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942: Force Multiplier
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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
And it's Thursday, June 29th, 2017.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9042.
This is no agenda.
Functioning as Narcan to the mainstream's drugging of the masses and broadcasting live in the darkest corners of the internet here in the capital of the drone, Star State, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And for Northern Silicon Valley, it's summertime.
How do I know?
It's cold.
I'm John C. Devorak.
It's crackblot and buzzkill in the morning.
That is so true of San Francisco.
I've forgotten all about that.
The summertime.
Yeah.
Summers are cold.
It's cold and foggy.
And in fact, the fog rolls in a little early.
Usually it rolls in on July 4th to ruin the fireworks.
Oh yeah, the fog.
That's right.
You have the fog over the city and you can't see anything.
You can't see anything.
It's beautiful.
It's absolutely beautiful.
But it's all fogged in completely right now.
I can't even see the city.
And I suspect it'll be this way through the 4th of July.
I'm so sorry.
Well, it's very cold where we're going.
I should probably mention...
You're headed out.
We've got to wrap the show early.
Yeah, we've got to get done on time.
We're off to Europe.
I'm going to see my sisters.
I'm also opening the Andy Warhol exhibit in Amsterdam for my buddy.
It's cool.
It's andy.amsterdam, which apparently is a top-level domain now.
.amsterdam?
Yeah.
Got long.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Do you have a big giant pair of mega scissors and you're going to kind of rip it?
Yes.
I'm bringing my scissors with me.
No.
I think they're too long for the flight, aren't they?
To buy new ones over there?
Yeah.
Because you can't carry those big giant scissors on the flight.
No, no, you can't carry the scissors with you.
Indeed.
Yeah, so we'll be doing shows from the road, as usual.
Except maybe because we're going to go visit my buddy in France, and the internet there is really crap.
So just in case, I made a best of...
I thought the French had good internet.
Oh.
Yeah, maybe in the cities, but not down south.
But I had a really weird experience, because I was getting a best-of show ready, and you and I discussed that maybe we just put together a show of the No Agenda songs.
Yes, we have quite a few.
Holy crap!
After an hour and 45 minutes, I had to stop, and I was doing it with headphones on.
When you listen to all of these pieces of music and it has all the different political players, show business players, everyone's in there woven through it.
It's kind of like you're making meth, but you're in the meth lab and you're getting affected by the meth.
It is a truly trippy experience to hear this stuff.
It's really outstanding.
And there's stuff I've forgotten about completely.
Such great material.
I could make seven hours.
Easily.
You think?
Yeah, and the chat room heard a little bit of it this morning.
During the pre-stream, I played about 30 minutes, and they were like, oh, I could listen to hours of this!
Well, you just might, depending on the French.
Who are in the news?
Hopefully you can get a connection, because I would like to hear that, although you could probably do two of those shows.
Yeah.
We are taking off something.
Yeah, you're going to London, right?
I think it's...
No, I'm thinking of Christmas.
I think it's Christmas falling.
Okay, we just got into summer.
I think we can wait a little bit to figure that one out.
I'm going to have to look at the map.
At the map, yes.
You've got to look at the map for the North Pole.
I have to look at the map.
I'm very excited though.
Whether we play it while I'm gone or whether we play it, it doesn't matter.
But I can do, seriously, three shows out of just the stuff that people have submitted to us.
It's crazy.
And if you crank it up, it's just...
It accumulates.
What do you mean?
Well, I mean, you didn't know there were seven hours, I'm sure.
Oh, no, I had no idea.
No, but I was like, yeah, I can put together an hour and a half.
Because you do about five to seven minutes every show, which is 70 minutes a year.
And so you end up with probably, yeah, I can see you probably have a lot more than you think.
And some of the stuff's really long.
You never really play that long.
Some stuff you've never played.
That's correct.
That's correct.
Some stuff I will never play.
But it's very good.
Very good.
Speaking of the French, Rick Perry, who most people consider to be...
He was French.
He was French and who most people consider to be a dumb douchebag.
Had something to say about the French.
A lot of people are still scared.
Now, is he the energy secretary?
Is that his job now?
You know, he seems to know a lot more than you'd think.
...nuclear power because of nuclear waste and nuclear plant safety.
And this has been happening since the 60s when one television documentarian said that really it hasn't changed in terms of what we know to do with nuclear waste, which isn't much.
Can you assure the American people that nuclear waste and nuclear plant safety are such that we should expand nuclear power in this country?
You know...
I would reflect that, or deflect that, if he was here, to President Macron of France, who gets 70-plus percent of their power from nuclear energy.
Now, this is the country that wouldn't buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power.
So the French, who I've always thought were a little bit different, And that's in a good way.
They recognized us as a state back in the 1830s, so we actually have a really close personal relationship with the French.
We like them.
We had an embassy in Paris.
They had one in Austin.
As a matter of fact, it's still there.
Yeah, it's not an embassy, but yeah, it's still here.
All the French legation.
I invite all of you to come and see it.
But the French are a little different when it comes to some things.
And one of those, I would find it really interesting that our French Friends are very comfortable getting 76% thereabouts of their energy from nuclear, and I'm going to assure you they're very fond of getting it at the rate they're getting it.
Adios, mofo.
Oh, that bodes kind of well.
What does that mean?
What do you mean?
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
The rate they're getting it?
Nobody's charging them.
No, I think what he's saying is that the...
It's Rick Perry.
You've got to think for a second.
I believe he means that the cost of nuclear energy is very attractive.
I would suggest, if you're going to go and try to parse this guy, by rate he means the amount.
Could be.
It could be.
I interpret it differently.
You mean the amount they get it?
The rate they're getting it.
They're getting a lot of it.
Okay.
That's possible.
Either way, it's good.
I like it.
I'm all for it.
I've talked to people about this.
Because France does get most of their power from nukes, and they're all over the countryside.
They don't seem to be bothering anybody.
I mean, there's some complaining here and there.
The Chinon, for example, little wine growing area has one of these things.
And I said, why do they do this?
Because they do it so much more efficiently than we do.
And the answer's always been, I've said this before on the show, The answer's always been, that's because they standardized.
Yes, they have.
And so all the parts fit.
And so if you're working at one of these plants and you're an engineer, you can go to any of the other plants and go right into the job because everything's the same.
The control panels are the same.
The systems are the same.
They look the same.
They feel the same.
The same guy, Mr.
Burns, is still running it.
It's all the same.
Exactly.
Homer Simpson and the knobs.
They have the...
It's not the most efficient ones, but they're the same, which makes a huge difference in terms of the cost to build one.
Because ours are all custom-made by General Electric or one of these other companies.
It costs a fortune.
They're billions and billions of dollars because each one is a custom unit.
It's like as if everybody bought a car.
Instead of buying a car, they'd have a car manufactured individually for them, custom-made.
Right.
It's not cheap.
Yeah, well, and obviously people immediately say, oh, if you ignore the waste, it's fine.
But if you look at today's new reactors, you know, their waste is about the size of a football.
That's it.
Yeah, well, I'm just crazy.
In case we've punted on the idea.
Yes, yes.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, it sounds like maybe there's some interest.
We took a knee.
We did.
A big one.
Well, there is some stuff going on.
There's a couple of things.
I went and I watched, to give everybody out there a sense of our duties, I watched the entire defense authorization bill hearing.
Very good.
I watched a lot of it, not all of it.
Which went to midnight, and the chairman was making a point of getting this thing done by 12 midnight Eastern time.
Who was the chairman?
Who's the chairman again?
Oh, I can't remember his name.
I'd have to look it up.
You should know.
We watched it.
I can't remember.
He's just the guy who bought that position.
We know that.
Yeah, we have a couple million probably for that position, yes.
That's a tough, that's a good one.
Yeah.
And he did a good job.
He took it to within about 10 seconds of midnight and hit the, because he had to get it done and he made a point of it.
And they were rushing through.
He thanked everybody for keeping it short.
Nobody talked the whole five minutes.
And then he slammed down the gavel with about 15 seconds left.
Okay.
Woo!
You're serious.
Just right before.
Boom!
And then the clock ticked down.
And, of course, it was just an exercise and, you know, getting it done.
Getting it done, everybody.
The joke to me was, because they kept the cameras rolling, all the guys hung around for another 25 minutes shooting the shit, you know, with each other.
As if they, I thought they had to get out of there.
By the way, it's a phrase from the Shays.
Shooting the shit?
Yeah.
Where does that come from?
I take it probably from some, I'm thinking of a rifle range out in the middle in the cow patch.
I don't think so.
That sounds like it.
Shooting the shit.
Here we go.
Urban Dictionary.
You need etymology.
Anyway, doesn't matter.
Just shooting the shit.
Yeah, so they all hung around.
He's flirting.
The chairman's flirting with some of the girls.
It was ridiculous.
Yeah.
Okay.
But they had to get it done.
Anyway, they got it done.
And I got a few clips of some of the more interesting, weird stuff.
I got the transsexual debate, which was quite funny.
Because I had a big debate about that.
Okay.
But I want to play, first of all, I think one of the more poignant clips.
It is also known as the transsexual debate.
That's kind of cool.
Um...
This one here, what's the real short one?
I don't know, I can't see it.
Oh, but there's a bunch of, by the way, a bunch of Jackie Speier and all these Democrats kept putting in this weird anti-Trump stuff into this thing.
Listen to this one.
This is the defense authorization.
This is an amendment put through by one of the Democrats.
Didn't pass, but almost did.
This is Defense Authorization Amendment Trump.
Listen to this.
This is with an amendment.
Halloran number 220R1, which requires DOD to provide the committee a quarterly report detailing costs in support of presidential travel, including travel to property owned by the president or his immediate family.
Clerk will call the roll.
Chairman Thornberry.
No.
Chairman Thornberry votes no.
Mr.
Smith.
Aye.
Mr.
Smith votes aye.
Mr.
Smith votes no.
Anyway, Thornberry's the guy.
They never did that with Obama.
No.
Yeah, I noticed that Chairman Thornberry.
Anyway, when you hear Smith vote, Thornberry voted no, and then Smith is the head Democrat.
Then you know it's going to be close.
It was pretty close, actually.
All was passed.
On that amendment?
For real?
Yes.
That's great.
I believe that amendment, or the Spear amendment, which was very similar.
They had a bunch of these Trump amendments.
What's he up to?
They're just trying to make book on the guy for the next...
You know, the next election.
And one of them just almost passed.
I think it may have been this one.
It was 31-31, which is not going to pass.
So that was a straight party line.
So all the Democrats, yes, let's waste our money documenting every place Trump goes and how much it costs.
I think it has to be done anyway.
The other one that I thought was quite amusing is, let's see, do I have it?
Oh, where is it?
Defense authorization amendment about the audit.
I just thought this little mini clip is very funny.
This is the audit humor.
Mr.
Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk.
The clerk will distribute the amendment.
Without objection, the amendment is considered as read, and the gentleman from New York is recognized for five minutes.
Mr.
Chairman, I have another culturally explosive topic that is sure to generate tremendous debate.
I have an amendment to Section 802 to address the incurred cost audit backlog.
And then the guy giggles.
Give me the space weapons, man.
That's my favorite in the NDAA. Did you see this?
Yes, I love this.
Every Defense Authorization Act that we've discussed on the show has always had some interesting space stuff in there.
And I think I read this one.
They're looking for something big here, I think.
Well, they're not going to spend a lot.
This is a research budget request for $30 million, and The Republicans are all for it.
The Democrats are all against it.
And I would assume that anyone who read Philip Corso's book The Day After Roswell would be all for this.
And I get the sense that some people are read in on this and some people aren't by the way it went.
But let's listen to what this is about.
This is a guy from Arizona.
And this guy from Arizona who proposed the amendment, He looks like an ex-boxer or something.
He's got a completely flat face that looks like it's been punched flat.
Gentlemen from Arizona, Mr.
Franks.
Well, thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
I have an amendment in the system.
If the clerk would distribute the amendment that is in the system, as long as it's...
Was there something wrong with the system that I missed?
This whole thing, there were...
This was very, especially in the late hours, a very entertaining...
I didn't make one of these clips, which I could have now that I'm bringing this up.
It was very entertaining because they're trying to do so much before midnight.
And so there's a lot of a guy who holds his hand up and Thornberry gives him the evil eye.
Don't you dare stand up now!
And there was one near the very end where he says, Florida wants to say something.
And you You could just hear under his breath, he goes, what?
Like, angrily.
And he says, does the representative from Florida wish to be acknowledged?
And the guy from Florida goes, no.
As long as it's number 274R2, without objection, it's considered as red, and the gentleman is now recognized.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
Mr.
Chairman, I agree with the recent comments by Chairman Mike Rogers of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee that our adversaries will, quote, never be less capable in space than they are right now.
The Chinese and Russians have both reorganized their Strategic Forces Command structure.
When I hear stuff like that, and I mention moon bases, you gotta think there's a lot more going on with the strategic space defense forces than meets the eye.
...forces command structure to incorporate space.
The North Koreans and the Iranians have both successfully launched satellites into orbit.
And this amendment recognizes what this committee has recognized, which is that space is a war-fighting domain.
Wait a minute.
Didn't we sign this big agreement?
All nations came together and said we will not fight in space.
We won't colonize any planets or any other celestial bodies.
There's some huge agreement on this somewhere.
No, that's the Mandela effect.
That's like me.
We're thinking we had 10 years of podcasting where it's really...
It truly is nine.
Mr.
Chairman, we sat in the Strategic Forces Subcommittee some ten years ago when some across the aisle refused to advance promising military space assets because they did not want to, quote, weaponize space.
Unfortunately, our adversaries had no such compunction and proceeded to do just that.
Whether we like it or not, our space competitors consider space a war-fighting domain.
So this amendment recognizes that space is the ultimate military high ground from which to defend the United States of America, and it directs our Missile Defense Agency to establish a space test bed, which will conduct research and development of space-based defense layers and to identify which will conduct research and development of space-based defense layers and to identify the most cost-effective and
It further directs the MDA to develop a five-year plan to establish a space-based missile defense layer.
This space-based defense layer will be regionally focused and provide a tremendous force multiplier to our overall missile defense architecture while increasing the overall survivability and resilience of our national missile defense system.
Rockets in space.
Mr.
Chairman, the threat from the world's most dangerous weapons has indeed never been greater.
And now is the time to finally build a space-based missile defense layer to cover the gaps and seams in our missile defense architecture and to devalue our enemy's efforts to exploit them.
And with that, Mr.
Chairman, I would yield back.
I'm surprised this didn't come up.
Here it is.
The Outer Space Treaty, formerly known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies.
Which represents the basic legal framework of international space law.
Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, installing them on the moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space.
It exclusively limits the use of the moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, etc.
And as of May 2017, 106 countries are party to the treaty.
Well, another 24 have signed but have not ratified it yet.
China, let's see, ratified the treaty in 1971.
I don't know if Russia's on the list.
Let me see.
I'm sure they are.
