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July 2, 2017 - No Agenda

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943: Ed Mubarek

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	I think Van Jones went to Yale.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, July 2nd, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode 9 or 4, 3.
	This is no agenda.
	Fearlessly researching all Euroland vibes and broadsizing life in the darkest corners of the year in the couple of Gitmo Nation lowlands in Amsterdam in the morning.
	I'm Adam Curry, everybody.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where that's easy for him to say, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	I actually stumbled over my own words.
	I'm brush casting.
	Everybody, best brush cast in the universe.
	How you doing?
	Brush casting.
	Well, we should mention 6 o'clock for you, so you've already had a few snoots.
	Yeah, I'm one snoot.
	It's Amsterdam, man.
	Snoot.
	I don't know.
	Here's the problem.
	We were setting the connection up and there was a Skype delay and John kept saying, why are you all jacked up?
	What are you all jacked up about?
	I'm like, I'm not jacked up.
	I know.
	For numerous reasons, I know it's just not possible for me to be jacked up.
	Certainly not in Amsterdam.
	Oh, really?
	So what have you been doing all morning?
	Well, I will have you know, first of all, I took copious notes.
	I mean, contemporaneous notes.
	During my travels.
	As you requested, you said, hey, take notes, man.
	I really like the travel stories, man.
	Take notes.
	Last time you didn't take good notes, it was no good.
	I didn't say that.
	That's exactly what you said.
	Yes, I took some notes, and let me tell you that I... Contemporaneous notes.
	Big deal.
	That's a big deal.
	It is!
	That's right.
	It is.
	Contemporaneous notes.
	I was doing it on the fly as things happen.
	I whip out my phone, go to my notating app, taking app, and...
	So here's what I've learned.
	I'm all ears.
	I spoke with Marwa.
	He's my friend at the Dolphin Coffee Shop, Marwa.
	It's easy to remember.
	He said, hey, it's easy to remember.
	My name is Matawa from Ottawa.
	Okay.
	He confirmed that, indeed, Americans are very, very bad at rolling joints.
	This was a topic on the show, and I wanted to confirm.
	He says they don't even roll them.
	They fold them.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	But, he says, they have gotten better.
	You know, in the olden days, when I was a kid, literally...
	Everyone used those little rolling machines.
	I used to have one of those.
	I remember that, the rolling machine.
	I don't know.
	Do they even exist anymore?
	I haven't seen one, probably.
	I think Rizla still makes them.
	I think it's a little plastic with a little plastic belt in there, and you close it together, put your whatever you want to smoke in there, and then you put the paper in and turn it once, and it's good.
	Lick it.
	Done.
	Pop it out.
	Ignite.
	Good to go.
	And it makes almost a professional, it almost looks like a machine-made cigarette.
	Maybe this is an opportunity for the best brush cast in the universe.
	Oh, maybe.
	This could be a premium product that we could release.
	So I learned something else while I was talking to Marwa.
	As I was seeing packages of tobacco and cigarettes everywhere, you can't even see the brand name almost.
	Oh, because of all the crap on the label?
	Yes, but they have a new campaign, which only started up about a year ago, and it's been at least a year and a half, I think, since last time we were here.
	April.
	April last year.
	So there's these huge dark...
	And it's not even a sticker.
	I mean, it's integrated into the packaging of all...
	I have a packet of tobacco here, but the cigarettes are even more fun to look at.
	And the slogans are like, parents who smoke make babies who smoke.
	And there's a kid on...
	You've got to look this up on the Googles, John.
	There's a kid with a pacifier, but instead of a little, you know, the little holder thing on the outside of the pacifier, the pacifier's in the kid's mouth, it's a cigarette and it's lit.
	It's really...
	It's awesome.
	Disgusting.
	Yes, it's very disgusting.
	I got a package here where there's a good-looking blonde profile and she's got smoke leaking out of the corner of her mouth and it's swirling up into her eye socket and it says, Smoking increases your chances of blindness.
	This is great.
	Hold on, there's a website, John.
	Maybe we can take a look at that.
	Hold on.
	I can't go on there because it'll screw up my Skype connection.
	I'm on the slow connection.
	It might be worth it, though.
	Let me just check and see.
	This is probably, I don't know if you can...
	Oh, yeah, here we go.
	Pictures.
	Let me just see.
	This is a very interesting campaign.
	I mean, we've seen, you know, smoking kills and that kind of stuff.
	It's been going on for years, this idea.
	Yeah, but it's a new campaign.
	It's new.
	Because the other one wasn't working, perhaps?
	Well, didn't we at one point find research that we found credible, certainly, that said that people actually smoke more when there's danger listed on the packet?
	So you'd think they researched that.
	So now I think they're going for other things that maybe people will react to.
	Well, while you're looking for that, you might as well play this clip then.
	Okay.
	Because I have a similar thing that's going on in Australia.
	Mm-hmm.
	Where they want to take the cartoon characters off all the cereal boxes and put on these, you know, warning signs and don't eat this cereal and stuff like that.
	On our supermarket shelves, Coco the monkey, Toucan Sam and Tony the tiger, all plastered across food packaging aimed at children.
	New research has revealed more than half of products using cartoons to sell kids food are unhealthy, leaving the Obesity Policy Coalition calling for the entertaining characters to be stripped from packaging.
	It's very influential.
	We all know our kids interact with that.
	This is a marketing tool, pure and simple, designed to sell more product.
	And let's not forget that Cocoa Pops are 33% sugar.
	Add into the mix animated movie stars, Scooby-Doo sweets, Minion ice creams.
	And mum Genevieve Shepard says it's enough to turn the weekly shopping trip into a family battle.
	Would you like to eat these, do you think?
	Why would you like to eat these?
	Because I love the blue and yellow.
	They won't even know what's inside those boxes, but if they see a character, they'll certainly go over and get that and try to put that into the trolley.
	Did they just discover this actually works with children?
	Is this like some revelation that happened in 2017?
	Like barely in Australia.
	Wow, everybody!
	Guess what?
	Kids make their parents buy sugar when there's a cartoon character on it.
	Oh, hey, palm slap to the forehead.
	The study found that of almost 200 supermarket products featuring the cartoons, 87% of children's snack bars were deemed unhealthy, along with 88% of ice creams and ice blocks, 61% of a variety of cheese snacks, and 32% of children's breakfast cereals.
	The Coalition wants stricter regulations and companies to retire their cartoon heroes.
	Kellogg says that won't be happening, arguing its characters are iconic.
	And to get rid of them would be akin to asking Qantas to get rid of the flying kangaroo.
	You say what they've done to the smoking packages, and I think, yeah, they should be doing that to the food packaging as well.
	I think that the food companies need to take more responsibility for it.
	Carrie Ann, Greenbank, Nine News.
	Yeah, good one.
	It's crazy.
	Do you think that maybe those people want to sell cereal and, you know, that the...
	How dumb is this?
	This is probably put together by the PR people from the Egg Council.
	Yeah.
	Oh, really?
	Is it the Egg Council?
	No, I'm just guessing.
	It could be.
	It makes sense.
	Because it mentioned kangaroos, I picked up an article, and I want to get back to my contemporaneous notes.
	I picked up an article that...
	Volvo released a report.
	They have a self-driving car, which I believe they've been testing.
	I don't know if it's in production.
	Probably not.
	But on the road yet.
	It can detect a lot.
	It has a large animal detection system, which can avoid deer, elk, and caribou.
	However, testing in Australia shows it cannot adjust to the kangaroo's unique method of movement.
	And let me tell you, there's a lot of kangaroos you can bump into in Australia.
	Huh.
	Well, it's bouncing around, so I don't know.
	It sounds like a problem that can be solved.
	Well, yeah, it's solvable.
	I'm sure it is.
	Alright, do you want a little travel report, Jean-Claude?
	Yes, I'm waiting for the travel report.
	I'm sorry I interrupted you, but it would fit right in.
	No, it's perfect.
	I think we need to do that, because I have so much.
	I mean, I feel like I probably went a little overboard on the contemporaneous note.
	I'm warning you up front, so if it's boring, you can, without being rude, you can just say...
	I'll let you know when it's boring.
	Click to the next topic.
	So we had some travel issues getting to the Netherlands.
	Oh, cool.
	Yeah.
	Thanks, brah.
	I do want to say, right off the bat, and this is something that I now checked at Austin, Bergstrom Airport, and Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport, it is no longer possible to buy a roll of lifesavers, which I have to say is one of my favorite things to do when I fly.
	I like the lifesavers.
	We share the lifesavers.
	It gives me the opportunity to say, oh, baby, I got a red one.
	Here, you have it.
	I can imagine you're actually doing that.
	Yes, yes I am.
	They only sell Lifesavers and mints, you know, or the minty Lifesavers.
	It's all in big bags now, you know, for five bucks.
	There's no roll?
	No, rolls are out.
	Well, they weren't making enough money.
	Well, not at the airport, apparently.
	It's just a little minor irritant that I need to pass.
	Yeah, that would be bothersome.
	So we're flying.
	The whole airport food thing, you want a snack, you want a piece, you want something to chew on, you want something, it's a gouge.
	You want something to chew on?
	No, you can chew on a shoelace for $4.
	It's a total gouge.
	Yeah.
	And why?
	Why is it a gouge?
	Because once you get past those armed guards, once you're in there, you're stuck.
	Yeah.
	And so they gouge you.
	Why?
	And so, I had once, within my time limit years ago, but still I have many years left of this pass, this ID, this Ausweis, my global entry card, which gives me TSA pre-check privileges.
	I went to Dallas for the interview, as you recall.
	The interview was like, okay, Adam Curry, I want to ask you the first question.
	What was Ozzy Osbourne like?
	That was my interview for Global Entry and TSA PreCheck.
	I paid my $400.
	And so we, of course, we buy these tickets through KLM. Their partner is Delta Airlines and Air France.
	I would say actually Air France owns the airline.
	They bought KLM and Delta and its partnership.
	So, you know, I'm dealing, my money went through KLM, just prefacing that.
	So we get our Delta tickets, which includes the boarding pass for the KLM flight in Atlanta.
	And I don't have pre-check.
	Tina does have pre-check, who has never been approved by the Thor Titan.
	Has never paid $400.
	How does this work?
	Doesn't.
	It's bullshit.
	It's a scam.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, it is a scam.
	Now, then, but Tina, you know, like I always do.
	Why would she get the pre-check?
	Well, sometimes when we're traveling together, we both get pre-checked.
	That does happen.
	But, okay, continue the story.
	It's already good.
	Yeah, thank you.
	But if I get pre-checked and she doesn't, that's happened a couple times, I'm just going to stand in line with her, just go through the line, and then usually when you're right up at the front, then they still, oh, you were pre-checked, they'll even give you a little voucher, and you can go through without taking your shoes off and without taking your laptop out.
	So, you know, Tina goes, done.
	I go through, and as always, I have two bags.
	I've got my roller bag, and that's all the essential stuff, and I have my studio bag, and I take the microphone out of the studio bag, put it in a bin separately, so they don't have to go through my whole bag saying, you know, we hope this guy has a vibrator.
	Let's embarrass him.
	It's okay.
	You can open it up right now.
	It's just a microphone.
	And they don't touch the microphone.
	This bag.
	All right.
	And I don't know.
	This was like secret shopper time at the TSA. They were slow.
	They were meticulous.
	There was a girl sitting in a wheelchair for 10 minutes just waiting to go through the security.
	I even said, are you okay?
	Yeah, my mom's over there.
	We're just waiting.
	So they're letting everyone stand.
	We have this enhanced situation.
	I'm sure that they're worried about stuff slipping through and getting burned.
	I'm sure about that.
	Enhance means slowdown.
	Slowdown.
	Maybe it was a true slowdown.
	It felt like it and it was very slow.
	So my bag's sitting there for about, I would say close to 10 minutes, 7 or 8 minutes.
	Then, you know, I'm getting a little irritated.
	But okay, then the guy comes, oh, I'm just going to put it, okay, this is your bag, yeah.
	And he takes out every piece, every wire, swabs, swipes, tests, gets a new swab, swab, swipe, test.
	A third swab, then puts the whole thing through the machine again.
	Then I finally get it back.
	So, you know, now it's like, ugh.
	You know, we wanted to get a bite to eat because I ran out after the show.
	It was pretty hectic.
	I had about an hour and a half to, not even, an hour to hour and 15 minutes.
	Right, now you got nothing.
	Yeah, I got nothing left.
	And then we see, ah, the flight's delayed by 30 minutes.
	And I want to point out, it's your fault.
	You put that shit out in the universe and I don't appreciate it.
	Okay.
	You said, what time are you leaving?
	And I said, well, I have to be out by 3.30.
	He said, ah, don't worry, you'll have a delay.
	The problem is...
	I didn't say that.
	Yes, you did.
	After the show, you did.
	It's okay.
	I mean, I didn't think of anything at the time, but you did say that.
	So I cursed you.
	Well, you had a delay.
	Well, here's the problem.
	Big shocker.
	All because of the connection problem?
	Yes.
	This trip, which, again, I booked through KLM, they say, hey, you want to get to Amsterdam from Austin?
	Here's the route.
	You get on Delta through Atlanta, and I've done this trip many times.
	This plane was delayed because it was delayed coming out of Atlanta.
	Okay?
	It's very important to understand all these A, okay?
	You don't have to say K. I have to say K. That was it, the one time, and no more Ks.
	Good.
	Right?
	Mm-hmm.
	So the plane is late leaving Atlanta because of a thunderstorm.
	It gets into Bergstrom late.
	They're more like 45 minutes.
	Problematic is that we have about an hour to transfer from landing in Atlanta to get on the KLM plane.
	And for some reason, it's a stretch and we're back in row 37.
	And there are about seven or eight other people who also are making this connection on the flight because I talked to the flight attendant and I say, you know, about the connection.
	Well, you know, they know we're late.
	And I said, well, will they wait for us?
	Very noncommittal.
	It's very funny when this happens, by the way, because you do get two schools of thought at the airline level.
	Yeah, well, this is...
	Because I've been on planes where they said, we're going to wait here at the gate because there's a plane coming in from Tokyo.
	Yes.
	And everybody is late and we're going to wait for them.
	Yes.
	So I don't know what...
	Yes, I've had that happen too.
	I don't know what the number is.
	I've always felt like, okay, you know, if it were me, like, yeah, I don't mind waiting.
	Shit, I'd be happy if the plane waited for me.
	So I'm thinking, it's my turn.
	It's my turn to be waited on.
	Then I asked the flight attendant, you know, when we land, you can ask everyone to stay seated so the people with connections can get off soon.
	No, no, we're not going to do that.
	Oh, so they're going to wait for us.
	I've seen them wait for two.
	I've seen them leave 30 behind.
	So wait a minute, you know your partner's with KLM. Yeah, I know.
	And I bought the ticket through Canada.
	It made no sense arguing with.
	I'm saying this more for effect now.
	So we have to take that little train at Hartsfield from the...
	Oh, right.
	We were pretty close.
	Yeah, we were kind of close.
	We were...
	It took another 10 minutes, 15 minutes to de-plane.
	Bye-bye.
	Bye-bye now.
	Bye.
	Bye-bye.
	See ya.
	Oh, thanks.
	No, I could barely say, yeah, thanks.
	Bye.
	Then, uh, Warhol, you know, Tina's still, uh, actually, it was a good day for her because of the thyroid stuff, you know, she's still, levels going up and down, so, you know, you can't, sometimes, she's like, just can't run, but I'm gonna say, you know, fuck, I'm not gonna run, we can walk briskly, but I'm, I'm too old for shit like that, running like a maniac.
	We got a little train, it's only three stops, and it still takes a little bit.
	And then, as usual, it's F Pier, which goes from F1 to 14.
	Our plane is at F3. That makes sense that that's at the very other end of the pier.
	It's the only airport I know with the low numbers at the very end.
	And as we're walking up, about seven, nine of us maybe.
	I think Denver.
	I think Denver does that.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	We're walking up, about 10 of us.
	By now, we were kind of all converging at the same time.
	And we're there, you see the plane sitting there, and the door closes, and the gate attendant says, sorry, doors closed, aircraft's secure, you can't go.
	That's not true.
	Yeah, John, and you know what really worked?
	Arguing with that guy.
	What a dork.
	Yeah.
	They can open the door.
	That's bull crap.
	And I see the pilots.
	I'm actually standing in front of the window.
	I'm like, dude!
	I'm Adam Curry!
	MTV! Do you know who I am?
	Countdown!
	Do you know who I am?
	And I'm looking at the pilots.
	I'm trying to get the pilots' attention.
	I know they can open the door.
	Like, open the door!
	The people behind me are like, well, that definitely secured our fate.
	I'm like, ah, thanks.
	So...
	But they wouldn't even look you in the eye.
	This is total bullshit.
	Okay, now it's 10.30pm.
	Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport.
	And we go to the Delta desk.
	I will say, because now I'm like, hey Tanya D, how you doing?
	She's like, hi.
	These people get crap all the time.
	I'm just going to be super nice to her.
	She can't do anything about it.
	Then I said, well, here's the story.
	And then I get into it.
	You realize that your partner said, yeah, it's bullshit.
	She said, yeah, it's total bullshit.
	It completely doesn't work.
	It's all fucked up.
	And she did do a lot of work because we didn't want to go out on the next evening, 10 p.m.
