Okay, Dr.
	Ray.
	Chemtrails.
	All aboard, Trains Good, Planes Bad.
	It was worth it.
	It was worth it.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	And finally, our last associate executive producer is...
	Linda.
	Linda Softer.
	Softer.
	In Philadelphia.
	She has a long note.
	I'm going to read it, though, because it's interesting.
	And I also promised that I'd give her crap about...
	Is it interesting as in stupid or interesting as in genuinely of interest?
	That's a good point.
	I think it's fascinating.
	Okay.
	We'll use that word instead.
	I'm making this Father's Day donation in honor of my husband, Seth Soffer, father to our amazing daughter, Ruby.
	He started listening to the show last year and soon after turned me and Ruby into listeners and now we're all regular listeners.
	We frequently listen when we are all doing things in the kitchen or when we're in the car.
	I was initially a little concerned about Ruby listening to the show.
	She's only 11 years old.
	Hey, Ruby.
	Well, I approve...
	Well, I appreciate your well-researched and prospective media deconstruction and balanced political reporting.
	It took me a little while to get past what I consider to be your overuse of the pejorative douche and douchebag.
	I don't typically get hung up on cursing, so I was curious.
	By the way, let's stop right there.
	This is not cursing.
	It's allowed by the FCC on mainstream television.
	That's right, as is poop.
	Poop is too.
	Poop.
	We should say poop bag.
	I don't typically get hung up.
	And by the way, the reason we don't say poop bag or anything else is because this was never our idea.
	Nope.
	As a newer listener, you may not know the backstory of Douche, but it will start...
	Hold on, I'm writing that down.
	The backstory of Douche.
	You may not know the backstory of douche, but it was from the listeners that started calling each other douchebags for not donating.
	And then pretty soon, somebody came up with a jingle and a de-douching jingle, and before you know it, it became an institutionalized within the show structure.
	But it had nothing to do with it.
	It was not one of our inventions.
	Anyway, I don't typically get hung up on cursing, so I was curious about my discomfort with douche.
	It's fun to say, after all of some thought, I realized that because my only frame of reference was a vaginal douche, the term felt sexist to me.
	So I decided to do some research on the etymology, and lo and behold, it turns out that my perception of douche as being sexist was actually a projection of my own limited knowledge of the word.
	Ooh, do tell.
	A quick Googling gave me all the information I needed to release myself from my own prejudice against this term and embrace it with the equanimity of which I hold other curse words.
	And again, it's not a curse word.
	I shared my research with Ruby and we cracked up over the idea of calling someone a shower or a syringe or a bag of bodily irrigation water, vaginal or other orifice.
	It's just water.
	There is even a manufacturer of specialty bags and backpacks called douche bags.
	Yo!
	Did you know this?
	I think I did.
	But I looked at them and was like, it's not funny.
	They're not funny.
	No, they're not funny.
	Bring on the douche.
	I do want to point out that the concept of de-douching, as it is requested often by first-time donors, It does not really make sense.
	While I realize it's meant to be a form of undoing of someone's status as a douche, it literally means not showering, which makes no sense at all.
	In fact, when your show does its best, it's the opposite.
	It cleans away all the crap put out by the MSM and the government and the entertainment industry and gives listeners a clear view of what's really going on.
	For that, all three of us are grateful.
	So please accept this donation, even though it comes from a homeschooling mom who is married to a guy named Seth.
	Strike two!
	Seth, and used to be a patient.
	Ask Seth why he's named Seth.
	I would like to know.
	Who is he named after?
	Yeah, and used to be a patient at Planned Parenthood.
	Oh, strike three!
	Only three topics you have discussed on your show that I can confidently call you out on as being douchebags yourselves.
	Mm-hmm.
	I'm sorry, we're very pro-homeschooling.
	I don't know where you got that from.
	Yeah, we homeschooled it.
	And I'm not against Planned Parenthood at all.
	At all.
	No.
	I'm against the douchebags who are on the street and be like, Hi!
	Nice to meet you!
	What's your name?
	My name's Pete!
	Hi!
	How are ya?
	And he's wearing the big t-shirt.
	I'm like, I'm not interested.
	I don't like your approach.
	And the money doesn't go to clinics.
	It goes to the lobbying Planned Parenthood organization.
	Very different.
	But, no, this is important.
	But you kick him in the nuts.
	Yeah.
	No, I say I hate children and walk on.
	Okay.
	Overall, whenever we discuss, you can't even discuss Planned Parenthood without being labeled a horrible alt-right Republican douche.
	Yeah.
	Which is exactly what she's doing here.
	Yes, yes, she is.
	She says, Happy Father's Day to Seth and to John and Adam and all the dads out there in both universes.
	We need you all more than we like to let you know.
	That's probably true.
	Thank you very much, Linda.
	And thank you for being a great mom and a great wife.
	You've got karma.
	I hope that wasn't too sexist to say for being a great wife, but there you have it.
	You're a sexist douche.
	I have a good sexist clip coming up.
	We'll do that right after.
	And that does conclude our group.
	Oh, we're done?
	Yeah, it's not a big list.
	Again, Father's Day turns out to be a big dud for us.
	Huge.
	Huge.
	Huge dud.
	For the show.
	And it's the same way last year.
	And I'm guessing...
	I'm thinking last year is when I changed the donation schedule to be...
	You can put any amount in.
	And a lot of people, a lot of big spenders came in with five bucks and they got their dad's name.
	We'll mention them at the end of the next segment.
	Yeah.
	And...
	You know, that's what they think of their dad, I guess.
	I don't know.
	It was a dud from the beginning.
	I am now banning the Father's Day celebration on the No Agenda show.
	It's never going to be happening again.
	Whoa!
	Well, I don't know how I feel about that.
	That's a little harsh.
	We've got a year to discuss it.
	Well, what we could do is instead we could celebrate Waterloo Day.
	Waterloo Day.
	Yeah, but it's not going to...
	Waterloo Day is a fixed date.
	This comes on a certain Sunday in the month, so next year it'll be a different something else.
	Okay, well, next year, Father's Day, we don't mention a word of it.
	Death to Dad, I say.
	Thank you to our executive producer and associate executive producers.
	It's highly appreciated, and we have more people to thank in our second donation segment later on in the program.
	These credits that you receive, executive producer and associate executive producer, are part of our value-for-value system.
	They are not handed out willy-nilly, only to people who support at that level, and therefore, you receive these titles, and these credits can be used anywhere where credits are recognized.
	And please remember, we have a show coming up on Thursday.
	We need your continued support.
	Dvorak.org slash...
	And you should go talk to your dad about, I don't know, the best podcast in the universe.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Back turn false.
	Shut up, play.
	Shut up, slave.
	So let me hit you with the latest sexist term.
	Sexist.
	Sexist.
	Sexist term.
	I'm sorry to say, but it does come from my beat, and you know what I'm talking about.
	Oh, not again.
	And they're talking about Camel Toe Harris, who was grilling Jeff Sessions.
	What?
	Camel Toe Harris?
	I tried to slip it by you.
	Camel Toe Harris.
	I can't help myself.
	Pocahontas, Camel Toe Harris.
	I think if you just mumble that...
	That is the most sexist thing you've ever done on this show.
	Yeah, I'm setting it up.
	Well, at least this month.
	Well, this is a word you used on the previous program.
	And I think we briefly touched on its sexist origins.
	Maybe it was two or three shows ago.
	And it was a response to the badgering of the witness...
	Which, I think it actually, does it start off with, yeah, it starts off with a Sessions clip.
	And what you'll hear is, I'll say Kamala Harris, or Kamala, I don't know how you pronounce it, interrupting Sessions, continuously interrupting him.
	Which is what you do, it's what you do when you're doing this in a Senate hearing.
	If you're a douche, it's what you do.
	But that is, of course, not rude or anything.
	No.
	Everybody else is rude because of the use of a certain word.
	I don't believe I had any conversation with Russian businessmen or Russian nationals.
	Are you aware of any communications?
	A lot of people were at the convention.
	It's conceivable that somebody came up to me.
	Well, you let me qualify.
	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.
	Don't get your panties in a twist, my goodness.
	So, yeah, so the former Trump aide, Jason Miller, said that she was being hysterical, quote-unquote.
	Oh, goodness.
	Do you think they would ever use the word hysterical against a male senator?
	They would never do it.
	And I know Kamala Harris.
	I think what's so offensive is she is the most even-keeled, stately person that you will meet.
	I mean, she is a former prosecutor, and she was using that experience to kind of cross-examine him.
	Don't we want that?
	We want that, but you have to let him qualify.
	You still have to let them finish.
	He wasn't done speaking.
	You don't need to qualify so much when you're telling the truth.
	Exactly.
	I get that, too.
	But in this setting, in this setting and in this climate, the more information, the better.
	The more information, the better.
	So I think you can qualify as much as you need to, and especially considering the source.
	People try to use up the time because each senator doesn't get a lot.
	So I think they're trying to bang out of it.
	Here it comes.
	The interesting thing about the word hysterical is it's a word with a female baiting history from hystericus, which was once a common medical diagnosis reserved exclusively for women sending them uncontrollably insane, sometimes causing they would have to perform a hysterectomy.
	So it's actually just unique to a woman and her uterus.
	It's a Greek word, hysterical, hysteria, I guess, which means uterus as in grab them by the, like that.
	Like that.
	But it refers only to women.
	That's why hysterectomy.
	I mean, it's uterus.
	If you watch her, and I've watched her repeatedly, she doesn't oftentimes let people answer the question.
	That's a fact.
	No, no.
	She doesn't let them answer to a point where they're like, can I answer the question?
	And I just think...
	Look, you need to be really careful, I think, in this country or anywhere when you label everything sexist.
	She's a big girl.
	She's smart.
	She's confident.
	She's capable.
	I don't need to feel sorry for her in this situation.
	Can you imagine if a man said she's a big girl?
	Can you imagine?
	Let's just talk about sexism for a moment.
