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	We should have a whole bunch of little kids going, Elon, save me!
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, August 10, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 5, 4.
	This is no agenda.
	Shilling for seeds and coming to you from the darkest corners of the internet from the capital of the drone star.
	Stay here in Austin Tejas in the Cludio in the morning.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we're here in California.
	We're worried about being nuked.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Blunt and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	I thought it was only for Hawaii.
	No, we're worried.
	Sick.
	Really.
	Is everyone talking about it?
	Is it on the news over there?
	Oh, it's on the news.
	Oh, yeah.
	They had all these people coming out.
	And you see these...
	I don't want to generalize what type of people they are, but they tend to be kind of the local Democrats.
	And they're all shaking in their boots, worried sick.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, now we've got to worry about...
	I think I have a clip on this in the list.
	I'd have to go get the list.
	Yeah, I'm thinking it's maybe Mini Nuke Nonsense 1.
	No, no, that's more nonsense.
	That's really different.
	Wait a minute.
	This show, you're bringing nonsense to the show?
	Yeah.
	Play mini-nuke nonsense one.
	Okay.
	The president painting a dark and ominous image of the same day NBC News has learned that U.S. intelligence now has reason to believe North Korea has managed to create a nuclear warhead small enough to be launched aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile.
	Our Andrea Mitchell begins our coverage.
	The alarming warning tonight from a U.S. official brief from the Defense Intelligence Agency assessment.
	Telling NBC News Kim Jong-un has now constructed a miniature nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside one of its new long-range missiles, a missile that could reach the U.S. mainland.
	A major line crossed.
	The dictator has before shown off what he claims to be a miniaturized nuclear weapon.
	Now he may have built one.
	It doesn't appear that there's an immediate threat to the homeland, but the problem is he's beginning to perfect all of the elements of the ability to deliver a nuclear device to the homeland.
	The speed of the regime's nuclear progress is stunning.
	U.S. intelligence thought it would take years to get this far.
	But just 11 days ago, North Korea launched a missile test that could reach all the way to Chicago.
	And now they may have a miniaturized weapon as well.
	How did U.S. intelligence miss the timing?
	The underestimation of the pace of this program represents a real blind spot as well as a danger for the United States.
	We're all going to die!
	Hey, I still want to know what the genesis of this report is.
	I mean, this sounds like aluminum tubes, yellow cake.
	I mean, where did this come from?
	Who had this first?
	And where is it?
	Why can't we see a copy?
	Of the mini-nuke?
	Yeah, the mini nuke.
	Play the second half of that and we're done.
	I found this still called Local Report we're looking for.
	There are still big hurdles for North Korea, crafting a warhead that can survive re-entry into the atmosphere and testing its accuracy to hit a target.
	Ignition.
	Recent West Coast missile defense tests have successfully shot down a missile over the Pacific, but the system cannot be counted on to be 100% accurate.
	While this is just one intelligence assessment, the fear is North Korea is on track to solve the technical challenges sooner rather than later.
	The North Koreans, if they proceed on their nuclear program, will figure out how to miniaturize the nuclear device, which they have shown that they know how to detonate.
	Miniaturize it and put it on top of an ICBM. Tonight, North Korea threatened Guam while some lawmakers are slamming the president's comments, Democrat Dianne Feinstein calling them bombastic and recommending diplomacy, Republican John McCain saying he can't think of any other president who would have used that kind of rhetoric.
	Why doesn't Californians get themselves an Iron Dome like we gave to Israel?
	By the way, all the NBC and CBS reports always, and I have a number of them here, always finish with a little John McCain.
	Oh, really?
	Yes, all of them.
	That one you just heard ended with John McCain.
	I understand that, but I didn't know they all ended with that.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, I found that to be very interesting.
	It was just like everyone had this little John McCain kicker at the end.
	So here's our local...
	I don't think we're about to go to nuclear war.
	I would hope even a regime as unstable as the North Koreans would realize the folly of that.
	Good job, John.
	You left out the good part.
	That's right.
	Try the second clip.
	Some say President Trump's fire and fury comments inflame the situation.
	People don't necessarily believe he will do what he says, but you don't know.
	If anybody can control Trump, I don't know.
	Hopefully the generals can.
	I have some thoughts on this because I learned some things yesterday.
	I don't know if you have any other clips you want to play regarding this.
	I have one more clip because of what that guy just said.
	If you listen to it again, he says, I hope the generals can control Trump.
	President Trump's fire and fury comments inflame the situation.
	People don't necessarily believe he will do what he says, but you don't know.
	If anybody can control Trump, I don't know.
	Hopefully the generals can.
	Now play the Paul Begala clip.
	Okay.
	Right?
	He used that word deliberately so that, although a provocative act, he wasn't escalating so much to lead us into war.
	That kind of nuance is required in the job, and this president has got to rise to the occasion.
	And frankly, his generals cannot allow him to go out unscripted on something like this.
	And Tim, I'm even saying unscripted.
	His generals cannot allow him to go unscripted.
	Well, but has anyone noticed that he's actually the boss of the generals?
	No, the generals are going to save us.
	The generals are running the country.
	This has been a military coup.
	Well, I'm not so sure.
	I learned something yesterday that changed my thinking a little bit on this and the genesis of this report, which now that I think about it, may actually have come from the Trump administration themselves.
	As a bogative report.
	You probably didn't see it.
	Yesterday I was on the Seed Man show.
	A lot of people told me about it.
	You didn't see it?
	No, I didn't see it.
	No, that's too bad.
	Because along with me on the show was Steve Pisniak.
	I think that's how you pronounce it.
	Yeah.
	Pisniak.
	Do you know him?
	I've heard of him.
	Well, I didn't really understand exactly who this guy was, other than that he started off by saying, Hey, I know your Uncle Don.
	He's a great guy.
	We work together.
	He kept on going about Uncle Don.
	Okay, so he's a spook.
	Listen to him.
	Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker.
	Expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management, and psychological warfare.
	Served presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush in capacity of Deputy Assistant Secretary.
	He's 73 now.
	So in 1974, he joined the State Department as the Office for Prevention of Terrorism.
	He then became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Management.
	He served as a special on hostage-taking for the State Department, dealt with two high-profile hostage situations, TWA Flight 355, also the Iran hostage crisis, and this is the guy who co-wrote many of the Clancy novels.
	Ah.
	Yeah.
	He was at the Camp David.
	Did you ask him why they killed Clancy?
	Well, it doesn't matter.
	He said he wrote everything anyway.
	He said Clancy was a really intelligent spook that was useless.
	Clancy was a spook?
	Yeah, he was a spook.
	But, from what I understand from...
	Here's what happened.
	After the show, he called me.
	And we spoke for an hour last night.
	And you know what this brings me to, right?
	Yeah, he's mind controlling me, obviously.
	No, no, no.
	Oh.
	Did you ask him if you could meet Inman?
	Oh, no, I forgot about that.
	That's okay, because we're going to talk more often.
	Okay, well that's great.
	So what did you find out from him?
	Okay, on the show, he deconstructed this entire situation.
	He said, this is completely wrong.
	He said, this was very...
	I knew the words were important.
	He said that Trump had chosen these words specifically because it was not a warning to North Korea.
	It was actually a warning to China, who are at war with India.
	As we speak, over the Bhutan area, and I didn't know anything about it.
	Well, I knew a little bit about it because we've dealt with it in the past.
	Yeah, well, why would you know anything about it?
	The news people don't care.
	All they want to talk about is Trump and let McCain get his licks in.
	And we discussed this specifically.
	He used to write for all kinds of stuff, and he said the New York Times are stupid.
	They just take information from sources.
	They just do whatever they're told to do.
	We've said that.
	But Bhutan right now, China is, you know, Bhutan is, and you really should look at the map, B-H-U-T-A-N, if you're following along at home.
	And this is this little country in between, it has borders on China and India.
	And what their main industry is hydroelectric power.
	There's one important waterway there that, you know, they have all the rights to it, and they've been selling that to India.
	And now China, literally, they are now, you know, like 40 yards across from each other.
	Indian troops, Chinese troops, there's all kinds of bullcrap going on.
	And they're trying, you know, India is saying, well, you know, we protect Bhutan, even though there's no official agreement or anything like that.
	So they're kind of claiming Bhutan.
	And China is moving closer, trying to move their border a little bit further.
	And there have been some...
	I don't think there's been any firing yet.
	But if you look at the...
	Let's see, what is the...
	What did he say?
	I think the guy from China had a big mouth.
	The defense minister.
	And it's a problem.
	And according to Pizniak, he said this was a warning to China to stop, otherwise we're going to start messing with your left flank, which is where this would be.
	And that it was not at all meant for North Korea.
	Nor did he think anything would happen, as we've already discussed.
	Yeah.
	And I just found it to be fascinating.
	We have to look into it now.
	If Bhutan is in the game, nobody's reporting anything on this.
	Now, there was a report in the New York Times like two weeks ago about something maybe heating up a little bit, but he was so adamant about it.
	And this guy was telling me stuff.
	Unbelievable.
	I mean, I had to write it all down, and then I'll try and process it.
	But I'm pretty sure he was also trying to mind-control me.
	Well, he's telling you a lot of stuff you should get for a guy you just met.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so this guy, you just heard his list of credits, he said a couple times, I don't care if Alex Jones is really Bill Hicks.
	I really don't care.
	Out of the blue, he kept saying that.
	Like, mm-hmm, okay, fine.
	It was very interesting.
	I don't care if Alex Jones is Bill Hicks.
	I don't know what the point of that was.
	That was some point that he's trying to make there.
	Yeah, he's trying to tell me something.
	That's what he does.
	Or it's mind control.
	It's some trick.
	It could be.
	Could be.
	Anyway, it was fun being on the show, although...
	Well, yeah, if you're with that guy, that had been a kick.
	Would you get to interact on the show with him?
	I didn't get to see the show because I just don't watch the show.
	So Jones was in rare form.
	And when I came in, his producer said, so what do you want to talk about?
	I said, because Jones was like, we're going to die around the brink of nuclear war!
	I said, let's talk about North Korea and I'll tell him what my uncle says because it's completely obvious, the opposite of what he's saying.
	But he was very interested and he kept jumping around and doing his Tourette's-like crazy stuff.
	And that was unfortunate because Steve had a lot of interesting things to say and then he would get interrupted.
	But, check it out.
	Next Wednesday, I'm going to fill in for Jones and do the whole four hours.
	I'm just going to have...
	Or Tell on.
	I'm going to have Peasnik on.
	I need two other great interviews.
	And so then we'll have an uninterrupted conversation.
	Can you get Inman?
	I don't know if he'll come.
	That would be a coup.
	He hasn't shown up for anything.
	I'd love to get Inman, and I'd like to get Uncle Don and Peasnik on the show at the same time.
	Yeah, Uncle Don's not going to come down for that.
	No, but just on Skype or something.
	It would be okay.
	Well, you can give it a shot.
	Why don't I get you on?
	Yeah, I can come in.
	Yeah.
	What am I going to say?
	Something profound.
	Well, I'll tell you something profound if you want to hear something profound that I don't see.
	You're talking about that Bhutan story.
	I don't see anybody talking about this.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Yeah.
	Yes, but here's another story that to me is amazing because I'm watching the networks, all of them, and the first eight to ten minutes of every show is about Trump and his fire and fury and people freaking out about, you know, or these little mini bombs and all the rest of it.
	Queen Elizabeth has given a decree passing over Charles.
	Well, you know, this had to happen, and I know why, because my buddy Michelle sent me a text a couple days ago.
	He said, you have to watch this Channel 4 documentary that is on right now about Diana, which is called Diana in Her Own Words.
	Right.
	And we watched.
	I don't know if you saw it.
	We watched it.
	And it's so obvious.
	They just needed a virgin.
	They brought her in, knocked her up.
	He always was with Camilla, and they had her killed.
	That's the whole story.
	And then he said to me two days ago, he said, Charles and Camille and his slut lover or whatever can never take the throne.
	And so now we have this decree.
	I didn't know about it.
	Nobody knows about it because they didn't cover it.
	Nobody's covered it.
	And here's the real kicker to me.
	That's the Diane thing.
	Part one or two parts ran on ABC last night.
	And it's a perfect tie-in.
	I have never seen them drop the ball on a tie-in, on something they're actively running on the air.
	Perfect time to do it.
	Yes, but they didn't do it.
	I can imagine the argument.
	Here's the argument.
	You want to do it.
	We're two executives arguing.
	Okay.
	We're going to run the Trump story today on the network, and now you're going to argue that...
	Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	There's something going on in the UK, man.
	I think that Queen Elizabeth may skip over Charles and go straight to...
	I got the wires.
	She actually has done that, but it's not that important compared to Trump.
	We got Trump and we got some clips from McCain blasting Trump for being an a-hole.
	And we got Kim Jong-un.
	What's the queen got to do with this?
	What am I thinking?
	I should go shame myself.
	So they have the tie-in.
	It's all right there with a bow on it.
	The Queen has made this decree, and apparently it's being covered pretty much only by the monarchy publications in the UK. And if you try to find stories on it, you're going to find very little.
	From what I can tell, my wife looked into this.
	Charles is so pissed that he won't even talk to his father now.
	You know, the old...
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	And Charles is beside himself.
	The two kids...
	And the way I've seen...
	I saw this thing because of the...
	When they rolled out the other Diana special about her when she was getting her voice lessons and they made a special out of that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's the one.
	That's the one.
	Well, there's another one running right now that's different then.
	And that's the one that ABC's running and they're still not tying it in.
	This whole thing was, because there's a very good article in the Mercury News that ran about three months ago discussing this.
	Hold on a second.
	This is not monarchy gossip, you assholes.
	This is about media and what they do and don't do.
	Go find a different podcast.
	Yeah, go find a different podcast.
	The Mercury News suggests this, but they don't quite say it.
	The whole thing was a scheme by William and Harry.
	That does not surprise me.
	And it turns out, according to this Mercury article, and this was picked up by nobody, she said that Prince Charles had screwed the boys over by setting up, but he got busted for it.
	they outed him.
	Somebody did.
	For setting up a bunch of tabloids to talk about Harry's drug addiction.
	Really?
	William was an a-hole.
	Well, Harry's young.
	Well, but William, he blasted the two of them and they found out about this and then they, now, according to the same party.
	So that's how the tapes, So that's how the tapes got out, that's how the documentary was made, and that's how they took him down.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	Yeah, well, good.
	That guy's a creep.
	Apparently, they would not, for about two or three years, that they will not let Charles near the baby.
	That's funny.
	So the whole thing, but this is like, for the networks especially, all three of the networks, and Fox included, and especially CNN, they could be, they'd be all over this story.
	Oh, the Queen's done this, because they love monarchy stuff.
	They love monarchy stuff so much that it's sickening to watch how much they love it.
	But because of this Trump...
	They hate Trump more than they love monarchy.
	They hate Trump so much that they can't bring themselves to run this story, which is, I think this is the biggest story of the monarchy story of the year, of the last five years.
	And it's interesting because, you know, Tina is very woke.
	But she had never heard any of the, until she met me, any of the theories regarding Diana being assassinated.
	She'd never heard that.
	Yeah, well, it's nothing that the media is going to discuss in that manner.
	Right.
	But I'm just saying that it's surprising to me.
	Actually, it's not surprising, I guess.
	People really just don't know stuff.
	Well, there's always been intrigue around the royal families, and I say families over the history of England.
	It's been nothing but intrigue with these people.
	And so none of this is a surprise.
	Yeah.
	But the fact that it's not being covered at all is unbelievable to me.
	So they can run these long, long...
	The NBC one must have gone 15 minutes.
	I have the ABC report.
	Well, before you do that, can I just play one little clip from the Alex Jones show?
	Oh, yeah.
	Why don't you...
	Let's wrap it up.
	Somebody sent me some clips and they were useless, so I didn't do anything.
	The main thing...
	A couple things I wanted to mention.
	One, and Tina said this quite rightly.
	She said, you know, if you go on Joan's show, you're going to be pegged as alt-right.
	I said, yeah, that's probably true, but I don't give a shit.
	I am who I am.
	But what was interesting to watch was Twitter.
	And the hate that came through, in particular, thin-shaming.
	I've been thin-shamed, yes.
	Oh, you look bulimic.
	Oh, you should eat a sandwich.
	You?
	I was thin shamed.
	Because I'm telling you, this is that big head of yours.
	And let me tell you, the thin shaming, it hurts.
	It's not nice.
	It hurts.
	I can assure anyone out there, the guy's not skinny.
	He has a big head that he's proud of because it makes him look good on TV. And the Tourette shaming was also pretty bad.
	Oh, that is unacceptable.
	You know, and I'm self-conscious of it and, you know, whatever.
	What are you doing?
	What twitch were you up to?
	Yeah, just the head bob.