Let me see.
Russia's on the list, yeah.
Yes, they ratified.
So that's not...
I don't know.
Why doesn't anyone bring that up?
There's laws, people.
I think it's because what you're citing is bogus.
What do you mean, bogus?
That there's no law?
I don't think there's anything in there that's probably...
I'd have to look at it now, but you make a good point.
This requires me to contact one of these guys, probably the guy in Arizona, his office, and ask him specifically about this.
Very good.
It has a wiki page.
If you send me a link...
Oh, it does.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll ask that question.
Meanwhile, of course, the Democrats against this, they're working on behalf of the aliens.
They're probably the greatest.
Yes.
Now, I'm going to ring a bell as this guy talks, because I want you to stop...
Stop tape and explain to me what this guy said.
Because he uses this other guy.
This is another heavy hitter on the...
This is the...
Another high ticket position.
The Armed Forces Committee.
Everybody was there to assess 61 or 62 people.
And he throws in some jargon that Sounds like, I don't know what he's talking about in much of this.
Can we play that and I'll stop it.
Further discussion on the amendment?
Mr.
Chairman.
Mr.
Cooper.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
I strongly oppose this amendment and would ask my colleagues to do so as well.
Mr.
Franks is a great member of the subcommittee.
You will notice that his language is not in the subcommittee mark.
There's a reason for that.
Yes?
His language is not in the subcommittee mark.
There's a reason for that.
Sounds like a technical deal.
The subcommittee mark, that it wasn't noted there, or wasn't...
It's a technicality, it sounds like.
I'm guessing it's what it is, but I have no idea what this technicality is, and he doesn't bother to explain it to the general public.
His language is not in the subcommittee mark.
There's a reason for that.
The Grays don't like him, I think, is what he's trying to say.
While Mr.
Franks has very legitimate concerns on a couple of points.
Number one, space is a new warfighting domain, and the subcommittee is responding to that in the strongest possible way with the space core, something we've already discussed tonight, so I won't repeat.
Second, Mr. Franks wants to be on top of the technology, and that is great.
and in several several NDAAs he has asked for reports from the military.
That's outstanding.
But this amendment really goes beyond that.
And these are what I would characterize as illegitimate concerns.
Because when you talk to the real experts in the field, such as Admiral Searing, who most people have the highest regard for, who's just completing an extended tour of duty as head of the Missile Defense Agency, his quote is this, as follows.
And this was in a response to a question from Mr.
Franks at a hearing.
Mr.
Franks asked...
Whether space-based interceptors would give the U.S. a leading edge.
Director Searing responded, quote, If it was technologically feasible and affordable, which I think both in my mind at this point, the answer is no, the answer would be yes to your question.
I have serious concerns about the technical feasibility of the interceptors in space, and I have serious concerns about the long-term affordability of a program like that, end of quote.
Now, no one is all-seeing, and there's a possibility that the technology could mature.
But I think rather than humoring Mr.
Franks on an amendment like this at this point, there are three fundamental reasons we should say no.
One, by hitting up all the other services for $9 or $10 million apiece, that hurts legitimate defense needs.
Now, you can say it's a small amount of money, but each service will begrudge giving up the $9 or $10 million.
Number two, I think it undermines the real consensus we have in the subcommittee and in the full committee, and I hope in this Congress, supporting real missile defense.
That's been a long time coming, but now it's here.
You've seen the harmony in the Stratfor markup.
I don't think we've ever had such a brief or harmonious time.
And that's good for national defense to be bipartisan and strong.
This undermines that.
And third...
Oh, I didn't get that.
What undermines it?
Undermines being strong together and bipartisan?
What exactly was he saying there?
His bill.
Apparently, Stratford did a report.
Oh, those guys.
Here in Austin.
Yeah, they're around somewhere.
I subscribed to them for a while.
I didn't get anything out of it.
I get more from our show than from them.
Thank you.
The...
They did a report.
They make all their money doing, like, a government report.
So they did a government report, showed a lot of harmonization, meaning that both sides of the aisle were all, yeah, let's spend money.
Oh, let's spend more money over here.
Okay, we're all for it.
We're all for it, too.
Yeah, we're all for it.
Yeah, let's go get a beer.
Let's spend some money.
Yeah, spend more money.
And so he claims that this bill that the guy from Arizona, Franks, Or this amendment that he's introducing will hurt the harmony somehow.
He doesn't explain how, but he thinks it will.
That's his argument.
And I might as well preface it before we get to the punchline.
This passed, it's in the bill.
So this amendment went in.
You've seen the harmony in the Stratfor markup.
I don't think we've ever had such a brief or harmonious time.
And that's good for national defense, to be bipartisan and strong.
This undermines that.
What?
And third, if you really care about this topic, then be a man and raise real money and pay for it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Be man.
Are you talking about $30 million?
Yeah, that's all.
Ugh.
Dropping the bucket.
It's like peanuts.
Yeah, dropping the bucket.
There was a thing.
I didn't get a clip of it.
There's another one of these kind of crazy, like, misdiagnoses.
I don't think I have a clip, but...
Trump is being condemned for this, I think, where they had all these things about tracking him.
He's starting his campaign for 2020.
And so he spent $6.9 million, something along those lines.
And...
And so it was CBS or one of the networks or PBS, they're going after him because of this $6.9 million, he's spending a lot of money on Trump water, Trump steaks, Trump wine, Trump hotel stays, Trump hotel meetings.
Does he get it at retail or wholesale?
Well, they never talk about that.
I'm sure he's getting himself a deal.
Trump hotel use for the...
The Logan Act.
He's enriching himself off the backs of the poor American worker.
It goes on and on, and then they come up with the total is $400,000.
Oh, good.
So I'm looking.
Wait a minute.
They're condemning him for spending less than 10%.
I mean, it's less than 10% of the total budget.
So why is that?
I mean, okay.
Isn't the budget his budget to do with as he wishes?
The White House budget?
Yeah.
Then if he goes over it, he has to pay for it himself.
It's his campaign budget.
He can do whatever he wants with it.
Yeah, he can do that with it.
As long as it's legal.
And of course it's legal, but...
They're condemning because it doesn't look good.
But it's like, to me, it looks good because he's not spending the whole $6 million on himself.
He's only spent $400,000.
It's just on his own hotel and whatever.
So I found it to be disingenuous.
And I think that this particular debate about this $30 million is the same thing.
Yeah, it's totally disingenuous.
I'm telling you, this is the guy, the Democrats are on the side of the grays.
Yeah.
It's the only explanation I can think of.
Yeah, because they've got the moon bases.
We know this.
Well, somebody's got the moon bases.
Anyway, so there you have it.
No.
You're not going to do the transgender bit?
No, no.
I just said what I meant.
When I said onward, I meant onward to the transgender bit.
Onward to the transgender bit, yes.
So we had the same thing here.
We had Republicans that were sketchy about Transgenders in the military.
And then we had Democrats who were, oh no, we want more transgenders.
And in fact, one of the congressmen I found to be pretty nauseating about this.
But let's play what I thought was the funniest little bit.
Which is this guy on the Defense Authorization Amendment TG-1 of the Armed Forces.
For example, in the current training manuals that have been implemented to both soldiers and commanders for guidelines, listen to the following vignette.
Following her transition from male to female, which did not include sex reassignment surgery, a transgender soldier begins using female barracks, bathroom and shower facilities.
Because she did not undergo a surgical change, the soldier still has male genitalia.
This is from the Army Training Manual.
The guideline, all soldiers should be respectful of the privacy and modesty concerns of others.
However, transgender soldiers are not required or expected to modify or adjust their behavior based on the fact that they do not match soldiers.
Here's another one that goes to commanders.
Thank you.
A soldier has completed army gender transition from female to male as indicated in Dears.
The soldier did not have sex reassignment surgery and recently stopped taking male hormones in order to try and start a family.
Today, the soldier approached his commanding officer to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.
His pregnancy.
Some people, they must just be like rolling their eyes when they hear this.
Some older people, perhaps.
Yeah.
Just like, what are we doing?
His pregnancy.
Transgender soldiers under these vignettes are not required or expected to modify or adjust their behavior, but everyone else is, violating their privacy, their rights, their morality, and their unit cohesion.
And we are lectured to believe that when these soldiers violate all that the other service members, 99.9999%, that we will have a more capable vignettes.
Thank you.
And how this impossibility will make a more capable and ready force, I suggest, Mr.
Chairman, that we have lost our way as a nation.
And with that, I yield back.
Okay.
He doesn't follow the news much, does he?
You know, I was thinking about this.
Well, you know, I'm going to give you a borderline for that.
That was pretty funny.
I like that one.
That was good.
Now, I'll get to it.
Well, let's play the last one, which is one of the black Eakin.
He's called Leakin Eakin, something like that.
This guy, he comes on.
You know, he's the big defense.
This was really more of a bitch and moan about that previous defense secretary, the droopy dog character.
Panetta.
No, not Panetta.
He was Droopy Dog.
No, the real Droopy Dog was the guy who came after him.
Oh, yeah, that guy.
Yeah, I forgot his name already.
Yeah, I forgot his name already, too.
It was like a stain on your shirt.
But he had made all kinds of statements about it.
There's a way to go and all the rest of it.
And the Democrats are pretty much all bought into that because the Democrats have been pushing their identity politics politics.
For such a long time that it's ingrained.
But it's ingrained to such an extent that this guy, this follow-up clip, this guy's black.
And I don't know how many black people, especially since many of them are highly religious, and it was the black vote nobody wants to talk about in California that passed the anti-gay amendment that was thrown out by the court sometime later, even though it was blamed on the Mormons.
It was actually black, religious blacks.
And who are very religious.
A lot of most blacks, if you go to listen to the end of the NBA championship game, most of the commentary was about how, you know, God helped them win.
Or if you watch the Grammys or the American Music Awards or the Oscars.
Yeah.
And that's fine.
It's fine with me.
I don't care.
But I don't know how many people in the black community are going to appreciate this guy who comes out now and essentially, for all practical purposes, he equates the transgender situation with racism and the black man.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
I would just note that right now today we have transgendered individuals deployed in our armed services.
And to answer one of the specific reservations that the gentlelady had, you don't refrigerate the testosterone.
You switch over to a gel, which is what CENTCOM requires if you're going to be deployed.
But what's really troublesome to me, Mr. Chairman, is that I can imagine not these individuals to my right, not my colleagues to my right, but a Congress 70 or 80 years ago that said that a certain group of people weren't smart enough to fly airplanes, that they run at the first sign of battle, and that African Americans could not serve in the United States Armed and that African Americans could not serve in the United States You're talking about the Tuskegee Airmen?
Is that his reference there?
Well, I think so.
This is a classic false equivalency, but it's quite interesting that he decides to use it.
But a Congress 70 or 80 years ago that said that a certain group of people weren't smart enough to fly airplanes, that they run at the first sign of battle, and that African Americans could not serve in the United States Armed Forces.
Well, African Americans proved them wrong.
The unit adapted, and I suggest that the unit adapted transgender individuals as well.
I yield back.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I'm sure it will work just fine.
The guys on the ground don't care.
No, it's the pregnant males that are the problem.
That's annoying.
Good report.
I was thinking about this.
I can't remember the guy's name.
It was a woman.
He had sex surgery and became a woman and then became a professional tennis player.
Sex reassignment surgery.
Yes.
And then he became a tennis player.
Yeah, she's very famous.
Very famous.
And started winning a lot of tournaments.
And I'm thinking...
Why even, in today, especially with these new laws that are being passed, and some of this, you kind of...
Renee Richards.
Renee Richards.
Yeah, Renee Richards.
Bending over backwards for gender politics, if you want to call it that.
Why don't you just say, and there's evidence that people do this.
I've run into people I know that do this.
That you're a woman.
Mm-hmm.
Because that's what you identify as a woman.
You self-identify.
You self-identify.
It's like the woman who's self-identified as black.
They give her crap about it.
I don't see why.
Rachel, I don't see why.
If she wants to be black, let her be black.
What difference does it make to the blacks?
That's cultural appropriation and a macro-aggression.
Not if she's self-identified.
Yes.
I disagree with that.
Why don't you self-identify as a woman and then go on the women's professional tennis tour?
Or golf tour.
Or golf, either one.
You're a second-rate golfer.
That's what Renee Richards was accused of.
She was a second-rate tennis player, but she was okay as a female.
So just self-identify.
By law, and then sue if anybody questions it.
That's clearly where we're headed.
Clearly.
I think that's where we're headed.
I mean, they had some issues with some of the Olympic women from East Germany, I don't know, decades ago, actually growing testicles.
Yeah, they have too much.
What?
Oh, gosh, she's going to pop one out here in a minute.
What?
No, no, no, no, no.
My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows!
Sorry.
So this was an issue.
But now I think with the new politics, the new gender politics, the identity politics, you just say it.
You don't care.
So what?
And the women roiding up, just skip the middleman.
Just be a man.
Go in there and do the weightlifting as a guy self-identified as a woman.
Right.
How is this not going to cause issues?
Well, what's happening right now is...
Hold on a second.
I think this is a sexist move, by the way.
This hurts women athletes.
Yes.
For genuine women.
Sure it does.
But all of this is coming to a head.
And I think the first...
Let me use the tipping point metaphor.
There was a pretty good article in the New York Times by Barry Weiss.
It was a female.
And it was titled, I'm Glad the Dyke March Banned Jewish Stars.
And I don't know if you followed this, but in Chicago, there was a pride march, and there were a number of lesbian Jews.
And they had a rainbow flag with the Star of David on it.
And here's what happened.
People, the organizers said, you have to leave because you're triggering people.
And when you look into it, it's almost classic.
Because, you know, in today's intersectionality world, which is what this is about, everyone's, you know, intersectional, intersectional, intersectionality.
Yeah, explain that to the listeners.
It's that every form of social oppression is linked to every other social oppression.
So if you're socially oppressed today, that's probably because your great-great-grandfather was a slave.
You know, like it's a domino effect.
It was Kimberly Williams Crenshaw who coined it in 1989.
Now, in intersectionality...
Now, this is not spelled out, but we know that the more of a victim you are, the more points you get.
So you have to have all kinds of things wrong with you.
And here's where it's going wrong.
So you're gay, you're lesbian, you get a point.
You're Jewish.
Well, you'd get a point for being persecuted in the...
I mean, you'd think someone who's Jewish would be the perfect example of intersectionality.
But no.
Because the star represents the state of Israel who are oppressing the Palestinians.
And therefore, it's triggering...
Minus one.
We take one off.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And so they had to leave.
And who, by the way, who is this triggering specifically?
Well, in the intersectionality community, I'm just going to call it that because I think it is a community.
It's big, but it's a community.
The state of Israel is seen as very, very, very bad.
Bad, bad, bad, bad.
And this goes back to the boat that came from, was it from Turkey?
Do you remember that?
Where the Israeli defense forces came on board and shot everybody up?
And they were bringing food for the blockade to the Palestinians.
