Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

Aug. 27, 2017 - No Agenda

02:59:43

959: Stay Safe!

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	We sound like news execs now.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, August 27th, 2017, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode niner five niner.
	This is no agenda.
	Saving the world as a good ham should, right?
	And coming to you from the darkest corners of the United and downtown Austin Tejas, capital of the Drone Star State, in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's not raining, it's not snowing, there's no wind, it's nice out, I'm John C. DeVore.
	Crack Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Yeah, baby.
	I understand you're having a bit of a weather incident.
	A bit of rain, yes.
	Yeah, weather incident is correct, yes.
	Yeah, Texas.
	Yes, that's right.
	Yeah, it's been really fun fielding all the text messages and WhatsApp and Facebook.
	Are you okay?
	Is everybody okay?
	Are you okay?
	Are you safe?
	Stay safe.
	Stay safe.
	Thinking of you and yours.
	Yeah, it's really quite interesting to be in...
	We're not really in the hurricane, I have to say.
	Well, if you watch the Friday news, you guys are part of the...
	We're dead!
	We're dead!
	Three feet of rain.
	Well, that may be happening, and I think the actual disaster is still ahead of us because of the amount of rainfall that's expected.
	It's not expected to stop raining until Friday.
	And it is coming down.
	I think we have...
	For the next five days, it's going to keep raining like this?
	Yeah.
	In Austin, we have...
	I think we've got like 12 inches now, so almost a foot.
	Wow.
	And they're talking about 35, 40 inches of rain in some places.
	Right.
	So, yeah, it's been very interesting.
	Tina's been through a couple of hurricanes when she lived in Florida.
	And when she said, oh my god, it's a Cat 3, and now it's a Cat 4, which, by the way, I dispute.
	It's not a Cat 4 anymore.
	It turned into a tropical storm like last night.
	I know, John.
	Thanks for the info.
	I'm in the middle of it.
	You'd think I'd know.
	Well, that's what I said.
	I was just backing you up.
	I was just backing you up.
	What I'm disputing is it was coming towards shore, and then it was, oh, we have incredible intensification.
	Intensification.
	Intensification.
	What it's called, apparently.
	It does that when it hits shore?
	Intensification.
	And then they said it was a Cat 4.
	And, you know, I am able to monitor weather stations.
	And I was seeing about 80 to 100 knots, or miles per hour, actually.
	And not 130.
	And so I don't know exactly.
	And I tried to look up the classification.
	It seemed to me like they were a little hype-y on the Cat 4, we're all going to die.
	And then, oh, we're surprised.
	We had no idea it would slow down so quickly.
	Unless they're going to get people to watch these shows.
	Well, I can do an example of how they get people to watch the shows.
	Maybe you should go to our reporter on the scene outside there, John.
	Adam.
	We've got Adam Curry on the scene.
	He's right there in the middle of the storm.
	John, yes, I'm here.
	And if you can tell, it's really, really bad here.
	We've got a cash break.
	It's just going to be devastating.
	We are expecting news, loss of life, loss of property, blood and treasure.
	It's just, it's really good.
	And we have to remember, turn around, go Brown.
	Turn around, don't drown.
	Uintight.org.
	Okay, John, we are here at the coast of...
	John, it's getting a little bad in here, and I hope you can still hear me, but we're expecting this not to let us, okay?
	Okay, back to you in the studio, John.
	Oh, my God, that sounds terrible.
	Adam, stay safe.
	Thank you, John, and I want to talk about it.
	Pretty much every report for the past 48 hours.
	Well, ABC had the best grouping.
	They had three of these guys.
	Oh, fantastic.
	Standing in the wind.
	Okay.
	Let's see if we got any here.
	Here's a good one.
	This is the classic Man in Storm report.
	There's nothing like it.
	It was Christy Texas tonight.
	And Matt, what are you seeing already?
	It's not just about seeing, it's about feeling this storm, David.
	Hard to stand up in this wind, and the rain is coming down to what seems like rivers incredibly.
	There are still people on the roads here now.
	Harvey's really beginning to sink its teeth into this part of Texas, but this is just a jab.
	The full punch is still coming.
	Oh man, this is great.
	The full punch!
	Harvey is smashing into the Gulf Coast tonight, having ferocious wind, an ocean of water, and officials say deadly potential.
	It's the most powerful storm to hit the U.S. in over a decade, and from space, you can see the monster storm sprawling over the Gulf, already spawning tornado warnings.
	Yeah, that's true.
	There were definitely tornadoes touching down here and there.
	During this guy's report, he's out there holding his own and trying to stand up.
	And then a car casually drives by right in front of him.
	And it looks like crap, of course.
	And then he says, and even cars are still out.
	There's two things I forgot in my report.
	I feel pretty bad.
	I didn't do an accurate report.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	Let me try that again.
	John, catch up!
	What's happening?
	John, I just have new information.
	New information that because of greenhouse gas, obviously we're getting more intense storms.
	This has been a new glass pipe in inside many times, along with being by the science guy.
	And it is global warming.
	The climate crisis is upon us here in Texas.
	And, of course, we all know that this is obviously a big challenge for our president who is not ready, not prepared, and will probably leave for Texas to die.
	Back to Utah.
	That's terrible.
	Stay safe, Adam, and we have to all admit that if it wasn't for Trump, this wouldn't have happened.
	Yeah, I forgot that part.
	No, there's a...
	Okay, well, let's go to Storm 2008 report number.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I forgot about this one.
	NBC decided to do time travel.
	Oh, hey, wait a minute.
	They're on our turf again.
	Yes, they are.
	Storm NBC travels.
	NBC travels to 2008.
	We're the last hurricane to make landfall in Texas.
	Hurricane Ikes land ashore in 2008.
	That's where we find NBC's Joe Fryer.
	Joe, what are you seeing there this evening?
	What are you learning?
	2008.
	That's what he said.
	He says we're going to go to Joey's in 2008.
	2008.
	What are we learning?
	If you want to hear what he had to say, which makes...
	Yeah, well, this is Storm 2008.
	He's in 2008 making this report.
	What are you seeing there this evening?
	Lester, throughout the day today, we've experienced powerful winds and blinding sheets of rain.
	As if that weren't enough, tornado warnings have been issued with calls for people to immediately take shelter.
	Beyond that, the big fear here is the flooding.
	It's not just supposed to rain heavily for a few hours.
	It's supposed to do this for a few days.
	Now, we make light of it, but the flooding really is a problem.
	And Houston, I think, is getting the worst of it right now.
	I was listening to the ham emergency frequencies.
	And there's guys, and of course, a lot of these hams are in their 80s.
	And they're like, hey, we got two feet of water.
	I have an emergency.
	And, you know, it comes back, well, yeah, there's about 10,000 people who have this.
	I'm sorry, man, guy.
	10,000, I think, is going to be more than that.
	I'm just telling you what they said on the emergency frequencies.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, it's definitely bad.
	Oh, no, so Houston's going to be wiped out.
	It's got to be billions of dollars in damages, no doubt about it.
	But we can, you know, we can make, I can make light.
	If I'm out in California, we have earthquakes.
	Yeah, sure, sure.
	An earthquake will happen.
	Now, we actually did have a true disaster happen here in Austin.
	In Austin, we're getting about, we're getting 25 mile an hour winds, gusts maybe 30, probably an average of 25.
	But the rain is just...
	It was just hammering everywhere.
	It's not like from one direction.
	It truly is a storm system.
	A deluge.
	A deluge, yes.
	Exactly.
	But we had a report that was very distressing.
	But this is something that we don't hear about often either.
	Franklin's barbecue was on fire in East Austin on 11th Street.
	Look at the flames from one of our viewers.
	A KXAN reported photo.
	The fire is out.
	Thank goodness nobody was hurt.
	We are told from the Austin Fire Department that it started around 5.30 this morning, and it looks like the fire did not spread to the building itself of Franklin's, but kind of just stayed outside where one of the smokers, one of the barbecue pits was located.
	This is Franklin's barbecue, John.
	If you're going to burn down your restaurant because you can't make any money, don't do it during a rainstorm.
	Franklin's is very famous and has no problem making money.
	Yes, Franklin's is one of the most famous barbecue places.
	You know, the guy's featured on a lot of these food channels, and I think a lot of the Franklin's, I think it's a hyped-up place.
	I bet you there's other places that are just as good.
	I go to Lambert's here downtown.
	I like Lambert's a lot.
	Okay, well, there you go.
	Well, here's a report.
	Here's a report that's, I think, one of my favorite ones, if not my favorite.
	This is a guy condemning people who aren't evacuating, because a lot of people aren't evacuating.
	In fact, there's a prelude to this clip.
	Let's play this one.
	This is the woman who Storm Woman knows best.
	Play this.
	Okay.
	Tens of thousands of Texas residents ordered to flee, but some, like Janice Moore, staying behind, believing her home is stronger than Harvey.
	I feel like most residents do need to leave because they don't know what they're doing, but I feel like I do know what I'm doing.
	Harvey is expected to sit over the Gulf Coast, pummeling it for days, but the facts felt for hundreds of miles.
	Now, if anyone says, I feel...
	Like I know what I'm doing.
	Yeah.
	I'm skeptical.
	Yeah.
	I'll say so.
	Would you talk to your clairvoyant beforehand?
	I feel I know what I'm doing.
	This is the right thing to do.
	Yes.
	Now, here's the report that I think is the best one of a guy telling people to evacuate.
	And if they're not going to evacuate, he's got some advice.
	This is another storm report and warnings to leave ABC. Hold on.
	Oh, I see.
	Okay, I got it.
	Sorry.
	We've got 11.30 here and the wind is really picking up.
	The rain coming down hard.
	I want to do a crosstalk to this guy.
	I'm sorry.
	This is way too good.
	Alright, hold on.
	Let me do crosstalks.
	All right, so much from the report from Austin.
	Now we go back to our correspondent at ABC.
	11.30 here, and the wind is really picking up.
	The rain coming down hard, helping you.
	It feels like they're little needles pounding your eyes at this point.
	And the hurricane is still probably 100 miles out.
	And this massive storm is still intensifying.
	Texas' governor activating 1,300 National Guard troops, opening enough shelters to house 41,000 evacuees.
	We can obviously tell already at this stage, this is going to be a very major disaster.
	Officials in Rockport warning, staying could mean dying.
	Those that are going to stay, it's unfortunate, but they should make some type of preparation to mark their arm with a Sharpie pen, put their...
	Wow!
	Why don't you get dressed in your body bag while you're at it?
	Hey, I'm ready for death!
	Wow!
	That is great.
	Get a sharpie, put your social security number in your arm, get in the bag, zip it up.
	The biggest complaint heard in Austin about all this?
	Man, the checkout lines at Whole Foods are insane.
	Yeah.
	No, it's bad.
	It definitely is bad.
	And we're going to see some...
	It's going to get bad downtown, too.
	I mean, this is...
	When everything starts overflowing, when Lake Travis goes, it'll start to get interesting.
	Yeah, that will be interesting.
	I have an ISO for you from the storm that you can use at any time you want.
	Just in case I need it, yes.
	I mean, I see it here.
	Already pounding Port Lavaca.
	I know, it's not the greatest.
	It's not the best.
	Now, here's the most interesting story.
	Nobody else seemed to play this but NBC. But I didn't realize that they even do this.
	This is the house lifting that's going on.
	All out for several days, producing a potentially devastating amount of rainfall and flooding.
	NBC's Jacob Rascone is there for us.
	Jacob Houston is no stranger to floods, but they have rarely seen anything like what we're talking about here.
	Lester, if the forecast holds and Houston gets more than 20 inches of rain, the bayous and creeks will overflow.
	Flooding areas like this, as well as neighborhoods, freeways, businesses and more, local officials have preemptively declared a disaster.
	Before Harvey slams into the nation's fourth largest city, homeowners scrambled to save their homes by lifting them.
	Threw all our crews at this and hope to race and get it up before it hit.
	And you're going to make it?
	Yes, oh yeah, definitely.
	The Chefman's house elevated just in time.
	It's just an amazing feeling.
	While others are heartbroken.
	We're about 10 days away from being lifted.
	It's going to be our third flood in three years.
	I'm not sure how we're going to get through this one.
	We are geared up and ready to go.
	The threat level is as high as it gets at the Harris County Office of Emergency Management.
	Oh yeah, lifting the house.
	Honey!
	I didn't know they did this.
	It seems to me that you'd build a house on a hill.
	Instead of having to lift it, but for people that didn't get to see this report, they take and they bring this equipment in and they take the house off its foundation, jerk it into the air about 10 feet or more, and then they put block cinder blocks underneath the house in about...
	20 places, so it has some stability.
	I can't imagine a big log coming in, ramming into the cinder blocks, dropping the house into the drink, and then off it floats.
	That would be bad.
	Yeah.
	I can see that.
	But they showed a bunch of these houses.
	They were all jacked up into the air.
	And then, of course, one guy, I guess he signed up for the house lifting too late, and he doesn't get to get his house lifted.
	But I didn't even know...
	I mean, I know in some flood zones like in Gurneyville around here.
	Yeah, I think I do that in Florida too, I believe.
	I know in some areas they actually build a house on stilts.
	Florida for sure.
	And so the house is already up in the area.
	And also on the Texas coast, it's also on stilts.
	Galveston is famous for its massive flood.
	When was that?
	Number of times.
	There's one, I think.
	Yeah, there was a bad one.
	They got plaques and monuments everywhere to it.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, it happens.
	It's our turn this time.
	But there's a lot of, oh, Texas.
	Sure, you want that federal aid, don't you?
	Now, my favorite is my last one.
	I'm glad you had such fun not even being here.
	Well, yeah, it's a lot more fun than being there, I think.
	You know what's really sad?
	Christina's here for her birthday with her girlfriend, and they've been in the house.
	They can't get out.
	When the weather's bad, there's a lot less to do.
	There's nothing to do.
	In Texas, in general.
	Well, you still have cable.
	That's a plus.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So this was the one, this I believe was ABC, and they go out of their way to find, I don't know, I like to know how these reporters even find these people.
	They must go to local people, and of course they give credit to nobody but themselves.
	But they always try to find the worst case sob story.
	Some person, they lost something or other, and then they put them on the camera, and then they make them cry, so they're sobbing over something.
	And it's just, this is the, I don't know how they find these people to begin with, but they do, and this is probably the worst one, at least the one that you see, or I've seen this woman more than once, is the storm worst case scenario.
	Okay.
	And I have a story about that, too.
	Does it make you nervous, seeing what's going on outside your window?
	Yeah.
	I'm very nervous.
	And what about your home?
	We actually live in an RV, so we unfortunately had to leave it on the island, so we're pretty worried that...
	We won't have a home to go back to.
	Oh yeah.
	Yes!
	Dynamite footage!
	They could only get as far as Corpus Christi.
	Nailed it!
	Because Danielle is due for a C-section here on Tuesday.
	Oh, even better.
	I know that one too.
	C-section.
	Two punch.
	Well, I'll tell you.
	Because they airlifted a lot of babies from the NICU in, I think, Houston?
	But maybe even near the coast?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And they airlifted him to Dell Children's Hospital, and so Tina was on call because they had like seven or eight families come into the Ronald McDonald house, so they had to be taken care of, and so everyone's on call, and then the media's like, yeah, we want to interview, we want to get a story...
	And Tim's like, uh, yeah, no.
	Their children are in the intensive care unit.
	They're airlifted to another intensive care unit.
	Their lives are already uprooted.
	They're staying.
	It's great to stay there, but they're not home.
	And you want to grab them now and interview them about all this devastation.
	No.
	And then they said, okay.
	And they went straight to Dell Children's Hospital.
	They stood outside and waited for him there.
	The media are a-holes.
	They're ghouls.
	Ghouls is exactly it.
	Like, come on.
	Just as a side clip, now that we just made that assertion.
	That they're ghouls.
	Or that they're a-holes, too.
	I want to play a short clip, and this is just off to the side, a short clip of Trump from his Phoenix speech, where he did go into a rant.
	I think a lot of it was quite funny.
	He went into a rant about the media, and of course the media wouldn't report on it.
	They would never hear this particular clip.
	This is Trump in Phoenix.
	You would never hear this particular clip.
	But I think it's appropriate considering what you just said.
	And do you ever notice when I go on and I'll put like out a tweet or a couple of tweets, he's in a Twitter storm again.
	I don't do Twitter stuff.
	You know, you'll put on a little tweet.
	I'm going to be with the veterans today.
	They'll say, Donald Trump is in a Twitter storm.
	These are sick people.
	I did see him say it.
	Actually, that brings me to another story as we move away from the storm.
	If you don't mind.
	And if we have an update, we'll be sure to break in and bring you that update.
	In case something's going on, you never know.
	The CIA is so...
	I have to use the word unhinged, although I like unglued better.
	About controlling the president or whatever it is that they feel they need to do.