	Can you imagine if a man said she's a big girl?
	Big girl.
	She's smart.
	She's confident.
	She's capable.
	I don't need to feel sorry for her in this situation.
	And I think when there is real sexism, that example is worse.
	It was hysterical.
	That's fine.
	But saying, oh, you know how many headlines I read?
	Oh, she was interrupted.
	So what?
	We all get interrupted at this table.
	They don't do it to men.
	They don't do it to men.
	Oh, really?
	Not on that committee.
	They interrupt men all the time.
	No, no, they didn't interrupt him at all.
	A couple things about this.
	Wait, wait.
	I've heard plenty of men being called hysterical.
	Sure.
	When he used to do stand-up, he was hysterical.
	Yeah.
	And it is true.
	That's where hysterical comes from.
	And I read the book about this, and there was a play, I think.
	The solution, when women were quote-unquote hysterical, they went to the doctor.
	This is why always, if you look at the old westerns, the doctor is always handsome, because he had devices, and he would, for all intents and purposes, give the woman an orgasm with his devices, which were of the vibratic sort, and then they would be happy again, and then go off on their way, and the doctors were seen as miracle workers.
	That reminds me of your theory.
	Um, the, uh, other thing that's not mentioned is, is the idea of mass hysteria is not, not just for women.
	It's changed throughout the years, but these women like to go and pick apart everything.
	What is female baiting, by the way?
	That was kind of cool.
	This is female baiting by calling someone hysterical.
	I have no idea.
	Female baiting.
	I don't know what it's about.
	You can deconstruct almost every descriptive word or anything you want down to whatever you want.
	Yeah, and you can stop anywhere you want in the process.
	But now you say someone's hysterical and then all of a sudden it's sexist.
	You can't say anything anymore.
	Well, you can, but you get raked over the coals for it.
	And yeah, just imagine the things that these women say that men saying them.
	So by definition, it is just sexist.
	Everything's sexist to these folks.
	Folks.
	They're folks.
	Yeah.
	Helmut Kohl died.
	Yes, he did.
	He was the guy that really helped Reagan with the wall thing.
	He's the one who put East Germany back together.
	No, no, no.
	That was David Hasselhoff.
	We all know who did that.
	The Hoff.
	The Hoff brought the wall down, baby.
	That's right.
	He was really the reunification guy.
	He was chancellor.
	So, Heather is still getting her feet wet over there at the State Department.
	Yes!
	How is Heather?
	I don't know.
	I don't think she's really performing as well as she could.
	She's nice, she's pleasant, but she's got to learn a few things.
	I want to play a couple Yeah.
	Just days after the American president accused Qatar of supporting terrorism.
	On Wednesday, Washington struck a deal with Doha for the purchase of fighter jets, estimated initially to cost $12 billion.
	One Qatari official says that's proof, then, that the U.S. still backs the Gulf state.
	Artis Jacqueline Vogel takes a closer look at America's recent policy in the region.
	We heard Trump say time and again that he will do whatever it takes to defeat terrorism and those supporting it.
	The nation of Qatar has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.
	So everyone was waiting to see what actions the U.S. would take against the Gulf country.
	Sanctions perhaps?
	But no.
	Instead, the U.S. has signed a deal to sell Doha $12 billion worth of fighter jets.
	And there are plans to sell them even more later this year.
	And that's not all.
	Two U.S. Navy combat ships have reportedly arrived in Doha to carry out joint drills with the Qatari Navy.
	Conflicting messages much?
	It's kind of standard behavior for the U.S. Don't we sell weapons to almost everyone in the world?
	And then create wars to keep having a market?
	This is a good indication of the administration and what they're doing everywhere.
	Given the current president, I'm not that surprised that he would be pretty hypocritical.
	I think we're kind of increasing tensions.
	But that was a done deal, wasn't it?
	That was an old deal?
	Yes, and here's Heather kind of explaining that it was on Club 2.
	That was a deal that was a long time in the making.
	That is not a brand new deal that just came out.
	We continue to work with the nation of Qatar and the government and other partners in the region.
	These are necessary actions to not only support U.S. interests in the Gulf, but also keeping that region as safe as is possible.
	Apparently cutting ties with Qatar or imposing sanctions just wouldn't be good business.
	Jacqueline Vuga, RT, Washington, D.C. What happened to the snappy Heather?
	She was much looser.
	Now she's trying to get the words out just right.
	Her binder's too heavy.
	Her binder's too big.
	Huge biceps lifting this thing.
	That's too bad.
	It seems to me that they could have taken some credit for the sale.
	Because Trump takes credit for everything that's happened that's positive.
	But he didn't.
	He didn't, and I found that to be peculiar, and I thought it was a missed opportunity.
	For him?
	Yeah.
	Well, if he's really pissed at him and is against him, he's honorable as a businessman.
	Well, then he could have just killed the deal right at the end there.
	No, no, no.
	But he knows he can't do that.
	No, you can't.
	You screw $12 billion out of the U.S. economy.
	No, you can't.
	No, you can't do that.
	Not to mention the aerospace companies.
	No, it's already in the numbers.
	It's already in our Q2. I just thought it was handled poorly.
	And of course the mainstream media didn't care.
	Although the funny thing is going on to mainstream media was this crazy story, which has been pretty much promoted by everybody, which is the anonymous sources takedown by the Justice Department.
	God, I'm glad you got something on this.
	Okay, what do we have?
	Clip?
	Yes.
	Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's statement has raised quite a few eyebrows, especially considering that as of late, majority of the American press relies on nothing but anonymous sources.
	Unidentified sources.
	Two sources with links to the counterintelligence community.
	Anonymous sources.
	According to anonymous Washington Post source.
	While the mainstream media seems to love them, the Justice Department is busy refuting all the fakes.
	No wonder they're getting quite fed up with them at the DOJ. Take a look.
	This Washington Post headline claims that Rosenstein's threatened to resign after the White House cast him as the prime suspect for suggesting to fire the ex-FBI director James Comey.
	When asked about this by journalists, Mr.
	Rosenstein claimed he never said such a thing.
	Now CNN, a regular in anonymous sources, came out saying that according to sources, Comey would testify that he never told Trump that he was not under investigation.
	Comey is kind of a slick guy.
	Trump took away from it what he did, which was he said, I've been assured that I'm not under any investigation.
	So Trump took away kind of this blanket assurance, which we believe Comey will say he did not give the president.
	But when Mr.
	Comey testified, he said the exact opposite.
	He actually told Mr.
	Trump three times that Mr.
	President, you are not under investigation.
	CNN even retracted their article confirming the original fake news story.
	Or how about this New York Times article where not even a source is cited but rather the NYT types it out like a fact that Comey, days before being fired, asked the DOJ for more prosecutors and personnel to accelerate the FBI's investigation into alleged Russia's interference in the presidential election.
	But guess what?
	The Justice Department flatly denied that Comey met with Rosenstein to ask for more resources.
	And here is House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy confirming that these allegations are nothing but false.
	One of the questions were for public, but he said, he's already said it, that he has no evidence that Comey asked for any further resources, that all the resources were there.
	Good going, NYT. And now CNN is raising eyebrows with their exact quote being, er, what?
	As the reaction to Mr.
	Rosenstein's anonymous sources statement.
	Wow.
	Can it get any better than this in the world of mainstream media?
	They even managed to f*** off the Justice Department.
	Miguel Francis Santiago, RT. Yeah.
	And, of course, the premise is that the Justice Department came out with a memo asking the American public to pay attention.
	And if it says anonymous sources or sources, it doesn't name names.
	You should be very skeptical of the articles because they're because the mainstream media.
	But we're really talking about is the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Wappel, Wappel, Wappel, Wappel, Wappel, Wappel, Wappel, Wappel.
	And MSNBC are liars.
	Well, I think maybe that's a little heavy.
	I mean, I think about this often, having been in M5M situations, and they believe it, so they're not consciously lying.
	I don't think so.
	They read things just differently.
	Okay, they're deluded.
	Okay, I'll take that.
	Did you see Rachel Maddow's Rolling Stone interview?
	Speaking of deluded.
	Oh my gosh, she's on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
	Wow.
	Listen to this.
	Just how it starts off.
	Rachel Maddow sprints onto the set of The Rachel Maddow Show, brain on fire, and slides into her chair.
	It's two minutes before airtime at MSNBC's cavernous New York studio in Rockefeller Center.
	And Maddow, dressed in her standard on-air black blazer and black tank top, Levi's in blue suede Adidas Gazelle, stealthily hidden by her giant desk, hunches over her keyboard, pounding out last-minute revisions to her script with the speed of a court reporter.
	On the agenda this Friday evening in May, the ever-evolving Trump-Russia scandal and the controversial termination of FBI Director James Comey, a story that might as well have been concocted to suit Mattow's brand of scathing methodical deconstruction.
	That's just the beginning of the article.
	How about that?
	Could you blow her any harder?
	I wouldn't mind having an article like that.
	Starts off like that.
	Curry, here.
	Curry sprints into his Cludeo of the No Agenda show, his brain on fire, twitching with Tourette's.
	He slides behind his stand-up desk in two minutes before airtime for the best podcast in the universe in his very tiny 5x9 foot studio.
	I mean, I could do the whole thing like that.
	It would sound good.
	I think you should.
	I'm working on, the last newsletter had the attachment, which I promised, of the Republican, I'm guessing it's an authentic talking points memo.
	Yes, the TP, which I think a lot of people may not have understood the subject of the newsletter.
	Even I, when I looked at it, and I knew you were going to, and I hadn't seen the draft because we were out moving and stuff, I thought toilet paper was the first thing that came to mind.
	Like, toilet paper?
	I think a lot of people would think that they'd make you more curious, or were you disgusted and refused to open the email?
	I refused to open the email and would never donate to that show.