Yeah, I don't remember if it was Turkey or not, or Greece.
It might have been Greece, I can't remember.
Yeah, they shot up the place.
And of course it goes back much further than that.
Yeah, you go to the USS Liberty, no one's going to talk about that anymore.
But the same people who are bitching about Israel and Palestine don't talk about China and Taiwan, you can name anything.
There's a million different examples.
No, it's very targeted.
Yeah.
But this is the problem.
And so this is what fries people's brains when this takes place.
Well, there's another issue that cropped up that doesn't show up in the news at all, which are the transgender men to women who are Muslim...
And wanted to become women so they could wear the veil and cover themselves up completely.
And they wanted to be into some of these parades and they've been banned.
I didn't hear about that, but it makes nothing but sense.
Yeah, it makes nothing but sense.
So it's coming to a head.
Heads are going to explode.
This is what...
I hate to bring him up, but this is what Professor Ted said.
He said, the children of today, right now, who are now even half a generation ahead, they've been over-socialized.
You can't say anything that's bad or that will hurt someone's feelings.
And when you have been told this and raised this way and has been reinforced by the scholastic institutions...
Oh, yeah.
The schools are the worst.
Then you're always thinking to yourself, oh, you always have to try and put filters up when you're speaking.
It's incredibly inhibitive, which is why I recommend everyone start a podcast because we can really let loose.
Yeah.
Yeah, just do it.
Just start a podcast.
Everyone.
I want to read this quote just so people get a little context in this.
This is taken from the Wikipedia.
This is about Theodore, because Theodore's name comes up in today's show.
And Theodore, of course, is my grandson.
The new addition to the family.
Theodore Lessing, who is a very famous, or was a very famous Jewish...
Very important.
In fact, he's the one who invented, discussed self-loathing Jews and tried to explain it.
And I want you to read this quote from this.
His plans of going to the University of Dresden were abandoned in the face of continuing public outrage over the influence in academia, just public outrage, of Jews, socialists, and feminists.
The next few years he spent as a substitute teacher.
And then in 1906, he traveled to Goten to obtain something under, work under a mentor.
This was 1906.
And I just was, it just stood out to me.
I'm reading about this guy and it's like, he couldn't get in because he was sick of it, of the influence of Jews, socialists, and feminists in 1906 ruining the school experience.
So are we looking at a fractal here?
Yeah.
Or just a continuation.
It might not even be a fractal.
It's the 1906 fractal.
It might just have gone on forever.
I'm writing it down.
The 1906 fractal.
We'll call it the 1906 fractal.
Yeah, from now on to be referred as the 1906 fractal.
Nice.
But...
So we don't have anything really that different.
And I remember when I was a student at Cal, there was this never-ending debate between, on the steps of the student union, never-ending arguments in this area between Jews and Palestinians.
And they were yelling at each other, and everyone gathered around in a big circle, and they'd be screaming at each other every day.
And you'd just say, neither one of them is listening.
They're just screaming at each other.
Just spewing, spewing.
It's the damnedest thing I ever saw.
Well, there is a main difference.
Today we have the activist group.
Of course, they're obviously funded.
And there's now a collective, the Haymaker Collective in Chicago.
And I don't know if this is just a local one-off group, but it's getting some press.
I think it was in USA Today where I got this clip from, from the online version.
And they're helping people train to fight back and attack the radical right.
So Haymaker is an autonomous gym that's starting up now in Chicago.
It's an autonomous gym, by the way.
Sorry, that means that they're on a grass field somewhere outside.
It's autonomous.
So Haymaker is an autonomous gym that's starting up now in Chicago.
The aim is to establish more networks of self-defense.
We're trying to develop self-defense skills in a political climate that's increasingly violent, especially towards marginalized peoples, people who are not in power, the poor, the oppressed.
We're invested in building material force of resistance against the rising nature of fascism in this country, and obviously the longer history of white supremacy.
So we're really invested in cultivating the capacities for our bodies to just be stronger, because at the end of the day, stronger people are harder to kill.
We believe that we need to start developing these skills, especially as the violence against us, violence against marginalized peoples is- Huh?
Stronger people are harder to kill?
Yes!
Really?
With a bullet?
I'm glad you caught that.
Because at the end of the day, stronger people are harder to kill.
We believe that we need to start developing these skills, especially as the violence against us, violence against marginalized people is only escalating under Trump, right?
We want this to be an open-facing project.
Everybody's welcome except police and people that are affiliated with strong right-wing groups.
We're trying to build a space for people who may not be accepted into the kind of heteronormative, masculine, macho gym culture and have a space for everyone to be able to learn some fun skills.
Autonomous gym for nerds.
Heteronormative.
We don't want any heteronormatives here.
We don't want them here because they're going to mess things up.
They're going to act macho.
We can't have that.
Well, I have to say, I don't go to a gym for that very same reason.
I despise it.
I always go to the gym.
Like, here I am, toothpick man with Tourette's.
Hey, how you doing?
You can go to a gym.
Nobody at a gym, especially the muscle-bound guys, Give a crap about you being skinny.
They don't point.
They don't laugh.
They try to beef you up.
They'll help you.
I find that what you said is very bigoted.
No, it's not bigoted.
It's fear.
It's my own fear.
It's my own insecurities.
I'm not saying it's true, but that is why I don't go to a gym.
That's why I feel very comfortable with the ladies at the spin class.
Woo!
Yeah, well, that's another story.
Now, you didn't see...
Did you find that old spin class clip?
Do I have one?
No, I sent you one.
We played it on the show.
There was a spinning class clip.
It was a joke.
It was a comedy bit.
It was very funny.
Can you find it?
Spin.
I'm looking for spin.
Would it have been named Spin by any chance?
It should.
It better be.
Yes, here we go.
Maybe it's this one.
What is happening?
It's amazing.
You can convince anyone of any type of exercise, especially in Los Angeles.
Spinning?
Let's take spinning.
How did that happen?
Is this the one you meant?
Yeah.
I'm just going to take a bunch of stationary bikes and we're going to put them in a room and you're going to pedal real fast.
You're not going to go anywhere.
Absolutely go nowhere.
It's going to go up and down and up and down.
Then we're going to dim the lights and pump in a bunch of music.
And there you go.
Spinning.
20 bucks.
Let's do it.
20 as cheap?
Yeah, yeah.
And then they just keep adding to it, you know?
They're like, okay, you're still going to be spinning, but now no lights whatsoever.
Just candles.
It's just all candles.
The music is going to get louder.
There's going to be a disco ball.
Up and down and up and down with hand weights.
Now there's hand weights.
Soul cycle.
30 bucks.
Now you're going to keep doing that.
You're going to keep doing that.
You're going to keep spinning.
Now we're going to add heat.
We're going to add a lot of heat.
90 degrees.
100 degrees in the room.
Candles.
And weights.
And up and down.
And up and down.
And heat.
Hot spin.
39.50.
People do it.
People do it.
It's unbelievable.
Someone's getting cornholed today.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
Yeah, that about wraps it up.
That's about it.
Yeah.
So it's being discussed in a very offhanded way.
In fact, it's being deflected what happened.
I'm referring to Project Veritas, who I'm sure have once again created a very deceptively edited video.
Well, no, it's not.
It's pretty cut and dry, actually.
The inside CNN with the supervising producer at CNN, and they've titled their new series American Pravda, which was actually trending on Twitter for a little bit before they knocked that down.
Oh, yes, because some muckety-muck at Twitter, oh, we can't do that.
Yeah.
In fact, I'm seeing tweets.
This tweet is no longer available, and it's tweets that are directly linked to that video.
Yeah.
Okay.
Heaven forbid.
Yeah.
So this is the best quality I could get, which I think is pretty good.
About 50 seconds, you get the full.
If you haven't heard it, here's what it is.
I want CNN constantly, like, rush of this, rush of that.
Is this ratings?
Yeah.
Is this ratings?
Our ratings are incredible right now.
But honestly, you'd think the whole rush of s**t is just, like, bulls**t.
We don't have any big giant proof.
I just feel like they don't really have it, but they want to keep digging.
And so I think the president is probably right to say, like, look, you are witch-hunting me.
Like, you have no smoking gun.
You have no real proof.
And the CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said, good job, everybody, covering the climate accords.
But we're done with it.
Let's get back to Russia.
So if it was a little hard to hear, there's no proof of Russia, but it's great for ratings.
And the boss said, okay, good job on the climate accord to pull out back to Russia, even though we don't have anything and even though it's bull crap.
That's what the guy basically said.
That's what the guy said, yeah.
You know, and there's a part two that came out this morning.
Oh, yeah.
Well, let me find it.
This is very good.
And I'm thinking, because we heard this guy say something weird the other day on stage.
I'm talking about Van Jones.
He was talking about how they spent a billion dollars on a bunch of data dummies and was really down on the Clinton campaign.
Maybe he knew something was coming, and I don't know if you can understand what's being said here, but I will translate after the 15 seconds.
Hey, man.
So one of the Project Veritas undercover cameras walks up to Van Jones, who's outside an office building, texting.
Hey, man.
We met in Palm Springs a few years back.
Good to see you, man.
You good?
Yeah.
How you been?
What are you doing?
I've had that happen to me.
Hey, man.
We met in Palm Springs a few years ago.
Yeah, great.
How you been?
I have no clue who the guy is.
I'm sure Van Jones is doing the same thing.
Yeah.
Oh, great.
Yeah, I remember.
Hey, man.
We met in Palm Springs a few years back.
Good to see you, man.
You good?
Yeah.
How you been?
What are you doing?
What do you think is going to happen this week with the whole Russia thing?
So he says, ah, that whole thing's nothing but a big nothing burger.
This wasn't this morning, because this came out a couple days ago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I got it this morning.
I'm sorry.
I must be behind.
Dan Jones has been in the center of this because they found some old clip.
Besides that clip, they found some old stuff where he says the Russian thing is bull crap.
It's just meaningless.
And then the nothing burger was the latest.
And, you know, this is still not being absorbed by the mainstream because I think...
No, of course not!
What's being missed here, the point that's being missed, especially by the right-wing talkers, is what the producer said.
And I realized something when I was listening to Jeff Bezos.
He gave a presentation at the Newspaper Publishers Association or something along those lines.
And he's talking about how much money that the Washington Post is making.
He's just got to ask for it.
And I realize that the Washington Post had made a decision.
I mean, we haven't talked about this, and I haven't fully realized it until recently, that all these anti-Trump stories are done for the exact same reason.
Because the Washington Post, and I think the New York Times to probably a similar extent, have decided the following.
Who's our audience?
Right.
Let's cater to them.
Our audience are people that still read newspapers.
They're not the millennials.
They're not the right-wingers by any means or the conservatives or the religious people because they have other – they either watch television, they get their network news or they watch Fox.
They're not our readers.
And what do our readers want?
And what are our readers like?
They all hate Trump.
So let's cater to them with nothing but hate Trump stories, which permeate the whole society I think in a negative way, which is really not a good thing by any means.
And it's also, I don't think, lends any credibility to their ability to report the truth as opposed to report what gets them, quote-unquote, good ratings.
It's a good ratings thing.
I think Bezos may live to regret it because at some point, you know, there's going to be a moment where he's going to need government help.
It's like the showbiz people who completely trash the government and then expect money.
He's going to find himself in a bind, but So paying any attention to this is just, all you are is you're in that milieu of the people who read the Washington Post, who already are predisposed to finding everything wrong with Trump.
And we may overlook it, but the legacy of the Post is still Woodward and Bernstein, and that's what they're all trying to do over there.
They're all trying to be the next Woodward and Bernstein.
Yes, we brought down the president.
It's so obvious.
Yeah, there's that.
And they have a new social media policy for the journalists.
Which...
Here we go.
I have a copy right here.
Here we go.
A provision that prohibits employees from, quote, disparaging the products and services of the post's advertisers.
That's right up front, everybody.
After that, subscribers, then competitors, business partners, or vendors...
Demand that employees refrain from using social media while on your work time, unless using social media is an authorized part of your job.
Another clause here.
Oh, if you have any reason to believe that an employee may be in violation of the Post's social media policy, you should contact the Post's Human Resource Department.
Post haste.
And rat on them.
Rat on your friends.
Rat on your fellow workers.
Rat on them.
She was using Facebook yesterday.
Yeah, she says it was on her lunch break, but does her lunch break have to go two hours?
I don't think so.
Really?
I'm telling you.
So what happened is, two other things happened at the same time.
There was the story about Scaramucci, which sounds like a Queen song.
Scaramucci, one of Trump's friends, and they had to retract that.
And then three journalists either had to resign or did resign.
Unclear.
Yeah, to me, I wasn't sure if they resigned out of protest, that the story was pulled, or that they were...
They don't make it clear.
No one's reported on it.
Well, why would we?
No, we can't do that.
So, the whole backdrop of the Project Veritas video is kind of covered over.
They do that very well with this other stuff.
And then we had an explosion in the White House at the press briefing with Sarah Huckabee taking...
And there's something new.
If you watch the C-SPAN video of when it is televised, we'll get to that in a minute, You'll see that the typical press corps, White House press corps, is all seated.
But then on the side, there's a line, it's like a conga line, of 15 journalists.
And these are all local journalists.
And these local journalists, they have very different questions.
A lot of them sound like, hey, we'll get that guy who definitely likes us.
I don't know if they're bloggers or if they're just local reporters.
Oh, you have to remember that Obama and Bush did the same thing.
Remember that one phony baloney guy that Bush had?
There was some muscle builder and they turned out to be a gay prostitute.
Yeah, I do remember that.
Well, here's the...
I think this is about the retraction.
But news outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, use stories without sources, have, you know, you mentioned the Scaramucci story where they had to have reporters resign.
Come on, you're explaining everybody right here right now with those words so you This is a local guy.
I went back and watched the whole press conference, and he was jacked.
He's just standing there in line while someone else was asking a question from the independent section.
And he was chewing gum like a maniac.
He was so jacked and ready to jump all over.
Resign.
Come on.
You're inflaming everybody right here and right now with those words.
This administration has done that as well.
Why in the name of heavens?
Any one of us, right, are replaceable.
And any one of us, if we don't get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us.
If you have been elected to serve for four years at least, there's no option other than that.
We're here to ask you questions.
We're here to provide the answers.
And what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, see, once again, the president is right and everybody else out here is fake media.
And everybody in this room is only trying to do their job.
I disagree completely.
First of all, I think if anything has been inflamed, it's the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media.
And I think it is outrageous for you to accuse me of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to his question.
Alright, so there was that, and then there was...
Yeah, I thought that was pretty funny.
I liked it.
Yeah, sure.
At least it was something other than the boring news conference.
I wish they'd have more people go nuts.
Yeah, we need that.
This is what we expected from a Trump White House, and we're not being disappointed.
So along with this comes the, well, we don't want to televise the press briefings anymore.
And it's obvious why when you see what just happened, grandstanding, yelling at each other, that's what becomes a clip.
That goes viral.