	They're bringing out all the stops.
	All the stops.
	And now they've somehow figured out a great idea.
	I wish I was in this meeting.
	To have one of their former agents, big quotes around former...
	Valerie Plame.
	Valerie Plame to show up.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, I have this story from I was going to use in the last show.
	Yeah, I finally got a clip of it because I was waiting for a clip.
	Oh, good.
	All I have is just the article.
	Right.
	So she came on with Brolf there on the CNNs.
	And her concept is to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter to kick Donald Trump off of Twitter.
	This is her genius idea.
	Which is obviously an idea.
	Who knows?
	But it was like, come on.
	And at first, she's just dumb.
	But she was an accomplished agent.
	We don't know that.
	She's hot.
	Yeah, well, we know that.
	Hot equals accomplished.
	I guess.
	Yeah.
	So here's a little setup with Brolf.
	Who is taking this idea seriously, which is even funnier?
	What an idiot.
	I think the best way to put it is that Trump has weaponized Twitter.
	I think just last week John Oliver said, who would imagine when...
	Who, who, who quotes John Oliver?
	Come on.
	What is up with that?
	I think it was the great poet John Oliver who said, I mean, come on, Valerie Plain.
	The CIA is really overreaching with this.
	Well, I think the best way to put it is that Trump has weaponized Twitter.
	I think just last week John Oliver said, who would imagine when Twitter was invented that we'd be on the brink of nuclear Armageddon?
	Armageddon.
	It's a new way to pronounce it, too.
	What is that all about?
	Is she reading?
	I have no idea.
	Armageddon.
	Armageddon or whatever.
	Why don't you say Armageddon?
	I'll rack it up and play it again.
	Armageddon.
	I'll rack it up.
	You bet.
	I think just last week, John Oliver said, who would imagine when Twitter was invented that we'd be on the brink of nuclear Armageddon?
	It's baffling to me.
	Armageddon.
	You gotta clip nuclear Armageddon or whatever.
	Alright, well let's remember to do that.
	I'll write it on the list here.
	Don't want to do...
	Armageddon, I tell you.
	It was invented that we'd be on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
	And everyone kind of laughs at that.
	But people who really follow this, and as you know, this is what I used to do in my old job at the CIA. Now, what is she saying?
	As you know, this is what I used to do in my old job at the CIA. Was she tracking nuclear arms?
	I'm thinking more that she was part of a team that did fake tweets.
	That's what I was thinking, too.
	And as you know, this is what I used to do.
	Hold on a second.
	Okay, no, I'm getting right.
	This was during the Bush administration.
	So, okay, anyway, go on.
	That we'd be on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
	And everyone kind of laughs at that.
	But people who really follow this, and as you know, this is what I used to do in my old job at the CIA, we know that this is deadly serious.
	Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is very impulsive.
	The last thing we want to do is heat up this rhetoric until we move into something that sort of moves inexorably toward nuclear war.
	We don't want to stumble into nuclear war.
	Stumble.
	So far, Valerie, you've only raised, what, maybe close to $50,000 for your goal of $1 billion.
	$1 billion.
	Evil.
	One billion dollars.
	Listen to this.
	Listen to Brawl.
	Take it seriously.
	This is really good.
	So far, Valerie, you've only raised maybe close to $50,000 toward your goal of $1 billion.
	Here's the question.
	Are you just trying to send a message?
	Is this really a serious effort?
	Because it's a...
	I'm just curious.
	Yeah, because it's stupid, is what he's trying to say.
	It's so stupid, but is this a serious effort?
	You already have $50,000 of $1 billion.
	Billion?
	I'm just curious.
	Yeah, well, a billion dollars is really ambitious, and I've just learned today that's only going to buy like an eighth of the controlling share of Twitter.
	So it's a highly valued company.
	The point is, I want to...
	Just wait.
	Don't worry, it'll come down to that one billion.
	Just wait long enough.
	Shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.
	And it also, I hope, gives people the sense that they don't just have to stand by when, through his ever-escalating tweets, undermines our national security.
	And I have to make a very valid point here.
	I love how she says, I'm going to make a valid point.
	I think I should just say that all the time.
	I'm going to make a very valid point here.
	I don't care what you say, what you think is a very valid point.
	It undermines our national security.
	And I have to make a very valid point here that I will not keep, I do not financially benefit from any of this money.
	Any of the money, to the last penny will go to Global Zero, an organization I've been involved with for a long time.
	They are leading the resistance against nuclear war and ultimately the elimination of nuclear weapons.
	Yeah, that was kind of interesting.
	So this is not going to...
	What?
	No, the money's not...
	This is a scam!
	Yes, the money's not going to buy Twitter.
	No, it's going to her little group there.
	Well, she's not going to get the money if she doesn't get to the billion.
	No, I think it's Indiegogo.
	You can set it up where you take whatever comes in.
	No, but is she on Indiegogo?
	What is she on?
	I think so.
	I thought she said it was...
	Or GoFundMe.
	GoFundMe.
	GoFundMe?
	Yeah, and you can take everything that comes in.
	You can take it right away.
	GoFundMe, I believe that's true.
	Whatever comes in, you get.
	So she's basically not even worried about the billing.
	She just wants to collect some cheap money to give it to her organization.
	Yeah, which is Global Zero, an international movement, GlobalZero.org, for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
	Apparently there's not enough money coming in from Soros for this particular group.
	Yeah, and this is what was annoying is they don't really have their officers or anything like that mentioned.
	She just needs some spending money.
	This is ridiculous.
	Yeah, it is a 501c3.
	Yeah, so what?
	Yeah.
	Now, it's about nuclear weapons.
	Its members understand that the only way to eliminate the nuclear threat, including proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and humanitarian catastrophe, is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
	Now, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So it goes on and on and on and on.
	But it's not about nuclear weapons!
	No, not at all.
	Let's just continue with Brolf asking some probing questions so the truth can come out.
	What I think across the board is that it was really strange that candidate Trump, even before he had the nomination, that so many within his...
	His organization, his lieutenants, his compatriots, were reaching out to Russians rather than really focusing on trying to make sure they had the nomination and what the campaign would look like.
	It is more than a coincidence.
	There are so many instances of contacts, outreach to Russians.
	And like many Americans, I'm relying upon Robert Mueller and his Cracker Jack team.
	Mueller!
	You stepped on it.
	Listen to what she says about Mueller.
	And like many Americans, I'm relying upon Robert Mueller and his Cracker Jack team.
	Cracker Jack team?
	Isn't it supposed to be Crack team or something?
	Cracker Jack.
	Cracker Jack means you like a cheap candy.
	Cheap, shitty...
	Cracker Jack team.
	So they're basically their popcorn with goo over it?
	Or are they the prize inside of the Cracker Jack's box?
	There's a little cheap toy in there.
	That was a...
	I didn't understand why she said Cracker Jack.
	She says a lot of weird stuff.
	I don't think she was a very...
	They couldn't have put a woman like this out in the field.
	...of contacts, outreach to Russians.
	And like many Americans, I'm relying upon Robert Mueller and his crackerjack team to really get to the bottom of this and see what is there.
	It's head-scratching and concerning.
	So what do you suspect as far as these meetings are concerned?
	We don't know.
	The public does not know yet if this is collaboration, cooperation.
	It sounds to me like there was definitely a Russian campaign to try to find what we would call agents of influence.
	And I don't think the Russians, they couldn't look into a crystal ball and see that Trump was going to win, but they figured, why not?
	Everything that we've read of how they approached and how they cultivated different contacts, this is classic KGB, FSB playbook.
	Oh, classic playbook, Jean.
	Classic.
	This playbook thing crops up as a talking point.
	I have a clip.
	All she is is a talking point.
	She's just a talking point.
	But that playbook thing, I have to play this now that you've played that.
	This is on the weekly show This Week with Charlie Rose, where he just runs off stuff that he did, and then also what's on CBS.
	But he had Al Franken on with the same concerns, almost exactly the same concerns as we just heard from this woman that was trying to buy Twitter, insincerely, I might add.
	But listen to it, he's got the same kind of nonsense that he says.
	We know that the Kremlin has done this before in Eastern Europe, and there's something called the Kremlin Playbook, a document which...
	Talks about how they do it, and part of the way they do it is they corrupt people.
	And then they own them.
	And we see Manafort and Flynn taking money from Russia.
	We see Trump's son saying in 2008 that the disproportionate amount of our money is coming from Russia.
	I mean, if the Trump businesses are in large part financed by, you know, it's hard to borrow money in the United States if you've gone bankrupt many times.
	And so, and if your son is saying there's a lot of Russian money coming into our business, He's presumably saying because there's a lot of Russian money coming into their business.
	And part of the Kremlin playbook is corrupting people, is getting their claws into them by investing in them and corrupting them.
	And so this will unfold.
	What a dick!
	Just the way he talks to this corrupting them.
	Maybe he's talking about how lobbyists corrupt him.
	They get their claws into you.
	I don't know.
	So there's a playbook out there.
	And I don't know if you can buy it on Amazon, maybe.
	The playbook?
	Let's take a look, because he says it's out there.
	And so he called it the Kremlin playbook.
	Okay.
	I'm going to look it up.
	Let's go ahead and look that up.
	This is something I've been wanting to mention.
	Playbook.
	Amazon.
	Boom.
	And?
	Well, I spell playbook with a dash.
	Let me just go to the Amazon site.
	Go to books.
	Books.
	This is a very odd experiment you're doing.
	You never know.
	He says it's a book.
	The way he described it...
	Well, here it is.
	The Center for Strategic and International Studies have the Kremlin Playbook.
	Yeah, there you go.
	That's it.
	Okay.
	It's the Kremlin Playbook.
	There you go.
	Yeah, the Kremlin Playbook.
	It's 45 bucks.
	It's overpriced.
	Yeah.
	Kindle's $25.
	Should be $1.99.
	Understanding Russian influence in Central and Eastern Europe.
	It's got nothing to do with...
	But that's the playbook.
	It's the same playbook.
	It's a playbook.
	It's a playbook.
	You can take that playbook and you can...
	You got a quarterback sneak.
	You got an end around.
	All those things.
	Got an alley-oop.
	Alley-oop.
	That's a glass from the past.
	It actually looks really nice, this Kremlin playbook.
	I'm looking at the...
	It's leather-bound.
	Red leather bound.
	Yes, beautiful.
	Like a playbook actually would be.
	That's fantastic.
	Can you look inside?
	Yeah, I am looking inside.
	Yeah, I'll put this in the show notes.
	It looks pretty good.
	It's pretty good.
	Although, you know, we just have to apply that to us and then we know how it works.
	Hey, okay.
	Like I said, apparently Frank was promoting sales of this book.
	I'm sure he wasn't.
	Hey, you're a guy who won.
	Did you watch the McGregor-Mayweather fight?
	Because that seemed to be the only thing of importance here in America yesterday.
	Yes, I did.
	You did watch it.
	Man, all I saw was people losing their crap over the streaming not working.
	Did you have any issues?
	No.
	Oh.
	Yeah, apparently they delayed the start of the main event.
	By 10 minutes.
	Well, they had a bunch of preliminary bouts.
	No, there was something wrong with the stream.
	I don't know.
	After all that money?
	Yeah.
	I paid $99 for it.
	Yeah.
	Oh, no, people were very angry, believe me.
	Very angry.
	I would tell people a couple of things.
	One, if you really did your homework and had a VPN, you could get the entire feed.
	You could steal it!
	No, you could steal it too.
	But you could get it for, I think, $9 or $10 or $20.
	It was less than $99.
	It was Sky Sports in England.
	They had a feed for $20.
	And that's the one I would do.
	And I don't know that that had any trouble.
	It was cheaper.
	And then if you really looked around, I found a website that showed all of the different services that were giving it out.
	The Russians had a license to show it free.
	And you could go, if you could get a Russia address on a VPN, you could get it.
	Otherwise, it'd cut you off.
	I did a little research.
	I was doing some, it was a little tech news stuff I was playing around with.
	But I did watch the fight.
	And it was actually a better fight than I thought it would be.
	Although Mayweather didn't box as he normally boxes.
	He boxed a different style than he...
	He thought it would be too boring if he actually...
	And he would be right if he boxed in his normal style, which is a very defensive type of boxing where he's turned to the side, he's in this kind of awkward position, and it's almost impossible to hit him.
	But, you know, I wouldn't have paid 99 bucks for it.
	Well, I have no interest whatsoever.
	I really don't care.
	Well, you asked me.
	I asked if you had streaming problems.
	I was interested in that.
	No.
	But since you brought up the Gitmo Nation GMT, very troubling, this wrath of...
	I'm sorry, rash.
	A rash of news that has come out regarding a new study.
	Always got to look out for those.
	From the scientists at the University of Copenhagen...
	Compared dementia rates to the natural quantities of lithium in water and they have concluded that by putting lithium in the water supply for the slaves to drink that you will have less chance of getting dementia.
	This is an old known fact because there's an area and I believe it's in Texas That has a high concentration of lithium in the water.
	And that's where these studies stem from.
	And this is, I remember hearing about this 20 years ago.
	Right.
	I never heard about anybody trying to dope the people with the lithium, but it doesn't surprise me.
	That's what the talk is all about now.
	We need to put lithium in the water to save us from dementia.
	And, groovy side effect, people get kind of docile.
	And kind of quiet.
	Isn't lithium prescribed for bipolar disorder?
	Yeah, typically.
	So they're going to start to, or at least they're considering.
	And people who have taken lithium, I know a couple personally, they don't like it.
	Well, why not?
	I think the dose is a little higher than you get in the water, but they seriously don't like it.
	So here's the national, the NHS. National Health Service System, I think.
	Adding lithium to tap water could prevent thousands of dementia cases.
	I mean, that's the lead right there.
	And I love that this is coming from Denmark, which is the capital of medicated human beings.
	That's why they're all so happy.
	It's the happiest place in the world.
	It is fact.
	It's the happiest place in the world.
	And it's also the most medicated place in the world.
	And now they're sending this over to...
	Just legalize drugs.
	Yeah, this is great.
	This is really good.
	I can't wait to see if they do that.
	They won't.
	I mean, although I say that knowing full well that the fluoride's nonsense, they've been sold a bill of goods on using industrial waste fluoride to dump it in the water to get rid of it.
	And so the public ingests this crap.
	And they get away with it.
	Here's the conclusion from the authorities in the UK's.
	The study is intriguing because we already know that lithium affects how the brain and nervous system work through many different pathways.
	However, the results are difficult to interpret.
	The study seemed to suggest that lithium levels of more than 15 micrograms per liter could be protective against dementia in comparison with lowest levels.
	However, that doesn't explain why levels of 5 to 10 micrograms per liter seem to increase the risk of dementia in comparison with the lowest levels.
	I don't know what that means.
	It's possible that some other factors could be at play.
	More clinical studies are needed.
	But there are other things you can do to reduce your risk of dementia in the meantime.
	That's right.
	Listen to the No Agenda show.
	That's right.
	It'll start right there.
	And there was a very concerning report to me after you promoted this very, very heavily on the show and got me on board.
	We're pretty close to dying, John, thanks to your medical advice.
	In a study that followed more than 77,000 people for more than a decade, researchers noticed a troubling trend when it comes to one of the most popular vitamin supplements on the market.
	What we found was that men who had used dietary supplements, in particular B6 and also vitamin B12, were at significant increased risk of developing lung cancer.
	Surprisingly, there was no risk found in women, but in men, those who took high doses of these B vitamins for up to 10 years had approximately double the risk of developing lung cancer.
	In men who smoked, the risk was three to four times greater, depending on which of the two B vitamins they were taking.
	This study looked at both men and women who took high doses for 10 years.
	A high dose of B6 is considered 20 milligrams, but supplements come in doses of up to 500 milligrams.
	A high dose of B12 is considered to be 55 micrograms, but B12 supplements come in doses of up to 5,000 micrograms.
	So these are super physiological doses that are not necessary for your health.
	Theodore Braski led the study at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital, and Solove Research Institute.
	He says it's easy to get plenty of B vitamins from diet.
	Foods like cereals are fortified with them.
	And some energy drinks have 8,000% of the recommended daily allowance of B12. I don't think there's a clear scientific backing for a healthful need for these supplements at those doses.
	Oh, thanks.
	Well, let's think about a couple of things that weren't mentioned.
	I think if you're going to report on this, you have to report on the type of B12 you're talking about.
	And how does that compare to what I'm told, when you get a B12 butt shot from the doctor, and that means an injection in the buttocks, which is a lot more than you get from a couple of the B12, methylated B12 pills that you take.
	Before the show, you said.
	Does that have an effect, too?
	How come, A, they didn't talk about the type of B12, and B, they didn't talk about the doctor dose of B12? Some people have that daily.
	Some people have the Michael Jacksons of the world who walk around with a doctor or dead.
	They get a shot at this stuff all the time.