	And when I was listening to, I noticed something else when I was listening to Steve, because I can't pronounce his last name, Pisniak, the right corner of my mouth started to pull down like I was having a stroke or something.
	It was a really bad tick, man.
	I'm like, what am I doing?
	This is stupid.
	Here is a clip, my favorite clip from the show.
	Well, I'll admit it, too.
	I mean, when they're talking about nuking and the president saying fire and fury, I'm kind of running around here.
	I mean, you know, like a chicken, you know.
	That's what happened.
	Well, we love you for that.
	You guys were worse than I am.
	For 25 years, I've been building babies and cows!
	Yeah.
	And you were right!
	It said it.
	That's the crazy part!
	It said it.
	It was like in the BBC 20 years ago.
	For at least 20 years, they've had humans chest dating an embryonic form inside bovine.
	And then I'm reading it, I mean...
	Yeah, you know...
	But I wasn't a trailblazer.
	They were doing it.
	What are you doing?
	You're talking over the clip.
	Oh, sorry.
	It's chastating in embryonic form inside.
	Hold on, stop, stop, stop.
	The problem is when you're in the clip, I think you're talking to me.
	Oh.
	It's like when you do, people don't know this when we do after the show when we're putting the show together.
	That's true.
	We'll be playing these clips.
	No, no, I'm, yeah, I'm bopping through the show trying to find an opening.
	And I think he's talking to me, but it's part of the show.
	Sometimes he plays me and he says, what do you mean?
	I'm not talking to you.
	It's really like a who's on first bit.
	It's pretty funny.
	But what did you think of my impersonation, my grown babies and cows?
	I thought it was pretty good.
	It was pretty close.
	Yeah.
	And you were right.
	That's the crazy part.
	It said it.
	It was like in the BBC 20 years ago.
	For at least 20 years, they've had humans chest dating an embryonic form inside bovine.
	And then I'm reading it.
	I wasn't a trailblazer.
	They were doing it.
	Mm-hmm.
	Gay frogs?
	Yes, gay frogs.
	The WB frog?
	Yeah, well that's atrazine.
	Atrazine is a real issue.
	It's not being discussed at all.
	He's just laughing.
	He's like, I can't believe I'm alive!
	That bit you did?
	Yeah.
	You were right all along where you said that?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You sounded exactly like, because you were doing voices, but you sounded like Max Keiser.
	Really?
	Yeah, it was pretty funny.
	Huh.
	I don't know if that's a compliment.
	I'm a little confused about that.
	I'm just telling you.
	But anyway, you know, they asked me, hey, could you...
	Actually, he asked me personally.
	He said, my wife...
	Was he a divorce or what?
	He kept talking about his wife.
	I have no idea.
	And he says, my wife wants to go away.
	She can't stand the mold in Austin.
	He said, yeah, I know that.
	That's when I pitched him no agenda quercetin.
	So you got to sell that to your shop.
	Did you...
	You can always ask his producers about some of that stuff.
	They'll tell you.
	About what stuff?
	Where he's married.
	Oh, I'm not interested, but he asked me personally if I could fill in Wednesday.
	I said, no, let me think about it.
	But I thought about it because I really don't like doing video or television.
	Yeah.
	But then I thought, you know, it'd be interesting to talk to that Pizniak guy.
	I could get Ortel on.
	Shit, maybe I could get Roger Stone.
	Just ask him.
	Oh, get Stone on.
	You need to meet up with him.
	Get Roger Stone.
	Get Roger Stone.
	Yeah, we can get him.
	Yeah, it'd be interesting.
	And then we could probably use that for Evergreens, something.
	Probably not.
	Well, you could probably dream up some...
	Well, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
	Yeah.
	But, yeah.
	Go for it.
	Yeah.
	So, I don't know.
	I had a good time, I have to say.
	It was just interesting that there was so much more negativity as to the previous time I went on, which was before...
	Was that before Trump was elected?
	Yeah.
	I think so.
	No.
	Well, the second...
	No, you're right.
	The first time I went on was before he was elected.
	The second time was the inauguration day, I think, when I was on with those two women.
	With the women.
	Yeah.
	That were flirting with you.
	Yeah, I'll never do that again.
	That just wasn't fun.
	Like, I don't know.
	I got gypped.
	You did fine.
	It was kind of vacuous, but it was...
	Here's one from the Red Book.
	For the Red Book.
	For the Red Book.
	Did I... I don't know if we put this entry in there.
	When we were talking about Narcan and how they're on such an incredible PR blitz, did we talk at all about...
	I think I said that I expected it to be parties where, hey man, let's all OD and die and then one guy will bring us back.
	I think we talked about it, and I don't know if we put it in the book or not.
	I don't know.
	We'll assume it's in there.
	Well, I'm spiking the ball.
	Drug users are pushing it way too far.
	Overdosing to reach the brink of death at what's being called a Narcan or Lazarus party.
	They are intentionally trying to find out what it feels like to be brought back to life.
	What's the story of Lazarus?
	It's happening right here in our area and emergency workers are stunned and outraged.
	Inside this ambulance is a miracle drug called Narcan.
	It's a drug that saves lives, but emergency workers say it's also driving drug addicts over the edge.
	With the Narcan being readily available and over-the-counter now, they're having group gatherings, what their slang term is Narcan parties.
	EMS Battalion Chief Chris Richardson says the parties are at houses even in parking lots.
	Party-goers get so high on heroin, they overdose.
	They have someone who will stay clean with Narcan with the ability to reverse those effects if someone stops breathing.
	He says recently a couple came to a shopping center to get high enough to pass out, knowing an ambulance with Narcan was just a call away.
	They both wanted to use, and they did it in a public place so they would be found.
	The numbers are staggering.
	In all of 2016, Rowan EMS responded to 292 calls where they administered Narcan.
	This year, only through June, they've already had 284 calls, a 94 percent increase.
	Today, EMS workers said they're concerned that users are treating Narcan like a safety net over and over again.
	Some that we've gone to multiple times, and that's what's scary.
	Yeah, I'll say it's scary.
	And what I find incredibly disappointing is the president got no airtime just before the North Korea memo and the fire and fury.
	He had a pretty important speech about the opioid crisis.
	But, you know, oh yes, we have to have treatment.
	Come on!
	Everybody knows what's going on here.
	We know that most of this is starting with prescription drugs.
	You know, it's the pharmaceutical industry that has to be looked at.
	Nothing, nothing about that.
	Well, luckily a couple of states are suing the big pharmas.
	So far that was one success and it's going to be a...
	When's success and it's going to be domino effect?
	Well, the Narcan is concerning, as we witness in this report from Maryland.
	Yeah, I didn't see that coming when that traffic stop was first initiated and they got out.
	But that is not a rare occurrence in Maryland.
	We have a tremendous heroin addiction problem in suburban kids.
	And in Montgomery County, Maryland, this week they passed a bill that is going to put Narcan in every school, elementary, middle school, and high school.
	Unprecedented.
	And Narcan is something.
	Narcan is what they give to people for overdoses.
	Elementary school.
	This is getting good.
	I don't know.
	That's terrible.
	Yeah.
	And these assholes who are wasting the Narcan.
	I don't know what they get out of it.
	It must be something spectacular or they wouldn't be doing it over and over.
	What was interesting is one of our producers said very clearly that no junkie would ever want to be...
	In fact, when the Narcan is used by EMT people we know, they say that the person whose life you just saved is typically outraged, angry because they had such a great high and you ruined it for them.
	Which is why I still find it interesting that these reports are being presented this way.
	It may be bullcrap.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	It could be that it's just more Narcan advertising.
	Because these guys, they got it.
	They're on a roll.
	Yeah, you might be right.
	And they're private, right?
	We looked at that.
	They're a private company.
	You can't even buy stock in them or anything.
	Yeah, I've been a good one.
	And on that note, on Big Pharma, just briefly a note from Jennifer Chokolachek.
	Is she a dame?
	I don't know that she is.
	Well, she donates a lot, and I'm pretty sure.
	Maybe she is.
	Well, I wanted to revisit Gardasil, which we have been talking about since, I want to say...
	Man.
	The beginning of the show almost?
	The beginning of the show almost.
	Years.
	And I have a lot of experience.
	By the way, I do have the full 60 second commercial.
	Yeah, we'll do that right after this.
	I like that.
	Which is got both the men and the women begging to mom and dad or saying to mom and dad that you killed me.
	Good.
	Oh, it's cool, by the way, I just want to mention before you can say that.
	These ads do say it's an actor, which makes it actually worse.
	A what?
	An actor?
	It says right at the bottom, it says actor.
	Jennifer says, Hey Adam, the Gardasil ad that John found for yesterday's show is unbelievable.
	I wanted to share my knowledge about HPV and confirm the ad is complete bullcrap.
	If you decide to mention this on the air, please just omit my name.
	Oops.
	I guess I should stop then.
	Shit.
	I'm sorry.
	What she experienced is exactly what I went through with Christina and the other women in my life have gone through this.
	And they call you up and they say, well, precancerous cells, yeah, you better come back in.
	And then you're on pins and needles for days.
	And they say, well, you're okay.
	And you come into the office.
	Come into the office.
	We'll talk about it.
	And then that's the windup.
	And then the pitch is, well, you know, you really don't want to have this.
	So you probably should take the Gardasil shot.
	But it's always with precancerous abnormal cells.
	And we've had doctors tell us there's no such thing.
	And, well, also what the drug...
	Is it cancerous or it's not?
	It's not pre-cancerous.
	We're all pre-cancerous.
	We're pre-dead.
	Yeah, all cells are pre-cancerous.
	Yeah, and we're pre-dead and everything.
	Interesting, I did not know, or I probably did know, but good to point out again, there is no test for HPV for men, by the way.
	Yeah, how about that?
	Well, that's a shame.
	Yeah.
	We could really be racking up the money.
	All right, let's play the long version of that commercial.
	I have cervical cancer from an infection, human papillomavirus.
	Who knew HPV could lead to certain cancers?
	Who knew my risk for HPV would increase as I got older?
	Who knew that there was something that could have helped protect me from HPV when I was 11 or 12, way before I would even be exposed to it?
	Did you know, Mom?
	Dad?
	I hate you, child!
	Die!
	I was infected with HPV. Maybe my parents didn't know how widespread HPV is.
	While HPV clears up for most, that wasn't the case for me.
	Maybe they didn't know I would end up with cancer because of HPV. Maybe if they had known there was a vaccine to help protect me when I was 11 or 12.
	Maybe my parents just didn't know.
	Right, Mom?
	Dad?
	What will you say?
	Don't wait.
	Talk to your child's doctor today.
	Learn more at hpv.com.
	Unbelievable.
	There's another one, a companion add to this.
	I had a swollen amygdala.
	Maybe my parents didn't know how widespread swollen amygdala is.
	While swollen amygdala shrinks for most, that wasn't the case for me.
	Maybe they didn't know I would end up a douchebag SJW because of my swollen amygdala.
	Maybe if they'd known there's a podcast to help protect me when I was 11 or 12, maybe my parents just didn't know.
	Right, Mom?
	Dad?
	What will you say?
	Don't wait.
	Log on to your child's podcast app today.
	Learn more at youmightdie.org.
	And that youmightdie.org actually goes to...
	No agenda.
	No agenda player, yeah.
	That's Chris Wilson, by the way, and the douchebag from the Penal Conley and Kevin MacLeod from New York Creative Commons for the music.
	I laughed loudly when I heard it the first time.
	And that's what our show is about, people.
	Nothing but...
	Monarchy news, that's what it's about.
	Monarchy news, that's right.
	That's what we're all about.
	I did have a very interesting chat with two guys, one from the Netherlands, one from Finland, at the same time, they're both in the same company, regarding the Beanie Coin.
	Do we have any forward movement on this?
	We have big, big time forward movement.
	Good.
	Yes, absolutely.
	They explain their system, how it would work, and what would be kind of important is to have a no agenda merchant network.
	So like the no agenda shop guys, you know, if they participate, then we can really get it going.
	And again, the ultimate goal is just by contributing to the show, Not only do you support the show, but you also create additional value.
	And within, you know, I'm saying we could probably do it within 24 months.
	Then we can all retire with some money in our pocket.
	You, me, and the listeners.
	Sounds good to me.
	Right?
	And these guys loved it.
	They said this is a great idea.
	Money-making scheme.
	Yet another one.
	But this one might actually pay off.
	I have a good feeling.
	It's the weirdest one, so it's possible.
	I do have a Bitcoin report.
	It's called Nitcoin on this rundown.
	And I just want you to listen to it because this is on CNBC and this is the best they can do for people that kind of don't know tech.
	And they're kind of young, and they're millennials, and they're reporting on something.
	There's a little gotcha in the middle of this evening to spot it.
	Over to you.
	Ouch, that's one to watch.
	Morgan, thank you.
	Meantime, Bitcoin has gone the other way, surging above $3,000, more than tripling in value for the year.
	Seema Modi joins us with what is behind the recent news.
	It's always tough to explain what's behind the Bitcoin news.
	It's tough, but we have been speaking to a number of analysts and those who are considered experts in this new emerging asset class, as we call it, cryptocurrencies.
	It broke 3,400 today.
	That is a new record high for Bitcoin, and this is being attributed to a relief rally.
	Last week was a big moment for Bitcoin.
	There was a software upgrade known as Ford, which resulted in a split.
	So there are now two competitive currencies in the Bitcoin world.
	Roll that back for the dude named Ben and the dudettes named Bernadette who want to laugh at the software upgrade known as the fork.
	Beef rally.
	Last week was a big moment for Bitcoin.
	There was a software upgrade known as fork which resulted...
	Ha ha ha!
	I want to finish it again.
	...tributed to a relief rally.
	Last week was a big moment for Bitcoin.
	There was a software upgrade known as Ford, which resulted in a split.
	So there are now two Oh, shut up.
	Boy, what a dit.
	Oh, there's two coins.
	Man, there's about 60 of them.
	And they're all trading.
	I think it's more than a few hundred.
	Oh, okay.
	The ones on the exchanges that I've found.
	And Beanie Coin is just the working title.
	I have some other ideas.
	I just don't want to give them out on the air.
	Okay.
	The best idea is the one we'll use.
	You know what someone said is, why don't you call it curry coin and have India go crazy?
	Oh, by the way, I had a story.
	I forgot to tell you.
	When we were in New York...
	That's not a bad idea.
	Well, when we were in New York and New Jersey, we had the driver from India, and I said, you know, so what was the deal with Modi taking all the cash out of circulation?
	And I said, I heard that that was to thwart his competition because they all have cash donations and he has, you know, the elites have everything with bank transfers, etc.
	And he said, yep, absolutely.
	And he says it's even crazier.
	They came back, and they're now issuing a new 500-rupee bill, and instead of 1,000, they're going to a 2,000-rupee bill.
	So they're bringing it back.
	He took it out for the election, and now he's putting it back in.
	Not reported on, probably.
	You think?
	Yep.
	Along with, just on a quick Uber report, A rare Uber driver from Sri Lanka.
	Hey man, how's Sri Lanka?
	I don't know crap about Sri Lanka.
	My go-to is usually, how are the Chinese there?
	I don't know.
	He says, oh, very, very problematic.
	People dying.
	I said, what?
	Yep.
	Dengue fever has struck Sri Lanka.
	Well, that's a ripe area for it.
	But he says it's really, really bad this time.
	And he says no one is doing anything.
	He says the UN's not helping.
	World Health Organization not helping.
	No country wants to deal with them.
	And old people are dying almost immediately.
	And even some babies.
	And all the hospitals are full.
	And he says it's a mess.
	It's just an absolute mess.
	And we're not hearing anything about that.
	Eh, we can find out.
	But, you know, when it comes to Zika, which is also transferred through a mosquito wall, then we have to be all over it.
	Well, there's money to be made.
	Where's the money?
	Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Where's the money?
	Hold on, hold on.
	I should have had that one ready, I guess.
	We're going to freak down.
	Sorry.
	Hello!
	Oh, Zika.
	Oh, Zika.
	Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
	A little baby with a little bitty head.
	With a baby with a small head.
	They're going to have to make a little head.
	You watch.
	Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Yeah.
	Where's the money?
	$1.9 billion.
	There you go.
	All right.
	Yeah, no money for Shrela.
	No money for dengue fever, which is a real problem.
	Yeah, it's a problem on all the islands of the Caribbean.
	I have a friend who had it once.
	The main thing you got to know is if you...
	Under any circumstances, it'll kill you.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's a hemorrhagic fever.
	And the aspirin does what?
	It promotes it.
	It promotes hemorrhaging.
	You bleed to death.
	You have to take Tylenol.
	Well, good.
	That's one for the...
	For the first aid kit.
	Don't take that.
	Don't take it.
	Exactly.
	I just got in this morning.
	Did you hear about this?
	The Cuban embassy?
	That the employees there may have suffered permanent hearing loss from an acoustic attack?
	What?
	Yeah.
