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That's right, baby.
I'm in show business.
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Thursday, September 7th, 2017.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination.
Episode 962.
This is no agenda.
No fault of our own!
We are coming to you from the darkest corners of the internet here in 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 overcast, cold, chilly, it's kind of weird, I don't know what to make of it.
I'm John C. Devorak.
Ah, yeah, it's always nice to have a weather report on a podcast.
On a podcast.
I guarantee we'll be talking about the weather on this podcast.
Yeah, you are right.
What happened to your heat wave?
Is it over now?
Is it done?
It was two days.
Oh, that's not a heat wave.
Record breaking.
That's a heat wavelet.
It's a wavelet.
It was a wavelet.
Just a little wavelet.
It might still be hot.
You go to the other side of the mountain, and it's hot over there.
It's not just the Bay Area.
It's just near the Bay.
It's not.
It's beautiful here in Austin.
It's 75 degrees.
The sun is shining.
Oh, yeah.
It's perfect weather.
Absolutely stunning.
You can't ask for anything.
No.
I got a text from Horowitz this morning.
What did he say?
He says he's now officially freaking out.
I text with him quite a lot, actually.
I'm sure he's freaking out.
It's a new house.
He doesn't care about the house.
He cares about the boat.
The boat and the tiki bar.
Oh, the boat.
Yeah, the boat can get ruined and the tiki hut.
The tiki hut, yeah.
A very interesting explanation of the building of the Tiki Hut.
Yeah.
Did you hear it?
Yeah, of course I heard it.
I didn't realize that these things had to be kind of blessed by the Seminoles.
Otherwise, yeah, that's the only way you can get a permit to build it.
It's like a casino.
You get a couple of Indian guys.
I'm sorry, not Indian guys.
American Indians.
Yes.
As they like to be called.
Native Americans.
No, no, no.
They don't like Native American.
It's American Indians.
Oh, is that the latest?
Yeah.
Or is that just Texas?
No, no, no.
I asked some American Indians.
Well, they don't care.
What difference does it make?
What they think is what the left liberals living in the San Francisco Bay Area think.
It is what is just, I tell you.
It is not what they want.
It is not what they require.
What they want.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Let's stay with the hurricane just for a moment.
It's very interesting to be with someone who has lived through two hurricanes in Florida.
Because I'm very skeptical.
I'm seeing this thing out by...
Was it...
How was it?
Barbuda?
Have you ever heard of this place?
Barbuda.
I'd never heard of it.
Yeah.
It was on the map.
It was a very small island right in the middle of all these islands.
It was on the map.
There was St.
Martin and all these other...
It was on the map just before it got wiped off the map.
It was beautiful.
Yes, apparently.
One of our intelligence connections, military intelligence, is in Saba, which is a Dutch protectorate.
Well, that one I have not heard of.
Oh, man.
He sent me 15, 20 pictures.
The airport completely destroyed.
Just flattened.
No, not flattened, but messed up.
Really, really messed up.
They got it bad.
Yeah.
So anyway, so living with the keeper who has been through a couple of these, you know, I said, well, when you would see this previously, you know, 10 years ago, the last time we had any hurricane activity in the Atlantic, what would you think?
She said, this is really bad.
This is going to pop right up and it's going to go all...
And she knows a lot of, you know, kind of anecdotal stuff about these because I'm skeptical.
I'm like, oh, it's going to make this...
Like, 85 degree turn.
Well, if you remember the last, I can't remember which one it was, but it was just a few years ago.
And Horowitz was then tying down his boat then, too.
Maybe three years ago.
And you were saying, oh, his boat's going to get wrecked and all this other stuff, and Horowitz was poo-pooed the whole thing and nothing happened.
In fact, the picture There was nothing going on.
They had this big threat of this monster hurricane.
Yeah, which hurricane was that?
I don't know.
Was that Matthew?
They don't even talk about it anymore because it was such a dud.
I think it was Matthew, wasn't it?
Was that Matthew?
I don't remember.
I believe so.
I think so.
Anyway, there's just a lot of different discrepancies.
I've got quite a number of emails that people have sent in regarding the measurement of the winds.
Because it's still Cat 5, Cat 5, but it really probably won't be a Cat 3 when it hits...
Like, I know what the hell that means.
When it hits land.
When it hits land.
But if it does, it may not.
I mean, these models are, you know, I'm very skeptical of all models in general.
You know, so they call them spaghetti models?
I don't remember that term.
I saw it in the newsletter.
I hadn't heard of it either, and then I was aware of it, and I started looking at it.
I'm like, hmm, actually, I have a...
A short little clip here from NBC.com regarding the weather models.
Any time there's a big storm coming, you're going to hear forecasters talking about the difference between the GFS model and the European model.
The GFS model comes out four times a day.
It's free and it's operated by our government.
The European model is two times a day and it's private, so you've got to pay for it.
The difference?
Supercomputer power.
The European is much stronger.
It has a higher resolution forecast.
And on average, it's given a better forecast ever since the 1980s.
Doesn't mean it will this time, but on average, it does.
How about that?
The Brits got better supercomputers.
Doesn't make any sense.
It's been better ever since the 1980s.
Your Apple Watch has got more computing power than a 1980s machine.
I don't know what the...
So how come we haven't at least caught up to the 1980s?
This is bull.
It's NBC. They probably have a better algo.
Oh man, don't get me started on the algos.
Don't get me started on the algos, John.
When the algorithm starts to sway Opinions on the news today There's a guy coding in LA to keep us afraid and Facebook made.
Everybody heard the call to action.
The algos.
So we need some algo jingles.
We only have a couple.
We'll play them as we go along.
We will, yes indeed.
Let's listen to the big report from NBC. This is the Irma NBC reports.
We are urging all people in North Carolina to be prepared for the impacts of Hurricane Irma.
Like previous monster storms Hugo, Floyd and Ivan, Irma is what's known as a classic Cape Verde hurricane formed off the west coast of Africa.
They're typically among the most intense.
This storm is bigger, faster, and stronger than Hurricane Andrew.
Andrew sliced through South Florida and Louisiana 25 years ago, killing dozens, damaging 125,000 homes and causing more than $25 billion in damage.
With airlines canceling flights later this week and prices skyrocketing.
Here we are in a little Sprinter RV headed down to Fort Myers.
The Pryor family borrowed an RV and drove 16 hours overnight from Richmond, Virginia to Fort Myers to rescue 93-year-old Grandma Janet and her friend Beverly.
And they're in.
Tonight, they're among the millions desperately trying to escape the most powerful Atlantic storm in memory.
Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News, Key Largo, Florida.
I'm Kerry Sanders in Miami, where tonight there's a balancing act.
Megan Curlew.
Wait a minute, this is one report into the next?
Yeah.
Preparing to write out the latest.
Interesting.
So they don't even go back to the studio?
No, this is the latest thing.
They're all doing this.
Well, this is very new.
Well, at the beginning, you didn't get the beginning, beginning, beginning.
He kind of, they tell you that this is going to happen.
Ah, okay.
So it's not really a surprise.
I like it.
It's kind of dynamic.
It moves it along.
Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News, Key Largo, Florida.
I'm Kerry Sanders in Miami where tonight there's a balancing act.
Megan Curlew preparing to ride out the storm in South Miami.
We specifically bought this house two years ago because it had full hurricane impact windows and doors.
Which means what?
It means that nothing can get through it.
It might as well be bulletproof.
25 years ago, Megan was 11 years old when Hurricane Andrew pummeled South Florida.
Widespread devastation followed by decades of rebuilding.
Now, concerns if Miami is ready to handle another monster storm.
This is what Miami looks like today.
The coastline crowded with new condos, but built with stricter codes established after Andrew.
It's a strong building code.
Is it strong enough?
This is a question I don't have the answer for you.
Another danger?
25 cranes, the city is now warning, could collapse in Category 5 winds.
Ah, perfect.
And on the highest floor, stronger gusts.
75 miles per hour on the ground turns to 115 miles per hour on the 30th floor.
Then there's the storm surge that could be 12 feet, which would easily flood a low-lying Miami neighborhood like this.
This is what storm surge looks like.
Likely worse than what we saw during Hurricane Matthew in Jacksonville Beach, Florida last year.
Which is why even Florida storm veterans like Megan are anxious tonight.
The panic has set in now and I keep hearing where it's shifting and where the winds are and I'm getting nervous.
It's a good prelude.
It's a good one.
Yes, I agree.
That's Horowitz, by the way.
That woman at the end was the same as the woman earlier that had the windows you couldn't bulletproof.
Right.
Well, I've been practicing.
Hold on.
Where is it?
Let's see if this works.
Because I think we need to have pre-storm sounds and reports and reports during the storm.
And this was a very good example.
I think I can kind of do it.
Let me see.
Let me see if this works.
I have to do a little of this.
Hey, why is it not on?
Come on.
Here we go.
Okay, it should be blowing right into the mic.
Okay, John!
Well, it's not loud enough.
John!
I'm trying to get the blowing of the mic.
Here we go.
John, people here are obviously quite worried.
You know what you could do?
Hold on.
Okay, what?
I think if you take your fingers...
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That won't damage the mic.
Well, I have the fan on, so...
We're here...
John, we're here in the...
I have to work on it.
It's the...
I think the finger signal will work.
That's what she said.
Let me try.
Woo!
Woo!
There we are!
Yeah!
All right, everybody.
Let's keep moving with the show.
Anyway, let's go to the CBS version of the report.
Before you do that, though, you heard the guy say the 12-foot surge, right?
Yeah.
Now, listen to this.
This is an ISO. This is the Irma surge, according to CBS. I just wanted to play it.
Oh, is this something I can use over and over again?
The surge from Hurricane Irma has the potential to be more than 9 feet high.
Okay, well, that's not the same as 12, is it?
No, it's 9.
All right, let's go to Irma's CBS report.
This is another variation of the report, and then I have a couple of comments I want to make about these reports.
I'm Anthony Mason.
President Trump declared an emergency today in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, all threatened by the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever seen.
Irma, a Category 5, has already turned deadly on the islands of the Caribbean.
The National Hurricane Center says chances have grown for a direct This wall of wind and rain is only getting worse tonight as hundreds of Puerto Ricans are already in shelters and more than 200 tourists in this hotel have been evacuated out of their rooms and into a ballroom where they're expecting a very long night in the storm.
Residents were warned of braced for the worst as the strongest winds in a century lashed Puerto Rico.
Burma has already left plenty of evidence of its record-setting strength.
Wind gusts topped 200 miles per hour, knocking out power as buildings collapsed and debris flew.
St.
Martin took a direct hit.
Wind and pelting rain blew palm trees horizontal.
Boats were left tangled in the port as cars were nearly submerged.
One tourist tweeted that the noise of the storm was insane and was like standing behind a jet engine.
He took shelter in the concrete stairwell of a hotel.
In St.
Bartholomew, roofs flew off buildings, streets became rivers, as Irma continued its destructive trek past the British Virgin Islands on its way to the Florida Keys.
Puerto Rico ordered an evacuation of low-lying areas, but in the coastal village of Las Croabas, 80-year-old Augustin Moija has decided to stay in his home, along with his wife and grandson.
Most of your neighbors have evacuated.
That's right.
But why not you?
Because they don't feel safe in their houses.
I know my houses because I built it myself.
It's a strong house.
Alright.
Alright, now there's a couple of things going on that I think we need at least some commentary.
Yes.
Why didn't...
These cranes are all over the place in Florida and they...
They say they're going to tie them down, but they're going to let the tops float around like a weather vane.
This is the latest.
Because they didn't have enough time to take the crane down.
How much time do they need?
It takes quite a while.
Months?
It can be two weeks.
I've watched it extensively here in downtown Austin.
And I've seen them swiveling around in high winds.
That's what they do.
Yeah.
But it's not, I agree, it's not a good idea.
But shouldn't there be some engineer who can look at the numbers and say, well, you know, this crane can sustain X? Seems like if you're putting that kind of structure amongst people, you might want to know kind of what it can do.
I would think.
Not that we'll be able to measure it.
Got a great note from producer Sean from Las Vegas, who is often, he says, I work often with meteorological data.
And he says, I actually applaud the podcast when you bring up the fact that when a hurricane or other tropical storm makes landfall, the wind speeds measured actual ground or buoy-based weather stations don't even come close to the record-breaking quote-unquote stunning values reported by the National Hurricane Center.
As it turns out, once the hurricane comes near their stations, they actually turn them off and disable them.
They don't even measure when it's going right over them.
Isn't that interesting?
Well, there are things.
I know that, well, the wind turbines that are all over California, there's a bunch of them nearby.
When it's too windy, they turn them off.
And you think, well, wait a minute.
Isn't that when you'd want it running?
Don't you want to collect that energy from the wind?
No, they turn them off.
They only have them running when there's just mild wind.
It burns out.
Yeah, another thing is, you know, there's a big fuss about in Houston, oh, they're gouging for water, they're gouging, they're gouging.
But where's the fuss about the price of airline tickets that went from like 200 bucks to get from A to B? Well, Southwest lowered their fares.
Well, Delta didn't.
No, no.
And Amazon is complicit.
Now, Amazon stands accused of price gouging ahead of Irma's arrival.
Some people on social media reported price hikes for bottled water.
In Florida, customers say packages of Nestle water were selling for $25, but the same case cost just $18.50 in other parts of the country.
Amazon said it does not engage in surge pricing and denied that bottled water prices have changed recently.
It does say it engages in dynamic pricing where items that are in demand receive price tweaks.
This is exactly it.
Dynamic pricing, ladies and gentlemen.
It is, again, the Algo!
Algo, Algo.
Gotta chase those algos.
They're everything that we need to know about you.
So that we can bring you deals.
Deals.
There you go.
The algos jacking the price up.
Because that's what it is.
It's machine learning.
It's like, hey, we learn people like this, jack up the price.
Which is, I think, exactly the opposite of what's supposed to happen in supply and demand.
Yeah, that's right.
It's true.
Well, that's what you were taught in school.
Yeah.
But the more recent theories are almost just the opposite.
Well, apparently.
I mean, otherwise, I'm sure Amazon knows what they're doing.
Well, they sure do, I would say.
But I got a kick out of Horowitz telling me that he went and got his gasoline and then for all his extra supplies he just ordered from Amazon to get delivered in two days.
Yeah.
So I thought it was pretty funny.
Because everybody's, you know, blocking to the stores and buying what they can.
Yeah.
Anyway, the other point I wanted to make, which was they had like Lindsay, kind of the wayfish blonde.
I think she's on NBC, and she's out in the storm.
And so there's a bunch of – in fact, a lot of these guys are using mostly women now.
They're sending them into the storm, and they're standing there getting buffeted around.
Is this a trend, sending the women out into the storm?
I think so.
I really do because I'm noticing it more and more.
But the funny thing about it is you hear stuff like, and everybody's hunkered down, and she's standing out there in the wind.
What are these reporters doing?
If everybody's supposed to shelter in place and hide in a bathroom, why are they out at all?
They're preparing.
They're preparing, getting ready.
And two, what do they do after their report?
Where do they go?
They can't leave.
They can't get in a truck and drive out.
Hopefully they can stay for the reports of the carnage.
Yeah, but stay where?
I find the whole thing somewhat baffling, these live reports.
Why don't you just go to green screen and leave it at that?
Or do what we do.
Yeah.
Because it's fake.
John, it's not working.
Producer Brandon.
Salutations, John and Adam.
I'm a Floridian of 21 years who lived through Charlie and Francis despite being young.
I come with my own report on the situation.
Millennial Report.
Many of the people who will give an off-the-camera answer to their thoughts are that they're stocked up but are like, what all the memes say online?
Hurricanes are more an annoyance than a threat despite what media is telling us.
Interesting take.
We all know to take it seriously, and we are.
This morning, I arrived at my neighbor's Publix grocery store 20 minutes after opening and just barely got their amount of water at that moment.
Within 30 minutes of opening, they were out of water.
In terms of logistics, my company, which has a base in Miami, is being closed Friday morning in Miami, most likely Saturday morning in Orlando, where I am in Orlando.
That's quite a ways up.
Many of the trucks we would send south to Miami or Tampa from Orlando have been diverted are being held up north until the storm clears.