	Did they discuss this?
	Michael Jackson is dead.
	Just want to let you know.
	Yeah, he's dead.
	Bad example.
	It is a bad example, but it's an example.
	Here's what I'd say.
	Of course, this is some degree of bull crap or promotion.
	Maybe they're going after energy drinks.
	Why was that mentioned specifically?
	Or, my favorite, you know, don't be healthy.
	Don't take good stuff.
	It's going to kill you.
	Up is down.
	Black is white.
	By the way, when you talk about something being out of place, you have to go back to the storm reporting.
	Because I didn't know this until I started listening.
	Every network would say it the same way.
	Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States.
	Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States.
	They would always drop that little bomb in there about that.
	I didn't know this.
	I didn't know that Houston was the fourth largest city in the United States.
	Well, there you go.
	There's the news media educating you.
	So what you're talking about is New York, Los Angeles, one and two, one way or the other.
	And then Chicago would be number two or three.
	And so then Houston, is it bigger than Seattle metropolitan or San Francisco metropolitan?
	Or just specific Houston city limits?
	How big is this place?
	2,300,000 people in Houston.
	Is that Houston metropolitan or Houston city limits?
	I don't know.
	I mean, all of Houston.
	Why are they telling us this?
	Why are they making a point to tell us that Houston is the fourth largest city?
	It's not that I'm skeptical of the way the news is reported.
	But I am.
	I think it's to show you the, or to give you a visual of the scale of human devastation.
	Okay.
	You know, it's the fourth largest city in America.
	Or, yeah, I can see it to me.
	Well, let's anybody give a crap about you.
	Why should we care?
	And right now, John, it looks like Houston is getting flooded.
	Okay, now let's try it the other way, the way they're doing it.
	And right now it looks like Houston, which is the fourth largest city in America, is going to flood. - Yeah.
	Now, which one do you like better?
	I think you did it.
	That is the reason.
	It's because nobody cares about Houston.
	But if you can put it on the scale...
	No offense to the Houstonians, all two of them who donate to the show.
	No offense to the Houstonians, but there's nobody that cares about Houston.
	They think of it as a shithole and whatever.
	But if you make it clear it's the fourth largest city, you're at least giving us some context to care.
	Yes.
	Okay, I'm glad we deconstructed that.
	I'm glad we took care of that.
	It was bothering me.
	I feel much better now.
	Yes.
	Okay, let me see.
	I have a lot of Antifa stuff to talk about as they're really going nuts in Scandinavia now.
	And they're going after journalists.
	This is new.
	Yeah, this is new.
	That backfired?
	Well, what do you mean?
	Well, I mean, the journalists are the ones who triggered all this stuff.
	Oh, you mean backfired for them?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Let me see.
	I have a couple of things here.
	Well, mainly, I don't really have anything Antifa per se, other than just a ton of different links.
	Which are all in the show notes where they're saying, oh, we are going to get journalists because they're not fair.
	They're propagating the wrong language.
	Yeah, no, I said that.
	This is one of those situations where these crazies on that side of the equation, dimension B, they're jumping on the journalists for not being twisted enough.
	Yes.
	Yeah, and it's becoming very problematic.
	And what's happening in addition to this, where it's really fueling all of it, is the migrants coming in.
	Oh, yeah, in Canada.
	Yeah, in Canada, yes.
	And let's see, this was an interesting report, and it's really coming, you know, the authorities really don't want to talk about any of this stuff, but, you know, this is Canada.
	Canada's open and fair and transparent society.
	So when it comes to some of these refugees having laptops, let me repeat, laptops, With child pornography, it's becoming problematic.
	There is a report out today that says that several of the refugee claimants that have been coming across the local border have been in possession of child pornography.
	Can you tell me how many arrests have been made?
	What happens to those people?
	And detail me the process.
	For a purpose of confidentiality, I won't provide too much details.
	I'm sorry?
	The guy said process with that Canadian pronunciation?
	Yeah, it is kind of odd.
	It's kind of odd.
	It's a short clip.
	It's kind of hard to hear.
	And the guy speaks weird English.
	I won't provide too much details, but I can certainly say that, you know, most of these asylum seekers are family with young children.
	He's saying asylum seekers instead of asylum seekers.
	Asylum seekers.
	I like asylum.
	I like asylum, too.
	I won't provide too much details, but I can certainly say that, you know, most of these asylum seekers are family with young children.
	And more precisely, less than one percent of the asylum seekers presented or showed, I would say, maybe serious criminality or any violation.
	So it's less than one person of these SNM seekers that are detained at the immigration holding center in Laval.
	I understand that, but my follow-up to you is how many arrests have been made for people in possession of child pornography?
	He won't answer the question, but less than 1%, which could be quite a bit, found with child pornography on their laptops.
	And they're not arresting them or doing anything about it?
	No, they have detained people, but they're not saying how many, and they're very non-transparent about it.
	In other words, they're not doing anything?
	Probably not.
	It's their culture, man.
	What are you supposed to do?
	Now the next problem, and let me reiterate that this has come about because the temporary protection status of Haitians, which was extended once, is due to expire, I believe in March.
	Could be a bit earlier than that.
	And this is what is spurring many of them to go to Canada, which of course is much greater, much better than here.
	Because they're free and people are nice and transparent.
	The next wave will be El Salvadorians.
	El Salvadorans?
	El Salvadorans?
	I think it's El Salvadorians.
	I'm not sure.
	It could be.
	People from El Salvador.
	People from El Salvador.
	They also have a protected status.
	And that definitely ends in March, this coming March.
	Except there are like four times as many people from El Salvador than Haiti.
	So we're talking a quarter of a million that apparently is going to pack up and move north of the border.
	Now, I think, personally, I think it would be a big mistake for the president not to say, hey, why don't I extend that for these people?
	But there must be something at play with Canada.
	I mean, there must be a reason why this is not...
	Trump went to the Haitian community, went to Little Haiti and said, hey, the Clintons suck.
	They stole everything from you.
	Now he's not going to help them out?
	Something must be at play.
	Something's up.
	For sure.
	And it has to do with the border.
	Or NAFTA or something.
	And Trudeau does.
	It's really interesting to watch.
	And I got a lot of great written explanations.
	And thank you very much.
	I put some of those in the show notes.
	Niner5niner.noagendanotes.com Because it's going to break the country apart.
	You watch.
	They have no idea how to handle this.
	You can't even talk about it.
	It's become a real issue.
	Yeah, Canadians have difficulty when anything's actually a complex mechanism shows up on their doorstep.
	And look who they have for their, you know, Trudeau running the place.
	These guys, it's like a teenager.
	Meanwhile, the migrant situation in Euroland is getting worse.
	In Rome, the 700...
	Refugees were evicted from one of their temporary housing mainly because they were protesting that the housing, 800 people, that the housing wasn't good enough for them.
	You know, this shit housing, shit!
	We want better!
	So this is no good, and that was a big fracas, and now the police are being condemned for the way they handled them.
	See, there was, I had more.
	It's just, it's really, really coming to a head.
	This is, oh, Calais, after the jungle got rousted there at the, at the chunnel.
	They're back.
	What had become a vast shantytown sheltering up to 10,000 migrants was raised to the ground last October.
	Calais' so-called jungle camp destroyed by French authorities.
	Nine months on, the jungle may have gone, but the migrants have returned.
	This time there's very little here for them, and they're desperate to get out.
	Across the English Channel.
	The dismantling of the camp, it was a defining issue, he says.
	First of all, in this camp, 60% of the people wanted to stay in France.
	But now in Calais, people want to go to England as quickly as possible.
	Even more so now, because there's no way to shelter at night.
	Their blankets, their bedding are thrown in the canal.
	You can see behind me, every night or every morning.
	There's pressure for people to pass through as quickly as possible.
	French President Emmanuel Macron has promised that migrants will be treated humanely.
	Last month, a local court ordered authorities to provide drinking water, toilets and showers.
	But there's been no sign of that, according to Khalid from Afghanistan.
	The difference is huge compared to the former jungle, he says.
	Police were not harassing people every day.
	There were houses, tents set up, there was food.
	We had everything there.
	There were showers, toilets, a mosque and even a place for eating.
	We had everything.
	Here there's nothing, no toilet, no shower, nowhere to sleep, not even a plate to eat from.
	Campaigners say the tough conditions are aimed at forcing migrants like Khalid out of Calais for good.
	Yo, sounds like a party.
	Talking about throwing blankets in the river.
	You gotta toss it in the river.
	I don't even have a plate.
	Well, it's expected now.
	It's expected from these European nations.
	It's expected.
	Make it good for us.
	We were told this was going to be great.
	You know, part of the story that's never been explored...
	Is the part that goes back to where these guys were told that, you know, go to Germany because they're going to give you a free income.
	You're going to get income for life and a house and a place to stay.
	It's fantastic.
	Just go.
	I mean, I always get the sense, and I don't want to keep bringing them up as the Yep.
	That is some NGO probably financed by the big boy, Soros, that was down there selling these guys a bill of goods just to flood Europe.
	And they're all expecting stuff and demanding it if they don't get it.
	Yep.
	I think that's very possible.
	That story's never been told.
	Well, we tracked that for a while.
	They had different maps and different instructions that were handed out in the refugee camps.
	And there are three million people there.
	Three million.
	Right.
	I mean, it is a humanitarian crisis.
	Without guns.
	Right.
	Then you have Erdogan making trouble.
	Say, hey, everyone in Turkey or everyone in Germany who's Turkish, vote against Merkel.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's the story.
	It's the story.
	Here's the story of a bunch of snowflakes who were trampling on some other people's rides.
	All of them lived at home With their mother They wanted to start fights Here's the story Of the bullshit bandits I'll play the whole thing at the end of the show Super Agent Paul, back once again.
	Yeah, one of the best.
	Yes.
	So the Antifa takedown of pretty much everything offensive continues worldwide, worldwide.
	Yes.
	And everything seems to be offensive.
	Well, the Edmonton Eskimos are under attack for the name Eskimos.
	You know, this again, I keep harkening back to the Washington Redskins.
	Yeah, could be all about that.
	But the Edmonton Eskimos say, no, no, no, we're sticking with our name.
	Of course, we had the statue in Columbus Circle of Christopher Columbus defaced.
	Let's see, what else did we have?
	I'm surprised no one has done what the Russians used to do during the fall of the Soviet Union, which is you chop the heads off these statues.
	Oh, yeah, nice.
	The next target, big target apparently, is the Confederate monuments in Gettysburg.
	This will be interesting.
	If people start wrecking stuff in Gettysburg, there's going to be some confrontation.
	There's going to be some confrontation in Gettysburg.
	But I can call...
	I would stay out of there.
	I can call what's going to happen next.
	Okay.
	Yes, yes.
	We must condemn and destroy all prints and copies of Gone with the Wind.
	That's going to be a tough one.
	Yeah?
	Well, we shall see.
	How about Uncle Tom's Cabin, for that matter?
	Of course that's got to go.
	So much stuff.
	Alan Dershowitz was on...
	I can't remember what network he was on.
	I've always liked him for just saying what he felt, and I guess he doesn't give a crap.
	I'm sure he has enough money.
	It doesn't matter that much to him.
	But I think he's going to find out exactly how different the environment is right now.
	He's a huge liberal, has always donated to Democrats.
	As far as I know, he's never supported any Republicans.
	As far as I know, he's always been a progressive liberal of the highest order, but he's also a super lawyer.
	And he's a Jew, it makes it even better.
	And he's Jewish, and he believes in the supremacy of the law and interpreting it properly.
	And he's going to run into a lot of trouble.
	I just see people spreading these videos of him on social media, and they're making really, you know, traitor...
	Traitor to your country.
	Traitor to your people.
	It's really horrible.
	Can't believe this.
	He has some opinions.
	Of course, there's a danger of going too far.
	There's a danger of removing Washington and Jefferson and other of our founding fathers who themselves owned slaves.
	Look, we have to use this as an educational moment.
	We have to take some of the statutes that were put up more recently For example, during the civil rights movement, and perhaps move them to museums where they can be used to teach young students about how statues are intended sometimes for bad purposes, to glorify negatives and to hold back positive developments.
	But the idea of willy-nilly going through and doing what Stalin did, just erasing history and rewriting it to serve current purposes, does pose a danger.
	And it poses a danger of educational malpractice, of missing opportunities to educate people, and of going too far.
	Remember that President Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, put 110,000 Japanese Americans into detention centers.
	That President Lowell of Harvard imposed anti-Jewish quotas.
	That discrimination against women was rampant.
	Once you start rewriting history of African Americans in this country, you have to start rewriting history of discrimination against many, many other groups.
	Antifa is a radical, anti-American, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard, hard left, sensorial organization that tries to stop speakers on campuses from speaking.
	They use violence.
	And just because they're opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments shouldn't make them heroes of the liberals.
	Yeah.
	And just avoid hot tubs.
	Very bad idea.
	Yeah, for him it'll be a hot tub or just a, you know...
	No, he'll just have stuff thrown at him.
	I continue to be so interested in this ongoing dispute, as we know, you said that there's really no consensus among Civil War historians if the Civil War was about states' rights and the Union, or if it was about slavery.
	And if you listen to what is being said in news reports and op-eds and respectable news organizations everywhere, they say, make no mistake, this is about slavery.
	And I'm willing to believe it, except for I keep seeing evidence to the contrary.
	That's because there's tons of evidence to the contrary, because it wasn't about slavery.
	It became about slavery at some point when it was used to leverage the...
	I mean, when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the most good that it did was it completely took France and England out of the picture.
	Now, already I hear people saying, well, why can't it be?
	Why wasn't it just about both?
	Well, because the president, and when I say the president, I mean Hammerhand Lincoln, the 16th president, I wrote a letter to Horace Greenlee, who at the time was editor of the New York Tribune, and he had just addressed an editorial to Lincoln called The Prayer of 20 Millions, making demands and implying Lincoln's administration lacked direction and resolve.
	So he wrote this reply when a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation already was in his desk drawer ready to go.
	Here's what he said.
	As to the policy I seem to be pursuing, quote, as you say, I have not meant to leave anyone in doubt.
	I would save the Union.
	I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution.
	The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union as it was.
	If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.
	If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them.
	My paramount objection in this struggle is to save the Union and is not to either save or destroy slavery.
	You can't get any clearer than that.
	If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
	Here's the question that comes to mind.
	Can I just finish the quote?
	Oh, it goes on.
	If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
	And if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it.
	If I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that.
	What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union.
	And what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
	I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am going to do hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause.
	He's very clear what this was about.
	Yeah, big government.
	Fucker.
	New World Order, obviously.
	New World Order, that's what it was about.
	Well, here's the question that comes to mind.
	Why do people want it to be about slavery to the point where they will say stuff, well maybe it was about both.
	Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.
	But why is there such a demand that it be about slavery?
	What if it wasn't about slavery?
	What if it was proof positive it was never about slavery?
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Well, it's...
	It helps us...
	Okay, I've got bad news.
	Okay.
	Alright, lay it on me.
	The Zephyr, going about five miles an hour, just went by.
	That is...
	This is really bad news.
	What time is it?
	Oh my goodness.
	It's an hour late.
	Oh man, alert everybody.
	Anyway, okay.
	So again, let me bring it back to the point besides the Zephyr.
	Dude, I really thought you were going to lay something heavy on me.
	That to me was very sad to see.
	Well, we need something.
	Well, this is a great question.
	This is truly one of the great questions.
	It's not a great question.
	It is a great question.
	I think this is the only great question.
	Yeah.
	Well...
	Why do you...
	And people in the chat room, I know they're the ones saying, it could be about both.
	Why is that necessary?
	What is gained from that position?
	Tell me.
	I want to know.
	Reparations?
	There's some angle.
	Reparations?
	As someone who...
	I don't know.
	Well, this does come up.
	Reparations do come up a lot.
	Well, in this case, it seems obvious to call the Civil War and anything that commemorates it, commemorates the Civil War, to call it racist.
	To call it racist.
	There you go.
	How about that?
	I don't think that explains it.
	Well, someone out there who's smarter than us will maybe figure it out.
	I've never heard an explanation.
	Let me reiterate the question so everyone knows what I'm asking here.
	Why is it important that the Civil War was about slavery?
	Okay.
	Send your answers to HGTV. HGTV. I don't know.
	I really don't know.
	Well, it's apparently important to a lot of people because they keep making this argument when the argument is vague.
	I mean, if you read the Kenneth Stamp book, there's some crazy reasons for that.
	I'm reading what apparently the president himself wrote.
	Yeah, the President Lincoln.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he said it wasn't.
	Well, there you go.
	That's beside the point.
	Nowadays, everybody wants to, you know, going back to your historical sources, what you just did, it doesn't count.
	It doesn't make any difference.
	No.
	So there's some reason for this importance put upon slavery.
	Yeah.
