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	Yeah, that's a chick magnet.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, August 3rd, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 952.
	This is no agenda.
	Putting the M in MRA. And coming to you from the darkest corners of the United Kingdom, the drone star state here in the Cludio in the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I wish I had all those crazy things to say, but I don't.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Insinuating I am saying crazy things?
	Huh?
	Hmm?
	I'm saying that they're not good crazy.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	Or they're boring.
	Yeah.
	Not.
	Not.
	It's crazy.
	Yeah.
	Well, in the morning, sir.
	How you doing?
	Good morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	All in the morning.
	Ships at sea.
	Boots on the...
	Oh.
	No.
	Too soon for that.
	No.
	Way too soon for that.
	Ah.
	Yeah.
	What did you learn at your millennial dinner?
	Did you have another one?
	Yeah, after the show, we discussed the topic that was brought up about the cutting in line.
	Ah, yes, this is one on my list for my millennial test as well, the cutting in line.
	Yeah, and they were like, you know, kind of...
	Just back up and explain this for a second.
	Yeah, I was at the Monterey Foods, which is a vegetable store in Berkeley.
	And there's a couple of these different places around.
	It's all vegetables there.
	They do have some milk and eggs, but it's mostly just lots of vegetables of all sorts and mushrooms.
	And there was a certain time, I think it's on Friday, where the place actually gets packed to the gills.
	There's lines that form toward the checkers.
	And the lines go up the aisle.
	And because of the nature of the way the store is laid out, the last two checkers on the far left The line comes up the aisle, but there's not a second line for the second checker, so they do a split where you go into this line or that line.
	You go into one of the two.
	In other words, it's more like a social thing.
	It wasn't real.
	It's not like footsteps on the ground where the path you follow.
	It's just kind of people split naturally.
	They should do exactly what you described, but they don't.
	In fact, I don't know anyone who does.
	And so, yeah, it's a social compact that has been made, and that's the way it's done, because there's no way you could have the second line for that last checker.
	There's no place for them to go.
	And so people occasionally wander through looking at these lines, and then they don't see the long line into the aisle, and they just jump in front of everybody else.
	Unintentional, but still.
	Yeah, unintentional, and so you tell them to get to the back of the line.
	And how do you do that?
	Hey, get to the back of the line!
	Is that how you do that, or how do you do that typically?
	I, in the case of this, which I, because there were a couple of millennials in front of me that wouldn't say anything.
	Men, women, a man, a guy and a girl, and they go between each other and they say, what do you think we should do?
	I don't know.
	And they don't do anything.
	And so I had to do it.
	I would say, miss!
	Miss!
	Why not say ma'am?
	That's even funnier.
	Miss!
	Ma'am!
	And then I said, there's a line here.
	And she would, oh, oh, okay.
	And then nobody would bitch about this.
	So at the dinner, Jesse, JC's wife, who's an old millennial.
	And by old millennial, I mean she's on the first group, the early group.
	A mold lineal.
	She said, oh yeah, that's what you do.
	You tell them to get back there and they do it.
	It's not really a big deal.
	And claiming that she would be one who would do this, and I think maybe she would.
	The two young millennials, I'm not sure, they kind of agreed, but they weren't like enthusiastically agreeing.
	So it didn't come to a situation where we discussed, which we have to discuss in the past, just blatant cutting in line.
	Or what would happen if the person says, I'm in this line.
	You know, figure it out.
	You know, it's not my problem.
	Or they were just, you know, sort of brutish about it.
	That would be kind of interesting.
	But they didn't.
	They couldn't say anything you had to step in.
	Well, no, they couldn't say anything, but I'm talking about the guy who cut in line didn't have a problem.
	Oh, okay.
	I see.
	I would think it'd be kind of interesting if you were going to film this to bring in some of the cut in line and then refuse to go in the line.
	Here's what's so odd.
	I had lunch with my millennial here in Austin Monday, and what I learned is the big problem, and I'm just lumping him in saying millennials.
	Let's just say kids.
	This isn't easier.
	Kids!
	Kids!
	Damn kids!
	The problem is, in these communities of kids, if you see an injustice and you do not speak up, you are enabling it.
	And you will be excoriated for not saying something.
	So I don't understand...
	Now, of course, it's never about cutting a line.
	Cutting a line, it's about, oh, it's cultural appropriation, that's, you know, you're abusing wrong pronouns.
	Or you say the word retard.
	Actually, I say the word retarded, which is different than retard.
	Even though retard is not even a noun, it is a transitive, I think it's a verb.
	According to Merriam-Webster, if you want to...
	To retard, yes.
	To retard.
	Yeah, it's like to retard the spark on your car.
	Yes, but I don't say retards.
	I say retarded, as in someone is retarded.
	Yeah, that still apparently doesn't cut it.
	Oh, I have big email chains going on about that.
	Well, why don't you just go stand in front of some mentally challenged people and say that?
	Everything is about context, man.
	Come on.
	Everything is about context.
	Yes, Adam.
	Why don't you do that?
	I'll give it a shot.
	I'll go to Whataburger, which is where all my favorite retarded people work.
	It's true.
	They give them jobs.
	Great jobs.
	At Whataburger?
	Yeah.
	It's Whataburger.
	Whataburger, yeah.
	You go into Whataburger, and they hire mentally retarded people.
	There you go.
	That's the proper way to describe it.
	And so you order it just like a McDonald's, but then you sit down, and then one of their staff will come and bring your food over to you, and then they discuss what kind of ketchup you want, and if you want three napkins or four, and I love it.
	I go there on purpose.
	I say, why don't you sit down and let's talk for a little bit?
	It's really good.
	You should probably grill him.
	You grill him.
	You can't say anything these days.
	You can't say anything.
	Do you eat a Whataburger?
	Sometimes.
	And by the way, I think it's pronounced Whataburger.
	No, that's not how it's pronounced.
	That's where it comes from.
	But we say Whataburger here in Texas.
	You know, I've had these...
	There's a couple...
	Let's talk burgers.
	Well, I wanted to get to something completely different, but if you want to talk burgers, fine.
	Take me off track.
	We're talking about millennials.
	Who gives a shit about hamburgers?
	I'm telling you, the Whataburger is overrated.
	It's not a good burger.
	Okay, fine.
	Can we move back to millennials?
	Okay, go on.
	It's really not that interesting.
	But, this is what I... If you see an injustice and you do not speak out, then you are enabling.
	Which means that everyone is constantly thinking, should I say something?
	Should I say something?
	And that may be where it comes from.
	Well, it's not really an injustice.
	It's kind of fair, I guess.
	It's just fair that if someone just walks in...
	I don't know where it comes from, but this is absolutely...
	It's a huge problem.
	Yeah, well, I've never seen them execute this, what you describe, unless they're in a large group.
	Yes, exactly.
	And so I asked the question.
	I said, hey, millennial friend of mine, why did I not see any L's, G's, B's, or Q's protesting the transgender ban for the military?
	And the answer was very enlightening.
	Well, now this millennial is starting to get smart.
	She said, you know, maybe because there's no one making signs, no professional organization that's putting it together.
	I know!
	I went, yes!
	Yes!
	Exactly!
	Google this.
	O-S-I. Google George Soros.
	But it's really telling, isn't it?
	I guess for Soros...
	And probably there's no benefit to having the trans community on his side.
	He doesn't give a crap about them, so I'm not going to give any money.
	I'm not going to put any money into this.
	Now, I did learn one other thing, and I'm not sure of this, but it was about cultural appropriation.
	And so we've all heard that putting on an American Indian headdress is cultural appropriation.
	And I'm like, really?
	But apparently, and this is at least the story, the African-American Indian headdress is equal to a purple heart in culture of American Indians.
	And when I heard that, I was like, well, if that's really true, which I'm not so sure it is, then I get it.
	I understand that.
	But that's not really cultural appropriation.
	That's just something you don't wear.
	Insulting the culture.
	It's not insulting a culture.
	It's insulting heroism or whatever.
	The Purple Heart, the headdress Purple Heart was...
	But I doubt it.
	And the reason why I doubt it is because there are so many...
	Here's what's going on.
	There are so many ideas, issues, thoughts that are just completely not even discussed in these circles.
	Because they're evil, they're bad, stay away.
	And one of them is the MRAs.
	And I don't know if we talked about this after the show, if we talked about it on the show, the men's rights activists, MRAs, the Red Pillars.
	Have you heard about this?
	I don't remember how we talked about it.
	It was one of those things that I think is an artificial topic.
	It's amusing.
	I think we can probably discuss it at some point.
	I don't think we've talked about it on the show, though.
	Okay, well, it's an artificial topic.
	It's a real topic, and it is if you watch the documentary, The Red Pill.
	Which was a crowdfunded documentary.
	Right, we did talk about that on the show.
	Was it on the show after the shoot?
	That's why we should never talk after the show.
	I know that's why we don't like to talk to each other.
	There's more reasons than that.
	It just threw us up the show.
	It's not the only reason.
	I believe you mentioned the Red Pill on the show, and I know we got a lot of, not a lot, we got a couple of people mentioning it.
	Well, I mentioned this.
	I said, you know, have you ever heard of the Red Pill, this documentary?
	Like, oh...
	No, no, no.
	These red pillars, they're crazy.
	The MRAs.
	What do you mean?
	When you look into it, this Men's Rights Association is seen as hating women, hating feminists, just hate, hate, hate.
	And really what 90% of this is, is guys who got screwed by family court, who can't see their kids.
	They're like, hey man, can I just see my kid more than once a week?
	I mean, that's really what's going on.
	It's very, very interesting that there's just no research done.
	They hear, oh, red pill, MRAs, horrible guys, and then being reluctant to even want to watch a documentary about it because they're just horrible.
	Yeah.
	And this is a real problem.
	Refusal to watch stuff is becoming a real problem.
	There's a Manitsky movie floating around.
	Called, I think, the Manitsky Show, or the Manitsky Story, or the Manitsky Act, Behind the Scenes is the full name.
	This thing has been floating around.
	Nobody will watch it.
	It's been banned.
	It's been banned.
	If you scrounge around online, you can get to watch it.
	Because some people have posted it here and there.
	It's been taken down from YouTube.
	And it's a guy, some Putin hater...
	Who decided to do a backup story on Manitsky, which we talked about on the last show, because Browder was making his comments in front of Congress that nobody was paying attention to for what I consider to be good reasons, because the guy has credibility issues.
	And I guess they just ate this documentary, which I have not yet seen, because I've just finally tracked it down.
	Apparently it just debunks all the whole Manitsky story.
	This is the one.
	Mark Levan.
	That great one!
	Mark Levan has made up like a whole...
	That great one!
	Well...
	He was banking on, you know, promoting his TV, online TV show, you know, using the Browder testimony as though it was a scandal that nobody paid any attention to the guy.
	Which is, by the way, the first thing that made me suspicious.
	Of Browder?
	Yeah.
	You kind of moved on.
	I just wanted to finish this up with a report from Psychology Today, the University of Hampshire, found that youngsters, quote, the millennials, are extremely entitled, here we go, at extreme levels, entitlement is a toxic narcissistic trait repeatedly exposing people to the risk of feeling frustrated, unhappy, and disappointed with life.
	Oftentimes, life, health, aging, and the social world don't treat us as we'd like.
	Confronting these limitations is especially threatening to an entitled person because it violates their worldview of self-superiority.
	And they found that millennials are incredibly entitled.
	I mean, this is like, duh, but here's a study that shows it.
	And narcissistic, which makes so much sense.
	According to the Dutch proverb, when they look at the president or anybody else, they call him narcissistic.
	Yeah, that's the old proverb.
	And what has changed now is the Goldwater rule is kaput.
	I love that.
	Yeah, which group is this?
	It's the American Psychoanalytic Association told its 3,500 members, go ahead, feel comfortable speaking openly about President Trump's mental health.
	These people are crazy.
	They're literally crazy.
	Well, why would you go into that field of study if you didn't feel a little nutty?
	That's a good point.
	I mean, most people go into that because they say, geez, I'm neurotic.
	I've got to figure out why.
	Let me get a degree in psychology and I'll probably know after I'm done.
	Well, this is all, I presume, part of a PR campaign for this book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.
	27 psychiatrists.
	Psychiatrists.
	No, it says psychiatrists.
	It doesn't say that.
	It says psychiatrists.
	It doesn't say psychiatrists?
	It says psychiatrists.
	Or you might say psychiatrists.
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	And mental health experts assess a president.
	Here's from Amazon.
	The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.
	This is great.
	I pre-ordered this.
	I can't wait to read this.
	Pre-ordered it.
	It's the last book, yeah, I guess.
	I'll wait for the document.
	I'll wait for the movie.
	This is not normal.
	Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens.
	What's wrong with him?
	Constrained by the, oh, here it is, constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule, which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined.
	Many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all.
	Here's what the mistake is.
	It's not up to the American Psychiatric Association to say, go ahead, there's no Goldwater rule.
	The Goldwater rule was when, I believe, two psychiatrists analyzed Barry Goldwater, said, the guy's nuts, and they got sued over it, and rightly so.
	Yeah.
	If you have not examined someone...
	Yes, yes.
	But now they're so emboldened, they're like, oh, screw it, we'll just go out and say whatever we want.
	Well, once you become the president...
	The Goldwater rule applied to a person that was running for president.
	He was a public figure to a point.
	But once you're the president, you're pretty much fair game.
	So I think these guys are disingenuous with this assertion that they pulled the plug on the rule.
	The rule was a legal issue, as you pointed out.
	This is bull crap.
	But what psychiatrist or psychologist would just hand out some kind of analysis without actually speaking to the person?
	Anyone who wants to be on Fox.
	Oh, there you go.
	Or CBS or whatever, or MSNBC. Well...
	You'll get booked.
	Yeah, you will get booked.
	Now, you got a book to sell us something about how to lose weight, and you go on MSNBC and say, Trump's a moron, an idiot, a stooge, he's mentally ill, he's mentally ill, he's unhinged.
	Unhinged, I tell you.
	You get on the show, you get to say all that, and then they plug your book, and boom, bingo, you got like 100 book sales.
	Hmm.
	50 bucks.
	MTV jumping on the bandwagon.
	I'll stop about it.
	MTV celebrated, what, 32 years?
	30, was it 81?
	That was 50.
	I think it's 32.
	I can't believe they did this.
	What is the iconic statue that MTV hands out at the MTV Video Music Awards?
	The Moon Man!
	Yeah, the little Moon Man.
	From the early days of the commercials.
	Yes, and now it becomes the Moon Person.
	Congratulations, is what Katy Perry will say.
	You just won yourself a Moon Person!
	It's pretty dumb.
	It's lame.
	No, this is catching everywhere.
	In the Netherlands, they now have the rainbow rules.
	That's what they're calling it.
	The rainbow rules.
	So, like in the UK, at the train station, no longer will you hear, ladies and gentlemen, it will be, good morning, travelers!
	No more ladies and gentlemen.
	Not allowed to say, good morning, sir, good morning, ma'am.
	So, if you're a comedian on stage, you can't say, thank you, ladies and germs.
	No, that would be a microaggression, I believe.
	Yeah, the moon person.
	I actually had that, but I didn't.
	There's no clip.
	But yeah, the moon.
	But I thought that was dumb.
	And besides the fact, how many...
	That was a...
	Person jumping around.
	I guess now that there's ladies in space, I suppose you can make the comment that they would get into a space suit and then go out and turn a bolt or something else on the outside.
	While we're on this topic, John McEnroe was on...
	I guess it was on NPR. And this is a huge, huge issue with this.
	And I guess the question was asked where he would rank Serena Williams.
	And he said, about 700 on the world stage.
	And everybody freaks out.
	If she was a man.
	That's not what he said.
	No, that's what the reference was.
	I understand, but maybe more fun is to listen to the CBS Morning Crew when they had Mack and Rowan.
	I think Charlie plays tennis with him, and Gail was friends with Serena, so it's all very tense.
	I'll just start with the elephant in the room.
	That's right.
	Why was it necessary for you to say that anybody, Serena...
	It couldn't be the 700th player.
	As you know well enough, Charlie, I respect Serena very much so, okay?
	And I was simply calling her on NPR, which supposedly, you know, this is where you can say it like it is, and you're going to get honest feedback.
	What a mistake!
	You thought that of NPR, McEnroe?
	You can just say what you want and get honest feedback.
	She's the greatest female player that ever lived.
	Then the lady said to me, I don't remember which one, but she said...
	Why did you say woman?
	Why didn't you just say the greatest, you know, tennis player that ever lived?
	And so then I felt the need.
	However, unfortunately, I'm probably to defend myself.
	I don't know.
	Just say what I really felt.
	I mean, which is about what I think she would be.
	I think you're referring to the fact that I said she'd be about 700 in the world?
	Yeah.
	Right.
	I've got a solution, Gail, though, because I know that you're friendly with Serena, and I think at least until yesterday...
	I'm crossing the table right now.
	I'm just waiting.
	Would you like to apologize?
	Uh, no.
	But I... Oh, he wouldn't apologize.
	What a horrible man.
	I've got a solution, Gail, though, because I know that you're friendly with Serena.
	Apologize for what?
	Apologize.
	But that's what's so odd about this.
	He said she would be about 700 in the world of men and women.
	Not against men, not against women, just 700 in the world, period.
	Right in the early part of that clip, he specifically said men.
	I don't think he did.