By my own listening, my company may be closed for up to five days, which is big considering we are a 24-7 terminal in our network.
We only ever close that long for Christmas or New Year's.
Well, stay safe, Brandon.
Stay safe.
Orlando never gets much of anything.
We did get a report.
Somebody had to slip in the global warming thing in the local news.
Although it's not been as bad as I expected it to be.
Well, that's you.
Well, I'm not in California.
Good point.
So we had this global warming report from the San Jose State professor that she, and they put this woman, I don't know if she's the only one they could find, but she's like a kind of a, I don't know if she's British or what, but she's an, she's, she's, She's wearing like one of those weird Christmas sweaters, you know, that people joke about.
Yeah.
And she's like, doesn't even know what she's talking about.
Why is she wearing that?
Why?
I don't know.
And she's old.
This was like, and I don't want to say that in a diminutive, or not diminutive, but in a pejorative way.
But she seems like an idiot.
But they brought her on to talk about this being all about, it's all global warming.
Yeah.
From heat waves to back-to-back hurricanes, one San Jose State professor says get used to it.
It may become our new normal.
Tonight, she told KPX 5's Maureen Medina it is all connected to climate change.
Back-to-back hurricanes Irma, Jose, Katya, and Harvey, which devastated parts of Texas...
It's got to be a 500-year flood or a 1,000-year flood.
It's ridiculous.
...are all signs of what San Jose State meteorology professors like Allison Bridger...
There is the hurricane.
You can see the eye really well.
...have taught students for years the oceans are warming up just as the atmosphere is warming up.
She says recent weather events across our country are proof of global warming.
And now, she says, it's catching up to us.
We've been teaching about this stuff for over 20 years, and we're still not doing anything about it.
Another piece of evidence that climate change is happening, according to Professor Bridger, our own record-breaking heat wave over the weekend.
So hot, it even caused equipment problems and delays for BART. It's not like we broke the record by a teeny bit.
We broke the record by a lot.
So the question is, is this the new norm?
I would tend to think so.
So what exactly does that mean?
The professor says climate change means more and longer heat waves or cold weather, droughts, and even extreme rain events like hurricanes.
Harvey was probably able to grow strong because of the super warm temperatures in the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico.
That's right.
You might die.
Did you see Dave Weiner's tweet?
No, I missed it.
I actually unfollowed him.
I'm tired of him.
What did he say?
Well, somebody retweeted it.
But he said, what if these hurricanes are going to be coming every day, 24-7?
Yeah.
I mean, it was serious.
It was like a serious tweet.
I was talking to my wife last night, and she was telling me, she asked me this crazy rhetorical question, which was, why is everything nowadays the worst ever?
And she was citing specifically a windstorm that took place in Reno that I guess it lasted like Five minutes and it blew all this dust all over the place.
It was the worst ever.
And she said when she was a kid, there was one that lasted a half an hour and took the paint off their house.
And where was this?
How could this one be the worst ever?
And everything's the worst ever.
It's the worst ever.
Why does everything have to be the worst ever?
And that's what we're getting from all these things.
Worst ever.
Worst ever.
Well, that is...
In fact, interesting, this is not the worst ever or the largest ever hurricane, as I've heard many times.
It is the second largest in the Atlantic.
It's not even the largest in the Atlantic, I think.
Why?
Come on.
If it bleeds, it leads.
Whatever happens, I remain very skeptical of the national or international Red Cross in these rescue and cleanup efforts.
I went shopping the taxis the past two days.
I go to the grocery store and the checkout.
There's a donate to the Red Cross.
A big sign you can donate.
$1, $3, $5, $10.
And it goes to the Red Cross.
And of course...
Would you like to donate to Hurricane Harvey victims?
I said, yes, I would, but not to the Red Cross.
And the whole line...
Did you hear what he just said?
He doesn't like the Red Cross.
You get these horrible, horrible looks.
And I have some stuff to back it up from Houston.
This was posted on the FaceBag...
I'm astonished at the behavior of the Red Cross husband and wife team at the Mid-County Jack Brooks Airport yesterday who together accosted me and took turns berating me because I was trying to bring 400 warm hamburgers to our hungry evacuees who according to them did not need the food because they had already had a sandwich.
Yes, one sandwich in 24 hours.
They were desperate for a hot meal.
The Red Cross proceeded to try to load the warm ready-to-eat hamburgers into an ice chest.
On a plane.
The pilot who had donated his time, fuel, money, plane, and arranged the delivery of the burgers was horrified not being able to serve them to the people who were right there.
And this goes on and on.
What has to happen every single time, according to the local chapters of the Red Cross, is they have to...
So people brought blankets.
Blankets for people who were wet.
No, no, no.
You can't give them to these people.
They have to go back to the central distribution point.
They can't give them to it because they could have smallpox.
No, no.
The way the Red Cross works is everything they get...
I'm sure somebody out there got that joke.
Yes.
They continuously take everything that is donated in kind and they take it back to the distribution point.
And then they start handing it out when people bring it for people right there.
It's a very odd methodology.
At least it comes across as odd to me.
Well, I don't have the clip, I don't think.
No, I don't.
But there's a very long report from CBS, and maybe I'll try to remember to put it on the Sunday show, that discusses all this and how important it is that you don't give your blankets and your water.
Well, we know that.
We just need cash.
I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
Just send your cash.
Has the Clinton Foundation sent any cash yet?
No, no.
They don't have it.
They ran out of money.
Oh, damn.
Anyway, so maybe Sunday.
Sunday show day would be a good time to have it hit land.
If it hits land at all, it could still veer off.
Yeah.
It could still go to Texas, as a matter of fact.
No one talks about that.
One of the models.
No one wants to even think about it.
Don't think about it, because then it might happen.
There's one spaghetti string that goes towards Texas.
I saw that.
In your newsletter...
Which used the word extance?
What was the word?
Ascance.
Yeah, they looked ascance at the idea.
Yeah, you were befuddled by this word.
Yes, I had not heard this word, ascance.
That's funny.
It's pretty common.
I've never seen it ever.
Okay, so, but the idea is, if it doesn't hit, then we shall be looking at the models with askance.
No, no, you don't, no.
We'll be looking askance at the models.
Oh, askance.
Can you look at a person of the opposite sex askance?
It's an adverb, so it's treated differently than the way you just presented it.
Right, so I can say, I was looking at someone of the opposite sex askance.
I was looking askance.
Askance.
Okay.
It's an adverb, so what it does is it modifies the verb, and looking would be the verb, askance is the adverb.
Got it.
So I'm looking askance.
You're looking askance, okay.
It's like all those L-Y words that people, the writers in particular, aren't supposed to use as much as they do.
Adverbs, Stephen King once said, adverbs are not your friend.
He told us that was in this writing class.
But askance, I like it.
Especially since it's so confusing to you, apparently.
I'm glad you can have it.
It makes me like it even more.
I'm glad you can have a little chuckle at my head.
Yes, I know.
That's what I do.
Is there anything else we've got to worry about?
I don't think I have anything else.
I'm actually interested that Horowitz is getting concerned because all through the show I kept saying, well, your roof's going to get blown off.
He doesn't care about that.
It's a new house for him.
It's a new little place.
I've been to that house.
Yeah, when we were in Florida.
He only cares about the boat.
Yeah, you're right.
And I think the house will be okay.
I mean, the house is in between other bigger homes.
There's really big houses around Andrew's little tent there.
And his cheeky tent.
And his little, you know, outboard boat.
It's got an outboard motor.
Well, he's got insurance on the boat, I think.
I'm sure he does.
I don't know what they do with these storms.
Yeah.
Hurricane insurance?
I don't know.
I'm not sure how these insurance policies work.
I know they take a huge beating, as it were, in Florida from these storms when they happen.
But once every 25 years is not that much.
So I had, since the last show, several to three calls with Steve Pachanek, my new friend.
Alright.
Do you remember who he is?
No.
Steve Pachanek is the guy who was on Infowars at the same time I was.
Oh, right.
I know who he is.
He knows my uncle.
The ex-spook.
Well, he's actually...
He was never a spook.
He was military intelligence.
Okay, well...
It's a big difference.
To me as well.
I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
Now...
I'm pretty sure everything I'm telling you is he's mentioned publicly one place.
I've done a little bit of investigation because, you know, a lot of people are saying, well, who is this guy?
And I'll tell you, after the second call, I thought to myself, either he's totally truthful or he's completely off his effing rocker.
It could be both.
It could be.
Well, it could be both.
But according to other sources, he's still very connected and he's the real deal.
And what he says, in effect, there is a...
Right now we've had kind of a military coup, but not the military intelligence.
And historically, his story is that it has always been a struggle slash battle between military intelligence and CIA who would be running the president.
I can see that.
And he is adamant, by the way, that Obama was CIA, Obama's mother was CIA, and that Brennan was Obama's handler.
He's adamant about that.
We had the thesis, the show, had the thesis for a while.
We didn't take it to the end, but we had it that Obama was CIA, and there's some evidence of that.
But we never had...
That Brennan thing, and I'm not, it doesn't really ring, I don't like it.
My thinking, I would rather go back to the thinking that George H.W. Bush is the one that's really running everything.
Well, in this case, Trump was obviously not being run by CIA, but CIA is very pissed off about that.
How many times have we played a clip or a report where someone says, oh, he wasn't following the script.
We gave him the script, the CIA script.
He didn't follow it.
So Trump is supposedly being handled, and I say quote-unquote handled, by military intelligence.
And it struck me that months and months ago, before I'd even met Pachenik, we played a clip, and I said, listen to some guys talking about a coup, and he's like a military guy or intelligence guy.
And that was Pachenik.
I only realized it yesterday, you know, that...
There was this thing, we're going to stage some kind of coup, and the idea is, under the continuity of government, which was installed in 2001, which is still in place, I didn't know that, We have a state of emergency which is renewed every year by every president since 9-11, 2001.
And under continuity of government, there are certain people who remain active in government even if they're not, and I believe Pachanek to be one of those.
And so they have this group who don't really meet, but I guess they communicate with each other, and their entire idea was to get Bannon out, to get Gorka out, ultimately would like to get Javanka out, but that's not going to happen because psychologically that's something that Trump needs.
They put in Kelly specifically to, and remember, Pachenik is a psyops guy, specifically to trigger an old pattern with Trump, which is when his dad, when he was a naughty boy, his dad sent him to military academy.
And we already came up with this thesis, I think.
We already said this sounds like kind of a good idea.
And now the problem is, so here's the panic.
If you believe all this, and that Kelly is their guy, or Kelly has been, you know, they need Kelly in there to run Trump, otherwise they've got a big problem.
And Kelly now kind of wants to leave.
So there's a lot of movement trying to keep Kelly in, trying to still keep Javanka at bay.
And apparently there's this apparatus of military intelligence guys who are doing everything they can.
And he's very adamant over and over.
I'm just reading from my notes here.
He says, what we're doing, no one's going to get killed.
This is all about the Internet.
All about changing ideas, manipulating people's thinking on the Internet.
And then the military coup part is where the handlers, I guess, have kind of lost control.
He admitted there's now a command and control system for the president's Twitter.
So he can't just go and tweet anymore.
That they apparently have in place.
And I think that sounds kind of right.
Just looking at what he has or has not been tweeting of late.
But that the military guys, they're the ones who are completely off the...
And I said, are these guys insane?
Why would they want to actually go and strike North Korea?
And he thinks it's still marketing.
And I guess we did sell something to South Korea this past week.
There was some...
Another set of missiles.
But there's no reason for them to do it this way.
And the same with Afghanistan.
All of this stuff is Trump following along with the, not military intelligence, but the military generals.
And we've discussed this before, that a lot of combat people do not like their peacetime generals because they've never really seen combat, and it's very easy to sit in the war room and run scenarios.
Okay, this is great, but none of these guys have actually been shot at and doesn't really understand what it's like.
And the bottom line message was, if Kelly leaves, then we have a real problem.
Well, I think there's a couple of things.
In fact, I have a clip.
This is one of the clips for the humorous moment of the show.
What you said about them handling him to the point of vetting his tweets, they're obviously making him read from a prompter more, too.
Which is weird when he goes out into the wild, like he did in South Dakota, and And gives his regular, you know, the regular off-the-cuff speech that he likes to do.
He...
Now he's reading from a prompter and it's very...
It doesn't really...
You can see him.
You can hear in this clip.
This is the red tape gaffe.
You can hear in this clip him reading from a prompter, screwing up in an Al Sharpton way.
Trying to save it and then kind of going back to his normal conversational style.
And I think there...
This is...
This is like people who...
Start to watch Trump now should start to think of him.
There's an old Star Trek episode, the original series with Shatner, where some guy had taken over.
Some guy had been dropped off.
Some old Star Federation guy now was Hitler in this Nazi environment.
It turned out that the generals had him drugged up and making him say stuff he didn't want to say.
And here is Trump on a prompter Screwing up.
This is a very short clip.
It's an ISO. Screwing up and then trying to save it, and it becomes an L Sharpton moment.
Barring the amazing things that are possible when we unleash the genius of American innovators.
Unite the red tape, and I'll tell you, we have to unite everything, and all that red tape becomes beautiful when you get rid of it.
And we're getting rid of it.
Are we getting rid of a lot of red tape, by the way?
But resist, we must.
You're right.
We must, and we will much.
About that.
Be committed.
Beautiful.
He's also...
The reason that they keep sending him out on the road, the handlers...
I'm just looking through the rest of my notes.
I wrote seven pages of notes.
It's because he's not insane, but he is hypokinetic, is what Pachani calls him.
He cannot sit still.
He cannot sit down.
He has to be moving around.
And that's why they put him out.
Just go out there.
Just do something.
I can see that.
He seems nervous.
Just a couple data points.
By the way, before you go on to that, we should mention Chelsea Handler's getting grief.
For coming out and publicly saying that we should have a military coup to take out Trump.
Well, there you go.
It's already happened.
And look what you're getting.
You're getting possible kinetic war with North Korea, which is still about China.
But man, these guys are crazy.
These military guys, these generals...
Well, there was a good write-up in Alternet, of all places, about the guys who were really behind this North Korea thing.
This guy named Bennett.
Who worked for the Rand Corporation, and he's got the ear of everybody, and he's never been to North Korea.
Jeez.
But he's been to South Korea like 200 times, and you should look him up.
I mean, he's the maniac behind our North Korea strategy.
In fact, he, according to the story—this was a big story that just came out this morning—he's the one who—apparently it was Sony— Rogan, who claims that the CIA was working on that movie with him.
Yeah.
And the whole thing was all part of a scheme to get to propagandize and hopefully get that movie pushed into North Korea.
Oh.
Where Kim Jong-un had his head blown off.
That was their big sigh-up?
Yes.
Yeah.
What's the payoff?
Well, they were a revolution.
This guy's an idiot.
Well, I can ask Pachenik about it because he worked at RAND. So he may know the guy.
I'll ask him about it.
Was it RAND? I think so.
Yeah, he worked at RAND Corporation.
I'm trying to think if this guy's been inside of RAND. But also something that he said, you got to listen carefully because he slips stuff in.
And I'm very aware that he's a psychologist and could be psyoping me.
Sure.
I'm not saying that it didn't work.
I'm just saying I'm aware of it.
One thing he keeps doing, every single time he talks about Alex Jones, he'll say, you know, Alex Jones, Bill Hicks, you know, whatever.
He keeps throwing in Bill Hicks.
It's like, why does he do that?
I mean, I know the theory that Bill Hicks became Alex Jones, but it's very interesting that Pachena keeps doing that.
And what about how much, in fact, I think it would be pretty minimal, What minimal amount of plastic surgery would be required?
Zero.
He's him.
Zero.
He would need no plastic surgery.
If you put him side by side, I think there's some minor differences.
People grow old.
But more importantly, apparently, the Chinese military is very restless.
And there was even some rumor that there might have been some potential coup...
Of the military just in the past week or so?
I'm just telling you what I heard.
Yeah, no, I said yeah.
Sorry, you can say it.
Let me see if I had anything else.
That's the main stuff.
Anyway, the idea is you got to keep Kelly in and military intelligence wants to keep running him.