The message gets lost.
So I understand why they may not want to do that.
Yeah, I think it's a wise move.
But you heard in this clip, you know, we're just trying to do our job!
What exactly is the job of the M5M today?
The answer comes to us from the ladies who know it all.
You know, I think what's scary is she's doing what she's being told to do.
This is coming directly from the president.
This is coming from the White House.
And what they're trying to do, I think, is damage the freedom of the press, which is protected by our Constitution.
Hold on.
Let's just stop there for one second.
I'm a little annoyed by this.
Freedom of the press does not mean you have the right to stand or go anywhere other than anyone else who's a free man or woman could do.
It means you have the freedom to print.
You can print as you wish within the rules of slander, etc.
But that's what it's about.
It doesn't mean you get free reign.
You can't bust into my house or any way.
There are limits to what you can do.
And, I don't know what they're teaching you in J school, but there used to be investigative reporters.
You know, we didn't just sit around waiting for a call from your source at the State Department, or wherever, or some, you know, some intelligence agency.
You gotta go work for it.
But now it's become, well, you're blocking the, you're breaking the Constitution, it's unconstitutional.
...damage the freedom of the press, which is protected by our Constitution, which is protected by the First Amendment.
And if you look at the recent polls, a majority, 65% of voters believe there's a lot of fake news in the mainstream media, and the majority says the mainstream media publishes fake news, and 37% trust the White House versus 29% who favor the political media.
We need to be very concerned about this, because this is what happens in Russia.
This is what happens in China.
When you don't believe, when you believe the government, state-sponsored news over...
Hold on.
Homer, what government state-sponsored news are you talking about?
This was a little confusing to me.
Isn't CNN the government state-sponsored news?
What state-sponsored news is there?
Well, actually, no, it wouldn't be CNN. It would be PBS NewsHour.
The political media.
We need to be very...
But in fact, of course, it's not really state-sponsored.
It's sponsored more by Soros, the Gates Foundation, and others.
Yes, and viewers like you.
We don't really have technically a state-sponsored news.
I think CBS comes the closest.
Well, we have...
No, we don't.
We have it outside of the U.S., like Voice of America, etc.
Yeah.
That would be state-sponsored.
Favor the political media.
We need to be very concerned about this because this is what happens in Russia.
This is what happens in China.
When you believe the government, state-sponsored news over the people, you're leading.
It's a dictatorship.
Wait a minute.
Whatever it is, it just went from dictatorship.
State-sponsored news over...
Hold on a second.
Again, I think your original point is correct.
What is she talking about?
We don't have a state-sponsored news outlet unless you're going to call the press releases sent out by the State Department.
That's what she's calling.
I think she's calling.
That's not state-sponsored news.
That's state-sponsored press releases.
Yes, correct.
I'm concerned about this because this is what happens in Russia.
This is what happens in China.
When you believe the government, state-sponsored news over the people, it's a dictatorship.
They have all this and we have the press.
Yeah, so the press has to fight him.
The press shouldn't be aligned with the party.
No, but the press is the watchdog of the government and has always been.
It should be the watchdog of every government, though.
It has been.
I disagree.
This is Sonny Haasen, I think.
She's the token Republican on The View, and she's about to say...
He's about to commit the ultimate sin, if you want to defend the current president, by saying, well, what about Obama?
It's dumb.
It's dumb, people.
It's dumb, dumb, dumb.
Say it.
You do it once in a while, too.
But it's dumb.
Actually, I'm going to do it later.
But it's dumb.
It has been.
I disagree.
I strongly disagree on that.
What do you disagree on?
That it's been the washdog of every government.
You think that the press, the mainstream media at large, is as tough, was as tough on the Obama administration as it is on the Trump administration.
Are you kidding?
Well, let me point something out to you.
Actually, You know, there are a lot of folks in this audience that see a little bit differently because we see it from a different perspective.
We see it from a different perspective.
In that, you know, we watched the mainstream media sit back while he was called un-American, while he was called all kinds of stuff.
Yeah, he took a lot of hits.
I know you don't see it from that perspective, but when I look...
I've never seen any president, except this one, questioned the way he was questioned.
Jedediah is the right-wing girl.
So, I actually messed that up a little bit, although it was good in sequence.
What the journalist's job is is in this clip from CNN, which includes Clarissa Ward.
She's a real journalist.
You know, war correspondent, been everywhere, been shot at.
You know, she's got some cred.
She must have gotten a bad reputation or she wouldn't be at CNN. Exactly.
And the fact of the matter is we're not fake media.
We're here to do a job.
Respect the job.
We respect yours.
And if you're not going to respect us, we need to speak up.
Chris, I mean, at what point does this become dangerous?
And I'm not just talking about dangerous in terms of tearing at the social fabric.
I'm talking about dangerous as in a journalist gets hurt.
Because I can tell you working overseas in war zones, you know, people are emboldened by the actions of this administration, emboldened by the all-out sort of declaration of war on the media.
If I'm getting it in the neck, Chris, I can only imagine.
No, no.
Okay, there's a lot of things going on here.
She's saying people are emboldened by the actions of this president.
Does she mean ISIS? Does she mean...
She's talking about war zones.
Very confusing.
And then she says, if I'm getting it in the neck, what does that mean?
Like a neck shot?
I think she's referring to the cop that was stabbed in the neck.
It's insane.
We need to speak up.
She sounds unhinged.
Yes.
Chris, I mean, at what point does this become dangerous?
And I'm not just talking about dangerous in terms of tearing at the social fabric.
I'm talking about dangerous as in a journalist gets hurt.
Because I can tell you working overseas in war zones, you know, people are emboldened by the actions of this administration.
I don't understand that at all.
People are emboldened?
I think she's just nuts.
Okay.
Emboldened by the all-out.
Specifics?
She has no specifics.
No, no.
People.
Never on CNN. Sort of declaration of war on the media.
If I'm getting it in the neck, Chris, I can only imagine what someone like you is dealing with.
At what point does this become reckless or irresponsible?
Some loser like you.
And he had a look on his face like, what?
I mean, I don't want to say we're past that point.
I will say this, Clarissa.
I think it is already dangerous what...
The Trump administration is doing.
In Donald Trump's world, the media is judged by you are good if you write things that are good for Donald Trump.
You are objectively bad if you criticize Donald Trump.
It is not our job to be liked by Donald Trump.
It is not our job to report the news.
Sean Spicer said this.
Sarah said it yesterday.
Well, you guys ignore the news that's important.
Well, you know, I mean, I do think The Russian hacking of an election.
This is another thing that is really irritating me.
The hacking of an election is now what it's become.
How do you hack an election?
It's a meme.
It's a great meme.
Hacking an election.
For one thing, we know that there was no actual cybercrime in the vote tally.
That has been universally confirmed.
So when you're talking about hacking, then we hack into everyone's country all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not a good argument.
And of course, they've dropped the ball, I think.
Dropped the ball.
They didn't want to pick this ball up, but...
The fact that Hillary probably did hack into the 2012 Russian election.
Yeah, that's not disgusting anymore.
The State Department, I mean, Hillary being the head of it at the time.
Right, right.
With her tech experts.
Techno experts.
Techno experts, right.
Techno experts.
Techno expert to me is a DJ. Well, yes, that's why it was so funny.
I'm going to play that end of show.
Is...
It's just nobody mentions that there may be some rationale for what Putin did based on that alone, even though I don't think he was successful doing much of anything.
I don't think he had to.
And, of course, the other side being so happy that Hillary is going to win, nobody gave a crap during that moment.
I just need to call out this dumb meme.
No one hacked the election.
An election is important news.
We can debate collusion.
They're right.
There's no evidence of that.
If it was a Hillary Clinton Foundation doing the same thing, he would have done the same reporting.
That's what's maddening when you're watching this.
To your point earlier that you were asking about safety, think about that.
How many reporters have died for the cause?
I've been jailed.
There are 12 of us who have gone to jail to protect the first amendment.
There are people who have been beaten.
There have been people who have been threatened.
Our newspapers after Donald Trump's election, we've gotten threats from both the far left and the far right.
They are emboldened.
It is dangerous.
And the fact of the matter is, it is insulting to the memory of the people who have given their lives for the Here we go.
For providing information to the public to then be told that you are fake media, you do not matter, and what you're doing is false.
And quite frankly, every one of us should stand up against that because it is undermining the First Amendment.
It is dangerous, making it dangerous for reporters.
You are absolutely right.
There's going to come a time, and it's not going to be too far off, I surmise, when we're going to see that a reporter is going to face physical harm because of this.
They get shot all the time in Mexico.
Why don't you bring that up?
Or in some of these countries where the reporters really have to stick their neck out.
And I want to mention something in passing.
Seymour Hersh, who is our last great investigative reporter, just came out with a piece.
Which was completely debunked by Snopes, who says it's complete...
No, I'm sorry, not Snopes.
Bellingcat.
Bellingcat.
Whoa, this is crazy.
Seymour Hersh is unhinged.
Seymour Hersh can't even get published in the United States anymore.
This piece ran in Welt, a German magazine, and in English, curiously.
And I found it to be, and I read the piece, it's pretty much what we've been saying all along, from a logical perspective, that none of this, we're talking about the gassing and then our launch of a bunch of cruise missiles.
Well, people where our senators and congressmen are cheering.
He said the whole thing is bullcrap.
And he had a lot of evidence to back it up.
We thought it was bullcrap from the get-go.
And it makes nothing but sense that it's bullcrap.
In fact, I have a report from RT later, or we can play it now, kind of talking about the next, you know, this next, oh, we see another gas attack coming.
Nonsense.
Nobody sees this as bullcrap.
And meanwhile, Hirsch, I haven't seen him interviewed on CNN or anything else because of what this other group...
I didn't know about the debunking, but you can tell me about that.
The debunking?
Who's the debunking group?
I never heard of these.
The Snopes competitor.
Oh, Bellingcat.
Yeah, you know who Bellingcat is.
That's the douchebag who came up with the whole book carrier thing.
That shot down...
Oh, that guy.
Yeah, Bellingcat.
Yeah.
Oh, this is crazy.
That guy's...
I think he was paid at one point by the intelligence services, but...
He's probably still on the payroll.
Nah, he's trying to do a Patreon, for Christ's sakes.
No, I don't think so.
Oh, yeah, he wouldn't be doing a Patreon if he had any money.
So the final thing is, you know, this press briefings where they say, you know, we're not going to show this anymore.
We've already been through this.
The journalists are up in arms.
This is an outrage.
Censorship.
They'll still do the press briefing.
What did they do before the, what did they do in the 18, 1900s or let's say the late 1800s when there wasn't television?
Well, it's interesting you bring that up, but first let me play a clip of outrage from Don Lemon.
Can I bring up a question about this also?
I saw this proposal from McCurry and Fleischer earlier today.
Here's one of the flaws in that proposal.
What if there's a terrorist attack?
What if there's a hurricane?
what if there's an earthquake and there's a need for a live briefing here at the White House to talk about what's going on in the country?
You know, those kinds of occasions do arise.
As you remember with Ferguson, can you imagine if we did not have live briefings at the White House during Ferguson, for example?
My goodness.
So the question becomes, does the White House control the switch?
Do they get to make it live when they want it to be live?
Do they get to switch it off when they don't want it to be live?
There are cameras, Don, as we talked about the other night.
Our cameras, our lights, it's our briefing room.
It's not their briefing room.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You know, it is 2017.
I mean, should we just go back to dial-up as well?
I mean, it's kind of ridiculous.
I just want people to see the hypocrisy here.
Listen, reporters, we in the media are used to, you know, taking the tough questions, getting criticized.
But this is just more about pointing out the hypocrisy in all of this.
So listen, we're not complaining here.
No.
We're just pointing it out to you.
All right.
Stop, stop.
Yeah, stop.
Specifically, what does he mean by hypocrisy?
What hypocrisy?
Well, I think he's talking about himself.
Because here's the hypocrisy if we go back to the Clinton White House.
Does he know what hypocrisy means or is he just throwing the word out there?
And by the way, while we're on that topic just for a split second, whatever happened to the word demagogue?
It fell out of favor.
Jeez.
It fell out of favor.
It's no good.
It's of no use.
Now, the hypocrisy is that they're bitching and moaning about this, whereas if we listen to D.D. Myers, this is where I picked this up from C-SPAN, when she was the spokeshole for the Clinton White House, here's what was going on.
People will remember that why C-SPAN had an early experiment to televise the daily briefings that quickly...
Well, I think that that was something that we did in the first week or two.
I can't remember exactly when we stopped it.
But it was done.
It was a new administration.
I think we wanted to talk about what was going on here.
I think we found that it wasn't really necessary.
The briefing is more an opportunity to exchange ideas and have a conversation about what's happening.
That wasn't Well, there you go.
Wow.
Clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
Thank you.
Clip of the day.
Yeah, that's what the hypocrisy was about, I think.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C., as he stands for Clip of the Day, Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning, all the ships and sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, and all the dames and the feet in the air, and all the dames and knights out there.
Yes, and in the morning to, let me see, I want to thank one of our artists here.
Let me just get up the archive.
The artwork for episode 9 or 4-1, Schmo, was the title of that one.
This was very good.
This was done by, let's see, Scuba Steve, and it was me, pretty much, with a paper bag over my head with my niqab, walking down the high rises of Austin, I guess.
If you didn't hear the show, then you won't understand the gag.
It was a good one.
There was a lot of good art.
There was maybe three or four pieces we could have picked, but that one we liked, I think, because it was subtle, dimensional, had many things going on at the same time, and it had to be deciphered.
It was just right up our alley what we really liked to see.
I think dimensionality, which is hard to explain, but If you do this art and you're good at it, you know what I'm talking about.
And we highly appreciate the work from Scuba Steve and his colleagues who all contribute to noagendaartgenerator.com.
The sign-up, get an account, upload.
We use it for all kinds of stuff.
And it's great to look at.
And, you know, they can be made into t-shirts.
You might get some money from that.
It's a beautiful part of our No Agenda empire.
We do have a few people to thank for show 942.
And it's a five and five, Dave.
This happens only rarely?
Five and five.
Five and five means we have five executive producers and five associate executive producers.
Bing!
Starting with Scott Moore, $606.66, who didn't have a note that I saw, but he did have a jingle request, and he sent that in an email, and I think he also sent it in the PayPal note.
I see it here.
Another magical number of the beast donation.
Karma update from the last donation to follow.
I haven't seen that.
But when it comes in, we'll read whatever it is.
It's the only note I can find from Moore.
Jingle request.
One, Pastor Manning, Kellyanne, Money Shot.
Two, Seed Man, Satan, Satan.
Three, Seed Man, any other clip, and Trump Jobs Karma.
So we can start booking 2019.
Okay, Seed Man, Satan...
And then what was the...
any other clip?
Okay.
We'll do a favorite there.
And then finally, Trump Jobs.
Where's Trump Jobs?
Okay, I think we can do this here.
That's a Shona money shot!