	Well, I was talking, maybe it should be TPM. Anyway, so I put it in there, but I decided, and I was thinking about this last night, And I said in there, I'm going to do my own, I'm going to deconstruct the talking points that we're hearing from the other side, because I can't, no one's gotten me a memo from the Democrats, I'm sure they're dynamite, and I'm going to create from scratch using deconstructing methodologies, in other words, stuff I keep hearing over and over and over again.
	Ah, you're going to publish the talking points in advance of the talking points.
	I'm going to publish the Democrat talking points that they're using against Trump.
	Nice.
	How about this?
	Talking point one.
	Hitler.
	Talking point two.
	Yeah, it would be like that.
	Stalin.
	Talking point three.
	Yeah, Hitler's out.
	Hitler's no longer en vogue.
	Yeah, no, Hitler's out.
	Did you hear the latest?
	No.
	Speaking of Hitler, because I save stuff in case it comes up.
	Which game is this?
	It's the new Call of Duty.
	Call of Duty is a pretty realistic...
	It's a great game, let's just say that.
	Well now, new character role, black female Nazi.
	I mean, talk about your social justice warrior Gamergate seeping into the mainstream gaming industry.
	A black female Nazi.
	Perfect.
	Just make her Jewish and then we're all set for reality.
	Now you're talking.
	That's coming.
	It's coming.
	Alright, so I've got a couple of things.
	I've got a little entremont here, which is Obama in a teaser commercial.
	And as you listen to this, this is where Obama is right now in the scheme of things.
	On the next TMZ Live, Barack Obama spills the tea about a huge secret.
	Not about politics, it's more important.
	It's about Jay-Z and Beyonce's twins.
	Tonight at a special time on Fox 2.
	He has something to say about Beyonce's twins?
	He's always spilling it.
	Spilling the beans.
	Oh man, he must be enjoying himself.
	It must be great to be him right now.
	Don't you think?
	He's living it up.
	He's got dough and people love him.
	Fabulous.
	I'm happy for him.
	Living it up.
	On somebody else's dime is even better.
	Yeah, people who donate to OFA. AFO. What is it?
	OFA. Organization for Action.
	I've been getting their mails, but I'm going to have to unsubscribe.
	Although, they've got an interesting trick for you people out there who want to do a little direct marketing at all.
	What they've done is they've taken the mailing list, which is a monster, and they've created these kind of sub...
	You know, there's always some phony, you know, somebody's name on there.
	I'm Joe Biden, and it's like Biden for...
	Good luck.
	You unsubscribe to that, you've unsubscribed to the same, you don't get to unsubscribe to the whole, the real mailing list that's good.
	They distribute it and you get to, Biden may not send another mailing out ever, so this unsubscribe is a fraud.
	Wait a minute, you're saying that they send out a separate email that you can unsubscribe but you're not unsubscribing from the main email list that that came from?
	That's my impression.
	Hmm, hmm.
	I think it's something of a scam.
	But I'm trying to get off the list because they have too many emails that are chip in, chip in, chip in, chip in.
	That's Blue State Digital.
	Blue State Digital with that chip in crap.
	Yeah, those guys.
	And it's like these messages are no good.
	We've got to stop Trump now.
	Okay, why?
	I mean, it's just that these are lousy, lousy solicitations.
	There's no information.
	There's nothing interesting.
	There's nothing I can use on the show.
	It's just dumb.
	If you chip in, chip in $3, chip in.
	Chip in.
	I'm sick of it.
	Chip in.
	Did you read that Huffington Post article by, what's his name, Jason Fuller?
	It was Jason Fuller.
	Let me see, what does he do?
	What was it about?
	I'll read it to you.
	Impeachment is no longer enough.
	Donald Trump must face justice.
	Oh yeah, yes.
	In fact, uh...
	Yeah, I captured it, and I'm going to put it in the newsletter as a graphic.
	It's very funny.
	Shall I do a little reading?
	The guy, by the way, people say, well, he took it down, he took it from Huffington Post.
	The guy doubled down with it and put it on Medium so you can still find it, the whole article.
	Yes.
	Maybe I shouldn't read it.
	It's a Trump basher.
	Read some of it.
	Read, read, read.
	But it takes a while to get to the good thing, good part.
	Impeachment and removal from office are only the first steps.
	For America to be redeemed, Donald Trump must be prosecuted for treason, and if convicted in a court of law, he must be executed.
	Yeah.
	That's it.
	That's all you need to read.
	That's about it.
	Yeah, we need to execute him based on treason.
	Yeah.
	Treason.
	Treason.
	Okay.
	Hey, you know, why didn't they arrest him and execute him much earlier for treason?
	I'm sure he's been treasonous.
	I'm sure they can find some treason somewhere.
	Yeah, you'd think.
	Who are we at war with where you could actually commit treason?
	Do you think that when Trump eventually is out, however it happens, just done with his terms, whatever it is, the next president has no chance?
	Certainly not if they're a Democrat, which would be likely.
	They have no chance.
	They have no chance.
	This is all an all-out war.
	What the Democrats are doing...
	Yeah, they're ruining the country.
	They really are.
	They really are.
	And it's pathetic to watch, and it's pathetic that they don't have the self-awareness of seeing what they're doing.
	And it really came to almost a crescendo for me over the past few days watching the change of the M5M media's messaging regarding the shooting of Scalise.
	Now, first we had, which was on show day, Thursday, everybody was at the ballgame.
	Everybody was showing, the news is showing a ballgame.
	And they're pretending, oh, it's unity, it's great.
	Fuck you.
	You were there because you wanted to be on the scene if something blew up or someone got shot.
	That's the only reason the media was there.
	The only reason.
	They secretly hoped for that.
	But just the turnaround, it didn't take that long, but now it's ingrained.
	Now we know that this really happened because of Trump.
	Now this is obvious.
	We'll start with PBS NewsHour.
	But it is a sign on the fringes.
	We've seen a ratcheting up of violence.
	We saw it, I thought, at the conventions on both sides.
	We saw it at the Trump rallies on both sides.
	And the people on the fringes of society, we've just seen a ratcheting up in their feeling of justification that they can resort to violent means.
	And this guy apparently...
	See, it starts with, it's on both sides.
	It's on both sides.
	That's how it starts.
	...had a list of people, according to what's being reported this afternoon, of people he wanted to shoot.
	I didn't hear that.
	Did you know that?
	That he had a list?
	Yeah, I watched the same thing.
	This is Brooks, of course, on PBS NewsHour.
	The guy who agrees with the other...
	There's supposed to be two guys arguing with each other, but they're both in total agreement on everything, which makes PBS NewsHour fake.
	But...
	First time I heard it was when you heard it right there.
	I did not know that he had a list.
	I didn't know he had a list.
	That's weaponizing mentally disordered people through the process of political extremes.
	So first it's both people, then the guy is crazy, weaponizing.
	But who's doing the weaponizing?
	You hope, Judy, but David's point, in both parties, according to Pew Research, in both parties, what drives the most activist wing is not support and energy and advocacy of their own side.
	It's loathing of the other side.
	That's the gauge as to whether you're going to be politically involved, you're going to vote, and whether you're going to contribute.
	How much do you loathe the other party?
	How much do you hate them?
	And there was a time, I'll be very blunt, when I came to Washington, when the legitimacy of your opponent was never questioned.
	You questioned their judgment, you questioned their opinions or their arguments, but you never questioned their legitimacy.
	And that changed.
	And one of the reasons it changed is that a man was elected from the state of Georgia who ran on a book.
	And the book was, you use these words, you use sick.
	You refer to pathetic, traitor, liar, corrupt, shame, enemy of normal Americans.
	This was Newt Gingrich's Bible.
	It wasn't an idea of a policy.
	It wasn't a program.
	He used it and he became successful.
	He became Speaker of the House.
	Donald Trump is a clone of Newt Gingrich.
	Donald Trump used Donald Trump, Lion Ted, and lightweight Bobby Jindal, and Mitt Romney choked like a dog.
	I love how it always turns around to Trump.
	That's who's doing it.
	Let's move on to NPR. Fact check!
	It's an actual show.
	It's a podcast, too.
	NPR Fact Check.
	Fact Check.
	The question on Fact Check this week, is left-wing violence rising?
	Gibson is talking about the large group of leftist protesters, often called antifas, short for anti-fascists.
	They wear black and hide their faces, and they never give their names, especially when my colleague Martin Costi asks why they're carrying sticks.
	What's the best that the sticks are for?
	Can I ask for the 604?
	No!
	I mean, you can, but I'm not gonna tell you.
	Okay.
	You can ask me about my stick, but I'm not going to tell you what it's for, okay?
	All right?
	Tifa's say they're here to counter what they see as the rights violence and creeping fascism.
	This mask student gives his name as Felix.
	He says given the current political situation, violence is to be expected.
	You know, people are desperate, and they see the government turning back into regressive Reaganomics and racist undertones and rhetoric.
	So once they start kicking, like, you know, 25 million people off of health care.
	Oh, there it is.
	The idea that some on the far left are openly condoning violence is a red flag for extremist group monitors like J.J. McNabb.
	She says the clashes between Antifa and far-right protesters on the West Coast are increasingly volatile.
	This is a dangerous game.
	People are gonna die.
	No one's died yet, but it's just a matter of time.
	Antifa's membership appears to be growing beyond its traditional West Coast base, while also embracing other leftist ideas beyond just fighting white supremacists.
	McNabb says white supremacists are widely condemned and deservedly for their violent tendencies, but she worries Antifa is getting a pass with violence just because they're attacking racists.
	Attack them with words.
	Don't come in with sticks with nails in them.
	On the far right, activists are trying to exploit the idea that groups on the far left like Antifa are the ones inciting the violence.
	They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler.
	This online video is produced by the National Rifle Association.
	To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abiding.
	The actual data tell a much different story.
	Mark Pitcavage tracks domestic extremism for the Anti-Defamation League.
	Oh, well, I can't wait to hear this.
	It must be Trump.
	The far left is very active in the United States, but it hasn't been particularly violent for some time.
	Oh!
	The data says, the data say, the far left has not been violent for some time.