	Yes, he used the word men, or it was Charlie that said it, but it was referenced right away, right at the beginning.
	No.
	Yes, but it started over.
	I should start with the elephant in the room.
	That's right.
	Why was it necessary for you to say that anybody, Tarina, couldn't be the 700th player?
	700th player, John.
	Nothing about men.
	You didn't let it go.
	Okay, I'll let it go.
	On the player.
	On the men's circuit.
	As you know well.
	What did he say?
	On the men's circuit.
	But that's not what he said in the NPR interview.
	I'm telling you what you're playing.
	You're right.
	You said he didn't say Min at all.
	I said it was said right at the beginning.
	I didn't hear it.
	You're right.
	It's okay.
	It's not important to the story because that's not what McEnroe said on NPR. Charlie threw that in like an a-hole.
	When I first heard about this story, the Min reference was right up front.
	Did you hear him say that on NPR? No.
	I didn't hear the NPR thing.
	I just heard the flow back.
	I didn't know this was going to be an issue.
	I would have clipped it.
	He didn't say that.
	He said 700 in the world.
	And it's been now taken to this, which is even more interesting.
	Now I wish I had the NPR clip.
	I respect Serena very much so, okay?
	And I was simply calling her on an NPR, which supposedly, you're supposed, you know, this is where you can say it like it is, and you're going to get honest feedback.
	She's the greatest female player that ever lived.
	Then the lady said to me, I don't remember which one, but she said, why did you say woman?
	Why don't you just say the greatest, you know, tennis player that ever lived?
	And so then I felt the need.
	However, unfortunately, I'm probably to defend myself.
	I don't know.
	Just say what I really felt.
	I mean, which is about what I think she would be.
	I think you're referring to the fact that I said she'd be about 700 in the world.
	Yeah.
	I've got a solution, Gail, though, because I know that you're friendly with Serena, and I think I, at least until yesterday...
	I'm crushing the table right now.
	I'm just waiting.
	Would you like to apologize?
	Uh, no.
	But I... How women, they always ask me how I would do for someone.
	Why is it this old, bad John McEnough?
	How would he do against Serena?
	Why don't you combine, just solve the problem?
	I'm sure the men would be all for this.
	Do men and women play together?
	We're talking about something...
	I can't even believe we're talking about it.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	But that is interesting.
	What you said is interesting.
	I believe that people actually heard him say 700th of all men, but he didn't say that in the interview.
	Charlie threw that in, but that's not what he said.
	He said 700th in the world of all players.
	Well, if there are 700 men players that are all pros, then she'd be the number one of women on the list.
	Which I think he could have been clarified a little bit.
	He didn't have to go to an extreme and say 700.
	He could have said 200.
	Because I don't know how many active professional men are playing right now.
	But why would he have to apologize?
	Why would you want to apologize?
	And why would someone say, don't you think she's the greatest tennis player of all time?
	It's idiotic.
	She's the greatest woman player ever.
	I thought Martina Navratilova was pretty damn good.
	Was she better than Navratilova?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	But again, it's part of this.
	If you don't say something...
	They're all great.
	This is part of the MRA crap.
	If you don't say something, then you're enabling these men.
	You're enabling the patriarchy.
	Capisce?
	You never said that ever on the show in the last 10 years.
	First time for everything.
	Capisce?
	Capisce, baby!
	Well, anyway, so why should he apologize?
	What's there to apologize for?
	And the thing is, McEnroe's a jerk anyway, let's face it.
	I mean, he's always been kind of a blowhard and a jerk.
	Great tennis player.
	And he is just being honest.
	That's an honest appraisal.
	Yeah.
	Not allowed to say it.
	But he didn't have to, you know, he probably would have been better off not going there.
	I mean, there's opportunities to hold back a little bit.
	Really?
	Yes, he should do a podcast.
	He could have backed off and said, well, you know, I'd like to see her play.
	Maybe she should go on the men's circuit.
	John, he's promoting a book.
	Why would he back off?
	Come on, he's not stupid.
	I know, it's all promoting.
	He's promoting a book.
	And then he puts that little thing at the end.
	He says, why don't we all play in the same circuit?
	Well, you know, there's a good reason.
	Yeah.
	Let's have the women play in the NBA. It just doesn't work out.
	I always love saying that.
	Yeah, that NBA. Man, we really should have equalized that a little bit more.
	Some women in there.
	Put some white women in.
	Some white men.
	Let's watch the ratings.
	That's right.
	Can't body shame.
	Nobody's saying fat guys.
	God bless the NBA. God bless the NBA. You can always go to that.
	There's not enough white people.
	Oh, well, let's do that for the NBA. It always shuts everybody up.
	The NBA is a good example of why you can't do a lot of stuff.
	The NBA must stay alive.
	It's very important for the survival of sanity.
	Sebastian?
	While you were on that other topic, I wanted to get to this clip, which is, we were talking about Trump.
	I don't know how we actually got to the other topic, but I want to play this clip.
	This is the Trump lies clip, and this was talking about, we're talking about the insanity and the Goldwater rule and all the rest.
	And I want you to listen to this.
	This is on NBC. We really have a kind of a vendetta against Trump.
	And just listen carefully to this entire clip.
	Many of the Boy Scouts were actually forced to issue an apology, and today they said there was no phone call from scout leadership to the White House.
	The president also says he got a call from Mexico's president praising his work on the border.
	The president of Mexico called me, they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through our border.
	But Mexico says nope, that call did not happen either.
	Today we asked the White House, did President Trump lie?
	No, in Mexico, he was referencing the conversation that they had had at the G20 summit in terms of the Boy Scouts, multiple members of the Boy Scout leadership following his speech there that day, congratulated him, praised him.
	But the president specifically said that he received a phone call from the president of Mexico They were direct conversations.
	So he lied.
	I wouldn't say it was a lie.
	That's a pretty bold accusation.
	The conversations took place.
	They just simply didn't take place over a phone call that he had them in person.
	Cecilia Vega with us live from the White House tonight.
	And Cecilia, the president is also taking some heat about comments he allegedly made about the White House itself.
	Yeah, he reportedly, David, told members of his Bedminster Golf Club that, quote, the White House is a real dump.
	As you can imagine, that prompted some swift backlash.
	Take a look at this picture from President Obama's former White House photographer.
	No stranger to publicly slamming this president, Pete Souza.
	You can see the Lincoln bedroom there.
	He said no American should ever call this White House a dump.
	David, tonight a spokesperson for President Trump says that comment did not happen.
	Cecilia Vega with us again tonight.
	Cecilia, thank you.
	All right, so two stories there.
	Both I heard a lot about.
	Which one are we tackling first?
	Well, the thing that's interesting is the structure of this piece.
	And you're right, it was two stories rolled into one, all about credibility.
	But what they managed to do was, I think they've got Trump over a barrel with some of the way he presents himself and says, I got a phone call, and he didn't.
	Now, I just want to say, what I was missing from that report on every station is, well, someone at the Boy Scouts of America said they never received a call.
	No one ever came on air to say it.
	They should have never called.
	There was never a name.
	But maybe, maybe not.
	I don't know, but maybe someone called and were embarrassed to talk about.
	But it was really, it was just...
	Well, we spoke to the Boy Scouts Association of America, and no one ever made a call, but it was a little lacking in the...
	They didn't pound that part of the story home.
	Why not?
	Because they have no, there's no reference like you just said.
	Exactly the reason you said is the reason they didn't do it.
	What they did is they took it and lumped it in with the Mexico story.
	Right.
	Because that one they could verify.
	In fact, Sarah Huckabee, she said, well, yeah, I didn't really get a call, but it was a direct conversation.
	And so he lied.
	Well, I wouldn't call it a lie.
	Well, what would you call it is what you should follow up with.
	And then they take, so you take this story that you bitched about right there, that wasn't verifiable in any way, because it could have been a local Boy Scout leader that maybe did call, who knows?
	Right.
	But you've lost that over, and then you pound home the one you do have.
	So you have one point for you, which is that Trump didn't get a call from the Mexican guy.
	Then you carry the story out further and drop this bombshell, which is just a complete fabrication for all we know, because there's...
	Who said this?
	Name, name.
	This just became a thing.
	It just became a thing.
	It was just true.
	It's like, Tina came home.
	Did the president really say the White House is a dump?
	I'm like, I don't know.
	I've heard everyone say that, but I haven't heard.
	I don't know where it came from.
	It was very interesting.
	This stems from...
	Anyway, the structure of the story was kind of interesting to me because what you do is you talk about...
	First, you find the one point where you can pound it home that there's an untruth involved.
	And then you...
	Now that you've got your audience relaxed into, oh, oh, okay, you drop the bomb about the dump.
	Right.
	Because now you're accepting it, and that is just a bogus story.
	There's no attribution.
	The White House denies it.
	Right there, because the White House denied it, they should have...
	Because if he thinks it's a dump, tell the public.
	The fact that they denied it It's enough to kill the story.
	Why are you even doing this story?
	It's a bullcrap story.
	But they throw it in just to give Trump the needle.
	I think this is a very unfair setup story.
	I think it's classic.
	ABC's been doing this more and more.
	And it's structured in the form of propaganda, anti-Trump propaganda.
	I don't understand it.
	it.
	I don't understand why a large corporation like Disney would do stuff like this when they're, you know, they are subject to government regulations.
	It just makes no sense to me.
	Unless they really think that, you know, they can lord it over the president.
	It doesn't make, it just is very poor.
	I don't think they think about their broadcast license anymore.
	I don't think they think of it in that manner anymore.
	They're licensed by the government and need to serve the public interest.
	And quite honestly, that's barely necessary.
	Although I did just read, I was going to keep it for tech news.
	Let me see, the headline was great.
	Millennials unearth an amazing hack to get free TV. Colon.
	The antenna.
	Which is, yeah.
	Millennials apparently are...
	That's an amazing hack.
	Oh my god!
	You get this $7 antenna, you hook it up to your TV, and you get television!
	For free!
	It's astonishing!
	Insane!
	Well, I have to say that I personally, I have my group of old and young millennials that we have dinner with every couple times a week.
	And I will say that both the old and the young millennials, I had to, me...
	The techie in the family, although everyone's a techie it seems, I had to go put an antenna on all the televisions.
	Yes, because they couldn't do it.
	They didn't know it was doable.
	They were stunned.
	So I was going, I went to, I wanted to see if this was true that the president had said the White House is a quote, a real dump.
	And I went to Snopes, but Snopes is in trouble.
	Yeah, Snopes has got some problems.
	Yeah.
	Could somebody out to one of our techies spider Snopes and put it aside?
	Ooh, that's a good idea.
	Just to have everything?
	Yeah, very good idea.
	I would like to see Snopes spidered as soon as possible.
	According to Snokes, President Donald Trump told members of his New Jersey golf club he spends so much time away from Washington because the White House is, quote, a real dump.
	That's where this comes from.
	Let me see.
	Oh, the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the account, which appeared in a lengthy article posted on the website Golf.
	golf.com.
	The story of Trump's complicated love for golf also appears in Sports Illustrated magazine.
	Who gives a crap about that?
	Hmm.
	Okay, so it's a rumor.
	It's a total rumor that someone's...
	He said this to some golfing buddies.
	I don't think it's without...
	Merit?
	Well, I mean, it may or may not be without Merit, considering his garish tastes, but...
	Right.
	I think this really stems from some Saturday Night Live and some other bits and sketches that were put on during the campaign in probably around mid-years 2016 where people would say, well, he won't even like the White House because he's living in the, you know, and they describe one of his three-story penthouses and then they compare it to the White House, which is like a comparative dump.
	By standards that you have in Manhattan.
	And it's an old building.
	It's 10 Downing.
	If you ever get to hear the story of that place, that was indeed a dump.
	I'm not convinced the White House isn't a little musty.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Why wouldn't it be?
	It could use a little more renovation, perhaps.
	Who knows?
	But I think it stems from just this...
	We have a deep-seated set of beliefs about Trump.
	What dimension we're in is beside the point.
	And it's not all, it's not the same deep-seated beliefs, but we have them.
	And the dump thing, he may not have said it, but it rings true, which is the problem that Trump has.
	That's all you need, right.
	Yeah, I mean, seriously, when someone says, and this will be seen as defense, but politicians lying?
	Really?
	Wow.
	That's surprising.
	Well, they're going to focus on his little lies.
	This is not whether you received a phone call or you talked to the guy or you lost track of it.
	This is not like saying, no, we have no evidence that there's, you know, we, oh no, there's nuclear material that they're collecting, a yellow cake that's coming in from Nigeria.
	Those kind of lies.
	Those are big lies.
	Those are lies that affect everything.
	The lie, whether he got a phone call or not, is a lie.
	And I think Huckabee was wrong when she said it would characterize this as a lie.
	It's a lie.
	It's a little lie.
	It's those little, you know, deaths by a thousand cuts thing that Trump's going to bring on himself if he just doesn't clam up.
	This need of his to yak, yak, yak all the time is not working for him.
	Here's Washington Post is leading the charge on this with the headline, Trump's aide's stunning cry for help admitting the president misled the American people.
	And that just goes...
	Misled him about what?
	Taking a phone call rather than...
	Well, it just goes on and on and on about all the inconsistencies.
	You know, this is like the PDF that went around.
	The Trump lies.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, half of them were...
	Matters of interpretation.
	Yeah.
	There's a permanent link on, I think, the New York Times site.
	Lies of Donald Trump.
	Yeah.
	There's nothing that compares to yellow cake.
	And aluminum tubes.
	Where I did not have sex with that woman.
	And aluminum tubes.
	Aluminum tubes.
	And it doesn't compare to this.
	Yuma Abedin had an email account on Hillary Clinton's illicit email.
	This is the lawyer from Judicial Watch.
	They just got an additional huge dump of emails that were not...
	Yes.
	on Hillary Clinton's illicit email server.
	So she was doing all sorts of government business on this separate email account, wasn't a State Department email account.
	So she's getting emails from the Clinton Foundation, she's getting emails from State Department employees, and she's sending and receiving emails to Hillary Clinton.
	She was one of her closest aides. - And did you file a Freedom of Information request That's right.
	We had to sue for them.
	And we've been getting these records on a regular basis.
	And they show Aberdeen and Mrs.
	Clinton are regularly getting classified information on this system.
	And again, a lot of these are new Clinton emails we're discovering on Aberdeen's account.
	Now remember, Mrs.
	Clinton said she turned them all over.
	And thus far we've found over 500 Hillary Clinton emails that haven't previously been released.
	So is it legal for them to transmit classified information over an unsecured network?
	No, despite what the former FBI director said, it's not legal, and they were mishandling classified information.
	And I tell you, if you are operating a system that is regularly receiving and sending classified information in an unsecure way, you're subject to prosecution, and you would have been if you weren't Hillary Clinton or her aide.
	And there are other emails showing that Clinton Foundation donors were going through the Clinton Foundation to try to get ambassadors.
	Which I thought was old news, but this is just more confirmation of the old news.
	And again, Mrs.
	Clinton promised this wouldn't happen.
	And the Clinton Foundation and the State Department is overwhelming the number of email messages showing that donors were being taken care of through the Foundation by communicating with Yuma Abedin on a secret email.
	So, I mean, that is, of course, why they were giving to the Foundation in the first place.
	One would think, and one would think that federal prosecutors would be interested in this, and this is why emails like this ought to revive a Clinton criminal investigation.
	You know, I looked into this judicial watch.
	I looked at their 990.
	You know, they do about $35 million in revenue.
	I was convinced this must be some kind of right-wing funded outfit.
	It's very hard to find out who's funding it, but it's a lot of money.
	It's more than your typical propaganda operation.
	But they're out there.
	They're submitting FOIA requests.
	I admire their work.
	I just question.
	I always got to wonder.
	No, you do have to wonder, but I haven't seen any...
	They're a right-wing operation.
	I think we can assume that.
	I think so, yeah.
	I like their work.
	I think they've done a good job, and they're not flag wavers or drum beaters, and they're not crazy.
	Yeah, I'd just like to know a little bit more about who's behind them.
	I don't know.
	It's not Soros.
	But I'll tell you, kids, come close to your podcast listening device.
	Stick those buds deeper into your ear.
	Shh!
	If you ever get an opportunity to work in government, Big surprise there, right?
	Chatty Cathy getting his book deal together.
	I think it's inappropriate to announce your book deal at this juncture, don't you?
	Yes.
	What's he thinking?
	That's what you do nowadays.
	The days of appropriateness when it comes to book deals is over.
	Look at Obama getting a billion dollars or something for his book.
	No, he didn't get a billion dollars.
	Gazillions!
	Gazillion dollars!
	It's a ginormous amount.
	There you go.
	I'm just...
	By the way, when people use that word, I get very annoyed.
	Have you ever heard of Flatiron Publications?
	What is that, Flatiron?
	I think they're an imprint of one of the big publishers.
	A small operation like that, if it was genuinely a small operation, they don't have $2 million to throw away.
	Right.
	Well, speaking of the Clintons, let me see.
	I don't know how reliable this particular source is, but...
	According to a reliable source, Eric Braverman, he's the former Clinton Foundation CEO, he's the guy that went in, was brought in by Chelsea, and when he saw what was going on, he resigned.
	He's like, okay, I'm not going to do any of this.
	And then he disappeared for a while.
	For quite a while.
	Yeah.
	Apparently he's cooperating in a federal investigation run out of the New York Attorney's Office of the Clinton Foundation Charity Network.