Woo, Jesus!
Woo, Lord!
Look at that!
That's a money shot!
Kenan Conway is a money shot!
Women just encircled the Christians and went, Satan, Satan, Satan!
Oh, give us power!
Ah, Satan!
My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows!
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Woo!
I loaded up with stuff that time.
And here we go again.
Seronymous, Seronymous, Seronymous.
Hey, and Dogpatch.
This guy's fantastic.
He's going to be a Duke pretty soon.
$400.
I don't think he wants to be.
Okay.
He's got a long note this time instead of the short notes where we go along on the short note.
All right.
I apologize for recently being a long-winded pain to listeners, but after another loser in Flint tried to kill someone in God's name, my wife went nuts!
She's preparing to return home and anticipating TSA screening when she wrote me the following that I wanted to share.
I've lived in the U.S. 34 years and suddenly I don't feel I belong because of my faith.
It's like being an Ahmadi in Pakistan.
The Ahmadis are a sect of Islam and in Pakistan it's illegal and they'll kill you.
It's like being an Ahmadi in Pakistan always looking over your shoulder.
Who could have thought that the United States of America would want to be they be so backward?
You never felt that fear nor dread nor the pain in the pit of your stomach returning home and worrying about immigration officers and all for what?
That you visited a Muslim country just to see a family member or our schools?
Is he referring to the travel ban?
Is that what she's referring to?
I think she's referring to the whole situation that's going on.
We do have a travel ban.
The travel ban is in effect, but anyone that's from here is not affected by it.
But she's worried.
My children and you don't know these fears.
34 years as a contributing, law-abiding U.S. citizen should be enough to feel the U.S.A. as my home.
But suddenly my religion is making me not feel at home and even unwelcome at its border.
I don't understand.
If she's an American citizen, it's no problem.
Yeah, well, and I think American citizens sometimes feel unwelcome at the board.
I felt very unwelcome for a couple of years, if you can recall.
Yes, we did a little bit about it.
I was on the list.
They wouldn't get me off, and it took me two, three hours every time I landed in San Francisco.
Okay, secondary, tertiary, open it all up.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
What do you do in private aviation?
Why do you have a pilot's license?
I went to Canada once some years ago when I was getting flu shots.
They didn't have this one nasty flu that was going around.
I went to Canada because they didn't have the shot around here.
It was sold out.
So I go running up there.
I go to one of the little clinics up there to pay.
And I found it wasn't a bad experience.
I had to wait a little longer than I like.
But I had to wait a long time on my own doctor.
So I did that and I jumped back in the car and drive across the border back to the States.
I got grilled!
What did you go to Canada for?
Dude.
Well, I was going to get a shot.
You can get shots here.
Yeah.
That's what the guy said.
I said, no, you can't.
It ran out.
Wow.
And then he groused about something else.
And then he was making my life miserable just thinking, okay.
But I'm sure if you're a Muslim, it's probably, I have to assume it's not easy.
Everyone has treated me like a bloody foreigner just because I have an accent.
Your family, your board of directors, everyone associated with mainstream America.
I'm sick, sick, sick of being treated like a foreigner when I'm not.
I've lived here longer than anywhere else, 34 years.
But the conversations are becoming so boring, those stupid polite smiles, those dumb stories about Islam, Taliban, ISIS, women's rights...
Bullshit stories of another world of which I have no interest, but I have to play that role that's expected of me.
I know nothing of the Middle East politics, nor care for them as I know no one, nor am familiar with their governments.
So why associate them with me?
Can you still hear me?
Yeah, I'm listening.
The reason I said that is because the screen went blank.
Oh, no, I'm listening.
But I have to play that role that's not expected of me.
I know nothing of Middle East politics.
Okay, let me ask a question.
Maybe Sir Anonymous and Dog Pat should ask this.
Yes, that sucks.
This is from his wife.
I know.
This sucks.
But the idea is to keep everybody safe.
So there's enhanced interrogation, whatever that means.
You know what that means?
Waterboarding.
Yeah, well, hey...
No, it's deep.
What would Trump call it?
Deep, deep vetting.
Intense vetting.
Extreme vetting.
Extreme vetting.
Yeah.
Look, I can't...
You can go...
If you're a Jew, you go anywhere in the world where there's Arabs and they look at you like they want to just spit on you.
There's all kinds of stuff going on.
It's not fair!
There you go.
Life is not fair.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's not fair.
Well, she's irked.
I can tell, and I feel bad for her as a fellow citizen.
Yeah, I do too.
What are you going to do?
And she shouldn't be required to, you know, I don't want to be callous.
You can go to a voice coach and get rid of your accent.
Yeah, if you want.
And I think that's what I would do.
I mean, it sounds like, you know, well, I shouldn't have to do that.
But there's something going on with this.
Because I'm always taking whatever car service is around.
And I hear someone with an accent.
I'm like, hey, where are you from?
Originally.
I always say originally.
And then it's typically I get, no, I've been in Austin for 35 years.
Ah, you're a Texan.
But that's really not done anymore.
You can't even say where are you from originally, or even where are you from is a microaggression.
And I don't give a crap, because I'm still going to ask, because it's interesting.
I'm interested in people's backgrounds.
We're still the country where all the immigrants come in, but you've got a whole group of people who are just being morons about accents, and they're being terrorized by the media.
Yes, I blame the media for a lot of this.
Yes, the media is at fault.
And that's what she should realize.
But she's in a situation...
She's hating America.
Hey, you know what?
Why don't you go check out a non-Muslim country?
Go to France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and let's see if it's any better or worse there.
Guarantee you it's worse.
No, but I'm just saying, we're pretty good here.
We got Muslims all over Austin.
No one gives a crap.
So it's wherever you're living.
I think one of her annoyances is the fact that she doesn't give a crap about the Middle East politics.
And she's expected to know it.
And you...
Right, right.
That's the same thing.
Yeah, you grew up in Amsterdam.
Yeah, don't you know Pete?
You...
Yeah, there's always that.
Oh, you live in New York.
Do you know a guy named Bill?
Yeah.
It's...
Well, maybe, you know, you should learn some Middle East politics and make us fuss.
I don't know.
Okay, anyway, that's enough said as seronymous.
Well, I want to give a big karma for him and his wife.
I feel horrible that that's how it's coming across.
You've got karma.
And yes, I understand.
I've been singled out myself for years.
And based on something, they wouldn't even tell me why.
I was just on some list.
You found out eventually there's some guy in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma, another guy named Adam Curry, just to make it more fun.
Also in private aviation.
I had my pilot's license at the time.
That's all registered with the government.
And of course I look like a terrorist.
They thought you were going to fly a plane into a building.
And I look like a terrorist, so there you go.
You kind of do.
Thanks.
Pop, pop, pop money. Pop, pop, pop money. Pop, pop, pop money.
So Larry Pelham came in with $357 in pop, pop money.
Pop money.
And he sent a note in by email, which I have to read here.
It's Redstone Federal Credit Union.
The credit unions are really ahead of the game when it comes to banking.
Yeah.
He says, first time donor, enjoy the deconstruction.
$357 is for my S&W R8. Thanks to my wife who gave me the push to donate.
So he's got a Smith& Wesson.367 Magnum.
Hell yeah.
Which is a gun that, in fact, it's not a pleasant gun to shoot.
Let's put it that way.
It's a cannon.
It's a small cannon.
It hurts your wrist.
Yeah.
Anyway, he says his wife gave him to push the donate.
Thank you, Mrs.
Pelham, if that is your name or you call yourself that.
In Huntsville, Alabama, I'm sure you do.
He wants Resist We Much, Two to the Head, and Little Girl Yay.
Okay.
I was actually thinking I got a very cool donation from producer Jason.
He sent me a note.
He said, I've got something on the way for you.
And it's two boxes of 70 rounds each American Eagle 410 handgun shotgun shot shells.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, that's pricey.
Yeah, I'd say.
And they're like, you know, American Eagle 50 centerfire pistol cartridges and an extra 20.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah.
Alright, your combo, sir.
Here we go.
But resist, we must.
We must and we will much about that be committed.
Yay!
You've got karma.
Onward.
Sir Craig Kuttner in Norwalk, Connecticut.
3-3-3-3-3.
Baronet Craig here, I'm trying to, I'm trying hard to pull the best podcast in the universe out of its summer doldrum funk.
And I'm also trying hard to shake off the lame Baronet moniker.
So to go to full, everybody bitches about that.
To go to full frontal Baron and score an executive producership to boot.
Memo to peerage committee being drafted.
Using this numerology as a nod to my 33rd anniversary, congratulations to my XYL. Adam, please explain the ham lingo as equal to MILF. Yeah, well, XYL means former young lady because you're now married to her.
It's a ham thing.
It's a ham thing.
Yeah, 73s.
For putting up with me.
And yes, I hit her in the mouth and she listens with the pause button and does an analysis of your analysis.
You need to record that so we can have something to listen to.
Yeah, we can use some clips.
Very interesting.
Yeah, this will fill the show.
Well, that's interesting.
Keep up the outstanding product.
Clips, please.
Milf, 69 Dudes, No Real Confrict.
And Karma, 73s KB1 YYE. Ah, Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie, 73s for Kilo Bravo 1 Yankee Yankee Echo.
That's one mother I'd like to.
69!
69, dude!
There's no real conflict!
You've got Karma.
Onward with penonymous.
We have, by the way, today, seronymous.
Ron Driggs first, Ron Driggs.
Okay, well, I'm going to finish this thing.
I don't want to say it again.
Penonymous, seronymous, and I believe, canonymous.
Yes.
Too many, a lot.
Well, people are anonymous.
Ron Driggs, Ron Driggs.
He came, I think it's an email.
Let me look.
I think I have it right here.
Ron Driggs.
ITM dudes, I think it's said so often that people take it for granted, but thank you for keeping me sane.
I see so many people around this.
I have to think this is why this show really exists.
I see so many people around me that are truly miserable.
I can't legitimately feel sorry for them as I sit high atop my tower of sanity and judge them.
Either their amygdala is so enlarged or they weren't hugged enough as a child or perhaps hugged too much.
God, who knows?
I've been listening for over a year now and there's been one thing that John said in episode 920 that has changed my life.
Anyone gonna eat this meatloaf?
That line made me believe in the possibility of a higher power.
You delivered it so well at the time.
I don't need any clips, but if you play the Obama Hay song at the end of the show, I'll be your best friend forever, Hugs and Kisses Ron.
Which Hay song?
Man, there must be a million of them.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Or the hey, hey, hey, hey song that goes hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Oh, na-na-na-na.
Yeah, that could be it.
Nana, Nana.
Nana, Nana.
Say goodbye.
Okay, I'll have to look for that.
Yeah, we'll get that.
We'll get some.
And I do want to mention, we got a note from one of our producers, Dr.
Scott Hamilton.
Adam, the term you seek meaning hypertrophy or enlargement of the amygdala is amygdala megaly.
Amygdala megaly.
It has a term.
Well, that's one we won't remember.
It's appreciated, Dr.
Hamilton.
I think amygdala medley, which would be a bunch of songs.
Well, we can do that, amygdala medley.
Let's just call it that.
That's what it is.
I'm going to write it down, amygdala medley.
Penonymous comes in from Fort Knox, Wisconsin, $250.
Sent a check and a note.
Handwritten note, I might add.
You or one producer, not me, should start up a No Agenda singles website so like-minded No Agenders who are single can mingle and multiply.
That's what the meetups are for.
Guaranteed way to keep up the lifetime donations, subscriptions, and to keep you two on the podcast airways.
On another note, your Google jokes on the last show were hilarious in reference to the MSM guy complaining Trump and White House do not allow video or voice recording.
For those MSM guys and gals, by the way, he uses the plus sign for the and, they can sink in their own gaggles.
Request!
Jingles.
Or Gingles, as he called them.
Only my African-American brother, please.
What?
I don't know this one.
I'm just reading it.
And then the thing has got one.
Reverend Manning, Kellyanne Conway, guess what?
Yes, there's another version of that.
And Al Sharpton, multiple, please, of him.
You know, I don't like this.
If you want Jingles, please be specific.
What you want?
Yeah, you don't want us picking jingles.
No.
So it's a Manning, Kellyanne Conway.
What else?
A couple of Sharpton clips.
I'll put one in.
I want to hear the...
Just do the much clip I like.
And that new one that I gave you that...
Something about the rain or something.
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's a clip that I sent in a couple of shows ago.
You did?
Sharpton...
I don't see anything about rain, John.
No, it wasn't rain.
It was something else.
People are into Star Wars, Star Trek.
Oh, right.
No, Star Wars.
Yeah, okay.
I got that.
All right.
And then?
Is that it?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
That's a Shona money shot!
Woo, Jesus!
Woo, Lord!
Look at that!
That's a money shot!
Kenan Conway is a money shot!
But resist, we much.
We must and we will much about that be committed.
Star Wars.
Everyone's going nuts about it.
You've got karma.
Yeah, it's just...
It's so stupid.
It's just stupid, yeah.
It's not like you flubbed.
Sir Crash EMT... By the way, I've been watching the Drone Racing League...
What's that on?
What channel is that on?
It's on ESPN 10 or something.
It's really hard to find.
I'm telling you.
This must be off the hook.
Oh, it's fantastic.
Because you got video from every drone.
The drones are just outrageous.
And these guys, they're all in their 20s, most of them.
I don't know how you can even do what they do.
It's just outrageous.
Yeah.
We'll talk about, compliment a few, but most of them are like computer guys.
It's kind of funny.
So Crash EMT from Watching New York.
Watchung.
Watchung.
New Jersey.
Watchung, New Jersey.
23766.
Note with Adam.
So you have a note, apparently.
Ah.
From Sir Crash EMT, whoever that might be.
I don't know about that, man.
I'll check.
I don't know.
If I don't have his name, how the hell can I come up with Sir Crash EMT? I can't.
I got nothing.
I don't know his name.
Okay.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Okay.
Robert Johnson, 222-22.
If Crash EMT, you can send something else or catch up.
Yeah, send something to me.
Robert Johnson, 2222.
Probably the subject line is donation note.
2222 US. About 30 episodes ago, yes, it appears they are, quote, unquote, hopefully you can use this money towards an amygdala CAT scan.
Wait a minute.
Oh, sorry.
Uncle Bob from unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia.
Hey brahs, after listening to episode 941 and tired schmo, I figured I'd better donate of another sack of deuces because you two are losing it.
Okay, let me do this correctly.
Uncle Bob from Unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia.
Hey bros, after listening to episode 941 titled Shmo, I decided I'd better donate another sack of deuces because you two are losing it.
I thought, are they really having the same Shmo discussion they had about 30 episodes ago?
Yes, it appears they are.
Hopefully you can use this money towards an amygdala CAT scan.
Also, it's pronounced schmoo as in boo.
Not that weird Dutch way that JCD was using, and Adam seemed to buy in, hook, line, and secret.
I'm such a douche.