	I should have gotten a clip of them saying this.
	Heather said that some U.S. government personnel working in the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on official duty, reported some incidents that were causing physical symptoms.
	Because there are a variety of symptoms, there could be a variety of sources, but everything that I've read, that I've been able to find about it, is that it was an acoustic.
	I have a clip, hold on.
	I mean, we seem to be the ones that do that sort of research.
	I know.
	I don't think so.
	One of our producers got the actual audio that was used during the attack and slowed it down.
	Oh, let it slow down.
	Is that the devil?
	Yeah.
	Who knows?
	But that's weird.
	Who's doing that?
	Who's doing that stuff?
	Well, it's funny that you mention Heather, because you're talking about State Department Heather.
	She's apparently, I didn't know this, that she's apparently friends with Marie Harf.
	Oh, brother.
	That goes way back.
	It could be a threesome with Matt now.
	I think there's some thinking along those lines because I'm watching the five of all things because I'm sitting, I'm bored.
	And I'm noticing that the five is deteriorated.
	It's not really much about politics anymore.
	It's just a bunch, you know, random gossip, Cheetos, things like that.
	And so there's this blonde there and as soon as she speaks up, I know that voice.
	And Marie Harf is now a regular on The Five on Fox.
	No.
	Even though she worked for Obama.
	And she's got her hair.
	I don't know who's doing her hair, but her hair is absolutely beautiful.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see.
	And she's made up a little better, so she's not quite recognizable as the prissy Marie Harf we're all familiar with.
	And so they throw it to her.
	And I have a clip.
	They throw it to her to have her explain the situation with her and Heather, never mentioning Matt.
	I see the hair.
	It's kind of feathered.
	It's wavy down at the bottom, flat on top.
	Very nice style.
	And it totally softens her entire look.
	But she also has new glasses.
	I think these are better.
	It's a little different, these glasses.
	Anyway, I didn't recognize her at first, but I did recognize her by the voice.
	And we'll see what she has to say.
	Welcome back to Friday.
	Oops.
	Sorry.
	Okay.
	So, in my previous life, before I got to Fox, I was the State Department spokesperson who briefed at the podium every day.
	And the person who does that now is Heather Nowert, who we all know as our former Fox columnist.
	Well, was Kennedy on the show, too?
	It sounds like they were all really having a good time.
	There she is.
	That was from her briefing today, where much of it was on North Korea.
	And my one more thing is that this is a really tough job.
	It's a very demanding one, and that she is by far, I think, the best spokesperson this administration has, and they're not using her enough.
	I agree.
	And she spent all today talking about...
	I watched the briefing on the train up here talking about North Korea trying to make sense of a really complicated issue for an administration, quite frankly, that hasn't always made sense on foreign policy.
	So we all talk here about...
	You're doing so well.
	I know, I know.
	But we all talk here about how this administration needs some comms help and needs people out there making the case for them.
	They have a gem down the street at the State Department.
	And my old job, they should use her more.
	Do you know what else you have in common with her?
	Both on the five.
	Oh, and this one time at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy.
	It's so her.
	Yeah.
	There you have it.
	Well, that is interesting.
	I think she's a welcome addition to the Fox family.
	Get worse by the show.
	Well, it can't be much worse than CNN. That crap has just become unwatchable.
	And I'm just flipping around, I caught one of these, you know, again, all they're talking about, I'm thinking about this situation.
	Oh, I know, I know, I know what they're talking about.
	So they're talking about Trump.
	Oh, I thought you were going to talk about the memo.
	The memo, the Google memo.
	Oh, did they talk?
	Okay, there's the three stories this week.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	I just want to play a compilation of the networks about the Google memo.
	Go ahead.
	Three stories this week.
	Go ahead.
	Three stories.
	There's the memo, there's Trump, and then there's my favorite story, is the Paul Manafort break-in.
	Yeah.
	Which I have one clip of each of these, but play the compilation first.
	Okay, and as it turns out, it's primarily women who are doing these little announcements.
	Google, taking swift action, reportedly firing an employee behind a controversial anti-diversity manifesto.
	A stunning, disturbing story circulating a 3,300-word sexist memo.
	What has been called a sexist manifesto.
	A breathtakingly sexist memo.
	Where he's essentially saying, well, I don't really like women anywhere near a computer.
	A Google employee's anti-diversity screen.
	Kind of an anti-diversity memo.
	A controversial anti-diversity memo.
	Controversial anti-diversity memo.
	We're not trying to cherry pick from it, but he essentially is saying rails against diversity and gender equality.
	Alleging that men are better at tech jobs than women.
	Why?
	Biology.
	Seriously.
	Slamming his female co-workers in the process.
	They can't handle high-stress work.
	Yes, he did say that.
	There shouldn't be this big effort underway to make sure that the workplace is diverse because women and men just don't have the same set of skills.
	Google employees saying that women are inferior and that's why there are not as many women software engineers.
	He writes that the gender wage gap is a myth.
	I disagree with what he wrote profoundly.
	Heck yeah!
	Heck yeah!
	You didn't say women are inferior.
	Let me just say, almost every single word that came out of these newscasters' mouths was not in the memo.
	This is because, as we've noticed for, I don't know, 10 years almost, coming up to 10 years, nobody reads the memos.
	Somebody writes a little script for them and they read the script.
	In fact, I thought it was quite thoughtful, written really from the perspective of what is good for Google.
	They kept saying, this is not good for Google.
	We need to be better.
	And it was pretty thoughtful.
	There were lots of triggers in there, for instance.
	It was all triggers.
	It was thoughtful from the perspective of a freshman that just took his first sociology class, and he thinks he knows it all.
	I found it was a very shallow...
	I didn't think it was as destructive as they made it out to be.
	You're right.
	The one thing was it was about Google and what we could do to improve what we're doing.
	But it was pretty shallow.
	What it was turned into, and I'll just play this clip and then I want to hear yours, is...
	That it was tied into the bro culture and the sexual abuse.
	And I just have to play this clip of some retarded woman, I don't know who it was, on with Brooke from CNN. And it was just, it was a head shaker.
	So do you agree, like, you know, Mary Catherine, I think, it was essentially saying, you know, America's great for all these various opinions, diversification of thought, you know, that that was maybe wrong for Google, despite the fact that maybe we don't all agree with what this guy said, he's allowed to say it.
	Do you think he was allowed to say that, where he's essentially saying, well, I don't really like women anywhere near a computer, and should he have been fired for it?
	Liz?
	Liz?
	I find it interesting that he felt comfortable sharing this with people at the company in the way that I felt that it was interesting, you know, when stuff came out of the culture at Uber that was, you know, enabled systemic sexual harassment and the sort of things that I think a lot of men felt like they could say and do were not appropriate.
	I do wonder what kind of culture exists at Google That made a white man who's in a senior position, you know, engineer at one of the most, one of the biggest tech companies in the world, feel threatened by a few diversity programs.
	And then, you know, want to share that with, and write 10 pages about it, and, you know, fear it, and it have leaked in the way that it had, and think that there would be no consequences.
	But isn't a piece of this, Mary Catherine, this is directed to you, where this software engineer, he had hiring power.
	I mean, he could impact the empowerment of women.
	And again, I go back to paraphrasing.
	This is a guy who's basically saying, I don't like women around computers.
	I don't like women around computers!
	Yeah, that really wasn't in the memo.
	My goodness.
	Let's just create our own memo and talk about that.
	That's what they're doing.
	I mean, this is ridiculous.
	And by the way, the guy himself, it was supposed to be a private memo, just got out somehow, which, you know, you can't really write a private memo, but you could.
	I've done it.
	I've written memos that never got out.
	But...
	It got out, and so now they're all making a big stink about it.
	It's supposed to be to certain management people, and some people brought that up and some others haven't.
	But what I always think about, I'm assuming that this character never saw the Jerry Maguire movie.
	Yeah, apparently you haven't either.
	I've seen the Jerry Maguire movie.
	Of course I have.
	Well, the Jerry Maguire movie's premise begins with a memo.
	I don't remember that part.
	It's been a while.
	Yes, he goes out in front of a group and he reads from his...
	He's got his new ideas and he's got a memo.
	And I believe it's a memo or it's just a big statement.
	But he makes a statement of how we got to change and how we have to do to improve things.
	And he goes on and on and on and he's fired.
	Like the next day.
	For making any suggestions whatsoever.
	That's how he got kicked out of his company, if you remember that.
	And so apparently, I mean, that can happen to anyone who wants to, you know, make some sort of arrogant suggestion, which I think this is what this guy was.
	It was an arrogant suggestion.
	But let's listen to the best, and I listened to all the networks do all the discussions of this, and I decided ABC had the absolute best rundown because of what you'll hear in part two of these two Google Memo ABC rundown clips.
	We turn next year tonight to that controversy sparked by a former Google engineer who wrote a 10-page memo criticizing the company's diversity program, saying women lag behind in the tech world because of their biology.
	Tonight he's out of the job, but he's standing by his words as we hear from him for the first time.
	Here's ABC's chief business correspondent, Rebecca Jarvis.
	Tonight, the fired software engineer who sparked a firestorm after challenging Google's diversity program speaking out.
	I'm not saying that any of the female engineers at Google are in any way worse than the average male engineer.
	In an interview on YouTube, James Damore standing by his intern...
	Even that, even him saying the average male engineer is already a microaggression.
	Any of...
	The female engineers at Google are in any way worse than the average male engineer.
	In an interview on YouTube, James Damore standing by his internal memo in which he argues that women, on average, have more neuroticism and higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance than men, and that the abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes, and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
	Damore says he values diversity, But insist that by recognizing differences, we can improve the workplace.
	For example, cooperativeness, which is higher in women than men.
	We should make the workplace a place where you can actually thrive if you're cooperative.
	Google firing Damore after his post went viral, saying his words violated their code of conduct by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.
	And let me go on record to say right now, the next war will be the men fighting back.
	It's happening.
	And it's going to be very ugly.
	Because men, when they lose their minds, they lose their minds.
	My wife thinks that the Democrat Party is going to be all women.
	Black women.
	No, no.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's Whoopi and Oprah.
	No, no.
	She's been up in Port Angeles.
	She goes to a meeting where there's a Democrats meet.
	And it's these women that are dominating and aren't black women.
	There's noisy black women in the Black Lives Matter group.
	And they're very dominating.
	I agree with that.
	But there's not that many of them to really make a difference.
	She describes them as fat millennials who are proud of being fat, who want to be fat, and their arms are crossed all the time.
	Yes.
	And everything you do is a microaggression or it's wrong.
	And they hate the MRAs.
	Men's rights activists.
	Oh, yeah.
	I don't...
	Men's rights activists.
	That was the triggering thing with this guy's memo.
	He had all the triggers in there that men's rights activists talk about.
	But you watch.
	Just put it in the book.
	Just put it there.
	Just put a little entry.
	It'll be...
	Men are going to start fighting back, and it's going to be ugly.
	Well, we'll see.
	Now, the thing that got me most about this report is contained in the second half of it.
	And it's extreme.
	I found this to be what there's a comment that's going to be made that I found to be extremely concerning.
	Advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.
	Today the CEO of YouTube, owned by Google's parent company, sharing how hard it was to explain the memo to her daughter.
	I thought about how tragic it was that this unfounded bias was now being exposed to a new generation.
	David, the Labor Department is already investigating allegations of wage discrimination.
	Google denies those allegations.
	David?
	Okay.
	She had, her daughter, who I, this is the head of YouTube, her daughter, who I don't know, she looks like she's 30, her daughter's probably 10 or 15, I don't think she's an older girl.
	I had to explain to her This is like taking helicopter parenting to a new level.
	Let me just play that quote again.
	Part it was to explain the memo to her daughter.
	I thought about how tragic it was that this unfounded bias was now being exposed to a new generation.
	Exposed to a new, this unfounded bias.
	Exposed.
	And this is, again, this goes back to our commentary on freedom of speech.
	Yep.
	Exposing the children to this information or bias, what if it's true?
	But what if it's not?
	What difference does it make?
	The kid can't seem to...
	You don't want to expose it at all.
	So you don't want them to read this.
	You don't want them to read that.
	It's improper thinking.
	This is the end of...
	Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, I can assure you.
	Oh yeah, that book has to go.
	It's been taken off a lot of book lists.
	Not just that, but how about the entire Tom Swift series?
	Tom Swift, anything like that.
	Yes, the Hardy Boys for that matter.
	Yeah, Hardy Boys, the early Hardy Boys too.
	They talk about Negroes.
	He was our Negro.
	All of these books, all of these works that have been written over the centuries.
	We're talking about stuff that you cannot, this is book burning.
	Yes, it's digital, virtual book burning.
	And this is what's going to happen because she had to explain to her, I guess her daughter was upset.
	I don't know.
	I can't imagine a kid caring at all about a Google memo.
	I could barely get through the memo, let alone the kid.
	The kid apparently is very upset by this, which I believe that's bogus.
	But let's assume it's not bogus.
	She had to explain how now it's exposed to another generation.
	Oh my God, what are we going to do to stop this?
	Generation after generation keeps hearing this crap.
	We have to stop it.
	Very, very disconcerting.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C. With us, he stands for Can't Expose the Truth, Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all sisters, she was in the water.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to the chat room, no agenda stream.com.
	Good to see y'all here.
	Thank you very much for showing up for the live show.
	In the morning to Nick the Rat.
	Who brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 5-3.
	His name is Nimrod, the title of that episode.
	You can find it at archive.noagendanotes.com.
	Then this was the two hairy legs with the ball hanging in the middle.
	Which only works if you listen to the show.
	But it was the one that made us laugh right off the bat.
	It was very funny.
	Could not help ourselves.
	Yeah, so we had to choose it.
	And of course...
	There was a lot of good artists.
	Yeah, and we thank all of our artists who are always checking in and uploading some of the great artworks for the album art.
	We're probably the only podcast that really consistently has fresh artwork every single time, and we believe it's a big part of our success.
	So that's why we want to thank our artists and send everybody to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Yeah, the word's not consistent.
	It's always.
	Always.
	We always have.
	We always have a lot of art, but we don't always have a lot of donors.
	Today was one of those days.
	We got three people that came up to the associate executive producer level.
	So I go on the Jones show and the donations go down.
	Yeah.
	Food for thought.
	Well, we'll see what happens after you do your four hours.
	We'll be broke!
	We'll be broke.
	Plug the show.
	Tegan Murray is our top donor.
	He'll actually get bumped up to executive producer, $253.25.
	Yes, because if you are the top associate...
	Well, actually, to be honest about it, he gets bumped up anyway because he's a Canadian.
	He gave $253.25, which becomes $333 in the scheme of things because we promised the Canadians that their dollar is the equivalent of our dollars.
	On par, yes.
	On par.
	Parity.
	So we gave him...
	So that's perfect.
	He says, I've listened for years and not donated for almost, but not quite as long.
	I'm sending you the overdue equivalent of 333 Canadian pesos for an executive producer role.
	It's Dollarettes.
	Dollarettes says, I hope you are still running this promotion for U.S. dollars.
	For us dollar poor Canadians.
	Us, U.S. dollar, us, that's funny.
	Us dollar per Canadian, that's the problem with cold reading.
	That would be something you'd have trouble with.
	Please de-douche me if possible.
	You've been de-douched.
	He wants to plug a project at www.canadianvalueinvestors.com.
	Okay, that's easy enough to figure out.
	Keep up the great work.
	As a side note, I sincerely appreciate the work you two put into the show.
	I realize I've been listening since university.
	Somewhere around 2010.
	I really appreciate your outside perspective throughout all these years.
	Thank you.
	And thank you for your executive producership with your dollarettes.
	Welcome.
	The former Orange Slayer, 22222.
	I've been listening for the last three years since I graduated and I got my first real engineering job.
	I regret that I haven't donated sooner.
	Take it from a millennial.
	You guys are awesome.
	Thank you.
	The former Orange Slayer.
	So he was going to a school that was competitive with Syracuse, I'm guessing?
	I don't know.
	Would that be my guess?
	Oh, yeah, it could be.
	Sir John of South London is our last associate executive producer who came in with $200.
	And he says, I was in the U.S. recently when meeting my extended relatives.
	They all seemed to ask the same question.
	What does the outside world think of us now that we have Donald Trump as president?
	There are hardcore Democrats and Obama supporters he has in Paris.
	In other words, they seem to care what other people thought of them or how the election of Donald Trump reflected on them.
	It's all about me!
	It's all about me!
	In other words, they seem to care what other people thought.
	Similarly, over here in GNE, a lot of Ramoners, other people who voted to remain in the EU but can't seem to accept that we are leaving, seem plagued by the thoughts of how our decision to leave the EU will be perceived seem plagued by the thoughts of how our decision to leave the EU will be perceived by continental Europeans as
	It's similar to my experience in the US where international perception is more important than anything else, even at the cost of making decisions in one's own interests.