	She was able to get us on a 3 p.m.
	flight, and we got the Atlanta Airport Marriott Hotel.
	We got a voucher, which I will say.
	Did you get a food voucher, too?
	They owe you that, too.
	They owe me the food.
	I got gypped on the food voucher.
	You have to ask for these things.
	This is a real problem.
	This is a good tip.
	I didn't know about the food voucher.
	Oh yeah.
	I guarantee they have maybe two, and it's a good, reasonably high food voucher, and they always have them, but Pretty convinced that you have to ask for it.
	Probably.
	But I think she would have given it because she was really...
	The people next to us...
	I don't know.
	I think they'd give them an allotment or something.
	I don't think they're...
	Well, the couple next to us, they were getting like a 20% off at the Best Western or some crap like that.
	I'm like, oh, we're going to get...
	What good is that?
	They owe you an overnight stay for that foul-up.
	You did everything you're supposed to do.
	You signed on and you went to the airport on time.
	You didn't screw with anybody.
	They were late.
	And then they left without you and they clearly didn't have to.
	You did nothing wrong.
	So why are they giving you...
	They owe you an overnight stay.
	Period.
	Them or the couple next to me or us?
	Everybody.
	Whatever was going on, we got everything paid.
	But yeah, I guess I should have asked for the food voucher.
	And we got a little handy overnight bags that have a little toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving kit.
	Oh, that's special.
	That's one of those great gum stripping toothbrushes that have bristles so hard you've got bleeding gums by the time you're done with it.
	The razor blade is my favorite.
	Oh, honey, I look like a baby in the corner with a razor blade.
	Like big blotches of red blood streaming down my face.
	You know, one of those, it has like, it doesn't have four blades.
	No, it has one blade in there.
	One.
	Count them.
	One blade.
	Oh, three layers of skin.
	That's nice.
	But I will say, everybody at the Atlanta Marriott, maybe it's just because I think Texas is the South, or Austin is Texas, but everyone was really nice at the Marriott.
	It was totally enjoyable.
	And then the room was okay, we slept, we had a nice breakfast, and then we did the whole thing, and fine.
	And this type of them were bulkhead seat, the back of the bus and...
	On the Delta, but it's okay.
	And then they're like, oh, they're always so happy.
	We're going to get you there an hour earlier.
	So instead of 6 a.m., they're getting us there at 5 a.m., that's an hour less that I can pretend I'm trying to sleep on the aircraft.
	I'm never really happy with that on the red-eye.
	I dislike a four-hour red-eye.
	Give me six or seven hours, I'll just try to sleep.
	Now, here was the issue.
	When we were having lunch...
	And lunch on the airplane?
	No, but before we got on the airplane, because we got the airboard, we had a little lunch, and I think the studio bag is a shoulder bag, so I have it over my right shoulder, and I was tense, and there was a lot going on, so now my neck is, and whatever, maybe the room was, you know, I got a cold on my shoulder, so my neck is locked up.
	And, yeah.
	And so, just before we head out to the airport, I take to Motrin, Isn't traveling wonderful?
	I take two Motrin, and I'm having lunch, and I'm like, you know, I've got to check something.
	Because we have Motrin and Motrin PM. And you'd think that the Motrin PM would be the orange-colored one.
	You know, danger, Will Robinson.
	Don't take this during the day when you have to operate heavy machinery.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me get this.
	This is getting better.
	So you took some Motrin for your poor shoulder.
	Yeah.
	But by accident...
	What were you doing with PM in the first place?
	Well, typically you might want to take that on the airplane if you're trying to get to sleep.
	So you had some with you?
	Yes, I have two bottles.
	They're identical, but one is orange and one is...
	This is interesting.
	You would carry two bottles.
	Two, not one.
	Well, one is PM and one is regular.
	I understand what the mechanism is.
	Why don't you just...
	Know what the pill color should be.
	Take one bottle instead of two and just put the other pills in the same bottle with the other ones.
	Yes.
	The result would have been the same, but I somehow believe...
	Yes, I somehow thought the orange pill, that would...
	I don't take Motrin.
	Tina likes Motrin, but I'm fine if I need something.
	So I needed something.
	What is Motrin?
	It's ibuprofen, I believe.
	Oh, it's just ibuprofen?
	Yeah, I think so.
	No, but I think it is.
	I don't have it here.
	Well, okay, I'll look it up.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, so the regular Motrin is orange, and the Sleepy Time Motrin is like a regular white aspirin color.
	So, hello, product marketing.
	I'm thinking, alright.
	Yeah, it's ibuprofen.
	Yeah, and I'm like, ugh.
	I feel kind of tired.
	I'm falling asleep during lunch.
	The whole thing was bad.
	What the hell was in there?
	Look it up.
	I don't know.
	It's very effective on me, this Motrin PM. It's very effective.
	Before I get any further, we do have some...
	Some TSA stuff going on.
	I think you have some clips too.
	I just want to play mine.
	Actually, yeah, this is the one that I picked up and let's see if it fits into yours just to break up the story a little bit.
	Airport security.
	Two words that can strike frustration into the heart of any traveler.
	With all the indignities of head-to-toe searches and long lines of shoeless adults emptying their pockets.
	This is from RT, by the way, and I thought it was interesting.
	I don't know if this is where you got your clips from, but I thought it was interesting that RT has it.
	No, I think these clips I have on this list are the ones I played on the last show.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay, well, this is new as far as I can tell.
	Pockets in two bins.
	Pockets in two bins.
	The Department of Homeland Security has been rapidly expanding and testing new airport measures to keep America safe.
	Unless we all raise our security standards, terrorists who see commercial aviation as the greatest takedown will find and attack the weakest link.
	Raising security standards...
	Included scrutinizing the private reading material passengers were traveling with.
	Some airports have required books and magazines to be removed from carry-ons and placed in separate bins for TSA screeners to fan through.
	The pilot program has garnered backlash among critics.
	I know, this is fantastic.
	This is really cool what's happening.
	Let's spin it back a little bit.
	This is good stuff.
	Screeners to fan through.
	The pilot program has garnered backlash among critics who worry the measure could quickly become invasive.
	The bottom line is that we as a nation have the right to defend, you know, against terrorism.
	And the book screening, for me, is...
	I just want to frame it again.
	They have the right, apparently now, I haven't seen this, where this is written up, but to look at your books...
	You know, to make sure that you're on the up and up.
	Basically a mitigating a risk approach.
	Security consultant Leticia Montegudo says officials aren't concerned with the content of the reading material, but rather...
	Because we have seen that explosives come in very different shapes and forms.
	And speaking of those shapes and forms, they actually come in sheets.
	Now, this is news to me.
	Exploding sheets of paper.
	I think these exploding sheets is the reason why they've gone on this laptop binge once again.
	Yeah, well, I've not heard this clearly.
	It's like a plastic explosive, I guess, that they iron into a sheet.
	Can you fly it like a kite?
	You probably could.
	That would be cool.
	But they take a chunk of the sheet, they cut it, and they put it inside of a laptop because there probably is just barely enough room.
	Right.
	And then the laptop.
	In an old-fashioned, a clunker, there's probably a ton of room in there to put a couple sheets.
	Dude, in those old laptops, I could put an ounce of weed in the battery compartment.
	Yeah.
	Back in the day.
	All right.
	They come in sheets.
	And sheets that can actually be inserted into a book.
	However, possessing the wrong collection of titles and authors could inevitably raise red flags.
	So imagine somebody's going through and they have the Quran.
	They have a Karl Marx book, right?
	They have Mein Kampf.
	Okay.
	By Hitler.
	Well, that would be a red flag.
	Hold on.
	Red flag.
	Red flag.
	Wait a minute.
	I mean, first of all, if I was doing this piece, I would have thrown in Atlas Shrugged, you know, a couple other cool books, you know, just to see if we could shake it up a little bit.
	Brave New World, maybe something like that.
	Anything from the No Agenda Book Club.
	Now listen, what is it?
	It's Karl Marx's The Koran and Mein Kampf.
	What person would read those three books?
	Yeah, but this is a red flag.
	Really, if you listen, she says the Koran, Karl Marx, but she says Mein Kampf, then it's like, yeah, that would be a red flag.
	By Hitler.
	Well, that would be a red flag.
	That would be a red flag.
	That would be a red flag because that would tell me that you as an individual are inclined to this sort of ideology reading.
	Well, which one?
	Which ideology?
	The Quran, Mein Kampf, or Karl Marx?
	You've got to choose one.
	What about the Bible?
	Stop!
	Red flag!
	And why didn't they put that in there?
	That would have been fantastic.
	I got the Bible, got the Koran, I've got Atlas Shrugged, I've got...
	They got the Bible on the list, but they're scared to say anything because they know what would happen.
	You betcha.
	And that would be a flag.
	It would just be screened, and we would just make sure that there's no conditions that would take us to the next level of screening, or if there's anything within these books that could harm public safety.
	There's tons in there that can harm public safety.
	You know, because words can kill, and they hurt, and they really, words are awful.
	Something about this...
	You always throw the book.
	This really...
	What do you think?
	I find this problematic.
	I don't think this is very okay.
	This is a slippery slope, I tell you.
	Well, I didn't know anything about this.
	Only RT would report this stuff.
	Thank goodness.
	That's because our mainstream media won't tell.
	I mean, yes, RT is a slanted source of news.
	There's no doubt about it.
	They love to needle the United States whenever they can.
	But it's got stories that you don't get anyplace else, and these stories are real.
	They're not bullcrap stories.
	It's propaganda.
	It's state-sponsored propaganda, John.
	Yeah, well...
	The TSA says book screening at security airports was designed to give operators a clearer view of what's inside carry-on luggage going through x-ray machines.
	U.S. officials say...
	Play the bullcrap jingle.
	You gotta play the bullshit.
	It is no longer being implemented or tested at U.S. airports, but agents still reserve the right to instruct passengers to remove paper products from their luggage if an X-ray image appears obstructed or cluttered.
	Yes, I'm going to Russia, so I brought my own toilet paper.
	Remove the toilet paper.
	Do you have to open your Kindle app as well?
	I mean, if they got, like, the Unabomber's manifesto on my Kindle app, this is a certain way I'll be flying along in the future.
	Oh, you're going to get thrown in a slammer of those stuff that you read.
	What?
	I mean, actually, just take a look.
	Hold on.
	Let me just take a look right now at what happened to Adam.
	Okay?
	You give me a go or a pass.
	How's that sound?
	Okay.
	Okay, sir.
	Sir.
	Yes.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes, sir.
	Yes.
	What do you have on your Kindle?
	I'm sorry?
	Your Kindle.
	You have a Kindle.
	We know about Kindles.
	You want to?
	Oh.
	I'm not stupid.
	Are you calling me stupid?
	No, no, sir.
	I'm just trying to get through the line.
	I want to catch my flight so I can sleep in the Marriott in Atlanta.
	Hey, we got trouble over here.
	Code three.
	Code three.
	Mail assist.
	But what's happening?
	Is this some kind of enhanced measure?
	Enhanced?
	We do this for everybody.
	This is nothing new.
	Okay.
	What do you want to know?
	What do you got on the Kindle?
	Tell me what you got on the Kindle.
	Okay.
	Can I just read them off to you?
	Is that okay?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Financial Times, U.S. edition.
	Yes.
	Why?
	At the Wall Street Journal?
	No.
	Why are you reading something like that?
	You mean WAPO? You mean WAPO? Certainly you mean WAPO. Wall Street Journal, no.
	It's different.
	Go on.
	What else?
	I'm sorry.
	I have...
	Let me see.
	This is SJW's Always Lie.
	What?
	Yes.
	SJW's Always...
	We got a liar.
	We got a liar in line three.
	Okay.
	Um...
	Excuse me, sir.
	I have to take some contemporaneous notes for a moment.
	My next one is The Day After Roswell.
	Crazy, man.
	Line's one.
	We need assistance.
	I have Perp Walk, a no agenda short story.
	The guy's asking for it.
	The next one, sir, is shattered inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign.
	Okay, well, you're a Trump supporter.
	That's good.
	Then I have Drugs, Oil, and the War, the United States.
	I can't read the rest of the title, but that's the main title there, sir.
	Okay.
	Let me see.
	I'm sorry, sir.
	I clicked away.
	I need to go back to my life.
	That's okay.
	You're going to Enhanced Interrogation.
	Okay.
	I have the next one on my list is by Professor Theodore Kaczynski.
	Yeah, there you go.
	You're done.
	The Unabomber Manifesto.
	Then I have...
	You really have that on the Kindle?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Oh my god.
	You're just asking for trouble.
	I have come into my trading room, day trading for dummies.
	I think day trading for dummies.
	I think this is requirement now.
	What is on your Kindle?
	Next episode of the No Agenda show, I want the first five books from your Kindle.
	How does that sound?
	Sure.
	Plenty of good.
	My books are all very good.
	And I have many other books on it, John.
	I was being honest and I only read from top to bottom.
	Yeah, okay.
	No, you'd be done.
	They haven't figured the Kindle part of this out yet, but once they do...
	Well, they should.
	I mean, what's up with the paper products?
	I mean, that's ridiculous.
	Paper products.
	This is a sheet of explosives.
	You can slip it right in there.
	And by the way, a great gag for anybody.
	I've said this on the show before, but I'll say it again.
	You have a friend, you know, he's going, are you going to retake this book on the plane?
	Yeah, I'm taking that.
	I'm going to read that.
	Oh, why do you take such a big book on the plane for?
	I just want to take a big book.
	As soon as the guy You've already done this.
	You cut out a piece of lead foil in the shape of a gun.
	And you slip it in the book.
	It's hilarious.
	Oh, I will say.
	You know, I get one of those.
	I subscribe to that bespoke post or whatever.
	They say like a dude gadget every month.
	Oh, you're the guy!
	I'm that guy, yeah.
	Now, granted, it's from before I met Tina.
	So I get a little leeway.
	I had a PlayStation, too.
	I mean, come on.
	I had a little moment there.
	I've only heard about this.
	I know about it.
	Obviously, I'm not a subscriber.
	Obviously.
	It's like the hair club for men.
	Yeah.
	You sign up and you have to pay like 50 bucks a month and they send you some piece of shit.
	It's much less than that.
	Once a month.
	It's much less than that, but yeah.
	Yeah, they got me a hamburger weight.
	Everybody could use one of those.
	A hamburger weight.
	I'm dying over here, man.
	Is this bad I'm cracking myself up with my patheticness?
	So one of the gadgets I got was a keychain.
	Then on the keychain is a metal key that on the round part of the key, there's a little notch there so you can use it as a bottle opener because every dude needs that.
	The chain itself is not a chain, but it's like industrial wire and it has a screw on it.
	So it is actually kind of a valuable...
	I like that.
	It's interesting.
	You can use that for garriting.
	Garriting?
	Yeah, you take the wire and put it around somebody's throat and you pull back real hard.
	It's not long enough.
	Oh, it sounds like it was.
	Well, if it was wrapped up a couple times, that would be an interesting weapon to supply.
	That's another good idea.
	But if you take that blade and you put your fingernails in it, it opens up and it's a razor-sharp knife.
	Oh, you can't take that on a plane.
	Well, it went through.
	I was very surprised that that went through.
	Because they pick up the miniature Swiss Army knife.
	They take those away from people.
	I have a Swiss Army knife, which I got from the company at some trade show.
	And inside, the Swiss Army knife goes on your keychain.
	Inside is a USB connector.
	So it looks like a Swiss Army knife on the outside.
	So I love to get stopped with this thing.
	He'll say, what?
	He'll say, you can't carry it.
	And I say, what?
	And then you say, this is a USB port.
	Innocently.
	It's a USB. It's a USB. I can't take that on?
	Do you use that high little voice as well?
	Can I take it on?
	Yes, I do.
	I try.
	I'm too...
	Anyway.
	It's kind of a dickish thing to do, but I do it.
	Because the guys are always so proud.
	This happened to me.
	We went to the Empire State Building to go up to the top because the kids are there and they want to see it.
	Hey, John, do you have one of those switchblade combs too?
	I used to.
	Anyway, so the switchblade comb.
	Click.
	So the guy was, they have a scanning thing to get up to the elevator, the Empire State Building.
	And the guy was so proud that he caught me with this little knife.
	Even if it was a knife in there, it was still shorter than it, you know, I think it's still within the limits.
	But the guy was just beaming.
	And they said, hey, it's just a USB thing.
	And they showed it to him.
	Oh, damn.
	Oh, crap.
	Okay.
	Well, I got my eye on you anyway.
	Oh, man.
	Crazy coot.
	Anyway, so we arrive at Amsterdam, and I've heard there's a lot of problems in Amsterdam with the security.
	They're now saying minimum three hours wait.
	Not the requirement to be there, but just to get through everything at Schiphol now is three hours for an international flight.
	Apparently, all those gates have to go through the six, and it's these new...
	I've seen versions of it.
	But they're like, I think maybe in the UK, maybe.
	Yeah, this is the time you want that little card of yours and you just go blow right through this stuff.
	What card?
	Yeah, the card.
	That was great.
	Yeah, no, they're on to me now.
	Because now, if I just flash it, you know, like, hey, I'm going through the business class check-in, whatever, preferred gold status.
	You know, it expired 2011.
	I just put my thumb over the 2011.
	They always let me in the area.
	And they never say, you're a douche, you know, we're not going to check you in.