	I must have seen different videos.
	Extremism for the Anti-Defamation League.
	The far left is very active in the United States.
	But it hasn't been particularly violent for some time.
	According to the league's data in the past 10 years, 2% of all murders associated with extremist ideology came from the left.
	74% came from the extreme right, including the mass shooting in a black church in South Carolina, last month's deadly stabbings on a Portland commuter train.
	Oh, hold on.
	That was a Bernie Sanders fan.
	Sorry, NPR. Fact check, false eye there.
	Fact check, false eye there.
	Extreme right, including the mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina, last month's deadly stabbings on a Portland commuter train.
	Pitcavich says you have to go back to the 1970s to see a real cycle of deadly violence from the left.
	But because of the controversial nature of the Trump presidency and some of the things that have occurred over the past six months, there legitimately is a chance that we could see more violence from the left.
	And, you know, that should concern everybody.
	Domestic terrorism experts say that concern is only heightened by the fact that in the current polarized country, what's considered mainstream and what's considered fringe is getting more blurry.
	Mm, blurry.
	It's all Trump's fault.
	It's very blurry when they get the wrong guy who did the stabbing.
	That was pretty bad, wasn't it?
	Yeah, that was pretty bad.
	That was really bad.
	But the final clip I have in this series of funness and goodness, mind-blowing.
	Mind-blowing.
	So we have Scalise.
	He's been shot through the hip.
	It's been described very well.
	Shot through the hip, you know, sideways.
	Ripped his guts out, pretty much.
	The guy's in critical condition.
	Does that stop Joy Reid from MSNBC from calling him a racist?
	No.
	It is one thing to sort of want civility and to take umbrage when it's one of your friends, when it's one of your own colleagues, but like you said, there's a whole country out there, and a lot of people, at least in my Twitter timeline, and it's a delicate thing because, you know, obviously everybody is wishing the congressman well and hoping that he recovers.
	But Steve Scalise has a history that we've all been forced to sort of ignore on race.
	He did come to leadership after some controversy over attending a white nationalist event, which he says he didn't know what it was.
	He also co-sponsored a bill to amend...
	Maybe he didn't.
	She's with a preacher.
	That's who she has on.
	...over attending a white nationalist event, which he says he didn't know what it was.
	He also co-sponsored a bill to amend the Constitution to define marriages between a man and a woman.
	He voted for the health care bill, which, as you said, would gut health care for millions of people, including three million children.
	He co-sponsored a bill to repeal the ban on semi-automatic weapons because he is in jeopardy and everyone is pulling for him.
	Are we required in a moral sense to put that aside at the moment?
	You know, I can just see after this segment, which will finish up.
	But she's, you know, going off the set and people are like, that was so courageous.
	So brave of you to do that.
	It's so courageous.
	You know, you have to speak truth to power.
	The guy's a racist, shot or not.
	What we're required to say is we hope that when, we hope he recovers and then when he recovers, there's a renewed mindset.
	If a lesbian person saves your life, you can't, you should not go forward, you know, being homophobic.
	You shouldn't be in any way.
	That was, did a lesbian save his life?
	Did I miss something?
	He says, if a lesbian saves your life, you can't be homophobic.
	Was the Capitol Police woman, was she a lesbian?
	Is this what he said?
	Did he just out her?
	What's going on with this?
	I don't know why that came up.
	Nude mindset.
	If a lesbian person saved your life, you should not go forward being homophobic.
	You shouldn't be in any way.
	If you almost died, but your life was saved because you got health care, then you should apply that ethic and want everybody else the same health care you have.
	This is talking points for Scalise.
	Hey, almost dead man, when you are not almost dead, here's what you need to do to fix yourself.
	We're just trying to educate you.
	You know, the Bible, one of the guys that prayed, Walker, is from North Carolina, and he was saying how he prayed for everybody.
	Well, and he's a Christian.
	Well, the Bible says in Isaiah 10, Woe unto those who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights and make women and children that pray.
	The Bible calls whenever you just put on a face in a time of crisis but continue to do the same things, it's called making graves look good that are still full of dead man's bones.
	In other words, it's hypocrisy.
	If congresspeople pray for one another, and they should, P-R-A-Y, but then if they pass policies that pray, P-R-A-Y, on the poor and on minorities and the sick, then we have a serious moral problem.
	Why do you even watch this woman?
	It's the worst.
	She's the worst.
	It's my job.
	She's got a small audience and she's a jerk.
	It's my job.
	It's not your job.
	Listen to Rachel.
	Now you're just being mean to me.
	Apparently the female member of the security detail was an African American lesbian.
	An AAL. There you go.
	Well, who said he was homophobic?
	Oh, because he was against gay marriage, which doesn't mean you're homophobic, by the way.
	No, it means you're against gay marriage.
	Yeah, which is something very different.
	I did get an interesting note.
	What do you call it?
	Amygdala?
	No, but I do have amygdala material.
	Yeah.
	Wait, but keep going.
	What's your thought?
	What's the word that's so popular now?
	It's not convolved, it's convolved.
	It's a specific word everyone's using to indicate that this is joined with that and shoved into the same meme box.
	I don't know why I can't come up with the word.
	I bitch about it constantly.
	I'll just skip it for now.
	Narrative?
	That's with a C. Yeah.
	Narrative.
	Conflated?
	Conflated, that's the word.
	There you go.
	So they're conflating homophobia with not being on board with gay marriage into one box.
	If you're one, you're the other.
	Yes.
	You can only be one box, and that box, the one you want to be in, is on the right side of history.
	Note from producer Tyler.
	Adam, I thought it was interesting.
	This word is emboldened.
	I It's very interesting.
	Yes, that hardcore liberalism runs in this guy's family, talking about James Hodgkins.
	Sometime around 2006 and 2007, I worked for an environmental consulting company in Woodlawn, Illinois, named United Science Industries, which is now bankrupt.
	For a couple of years, I worked with Mike Hodgkinson.
	He was our geologist when all of this went down.
	A couple of guys called me and said, hey, that shooter was Mike's brother.
	As serious as this is, when everyone found out who the shooter, James, was, we all kind of laughed because Mike was such a staunch liberal.
	He listened to Al Franken all the time and was constantly emailing clips from Media Matters.
	I believe the laughter was surprise, but knowing how crazy liberal Mike was didn't seem surprising to me.
	How about that?
	Wow.
	It's Al Franken.
	I mean, if we take into account that President Trump's fault, maybe Al Franken should get a little heat for this.
	Yeah.
	Frank is really, I don't know.
	He's gone way off the reservation.
	I got an email from Dago J. Sir Dago J. I have a rant that I wanted to share with you guys.
	People who send you complaints about the overuse of words or phrases, interesting, yeah, no, of course.
	Need to get a life!
	Should also go screw themselves.
	Personally, I wouldn't care if you guys used the word a thousand times in a single episode because I listen for your perspective on things, not to ant-fuck every little thing either of you say.
	Those of you deserve a break from this kind of bullcrap.
	Thank you for your courage and for starting to call people out for this, whether they donate it or not.
	Well, I don't mind.
	I don't mind.
	I don't mind either, but that is a perspective.
	Okay.
	But I like enhancing my vocabulary and not falling back into these traps, which are annoying to me.
	Same way.
	I feel exactly the same.
	I picked up an interesting post from the face bag I wanted to read for you.
	You know, I'm a member of this MTV group, the MTV alums.
	And the people in this group are the people who mainly worked in the studio.
	And a lot of them are now big-time directors, producers.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, Saturday Night Live.
	The girl who works at Saturday Night Live, Gina.
	She's so infected by them.
	So infected.
	She's the loudest yell.
	She's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	So, it's not her who wrote this.
	But someone of equal stature in the business.
	Dave.
	I think the real problem with Trump for people like me is threefold.
	His politics are abhorrent.
	Really beyond the pale.
	But we've dealt with that before.
	The real issues are that A. He is so clearly a moron of untold magnitude, he just fucks himself over and over again.
	And B. He is purely a class A shitheel.
	A horrible, horrible man who is apparently without any close friends.
	Like not just bad, but evil.
	Pronounced E-Level.
	Like he makes Mr.
	Burns seem like Daffy Duck.
	And so I'm not really offended by him so much.
	I mean, I am, but...
	I'm offended by the however many tens of millions of people who thought he was exactly what this country needed.
	I just feel like fuck you to all of them.
	Your friend that you were respectfully arguing with yesterday?
	Fuck her especially.
	You want to vote for or argue for any of your run-of-the-mill Republican villains?
	Sure, I'll debate.
	But if you stand up for this dude, this felon in waiting, this future first president to go to prison, all y'all could piss up a rope.
	My friend, the super producer.
	So, what's his full name?
	David Ladek.
	And what does he do?
	He's a big-time producer.
	TV producer.
	I think the industry is just filled with guys like this.
	But why would you even post this publicly?
	I think it's silly.
	He's telling 10 million people that he hates you.
	I find it to be, yes, that's what he's saying.
	Tens of millions, actually.
	I find it is the form of insanity with these swollen amygdala.
	And the shrunken prefrontal cortex that we have.
	And this is occurring in...
	It's a medical condition.
	It's a provable medical condition these people are suffering under.
	And in that group is Lady Gaga.
	Lady Gaga.
	Lady Gaga has a head stuck in a cycle.
	I look off and I stare.
	She started...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	What did you say?
	She has her head stuck in a cycle?
	That's what the name of this thing is.
	She wrote this article.
	Head stuck in a cycle.
	I look off and I stare.
	A personal letter from Gaga.
	Gaga.
	And this is the Born This Way Foundation that she started up, which is always asking for money, even though she has $275,000.
	That's her net worth, according to any...
	You mean $275 million, maybe.
	Yes, I think so.
	I'm just like the guy with the 93 million deaths a day.
	Yes, 275 million.
	She has brave admission.
	This has been a tremendous response to her co-founder, Lady Gaga's brave admission that she has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
	Oh no, what happened?