	I find that interesting that he would make that.
	It's a very good observation.
	It's a good observation, yeah.
	I, however, do not notice any consternation on the part of Donald Trump or Brexit supporters who seem rather chuffed with their choices.
	In case you had any similar observations or thoughts, keep up the great work in deconstructing the M5M and in letting sanity prevail.
	Could I please request a general karma and a dealer's choice of three clips?
	All right, I got three.
	I just grabbed three.
	Suck it up, buttercup, and deal with it!
	He's a showboat.
	He's a grandstander.
	The FBI director has no credibility.
	He's the wrong man for that position.
	Call me.
	James, call me.
	Call me.
	Call me!
	Call me!
	He's unhinged.
	He's not nice.
	You've got karma.
	Couldn't have done better myself.
	Thank you.
	That was a great selection.
	Yes, yes.
	That was it.
	And that is it.
	That was it.
	That's our boys, and we'll thank them for helping us produce show 954, I believe.
	Yes, indeed.
	This is our value-for-value model.
	You know how it works.
	Executive producers, associate executive producers get credits right up front in the show, which is how it works in Hollywood.
	And when we get to our Beanie Coin Extravaganza, you'll see that they'll also be getting some extra benefit out of that, so...
	The value just keeps whipping around, John.
	Big value coming.
	Yeah.
	Knight me over.
	The value is so big.
	Thank you.
	And remember, we do have a show coming up on Sunday, and we definitely need your support.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. I mean, seriously, we can do a little bit better than this.
	Why don't you go out and propagate the formula?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water! Water!
	Shut up, play!
	Bye.
	Right.
	Shut up, slave.
	Just shut up, slave.
	Yeah.
	Let me see.
	I have some...
	Babe, did you see Michael Moore on The View?
	No, that's not my beat.
	Why would you?
	Yeah, it was just so unhinged and so nutty, and of course it was about...
	The reason why I picked these clips up is this incessant, we have to get rid of the electoral college because it's unfair and we won.
	And I just need to keep playing these clips just so you, you know, when this comes up...
	That's not why you play these clips from the view.
	You're right.
	I'm a liar.
	Because they're crazy clips and they're funny.
	Last time you were here, you actually predicted the horror that we're facing now, that he would win.
	Last summer at this time.
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	The horror, John.
	The horror.
	The horror.
	She's talking about the president.
	I don't care who you are or who the president is.
	That's a little out there.
	The horror.
	Last time you were here, you actually predicted the horror that we're facing now, that he would win.
	Last summer at this time.
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	Help us out here.
	I can't cope with the disaster.
	I can't cope with the disaster!
	Except I have a book about it.
	Oh yeah, okay.
	Whoa, that was just shameless.
	Well, if you remember last year at this time, it looked like she was going to win.
	She was ahead in the polls.
	The convention was great.
	She won all the debates.
	And actually, she won.
	There it is.
	This is not good.
	This is almost like exposing your children.
	If this just keeps on going, kids are going to grow up thinking, yeah, that's unfair, and not have any background on why the Electoral College is actually in place.
	We're both!
	But like you pointed out in your show last night, the Electoral College has been something the Democrats have not been able to get.
	It's the second time in 16 years, first with Gore now, that we win, and then we lose.
	How does this happen?
	They steal it.
	And you know, the Democrats have won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections.
	The Republicans have only won the popular vote once since 1988.
	So the country we live in actually agrees with the Democrats on the issues.
	Women should be paid the same as men.
	There is climate change.
	There should be a minimum wage, you know, basic things.
	That's the good news of the country we live in, but we have this archaic thing that's got to go, the Electoral College.
	They're never going to let it go because it helps them.
	So the fact that it's in here means they should be changing their strategy because if that's the case and the numbers speak to that, then that should have been obvious.
	Yes, that's where he outsmart, I mean, it's hard to say this, but he did outsmart us in this way.
	Smart?
	I don't know if that works properly.
	Well, okay.
	He was smart enough to go to Detroit and say that if you build those cars in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars.
	He was smart enough to figure out how to convince 53% of white women to vote for him.
	But he didn't get the sisters.
	No.
	Didn't get the sisters.
	Don't forget that, Democrats.
	Don't forget that.
	You had a whole bunch of folks that you don't generally speak to.
	We came out and drove.
	Interesting.
	Interesting what we'll be saying there.
	You don't generally speak to the black people.
	Black women, maybe, I guess.
	Well, this was part of the, during the discussion debate, to choose a new DNC chairman.
	I have the clip.
	Oh, the chairman?
	I have who they want as president.
	We'll play it.
	You said it's all women?
	Wrong.
	If you want to win, you've got to get someone that people want to vote for.
	We need to run a beloved American in 2020.
	No, I won't.
	I won't.
	Whoopi.
	She's like, no, I won't.
	I won't.
	Why wouldn't she?
	If she was seriously...
	Un-American!
	You won and Michelle Obama is your running mate.
	Listen to that.
	Listen to that, John.
	That is an unhinged group of people.
	But that's not it.
	That's not the suggestion.
	The suggestion is funnier.
	On that note, though, you've talked about celebrities, and you've suggested that perhaps on the left they should run some big-name celebrities.
	Now, my question for you is, though, if they do that, those celebrities, once they get in office, they have to govern.
	They have to lead.
	Haven't we now seen that?
	That experience, whether it's serious business experience or serious governmental experience, experience matters.
	Do you still feel the same way now that you've seen Trump?
	Yes, yes, because the celebrities on our side, first of all, are smart.
	If we ran Al Franken, run Tom Hanks, who wouldn't vote for Tom Hanks for President of the United States?
	Oprah!
	Oprah!
	I'll tell you that!
	Man!
	I'll tell you that!
	Oprah! Oprah! Oprah! Oprah!
	Man!
	Tom Hanks!
	Oprah!
	Jeez!
	That's lost.
	These guys have lost their way.
	Yeah.
	They're out of control.
	In fact, instead of ever...
	They don't even argue principles.
	They don't argue policies.
	They just bitch and moan about Trump and then suggest kind of Trump mirrors.
	As some sort of solution.
	We'll do it the way he did it.
	Right, right, but celebrity.
	It was a celebrity, which, you know, okay.
	Now, the thing, though, that's going to happen in the Democratic Party is they're going to...
	They're so into identity politics, which I think is still what really killed them.
	And would you please explain that?
	Because it's thrown around so easily, the term identity politics.
	It means that you're...
	In fact, we should probably look up a dictionary definition of it, but what it tends to require...
	I will look it up.
	Okay, look it up.
	It tends to promote the idea of identity, in other words, sexual identity, gender identity, racial identity, all these things are more important than pretty much anything else, and they have to be highly respected.
	And you're going to get a lot of votes, they believe.
	The party believes you're going to get a lot of votes and support because everybody at this point, there's some sociological belief that identity politics at the individual level is what's driving everything.
	I don't know where they got this idea.
	It's not driving anything I'm doing, but...
	Identity politics, noun, a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	I don't know if that's quite the definition I expressed, but it does have to do with these...
	These identities.
	And what you end up with is that the movement gets taken over by the most, I wouldn't say perverse, but I would say the most extreme members because they feel that there's inclusiveness and so they think that this is about them.
	It's like the fat women.
	And I'm going to use the term because it's the way my wife described it.
	Well, I would say it's probably more fat millennials.
	The fat millennials, right?
	The fat millennials.
	Fat female millennials.
	Fat female millennials who are proud of it.
	And they usually have a couple of piercings in their face in awkward places.
	Yeah, like eyebrow.
	I don't like the eyebrow.
	Eyebrow's a good spot.
	Eyebrow, I don't like tongue.
	Cheek's a good one.
	Tongue's always risky.
	No, we're not fat shaming.
	We're just saying, oh, I'm sorry.
	Weight challenge.
	Well, using the word fat, according to somebody, would be fat shame.
	But we're going to use that word anyway.
	And you were thin shamed.
	I was thin shamed.
	But I'm not shaming.
	We're not saying these women need to lose weight.
	We're saying it's fat female millennials.
	That's all.
	Yeah, we don't need to lose weight.
	It's going to be the F word.
	It's going to be the new F word.
	The new F word.
	Fat.
	The new F word.
	You watch.
	Fat.
	Yeah.
	Just shut up.
	Shut up.
	Plump.
	Plump better?
	I don't think so.
	No, because plump is Rubenesque.
	And Rubenesque is hot.
	Well, these people are plump.
	Okay, we can say plump.
	Oh, wait, no, I got a better word.
	They're plump to say the least.
	Size 16 if they're an ounce.
	Oh my goodness.
	Whatever.
	It's not healthy for the Democrats.
	She says that she goes to these meetings and she sees the Democrat party as in disarray.
	They're beside themselves.
	They don't know what to do.
	They're all...
	It's ripe to be taken over by some fringe group.
	There's no doubt about it.
	It's not going to help their cause, but they seem to be...
	I think when they went with Hillary to begin with, thinking it was a slam dunk.
	It was a huge error.
	Yes.
	Well, it's still not her fault.
	Now the meme is, but $100 million of bad advice.
	Bad advice.
	You got bad advice.
	But let's stick with identity politics for a moment.
	Because this comes from your neck of the woods, El Cerrito.
	That's near you, is it not?
	It's the next town over, as a matter of fact.
	It's the town that butts up against these...
	Yeah, it's right next to me.
	Well, there was an Associated Press article written about some parents and kids at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp.
	And, yeah, oh yeah.
	Wondering if your child is transgender?
	Here are some tips.
	What age are we talking about here?
	The child, age 4 to 12.
	4 to 12, let me repeat.
	Okay, so they don't know, yeah, right.
	They aren't even thinking clearly until they're 13.
	But the kids are at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp.
	Okay, this is child abuse.
	Go on.
	My son likes to wear dresses.
	Is this a phase or something more?
	Would you like to know the answers?
	I have the questions and the answers.
	How does dick cut off immediately?
	We really can't use that as an opener.
	I'm not even going to write down the time code.
	Funny as it was.
	Diane Aaron Zoft, a developmental and clinical psychologist, director of mental health at the University of California, San Francisco's Child and Adolescent Gender Center, and author of The Gender Creative Child, says...
	We don't know, but what we know is you have a son who likes princess dresses.
	I would say get him the dresses.
	Have your child feel free to choose.
	Maybe they'll stop wearing dresses.
	Maybe they'll grow up to be gay.
	Transgender children will be insistent, consistent, and persistent about their gender dysphoria, she says.
	It's not something the child says one time and it goes away.
	Okay.
	Distress versus happiness.
	If I'm a kid who occasionally wants to put on my mom's high-heeled shoes or wear my mom's princess dress, I'm not the kid who wants to live as a girl.
	I'm the boy who occasionally wants to wear girls' clothes.
	This is what Joanna Olson Kennedy, Medical Director of the Center for Trans Youth Health and Development, says.
	The important thing to ask is whether your child is in distress.
	So the questions you ask your child are, are you having daily battles about clothing before school?
	Go away for the weekend, parents.
	It can help you and their child if you allow the child to call the shots in terms of gender, such as letting them use a different pronoun or wear a dress or other clothing of their choice.
	How can you tell, finally?
	There are no set rules, but here are the early signals that can provide information whether your child is transgender, including certain actions at a very young age, such as toddlers pulling barrettes from their hair, grabbing for their sister's dress and dolls, or throwing away their trucks.
	2.
	The use of verbs regarding gender instead of, I wish I was a girl, a transgender child will say, I am a girl.
	3.
	Frustration over their genitals.
	By around age 3, children understand penis equals boy, vagina equals girl.
	Often, those are kids who cry out.
	Why did God get it wrong?
	Mommy, can you put me back inside so I can come out like my sister?
	Four.
	Taking gender expansion plays seriously.
	Many young boys like to play dress-up in their sister's princess costumes, twirling around and then moving on to other toys.
	A transgender child who wants to get into his sister's closet but not going to go for the princess dress, he's going to go for her school uniform.
	He's going to put on her everyday clothes because he wants to be a regular girl, not a pretend princess.
	And notice this is all about men-to-boy-to-girl transgenderism.
	Yeah, and I remember when I was a kid, there was mostly, you had the tomboy phenomenon.
	Yep.
	Which was not unusual, but this isn't even addressed.
	Nope.
	No, it's not.
	No, it's because they're trying, this is like a concerted effort to demasculinize the American male.
	But here's what's overlooked, yes.
	But here's what's overlooked, and I don't understand how this can be overlooked.
	In many cases, I would wager that the role model the young boys have around them is their mom.
	And, you know, you want to be like your parents.
	So, yeah, I'm going to go.
	I want to cook.
	I want to pretend stove.
	I want to wear what mommy wears.
	That's not that crazy.
	That's not addressed anywhere.
	And I'm sure that there are some who are transgender and feel they're in the wrong body.
	But we've got to be very careful at this age.
	Child abuse.
	I agree.
	I think people have to be very, very careful these ages.
	It's a disgusting thing you read.
	I know.
	El Cerrito, One Town Away.
	Not quite as disgusting as the reason why we should end sexism by stopping eating cheese.
	Yes, cheese is the most sexist thing you can eat.
	That's right.
	Because, contrary to popular belief, female cows produce milk only when they're pregnant or nursing.
	They make milk for the same reason that human women do, to feed their babies.
	Cows who are imprisoned on dairy farms and forcibly impregnated through artificial insemination again and again on rape racks.
	Rape racks for your milk, your cheese, and your yogurt.
	How about that?
	The vegans attack again.
	Rape rats.
	Anything they can do.
	I mean, that's pretty funny.
	Now I feel bad.
	I love cheese, but I can't eat it because it's a product of rape.
	No, I think you should stop eating it, you horrible rapist.
	It's a product of rape.
	Condoning rape.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Well, as a little break before I get back to my clips that I said I was going to play about Manafort and others, I do have a segue clip I'll play.
	This is the thing I'm going to try to find more of.
	And what I'm going to play here, this is the awkward segue clip.
	This is actually, this is not edited.
	This is the end of one commercial segueing into another commercial in such a way that I actually had to stop when I heard this, and I'm going to start listening to commercials more to see if I can find more of these.
	Never tell.
	Choose any two of Domino's new bread twists or medium two-topping pizzas for $5.99.
	I'm so glad my gynecologist recommended it.
	You mean the unfortunate artificial intelligence of the scheduling software?
	Yeah, the scheduling software.
	That's funny.
	Yes, quite awkward.
	Awkward and unedited.
	It sounded like a local cut-in, though.
	It might have been.
	It might have been.
	Yeah, it might have been.
	It's possible.
	It still works for me.
	I actually, once in a while, I used to, you know, I used to have this, when I was a kid, when I was a kid in the radio station, the college station, I would do stuff like, I had an assignment to put these long, they'd give lectures that were recorded.
	I still listen to these lectures, but there's these lectures that record an hour and a half lecture.
	And they want you to cut it down to an hour.
	And the way that, you know, if you were doing your job correctly, what you would do is you would go through, oh, this doesn't need to be here, let me take out that two minutes, and then you listen some more, and you'd pull it down to an hour.
	No, no.
	What you do, and I believe that you can do this with pretty much any lecture, is you find a transition word like and, and you cut it right there, and then you pull out a half an hour Yes.
	You know, I edit almost every single clip I play.
	I edit out pauses.
	I edit out irrelevant information.
	Yeah, of course.
	Yeah, but if you're editing an hour and a half to an hour, so you take, you find a nice transition point and you just chop it right there and pull out a half an hour and then jigger that, you know, about a minute in there, you find another word that will fit in there and it will make no sense.
	Yeah.
	But it flows.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, always works.
	Anyway, so that's an editing tip for you blooming...
	You blooming podcasters who are listening to us for advice.
	Fools.
	So let's listen to...
	I want to get this thing about Manafort.
	Where's my Manafort clip?
	Manafort Report.
	This is the Manafort Report on ABC. And there's something that everybody's running this story.
	This is like first they talk about Trump and Korea, then they run this story.
	Before the sun came up, a dozen armed FBI agents were knocking at Paul Manafort's bedroom door, waking up Trump's former campaign chairman with a warrant to search his Virginia home.
	All without warning, the morning of July 26th, the agent seizing documents and other materials, part of the ongoing special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the election, including possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
	Now, they had every one of these things slips in.
	The fact that this raid, and this was all on Friday's and Thursday's show.
	Yeah, of course.
	All the good stuff happens on show day.
	Yeah, they run this, and they slip it in.
	They try to do this.
	This isn't the most subtle.
	Some of them are so subtle you don't even notice it.
	This was a raid that took place two weeks ago.
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	Yeah, they sent it in there.
	You just didn't notice it.
	I didn't notice it, no.
	Well, the other guys were even more subtle.
	And that's where I actually heard it.
	I said, what?
	Wait a minute.
	This isn't news.
	This is two weeks old.
	But they slip it in.
	And they play it like it's news.