	They check you in.
	But if you try to scan it to go through the fast lane, it's like, oh, we're sorry.
	Your card is ivory status.
	Ivory.
	Every douche gets ivory when you sign up.
	Yeah, it's when you get your first ticket.
	And KLM, they just took away all my points.
	Oh, you didn't fly enough.
	Meanwhile, when you get my...
	Oh, but they stole your points?
	But wait.
	When I look at my Delta boarding pass, it says KLM Silver.
	Because, you know, like in Austin, we just have regular, you know, I don't have premium anything, but we always go through the premium line.
	Just walk like you're premium.
	If you walk up and they check you in and everyone's standing over there, I'm like, adios, mofos.
	That's a tip.
	You know, you can do that everywhere.
	You know, just go through those lines.
	And what are they going to do?
	Arrest you?
	No.
	It's the last little anarchistic thing we can do.
	But still, their point system says that I'm KLM Silver in their system.
	It's all messed up.
	It's obvious it's not working.
	But what I was going to say about the security thing...
	It's like a big glass box with dividers.
	And each divider is a corridor.
	And there are four doors with green and red lights.
	And you're walking through them.
	If you were just to rush through, if you could, because I'm sure they're secured glass, you would shatter four glass walls.
	And it's very narrow.
	It's only one person at a time.
	Your roller bag won't fit next to you.
	And you have to go through it, and it's one way only, and then the other side is reversed for people coming in.
	If you back up, do you have big spikes in your feet?
	Yes.
	Severe foot damage may occur if you reverse direction.
	Precisely.
	Precisely.
	And it's like a human gerbil funnel made of glass.
	So I guess the elites can look at us and go, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
	Yes, exactly.
	Look at those stupid grass eaters.
	Walk through the glass!
	Even on the road, I want you to know.
	Were you there three hours?
	Was it a three-hour delay?
	No, that's what we'll have coming back.
	So we were there very early, five in the morning, but we're still quite busy because of this glass contraption.
	But luckily, and again, I'll give Delta props, our suitcases came out almost first, even though it was a whole different aircraft.
	We never saw them until the next day.
	We only had our abrasive toothbrush and our lethal razor.
	But then I got this XCOM Global Wi-Fi hotspot that you rent it for three weeks, $100, gives you 4G in every country.
	Then I was like, this is great.
	I want to try that out.
	If I have to, I can do the show on it.
	I want to try it in France.
	I'm going to be in Italy.
	So I turn it on and like, hmm, it took a while.
	It finally fires up 4G. I'm like, okay, great.
	And then we went to breakfast.
	We came back and in the afternoon, we'd only use it on our phones.
	So maybe...
	There's no Dropbox or anything.
	Nothing was synchronizing.
	And it stops working.
	And it has a big 3G and a big orange R, whatever that means.
	It wasn't in the instruction manual.
	Restricted.
	Restricted is what I guessed.
	I called the support.
	They're really good.
	They said, yeah, we see that everything worked, but there's excessive data use and the local provider turned you off.
	I said, well...
	We weren't streaming.
	There was nothing going on.
	We weren't watching videos.
	We just synchronized emails, perhaps.
	But, I mean, even that, that can't be deemed excessive data use.
	She said, yeah, well, now it'll take 12 hours.
	We've got to ask them to reset, and there'll be an investigation.
	I'm like, well, you know, this sucks.
	That totally blows.
	Very disappointing.
	And I'm careful about that.
	It's XCOM Global.
	And it's recommended because a lot of TV producers use this.
	And you've got to think TV producers are doing more than just checking their email.
	And maybe we uploaded two pictures.
	Maybe Tina uploaded two pictures to Instagram.
	It shouldn't matter.
	I mean, if you're talking excessive bandwidth use, that's got to be a gigabyte or something.
	Excessive bandwidth always involves streaming video.
	It doesn't involve sending a couple of photos here and there.
	The only thing I can think...
	The only thing...
	I should check that.
	It's possible that I... Uh-oh.
	Yeah, no, I'm just saying, it's possible I downloaded a few podcasts, maybe they hadn't completed, because I didn't listen to any on the plane, but still, these were not long podcasts, so it would have been, sure, it would have been 50 to 100 megabytes, but still, excessive to cut us off?
	Now, I'm sure because we're roaming or some shit like that, whatever the agreement is, because they had said in the documentation that Be careful.
	The only thing we have no control over is excessive data use.
	And they say, no streaming.
	And I'm like, fuck it.
	I'll barely use it, and then I'll just try and get away with it by streaming one show.
	We'll see if we'll be okay with that.
	That was my plan.
	So I'm premeditated on the use, and then we get that.
	Anyway, we'll see if it changes, if it works with a local provider in Rome, because that's where we're going on Friday.
	And I'll have an update.
	Okay.
	Sounds good.
	Let's see.
	So you're still at the airport.
	Your story here.
	No, no, no.
	We're in the apartment.
	And we're in one of Lex's apartments.
	Now, Lex, I mean, we should probably give a little backstory on this.
	Is this...
	Does anyone give a crap about this?
	No, not this part.
	Okay.
	We just want to hear your tribulations and the condemnation of the system.
	We don't care about Lex.
	Okay.
	The guy.
	Well, the important thing is he has one of the largest collections, if not the largest in Europe, of pop art.
	And certainly of Warhol.
	He's got Liechtenstein.
	He's got a lot of money.
	That stuff's all worth a fortune.
	Yeah, he's got Keith Haring and some others I forgot.
	And what he's doing, this is the last item on my bucket list.
	I think he's 71 now, 72.
	Not old, not sick, but he's done everything else he can imagine.
	Except start a museum.
	Precisely.
	A lot of guys do that.
	That's what happens with most art collectors, especially if they get to a certain point, if they start it early enough.
	Right.
	They end up with this huge collection, especially if you bought stuff early in somebody's career, you end up with a bunch of valuable stuff that you can sell, but usually you don't need the money.
	And you like to have it around, but you get too many pieces.
	And so you can't really put them all up in your house.
	Lex Harding was the guy who hired me for my first job when I was 19 and we're still friends.
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	But what he does is he...
	You're probably part of his collection.
	He puts me away from time to time.
	Pulls me out when he needs me.
	But if I would have lived in the Netherlands, it doesn't work.
	You can't do it with the U.S. because of all kinds of bullshit with customs.
	Most of his friends have a Warhol or something and he changes them out and he gives them a different one and switches them up and he...
	His friends have definitely some of his art.
	But, you know, at this exhibit, it was at the old stock trading hall, the Burst von Berlach, which is now, you know, it's an exhibit hall for conferences.
	It was during three months.
	And the reason why is because, you know, it's so expensive to do this, to rent the space and all that.
	He said, oh, fuck it, I'm just going to do, I'm going to do it properly and I'm going to charge money.
	And I think he has to have something like, it was like 50,000 visitors in three months or something.
	Some outrageous, in order to make money.
	And there's also insuring them.
	Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff like this.
	And by the way, you can ship art.
	Duty-free in most situations.
	But, you know, this is Lex.
	He's like, it's too complicated.
	Fuck you.
	If you live here, I'll give you something.
	It is what it is.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	I get it.
	No problem.
	But, I mean, he had 20.
	20 of the Queen, you know, the Queen series that Warhol did hanging there.
	All from his collection.
	There were more Queens there than a gay pride parade.
	It was outrageous.
	Bingo, everybody!
	I worked on that one for hours.
	Yes, thank you.
	It killed when I did the opening.
	Um...
	But yeah, 95% of this was his collection.
	It was outrageous.
	I mean, he had a whole bunch of Bob, you know, the Warhols with Bob Dylan, Grace Kelly.
	I mean, it was all, it was good, man.
	It was good.
	Okay.
	Right.
	You got it.
	Now, I just wanted to say that, you know, I had a shop.
	I'm like, did you license all this stuff?
	He said, you know, it's so messed up with all that licensing.
	I just want to be just buying it.
	I'm just selling it at a premium.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	But here, John, you'll be happy to know that soon the magazines will be filled with us again because there were plenty of paparazzi on the red carpet.
	Oh, good.
	Yes.
	Tons of it.
	Tons.
	That always increases listenership.
	At least, I don't know, 20 or 30 people more will listen.
	They're Dutch.
	You get to laugh about the stories.
	Oh, the stories are great.
	Yeah.
	But you know my rule with these guys, with the paparazzi.
	I don't understand.
	I have great pictures of you that have never been published.
	I've offered them up.
	To these guys, and they never call.
	No, but they're not listening to the show.
	They don't give a crap.
	They don't want actual information.
	They may learn something.
	So now that we're done with all this travel talk, let's talk about what's going on.
	Is the place burning to the ground?
	Are the pot shops closed?
	What's going on in Europe?
	What's your Europe report?
	Well, very interesting.
	In general, and I was amongst hundreds of people at this event, No one mentioned anything politically related, certainly not Trump related.
	You know what?
	They've completely closed off.
	They don't care.
	There's no interest.
	None.
	I mean, not even...
	I'm telling you...
	It's probably healthier.
	Yes!
	Very healthy.
	I was like, well, this is really good.
	It was remarkable.
	I didn't hear it around me.
	I speak multiple languages, certainly Dutch and English, but I can also hear other things.
	No.
	Nothing at all.
	Until...
	Uh-oh.
	We had the final dinner.
	After the show.
	And Lex said, alright, everyone who worked on the show, everyone, friends, partners, come on.
	Now, what day was this?
	This is yesterday.
	Okay.
	It was yesterday, so it was a Friday night dinner.
	Yes, right, after the show.
	It was in a fancy restaurant.
	Hotel Krasnopolsky, which is right next door.
	Very famous, big mobster hotel back in the day.
	You know, old school, beautiful, very expensive.
	Overpriced, nutso.
	And, you know, it was great.
	Never had a good time.
	And Lex's two grown sons, one of them I remember being born.
	He's now 30-something, 32, 33, 32.
	I haven't seen him in 10, 15 years.
	The other kid I've seen, but I haven't seen him because he would travel between Holland and somewhere above Toronto where he has his Canadian girlfriend.
	Right.
	And he's been with her for eight years.
	And so he's like on a bench in the table, you know, one of those benches.
	And I'm there.
	Tina's next to me.
	On the right hand, left hand is Lex's son.
	And then his girlfriend's there.
	And I should have looked if there was a bump or something on the back of her head.
	Because it was an unbelievable event.
	Somehow the topic is Texas.
	I say, yeah.
	And she says, oh, you're from Texas, huh?
	Yeah, I'm from Austin.
	Oh, that's right.
	Austin, that's just the sane part of that crazy place.
	I've been there for six years now, and I've been around, and it's not exactly all cowboys, and we're not lynching gays and blacks.
	There's trouble everywhere.
	I think Texas could do a lot better, but it's not quite as bad as you might think it is.
	Yeah, but it's still part of a country that's run by an orange clown.
	Yeah, this is the same.
	You know, just to interrupt you for a second, I don't have any clips from this, but I'm going to get some.
	Pew Research came out with their World Perception Survey, and it's interesting to note that The United States is perceived poorly by mostly countries like any country that either speaks English and is part of the news mechanism and every country that doesn't really get their news from us or from Reuters and AP and New York Times and Washington Post.
	They're very highly favorable to the United States.
	India, for example.
	Russia, of course.
	And other places like that.
	They're very highly, you know, they love us.
	And Canada's one of the worst because we listen to the Canadian news and it's the same news that we get here in the United States.
	Slanted.
	Rude.
	And I would say that that comment is extremely rude.
	And I'm sure you called her out on it.
	Well, now, yes, I did.
	And in hindsight, and I will share that first, here's what my response should have been after Tina and I were reviewing the evening.
	My response should have been...
	Yeah, that may be true that we have an orange clown running the place, but at least we don't have to wave at some old lady in a silly hat who comes and visits because she actually owns you.
	I mean, that would have been a more correct response.
	Instead, I said...
	Dynamite.
	That would have been good.
	Yeah, but I was tired.
	I had a sweat attack on stage, too.
	Fuck me.
	It was so hot there, and I had my suit on, a cool suit that I wore.
	Sure?
	Yes, and it was a low ceiling.
	Sure, you choked, maybe.
	No, no, no, no.
	Fuck, I don't choke.
	It was a low ceiling, and then they had lights.
	The audience, they had said it was hot, but it just went...
	Like, good evening, everybody!
	Like a Monty Python skit.
	Like Albert Brooks in Broadcasting News, I think.
	Yeah, and again, I missed an opportunity because they had transvestites walking around just like Marilyn Monroe.
	And they had fans.
	And I should have said, oh, girls, come up here and fan me.
	But again, tired.
	That would have been dynamite.
	I know!
	In retrospect, you know, I'm stupid.
	I'm an idiot.
	But I missed...
	I'm getting rusty, John.
	I'm rusty.
	I'm getting rusty.
	I'm getting rusty in my old age.
	Anyway, so instead of saying that about the old lady with the silly hat, I say, eh, I don't know, at least we're not run by a fag with a slut wife.
	A mom is what I said.
	You said that?
	Yeah, it came out like that.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	She said, well, he's not a fag.
	Oh, okay.
	The slut mom still holds.
	So we got past that, and I kind of apologized.
	I was just making a point.
	I apologize.
	I've been mean for that to come out that way.
	I'm tired.
	I was sweating earlier.
	But then it's like, but you know, I think it's really crazy because you're not a democracy.
	There's nothing democratic about what you do, even though you are a democracy.
	No, I said, no, no, no, we're a republic.
	Yeah, but everyone thinks it's a democracy.
	Why not?
	One vote is a vote is a vote.
	What is this?
	This is so outdated, this electoral college.
	It makes absolutely no sense.
	And I said, but yeah, but that's, and you said, in California, yeah, exactly.
	Then California would pretty much determine the outcome of the election if they're, you know, the largest...
	She said that?
	Yes!
	Do you really think Trump is going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it?
	I mean, she had every talking point.
	Every single one.
	Wow.
	So I did bow out of it gracefully.
	Gracefully.
	By looking her in the eyes and saying, you know, you're a shithead.
	Yeah, but it was Lex's son's girlfriend.
	You know, I'm not going to do that.
	Oh, okay.
	You were in a corner.
	I already went pretty far with the fag and slut joke.
	You know, it was a little harsh.
	But I thought to myself...
	Somebody recorded that.
	I'd be fired.
	I'd be fired from the network.
	You'd be fired, for sure.
	You'd be fired and excoriated.
	Me and Greta Van Susteren would be drinking cappuccinos, you know?
	It would be the end of me.
	What got you fired, dude?
	I'm called a Prime Minister of Canada fag.
	Oh man, yeah, and I got blasted for it.
	I'll never get work again.
	You're going to end up being a podcaster.
	Oh no!
	The only other things I would like to report, and I think we should go and thank some people, is the green energy commercials that I've seen on TV are really off the hook when it comes to the scam.
	They have the biggest energy provider, Nuolm, and their commercial...
	I mean, it's...
	They're really...
	It's all out saying, you know, we...
	You know, it's like a GE commercial when, you know, they're bringing electricity to everybody.
	You know, they bring you love and happiness and children who are brilliant and all that crap.
	And then it's like, you know, we know you have a choice, but you want to choose our green energy.
	Look, we get it from chemical products and the sun.
	It was very odd, chemical products and the sun.
	Or chemical processes.
	Very strange terminology.
	And then pop up up, you see windmills popping up on this little map, like pew, pew, pew, windmills, pew, pew, pew, solar panels.
	But hey, you need to make your life beautiful anyway.
	Why not get it from the guys who only have green energy?
	Yeah, and we know the scam.
	The chemical process is burning of natural gas.
	Okay, there you go.
	Which compensates for the lack of wind and off-wind hours and dark hours for solar.
	But anyway, that's one observation.
	A lot of advertising of that.
	And there was, on the state-sponsored TV, they still have it, the NOS, the National Broadcast System here in the Netherlands.
	They had a new, it wasn't a report, it wasn't an official report, but they had an in-depth investigation of the Malaysian airlines that were shot down over Ukraine.
	And it was on last night, and about half asleep, like, holy crap, I gotta watch what this is.
	So luckily I had not taken the Motrin PM, so I was able to sit through it.
	They have a new conclusion.
	And this has not been reported here.
	Well, I don't think so either.
	And they say that this will come out as the official statement soon.
	That was the implication.
	That fighting had intensified between the separatists and the Russians.
	And that was in that area.
	And there were two things that came out.
	One was...
	The final conclusion is that the fighting intensified to such a degree that someone popped off a Buk missile and unfortunately...
	That hit the plane.
	At the same time, they have that flight path.
	This is part of that whole conclusion.
	The flight path that planes take and that the Malaysian Airlines was taking at that time is typically completely monitored by cameras so they can see this.
	That's the way it was explained.
	But the internet was down, so...
	It's like the Belgian Navy.
	Oh, we were out of coal, so we couldn't go fight in the war.
	But the internet was down, so they didn't see it.
	And that was the conclusion.
	But one of the statements from one of the eyewitnesses was interesting to me, where he said, someone popped off a book, but I'm not so sure that was what brought down the plane.
	And that isn't an angle that we haven't talked about much.
	We said it's either or.
	It's possible that someone popped off the Buk missile, it didn't hit the plane, but someone else, something else from the sky hit the plane.
	Regardless, apparently that will be the final report is, hey, shit happens, wrong place, wrong plane, wrong time.