I'm so stupid.
You are stupid.
Stupid.
This guy sounds like he writes on the Reddit.
It's exactly how they sound there.
Yeah.
Also, consult the Book of Knowledge for Shmoo, pronounced Shmoo, a Eurasian duck that certainly had to be the inspiration for the Shmo.
I understand they are quite tasty when cooked to their own fat, which is confit.
Can you spell confit?
Yes.
Where the C stands for confit.
Mmm, science.
Can I please get an Alex Jones of Adam's Choice?
Once again, I'm telling you, it's just a random number.
Everybody's letting you pick them.
And a good health karma for all the producers out there, as well as no more schmo talk.
Schmoo.
And he ends with?
Thanks, bros.
Wow, I am really high.
Humanity is going interstellar.
You've got karma.
All right.
I want to find some documentation for us having that exact same conversation about the Al Cap character in the little Abner cartoon 30 episodes ago.
I don't remember that.
I would remember it.
I don't even know if we've been doing this for 9 or 10 years.
Leave me out of this.
Hey, man.
Hey, man.
Mandela effect.
And Mandela effect.
Bro.
Flatter.
Austin Wilson in Mammish, Washington, 211-12.
Little ritzy suburb.
My wife Laura and I have been listening for a little less than a year, and we talk about the show all the time.
We're trying to convert our kids into being listeners.
We're on a long road trip and we'll listen to this episode on the car with them.
I'd like to request road karma, Maxine stay woke for our millennial kids, and the formula.
The formula will be played in a moment.
And hi kids, hope you're having fun there in the car.
Hey!
Stop teasing your sister.
Hey, tell them to turn around.
Turn around and go, we're going to go back.
My millennials!
Stay woke!
You've got karma.
Your mom and dad are right.
Great show to listen to.
Andy Berghart in Toledo, Ohio listens.
$201.25 worth.
And he has a...
Okay.
The shows are always great, but have been beyond excellent lately.
Yeah, that's what he says.
Would appreciate some jobs, Karma.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And that'll be our group of five and fives.
Five executive producers, five associate executive producers.
A perfect show.
We look forward to doing another show which will be celebrating 7-1-17, an unbelievably weird palindrome that incorporates two sevens and eleven and also represents the 150th birthday of Canada.
And that'll be Saturday.
Yes.
No, Sunday.
Well, Saturday is the actual date, right?
Yeah, Saturday.
When the newsletter goes out, that's when the thing is, and that's when people can contribute.
They want to contribute on this specific day.
Well, indeed, a perfect lineup.
Five by five, five execs, five associate executive producers.
These are the credits we love giving at the beginning of the show because you are really doing the work of executive and associate executive producers.
People help us in many ways.
This is highly appreciated.
And we'll be thanking, as John said, everyone else who came in over $50 in our second segment.
And remember, another show coming up on Sunday.
Dvorak.org slash NA. Not often this one gets requested, but I'm happy to play it for you.
Hey, let's do something with the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Hey, citizens.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
We have producers in all walks of life, and it's always fantastic when a topic comes up and you get doctors and lawyers and all kinds of professionals weighing in with their expertise.
We've been talking a lot about the Heroin, or the, I would guess I would say, opioid crisis in the United States, which is just...
I mean, now that the Narcan is on some big PR blitz, there's a story everywhere.
And the first thing that was very interesting, as we discussed the...
What's the name of that?
The Adapt Pharma.
They're the ones who are not public, but they do have...
I guess they have the patent on...
Narcan Naloxone.
Is it Naloxone?
What's the brand name?
Narcan is the brand name, right?
Yeah.
Naloxone is the actual stuff.
Right.
If you look at the website, you'll see that on January 25th, 2016, Adapt Pharma announced a partnership with the Clinton Health Matters Initiative.
An initiative of the Clinton Foundation as part of its work to scale Naloxone access efforts nationally.
Is it Naloxone or Noxolone?
Well, it says naloxone.
I think it's naloxone.
Okay.
Through this partnership and in close collaboration with state departments of education, Adapt Pharma will offer a free carton of Narcan nasal spray to all high schools in the United States.
Thanks, Hillary!
Hey, kids, if you're overdosing, Clinton to the rescue!
I know it's just coincidental, but it's very annoying to see this.
From New York City.
No, that's not what I want to do here.
This is the next one.
This is a rather long one, but this is a great note from our producer, Jim.
Adam, my name is Jim.
I'm an ex-hardcore drug user and a former pharmacy technician.
Yes, a brilliant vocational choice.
I have not shot heroin in over 10 years, but I have had one misadventure with Orly taking a relatively low dose for me of prescription opioids.
I may have been clinically dead.
I never got a straight answer about that.
I don't remember ingesting the pills, but I recall the horror of waking up in a hospital with a rubber tube in my penis as I saw Obama getting sworn in on TV. Thanks, Obama.
I stick to Kratom now, and they want to ban it, which is, I digress, he says.
I've never had Narcan.
I did have precipitated withdrawals, which is instant detox, from simply taking a Suboxone while I still had the Oxycodone in my system.
The wave of sickness that incapacitated was so nasty, I wouldn't wish that rapid detox or the slow detox I had in jail on anyone.
To suggest that Narcan will promote new heroin use is flawed logic.
Here's why.
This is what's interesting.
That was one of my thesis.
Like, hey, maybe they're trying to promote it.
Hey, don't worry about it, everybody.
I got my Narcan.
Let's shoot up.
Well, he's disputing this.
He says junkies like me typically don't care about consequences much anyway.
Number two, junkies simultaneously want to avoid police and arrest.
And junkies never ever want to be dope sick.
If my buddy had Narcan on hand and said, don't worry if you do too much, I'll spray your nose if you OD, I got you covered, that wouldn't give me much comfort, personally.
Then again, I rarely use needles, very rarely.
Narcan costs money that's going to help keep big pharma rich.
Junkies aren't going to waste their time or money on it.
Death from overdose is sometimes desirable to the slow suicide of being a smackhead.
I would never put my safety or health and life in the hands of a police officer.
Narcan would cause a physically dependent heroin addict to survive, yet be really effing pissed off that they were alive, as they would feel awful, all caps.
If you know any doctors who spend time in an ER, you can hear of angry junkies who are angry that their high was stolen from them and they're still alive.
We are a very grumpy bunch in that state of mind.
And so he goes on.
But I think that's really the crux of...
Of his story here is that junkies do not want to be saved.
And we've heard that from EMT guys, Chad in Boulder.
Yeah.
You spray the guy, then they're pissed off that you took him out of their high.
They might have been doing some other amphetamines or meth.
That's the classic.
Yeah.
This is very, very, very, very, very, very bad.
And stuff is happening all over the country.
This is, where is this, Middletown, not sure where it is.
We are faced with stress on our services, particularly the EMS services where we can do, you know, six to eight opioid overdose runs a day.
The number of overdoses jumping this year.
Last year, there were 532 total.
Halfway through 2017, there are already 577 this year.
Last year, the department spent more than $11,000 on Narcan, and this year they're already at $30,000, which is not only a result of just how many overdoses, but how strong each one is.
Leaders are frustrated trying to find a solution.
City Council member Dan Picard is proposing a three-strike system.
The first two strikes after an overdose, the person would perform community service for the equivalent amount of money used on the lifesaving response.
The third strike is a bit more controversial.
If the dispatcher determines that the person who's overdosed is somebody who's been part of this program for two previous overdoses and has not completed the community service and has not cooperated in the program, then we wouldn't dispatch.
The fire department says they are required by law to provide Narcan if they do respond to an overdose.
Picard says this plan is not aiming to solve the drug problem.
It's trying to solve the city's finances.
We've got to do what we have to do to maintain our financial security.
And this is just costing us too much money.
Until legal advisors look at the plan proposed by Picard, the fire department is applying to grants and asking for donations to fund more Narcan.
Oh man, Narcan's sales are on fire.
No kidding.
On fire, I tell you.
The marketing coup.
Yeah.
But this is...
I'm all for the...
I was just reading through the chat room during that clip, and a number of people said, yeah, I was on heroin, and Kratom saved my life.
It seems like that's really a good solution, which makes sense, as they want to ban it, so...
Yeah, you want to ban stuff that works.
In fact, there is a...
This is no good.
We don't want to...
You can't have this.
Kratom?
No.
There's no money in it.
No.
No, that's the problem.
There's actually an argument, and there's a good book people should read if they're interested in the topic.
It's called Junkie, written by the novelist William Burroughs, who was apparently a junkie.
And he discusses a use of something called apomorphine to...
Get off these drugs.
And it's another one of those situations where that was banned for similar reasons.
Because it works.
Or it did work.
I don't know that it works, but Burroughs claims that this is a very short novel.
Very easy to read.
I think anyone out there likes reading good literature.
Oh, we've got a lot to read on the vacation.
You've got to read Junkie.
You've got to read The Day After Roswell.
There's so much.
There's so much to read.
The Day After Roswell.
I can't believe.
That I haven't read it?
Yes.
It's beyond me.
No.
Let's just stay with drugs for one minute.
Another note.
ITM, please not use my name because they would know who I am.
The comedic irony of the clip from Sunday's show where you guys had us cracking up about the CBC looking to reach out to those people who had used marijuana was fantastic!
Let's revisit briefly.
Well, a year from now, the federal government plans to legalize the use of marijuana.
But how much should you use, if at all?
When and how should it be administered?
All questions without clear answers.
But today, a group of public health experts issued a list of guidelines in hopes of reducing the risk of harm.
And Sarah Galashian is on that story for us this evening.
Well, Ian, it seems this really is about reducing risk.
They made it pretty clear right off the bat at the press conference that if you want no risk at all for marijuana, that you shouldn't use marijuana.
But they are also realistic.
They know that people do use marijuana and that more likely to once it becomes legal.
So the experts have taken a look at the research.
That is out there.
They have put together what you might call best practices and they've put together some guidelines that are being endorsed by some major medical groups, among them the Canadian Medical Association.
And some of these guidelines are what you might expect from really any drug.
If you're pregnant, avoid marijuana.
If you have mental health issues, avoid marijuana.
But others are more specific to pot.
Let's take a look at those if we can put them up.
If you're under the age of 16, they're suggesting avoiding marijuana because your brain is still developing and they believe that pot could have a negative effect.
As well, they're suggesting limit use.
In other words, once or twice a week is very different from using it daily and scientific research indicates that there are negative effects from frequent and intensive use.
Also, much like don't drink and drive, don't smoke and drive.
They suggest You need to wait six hours before getting behind the wheel.
Another one that is worth talking about is their advice to not smoke marijuana.
And that's not to say don't use marijuana, but they're specifically talking about the smoking of it, suggesting that it is hard on the lungs and that there are perhaps better ways to ingest it, specifically in baked goods or in candies.
And they suggest that that might be better because it's not only easier on the lungs, but also easier to control the dose of THC that you're getting.
So these medical experts trying to get the word out to people across the country, what kind of reaction has there been?
Well, like I say, we know that there are people who do use marijuana, and so CBC reached out to those people.
Okay.
I could have probably clipped it there.
I'm sorry.
So he was laughing about this, that they reached out to people that use marijuana.
But I worked for CBC for three years.
There wasn't a week that passed where you'd get on an elevator and someone would reek of weed.
place on the roof where they'd blaze up.
As a result, this would mean they'd be first in the elevator coming down from the top of the building, so by the time the elevator had filled up with people down to the ground floor, the thing was a virtual second-hand hot box with everyone smelling like they'd just left Snoop's basement.
The further amazeness was with the union being such as it is at the CBC, no one would say a word.
Managers and execs knew that there was no point calling out an employee on their obvious toking as the union would fight tooth and nail and there would be no ramifications for getting high on the job.
Adams' quote of look to your neighbor in the next cubicle couldn't be closer to the truth.
Onward, he ends.
Good note.
That's a great note.
Very well written.
Bunch of stoners there at CBC. Bunch of stoners at the CBC. It's the Cannabis Broadcasting Corporation, everybody.
Hey, man.
You got any baked goods?
Russia.
Oh, beautiful.
Baked is the operative word.
Yes.
Baked goods.
With your baked goods.
Hey, I want to play something from the alternative universe.
We don't have to get in the machine.
But this is Universe A. Typically, it's Universe B that is insane and unhinged.
Now it's Universe A. This is the National Rifle Association who have come out with a new public service announcement.
I'm not a member of the NRA. Obviously, I support...
The Second Amendment.
But this is not good.
They use their media to assassinate real news.
They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler.
They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again.
And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance.
All to make them march, make them protest, make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia, to smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law abiding.
Until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness.
And when that happens, they'll use it as an excuse for their outrage.
The only way We stop this.
The only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
I'm the National Rifle Association of America, and I'm freedom's safest place.
But resist, we much.
Man, I like that ad.
You do?
Yeah, I thought it was very well put.
Yeah, but...
You know, it's one thing if you're a political organization, but if you're the national rifle, what's the point?
Everybody get a gun because they're crazy, they're coming for us?
I disagree.
They never said that.
You're reading too much into it.
It's inflammatory.
It's inflammatory.
Yeah, a little bit.
A little bit.
It's true, but it's still inflammatory.
Well, the truth hurts.
Oh, well, I'm so wounded by it.
Oh, the truth hurts so much!
What do we have?
Oh, yes.
I wonder what was in there that got your goat.
Just the whole thing.
I didn't like it.
It's okay.
We don't have to agree.
I've given you the gig to do the voiceover.
I don't always agree with you, Mr.
Devorah.
What if you had gotten a gig to do the voiceover?
I'd be there in a heartbeat.
Get your guns.
You know I would.
First you give us a bunch of promotion about the 410 shot shells.
And then you play this in Bitch.
Is this your way of kind of balancing the show?
That's for ISIS. No, it's not.
I'm just telling you my impression.
Balancing the show.
I don't need to balance anything.
Like, I give a crap.
I don't.
Guess what?
I don't.
Okay, let's go to Prime Minister Question Time is back on the air.
We always love PMQT. Unfortunately, I got the first clip I got.
I botched the clip.
I don't know why I didn't get the beginning of this.
But this is a woman, one of the PMs, and she is bitching about her being abused during the election.
She's not a PM. She's an MP. Yes, the PM is the Prime Minister.
She's an MP. She's an MP. And I just want to worry about PMs.
And she got, apparently, her house was vandalized with swastikas, and they stuck labor.
She's a conservative.
They stuck labor posters.
And I only caught the end of the clip, and then I got listened to the prime minister, whose name is eluding me for some reason.
May?
Theresa May?
May, May, May, May.
I keep thinking, I was thinking Thatcher for some reason.
And...
Oh, no!
How, my right honourable friend, suggest what can be done to stop this inequality temptation?
Which, Mr.
This week, and may well be putting off good people from serving in this place.
My honourable friend is absolutely right to raise this issue, and she was not the only person who experienced this sort of intimidation during the election campaign. - I'm telling you these.