	The word is he's been given use immunity and has met at least three times with authorities and apparently is disclosing things.
	I think it's wishful thinking.
	That's what I think, too.
	But that's the guy who would know for sure.
	He would definitely know what's going on.
	All right.
	Well, let's see.
	You want a little extra little stuff?
	Just a little side stuff?
	Just get us kind of warmed up?
	Sure.
	Things that probably nobody cares about, but something that galls me.
	Uh-huh.
	So we had a bicyclist that was killed recently.
	Where?
	In San Jose, I think.
	Uh-huh.
	By a train.
	Uh-huh.
	And I want to just listen to this report and I want to make some comments afterwards.
	Zoom in down the street.
	Police activity at the other end at Parkmore Drive.
	But this road was closed for several hours at Parkmore Avenue after police tell us that bicyclist made a fatal decision that cost him his life.
	This is how it happened.
	Police tell us at about 4.30 this evening that cyclist was riding eastbound in the westbound lane on the wrong side of the road.
	was headed for downtown San Jose at about 40 miles per hour.
	The signals were working and the arms were down, and that's when that bicyclist tried to beat the train through the intersection.
	He collided with the front of the train and was pronounced dead at the scene.
	There is no horn at this intersection, and police say there is no reason that the victim, who they say was an adult male, couldn't see the approaching train, and they left us with a stern warning tonight for the public.
	Okay.
	Okay. .
	So I'm driving around, and there's this bicyclist.
	You know, you almost hit them all the time.
	They come zooming across crosswalks at 40 miles an hour.
	They're on the wrong side.
	This guy's on the wrong side of the road.
	I can just see him pedaling away.
	All the gates are down.
	Don't cross.
	There's a train coming.
	He looks right.
	He looks left.
	He sees the train.
	He decides, screw all these signs.
	I'm on a bicycle.
	I can do what I want, which, by the way, is the way I believe most bicyclists are.
	Yeah, and I don't know where that comes from, but yes.
	It doesn't come from Holland.
	No, no.
	Well, everyone points to Holland.
	Oh, look at Holland.
	They got all these bikes.
	You go to Holland, it's a very strict regimen they have.
	Well, that's not true.
	Sorry, I've got to correct you.
	Okay, so that's there then.
	No, they're not.
	But it's a hundred years of bicycle culture.
	People, it's like birds flying together.
	We go left, we go right.
	It's culture at this point.
	So people understand.
	Bikes understand what they can and can't do.
	And I'm just talking about Amsterdam specifically.
	And cars understand.
	To this day, when I turn right, I always look over my shoulder to see if there's a bicyclist there.
	That's how I grew up.
	That was how I was taught to drive.
	So these types of things...
	So you look to see if there's a bicyclist on your flank?
	On the bike path, yes.
	Even if there's not a bike path there, I'm still looking to see if there's someone there, because that's the number one way bicyclists are injured, is when you turn right and the bicyclist also has a green light, and the car is supposed to wait for them.
	Well, the fun is to clip just the rear fender, because then they go down and you can just keep on driving.
	But no, we don't hate bikes in the Holland.
	We don't.
	No doubt.
	I look here.
	We have the Lance Armstrong bike path, which may be the reason nobody uses it.
	And it's right here in downtown.
	And these assholes are not on the bike path.
	They're in the middle of the road.
	And when they do that, I honk and say, get on the bike path!
	Mind you, I'm armed when I do that.
	We have a number of roads that have been ruined.
	We had a four-lane road called Marin in the Berkeley area, and they've turned into a two-lane road with two skinny little bike paths that I can put a camera on these bike paths and let it go 24 hours, and there won't be a bike using it.
	It just makes the traffic more congested for a number of reasons.
	It's not...
	But you got these bike paths.
	They're all over the place.
	Nobody's in the bike path.
	They're just going randomly on the wrong side of the road, up and down the sidewalks, spinning around, and then they go in front of a train thinking the train's going to stop.
	I don't know what the guy was thinking, but it's like Whose fault is this?
	And everyone's, oh, we've got to be more careful.
	I'm just annoyed with these bicyclists around here.
	It's the oddest thing.
	I've followed this for a while.
	The same is happening in New York City.
	There is a war.
	It's just war between bicyclists and automobilists.
	It's a war, and it's really coming from the bike people.
	And this comes back to the study that people, certainly this generation, sound old, they feel entitled.
	And I'm on a bike, I'm saving the world, I'm saving the earth, I'm healthy, get out of my way, I should be able to do what I want.
	It's a very odd phenomenon.
	And Austin is not helping.
	They're really making it shit everywhere.
	No, this is like the situation that happened at these colleges recently, Evergreen College, a good example, or Berkeley, where the people that are in posts of authority refuse to take action.
	Yeah.
	Or they knuckle under.
	Instead of saying, no, we're not going to do it that way.
	You can go to another town, move out of here.
	No, no, no.
	Oh, okay, whatever you want, we'll do it because, oh yes, it's so important.
	Because they don't like somebody squawking at them.
	Anyway, I just thought I'd play that story so people can be reminded about my real attitude.
	I always get a letter or two from somebody to say, well, you know, I'm a bicyclist and I kind of take offense, but I know what you mean.
	There are a lot of people that don't follow the rules.
	Here's another short clip.
	I got a kick out of this one because they never mentioned the name of the town in this clip, but on the lower third it was mentioned.
	This is in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where we have probably a concentration of No Agenda Knights and followers and listeners.
	Yes.
	So I got a biggest kick out of this story.
	If I only knew which one it was.
	Life in Murfreesboro.
	Ah, sorry.
	Here we go.
	A new bride spent her honeymoon in jail after allegedly pulling a gun on her new husband.
	A 25-year-old bride and her husband apparently made a scene at this Tennessee motel.
	Witnesses say they'd been drinking.
	Then the fight got really heated.
	She pulled out of her wedding dress a 9mm pistol, pointed it at her new husband's head, and pulled the trigger.
	Well, luckily the gun didn't discharge, but then she loaded it, cocked it, fired it into the air.
	She was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
	Hmm.
	There's a point to this story.
	Okay.
	Women don't clean guns.
	Wow.
	Hello, everybody.
	Welcome to the misogynist podcast.
	Don't clean guns.
	Yeah, there we go.
	So two stories came out, and I do not believe this is coincidental.
	One came out maybe a fraction earlier, and it was really, in my mind, meant to snow under or snow over or cover up the story.
	And I see you have a clip as well from Seymour Hersh regarding Seth Rich.
	And, uh, all of a sudden, you know, I saw this, like, well, there's actually two things.
	There's also the Debbie Wasserman Schultz story, which is trying to, trying to get some legs.
	And, uh, and this incredible story that this, uh, the former, uh, was it LA, uh, was a New York, uh, detective Wheeler, Rod Wheeler, he's now suing, he has a lawsuit and he's implicating, uh, I have the clip from NPR where they explain...
	Okay, because I want to make sure that I'm trying to find the other clip because I have a counter clip to that one, but I'll play this one first.
	A new lawsuit filed this morning makes a remarkable claim that the Fox News Channel and a wealthy Trump supporter worked together to concoct a false report earlier this year about the death of a young Democratic Party aide.
	The person making those allegations is Rod Wheeler, who is a paid Fox commentator and former Washington, D.C. police detective.
	Fox News withdrew the discredited story a week later, but Wheeler alleges the story's creation took place with the knowledge of the White House.
	There you go.
	With knowledge of the White House.
	Well, you know what, I thought...
	Where's my clip on this?
	I see you have the Hirsch clip, but I don't know what else.
	You also have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, maybe?
	Or specifically about this?
	It may be a double clip.
	It may be the problem.
	Bogus Seth Rich story on ABC. Next tonight, to an explosive new lawsuit against Fox News, alleging links between the White House and a false story about a murdered Democratic staffer and leaked emails.
	Did the White House, did the president know the story was coming on Fox?
	It outraged the family and was then retracted by Fox News.
	Here's ABC's chief national correspondent, Tom Yamas, tonight.
	Tonight, a new lawsuit with a bombshell accusation.
	The White House worked with Fox News to spread a false story about a Democratic staffer who was murdered, Seth Rich.
	He worked for the Democratic National Committee.
	Rich was killed in Washington last year.
	His unsolved death sparking a right-wing conspiracy theory that it was Rich who leaked tens of thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks, not the Russians.
	And some claim he was murdered because of it.
	In May, Fox reported they had proof the conspiracy theory about Seth Rich giving emails to WikiLeaks was real.
	If this is true, and Seth Rich gave WikiLeaks these DNC emails, this blows the whole Russia collusion narrative completely out of the water.
	But it was not true, and Seth Rich's parents were outraged.
	Amid mounting pressure, Fox retracted the story.
	The Fox News story was largely based on quotes from Rod Wheeler, a former homicide detective investigating the case.
	But now Wheeler is suing Fox, claiming his quotes were fabricated.
	He says he got involved after being contacted by a well-connected Republican donor and Trump supporter.
	The investigator says they went to the White House in April to discuss the Seth Rich story Fox News was working on with then Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
	He really listened.
	He didn't say a whole lot.
	He said that if I wanted to, he could put me in touch with the White House General Counsel.
	Not long after, Spicer denied any knowledge of the Fox News' Seth Rich story.
	I'm not aware of, generally, I don't get updates on DNC, former DNC staffers.
	I'm not aware of that.
	But today, Spicer admitted he did have that meeting at the White House with that investigator and donor, calling the donor a, quote, longtime supporter of the president's agenda.
	And the investigator now claims there was more from the White House.
	Two days before Fox aired the story, the investigator claims the donor left him this voicemail, saying the White House was on board with the story.
	I gotta note that we have the full attention of the White House on this.
	Tomorrow, let's close this deal.
	Then, this follow-up text about the Fox News article before it was even published.
	Quote, not to add any more pressure, but the president just read the article.
	He wants the article out immediately.
	Today, that donor, the man in the middle, telling ABC News he's never even spoken to the president before.
	I didn't speak to anybody at the White House.
	I was being sloppy with my words.
	And late today, the White House was pressed about that story that later outraged Seth Rich's own family.
	The president had no knowledge of the story, and it's completely untrue that here the White House involvement in the story.
	Tommy Amos with us live tonight outside Fox News in Manhattan, and Tom, Fox News is really pushing back against the claims made by this investigator.
	Yeah, so this was the big story.
	I mean, Fox was covering themselves.
	It was quite interesting.
	This story is so bullcrap.
	For one thing, we had some clips from Wheeler when he was on.
	He showed up on Hannity in person.
	And he's the one who started making these accusations.
	And when these stories bring out, they say he's suing over being misquoted.
	Being misquoted how?
	He's being misquoted as...
	In other words, he did think this.
	Wheeler's the guy who promoted this idea as a story.
	Yeah.
	I saw him live on Hannity's talking about it.
	We probably clipped it.
	I think I'm pretty sure we have a clip of it.
	Yeah.
	And the story got twisted, I think.
	And you have to look at the lawsuit, which I haven't been able to find.
	But I think Wheeler, if he's suing anything, he's suing, he's lost some credibility in this process.
	And I think he's maybe suing over that.
	But the way they're twisting this.
	And there's no way the White House had anything.
	There's no way.
	Is Trump telling Fox what to do?
	They don't even like Trump.
	Let me see what this clip is.
	This is Wheeler.
	They haven't been cooperating at all.
	I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI.
	Now, that's actually interesting in light of this audio that has been going around of Seymour Hersh.
	And I know that you have a clip.
	I spent quite a bit of time cutting this down.
	It's a little longer than yours.
	Because I only have a clip.
	And I have the whole thing too, but I decided, well, I can only take a piece because it's like 10 minutes.
	But if you clipped it down so it actually has some flow, you can skip mine.
	But let me finish what we're dealing with here.
	There's a lot of this, you know, you send stuff to the White House and they always say, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
	And they send you bogus notes.
	Sometimes they have a signature of the president, which is done by a machine.
	Or stamp.
	Yeah, rubber stamp would be better.
	And so you can say, oh, we've got their attention.
	And this guy, this middleman, this character that supposedly is spearheading this effort, he's just some blowhard.
	There's a million of these guys.
	The fact that ABC obviously did a sloppy job on this to an extreme to make this report as though the White House actually was involved is really shameful.
	This is getting worse by the minute with these guys.
	There's no story here.
	The Seth Rich story is kind of interesting.
	And then we have the family somehow getting involved.
	Because the family is upset by this accusation that Seth may have been involved with WikiLeaks.
	Everyone shuts up.
	Oh, we've got to stop.
	Pull the story because the family's upset.
	I'm going to ask you this.
	Since when does the feelings of a family, of a dead guy, ever take into account by anybody?
	Oh, my God, we've got to stop reporting about the death of John Kennedy because the family's upset about it.
	In fact, quite the opposite.
	If kids get killed somewhere, we've got to put all the families on camera.
	Yeah, make sure to get them to cry.
	Yeah.
	That's always a good touch.
	And play somewhere over the rainbow.
	It always works.
	And the thing is that in all these reports, you're going to hear this.
	They keep bringing the family up.
	Oh, the family's upset.
	Oh, the family this and the family that.
	When did this ever become like a point of discussion in a news report?
	Well, now over to the Seymour Hersh clip.
	And Seymour Hersh is, what is he, a Peabody, a Pulitzer Prize winner?
	He's a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
	What is he?
	He never won a Nobel Prize, but he is a Pulitzer winner.
	But he's the guy who's an old-timer.
	He really knows.
	He's got a lot of connection.
	He's the guy who got his first notoriety for busting open the My Lai Prize.
	This massacre took place in Vietnam, and he has always been at the forefront of investigative stuff, and he always gets to pretty much the main story.
	Now, I want to preface, before you play this, I want to preface one little note that came up in the conversation once.
	This is a few years ago.
	Seymour Hersh's writings are fantastic, and you should track them down.
	Apparently, when Seymour Hersh is just talking, like if you go listen to a speech or something, he'll throw in stuff that he never puts in his writings.
	No kidding.
	No kidding.
	Not that it's not true.
	But this is a good example of the kind of stuff that we'll never see in writing from Hirsch, but this is the kind of thing he probably knows about.
	And he has been completely marginalized by the mainstream, the M5M, everything else.
	He was kicked out of the M5M because he's not on board.
	What was the impetus for that?
	When did that really start?
	What was the impetus for him getting kicked out of the club, so to speak?
	Well, I think it was a couple of the...
	You have to look at the...
	You read the stuff that he did in the London Review of Books, and you can kind of figure out...
	Probably Russia.
	He didn't have a big Russian story.
	I think he's pretty much like Cohen, like Stephen Cohen.
	He thinks the Russian thing is overblown, and I think he believes the Russian collusion with the Trump campaign is bullcrap, and I think he's written about that, and he tries to get this stuff published in the M5M. You're off the list!
	You're no longer in the club!
	Not only did they kick him out of the M5M, but most recently, they kicked him out of the London Review of Books.
	Really?
	That was his only place to publish?
	Well, no, now he's being published in Germany.
	We can publish him on the show notes, if that helps.
	I think it was in Der Bild, the last time, the last thing he got published.
	But this next thing coming up is going to be another blockbuster.
	But play.
	Okay, so I may have to stop from time to time just to reiterate what's being said, but it does come down.
	Well, you heard Wheeler say, I believe the evidence is on the laptop, and this is what Hirsch corroborates.
	...about the kid, and I'll tell you what I know.
	What I know comes off an FBI report.
	Don't ask me how.
	You can figure out I've been around long enough.
	The kid gets, I don't think he was murdered.
	I don't think he was murdered because of what he knew.
	The kid's a nice boy, 27.
	He was not an IT expert, but he learned stuff.
	stuff.
	He was a data programmer, but he learned stuff.
	And so he's living on one street.
	He's living in a very rough neighborhood.
	And in the exact area where he's been, there's been about 10, I'm sure you know this, there's been about eight or nine or 10 violent robberies.
	Okay, so here's her saying he doesn't believe that he was killed.
	He lives in a rough neighborhood and he has an FBI report.
	Most of them with somebody banishing a gun.
	And if they hit his hands, I'm sure you know his hands were marked up.
	The cops concluded he fought off the people, tried to run and they shot him twice in the back with a 22 small column.
	And then the kids that didn't ran, they got scared, didn't take his wallet.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I'll agree with that.
	It seems like if you're going to kill somebody, you're bringing a.22 to the game?
	.22 is an assassin's gun of choice for direct shots into the skull.
	Really?
	Yeah, because you get the bullet.
	Vincent Teresa, the mobster assassin, discussed this in one of his novels.
	Not a novel, but a book that he wrote.
	I think it was called Wise Guy.
	He says you get the.22, the bullet, once it penetrates the skull, it doesn't have enough power to have an exit wound, so it just bounces around the brain and scrambles you.
	Good one.
	That's what I'm telling you.
	Now, maybe you know something about it.
	When you have a death like that, D.C. cops, if you're dead, you generally don't just go.
	You have to find out what's going on.
	You have to get to the kid's apartment and see what you can find.
	If he's dead, you don't need a warrant.
	But most cops get a warrant because they don't know if the guy has a warrant.
	So they got a warrant to go look at his house, his apartment.
	A roommate.
	You need a warrant.
	So they get a warrant.
	I'm just telling you.
	There is such a thing.
	They go in the house and they can't do much with his computer.
	It's password.