	Oh my god, this has just happened.
	Let me hear it again.
	Let me just hear how they present that.
	Before the sun came up, a dozen armed FBI agents were knocking at Paul Manafort's bedroom door, waking up Trump's former campaign chairman with a warrant to search his Virginia home.
	All without warning, the morning of July 26th, the agents seizing documents and other materials, part of the ongoing special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the election, including possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
	And it's even more interesting since yesterday, after I was off the show, Roger Stone came on bitching and moaning about this thing as if it had just happened.
	So there's something weird there, too.
	Yeah.
	I find the whole thing to be peculiar.
	They always...
	I was trying to catch one of them not mentioning the date or saying when it was.
	Right, right, right.
	But they all did.
	They all slipped it in.
	But it was very subtle.
	It was like in the middle of the thing.
	It was right in doing a boring part.
	Also the setup of, you know, before the sun came up, early morning.
	I'm like, yeah, that was this morning.
	That's what my brain thought immediately.
	Yeah.
	Every presentation does it the same way.
	And they do this, they make it very exciting and then they never, they kind of, they tell you that it was two weeks ago, but they do it in such a way that you don't notice that they just told you.
	Very slick.
	Because I don't know, why didn't they give us a story like, you know, at the end of July, and this is July 26th when this happened.
	Yeah.
	This 26th was a Wednesday.
	Well, it apparently either wasn't known, wasn't important, or I don't know.
	It doesn't matter.
	They're all trolling for Trump.
	Just anything.
	Just anything.
	And, you know, at this pace...
	And I don't know if it's true that Mueller has a grand jury and paneled.
	I don't know.
	He's got two.
	Yeah, maybe five.
	I don't know.
	They'll get Trump.
	They'll get Trump.
	They'll get him.
	And you know what?
	Pence is in on the deal.
	Pence has been raising money for him, himself, to run for president in 2020.
	Well, I'm just saying, now that I think about it, I don't see those two together anymore.
	He's not like, Trump is not talking him up, and they don't appear in, you know, and whenever Pence is there, he's trying to, we always try to look presidential, but the fact that he's raising money for his presidential campaign is pretty rude at this point in the game.
	It's rude for sure.
	So let's play one of the clips about the North Korea situation.
	All right.
	And this is the one I would have liked to have played the NBC one, but the show's too short.
	Or three hours short, show's too short.
	So let's play this lengthy one here.
	By the way, while the Queen and all this other stuff's going on, this is the ABC Trump Korean rundown.
	And again, at the very end, you have the same old, like all the rest of them, a McCain kicker.
	Good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a Wednesday night, and we do begin with breaking news that headlined North Korea just a short time ago issuing its newest threat.
	The AP now reporting that the North Korean regime is calling President Trump's words a load of nonsense, saying they will complete their plan to, quote, attack waters near Guam by mid-August.
	Another thing, I'm sorry to interrupt this.
	No, you shouldn't interrupt.
	So we have no backup, no information on the genesis of the report.
	Then it's always like, well, he said this, he said that, he had the dogs eat his uncle.
	You know, it's like, you're just saying it.
	At least give me the...
	Give me something that shows me that someone actually said this.
	Why don't they show it?
	I don't know.
	Because they don't have it.
	They don't have it because it's probably not happening.
	And they usually say, well, according to the Pyongyang Gazette.
	No, none of that.
	It comes after President Trump warned North Korea against making any more threats or the U.S. would unleash fire and fury unlike anything the world has ever seen.
	ABC senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega leading us off.
	Tonight, a new threat from North Korea coming in saying they will be ready to attack the U.S. territory of Guam by mid-August.
	This comes as President Trump's warning shot fired directly at Pyongyang.
	Tonight is sending shockwaves around the world.
	But ABC News has learned that threat caught some in the president's own inner circle by surprise.
	The president in that statement using language not vetted or pre-approved by his national security team.
	North Korea Best not make any more threats to the United States.
	They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.
	Sources close to the president say behind closed doors with top aides, including new Chief of Staff General John Kelly, President Trump had discussed taking a tougher tone on Pyongyang.
	But even members of his own national security team had no idea the president would go so far.
	He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement.
	And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.
	Thank you.
	Within a few hours, North Korea responding with its own warning, saying it is seriously considering a plan to target Guam with missiles.
	Stop right there.
	I love this part of the story, by the way.
	Yeah, before we get into that part of the story.
	We're going to bomb Guam.
	I mean, remember he was going to bomb Austin?
	What happened to that?
	I'm still waiting.
	Yeah, Austin's back.
	I guess Austin, they can't fight.
	We're on the list.
	But...
	What I was hearing everywhere, because of this fire and fury and power, everyone's like, oh, we're going to nuke North Korea!
	Have these people ever looked at a map in their lives?
	South Korea, Seoul, is 30 miles away!
	People are stupid.
	Of course you can.
	But because they had this whole nuke thing, now it's, oh, President Trump is going to nuke North Korea.
	No.
	None of that's going to happen.
	And, of course, in light of what Pieznik said...
	It's not about North Korea at all.
	Plan to target Guam with missiles.
	The U.S. territory, home to crucial military bases and 160,000 Americans, is just 2,000 miles away.
	Then today, Rex Tillerson sending a message of his own, landing in Guam offering very different words.
	I think Americans should...
	The Secretary of State striking a much softer tone.
	What the President was doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong-un would understand, because he doesn't seem to understand diplomatic language.
	Then, the President himself weighed in, tweeting, our nuclear arsenal is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before.
	Hopefully, we will never have to use this power.
	But his initial words have sparked international reaction.
	From New Zealand.
	I think the comments are not helpful in an environment that's very tense.
	To Germany's foreign office, saying saber-rattling won't help.
	Even some in the president's own party, calling his words dangerous.
	Cue McCain.
	All it's going to do is bring us closer to...
	Some kind of serious confrontation.
	I think this is very, very, very serious.
	The great leaders that I've seen, they don't threaten unless they are ready to act.
	Yeah.
	And I'm not sure that President Trump is ready to act.
	Oh, God.
	Meanwhile, McCain is busy helping the Blackwater guys, what is it now, Z Academy, whatever the hell the guy's company is called now.
	Setting up a private air force to contract in Afghanistan.
	Yeah.
	There must be some coming down the pike.
	Of course there is.
	Of course there is.
	And McCain knows.
	And McCain loves this.
	He loves this stuff.
	He loves the whole, oh, time to sell some stuff.
	We already flipped Park.
	He was all anti.
	And now he's like, oh, okay.
	Well, I guess we'll buy a couple billion worth of stuff.
	Whatever side it is, it's all about him.
	But I do have one clip I want to play.
	This is a colonel that came on.
	I didn't get his name, but...
	He's like one of these guys who's a realist.
	And he came on Fox, and it was one of the Fox guys who's just nuts.
	He's just completely hysterical about this.
	And this guy lays out a reality that, to me, was just really refreshing.
	And it's the kind of stuff that we do on our show, but this is the kernel on Fox.
	Some of these ridiculous claims.
	First, President Trump's absolutely right.
	In the early 1990s, when this issue was boiling over once again in North Korea, and they had begun trying to develop nuclear weapons, General Colin Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, stated quite clearly publicly, if a nuclear weapon is ever launched by North Korea, we will turn the country into a parking lot.
	The North Koreans know that to be the case.
	They are frightened.
	So let's get that off the table.
	Secondly, these missiles that they're talking about, the four of them, are liquid fuel rockets from the 1970s.
	This is old technology.
	It's not precise.
	They couldn't hit Guam.
	They couldn't hit anything with any reliability.
	And as far as the range is concerned, they can't carry any warheads that need anything because the rockets will run out of fuel long before they ever got close to Guam.
	And Guam is 2,100 miles from North Korea.
	We've been treated to these kinds of boasts and hot air for a very long time.
	So we need to dismiss a lot of this.
	Finally, North Korea is in a lot of trouble right now.
	They're in the midst of a very severe drought.
	Not only are they having trouble feeding their own population, they can't feed their own troops.
	The equipment in North Korea goes back to the 60s and the 70s.
	They have very, very few modern weapons.
	So the bottom line is we need to stop imputing to North Korea capability that isn't there.
	We need to stop underestimating South Korea, and we need to talk to the South Korean president.
	Yeah, there's old junk.
	Yeah, but yet they have miniaturized a nuke to fit on that little rocket.
	Yeah, according to NBC, they miniaturized a nuke somehow.
	Yeah.
	They didn't do anything.
	I don't think so.
	Again, I remain that it was Trump who came up with this.
	And there's the other one, there's some other report I've got.
	Well, there's a short end of a report.
	There's North Korea, a little NBC commentary showing...
	Which I think is part of this whole thing.
	We apparently have a new weapon that's kind of interesting, and they promote it on this particular clip.
	...against North Korean missile sites might look like the highly sophisticated strike package is designed to be largely invisible to facilitate a sneak attack.
	The targets, multiple sources say, approximately two dozen North Korean missile launch sites and support facilities, which intelligence officials tell NBC News they feel confident they have accurately identified.
	The B-1s can carry a mix of weapons, as many as 168 bombs, or more likely, the new JASM-ER, a highly accurate...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, the JASM-ER? What?
	JASM-ER. I think it's J-A-S-M-E-R. J-A-S-M-E-R. J-A-S-M, I think JASM. JASM-E-R. I've never heard of this.
	I haven't either.
	...carry a mix of weapons, as many as 168 bombs, or more likely, the new JASM-ER, a highly accurate missile that can be fired hundreds of miles outside North Korean airspace.
	Of all the military options you could consider, this would be one of the two or three that would at least have a possibility of not escalating the situation.
	A single long-range strike against a nuclear program, a cyber offensive would be the second.
	Those are the only two military options that ought to be in serious consideration.
	Ah, interesting.
	Sales are up for the JASM, J-A-S-S-M, which stands for Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile.
	This is the new model, the ER, and it looks like we sold a whole bunch to be set up in Poland.
	Poland?
	Poland, oh yeah.
	What are they going to do, attack Russia?
	Here we go.
	Poland requests sale of JASM ER from the U.S. Air Force.
	That's only two JASMs.
	Oh man, I had a great JASM. Uh, yeah.
	You listen to the end of that report, by the way, they also say the other good way we can go after North Korea is with cyber.
	Let me just hear it again.
	And I'm thinking, what?
	At least have a possibility of not escalating the situation.
	A single long-range strike against a nuclear program, a cyber offensive would be the second.
	Those are the only two military options that ought to be in serious consideration.
	Here we go.
	U.S. deploys 10 jasms.
	Wait, wait, stop.
	This cyber thing.
	They haven't got any computers there.
	They don't have internet.
	So what's the cyber?
	What are they talking about?
	They're talking because they believe still that they hacked Sony.
	Remember?
	Remember that bonanza?
	It's unbelievable, this misinformation.
	U.S. deploys 10 long-range JASMs in South Korea.
	South Korea to buy JASMs.
	Sales, baby!
	South Korea makes first move to acquire JASM. What do these little babies cost each?
	About 100 mil.
	No.
	Yes!
	No!
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second.
	JASM ER. Best price.
	Best price.
	They get it from the Chinese.
	Best price.
	Let's see.
	Here we go.
	Defense24.com.
	Let's see if they mention it here.
	Chat room should probably be helping me with this.
	Uh...
	Hmm...
	Sorry, it's not really giving.
	Google is worthless.
	Give me a dollar.
	Okay, let me just say cost.
	I'm sorry.
	I shouldn't have made fun of the Googles.
	Oh my goodness.
	Oh, it's not that much.
	You're right.
	It's about a million and a half.
	Why does that come up with that number?
	Yeah, about $1.4 million per JASM. That's a pretty expensive JASM. Yeah, they're expensive.
	But it's sales.
	It's not bad for the commission, and that's a million.
	But it's still, it's just sales.
	That's all that it is.
	NBC is complicit.
	Yeah.
	I wonder if there's, is there a, there must be some kind of, let me see, aerospace and defense.
	Well, NBC used to be hooked up with General Electric.
	I think there's still some connection there, and so they...
	Yeah, I'm just looking to see what the most recent, if there's a new conference, defense, military, aerospace, let me see what's going on.
	Not until September.
	And in Poland, actually, the MSPO. Then we have in September in London.
	Hmm.
	A lot coming up in September.
	So they are on track for the pre-marketing.
	Yeah, well, that's what they're up to then.
	Yeah.
	It's clear as a bell.
	Clear as a bell.
	Let me see.
	Let's listen to Tucker Carlson.
	Tucker Carlson, I believe, is a climate change proponent.
	You think he's into it?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	It's very subtle.
	It's hard to pull it out.
	But I began to notice this a while ago.
	Here's a segment where he goes after a guy.
	I've got two clips.
	Tucker against the climate change blogger.
	Bill Nye, who was called the science guy despite being mostly a television entertainer, recently said there is only one path to fixing the climate and saving the environment.
	Kill old people!
	Waiting for old people who disagree with his views to die.
	He gets away with everything, doesn't he?
	Bill Nye?
	That's incredible.
	Get out of the way.
	Joe Rahm is founding editor of Climate Progress.
	It's a blog run by the Center for American Progress.
	He says Nye may be onto something.
	Joe, thanks for coming on.
	Now, Center for American Progress is a huge Democratic DNC-funded, I think, even.
	I think it's Soros money, too.
	Thanks for having me.
	So this seems...
	I mean, look, there are lots of disagreements in science.
	This seems like a pretty nasty way to frame it.
	People who disagree with me should just go die?
	Well, I think that's not exactly what he said.
	He just said that climate change deniers tend to be older and it's generational.
	And in science, it's not unusual for scientists to point out that it is the older generation of scientists who are sort of stuck in a paradigm and they're not going to change their views.
	What is unusual is for scientists to use political language, loaded political language like denier, to frame the conversation in a way that pushes their views without having to prove that their views are right.
	That's not really a scientific way of approaching the conversation, is it?
	Likening people who disagree with you to Holocaust deniers?
	Well, I don't think he's likening them to Holocaust deniers.
	But that word is designed to delegitimize people who disagree with you.
	And in real science, what you do is you marshal your data and you present them in an open forum against the other guy's data and maybe the best data win.
	Right.
	But then what happens after that?
	We've been doing that for 25 years.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	Now, there's a spot that could have jumped in.
	We've been doing that for 25 years.
	When I heard that, I said to myself, yeah, they've been doing that for 25 years.
	They still haven't been able to win.
	Exactly.
	They haven't won.
	But Tucker makes the point that this should be...
	The way he handles it is funny.
	You don't know.
	I don't think that he's a pro.
	He thinks climate change is real and man-made.
	But you can catch little mistakes he makes if he was on the other side.
	And this next clip, it's got one of them in it, and it's just like, how do you let this happen?
	No, I'm not mixing up.
	The politics, the solution.
	You are doing so.
	With the science.
	No, you are doing so.
	97% of scientists agree that humans, through the burning of fossil fuels and cutting down trees, are the primary cause of global warming.
	Yeah, I would say that is not even the lie.
	The lie is not even that.
	No, this is beyond the lie.
	So, the lie is 97% of climate scientists agree that...
	Global warming is man-made.
	Global warming is man-made, yeah.
	But this is to an extreme.
	No, I'm not mixing up.
	The politics, the solution.
	You are doing so.
	With the science.
	No, you are doing so.
	97% of scientists agree that humans, through the pollution, burning of fossil fuels and cutting down trees, are the primary cause of global warming.
	But my, but okay, my point is only, and I'm not contesting that, though, so you accept that.
	Let's hear that again.
	...are the primary cause of global warming.
	But, okay, my point is only, and I'm not contesting that, though, so you accept that.
	I'm not contesting that for the purposes of this conversation.
	I'm merely saying you've contested that.
	Hmm.
	I don't know.
	I'm telling you.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's fine.
	I don't care.
	I like him either way.
	No, I like him too, but I think, you know, he might as well, he should fess up.
	Because now I think disingenuous is what I'm doing.
	You know, if you're going to be...
	I don't care if you're one way or the other on this topic, but don't be a jerk about it.
	Yeah, true.
	I agree.
	Well, I do have some other climate change related stuff, actually.
	Two bits.
	The first is from producer John.
	Adam, I'm a realtor.
	I was a realtor here in Sunset Beach, North Carolina for 10 years.
	There's one particular high-end residential lot on the island that has been on the market for at least 20 years.
	The seller's an idiot, but I digress.
	In 99-2000, the elevations were shot by a fellow realtor of mine.
	The same realtor had the lot shot again in 2004.
	I had clients in 2010 who I had shots produced for, and they made a rich offer and it was rejected.
	In 2015, my buddy at the bank refinanced the lot and, of course, shot elevations.
	Friday, my banker friend called me and said that he shot the lot yet again.
	In 1999, the dead center mark was 2 feet 6 inches above the mean high tide, sea level.
	The reading has been the same every time since.