	All right.
	In other words, we got nothing.
	What do you mean I got nothing?
	I thought that was...
	No, not you.
	Nobody's got nothing on this plane deal.
	We don't know.
	They're not going to tell us.
	No, that's clearly the point.
	That's why I like to leave people with a little questioning thought about the grassy knoll in the sky.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courtesy.
	In the morning to you, John C. where the C stands for Contemporaneous Dvorak.
	Yeah.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to the chat room.
	We've been helpful today.
	Really appreciate that.
	Some good one-liners there for me.
	And also helping with setting.
	Lots of great technical help.
	Really, you guys are so good when it comes to problems.
	And I want to thank Uncle Cave Bear, who brought us the artwork for Episode 9 or 4-2.
	The title of that was Force Multiplier.
	This was a good piece of art.
	With subtleties we didn't see until you embiggened the image of the peeing on the red door.
	What was that in reference to again?
	That was in reference to one of the MPs, bitchin', that she had people putting, she's a Tory, and the Labour Party was putting swastikers on her house and peeing on her place.
	Yeah.
	And she said it was not a kinder, gentler labor party by any means.
	And it's the kind of thing you can ask somebody do.
	It was good.
	It was good.
	And we really liked it.
	And thank you very much for that, Uncle Cave Bear.
	And we always thank all of our artists who deliver their talents to us at noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And we have some people to thank for supporting the program.
	We do have a couple of people to thank, starting with Sir Peter PTR 71117.
	Now this is interesting because Eric has a sir on here, but he's not a sir.
	And I don't think he's on the list, so you have to put him on the list.
	He's going to be knighted today.
	It was $711.17, which is $711.17.
	So we had this special...
	This is for Canada Day.
	No, no.
	Oh, this is the palindrome.
	This is the palindrome.
	This is for the lucky, lucky 7-11.
	Yeah, lucky, lucky.
	Lucky, lucky.
	7-1-17 day, which was yesterday.
	It's very well done.
	It's Sir Peter PTR. I don't have his real name, so it's just Sir Peter becomes a knight.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what his name is.
	He wants to be called Sir Peter.
	Yeah, that is on the list.
	Give my best friend Morgan and his wife some newlywed karma.
	Okay, we'll do that in a minute.
	Oh no, that's it.
	Donation takes the knighthood.
	Okay, here it is.
	Newlywed karma for Morgan and his wife.
	You've got karma.
	That will help.
	This takes him to knighthood and that's all he wants.
	Sir Davey of the Sooner State in Rome, Texas.
	The Sooner State, Oklahoma.
	I think so.
	666.33.
	For the purposes of anonymity, please call me Sir Davey or the crazy one.
	I'd like to request an extra...
	The crazy Okie.
	The crazy Okie.
	But he's in Rome, Texas.
	Okay.
	Well, he's from Oklahoma.
	I get it.
	I'd like to request an extra...
	What difference does it make?
	Oklahoma, Texas, the same thing.
	I'd like to request an extra large person.
	California bigot.
	I'd like to request an extra large burst of current.
	When I was a kid, it was in the ending era of calling people Okies.
	Oh.
	My dad used to refer.
	We had a neighbor who was an Okie.
	Everyone was an Okie.
	These are the people that were displaced by the Great Depression in the 30s.
	And from their farms, they all moved out to California.
	And they all talked kind of like this, if you know what I mean.
	Maybe you couldn't even understand them at some point.
	But they were condemned.
	We go to that cement pond.
	By the bigots of California.
	Yes, the microaggression.
	It still exists.
	Which are all Okies of some sort.
	But anyway, the term disappeared.
	Okay.
	Except now he brought it back.
	I'd like to request an extra large burst of karma for all the caregivers, the people they care for, and their families.
	My mom's life and her family changed suddenly and dramatically almost a year ago.
	She spent...
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Tina's definitely the keeper.
	Best regards to 73.
	73s, Sir Davey.
	73s.
	We got no call signing.
	Tina's also.
	She works at the Ron McDonald House, man.
	Same kind of person.
	And I'm telling you, John, 18 shoes came out of that suitcase.
	And the suitcase can barely hold my Koran and my Atlas Shrug.
	It's fantastic.
	18 shoes?
	Who had 18 shoes?
	Tina.
	But in a small suitcase.
	Yeah.
	You could tell, Tina, what I try to tell people.
	Not 18 pairs, 9 pairs, 18 shoes in total.
	You can buy shoes in Europe.
	Yeah, a pair of sneakers, $120.
	Hey, notice the Euro is $114 now?
	It's gotten bad.
	And they have the 21% VAT. It was $133 a couple years ago.
	Okay, thanks.
	Alright, anyway, give him the karma to the carekeepers.
	You've got karma.
	Ash Simpson, $555.10.
	And Ash wants everyone to know that this is triple nickels on the dime.
	Excellent.
	Huh?
	Yeah, like it.
	This is our first triple nickels on the dime donation.
	Time has come for me to start paying off the only debt I owe.
	The No Agenda Show is the prime mover in my life.
	I find that if I am negligent in my rationing of the show, I have a hell of a time backing my tit out of the ring.
	and This is a male, by the way.
	And as for this, I congratulate you both for sharing another slave in your wets, wets, wets of a web, web.
	That's funny.
	A B when it's written, a certain one looks like a T-S. In your web of reason.
	I second the producer who called out the gaggle of douchebags for fixating on the overuse of certain words and phrases.
	These gripes are a non-issue and should be ignored.
	The thought distracts one's attention from the meat of the show.
	This is a microaggression.
	With that, I would like to call out my friend Stanley of Charlotte, North Carolina as a douchebag.
	I hit him in the mouth over a month ago, and we have yet to hear a drop of appreciation from that Ben counting money changer.
	Wow.
	Money changer?
	What does that mean?
	Counting money.
	I think that's a microaggression for Jew.
	I think it's just microaggression for a bookkeeper.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	Ben, Benjamin, maybe.
	Who knows?
	Ben Stanley.
	He might be Jewish.
	I kindly request a following jingles and a de-douching.
	Okay.
	It's always fun.
	Get your pencil out.
	Ready to go?
	It's always fun on location.
	Always fun on location.
	On the road.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Here we go.
	Okay.
	These are all good ones you can get, though.
	There's WT7. WTC7. Mm-hmm.
	Just send your cash.
	Magical shape-shifting Jews.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh.
	Also, that's all he needs with the dedouching and the karma.
	But he also wants...
	Just so you're confusing me, can I just do this?
	Could you confuse me?
	Yeah, do that and then I'll give you the rest.
	Okay, so first the dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	WTC7 won't go away.
	We just need cash.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Roll up, roll up for the magical shapeshifting Jews.
	Step right this way.
	Here we go.
	Roll up, roll up for the shapeshifting Jews.
	Roll up, the magical shapeshifting Jews.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	You know, I wonder why George Bush...
	Got away with that, considering that the entire Haitian situation, as you pointed out over and over again for a long time after it happened, was this giant rip-off.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's a good question.
	And he was part of it.
	He was part of the Red Cross.
	Yeah, because the money went to the Clinton Foundation first and the Bush Family Foundation.
	They were keeping the money.
	And then eventually they switched over to the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Kaczynski, Brzezinski Foundation.
	And supposedly they put the money in, although there was some weird money in Miami.
	I forget how much.
	It was three years, I think, that I was on that.
	It was crazy.
	It was pathetic.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, now he says, he would like to have Sir Fighter Flights, I Wondered to Mention B song at the end of the show.
	What?
	Sir Fighter Flight?
	Yeah, I Wondered to Mention B. He says this, here's what he says, this song is what finally made me realize how much the show means to me.
	Thank you, Sir Fighter Flight.
	For spurring me to donate.
	I am lost without the show.
	Man, I wish I knew what that was though, John.
	I'm sorry, I just don't remember.
	But maybe chat room can help me because I don't think that's what it's called.
	The end of show clips, I really don't remember all of them.
	Yeah, and we don't have titles that he makes public, so we don't really know what's going on half the time.
	If it doesn't get played today, we will make sure to track it down and play it on the show.
	Next show, for sure.
	Next show or the show after.
	And remember, I have that big special that we might roll out.
	Right.
	It's an hour and a half.
	It's going to be two hours.
	You can make an hour and a half for this.
	Well, I already have 145.
	Oh, never mind.
	Golden Knight, Gordon Walton in Austin.
	Ah!
	43617 for my son John Walton's knighthood.
	I think he's on there.
	No, no.
	He's just paying it in, paying it forward.
	He's not at knight level yet.
	Oh, I see.
	I'm sorry.
	He needs a de-douching.
	It's been too long since my last donation.
	Sounds like he must be Catholic.
	Forgive me, Father, for I've sinned.
	It's been too long since my last donation.
	You've been de-douched.
	Adam should pimp his cool Indiegogo.
	Golden Knight, Gordon Walden.
	I don't think we're going to fund.
	I don't think we're going to make it.
	Well, maybe you should pimp it.
	We'll talk about it later.
	Now, the problem is, due to reasons beyond my control, for sure, we can't actually demo the box, and now we're like, you know, almost 80% through the campaign.
	You can't show something.
	It's very hard.
	We raised like 80 grand already, but, I mean, we can extend it, but, I mean, it could take longer.
	It's supply issues.
	It's China.
	It's Taiwan.
	It's technology.
	It's engineering.
	You know, we shouldn't have started the campaign.
	It was clusterfuck.
	So, I don't know yet.
	You know, it's funny, you're cussing a lot since you got to Amsterdam.
	Everyone here is shit, man.
	Fuck death.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	I'm sorry.
	I'll try and temper.
	Kurt Elkins, 38619.
	We have a lot of executive producers today because this is a special day.
	Yesterday was not only 7-1-17, but it was also Canadian Day, Canada Day, once Dominion Day, and then 150th birthday, and then also we've got 4th of July coming up in two days.
	Yeah.
	And so we end up with a lot of...
	I'm donating for the...
	This is Carl Elkins.
	I'm donating for the first time.
	First time.
	D-douching?
	I'm giving it to him.
	I as well.
	You've been D-douched.
	For the first time, I'm introduced to the show on another podcast, The Dude Grows Show.
	Does that come monthly in a box?
	I wonder what that show's about.
	The dude grows.
	Hey, man.
	Welcome to the show, bro.
	Welcome to the dude grows.
	Hey, man.
	What do we have?
	I grew some great stuff.
	Wait, wait, man.
	We got breaking news.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, man.
	The dolphin sativa is off the hinge.
	Where'd you get it?
	You know, I heard about that stuff, but I've not found a shop that carries it.
	I think there's kale in there, man.
	Mmm.
	He suggests anyone interested in growing their own, listen in, the Dude Grows show.
	Anyway, my donation...
	We just got an Indiegogo contribution.
	Anyway, my donation of $386.19 via PayPal is $0.33 for every show I missed in the past, $3.33 for every show I have listened to, and $33.33 for the karma.
	Nice.
	This divided by $33 is $11.17.
	I would like to know a few things about the tech side of the show, what types of mics, compressors, and editors, and editing, podcasts, apps.
	You have one of the best sounding podcasts, at least on my system.
	What's your system?
	What's your system, Obi-Wan Kenobi?
	We gotta know your system.
	I would like just some housing karma as I'm leaving the San Francisco Bay Area and heading to a new job in San Antonio, Texas.
	Woo!
	San Antonio!
	He says he's from Texas originally, so I guess we can give him some dedouching.
	Well, we gave him a dedouching.
	We talked about the gear before.
	Well, I will say, I'm probably going to do a little YouTube thing to show people what we're doing.
	Yeah, let's do that.
	Okay.
	And here is...
	I think we did a dedouching.
	We did that.
	Here's karma.
	Yeah, we did a dedouching.
	What we needed is a karma.
	You've got karma.
	Housing karma.
	There you go, man.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Carl without a K. And good luck.
	Most Carls are without a K, I believe.
	He says it there.
	He says Carl without a K. Yeah, he says that.
	Um...
	I've seen very rare Carl's with a K. I know a Carl with a K. Anyway, good luck in San Antonio.
	You know a Carl with a K? Yeah, Chris Jacobs' brother.
	And Chris is also with a K. Yeah, but Chris is a K. You know what Carl's middle name is?
	Carl's very famous in Silicon Valley.
	Carl Jacob, the early Facebook guy.
	His middle name, I think, is Junior.
	No, Adolph.
	I know.
	We used to give them shit about that.
	I was like, dude, what were your parents thinking, man?
	Yeah, well, my...
	Yeah, yeah.
	You'll get my joke later.
	352.11 from Russell Williamson, Parts Unknown News.
	This should bring me to knighthood, I believe is on the list.
	I would like to be known as Sir Russ of Hellgate.
	Thank you for your support of my sanity.
	I would like you to play three jingles of your choosing.
	It was just what you excoriated people for.
	Now they're doing it.
	Everyone's doing it.
	I don't know.
	My birthday is July 3rd, so please place me on the birthday wishes list.
	Do we see on the birthday list?
	I think so.
	Let me check.
	Hey, man.
	Oh, man.
	I screwed up.
	Carl?
	Well, who is it?
	This is Russell Williams.
	Yes, we got Russell.
	Yeah, we got Russell.
	I'll just pick three from the soundboard.
	Wait, 73 is to you both.
	He's KG7ZPF. Oh, 73 is Kilo 5 Alpha, Charlie Charlie.
	Dittos.
	All right, I'm just going to hit a couple, just maybe at random.
	By Ayn Rand.
	phone rings You've got karma.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Russ Williamson.
	Yes.
	I just donated...
	This came in as a check, so I did the check email.
	This is Wesley Young, I believe.
	Not Russ.
	Oh, wait.
	Hold on.
	Wesley C. Young.
	Oh, we just did...
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	Wesley C. Young.
	Okay, that's very funny.
	Why is that funny?
	Because I went to the email to find Russell's thing.
	I thought so.
	I thought so.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for catching that.
	That's what I do.
	Yeah, you caught a cold, too.
	Okay, here we go.
	Let me see if there's any Youngs in the box.
	Wesley C. Young.
	Here's a Wesley C. Young.
	It says missing in action.
	This is a note.
	No need to read this on the show.
	Great!
	Alright, here's your karma.
	You thought karma.
	He's got a URL here.
	I'll talk to him about it later.
	Anyway, thanks Wes.
	Thanks Wesley.
	Onward!
	Sir Sean of Slovakia.
	A place I've always wanted to visit.
	I've been to Slovenia, I've been to these different places in the area, Croatia, but I've never been to Slovakia.
	No, me neither.
	Okay, if I can just find my cursor, I'll be in good shape.
	ITM gentlemen, Sir Sean of Slovakia here.
	First of all, thank you for your courage and the best podcast universe.
	Today's donation is in honor of my wife, Beres, 33 years.
	33rd birthday on July 5th.
	I think it's on the list.
	She is the best wife a guy could ask for, and I'm thankful every day for putting up with my crap.
	I hit her in the mouth about two years ago, and she's been a faithful listener ever since.
	That's nice.
	In eight days, we are heading off to eastern Slovakia to learn how to fly powered paragliders.
	Oh, outstanding.
	Can we get a double karma for us both to have safe flights and calm winds, please?
	Uh...
	John, if you don't mind, could you give us, listeners, a rundown of your family tree?
	You talk about people, but I don't know.
	New listeners know who you're speaking about.
	Okay, well, we can do that sometime.
	You know, I was thinking we should do that sometime because there's a lot of family.
	You know, there's an excellent...
	NoagendaShop.com put on an excellent primer, as we like to say on the show, about the show.
	I'll put it in the show notes.
	It's really good.
	It kind of explains it.
	Yeah.
	One last thing.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm reading.
	One last thing.
	Political parties participate in get out the vote stuff to get people who can't easily get to the polls actually get to the polls to vote.
	Why can't they do the same type of thing for voter IDs for those who have trouble getting out to get it themselves?
	You make a mistake of trying to apply logic.
	Yeah, no, logic is no good.
	Then there would be no reason of volition.
	You know, we played a clip about this.
	This is a big scam.
	Yeah.
	Black people have ID. If anyone has ID, it's black people in America.
	Yeah.
	They're not stupid.
	In fact, it's insulting to imply this.
	There are issues with older people, but there's stuff there, but it's always like, oh, you know, poor people don't have ID, don't have a valid driver's license, they're too stupid.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	They all have ID. Jingle requests.
	Little kid boom shakalaka.
	33 is the magic number and two to the head.
	Boom shakalaka.
	Boom shakalaka.
	33.
	That's the magic number.
	Boom shakalaka.
	You've got karma.
	Sorry, the jingles are a little off.
	No, they're not.
	I think they're actually really good, but it may sound to you like I'm stepping on you because we have a delay today.
	Oh, that's fine.
	I don't care.
	Nicholas Kosterman in Oakville, Ontario.
	Wait, Fabian Meyer first, John.
	Fabian Meyer, 222, Zurich.
	Okay, sorry.
	I was scrolling and you didn't crop up.
	You've got a cursive problem today.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And you have a cursor problem yourself.
	I'm not trying to be snide.
	I'm not making a joke.
	No, I was referring to your cussing.
	Oh, man, so deep.
	It was a joke.
	It was just a lot of humor.
	Okay, so deep, so deep.
	Fabian Meyer in Zurich, Switzerland, gave $2.20, $2.20, and I will look him up in the thing.