Particularly, I'm sorry to say, this sort of intimidation was experienced by female candidates during the election campaign.
I believe that this sort of behaviour has no place in our democracy.
Anyway, so that was kind of a lead.
So it was getting a little more boisterous than usual because the labor is feeling its oats.
And so we got a lot of noise in the background.
That's a phrase from the chase.
Feeling their oats?
Yeah, feeling their oats.
Let's put that on the list.
Yeah, you should.
Yeah, oats.
Um...
So here's what we did.
So there was a couple gotchas in there.
I think she did a good job on this one.
This is the Prime Minister shutting down Corbyn, who comes on.
You catch the end of Corbyn here, and then her bitching about him.
He's complaining about this, about the tower fire.
Grenfell.
And Corbyn's blaming, of course, blaming the conservatives.
It's their fault.
Really?
It's their fault?
How is it their fault?
It was a refrigerator.
How is it their fault?
Because they cut back on money to the fire departments and money to the police departments and they also cut back on money to the inspectors who would have found this out even though it's been going on forever.
Yes, that's why we have terrorism and we have fires and there's a milk shortage coming too, I hear.
...needed to test and remove cladding, retrofit sprinklers, properly fund the fire service and the police so that all our communities can truly feel safe in their own homes.
Mr Speaker, this disaster must be a wake-up call.
The cladding of tower blocks...
Did not start under this government.
It did not start under the previous coalition government.
The cladding of tower blocks began under the Blair government.
The right honourable gentleman talks about local authority resources and talks about changes to the regulation.
In 2005, it was a Labour government that introduced the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order, which changed the requirement to inspect a building on fire safety from...
You have to back it up.
I've never heard this before on this, the people.
She brings up, it was a labor government, and I don't know how many people did it, but they all did it simultaneously.
They all go, ah!
And I just thought it was hilarious.
Yeah, they're like a flock of birds.
In 2005, it was a labor government that introduced the regulatory reform fire safety order.
Ah!
You're right!
That's a good one.
Let's do it all together now.
Government would introduce the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order.
Oh!
Which changed the requirement to inspect a building on fire safety from the local fire authority, which was usually the fire brigade, to a responsible person.
The legislation governing fire safety in tower blocks was, and this was commented on by the Lackanell House report into that fire.
It criticised that 2005 order which had been put in place by the Labour government.
Prime Minister's answer must be heard, and it will be.
Prime Minister.
And laws which took effect in 2006 ended the practice of routine fire service inspections, passing the responsibility to councils.
That is why I say to the right honourable gentleman, this should be an issue that across this House we recognise...
It's a matter that has been developing over decades.
It's a matter that has occurred under governments of both colours, under councils of all political persuasions, and is something which I would hope we would say we should come together and ensure that we...
We get to the answers of why this has happened over many years, what has gone wrong, and how do we stop it from happening in the future.
I am a little bit envious of their parliament.
That is so fun.
It is.
It's, you know, it was mumbling and grumbling.
I like the yelling.
It's stone silent.
We had one guy in the history of this show...
That said something.
Obama was talking in one of his speeches, and the guy yells, liar.
Yeah, that was during State of the Union.
Yeah, it's a South Carolina guy, I think.
And it was a big deal.
Oh, he interrupted.
How rude!
And then you listen to this, and you go, jeez, this is the leader.
They're just yelling at her, and the whole thing.
And by the way, I haven't yet to get access to it, but Canada is worse.
Yeah.
Canada is worse.
I've seen some of it, yeah.
I got one last one, and this is just another kind of a laughable moment.
And this is a guy who was called up and he discusses Venezuela and gives May the opportunity to give it to Corbyn.
Thank you, Mr.
Speaker.
Is the Prime Minister aware of the current crisis in Venezuela and is this an example of how an experiment in socialist revolution can go horribly wrong?
I have to say to my honourable friend that I think he's made an extremely important point and I hope the Leader of the Opposition has heard what he's had to say.
Indeed, I have to say, sometimes when we're talking about trade deals in the future, I think that the leader of the opposition and his shadow chancellor think that the only good trade deals are with Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
Marion Fellow!
We used to be those guys, man.
We used to be funny.
Yeah.
Not anymore.
No.
Before we go to thank a number of people, just to remind you...
Sorry?
But before we go to that, I do have a Venezuela clip so we can keep people up to date on that because it kind of links with that last clip.
Okay, let's do that right away.
Sorry.
Wait, wait, wait.
I just want to mention, this clip is not misnamed as usual.
Okay.
Okay.
I got it.
This clip is called...
Well, I just want to say what it is so we can get...
I'm trying to set this up.
Judy actually says...
Ah, PBS NewsHour.
Venezuela armrest.
Instead of unrest?
Yeah.
The months-long unrest in Venezuela took a dramatic turn overnight.
The government says that a police helicopter opened fire on the nation's Supreme Court and Interior Ministry.
Amateur video captured images of the helicopter before it disappeared.
Officials charged the mastermind of the plot was a rogue police pilot and actor.
Opponents of socialist president Nicolas Maduro suggested that the raid could be a government ploy to justify increased repression.
I really didn't hear her say it at the beginning.
I didn't hear her say armrest.
She said armrest.
The months-long unrest in Venezuela.
Now it's unrest.
She's saying unrest.
Oh, I thought she said armrest.
I have that all the time, as we know.
As we go to thank everyone who came in over $50 or more, I do want to remind you the importance of our model as we would not be on the air.
So if you appreciate us, then show your support, please, if you get value.
A number of people sent me a copy of this email who have YouTube channels.
Or have YouTube channels and or videos they want to upload.
Here it is.
Hi, fill in your name.
This is from YouTube.
Thanks for submitting your video, in parentheses S, videos, for monetization.
We didn't approve your videos for monetization because the content in your videos or video details may not be advertiser-friendly.
If you believe that the content in your video is advertiser-friendly, you can request additional review below.
How about that?
Yeah, of course.
That's what we've always said.
Man, the silencing alternative media is censorship from YouTube!
No!
No.
I keep getting emails.
You guys aren't covering the censorship from YouTube.
No, it's not censorship.
It's called money.
It's called advertising.
And it's not YouTube.
YouTube will run anything.
You can put it up.
You can't make money.
There's no censorship.
They're stifling us, man.
It's just that you've got content that is not brand friendly, brands whatever.
Advertiser friendly.
Advertiser friendly.
In other words, the advertisers don't want to be associated with your video because it either sucks or whatever.
I'd love to see their internal document on what is allowed or what isn't allowed for monetization.
I'm sure all the girls, the tons of them, the young women who do the makeup videos and get millions of views, they're fine advertising.
I'm going to show my food by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
So let's see who helped us out on show 942. 2, 942.
We actually have more than this because some of the people didn't I mean, you can't tell with the Canadians if this is $150 or $150.
Or $5.
It depends.
We do have a bunch of $150s celebrating.
I'm sure there'll be more on Saturday.
Kevin Thomas in Smyrna, Georgia.
Hail Canada, he says.
Getting support from the Americans.
Mercantoni Luciani in Ido...
Oh, man.
Etobicoke, Ontario.
I guess.
150.
Canonymous in Nainamo, up there in BC, on the island of Vancouver, actually.
He sent a note.
Let me get a note.
Ooh.
I will read his notes as he sent it in.
It's not really a long note.
It says, finding clothes, $150 Canadian dollars in honor of Canadian's $150 birthday.
I think it came to $111.
I challenge all fellow Canucks to have a bilingual de-douching on Canada Day by making a donation to the best podcast in the universe.
Signed, Canonymous, Canonymous, in Nainamo, BC. What does a Scandinavian dedouching sound like?
We need someone to do it.
Yeah.
It would be in French.
It would be in flat French.
No, you've been dedouched.
Eh?
Sorry.
Well, we can play and just put the A at the end.
A? Yeah, let's try this.
Here we go.
You've been de-douched.
A? A. Maybe not.
The timing is off.
It could work.
Or you can just do the A and I'll just stay out of it.
Sir Led in Casper, Wyoming.
One, two, three, four, five.
He says he got divorced.
His ex-wife has turned the kids against me.
I'm in desperate need of family karma.
I hate it when that happens.
It pretty much happens all the time.
The kids are always weaponized.
Yes, they are.
Yes, they are.
It's horrible.
I'm going to give them some karma.
Family karma.
Sucks.
You've got karma.
It's wrong.
Sir Whitney in Surrey, B.C., $111.43, which comes to $150 Canadian, he says, Sir Whitney Surrey.
And then off of that, we go to Krishna.
Wait, wait, he says, please de-douche me as I did not get one for my last donation.
All I see is the sir.
Oh, there it is.
Okay.
Well, let's see.
Oh, that's not that.
De-douche.
You've been de-douched.
A?
A?
Yeah, we'll do that.
You don't have to read this whole thing.
I'm not going to read this whole thing.
It's from Krishna in Dortmund, Deutschland.
A hundred dollars.
But there was a call out in here, which you may have identified as you read ahead.
No, I just saw the pretty color.
Well, that means that he's calling for a douchebag to somebody.
Surprisingly enough, after a few conversations, I've had my German friends straddling between dimensions in agreement with the talking points, which a few getting back to me many times about my take on a particular situation.
It's at the bottom.
It's at the bottom.
Yeah.
It's almost time she ponies up.
He's bitching about some woman.
She ponies up seeing that douchebag and butt slam are now part of the film.
I don't have that.
I don't have that.
Where are you seeing that?
It's right at the bottom.
It says, cheers, Krishna from Dorshna.
It's about time she ponies up.
Doesn't say that on my spreadsheet.
Huh.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, what's her name?
Doesn't say.
I don't see it.
Well, you.
Douchebag!
Make a shorter note.
Please.
Yes, these notes are...
You get out of control.
Well, we don't have to read these at all, over 50.
No, that's the point.
So if you make it short, the likelihood of it getting read and us catching the proper...
Action.
Yeah.
It would be better.
Okay.
Michael in Arlington, Virginia, is 8148.
Chris Meyer, boob.
Oh, he's got another...
He's got one.
Oh, he's got the douchebag call out for his mom, Kathy.
Douchebag!
Both her sons hit her in the mouth some months ago.
It's about time she ponies up seeing that douchebag and butt slam right now.
Somehow this hooked up with the other one.
That's what was at the bottom.
Very strange.
Ah, I see.
Okay.
Right.
Jeffrey Steckroth, 7770.
Any parts unknown?
We've got to fix this situation here with these cities.
Stephen Santoni, 7555.
Pop money.
Pop, pop, pop money.
James Clancy, 7555.
Daniel Riegsecker, you think?
Riegsecker, Riegsecker, Riegsecker.
Yeah, whatever the case is.
73s.
Yeah, 73s from K-E-8-E-R-Q. Yes.
It's a mouthful.
Dwayne Morris, 7117.
Now, this is the super lucky...
Super lucky...
What the hell happened to the keyboard?
Did you lose it again?
Yeah.
I'm looking left, I'm looking right.
I think I just do this to myself.
Okay, where were we?
You can explain the special lucky donation.
Yes, it's 7117.
This is Dwayne Morris.
Um...
This is the first of July 1st.
It'll be 7-1 and 17, which makes it 7-1, 17.
71-17 is a donation.
But it incorporates a 7, an 11, and a 7.
Which is weird enough, but you're not going to see this particular palindrome again for a hundred years.
Well, only eight, nine people got it, so the rest are unlucky.
Well, I know, but the big day is coming.
Oh, good point, good point.
Still time.
We'll have more.
Once in a hundred years.
Sean Fincham is in, boom shakalaka.
Melissa Hodges, Dame Melissa in Oklahoma City, 71-17.
Sir Brad Doherty in Venture City, New Jersey.
Courtney Vandenberg in Brombachtel, Deutschland.
Brombachtel?
Yeah.
You are producing pure gold.
P.S. I'm a guy, not a gal.
Oh, Courtney.
Yes, it is an issue.
We'll become a Sir, Courtney, and you have a mistake.
I've never been made again.
Yancy Assumerauer.
Nice.
I don't know where he's from.
It doesn't say.
Ginger Wilder.
Douchebag call out to Steve.
Douchebag!
And she considers herself future dame firecracker.
It's named by Adam.
Do you know her?
Who said that?
I think she sent a picture.
She's ginger.
She's a ginger.
Firecracker.
Ginger.
Boom.
Alejandro Chapa in Houston, Texas, 71-17.
Sir Eric Elan in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
We've got a huge group there.
You guys should be meeting up.
Sir Tim of Rupert's Land, Edmonton, Alberta, 71-17.
James Williams, 71-17.
That's our little group of well-wishers.
Mark F. DeWitt in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee.
We'd also meet up with that group.
7-76.
Steven Ramos in Richmond, Virginia, 55-55.
Greg Dial, 55-10.
Ralph Massaro, Kirkland, Washington, 55-10.
Don, 55, from Claremont, Florida.
Aaron Patterson, 55, from I don't know where he's from either.
Von Glitchka sent us some email.
Or Aaron Patterson did, I guess.
See email and karma.
Well, we don't have it.
Von Glitchka, if you find my wife no longer thinks you guys are nuts.
Well done, yes.
Excellent.
Chris Sundberg in Mercer Island, Washington.
By the way, if you can put in the note, see email, you could put that email in the note.
Yeah.
No, that's not happening.
It's such a cacophony of errors always trying to get this done.
Yeah.
But we also...
Chris Sundberg in Mercer Island, Washington.
I said 51.
Jill Varvell in Squim, Washington.
People don't know how to pronounce that, by the way.
It's pronounced Squim.
She mentions that I know how to pronounce it.
She says Santa's day to Squim to transplant, unlike the rest of the nation, John.
I know you'll pronounce Squim correctly.
It's spelled, for people out there who want to know, you want to sound like a local.
S-E-Q-U-I-M. Squim.
Riveting.
Just riveting.
We got it.
We got it.
You spell it different than you say it.
Nathaniel Wiley, 50-01.
The following are $50 donors from name and location, if there is a location.
David Middlebrook.
Tracy Mallott.
Nils Bonnaker in Hamburg, Deutschland.
We've got a lot of Germans today, thank you.
Louis Pastor in Miami, Florida.
Jason Marella, Sir Dago Jay.
To be Sir Dago Jay.
Oh, he's going to be today, yeah.
He's not Dago Jay yet.
Bryn Evans in Elwood, Victoria, Canada.
Jose Ferreira in Newberry, Berkshire.
Great Britain.
And wrapping it up, Sir Peter Totes, $50.
Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan.
Joshua Defabo in Oakland, California.
And Sir Gadget Virtuoso in Watauga, Texas.
That's all $50.
I want to thank all these folks and the rest of you for contributing to the list of well-wishers and producers of show 942, The No Agenda.
Regime.
And in lieu of general jobs karma, I will go back to Sir Tim of Rupert's Land.
Of all the filters this spreadsheet passes through, we didn't catch this.
From Sir Tim of Rupert's Land, and please give me an F you to cancer.
I'm in a terminal situation.