	Nothing.
	Was she in Iraq?
	Was she hit by an IED in Afghanistan?
	I'll read from her note, because it's actually worth listening to.
	I have wrestled for some time about when and how if I should reveal my diagnosis of PTSD. Wait, wait, wait.
	If she has PTSD from the election, I'm going to poop myself.
	No, she has it from just being...
	Gaga?
	She doesn't really explain it.
	Let me go ahead.
	That's okay.
	She has it from performing, apparently.
	It's a daily effort, even during this album cycle, to regulate my nervous system.
	Let me just give you the back of what I think.
	She discusses her amygdala oversized and shrunken frontal cortex in this little essay.
	And she goes on and on about this as part of her post-traumatic stress disorder.
	This is from being this guy that you just read the letter from.
	Yeah.
	Is having the same problem, even though he doesn't know it yet.
	Yeah.
	Enlarge the amygdala.
	Yeah.
	Does she mention her amygdala in her letter?
	Yeah.
	Oh, please read.
	Yeah, please read.
	Please read.
	I'm sorry.
	I won't interrupt.
	Okay.
	Now I got to go look for the amygdala part.
	Okay, here he goes.
	Okay.
	I struggle with triggers from the memories I carry from my feelings of past years on tour when my needs and requests for balance were being ignored.
	She got PTSD from being on tour.
	Okay?
	You got that?
	Get it?
	Hello?
	Yeah, I'm with you.
	I was overworked.
	It's post-tour syndrome disorder.
	I was overworked and not taken seriously when I shared my pain and concerned that something was wrong.
	I ultimately ended up injured on the Born This Way ball.
	That moment and the memory of it has changed my life forever.
	The experience of 275 million.
	Remember that.
	The experience of performing night after night in mental and physical pain ingrained me in a trauma that I relive when I see or hear things that remind me of those days.
	Like you, you ugly fans.
	I also experienced something called dissociation, which means that my mind doesn't want to relive the pain, so I look off and stare in a glazed-over state.
	Bob Diddlin's been doing that for years.
	As my doctors have taught me, I cannot express my feelings because my prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls logical, orderly thought, is overridden by the amygdala, which stores emotional memory and sends me into a fight-or-flight response.
	This is genius.
	My body is in one place and my mind is in another.
	It's like the public accelerator in my mind gets stuck and I'm paralyzed with fear.
	When this happens, I cannot talk.
	When this happens repeatedly, it makes me have a common PTSD reaction, which is that I feel depressed and unable to function like I used to.
	It's harder to do my job.
	It's harder to do simple things like take a shower.
	I'm not laughing because PTSD is serious business, but come on.
	Come on.
	Well...
	She goes on and says, do you think you have PTSD? And now they're taking, I think, I don't know if they're trivializing PTSD or whatever they're doing, but now, and by the way, Gaga is very political, and I think this has a lot to do with what her problem is.
	Whatever her problem is, I mean, I'll repeat, although people can be, oh, $275 million.
	Well, she's suffering, the poor woman.
	She's suffering, and you're mocking her.
	I'm not mocking her.
	Well, money doesn't make happy.
	I mean, that's a false argument.
	No, it doesn't.
	Everybody knows that, and I'm not going to reiterate it.
	But curiously, the PTSD thing can be triggered or started or created by all kinds of things.
	In fact, they have a couple of clips...
	Great.
	Now, just stop for a second.
	What I love about that note is that she specifically discusses the medical condition.
	I'm not sure PTSD in general is a condition that is measured by the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
	I know some people have PTSD, so I'm going to ask them what their physicians tell them.
	Discuss that, yeah.
	It's a possibility because it does go.
	It could be.
	It could be.
	It may be developed in a war zone.
	Yeah.
	It could be.
	Well, it's usually guys who have had half their shit blown up by an IED. They have some understandable, you know, when you have no legs or pins in your legs or, you know, that I think would be real PTSD. So I think it's a bit of a slap in the face.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	But there's this other study that's being done, which I want to discuss, too.
	But going back to Gaga.
	Her real complaint right in the middle of that argument was my needs weren't being met.
	She's on tour.
	She's on tour and she wants to walk.
	This is not the bottled water I want.
	I want Badois.
	I don't want Perrier.
	My needs aren't being met.
	That's the impression I get from this note of hers.
	I can go back on that one.
	What does that mean?
	Well, the word PTSD, previously that word was shell-shocked.
	Yes, exactly.
	And it was for veterans of wars who came back shell-shocked.
	Shocked by the shelling and the booms and the danger and the death, etc.
	Okay.
	Continue.
	She's apparently gotten the PTSD from her need for balance that was not being met.
	I'm not going to be making light of this woman's pain.
	She's obviously not a normal person to begin with.
	With her talent and the rest of it.
	But I also struggle with triggers from my memories I carry from my feelings of past years on tour when my needs and requests for balance were being ignored.
	I was overworked and not taken seriously when I shared my pain and concern that something was wrong.
	Who is overworking her?
	She should be the boss of this thing, right?
	Yeah, wrong.
	I see.
	This is where I think you're a little off base.
	First of all, I don't believe she has $275 million.
	I know how the music business works.
	I think she has a lot less than that.
	She has no problem with money, but she has a lot less than that.
	And yeah, these 360 deals, she's being lived by the label, by management.
	And she's probably, as you point out, I think she's very talented.
	Her range of stuff that she can do is quite amazing.
	I like a lot of her music.
	Yeah, I do too.
	I'm not going to argue about that.
	But you can see that, yeah, she's off in a different universe.
	Many talented artists and scientists, you know, the crazy look.
	So maybe she has special...
	Special, just overall mental condition that she's susceptible to when her need's not being met that is traumatic to her.
	But I remain, it's kind of rude for people who really have PTSD. Yeah, shell-shocked.
	So tell me about your studies.
	With that in mind...
	PTSD, as a condition, seems to be gaga aside, and I think that most of her amygdala and all the rest of that has to do with her politics, which is, I think, confusing.
	I think we're seeing this a lot.
	We've documented it before.
	But let's listen to this.
	This is the new PTSD, which is now PTCS. Oh, wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	They changed it on me?
	Well, for these people.
	More than five million Americans are admitted to hospital intensive care units or ICUs each year.
	Undoubtedly, they are a crucial component of the health care system for treating seriously ill patients and preventing deaths.
	But some patients also eventually leave the ICU with new complications and problems.
	Special correspondent Jackie Judd looks at those concerns in an effort to make sure patients are getting the right interventions.
	Well, as soon as this ultrasound is done, we're gonna get your lights on and your windows open, okay?
	Every year, almost six million patients land in an intensive care unit.
	And through often heroic efforts, lives are saved.
	For many of those survivors, that period of time becomes a bright line in their lives of before and after.
	I am very aware that I am not the same person that went into the hospital with sepsis.
	I am just not.
	In what ways?
	Well, my personality, I'm shorter tempered, mood change, mild depression.
	Paul Turpin, an endocrinologist who lives outside of Nashville with his wife Mary Lou, spent a month in an ICU. That was two and a half years ago.
	We met once before at the luncheon.
	Richard Langford's first ICU stay was a decade ago, and he has not lived on his own ever since.
	Mom is the one who takes care of me.
	Now my mother is 88 years old.
	The challenge is...
	Psychologist Jim Jackson leads this support group and is part of a team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that helped identify a constellation of symptoms mimicking PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.
	They call it post-intensive care syndrome.
	So they've discovered and then they've kind of isolated what the problem is, which is in part two.
	Which is that people go into intensive care and it reminds me of the anecdote I told on the show years ago, which is A friend of mine was dating a nurse and she was on the graveyard shift and they always said that all the graveyard shift nurses turn the oxygen up on all the patients so they don't have any dead ones because they have to fill up paperwork so then they turn it down when they turn over the shift and they don't have a
	bunch of people that have to write up and she claims it's a common practice in most hospitals Which is they don't, in ICU, they drug the people up so badly that it actually becomes a traumatic experience for them being in the ICU because these drugs they're using are not pleasant.
	Anyway, play part two.
	Dr.
	Wes Ely has studied this phenomenon for almost 20 years.
	He says the risk factors are clear, powerful sedatives and prolonged use of ventilators, which can trigger delirium.
	Some ICU patients need those interventions, but not all of them do.
	We had to tie people down so they wouldn't pull lines and tubes out, but we also chemically restrained them with these deep sedatives.
	So we got comfortable pummeling people's brains with gargantuan amounts of benzodiazepines, propofol, and other types of sedation.
	We put them in this cocoon, but it wasn't a safe one.
	And when we started measuring delirium and then started measuring physical immobility, it unveiled this issue of PICS. Yeah, it goes on and on.
	People after anesthesia, I presume that a lot of this is, or they're just out.
	But certainly anesthesia, they often, you know, it's said, oh man, anesthesia still bothers me.
	It can last weeks.
	I've seen it myself.
	Or months or longer.
	Yeah, but that may not be the anesthesia at all is what I'm hearing now.
	It could be pics.
	Post-intensive care syndrome.
	But this is like you can't control this.
	I mean, in Gaga's situation, which is creating this same kind of issue, I kind of believe she might have a form of PTSD that she brought on herself.
	Because her needs weren't being met.
	Besides that, yeah.
	But she's the one who signed on to it.
	And it's like...
	I don't know.
	I feel bad about it, but at the same time, she's very political.
	She's taking in all the information that is dissociative.
	It doesn't make sense.
	That guy who wrote the letter that you just played, which led me into these clips.
	That guy has got an issue that is not healthy.
	It's not healthy.
	It's also so out of character.
	I know all these people.
	I've worked with them for years.
	This is out of character for him to do this in a public setting, even if it's on face bag.
	That's very public.
	And you just read it to all our, you know, I mean, once you put it out there like that, the opportunity for it to go crazy is high.