	The cops don't know much about it.
	So the D.C. cops, they have a cyber unit in D.C.
	And they're more sophisticated.
	They come and look at it.
	The idea is maybe he's had a series of exchanges with somebody who says, I'm going to kill you, motherfucker, over a girl.
	And they can't get in.
	The cyber guys do a little better, but they can't accept it.
	So they call the FBI cyber unit.
	The D.C. unit, the Washington field office, is a hot shit unit.
	And the same one, they call in the Fed.
	The Fed gets through.
	And here's what they find.
	This is according to the FBI report.
	What they find is, he makes, first of all, you have to know, you have to know some basic facts with, One of the basic facts is that there's no DNC or Podesta email that exists beyond May 22nd, May 21st, 22nd.
	It's the last email from either one of those groups.
	And so this, so what the report says, he makes contact with WikiLeaks.
	That's in his computer.
	And he makes contact.
	Now, I have to be careful because I don't, I met Julian in Europe.
	Julian, 10, 12 years.
	I say the fuck away from people like that.
	You know, I didn't.
	He said, by the way, when I'm in London, I always get a message, come see me at the Ecuadorian base.
	I said, oh, fuck you, I'm going there.
	I like that part.
	I thought that was really interesting.
	He says that whenever he's in London, Julian Assange always says, hey, come hang out.
	He's like, fine, I'm not going to go hang out with you.
	Yeah, I found that peculiar.
	Well, what he says is he has enough trouble being photographed.
	Maybe it's because he doesn't want people to know where he is because he's doing investigative work or something like that, but...
	I don't know.
	I just found that whole...
	Yeah, that was very strongly worded, and I thought it was interesting, too.
	...getting photographed by every fucking agent.
	He's under total surveillance by everybody.
	But anyway, they found what he had done.
	He had submitted a series of documents, of emails.
	He offered a sample, an extensive sample, you know, I'm sure a dozen of emails and said, I want money.
	That later.
	Now, this I find really interesting.
	Thank you.
	So apparently there were emails and a Dropbox on his computer, and he said, here's a sampling of stuff I have, and I want money for it.
	So this is very different.
	Yeah, it's way different.
	But not uninteresting.
	And somehow WikiLeaks did get a hold of the Dropbox password.
	WikiLeaks did get the password.
	He had a Dropbox, a protective Dropbox, which isn't hard to do.
	And they got access to the Dropbox.
	He also, and this is also in the accurate reporting, All right, so he said, eh, don't worry, if I get killed, then this will get out.
	Ha!
	I like that part.
	I can tell you right, Brendan's an asshole.
	Gee, hello, Captain Obvious.
	I don't know whether he was, anyway.
	But when he's got access, and before he was killed, I can tell you right now, Brendan's an asshole.
	I've known all these people.
	You know, the trouble with all those guys is that the only way they're going to make it to a board or two and get, you know, hired by SAIC to deliver some Fed cash contracts is the affiliate state in.
	With Trump, they're gone.
	You know, they're done.
	They're going to live in their pension.
	They're not going to make it.
	Now, there you go.
	That is what we're always saying.
	These guys, they all want to stick together.
	They want to rule the roost.
	They want things to go their way because they all want to get out of government, make the two million like Comey did, go and sit on boards and, you know, all these a-hole military industrial complex think tanks.
	Yes!
	Thank you, Cy Hirsch.
	I've got to tell you, guys in that job, they don't want to live on their pension.
	They want to be on board like their president.
	Make $600,000 for going to four businesses.
	I have somebody on the inside.
	You know, I've been around a long time and I write a lot of stuff.
	I have somebody on the inside who will go and read a file for me.
	This person is unbelievably accurate and careful.
	He's a very high level guy.
	He'll do a favor.
	You're just going to have to trust me.
	I have Does he mean Mike Rogers?
	Is that who he's talking about?
	He's talking about Rogers, the head of the NSA. Right, but is that the new...
	Oh, okay, so that's Admiral Rogers, right.
	The NSA was going and telling the press, this fucking cocksucker Rogers, was telling the press that we even know who in the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service, leaked it.
	I mean, all bullshit.
	They were telling these two...
	I worked at the New York Times for fucking years.
	I'm sure the fucking New York Times that they have smart guys, but they're totally beholden on sources.
	If the president or the head of the CIA tells them something, they actually believe...
	I was hired at the Times to write about the glass of the war, the Vietnam War in '72, because they were just locked in.
	So that's what the Times is.
	These guys run the fucking Times.
	And Trump's not wrong.
	I mean, I wish he would calm down and have a better press secretary.
	They don't have to be so...
	Trump's not wrong to think they all fucking lied about him.
	So for me, the big takeaway of that clip was the New York Times is run by the intelligence agencies.
	It's run by sources and they control the whole thing.
	That was the big takeaway for me.
	I like that a lot.
	Yeah, and I think it's true.
	Yeah.
	And when he refers to the President, not Trump, he refers to Trump as Trump, when he refers to the President, he's referring to Obama.
	Obama, yeah.
	And yes, I found that to be a very interesting clip.
	I wish it got cut off at some point, and it was getting good.
	Where it got cut off.
	Yeah, maybe there's another part.
	There's another version or second part.
	I'd like to hear that.
	Well, we'll get something.
	But first, I should probably thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C. C stands for collusion, apparently.
	Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	All the morning to the ships at the sea and the subs in the water, the demons and the knights out there.
	In the morning.
	In the morning, everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
	Good to see everybody there.
	And also, I would like to wish a hearty in the morning to, let me see, I believe it was Conan Salada.
	Conan Salada brought us the artwork for episode 951.
	The title of that was Hard Forking.
	And he had a beautiful beanie coin that he made for our artwork.
	So I'm sad to say we still don't have any beanie coins.
	I'm mining as hard as I can, but I haven't come up with one yet.
	So we really appreciate that.
	It was spot on.
	And we love all the work that our artists do.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Head on over there.
	Have a look at all the beautiful art or make something and submit it.
	It's always highly appreciated.
	That's why we give our artists credit right up front.
	Alright, we want to thank a few people, executive producers and associate executive producers for show 952, I believe.
	Yep.
	952.
	First of all, we have an Instadame.
	Oh.
	Right off at the top.
	And from Pacifica, Sarah Domenico.
	Domenico.
	Yes.
	Sarah Domenico.
	Domenico.
	Now, I'm going to give you the clip she's asking for before.
	Very good.
	Now, she's also...
	Having her husband knighted in the same note.
	Because he's way over.
	And so the clips are two-parter.
	There's two clips.
	I mean, two sets of clips.
	But you can play them all at once as far as I can tell.
	Crime pre-crime.
	If you see something, say something.
	And resist we much.
	And that would be followed by...
	He says his jingle request would be a dedouching.
	He doesn't need a dedouching.
	He's been on $11.11 subscription forever.
	Okay.
	So no dedouching.
	She could use one, but we'll get to that when we read her note.
	Okay.
	So we have a MILF. Yes.
	And a Trump for president for our three-year-old, as that is her favorite jingle.
	Okay.
	Okay, that's it.
	And here's the note I'm going to read.
	ITM, this is embarrassing, long overdue, but something I cannot bear to leave undone anymore.
	$1,000.
	Also, I want nothing more for my belated 40th...
	Oh, she's 40th.
	She's on the birthday list.
	They don't have her age.
	...than to become a dame.
	You two have provided me with such a comprehensive understanding...
	And knowledge of all things the world.
	I would be honored to have a spot at the round table with you two, with whom I consider the most brilliant thinkers of our time.
	Whoa.
	I'll take it.
	I'm not taking that.
	And, I might add, she says, pilfs.
	Pilfs?
	Yeah, I think the P stands for people.
	The first NA show I ever listened to was 2012.
	It made me cry.
	Your sincerity, disguised in jingled sarcasm, hit a nerve.
	It blew me away and I eventually let it save my amygdala, frontal cortex, and what I dub as safeguarded me from the discourse of hysteria.
	Admittedly, it took me a long time to get through a full episode as your outstanding product is a dense workout for the brain.
	No agenda has strengthened my critical thinking muscles like a personal trainer would a chubbo.
	Now I am with your every word every week and familiar with all the players and can add on new information anywhere quickly with a smile.
	Thank you for this.
	I am horrified to think of the person I would be without the mental stamina you have provided me for free.
	Okay.
	But no longer.
	My 2016 New Year's resolution was to stay current with the show.
	Then I became a real full-time listener and I haven't missed a show since.
	Best decision I ever made for my own personal wealth and health of mind.
	I recommend this resolution to all the D-bags or flabby minds out there.
	Henceforth, I hitherto thereto and would like to be named Dame Sarah Specifica of Pacifica and would kindly request a D-douching.
	Okay.
	You've been D-douched.
	And then she says the following jingles, but then she adds her husband's part, which is my dude, person, father of the human resource, Sam Lewis, has been donating since 2011 and has financially surpassed, far surpassed the night level.
	It has to find the accounting.
	He would like to be known as Sir Finkelman.
	We've got that.
	We believe no agenda has really been an integral part of our coming together, being true partners and staying together.
	So thanks again for your outstanding product.
	Yours truly are the best podcasts in the multiverse, love and light, Sarah.
	John, another life saved or created.
	Alright, jingle bonanza?
	Yeah, hit it.
	Before it's a crime, it's pre-crime.
	If you see something, say something.
	Resist, we much.
	We must and we will much.
	About that be committed.
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	He's Trump!
	He's Trump!
	The president!
	You've got karma.
	Works well when I have him up front, doesn't it?
	It was a very sweet note.
	I want to thank her profusely for it.
	Yes, and I look forward to the ceremony coming up later.
	Sir Sam Leung, he's in Canada.
	33333.
	Keep up the great work deconstructing the Russian BS. I can't wait to hear your takes on the mooch firing.
	Looking for some marriage karma for my nuptials this weekend.
	Congratulations.
	Great.
	Some karma for the great folks on nasocial.com as well.
	It's actually noagendasocial.com, but okay.
	Okay.
	Well, that's what he wrote.
	Okay.
	Yeah, hope this keeps the NA ship afloat over the dog days of summer.
	Thank you for your courage, Sam.
	Sir Sam Luang.
	Thank you very much.
	We appreciate it.
	Here's your karma.
	You've got karma.
	Marriage karma.
	Nuptials.
	Yes.
	Sir John Claude Schmid and Tustin.
	Don't worry, be happy, and LGY. I would like to also, some back-to-school karmas recently got laid off, and I'm taking this opportunity to take some culinary arts classes.
	Thank you for your courage, $333.
	Very nice.
	He wanted some don't worry, be happy.
	What else did he want?
	Little girl, yay.
	Little girl, yes.
	and we have a, I'm sure we have a yay here.
	Putin!
	Don't worry.
	Be hectic.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Onward, John Harvey, $255, Parts Unknown USA. I was hit in the mouth by my friend Ron Haney during the last election cycle.
	Before listening to your show, I started to feel a huge strain and burden on my psyche listening to the mainstream media.
	Your analysis of the mainstream media and of actual important events that affect our lives is outstanding.
	It focused my energy on what is important to digest and not on all the smoke and mirrors, which is a part of the daily agenda of the M5M. Your dollar for value model inspired me to become a first-time donor.
	Now to all the non-donating douchebags.
	No Agenda brings you hours of weekly knowledge and entertainment and sanity.
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	We should hand out degrees.
	We could.
	We could already hand out knighthoods.
	We can do degrees too.
	Every time you buy a crappy movie like Wonder Woman, the majority of you know you did.
	It costs money.
	Hell, if you didn't want to take a guitar lesson, it costs $40 to $80 an hour.
	Or hell, if you want to.
	I'm a musician full time and I can afford to donate to the best podcast in the universe.
	And so can you.
	You stop being boners and be donors so John and Adam can keep doing what they love to do theoretically.
	Yeah.
	Believe me, we have other things we'd also like to do.
	I'm quite sure of it.
	We love doing this.
	Yes, I love it.
	And we can keep listening and learning and being entertained, which is something we all love to receive weekly.
	I am twice a week, actually.
	I'm embarking on a tour across the country this week, so I'd love some safe travel karma while we are out on the road.
	I'll be hitting the rest of the band guys in the mouth.
	Thank you to all my producers.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Nobody else does it.
	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	So now when you hear this tour, So they're in a van.
	And then this guy keeps going on and on about false flags and propaganda and MKUltra.
	Man, you better be careful.
	You get kicked out of the band.
	You're going to be a goner.
	Unless you own the PA. If it's your PA. Unless you own the van.
	Or the van.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	Let's see.
	While we're out on the road, I'll be hitting the rest of the band guys in the mouth.
	Thank you to all the producers who help with the show, especially those who create amazing musical pieces like my favorite, A Drone Again, and all the Obama No No No No pieces, which Adam brilliantly mashed up during the mixtape episode.
	Stay woke!
	Yo!
	My millennials!
	Yeah, we're not going to play all of them, but I've selected one we all love.
	And first...
	A Drone Again Hey!
	Listen!
	You're in my house!
	Hey!
	Come on guys!
	Shame on you!
	Hey!
	Hey!
	Okay!
	I'm up in the house!
	Hey!
	Hey!
	You've got karma.
	You know, that one may be the best.
	I mean, he obviously took the no-no-nos and put them in a sampler.
	Yes.
	And so he could play them.
	Because at the end, I mean, he changes the key on the last no.
	Yes.
	But, John, these are professionals.
	They know what they're doing.
	I know.
	They do.
	But it's just, I'm amazed at some of these, the way some of these guys are.
	Yeah.
	They are professionals.
	They know what they're doing.
	Vytols Yakovlevs in Riga, Latvia.
	$223.23.
	I have been listening to this show for half a year now.
	This is my first donation, so I need a de-douching.
	Here it comes.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got a de-douching with a bell.
	Love the show, and even though I disagree with some of the stuff, okay, you'd better...
	The entertainment value is off the charts!
	It's easily amused.
	Ironically, you guys, being Bitcoin skeptics, helped me with your discussion during the hard forking show to make some money on the Bitcoin fork event.
	So not only are you providing great entertainment, but also real money-making opportunities.
	It was really quite incredible to watch, the fork.
	I watched it in real time.
	And indeed, everyone who has Bitcoin, if you have your own keys, although actually I'm still waiting for mine to show up because you have to download the whole blockchain.
	I don't know, it's like a terabyte.
	It's really a dumb system in some ways, at least not particularly user-friendly.
	But sure enough, you get Bitcoin cash right next to your Bitcoins, and those things went out of the blue to $600 before they hovered around $200.
	Then they went to 600 and boom!
	All the way down back to like 285.
	It's a beautiful play, whoever did that.
	I think, what is it now?
	351.
	But John, this ecosystem, it's unbelievable.
	It's like, instead of like a NASDAQ trading desk, With stocks, there must be 50 different coins.
	We've got to get our beanie coin out there.
	This is a model for the...
	Hey, listen.
	We've got dudes named Ben.
	We've got dudes named Bitcoin out there.
	Make us a coin.
	This is a great idea.
	You get a valuation.
	Make us a coin.
	Yeah, we can do a coin.
	Let's do a coin.
	Yes!
	And last but not least...
	We'll call it the challenge coin.
	There you go.
	Not to be confused.
	No.
	Sir Don Sullivan, it would be Hawaii.
	You know, a guy goes up to another guy and says, hey, is it pronounced Hawaii or Hawaii?
	And the guy says Hawaii.
	He says, oh, well, thanks.
	He says, you're welcome.
	Okie dokie.
	He sends a note.
	It's a check that came in.
	Thank you for teaching me how the news media works.
	It's really been an eye-opener in your sharp ears.
	Hear what I often miss.
	Yes, well, actually, we miss it a lot, too.
	In fact, I'll put a clip on, Adam will catch something, he'll put a clip on, I'll catch something.
	That's how it works.
	You have to have a lot of ears.
	Usually, I just close my mind to all that crap they spew out.
	It seems as though the MSM are on a self-destructive path.
	We have many years left to continue the show.
	Aloha from a night of no agenda, Sir Don S. Yeah, Don.
	Aloha to you.
	Does he need any karma or anything?
	He doesn't say, but I will give him some karma.
	You've got karma.
	Just handing it out.
	Just dishing it out.
	Doling away.
	That's our little group of...
	Executive producers and associate executive producers are one big one in there.
	For show 952, I want to thank all those folks for helping us get this show on the air.
	And this is part of our value for value model where we don't have any advertising, no corporate intists.
	We survive solely by providing content that you like.
	And we know it is because a lot of it comes directly from you.
	We get emails, people who understand stuff or in certain industries, but also we have the creative work of hundreds, if not maybe even thousands.
	And luckily, we also have financial support, which is how you can always help us.
	It is the only way the show stays on the air.
	We'll be thanking more people, $50 and above, later on in the program.
	These are real titles.
	Executive Producer, Associate Executive Producer, trust me, use them on your LinkedIn.
	It gets you people looking at your stuff, if that's what you desire.
	Another show on Sunday.
	Remember us at...
	And with the weekend coming up, there's always some room to go out there and propagate our formula amongst the friends.
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	Okay.
	Let's catch up with a couple of stories here.
	I think we can do another.
	Hold on.
	I'm sorry.
	Chat room, new idea.
	The climate coin.
	Think about the success of that.
	Where, of every climate coin you get, 0.0000001 will go to save the world.
	That's actually not a bad idea.