	So either the surveyors are lying or Al Gore is full of crap.
	Have a great show!
	Yes, indeed.
	What I got from the BBC was very interesting.
	No one really picked up on this.
	Because it's BBC and there's science, you know, you'd expect the BBC to be on the up and...
	Yes!
	Science!
	Science!
	Dodgy greenhouse gas data threatens Paris Accord.
	From the BBC. Levels of some emissions from India and China are so uncertain that experts say their records are plus or minus 100%.
	These flaws pose a bigger threat to the Paris Climate Agreement than U.S. President Donald Trump's intention to withdraw, researchers told BBC Radio 4's Counting Carbon program.
	And it goes on.
	I know I've subscribed to it.
	I want to listen to the Counting Carbon.
	What a great name for a show.
	Hey everybody, welcome to Counting Carbon.
	How are we doing?
	Eh, 350 parts per million?
	Okay, we'll talk to you next week on Counting Carbon.
	So there's lies.
	Lies.
	No one wants to be responsible for the actual emissions from their country.
	So they're lying about it.
	Oh, because you'd have to cut it back.
	Yes!
	Or maybe you'd get less money.
	How about that?
	Yeah, there's something, yeah.
	It makes sense that they'd lie.
	Yeah, the whole thing's a pack of lies.
	Well, I did pick up on the big oil.
	They're launching their own meme against...
	Really against...
	It's electric vehicles more than anything, I would say.
	And you see it everywhere.
	On the face bag, the algos are getting a little sloppy because I see it flowing by in different versions.
	I'm like, okay.
	And so this shows up, of course, in the Daily Mail, but this is something that's been going around.
	And it is 100% bought and paid for by the...
	Big oil.
	Child miners aged four living a hell on earth so you can drive an electric car.
	Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Grove didn't consider in his clean energy crusade.
	And there's pictures of six-year-old kids being beaten as they work in the mine.
	It's fantastic.
	Cobalt.
	When I wake up every morning, I feel terrible knowing I have to come back here again, says the beautiful little brown baby.
	These guys have no shame.
	And they're showing how these kids come out of the mine completely dripping in crap.
	Yeah.
	I guess cobalt is really important.
	Cobalt is important.
	Well, while I'm this, how about...
	I have to play this for you.
	This is Jason Calacanis.
	Who I like, you know, we've known each other for a long time, but I don't mind making fun of him.
	Because he does this CNBC segment, and I usually listen to CNBC in the morning.
	Because it has, they give you all the news, but it's not presented in the hypey, crazy way.
	It's still headlines, so there's no background.
	But at least I can, you know, follow the headlines and then branch off if I have to.
	And Jason Calacanis, or J-Cal, as he calls himself, He's shilling for the new Tesla.
	And, you know, I think there may be some issues.
	Oh, yeah, he's a huge Tesla shill.
	And he's friends with Elon!
	He's a huge Tesla shill.
	So I just wanted to make fun of Jason's expense.
	I do that voice of his because he thinks he imitates me.
	Oh, is that really?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
	He is always it.
	When I was a kid!
	Yeah, that's pretty close.
	Yeah, but that was the tech grouch.
	So here is the elitist J-Cow, shilling for the Tesla.
	But Jason, before we let you go, we did hear that you got your hands on the new Tesla Model 3.
	I guess because you have all the other Teslas, is that how you got one of the early models?
	Yeah, J-Cal's pretty connected.
	I'll speak about myself in the third person.
	Oh, man.
	How about that?
	J-Cal's pretty connected.
	J-Cal's connected.
	He says J-Cal's pretty connected.
	I'll talk about myself in the third person.
	Is that how you got one of the early models?
	Yeah, J-Cal's pretty connected.
	I'll speak about myself in the third person, but, you know, I get access to a lot of things, and let me just say, yum yum.
	I was waiting for it.
	Oh my god, it's a yum yum yum yum yum.
	It literally, there it is.
	There's the, you know, one of the Founder Series, and I've been driving it, and it drives like a Porsche, and it costs the same price as a Prius.
	And all the people who have been criticizing Elon for the last decade and saying that he's not going to get it done, well, the model I have, of course, has all the features.
	It's twice a Prius, but the model that, you know, will be available in the next year will cost $35 and be Prius level.
	But if Elon calls this like, you know, he's got a big line of hamburgers, this is a Wagyu hamburger at a, you know, Shake Shack price.
	It is an achievement unlike anything in the history of technology.
	It literally is up there with the iPhone.
	It drives like a Porsche.
	It literally is up there with the iPhone, John.
	Literally.
	Because we've never had electric vehicles ever before in our history, except in the 1900s when they were really popular, until people figured out that you get more power per pound from a combustion engine.
	Price.
	It is an achievement unlike anything in the history of technology.
	It literally is up there with the iPhone.
	It drives like a Porsche.
	It's incredibly fast.
	The technology is amazing.
	If you can make a product this good, you can solve the service problems.
	And listen, I own all four cars.
	Every car has been a couple of weeks or months late.
	Every car, they've had to tweak it a little bit here or there.
	Elon is a complete perfectionist.
	He wants to really...
	He cares about customer service in a very deep way.
	So things are always a couple of weeks late, and then he always over delivers.
	And we were sitting here five, six years ago when he was producing one or two roadsters a week saying he'll never be able to produce 100.
	Then he hit 100.
	Now he can't produce 10,000.
	Betting against Elon Musk is betting against the future of humanity.
	Wow!
	Did he get a check in the mail for that one?
	Betting against Elon Musk is like betting against all of humanity.
	And, of course, it kills brown children in the cobalt mines.
	Way to go.
	Oh, Elon!
	We should have a whole bunch of little kids going, Elon, save me.
	Save me, Elon, save me!
	I don't want to go in that dirty place again.
	The thing about the Prius is that if the battery goes dead, and these apparently only go about 200 miles, which reintroduces the white-knuckle problem with electric cars, at least the Prius has a motor in it.
	If he put a little motor in this thing...
	I'm sorry, I didn't mean to dude you.
	I'm so sorry.
	I apologize.
	He is smart about one thing.
	Because these electric vehicles, I guarantee you, before we're dead, it'll be the biggest joke.
	It'll be like someone bought an Edsel, you watch.
	But the technology of the autonomous technology is really impressive.
	And that, I think, is a good bet.
	He has that.
	And you can make a hell of a lot more money, I think, off of licensing that because it's really, really good.
	It's just the battery part.
	I mean, come on.
	Who wants to lose control over your fuel source?
	You leave it up to your electric company.
	You leave it up to...
	I see Teslas in the parking garage here.
	You know, there's a number of charging spots, but not enough, of course, because all the douchebags in Austin, oh, I got me a Tesla.
	So then they have to plug it into a regular outlet so there's extension cords everywhere crisscrossing each other.
	It's stupid!
	I'm so inclined to just pull it out.
	Oops.
	You should.
	No, that's incredibly horrible.
	That's what's going to happen someday.
	People will start doing that because it's annoying to have these extension cords.
	I mean, I test drove a whole bunch of these things.
	Yeah, you wrote about them.
	And I found a couple of things.
	I mean, for one thing, you have to charge them every night and that means you have to run a Electric cable out into your driveway, which is, like, sketchy.
	And these were the smaller ones.
	These are the ones that general, the Detroit competitors that do 40, 50 miles and maybe go 100.
	Say they go 120 miles, something like that.
	Not like the Tesla, which goes 200 plus, but Even 200.
	I don't care what it is.
	When you get halfway done, because they can't measure the charge, because the way you're driving, you could really burn these things.
	You could just punch it all the whole time.
	You can't go more than 50 miles.
	I think it would be dead.
	So you drive around white-knuckled, worried, sick that the thing's going to drop dead.
	Because if it drops dead on the freeway, and people, if you don't notice this...
	People run out of gas, and gas will take you 300-400 miles, depending on your car, and it's easy to fill up, but people run out of gas all the time.
	I ran out of gas, remember?
	Yes, you ran out of gas.
	It was a nightmare.
	But it's very inconvenient for everybody.
	You run out of gas with one of these electric cars.
	Somebody can't come out with a gallon, you know, a gallon of gas and put it in there, and then you drive off.
	No, you're dead.
	You have to plug in and stay overnight.
	Yeah, in the middle of the freeway.
	That's like...
	But it's very...
	I find it nerve-wracking.
	The only car I enjoyed because of the lack of this problem...
	Was the Chevy Volt.
	The Chevy Volt.
	And the new Volt, I think, is a beautiful little car.
	Is it Volt or the Bolt?
	The Volt or the Volt?
	No, they have a Bolt, too.
	That's a new one.
	But the Chevy Volt...
	It's a very nice car.
	It feels like a Cadillac for some reason.
	I don't know why.
	Yes, it's a really nice car.
	If I was going to buy an electric car of any sort, that's what I'd buy.
	But why would you?
	I'd rather buy a gas guzzler.
	But if I was going to buy an electric car for some reason...
	Maybe to get free bridge tolls or something.
	I would buy a Volt.
	I think the Volts are outstanding cars.
	And the newer models are very pretty.
	Every time I see one, it's always striking.
	Yeah.
	Well...
	And it's got a little motor in it.
	That's the key.
	I can drive it up to Washington.
	Yes.
	I like my truck.
	My truck does just fine by me.
	Thank you very much.
	I want you to be queen My love for you is almost obscene Maxine!
	Maxine!
	Maxine!
	That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
	Time for your daily dose of Maxine Waters.
	She will soon be running for the Democratic Party.
	Best president, I predict.
	I hope so.
	Me too!
	I hope she wins!
	Oh my goodness.
	She was on the Chris Hayes show.
	And then she was talking about Alan Dershowitz.
	And Dershowitz, who is a Democrat, who gives money to the Democratic Party.
	Long, liberal, liberal, progressive Democrat that goes back forever.
	Yes.
	And I always thought because he's a Jew, he gets extra license when talking about stuff that is difficult to talk about.
	Such as the idea that there would be a grand jury impaneled in Washington, D.C., which would be a very disadvantageous venue for the president, considering the racial makeup of the area.
	There, I've said it in very correct terms.
	Maxine took great offense to this.
	But she used the word that I'm not allowed to use anymore.
	Alan Dershowitz, a prominent law professor, I think Emeritus at Harvard Law, he's emerged as a real defender of the president recently.
	And he had something to say about the citing of the grand jury in Washington, D.C. today that I wanted you to take a listen to.
	This is Alan Dershowitz talking about where the grand jury is located.
	Take a listen.
	The second one is important because of where it is.
	It gives the prosecutor the power to indict in the District of Columbia, which is a district that is heavily Democratic and would have a jury feeling very unfavorable to Trump and the Trump administration.
	So it gives the prosecutor a tremendous tactical advantage.
	He went on to talk about the ethnic and racial makeup of the district as stacking the deck against Donald Trump.
	Do you think it's unfair to sign a grand jury?
	Oh, it's absolutely unfair.
	You know, all of those black people are there, and they don't like Trump.
	And so he's not going to get a fair trial.
	And so they should take it out of that jurisdiction.
	It shouldn't be there to begin with.
	I don't like that.
	And I'm surprised that Alan Dershowitz is talking like that.
	And we will not stand for it.
	We will push back against that, because that is absolutely racist.
	Racist.
	Racist.
	Because that is absolutely racist.
	Racist.
	It's racist.
	I'm sorry.
	Someone has to say, excuse me, it's racist.
	Not racist.
	Racist.
	Is that who you want?
	As your leader?
	I mean, if I went on any show as a white man and said, that's racist, people would go, what the hell is wrong with you?
	Racist.
	That's racist.
	That is absolutely racist.
	Racist.
	Maybe I'm just overly sensitive, but I expect better from our congressmen and women.
	Well, I think Dershowitz's response to that if you don't have it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's boogie and then we can thank some people.
	Where is it?
	It would be number two of the clip that says...
	Waters, one Dershowitz, number two.
	Ah, I got it.
	He's a racist.
	If I'm a racist, then, you know, what is she going to call real, real racist?
	I mean, I marched in the South.
	I was involved in the civil rights movement all of my life.
	and if she can call me a racist.
	And as I said in my interview, being black does not give you a license to call somebody a racist, just like being Jewish doesn't give you a license to call people anti-Semites unless they actually are racist or anti-Semites.
	Because that is absolutely racist.
	I'm going to show myself all 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.
	All right, well we do have a few people to thank for show 954.
	Starting with Sir Pete.
	Pate.
	Sir Pate.
	Baron of Northern Holland and Friesland.
	Friesland.
	Friesland.
	He's in Amsterdam.
	Sir Pate here.
	Thank you both for your courage and values that you bring to the table twice every week.
	Here's my birthday donation.
	Is he on the list?
	I will check.
	11th of August, celebrating my third prime birthday.
	In the No Agenda history.
	Yes, he is.
	Oh, by the way, Karma Works.
	Please renew my get well soon, Karma, and extend it to all the producers in trouble.
	Can I get a If You Wake Up With The Blues jingle?
	It always puts a smile on my face.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm going to do that.
	No, I'm going to do it now.
	Come on, he's the baron of Northern Holland in the freeze line.
	If you wake up with the blues, trying to fill your gay rhythm.
	Just remember, no agenda in the morning.
	For a healthy, balanced news diet, try NoAgendaShow.com.
	You've got karma.
	Oscar Zamora in San Francisco, California.
	Hey, we have a meetup, Oscar, over at the train museum.
	You can take the Zephyr up there.
	Yeah, you didn't put the page up.
	You didn't put your page up yet.
	Your meetup.htm.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it is up?
	It's been up all for days.
	People weren't able to find it.
	Well, I don't know what they're going to.
	Check it out.
	Dvorak.org slash meetup.htm.
	Meetup.htm.
	Oh, it's there.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	It actually is meetup.
	But you should have done the HTM all in caps.
	You keep saying that, but I didn't do that.
	No, I know you didn't, but I thought that would have been better.
	But I did the page and kind of crude HTML. You think?
	This is the, I was thinking, here's what you did.
	You did print to web from Microsoft Office, didn't you?
	I know that's what you did.
	Print to web.
	No, you don't do that anymore.
	That's better ways to do it.
	What you do, here's what I did.
	First, I booted Dreamweaver.
	You didn't even put in a title tag, man.
	What is wrong with you?
	Put in a title tag.
	I opened up Dreamweaver.
	Dreamweaver!
	And so I'm going to put up a nice page and I said...
	Dreamweaver.
	Why do I need this?
	And so I just went to Word, put together the page with all this flowery writing.
	I changed the fonts a little bit, so at least fancy.
	Fancy fonts.
	And then drew some pictures in there and then save as HTM. There you go.
	And it still does that?
	Save as HTM. Oh, fantastic.
	What about front page?
	Couldn't you use that?
	That doesn't work anymore.
	That stopped working a long time ago.
	Do people still seriously use Dreamweaver?
	I think a lot of people do.
	What are you recommending?
	What are you using for cranking up your pages?
	VI. VI? What's VI? VI. Visual editor.
	VI on Unix.
	Every machine has it.
	VI. Vim.
	I'm not going to use that.
	I don't have a Unix machine.
	You don't need to use it.
	It works on a Mac.
	I don't care.
	That's what all the cool developers use, VI. Of course, the Emacs guys will hate it, but there you go.
	Oscar Zamora in San Francisco.
	Anyway, so Saturday, meet at the Fat City Bar in Old Town, Sacramento.
	Should it not be Plump City Bar?
	No, Plump City.
	No, it's Fat City.
	It's referring to New Orleans.
	Ah, gotcha.
	Anyway, dvorak.org slash meetup, one word,.htm.
	We are the only show that makes our URLs as complicated as possible.
	Witness dvorak.org slash na.
	Yeah, I know.
	We've been condemned by some of the back office about this.
	Yeah, well, I'm liking it.
	This is Nick Foro.
	I'm using the six-point type, so I can't read it.
	Foro.
	9333 in Wolcott, New York.
	And that is the reference to his accepted bid on his new house.
	Oh, he's getting divorced karma.
	Yeah, I'll send some.
	At the end.
	Evan Black in Olathe, Kansas.
	8008, the boob donation of the day.
	Boob.
	Sir Brian Green of Hams in New York City.
	73's KC9Y. 73's Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie.
	J.M. Glenn...
	What is that?
	Quarciani?
	Quarciani?
	Quarciani, I guess.
	66-66 in Cedar Rapids.
	He sent a note in saying that we're doing a great job on the show.
	Thank you.
	Not much more than that.
	Thank you.
	And he likes the show and he's one of his early donations.
	And I appreciate that he sent a note at all.
	James Green II in Mesquite, Texas 6262.
	Robin Morley, 55-55.
	Parts Unknown.
	John Tucker in Omaha, Nebraska.
	Devil Nickles on the Dime.
	Dan Brendan in...
	Would it be Brendan?
	He's in Oslo, Norway.
	Oslo.