	And why would you do in the first place, which is the question you immediately asked, and I'm thinking the same thing that Gaga found out about, which is enlarged amygdala, which is what we've talked about on the show before, and a shrunken prefrontal cortex, making your decision-making, it's just Screwing your decision making up.
	That was a bad decision he made to post that letter.
	And why would you do that?
	I mean, everybody makes a bad decision now and again.
	You take a left turn into a one-way street.
	I've made two.
	You weren't paying attention.
	But...
	This is the thing we talk about on this show, why no agenda is so important to a lot of the listeners who might go, you know, that's why I say when you stop listening to the show, you can end up in dimension B, thinking crazy things, and it's ruining your brain.
	You've got to get off this Trump hate.
	It's crazy.
	Is there a simple test?
	To measure the size of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex?
	Or do you have to really get in there?
	Or do you have to do imaging?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	It would be great if there's some kind of...
	Wouldn't it be great if there's a test like...
	Or if there's a hormone you get released because your thing is going nutty.
	No, but I just want to be able to test it.
	It's like maybe if you could say, hey, eat this mango.
	And if people hate mango, then...
	I think the only test is to witness some of these guys, like you just read that letter on Facebook, That they've just done...
	It's like, why are you doing this?
	I would actually question Gaga's little note here that she wrote on her website as, why are you writing this?
	I mean, it sounds like you could be ridiculed for it because of this.
	My needs aren't met by, you know, worth all this money, even though she probably isn't right.
	But I just can't get over it.
	It's such a simple thing.
	If you can say to people...
	Hey, you know, the way you're responding is the way a person with an enlarged amygdala and a reduced shrunken prefrontal cortex operates.
	If that is not a healthy situation, it's science.
	I know you believe in it.
	Do X. Get an MRI. Go take a look at it.
	Then go look at the science and then tell me that you may be okay, but you might be in some danger and it should be investigated.
	You should care about your well-being.
	Yeah.
	But I need a little more, you know?
	Well, we got nothing.
	All we have is these theories.
	We got nothing.
	We got nothing.
	But it appears to me, when she mentions the amygdala, she probably did have an MRI, but it seems to me that this is what's going on, and it's this Trump thing that's causing a lot of it.
	Here's how it works.
	Here's how it works.
	You say to me, you should check your privilege, like a social justice word.
	Go ahead.
	Say it to me.
	You should check your privilege.
	Oh yeah?
	You should check your amygdala.
	What?
	What?
	Oh, the bill is in for Tina's procedure?
	You know, in four months from now, we'll have the same health insurance once the common law marriage kicks in in Texas.
	I'm very excited about it because it'll only cost me $500 a month.
	But, you know, there's still this 20% that's not covered, deductibles.
	So the doctor himself, his bill was $8,000.
	Which I think is reasonable.
	Although, remember, insurance companies only pay 28 cents to the dollar, which is why these prices are so inflated.
	What do you think the hospital overnight stay and anesthesiologist and anesthesiologist nurse cost total?
	80 grand.
	Close.
	52.
	Okay.
	52,000.
	But here's the lame thing, is that Tina has to pay her deductible and a piece of the uncovered until it's capped.
	Over the $52,000 amount, not over the actual amount that the hospital expects to receive, which is why they inflated in the first place.
	And in the case of the doctor, not necessarily the hospital, but she's actually paying more than insurance is paying.
	It's so disgusting.
	It's unbelievable.
	And, once again...
	There's nothing we can do about it because everybody's in on the scam.
	But we're in the wrong business.
	We are.
	We've been in the wrong business.
	All our lives!
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	And I want to commend you on that segment with Gaga and the amygdala tie-in.
	It's fantastic.
	That's why I listen to the show.
	It was because of your note, which I encourage, from the face bags.
	Because that was just like, well, there you go.
	There's my lead.
	And you just let me write it down the primrose path to that piece.
	We need a better term, though, instead of enlarged amygdala.
	We'll come up with something.
	Like a term...
	Huh?
	I don't know.
	Um...
	Okay, let's see what we got for start.
	Please read Dame Beth's note.
	I'm going to read it.
	Dame Beth, the Baroness of Baja, Arizona.
	$123.45 says, bitch-ass cancer last week took out the man who stepped in after bitch-ass cancer took my dad years ago.
	May I get F cancer, please?
	Dame Beth.
	That sucks, Father's Day.
	A little F cancer karma for you, girl.
	You've got karma.
	So sorry about that.
	Gwendolyn, and now I'm going to read, if there's a Father's Day in here, we'll have to read these.
	Mention it, yes.
	And it will go all the way down to the bottom.
	This is one of the times we take exception.
	Normally anyone under $50 we assume is anonymous, but if they're mentioning their dad or something, this obviously is part of the deal.
	Gwendolyn Adams in Sarasota, Florida, $103.15.
	I'd like to give a Father's Day shout-out to my boyfriend and baby daddy, Bill.
	He's a great father and keeps our little one exposed to no agenda almost daily.
	Woo-hoo!
	Woo!
	Having said that, it's probably still a good idea to go ahead and de-douche our little one for good measure.
	I think Bill would appreciate a shut-up slave.
	Sure.
	Why not?
	Shut up, slave!
	D-douching.
	Oh, D-douching.
	I'm sorry.
	You've been D-douched.
	Forgot the douche.
	D-douche.
	D-douche.
	Wesley K. Walker, $100.
	Scott Floyd, $100.
	Brian, $100 from Austin, Texas.
	Last week I made a $33 donation thinking I could get a D-douching, making me a double douche bag.
	So here's $100.
	Please give me a D-douching.
	D-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	What does he need two for?
	Well, you know, maybe extra dirty.
	You've been de-douched.
	There you go.
	Woo!
	Wipe it off.
	Bradley Seltzer, who has a Father's Day call off to himself or to Bradley Seltzer, maybe his dad.
	Dwight, and he's in for $100.
	Dwight Chick, $99.99 in Burlington, Ontario.
	Father's Day shout-out for Sir Hank Scorpio and our father Clark, two of the best dads I know.
	Very nice.
	Larry Hay, 8008.
	Happy Father's Day to you two, Jensen, and my father Stephen Hay and his excellent fellow fathers Jeff Lee, Stephen Mark, and Cullen Kemp, all of whom I recently hit in the mouth.
	To propagate the formula.
	And he's in for 808 boob.
	Sir Rick from Arlington, Washington, 69, 696.
	Esther Zakarason.
	She's in for 69, 69.
	And is there a name here?
	Happy Father's Day to Craig Stipp in Lake County, California.
	Your MILF and human resources love you.
	Joseph DeFeo, 6180.
	No mention.
	James Durante, 6018.
	Happy Father's Day, John and Adam.
	My dad, John and myself, James Durante.
	Heather Reitmeyer, double nickels on the dime.
	Rex Reitmeyer, happy Father's Day.
	Daniel Hudson Joe.
	Hutner, 5510.
	And he's got Brad Hutner.
	Happy Father's Day.
	No, Bud.
	Bud Hutner.
	Oh, I said Brad.
	How do you make Brad out of Bud?
	Man, I wish I was faster.
	Dean Roker, double nickels on the dime.
	Bill McClare, $50 from Riverdale, Michigan.
	These following people are $50.
	They're already there.
	Bill McClare, Micah Miller, and Bethel, Pennsylvania.
	I think it's Micah Miller.
	You don't think it's Micah?
	No.
	It's Micah.
	Raleigh Hawk in Anna, Illinois.
	Happy birthday to Black Knights, your lineman.
	Do we have that on there?
	I'll check.
	I think so.
	Hello?
	Anna.
	Hold on.
	You are cutting out.
	Hello?
	Yes, I'm here.
	Okay.
	Testing, testing, testing.
	Anna C. Colleen, Happy Father's Day.
	Stuart, Lily adores you.
	John Camp, Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Amitav, Hajra in Dateville, Virginia.
	Daleville.
	Michael Lloyd, Parts Unknown.
	Tanya Morrison in Trabuco Canyon.
	Happy Father's Day to Mike Morrison.
	Love ya.
	Jason Lewis, Macon, Georgia.
	Does he have a Father's Day on here?
	I have to click to open it.
	Happy Father's Day to Joe Stephens, or Stephens, prodigal son who fled to Athens, Georgia.
	Matthew Mungin, Baltimore, Maryland.
	Joel Deruin, which is also the name of a fantastic French duck.
	Dolet Zangusen.
	Dolet.
	D-A-U-L-E-T Zangusen.
	I don't know.
	Bellevue, Washington.
	Niels Sparboom.
	Sparboom.
	Sparboom in Roon.
	Roon.
	Netherlands.
	Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Oklahoma.
	Montgomery, Texas.
	Not even in Oregon.
	You know the problem with that one?
	I'll tell you what you said.
	How did you come up with that?
	No, I never ask that anymore.
	Well, this one, the little arrow thing was on top of that, and I just guessed.
	Oh, the pesky arrow thing.
	The arrow thing.
	Andrew Haverson in Gravenhurst, Ontario, and last but not least, Israel Cazares at parts unknown.
	We're going to go down the list looking for fathers on the spreadsheet.
	Okay, Matthew Funk.
	I got saying Happy Father's Day to Bob Funk in Bakersfield.
	How about Captain Mike?
	Love you, Dad.
	Yes, I missed him.
	Stateside son number one, he says.
	Stateside son number one.
	Bob Funk?
	I got Bob Funk.
	Dame Beth, the Baroness of Arizona, came in with it.
	We did that.
	Oh, no, that was up higher.
	That's what you had, too.
	Happy Father's Day, my dad, Moon, from...
	John Stoum?
	Stoum?
	Graham Wolfe.
	Happy Father's Day to Patrick Wolfe.
	Beatrice Hatcher to Luke.
	Dad to June and Ruby, it says.
	Nice list.
	Well, that's a big one.
	Dame Jamie.
	This is Dame Jamie, who we called Sir Jamie for a long time.
	Did we call her Sir Janie?
	We did.
	Greg Stone, also to Sir Rory.
	Sir Rory Stone, actually.