Which includes D&I, you know, Clapper-type people.
Do we have a director of D&I again yet, or is it still open spot?
Yeah, it's a nudnik.
You won't remember his name.
Nudnik.
All right.
Anyway, so that's kind of the update from there.
And again, on this North Korea thing, I'm looking for all kinds of...
You know, details, information.
All we have is a report that the Koreans, North Koreans, said they pumped off a hydrogen bomb.
And then we have some, I guess, USGS data that shows there was seismic activity detected.
I mean, it's a lot of imagination and theater of the mind.
And a hydrogen bomb, really?
A hydrogen bomb?
It seems like a pretty big one for those guys.
It doesn't seem right.
There's also this discussion that apparently their nuclear testing facility has some sort of a cave-in and the whole thing may not be usable anymore and it's going to leak radiation.
Have you heard that report?
No, no.
Yeah, it's another one.
They're just inundating us with all kinds of weird stuff.
How much of it's true, I don't know.
But I believe this Bennett story.
Yeah.
But where's the strategy behind all this?
What is the idea?
I mean, you can't keep saying...
The idea that apparently was developed and has been promoted is that we can take out North Korea and reunite the two countries under South Korean and USA rule.
That's an insane idea.
It's the way we think.
There's a bunch of these guys that think like this.
Hmm.
Neocons, look at the way they think.
The whole world would be burned into a crisp if we let them go their way.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
Okay.
Although, it is good to see Dennis Rodman back on the scene.
Yes, and I think he's the smartest.
He's the guy who knows the most.
Remember what Uncle Don said.
Dennis Rodman knows more about North Korea than any diplomat.
I'm sure he does.
Huh.
And you know, it's interesting to read the face bag.
He's been to that zoo I want to go to.
Well, what's interesting, change of heart, you know, face bag is now just one big leftist pool of blah.
At least that's what the algo is giving me.
To piss me off, I guess.
And the same people who would say, oh, shut up, Dennis Rodman, you idiot, you moron.
Now it's, well, hey, we might as well give him a shot.
What do we have to lose?
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, what do you get to lose?
That was the worst that could happen.
Meanwhile, there was some more Trump hate in Los Angeles that I'd like to talk about since we're kind of done with North Korea.
Did you know?
Amongst all of the things the president is, he also is an animal abuser.
Oh?
You didn't know this, did you?
No, this is news to me.
Oh, yeah.
There was a whole...
Well, actually, there was a protest.
It was on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which runs around Sunset and Vine, a couple other places.
All over.
All over.
And it was, bring your dogs, we're protesting the animal rights abuser, Donald Trump.
Now, I think this stems from some procedural...
The database was taken offline among some legal privacy concerns.
And I don't know if they're washing something or they're going to bring it back.
And the animal rights activist came out and said, you know, Donald Trump hates animals.
He's abusing animals.
He doesn't want these people's names to be known.
I cut out all that stuff because it's not interesting.
What is interesting is the people on the street who were interviewed.
Man on the street, I admit it freely.
And I even edited the edit, but it's kind of funny.
There's you!
There's you!
Excuse for animal abuse.
What does your sign say?
My sign says, life is like a box of deplorables.
You never know who you're going to get.
Forrest Trump.
What does that mean?
It means that he's deplorable and he's against all humans and animals.
Why are you against Trump?
Because he's an evil dictator.
What do you think his most evil characteristics are?
He's a capitalist.
He's an evil capitalist?
Okay, so are you a socialist?
I'm a communist.
Communist?
Okay.
Where has communism worked?
It's kind of worked in America, in a way, back in the day.
Back in the day.
John, you're from back in the day.
Do you remember when communism kind of worked back in the day?
Communism.
Oh, I know.
She must be referring to the 60s when there was all these communes.
Oh, communes.
With a bunch of peace and love, lots of free sex.
Yes, yes.
That worked.
Yeah, okay.
I mean, I can hear she's a stoner.
You can just tell it by listening to her.
No, no, she's Asian.
Not that I'm a bigot or anything, but she's, oh, yeah, man.
No.
I remember back in the day communism worked.
No, she's not a stoner.
She's an idiot.
Work.
It's kind of worked in America, in a way, back in the day.
No?
No?
He's the first president in, like, 145 years to not have a dog companion.
I mean, I'm not saying that people that don't like dogs are bad people, but I'm just saying.
Caring towards animals is a good trait to have in a human.
So this president does not have a dog, and she had a sign with all the presidents from the past 140 years, and they all had a dog, and he doesn't have a dog, so I'm just saying!
I think you actually said that.
I believe Obama was never a dog guy, and he got his dog deep into his presidency, didn't he?
He didn't come into the presidency with a dog.
I remember it was a big deal.
When he got the dog.
Yeah.
It's for the children or something.
But I don't believe him to be a dog guy.
It was probably, that was probably pressure.
Why weren't they protesting Obama?
They probably pressured him.
It was probably, there was, I'm sure, now that I think about it, there must have been some pressure.
Like, man, the animal rights people, they really think it's weird.
You're the first president in 130 years not to have a dog, so maybe get a dog.
Like, caring towards animals is a good trait to have in a human.
He hates animals.
Human rights are animal rights because humans are animals.
If you fight for human rights and you don't fight for animal rights, you're being a speciesist.
Speciesist!
There we have it.
Is that a thing?
I can't even spell that.
Speciesist?
Yeah, I guess species.
It's a very ugly word.
It's ugly to say.
Speciesist.
So if you...
S-P-E-C-I-E-S. Speciesist.
I-S-T. I-S-T. So speciesist.
Is that in the dictionary?
No.
Are you sure?
No, I'm not sure, but I would be stunned if it was.
Because it's so...
Because it's so stupid.
Let's see.
Speciesist.
Well, Urban Dictionary, Free Dictionary, Speciesism by Merriam-Webster.
Oh, well, that's close enough.
Well, yeah, if you have speciesism, then I presume you can be a speciesist.
How about a speciesist?
Can you just shorten it?
Speciesist.
Speciesist.
Love it.
...are animal rights because humans are animals.
If you fight for human rights and you don't fight for animal rights, you're being a speciesist.
And that's just a fact of the matter.
Who did you vote for?
I didn't vote.
His wife wears fur.
His wife has a closet full of blood and wears it.
She wears fur.
That's supporting animal abuse.
There's no excuse for animal abuse.
Animals love their children.
That's what!
We're protesting against Trump and the fact that he abuses animals.
Donald Trump.
Trump.
Trump.
Hashtag Trump.
We're protesting that he abuses animals.
That's right.
I don't know.
I've heard a lot, but I hadn't heard this one.
No, this is good.
Abuses.
Well, it's just another new thing.
It does kind of fit into my service animals gripe.
Yeah, I got, what did I get?
I got Sir K. Mack sent me a funny note.
He says, this is my pet peeve as well.
I travel a lot.
During recent business trips, I have witnessed service dogs doing the following.
Fighting in the middle of an airport terminal with another service dog.
service dogs.
People being tripped by leashes because the dog owners are treating airport terminals like the local park.
A dog taking a dump on one of the moving walkways.
A dog taking a dump on a plane seat.
And the And the saddest, he said, would appear to be a lesbian couple talking to and playing with their service animal while their real child was told to sit on the ground under their chairs and play with the stickers.
Ah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why does that not...
Surprise you?
Stunned me.
And I've noticed this dog trend for a long time and how problematic it is with younger people and we need to procreate.
And the Pope has now come out and said, hey, please consider raising kids, not cats and dogs.
This is the Pope.
Well, good for the Pope.
Yeah.
It's true, though.
Well, he's probably seen this in Italy.
It's an exaggerated problem, that's for sure.
With the dogs?
No, with the not raising kids.
Well, that's why...
They have a negative population growth.
Yeah, but don't we as well?
We're not at 2.1.
No, no, no, we don't.
We do not have a negative population growth.
Most countries in the European Union do.
Yes, they do.
And under 2.1, that's a negative growth?
I don't know what the number is, but something like that.
I think it's 2.1 in order to procreate.
Most of them have 1.5, 1.7.
I think Italy's down to...
I think it's less than one, maybe.
They have less than one kid?
He's just like an arm?
I think.
They have just a head.
I got a torso!
I got a torso!
Maybe my torso can meet your head.
All right.
What other depressing news do you have for us?
Service dogs.
I can see this is going to be a pet peeve for a while.
Everybody send your service dog stories to Adam.
It's like pooping on the walkway.
That's just great.
Well, you know, I understand the therapeutic benefits of dogs and horses and, you know, that's been proven to be very helpful.
A lot of pee doesn't help.
They serve as a service horse at the airport.
This is my service horse.
Hey, why wouldn't you be able to do like a really cool animal like service pig?
They're popular.
Everyone loves pigs these days.
They do.
People love pigs.
But just the whole idea that people are so afraid to say, hey, get your dog out of my way because it's a service animal.
And I don't know.
I need to look at the ADA. I'm sure the ADA has a paragraph or two on service animals and what is and isn't allowed.
I'm going to look into that.
I think people are just abusing this.
Well, of course they're abusing it.
They just want to take their dog, which is like their pet.
I know rock and roll guys, like serious metalheads who have no children and yet have a Yorkshire.
And they call it, I won't say who it is, this particular bass player calls his Yorkshire his dogter.
My dog.
And he'll say it in a sentence.
You know, we went last night, we went over to the game.
We took our dog tour with us.
And you don't hear it at first.
You're like, are you saying dog tour?
Yeah, dog tour.
Dog tour.
God.
It's disturbing.
Yes.
Yes, I'd say.
All right.
Well, on to the next depressing topic.
Well, these aren't depressing.
This is meant...
It's depressing to me.
Oh, come on.
It's meant to be fun.
All right, let's go.
Let's take a huge break and go to the Prime Minister Question Time, just to see what the hell's going on.
Ah, very good.
Prime Minister Question Time number one, I'm presuming?
Yeah, let's listen to what's going on.
Mr.
Speaker, every member across this house should be concerned that inflation is once again running ahead of people's pay.
This week, workers at McDonald's restaurants took strike action for the first time in this country.
The boss of McDonald's, Steve Easterbrook, is reported to have earned £11.8 million last year, while some of his staff have paid as little as £4.75 per hour.
Does the Prime Minister back the McDonald's workers' case for an end-to-zero-hours contract and decent pay?
Prime Minister!
Obviously, the issue that has taken place at McDonald's is a matter for McDonald's to deal with, but the questions...
Let's focus, let's focus on what the Right Honourable Gentleman has raised, which is, let's focus on what the Right Honourable Gentleman has raised about things like zero hours contracts.
In fact, the number of people on zero hours contracts is very small.
There are people who genuinely say, who genuinely say, as a proportion of the workforce, who genuinely say that it is a benefit to them to be on those contracts.
But for 13 years, the Labour Party was in government, and It is this Conservative Government that has put the workers first and banned exclusive zero-hours contracts.
This is an interesting topic, this zero-hours contract.
Christina had one of those in home.
Oh, did she?
Yeah, this is a European Union model.
Well, actually, they could have them here, too.
Let me read from the wiki page on the zero-hour contract so we know.
A zero-hour contract is a type of contract between an employer and a worker where the employer is not obliged to provide any minimum working hours while the worker is not obliged to accept any work.
The employee may sign an agreement to be available for work as and when required so that no particular number of hours or time where a worker is specified.
Depending on the jurisdiction and conditions of employment, a zero-hour contract may differ from casual work.
They are often used in agriculture, hotels, and catering, education, and healthcare sectors.
They are used to enable on-call scheduling.
This term is used to refer to on-call shift scheduling.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Hey, this is how it goes.
We've got an emergency.
We need all McDonald's workers.
All McDonald's workers.
Report to your stations.
Report to your stations.
Zero contract hours.
Report to your stations.
Yeah, like that's going to happen.
It's a trick.
When the term zero-hour contract is primarily used in the United Kingdom, which is around 3% of the workforce are on zero-hour contracts, Corbyn says 800,000 people, casual and part-time workers are employed under similar terms in many countries, they really think it's a big deal over there.
I mean, we don't have that.
We've never even heard the term.
Allow me to explain.
There's another part to this.
You see, the concept of freelance, or just part-time, or just working on Saturdays, is what we know.
In socialist European Union, you can't just fire people, you see.
This really is a trick.
They give you a contract, but the contract is for zero hours, therefore they don't have to pay, as far as I understand, it may be different per country.
You don't have to pay certain social taxes, the employer that is.
Certainly not for healthcare.
And you are effectively an at-will employee and they can fire you by not really firing you.
This is the trick.
If you want to fire someone in the European Union, you need to get permission.
You have to explain why, and even if your company is bankrupt, you have to show how bankrupt you are, and you need to get permission from the court to fire someone.
I've been through this several times.
Yes, this is very well known to Americans who try to set up shop over there.
I think in Germany, you can only fire persons one day out of the year on some specific date.
We call it the purge.
We can purge everybody.
And so it's just very difficult.
So if they give you a zero-hours contract, they're not really firing you, but they can say, well, we've got no work for you.
Sorry, we've got no work for you.
And then it just kind of goes by the wayside.
Unless they make the mistake of saying, we're not giving you any more hours because, which is what happened to Christina, and then she threatened legal action, they paid her off.
But that is what the zero-hours contract is.
And it's funny in general because we know the direction of McDonald's, as the British always say.
I don't know why.
There's no A. There's no big M, small A. They always say McDonald's.
You notice that?
Well, there's no I in there either.
Why would it be McDonald's?
Okay.
McDonald's is going towards kiosk.
They won't need anybody.
Ah, good point.
Well, let's listen to how they finish up this little argument.
Mr.
Speaker, my question was about McDonald's, and the chief executive has paid 1,300 times as much as his staff.
There are 800,000 people, approximately, in Britain on zero-hours contracts.
When she became leader, the Prime Minister pledged, and I quote, I want to make shareholder votes on corporate pay, not just advisory, but binding.
And she put it into her manifesto.
That manifesto has now been dumped or archived, or whatever way you want to describe it.
And like so much else in her manifesto, where was the tough talk on corporate greed?
Was it just for the election campaign?
Or is it going to be put into law?
Prime Minister!
Well, I suggest to the right honourable gentleman that he looks again at the action that, in government, Conservatives have taken on this issue.
It is the Conservative government that has recently published our proposals on corporate governance.
It's Conservatives that gave shareholders the power to veto pay policies.
It's Conservatives that forced companies to disclose board directors' pay.
And it's Conservatives that introduced tough transparency measures for the banks.
That's been done not by a Labour government.
It's the Conservative Party that's been put in work.
I note she uses the word advisory because page 18 of the dumped manifesto says, the next, says Mr.
Speaker, the next conservative government will legislate to make executive pay packages subject to strict annual votes by shareholders.
Yeah, this is another, another issue in socialist European Union.
Yes.
And it's really cropping up a lot more, particularly in media.
And you'll see this with the BBC. It's happening.
It happened with the Dutch public broadcasting system, which has a lot of power, employs a lot of people.
They came up with something called the Balkanende rule.
Balkanende was the previous prime minister.
And the rule is no one in any...
Branch of government and the public broadcast organization is obviously government.
No one may earn more per year than the prime minister of the country.
And then they readjusted their pay scale according to that.
And what you see now is you see top towns leaving for commercial broadcasters.
Like, screw that, I'm leaving.
And it's just, it's another one of these things that, you know, it's, I don't know if it's, I don't even know if it's justified, really.
Because the argument is always...
It's an interesting experiment, and it is socialistic to say the least.
And I think you've always thought of the UK as a testing ground.
For everything.
For pretty much everything, especially for manhandling the public.
Yeah.
And this is an interesting idea that the shareholders, and why wouldn't?
The shareholders own the company.
Why wouldn't they be able to pick the salary?
Well, that's how most public companies run.
Now, I'll tell you exactly how it's run.
You have a board of directors, and on the board of directors, there's subcommittees, and a committee would be the compensation committee.
And you get your biggest and bestest friend...
On the board of directors to serve on the compensation committee.
Yes, and that's how you get the big dough.
Yes.
And I think what they're talking about is bypassing the board of directors completely and actually having a vote on the salary.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly what they want.