	Oslo, Norway.
	Brittany Vandenberg in Bambachtal, Deutschland.
	I don't know where that is.
	Mm-hmm.
	And it's 50-50 and now already to the $50 donors.
	It's such a bad day.
	It's ridiculous.
	That's low.
	I'd say it was actually embarrassingly low.
	I don't know why.
	Let's start with the top one, which is Courtney Vandenberg.
	I'm sorry, that's Rall.
	Just playing Rall in Tennessee, Florida.
	Tallahassee, Florida.
	Drew.
	Rall.
	Sounds like Powell.
	Rall.
	Not Rall.
	Rall.
	He's coming to the meetup, so remember.
	Rall.
	Ralph's coming from Tallahassee, Florida?
	That's what it says here on my sheet.
	You know, we've got a lot of people coming in from out of town.
	Yeah, people.
	One guy says, I said, one guy's, I went back and forth on email.
	He says, I'm coming up from, I don't know, some town in Southern California.
	I said, you're going to take the train?
	He says, no, I'm going to drive.
	But I don't know how many people are going to be on the train.
	That'll be kind of interesting.
	We're taking the 910 Zephyr.
	I would like to suggest that people blog or tweet their journeys, and I'll be happy to sit around and retweet and kind of follow along.
	I think it's going to be very fun if people are coming in on the train, and there must be tons of good pictures.
	I think it'll be cool.
	I'm very happy you're doing this.
	Do you have my head?
	Oh, I don't have your head.
	Oh, Dan, could somebody please bring my head on a stick?
	Yeah, bring Adam's head on his stick.
	So we can take pictures with me there?
	I mean, we're talking about the photo.
	The real head on the stick will come later.
	Yes, after the initial coin offering of Beanie Coin.
	With the guys he's starting to hang out with, this Pachewski guy, whatever his name is, is...
	You'll find his head on a stick someday.
	David Peet in Aubrey, Texas.
	Hey, Texas.
	Jessica Young in Yuba City, California.
	Kaleeb Kniffin.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Birthday donation and dedouching.
	She wants a dedouching for Kellyanne, so they have to dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Yeah, a birthday list is good, but needed a dedouching.
	Okay, Tim and Bell in Berkshire, UK. He must be a knight by now.
	David Schlesinger in Rosemont, Illinois.
	Gene Ablin in Sonora, California.
	Edward Mazurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Stephen Kozmani in Parts Unknown.
	Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Mary Krenzel in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
	Larry Hay in Mooresville, North Carolina.
	And finally, our last threesome is Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
	Frank Molinari in Bulverde, Texas.
	And last is Jason Deluzio in Chadsford, Pennsylvania.
	I want to thank all these people for producing show 954 and helping us out.
	Thank you indeed.
	And I'd like to make another suggestion for the meetup.
	I think it would be pretty funny if everybody brought a selfie stick.
	Yeah.
	I have a suggestion for the meetup.
	Nobody bring a selfie stick.
	Hey, how was your anniversary?
	And happy anniversary, by the way.
	29 years and they never had a fight.
	Right.
	We've never had a fight.
	It's unbelievable.
	What'd you guys do?
	Did you watch the elephant video?
	No, we went to the elephant videos.
	I don't keep these things.
	We went to dinner.
	To get in the mood.
	To get in the mood.
	I'm sorry.
	You went to dinner where?
	We went to dinner at the Beowulf Cafe.
	It was bought and sold by a guy that owns the Wood Tavern in Oakland, a very famous restaurateur, and it's called The Wolf.
	So we went to dinner at The Wolf and had a bottle of 1988 Lynch Bage.
	Lynch Bage.
	Yes, and the 88, which I bought cases of because it's the way to go.
	So you brought your own?
	Oh, that's right.
	This stuff's like 500 bucks a pop nowadays.
	When you got married, you bought a case of them?
	Was that what you did?
	Two.
	You?
	Yeah, I bought two cases.
	When you got married?
	Yeah.
	How cool.
	No, no, no, no.
	You can't buy it when you get married.
	You buy it when it comes out, which is about two years later.
	But I bought it.
	Yes, I bought it in 1991.
	Oh, okay.
	It's an 88, but it came, of course, it came out a couple years later.
	Wow.
	How many in a case?
	Twelve.
	Well, so you haven't had one every year, then.
	You've skipped a year.
	No, no, no.
	This must be the last one.
	No, it's not.
	And the fact is that we have other 88s that occasionally we drink instead.
	But not that many of them.
	I just happen to have all this Lien Chabas.
	No, I have one bottle left for the 30th.
	And I have to say this, but wines, these good Bordeauxs from good years, and 88 was a decent year, to say the least.
	They just hold up like there's no tomorrow.
	I mean, this wine could go another 30 years.
	It's just stunning.
	Well, when I marry Tina, I'm going to buy two cases of fusel oil.
	Okay, well, that'll do it for you.
	You get a headache every time you have an anniversary.
	No, this is actually a good service you could provide for people who want to know what case they have to buy for their wedding.
	I think it's a good idea.
	I bought double magnets for the kids, their birthdays.
	I had a double magnum of 85 Chateau Margaux for JC, Buzzkill Jr.
	It was relatively inexpensive at the time.
	By the time he became 21, that's when he drank the wine.
	The one that was 21 years old and still young, but it was probably...
	I think I paid a lot for it at the time.
	I thought it was $350 for a double magnum of Chateau Margaux.
	People, wine guys, will roll their eyes on that.
	I think the wine is probably worth about...
	When we drank it, it probably was worth...
	Three, four grand, something like that.
	Wow, wow.
	Yeah, you can make money just buying and holding.
	There's certain wines, not every one.
	People have to know what wines, if they're going to do that, how to do it.
	Nowadays, it's harder because back then, wines were cheaper.
	And since 1996, I believe...
	Here comes a question I'm going to ask you annually on the program.
	What is the wine people need to buy if they got married in 2017?
	Well, the wines aren't released yet, so I can't say which wines you should buy, but I could say I could recommend wines for 2015 and 2016.
	Okay.
	Just one for each, please.
	I would say if you can afford it, it's going to cost you some money.
	MD 2020?
	I would say for 2015 and 2016, both years, I would get one case of Ducru Bukayu.
	Okay.
	I would get that.
	Nice.
	Ducru Bukayu, I would be very...
	I think you'd do well by buying a case of that.
	Unfortunately, it's really expensive.
	But it's good.
	But it's not as expensive as Lafitte or Mouton, which would be great.
	If you've got lots of money, you're rich.
	And you don't care.
	You would just buy a case of Latour and forget about it.
	Yeah, Latour.
	I love Latour.
	It's been a while since I've had it.
	It's overpriced now.
	I remember I used to be able to get it, especially in off years, at reasonable prices.
	And now it's not possible.
	Well, I think that we can make a combo deal here so we can have your recommendations and then people can pay for it with the wino coin.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And we say congratulations to the Baron of the Lowlands and Friesland, Sir Page.
	He will be celebrating tomorrow.
	James Green says happy birthday to his son, Atticus James Thompson.
	He turned six today.
	And Jessica Young says happy birthday to Kellyanne, who celebrated yesterday.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the Best Podcast of the Universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	And we do have a title change today, John.
	I didn't actually do a title change.
	Title changes!
	Do you want that one or do you want Dylan?
	Title change.
	I can't do Dylan.
	Hey, come on.
	You should try.
	As we all thank your brothers and sisters.
	Some of them.
	You can practice on this.
	Not bad.
	Not bad.
	Let's do that from now on.
	Work on your skills.
	Sir Robert Clayson becomes a baronet today, and we congratulate him and thank him very much for his contribution to the best podcast in the universe.
	I wanted to mention a little...
	Protest that's going on, because this is in my neck of the woods, South Texas.
	We need to find a way to stop the building of the wall.
	And it's already starting.
	Yes.
	The Army Corps of Engineers invades South Texas.
	They've begun clearing areas for the border wall.
	Rather than steal land legally through eminent domain, they have arrived without permission or notification.
	Instead of cutting through ranch land, they've begun where it will hurt the most.
	Nature preserves.
	The first location to fall beneath the saw, machete, and blade is a strip through the National Butterfly Center.
	or, oh no!
	Scientists have purchased the area from farmers and restored it with plant species vital to the survival of the threatened monarch butterfly.
	Now only brown stubble remains.
	It is true that butterflies migrate actually through Austin.
	Yeah, and I forget what the plant is that they like.
	It's like a shrub.
	They really like it.
	Yeah, when I lived up in the hill, it was just tons of butterflies.
	But this is what they're going to do.
	They're going to try and stop this because we still have tropical cats like ocelotos.
	Jaguarundis, ferruginous pygmy owl, the green jay, the elf owl, the Texas tortoise, the indigo snake, and the Mexican burrowing toad.
	So watch the lawsuits fly.
	This is how they're going to go and try and stop the border wall.
	It's killing the...
	It's actually funny that it's killing the...
	What is it?
	The Mexican burrowing toad.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, there's always something like that.
	I got a letter that's kind of interesting I need to read.
	You know, we talked about Browder.
	You know, this Earl Browder guy was on...
	Mark Levine!
	Did a whole special on him.
	He's the guy who gave the testimony.
	The Russia guy.
	Yeah, the Russia guy.
	He was rousted from Russia and all the rest.
	I always was suspicious about his testimony.
	And I was also suspicious about how he got into Russia in the first place and did all these deals and they just kicked him out.
	I mean, they don't kick out everybody.
	Right.
	So here's a letter from one of our producers.
	Bill Browder Magnitsky and the Russian lawyer.
	I see nobody's picked up on this, he says.
	Not the news, not the blogs, not the comment and discussion forums, but do you know who Bill Browder's grandfather was?
	Earl Browder.
	It's Bill Browder, right?
	Earl Browder is his grandfather.
	Earl Browder was Joseph Stalin's personal representative in the U.S. for over 20 years.
	No way.
	Browder worked directly for Stalin and did a lot of his dirty work in the U.S. His son, Felix Browder, Bill Browder's father, was born in Moscow in 1927.
	Start with the Wikipedia article on Bill Browder, or I'm sorry, Earl Browder, and see if that stimulates your interest.
	There's plenty more available.
	Anyway, that I thought was kind of coincidence.
	I think not, he writes.
	No, probably not.
	Because also the Russian lady, whose name I can never recall, was sitting directly behind Bill during the congressional testimony, even though she does not understand a word of English, supposedly.
	I've seen that.
	I have seen that.
	It was reminding me of the scene from The Godfather 2 with Frank...
	Penta Jolly's brother, who also did not speak, is showing up to sit behind.
	You know, that was a very funny scene.
	Anyway.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	I did not know that.
	Nobody mentioned it.
	I think it would be pertinent.
	And I'm very pertinent to how he feels in general about Russia.
	Very interesting.
	You know, I've been following the knife crime in Gitmo Nation GMT over there in the UK. And, you know, this is, oh, we have to confiscate knives.
	And now the big problem is knives.
	Because, you know, people don't kill people.
	Knives kill people.
	I'm glad this is coming to a head because my British friends, the few I still have left, they're always like, yeah, you crazy Americans with your guns.
	We don't have any guns.
	No one's getting shot here.
	No, but they're getting stabbed everywhere.
	And it's always been bad.
	But whether it has actually gotten worse or, I don't know, just more media to report on it.
	I don't know.
	It seems like a lot more.
	And Carl!
	The London mayor is now bitching at YouTube.
	And just listen to the words he uses.
	He is very clear that censorship is on the horizon.
	All of us have a role to play.
	My message to Google and YouTube, though, is that you've got a role to play as well.
	It's not good enough that when the police tell you about a video that's inciting violence, you're not taking it down.
	So if it's the case that it's not breaching your guidelines, you've got to toughen up your guidelines.
	But when the police tell you something that's causing a problem and inciting violence, you've got to take it down immediately.
	You've got to take it down immediately.
	This is where it's going.
	Taking it down immediately.
	I've said it before.
	I'll say it again.
	We're in the golden age of the internet and free speech.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Before certain types of traffic became illegal.
	For sure.
	For sure.
	And I think we may have discussed this, but the Independent published it.
	Independent's a reasonable publication, I think.
	It's not the Daily Mail for sure.
	But they found the study and they understand why Brexit happened is because of dumb people.
	Britain would have likely voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slightly higher level, a new study has found.
	There you go.
	You dumb, dumb, dumb people.
	I Q test you for your vote.
	It's coming.
	It's coming.
	You're right.
	You just have to answer these few questions before you can vote.
	I'm sorry.
	Just to make sure that you're not too stupid.
	The arrogance is just amazing.
	And could I ask you...
	I'll ask everybody...
	I'm a little tired of always talking about Trump currying favor with Putin.
	And what does that really mean?
	Where is this from?
	Because of course I hear my name and I'm like, eh.
	Yeah, currying.
	Currying favor.
	Yeah.
	What does it mean?
	Let's look it up.
	We got the book of knowledge right in front of you.
	It's on the screen.
	Let's do it.
	Let's see.
	Currying.
	I have it here.
	Adding curry to your food.
	I've curried my food.
	Yeah, here's the origin.
	In August 2007, the BBC ran a series of programs to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of India.
	Given the popularity of Indian food in the UK, they included several cookery programs and heard the curry flavor, not favor, but flavor pun three times.
	On looking into the source of curry favor, it appears it isn't original, but it's itself a mishearing of another phrase.
	So it used to be currying flavor, and then it became currying favor.
	Was the date on that?
	That's bull crap.
	I've heard this phrase long before 2007 or whatever you said.
	No, it goes back to 1598.
	Oh, 1598, okay.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	Yeah, curry favor.
	It's devolving.
	But why is it used in this?
	Currying flavor.
	But it's one thing to say, you know, he helped him out, or he was blowing him.
	I don't know, but currying favor, I find it interesting that that phrase comes back over and over again.
	It must be code.
	It's like the Narcan.
	It might be code.
	Curry in favor.
	Uh-oh.
	Check the New York Times crossword puzzle.
	Yeah, and just five up and six down today.
	We got the bat signal.
	Okay, we are now at the Armageddon portion of the show.
	Okay, well, I've got a couple of clips.
	I'll kick us off with Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Open Market System.
	Andrea Mitchell's husband.
	Hottie, Hottie Bo, yes.
	And, well, you've been talking about the bond market.
	Well, if you go back to the time of Alexander Hamilton...
	Long-term interest rates, government bond interest rates have never been as low as they are today.
	And interest rates have no long-term trend.
	We go back into ancient times, and when we could get interest rates, it looks very much like what we have today.
	So the current level of interest rates is abnormally low, and there's only one direction in which they can go, and when they start, it will be rather rapid.
	I have no time frame on the forecast.
	I have a chart which goes back to $1,800.
	I like this.
	I have a chart that goes back to $1,800.
	If you Google bond prices $1,800, the chart's everywhere.
	I have a chart that goes back to $1,800.
	Which goes back to $1,800.
	And I can tell you that this particular period sticks out, but you have no way of knowing in advance when it actually will trigger, because remember, in a bull market which is about to break, Two weeks before, the price levels are below the ultimate peak, meaning there are more bids than offers.
	So it looks stronger just before it isn't stronger.
	And so anybody who thinks they're going to make forecasts which work all the time are in for a disastrous heading, if I might put it that way.
	This was first discussed about three years ago, and forecasts have been made in the meantime.
	What's it going to be now?
	What's it going to be then?
	I mean, Tom Hartman came out with a book, kind of predicting a crash in 2016.
	Muir missed!
	And I... Well, I will say...
	Pushing 2017.
	I looked at the chart, and it is ugly.
	I agree, it's ugly.
	But it could bounce, you know?
	It's kind of been just almost a stair step all the way down.
	Well, when it starts to go, it's going to take the whole market with it.
	Right, but short, right?
	Only for a year.
	About a year.
	Maybe the bottom will be even sooner than that.
	I mean, if this is an analog of 1857 or 1937...
	Not 77 so much, but especially 1857, which is the one I'm looking at.
	It'll be like, it'll seem like, and this happened in 77 too.
	If you read anything during that era about the market, they were predicting the most doom and gloom were never going to recover ever, ever, ever again.
	What year was that?
	That was in 77.
	There was a guy named Ruff.
	Are you FF? 1877?
	1877?
	No, 1857 is the one I'm looking at.
	But I'm saying right now, more recent literature in 1977.
	In 1977, there was all this rioting going on, and the way they saw the economy in 1977 was, this is it.
	Get used to it.
	This is going to be the way you're going to be living the rest of your life forever.
	And then it just bounced.
	Well, it bounced up after a little crisis.
	It kind of started bouncing up in 1980 when Reagan got in.
	It actually started...
	No, no, 1980 was almost near the peak.
	I'm sorry?
	It was almost near the peak.
	1980, it looks like 83 was the peak.
	Oh, that's where interest rates.
	This is the government bond.
	Oh, you're talking interest rates?