	To Greg Stone.
	Yeah, I think that's it.
	And he's a Jobs Carmen, which I will give him.
	Sir Rory.
	Down at the bottom, we get further down.
	Now we're down into the penny.
	Lisa Stelter to Paul from his wife, Lisa Stelter, and two adorable kids, Amelia and Sammy.
	Where did you get that?
	Did I run past it?
	I'm down at the $5 level.
	I'm down at the $4 and I didn't see anything in the fives.
	Yeah.
	Line 140.
	I'm going to put...
	I just said, oh, I see what happened.
	I need to click on it to open that one.
	Ah, okay.
	Never mind.
	Thanks, Obama.
	All right.
	I think that does it.
	Thanks, Obama.
	It's our group of well-wishers and happy Father's Day to everybody who listens to the show.
	Yes, thank you all very much.
	And it's nice to see some real love for fathers out there, even though it will be the last time on the best podcast in the universe, because we say screw fathers.
	Dvorak.org.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And the list is also reasonably short.
	Gordon Freeman celebrates on the 20th.
	Sir Lyman of the Net, Raleigh Hawk, and daughter Madeline Hawk are celebrating their birthdays.
	And Lisa Stelter says happy birthday to her husband Paul, who celebrates on June 20th.
	And we say happy birthday to all of you.
	Happy Father's Day from all your buddies here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	No title changes, no nights.
	But, but, I have an idea.
	For the, uh, for the, yes...
	Before we do that, I do have one note to read, which is a Father's Day note that came in.
	I want to remind people that we have a cutoff at midnight for the spreadsheet.
	Midnight West Coast time.
	Pacific Daylight or Summer or whatever it is.
	This is from Noriko.
	I've just made my first donation, obviously, on behalf of my two-month-old son, Kono, to celebrate his daddy's very first Father's Day.
	No agenda is daddy's absolute favor.
	He never misses it.
	Baby Kono has been listening to your show since he was in my womb.
	He recognizes your voices and loves all the sounds you create during your show.
	We call you Uncle John and Uncle Adam.
	True appreciation to your hard work and amazing contribution to the real world.
	We like...
	We no like fake news.
	Also, thank you for being part of our little family.
	We look forward to hearing each of you at each and every show.
	One love to Uncle John and Uncle Adam, Baby Kono and Mommy Noriko.
	Shout out to Daddy Tomi.
	Boom.
	You know, those are the notes that really make me want to do the show when I get up at 6am.
	Great show.
	Great note.
	Yes.
	That's a great show.
	Don't spike the ball on the show, man.
	Hey, I've got it.
	I've got it.
	For the big amygdala syndrome.
	Ready?
	Are you ready?
	Okay, what?
	Bigdala.
	Bigdala.
	You're suffering from bigdala, dude.
	Big Dilla.
	What do you think?
	I like it.
	It's not bad.
	I actually like it because I like the rings.
	It sounds like bigly.
	Yeah.
	Big Dilla.
	That guy's suffering from Big Dilla.
	Damn.
	Okay, we can go with that.
	Here's a guy not suffering from Big Dilla.
	You don't see this often on the news.
	This was carried live, I think, in London.
	Black guy standing up.
	Man, he's pissed at the mainstream M5M media.
	Be warned, there's some F-bombs in this one.
	But it was just refreshing to hear it, and the crowd starts to cheer at the end.
	What do I want to happen?
	I want it to be a revolution in this country.
	I say, fuck the media.
	Fuck the mainstream.
	You don't deserve to be there.
	Do you know what I'm saying?
	I mean, we should be campaigning not to government, but to the BBC, who acts as mouthpieces for this corrupt government.
	Do you know what I mean?
	People need a revolution in this country.
	Nothing short of that.
	And if this was any other country, there'd have done been a revolution.
	We've seen how you, the mainstream media, have responded and reacted.
	For two years, you've hounded, demonized Jeremy Corbyn.
	And you said he was unelectable.
	He can't be...
	There's no possibility of this man being elected.
	And you created that narrative that people actually believed your bullshit for a while.
	But what this election has done is shown that people are immune.
	They're wearing bulletproof vests to you and the other billionaire sort of media owners and Rupert Murdoch and all those other motherfuckers.
	They're immune to that shit there.
	And that is the vote of confidence, not in terms of Jeremy Corbyn, but it dismisses men, but it also stands up to you as the mainstream media.
	I say you personally, but I identify you as the mainstream media.
	Do you understand what I'm saying, dear?
	I'm saying I identify as the mainstream media.
	You are not a...
	You are a bunch of motherfuckers.
	Hate the media.
	So this BBC reporter goes over to shake the guy's hand.
	I like you anyway.
	I like you too.
	I like you too.
	I like you fried, boiled.
	Anyway, I've been fucking happy, motherfucker.
	I like you fried, boiled.
	Right on, man.
	Right on, Gitmo Nation GMT. Rise up!
	Resist!
	I'm very happy to hear that.
	Good luck.
	Let's see.
	Dude named Cannon writes in about the audio descriptions known as AD that I've been harping on for the past couple of months.
	This is all part of the American Disability Act.
	I was going to say Americans Against Disability Act.
	The American Disability Act.
	And this is a big, big problem.
	Here it says, don't use my name, it'll get me fired.
	Okay.
	Holy crap, audio descriptions, or AD. Actually, it's AD, and then you have paren, paren, paren.
	Right paren, close parens.
	That's the symbol, like CC for closed captions.
	Giant pain in the ass, total fear of mine.
	I'm the lead videographer of a decent-sized research university here in the Midwest.
	We also have one of the leading accessibility centers in the country because of our research status.
	Stanford and Berkeley are two others who are at the top of that list.
	It hasn't been mandated yet, but the request has been asked of our team that we start AD-ing our videos.
	I can tell you it's an impossible task.
	We have four people on staff.
	Three of us are one-man band.
	Shoot, write, edit.
	The others are younger.
	I'm not allowed to say it.
	The manager and I come from TV news, so we're used to crazy expectations.
	But when we were asked what it would take to start adding this to our videos, we kind of shrugged.
	We told the accessibility department it would take a full-time position because it's not something any of us shooting could do.
	Add to our workload.
	We also explained the majority of our videos would be impossible to add AD to.
	All of our videos are interview heavy, so the mix of the original voice track and an AD would get messy and really wouldn't work.
	You can't pay attention to both tracks at the same time.
	Their response was, okay, you better find someone to do it.
	To which we replied that they would have to hire someone who would be better equipped to handle the regulations.
	Well, you know that that's not going to happen.
	Only a matter of time before it's mandated.
	The worst part about it, I had to do a lot of research for this.
	No one in Hollywood's doing it.
	I've spoken with several universities and marketing companies who said they fear the day when they're asked to do this because there isn't a good way to handle it at any reasonable cost.
	There must be a better solution for this.
	There's got to be a technical solution that would just be so much easier.
	How about if you can just tag your video that someone who has a screen reader, it'll trigger the voice.
	You know?
	Like, three people sitting in a room talking.
	Something like that.
	You know, it seems possible that There could be specialty organizations, without using the robot voice, actually sit there and spend the two and a half hours watching the movie and annotate it as it goes along and do the job like a live translator does.
	You're not going to nail it.
	You just need to do it.
	In other words, when you go to the United Nations, it depends on the number...
	How fast you talk, you got a little earpiece that you wear, and it's translated to Italian and German and French, and you catch most of it.
	Yeah, but, you know, it'll satisfy the law, and it only takes two and a half hours of work.
	Why are we satisfying the law instead of trying to help people who have a legitimate issue, but help them in a way that makes sense for everybody?
	Yeah.
	I think you could help them.
	You don't need to.
	I mean, I think I've seen these things that are done that way.
	You're talking about too much detail.
	You're talking about people who sit there and there's talking heads and they're sitting at a lecture.
	Now you have to describe what's going on.
	It can be done, but not if there's actual voice dialogue.
	You can't do that live.
	You have to fit that in.
	And I'm saying screw that.
	Just bypass all of it.
	I think it can be done inexpensively.
	Well, it seems like there...
	You know what?
	If we come up with the idea, we can get out of this damn podcasting gig.
	There you go.
	All right.
	Let's have a meeting.
	Podcasting's the future.
	Podcasting's the future.
	We're in a futuristic business.
	Yeah, I gotta tell you something.
	I should have done this before the donation segment.
	Do you remember the big puha about Gimlet Media?
	Gimlet.
	Yeah, NPR spin-off.
	We got $2 million investment.
	We're going to create the best podcasting network ever.
	We rock!
	I remember.
	Every time one of these shows up, you like to talk about it.
	Yeah, what do I usually say?
	What is my payoff line?
	The payoff is, this doesn't work.
	You can't monetize the network.
	It does not work.
	And lo and behold, they've released their new slate of shows.
	Which includes a show that they produce for Ford, a show they produce for Tinder, a show they produce for eBay.
	Hello!
	This is exactly what I predicted.
	You couldn't make any money because you can't monetize your network, and now you've become an ad agency.
	Slow clap for you.
	I told you.
	Just native ads.
	I told you.
	That's not even native ads.
	It's just infomercials.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's pathetic.
	Well, it's not bad if you look at it from a meta perspective and you're looking down from the gimlet, you know.
	But, you know, they may say, oh, yeah, we're going to have the most awesomeness ever podcast network.
	And now they're coming out with these shows like the eBay show.
	Yeah.
	Hello, pod show.
	We pitched Amazon TV, Amazon Radio, all of that shit.
	I want people to know that you tried doing this, what, a decade ago with Pod Show?
	Yes, sir.
	2005.
	2005.
	12 years ago, you actually had this exact same idea, and you went through the whole process, and it came out the other end of something completely different.
	You have...
	They invented the wheel, and all they're doing is reinventing.
	Let me ask you this.
	This is something that always baffles me.
	How many of these companies, like Gimlet, let's say, have come to you and said, hey, we want to do this, and we'd like to hire you on as a consultant because of, you know, or even talk to you and say, can we have a little conversation about what we're up to?