Pretty funny.
Yeah.
If you want a lot of CEOs to not deal with it, these CEOs, they travel around.
They don't care.
They'll go sit in Malaysia.
They'll work for any company.
They don't mind.
Meanwhile, I learned a new word hunting around the Gitmo Nation GMT. This was the GQ Awards in Britain.
MC Stormzy Speaking out about Theresa May with a new word.
Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.
Blessed in a room full of talent.
We've got so much black excellence in this room as well.
Tiny Temple, my brother, Anthony Joshua, Skepta, Flips, Cub, all the man.
It's so incredible to be here with everyone.
Big up Jeremy Corbyn.
I do want to use this to say Theresa May is a pagan and you know what we're doing right now.
Yeah, trust me.
Yeah, it's awkward, isn't it, when I say that, isn't it?
Yeah, trust.
Pagan.
P-A-I-G-O-N. I thought she said pig.
He said pagan.
Pagan.
P-A-I-G-O-N. Slang for two-faced liar.
Pagan.
Play that again.
It sounds like Theresa May's a pig.
Brum as well.
Tiny Temple, my brother.
Anthony Joshua.
Skepta.
Flips.
Coop.
All the man.
It's so incredible to be here with everyone.
Big up Jeremy Corbyn.
I do want to use this to say Theresa May is a pagan and you know what we're doing right now.
Pagan.
Pagan.
I like how a large segment of the Brits just turned TH into D. See, here we got brother, brother, brother, is what he's saying.
Brother.
Yes.
I guess that's cool.
We're losing a lot of these middle T's.
The T's are under attack.
The TH is under...
We just removed from the alphabet.
Who needs the TH? Crazy.
And other news, this also revolves around Theresa May, as the debate now is starting on the key Brexit bill, the one that will allow the UK to go into full-on negotiations, I guess.
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit battle returns to British Parliament.
She's calling on the House of Commons to support legislation to sever political, financial and legal ties with the European Union.
On Thursday, the main principles of the so-called repeal bill will be debated.
Formerly known as the EU Withdrawal Bill, it's central to the government's plan to exit the bloc in 2019.
It'll untangle Britain from more than 40 years of EU lawmaking and repeal the treaty that first made Britain a member in 1972.
May needs all the support she can get, following criticism from Brussels over her Brexit strategy, and after a series of leaks, including details of proposals to halt nearly all immigration from the EU. It'll also be a test for the UK Prime Minister's relationship with a small Northern Irish party.
May's Conservatives lost their majority in the House of Commons in a snap election in June, and now rely on an alliance with Northern Ireland's DUP. To defeat her, the opposition Labour Party will have to win over some Conservative MPs.
The party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, says it will vote against the bill as it stands, arguing it amounts to a huge power grab by the executive.
And my question to you is, why do they talk like this?
John, can you explain to me?
I don't know, but they do.
Maybe she has to poop at the end of every single sentence.
She has to go up talking.
I don't know why, but she does.
Very strange.
Yes.
Well, I do, by the way, have a clip that follows that clip.
Okay.
Which is the leaked UK documents you're talking about in that clip.
Yeah, this is interesting.
The documents were marked as sensitive.
It does sound like her, doesn't it?
She doesn't have the up-talking thing going on, though.
The documents were marked as sensitive.
Inside, details of the UK's plan to end the free movement of labour immediately after leaving the EU. The measures include a plan to limit the number of low-skilled workers in the country by offering them a maximum residency of two years.
The public are very clear.
It's the UK DACA program.
Exactly.
Fantastic.
Of two years.
The public are very clear.
They want to see immigration not stopped, but properly under control, being managed downwards.
And they also want to be clear that we implement what they voted for in the Brexit referendum, that we take back control over the number of people from the European Union who were previously free to come here, and that we introduce some control system over that.
The 82-page draft proposal also includes plans to make it tougher for EU workers in Britain to bring family members to join them. - EU officials didn't hold back in their condemnation.
I sincerely hope that this is not the home office position.
I think that would be a very discriminatory treatment of European citizens.
It's all fear-mongering.
Have we seen pages from this report or only reports about it?
They show pictures of pages.
Okay.
Possible.
Well, why is everyone surprised?
I mean, it's very difficult.
If you're, as a U.S. citizen, I couldn't just go live in England.
Uh-uh.
Because at the time I was married to an EU national, yes.
I got a work permit.
Yeah, there's a lot of permitting involved with all this stuff.
And it's just, they did discuss one thing in the PM, the Prime Minister question time that I didn't clip, but I should mention regarding the getting out of the EU. They do have, it was discussed a little bit in that clip you played, getting the EU laws out.
They're all so built in and jammed into the British system over all these years since 72.
They have to repeal so many laws, probably.
There's a bunch of laws in there that they didn't want in the first place, and now it's like, how do we get rid of them?
Oh, I know.
Systems are in place.
Enforcement is in place.
It's a mess.
This turns out to be a mess.
I'm thinking now this was a bad idea.
What, the Brexit?
No, it's a great idea.
It keeps these people gainfully employed for years.
Well, it does keep people busy, and that's the good news.
What I'm thinking is bad about it is that we had an opportunity, because of the Brits being so staunch about these things, to make English the universal language, because it had to be...
It had to be used a lot in the EU. And it's one of the better, easier languages for everybody to learn.
It's not the intricacies of the language, but just the language, the simplicity part of it.
And so that's done.
I'll stick with my guns, and it's not going to happen anyway.
When you get to 2019, there's no way they're going to get out of this thing.
Have you seen the BBC's Pigden website?
I thought it was a hoax, but it seems to be...
Pigden?
P-I-D-G-I-N. Pidgin.
Maybe it's Pidgin.
Oh, Pidgin.
It's pronounced Pidgin, like Pidgin English.
Yeah, Pidgin.
So they have a version of their news in Pidgin.
Really?
Well, pigeon is considered actually, by some linguists, it's actually considered a language.
Is it a language?
I don't see it as one.
It's a bastardization of English that's spoken mostly, I think, in certain parts of the Philippines and Micronesia and places like that.
Well, BBC says they started the pigeon digital service specifically for West and Central African audiences.
So it's like Voice of America.
Only pigeon English.
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
I'll bet it is.
It's bbc.com slash pigeon.
Let me just read a story.
Hurricane Irma.
Seven people don't die.
The powerful tropical storm don't destroy plenty, plenty things for Caribbean islands.
Even as people, they die.
Britain don't send help to the people.
Nice.
Wow!
I'm reading straight from the BBC Pigeons.
This is great, yeah.
You can read 90 and no one would consider you a racist.
Oh, yes!
We need this.
Let me see.
You fit study Beyonce for university?
I don't even know what that headline means.
Let's see.
You go fit study Beyonce as university course.
The life of Beyonce now costs way one university for Denmark one begin though.
Local TV stations say the class done already the full now 75 students register quick quick for the course.
EB like say plenty people get interest for this Beyonce gender and race course.
So today the University of Copenhagen done move students to go lecture hallway get more space.
Holy crap, I'm in an alien universe.
This is fantastic.
Professor Eric Skynskog talks and goes.
I think we should be using quick-quick.
I like quick-quick.
Quick-quick.
Register quick-quick for the cause.
This is really fascinating.
This is the British version of what it was called.
Ebonics.
Ebonics, yes.
Yeah, Ebonics.
Except here, it's racist.
Ebonics.
Or was it ebonics or ebonics?
Ebonics.
This is great.
Wow, this is the find of the day.
It's really fascinating.
It's bbc.com slash pigeon, P-I-D-G-I-N. It's fun.
It's fun to read.
You may pick up some good things.
You know, I don't believe for a minute...
That the people putting that website together aren't the most racist sickos.
They did this on purpose.
Let's listen to a...
As a joke, so the British upper class that runs the BBC, the elites, just think this is hilarious.
There we go.
Now Fiona and Helen.
Protesters don't enter the street for the second day for Lume, the capital of Togo.
Fiona, you know why?
This is the BBC Pigeon Minute.
This is the Furo Nasibe Day Power since 2005.
Oh, UK.
Poo-poo way trap woman when come play love.
Sorry, I just read a headline.
UK.
Poo-poo way trap woman when come play love.
British student Liam Smith meet woman for internet way I'm on one friend.
But the first Waka dem together come end with fire service over poo-poo matter.
Watch how Mr. Smith described waiting happen when the woman poo-poo and toilet begin to stubborn head no-greave flush.
This is the story about the woman who had a Tinder date, I guess, and she got stuck trying to pick up her turd that she dropped on the floor.
It lied.
It was an international story.
Oh, let's listen to the audio version of it, shall we?
Let's see.
Oh, they still have ads.
Oh, I wonder if the ads are in Pigeon.
As you can see, I found a way to fly.
No, the ads are not in Pigeon.
That's disappointing.
You'd think that they have segmented that audience to sell them to the Pigeon advertisers.
Yeah, there's extra money in that.
Why else are they doing it?
What is the BBC doing with ads?
You know why else they're doing it?
Hmm?
The algo?
Yes, the algo is once again the problem for everything.
Following the algos.
Algos.
Following the algos.
Following the algos.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, John C. USC stands for Can't Follow the Algos.
Dvorak!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
And...
In the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Yes, in the morning to the chat room, noagendastream.com, in the morning to noagendasocial.com, everybody over there participating as well.
And in the morning to, let me see, this was Patrick Baus, a fan favorite of the No Agenda show, who brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 6-1, titled that show Big Bricks, It was the Latinx Balsam, which was appropriate and somewhat funny.
Well, that was a tough one for us, this last show.
Yes, it was.
It had...
It was just like everything was kind, you know, we could...
Everything was like, again, B plus maybe, but nothing has stood out.
Right.
Well, it's kind of like the show where we had a lot of transitional issues, mainly because your brain was boiling, just it was too warm.
Oh, that day, yeah.
That was the day.
That was the day because global warming.
This is our value for value model where we have the producers, you can call them listeners, but the producers of the show produce the show.
And that happens in a variety of ways.
Art, as an example, jingles, you heard one, but also finances.
And executive producers and associate executive producers, just like Hollywood, get thanked up front in the show for their massive contribution.
Yeah, pretty much.
That would be the way I see it.
So let's thank a few of our executive producers and associate executive producers for show 962.
We're getting there.
We do have our 10th anniversary coming up in about almost a month now.
Wow, yeah, that's right.
10.
Something to think about.
10 years.
Kevin Strange, $800.85 from Norfolk, Great Britain.
It comes in with a note he emailed, which I can have here, which I can read.
My first donation was show 786 when I requested and received baby girl karma for my fifth child to be a female HR resource after producing four boys.
What happened?
Does he say?
I'm not seeing it.
I don't know.
I completed my knighthood on show 877 and no agenda karma became amplified.
After learning from our NOA agenda scan this week, we have a baby girl due in February next year.
Your value for value karma has delivered outstanding results just like your product.
Big asks require big donations.
That's why he gave us $800.85.
The best way I could think to thank you guys for the gender karma, gender karma, gender karma.
Gender karma.
He didn't get no gender karma.
He got gender karma from the best podcast in the universe was a big boobs donation at 800.85.
Boobs with the S on the end.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Boobs.
Boobs.
This donation pushes me into baronet.
$240.
He's got some numbers.
No jingle requests, but I could certainly use some jobs, comrades.
After my Silicon Valley boss politely recommended I stop hitting people in the mouth during our GameCom meetings in Germany last week, I called him a douchebag.
Hey, so he's not a knight, he's a baronet?
No, he's...
Oh, that's...
He was knighted on show 877.
Right, but this is a baronet status and we don't have it on the list.
Oh, we'll put it on the list.
Let me put it right there.
They wouldn't have it on the list because he doesn't...
Eric doesn't have this email.
Ah.
So it'd be unlikely for him to have imagined that he would be on any list.
Sure.
Sure.
After my, well anyway, he hit his boss, or he hit the employees in the mouth and then he called his boss a douchebag.
That's where we left off.
Yeah.
See, I had to stop here and say, you know, this may not be the best thing in the world.
No, I don't think we encourage this behavior.
We do not encourage this.
I said encourage.
I call him a douchebag and ask if he was the thought police.
Makes it even worse.
Thank you.
Uh-huh, and?
He can't control my mind or my words, and that critical thinkers are exactly what he needed on his team.
He seemed to take it in good humor, but let's give me some jobs, Karma, just in case.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got Karma.
That is not the way to go.
I would make them poo-poo.
Quick, quick.
Steven Schneider, Round Lake, Illinois.
500 bucks.
And he sent a note in.
Wow.
Quite a note there.
Handwritten note.
I know it's real.
I would like to apologize for my lapse in donations.
This donation, along with the provided accounting, should not only help the two of you, but finish the layaway on my knighthood.
Listeners and producers.
Is he on there?
I think so.
Schneider?
Yes, he's on the list.
Yep.
Listeners and producers alike should cancel their shitty subscription box services and donate the savings to the best podcast in the universe.
Future night of coffee, roasting, and...
Tobacco pipes.
I hope the block letter was easier to read than my usual arcane longhand.
And happy birthday to Adam.
Thank you.
And JNK? Apparently it's what it looks like.
Okay, and JNK? And he will be the sole knighting of today's program.
Looking forward to his ceremony.
Timothy E. Another note.
This one here is, I believe, is on the email.
Okay, Timmy from Tigard, Oregon.
Tigard, $400.
So he's going to be our, another executive producer.
Today, the odometer, this is a good story.
Today, the odometer turned 33333.33.
So what choice do I have?
Sending a check from the bank arriving at 9-7 for $400.
This is $333 for the executive producer credit, $33 for a podcast license, $33 for a mothership boarding pass, and $10 put before the episode 963.
So it is 1963, which was a very good year.
Yes.
One year before my birth.
You were born in 64?
Yeah.
64.
It was a very interesting year for Bordeaux, that's for sure.
Okay.
I was wondering what you were going to come up with.
Ah, yes.
The Bordeaux in 64, I remembered well.
Scrumptious.
Does he have any requests?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Let me finish reading the note.
Listening from the beginning.
He's listening from the show when he's at the show at 387 and he's going strong.
You'll get there, son.
He's a maniac.
You'll get there.
Keep going.
Keep going.
You'll be off the cliff.
Clearly require a de-douching.
Yes.
You've been de-douched.
I could also pass on some jobs karma to those in need of a new job.
I just...
Those in need...
In honor of the new job he just started.
Also, if you would please...
Okay.
Sorry about this.
I just read it earlier.
What's a boom shakalaka?
WTC7 won't go away.
Which I believe is in C. Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here, which we haven't played for a long time.
And Resist We Much, which we played earlier.
ITM. Can't wait for my eventual knighthood.
Okay.
Is that all he has?
Should not be.
Okay, should not be a problem.
Unless it didn't play.
Boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka, boom shakalaka, and boom shakalaka.
WTC7 won't go away.
Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here.
Ooh, look at that!
But resist, we much.
We must, and we will much.
About that, be committed.
So how many variations of Boom Shakalaka from Manning do you have?
Oh, I have so many.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I got this one.
Boom shakalaka.
It's not Manning, but...
Boom shakalaka!
I got that one.
There's a lot of boom shakalakas.
There's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the stomp-down boom shakalaka truth.
Dingo!
Boom shakalaka!
Boom shakalaka, brother!
It just goes on and on and on.
Wow.
Yeah.
We could do a whole show.
Yeah, the Boom Shakalaka podcast.
All right, Doug Weiler, Jeff, $210.33.
Make sure that's next on the list, because he, again, overfilled the box.
Yeah.
Proof, proof, proof, proof, proof that there's plenty of room in the PayPal to write.
Yeah, because this site didn't mail to anybody.
Hello, it's me.
Hello, it's me.
Please reply to my email when you get the chance.
I register a domain.
It's okay if you don't use it.
Okay, we have to figure out what he's talking about.
Here's hoping you accept the currency conversion compensation for yen.
I have a message for anyone who has never donated.
And by the way, the yen, no.
It's only dollars.
You can't do that.
No, you're not doing yen or rupees.
No, not going to happen.
It's a reminder, you may not remember this, but right now you're supposed to feel very small and unsafe and insecure.