	Because of the Civil War, and I'd like to know specifically what it is.
	So when did this start?
	What purpose does it serve?
	Okay.
	What purpose does it serve?
	Well, it served the purpose to guilt Americans in some very specific way somehow into good people and bad people, I think.
	And also to continually condemn the South.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Which has always been kind of...
	And I think taking down these statues, many of them are in the South.
	I think the ones in the North are pointless.
	But there's some statues down there.
	Or tearing up a Confederate graveyard, desecrating graves.
	Which is now happening everywhere.
	Yeah, which is ridiculous.
	Shameful.
	And...
	I don't know.
	The whole thing is very strange.
	Or maybe to try to trigger another one.
	Or an actual one.
	An actual civil war.
	But when did this start?
	When did this meme start?
	That the Civil War...
	I mean, that's what I learned in school.
	This was a long time ago.
	Yeah.
	Well, it was an easy explanation for somebody to throw out in a simplistic high school history course.
	Especially since high school teachers generally are left-leaning.
	It was instilled in them to promote for some reason, but the reason is never made clear.
	Well, to me, ultimately, it's just to have good people and bad people in the country.
	And, you know, and you shift that, you shift it to two spots.
	One is just in general, hey, you know, like, Civil War, you're Confederate, you know, you're racist.
	And maybe this argument itself is meant to divide people.
	Let's just keep this going, you know, we'll just say it was about slaves.
	Yes, but to what end?
	To destroy America, obviously.
	Well, yeah, well, that's not that easy.
	I'm going to go get some asylum in Canada, if it all comes down to it.
	That's where asylum needs to be.
	You need some asylum.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, John C. Odyssey still stands for Civil War Aficionado Dvorak.
	Well, let me get my thing here and say...
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, if we have any subs in the water left.
	All the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning, everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com, where you can listen to our show live Thursday and Sunday mornings.
	And in the morning to Gaston Garcia, who brought us a classic piece of artwork for episode nine or five, eight.
	It was titled The Talking Stick, but it had your favorite image of a million, I think it's Indians on a train, hanging off the thing.
	One of my favorite images.
	It was a big, welcome to Canada.
	And also thank you Gaston Garcia for messing up our RSS feed for the second time in a row.
	It's his name that messes up the feed.
	That's because you're spelling his name correctly.
	I know.
	It's very stupid of me to give a little accent on the O and accent on the C. Yeah, no, you've got to screw loose to be doing that.
	Yeah, and so I do that to give him proper credit in the show notes, which flows through to the XML-based RSS feed.
	Yeah, once it's parsed, you're toast.
	You're dead.
	Dead.
	Can't do that.
	That's not right.
	He can't have any accents in his name.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com Thank you to all of our artists who are always there uploading fun stuff.
	We laugh at most of it.
	That's a good thing.
	We're always very pleased and it's hard to make a choice.
	But we have to make a choice.
	But also you can find these things at No Agenda Shop on t-shirts and other paraphernalia and everyone makes out like bandits.
	Yeah.
	On the t-shirt sales.
	Yeah.
	Lots of people have come and gone with a t-shirt ID, and this is one group, No Agenda Shop, or whatever it's called.
	What is it called?
	Noagendashop.com, yeah.
	They seem to be an operation that is really a...
	Like a genuine operation.
	A t-shirt shop.
	But they're doing hats, mugs, posters.
	And I think they have a lot of equipment to do this stuff.
	I don't think they're jobbing a lot of it out.
	I get that impression.
	I could be wrong.
	But you get one of those t-shirt printers.
	The eight station t-shirt printer should put a t-shirt on and the thing spins around and silk screens automatically.
	That's what you want.
	Yeah.
	So let's start with today's producers and executive producers, beginning with our buddy, Seronomous of Dogpatch.
	He's back.
	Good.
	He's back with $700.
	And he said, forgive me for I've sinned.
	I've been a month since my last donation, which we noticed.
	But I am back in the country.
	You know, donations dry up from somebody.
	You haven't seen money from our dukes recently, for example.
	And you start to notice it.
	You think they hate us now?
	You think they're just giving up?
	Man overboard?
	Man overboard.
	Same stuff they were always bitching about?
	Forgive me, I have sinned.
	I've been a month since my last donation, but I'm back in the country.
	Or as he puts it, back in country.
	Boy, talk about a spook language.
	He's back in country.
	I'm back in country after being in hospital.
	I'm glad podcasting is global so I can stay informed until the pod tax is implemented.
	Searching for gigas was fun listening.
	I like so many experienced international travelers.
	This is good.
	I carry sick.
	I know.
	This is like, who is this guy?
	I carry SIMs from five countries in addition to a global U.S. carrier.
	Sure, and a sat phone.
	And probably a bunch of passports.
	Next to my 9mm.
	The dual SIM phone is a necessity to keep connections if you use any bandwidth.
	My poison fountain pen.
	Adam, I like your solution.
	John...
	He readdresses the letter to me.
	It was the Nazis that tried to march in Skokie, not the Klan.
	Yes, we have been corrected on that.
	Yes, we have.
	I was there.
	I was there.
	Okay.
	Did he have his sheep with him is the question.
	I was there in country.
	Protests against the march included people with numbers tattooed on their arms.
	Nazi meant something very personal to them.
	Yeah.
	Trivia.
	The Confederate statues are predominantly the legacy of the Lost Cause meme, a chivalrous culture destroyed by Yankees.
	Dogpatch founder, Confederate General Jubilation T. Cornpone statue has certainly survived since it is a national monument commissioned by a grateful President Lincoln for his poor leadership.
	It's all in code.
	I have no idea what he's talking about.
	Thank you to the great producer.
	Thank you to the great producer work by so many people.
	I want to thank everyone that donates using sweat equity.
	Love the artwork, even though it's not chosen, and many musical clips to remind us that there's humor in hate and stupidity.
	My only talent is cash donations, so just try to keep the lights on.
	Thank you.
	NJNK. NJNK? No jingles, no karma.
	Ah!
	Beautiful!
	NJNK. NJNK. Well, thank you, Sironymous of Dogpatch.
	It is good to have you still on board back in country.
	Back in country.
	It's good.
	Christopher Blanco in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, $500.
	ITM gents, I want to wish my smoking hot wife, Ashley Blanco, a happy birthday on August 28th.
	For her birthday, I want to dedicate this donation to get her to Damehood, so she will get credit for the producership.
	I hit Ashley in the mouth around 2014, shortly after her mom passed away, and she had been cooked on the show ever since.
	Hmm.
	One of her goals is to become a dame of the No Agenda Roundtable, and she is a little more than halfway there.
	563, according to my accounting.
	I'm about to close on selling my first flip.
	Well, if that's true, then she should get the damehood today.
	Yeah, that's why it's blue.
	Oh.
	I'm looking at the yellow part.
	I'm about to close on selling my first flip of my new business.
	I wish Holmes.
	I wish Holmes.
	I thought what a better way of celebrating than to give Ashley Damehood for her birthday and support the best podcast in the universe.
	I think she would...
	Like to be known as, he thinks she'd like to be known, okay, well, she may have to change that, but he thinks she might like to be known as Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
	Well, that's a nice ring to it.
	I like it.
	Since we live close to Lake Erie.
	Thanks a lot, gents, and keep doing what you do.
	Chris Blanco, and maybe I guess he's a NJNK. NJNK, and he is, I think, close to ground zero of the poppy crisis there in Ohio.
	Be safe.
	Be safe.
	And then we drop to Associate Executive Producer with Joseph Jones, 2808.
	It's been a long time listening.
	I'm on the sole member of the 583 Club.
	I wanted to let the producers know about a project I'm working on to help people build credit without using bank loans.
	Our platform is about keeping money inside your community and allowing you to build credit at the same time to help get things started.
	I set up a referral account to support the show for every user that joins one of our savings circles.
	I'll donate five bucks to the show.
	In addition, the producer will get five dollars for completing their circle.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	That sounds interesting.
	Learn more here.
	Learn more here at itm.im slash no banks.
	So, itm.im slash no banks.
	And what is this to help people?
	You build credit without using bank loans.
	Oh, interesting.
	Well, you can do it with credit cards.
	Now for the...
	Which is banks.
	Now for the gushing praise.
	I find it incredibly interesting to hear all these YouTubers who are now struggling to find a way to implement the value-for-value model that you guys have been pioneering for almost a decade.
	You guys...
	Make the highest quality product, and I'm more than happy to pay my part to keep things going.
	This donation represents my personal donation as well as Tom Hall, who is the first producer to sign up on our platform using no agenda code.
	Right on.
	No jingles, however.
	Another one.
	NJNK. He might want karma.
	However, I would like to ask Adam to do a couple of disco grunts during the Fab Five intro segment like he used to.
	What?
	Well, no.
	Disco grunts?
	Like...
	I can't even do it anymore.
	I think it's the...
	Okay.
	Alright.
	I'll try that.
	And that would be it.
	It's three in a row.
	Three NJNKs in a row.
	NJNKs.
	Wow.
	We have a new meme.
	Okay.
	And now I need to...
	Take the keyboard and push the down arrow to see who this is.
	This looks like Brandon Schultz.
	$231.66 unless I skipped someone.
	No, I think not.
	On Thursday's show, Ron Pepper gave us a douchebag check, and I feel that it's important.
	Ah, it's the douchebag check guy, Brandon.
	That we respond.
	Pepper hit me in the mouth a couple of years back and explained how our commentary on the Seahawkers podcast towards some of the bullcrap stories we see in sports media is similar to the news deconstruction found on the No Agenda show.
	As former journalism majors in college and amateur media critics, we had to check it out.
	Now, whenever we make a trip from Montana to Seattle for Seahawks games, he's in Montana, I take it, 23166 doesn't have a city name, but he must be in Montana.
	No agenda is regularly a part of those trips because Pepper has been one of our top donors to the Seahawkers podcast.
	I feel it's only appropriate to kick back 33% of his support back to your show.
	I also understand that this should put him over the edge into knighthood.
	Our only request is that he serve catfish and coffee at the round table.
	Hey, wait a minute.
	So this is not on my list.
	So they're making Ron Pepper a knight?
	I don't know that Ron Pepper wasn't tonight.
	231-66.
	I think we put this in advance for the next show and let Pepper decide what he wants.
	Yeah, because we need a name and we need all kinds of stuff.
	Yeah, we'll do that.
	Pepper!
	But I will put, because I like it, I will put the Catfish and Coffee on the list, yeah.
	In addition to the 33% kickback, I've added 33.33 for myself and co-host Adam, so we can both get licensed podcasters' licenses.
	Okay.
	No de-douching required, because we have donated, albeit anonymously.
	So I appreciate Pepper's bag check.
	Instead of a douchebag call, he got a bag check.
	In other words...
	Douchebag check!
	No, douchebag check!
	Bag check!
	Thanks to shows like yours and Jen Briney's Congressional Dish for providing some much-needed critical thinking when it comes to what's going on in the world.
	Go podcasting and go Seahawks!
	Jingle request.
	Okay, we're done with the NJ... NJNKs, yeah.
	Jingle request.
	Pew Pews and some Seahawks Super Bowl karma.
	And by the way, I want to mention, a number of years ago, we said no...
	No team karmas.
	Oh, okay.
	Let this be the last time and a reminder.
	Yes.
	You've got karma.
	Jonathan Rowley in Edmonton, Alberta, 226.
	He'll be our last associate executive producer.
	And he says, thank you, John and Adam, for the twice-weekly dose of reality.
	It's my birthday on August 27th.
	I think he's on the list.
	And by my accounting, this donation, I reached knighthood.
	What?
	Come on.
	This is also not on the list.
	Well, the other one I can see not being on the list, but this one should have been on the list.
	Well, hold on.
	Let me put it in here.
	Does he have a name he wants to be known by?
	Can I request jobs karma for everyone that has since worked for me since I needed a job last Monday?
	Um...
	Just for Jonathan Rowley, apparently.
	No special designation.
	Okay.
	And what did he want for a request?
	Just a job?
	Yeah, he's got no jingle request, but he wants a job's comer for everyone since it worked for me since I started a job last Monday.
	You bet, man.
	Also, we're adding you to the list.
	Looking forward to the ceremony.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	That would be our group of executive and associate executive producers for show 959, the palindrome show.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Well, thank you for coming in on the upper end of the scale as our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	We do these credits, for those of you new to the program, we do them here at the beginning of the show because that's exactly what you do, just like Hollywood, and they've been financing the biggest of the lion's share.
	Everyone else is on the credits later on.
	Exactly.
	And it works very well so that we can keep doing the show without interruptions or without any types of influences from outside, other than those who are actually producing the show, which is why you're all called producers.
	And we appreciate that.
	And please remember, we have another program coming up on Thursday.
	Dvorak.org slash NJ. For which you need to be out there consistently, letting everybody know about it, propagating the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up.
	Shut up, slay.
	Ah, there we go.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Well, that was good.
	Yes.
	It's always good to hear from Sir Onimus.
	Yeah, I was a little worried about not hearing him.
	He wasn't in country.
	He was out of country, yes.
	Hey, they finally got Gorka!
	Yes, I wanted to talk about that.
	There's no clips.
	They didn't really talk about it on any of the talk shows.
	No, he was just, he was gone, but then he wrote a nasty letter.
	I mean, it's confusing.
	Well, there is a good editorial in the Washington Examiner, I sent it for you to put in the show notes.
	Yeah, got it in there.
	That talks about everything that you've heard about Gorka's wrong, and they lied about him to get rid of him, because he was, I think, the real problem with Gorka was he was too good a Trump apologist on all the talk shows.
	Because when Gorka was on, it was outstanding.
	He should have been the press secretary.
	But he's a Nazi.
	He's a known Nazi.
	Which is also questionable.
	In Europe, he's a known Nazi.
	Come on, this is what I kept hearing.
	He's a known Nazi.
	In Europe, not here, but in Europe, he's a known Nazi.
	Yeah, everyone knows him as a Nazi, sure.
	Yeah, all right.
	So, yeah, well, of course, he was on my list as the next guy to go, and he did go, right on time, right on schedule.
	So now, I think we're at an impasse.
	And the impasse is, who's next?
	Yeah, well, Miller still has to go.
	I don't know how they're going to go after Miller.
	They can go after, he is so creepy looking.
	It's got to be easy.
	They're not going to be able to get rid of him.
	Talk about ghoulish.
	He looks ghoulish.
	He looks like a ghoul, yeah.
	I agree.
	Wikipedia should have a picture of him under ghoul.
	Well, it's either him or we're still waiting for Kushner.
	Well, Kushner's going to be tough to get out.
	And they have an issue with Kushner.
	Kushner's a Democrat.
	He's a liberal Democrat, and what do you want to get rid of him for if you're going after these guys?
	Miller is the annoying guy, because he comes on and he's like a pit bull, more so than Gorka ever was, or definitely more so than the apologist Kellyanne Conway, who I think they already tried to get rid of and they kind of passed her over because nobody cares that much.
	No, they really don't.
	They really don't.
	So I don't think she's on the hit list.
	She may just quit, though, because she's going to get tired of this.
	No, she doesn't have anything left.
	I don't think she's going to quit.
	Maybe she's got nothing else to do.
	That's probably true.
	It's a paycheck.
	And that's prestige.
	It's good on the bio.
	She likes to hang out.
	Yeah.
	Michael Savage, the right-wing talk show guy, even though he's not really right-wing, he's kind of weird libertarian, he calls her the bar fly, which I think has always been kind of amusing.
	What's your prediction?
	Who's next?
	Logically, it has to be Miller, but I don't know if they can get rid of anybody else that easily.
	I think the other one they want to get rid of, and I'm not going to complain about it, is Sessions.
	Hmm.
	Because Sessions is from the South, so you've got to get rid of him.
	He's a racist.
	We all know Sessions is a racist.
	Yes, they throw the racist thing at Sessions, and his attitude toward legalizing marijuana is so backward that, as far as I'm concerned, if they get rid of him, there's no big loss on who they're going to put in this place.
	Yeah.
	And in this whole intrigue that's going on, a lot of it has to do with this chief of staff, Kelly, who I think is a bad actor.
	And he is probably responsible for getting rid of Gorka.
	And I think he may be partially responsible for getting Newt Gingrich's wife the job in the Vatican as the ambassador, which is the Which is the softest job in the world.
	She's ambassador to the Vatican City?
	She's been nominated.
	What a gig!
	It's the world's greatest gig because you don't have to do any traveling and it's just parties.
	And I think this was an attempt to kill Newt Gingrich because he's going to eat himself to death.
	I'm kidding.
	I kind of do think you're kidding.
	I have to read from this Washington Post editorial that just showed up.
	And it's ludicrous.
	There has never been an important or really famous...
	There's been always cast-offs and People's wives and people like that that have gotten the job, the Vatican job, which is considered a plum job if you like to party and drink really good wine.