	How many of these people have come and got hold of you Yeah, that's what I thought.
	Why did I even bother asking?
	It's sad, but it also misses the whole point because some great programming came out of the NPR spinoff to start with.
	And I would say, call John or call me.
	We'd be happy to tell you what we've learned.
	Happy to.
	Even you, NPR. That'll be the day.
	Yeah.
	Those guys are a couple of Trump apologists.
	Yeah.
	Their amygdala gets bigger and bigger.
	They get bigdala.
	Bigdala.
	I'm here.
	Me and my bigdala are in the house.
	So the latest going on in Washington is that, and I've got one clip here, which is they're lawyering up!
	And it's like a big deal to lawyer up, apparently.
	...to discredit and potentially end his presidency.
	Some of that ire, according to AP, aimed at Special Counsel Bob Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein, the man who appointed Mueller to lead the Russia investigation.
	If President Trump ordered you to fire the special counsel, what would you do?
	Senator, I'm not going to follow any orders unless I believe those are lawful and appropriate orders.
	The president and the president's men are lawyering up.
	Even Trump's longtime lawyer has hired a lawyer.
	But at least one member of Trump's cabinet says the investigation should run its course.
	I would give him the chance to see if he could do that, because if there's nothing there, he's not going to find anything anyway.
	And David Wright joins us now live from the White House.
	So, David, we know that the president has added a new lawyer to his team.
	His name is John Dowd.
	He's got quite a record.
	That's right, Cecilia.
	This guy's a heavy hitter.
	Among his many high-profile clients, he defended John McCain in the savings and loan scandal.
	And as a lawyer for Major League Baseball, he got Pete Rose banned for life.
	What a hero.
	I forgot that McCain was embroiled in that savings and loan scandal.
	Are there 15 lawyers that the special counsel Mueller has hired?
	He's hired a bunch.
	I don't think it was that many, but they're all Clintonistas.
	And they've got to get...
	The way I'm seeing this, these guys who want to save their...
	They've got to get Rance Priebus out and get the guy from Georgia in there as the...
	Gingrich in as the...
	Chief of Staff.
	Because Gingrich is a loud-mouthed, mean-spirited, aggressive guy who will do more than just...
	And he could probably tell Trump to shut up.
	Yeah.
	I think he could.
	I think he could.
	Well, my last clip, which is also kind of related to the surround Trump and make him hopeless, is the Senate pushes more sanctions on Russia and doesn't allow Trump to get anywhere with his trying to...
	The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly has approved new sanctions on Russia today over its election The penalties target those involved in human rights abuses and cyber crime.
	The bill also blocked the president from removing sanctions without congressional approval.
	Ahead of the vote, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned a House panel against limiting the president's options.
	I would urge Congress to ensure any legislation allows the president to have the flexibility to adjust sanctions to meet the needs of what is always an evolving diplomatic situation.
	So there's that.
	Have you seen the Putin interview?
	No, I'm watching it tonight with Tina.
	I'm very excited about it.
	I already have a download, and apparently he speaks English in it.
	A couple of times.
	Usually when Stone is leaving or coming, he'll say something nice in English.
	But it's outstanding to watch.
	At the very end, not to give it away because there's nothing to give away.
	It's just a long, long conversation.
	He says, I hope you mind getting beaten up.
	He says, what are you talking about?
	He says, you're going to get beat up for doing this interview with me.
	Yeah, he is.
	As in the media is going to beat him up.
	Although Stone is pretty...
	What I thought was interesting, the takeaway, and I think you'll get this too, is Stone, I mean, when you look at the design of the logos and cutting in and out, Stone is really one of those guys that's a consummate pro.
	I mean, he sets the shots up.
	He puts himself in this movie.
	It's a movie.
	And he does a little meta stuff where he says, here's how we're going to do the shot.
	So it's meta.
	It's a documentary about the documentary.
	It's meta.
	There's a little bit of that.
	It's very advanced.
	It's like extremely advanced, but advanced in such a professional, slick way that you really have to remember how good Stone is as a director.
	Well, people think he's a dick now.
	Yeah, well, that's what Putin said is going to happen.
	I have a few last items on my list that I do want to get to.
	One is the term assault pistol, which we identified, and yes, this is something.
	People are catching it everywhere.
	This is from, this is the Wojhele, that's the Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam Hickam Hickam.
	Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam.
	Yes.
	This comes from a memo regarding promulgate procedures for the stowage, registration, and possession of privately owned firearms and dangerous weapons on the base.
	Prohibited from JPBHH, assault rifles, automatic firearms, rifles with barrel lengths less than 16 inches, shotguns with barrel lengths less than 18 inches, mufflers, silencers, or devices for deadening or muffling the sound of discharging firearms, cannons, hand grenades, or devices for deadening or muffling the sound of discharging firearms, cannons, hand grenades, dynamite, blasting caps, bombs or bombshells or other explosives, any type of ammunition designed to penetrate metal or pierce protective armor, any type of ammunition designed or intended to explode or segment upon
	And assault pistols.
	Which I do not describe.
	Huh.
	Assault pistols.
	That got snuck in there.
	Assault pistols.
	There's no such thing as an assault pistol.
	Well, there's no such thing as an assault rifle either.
	That's true.
	There's no such thing.
	It's just the decoration of the rifle.
	Yeah, it's pretty looking.
	If you're into camo.
	If you're into camo.
	Got a new scream?
	New scream to add to the mix?
	I think one of these days I'll be able to do a full hour No Agenda special with just screams.
	Alright, well is that a goat?
	No, that's a social justice warrior.
	Now the problem, I have a little problem with this scream because I think it over modulates.
	It does a tad, yeah.
	Which is responsible for the recording.
	What was she screaming about?
	I have no idea.
	I assume so.
	It could be a guy.
	My big deal.
	My big deal.
	And then finally, the war between the agencies continues, and I feel that now the FBI is hitting back at CIA. One of their big contractors, Booz Allen...
	And was that not where Snowden worked?
	Didn't he work at Booz Allen before he went to work for NSA? Yes, he worked there.
	I believe so, yes.
	So they're being investigated.
	Check out shares of Booz Allen Hamilton right now.
	They are plunging in after hours.
	This is after the contractor, which...
	Is a big government contractor that provides services to a number of different agencies within the government.
	Says it was informed that the US Department of Justice is conducting a civil and criminal investigation relating to certain elements of the company's cost accounting and indirect cost charging practices with the US government.
	The company is saying, quote, to date, our internal and external audit processes have not identified any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses or identified any significant erroneous cost charging.
	The company says it is cooperating with the government in these matters, but if you take a look at shares right now, they are down more than 8% in after hours.
	Hmm.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	That's something.
	That's not a usual situation.
	That is not usual at all.
	Certainly not for a contractor, so we'll keep our eye on that.
	And I have a, well, for Thursday, I have a prediction about what will cause the meltdown.
	Or at least what it will be blamed on.
	Ah!
	My meltdown?
	Yes, your meltdown.
	Well, it's not my personal meltdown, but I mean the meltdown that you're talking about.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	You and that guy from Singapore.
	Yeah, Rogers.
	Rogers, yeah.
	All right, everybody, that is it for our program for today.
	Happy Father's Day for everybody who deserves it.
	And remember, we have a show coming up on Thursday.
	Please visit our donation page at dvorak.org slash na.
	And I am coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, here in the common law condo, the Cludio, 5x9, FEMA Region 6 on the map if you're looking for me.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where they're starting to heat up.
	And I will be, I don't know what I'm going to do about it.
	I'll jump in some water or something.
	I'm not sure.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll return on Thursday with another episode of the best podcast in the universe right here.
	See you then.
	And until then, as always, adios, mofos.
	What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong.
	A personal robot firing a weapon.
	When I was watching, was it a personal robot firing a weapon?
	When I was watching, was it a personal robot firing a weapon?
	I'm not thinking anything like that.
	I'm thinking MKUltra.
	Robot, they wasn't like a robot.
	When I was watching, was it a personal robot firing a weapon?
	It was a real hard for anything, any life, nothing.
	I'm thinking MKUltra.
	This is...
	That's a really big number.
	93 million, 93 people.
	What I was watching was a person, a robot, firing a weapon.
	What I was watching was a person, a robot, firing a weapon.
	A robot or anything like that.
	I'm thinking MKF. Robot, right?
	Was it like a robot?
	Mm-hmm.
	And, of course, it keeps the gators around.
	One of them are recording the families.
	This is the new world of color.
	This is the new world of color.
	This is the new world of color.
	This is the new world of color.
	This is the new world of color.
	This is the new world of color.
	This is the new world of color.
	That is a pretty stunning thing.
	It is a stunning thing.
	I just found it stunning.
	No.
	Fuck no.
	Oh my God.
	I'm crazy.
	I'm crazy No I'm crazy Clap back, you know?
	Using a red phone, trying to get into Using a red phone, trying to get into Using a red phone, trying to get into Using a red phone, trying to get into That is a pretty stunning thing It is a stunning thing.
	I'm just scared about this.
	Stunning.
	No.
	Using a red phone, trying to get in.
	That is a pretty stunning thing.
	It is a stunning thing.
	I'm just scared about this.
	It's stunning.
	Clap, clap, clap.
	You know?
	Using a red phone, trying to get in direct contact, a direct line of communication, back channel, as we've talked about for several weeks, that ominous term.
	With Moscow, I'm crazy.
	Clap back, you know?
	He said he was really upset about the way things went down with the election.
	It made him queasy.
	Comey said that Lynch, the request gave him a queasy feeling.
	He felt it 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.
	How about a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
	Since when is the FBI doing it?
	Oh, I felt queasy about that.
	It just didn't feel good.
	It was very uncomfortable.
	Queasy feeling.
	It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election.
	I think I'm getting hurt!
	Cause I'm all overstanding On the ground The best podcast in the universe Adios, mofo.

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