Nothing would be better for you to remain in a looped state of low-key terror existential dread when you strike.
You're one in every ten showers.
The world is overwhelming.
It's too much to deal with.
You need someone smarter and more powerful to take care of you because, folks, you're dumb, you're weak, you're stupid.
Shut up, slave.
You should be LARPing in the streets on the lookout for the next terror attack.
You should feel beyond rational thought like a child trapped in a cave.
The war of scariness continues in the meandering future, and your fear is an ATM card.
Is this a poetry thing?
What do you got?
Poetry jam here?
Def jam?
We stand before a striking, rotten, pestilent hole in the side of the universe.
No agenda is slave armor.
It's not perfect.
You know you disagree with some of what these folks say.
Folks.
That's referring to us.
They folk.
Hey, we're folks, man.
Folks.
It goes on.
It says, peace of mind.
Challenge everyone to total up the time you've spent.
Whoops.
Free from torment thanks to the show.
Watching in relaxed calm as your fellow human resources run around like their hair is on fire.
Multiply that by some factor representative of your material wealth.
Look at this figure.
Realize it isn't your money and do as a wise man once told me.
Donate to no agenda.
Yeah.
You could probably make that more succinct.
Just a tad.
We didn't even read close to half of it.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your courage and I appreciate the thought.
It's just that If it takes my spreadsheet and it wipes out my entire screen because it's too long, it doesn't help anybody.
But, you know, it was a good attempt, I think.
More like it is Dame Catlin Williams in Seven Springs, North Carolina, $200.
By the way, we should also mention that one of the reasons we don't read all the notes anymore is It's because at some point everybody was writing a note like that for every donation.
And it was taking a good half hour to an hour to get through the donation segment.
And so we just stopped doing it.
Anyway, Dame Catlin Williams.
I think it's Caitlin.
I think it's Caitlin Williams.
Caitlin.
Caitlin.
It is Caitlin because it's K-A-Y-I. It's really Caitlin.
Caitlin.
200 bucks.
ITM Guardians of Reality.
This will be my first donation since reaching Dame Hood and it's in honor of my 25th birthday coming up on September 7th.
She's on the list as I can tell.
Please give me all the karma you have.
For this next year, plus another F cancer for her mom.
Thank you for your courage.
You've got karma.
And that's our associate executive producers, two of them, and three of our executive producers for show 962.
And we really appreciate this, highly appreciate this.
It's what keeps the show going.
Almost 10 years now, so this is not some fly-by-night fluke that this is working.
And we're very proud of it, and all the executive producers, associate executive producers, all producers should be very proud of it.
If not for the reason of this clip that I'm going to play just before we end the donation segment, as I've always said, that the advertising on the internet is bullcrap.
Not so much the advertising, but the big promise.
The promise of truth and transparency and the right ad for the right person at the right time.
Hello, Moto!
Hello, Facebook!
Hello!
Analysts report out that Facebook is saying it can reach people who don't exist.
In fact, by 10 million, they're inflating these numbers of people that they say exist that this analyst says don't exist.
Explain what's happening here.
Okay, so on one hand, we're talking about the estimated reach of a Facebook ad.
On the other hand, we're talking about the numbers that are in the U.S. Census.
So, Facebook says it can reach more people than are in the U.S. Census.
Of course, that implies that, you know, in Facebook, which is a place where we have real names, we have identities, Facebook sells its advertising based on that.
There might be some fake names, fake identities, or duplicate accounts or whatever it might be.
What Facebook says in response is that they don't mean to totally match the census.
In fact, In a lot of geographic regions, there are often visitors or people who are in a place that are not actual residents of that place and that the advertisers only pay for the people that they reach.
So this report, analyst report, is coming from Brian Weiser of Pivotal.
And I'm curious, I mean, he's saying there's like a $10 million, $10 million Person difference.
I mean, do these other kinds of people that Facebook is talking about, can there really be 10 million of them?
10 million tourists in America.
I can't actually stand their voices now I'm hearing it for the second time.
These are millennials.
This is Bloomberg.
This is Bloomberg.
The Bloomberg reporters, they're all screechers.
And I'm going to cut this one off because I have another one, which is just as entertaining for a moment.
But the idea is Facebook is full of crap.
They've been overinflating their numbers.
People believe them because they're all the godly Facebook.
And their numbers just aren't adding up.
They sold more reach through their ads than people exist in the country.
Hello?
Yes.
Seems unlikely.
Eventually, it's going to come to a head.
It will.
It will.
Did you see that thing with Zuckerberg talking to the three dreamers or four dreamers?
No.
Did you see that?
No.
Well, let me close this segment.
I want to talk about that.
Again, thank you, everybody.
It is for this very reason we enjoy our model so much.
We don't have to be coming up with bogative numbers and pretending that we know everything.
No.
Instead, all we need to do is look at the numbers and say, ah, good, we can pay rent again.
Thank you so much.
We have another show coming up on Sunday.
Dvorak.org slash N-A So if you see any of those 10 million people that exist according to Facebook, propagate the formula!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water!
Water!
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
Tell me about Zuckerberg and the...
We're sitting there talking to these...
I want to take exception to something right off the bat.
Yeah.
When you just said, did you see Zuckerberg with these dreamers?
What an unbelievably fantastic bit of propaganda has been launched into our culture.
About the Dreamers?
The term Dreamers stems from the Dream Act, which never passed.
Never passed, I know.
But now, you can have a lot of terms...
Yeah, the DACA. But everyone consistently calls them dreamers.
I'm as susceptible to this as you are.
I know, but I just want to explain to people, just so you understand, this term was...
Who needs the act when you have this term out there on the loose?
Because who?
Who would want to steal...
The dream from the dreamers!
I agree!
Oh, those poor dreamers!
Because the dream is the American dream.
It's a beautiful dream.
Yeah.
And no one...
I just...
I can't bring myself...
Dynamite.
Whoever dreamed it up...
Dreamed it up, yeah.
...was absolutely top drawer.
And I'm sure somebody is in some advertising agency, you know, polishing his or her nails right now.
Yeah, swooshing her hair.
So what was Zuckerberg doing?
It was just a Trump slam.
And you know, these companies, I have to say, you know, Google and Facebook and all these companies that are subject to antitrust and government screw with you kinds of things.
Just shut up.
I mean, the idea of slamming Trump every chance you get is just not a good idea.
Yeah, before he was president, yeah, you could do whatever.
Go ahead, you know, slam him.
He's president.
Yeah, you can be critical and say, well, I don't like the way you did that.
But no, no, they're not doing that.
They're making him out.
He's a douchebag.
He's a creep.
He's a redheaded Cheeto.
Orange, orange Cheeto.
Well, just to put some things into historical context and perspective.
Before you do that, I want to mention the one thing I wanted to say about this little meeting.
It was Zuckerberg himself.
He is sitting in a chair in this awkward position where he's not in the chair.
He He's at the edge of the chair.
He's kind of halfway up the chair with his back straight as an arrow.
Really back, super straight, as though he's in some sort of a class where they're teaching him how to sit.
And he must have a book on his head.
And then his hands, both of his palms of his hands are on his legs, so his fingertips are kind of maybe touching his knees.
And that looks idiotic.
He sits in there like that.
Boom.
And then he's got a tight-fitting t-shirt on.
As if he's been apparently working out a lot.
So he's got his tight-fitting t-shirt, his hands are on his legs stupidly, and he's sitting up straight as an arrow, and he's unmoving, and he's talking.
This guy, he's annoying.
I can't imagine he thinks he's going to run for president.
He's just annoying to watch.
No offense, Mark.
All offense.
What are you talking about?
He's like one of these guys, as a guy who's been writing about technology, he's a guy I never wanted to meet.
I had zero interest in ever meeting Mark Zuckerberg.
It's like a robot or something.
He's on the spectrum.
I'm pretty sure he's autistic.
But even Gates, who's on the spectrum, and supposedly has Asperger's, and I believe he might, he seems pretty normal.
He doesn't sit weird and upright and lockstep and robot-like.
I don't know.
I find him creepy, to be honest about it.
Well...
For historical perspective there's a lot of listeners and producers of the show who do not reside in the United States and probably don't really follow a lot of these things.
Just to explain what DACA is, it's a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Very specific, if you arrive before your 16th birthday, yet after, I think it's 1981, I believe, or yeah, 81 or 87, one of the two.
Then, through no fault of your own, you have to point that out, through no fault of their own.
I'm so tired of this.
Let's just be talking around.
Let's just talk about DACA. These children who, by no fault of their own, there's so many memes in this thing.
We're brought into the country illegally with their parents, I guess, who were here illegally as well, and they received deferred action, which means the action against you for entering the country illegally is deferred for two years.
And with that, depending on the state that you're in, the municipality, there's a lot of different programs, and you could get into school and many other things.
And you've got a driver's license, and for all intents and purposes, you're almost equal to a green card.
And this program, which was an executive order, not law, written by Congress, where our laws are made, was an executive order, which the president has every right to do.
They can say, oh, it's not constitutional.
Well...
It's an executive order.
And the whole point is, you're out, now we're just going to turn that off.
But it did have a sunset.
It had an expiration.
And the expiration is two years.
And the expiration date for this executive order was also coming up.
And instead of Trump, I guess he'll save his executive orders for other things.
He said, no, this should be a law, and this is the only reason President Obama put this in place, is Congress couldn't get the law passed for the DREAMers, the DREAM Act.
And I think President Trump rightly said, this is nice, I'm not going to deal with that, this is for Congress.
And he did give them an extra six months.
And it seems like, I think it's a pretty smart move, because You know, you're very clear.
You're saying, Congress, it's your job.
You need to make the rules.
And if you can't come together and fix this, shame on you.
And then all these poor children are on you.
There's a lot of problems that I have with this.
I keep hearing the number 800,000, and they are all Ivy Leaguers.
The visions that are conjured, Huff, is they are entrepreneurs, businesses, they're the best in Silicon Valley.
I know.
It may all be true, but I see zero data.
It may not all be true.
There's no chance.
And I went looking.
There is no data.
The 800,000 number, is it 800,000 exactly?
Why can't you just give me the actual number?
Do we have this?
I'm afraid we don't have the information.
We really don't know.
We really don't know.
And just the data that's being thrown out there is, oh man, it's troublesome.
Very, very troublesome.
It's interesting that 800,000 is the same number thrown out there for zero...
Zero hour contracts.
Yeah, I heard that.
I heard that.
Now, I was watching one of these reports.
I don't have a clip of some guy.
He's the president of the University of Maryland.
And the guy is just this useless character.
He's beside himself because they have a couple of these people in the university, and he doesn't know what's going to happen to the future of the school.
Well, okay, this is very interesting.
And I broke the rule since you broke it last show.
I had to.
You have to do anything.
Yeah, I did.
The whole idea behind supporters of DACA, and I haven't read the Dream Act recently.
I will read it again for Sunday so I can know exactly what's in it.
It may not be that different from what DACA... The issue is that a lot of Republicans are afraid to vote yes because they'll be seen as a-holes by their constituents.
At least that's what they're afraid of.
Shit, what was I saying?
I'm not going to tell you.
I had a really good track there.
Go ahead.
I was talking about something.
I'll tell you.
You were going to break the rule some about probably a Tucker Carlson.
Yes, of course it is.
What the proponents of DACA feel, truly feel, is more people in our country is better for our country.
This is the bottom line.
And yeah, children, it's all being, this is really child abuse because you're arguing over children.
It's like, you know, parents.
It's very, it's disgusting.
I really find it disgusting.
We all want to help children.
Now, there's many ways.
If we actually know who the DACA children are, I have doubts we can even find them.
I don't know what the hell is real or not anymore.
I just can't see the info.
But the underlying thought is, the more people in America, the better we will be.
Regardless of who it is, where they come from, what their status is, we just need more people.
As is evidence, and normally I wouldn't bring this clip, but I had to bring this, and I've edited this down significantly, from Tucker Carlson yesterday.
And he has on, amongst some other guy, but he has the editor-in-chief of Reason.
Oh yeah, I saw this.
Yeah, Catherine Mangle.
But there's one little bit in there, which is just near the second half of this clip, which really got me.
Do we have an obligation to put the interests of American citizens ahead of the interests of immigrants?
No, I don't think so.
I just love that.
That was the beginning of the interview.
I mean, that right there is a fundamental thing.
Should we put the interests of Americans above those, or of illegal aliens above those of citizens?
And right away, no, I don't think so.
Do we have...
Well, no, the other way around.
Well, no.
...obligation to put the interests of American citizens ahead of the interests of immigrants.
No, I don't think so.
And in particular, I think in this case, we don't need to worry about that.
So American citizens don't get priority?
In this case, I just don't buy at all that those things are in conflict.
But I mean, I think it's fair to ask the question, though.
In general, you don't think that American citizens ought to get meaningful priority over aliens?
I don't know what this means to say meaningful priority over aliens.
American citizens benefit when people come here, work here, raise families here, and it is absolutely the case that these dreamers in particular are going to add to our economy, add to our culture, make America a better place.
But if you could determine in a specific case if there's one job and you've got a choice between someone who came here illegally and someone who's an American citizen, you wouldn't automatically go for the American citizen?
Well, I mean, I think you could ask similarly, do I favor protectionist policies, right?
Do I think if a job could be here or a job could be in China, is it morally better for the job to be here?
And I think the answer is no in that case, too.
That's also, is it morally here for the job to be in America or in China?
And she says no.
It could be in China.
It makes no difference.
She's a globalist, in case you hadn't caught on.
But here it comes.
There's no in that case, too.
What's an appropriate level of immigration into this country?
Like, how many people should we let in?
By the way, this is a question that I don't like.
I'm not even sure why I don't like it, but it's a real right-wing talking point.
Well, how many people should we let in?
It may be a valid question, but he's clearly reciting a talking point here.
Well, how many should we let in?
Her answer is even better.
There's no in that case, too.
What's an appropriate level of immigration to this country?
How many people should we let in?
I think, you know, call me crazy, but I believe in the American ideal that we are a place for people who are downtrodden, abused, can come.
So everybody wants to come?
What's the limit?
I think that we have systems in place, systems that are broken, an asylum system, for example.
We need to focus on fixing those things so we can determine who needs to come.
How many people should we let in?
I mean, it's not a hard question.
More than we let in right now.
Like, how many?
I don't know that we could get to a billion people by the end of the century really easily.
Dude, if we had a billion people in America, America would be unstoppable.
It's kind of hard to hear there in the background, but she literally said, if we had a billion people in America, we would be unstoppable.
I just don't see that as being smart.
A billion people in America would be unstoppable?
What does that even mean, unstoppable?
She believes that our economic power would be so unstoppable if we had a billion people living here.
That's the belief.
Yeah, it's funny because I think I cut that watching those two off.
I caught it just offhandedly.
I never caught that.
I didn't catch that, so I missed that.
That's the only reason I brought it to the party today.
It's like, I can't...
I mean, is that really the belief from the libertarians?
Reason Magazine is...
No, it's not a libertarian concept.
That's a progressive liberal...
Yeah, but she is a libertarian.
One-world government globalist.
Reason is a libertarian publication.
They claim to be, at least.
Yeah, well, it reminds me of the more recent thing going on with libertarianism.org on the Twitters.
Very controversial.
I don't know what's happening with libertarians in general, but I don't know what she's talking about.
She's obviously a globalist, and it's self-contradictory right at its base when it says if we, the United States, had a billion people, we'd be unstoppable.
But if you're a globalist, you don't want the United States to be unstoppable.
You want it to be a one-world government.
You're maybe referring that maybe if the United States was dominating the one world government or bossing everybody around, we were the one world government, which I think a lot of people believe that was the way it should be.
What is she talking about?
And none of it makes any sense.
If we had somehow evolved into a billion people, I'm sure we'd be have a strong economic, we'd be a strong economic force, that's for sure.
We might all be poor.
Don't go from zero to a billion.
It's a poverty-ridden operation.
Open the gates!
In fact, if you think of China with its billion, or India as a good example, I mean, the place is a wreck.
It's a mess.
Severe poverty.
In fact, if China would be a complete If it wasn't for the market that they exploit, which is us.
Let's be honest.