	Okay.
	Well, interest rates were skyrocketing during the 70s, but I'm talking about just the general economy and how people were perceiving the future.
	And it was that this is the way it's going to be forever.
	We're never going to get out of this.
	This is the worst thing ever.
	I believe this exact same scenario is going to happen.
	You're going to be told...
	And when it crashes, which will be between now and July of 1918, it's going to be over.
	And you're going to hear the same nonsense.
	It's going to be, we're screwed.
	It's going to be the way it's going to be forever.
	There's going to be no work.
	There's going to be riots in the street.
	And people are going to be burning down the cities.
	And this is it.
	And that's nonsense because that is not it.
	It is just the absolute bottom.
	Well, if you haven't noticed, San Francisco is pretty much there.
	The homelessness situation, I'm sorry, people who are experiencing homelessness is out of control.
	Well, that's not just San Francisco.
	Right now in Berkeley, under any overpass on any freeway, what's interesting to me is that the homelessness situation changed pretty much about a year and a half ago.
	Everybody has a tent.
	And so there are tent cities all over the place.
	In San Francisco, it's outrageous.
	You drive along and then all of a sudden there's a tent city.
	And the tents, by the way, are horrible tents, but there's tents.
	If you want to do a homeless person a favor, get them a tent.
	They're all in tents.
	I think that's the problem, because all these do-gooders are like, oh, let's get tents for the homeless.
	I wonder where the tents came from.
	We have not discussed this on the show, but these tents came from somewhere.
	I'm telling you, that's where it is.
	Because they didn't have tents a couple years ago.
	They were just living...
	No, you have to understand.
	This is a very liberal city, and Austin has the same.
	Austin has a lot of non-profits doing a lot for the homeless, but man, we have a shelter here and it really congregates all around that and it's really bad.
	But instead of really looking at a real solution, they buy them tents.
	That's typical.
	We're not going to go after the problem.
	No, you buy them a tent.
	That's like, no, we're going to put Narcan in elementary schools.
	Instead of going after the actual problem...
	Yeah.
	It's kind of the American way, I guess.
	Didn't we invent the Band-Aid?
	Yeah.
	I think so.
	I think Band-Aid, which Johnson& Johnson's brand name, I think is invented.
	Well, how come there's no Band-Aid for black people?
	We are racist.
	They do have them.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	For all colors of black people?
	No.
	Oh.
	But we're going to have this downturn, bond collapse, and it's going to take the market with us.
	So Apple stock and everybody else, Amazon, all these companies that are way overpriced.
	Oh, how about Tesla?
	They will be overpriced.
	They'll all collapse.
	Nice.
	So this is going to be fun.
	So I should just...
	Well, fun.
	Fun from...
	We'll see how the donations go.
	But there's a lot of people that won't be affected.
	I think our donations will probably remain pretty much the same, except, you know, we're...
	Because people know how important the show is, and so they donate.
	They didn't do that today, but generally speaking, they do.
	And I think we can get through it with the show intact.
	I hope so.
	And it's a worldwide audience, so we can probably pick up.
	And we're getting more.
	And now that you're going to go on the Seedman show, you will be...
	I don't know, but we've got to track it.
	Maybe it's going to kill the show.
	Maybe the agenda's screwed because you got it on the Seedman show.
	I'm telling you.
	Who knows?
	It could be.
	You're killing the show.
	Dude, you're killing the show, man.
	That's not good.
	Because the Seatman get people, the people who listen to Seatman that might start listening to our show aren't used to the donation model.
	Yeah, they are.
	He can still donate to a show.
	Oh, but does he get anything?
	Well, no.
	He says he did $40 million last year.
	Well, he didn't do that in donations.
	No, that was...
	I told you I was going to get the noagenda quercetin against mold.
	I'm going to get it in the store, in the shop.
	InfoWars shop.
	InfoWars health.
	Anyway, so back to the deconstructions.
	I got the biggest kiss.
	CBS has a news show.
	It's during the week.
	It's called CBSN Reports or something like that.
	And it's a 60 Minutes killer.
	That is so much better than 60 Minutes.
	By the way, did we miss the fact that Megyn Kelly got fired?
	Or her show was dropped?
	I don't know that we reported it, but I knew about it.
	Yeah, she can't carry the show.
	She's annoying.
	No, she never found her footing.
	Yeah, she didn't find her footing.
	Here's what I saw.
	I watched those shows.
	Those shows were absolutely excellent.
	They had good reporting.
	They had good stories.
	The problem was Megyn Kelly.
	You couldn't have done the show any better than you did it.
	Now CBSN has a much better approach, and it's almost like a modern version of what 60 Minutes should be like.
	But there was this little side thing, and they do sidebars, little interesting little snippets about the report that they did.
	So they were doing this report on this guy, Valvani, the guy who's the number one guy who wants to run against Putin in Russia.
	Very famous guy.
	And they're following him around.
	And so...
	So there's this report.
	This is the Valvani report.
	The journalist will just play this and I'll explain what happened.
	I'm not a very paranoid person, but it is true that since Russian-American relations started going downhill, people have taken a lot more interest in American journalists.
	So we're getting off a plane in Penzo.
	What we didn't realize is we were being photographed.
	I found the picture on Twitter and there you see our crew of five were actually numbered, you know, getting off this plane next to Navalny.
	I saw this blog post that was all about how Navalny had come to this city with American journalists.
	We were part of the story.
	The suggestion was that we were government agents somehow working with Navalny on his campaign.
	I wanted to show you this picture.
	So you weren't surprised by that picture?
	Kind of weirded me out.
	How long are you here in Russia?
	You shouldn't be used to it.
	I've never been numbered.
	So, Navalny is who it is.
	Not Vavolny.
	Navalny...
	They had all these CBS guys coming out of the plane to report on this guy.
	They had the camera crew and everything.
	And they were all numbered and reported as government agents.
	And I'm thinking to myself, hey, it's CBS. Of course they're government agents.
	Which I have a new, the acronym is for Catholics in Action.
	I didn't know this.
	I've heard the acronym is Christians.
	No, no.
	Catholics.
	In fact, the CIA is run by Catholics.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Well, Persenik was telling me last night, he says, the only good people in the CIA are the ones who are like the WASP-y guys, like your uncle.
	He said, we were the smart ones.
	He said, all the Catholics, their whole background doesn't jive with the work of The CIA, which he constantly said, Catholics in action.
	He said something, I didn't want to be like a, he kept talking about the G2. I don't know what the G2 is.
	The G2 would be maybe a private plane?
	No, it was something about intelligence agencies.
	I said, are they at war with each other?
	He said, oh yeah, absolutely.
	Not about the different agencies that war with each other.
	Yes, he said, and the FBI is completely stupid.
	He says, the CIA has never been dumber.
	And he said that Brennan, he said, what's Brennan's deal with this?
	Oh, you should ask him about Brennan being a Muslim.
	That's what I asked!
	Ah!
	He says, I'm not sure about that.
	He says, but he was in Saudi Arabia, and this guy was an F-up.
	He was just horrible, and I guess he was station chief there or something.
	I'm not sure what he was.
	But he said it was so horrible, and he didn't really answer about the Muslim thing, but he said he was the guy that worked the Obamas before he was president.
	He was the handler.
	Brennan was Obama's handler.
	Huh.
	That's what I said.
	Huh.
	That's what I just said, too.
	Yeah.
	This is a good contact.
	I think we've got material for the next five years if you can stay in touch with this guy.
	I think so, too.
	But he's 73.
	These guys like to chat with me.
	73 is not that bad.
	No, these guys like to chat with me is what I'm saying.
	Oh, I'm sure they do.
	You're very easy to chat with.
	And you have some chops, so it's not like you're an idiot he's chatting with.
	But here's the thing.
	Now, remember, he co-wrote the Tom Clancy novels.
	He says that he, because I said, oh, all that shit came true.
	He said, yeah, of course, because it was fiction, therefore I could make it whatever it wanted to be.
	He says, and I actually ran Tom Clancy.
	He said that he was, he, I guess, in a way was a handler of Clancy.
	But what he said to me is, he said, you know, you've got an interesting life.
	It's probably a good book.
	I'd be interested in talking to you about that.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah!
	Do a little book.
	Are you kidding me?
	Of course!
	He's written enough books.
	Get this guy co-written by?
	Yeah.
	Oh my god.
	Instant bestseller.
	You can put it right on the front with a little gold star.
	Instant bestseller.
	Instant bestseller.
	But I just wanted to bring that up that we need to talk about it as the Catholics in Action.
	I thought that was an interesting way of expanding the acronym.
	I just have one...
	I knew a guy who was one of these characters, you know, and he says that in your emails and everything you're supposed to use Christians in Action and no such agency and they won't get picked up.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he said CIA guys, they drink.
	He said they just drink.
	Because he's also a psychiatrist.
	He's treated a lot of agents.
	He says they drink and they philander.
	Yeah.
	And the saying at the Catholics in Action is if you can't seduce a woman, you'll never be able to seduce a country.
	I guess that's a rite of passage there or something.
	I agree.
	I'm sure the Russians have got a lot of women to make it easy to seduce.
	I have one Dimension B clip.
	It's so Dimension B that I'm actually kind of breaking a rule because it is from Twit and we normally don't play stuff like that.
	But I thought it was important in light of the true rift in our entire culture, the split in the universes, true split of universes, and also what that means for your tech news, I guess.
	You're such a fatalist.
	I am a fatalist.
	But look, I mean, sometimes I feel like certainly our government is in a different dimension, a different world from the world that we're living in.
	And anything that they plan to do about anything is irrelevant.
	Because they're almost, it's an impedance mismatch.
	They're operating at a different time scale than they are.
	I know, just go to the DMV. Just go to the DMV! It's like snails!
	It's a terrible branding event for government.
	Every time a citizen walks into the DMV, it is just a catastrophic branding event.
	If we can't get that right, how are we going to solve AI? We don't have enough people who have any kind of science or technology background that go into politics.
	We, at some point, years ago, had an office called the Office of Technology Assessment, and it was staffed with...
	Yeah, it was staffed with people who were non...
	My goodness.
	Well, he makes a good point.
	It's a funny point.
	You can't get the DMV right.
	How can you do AI? Funny idea.
	And that term AI is thrown around so easily.
	Show me some real AI and machine learning, please.
	This happened in the 80s.
	You know what?
	Someone showed me a picture.
	It was posted on the face bag.
	Look, Gizmodo has trained a computer to recognize aircraft in these pictures.
	I'm like, that's technology from the 60s.
	They were using that on air photography to find out what the enemy was doing with camouflaged runways and stuff.
	Come on.
	Well, the latest thing going on, which I'm surprised you didn't bring up, which is the inability to read stop signs by these LIDAR systems.
	Yeah, by the autonomous cars.
	Yeah, so they...
	They blow through the stop sign.
	Yeah, they either blow through the stop sign or they see it as something else, and there's this one.
	If I remember, I'll put it in the next newsletter.
	Yeah.
	There's a sign that says something, don't stop, you know...
	Don't worry.
	I just had some words on the top and the bottom of the stop sign.
	And apparently 100% of all the cars tested saw this stop sign as speed limit 45.
	I don't know.
	I looked at it.
	I couldn't figure out where they got that from.
	Well, in the Theodore Kaye way of thinking about technology, I love what the Uber drivers have figured out in London.
	I think they're also doing it in New York.
	You know how you have surge pricing?
	If there's not enough cars available, then you get, oh, you got 1.8 times your ride fare.
	Jack it up!
	So what they figured out is they're tricking the Algo They're jacking the Algo by all logging out of the app at the same time.
	The Algo thinks, crap, there's a shortage of cars.
	Boom.
	Surge pricing.
	They all log back in.
	They get extra money.
	Of course.
	Isn't that great?
	That's a fantastic hack.
	Yeah.
	I love stuff like that.
	And it's only going to get worse.
	It's the way the world works.
	It's only going to get worse.
	Alright, give us one clip to play us out, Johnny Boy.
	Yeah, let's see what we got here.
	I have a couple of things I got.
	The Dunkin' Donuts, which I believe is a native ad.
	Or, as we say in Holland, Dunkin' Donuts.
	Dunkin' Donuts.
	Dunkin' Donuts.
	Hey, look at the Dunkin' Donuts for me, man.
	Gaaf, hey.
	Look at the Dunkin' Donuts coffee.
	It's so lekker.
	But it is a news story, kind of an item, because it's so stupid.
	We'll run it.
	Time to make the donuts.
	Dunkin' Donuts considering changing its name to just Dunkin'.
	The new name getting a test run in Pasadena, the company citing competition from competitors with just one word on their name, namely Starbucks.
	Tweet me, is it Dunkin' Donuts without the donuts?
	Well, of course it's a native ad.
	Hello?
	Who gives a crap?
	Why would they think that Starbucks...
	Oh, they only have one name and they're doing really well.
	So let's put...
	Oh, Amazon only has one name.
	They're doing really well.
	Apple.
	So we should only have one name.
	They should have picked donuts.
	But that's okay.
	Dunkin' Donuts, mom.
	Dunkin'.
	Dunkin'.
	Alright, I think I'm good.
	You're good?
	That's it?
	You're done?
	Well, I could do...
	We got the...
	Okay, we got one more.
	Now, this is Shields and Brooks, because this always galls me, so I'll be mad after the show.
	Oh, well, thanks, Obama.
	This is, thanks, Obama.
	This, again, is my biggest complaint.
	My biggest pet peeve is this is Brooks and Shields on this PBS where they're both arguing the same thing on the same side of the argument.
	They're both a couple of Democrats, one pretending to be a Republican and bitching about the Republicans, not giving us any explanation.
	You know, it wouldn't bother me.
	You're going to have pro and con.
	You have there's plenty of people that could probably figure out how to be apologetic for Trump and explain what he's up to.
	It would be valuable information.
	I'd be interested.
	But no, no, no, no.
	We've got to have this clown just going.
	And he's slobbering.
	He's just falling over himself to condemn everybody.
	And let's listen.
	And the handling of health care among American voters.
	I mean, it's just they're beyond the basement.
	So I think there is some courage.
	But at the same time, I think there's a large dose of self-preservation involved.
	Yeah, David, I talked to Jeff Flake this week, and it was interesting.
	He said at one point, there's so many things to criticize about this president, we hardly know where to begin.
	But it does look as if the president doesn't have the clout, or the Republicans on the Hill don't seem quite as afraid of him.
	Maybe as they want to.
	Yeah, I think Jeff Flake is still going to be relatively lonely in direct opposition.
	There are a few, Ben Sayefs from Nebraska, Lindsey Graham, I think, Susan Collins, maybe Mike Lee, who are pretty much against Donald Trump.
	But the rest are just sort of going along.
	But the going along used to be going along close, and now going along, let's do it without this guy.
	One, during the healthcare thing, they saw not only how, what illusory was, but how destructive his presence was to try to get anything done.
	Second, nothing offends members of the Senate Republicans, nothing would offend them more than being attacked by the president of their own party, because it does feel like an act of disloyalty.
	And so incompetence and disloyalty, that suggests let's just go do our own thing.
	This guy is hopeless.
	And I do think that mentality has begun to slip in to a lot of the Senate Republicans.
	But it doesn't mean they're going to try to counter what I think of as the cultural rot and the political rot and the institutional rot that is happening in the Trump administration.
	They're not going to be standing after that degree.
	In the meantime, Mark, you...
	Cultural rot.
	Political rot.
	Hopeless loser.
	I mean, what kind of analysis is this?
	This is not helpful.
	This guy's unbelievable.
	Well, I'm glad we're around to call it out.
	And we're going to change our name to No.
	Yeah, because one name is better.
	It's better.
	One name is better.
	No.
	The No Podcast.
	What?
	No Podcast?
	No, it's called The No Podcast.
	That's the name of the podcast.
	What is it called?
	No.
	Can't you tell me?
	You can tell me.
	No.
	Do a whole skid around.
	That's right.
	I'm also calling for NoAgendaTents.com for the coming Armageddon so that you can donate and give us a tent.
	I think a tent with a big logo on it.
	Yeah.
	That would be the way to go.
	Yeah.
	Give the tent away and it says No Agenda.
	Listen to the No Agenda podcast.
	Perfect.
	It would be great on the side of a tent.
	You could silkscreen it on.
	Yeah.
	And give those tents to the homeless.
	It would always be like a billboard for the show.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, here in the common law condo in the Cludio.
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	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're still fearing the bomb hitting us at any minute, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will be back on Sunday.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until then, as always, adios, mofos!
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	Fish from the ocean swimming in the street.
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	I saw fish from the ocean swimming in the street just because I've been high.
	There's no longer a shared reality.
	I saw fish because I've been high.
	The oceans in the street.
	From the oceans.
	Shared reality.
	But it's more of a cinema verite approach and...
	Perfect.
	Fish approach.
	Reality?
	Bullshit!
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