	M-E-Y-E-R, is that right?
	M-E-I-E-R. M-E-I-E-R. And the reason I'm always asked during this process is because I have to, I don't see that both screens are ones M-E-I-E-R. Let me give you a little complaint that would be on tech news.
	Please.
	If you have a box.
	Yeah, a box.
	You have a box to type into?
	Yes.
	And there's a cursor in there blinking.
	Blinking, yes.
	You'd think that if you typed, it would go into that box.
	Yeah.
	But no.
	Is this LibreOffice?
	No, this is SquirrelMail, but this happens on most Windows products.
	Squirrel mail!
	Is that next to your gopher icon?
	Because it's gopherland, man.
	That's how old it is.
	Hey, after the show, make sure you post the link on Usenet.
	Okay, he's got no note.
	Karma is in order, then.
	You've got karma.
	Hey, classics work.
	Finally, last on our list is Nicholas Kosterman, another associate executive producer from Oakville, Ontario.
	Canada 221-92.
	First donated in 2012, no agenda has been invaluable to me.
	It helps me keep my critical thinking hat on and has provided me with years of knowledge and information.
	I'm getting married next year to my software engineer girlfriend of five years.
	Who was born in Iraq.
	She's a Chilean.
	But she's beautiful.
	Iraqi women are Persians.
	Yes.
	Many of them.
	But she may or may not be.
	You don't know.
	But that area's got pretty women.
	Need some wedding and house hunting karma.
	The Canadian housing market in southern Ontario is insane.
	Lots of empty houses with the power lines cut What is that about?
	I don't know anything about this.
	This is interesting.
	I guess maybe they're new houses that they're just going to gouge people for.
	Hoping for a price correction because the debt loads are insane.
	Ah, this is the delayed version of the housing crisis.
	Perhaps.
	Something like that.
	He has a good find on the Jordan Peterson great perspective and all his lectures are online.
	I find him very entertaining.
	He's very entertaining.
	I agree.
	They hate him.
	Of course.
	He's smart and entertaining.
	He's smart and logical.
	Makes sense.
	Bullshit.
	Can't have that.
	Thanks for the seven years of deconstruction.
	It's actually nine.
	Excited to join you.
	Actually, we didn't really do the first couple years.
	Probably wasn't so deconstructed.
	So far, it is seven.
	We'd like to join your gentleman around the round table and continue to propagate the formula.
	Excited to join.
	Okay.
	That's our group of executive and associate executive producers for show 7-9-43.
	He did ask for, I've got information man, two to the head, and little girl yay.
	I've got information, man.
	New shit has come to life.
	Yay!
	And the karma you needed.
	You've got karma.
	I'm glad there's two of us.
	Yeah, I finally got it to open.
	So yeah, it says that.
	Good work.
	Anyway, that concludes our group.
	Good work.
	And I want to thank each and every one of them.
	We do have another show coming up, of course, on whatever day is next, Thursday.
	Yes, Thursday, new show.
	But I did get a lot of clips and things I thought might be interesting to share with the group.
	What do you have, though?
	Because I'm sure you overcompensate.
	You want to do some humor?
	Yeah, humor, but also I want to make sure we do some Euroland stuff because I'm here.
	Yes, we will do Euroland stuff.
	All right, all right, all right.
	Humor is always good because God knows we're duds.
	First of all, I've been reintroduced myself to Diamond and Silk.
	Ah, yes, the Trump ladies.
	The two Trump ladies.
	And I just want to give you a taste of this if people haven't heard these two.
	I got three clips from them, but this one, Diamond and Silk Taste, 20 Congressmen.
	It gives you a feeling for what they're up to.
	Hey, y'all.
	So I just heard that there's 20 Democrats backing a bill to create a Congressional Oversight Commission to declare...
	What is that called again, John?
	Call and response.
	Call and response, yes.
	I was listening to...
	I watched the Pacquiao fight.
	I realized that Stephen A. Smith, who people know if they like sports and they follow ESPN, he is this woman.
	He does a preacher-like presentation all the time.
	For all practical purposes, screaming at you only doesn't have the response person next to him going, yeah, yeah.
	Get back to this.
	Hey y'all.
	So I just heard that there's 20 Democrats backing a bill to create a Congressional Oversight Commission to declare our president incapacitated.
	And all of them 20 people?
	Yes.
	You 20 Democrats?
	Yes.
	All of you all must be constipated.
	That's right.
	You are the ones stopped up.
	Yes.
	And we need to stop you.
	Uh-huh.
	Okay?
	All right?
	Now, there was over 60-something million people that got out and voted for our president.
	That's right.
	And if you 20, you 20, think that y'all gonna have the president incapacitated.
	Uh-huh.
	As if he had some type of disability.
	Uh-huh.
	As if he couldn't move.
	Uh-huh.
	Y'all think y'all gonna stop the president?
	You're not.
	He ain't going nowhere.
	He gonna do four years, and then he gonna turn around and do another four years.
	And if you want to stop somebody, how about stopping yourself?
	Let's look at your record and see what you all done done.
	You know what?
	It looks like it may be time for us to vote some of you all out.
	That's right.
	Tina and I should just practice that together on people.
	She can do the call, I can do the response, we can switch it up a little bit.
	Like, mm-hmm, what she said, girlfriend, stop now.
	I think I would be good at call and response.
	So what happened that you may have missed on the flight is the brouhaha.
	Brouhaha.
	And everybody going nuts over Trump's tweets again.
	Oh, about Mika?
	About Mika?
	Mika being as dumb as a rock.
	It's got a chuckle here in Amsterdam.
	I'm sure it did.
	And here's what's interesting is that all these guys are aghast.
	Oh, oh.
	But they all keep, all these people on the other networks are saying, oh, I can't believe he called Mika as dumb as a rock.
	I mean, so they're all saying it over and over again.
	I'm listening to these broadcasts and they're going on and on about Mika being.
	It's fantastic.
	That Trump, that horrible Trump man said she was dumb.
	The orange clown.
	The orange clown says she's dumb as a rock.
	So everybody's up in arms about this, including PBS. We caught it on social media, but obviously didn't see any of the awesome, awesome coverage it must have been.
	It was horrible.
	In fact, we end up having...
	I think the peak of it was this rant by this maniac, Anna Navarro, who's the political expert.
	Oh, I know her.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Trump hater number one.
	Yeah, over at CNN. She's just an unbelievable Trump hater and extremely rude.
	Can I just say one thing before?
	We're going to slaughter Mika here, obviously.
	But I do want to say her dad just passed away, even though he was pretty much one of the archetypal elites of the universe.
	Brzezinski.
	I do want to say she could be a little bit out of sorts.
	I have some compassion for her in that regard.
	Now we can continue.
	So let's listen to Anna give it to the president in the most rude and insulting manner possible, short of the orange man.
	President Trump's disparaging and sexist tweets about a female TV host leading to a stunning new accusation this morning.
	There's more, I feel like I have to say.
	Did the White House use the National Enquirer?
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	Which one was it then?
	I misunderstood.
	Anna Navarro.
	Ah, I see it.
	Okay.
	I had the wrong CNN clip.
	I'm sorry.
	Here we go.
	When I first saw the tweet this morning, I was frankly disgusted.
	I thought to myself, this dude has got such a fixation with women and blood.
	What is wrong with him?
	And then you remember that this dude...
	Wait a minute.
	We have to say that I did hear or read one of his tweets said that they were at the Mar-a-Lago or whatever.
	He didn't want to talk to Mika because she just had a facelift and her face was bleeding.
	Was that what he said?
	Yes.
	That's what started the whole thing.
	What's this fixation, though, with women and blood?
	I mean, that's an obvious, you know, there's something going on with that.
	I don't see it that much.
	I mean, that one had it.
	But maybe, I don't know.
	I mean, I have no idea.
	My first wife had a facelift, which she didn't tell me about.
	No, the face, I'm sorry, I'm confused.
	She didn't tell me about the boob job she was doing at the same time.
	But she had the facelift, and there was a stage where she had drains on the top of her.
	I took a picture, I told her one day I had blackmailed her with her, but I lost the pictures too bad.
	What kind of a lousy blackmailer are you?
	You'd be fired if you were at the FBI. Off the payroll.
	You'd go work at TSA, son.
	Demoted.
	But, you know, it's rare that you have your face bleeding.
	It's an obvious exaggeration.
	Yeah, that's what I would guess.
	Alright, onward.
	When I first saw the tweet this morning, I was frankly disgusted.
	I thought to myself, this dude has got such a fixation with women and blood.
	What is wrong with him?
	And then you remember that this dude, this disgusting dude, is the president of the United States.
	And you realize just how much he is diminishing the presidency of the United States.
	You realize that what he is doing is not just acting for Donald Trump.
	He's acting for all of us.
	He's acting for our president.
	And he is embarrassing.
	He is shameful.
	He is disgusting.
	And I'll say this about Republicans.
	I'm really tired of hearing words like disappointed, like disturbed, like I'm bothered, like I wish he wouldn't do it.
	It's time that somebody looks at the camera and looks at him and calls him up and says, listen, you crazy lunatic 70-year-old man, baby, stop it.
	You are now the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief, and you need to stop acting like a mean girl, because we just won't take it.
	We won't vote with you.
	We won't work with you.
	I can't start talking about tax reform.
	I can't start talking about health care reform, because I can't get past The fact that we have a president who lacks the sufficient character.
	We have a president who is mean.
	We have a president who is nasty.
	We have a president who is immature, unstable, and just acts like a crazy person with anybody who attacks him, because he's got thin skin and he is never going to pivot.
	And anybody around him, whether it's his daughter, his chief of staff, his wife, who I remind you, I suspect the president is not going to accept your advice, but what do you believe he needs to do to fix this?
	If you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting.
	I just want to do this interim clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	Does it go on?
	If anyone says there were big Trump supporters, I thought playing that would be a nice balance.
	Is there more?
	It's the other side.
	Well, there seems to be more.
	30 seconds is more on this clip.
	Of that?
	Of her going on?
	Go seek therapy.
	Go knit.
	Find a hobby.
	Talk to your wife.
	Do anger management.
	Did she say knit?
	Knit.
	Oh, I thought she said knit.
	I'm sorry.
	Talk to your wife.
	Do anger management.
	Hey, you mean ma'am?
	Go knit a sweater!
	All right.
	Way to go on the slapdown.
	Your wife, do anger management.
	You've got to realize, once and for all, you are no longer just Donald Trump.
	You're no longer just speaking for Trump Tower and Trump brand and Trump hotels and Trump stakes.
	You are speaking for an entire country.
	And our people do not deserve to be embarrassed and be represented by somebody who is so unfit for the job.
	So you've got to start pivoting.
	You've got to start acting presidential.
	You should have started six months ago.
	But start now if you couldn't do it back then.
	Oh, man.
	Great clip.
	You know, Colbert pretty much had the exact same pitch.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, interesting.
	Yeah, what she's saying.
	And so does a lot of people.
	And it's always about this acting.
	You're not acting presidential.
	As an actor.
	Like most politicians.
	And what is...
	And what is it?
	That's his mistake.
	Is there a book?
	John, he's a bad actor.
	And this is the problem.
	We're Hollywood.
	These words are not chosen by mistake.
	So, acting.
	You're not acting.
	So, I find that very peculiar because, you know, times change, for one thing, but these guys don't.
	So, let's play the CNN. This is on the dust-up with the Morning Joan.
	This is CNN. They got a bunch of interim clips.
	They get it.
	It's just they're befuddled by it.
	And this is mostly the dumb as a rock problem.
	President Trump's disparaging and sexist tweets about a female leading to a stunning new accusation this morning.
	There's more.
	I feel like I have to say.
	Wait a minute.
	He didn't say he's a dumb as a rock woman.
	That's different.
	It's not sexist.
	No, Mika, well, this will all be resolved because diamond and silk have the comeback that we're going to use at the end of this little presentation.
	President Trump disparaging in sexist tweets about a female TV host leading...
	This little presentation thing.
	Thank you, John.
	Coming to a stunning new accusation this morning.
	There's more, I feel like I have to say.
	Did the White House use the National Enquirer to threaten journalists?
	President Trump, he says no.
	But the host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, they say yes.
	We got a call that, hey, the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys.
	And it was, you know...
	Donald is friends with the president's friends with the guy that runs the National Enquirer.
	And they said, if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike this story.
	I had, I will just say, three people at the very top of the administration calling me.
	And the response was like, are you kidding me?
	Well, it's a stunning charge.
	And what we know for sure, what we know to be true, is that Trump and the publisher of the National Enquirer are longtime friends.
	They are tight.
	They're longtime allies.
	That came up during the election.
	That's right.
	And there's a great piece in The New Yorker this week by our colleague Jeffrey Toobin that details that.
	Toobin!
	Let's be clear.
	Joe and Mika are alleged to form a blackmail.
	They're saying the president's using a friendly media outlet to punish his opponents.
	They're saying the president wanted them to grovel, to get on the phone and say, we're sorry, sir.
	We'll stop criticizing you, sir.
	We'll be nice, sir.
	It's a power dynamic.
	Now, here's what the president says.
	Who is this?
	This is that funny-looking guy that is not the guy with the egg-shaped head.
	This is the show business guy, Brian Seltzerwater.
	I think it's Seltzer, yeah.
	This is CNN taking on this, helping Joe and Mika get through this.
	Even though they're competitors, we still want to help them get through this.
	Because at the end, we're all on one team.
	Apparently he was watching this morning.
	He tweeted and said, I was watching Morning Joe for the first time in a long time.
	It's fake news.
	Actually, Joe called me to try to stop the National Enquirer article, and I said no, and then he added, bad show.
	So the president's saying it's not true, but Scarborough's responding, saying effectively he has receipts.
	He has text messages.
	He has emails or phone call receipts to prove that there was this conversation back and forth.
	Yowza.
	Phone call receipts?
	I don't know what that's about.
	What does that mean?
	I don't know.
	I have phone call receipts.
	I can prove it.
	Why doesn't he name the three people?
	Just name them.
	Name them and shame them.
	Why don't you name them?
	I don't know why.
	I know why, because it's bull crap.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, you know, we know someone at the National Enquirer.
	Yes, we do.
	I can call.
	I can call and find out.
	Well, if Scarborough calls you up and apologizes, you can spike the story.
	Spike it.
	So PBS got on the same bandwagon with our two guys.
	Diamond and Pearl, Silk?
	Brooks, no.
	Brooks and Shields.
	Oh my God, you've done a great job on your clips today.
	So let's play these two things, because these two guys, again, my big complaint is that I know you could have somebody on there that would balance the anti-Trump.
	There's two guys against Trump.
	One's supposed to be a Republican and one's a Democrat.
	And they just both, they just slam the guy constantly, which is fine.
	It's, you know, it doesn't bother me.
	But how about somebody on the other, one of the two guys actually defending some of this?
	Why do I have to go here?
	Here's the question.
	Why do I have to go to Diamond and Silk to get a decent defense?
	Yeah.
	Well, they are the yin to their yang, it's clear.
	I think this could be a weekly item.
	It's Brooks and Shield versus Diamond and Silk.
	Socked, I tell you, for starters.
	It's not helpful.
	It's more than that.
	And the issue here is the corruption of our public sphere.
	And that's what Donald Trump does with these things.
	And it makes it harder for our country to ever get back to normal when these things are corrosive to just the way people talk to each other.
	Corruption of the public's fear, Mark.
	I think David is guilty of understatement.
	No, I think he put it very well.
	This is hateful.
	It's hurtful.
	Judy, I don't know what a parent or a grandparent is supposed to say to a 10-year-old or a 12-year-old who said anything comparable to this and was sent and banished their room or whatever else for it.
	Yes, sir.
	Now he's going on and on, but I don't understand.
	What would a kid do who would be banished for doing anything like this?
	In other words, calling one of their friends dumb as a rock.
	Yes, precisely.
	And, oh, they're going to be banished.
	What will become of the poor little tyke after he's been banished for doing this?
	And then he sees that the president called this Mika dumb as a rock.
	And thus, how are we going to explain this to the children?
	Have you ever gone to see a movie made in the last 10 years?
	20, 25.
	Have you ever watched television?
	Yes.
	Yeah, there's no problem.
	This is all this goes on, and the president's a reflection of it.
	So this is bullcrap.
	I mean, Shields is going on, oh, the children, think of the children.
	Have you seen The Bachelor?
	Seriously, people.
	...to this and was sent, banished to their room or whatever else for it.
	I mean, the President of the United States can talk this way and there are no consequences.
	The irony is that he's more engaged on the back-and-forth With Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on this, than he has been on health care or any other issue.
	I mean, he obviously, this is what matters to him.
	And it's just that classic, not to be sexually biased, but it's sort of a New York bully approach to life.
	I mean, you say anything, you do anything, because the important thing is winning.
	And I just, you know, I don't know what else there is to say other than you want to put yourself to a car wash after you listen to the president talk this way.
	Remind me that I have a clip about the dumb as a rock thing after you're done here.
	Okay, let's move on to Trump.
	This clip is...
	Trump's an extortionist, Cliff.
	This is Brooks.
	I mean, yeah, Brooks.
	Wait a minute, I don't see Trump.
	Oh yeah, Trump's an extortionist.
	I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.
	I mean, are there ever consequences?
	Do we just go on like this?