	It's a great idea.
	Save the world!
	So I'm watching France 24, and they throw this little...
	I didn't know...
	You know about the Paris Climate Change Agreement?
	Everybody's like, you know, made a big fuss.
	They made such a huge fuss when Trump says that, we're out.
	Right.
	What do you think?
	Why would people make such a huge fuss about any of that?
	Well, who's making the big fuss?
	Well, everybody's making a fuss.
	The French are making a fuss.
	All these people are making a fuss.
	Americans are making a fuss.
	Well, the Americans are mind-controlled into believing Trump is stupid and bad and horrible and he's going to kill everybody.
	And the rest, I'm pretty sure they just wanted their money.
	Well, how much money do you think is involved here?
	That we're paying or total?
	Total.
	Three trillion dollars.
	Total for, what's that total?
	Is that for the whole thing?
	That's all the money that's going to go to Africa.
	I'm making this up.
	That I'm making up.
	The funny thing is you're not that far from the truth.
	I didn't think, I'm not making up the numbers.
	Let's play this clip, the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and they'll give us some real numbers.
	Governments around the world have to put their money where their mouth is.
	Global renewable energy investments totaled $305 billion in 2015, but that's got to grow to an average of $900 billion per year until 2030 if the Paris Climate Agreement is to be implemented.
	If not, we'll miss our goal of staying within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial revolution levels.
	Yeah, I have a couple clips to dive into this.
	Yeah, and I'm going to.
	I'm just telling you up front.
	$900 plus billion a year.
	Yes.
	A year until 2030.
	Yeah.
	In other words, let's just round it off.
	They don't want to round it off because it sounds ridiculous.
	A trillion dollars a year for the next, what, 15 years?
	That's $15 trillion.
	Now, I want to...
	No wonder everybody's bent out of shape.
	This is a bonanza.
	And it's going to African nations.
	A lot of this money.
	That's where it's going.
	Wherever it's going, let me put it this way.
	It's a rip-off.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it is.
	A trillion dollars a year for what?
	As far as I know, that's all that the president said was, hey, if there's a better deal out there.
	He didn't say, I don't believe in the climate accord.
	He said, this is not a good deal.
	Yeah, and I can see where the Paris Accord can be a good deal in an economic hitman kind of way, where, all right, I'm going to put this money up, and then American companies will use that to go build something.
	It's kind of a stimulus package, in a way.
	Could be.
	And it's a stimulus package for the world.
	The whole idea is a stimulus package.
	The whole idea is stimulus.
	And here's the little gotchas.
	The climate people are going, oh, well, wait a minute.
	The agreement is loose.
	You don't have to...
	Come up to these standards by any means?
	That's not important.
	They kept talking about all that sort of thing, but never mentioned a trillion dollars.
	I think we probably discussed, not a trillion, but we discussed huge amounts of money.
	Yes, but this is every year?
	Are you kidding me?
	That's what it is.
	Anyway.
	And, well, this kind of plays into, well, you know, we should probably open the gate.
	We haven't opened the gate.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gate.
	I have a couple of clips from Matt Ridley.
	He's a member of the UK House of Lords.
	These are not particularly new, but they were sent to me, and I thought they were really interesting.
	And the reason why I wanted to bring them up is so I could hear you play your instruments, because it's always fun.
	So this two degrees, this two degrees increase, that's not entirely true.
	What?
	Even by their own calculations, it would be pretty much impossible for that to happen that quickly.
	The second reason is that the models are assuming something which we now know pretty well not to be true.
	And that is that the carbon dioxide warming will be hugely amplified by a water vapor warming.
	It's a very little known fact, which is often sort of capped out of the conversation to my frustration, that it's widely agreed by the IPCC and everybody else that if you double carbon dioxide, you only get one degree of warming.
	So you'd have to double it to get one degree of warming.
	So all of this, we're going to rise by two degrees, would mean we'd have to treble it or maybe quadruple it?
	Like quadruple, maybe.
	Yeah.
	1.2, 1.1, you know, that sort of zone of warming.
	If you double the stock, the amount...
	If you double the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
	Now he's going to explain these climate models a little bit.
	Again, this is from Matt Ridley from the UK House of Lords.
	When we get into the range of the higher increases that some people are worried about, those would seem to be pretty dangerous.
	Yes.
	Well, two reasons.
	One is because the rate of warming has been much slower than predicted.
	So if you go back and look at what the IPCC's climate models have predicted, we have seen much less warming over the last 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years than those models have predicted.
	We've seen a little more than 0.1 degree per decade.
	And please, for those of you already with your cackles up, talking about us being climate deniers, it's very important what he's saying.
	He says the models were incorrect.
	He's not saying that it didn't get warmer, but not by what the models predicted.
	Ergo, the models are not to be trusted.
	The IPCC, remember, in 2013 came out and said that it is very confident that more than half of the warming since 1950 is man-made.
	Now, we've had 0.8 of a degree since 1880, about 0.5 of a degree since 1950.
	More than half of that is 0.25 of a degree.
	So they're saying that something like a third of a degree of warming is man-made over 50 years.
	Now, that's extremely hard to measure.
	And we've got no really good evidence that we're measuring it accurately.
	In fact, the surface temperatures tend to find a slightly faster rate than the satellites, which implies that we are contaminating the record with urban heat island effects and things like that.
	Local warming, in other words, not global warming.
	Alright, now we go over to the 90%.
	I love this guy.
	He just tackled everything, bop, bop, bop, bop, one, two, three.
	Here's the 97% bogus claim.
	I often am greeted with the clever response, well, 97% of scientists disagree with you, and you're only an economist, so how can you hold that view, given that there's this massive consensus that 97% of scientists are convinced?
	What's your reaction to that?
	Well, I'm in the 97%.
	That is to say, if it's true that 97% of scientists are of a particular view about climate, then let's go and ask what that view is.
	And if you go and look at the origin of that figure, it was that a certain poll of 79 scientists, by the way, an extraordinarily small sample, Well, I'm in that group.
	Pretty well every skeptic I know is in that group.
	I'm amazed they found 3% to disagree with that.
	If you see what I mean.
	So actually, whenever you hear that 97% number, it's not referring to a consensus about dangerous climate change.
	It's referring to a consensus about humans' ability to affect the climate.
	There's a little interesting addition I didn't know about the survey.
	I think he's got that wrong.
	I think your original discussion of the 97% number is more accurate than that.
	And finally he excoriates President Obama.
	So when President Obama tweeted that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is man-made and dangerous, the first word was right, the second word was wrong.
	It's just not true.
	I mean, I'm afraid he was just Telling a lie or misinformed about that.
	There has never been any study which has shown that 97% of scientists think man-made climate change is dangerous.
	That's, I think, kind of where his point is.
	Yeah, I think that's a good point, too, and I guess that was a lie!
	Yes.
	But now we go to the High Priest, and I did have some thoughts about Al Gore as I was watching him, because he has the movie coming out now, an Inconvenient Sequel.
	And he's being excoriated on Fox.
	Like, oh, he uses 21 times the power of a normal human in America for his house.
	Yeah, all specious arguments, but very funny.
	Yeah, it's always funny.
	He also flies around in a private jet.
	Oh, my God.
	Yeah, it's always funny.
	But there was a Q&A session, and the mayor of...
	What's the name of this island?
	It was a small little island right off the East Coast...
	The mayor is also, I guess he's the head crab guy, and he has a question about global warming and the rising sea level.
	I'm a commercial crabber, and I've been working in the Chesapeake Bay for 50-plus years, and I have a crab house business out on the water.
	And the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970.
	I'm not a scientist, but I'm a keen observer.
	And if sea level rise is occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?
	Our island is disappearing.
	Because Gore is like, hmm, how am I going to do this?
	Hmm.
	But it's because of erosion and not sea level rise.
	Plus we get a sea wall, we lose our island.
	But back to the question, why am I not seeing signs of the sea level rise?
	What do you think the erosion is due to, Mayor?
	Wave action.
	I was going to say water.
	Well, yeah.
	I'm not seeing signs of the sea level rise.
	What do you think the erosion is due to, Mayor?
	The first thing I googled was, is this island selling sand?
	That was the first thing I checked.
	Apparently they're not.
	Wave action, storms.
	Wave action.
	Has that increased any?
	Not really.
	Not really.
	So you're losing the island even though the waves haven't increased.
	Yes, this erosion has been going on since Captain John Smith discovered the island and named it.
	And it's gotten to our doorstep.
	Well, we've got to put a stop to you.
	Up now, and we focus on it more.
	Well, arguments about science aren't necessarily going to be of any comfort to you, and I'm sorry for what you're going through.
	Now it turns out the guy is not only a shill, but Gore knows he's a shill.
	Your neighbors on Tangier Island.
	I read about you in the paper.
	There was an article in the Washington Post, I believe, after President Trump called you up.
	And it won't necessarily do you any good for me to tell you that the scientists do say that the sea level is rising in the Chesapeake Bay and that you've lost about two-thirds of your Island already over a longer period of time, and that the forecast for the future is another two feet of...
	If there was another two feet of sea level rise, what would that mean for Tangier Island?
	See how brilliant he is, our Gore?
	Yes, he turned that right around and said, well, look, I know you're a shill, and I know why you're here, to make trouble for me while I'm trying to make a buck here, an honest dollar, and so forget about what happened, how it happened.
	What if all of a sudden there's too much water?
	Tangier Island, our elevation is only about four foot above sea level, and if I see sea level rise occurring, I'll shout it from the housetop.
	I mean, we don't have the land to give up.
	But I'm just not seeing it.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, one of the challenges of this issue is taking what the scientists say and translating it into terms that are believable to people where they can see the consequences in their own lives.
	And I get that, and I try every day to figure out ways to do that.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yes.
	This is exactly what a televangelist does when a perhaps not fully or non-believer shows up at the pulpit.
	Al Gore is literally Jim Baker.
	He is preaching a religion and asking you to give him money for it.
	Yeah, totally.
	He's always got the answers, too.
	Well, if he just changes the entire discussion.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	It's very easy.
	Now, there seems to be a report here about Tangier Island.
	They have some kind of excavated river.
	You watch.
	This is all going to be related.
	It has nothing to do with rising sea level.
	Ugh.
	Which it's not.
	But why should we believe a stupid guy like that?
	He's a crabber.
	What does he know?
	Dumb crabber.
	What do crabbers know?
	Nothing.
	It's also changed to, you know, first it was global warming, then it was climate change.
	The new term I'm hearing is climate crisis.
	Oh, I like that one.
	And kids are apparently now also getting tattoos of the extinction symbol.
	What is that?
	Well, you have to look it up if you just search for extinction symbol.
	It's a tattoo.
	And it's about...
	It's their silent protest, kids.
	It's their silent protest against the extinction of thousands of species per day or per hour.
	I've been hearing that for the last 25 years.
	Yes, of course we've been hearing that.
	Oh, that thing?
	Yeah.
	Looks like an hourglass with a circle around it.
	Well, with a cross in it?
	It's got a...
	What do you mean a cross?
	It's got an X. Yeah, an X. Yeah, a cross X. Yeah, but the X has got a line at the top and a line at the bottom as an hourglass.
	Yeah, that's the new hip thing.
	That's the new tattoo.
	We should get those.
	It also looks like a radiation thing.
	I'm radioactive.
	Yeah, it's a radioactive thing.
	It just depends on interpretation, I presume.
	You're either against extinction or you're radioactive.
	And yeah, there's this movement of, you know, kids don't want to have kids.
	Here, there you go.
	I was right.
	The symbol, I'm going from their website, extinction symbol.
	There you go.
	The symbol above represents extinction.
	The circle signifies the planet, while the hourglass inside serves as a warning that time is running out.
	The world is currently undergoing a mass extinction event.
	And this symbol is intended to help raise awareness of the urgent need for change.
	This is the stuff that I used to talk about on Daily Source Code 15 years ago, whatever.
	Oh, mass extinction event.
	These are conspiracy theories.
	And now it's okay.
	Now it's so accepted we can get a tattoo of it.
	Yeah.
	So we have an extinction.
	Such a catastrophic loss of biodiversity is highly likely to cause widespread ecosystem collapse.
	And consequently render the planet uninhabitable for humans.
	Yeah.
	Again, you know, it's like, well, that is possible.
	I mean, Mother Nature is really not on our side.
	We know this.
	It's not possible.
	Mother Nature always wants to kill us.
	Well, there's that, but that's not changing.
	That's all part of the Armageddon, which is close now.
	I got a bond market report for you.
	Oh, I'm just kidding.
	Well, you've got to close the climate gate first.
	Oh, yes, I'm sorry.
	Hello, gate.
	Close it up.
	Close the gate.
	To the gate, to the gate, to the planet gates.
	Yes, we go to the Virgin Islands.
	Peace.
	Thank you.
	To, uh, well, in this article from Reuters to St.
	Croix, And the bond market is closed up for them.
	No more borrowing money for them.
	And that's no good if you want to get money.
	Well, no.
	And it's possibly also related to Puerto Rico, not far away, who had some issues.
	The bond issue was like, nah, we don't think we're going to do that.
	So it's going broke.
	Now they have to start taxing all kinds of stuff, like soft drinks and cigarettes, and they're increasing taxes on stuff, and it's an implosion of sorts.
	And I wonder, are we going to see another bailout, like Puerto Rico, which was, I don't think, a very favorable one for Puerto Rico?
	Or is this just a, you know, one little...
	The banks own the place.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yes?
	Yeah.
	So the banks own the place, and this is like billions and billions now?
	This is Axe, and he's saying, Axelrod Capital, and he's like, screw them, let St.
	Croix melt away?
	Yeah, they'll take over the whole place and make all the money.
	Okay, how long does that take?
	Probably not as long as you'd think.
	Can we get in on it?
	We can't.
	That's the point.
	No.
	That's too bad.
	Answer that no.
	No way.
	Do you think this is a signal, though, of more issues with the bond market and other municipalities?
	No, I don't think this is a bond trigger.
	No?
	Okay.
	All right.
	Dow 22,000 is a trigger for me.
	Yeah.
	I mean, come on.
	That's...
	We got it.
	There's no evidence it's going to go down.
	In fact, if you listen to the Horowitz-Dvorak show, DH Unplugged, you will, you know...
	Wait, did you guys call Dow 30,000 already?
	No, neither one of us have called Dow 30,000.
	I will.
	I'll call Dow 30,000.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's going to go to 30,000 eventually.
	There's no doubt about that, but it doesn't have to be within this particular bull market.
	Right, right.
	That 30,000 may be the ceiling where it collapses.
	That's...
	Not unusual.
	No, there you go.
	It's always some symbolic number.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's why we got to get our coins out as soon as possible.
	Yeah, I think so, too.
	I'm just going to keep jamming on that.
	I have a couple of clips about one of the things that happened right after our last show was the DPRK sent another missile into the air.
	Yep.
	And I got a couple of clips on this.
	And this, of course, we could...
	Let's play the backgrounder, though.
	This is the NBC rap on DPRK. Okay, here we go.
	The president wasn't talking about Putin today.
	As for the other big foreign crisis, North Korea's launch of a long-range missile that could reach much of the U.S. We'll handle North Korea.
	We're going to be able to handle it.
	It will be handled.
	We handle everything.
	Okay.
	But his secretary of state is trying to do it alone.
	So far, only two of 24 assistant secretary slots filled, and one of six undersecretaries, all holdovers from Obama.
	As veteran diplomats leave in droves, a mass exodus, say multiple sources, because of Trump policies and drastic budget cuts.
	Secretary Tillerson did meet with the President today, a regularly scheduled meeting, as the State Department scrambles to try to meet Putin's deadline, getting hundreds of diplomats and other workers out by September 1st.
	Lester?
	I'm amazed at the number.
	Of what?
	Of diplomats we have in Russia.
	Oh, the 700?
	Yeah, we have 1,400, I guess, because we've only taken half of them out.
	That's a lot.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	I thought maybe a couple of guys and a secretary.
	What are they all doing?
	Just reading a newspaper and reporting back?
	No, that's my point.
	It's like, come on, 1,400?
	Hmm.
	Ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	But back to the DPRK thing.
	They're trying to make more out of this than there is.
	So we have like bullcrap stories like this one.
	This one's the DPRK airliner.
	This is a little tidbit on ABC....next year to North Korea's dangerous new launch and what we did not know at the time.
	The commercial airliner filled with passengers flying in the same region, that intercontinental ballistic missile flying higher, farther and longer than ever before, landing where just minutes before an airliner with more than 300 people on board passed very close to that spot.
	Ugh, yeah.
	In other words, it was nowhere near.
	I saw them putting up flightaware.com.
	Look, this is live!
	You can see everything live.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I look at that all the time.
	If you all of a sudden see the plane jump, you know, like an inch somewhere else, jump into the left, jump into the right.
	That's all the ADS-B stuff.
	It's really cool, but, I mean, you're not really showing us an accurate representation.
	You just...
	Meanwhile, over on RT, they had to...
	Ed Schultz has this little commentary, which I thought was the eye-roller of the group.
	This is DPRK Ed Schultz.
	The submarine activity.
	If the Pentagon has detected some type of ejection from a North Korean submarine...
	Who knows whether their stealth ability is there or not.
	They could park off Los Angeles or off the West Coast and deliver something from a submarine.
	Isn't that the real concern for the United States right now?
	Without question.
	Remember, when we're talking about a nuclear weapon, this is a two-stage piece.