	And this is a Washington Post headline is, Calista Gingrich's nomination to the Vatican stinks to high heaven.
	And then she goes on slamming her for everything she's ever done.
	Like, she's a former clerk, like, as this is all bad or it makes a difference, and who cares?
	What is this guy?
	This guy is Dana Milbank, who is a constant Trump hater at the Post.
	And here's her qualifications the way he sees it.
	She's a former clerk on the House Agriculture Committee secretary.
	She's the author of children's books about an elephant named Ellis.
	She sings in the choir at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
	She plays French horn in the city of Fairfax band.
	That's kind of sexy.
	She testified Tuesday that she looked at some of Pope Francis's encyclicals on climate change.
	But really, Gingrich was receiving a confirmation hearing before Senate Foreign Relations Committee because of one qualification.
	She's married to Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House and a major backer of Trump.
	Someone seems pissed off.
	I don't know why, but I think that the Chief of Staff may have something to do with this because Gingrich is the guy who should be Chief of Staff.
	And now you get him out of the country and move him out.
	He's now going to be in the Vatican drinking a lot of high-quality wine and partying with all these characters.
	With the Swiss Guard.
	He's going to eat himself to death.
	I'm telling you.
	You watch.
	Well, you know, President Trump is so toxic that any connection to him at all makes you a racist.
	I was on the face bag.
	Chris Beshears.
	You remember Chris?
	Oh, yeah.
	Jovial fellow.
	Yeah, he says, look, I'm saying this with clear and sound mind.
	If you still support President Trump, you are a racist.
	You are a racist.
	He has done so many racist things that you...
	Like what?
	Don't do that to me.
	I'm just telling you what's written.
	So, I guess David Crosby...
	The singer?
	Yes, for those who still...
	The singer who's like a borderline death watch because he can't stay sober?
	Yes.
	That guy?
	Yeah, from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and sometimes Young.
	So he made a comment.
	Now, he's always been very involved with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the Grammys, with Naras, the National Academy for Recording Arts and Sciences, and he's always involved in all this stuff.
	You always got some guy who's just, eh, he's going to be involved in all of it.
	And he's pretty confident that there's going to be no induction of Ted Nugent into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
	Uh-uh.
	No way.
	That's not going to happen.
	No way.
	We can't have racists and animal killers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
	ABBA's okay.
	I was very happy with the ABBA nominee.
	ABBA was great when they were inducted.
	And Ted responds.
	You have been loud and unapologetic, as you should be, about your political views.
	And it seems in this moment it is costing you a great musical honor.
	I don't think so at all.
	The musical honor is that 50 years later, I'm doing my 6,621st concert for ultra music lovers who just love real rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
	And with all due respect to David Crosby, if any is due, here's a bloated carcass that has abused his body all his life.
	He's a repository for every drug and chemical known to man.
	And if he doesn't have that much respect or soul, then his criticism to me is a badge of honor.
	He can kiss my ass.
	Go Nuge.
	God.
	But it's sad.
	I mean, come on.
	Ted Nugent's more deserving of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame spot than ABBA. Or I can name probably at least dozens of people that shouldn't be in there before Ted Nugent.
	Well, now that we're on the topic, only because I see you had a clip, this pardon of Judge Arpaio from...
	Arizona.
	Which, you know, this was the main thing that I saw CNN and to some degree MSNBC saying that President Trump is using Hurricane Harvey as a distraction to slip in the pardon, which some are saying...
	Also slip in Gorka.
	Gorka, yeah, Gorka and the pardon, the pardon, the big pardon.
	Well, the clip I have is a classic because it's got Representative Steve King, not Peter, and Steve King with Don Lemon, who doesn't seem to have a clue about anything.
	He just knows he hates, like a lot of people do, he hates the old man.
	Because he's a racist.
	Well, hold on a second.
	The crime that he committed was continuing to profile people for detention or road stops.
	And that was a court order and he went against it and continued to do that.
	I'm very against all this road stops and these stupid things in Texas where 100 miles from the border, all of a sudden you have to talk to...
	You don't have to, but you're forced to talk to border control.
	Do you think Arpaio should be thrown in the slammer?
	I have no idea what...
	Was he headed for the slammer?
	Yeah.
	For how long?
	I don't know.
	They never said that in this report, but...
	Well, he broke the law.
	Did he not?
	Well, he broke what is called a judicial order.
	And so I believe that what King said, what you're going to hear in this clip, I believe he's right.
	They were out to get Arpaio and they got him.
	Well, I know why they were out to get him.
	It has nothing to do with the court order.
	It has to do with one thing and one thing only.
	His complete and I believe accurate deconstruction and forensic deconstruction of the bogus birth certificate that was produced.
	He had a team that showed all the...
	Look, whether President Obama was born in America and Hawaii or not is not even the question.
	The question here is, why did they phony up this birth certificate?
	Everyone who downloaded the image could see all the changes to it.
	Right, we talked about it excessively when it happened.
	So it is a birther issue.
	That is why people hate it.
	Well, you might be right about that.
	Whatever the case, it does say, or they do claim that he was set up, and this was just a bunch of bullcrap, and so Trump just said, okay, you're pardoned, which he can do, and it's entirely like pardoning Mark Rich for somebody who's made billions of dollars off the unemployment rate.
	It's interesting you say that.
	Why did you bring that up?
	Mark Rich?
	Why did you bring that up?
	Because I read somewhere that some hate group, you know, I'm reporting them to the SPLC, some no agenda hate group that, oh, oh, they were all over Mark Rich, the Mark Rich pardon, and this, of course, they're going to think is okay.
	Like as a comparison.
	Yeah, it's hardly the same.
	But let's listen to the two of them go back and forth because Don Lemon just says, Don Lemon actually, and you're going to hear it now.
	I'm going to give you the spoiler alert.
	I'm going to give it.
	Don Lemon actually says, well, Trump should have let him get convicted and let him serve time and then pardon him.
	This is what this guy says.
	This is great.
	Okay, can't wait.
	To appeal, that's the only thing I regret is that it would have been nice to see the exoneration at a higher court.
	So you support this, right?
	You support the president on this.
	I do.
	I support the President's decision to pardon Joe Arpaio, who served this country for all of his adult life.
	He's 85 years old.
	He's been strong and bold.
	Yeah, I'm going to say right here, I don't give a crap about that he's 85 years old.
	This is what I keep hearing.
	The President said it, too.
	I don't care how old you are.
	He's pretty spry for 85.
	It's ageism.
	Why should you not have to go to jail because you're 85?
	Makes no difference to me.
	He's 85 years old.
	He's been strong and bold and confident in the tip of the spear in enforcing immigration law.
	But he broke the law.
	He didn't abide by the law.
	And he hasn't been sentenced yet.
	I've got to ask you these questions.
	He broke the law.
	He didn't abide by what the Justice Department, the guidelines that they gave him.
	He has not been sentenced yet.
	And the president already pardoned him.
	What about the rule of law here?
	No concern for you with that?
	Don, I would say that my understanding of this is that it's judge-made law.
	That Judge Snow made the law up from the bench.
	And I also recall that Janet Napolitano jerked his 287G program authorization.
	And that began well before that, when Democrats on the Judiciary Committee began to complain publicly and call upon the Obama Justice Department to go after Joe Arpaio.
	This was driven from politics in the beginning, and I don't think anybody can quote the statute that was violated.
	Instead, it was a judge that made it up from the bench.
	Well, I'm not a legal scholar or legal expert, but what I have heard from our legal folks around CNN who are nonpartisan, they're saying that the Justice Department issued...
	What I've heard from our legal folks around CNN who are nonpartisan.
	Sure.
	They can quote the statute that was violated.
	Instead, it was a judge that made it up from the bench.
	Well, I'm not a legal scholar or a legal expert, but what I have heard from our legal folks around CNN who are nonpartisan, they're saying that the Justice Department issued a directive.
	They told him he had to abide by a law.
	He broke the law, and therefore that's why he was accused of what he did and found guilty of Of what he did and that the president, in their estimation, was not abiding by the rule of law as well by issuing this pardon.
	The president has the authority to pardon.
	He does have the authority to pardon.
	He does have the authority.
	He does have the authority, but he had not been sentenced yet.
	What our legal expert says, Laura Coates, is that he's not following the rule of law.
	He should have at least waited until he was sentenced and maybe even served whatever sentence that he would have been handed down to him.
	That he should have served that and then a pardon.
	I think that's a significant, I'll say, liberally interpreted.
	There may be a tradition out there to wait until the conviction would come down and the sentence would be delivered, but I don't think there is for anybody to serve their sentence.
	But I saw this coming as a political persecution.
	Yeah, it was about the birther stuff.
	That's what this is about.
	That's why they went after him.
	And because he was doing stuff in a hard-handed way that is not illegal.
	Oh, he's an a-hole.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I know that.
	But it was still, he's right.
	King is right.
	This is a political persecution, and Don Lemon's an idiot.
	Yeah.
	Well, but he has legal folks to talk to, so.
	Yeah, he talks to his legal folks, and they said that he should have let him get convicted and served.
	And then after he was out, you can pardon him then.
	What?
	Yeah, that's just like, he has to be punished somehow.
	He has to feel some kind of hurt.
	Fine.
	Well, the bottom line, President Pardons, you've got to live with it.
	But we do have a birther issue taking place in Australia right now, which is a crisis.
	It's a crisis.
	A crisis of dual citizenship.
	As it appears, there are multiple Australians in government who also have dual citizenship, and that is not allowed.
	You may not pledge your allegiance to any other country but Australia.
	No, really.
	So if you're an American and you have an Australian citizenship, you can be a dual citizen in the United States as of about 40 years ago.
	Yes.
	Or you can actually have two or three citizenships if you think you can pull that off.
	And you can be in government.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But not...
	I think Gorko is one of those.
	But not in Australia.
	No.
	No.
	It's a crisis.
	That means there's no Americans that are dual citizens with Australia.
	Not in government.
	No, no.
	In nothing.
	You can't be a dual citizen in Australia, so you can't be a dual citizen in the United States with Australia as your other citizenship.
	You can't?
	If you can't be...
	I'm not understanding.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm dense.
	That's good.
	Try it again.
	If you can't be a dual citizen in Australia, that means if you're an American, you can't hold an Australian citizenship because it's illegal in Australia.
	No, that's not illegal in Australia.
	I thought you said it was.
	No, if you're in government.
	Only in government.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Oh.
	That's the problem.
	I thought early in this conversation you said it was illegal to be a dual citizen in Australia.
	As a politician in government.
	Okay.
	The federal government is in limbo with its one-seat majority under question.
	While the Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, has moved to renounce his recently discovered New Zealand citizenship, the government must wait for the High Court to decide whether or not he is eligible to be in Parliament.
	Bob Catter thinks he's ineligible to sit in Parliament.
	The Constitution is very, very definite.
	If you are an allegiance to any other power in any way, then you're out.
	Kim Rubenstein is a constitutional law professor at the Australian National University.
	Her reading backs Mr Catter.
	Well, constitutionally it's very clear that if you are a citizen of another country, then you are not eligible to nominate to become a member of parliament.
	So there is, in some ways, a black and white answer here.
	Now, the reason why this is interesting is it's about to change the balance in Parliament.
	Oh.
	Yeah.
	So everyone's desperately trying to birther people.
	So now this guy is an Australian-New Zealand dual citizen?
	I know.
	It's the worst.
	It's like being Dutch and Belgian at the same time.
	Yeah.
	Or Walloon and Flemish.
	They hate each other.
	I guess they would take offense to that.
	But you don't want to say, hey, how's everything going in New Zealand?
	When someone's from Australia.
	It just doesn't work.
	So in their constitution, it actually specifically says you have to exclusively be?
	Apparently.
	Do they use those terms?
	I don't think so.
	You cannot pledge allegiance.
	It seems like a legal trick.
	You can't pledge allegiance to a foreign power, and being a dual citizen by default means that.
	What if you sit out the pledge?
	You can sit out the pledge here.
	Why aren't you a lawyer?
	You don't have to pledge anything.
	You can sit down.
	Okay, fine.
	That's not the real problem in Australia.
	Uh-uh.
	These horrible homophobes Yeah?
	Take note, horrible homophobic Australians.
	You have to pledge allegiance to being homosexual?
	Yes, yes.
	This is where you're going.
	No, up right now is they're trying to legalize same-sex marriage, and it's gotten to the point where they have sent out a mailer to everybody in the census database to get their opinion.
	Should we allow same-sex marriage in Australia or not?
	And I like that this debate is happening in Australia.
	First of all, who knew that the Australians weren't very tolerant of I mean, come on, Australia.
	Do you want to participate in the big boys' land?
	You've got to be tolerant of this stuff.
	So we're going to hear two politicians, both on the same program.
	The first is a pro-SSM, is what they're calling it, SSM. They have an abbreviation.
	This is on the Australian Broadcasting Network, or the corporation system.
	And then you'll hear a guy, and she's a lesbian, just to make it more fun.
	And then you hear a guy who's against it, and of course it comes down to the provisions of, well, if you're in clergy, then you don't have to perform same-sex marriages.
	But if you're a cake baker, I'm telling you, they just take our template and just the whole thing all over again.
	If you're a cake maker, you can't discriminate.
	You have to make the gay wedding cake.
	And so this is what's going on.
	But there's a little fun gotcha here that the host of this program hurls towards the anti-SSM-er.
	And we can see there from Lyle Shelton's answer what the approach of the No Camp is going to be as this campaign continues over the coming weeks.
	And what do you make of the approach of bringing all those other issues in?
	Well, they're just simply not relevant.
	It's a question of whether or not you agree with changing the Marriage Act.
	The draft legislation that Dean Smith has prepared very clearly protects the right of religious ministers to opt out if they choose to, and that will protect their rights.
	I mean, if Virginia and I turned up at our local Catholic church wanting to get married and the priest there said no, that would be the end of it.
	It won't change, it doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the teachings of the church, and to say that it does is simply scaremongering.
	Lyle Shelton, did you cheer on Ian Thorpe and take pride in his achievements at multiple Olympic Games?
	So he's talking about a gay athlete and asked this anti-same-sex marriager if he cheered the gay athlete.
	Gare mongering.
	Lyle Shelton, did you cheer on Ian Thorpe and take pride in his achievements at multiple Olympic Games?
	Yeah, of course.
	I think Ian Thorpe's a great Australian and a great athlete.
	And so if he did, what right do you have to participate in that joy and take national pride in those...
	What kind of debate is this?
	I love this.
	I love this question.
	It's like the man in the middle is taking one side exclusively, like a crooked judge.
	I love how he's saying, what right do you have to cheer on the gay athlete if you don't support same-sex marriage?
	You horrible man, you!
	A specious argument.
	What right do you have to participate in that joy and take national pride in those achievements if you now deny him the right to feel like an equal and experience the joy of marriage?
	We wouldn't want anyone to not feel like an equal and there is equality under the law in Australia for all people, same-sex or not.
	Can you see that people may see there is an inconsistency and a hypocrisy in your approach there if you feel like you can celebrate the joys of achievements of LGBTIQ people at one level and then deny them a feeling of equality on another?
	I can celebrate the achievements of all Australians.
	Their sexual identity is not relevant to those achievements.
	I'm so happy.
	So what he's wanting, I mean, the logic of this line of questioning is the following, which is that if the guy had said, when he was asked the question, did you cheer for this guy or runner or whatever he was, did you cheer for me?
	Because he said, yes, he should have said, no, I hate him.
	And then it would be fine.
	Yes.
	No, I hate him.
	Because the guy tried to move the debate from being a religious issue to one of hate.
	And I'm very happy this is happening.
	I'm happy to see what's happening in Canada.
	I'm happy to see what's happening in Australia.
	Because I know that your news media was laughing at us.
	And here you go.
	Let's see how you deal with it.
	Yes, they were.
	And we'll be reporting on it.
	I find this beautiful.
	I'm not sure which I like more, the gay hate in Australia or Muslim hate in Canada.
	I'm not sure.
	I like them both so much.
	If you were gay Muslims somehow involved, then you could combine the two elements.
	Speaking of, we should read this note about the Jew meme.
	Yeah, this was a good note.
	Yeah, and she definitely doesn't want her name mentioned.
	No, I won't mention her name.
	Yeah, I won't mention her name.
	It was a very good note.
	Yeah, it's a good note, and this is about, well, it blankets a lot of things, so I'll just read it.
	Hi, Adam and John, I'm listening to episode 957.
	I was just going to email you about the whole, quote, are Jews white or people of color question.
	But I just heard Adam read that shameful screed from Facebook shaming Jews who support Trump.
	That was by far the most disgusting Facebook post I've read or heard lately.
	It makes me ashamed to share religion with that lying hateful writer.
	Breathes.
	In terms of the original issue, I learned several years ago that when Jews were coming into this country by the millions around the turn of the century, they were actually considered colored along with Italians, the Irish and other immigrants.