	Well, we'll see if people eventually get disappointed and get tired.
	I do think, you know, one of the things that may begin to offend people is potential mafioso behavior.
	One of the things we heard this morning in the op-ed piece in the Washington Post by the two hosts was that the White House sort of threatened sort of extortion that if...
	If the show becomes more Trump-friendly, then a National Enquirer investigation into their relationship will be spiked.
	And that's sort of mafioso extortion behavior.
	That's beyond normal White House behavior.
	It's beyond political hardball.
	It's sort of using...
	The White House didn't do that.
	That's the implication?
	Is that the whole thing?
	Oh, clearly Trump's friends with the National Enquirer.
	Yeah, this is what the Washington Post was pushing.
	Oh, okay.
	There's no proof whatsoever, but they had put it out there.
	Okay, I got it, I got it.
	It's sort of using your media allies, the National Enquirer and the Trump administration, to take down enemies, and that's not something we've seen in America since...
	Yeah, we have.
	That's what the Russians do.
	Don't you remember the Trump report that he had the hookers pee on the bed that Michelle and Barack slept in?
	Isn't that the same kind of extortion?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Our intelligence services actually dangled.
	No, everyone's been dangling that in front of Trump.
	It's the same thing.
	Something we've seen in America since maybe Nixon or maybe never.
	I mean, it's true.
	Mark, we haven't seen anything like this in a while.
	Nixon?
	We haven't.
	What?
	This is unhinged.
	It's unhinged.
	So let's get a realistic...
	I'm sorry, there's still a minute left on this.
	Oh, okay, let it go.
	I'm sorry.
	David's point about extortion certainly strengthens the position of James Comey, that the threats and extortion...
	What?
	I don't know.
	...extortion is part of the modus operandi.
	To Republicans...
	I mean, we should say the White House is denying it.
	The White House is denying it.
	Jared Kushner, I guess, is denying it.
	But I mean, the fact that there's negotiations going back and forth, communications on this subject, you do this and we won't print.
	This is a guy who doesn't know what he's talking about.
	You can hear it.
	You can hear it.
	He doesn't actually know what he's talking about.
	This part, for sure.
	He has the talking points on the other part, but he doesn't know what he's doing here.
	That's clear.
	We won't print an injurious and harmful article in the National Enquirer, one of the great publications of our time.
	Shit, that's done all the time.
	Hey, J-Lo?
	We've got this story, but if we do an exclusive with us, then we can work something out.
	We can soften this a little bit.
	This is done all the time by the National Enquirer.
	You know what's funny?
	What?
	Is in this clip, and you cut it off right after you said it.
	I'm sorry.
	So you can back it up to hear it again.
	I'm sorry.
	He said...
	No, it's fine.
	He says sarcastically...
	The National Enquirer is a great publication, blah, blah, blah, kind of thing.
	And he said it sarcastically in a way that I can imagine people saying, oh, I didn't know it was that good.
	I mean, actually believing him and ironically believing him that it's a great publication.
	It's sad.
	It's very funny.
	An article in the National Enquirer, one of the great publications of our time.
	I remember when Republicans used to get upset and angry at Bill Clinton because he didn't wear a suit and tie in the Oval Office.
	And Donald Trump, who's supposed to be this great dealmaker, I mean, Joe and Mika Brzezinski have Morning Joe, which is a show that's watched very much in this area, but it doesn't have a great national audience, and probably maybe 1% of the people, and he just made them a national...
	Everybody now knows about this show.
	It's probably increased the ratings, juiced them up.
	So I don't understand where anything is but counterproductive in every sense.
	Okay.
	Although I don't think it juiced up anything.
	We need to juice up the ratings, man.
	Juice them up.
	So let's listen to, let's put all this in the background and get back to Diamond and Silk, who seem to have a little better handle on this.
	There's two parts here.
	Make sure it's the first one.
	And let's see what they have to say.
	Hey, y'all.
	Okay.
	So, it looked like the president had to get Mika and Joe straight.
	You know, they're so vicious, foul, and downright nasty when it comes to the president.
	That's right.
	They use their platform every morning to bash our president and say cruel things about him.
	But this time he fought back, baby.
	Boom.
	And he got them straight.
	Knocked down.
	Now, the very next day, you have Joe and Mika coming out, talking about that the president, you all, is the reason why they made the Inquirer.
	What?
	Thank you.
	What?
	Do you think that we're going to believe two people that allegedly cheated on their spouses?
	We don't believe anything that they say.
	Not a word.
	Okay, and to me, if I can say allegedly, this sounds like extortion.
	Extortion.
	That's what it sounds like.
	And because the president didn't do what you wanted him to do, that's why you sit and you bash him on your platform daily.
	And baby, it all came to a head.
	So don't get mad at the president because your alleged affair was Joe.
	Honey, that's old news.
	We already knew that you could have been allegedly cheated on your spouse with Joe and Joe was cheated on his spouse with you.
	Allegedly.
	Okay?
	So I don't even know why you making this new news.
	So it looks like the one who abused their power was you.
	And Joe, using your platform to undermine President Trump's administration.
	And it won't work.
	And to the media, let me get you all straight.
	Because it looks like y'all always take a bone and carry it.
	Y'all like to talk out of both sides of your mouth.
	Okay?
	But let me get you all straight.
	When President Trump tweeted out what he tweeted out, he tweeted out Tamika and Joe.
	Okay?
	He wasn't talking about women.
	He wasn't talking about men.
	He was talking about one woman and one man.
	And see, I got to keep the story straight for you all.
	Because you all tend to get it twisted.
	That's why we deem you as the very fake news.
	My millennials!
	Stay woke!
	Stay woke!
	Mm-hmm.
	Maxine Waters could do it.
	She could be a third wheel.
	She'd be a third wheel for sure.
	Yeah, this is good.
	I like their, they're good now.
	They're covering all the bases.
	They're doing it in an unusual way.
	Unusual, novel, novel.
	To the white audience.
	To the whiteys, yes.
	Whiteys.
	Yeah, but they're nailing it, and I think, and this is part two where they kind of also go right after the media.
	Donald Trump used his own personal Twitter account to tweet what he wanted to tweet to Mika and Joe.
	That's right.
	He did not use the president's Twitter account.
	Good point, good point.
	He can tweet whenever he gets ready to tweet.
	And you wanna know what's wrong with y'all?
	Y'all just mad because you cannot control the narrative anymore, and he's controlling it.
	Suck it up, buttercup, and deal with it!
	So listen, Joe and Mika, keep your business to yourself.
	We don't care about you being in no tabloid, so what?
	What we care about is this president.
	And what we care about is you not using your platform to be vicious, cruel, and vile towards the president.
	Period.
	Now you can take that, you can eat on that, you can go run with that, you can spin around in a circle with it.
	I don't care.
	Mika and Joe, it looks like it may be time for both of you all to go.
	Hit the road, Jack!
	And don't come back no more, no more, no more!
	The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the stomp down boom shakalaka truth.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	I would say that in future, one clip of them is long enough.
	Yeah, I wanted to bring it to...
	There was a reason for doing the three.
	I actually only planned on doing the one, but then this Mika thing...
	I understand.
	It's totally okay.
	Totally okay.
	And I'm going to use them as a balancing point.
	Very good.
	I like that.
	And I like these women.
	They're good.
	They're very funny.
	If they were only Jewish, they'd be even better.
	Come on, you've got black Jewish women.
	You can't touch them.
	Can't touch them.
	Can't touch them.
	Coming back to the Dumb as a Rock.
	By the way, they were seen as a kind of a comedy act during the beginning of the Trump campaign because they were in early.
	And they were like, oh, look at these two silly women.
	And then their pitches were much better than Anna Navarro.
	Someone needs to make them dames of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	We need to get on their radar.
	We need to get on their radar.
	I like them.
	I like them a lot.
	Dumb as a rock.
	You may have seen this.
	This is the third CNN video from Project Veritas.
	I want to make sure we cover this base.
	Oh yeah.
	Yes, yes.
	I should have had these clips.
	No, it's alright.
	It's alright.
	It's my beat and we had good internet, so we're cool.
	This is the CNN producer of New Day.
	That's a show that Michaela used to do, correct?
	With the Cuomo kid?
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	Well, it's the Cuomo kid and the other girl.
	Jimmy Carr is the producer, and the undercover cameras from Project Veritas caught him talking about Trump, but also about the voters in America, and it's pretty legible.
	CNN, it's an impartial, right?
	What's the view of Trump in, like, the kind of media?
	Right, this is, what's the view of Trump?
	On the inside, we all recognize he is a clown, that he is hilariously unqualified for this, that he's really bad at this, and that he does not have America's best indices.
	We recognize it's just fucking crazy.
	I mean, Kuznel Kuznel, this is a man who's not actually a Republican.
	He's actually a Republican, and he just adopted that because that was the party he thought he could win it.
	He doesn't believe anything that these people believe.
	The man's on his third life.
	I guarantee you he's paid for abortions.
	He doesn't give a shit about abortions.
	He doesn't care about gay marriage.
	He doesn't even really care about the budget.
	The man's upping the budget even when he promised to reign in.
	You mean he'd be pro-gay manager?
	I like the fact, you know, I'm sure he's paid for abortions.
	I like that.
	That's a cool statement.
	I don't think he gives a shit.
	90% of us are on board with just the fact that he's crazy.
	What do you mean?
	90% are on board what?
	The...
	With her?
	I wouldn't say with her, but just acknowledge the fact that he's batshit.
	He's batshit crazy.
	Would it be fair to question the...
	I don't want to be rude here.
	Here we go.
	You're at least some percentage out of Scottish.
	Would it be fair to question the intellect of the American voter?
	Oh no, they're stupid as shit.
	Now, and of course, the thing that this is the White House...
	Because we actually had that...
	Awful woman, Kellyanne Conway, you know, the blonde.
	Who's sorry?
	Kellyanne Conway.
	What's she look like?
	Is she the one with the...
	She looks like she had hit the shuttle.
	She looks like she had hit the shuttle.
	Yeah, Kellyanne Conway looks like she was hit with a shovel.
	So, I do have a comment about Project Veritas.
	What the fuck is wrong with you people?
	I'm sorry for cursing, but this is what you do.
	Get the audio right.
	Get some professional gear.
	There's no reason.
	I'm hearing digital artifacts.
	I'm hearing all kinds of crap that a professional outfit would not put out.
	Are you insane?
	There's no reason for this to sound that crappy.
	End of rant on that one.
	Man, I hate that.
	Hello?
	Yeah, they're not that interested in the sound quality as long as there's something in there they can use.
	Yeah, but it's not useful.
	It's dumb.
	Anyway, from this...
	Then I can be able to mic them up.
	Hey, I am an audio professional.
	It's possible to do this better.
	Most of this is happening when they upload it to YouTube.
	There's a whole bunch of things wrong in their chain, so they can figure that out.
	More interesting to me was Van Jones on Anderson Pooper.
	Van Jones, the way I hear him speak, and he wrote an op-ed about this, the brass at CNN went, Van, my man.
	Van the man.
	You're talking about Russia thing being a big nothing burger?
	First of all, you're using Hillary Clinton's words.
	We all recall she used that to great pleasure and hilarity at the Recode conference.
	I don't understand why anyone would use it ever, because it's not a good term.
	He's in the milieu.
	That's obvious.
	He's hanging out with the Clintons somehow, somewhere, even though he's saying, oh, actually, yes, because...
	No, it's definitely milieu-speak.
	Yeah, milieu, milieu, milieu, milieu-speak.
	So it comes on Pooper, and something interesting has happened.
	We have a change in the narrative.
	A conservative activist named James O'Keefe has released another selectively edited tape today.
	There it is.
	It used to be deceptively edited tape.
	Now it's selectively edited tape.
	That is a new phrase they're using.
	Well, I think they got busted.
	For using deceptively, because you did this.
	You could get the original whole tape.
	And it wasn't deceptive.
	It was what they were talking about, except it was edited down.
	Otherwise, it's really boring.
	And so you could say selectively edited.
	And also, here's another interesting trick.
	You said deceptively enough that when somebody...
	And it's the same number of syllables.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so you swap out deceptive for selective and edited tape.
	So the key words are edited tape.
	The tape's been edited.
	Edited.
	And so people are still, they're still hearing deceptive.
	Yes.
	Yes, that's what I knew you would say.
	And I agree.
	Right.
	Yeah, and I agree.
	I wholeheartedly agree.
	The irony is, this was, you know, like a five-minute segment, and I was selectively editing it down for the No Agenda audience, and I didn't realize that at the time.
	A conservative activist named James O'Keefe has released another selectively edited tape today, this time targeting CNN political commentator Van Jones.
	And Van Jones joins us now.
	So, just explain what happened here.
	Who were you talking to?
	Where were you?
	What was the context?
	Okay, so I'm standing outside the bureau in Los Angeles, you know, and I'll talk to anybody.
	I don't care.
	Janitor, homeless person, police officer, pop star, I'll talk to anybody.
	Yeah, okay, that's your excuse.
	I'll talk to you.
	Let's start off with your excuse.
	How did you get burned?
	I wanted to cut this down, but even further than I did, I just couldn't because every other minute, and it's like Van Jones just saying another, like, oh my God, this guy got whipped.
	Like, dude, you better retract that shit now.
	I don't care how you do it.
	You go on Pooper's show, you suck up to the white man from the CIA. I don't care what you have to do.
	You're doing it, Van Jones.
	You're out on your black ass.
	Comes up and he starts to engage me in conversation.
	I talk to everybody.
	And he starts asking these questions around what's going on in American politics.
	As you know, I have been beating the drum.
	I'm sorry, I gotta go back on that.
	I talk to everybody.
	Just listen to his examples.
	Oh, even the poor schlubs who are way beneath my class.
	Listen to this.
	A conservative activist named James O'Keefe has released another selectively edited tape today, this time targeting CNN political commentator Van Jones.
	And Van Jones joins us now.
	So, just explain what happened here.
	Who were you talking to?
	Let's see what he's talking about.
	Where were you with the contacts?
	Okay, so I'm standing outside the bureau in Los Angeles, you know, and I'll talk to anybody.
	I don't care.
	Janitor, homeless person, police.
	Janitor, homeless person.
	I'm one of those up there who has money and is rich, you know, American dream, black man who's on top of the world.
	You homeless man, I'll talk to you.
	I'm like that, you know.
	I'm cool.
	I'm cool like that.
	Janitor.
	It is all equivalency.
	Janitor, man.
	Janitor, homeless.
	So janitors are considered the lousy...
	That's horrible.
	They're just at the low end of things.
	Yeah, you janitor.
	And it probably means more to a black person than to a white guy like me.
	This probably actually reminds me of that scene that was on The View where one of the girls on there says...
	Oh, they're talking about the immigration process.
	Oh, who's going to clean our toilets?
	Remember that?
	Yes.
	Yep.
	She was excoriated for saying that, but still, she said it.
	I think Van Jones went to Yale.
	Does that mean anything?
	Well, I doubt if he's in Skull and Bones, but...
	I'll talk to anybody.
	Janitor, homeless person, police officer, pop star, I'll talk to anybody.
	Pop star.
	Pop star.
	Hi, pop star.
	I'm Van Jones.
	Surely you've heard of me from the homeless guy.
	Starts to engage me in conversation.
	I talk to everybody.
	And he starts asking these questions around what's going on in American politics.
	As you know, I have been beating the drum about progressives going so far overboard on Russia.
	The news industry should be going in on Russia, because any time you got the President of the United States under investigation by the FBI, that is a new story.
	But progressives have to be very careful that we don't Put all our eggs in that basket because the chances of this cowardly Republican Party actually impeaching and then removing a president, something that's never happened, I think is very, very slight.
	And so I was about to go into that.
	I said, there's nothing you can do.
	And then a bunch of my guys from CNN came out.
	We started talking.
	So he took that little bitty thing and made it seem like I was out here saying that there's nothing wrong that Donald Trump has been doing.
	This guy is a hoaxster.
	He's a fraudster.
	He's a shuckster.
	He's a huckster.
	He's all jive and all that.
	This hoaxer and fraudster.
	When it's stirred, you can add stirred to anything.
	It's a podcaster.
	He's a podcaster.
	He's a hoaxer.
	He's a fraudster.
	He's a podcaster for crying out loud.
	He's been convicted.
	He's paid fines.
	We have to apologize.
	He's a scumbag.
	I've been convicted.
	And he does this stuff.
	He says he was convicted, man.
	Convicted and fine.
	We also said that after I was investigating Trump, this guy just throws these memes in there to keep the pot boiling.
	Oh, he'll throw in the selectively edited, too.
	He's been convicted.
	He's paid fines.
	They have to apologize.
	He's a scumbag, and he does this stuff all the time.
	So, when on the tape, you say that the Russian investigation was a big...
	And he does this stuff all the time.
	He does it all the time.
	He's a huckster under fraud, so he just does this all the time.
	Scumbag, and he does this stuff all the time.
	So, when on the tape, you say that the Russian investigation was a big nothing burger, what do you mean?
	I meant for progressive...
	Very good, Anderson.
	Of course, this was all rehearsed.
	You know, we knew this was going to happen because he wrote the op-ed, which is pointed to.
	But the question is exactly what we want.
	Well, what about this nothing burger, man?
	For progressives to keep jumping up and down about this doesn't make a lot of sense because you've got a bunch of us who are acting as if this guy's going to be impeached tomorrow, that Trump is going to be impeached and he's going to be gone.