	What you need is the nuclear weapon itself, and you need the delivery system.
	If you could actually have a launching space that's just off the West Coast, you could literally hit any city in America.
	Hawaii.
	Yeah, they should have brought Hawaii back into the picture.
	Yeah, that guy was like some agreeable CIA agent.
	He wasn't even a former, he was just a current agent?
	I think he's former.
	Well, there is no such thing.
	Yes, that's true.
	And he's just a total stooge, whatever.
	Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We got the submarines.
	They're going to be right off the coast.
	They're going to be blowing up the place.
	The first thing I thought of was Austin.
	The closest they can get.
	We know Austin's a target.
	Yes, we do.
	We saw it on the map.
	But there's other things at play.
	Now the South Korean president, the new guy, He's all of a sudden like, yeah, maybe we should have some rockets and anti-ballistic stuff here.
	What did they do to flip to him?
	I don't know, but they definitely flipped him.
	They flipped him big time.
	Yeah, all these missile launches and all this other stuff will end.
	I mean, I wonder if maybe we have better relations with North Korea than we think.
	Can you launch a couple of missiles for us?
	Because these A-holes down the side, they won't take these damn things that we need to put in.
	They won't buy our stuff.
	Yeah.
	When we've had trouble, the last one's pinwheeled out of control.
	He says, we'll send some people over.
	We'll fix the problems you're having.
	We've got some people with SpaceX.
	Kim.
	Hey.
	Hey.
	Log in.
	Will you log into, yeah, log into Salesforce?
	Okay.
	You see, this is this guy, this moon guy.
	That's your target.
	You've got to go get him.
	And document your progress in Salesforce.
	They're on the sales team.
	You could be right.
	Could be.
	And I'm still not convinced they have a nuclear weapon.
	Do we know this for sure?
	Yeah, we know it for sure.
	How do we know it for sure?
	It's less powerful than the first Hiroshima bomb.
	It's very mediocre.
	But how do we know they have that?
	We know this absolutely for sure.
	My understanding is yes, we know it absolutely for sure.
	Well, I just don't know how we ever came upon this knowledge.
	Every time they blow one up, we kind of figure it out.
	Well, did they buy it?
	No, no, they develop their own.
	Although there's a lot of belief that the Pakistanis, which we know because they've done atmospheric tests, there may be some deal going on with the Pakistanis and their technology.
	We don't know.
	Or the other way around.
	Some people think the Pakistanis got it from North Korea.
	It seems so...
	As somebody blames Clinton.
	They say Bill Clinton gave him the technology.
	I've heard that.
	It seems kind of backward.
	Like we had the technology to build a nuclear bomb, even though it's weak, yet we still haven't figured out that rocketry.
	Boy, Werner Brown's been doing that since the 40s, but we can't figure it out.
	One day it'll fly far enough.
	I mean, at what point is this just bullshit?
	Shit.
	Thank you.
	Point A? Yeah.
	I mean, if you can figure out a bomb, if you understand it.
	But the bomb is like a big machine.
	It's not like a bomb you could move around.
	It's like the first bombs, and when we blew those initial ones off, they're like a big square thing.
	They're way of tons.
	And they apparently just go poof.
	It's a small explosion.
	Hmm.
	Well, I'm on board with the, they're just helping sales.
	I like that idea, because it did work.
	And maybe they get a kickback.
	Maybe they're on a base plus.
	You know, they got a basis, and they get some expenses, and then get a Benny when they sell some missiles, some anti-missile ballistic stuff.
	Yeah.
	That's the way I'd do it.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Now we can go to Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	I've got a background on her.
	Yeah, I'd like to very much because this story is...
	That's the DWS clip.
	Yeah, this story is really not getting much traction.
	Surprise, although you'd think that there would be a lot of stuff going on already, investigations or something.
	It's complex, and let me try to simplify.
	Basically, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has employed three brothers who are of Pakistani origin at three times the salary of everybody else who does IT on Capitol Hill.
	This all started years ago.
	They must be really good at their job.
	Well, apparently they failed at Best Buy and other places.
	So I guess if you fail at Best Buy, you get to be hired by The Hill.
	Were they at Best Buy?
	I can't remember which one.
	It was one of those outlets.
	Now, what happened, though, is that she's employed these folks.
	And over the past years, there's been real issues regarding the fact that every other Democrat person they work for on The Hill Fired them.
	But they were retained by her.
	Now, what is really key here to remember, Laura, it's not about hard drives.
	It's about the fact that these individuals, during the time they worked for her on Capitol Hill in her position there as a member of Congress.
	Three brothers, Pakistani origin, which is not in and of itself a bad thing at all.
	We had massive access to all sorts of databases to include email of other members of Congress, super user access to the system itself, and most importantly, the sensitive information being held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and other committees that they had access to.
	What this all comes down to is like, okay, you could have all that, but what gets worse is she actually employs these folks, apparently, to do hideous things behind the scenes.
	There's evidence now that at least one of these brothers was helping her do the Bernie Sanders malevolent activities of trying to manipulate things against him.
	They actually helped her do things like voice change calls.
	They actually did all these other things.
	Who are these characters?
	Who are they?
	I remember that story briefly.
	The voice change calls?
	Do you remember that story?
	No, I don't.
	Tell me.
	Hi, this is Debbie Washman Schultz.
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	I'm someone else.
	Could have been that.
	That's a pretty good one, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Well, so these guys were paid 3x because they were dirty tricksters.
	Yeah.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	Yes.
	Or at least they claimed to be.
	I mean, I guess they weren't that competent.
	And I'm wondering if that $300,000 that they supposedly embezzled was actually the payoff.
	Ooh.
	I mean, where'd they get $300,000 from?
	Just from the computer?
	I mean, you gotta have some, you know, where'd it come from?
	I think it was a payoff.
	And the idea was to pay them off and get them out of here.
	Pay them off and leave.
	And get out, yeah.
	And somebody got wind of it, and they stopped a guy at the airport, and now all hell's broken loose, and everyone's keeping it under wraps.
	No one wants to talk about it.
	And at the very end, he says the...
	Is that the end of the clip?
	Did you play the whole thing?
	No, no, it's not.
	It's not.
	I'll play the wrap.
	There's another little tidbit here.
	I went, whoa, what?
	What?
	What?
	They actually helped her do things like voice change calls.
	They actually did all these other things.
	Who are these characters?
	Who are they?
	Then there's evidence now that all this information they had access to dumped off into a third database, which is now being called a breach.
	So that's why the Capitol Hill police rolled in saying there's something wrong here.
	And now the FBI has rolled in.
	And let me give you the big takeaway here.
	It looks like a foreign intelligence service may be the recipient of all this and something called the Muslim Brotherhood.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	The Muslim Brotherhood?
	Oh, they're going to really say it's a conspiracy theory now.
	It's really a conspiracy now, but that's where apparently all this has been going in law enforcement.
	That's why the FBI is now investigating beyond the waterfront.
	Well, these brothers have been kicking around Capitol Hill in various capacities for IT, but they essentially were blacklisted by most of the other Democrats, correct?
	That's correct.
	But yet, she gave them a home.
	She gave them a home.
	Very interesting.
	And they actually suspended most of their access in February of this year, and she kept them on anyway.
	She's just a very nice person.
	Apparently it's a jobs program over there at the DNC. $300,000 being kicked over to Pakistan finally was the straw that broke the candles back.
	But his wife is gone.
	She's safely over there in Pakistan.
	What was the little tidbit?
	The tidbit was that it...
	Some intelligence service was involved, and that would be the ISI, which was never mentioned.
	And I don't know about the Muslim Brotherhood or not, but these guys are Pakistanis.
	A lot of these Pakistanis over here work for the ISI. Which is the Pakistani intelligence service.
	And they're a tough group.
	They target mostly India.
	And they keep track of all kinds of stuff, and this would be a good way to do it.
	And I think these guys were dirty tricksters and they probably got a payoff and they just couldn't get out of town in time fast enough because something came up.
	I think maybe it was the copy of the database or something else and we'll never know about it.
	They're not going to tell us anything.
	No, I wish we really had access to some of these networks.
	I'll bet you everybody is hacking around on everybody else.
	Yeah.
	You think that everyone's all good?
	No.
	I'm sure that there's probably some Republican douchebag who's got his own team and they're hacking right back.
	Sure.
	Hacking their own people.
	You have to.
	I mean, ever since, I remember, I think this is when we had the publicly listed company, and there was a court case, and the court case said, yes, if you work for a company, your boss is allowed to read your emails.
	You remember this?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, there's some companies, it's true.
	The boss is allowed to read the emails.
	Well, in all companies, that's true.
	Yeah.
	In all companies, that's true.
	But I remember that there was just a little blip of outrage.
	And then subsequently, I was the chief technology officer.
	I got a whole bunch of requests like, hey, we got to check this guy.
	What's he saying?
	What's he doing?
	I put a stop to it at a certain point.
	I'm just like, stop.
	But now we're talking 96, 97 years.
	And I think just everyone's just hacking everywhere.
	And the worst is when you had the IT guys and they get a hold of, you know, like someone's, like the CFO's sheet of salaries, and then that would circle around.
	This has been going on for decades.
	In fact, the salary thing used to be an old trick amongst hackers to install a virus.
	On the sheet, yeah.
	In the Excel sheet, that's a good one.
	You would just leave a floppy disk around in the days of the floppy disk, and it wasn't as easy as it would be labeled, say, Salary Spreadsheet.
	And these days, I'd be like, what is that?
	Is that a coaster?
	It's a very odd thing.
	Well, that is a problem today, but...
	I wonder if that's from the time when they had these crazy antennas we're just learning about.
	Yo, those crazy antennas.
	I'm going to show myself out by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	We're going to read off a few people.
	No, because I believe there's some names missing from this spreadsheet.
	Oh.
	I have reason to believe.
	So pay careful attention if you want your name mentioned or if you had a note or something.
	But let's name him Baron Ladequin in Houston, Texas, $150.
	Sir Kevin Dills, the Baron of Mecklenburg County in Charlotte, North Carolina, $128.64.
	James Frimmel in Mountain View, $123.45.
	You guys keep me sane and laughing.
	Jamie Scott, 1111 in Plano, Texas.
	That came as a check just by itself.
	John Robinet, $100.
	Gerald Preston, Boob, 8008.
	Boob.
	Laurent of Bureau in Vittel, like Vittel, the water area.
	$80.
	It's our walk on No Agenda Social.
	Wow.
	Gordon, anyways, French.
	Yes.
	With the name Bureau.
	I mean, come on.
	And, and, he sent us a donation.
	Yeah.
	Well, sur le pont d'avion.
	Vive la France.
	Vive la France.
	Exactly.
	Gordon Jones, $77.70.
	Gene Morphus, $75.
	Sir Got Nate in Sebastopol, California, $69.69.
	Edward Posh in Omaha, Nebraska, $60.06, which is the mini boob.
	And he needs dedouching you.
	He says, shout out to Lee Britton for hitting me in the mouth.
	You've been dedouched.
	Clayton in Grand Island, Nebraska.
	60.
	Douchebag call out for Alex.
	Douchebag!
	Tom Darry in DeForest, Wisconsin.
	5510.
	Sir Kevin Payne in the ass.
	Richmond, Virginia.
	5432.
	Seanan Ass.
	5150.
	This takes her to Damehood.
	Donation note in separate email?
	We should do that.
	Let me see.
	Let's look.
	Shawna?
	I wonder if she sent it to me.
	Maybe?
	Yes, here it is, I think.
	No?
	No?
	No, no, no.
	Right.
	No.
	I do have...
	Shawna Nash.
	August 2nd, 2017.
	Good.
	Train Whistle.
	The attached accounting sufficient.
	Available for on-show reading.
	Items 1 through 4.
	1.
	Accounting attached.
	Title.
	Here's the title she wants.
	Dame Shawna the Salsa Queen.
	I think that's on there.
	Salsa Queen.
	Sassy Salsa Queen.
	Salsa as in food.
	Not the dance style douchebags.
	Pleased to play.
	Here it is.
	JCD on the train whistle.
	Where's my train whistle?
	Here's one.
	It's not the best one, but it's one of them.
	Okay.
	Travel Karma to Austin on Friday for a week.
	IF Travel Karma has not already been sent out earlier in the show.
	If Travel Karma has already been sent out, more train, whistle, whatever.
	So inspired.
	Conan sent a jingle this evening to Adam titled Blocked.
	Yes, I have it.
	Yes, I got it here.
	Conan Salata, who did the art for 5-9-1, says, ITM Adam, tomorrow Sean and Ash will finally be claiming her title of Dame.
	She sent her accounting to John, who she happens to have a huge crush on.
	So I know she's going to love the jingle I've attached.
	Usually I let her listen to them before I send them in, but not this one.
	I'm making her wait till show day.
	Will you play it in her honor?
	Okay, well, she's a dame, so I'll do the train whistle, and then you can follow up with that thing.
	Yeah, and then it's a little long, so I won't play the whole thing.
	We'll play it end of show, and I'll also add the karma.
	Let's do it!
	I'm doing this thing on some of these guys now.
	It's pretty funny.
	I say, ah, bullcrap, and I put hashtag blocked.
	Just a freak.
	Ah.
	Eh.
	Blocked.
	Blocked.
	Hashtag blocked.
	Just a freak, guys.
	Just a freak.
	You've got karma.
	I like that.
	Blocked.
	Nice.
	Good one.
	Onward, Rabi Sandalen in Helsinki, Finland, 51.
	Apparently he's been listening non-stop to show after show.
	And I'm not sure the pronunciation of his first name, but sorry, BBE. Marta Kahlstrom in Portland, Oregon, $50.
	Matthew Durney, $50.
	Justin Barber, Los Angeles, California, 50.
	And last but not least, Jared Seuss in Chicago, 50.
	I want to thank all these folks for helping us produce.
	Show 952.
	Yeah, and I wanted to make a little mention based upon an article that was sent to me in the, was this some Finnish?
	Oh, this must have come from Sir Wonderhelm.
	Banks in the EUs are warning against bad taste jokes in online banking payments.
	I just wanted to bring this up now.
	Let's see.
	Okay, this is one of Finland's banks.
	We contact the proper authorities when necessary based on the Act on Detecting and Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.
	Banks and financial institutions have the responsibility to know their clients so that discrepancies in usual income or cost streams may prompt contact.
	And so they say, you know, don't put in, like, some funny little thing, and I'm saying this for people using PayPal or other forms of electronic payment.
	It could get you in trouble.
	Haven't we had people's, I know they haven't gotten in real trouble, but I know some payments have been stopped, and then, you know, it's like, oh, hold on.
	Well, that's because they put some terrorist messages.
	Yeah, like the caliphate.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, here's your money from the caliphate or ISIS in America.
	It's something like that.
	So just be careful.
	Your donation from ISIS. Don't do that.
	It's not a very good practice, actually.
	And then I hear that, I guess Skype is now going to be integrating PayPal.
	I'm not sure exactly how that fits together.
	Are there maybe just a presence?
	Like if you're on Skype, then you automatically can send PayPal to somebody, I think.
	And they've announced they're going to somehow integrate Bitcoin.
	This may be the solution for everybody.
	This is not going to happen.
	You don't think so?
	Well, I don't know how you can.
	I mean, that has to become an exchange, wouldn't it?
	It seems like too much work.
	That's sketchy.
	I don't know.
	When I see it, I'll believe it.
	Right.
	Well, now let me ask you a philosophical question.
	If you could indeed send Bitcoin and it would show up in our account as dollars, would you be okay with that?
	What's the point?
	I'm just asking you a question.
	Yeah, of course I would.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that to me would be no different than any other currency coming in as long as it comes in in dollars.
	I think we'd be okay with that.
	Yeah.
	But not with the...
	Anyway, we don't need to get into another one of those conversations.
	Well, thank you, everybody.
	That looks shorter than I thought, actually, John, that list.
	I believe that there was a flaw that took place.
	So you think we're missing names?
	Yes.
	Ah, crap, I hate that.
	Okay, so how do we figure this out?
	Just have people email you, you...
	Yeah, or email shill at noagendanation.com.
	There you go.
	That would be the easiest way.
	These are our donors that we have on the PayPal, which are $50 or more.
	That is typically for reasons of anonymity, but we appreciate everyone who's signed up for one of our ongoing subscriptions.
	Please check those out.
	It's lower amounts, so it makes it easier for everybody, but we definitely need that.
	It is your show.
	You produce it, and this is how it continues to go and to grow.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Dvorak.org slash NA. And for those of them who need it...
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	We've got time left.
	Well, I can make this really short and sweet.
	Sarah Domenico celebrated on July 18th, and we wish her a very happy belated birthday from everybody here at the show.
	That's it.
	It's just one birthday.
	It's almost nothing.
	Two title changes today, and we congratulate Sir Jean-Claude Schmidt on his baronet status, along with Sir Jojo, also baronet.
	Thank you very much for your extra support of the best podcast in the universe.
	And, of course, you can always go to dvorak.org slash peerage or itm.im slash peerage and find out what protectors are available, where you can get your state care Take your flag, plant your flag for your protectorate.
	It's a real thing.
	That's right.
	Is it Dvorak.org slash periods?
	That's where...
	Yeah.
	.htm.
	Exactly.
	All right.
	Blade time.
	Hold on.
	It's on the floor.
	I got it.
	I found it.