	Only when Jews successfully assimilated into American society by the mid-20th century did they start being seen as white.
	My mom always told me that it wasn't right to check off white on forms because Jews aren't white but a whole other ethnicity.
	I don't think anyone has answers as to whether Jewishness is an ethnicity or just a religion.
	Obviously, Jews do tend to look a certain way, medium height, olive skin, larger features, sometimes curly hair, etc., and thus don't look like people from, say, the UK or Scandinavia.
	Lately, I think many Jews in America have come up against a major problem.
	The Democratic Party had sucked in nearly all non-Orthodox Jews during the 20th century and has turned into an anti-Semitic political party.
	Jews are regularly lambasted for the Israeli-Palestine situation with Democrats calling the state of Israel an apartheid state, etc.
	And the Jew-hating Keith Ellison coming so close to being elected head of the Democratic Party.
	I didn't know he was a Jew-hater.
	He's a Muslim.
	Oh, okay.
	I think some ultra-left and liberal Jews have been trying lately to get back into the party's fold by identifying with people of color, thereby regaining their political home and perhaps turning the tide back towards favorability.
	Interesting.
	As a Jewish-American woman who was taught by her parents to always think for herself and who used to listen to her mom arguing with her parents, who were diehard FDR people and Democrats their whole lives, I'm ashamed that so many Jews are such lemmings when it comes to politics.
	We should know that we can't rely on anyone or anything but ourselves if we want to survive as a people.
	But hey, that sounds libertarian, doesn't it?
	I don't understand why more Jews aren't libertarian and distrustful of all governments.
	American Jews could see how much Obama despised Netanyahu and the contempt he had for Israel, but they didn't want to admit it because it went against the narrative.
	Hopefully more Jews and Americans in general will wake the F up and start using their brains again because shit has gotten out of control.
	Thank you again for your show.
	Sorry for the novel.
	And we appreciate her note.
	Yes.
	So that does explain...
	And I can assure you she has credentials.
	Now, her comment in there reminded me of something when I was a kid.
	There was a number of books.
	In fact, I have one called The Races of Man.
	And it was done in the 20s.
	That sounds oddly familiar for some reason.
	Well, I'm sure there's a title that crops up.
	You can't copyright a book title.
	So the races of man...
	Wait, stop, stop, stop.
	So I could actually write a book titled Steal This Book 2.0?
	Yeah.
	Damn.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Why is that?
	Why can you not copyright a book title?
	I'd have to go back and look at the legislation, or not the legislation, but the court cases, but there's a reason, a logical reason at the time.
	but you can't copyright a book title.
	So once in a while you get these.
	This happened when I was working for McGraw-Hill as the book publisher.
	There were two books called the Internet Phone Book.
	- Oh yes, was it not the Yellow Pages? - Or the Internet Yellow Pages, that was it. - I still have that. - And there's two of them with the exact same title done by two different publishers and everyone was bent out of shape about it.
	But anyway, let me get back to this.
	So there's the races of man, and inside the book there's pictures of all these races.
	Irish, Swedish, Scottish, British.
	They had all these, and all the pictures, when you looked at each one of them, you go, yeah, yeah, looks like an Irishman, looks like a Scot.
	You know, all the stereotype looks represented the races.
	So when I was in school long ago, There was a big stink about this that took place in, I think it ran from late after World War II into the 60s, that this is bullcrap.
	These are not races, and we should not think of them as races under any circumstances.
	There are three races, and this is based on genetics.
	There's an Asian race, there's a Negroid race, and a Caucasian race.
	And everybody has to be part of one of those three races and this was drummed into us because of books like The Races of Man showing us Scott being a different race than an Irishman.
	And this was drummed into us to this day.
	I still think about the fact that when somebody says, ah, it's racist, this is racist because somebody doesn't like a Mexican, when the Mexicans are not a race.
	Right.
	Or they don't like these people, or you don't like the Lebanese coming in because the Lebanese are a race.
	These are not racist.
	This harkens back into the turn of the century, 1900s.
	This notion of what race is.
	And she exhibited it right there based on looks.
	Looks don't determine race.
	Looks do not determine race.
	That's what was drummed into me.
	That has fallen by the wayside for some reason.
	I have yet to figure out why.
	And let's just want to call everyone a racist all the time.
	Yeah.
	End of lecture.
	Good lecture.
	other thing the slavery issue yeah i have no idea what what's going on but this race what racism you know you don't like a muslim so you're a racist wow yeah what would the what would the proper term be the religious if you're a white guy who doesn't like blacks that's racism right or you're a white guy who doesn't like asians you're a racist or Or your black guy who doesn't like...
	Well, the racist part is, I guess, someone saying you don't like Muslims, you're a racist.
	The racist part is presuming all Muslims are brown.
	That's actually racist.
	If you're going to make that connection...
	If you're going to just go by...
	Even color doesn't really make the difference.
	I mean...
	Especially when you look at Caucasians, the color can be as black as black.
	I mean, it's just at melatonin levels.
	It's got nothing to do with your genetic race.
	At least that's what I was taught.
	And the whole reason I was taught that was to get rid of this idea that the Scots are one race and the Ukrainians are another race and the Norwegians are another race.
	I'm just saying.
	Yeah, I hear you.
	Because that is absolutely racist.
	Just racist.
	That's what it is.
	Racist.
	All right.
	Let me shift gears here.
	I picked up...
	There's a podcast that I watch.
	It's a video podcast.
	It's on YouTube.
	It's probably being demonetized as we speak.
	I love that term.
	Demonetized.
	I love the term.
	Just briefly.
	With YouTube...
	Is it boxy?
	You watch boxy?
	No, I don't watch Boxy.
	It's been a very interesting term that's thrown around, people saying, well, you know, Google is demonetizing us through demonetizing.
	You have no validity to be monetized to start with.
	You were just making money by default.
	Just by view counts, not by what counts for advertisers.
	You know, there's a pretty big story now about Google having to pay back advertisers.
	Oh, I didn't know this.
	I missed this.
	Yeah, and this is what gets kind of good.
	Make goods.
	Well, it's really only their vig...
	Let's see, this is because they bought DoubleClick a long time ago.
	And I think DoubleClick actually helped, you know, a lot of what made their whole system work.
	And with DoubleClick, you can bid on ad space and just, you know, throw your ads anywhere.
	And what's happening, of course, is that advertisers found out that their ads were running on bullcrap sites that had bullcrap traffic, which is how Silicon Valley still manages to stay funded.
	And I believe this is rampant and this is a huge scam and no one ever really wants to talk about it.
	It's like the Fight Club of Northern California.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So advertisers found this out that ads were being served to invalid traffic and now the actual payment goes directly to those websites that have the fake traffic but Google has a platform fee which they charge.
	So it's kind of like Like a stock exchange, you're buying and you're selling placement for your ads, and you pay a fee to New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. In this case, Google charges 7% to 10% of the total ad buy, which is not a small amount.
	So there have been refunds of several hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	And a lot of advertisers are saying, well, we don't care that you don't want to refund the full amount.
	You should refund it.
	I mean, this is Google.
	What are you talking about?
	Google's saying, no, no, we're not doing that.
	That's not our problem.
	You read the terms of service.
	But here's what's interesting.
	4chan is now claiming that they are the ones that are creating all these fake sites and the fake traffic to try and bring the big, mighty Google down.
	That's an interesting take.
	That is very interesting, and it could be done.
	I think they're well on their way.
	I think it's super interesting to see.
	I mean, there's some stuff that shows up on Google.
	My favorite one always was Kony 2012.
	Yeah, that was a good one.
	To watch the numbers on that thing, because those numbers were phonied up.
	There's no way you were going from one million page views, or one million video views, whatever you want to call it, advertising.
	To 12 million in a day, and it just kept exponentially flying high.
	20 million, 30 million.
	It was ridiculous.
	It was obviously some very sophisticated bot network that was not catchable.
	And there are plenty out there.
	I mean, in some instances, you will run into these sites, and if you do the simplest of searches or analytics that you can run on the site, you find out that all their click-throughs and all this stuff comes from the Philippines and some part of India, specific one part of India.
	Philippines.
	And this is an American site, like a news site or a video site, some sort of site.
	And what are all these clicks coming from the Philippines?
	How many people in India really care about these videos of somebody?
	It's obvious that there's massive amounts of scams going on out there.
	But this is good.
	And the advertisers are apparently too stupid to figure this out themselves.
	Well, they're starting to catch on.
	As you and I have mentioned before, the problem really started with agencies and with their clients installing buyers who are really dumb millennials.
	Not just millennials, dumb millennials.
	Who did not give a care, not a care in the world for the brand, for, you know, placement.
	Just, well, look, yeah, I'll tell you what.
	You got what?
	You got Laker tickets?
	Yeah, no, we'll do a buy on your site.
	They're completely corrupted.
	Completely.
	And, you know, being a media buyer used to be a very important job in the whole system.
	Yeah, the media buyer's low-end, usually somebody just out of school.
	Yeah.
	A lot of women...
	I was on the...
	When I was...
	At New York, I was on the...
	When I was working for Forbes, I got invited to a trip on their big...
	They have this huge yacht.
	The Forbes yacht?
	The Forbes yacht.
	Nice.
	So the Forbes yacht trip was a very nice tour of the...
	You go all the way around Manhattan.
	And I think there was even a little fireworks at the point near the Statue of Liberty.
	And we go all the way around the island and back into a port, which is docked on the downtown area.
	And it's about, I don't know, a couple hours to do this trip.
	But it was filled with a number of, not too many writers, but a few of them.
	I knew the editor of the online very well, and he got me on there.
	And it was all these media buyers.
	And they were all 20-somethings, mostly, I would say, dumb as a fireplug.
	Every single one of them, you couldn't even talk to them for very long because they were so stupid.
	And all they wanted to do was talk about shopping or something, a rock band or some guy that they had a crush on.
	It was unbelievable how brain dead these people were.
	And I could see what the problem was.
	And you saw it as it started to develop in magazines, started to fold in favor of online.
	And it was a real eye opener for me.
	End of story.
	I did roam around myself, but I went into the engine room and talked to the guys down there.
	Oh, I'm sure that was dynamite.
	Was that when you were on your way to the Bilderberg Convention?
	Hanging with the Silicon Valley elites?
	I'll let you know.
	So I follow the industry still, coming from that world.
	And there's a podcast...
	What is it?
	The L2 Advertising Podcast.
	Scott Galloway.
	Anyway, I just wanted to play this because it was interesting.
	We hadn't considered this, although we had the conversation about the various talking sticks that are now available, the main one being the Amazon talking stick.
	And I said, the genius of this is something no other competitor has, and it's the ordering interface, the ordering interface of the future.
	You remember I said that.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Because I am from the future.
	And something neither you or I considered is just how incredibly slick this is.
	The technology, though, that is probably, in our view, the most revolutionary and is going to shake brands to their core?
	Voice.
	Voice technology is getting tremendous traction.
	Alexa is in 4% of U.S. households.
	Siri handles over 2 billion commands a week.
	and 20% of Google searches on Android handsets are input by voice.
	Who loses?
	Brands.
	Voice-based ordering eliminates the need for packaging, design, and end caps, all the things brands have poured billions and decades into perfecting.
	The decline of brand began with the advent of Google, and every day fewer people put a prefix of a brand name in a Google search, and the same is going to happen with voice commands.
	Our research reveals that over the past year, non-branded product searches have increased in every CPG category.
	Prediction?
	The decline is going to accelerate.
	The death of brand is here, and it has a voice, specifically Alexa.
	Buy batteries.
	Amazon's choice for batteries is Amazon Basics AA batteries, 48-pack.
	It's $13.60 total including tax.
	Would you like to buy it?
	No.
	I also found 20-pack of Amazon Basics AAA Performance Alkaline batteries.
	It's $7.61 total including tax.
	Would you like to buy it?
	No.
	That's all I can find for batteries right now.
	All right.
	Check the Alexa app for more options.
	So there's nothing that unusual about a retailer taking advantage of their custody of the consumer to trade them off to a private label brand, which is what Amazon is doing here.
	Because when you go on the site, in fact, you do find that Alexa has more options.
	There are several branded batteries.
	It's just Alexa, without having to bother with the consumer seeing a brand or packaging, has decided to omit or let other brands just disappear from your selection set.
	Also, the pricing is different on Alexa and through voice commands than it is on the main platform.
	It seems as if they're taking advantage of this lack of transparency to charge more.
	We'll see.
	And they had a graphic up showing the difference in price if you just went on Amazon versus the voice order.
	It was like a $2 difference.
	$11 something versus $13 for the same batteries.
	I hadn't considered this ruse.
	Well, I kind of did.
	With my reluctance.
	But now that it's been kind of extrapolated in front of me.
	By the way, I'll give you a Borderline Clip of the Day.
	That's a dynamite clip.
	Thank you.
	I'll take it.
	Borderline Clip of the Day Yeah, it makes nothing but sense.
	And Amazon's, I wrote a column about this about, I don't know, for PC Magazine, maybe three columns ago, talking about Amazon's They have a bunch of phony brands.
	They don't even associate with Amazon, but somebody dug them up by going through a trademark.
	Who owns this trademark?
	Who owns that trademark?
	And they found Amazon owned a bunch of these trademarks that they don't.
	They do associate sometimes with Amazon Basics.
	We know that's an Amazon brand.
	But there's a lot of brands that they're coming up with that sound important, but they're not.
	You mean like realistic?
	Yeah.
	Well, Realistic would be a good example of, you know, it's Radio Shack brand.
	Yeah, I love Realistic.
	Yeah, Realistic.
	But there's a bunch of these brands, and Amazon's got more than a few in many of the categories, and that way they can, if you're talking what this guy claims, because this is a part of the voice thing, you can actually spew out where we have this brand.
	It sounds like a real brand when it's not, it's just an Amazon product, to make it even worse.
	Right.
	I think it even worsens the situation of what he claims is true, which is Amazon.
	By the way, what they're doing, it seems to me, is illegal.
	The FTC will bust them for this.
	They're not going to be able to get away with this for long.
	Tell me.
	They're not going to be able to get away with it.
	You can't do this.
	This is not legal, what they're doing.
	It's a competitive thing.
	You can't say, well, yeah, we got batteries, but all we got is Amazon batteries.
	It's a lie.
	You can't lie.
	The FTC won't let you do this.
	A company that size?
	I guarantee this will be in court.
	Well, maybe we can bring a suit.
	We should probably bitch about it immediately.
	Hence this segment of the program.
	And let me tell you.
	Bitch about it.
	I am happy that we don't have to do this.
	And to charge the extra amount?
	That's another scam.
	These are scams.
	This is not legal.
	What is interesting is that whereas, you know, the main problem we saw with certainly Google for search, you know, weed whacker is the best example.
	You know, the only, you know, what is the best weed whacker is the one you always say, that's how you see if a search engine does a good job.
	And if it comes up with the only true answer, which is a goat, then it's a great search engine.
	But, you know, what you wind up with is a million blogs that's just riffraff.
	It's riffraff native advertising on blogs with bogus lists and links to buy it.
	Top ten.
	Yeah.
	But now we've gotten to the next point.
	Forget the voice.
	People aren't saying, I need to order, you know, an EverReady battery or a Duracell battery.
	No, just batteries.
	And the system is determining what you're going to get back.
	People are becoming stupider.
	Because they don't know this is going on either.
	I mean, you'd think they would.
	There's no way you'd know this is going on.
	You'd think that people would know.
	I'm going to have to start discussing this with my friend Brian Romanly, who's an expert and a huge fiend on Twitter about voice being the future.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll tell you one thing.
	I am very happy we don't have to deal with phony baloney traffic and other forms of advertising.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Although, Although I have been asked to be a paid advisor to a company that claims to have podcast analytics where they can see how long and when someone listened.
	Yeah, right.
	Take the job.
	Take the gig.
	Say, you convince me of that, I'm in.
	Take the gig.
	Take it.
	Take the gig.
	Take the gig.
	Take the gig economy.
	Yeah.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank for show 959.
	Sir Chris of the Low Earth Orbit being at the top of the list.
	He's in Houston.
	I would like to get some feedback from him concerning what's going on there.
	135, 34.
	Austin Wilson in Sammamish, Washington.
	He's got a birthday.
	Happy birthday to his wonderful wife, Laura.
	He's donated $50 for her first 50 years.
	$50 for the next.
	Nice.
	Okay, good.
	Anonymous, 95.
	Okay, we did have a special.
	So a special, kind of a low-end version of the palindrome, which is 959.
	And we offered the special, which is 9559.
	And one, two, three, four people took us up on this.
	So we're not getting a lot of...
	Should I break out the horns?
	We're not...
	Yeah, break out the celebration horn.
	It's okay.
	A lot of people aren't helping us in these situations at all.
	I'm trying to make it lighthearted and it doesn't work.