If we stopped buying from China from the get-go, from the very beginning, no, we're not buying from you guys.
They would have never evolved into what they are.
This is coming from a privileged white woman.
I'm just going to say it.
A privileged white woman who has no clue what she's talking about.
That's it.
She's also an editor-in-chief, which is always minus two points from my perspective.
Minus two points?
Oh, my.
It's almost as bad as being popular while white.
That's my new phrase.
Popular while white.
Yeah, driving while black.
You can be popular.
That's Taylor Swift's problem.
Popular while white.
What's the guy from Dirty Jobs?
Mike?
Mike Rowe?
Is that his name?
Yeah, Mike Rowe.
Yeah, popular while white.
No good.
If you're popular and you're white, you have to, have to be pro all of these things and anti everything else.
It is a curse.
Yeah.
You watch.
We can pick him out.
We can pick up more.
Tom Cruise.
He has a movie coming out, I think.
To a new movie coming out?
Yeah.
Yeah, he always has a new movie coming out.
Let's see if he does some interviews.
He's popular while white.
Let's see what he does.
Oh, he's going to totally...
He's all in.
He's all in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tay-Tay got booed.
Yes.
Well, that was over a week ago.
I think I had a clip.
I never played it.
Oh, really?
Was that a week ago?
Yeah.
Yeah, she got booed at some...
They say that she got booed.
Where's the...
They reported it, but I didn't hear anybody...
I didn't see any videos.
I haven't.
First of all, if she's anywhere, you know everyone's got their phone out.
This is video.
Here she comes, out of the back of the church.
Okay.
What?
Well, here it comes.
You got it.
Hello!
No, they're pissed off.
They're pissed off because she was at a friend's wedding and came out the back.
And they held up blankets so she could walk through the car without being seen.
Oh, that's what they were booing her for?
Yeah, they were booing her for not showing herself.
And she released another song.
She's like trying to get out of this really bad now.
Oh, I'm sorry.
What am I saying?
She dropped a new song.
She dropped?
Dropped.
And it's back to the Poppy, Taylor, Swift, Alt-Right, white stuff.
White Witch, White Walker.
I'm working on all these names that I can call her.
White Witch.
The Aryan Goddess.
Yes.
So I'm keeping an eye on that for you.
Yeah, we're keeping an eye on it.
We're not obviously doing a good job.
Well, nothing's happened.
It's all hurricane.
It's all hurricane all the time.
But I'll tell you this.
Now that I heard that clip and the fact that she was booed probably for not greeting her fans.
Yeah.
Rightfully so.
That was never reported that way.
Oh, interesting.
Oh, you need to find the report where she was booed then so we can compare.
She was booed for being a douchebag the way it was reported.
Yeah.
Okay, well, depends on how you want to look at that.
All right, let's take a look.
Before we completely leave Europe, because we're kind of bouncing around, I do want to replay this clip.
I do have some tech news, too.
Good.
This is the clip, Skinny Models, and I named it Skinny Model.
How many, I named it this, Skinny Models Banned Again.
How often are skinny models, often, are skinny models banned?
They seem to be banned all the time, but they're still working.
They still crop up, those waifs.
Two of the world's biggest fashion houses representing brands such as Gucci and Christian Dior have signed a charter that bans the hiring of models who are too thin and who are under the age of 16.
The move follows a barrage of criticism that the industry encourages eating disorders.
Now, how many times have you heard, I think when I was in high school, I've been hearing about these skinny models and how they have to bend them because they're not eating enough food or they're strung out on heroin.
It's been gone for quite a while.
And they keep doing this.
I think this is bogus.
They don't ban anybody.
And what is a 15?
Okay, so you got this 15-year-old.
They're not going to ban them to these poor 15-year-old girls.
So you got a 15-year-old.
She's, I don't know, a 5'11 beauty.
But she's 15.
And she walks the runway.
She kicks butt.
You're not going to hire her?
I think they do.
And irk her so she'll never work for you again because you won't hire her?
It's just pandering, John.
It's just pandering.
The whole thing is bullcrap.
Yeah, but they...
Well, it's pandering to everyone, to all bases.
But you're right.
This crops up and you kind of don't think about it anymore.
And then Fashion Week comes and Fashion Week goes.
And, oh, there they are again.
And they're right back.
Yeah.
There's not that many people that can do that job.
It's the dream job.
For dreamers.
It's the dream job for dreamers.
You get to smoke cigarettes, drink coffee, a couple lines of coke.
You get strung out on heroin.
Nah, I think they do coke more to stay thin, not heroin.
At least that's what they did back in the day.
Well...
I think the smoking...
They're living the life.
Yeah, living the life.
They're living the life.
Woo!
That's right, baby.
I'm in show business.
If you don't get MKUltra down to, what is it, the Lolita Express Island or whatever.
Yeah, whatever.
Okay, so let's turn to the German debates.
Yeah, this is fantastic.
Angela Merkel seems to be in trouble.
Not that way I see it.
Okay.
Especially after the debates.
They had these debates.
They're only going to have one debate with her and what's his name?
Yeah, that guy.
The guy running against her.
The EU guy.
The other guy.
I'll look it up.
Forget his name.
Well, it's in the report.
So here is the report.
And first of all, this is the Deutsche Welle.
And Deutsche Welle is just, they hate Trump.
And that's our operation where our friend, non-friend, Helena Humphrey works.
Before you go any further, did you see the magazine covers last week in Germany?
Oh, the anti-Trump covers?
Yeah, one with Trump as Hitler and one with Trump with a hood over his head.
I mean, pretty amazing.
Especially for Germans to show him as Hitler.
They should know better.
Or maybe they do.
Shameless.
They hate the whole situation.
They hate us.
Well, the Germans also hate Angela.
Well, here we go.
German Debates 1.
Well, it has been a year since the U.S. presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The personal attacks and what many called the depths of verbal depravity still shock us even one year later.
Well, today the U.S. president in one of his tweets proved that there is a lot of adult behavior that is still missing in action.
Today, Trump retweeted this image of the cover of Hillary Clinton's new book about her campaign.
Now, the book is entitled What Happened.
Next to it, a cover with Trump's face and the title I Happened.
Now, this all seems even more sophomoric when you compare and contrast with the campaigns ahead of Germany's national election taking place later this month.
If you saw last night's televised debate between the chancellor candidates, Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz, and you then think about Trump and Clinton on stage last summer, well, what we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is the great debate divide.
More on that in just a moment.
But first, a look at that debate last night.
The TV duel that turned into more of a TV duet.
Wow, that was just the intro?
Yes.
And by the way, this one reporter who hates Trump, he's the one who coined this duet thing.
And so he brings...
This went on for a long time.
I only have these two short clips, but...
He keeps bringing this.
Well, you know, I called it a duet, hoping to get them.
So, yeah, it's a great.
That was great.
I mean, yeah, it was fantastic.
And, you know, nobody.
Oh, yeah, whatever.
And so he keeps saying, you know, I still think it should be called a duet.
Why?
And he keeps singing about this duet phrase that he came up with, or phrase or word.
And it's embarrassing.
But he brings some people on and they all agree that it was a dud of a debate.
They never did anything.
And this second clip includes some of the Third and fourth parties bitching about this lousy debate, which got no points for Schultz.
Schultz then criticized Merkel's position on Turkey.
He surprised her.
If I were chancellor, that is, assuming the people of Germany give me a mandate, after I'm sworn in, I will suggest that the European Council end all accession talks with Turkey.
Otherwise, there was a harmonious mood in the only TV debate between Merkel and Schulz.
The press called it a clear nil-nil outcome, giving Merkel a slight advantage.
The smaller parties were disappointed, saying the debate was more cozy than cutthroat.
I got the feeling, at least during the first hour...
That at any moment, we can expect the two of them to fall into each other's arms with tears in their eyes, saying, I didn't mean it that way.
Don't be angry at me.
At this debate, the big loser was the future of our country because they focused on backward-looking policies.
Only three more weeks left.
Then Schultz and Merkel will face the final battle when the voters decide.
Hmm.
I think Merkel's going to take it easily.
Well, in that regard, Schultz, I don't think he's that much different.
Spiegel had an interesting article.
Germans on the eve of the election.
I've never seen so much hate.
And this was a psychologist, and they did a study with a number of voters, and half of them underwent psychological interviews, the other half took part in group discussions.
And on a fundamental level, the voters are totally disappointed in the election campaign.
They feel like things that are important to them aren't being discussed.
And of course, what was it?
Well...
People want to talk about migrants, migrants, and migrants.
And this is not being discussed.
No, by either one of these two.
No!
And I saw...
I thought they were going to do another debate.
That's the only one?
No, that's going to be...
You missed it.
Wow.
I didn't realize that there was just going to be one.
Why?
That doesn't seem...
Well, maybe in the no-nation-no-borders world, it's okay.
We'll talk once, watch that, and then you decide.
But the Germans, and I have to say, I don't think they're that dissimilar to other Germanic European cultures like the Dutch.
They get angry.
And I don't know, we'll see.
And why does everyone else like Angela?
I thought we hated the Christians.
Isn't she a Christian Democrat?
Is she?
I thought she was a...
CDU. CDU is the Christian Democratic Union.
Yeah, they're not really Christians.
Oh, okay.
Sorry, I misunderstood.
Just say.
It's like one hour cleaners.
It's just the name.
It's the name of the place.
It's not actually what they stand for.
Yes.
So that is, yeah, was it three weeks?
I thought it was two weeks away.
Three weeks, two weeks.
Yeah, that's two now, I think.
Did you get any clips of her being...
Tomatoes being thrown at her?
No, I wish.
Yeah, one hit her.
Somebody threw a tomato at her, we know that.
Yeah, one hit her.
And people are booing her, booing her, just like Taylor Swift.
Everyone's booing her wherever she goes.
Well, you're going to vote her in again, you watch.
Hmm.
There's no evidence that she's going to lose this election.
I remember the last time there was an election, we were doing the show, and who would vote her in again?
She's been in too long.
She's been in through the entire George Bush.
She was in during George Bush.
Remember when Bush came up to her and tried to massage her shoulders and she gave him the elbow?
Yeah.
Well, I'm sure Putin wants her in.
Yeah.
I would think.
Well, at least because you can speak to her.
Well, they've had a pretty good relationship.
You know, they recycle their Euros with the German goods, cars mainly, cars and other industrial goods, and then the Euros come right back.
It's a very cozy relationship.
They've got the pipelines coming in.
And there's just no one else.
I don't know.
She's been in office since November 22, 2005.
Yeah.
Well, another childless leader of Europe.
That's what we need.
More of those.
They're all childless.
I know we talked about it, but it's good to remind you of it.
Yeah.
Theresa May, childless.
Macron, France, childless.
Angela Merkel, childless.
Who's the Dutch guy again?
Ritter, childless.
It's very peculiar.
Well, the psychology of it is just somebody needs to do a book on it.
Right after the vinegar book.
After what?
After the vinegar book.
No, I don't want to do it.
I didn't say I was going to do a book on it.
That's way beyond my abilities.
Somebody knows what they're doing.
Core competent about being a child.
I have kids.
Yeah, exactly.
So you'd have to be childless to do the book.
People should not have kids.
I don't know what the mentality is of going...
I don't know.
Maybe...
I have no idea.
Ed Koch was the childless mayor of New York, but he was gay.
Well, so is the Prime Minister of Holland.
Well, maybe Merkel is too.
Maybe they're all gay.
They just don't want to admit it.
Could be.
The crone looks a little gay.
Don't you think?
John, you may be surprised, but there's a lot of gay people.
Just saying.
You just made me somewhat surprised.
Well, they're giving us wrong numbers then.
We're back to trying desperately, although it's going to be a little weird the next few days.
The media is trying desperately to get back on track with the Russia collusion stuff.
And, I mean, I'm not even clipping it anymore.
There's so much...
I really should, but there's so much dumb, just insanity.
Like, somehow, if Trump...
told his son to write the letter differently, the letter that was about the meeting, that was about the...
No, it's insane.
It's dying.
It's a dying topic.
Well, Rachel Maddow last night, and I did not bring Rachel Clips.
You have to really watch that in context and just see the whole thing and how smug and just crazy.
I mean, it's delusional.
Not crazy, delusional.
She is when it comes to this latest, which is apparently, and it's bad for Facebook, apparently Facebook had been asked many times, many, many times, many times, quick, quick, quick, If they had sold any ad inventory to Russian entities during the election cycle.
And the way Mattow went on for 40 minutes last night, no, they said, no, no, don't have it, no, there's nothing, no, there's nothing.
And then, now Facebag comes out and says, well...
Yeah, we did find something.
And she had a whole expose last night, and I'll tell you how she sees it tying in, about this one particular story.
I have the numbers here.
Again, it's from Bloomberg, from the two millennials.
But at least you get a little more data than she was handing out.
So, Facebook has been looking into what it calls information campaigns.
Just listen, because they are so stupid.
They really believe that this works and that this amount of propaganda works.
So, Facebook has been looking into what it calls information campaigns, which are, they sort of have this malicious, fake element to them where there are a lot of fake accounts, a lot of fake pages, and they try to spread propaganda in one way or the other.
They had a report come out earlier this year that detailed that and linked it sort of vaguely to Russia.
This now comes out and says money is involved.
And while $100,000 might not sound like a lot of money, it can buy a lot in Facebook advertising.
This is more than 3,000 ads that were purchased that were targeted in some cases to certain geographic regions, which we know was very important ahead of an election.
While most of the ads didn't name a candidate or talk specifically about voting, they did talk about very divisive issues in the U.S.
Like?
Like LGBT rights and gun rights and race relations and immigration.
So they were trying to spark, or whoever was behind this effort, whether it was the government or some other Russian actor, was trying to spark some divisiveness in America ahead of the election.
Now, I know that they're sharing information with U.S. regulators, but is there any idea just who in Russia was behind the ads?
I mean, is there any clarity on whether they have ties to the actual Russian government?
Facebook is not saying whether they have ties to the government.
Of course, we are looking into it.
Everyone is looking into it.
There are several intelligence committee ongoing investigations into this.
So I think that Facebook is cooperating.
They're trying to provide information where they can.
But the main thing they're trying to do is prevent this from happening in the future.
They're looking at the patterns, matching it to their machine learning algorithms and trying to stop them.
From being a problem in future elections around the world.
Okay.
So many things to unpack here.
One, I hate the way they talk.
Two, Bloomberg.
This is Bloomberg Business News.
Bloomberg.
Michael Bloomberg should get his act together.
You can't take this serious anymore.
The lack of depth of reporting.
But this is what Rachel Maddow had.
So they found that a Russian entity, we still don't know who, had bought $100,000 worth of ads.
We still don't know exactly what the ads were, but these ads clearly influenced the election.
Show us the ads.
Well, here's the third thing.
The claim is a $100,000 ad buy for 3,000 ads to 3,000 people.
Are you kidding me?
What is their CPM over there?
What is it, $300?
No, $30.
$30?
No.
30.
I should have done this when it came out.
Okay, 3,000 ads.
$10 would be $3,000.
$100 would be three.
You're right.
The first time I think it was $300 times $30,000 should be $10,000.
Or $100,000.
It was 3,000 ads.
We're horrible.
We always do this.
You know, if we had a calculator the computer has, we could just type it in.
Okay, I'm going to do it that way.
Really?
We have one of those?
I think it's a billion.
I think it's $33.
It's even better than that.
No, it's not.
No.
Okay, how much?
If it was $100, you're talking about per thousand, or are you talking about what it costs per ad?
No, so it was 3,000 people, right?
No, ads.
Oh, 3,000, hmm, 3,000 ads.
Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
But that doesn't make any sense.
They sell it by impressions.
They don't sell it by, I showed it.
You get no money for showing the ad, someone has to see it.
So what is the 3,000, or is it 3,000 separate creative ads for $100,000?
What are you going to do with $100,000?
throw an election.
It's vague.
This is very poorly reported.
We don't know how these ads were presented.
3,000 people, 3,000 ads, 3,000 impressions, 3,000 click-throughs.
What were the ads specifically?
Were they click-through ads?
Were they display ads?
Were they banner ads?
What kind of ads were they?
Rachel Maddow.