Don't expect to survive the summer, boys.
Ugh.
That sucks.
That totally blows.
Maybe if everyone all gives him karma, you know, crazier things have happened.
Stop eating that!
You've got karma.
And that wraps it up.
Thank you everybody who came in over $50 or more, typically for reasons of anonymity.
It's highly appreciated.
It does keep the show going.
And we'll keep the show going.
This is Tina's vacation.
She's saved up enough to go for three weeks.
This is it.
And is her boyfriend going to be vacationing the whole time?
No.
I'll be doing the show.
Aww.
Well, you don't have to feel bad.
I'm just saying, the dedication is there, and we appreciate people returning that value to us.
It's appreciated.
And please think of us for our next show, which is coming up on Sunday.
And we say happy birthday from Adrian Archer to welcome his new human resource, Theodore.
It's a popular name, born June 27th.
James Clancy, it's a happy birthday to his lovely daughter, Susan Grace.
She'll be eight this month.
Nathaniel Wiley says happy birthday to Nate Wiley, celebrating on June 2nd, and Ann Wiley on the 25th.
And Tracy Mallett says happy birthday to Jake Mallett.
His birthday is July 6th.
We say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
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I'm sorry, he is Sir Dagwood Jay.
My mistake.
He's already a knight.
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And we have two knightings.
It's been, what, a month since we've had a knighting, I think?
Hello?
Been about three shows ago.
Oh, yeah, okay, so almost a month.
It's the one where I kept it, but the sword was stuck on the ground.
I put it down.
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Pull it out now.
Pull it out of the scabbard.
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A lot of people tweeting pictures of their new rings.
Some existing knights and dames got in on some deal that Eric put together.
People seem to be very happy with them.
It's very nice.
Pictures are good.
It's starting!
It's starting!
Yes.
The new scanners are arriving.
The new money makers.
Oh yes, I have a Jeff Pegues report.
Well let me do mine and then you can do your report.
I'm just saying I have it.
You can line it up any way you want.
I'm not pushing you aside.
I'm not throwing you to the curb.
I'm just letting you know that I have some clips.
Well, what clip do you have?
I don't know.
I can't find it.
American Airlines wants to make it a little easier for you to go through security.
I like that.
It is testing a new 3D scanner that may allow passengers to leave liquids and laptops, oh my goodness, in their carry-on.
I don't believe that for a second.
That's bullcrap.
You think that with these new scanners that you're going to be able to leave your shoes on and leave your water in your bag?
No.
No way.
That's not going to happen.
Liquids and laptops, oh my goodness, in their carry-on bags.
I haven't done that in quite a long time, but I know American, Rick, has spent a lot of money on these special machines.
Where'd you get this?
This is from Yahoo.
Yahoo News.
Nobody has reported this.
I have not heard anything about it.
Besides the water thing, it's like because the water itself would be some bomb.
All they're going to do is find the water in your bag and say, hey, you got water in your bag.
Throw it away.
Gee, the M5M. Screwing up.
What a surprise.
I haven't done that in quite a long time, but I know American, Rick, has spent a lot of money on these special machines.
Tell us about this.
Well, this apparently is the next level of technology that will help the good guys get ahead for once.
Usually it's just the bad guys figuring out how to defeat the technologies that's in place.
It's a real cat and mouse game.
It sounds like a real cotton mouse game.
Dan knows more about the actual technology, but it sounds like it can actually tell what those liquids might be.
It potentially can tell if a laptop is an actual laptop or it's been doctored with.
In other words, it can tell what's inside of it.
So if someone's trying to stuff plastic explosives in there, it might be able to spot it.
And this will, if it works, and I think this is in use in some other parts of the world, just help, it'll ease things a little bit going through security, plus enhance security a little bit.
Let's not forget, that's really the goal here.
No, it's not.
What they're basically doing is, you know, you get a regular scan, and it scans, you know, everything that's inside your luggage or whatever, right?
This 3D scan will actually scan the entire thing, and then they'll be able to rotate it so they'll be able to see what's inside.
Rotate, enhance, zoom.
Hmm.
I think that's great.
I don't want to take out my laptop.
Does she go?
She went, hmm.
And then he's going, I think this is a tech guy.
And then they'll be able to rotate it so they'll be able to see what's inside.
I think that's great.
I don't want to take out my laptop.
I don't want to take my shoes off anymore.
Yeah, well, don't think that's going to stop, douche.
Hold on a second.
What is the logic of this report?
That device is just an enhanced x-ray machine.
What's it got to do with taking your shoes off?
Nothing.
If this is how it's going to be sold to the American public, they're on the wrong track.
Someone needs to jump in with some PR pretty quick.
By the way, have you seen this machine?
Yeah.
It's beautiful.
It looks expensive.
Don't want to take out my laptop.
It looks really expensive.
Not only that, but they had an industrial designer obviously go after it because this thing is slick.
Yeah, it is slick.
Well, we need to convince everyone it's good for you.
To see what's inside.
I think that's great.
I don't want to take out my laptop.
I don't want to take my shoes off anymore.
I don't want to take out my bottles of contact lens cleaner because they think it's something else.
Does he think he's going through the machine himself?
I think so.
He's squeezing himself in.
Okay, lay down right here.
You lay down.
Go through.
Crazy.
All right.
You got TSA changes on laptops.
Is that the one?
Well, I got two.
I got the TSA changes.
This is the Pegasi one.
I want to do that one last year.
There was another one.
I think I had a short clip.
TSA report on laptops.
Yeah, no, there's two of them.
The one you want that doesn't have Pegues' name on it.
Not the one with the kicker, just the first one.
Back in this country, the Homeland Security Department announced that it is stepping up security measures for flights coming into the U.S. They include enhanced screening of electronic devices and passengers.
Airlines that comply could be exempt from an earlier ban on carry-on laptops.
Those that don't comply May face a total ban on electronic devices.
Now, so that was actually the short report, and that was to the point from Judy.
That makes sense.
So CBS had about a seven-minute report.
I have just a part of it because there's a kicker.
This is Jeff Pegues, the guy that sounds like he's taking a dump.
Oh, my favorite guy.
That's really important news.
So Pegues gives this report, and he's got a kicker.
He says something at the end is like, you know, like this thing about the, I don't take my shoes off anymore, I can take water bottles on.
It's just like, what?
Where did this come from?
Among the changes, enhancing overall passenger screening, increasing security protocols around aircraft and in passenger areas, expanding the use of bomb-detecting dogs, and perhaps most importantly, heightened screening of personal electronic devices.
We are taking prudent steps to make aircraft more secure, to reduce insider threats, and to identify suspicious passengers.
The enhanced security comes after US intelligence determined more terrorists are learning how to build an explosive hidden in a laptop, like the bomb that detonated on a flight in Somalia last year.
In March, the Trump administration banned large electronics in the cabins of airplanes traveling to the US from 10 airports in Africa and the Middle East.
The administration had been threatening to widen that ban to the concern of some other countries.
Today's action is seen as a compromise.
TSA is always looking for the best capability.
One new technology that may now be used?
3D scanners that can better identify explosives in carry-on bags.
The machines are being tested at Phoenix International Airport.
Steve Carely is an assistant administrator at the TSA. The bad guy is very agile and always changing where we need to be that agile.
The security upgrades will not all happen at once.
They'll be phased in over time.
Anthony, there is something else that DHS officials are concerned about, and that is the threat for potential hijackings.
Jeff Begais.
Thanks, Jeff.
What?
What?
That's what I said.
That was my reaction.
What?
The scanners can't detect a gun or a box cutter?
He dropped that little bomb at the end and I... Let me just hear it again.
Let me just hear it again for a second.
We need to be that agile.
The security upgrades will not all happen at once.
They'll be phased in over time.
Anthony, there is something else that DHS officials are concerned about, and that is the threat for potential hijackings.
Thanks, Jeff.
Do we have any backup on that?
Do we know what they're talking about?
No, he just drops that in.
Nobody else reported this.
That's odd.
What?
That's very odd.
I don't like that.
I'm not saying that he didn't get that information and it's not accurate, but...
Seems a little...
He does seem like the kind of guy that hears something, something's going down, and we'll slip that in so he can later say, time for my Pulitzer.
Less than ten minutes to go, okay?
Okay, okay.
How about, I got a couple little things.
I got too many clips of it.
You gotta get ready to go.
I'll carry a lot of these over.
I'll play since we are on CBS.
I got a little CBS action here.
This is a dumb report.
It's a very short clip from the middle of it.
This is a bunch of fires going on around the area, Los Angeles in particular.
Okay.
Here's the CBS report.
Sorry.
I'm sorry, CBS report on LA fire.
Fire helicopters that are dumping water in specific areas.
That's because this brush fire grew very, very quickly on the side of the hill here.
That hot spot very close to those homes.
Excellent drop.
Take a look at that.
It was a wet winter.
Many people thought we wouldn't have as bad a fire season.
Let's go down now and take a look at what's happening down here.
You can see some of the flames.
Mmm.
It was a wet winter, so we didn't expect to have so many fires.
What logic is this?
That was only six months ago.
The point is, is that you get in California, if she's from California, I doubt it.
When you have a lot of rain, you get a lot of weeds.
You get a lot of brush.
You get all these hills that are covered with green, beautiful green for about a month and they turn brown.
The more rain you get, the bigger they get, not the less.
Okay.
But you're going to have more fires when it's wet in the winter, not less like she said.
What kind of report is this?
Well, an under-informed report, I would say.
She is paid.
She's a network correspondent.
At what point will you and I both say, I'm sick of this?
Just so sick of it.
It's so stupid.
Here's another one.
Wait, let me do it.
Let me interject one.
This is from Australia.
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
They have a show called Late Line.
And they had a montage, about a minute long, of climate scientists revealing their fears for the future.
If I was living in Darwin or Brisbane, I would be seriously thinking about moving.
For me and my wife anyway, it may be forced to move further south and I'm sure that there's a lot of other people that are probably thinking the same thing.
The consensus seems to be Tasmania.
Tassie, because it's the furthest south, it's the coolest.
We have thrown up the idea that potentially the opportunities came up moving to somewhere like Canberra.
I don't think there will be many safe places.
The impacts are going to be big.
Keeping in mind these temperatures that are getting into the 50s in Melbourne, the research is telling us this is what's coming.
Yeah, it's...
That's tragic, and yeah, how we bring kids into that, I don't know.
You can say you don't believe in gravity, but the apple's still going to hit you on the head.
You can say you don't believe in climate change, but it's not going to stop it getting hotter.
I think, well, at least I've done what I can to protect my family.
Well, we're all going to die.
Holy crap!
Pretty bad, huh?
Yeah, these guys are all in.
Let me look.
Yeah, my flats are still there.
And here's an odd story, and I could not get a clip.
You go to like a WBTV, and you're trying to get something from North Carolina, a local.
And they have one of those videos.
Oh, yes, I got a video.
I can make a clip.
And then it's just a video with titles over it.
I hate that.
Despise that.
RT does that constantly.
A new island has popped up along the North Carolina coast.
It's just a sandbar.
It happens all the time.
Okay, I wanted to know what the official line was.
It's just a sandbar.
But how can that happen if the sea levels are rising?
It happens all the time.
But the sea levels are rising.
They're up by 200 feet.
You're talking to the wrong guy.
Yeah.
I got problems with mudflats out here.
Lots of problems with those mudflats.
Hell yeah.
Alright, take us home, Johnny boy.
People aren't throwing tires into them anymore.
Take us home.
That used to be an eyesore, I can tell you that.
Well, I've got a bunch of stuff for the next show.
I can move it forward.
I would like to ask the question about how come there wasn't a big fuss?
I mean, Trump, you know, had his 90-day ban.
Mm-hmm.
You know, first he initiates it, and then they have a big fuss at the airports, and there's a bunch of news coverage, and then the Southern Poverty Law Center gets millions of dollars in donations.
ACLU, ACLU. Oh, the ACLU, right.
Sorry, I get those two mixed up.
The ACLU gets millions of dollars in donations.
And so then it goes back and forth in and out of court.
The Supreme Court finally shuts these boneheads down.
And so the 90-day ban goes into effect, which is a report here.
I'm asking, where's all the protests?
What happened?
Well, ACLU has their money.
They don't expect another drive to come out of this.
I guess not.
Yeah.
Thank you.
That's a very astute observation.
Where are the protests now?
What I've been reading on the face bag, and I have some great ones, but I'll do them on Sunday, is that it's, oh, ha ha ha ha, because it ends in September, ha ha ha ha, something like that.
I don't know what the hell.
I know what it is.
What?
The 90-day ban is over when the Supreme Court gives a final decision on the constitutionality.
Oh, okay.
So everybody's all jacked up about that, but that doesn't make, doesn't Does not explain the lack of protest, but here, play the clip and it will be done.
Which one is it?
90-day ban.
Oh, yes, top of the list.
Alphabetical.
Tomorrow, the president's partial 90-day ban on travel from six mostly Muslim nations goes into effect.
Those who already have visas or have business or family in the U.S. are exempt.
This week, the Supreme Court lifted most of the injunctions placed on the executive order.
The justices will consider whether it is constitutional in the fall.
And that's that.
I can't wait.
That's that.
Well, I'm traveling.
I have my documents in order.
You're going to get delayed.
Thanks.
My fresh passport's ready to go.
And I will be bringing you a report from the lowlands on Sunday.
Which will include the stuff that we notice.
Yeah, pick up some newspapers.
Yeah, we always do.
So please remember us for that show coming up on Sunday.
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Tell your friends so that they can be...
It's the Canada Day, 4th of July show.
Yeah, it's the big palindrome, 7117.
It's going to be a beautiful show.
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It's crazy.
She's really insane.
I respect any opinion that my members have, but my decision about how long I stay is not up to them.
Some youngers say you're being like top lobster for a long time, but you're getting kind of old.
They know that people do use marijuana and more should use marijuana.
Not just against Russian interference or Chinese or mafia.
It becomes legal.
So the experts have taken a look at the research that is out there.
Should use marijuana.
Have much of a brain because you're a lobsters.
I have my decision about how I bite that's pretty.
Then they stretch out and they'll fight again.
There, they have put together what you might call best practices, and they put together some guidelines that are being endorsed by some major medical groups among which shouldn't use marijuana.
Experts, it's not rocket, not rocket, not rocket.
And the damn neurochemistry is the same.
It was funny because I revealed this.
The bat of the press conference that if you shouldn't use marijuana.
The bat of the press conference that if you shouldn't use marijuana.
Experts, it's a contentious, snappy bunch.
Just, you know, wails the hell out of you and...
I respect any opinion of members.
Who's marijuana?
Oh, fuck it.
This is somebody, this is somebody, a president from Pratt-O-Pix,
Pratt-O-Pix, Pratt-O-Pix, Pratt-O-Pix, We're
This is somebody.
I'm not sorry for anything.
Anything.
Anything.
I have this group of young, you know, techno experts.
Adios, mofo.
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