	Anyway, we do have the four people.
	Anonymous was one of them.
	Sir Preston Theler.
	Theler.
	Who says we have an invaluable service, 95.59.
	Jonathan Ferris in Liberal, Kansas.
	And Sir Jim Zukal, one of our buddies there in Parts Unknown.
	Thanks, guys.
	Marv Santala, 6868.
	Why 6868?
	Because 6969, all four eat it.
	Did you get that?
	Yeah.
	I don't get it.
	Emma Davis, 5555.
	She says, I want to thank for the many laughs and amygdala reducing podcasts.
	I've enjoyed since my husband hit me in the mouth.
	Good, Emma.
	Good work.
	Kevin Payne in the ass in Richmond, Virginia, 5432.
	William Young, $53 with a happy birthday.
	Now, this is the other celebration we're going to push for the next couple of shows.
	It's your birthday next Sunday.
	Correct.
	$53 I will be.
	You'll be $53, so there's a $53 donation.
	We have a few more of those than the other gimmick.
	William Young, $53.
	He says, happy birthday.
	Brian Moss in Sorancho Santa Margarita.
	He says, happy birthday.
	Brian Matthews in Belberg in Ireland.
	It says, happy birthday.
	Kevin Webb, happy birthday.
	Timothy Brashears, happy birthday.
	Sam Godwin in San Jose, our buddy in San Jose.
	I think it's Sir Sam, if I'm not mistaken.
	I could be wrong.
	Daniel Smith, 53.
	So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 people wished you a happy birthday.
	Let's up that a little bit.
	Although it's not your birthday yet.
	John Tennis in West Lynn, Oregon, 5125.
	Scott Nelson in Melbourne, Florida, 5005.
	And the following people are $50 donors, name and location, if a location is available.
	Jose Ferreira in Newbury, UK. Nils Bonnaker in Hamburg, Deutschland.
	William York in Parts Unknown.
	Well, he has...
	Hold on.
	William York started listening about six months ago.
	First donation, de-douching is indeed in order.
	You've been de-douched.
	There you go.
	Great.
	Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan.
	Peter Totes.
	We know where he's from.
	Sir Peter.
	Sir Peter.
	And I forget where he's from, but it doesn't come through for some reason.
	Robert Makowski in Rhinebeck, New York.
	Philip Misan, Sir Philip, in parts again, parts unknown.
	Louis Pasteur in Miami, Florida.
	And last but not least, our lady in Bangkok with the place that you can pick up on the Airbnb, Catherine Sutton.
	Ah, yes.
	Very nice.
	50.
	I want to thank her.
	Yes, thank you.
	And I know we got a couple people coming in with...
	Podcast licenses for $33.
	There may be some mothership boarding passes, but there's tons of different subscriptions we'd love to see you on, even down to $5 per month, right?
	$5 a month.
	Yeah, we do have that.
	Yeah, and we'd appreciate, if you're making a donation, definitely consider one of those as well.
	Thank you to everybody who came in under $50 or more.
	That is typically for reasons of anonymity, but we really do appreciate it.
	Keeps us going.
	And remember, we need your support for the next program coming up this Thursday.
	Never can I have too much jobs, Karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma. Karma.
	And for birthdays today, we have Austin Wilson saying happy birthday to his wonderful wife, Laura.
	She turns 50 years old.
	Jonathan Rowley celebrates today.
	Chris Blanco, happy birthday to his smoking hot wife.
	Ashley Blanco celebrates tomorrow.
	Emma Davis, happy birthday to her smoking hot husband, Andrew.
	He celebrated yesterday.
	Tim Caudrian, 25 on the 35th.
	Jake Jacobson, happy birthday to his son, Tristan, who will be 22 on August 31st.
	And I say happy birthday to my daughter, Christina Valerie Curry, her golden birthday, 27 years old today on the 27th.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy birthday.
	I got her a big rainbow vegan cake.
	cake.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The what?
	I got her a rainbow vegan cake.
	What's a vegan cake?
	It's a vegan cake.
	I usually make my cakes from lamb chops.
	It's a vegan cake.
	Hold on.
	Get your blade and we'll talk about vegans.
	I got it.
	Oh, there it is.
	Good.
	Ashley Blanco, Jonathan Rowley, step on up, both of you.
	Come on to the podium.
	Thank you very much for your support of the No Agenda Show.
	Best podcast in the university amount of $1,000 or more.
	Therefore, very proud to bring you into the roundtable of our Knights and our Dames.
	And I hereby pronounce the KB, Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake, and Sir Jonathan Rowley for you.
	We have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, catfish and coffee, pipelines and poppies, runny eggs and grapefruit juice, WWE and dabs, Arroge and Ambien, lead slingers, whiskey and gunpowder, whiskey and wet wipes, cannabis and cabernet, opium and warm orange juice, breast milk and pablum, ginger ale and gerbil, sparkling cider and escorts, bond breast milk and pablum, ginger ale and gerbil, sparkling cider and escorts, bond hits and bourbon, and of course,
	And if you want that and your ring and your sealing wax and your certificate, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings and give Eric the Shill your information.
	And thank you again for supporting the show.
	It's the only way we keep it going.
	Your guardians of reality need you.
	Exactly.
	Well, I got something for you.
	I only have only clipped a little bit of this because it was making me sick.
	Oh.
	But it was on Good Morning America, and it was obviously paid for and packaged by, it was beyond a native ad, but because it had to do with entertainment.
	Mm-hmm.
	I think they can let it stretch, and Good Morning America is just mostly, it's like one of those entertainment news shows all morning.
	Yeah, well, it's owned by Disney.
	Hello, that's all they got going on.
	Yeah, so here's, so the latest thing is, and by the way, as you know, I just despise the word dropped.
	For a record album.
	You know, it's used universally now.
	Hey man, the latest No Agenda show episode just dropped.
	Just dropped.
	Just dropped.
	Hey, when are you dropping the signal?
	When are you dropping your next episode?
	I just do this all the time.
	Hey, when are you dropping dinner?
	Drop and dip.
	I'm always imagining somebody dropping it on the floor and then trying to pick it up, stumbling around.
	I agree with you.
	Hey, she dropped it.
	Pick it up, lady!
	This is complete cultural appropriation.
	This is a hip-hop term that was used exclusively in the black hip-hop community, and if you are a white person using this, you are appropriating culture, and it is a macro-aggression.
	I agree with that.
	So let's listen.
	So Taylor Swift is back in the center of the news.
	Yes, her album just dropped.
	It just dropped.
	And I wish they'd pick it up.
	All right.
	So the album is coming out.
	She just dropped a single, I think.
	Oh, yeah.
	Which I wish they'd pick up.
	And this is the first part of this fawning...
	Overproduced piece that is written by, obviously written by the Taylor Swift team.
	They even have a section of a package they put together saying, oh, the fans are giddy.
	All the fans are giddy.
	And they show a bunch of girls.
	I don't know where they found these people.
	It's obviously just part of the fan club.
	The whole thing was nauseating.
	From the beginning and 2009's You Belong With Me, Taylor Swift's music videos have been a key component of her massive success.
	From the youthful exuberance of 22, to the adult yearning of wildest dreams, filled with fun like Shake It Off, or edgy as with Bad Blood,
	This week, first witnessing her blank slating all her social media, then the 27-year-old posting those enigmatic snake videos, before serving up a fresh photo and the title of an album, Reputation, that's due for release on November 10th.
	Its first single, Look What You Made Me Do, released hours ago, just before midnight.
	Look what you made me do.
	Look what you made me do.
	For fans across America, delirious at the sound of her new music.
	I can't right now.
	Unable to control their enthusiasm.
	Holy swift.
	All of it setting the stage for an exclusive sneak peek at the video for Look What You Made Me Do.
	A first look at the very latest from pop's preeminent star.
	Well, this was definitely bought and paid for.
	You think?
	The music business, the industry itself, I'm still a member of several groups.
	And by the way, before you go on with that, how is this not payola?
	Yeah.
	Ah, interesting.
	Good point.
	I didn't play enough of it, probably, for it to be payola.
	No, they went on and on.
	It kept going.
	This is like the first five minutes of a 10-minute, 11-minute piece.
	Yeah.
	Well, they just call it advertising.
	But the artists and the industry is up in arms.
	They hate it.
	Oh, what a horrible single.
	She's horrible.
	I don't know exactly what happened, but Taylor Swift has fallen out of favor with everybody.
	She's not on any of the shows anymore.
	She used to be the highlight of the CMA and all these different...
	She's been cut out of those deals.
	She obviously spent a lot of money to promote this particular thing.
	And by the way, this song...
	Every time I hear it, I almost got it, but it's stolen from another song.
	Gee!
	Yeah, I know.
	Surprise, surprise.
	And, John, right now we're outside of the Walmart here in Campus Christy.
	As you know, Taylor Smith's new single just drops.
	It just drops, and fans are standing out here.
	They cannot wait.
	Come rain, come shine, or an arcade army.
	When Taylor drops a deuce, people come out and close.
	Back to the studio, John.
	Yeah, be safe.
	So, but it's something, it's a very famous song, and it's got the same rhythm, the same kind of structure.
	I'll have to listen to it.
	I'll get it eventually.
	When you hear it a couple times, you'll immediately recognize it.
	I'll have to listen to it.
	Hey, thanks for that.
	Why did you even bring that to the party?
	Yeah.
	So, but the point, and then when they, at the beginning of that piece, they played all of her great songs, and not one of them is memorable.
	She doesn't have a memorable song.
	Shake it off.
	Shake it off.
	I think her body, I think the Britney Spears body of work actually is better.
	Britney Spears body is better.
	Have you seen that?
	Well, she definitely works on it.
	Girl, be cut!
	Now, Anyway, so this piece was on Good Morning America.
	It just seemed too much for me.
	But you're right.
	And I've noticed this too.
	Taylor, I think, is on the outs.
	But why?
	Nobody is.
	Maybe they're just sick of her.
	I have no idea.
	What it could be.
	I'm going to have to look into this.
	But it was something industry related.
	Maybe it's the content here.
	Billboard ranks.
	Look what you made me do.
	It's Taylor's worst lead single.
	That's Billboard.
	Let's see what Variety says.
	Something went wrong.
	Something went horribly wrong with her empire.
	Hmm.
	It's worth looking into.
	It is worth looking into because her empire is massive.
	Yeah, I'd like to know what happened there because the business does not like her.
	And I'm not sure why.
	We'll find out.
	Because they loved her.
	Well, the EU doesn't like Poland.
	This has not gone away, this change to the Constitution.
	As we know from our boots on the ground, where they would like to see a judiciary that is run somewhat in the way as it's run in the United States...
	That politicians would be able to approve, not appoint, but approve, you know, so the president can appoint and then Senate has to approve these judges.
	That's basically what they want.
	That's really oversimplifying the matter.
	The EU is now getting pissed off.
	And by coincidence, I have two clips today from my friend Franz Timmermans.
	The Bilderberger who once pulled me aside and said, you know, you're doing good stuff here.
	But he is the messenger boy now.
	He, of course, is the number two in charge of the European Commission.
	These laws considerably increase the systemic threat to the rule of law in Poland.
	Each individual law, if adopted, would seriously erode the independence of the Polish judiciary.
	Collectively, they would abolish any remaining judicial independence and put the judiciary under full political control of the government.
	The option of triggering Article 7 of the treaty was part of the discussion, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that, given the latest developments, we are coming very close to triggering Article 7.
	Yeah!
	Article 7, baby!
	Uh-oh.
	Yeah, Article 7 removes all voting rights.
	You get the big dunce cap on, and you get to sit in the corner.
	So they're threatening.
	They're threatening.
	Um...
	The same Juncker, and this was, you know, Juncker, not Juncker, Deputy Juncker, Franz Timmermans, he has one of these voices that I, you know, he's the kind of guy I'd like to slow down, put some echo on him, and make him all sound creepy when he's talking about EU. Do it.
	Well, I don't have to.
	In this video, which is him condemning extreme nationalism...
	Yes.
	Extreme nationalism.
	And he does it in a very ironic way.
	They put some of the echo on themselves.
	And creepy music.
	I should point out, this is an EU promotional video.
	For centuries, this used to be the European way.
	In the 20th century, twice we Europeans tried to commit collective suicide, and this is the result.
	If fear takes over in society, if hatred of the other becomes the norm, this is where we end up.
	Neighbours lying together in a cemetery would fought each other and killed each other in two world wars.
	Europe has learned this lesson.
	This is a mistake we need to avoid.
	Every time when we are challenged, this is a risk we run.
	How do we respond to that?
	With extreme nationalism, no.
	I strongly believe that the answer to the challenges of today, which are manyfold, such as terrorism based on jihadism, is not to fall for the temptation of fear, is not to fall for the temptation of hatred for the other.
	Nationalism is like alcoholism.
	A short period of exaltation, followed by a long period of headaches.
	I love that he compares nationalism to alcoholism, which his boss clearly is an alcoholic.
	Junker.
	I think that's really cute.
	It's like you get an exuberance and then the big headache.
	Nationalism is like alcoholism.
	A short period of exaltation, followed by a long period of headaches.
	Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.
	Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior, makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
	So if nationalism makes us poor, weak and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic?
	I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.
	Now, this is their echo, not mine.
	A true patriot is proud of his nation, wants it to be strong, peaceful, prosperous, values-based.
	To achieve that, a true patriot knows he needs unity, he wants openness, he craves cooperation with others.
	He sees the strength found in compromise, debate, and unity.
	To be a patriot is to be European.
	To be European is to be a patriot.
	There you go, Europeans.
	Fall in line!
	Do as the man says.
	You don't want to be an alcoholic.
	You don't want to be an alcoholic.
	Just crazy, man.
	Just crazy.
	It's like the United Nations had a vote on a resolution.
	And this was very hard to find the full thing, actually, because it's been around for a while and there's multiple versions.
	And this was the United Nations resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism over freedom of speech issues.
	Let me see the actual title.
	What?
	Combating glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism, and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance.
	This was put forth by the United Nations Human Rights Committee and voted in favor, 131 in favor, but when it came to a General Assembly vote, it did not pass.
	Why not?
	Well, there were three important no's, including the United States.
	This is problematic.
	What were the other ones?
	Let me see if I have it here.
	I think it was three against.
	Hold on.
	See, now they're only calling out the United States in all these articles, which is interesting.
	We're the only guys who are a-holes.
	The other two douchebags get no call out.
	Yeah, I'll find it for you.
	But I'm happy that they said no, because literally, it was like, you cannot, you know, you can't say certain words or do certain things.
	You know, this is part of the big tolerance push that is happening in the EU. Yeah, yeah.
	I'm irked now that I can't find out who didn't vote for it.
	You'll get it later.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, it's kind of important, but...
	It's kind of important.
	Kind of important.
	Yeah.
	Let's read this note from Sun Fun, one of our producers.
	Use of conflate should be avoided.
	Oh.
	I have to disagree that the word conflate has any substantial purpose other than to give the speaker a surge of warm, pompous arrogance.
	Although it does sound clever and concise, it does absolutely nothing.
	I'm shouting because he's in all caps here.
	Absolutely nothing to convey how the multiple distinctly different concepts are being related or combined, or what the commonality is, either justifiably or not.
	By explaining how the ideas are conflated or related, you end up with much more meaning and avoid the distraction and confusing deadwood that conflate usually creates.
	Example of crappy conflate usage found online.
	Quote, the plot gets weighed down when the writer conflates too many issues into one episode.
	Unquote.
	Are they combining into one new generalized issue?
	Or are both preserved in the new time frame?
	WTF? Are issues now becoming episodes?
	Use incorporate, pack, or include.
	A Merriam-Webster.
	On Merriam-Webster he says.
	A city of conflated races and cultures.
	Earl Shores.
	What the hell?
	In this city can I enter my culture as my race on documents?
	Not quite what he's referring to, but okay.
	Also on Merriam-Webster.
	The editor conflated the two texts.
	Here is one of the few cases where conflate makes some sense.
	Only because the two concepts are the exact same entity.
	Groups of words combined would be just fine here without the confusion.
	Hmm.
	Usually I hear this crap when people are trying to imply that someone has incorrectly combined two issues.
	In this case, just get to your point and say the person confused the two issues.
	Conflate is also often used to quickly imply the joining was justified or not justified, but it says neither.
	Jeff in Orlando.
	Hey, should I be sending you more money?
	Yes!
	Yes, definitely.
	Well, thank you.
	I always like to improve our dictum.
	We do.
	I think we're the only podcast that appears to be preoccupied with this.
	And did you hear my use of the word dictum?
	I did.
	I like it.
	Okay.
	I'm trying.
	I'm really trying.
	I'm not sure it's the correct uses, but I like it.
	I like it no matter what.
	I have to look it up.
	Well, I'm going to give you props, John.
	Once again, you have proven to be alongside me from the future.