	Listen, from a political point of view, if you're looking honestly, you do not have the ability to both impeach and remove this guy.
	So from a political point of view, it's a nothing burger.
	You've got to be focused on real stuff like jobs, health care, addiction, and stay focused on the substantive issues that are real people.
	No, yeah, you're talking about stuff that's not going to register for ordinary people.
	It's nothing for ordinary people.
	Real people are going to be worried about jobs, health care.
	Ordinary people.
	John, the ordinary people.
	You know, folks.
	Ordinary people.
	Dumb as a rock people.
	Those people.
	You know, CNN. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
	Dumb.
	People are going to be worried about jobs, health care, addiction, that kind of stuff.
	We've got to stay focused on that.
	And that's where I was about to go, but I don't know this guy.
	Then my guys come up from CNN, whom I love at the...
	Whoa!
	My guys at CNN. Who I love.
	I love.
	He must be really worried about his job.
	Oh, he got burned.
	That kind of stuff.
	We've got to stay focused on that.
	And that's where I was about to go.
	But I don't know this guy.
	Then my guys come up from CNN, whom I love at the Bureau, and we start talking.
	Listen, if you're still falling for selectively edited videotape in 2017, you have not been paying attention.
	But for the White House to fall for it and promote it, that's what's really terrible.
	You said that too many Democrats see the Russia controversy as a kind of magical get-out-of-jail-free card, meaning that they think the president's somehow going to be impeached.
	Listen.
	Listen.
	We have a bunch of problems in our party.
	And rather than dealing with those problems in a serious way, rather than getting back to talking about jobs, back to talking about the real pain at the bottom here in our country, you've got a lot of people just going in loops and cycles.
	I'm not talking about news people.
	You've got to cover it as news.
	I'm talking about progressive activists who talk about Russia all day and don't talk about jobs any day.
	That has got to stop.
	And if you think that just talking about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia...
	It's got to be a way to either get this guy impeached or removed or win an election.
	I think you are wrong.
	I think we need to get back to substantive stuff for ordinary people, not only the stuff that the news media is excited about.
	Van, thanks very much.
	You can read Van's full editorial on the tape and the Nothing Burger comment at CNN.com.
	Much ado about Nothing Burger.
	What an idiot.
	I love that.
	I thought that was fantastic to see a guy grovel like that.
	He was groveling.
	He was going for it.
	I'm sorry for him.
	They're not going to hire me anywhere else.
	No.
	He's tainted.
	He's tainted.
	This is where you go, he's tainted.
	Uh-huh.
	Tainted.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	We have quite a few people to thank for show 943.
	A lot.
	Cool.
	And let's start with Jim Watts in Whistler, B.C. I've been there.
	I have snowboarded there.
	You have snowboarded up in Whistler?
	Very poorly.
	That's the best.
	Very poorly, but I snowboarded up there, yeah.
	Let's take a look and see if he's got something we just...
	I was better at skiing.
	I was pretty good at skiing.
	I also went to the Calgary Stampede, which I reminded my friend of at the dinner.
	Oh, really?
	What friend?
	Oh, the one that was calling you out?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And what did she say?
	I can't remember what she said.
	She said, you're going to turn orange like you're president.
	She said, did you participate in some thing, like the running of the bulls or something?
	I'm like, no, I just watched the barrel racing.
	I like the cute girls on the horses.
	Sexist.
	You're a sexist pig.
	Yes, I am.
	I'm proud of it.
	Thanks for the offer, Canadian dollars at par.
	I shall come in under the wire with the $150 birthday celebration in 8008 in honor of our Prime Minister.
	This total is $177.30.
	Boob.
	President.
	Prime Minister.
	Just got it.
	Just took me forever.
	Boob.
	Boob in honor of our Prime Minister.
	The Guardian asks, can Justin Trudeau's socks bring peace to the world?
	Only in Scandinavia.
	Questioner, if you're a straight Catholic politician who marches in a parade parade, is that not cultural appropriation?
	Yes, yes it is.
	Bingo.
	Boom shagalaka.
	With Ed Mubarak socks on, nonetheless.
	Or Eid, I'm sorry, Eid.
	Ed Mubarak.
	Ed Mubarak, good guy.
	I met Ed Mubarak once.
	Let me tell you, sir, you are no Ed Mubarak.
	And in a parade which Black Lives Matter protesters forced the Toronto police out of the parade.
	No!
	You're not allowed.
	I think it's considered the same as an at-par deal to our Australian friends.
	Yes, actually, I have mentioned that anyone in Australia who wants to do an at-par donation will be fine with it.
	As their currency is in the same dismal state as the Canadian petrodollar, this may help fund Adam's sojourn.
	Douchebag call-out.
	Oh, almost.
	Douchebag.
	I'm sorry.
	I wasn't listening.
	I've never heard of a donation from anyone in British Columbia's Sea to Sky Corridor.
	What is that?
	Sea to Sky?
	I don't know.
	Not sure.
	So I would like to call out those freeloaders.
	Douchebag!
	There we go.
	He humbly requests some new Project Karma and hopes you play a trip with no Perth at the end of the show.
	Okay.
	Yes, I will.
	Okay, good.
	You can just give him his...
	Well, are we doing the things in the...
	Okay, fine.
	You've got karma.
	Well, we usually don't do that in the middle of the segment.
	We do it at the end of the segment.
	Oh, yes.
	We put that at the end.
	Sorry.
	So you're going to get it twice, Jim.
	Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia 150.
	Loves us and we need a Nussbaum call out probably.
	Baroness Monica.
	Hold on, hold on.
	I'm on the mobile rig, man.
	Nussbaum!
	There you go.
	He's going to blow out his throat.
	Baroness Monica, the Nussbaum one is really harsh.
	Baroness Monica in Drayton Valley, Alberta, 150.
	Cesium 137, 150.
	He actually sent in a couple of cards and a note.
	He's one of our artists.
	And I want to mention to him, he should send me an email, johnatdvorak.org, because he sent us a little picture postcard of that one artwork he did some time back of the pinball machine.
	And I want a file that I can make a big copy of that.
	I want to make it a 16 by 24.
	John at Dvorak.org Please send me a note, cesium.
	Jared Zeifman in London, Ontario, 115.75.
	These will probably be really 150s.
	Jason Dawson in Richmond, BC, 115.70, which is called 150.
	Lon Baker, $100.
	By the way, so this amounts to one, two, three, four, five.
	Five people total.
	Plus maybe three or four others in the other shows from Canada who gave a crap about this promotion.
	Good work.
	Yeah, another gem from my creative...
	Your creative genius is off the rails.
	The creative department.
	Baron Latican in Houston, Texas, $100.
	Tanya Dorak in...
	I don't know where she's from.
	She's parts unknown, I guess.
	But she had...
	This is Richard Underberg's 33rd birthday, I believe, is on there.
	I felt the public shaming was appropriate.
	Please call him out as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Much love to Rich, John, and Adam.
	Alright, thank you.
	Now, the following people are 7417.
	These are the 4th of July...
	Call, uh, uh, donations.
	Yeah, it's Canada Day.
	Canada Day.
	No, no, it's Canada Day is not the 4th of July.
	I'm sorry.
	I missed the newsletter.
	I missed the newsletter.
	You're right.
	Uh, so this is the 4th of July, and we've already gone past, we're looking at this list, beat Canada Day by quite a bit, which Canada Day is expensive.
	Sir J.C. the Schmid in Tustin, California.
	These are the name and location.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Locust, North Carolina.
	Nicholas Hanna in McCordsville, Indiana.
	Keith Gibson from somewhere.
	Parts Unknown, USA. Levi Portenier.
	Portenier.
	Portenier, probably.
	Lakewood, Colorado.
	Tim Nutting in Everett, Washington.
	Sir Hank Earl of New York City.
	Sir Patrick Coble in Tennessee.
	Kalen Nistor in Northville, Michigan.
	Nussbaum, once again.
	Nussbaum!
	God.
	Sorry.
	James Zuckel, parts unknown.
	Taylor Cuzuela in Alpharetta, Georgia.
	Sarah Gardner, and then that's it.
	That's the end of our group.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
	That qualify for Fourth of July.
	We'll keep that going and I'll send maybe a reminder on Tuesday.
	But it looks like both Canada Day and Fourth of July Day were beat by the lucky palindrome.
	Yeah, the lucky palindrome, which is what people really want.
	Yeah, that's clear.
	717.
	People don't give a crap about their country.
	It's palindrome land.
	Palindrome.
	Palindrome.
	The palindrome.
	7117.
	I'm going to read the names and locations if they exist.
	Sarah Gardner from Parts Unknown.
	Carl Barron from Malmo, Sweden.
	Give us some updates.
	We keep hearing about Sweden, especially Malmo.
	It's a rape capital.
	It's on fire.
	It's still on fire.
	It's on fire.
	It's a rape capital.
	It's doing this and that.
	What are we going to do?
	I want a report from Carl Barron.
	With clips.
	Well, clips or no clips, I don't care.
	I just want to hear the facts.
	All right.
	Laura Wilson in Sammamish, Washington.
	Sir Crash EMT, 7117.
	Sir Bob of the Dude's Name, Ben, in High Point, North Carolina.
	Hey, do we have to do something here with Sir Crash EMT? Do we?
	Yeah, wasn't he an executive producer on the last show?
	He said, heard the show, I screwed up.
	I sent Adam a note, but did not make it clear to me that it was for me.
	Oh, okay, right.
	Too simple.
	Let's see.
	What was it?
	He screwed up the jingles?
	He said, jobs come for me and my wife.
	We should bring us out to San Jose, fingers crossed, and my accounting brings me to Baronet.
	Didn't we Baronet him on the last show?
	I don't know.
	I can't remember.
	Okay, I don't have a note from Eric about this.
	Oh.
	So I don't understand what to do.
	What does he say to do?
	Nothing.
	Oh, okay.
	We're good to go.
	All right.
	We'll figure it out.
	You know, these things, you know, everything doesn't happen.
	Boom.
	It has to happen.
	You know, we're good.
	Okay.
	Sir John Turek in Shingle House Pencil.
	There's a missing knight in here, too.
	I can't find him.
	Sir John Turek sent a note in after the closing of the last show.
	Oh, crap.
	Okay.
	Well, get it fixed.
	Get it fixed.
	I will get it fixed.
	I will get it fixed.
	Sir John Turek in Shingle House, Pennsylvania, 71-17.
	Did you get Sir Bob of the Dude's Name Ben?
	Yeah, Sir Bob of the Dude's Name Ben in High Point, North Carolina.
	I did say that.
	I'm sorry.
	Lance Forrest, let me be sorry about.
	Marlon Avia in the Philippines, I guess.
	Yeah, please change my location to the Philippines.
	Nice.
	Okay, done.
	Sir Adam Colby in Menasha, Wisconsin, 71-17.
	Bill, good old Bill in Glen Rock, New Jersey.
	James Katchin II. Brian Tobiasin in Gardner, Kansas.
	James Callahan in Parts Unknown.
	Anonymous, thank you for your excellent show.
	He needs some job karma.
	Oh, he said the job karma worked.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	What happened?
	Matt Mariotti.
	Oh, he says the startup I work at got acquired by a company you guys make fun of.
	It must be Google.
	Great.
	Congratulations.
	Keep the donations coming.
	Could be any number of companies.
	This is true.
	Matt Mariotti.
	Sir Patrick Coble's here again, twice.
	Nice, nice, nice.
	He said, wait, the silent pen test karma worked from episode 940, a portion of the profit between the two donations.
	Train Museum.
	Oh, Train Museum's coming.
	I got a date for it.
	Okay.
	End of July.
	Get ready.
	All right.
	Patrick's actually been doing some work on this.
	Good.
	Derek Burdett in Norman, Oklahoma.
	Sir Thomas Nussbaum once again.
	Nussbaum!
	He's doing a lot of mess-bombing today.
	Why not?
	James Melcher in Honolulu, Hawaii.
	Stephen Hutto.
	7117.
	Nicholas, this is a good promotion.
	7117 from Nicholas Black.
	And that concludes the list.
	Just a good list.
	Good list.
	He's also sent you some notes about Honolulu, James.
	Something about it you should read.
	All right.
	Sergot Nate in Sebastopol, California.
	6969.
	Rolf Otten in Utrecht.
	Rolf.
	I can't even do that one.
	Rolf.
	Rolf.
	Otten in Sebastopol.
	Utrecht.
	He says Sebastopol.
	No, that's Sir Godnate.
	Oh, Sir Godnate.
	I think it's actually Rulof.
	I think it's wrong.
	It should be Rulof.
	It could be.
	Yeah, Rulof.
	Oh, missing.
	Rulof Otten in Utrecht.
	André Kunz in Utrecht.
	Eggenstein Leopold Schaffen.
	Deutschland.
	6666.
	Francis Weyberg in Baltimore.
	6006, the mini boob.
	Booblet.
	The booblet.
	Tim Schellberger.
	Can you imagine somebody just tuning in?
	I was just thinking the same thing.
	Yeah, a 6006 booblet.
	It's the booblet.
	What?
	What are these guys talking about?
	That's why you need the primer.
	Yeah, we don't need anything.
	We don't need anything.
	Double nickels on the dime in Bend, Oregon.
	Tim Schallberger.
	Sir Tom Derry in DeForest, Wisconsin.
	5510.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia, 5432.
	Sylvain Trudell in Boucherville, Quebec, 51.
	Alex Beatty in Houston, Texas.
	He needs a de-douching, and I promise I give him one.
	All right, here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	You doing de-douchings for sexual favors now, or what's going on?
	No, it's a guy who's had a long, sad story about why he needs a deduction.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	And yeah, there's a note, but it's, you know...
	It's okay, I got it.
	You're a man of your word.
	Trent Wabbis.
	Trent Wabbis.
	Elwood, Victoria, Australia.
	And he's got a birthday shout-out, he says.
	I don't believe he's on the list.
	Crap, hold on.
	Trent Wabbis.
	Just says Trent Wabbis, that's all it says.
	That's all it says here.
	Trent Wabbis!
	Yay.
	Tyler Schimpf.
	These are $50 donors.
	Schimpf.
	Tyler Schimpf in Bothell, Washington.
	Anonymous in Milton, Ontario, Canada.
	Mark Malin in Baton Rouge.
	These are all $50.
	James Blair in Holland, Ohio.
	Yeah, that sounds right.
	Justin Barber in Los Angeles, California.
	Dennis Brown in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
	Dean Kostanko in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
	And last two is Shane Rozdilski in Saskatoon, the Paris of Canada.
	And last but not least is Jared Seuss.
	In Chicago.
	Yes.
	And that will conclude our list of producers for the show, 943.
	Yes, and thank you all very much.
	Nice showing today.
	Very good.
	We had three promotions running simultaneously.
	Yes, we had to do three, not again.
	The promotions department.
	Used to get with one.
	Yes, well, it's true.
	I was thinking we could ask the promotion department to spread it out a little bit, but yeah, you have to triple up now just to get the same amount of money.
	Yeah.
	But the support is really appreciated.
	Thank you so much.
	Especially when we're on the road like this.
	It's always a little more challenging to get everything done.
	But yeah, thank you.
	Also, thank you to everybody who came in under $50, usually for reasons of anonymity.
	And please remember, we have another show coming up on Thursday.
	That show will be also coming to you from Amsterdam.
	So remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
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	Karma.
	And Amanda, Claire, and Lira L. say happy birthday to Sir Ryan, turning 34 on June 28th.
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	Sir Adam Colby, July 1st, yesterday on Canada Day.
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	So, that's my little knifelet that I take with me on the road.
	I got the big one.
	You got your big one standing by then.
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	Eric, the show will get out to you as soon as possible.
	Yeah.
	I want to get this ransomware story out of the way.
	Okay, it is 8.51.
	I have not had dinner yet, so just so you know.
	Yeah, well, I promised this in the newsletter, so we have to know.
	No, of course.
	I'm just saying that I'm getting tired, so I'll just let you know.
	You're getting hungry.
	Yes, I have the munchies.
	Tell somebody to bring room service.
	First of all, it's an apartment.
	Second of all, I have all kinds of stuff.
	I have all kinds of munchy stuff.
	Well, you can munch on some of this while we're talking.
	Yeah, I have been doing that.
	It's very professional.
	You're right.
	All the pros do it.
	All the pros eat.
	Are you kidding me?
	Don't you know what broadcasting is, you baboon?
	Let's go with ransomware opener.
	Okay, here we go.
	Businesses and governments around the globe spent a second day battling a cyber attack.
	The so-called ransomware assault eased some today.
	But in the U.S., a subsidiary of FedEx was disrupted, and a Cadbury chocolate factory in Australia had to shut down.
	In London, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon says it is verging on an act of war.
	State or non-state entities lurking behind a veil of encryption, targeting our national infrastructure, as we saw with the recent cyber strike on Parliament itself.
	That isn't a Cold War.
	That's a grey war, permanently teetering on the edge of outright hostility.
	The outbreak began in Ukraine, where it has done the most damage so far.
	Wow.
	Now, everybody in Silicon Valley in the gossip scene believes the following, and you can listen to the next clip after I give you what the litany is.
	Okay.
	Done by the CIA or the NSA, targeting Ukraine.
	Really?