	Sarah Domenico, the belated birthday girl.
	Shauna Nash, Sam Lewis, and Rick Dolshini.
	Please, all of you, come on up to the podium.
	Congratulations to the four of you.
	Very proud that you are going to join us here at the round table of the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
	A nice, even two knights, two dames.
	And I'm very proud to pronounce the KB. Dame Sarah Pacifica of Pacifica.
	Dame Shauna, the Salsa Queen.
	Sir Finkeltron and Sir Rick, Knights of the Karwathas.
	For you, we have Hooker Please head on over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Fill out the details.
	Eric will get the ring to you as soon as possible.
	And when you do receive it, we love seeing tweets and toots about it.
	So make sure you do that.
	And alert us to this fact.
	And thank you again for supporting the show.
	What's a toot?
	Oh, that's on Mastodon, thenoagendasocial.com.
	It's called a toot.
	Hey, do you think Zuckerberg is running for president?
	I think his minions around him think he is, and I think he maybe wants people to think that.
	I have no idea.
	He is not equipped to be president.
	No, he's not equipped, for sure.
	No, I mean, he's not equipped as a social animal to do it.
	But I keep reading these articles.
	He's an introverted...
	He may have Asperger's, I'm not sure.
	But he might.
	He has all the elements of it.
	And he's not a...
	It's just, you know...
	Everybody's...
	Well, you know what?
	He hired...
	What's the guy's name?
	David Plouffe?
	Yeah.
	Who was Obama's 2008 campaign manager?
	Right, Plouffe.
	Plouffe.
	But didn't this guy also work for Amazon and a couple other places?
	I think he's more like a Silicon Valley insider at this point.
	I don't know.
	Plouffe.
	I would love it if he tried running for president.
	That would be fantastic.
	Yeah.
	Imagine the debate.
	I mean, the amount of crap that Trump has to put up with, and Trump was a public figure of the highest order managing to do it.
	He was pushed into it by Stone, according to him.
	Where did you say that?
	He said it on that interview of the book Bring Me Roger Stone.
	It was brought up by the producer of the movie.
	He said Stone had told him that he had talked Trump into running in like a couple of Like in 2020, some earlier period, when Trump kept cropping up as a potential presidential candidate and finally got him to do it.
	Roger Stone is, according to the guy...
	According to Roger Stone, probably.
	Yeah, according to Roger Stone.
	But it's believable.
	Yeah, I'm often looking for, you know, what to do after, life after no agenda, because, you know, we will live on, presumably, but...
	I saw this job and I was like, this sounds like something for me.
	Yeah?
	Yes, it's a job at NASA. It's the Planetary Protection Officer.
	Yeah.
	And my job would be to make sure humans in space do not contaminate planets and moons.
	Oh, just right out of Star Trek.
	Prime directive.
	I also have to ensure that alien matter does not infect Earth, obviously.
	And I would receive $187,000 a year for this.
	For this bogus job that doesn't even exist and there's nothing...
	Okay, sounds good.
	Take it.
	The job is real.
	It does exist.
	Yeah, the job is real, but it's a...
	Come on.
	I would say if I'm cutting back on the government, that's one of the jobs that goes.
	Unless you get to interface with the aliens in Utah.
	I think that's where they're in Utah.
	Wasn't Trump going to uncover everything and let us know about all...
	He maybe already has, but they won't let him talk.
	Let's see, I have a couple things I still want to play.
	Well, I've got one while you're looking it over.
	Let's go with Chipped in the USA. Oh, yes, this story.
	We're back now with a story that's likely to create some conversation around your dinner table.
	We've had it certainly in the studio.
	Would you let your company microchip you?
	At first, it sounds like something you'd normally reserve for your dog, but it's new technology now being used in humans, and one company is getting national attention for implanting devices under the skin of employees, allowing them to leave their ID badges behind.
	NBC's Ron Mott has our story from River Falls, Wisconsin.
	Todd Westby might just have a hand in shaping the future.
	The CEO of vending machine maker Three Square Market literally opening doors with automation that's turning some workers into high-tech machines of sorts.
	This is a lot more than just some sort of novelty to you.
	It is.
	It's reality.
	With all of the interest we've seen in it, I can tell this is definitely the future.
	By injecting a rice-sized microchip into a willing employee's hand, all kinds of data can be programmed into them, from driver's licenses and medical ID cards to logging onto computers.
	You have to hold it up to something such as this.
	Even purchasing snacks in the company break room.
	More than 50 employees have volunteered.
	How much did that hurt?
	Didn't really hurt a lot.
	A third holding off for now.
	That kind of freaks me out a little bit.
	Some experts suggest caution.
	Among the concerns, ID theft, health, and whether the chips can be tracked by GPS. Most people don't really understand how this technology works, what data is collected, how it's stored, or who might be able to get access to it legally or illegally.
	Three Square says their employees cannot be tracked by satellite.
	Melissa Timmons was skeptical, but is now chipped.
	Yeah, right now it's only to buy a candy bar and get in our building, but there's a lot more that's going to be coming with it.
	Chips off the new block.
	I'll choose to pay with my hand here.
	Cool and technology once again hand in hand.
	Well, it's not like we haven't talked about this for the entire life cycle of the show.
	It's true.
	And there's one guy that had a guy at the end.
	The guy looked like an idiot.
	Some guy.
	And he's just standing there with his mouth kind of open.
	And he's got a t-shirt on that says, I've been chipped.
	And he's so proud of it.
	Oh, I need this t-shirt.
	That's a great t-shirt.
	It is a great t-shirt.
	We got t-shirt makers out there.
	Hey, no agenda shop, guys.
	I've been chipped.
	We have to have a funny payoff to it.
	I've been chipped.
	You know, so the question is, is public opinion slowly moving towards acceptance of this type of technology?
	My guess is yes.
	Mine too.
	But I'm just trying to think, what would the tipping point be?
	I thought at first, you know, they had the club in Barcelona.
	And they had, it was an entry pass.
	It was like a reasonably big chip.
	It looked like it hurt.
	Would it be something that Apple maybe could do as a pairing?
	A pairing for the iPhone?
	Apple told me to do it, I'll do it.
	If Apple tells me to do it, I'll do it.
	Yeah, I like the sound of that.
	But think about it.
	Take a note of the time.
	Yes, I'm doing that, believe me.
	So think about it for a second.
	Apple could say, well, you get this chip, which you could have done in the Apple Store, the Genius Bar, just take a piece of that.
	It's enough real estate.
	And it is impossible to unlock the phone unless you are near it.
	There would be a line out the door.
	I think you're right.
	I think you're right.
	Now, to me, that would be the way to introduce it.
	Yeah, and your phone gets stolen?
	Can't work without the chip.
	You have to cut your hand off.
	And because it's Apple, you're in the ecosystem.
	So while everybody is still going into their pocket, getting their phone or getting their credit card with the chip in it, and they're tapping, you can just brush your hand against the device and you've paid.
	Beep, beep.
	That's right.
	They could use it to open doors, everything.
	Apple could expand its ecosystem.
	And you know what?
	It's not even a crazy idea for them.
	I mean, it's crazy, but it's not crazy for Apple to do.
	Can you imagine if you put that into the Apple Pay ecosystem?
	Dynamite.
	Oh, man.
	I think Apple should do it.
	I think the Apple users should all get chipped.
	I do.
	I'm with you.
	I've been using Windows so much these days.
	I hear you.
	I really do.
	Although I'm so afraid of viruses.
	You can protect yourself.
	You have to have a couple of utilities.
	You gave me the things.
	I got them all installed.
	But still, I make an image every day of the whole drive.
	You should do that anyway.
	It's like, here's a story that I don't have clips of, but I should.
	They don't like talking about it around here, but KQED, our local educational PBS station, was hit by the ransomware virus.
	Taken completely out.
	They're still, after 30 days, they're not back up because they didn't pay the ransomware and they just got obliterated.
	And this is the way the story's going.
	I don't know that they're back up as I speak.
	They might be, but I don't think so.
	And they made no backups.
	What kind of an idea?
	You're talking about a $70 million operation or something.
	And they had no backups.
	They got no backups.
	They got no backups.
	And so they're just down.
	Somebody got fired.
	Probably not.
	This happens so much more than has been reported.
	When I was in the Netherlands, I was talking to Lex, and he lives way the hell out, like an hour and a half outside of Amsterdam.
	Farmers, but big farmers, with just rows and rows of hidden cows.
	It's been horrible.
	Every single company around here got hit.
	And no one's really talking about it.
	But it wasn't huge amounts.
	And we still don't know if it was that CIA-engineered thing.
	But yeah, and everyone's paying for it.
	Another great thing, we can have our no agenda, our beanie coin in the chip.
	It should be user-addressable with an API. Oh, this is how you get the Linux guys in.
	The Linux people.
	You say it's got an API. Oh!
	Or just say, we don't use OAuth.
	And then you become a node on the Ethereum network.
	Think about that.
	Think about you're a node.
	You could be a node of the new internet.
	After being chipped, you yourself are a node.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	You could be a node.
	I'm a chipped node.
	On the Ethereum network.
	I like it.
	Yeah, that's a chick magnet.
	Yeah.
	I'm a node.
	Hi, I'm Adam Curry.
	I'm a node.
	On the Ethereum network?
	That's right.
	Think about it.
	That's even better.
	Oh man, I like that idea.
	I'd get a chip for that.
	Yeah, you would.
	Well, I don't know.
	Okay, let's go back to some stories.
	Okay.
	We got the Scaramooch backgrounder on NBC, so this is going to be a nice slanted story.
	This is Kelly Scaramooch backgrounder.
	Long clip.
	You have to interrupt.
	The staff bloodletting at the White House claimed Anthony Scaramucci today, ousted this afternoon after a stormy six days on the job.
	The brash New York financier and President Trump's new communications director was shown to the West Wing exit door on the same day retired General John Kelly took over as White House Chief of Staff.
	A brilliant move if I ever saw one.
	And before we continue with the backgrounder.
	What do you think?
	Intentional?
	Going along with what I said on the last show, it would be even better not just for him to pick this fight and get all of his curse words and his foul language out there, but then to also have Kelly fire him to give instant credibility to Kelly, and we still have the whole shuffle with Sessions on deck.
	I'm liking it as a scheme.
	If it's a scheme.
	And, by the way, Scaramucci...
	Sold this company tax-free.
	Because that's how it works.
	Yeah, I didn't know this.
	It was Horowitz that pointed it out.
	If you go to work for the government, you get a lot of holdings and you have to sell them.
	You don't have to pay capital gains tax.
	The government lets you slide.
	This is a wonderful way.
	According to Horowitz, there's a number of billionaires that have been given these temporary government jobs to get out of paying taxes on their profits.
	I had no idea that was taking place.
	I'm thinking, wow, this is a scheme that nobody's getting.
	Yeah, and it's not like Scaramucci's out of the West Wing.
	He was not escorted to the door.
	I mean, I like the visual that you're drawing there, NBC. But he's still there.
	Shown the door.
	Hey, the door.
	Let me show it to you.
	Just like Banyan.
	He's not gone.
	He's still there.
	From Reince Priebus, Kelly's first order of business apparently fixing what many insiders saw as a big mistake by the president in his hiring of Scaramucci.
	Our chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson has details.
	Today, the retired general reorganizing his ranks with new chief of staff John Kelly pushing out controversial communications director Anthony Scaramucci, according to sources familiar with the move.
	It comes not long after Scaramucci, originally praised by the president, targeted White House staff with a profanity-laced rant in The New Yorker, one so vulgar it's not repeatable here.
	So vulgar!
	The president certainly felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position.
	And he didn't want to burden General Kelly also with that line of succession.
	The White House publicly says Scaramucci, spotted in the Oval Office just this morning, wanted Kelly to have a clean slate.
	Privately, it's a clear message to staff.
	There's a new chief in town.
	Embraced?
	We just swore in General Kelly.
	He will do a spectacular job.
	And empowered.
	General Kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever.
	For the West Wing, a new era with a new manager.
	But ultimately, the same boss.
	One who's insisting today there's no White House chaos after himself creating some.
	President Trump hiring Scaramucci in the first place over the objections of some advisors, which set off a domino effect.
	Press Secretary Sean Spicer leaving, followed by former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
	While the warring factions in the White House appear to be giving Kelly some running room, the battles internally give Kelly a clear mission.
	General Kelly is going to bring the type of discipline.
	He will bring some order and discipline.
	Protocol, pecking order, order, discipline.
	Andy Card served as chief of staff under President George W. Bush.
	Removing Anthony Scaramucci, I think, demonstrates candidly and forcefully to everyone that the chief of staff means business in terms of trying to bring discipline to the White House to help the president accomplish the agenda.
	Mission accomplished.
	He can leave now.
	Yeah, that's kind of my theory.
	He came in, made a big fuss, acted like a jerk, threatened everybody.
	They're all going to get fired, and the two guys bailed out.
	The Spicer, who should have...
	He was his short-timer anyway, because they were...
	He was done, yeah.
	Huckabee was doing all the work.
	She was doing all the work, and he was getting mocked and everything.
	He's ridiculous, and so he's out.
	And then Priebus bails...
	And I think all the thesis about him, he probably was the leaker.
	He probably used it as a technique for trying to get his way, but he wasn't a very strong character, and he's never been a chief of staff before.
	He's like a fundraising guy.
	And he ran the RNC, and okay, well, that's not the same.
	So I brought another military guy, and so there's a, you know, the military's taking over the place, but...
	Well, there was some chaos, luckily, with the signing of the immigration bill, which isn't really discussed much as the bill itself, other than it's racist.
	It's racist!
	And I only have one clip, just in case you want to play, that was CNN's Jim Acosta getting in an argument with Stephen Miller, who was a creepy guy.
	Why they put him out to...
	I mean, he's very knowledgeable, but he should do op-eds.
	He should not go on television.
	He just looks creepy.
	You know what I'm talking about?
	Yeah, the bald guy.
	Yeah, well, he's semi-bald.
	Is he completely bald?
	He's bald.
	He's creepy looking.
	This is not the person you want to have communicating anything to you.
	I'm not going to argue with you.
	He shouldn't be on TV. No, he's not a good guy for this kind of stuff.
	But I do like what I hear about the immigration bill, as it is exactly what Canada does.
	It's exactly what Australia does.
	And I've always had, I didn't know that Canada did it, but I knew about Australia.
	And, you know, either you're bringing in a couple million dollars.
	I think it's, last count it was, I thought it was like two million dollars.
	I could be wrong about that.
	Australian, which is I think 70 cents.
	Or you had to be a rocket scientist or some other reason that you want to join in the community known as Oz.
	And so now we're moving to that as well with a points-based system.
	And top of the list is, well, if you already speak English, then you have a head start.
	Then we're going to give you a bonus point for that and you can move up the line.
	And the outrage that ensued over this, over, you know, this is racist, this is un-American, this is not what we're about.
	I mean, I find the lack of discourse about this is problematic.
	I personally like it.
	Did you have thoughts on it?
	I didn't know thoughts on it.
	I thought it was a pretty good idea, the way they were going to do it.
	Never...
	I didn't think it was racist.
	It was just, you know, it was inclusive in a funny kind of a way.
	But yeah, there was rules.
	You just can't let everyone come wandering in if they want, which is the way it's been going.
	But then again, you know, where are you going to get the cheap labor, especially in California, to pick the grapes and to do the housekeeping and clean the toilets, as the one woman on The View said?
	We're going to get the cheap housekeepers, the gardeners, cheap gardeners, cheap workers.
	We're going to get those guys in California.
	That seems to be the only thing they can think about.
	It's really shocking to me.
	Everybody should be able to come in.
	Everybody should be able to hang out.
	That worked fine 50 years ago.
	People come here for free money.
	Yeah.
	Just free money.
	You can pay them under the table.
	You don't have to do a lot of paperwork.
	Yeah, it's just a bonanza if you want some maid.
	You want a maid.
	Housekeeper.
	Yeah, that is indeed what the elites want.
	Consuela.
	Anyway, here's Jim Acosta, and he jumped in and said, this is racist, and he started reading the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, which I didn't know apparently was put on much later than the Statue of Liberty itself.
	Oh yeah, I had nothing to do with the Statue of Liberty.
	I didn't know that.
	Bring me your huddled masses.
	It was the Ellis Island moment.
	Oh no, is there something?
	What is on the Statue of Liberty?
	Is there a saying on the Statue of Liberty?
	Yeah, there's some poem on it.
	Well, that's the poem that we're talking about is the huddled masses.
	Well, let's find out why you're playing that clip.
	This whole notion of, well, they have to learn English before they get to the United States.
	Are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?
	So what he says there is, if English speakers have an advantage, are we just going to bring in people from the United Kingdom and Australia?
	Which is obviously a boo-boo.
	Actually, I have to honestly say, I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English.
	It's actually, it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind, no, this is an amazing moment.
	This is an amazing moment.
	That you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English is so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who do speak English from all over the world.
	Jim, have you honestly never met an immigrant from another country who speaks English outside of Great Britain and Australia?
	Is that your personal experience?
	But that's not what you said!
	And it shows your cosmopolitan bias.
	And I just want to say...
	It seems like you're trying to engineer...
	The racial and ethnic flow of people into this country.
	That is one of the most outrageous, insulting...
	This whole conversation was outrageous and insulting from both sides.
	Stephen Miller, you're creepy and you understood.
	You knew exactly what he meant.