	As North Korea has spoken once again.
	And it says, we have opened our doors to Russian tourists.
	It's safer than London!
	They really want the tourism.
	Give it to them!
	Give it to them already!
	They have to do a deal with some big American tourist company or Brits.
	Yeah.
	Well, how about just Princess of the Seas or whatever?
	Can we send a...
	I don't know.
	Where would it go?
	Pyongyang is inland.
	No, I guess not.
	No, I guess not.
	You can't get a cruise ship there.
	That's a problem.
	Not if you fly everybody in.
	In the Pyongyang airport.
	Hmm.
	Oh, here's...
	Okay, I got a couple of reports from ABC that just galled me to no end.
	This in particular.
	There was a minor terrorist attack in Brussels again.
	Yeah, with a knife, I believe.
	Yeah, a knife.
	Yeah, boring knife.
	We sound like news execs now.
	Brussels, boring knife, super boring.
	Our news execs.
	Super boring.
	Tell me what's wrong with this story.
	This is the Brussels terror guy.
	In Belgium tonight, a terror suspect is dead after attacking two soldiers with a knife in Belgium.
	Police say the suspect attacked the soldiers in Brussels shouting, God is great.
	Military forcing them.
	Forces then shot them.
	The suspect apparently known to authorities for petty crime, but not for terror until this case.
	Well, this is very obvious and I find this quite disgusting because, of course, he did not say God is great.
	He said, Oh, snack bar!
	Yeah.
	He didn't say God is great.
	For one thing, why would he be speaking in English?
	He's in Brussels.
	Yeah.
	And why would he be saying anything other than Al-Akbar?
	It's just like, this is a bad report.
	This is a report that is fake news.
	He did not say that.
	No.
	No, of course not.
	He said Al-Akbar.
	Yeah, you and your snack bar.
	I gotta keep saying it.
	Yeah, I haven't said it yet.
	Here's another one.
	This is, since you mentioned the knives, this is a story that just kind of amused me because, again, it involves knives.
	This is the man roaming around with a knife.
	This is a major, major story.
	You've got to run it on ABC Network News.
	At a scary scene tonight outside London's Buckingham Palace, police say they stopped a man there and found him to be in possession of a knife.
	While detaining him, the man lashed out, injuring two officers.
	There is no word from police about the man's motive.
	The queen was not at the palace at the time.
	Thank goodness.
	Great.
	Glad you stopped that.
	Stopped everything.
	Well, knives are a big deal, so they have to push the knife meme.
	They're trying to get knives off the streets and out of kitchens, I hear, in the U.K. Why take a chance?
	It's taken a while, but a group of psychiatrists has now written to Congress to warn that Donald Trump poses a, quote, clear and present danger to the world.
	Yes, leading them, Dr.
	Brandy Lee of Yale University, who was also reportedly consulting with Democratic members of Congress on setting up an expert panel to give advice on the President's mental health.
	Yes, she is very concerned by Trump's dangerousness.
	Dr.
	Lee told USA Today, I guess, Pelosi.
	The group's letter sent to members of both parties said, quote, It no longer takes a psychiatrist to recognize the alarming patterns of impulsive, reckless, and narcissistic behavior, regardless of diagnosis.
	That, in the person of President Trump, puts the world at risk.
	We now find ourselves in clear and present danger, especially concerning North Korea and the President's command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
	They're still trying it.
	They're still trying it.
	Yeah.
	Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again.
	It's not going to work.
	If these guys wanted to get their act together, they'd focus a little better.
	The problem is all these arguments are weak.
	You know, I think if they focused on one or two things that could drive the guy crazy, but he's this, he's that, he's this, he's that, he's a Cheeto.
	It goes on and on with this huge list.
	We put the list together.
	Yeah.
	It's not working this way.
	They're going to have to come up with a better strategy, although it's working in the one way, which I say you just keep bringing the stuff to the forefront so by 2018 you can roll out your strategy, which is that this guy's unhinged and we can't get rid of him because we don't have enough Democrats in office so let's vote in more Democrats and then we can get rid of him.
	Which is really what this is all about.
	Yeah, and I think it feels like they're doing a good job.
	A good job of keeping him in the news.
	Yeah, the storm has screwed them up.
	Yeah, that was a problem.
	And it seems to have let up a little bit here.
	Yeah, just a tad.
	Yeah, not too bad.
	But you can go out then.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Well, poor kids.
	Christina's already all freaked out about becoming a member of the 27 Club.
	You know the 27 Club?
	The 27 Club is all these famous musicians who died at 27.
	She's a famous musician?
	No, but here's the problem.
	Apparently, as a part of the 27, you know, this is Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, everyone died when they were 27.
	Except for Prince and George Michael, but okay.
	And apparently, as a part of this meme, that they all were found with a white Bic lighter.
	And we went to, I didn't know this, and we went to Goodwill yesterday.
	She loves Goodwill.
	This is like, by the way, this is like the Rubicon The 13 episodes of Rubicon that were released.
	Yeah.
	Where it had to do, where it had the four-leaf clover.
	Yes.
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	And so she bought a jacket, and then she puts the jacket on.
	In the jacket is a white Bic lighter.
	Oh, no!
	Yes, now she's convinced something horrible is going to happen to her.
	Well, it's not going to happen if she just stays inside.
	Well, you never know.
	She should pull up for a year.
	She's in limbo.
	What to do now?
	Yeah.
	And the only thing I had to mention as a final bit of news, which I found interesting, and actually it wasn't...
	By the way, just for a second.
	I don't believe any of this for a minute.
	That Janis Joplin and Morrison and Henry's had a white Bic lighter.
	I did not verify the story.
	I'm sure it's bullcrap.
	Just telling you.
	Just telling you, poor kids.
	Update from Grease.
	So Greece, while of course they've been squeezed by the European Union and hated universally, I mean, wow, we tracked all this.
	Do you remember when people were going into Greek restaurants in other countries and saying, I'm not paying, we already paid you enough money?
	Do you remember that was happening?
	Do you remember that?
	Another story that is sketchy.
	No, there were some real accounts of that.
	Yeah, sure.
	For sure, when this started, when they got screwed by Goldman Sachs and the like, and wasn't Jared Kushner a part of that somehow?
	He should have been.
	I doubt it.
	There was a lot of resentment from the northern states.
	This goes years back, but I remember it very clearly.
	Ah, these stupid southern, why do we even have them in the European Union?
	Okay, so we've done a good job.
	We gave them austerity, and then we said, oh, you know, we can't pay it back.
	Okay, here's more austerity.
	And then, hey, you know what?
	While you're at austerity, let me give you another tablespoon of austerity.
	So guess who has slipped in and has started to buy up everything and put in huge investment?
	The Clintons.
	Close, man.
	The Chiners.
	Soros.
	The Chiners.
	Oh, the Chiners.
	The Chinese are in.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're good at this.
	They are in there cutting deals like crazy.
	I wish we had gotten some piece of that, of Greece.
	Remember when they put everything up for auction?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we missed that one too.
	Just like Germany?
	West and East Germany?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we privatize everything.
	So they are making Greece.
	I think there's a quote here.
	The dragon head.
	So here it is.
	China plans to make the Greek port of Piraeus the dragon head of its one belt, one road project.
	Nice.
	So there's a twofer if I ever heard one.
	So all eyes on Greece and the Chinese.
	That could get very interesting.
	Yeah, I'm almost of the opinion that at some level we've given up.
	Yeah, but why?
	I mean, it's so dumb.
	Greece is so important for all the opportunities to bring gas into Europe.
	It's like someone with their hate of Greece just somehow forgot the importance of it.
	Now the Chinese are slipping in?
	Hmm.
	Well, we'll see if we can do something about that.
	I do have one other interesting little shorty.
	Yeah, that'll have to be it.
	This would be the best report of this incident.
	Because they actually said, everybody else had this report, oh, a busboy grabbed some hostages and shot a staff member.
	I don't know what happened here.
	I don't know what happened here.
	We'll play.
	This is the busboy shoots the chef.
	Now to a hostage drama that played out for hours today in Charleston.
	Authorities say it started when a fire dishwasher shot and killed a chef in a crowded restaurant filled with tourists.
	He then locked the door to the restaurant and told diners to get down on the floor.
	All but one managed to run out another exit.
	After a three-hour negotiation, the suspect was shot and wounded by police, and the lone hostage was freed.
	Dishwasher, a little different than busboy.
	Well, dishwasher.
	I believe that what we have here is a situation where some chef...
	Took on the persona of Gordon Ramsay, which is the cool thing to do.
	Which a lot of chefs do.
	Yes.
	And I think more so than in the past.
	And in the past, I worked at a one Michelin star restaurant when I was 17.
	And the chef would throw stuff, like knives and plates and all kinds, at the front of the house staff.
	Really?
	What place was this?
	The Audeprince.
	It was an actual one-star Michelin?
	Yeah.
	I've told you the story about that.
	When I dropped the ice cream flambe onto the bride's dress, that kind of ended my career.
	That would probably do it, yeah.
	I'm surprised you weren't stabbed.
	So, yeah, you think this is a Gordon Ramsay influence?
	Everyone has to be all angry and stuff, and then finally this guy had enough of it?
	He had to be yelling and screaming to make anything work.
	It's gotten into the culture to such an extreme.
	I think Gordon Ramsay's done a couple of things.
	One, I think he's improved the ability of average restaurant goers to know a little more than they did, so they might know how to send a wine back or refuse some food.
	So I think that's a plus.
	And also they know they could demand better product.
	But I think it also created this idea that the people that work in restaurants are idiots, and they have to have a chef screaming at them to get anything done.
	And I think this is, by the way, the meme is not completely formed yet, but it's forming, that Trump is a screamer.
	Oh, yes.
	We were watching something last night.
	What the hell was it?
	It was some documentary.
	It was actually quite good.
	And then all of a sudden it turned into, God, what was it?
	Ah, shit, if Tina's listening, she'll text it to me.
	But, you know, it was a good documentary, and all of a sudden it was all about, eh, this is all because of Trump.
	It's like, what?
	Netflix.
	Damn it.
	Should I look at my past history, what the hell that was?
	There's so much.
	Everything's being tied to Trump.
	You got a problem, tie it to Trump.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's tie this one to Trump, Los Angeles.
	As of last month, officers from the LAPD and Long Beach are now assisting the Sheriff's Department and Metro's enforcement surges, cracking down on rude riders.
	According to their code of conduct, they're looking for customers who are disturbing others, displaying disorderly lewd conduct, playing loud music, eating, drinking, smoking, vaping, or occupying more than one seat and locking a door.
	They call that manspreading, where a rider takes up too much room.
	I think these are pretty common sense.
	Absolutely.
	One thing we don't like to see is one person taking up more than one seat.
	Metro spokesperson Dave Zotero says some folks may get warnings, but fines range from $75 for a first-time offense to $1,000 jail time and even being temporarily banned for repeat offenders.
	The rider pauses for the other riders to exit.
	The rider executed that play perfectly.
	They also plan to release new humorous Metro Manor's videos and posters this fall.
	He says since adding 20 new miles with the Expo Line and Gold Line Extension, they have new riders to educate and retain.
	Our goal is to ensure a pleasant ride for all of our customers, and it really, we depend on the public to do their part.
	And you can expect those videos and posters to be blanketing trains, buses, and the internet starting this fall.
	Yeah.
	Man-spreading again.
	Yeah, yeah.
	A-hole man spreaders.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's like, I've never understood this gripe.
	That we're doing this on purpose for some reason, just to say, hey, look at my junk, just spreading my legs.
	Is that really what you think is going on?
	I think it's pretty rare.
	There are guys that take up too much space.
	But it's a real thing.
	Women have a real issue with this.
	I don't blame them.
	I have an issue with it.
	You've got to sit next to one of these jerk-offs.
	But I've never really seen anything like this.
	Well, to finish off, this is the rundown from the This Week show with Charlie Rose.
	This is the This Week, it's called.
	And it is...
	Oh, yeah.
	Where Charlie does his little montage of all the bits and bugs.
	Well, they do it.
	It's a package.
	And they run it at the end.
	It's all the really the most important things that are going to happen.
	And I always look at this.
	None of these are the most important.
	Very few of them are, as a matter of fact.
	And let's see what they have to say.
	And here's a look at the week ahead.
	Sunday is the opening of the 31st annual Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada.
	Monday is the start of the U.S. Open tennis championships in Flushing Meadows, New York.
	Tuesday is the day the annual Guinness World Records are published.
	Wednesday is the first day of the Venice International Film Festival.
	Thursday is the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's death.
	Friday is the start of Colorado's Telluride Film Festival.
	Saturday is the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Yeah, I know how this goes.
	Hey, did anyone do the coming up segment?
	Oh, crap.
	Get the calendar.
	Get the show prep calendar.
	It's always on the show prep calendar.
	Well, thank you for sharing that with us.
	Yeah, well, Burning Man's coming up.
	I'm going to head out.
	All right, I'm heading out, too.
	Go pick up that vegan rainbow cake.
	Don't let it get rained on.
	All right, everybody, thank you very much.
	It is a show day.
	Keep your eyes peeled, ears open.
	You never know what's going to happen.
	And I will be providing constant updates on the Ares Network regarding how everything is here in downtown Austin with the flooding.
	Which actually could be kind of shitty, I would think.
	So stay safe, everybody.
	And coming to you from a very wet downtown Austin, Texas, we are the capital of the Drone Star State, located in FEMA Region 6, now more important than ever.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
	The rest of you can just live it up as best you can, cake and all.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Until Thursday, everybody.
	As we always say, adios, mofos.
	Look, we are fully and totally committed to no agenda, no agenda in the morning. we are fully and totally committed to no agenda, no
	From the inner cities to the rural outposts, from the Sunbelt to the Rust Belt, from East to West to North to South, every American from every background is entitled to no agenda in the morning.
	We pledge our allegiance to no agenda.
	We support the incredible men of no agenda.
	Right?
	Can I say love?
	Most people think I'm crazy.
	And I think they're right.
	USA! USA! No agenda in the morning.
	USA! USA! Who's your largest private owner?
	Who's your largest private owner?
	We'll never hear you.
	It's Soros.
	Everybody knows that.
	RAC. RAC.
	This is your largest price.
	This is your largest price.
	I have no idea.
	I have no idea.
	It's Soros.
	Everybody knows that.
	Everybody knows that.
	It's Soros.
	Everybody knows that.
	Everybody knows that.
	I have no idea.
	RAC. RAC. RAC. It's Soros.
	Everybody knows this.
	Mama's all left.
	Daddy's all right.
	I just need another way.
	No agenda.
	No agenda.
	Deconstruct the news today.
	Get the douchebag call-out button ready.
	Get ready.
	Carpenter douchebaggery.
	Such a douche.
	Douchebags.
	Call me douchebagging.
	Please call him out as a douchebag.
	Douchebag. Douchebag. Douchebag. Douchebag. What a douche. Douchebag. Douchebags. Douchebags.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	So cool!
	I'm free!
	Totally getting want needed!
	I'm free!
	Oh yes!
	The Volkswagen bus represented the ultimate freedom machine.
	You got your bus, you threw a mattress in it, you were driving across the country to Monterey, baby.
	You were going everywhere through the desert.
	You had freedom!
	How does the electric version of that convey the same freedom?
	Can't wait to get it.
	Be free for 150 miles.
	I'm free, finally, from big oil.
	Screw those guys.
	I've got my electric vehicle.
	I hate Trump.
	I have to go to Costco, and when I go to Costco, I might pick up some other things, like some, you know, red wine or some lamb chops.
	Because when I go buy the lamb chops, lamb chops in the package, it's too fatty.
	I don't want this meat.
	It's too fatty.
	I don't want this meat.
	I make a change on the spot.
	I make a change on the fly.
	You can't do that with all this kind of bull crap ordering.
	I have to go to Costco.
	And when I go to Costco, I might pick up some other things like some, you know, red wine or something.
	I have to go to Costco, and when I go to Costco, I might pick up some other things, like some, you know, red wine or something.
	I make a change on the spot and make a change on the fly.
	I make a change on the spot and make a change on the fly.
	You can't do that with all this kind of bull crap ordering.
	I make a change on the spot and make a change on the fly.
	I have to go to Costco, and when I go to Costco, I might pick up some other things, like some, you know, red wine or some lamb chops in the package.
	Lamb chops in the package.
	Here's the story of a bunch of snowflakes who were trampling on some other people's rights.
	All of them lived at home with their mother.
	They wanted to start fights.
	Here's the story of a bunch of violates whose addiction was too outrageous all the time.
	They got so whipped up into a frenzy, thought they'd commit some crimes.
	Then no one day they went to a tender rally, and everyone who disagreed was punched.
	And his group thankfully got arrested.
	Now we get to laugh at them, the snowflake punch, the snowflake punch.
	The Snowflake Punch.

▲