	Specifically to break, and it targeted specific companies that were in bed with Russians, or about to do a deal, or about to do some trading, and...
	Literally, companies in the Ukraine have been bankrupted by this ransomware.
	Wait a minute, is this what you're hearing in the hallways in Silicon Valley?
	Kind of.
	Nice.
	But it's apparent that this ransomware was never ransomware.
	It was just designed to go in and scramble disks and screw up networks.
	It was like Stuxnet.
	It wasn't ransomware at all.
	It had a phony baloney ransomware front end, but it never collected much money.
	I think there's some money that got in there, but you couldn't unlock your machines.
	So you sent your Bitcoin and nothing and it didn't unlock?
	Well, that's about halfway through the process.
	The mail address you're supposed to send it to was shut down.
	So you couldn't even send it to anybody.
	I think that the biggest problem that they're going to be facing is the fact that the ability to pay taxes to the state...
	It's seriously affected.
	We've seen images that were tweeted of things like supermarkets, where the checkout systems had been compromised and were showing the screen.
	We also see, obviously, the multinational shipping line that has now been affected.
	So it looks like a deliberate attempt to cause some kind of significant financial impact, not just on the citizens of Ukraine, but on Ukraine itself.
	You know, when you said you noticed differences in the design between the WannaCry and this, do we have any indication that paying these people off actually gets you your data back, or was it not even designed to do that?
	Theoretically, it was designed to do that, but it's clear so far that the mechanism that was put in place to actually collect ransom is...
	Is nowhere near the sophistication of the malware itself.
	And you don't think that someone would have made that kind of mistake.
	Built something that was very, very effective to compromise and no real ability to collect.
	We haven't seen or heard of anyone so far who's been able to decrypt it.
	And what we also know is that within a very short time after the malware was discovered, the single email address that was needed to communicate with was actually shut down by the provider.
	So that's one reason that I believe that no one's going to be able to easily get their data back.
	The second thing is that there are reports that are surfacing now, as folks have looked at the code, that there is at least one bug in the code that actually makes it so that decryption is not possible.
	Well, this is an outrage.
	Now, the thinking is that this is made to look to the Westerners, us.
	This is just a...
	It looks like a Russian attack on the Ukraine because they hate the Ukraine.
	It's Ukraine.
	I'm sorry, I just want to correct you.
	I'm glad you caught me.
	One of the guys, in fact, that guy on NewsHour said, the Ukraine, and I caught that.
	That's annoying.
	Careful.
	So the idea is to make it look, because it looks like, who else would do this?
	Because the Russians have a beef with these guys.
	But these attacks are so targeted.
	I mean, it did scatter around, and this is a problem with this sort of...
	Software is that there's a lot of collateral damage.
	In fact, other people that were talking about this discussed the collateral damage, which is people just kind of getting it and then clicking on the dumb button.
	And next thing you know, your machine is toast.
	I immediately, when this thing first hit, I didn't know it was going to be so targeted.
	I didn't know the backstory.
	So I'm just now, every few days, I am imaging my disk.
	Oh yeah, I do that every day.
	Automatic schedule.
	And so these were targeting specific companies in Ukraine that had close connections to Russia and were working closely with them because a lot of companies do.
	I mean there's that big giant airplane manufacturer that does that big huge monstrous plane that's in Ukraine and there's a bunch of other companies there too and TNT I think is a It was one of those shippers, which is the one that was hacked.
	They didn't say their name yet.
	May I just interject for a moment, just because it came from the chat room, that this apparently is ancient news?
	Yeah.
	Did you hear it before?
	No!
	Well, I guess it's not that ancient.
	All right, then shut up, chat room.
	Yeah, somebody in the chat room knows it, but this is, like I said, this is the litany.
	We're explaining this to people I haven't heard.
	He's just showing off.
	I just want to fact check false ourselves.
	One of these guys, yeah.
	Hey, I saw that tweet yesterday.
	By the way, when anyone does that to me, blocked.
	Okay, I'll kick him.
	I should.
	So the point is that this is just a...
	And it's not being covered very well.
	And it might be ancient news to that guy in the chat room, but it's not ancient news to the general public.
	Wow, I triggered you with that, didn't I? That's annoying.
	Yeah.
	And by the way, it was scheduled to be discussed on the last show.
	I kicked him.
	Good for you.
	It was already scheduled to be discussed, so we're actually two or three.
	We are a few days behind on the story, but...
	But the current iteration of the story seems to be pushing it off the mainstream media completely.
	Nobody wants to talk about this as potentially a CIA us, op, period.
	Damn.
	Or NSA or anybody else.
	Well, this is really outrageous.
	Well, I don't think it's the first time they've done something outrageous.
	No, but, well, it's also not covered.
	I don't know.
	I'm just surprised.
	I'm like, okay.
	Yes, it's Stuxnet.
	But, you know, the ransomware story was so rampant that I'm very surprised that, you know, okay, this isn't...
	And companies are lying?
	I mean, was there real ransomware at the same time?
	Or is it all...
	No, there was never ransomware.
	This whole thing's a scam.
	So Warner Brothers or...
	WPP, so they never got unscrambled?
	They never got decrypted?
	Apparently, the way the story goes, they never got unscrambled.
	And TNT, which is one of the companies that got hit, was one of the shipping companies specializing, or not specializing.
	Well, TNT is a huge shipper, aren't they?
	A European shipper?
	Yeah, and they ship.
	They're targeted because they were helping.
	Whatever Ukraine does ship stuff, and they take these guys out of the picture, then it hurts their international shipping.
	Damn!
	I mean, it was designed to screw up certain companies.
	Well, then why did Bitcoin surge?
	Someone just jumped on the scam?
	Well, Bitcoin surges whenever one of these things crops up because it's a good speculation.
	But people didn't really need it.
	According to Joff, the guy that was talking in that last clip, who's actually a friend of mine, he...
	Rod Joffrey.
	He, or Joffy.
	Joffy, as we call him at the club.
	At the press club.
	He said there was only $10,000 collected that could be documented.
	Wow.
	Well, how come these Joffy people aren't writing more about this?
	I think he's like a CTO. Where's the press?
	Where's the press?
	Where's the press?
	It's too hard of a story to do.
	Oh, okay.
	I got it.
	I think it's too hard of a story to do.
	I mean, we can talk about it, and it's still supposition.
	You can't prove any of it.
	Right, right, right.
	I think it's interesting to discuss, and I think it's...
	It's ancient news, man.
	Yeah, it's ancient.
	Well, you got me.
	You got me.
	Well, I think the guy's probably thinking about the ransomware story that was a month ago.
	Well, here's the ancient news to us.
	You'll recall we discussed this regarding your mom when she passed away and how the insurance companies would pretty much rather you be dead than them having to take care of you.
	Yes.
	And none of that is surprising.
	And the Netherlands, I think, is a leader, thought leader in this area.
	They're trending.
	However, this is a story about Gitmo Nation proper.
	So I was looking to make hospital-to-hospital transfers of two patients about a month apart that were seriously ill and needed procedures that we don't do in northern Nevada currently.
	And these were not experimental procedures.
	These were...
	standard care types of things.
	And as is typically the case, most physicians will tell you, I was asked to speak with the insurance medical director.
	So while on the phone, the first medical director making the case for why I wanted to transfer the patient for a life sustaining, and this was supposed to be a curative procedure.
	So it wasn't palliative care or extended life.
	The medical director on the phone said to me, you know, Brian, we're not going to pay for the procedure, the transfer, but by the way, have you talked to the patient about assisted suicide?
	And quite frankly, I was astounded.
	So you were clear with the insurance company, this is a patient who could be cured potentially, who had a chance at living.
	And the insurance people knew that.
	Correct.
	In both of these cases, the procedure that we were looking to perform would have been potentially curative in half to a majority of cases.
	So we weren't looking for just life extending.
	These patients would have been terminal without the procedure.
	And then less than a month later, doggone, the same thing happened again.
	Different insurance company, different state, but almost a similar, almost exactly the same conversation.
	Again, a conversation.
	And I'll tell you, Tucker, with your skepticism, I was so stunned, I started asking around, hey, what do you guys think about this with colleagues of mine?
	And many of them kind of What?
	I've posed in most of these states where you have this law and people die of assisted suicide, you're not allowed to put overdose or suicide on the death certificate.
	You're supposed to put their other underlying condition, which I've wondered if that doesn't constitute fraud.
	I think it's important to emphasize that proponents of this law will say there's no cause and effect here.
	You know, the people who like assisted suicide, they'll say, well, insurance companies deny care all the time.
	And yeah, they do cover assisted suicide in cases and states where it's legal.
	So where's the connect the dots?
	Well, I can tell you, I think any intelligent human being can connect those dots.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	That's a winner.
	That was on Tucker.
	Yeah.
	I'll give you a borderline for that one.
	That's a good clip.
	I didn't know that was a good clip.
	Disgusting.
	Disgusting.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But it makes nothing but sense.
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah, from their perspective.
	Yeah.
	I do have a couple other things.
	I don't know if you have anything pressing.
	I have a few one-offs that may be interesting.
	Georgia.
	Georgia.
	With Georgia.
	With the opioid crisis.
	The GBI is sounding the alarm over a new strain of an illicit synthetic opioid.
	This one called acrofentanil.
	It was detected in a drug seizure...
	Acrofentanil.
	Hmm.
	Another one.
	Oh, there's another one yet.
	More.
	One weekend in April, EMTs responded to four fentanyl overdoses, two deadly.
	It's unclear if those cases were caused by the new fentanyl variation, which poses a grave threat.
	There are multiple reports showing that this drug is resistant to naloxone.
	Naloxone and Narcan are life-saving antidotes to opioid overdoses.
	But in many cases, they don't seem to work to reverse the effects of acrylphenol.
	In Cook County, Illinois, officials cited 44 overdose deaths so far this year caused by acrylphenol.
	So it is now in our state.
	But it's not just acrylphenol.
	The GBI also...
	That was a nice drop.
	I like how they edited that.
	So it's now in our state.
	Boom!
	Back to it.
	It was good.
	It was tight.
	It's acrylfentanyl.
	The GBI also tested another fentanyl chemical seized in Forsyth County that's so unique it's not yet on the list of banned synthetic designer drugs in the state.
	This one's called tetrahydrofurin fentanyl.
	It's a very long name, but the bottom line is we've never seen it before and unfortunately it isn't covered under Georgia law yet.
	Local residents say more must be done to stop these illegal and deadly drugs from entering the U.S. and Georgia.
	You hear the news all the time about a lot of people dying.
	So it's a very sad story.
	Law enforcement says online sales of fentanyl is a driving force behind this deadly epidemic.
	Meanwhile, when I have not...
	That little tidbit about not being responsive to that...
	Is a problem.
	That shows why they've got to push the Narcan.
	Well, that shows that they were just making these drugs to kill people.
	Sadly.
	Yes.
	What else makes sense?
	Let's get rid of these damn junkies.
	Yeah, there's an act in Congress, I think.
	Let me see.
	I haven't looked at any of the hearings or any of the transcripts.
	Let me see.
	Someone sent me an email about it.
	Damn.
	I'll have to look for it.
	But it's something like the...
	Something about Narcan.
	Oh, shit.
	I wish I could find that.
	I mean, not Narcan.
	Kratom.
	Banning Kratom.
	That's what it is.
	I forget what the act name is, but they really want to ban Kratom, which from all I've heard, people say, hey, that's how I got off heroin.
	That's how I got off all different kinds of synthetic opioids.
	You gotta ban it because you're trying to kill people.
	It seems that way.
	I mean, Kratom, which I received, you can purchase it legally.
	We saw it for sale in Texas at a strip mall, the tobacco shop.
	What?
	Stock up.
	Stock up.
	I haven't tried it yet.
	You know, we just haven't been in the right vibe.
	Like, hey, let's try some drug no one, you know, they want to outlaw.
	Yeah, that's a good idea when you're 52.
	Yeah, well, it's good for the show.
	Hi, John.
	It's good for the show.
	Hi, John.
	All right.
	I'm a little out of it today.
	Okay, done.
	When we get back, I'm doing the Kratom episode.
	I'll be okay.
	The Kratom episode is coming.
	Yeah, so let's do the pot update and then I'm done.
	The pot update.
	Oh, that's what you have?
	Yes.
	Yeah, well, I've got a bunch of stuff I can move over.
	There's a new legal vice in Las Vegas starting today.
	Marijuana dispensaries across Nevada are allowed to sell recreational pot.
	The Silver State is now the fifth in the nation where pot can be legally purchased.
	Chris Martinez has the story.
	A lot of excited people here.
	With a midnight celebration fit for Independence Day, people in Nevada ushered in a new freedom.
	Some waited outside Essence Dispensary on the Las Vegas Strip for more than five hours to make their first legal pot purchase.
	It's finally, you know, here.
	It's been a long fight for us all.
	This is going to definitely bring a lot of money for the economy, a lot of revenue.
	Nevada voters approved recreational pot last November, allowing marijuana sales to begin this weekend.
	Anyone 21 or older with a valid ID can buy up to one ounce of marijuana or one-eighth of an ounce of edibles.
	Stores won't be allowed to sell edibles that look like lollipops or products marketed to children.
	Or if they have cartoon characters on them, which here is really the way to go.
	It's trending here.
	It is, definitely.
	And pot can only be smoked in private homes, not in public, making it off-limits in hotels and casinos.
	That could be tough on tourists who are expected to make up more than 60% of Nevada's marijuana customers.
	Nevada State Senator Tick Sagerbloom thinks alternatives will be needed for out-of-town guests to keep pace with the high times ahead.
	Breakfast, hotels, renting out golf courses, renting out restaurants.
	There's all kinds of ideas out there.
	Meantime, Las Vegas police say they'll be watching for people using pot illegally in public.
	A first offense carries a $600 fine.
	Nevada is expected to become the biggest legal pot market in the country.
	That is, Rena, until sales begin here in California next year.
	Wow.
	Well, we're up to speed now, aren't we?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	High times ahead.
	Boy, hilarious.
	Those guys always know how to...
	I don't know what they're talking about when they say only an eighth of an ounce of edibles.
	Yeah, I'm not...
	Well, I don't know.
	What does that mean?
	It's a tablet?
	I don't know.
	What is an eighth of an ounce?
	Is that a flake?
	It's nothing.
	It's a flake.
	What does a gummy bear weigh?
	I don't know what a gummy bear weighs.
	Okay.
	Do they sell gummy bear edibles in Amsterdam?
	Yeah, they do.
	I'll ask.
	I'll ask what they have.
	I'll ask Marawa.
	At the Dolphin.
	I'll have a report on Thursday.
	I'll have a report.
	Good.
	We're looking for that.
	Alright.
	Alright everybody, thank you very much for tuning in to the best Brushcast in the universe.
	Coming to you from the capital of Gitmo Nation Lowlands, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
	Up here on the canals.
	And on Thursday we will return with another show from the Netherlands as the European vacation continues.
	Until then, in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Ah, remember us at dvorak.org slash na until Thursday.
	Adios, mofos.
	Adios. - So Haymaker's 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 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.
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	The Bullets.
	Spinning?
	Let's take spinning.
	How did that happen?
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	You're not going to go anywhere.
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	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.
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	The music's going to get louder.
	There's going to be disco ball up and down and up and down with hand weights.
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	Candles!
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	I think both in my mind at this point.
	Subcommittee and in the full committee.
	And a serious and long-term affordability.
	Listen to the following vignette.
	Following...
	And in the full committee.
	And a big example.
	Turns about the technical, technical.
	The answer is technologically skins using female barracks.
	As we have in the subcommittee and in the full committee.
	The answer is technologically...
	From female to male as indicated in beers.
	Which I think both in my mind at this point.
	Commanders for gun space.
	Listen to the following vignette.
	Technical feasibility.
	Which I think both in my mind at this point.
	Which did not include sex reassignment surgery.
	The answer is I think both in my mind at this point.
	The ability of the Eddie.
	Today.
	Which I think both in my mind at this point.
	And I have serious concerns about the technical feasibility.
	Gently stop taking male hormones in order to expect the long-term affordability.
	Would be yes to your question.
	He is commanding officer to discuss his newly conceived technical feasibility.
	Soldier begins using hormones in order to try room and shower facilities.
	Today the soldier approached his At this point there are many concerns His new thing they know Want serious no Today the soldier still has $10 million apiece Missile change The soldier still has male genitalia Missile defense Giving up the $9 or $10 million dollars. - Number two, I think it undermines the real consensus.
	We're going to tell you, tell you, tell you.
	The full committee, and I hope in this, you're still reporting real missile defense.
	He did not go in surgical defense.
	But now it's here.
	You've seen the harmony in this track.
	He did not go in surgical defense.
	It's about the long time.
	Yet, sir!
	Jeff Bezos.
	Jeff Bezos.
	Where did you get that laugh?
	My laugh is something that I have had since I was the tiniest child.
	There was a time when my brother and sister would not go see a movie with me because it was too damn embarrassing.
	I would make like a great Ed McMahon sit there on the sofa and just laugh at all their jokes.
	It would be very genuine.
	I turn out to be easily amused.
	Oh!
	I turn out to be.
	I turn out to be.
	We see it from a different perspective.
	You know, we watched the mainstream media sit back while he was called un-American.
	I know you don't see it from that perspective.
	Oh!
	Are you kidding?
	That is pretty meaty.
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