	You just tried to get...
	The only Statue of Liberty inscription can be found on the tablet in her left hand, which says July 4th, 1776, the day the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence.
	Right.
	But the poem was a fundraiser for the pedestal Yeah.
	Colossus.
	And that's where we get keep ancient lands your storied pomp.
	That's a very long poem.
	Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free the wretched refuse of your teeming shores.
	Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me.
	I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
	Yeah, it was a fundraiser.
	A fundraiser.
	It's literally what it says in the Wikipedia.
	To raise money for the construction of the pedestal.
	Yeah, so that got thrown around.
	But yeah, we are an immigration country.
	And by the way, what's the Statue of Liberty represent?
	They keep saying that.
	I'm thinking, what do you think it represents?
	It's called the Statue of Liberty.
	Yes.
	It represents liberty, which the Democrats, of course, we have to go back to the old, the basic thesis between the difference between Democrats and Republicans, which we've talked about before.
	And that is the Republicans or the conservatives, we'll say, and the liberals, the Republicans are for liberty and freedom.
	Freedom and liberty.
	Those are the two watchwords.
	And you see him using those words a lot.
	The Democrat liberals are always for equality and justice.
	So you have equality and justice on one side and freedom and liberty on the other.
	And that's where the split takes place.
	Hmm.
	We've talked about this before.
	Yeah.
	And it's an analysis that's been done about the two parties and the equality and justice, the social justice warriors, and we have equal this and equal that and equal, equal, equal.
	And meanwhile, the other side is we want more freedom.
	We want freedom and liberty.
	Yeah.
	I personally think that what is behind this topic is the whole no borders, no nations, no Oh, absolutely.
	There's no doubt about it.
	It's always no borders.
	Screw the borders!
	Yeah, well, I played the AncestorDNA.com clip a few shows ago.
	I saw a new 23andMe, which unfortunately doesn't work in audio because it's a lot of title cards on the screen.
	It's the exact same thing.
	They've got this dynamite, multi-culti girl.
	She's got dark skin, like a black person with freckles.
	Super cute.
	And then wherever she is, boom, it's like, oh, 7% this, 3% this.
	And you're always some part Askenazi Jew.
	Everybody's a piece of Askenazi Jew.
	The Askenazi coin.
	The Jew coin.
	I'm telling you, I'm coming up.
	I should have a million coins.
	That would go over well.
	But it's really, it's so prevalent.
	And the mind control is astonishing.
	And I think Jim Acosta is an example.
	This may not be the best example.
	But just in general to say, well, you're giving people who speak English preferential treatment that's racist.
	No, it has nothing to do with racism.
	I hate to say this to this guy, I don't know if he travels much, but if you go anywhere in the world, they speak in English.
	Yeah, I would say maybe Western China, probably not so much.
	Well, the French really can't do it.
	Well, the French also have, they're also a competitive language.
	I mean, most of Africa speaks French.
	All politics, to a degree, is still, a lot of it's still conducted in French.
	Or a lot of the language, a lot of the written language certainly is.
	But, yeah, that what he said is more racist than anything else.
	I have a little update on Afghanistan.
	I have that too.
	I have the Afghanistan strategy kicker on NBC. It depends on which one you use.
	Yours is different.
	Where's it from?
	Mine is very different.
	Mine is from RT and it's a very different story.
	I'm quite sure.
	Oh, okay.
	Why don't you play the RT one and then drop back to mine.
	The U.S. government's Afghanistan watchdog has urged the Pentagon to declassify a report detailing allegations of child sex abuse by Afghan forces.
	The report concerned allegations of sexual abuse of children by members of the Afghan security forces.
	Because DOD has classified much of the information on which the SEGA report is based, the report is classified.
	SIGA has requested the DOD to classify the report.
	The watchdog's report more generally concerns U.S. funding in Afghanistan and whether forces receiving assistance comply with human rights laws.
	It deals with how the U.S. military and State Department are implementing the so-called Leahy Law.
	This prohibits the government from providing aid to another nation's security forces if there is credible information that human rights have been violated.
	Now, the watchdog also cites the State Department as saying that the Afghan government has failed to meet human rights standards and that Afghan officials are complicit in the sexual abuse of children by Afghan security forces.
	Well, the U.S. government, meantime, is accused of turning a blind eye to one Afghan custom in particular known as Bachi Bazi.
	This involves the sexual abuse of prepubescent and adolescent boys and has been illegal in Afghanistan since the start of this year.
	Yeah, that Bachi Bazi stuff, man.
	Well, we've talked about this on the show before.
	The entire country's culture is based on pedophilia.
	It's nuts.
	And it's not discussed in the mainstream media at all.
	And it does appear to be cultural.
	Yeah, it's a total cultural thing.
	Yeah, just look it up, Bachi Bazi.
	And there's a documentary I think you can probably get on YouTube.
	But I think there's two separate things.
	I think the Bachi Bazi...
	It's now illegal, quote unquote.
	That's a joke.
	As of this year.
	As of this year.
	It's illegal, okay.
	Yeah, all right, all right.
	Come here, come with me.
	Come with me.
	I like how they're bringing the Leahy Law, though.
	That'll go nowhere.
	But the idea is cute.
	Okay.
	This is different.
	This is apparently Trump is irked about the whole Afghanistan thing.
	I'm just guessing because he's got a feud with the CIA. This has been going on and on.
	It hasn't ended.
	The feud with the CIA, he did just end the covert program for giving weapons to rebels in Syria, which is barely spoken about, but hallelujah.
	Hallelujah.
	Thank you!
	I'm happy about that.
	And I guess you must be on the side that actually thinks they're not going to give any more weapons over there.
	I think what he said is one thing and what happens is another.
	Because the CIA doesn't listen to this guy.
	And I think that he has not been read in on the reason that everybody in the CIA in particular is over in Afghanistan, which we've talked about on this show, which is the drugs.
	It would suck if you talked about it on another show.
	It's the drugs.
	Yes, it's the poppies.
	I don't think he's been read in.
	I don't think he has a clue.
	And so he wants us to get out of there and it's causing nothing but trouble.
	Which is also the problem with the wall.
	The wall is where the CIA brings the drugs in.
	Or at least they help.
	Yeah.
	Well, here we go.
	Now to an NBC News exclusive, revealing President Trump's growing dissatisfaction with America's military strategy in Afghanistan.
	Just today, two U.S. service members were killed when their NATO convoy came under attack reportedly by a suicide bomber.
	The Taliban have claimed responsibility.
	Tomorrow, the National Security Council is scheduled to meet and discuss changing the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.
	But the last time they met, things got very heated.
	The president blasting his own advisers.
	NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Halley Jackson has an inside look at what happened in that room.
	Tonight, an exclusive look behind the closed doors of the Situation Room at an increasingly frustrated president agitated with his military on Afghanistan, even as he delays a decision on a new strategy in a fight his top generals describe as a stalemate.
	Senior administration officials take NBC News inside that meeting two weeks ago, where the president's key advisors surrounded him, including Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
	Those sources say the president lashed out, suggesting Mattis should fire the general in charge of Afghanistan, venting, quote, we aren't winning.
	Influenced, it seemed, by a meeting he'd had earlier with veterans of the Afghan war.
	Those same sources tell NBC News some in the room were taken aback by an analogy the president made referencing the renovation of a favorite New York restaurant led by an outside consultant to illustrate how those on the ground might make better decisions than those at higher levels.
	His point was perhaps it would have been better if that owner had gone to the employees who are working in the restaurant rather than hired someone from the outside and wasted a lot of money.
	Those officials say the president also seemed annoyed China, not the U.S., is making money mining rare minerals in Afghanistan.
	Sources tell NBC News the president left the meeting without deciding on a strategy and that his advisors left stunned.
	President Trump.
	President Trump.
	The new President Trump jingle.
	Not President Trump.
	Now...
	The minerals.
	I believe this was two weeks ago.
	This is...
	Priebus is the one who leaked this information.
	And why would he do that?
	He was at the meeting.
	I saw there was pictures of the meeting.
	Priebus is right there.
	Why would he do that?
	Because he's been doing it all along.
	He's a leaker.
	Damn leaker.
	Hmm.
	Maybe he thinks he's...
	Oh, this policy is...
	You know, I think he's trying to do...
	I think he thinks he's doing the country a favor.
	But...
	And some of this information is interesting, and I believe that this story is pretty accurate.
	I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be.
	Sounds right.
	And the minerals, for sure.
	And he would be irked about the minerals thing more than anything, because that's what he's always about.
	Which is why he called the president of Afghanistan.
	He said, hey, can we do a deal on this?
	That's what we reported two weeks ago.
	Right.
	After Priebus called me.
	The Chinese are in there hacking away.
	They're not putting anything into keeping the poppies safe or whatever work we're doing there.
	They're just digging away, pulling out lithium.
	And they just opened their base.
	Their naval base.
	In Djibouti.
	Chinese?
	Yeah, how does that work?
	We have a drone base there, and now the Chinese just so up and like, ah, Djibouti's ours?
	No, it's our Djibouti, not your Djibouti.
	Well, according to our economic hitman, it's ours.
	We're losing Africa faster than...
	To the Chinese, yeah.
	Well, and so...
	Of course, this is not new.
	No.
	But who cares?
	Do we need Africa?
	Well, for rare earths, for sure.
	Yeah, but can we buy it?
	They gouge us.
	Although, the history of the Chinese, and so far as gouging is concerned, is kind of back-assward.
	They're not really good at gouging, because they're culture, which is something we don't fully realize.
	But if you look at the history of the silk trade, when the Chinese took it over, and they essentially cornered the market on silk, the price collapsed.
	Because there's still this element in Chinese culture we always have to remember.
	Best price.
	They don't really know how to gouge.
	We always think of everything in our terms.
	We say, oh, Western society.
	We know how to gouge.
	You corner the market.
	That's why we have anti-monopoly laws.
	You corner the market and then you gouge them.
	You give it to them.
	But no.
	The Chinese, they corner the market and then they just dump it.
	It's unbelievable.
	There's no evidence of this.
	You're right.
	No one ever talks about that.
	You're absolutely right.
	Well, in that case, maybe we do a deal with the Chinese.
	Get Best Price.
	Let them deal with all the crap.
	Well, they're doing a better job than we do.
	Although our guy, who defends USAID, everyone apparently is upset with Trump.
	Yeah, but what does that have to do with the Chinese?
	Well, they're letting the Chinese take over Africa.
	That's what it has to do with the Chinese.
	Well, again, I don't see why it's a bad idea.
	Let the Chinese take over Africa.
	They still need to sell to us.
	I mean, well, okay, they can sell it anywhere, but they need it.
	They got the investment.
	They get the minerals out.
	And then we say, hey, hey, best price.
	It would cost a lot less blood and treasure.
	I think the funny thing is I just don't think we can ever bring ourselves to putting ourselves in that position where we're dependent.
	Because at some point, some Chinese who corners some market someplace will have a clue and he'll gouge us.
	That's what we think.
	Maybe it will never happen, but the way we see it, yeah, it's going to happen and it's bound to happen.
	And we're going to get gouged.
	Well, no matter what, our resource extraction team of the U.S. military will not include transgender members.
	And Sebastian Gorka laid it out very clearly.
	You know...
	Who is this guy?
	This guy, well, he...
	I never see a picture of him in the White House.
	But, no, he always does his little interviews right in front of the White House.
	Right in front, on the lawn.
	He's supposed to be working in there, is my understanding.
	This is his job.
	He comes out, he stands on the front lawn and does interviews and says very cutting, true stuff.
	The military is not a microcosm of civilian society.
	They are not there to reflect America.
	They are there to kill people and blow stuff up.
	They are not there to be socially engineered.
	We want people who are transgender to live happy lives, but we want unit cohesion and we want combat effectiveness.
	There are leading studies from the medical establishment, for example, that state that the transgender community has a 40% suicide attempt rate.
	That is a tragedy.
	We need to help those people.
	We don't need to try and force them into the hierarchical military environment Where they are under the utmost pressure to kill or be killed.
	And that is why the president is doing this out of the warmth of his consideration for this population.
	It's exactly what I said.
	He is protecting the transgender community.
	Funny thing is exactly what you said.
	Yeah.
	He is protecting the transgender community.
	That's what he said when he gave a speech.
	I'm going to protect you guys from the Muslim radicals.
	That's what he said.
	Yes.
	We have the clip.
	Somewhere.
	Don't make me get it.
	Ten minutes!
	I'm going to give you one more clip and we'll get out of here.
	I've got two choices, but I'll take this one because this story has to end.
	Ford has to start advertising with the mainstream media or they're going to keep getting these stories.
	This also is about Austin, Texas.
	Can I go?
	Tonight, another case like this one of a police officer passing out at the wheel and having an accident, allegedly after unsafe exposure to carbon monoxide.
	This crash happened in Newport Beach, California, the new case in Auburn, Massachusetts.
	He said that he had just been involved in an accident and he had passed out and hit another vehicle.
	The Auburn officer lost control, struck a car at a stop sign, and wound up in a church parking lot across the street.
	He's been hospitalized.
	So have two other officers who also tested positive for carbon monoxide exposure.
	It's the latest in a series of troubling incidents involving late-model Ford police SUVs.
	The Austin, Texas, police department took nearly 400 vehicles off the streets after officers there reported getting sick from the fumes.
	Tonight, Ford says it is sending engineers to Auburn to inspect their vehicles and modifications made to them.
	All right, here's what I'm thinking.
	This is now the second story in as many shows about the Ford Explorer.
	In fact, there's been about six stories on the M5M. So how about this?
	Someone somewhere, maybe with an electric vehicle company, is trying to get the police business, and they're discrediting Ford in the interim.
	Who could that be?
	I don't know.
	It just hit me, so I haven't done any research.
	Could be.
	I don't know.
	Maybe this...
	Maybe...
	I don't know.
	I'm just thinking there's something going on with this.
	The voters might want the business.
	I mean...
	Chrysler might want the business.
	But whatever the case, this reminds me of the Toyota stuck gas pedal story that lingered.
	Oh, God.
	That took forever.
	Yeah, that took forever to find out.
	The next thing you know, I don't know how much it affected sales, but I'll tell you this right now.
	I would not buy a Ford Explorer.
	Of course not.
	Period.
	Of course not.
	This is horrible.
	I can't be the only one thinking like this.
	Cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland are sending out an RFI to automakers for an electric car order of 24,000 vehicles.
	This is from March.
	You watch.
	You watch.
	We're going to see.
	Because it's not just a problem with the Ford.
	It's specific to the combustion engine.
	That's why I thought of it.
	Yeah, because carbon monoxide is specific to that engine.
	Right.
	You're not going to get any carbon monoxide from...
	I mean, the counterattack, if you're going to do it against the electric car, is going to be a number of stores where people get electrocuted.
	There are a lot of situations where the car gets into a wreck and it shorts out in some way and you're having to be grounded.
	You get electrocuted.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I've heard that EMTs are getting special education about certain or all electric vehicles so that they don't get electrocuted when they try to save someone.
	Right, EMT doesn't want to get electrocuted.
	Yeah.
	That's like a miserable...
	And the guy's just turning into a cooked chicken right there in front of your eyes.
	That's not going to be fun.
	How much...
	Amperage and or voltage we're talking about.
	It must be huge amps.
	That's what kills you.
	Oh, it's huge.
	Huge.
	Especially in a Tesla.
	Like what?
	What's huge?
	I don't know, but it's enough to probably fry you instantly.
	Wow.
	Even if it's direct current?
	Or is it alternate?
	It has to be direct current, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	Well, if you've ever gotten a jolt from a 12-volt small size direct current battery that's hooked to a car, there's something to think about.
	Yeah.
	I've got to figure out.
	I've got to look into that.
	I want to find out what kind of amperage they have.
	It must be off the hook.
	Let's do it.
	Let's work on that.
	That would be part of the next couple of next shows.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hey!
	We'll do some production.
	I bet you there's a lot of covered up cases of people being electrocuted.
	They just don't want to talk about it.
	I love it when you latch on to something like that.
	You are the Seymour Hersh of my generation, John C. Dvorak.
	Hardly.
	All right, everybody.
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	Until then, coming to you from the common law condo, the 5x9 Cludio, here in Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star State, FEMA Region 6, in the morning, everybody.
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	Adios, mofos!
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	President Chomp.
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	And for the first time, it really hurts.
	I realize I'm below VJ now.
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	There's a real cutie comes up to me and says, so what do you do?
	And I said, I'm a podcaster.
	And so she just turned and walked off.
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	I'm doing this thing on some of these guys now.
	It's pretty funny.
	I say I have bullcrap, and I put hashtag blocked.
	Just to freak them.
	Ah.
	Eh.
	Blocked.
	Right.
	Blocked.
	Hashtag blocked.
	Just to freak them.
	Just to freak them.
	Just a freak.
	What I do is I go over and look and see what their stuff looks like.
	If it's interesting enough, I don't block them.
	And I rarely block them nowadays.
	I just put blocked just to freak them.
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	Just to freak them.
	Nowadays, blocked.
	I just put blocked.
	Hashtag blocked.
	Just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak, just a freak block. Beclaiming my time, beclaiming my time, beclaiming my time.
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	When you're on my time, I can reclaim it.
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	Brian Brushroot, who, when he was overused, is the word he constantly says, dude.
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	I'm gonna hear ya.
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	In the morning then, bastard.

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