There's nothing.
We don't know anything.
Exactly.
Rachel Maddow spent 40 minutes, and her conclusion is that this helped throw the election.
That this type of behavior, the $100,000 ad buy, because that's all you need, apparently.
If you're in a presidential election for $100,000, if you think that that's even possible, then you're nuts.
Well, that's Rachel.
And in addition to that, it's illegal.
She says it's illegal to have foreign money used in a presidential election.
Running ads on Facebook?
How does that work?
It's an international company.
It would be international money coming in, meddling in the election.
Which I don't think is the...
I think you can't send money to a campaign, but if you just want to place an ad, is there a problem with that?
Nope.
Anyway, at the end, I think, did she say machine algorithm or just algorithm?
She said learning algorithm, I think.
Yeah, machine learning algorithm.
Something like that.
But, you know, obviously, yes, we have to take a look at this so this doesn't happen in the future.
It's called political propaganda.
Everybody does it.
Everybody was buying Facebook ads.
No, I'm telling you, Zuckerberg has a problem.
Zuckerberg better get out of that chair.
He's sitting down with his two hands on his legs.
And Rachel...
Stand up and tell people, hey, we're in advertising.
We take advertising.
People gave us money to run their ads.
The ads were legal.
We ran them.
No, we're working on our algorithms.
We've got to make sure that this doesn't happen in the future so we don't have anything bad, anything that might influence people.
That's all that...
Influence people?
That's what ads are for.
Can you see the conundrums in?
We don't want our advertisements influencing people.
We don't want them to work.
Ah, yes.
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.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
Okay.
We have a bunch of people to thank.
I'm going to start with Baronet Sir Nicholas Principe who sent a note in.
I'm going to put my glasses down somewhere and I've got to find them.
Of course I can't find them.
I want to hold the note a mile away to read it.
Where did the glasses go?
It doesn't make any sense.
My daughter gives me crap about this, by the way.
You know what you need?
You're always losing stuff.
A chain around your neck.
Yeah, but what about for the glasses?
Yeah.
Here's $150, $33.53, or is it $53?
Yeah.
He's from Fuquay, Varina, North Carolina.
Where is Fuquay, Varina?
I don't know.
Here's a check with a note, my crappy hand running.
Sally's still stuck at baronet, hoping for real baronhood by the end of the years.
Sorry, donations are down.
I blame the M5M. Boom.
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This is interesting.
After being hit in the mouth about a year ago by my son Richard, I'm afraid that this is only my second donation.
But could I have a formal de-douching this time?
Absolutely.
You've been de-douched.
He says, what finally made a flash to cash was that I just watched The Red Pill.
As JC said, you have to give yourself two hours because you won't want to stop.
A sobering, frightening, but morally uplifting film.
Interesting.
He also, oh yeah, he did this phrase from the Shays, tit for tat, where the cockney rhyming slang for a hat comes from.
I had one.
I had a phrase from the Shays.
I had, where was it?
Nitty gritty.
Ooh, yes, nitty-gritty.
We're going to talk about nitty-gritty.
We are?
It's a black term, I think.
No.
It was slang in the South for Negro.
Oh.
That's how it started, according to the Wiktionary.
Yeah.
You take the N and the G-R, nitty-gritty.
Never heard that one.
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Vitale, where they have the good-tasting waters.
Always thanks for the excellent work.
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it's the boobs in the dark yikes Yikes.
Is that what he said?
Yes.
That's really bad.
And he's a ham.
Of course.
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Or I. A YSL. A YSL. Timothy Cato in Waipahu somewhere.
It's 55.10.
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Hurricane Harvey didn't flood my house, so I'm performing my nightly duty to assist those whose houses were flooded.
Very good.
So, good for you.
And that was 53-53, which is a double birthday.
Hello.
Miles Comer in Walnut, California, 5353 also.
These are the belated happy birthdays to Adam, so we will be happy to read these off one by one.
We have Ty Robinson in Queen Creek, Arizona, another 5353, and then Craig Denniston in Omaha, Nebraska, 5353, which is a...
Variation.
And now these are just $53 donations.
I'll read them one at a time.
Name and location if possible.
Sir Tyler Fox in Cedar Park, Texas.
William O'Donovan.
John Priebus in Washington, D.C. Washingtonian, D.C. Washington, D.C. Miles Johnson.
We have a lot of people that are on congressional staffs.
Yes.
I've noticed that.
Are we a thing?
In DC? I think one of those secrets that people whisper about.
I think it's one of those things that some people listen to because they know they can get some, maybe some info, some insight they wouldn't normally get from the hill, as they call it.
But I think they pass this around, but I don't think anyone's...
Hey, listen to these guys!
We're passed around like cheap whores.
Yeah, we're passing around like cheap whores.
Miles Johnson.
In the linoleum-clad hallways of Congress.
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Sir Timothy of the No Fix title.
One of my favorites.
Hey, DC girl in the chat room just says, I'm in DC, learned about this show while working in the Navy.
That makes sense.
Military and stuff, I know.
We got a lot of military.
So, Timothy, the no-fig style, even though we're, you know, I don't know what they must think because we're not like gung-ho military types, but we appreciate what's going on.
Yeah, we are.
I don't think we like the military takeover of the presidents.
No, but here's the thing.
No, here's the thing.
The military likes us because we call out the stupidity of these pencil-pushing non-combat generals.
Ah, yes.
The military actually...
How can they not like us?
Yes, the military's actually in the field.
And we're at war everywhere.
We're in Africa, we're Somalia, we're everywhere.
And people are like, why am I here?
I don't know.
I don't know.
There's a reason.
There's a reason.
I don't know.
Anyway, Black Knight, Sir Mark Magpio, $53.
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Ventor City.
Arthur Gobitz.
We have a lot of people left over here.
Arthur Gobitz, our Zondam guy.
He's a sir, isn't he?
Yes, Zondam.
Eric Grinwood.
Sir Zondam guy, I think.
He's the Sir Zandam guy, which means dam made of sand.
No.
Eric?
No, it doesn't.
What does it mean?
Well, it's a dam, but Zandam is just the place where the dam was.
I don't think it would be Zandam.
It's not.
Eric Grunewald.
Grunewald.
Grunewald, he's in ZA or South Africa, depending on what ZA is.
It's a river.
The Zahn is a river, so I should have known.
The Zahn, so it's the dam of the Zahn.
Yes, the Zahn River Dam.
That's what we're calling it from now on.
Dame Susan of the Willamette Valley.
Woo!
53.
And Sir Jad Biderman, the Baron of Guam, who, by the way, He always sends a note, and his letterhead actually says, Baron of Guam.
Beautiful.
Does he have the little sticker on the back of his envelope?
No, I have it right here.
No, it just says, Sir, this is letterhead.
Right across the top it says, Sir Chad Biderman, Baron of Guam.
Then it has his address and there's a little map of Guam next to him.
It looks very official.
No, it is official.
What are you talking about?
Well, he is the Baron of Guam, so why wouldn't he have a letterhead?
I would recommend everyone get their letterhead.
Michael Gates.
That was the end of our well-wishers.
There weren't as many as last time, but there shouldn't be because it's not your birthday anymore.
But happy birthday.
Michael Gates, 5280.
Valued card holder in Queensland, Australia.
5224.
I remember this guy.
Yeah, he's also, I don't know if he's on the list, but he's wishing his son, Jake Kenyon, a happy 24th.
Yes, he's on the list.
It's a huge list.
Valued cardholder.
This is like occupant.
Yeah.
Hello, dear resident.
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These are $50 donors.
I'm going to give you the name and location if it's possible.
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He's got a long note about being punched in the mouth, which is good.
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And last but not least...
Jason Deluzio in Shadsford, Pennsylvania.
I want to thank all these folks for thanking, for wishing Adam a happy birthday and helping support the show 9632.
Yeah, thank you.
The birthday congratulations still going on.
Really appreciate it.
I got my AARP congratulatory note in the mail.
Yeah, I saw this.
I saw this.
You tweeted it in an apparent...
In a rage.
In a rage.
Yeah, it's like, happy birthday!
You old white man.
Is there any good deals with the AARP? You can get some discounts on rented cars.
Ooh, yeah.
And some other things.
I think the AAA is your best bet for getting deals, personally.
Are you a member?
Costco.
Here's what I did.
You know, you show those two cards that you show.
That one card is a real card.
It's a hard-used card.
Just put that in your wallet, and then if you see any discounts for AARP, pull the card out and show it to them.
Oh!
I threw it out.
Crap!
Because you can just flash it, right?
Yeah, why would...
Oh, I'm an a-hole.
I've been doing that since 2011 with my KLM gold card.
Yeah.
I put my finger over the 2011 thing.
Just flash it.
I'm good to go.
I can go through this line.
Because the card that they send out is like a real card.
Okay, I'm going to go get that.
Because I can get cheap food at Denny's.
Yeah, you can go to Denny's and you can get the Grand Slam breakfast for 50 cents off.
Hey everybody, thank you very much to our producers.
Also those coming in at $50, which we usually keep that way for people who want to stay anonymous.
But we have a lot of different subscription programs you can join.
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If you received any value, all we ask for is you to return the value of what you thought it was worth.
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Very short list today.
Dame Caitlin Williams celebrating today.
We congratulate her on her 25th birthday.
And Valued Cold Harder says happy birthday to his son Jake Kenyon.
He turns 24 tomorrow.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
Is there something you wanted to say?
No, I just said Brownbeard went at Jobs Karma.
I wouldn't make sure.
Ah, okay.
That's right.
Time for the title changes.
The way it works is you become a knight or a dame at the Noah Jenner Roundtable if you support the program in aggregate in the amount of $1,000 or more.
And that could be over any amount of time.
The same goes for our different peerage levels.
You can find out more at dvorak.org.
And Sir Kevin Strange donated up to another $1,000.
He came in with a nice amount today as executive producer.
And he therefore becomes Baronet.
And we could not be happier thank him very much for that.
And you can put that on his letterhead.
And then we have one knighting to do today, John.
So you can just bring up the...
Stephen Schneider!
Come on, man.
You're the one and only today.
Come on up to the podium.
Stand over here by the lectern.
Sir, thank you very much for your contribution to the No Agenda show.
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At least you can send your info in at noagendanation.com slash rings.
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Thank you so much.
Thank you for supporting us and thank you to everybody.
It's beautiful to show up here twice a week.
I truly enjoy it.
A couple things came up on Deutsche Welle.
I think both of them were presented by that woman who hates you.
Hates me?
Yeah, Helena, and she didn't get a B for that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I think she blocked me on Twitter, did she not?
I don't know.
She follows me.
I'm such a lightning rod.
Yeah, well, you're always causing trouble.
Yeah.
Tech News EU reexamines the Intel case.
We should talk about this just a little bit.
A big boost for Intel in its fight against a billion euro EU fine.
The bloc's highest court says the antitrust judgment needs re-examining.
The European Commission fined the chipmaker eight years ago for undercutting a small arrival.
Now the European Court of Justice in Brussels has instructed a lower court to take another look at Intel's arguments.
It's being seen as a test case for other antitrust probes against tech giants Google and Amazon.
Of course, they're trying to gouge us.
But this case started, it was eight years ago, I believe, and they still haven't paid?
Does that add up?
Do they get, like, interest payments?
I have no idea what the deal is, but it seems to me that this has been dragging on forever.
They're never going to get any money out of those cheap bastards at Google.
I don't know.
I mean, it's a good question.
I don't know.
I didn't even know about it, honestly.
I got to look into it.
Maybe it's just like saber.
You remember when it happened.
It's like saber rattling.
Okay, let's go.
Now, apparently some reporters went to the IFA thing or whatever it is, that big Berlin.
IFA? It's AIFA. They say what it is.
But it's this big conference, a mobile conference that's in Berlin every year.
Oh, it's the mobile conference, isn't it?
Yeah, it's the big giant thing.
I thought it was Barcelona where they held that.
Well, this was in Berlin, I think.
Maybe it's a different one.
There's all these conferences.
They're just rolling out stuff left and right.
But they rolled out two phones.
I hate talking about phones, but I listen to the features of these phones.
And one of them, which is a Sony 3D phone, which allows you to not only take a 3D photo, you have to wiggle the phone around a little bit.
It makes a 3D photo of somebody, but then you can print their head out on a printer.
On a 3D printer?
Yeah.
And it's very cool.
It was just like the guy's head.
But anyway, play this and then I have a comment.
Here's a look at some of the gadgets which have stolen the limelight this year.
Every smartphone can take a photo, but only the new Sony phones can take pictures in 3D, and they've unveiled them first at the IFA International Electronics Show.
The pictures can be printed on a 3D printer, and the device will be in the shops from next month.
LG has also launched a new flagship at IFA. The V30 promises a new era in light-sensitive optics.
There are also new video functions such as a jerk-free zoom motor and video effect filters for different ambiences, including the thriller mode for a bit of that Hollywood feeling.
With CineVideo mode, users can produce cinematic video content with clarity and quality of a professional movie.
Ooh!
So these things keep coming out in left and right.
I like the 3D thing.
I think it's got to be cool to take pictures of your friends and then make their heads hang them somewhere.
I like the Motorola commercials.
Yeah.
Hello, Moto!
Hello!
Yeah, just like saying that.
I do.
Well, that's why it's a great commercial.
And they have the mods, Moto mods.
Yeah, little things you clip on.
I think they've got some marketing right there.
I mean, they've got a Beamer, you know, a projector.
Yeah, a little projector.
And then like a real big camera lens you can strap on.
Yeah?
What else can you strap on?
Uh-huh.
You know what I'm saying, bro?
So the point is, there's all this stuff going on, and I just think Apple, at some point, I don't know when, but at some point, people are going to say, why am I spending $1,000 for an Apple phone?
Yeah.
Because Apple can't keep up with it.
It's not as though it's Apple versus Samsung, Apple versus Samsung.
These other guys want to get into the action, too, because they look at Apple's numbers and go, my God, all these guys do is sell trillions of dollars worth of phones.
And so they see it as a huge market, even though this market has been destroyed more than once.
I heard something on DH Unplugged, which I found interesting.
You said that, according to your ancillary observations, it may look like Apple is going to do a deal with Tiffany's.
Well, this was based on a stock pick.
Ah, okay.
And there was a bunch of insider activity going on with Tiffany's, and it just dawned on me.
And the only reason it dawned on me is because I've been reading so much stuff, because I'm tracking Apple stores, because I figure if they ever start reversing and start closing stores, then I think it's over.
But they're not.
They did close the store recently, and somebody...
I got a bunch of tweets.
Oh, is it the end?
I don't think so.
I really despise doing this, what we're doing right now, because this is what I, you know, they shouldn't call it tech shows.
You just call it people who think they're CEO shows.
Yeah, well, I'm not advising anybody.
What I'm saying is that I keep reading in these articles, Apple's amount of money they make per square foot, and It's always called by Tiffany.
Yes.
Ah, gotcha.
And so I put the two and two together.
Apple, Tiffany, Apple.
Why doesn't Apple do a deal with Tiffany?
It's just totally kick-ass.
And I'm thinking, why is all this insider buying going on at Tiffany's?
And so I put it on the list.
Now, maybe nothing, but it seems like it'd be cool to have a Tiffany phone.
No.
Well, not to me.
We'll get you the first one, John.
I don't want it.
I don't use an Apple iPhone.
I'm just saying.
You brought it up, by the way.
I did.
I believe that it is...
The time is prime for something to float in that people will just love and Samsung and Apple and I would say it wouldn't be a Samsung or an Apple product but it just feels like people are ready for something new and it's not going to be like face recognition.
I don't think people give a shit about that.
I think the little heads are cool.
The little heads.
Now, I only have one tech news item that I brought to the show, and I want some of our producers to help me because I think this will be...
I only got it this morning, so I haven't even tried it.
Maybe I can do it, although I have some technical issues that I need to figure out.
Chinese researchers, and there's a video of this, have figured out That the voice assistants from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, does Samsung have an assistant?
No, no, he's Google.
So we have Siri, Google, Cortana, Alexa, that's the main ones.
Or three, was it three or four?
I think four.
Four is the main one.
Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft.
That's the four big ones.
Apple, Google, yeah.
And they show it, so I'm going to presume that I haven't tested it, obviously.
Well, you'll find out what.
They say that if you transcode a voice command, such as, I'll say, hey Alexa, do something, and you transcode that to a frequency outside of human range, that it still works.
That the device understands spoken commands at very high frequency level.
You mean at dog hearing level?
Yes, at dog hearing level.
Who says this and how do we know it to be true?
Well, there's a video.
They show the video of it working.
Although, of course, I can't verify it because you can't hear it.
The question is, could you do this through a podcast?
Could I have the high-pitched commands just going out continuously that these devices would recognize even though the human ear wouldn't hear it?
I don't think...
Will that work with the 90s?
That won't work with the encoding we do, will it?
Yeah, not at 96 kilobits.
It won't work at...
It won't work over Skype.
Skype can't handle it.
It has to be above 20 kilohertz.
Yeah.
There's nothing.
There's no.
It won't work.
So it'd only work over the air through an originating device.
It won't work through.
You can't do it.
I think it has to work in person because I don't think you can get those frequencies out of any of these things.
You can't get it off of a phone.
You can't get it.
Most stereos can't hit above 20.
Yes, speakers won't do it.
I think there are speakers that will do it, but those aren't cheap.
Hmm.
Well, I like it.
Well, you could also, if you had, let's say you had this device, they show a little box and it has a speaker on the side and the commands go in.
All you need is a tweeter.
Right.
That's what it looks like.
It looks like a Piezo type tweeter.
You could go into the mall, turn it up really loud, or in the movie theater.
There's a lot of fun things you could do.
There's a lot of fun things you could do.
It's a lot of fun things you can do anyway.
So I want to know if anyone can make this.
Can you make this happen?
I don't believe it.
It's too bad.
I mean, I wish you could go on as a guest on a television talk show.
I'm sure the TV speakers won't do it.
And then, you know, just have commands spitting out, telling them, you know, Alexa, play the latest No Agenda show.
I mean, all kinds of fun stuff.
Yeah, you just bring the little box and push the button every once in a while.
Yeah.
I gotta figure this out.
I think it would be phenomenal if we could mess around with that.
It's definitely, if it's possible, it's a huge security hole.
What about using the time domain instead of the frequency domain and having something very slowly said that can't actually be audibly heard?
Ooh, that's also possible.
Hmm.
Well, we have enough smart people in our producing audience, John.
Someone will know what to do.
Yes.
They're all working for a living as dudes named Ben.
And they got nothing but time on their hands.
And actually, they would love to do this.
Yeah, I know.
Do it on company time.
Don't forget.
That's right.
Do it on company time and send it to me, adamatkurry.com.
The only good phone's a landline, and the phone should be made out of bakelite.
That's right!
Your tech news from no agenda!
Woo!
Tech hard days, yeah!
Okie dokie.
What else do we have here?
I have a couple of things.
Oh, I have some Sarah Huckabee Sanders who was out and about doing the rounds.
I have a ISO that's used as an intermezzo kind of thing, a little in between, a little Lester Holt blowing the pronunciation of Irma.
Morgan Radford, thanks, and millions in Florida are anxiously eyeing Hurricane Irma and racing Irma and racing to prepare for the worst.
It's always funny.
Well, not quite as good as Sarah Huckabee.
permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out.
But rather than leave DACA recipients and the men and women of immigration enforcement in confusing limbo while the DACA program was challenged by states in the same court that struck down another of the previous administration's unlawful immigration orders earlier this year, President Obama is laying out a responsible 24-month phase-out.
No permits will be expiring.
Whoops.
It's an honest mistake.
It can happen.
She never worked for the other guy?
Why should she say that?
I don't know.
And she was on The View with her dad, Mike, Mike Huckabee, and Joy Behar laid down some, she dropped some facts on us.
The media is supposed to not report on the fact that 95% of what he says is a lie?
Well, that's...
The problem with that, Joy, is that you are doing exactly what we're talking about and pushing a false narrative.
No, it's not.
95% of what the president says is not a lot.
It's from Politifact from Politico.
It's not just the dreaded New York Times.
It is other outlets that say it.
5% of his statements are true.
5%.
That's just it.
And you, I feel for you.
I feel sorry for you that you have to go out and defend those lies.
Just 5%.
Only 5% is true.
Only 5%?
How do you even manage to talk so only 5% of what you say is true?
It's fact, it's the New York Times, it's politico, politifact, fact, fact, fact, fact.
Fact check, false.
Only 5%.
She is a moron, that woman.
Yeah.
Yes.
I thought it was pretty brave Sarah Huckabee went on the show.
Oh, she should have...
She won't go back.
A lot of reinforcement of what we've been discovering about racism versus bigotry versus, you know, racist...
And I'm starting to understand much better now that sexism, racism, none of this, it can ever be against men or whites or white men purely because the only time something can be sexist or racist or another ist is if it includes the system.
If it includes the...
Yeah, you've been talking about this.
I know, but it's a change of definition.
And I just want to recognize it.
I don't know how we can...
I don't know.
Go ahead.
I agree.
In total, I'm lined up with you on this one.
Right there where they have the shooting squad.
Firing squad?
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Yeah.
I just don't know what to make of it.
Well, it's really, you know, in an odd way, it's fighting against institutions, which I'm not against.
You know, there's a lot of institutions I don't like.
Most of them, in fact, I don't like or take issue with them.
But instead of fighting the institutional system, you're abusing men, white men, in the process, saying that we are the problem and we're the fault of everything and we need to shut up and learn, whatever that is.
And I don't know, even this conversation, just to make it even crazier, here's Larry O'Donnell, they're trying to figure out what do they do with the Democratic Party, Here's the question.
Can the Democrats run?
I'll be blunt now.
At this point in time, the 2020 election, can they run two white men?
This is the question.
This is what they're talking about.
Yeah, this is Chris Matthews.
Oh, Chris Matthews.
I'm sorry.
Not Larry O'Donnell.
That's, I mean...
That actually is a dynamite observation by Matthews.
Yeah.
Given the nature of the party, the makeup of the party today, can they just run two white men still?
Or does there have to be balance, gender balance, ethnic balance of some kind?
You start.
I think there has to be some balance.
Two white guys won't do it.
I think on the Democratic side, that's why you're seeing Cory Booker and you're seeing Duvall Patrick and you're seeing other...
Is it a deal breaker if it's two white guys?
I think it is.
That's my thing.
So they're going to then go to the Republicans, and I appreciate you saying that.
But I think the real battle that the Democrats...
What do you mean they're going to go to the Republicans?
Well, what you're saying is, are they going to penalize the Democrats if they only have two white men?
And I'm saying, if they only penalize them, they're going to vote for the Republicans.
I would think the people putting the ticket together will anticipate the problem.
Two white men.
Big problem.
So the Democrats can't run two white men.
I think he's right.
I agree.
I agree.
That's why they need Kamala Harris.
Well, she's an idiot.
She's smug.
That's what she is.
She's smug.
She can't win.
Very smug.
You know, the thing we always comes back to when we start looking at who's going to win, who can run, and who can get the nomination.
I mean, all you do is look at the last Republican primaries with the 19 guys or how many there were at the beginning and why they didn't beat Trump, who should have been.
Anyone should have been able to beat him.
But you had...
Trump called him out.
You're too slow-witted.
You have no low energy.
And he had all these things to say about these guys.
And the reason Trump was because that's what the public thinks.
When you see Jeb Bush, the guy is low energy.
He's kind of a dud.
He's got those funny glasses with those big eyeballs and all the rest of it.
You really, to get a president, it has to be someone that the public wants to vote for.
And it could be any white, black.
I mean, Obama was a charmer of all time.
That's why he won.
It wasn't because he was black.
He didn't win because he was black, that's for sure.
He won because he was really charming.
And funny.
And he's funny.
He's a natural sense of humor.
The whole thing.
He's cute.
He's handsome.
Yeah, a good-looking guy.
Handsome.
I would say the same thing.
George Bush, when he ran the first time, before he got so dull-witted, he's a quick-witted guy.
I knew he was going to win.
I won a lot of money on George Bush.
You've got other guys who are stiff, It's like, again, Zuckerberg was sitting there with that straight up...
Nobody's going to vote for him in a million years.
Well, Cher Blue...
I don't think the Democrats have a group of guys.
No, they don't have anything yet.
Not yet.
But they're already working.
Cher Blue, who we've talked about quite a bit in the past couple of years.
That's the outfit from David Brock.
Clinton money.
Oh, Brock.
Yeah, Brock and Peter Dow.
So they started Verit.com.
V-E-R-R-I-T.com.
Which is a very...
If you haven't seen this, right at the top it tells you what it is.
Media for the 65.8 million.
I guess that means the Hillary voters.
And it's a very odd sight.
Very odd.
But they've put in this...
They've put in a Verit authentication code...
And the way it works is it has an authentication code, each story, so you can go back and verify that it's a real story and it's the real truth, such as Republican Party is harmful to America's children.
True!
True!
You've got to always remember that David Brock's the guy who does media matter, so don't lose sight of that.
Yeah, same thing.
Equal pay for women of color is still centuries away.
True.
Centuries, I tell you.
Centuries.
Study mainstream media activist Trump's mouthpiece and Clinton's foe.
Wow.
I'm not so sure about that.
But you take a look at it.
Very annoying.
Even though it's based on WordPress, they don't have an RSS feed.
Okay.
I don't know why they wouldn't do that.
But the reason I bring this up is I think that they're really going to push this, and this is where they'll push a lot of their propaganda from, the so-called techno experts.
Even though they don't have an RSS feed listed, WordPress has RSS feeds kind of built in, and if you put in any of the classic codes that you use normally and put it in the URL line, you'll see a feed will crop up.
Slash feed.
That's one of them.
Shit, you're right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
Nailed it.
You're welcome.
Yeah, that's very good.
Thank you very much.
That's exactly what I was looking for.
Let me subscribe right now.
Oh man, you are a genius, John C. Dvorak.
As is one of our producers, I think it's Chris Wilson from Australia.
I don't think he's set it up yet, but he got serit.com, C-E-R-R-I-T, which is genius.
And I can't believe that Media Matters or Share Blue didn't come up with it.
It's a very, this is something you do in the search engine business.
You buy words that start with the key next to the one that people will use.
Instead of a V, you might hit a C. Yeah, it happens all the time.
Usually, then you hook it up to a virus and you're in business.
Well, the virus would be the no agenda show.
Yeah, just hook it over.
I think it's genius.
Very smart.
We need more of that.
More of that.
So I do have a clip blitz if you want to finish the show that way.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Hold on, let me get it set up.
Okay, clip blitz.
Yes.
One, two, three, four, five.
Okay.
Are you ready?
Hold on a second.
Here we go.
Red 33.
Flip blitz.
Roing gas in Burma.
Run out.
In Afghanistan, a U.S. airstrike destroyed a home in the southeastern province of Logar Wednesday, killing at least 11 civilians, injuring 16 others.
One resident put the death toll higher, saying at least 28 civilians were killed.
The assault came just two days after airstrikes killed more than a dozen civilians in the western province of Herat Monday.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon said Wednesday the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan has increased to more than 11,000, thousands more than previously known.
In Bangladesh, aid groups say more than 18,000 refugees from the majority Muslim Rohingya community have fled violence in neighboring Burma in recent days, with thousands more trapped at the border attempting to cross.
The mass exodus came after Burmese security forces stormed Rohingya towns, opening fire on civilians, torching homes and forcing thousands to flee.
Many of those arriving in Bangladesh Wednesday arrived sick or with bullet wounds.
The Buddhists are killing us with bullets.
They burned our houses and tried to shoot us.
They killed my husband with a bullet.
Rohingyas have long faced persecution and violence in Burma, where they are denied citizenship.
It's another No Agenda.
Angolan elections. .
Angola's ruling MPLA party is set to extend its 37-year rule after the Electoral Commission officially declared it the winner of last month's elections.
Defence Minister João Lourenço will officially replace President Eduardo dos Santos, who spent almost 38 years in power.
Angolans hope the new leadership will bring change to the oil-rich nation, where many live in poverty.
2017 Vintage Well, French wine won't be flowing quite so freely this year.
Climate change making sure of that.
The world's number two wine producer has seen its crop shrink due to extreme weather.
Some farmers have lost 85% of their harvest due to frosty weather.
Not quite the chilled chablis that wine connoisseurs had in mind.
Thanks, Obama.
Red, 33!
Catalonian vote coming.
Oops.
Ah, I overshot the mark.
Here we go.
The Catalan government has set a binding referendum on independence from Spain on October 1st.
This comes after its regional parliament approved the vote along with a legal framework to set up a new state.
That's despite fierce resistance from the opposition and Spain's central government.
Madrid says the vote is illegal and is vowing to stop it.
It's another No Agenda.
Hello, please!
Yemen update.
This has got to be the last one.
In Yemen, U.S.-backed Saudi coalition warplanes attacked a checkpoint outside the capital Sana'a on Wednesday, killing at least five civilians.
Witnesses said the attack came out of the blue.
We were surprised by the missile falling on the checkpoint, which injured innocent people in their car while they were on their way to celebrate the Eid holiday.
The latest civilian deaths came as human rights groups asked the U.N. to establish an independent inquiry into war crimes and human rights abuses in the Yemen conflict, which the U.N. says has killed more than 5,000 civilians since March of 2015.
The U.S.-backed Saudi-led war and naval blockade has decimated Yemen's health and sanitation infrastructure, has left 7 million Yemenis on the brink of starvation, while a cholera epidemic has killed more than 2,000 people and sickened more than a half million others.
Hello, Chris!
You know, no one talks about Yemen.
What a mess.
Only we do.
Well, yeah.
Well, you don't talk about it enough.
I was thinking about when I was listening to that clip.
Do they still have a kill list that Trump has to go over now?
I've questioned this a couple times myself.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We have to find out.
I can.
I can find out.
I'm sure we can find out if he still has a kill list.
Does Trump go over?
I think this guy should be killed.
This guy.
Oh, not that guy.
Kill him.
Yeah, a lot of elections, too, in your clip blitz.
Yes, the Catalonian story is one that fascinated me the most.
Also, we did have people that tweeted me saying we should talk about the Rohingya situation.
I don't know that much about it, so we have to look into this.
The group of people being killed by the Buddhists.
Do the Buddhists have guns?
Are they shooting?
There's a lot of mean-spirited Buddhists out there.
Don't kid yourself.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't know this.
Yeah, Killer Buddhists.
Oh, well, that's a show title if I ever heard one.
I'm writing it down.
All right, everybody.
Who will be watching C-SPAN for you?
Who will be watching the mainstream media, the M5M for you?
That is us.
And we do it so you don't have to.
And we will report back on things that sometimes are interesting to know.
Like the little clip bits, Blitz.
It's like Charlie Rose is the week ahead, only with information.
The week ahead.
Yeah, that'll be coming up on the Sunday show.
All right.
Everybody in Florida, stay safe.
As we know, it's getting pretty bad out here.
Stay safe.
Yeah, it's Sunday.
Stay safe, everybody.
Actually, when you do it, it sounds better.
Yeah, maybe I should just, when we do the bit, I should be pounding the mic.
You can't tell.
Yeah, okay, you pound the mic.
Pound it.
Pound the mic.
Yeah.
Pound it.
Yes, I might...
We'll work on it, everybody.
We'll work on it.
Coming to you from the Common Law Condo here in downtown Austin, Texas, in the Cludio, 5x9, FEMA Region 6, if you're looking for it on the government map.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where now I'm looking for a gardener, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We will return on Sunday, another show day, who knows what will happen, right here on No Agenda.
Until then, adios, mofos.
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on stage, dropping some knowledge at the VMA. Then I think to myself, what a horrible world.
I see McCain and Bush, Tony Bledsoe.
Still walking free.
Still selling nukes.
And I think to myself, what a horrible world.
The colors of the rainbow or LGBTQI are shoved in the faces of people going by.
I see Trump serving food, saying, how do you do?
But what he's really saying Is how much he hates the Jews I hear millennials cry I watch them grow They're still more woke Than I'll ever know And I think to myself Yes,
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